After another 3 standard Earth days and 72 hours, the huge interstellar colony ship Hope has gradually approached the mysterious planet they numbered JNO.3.

This earthy yellow planet, which orbits a star in the planetary system, has an orbital period of about 500 Earth days, a rotation period of 30 Earth standard hours, and a gravity environment 1.3 times that of the standard Earth, a highly acidic ocean covering more than 80% of the ground, and an equally corrosive atmospheric vapour......

In that way, it seems to be very unfriendly to humans from afar!

Now, the reason why Hope is here, to this planet full of malice towards mankind, is because, on this planet, there are precious energy materials that Hope urgently needs at the moment: high-energy gas and high-energy crystal mines!

This is the only one of the last 20 or so best planets detected by Hope that has a large number of these two rare energy minerals at the same time, and none of the other planets have been detected!

This can't but be said, this is the luck of the Hope?

Otherwise, they can only find a suitable planet within a sailable distance, and then start to colonize life with difficulty, and when there is no energy, the Hope, I am afraid that it will only be reduced to a large fortress city and land on the surface of the planet in aggrieved terms, right?

Without the advanced energy source for interstellar navigation and migration, we can only rely on the irradiated energy of stars and nuclear energy for intragalactic navigation, right?

Captain Leona couldn't help but frown slightly as she looked at the huge planet wrapped in layers of earthy yellow atmosphere in front of her, and the brown ocean that occupied more than 80% of the area above the Hope.

I don't know why, she doesn't like the planet so much!

Because, she seems to be able to feel some kind of faint hostility coming from above? This gave her the urge to command the Hope to change direction into warp speed and leap away......

If it weren't for the energy minerals on this planet that they desperately needed right now...... Surely they don't even look at it more, do they? That's not to mention coming here.

Leona prefers their original Earth to the sinister Earth-yellow planet.

It was a beautiful habitable planet for human habitation, and to this day, Captain Leona vividly remembers when Earth was seen from outer space: it was a beautiful white cloud, brown continents and islands, and blue jewel-like oceans......

If she looks at the Earth from a little farther away, she can even see that the Earth is actually a fascinating planet that appears blue as a whole, and its surface is also nearly 78% covered by oceans, and there is a thick blue atmosphere......

It's a pity that these people on their Hope will never be able to return to their former homeland in their lifetimes, right?

That's a long distance they've traveled at warp speed for more than 100 years......

I'm afraid that after generations of reproduction on the current earth, no one remembers the so-called "criminals" who were expelled from their Hope, right?

And, more importantly: now, they don't even have the coordinates of the Earth......

In the vast universe, in the infinite sea of stars, where do they go to find that little earth?

It's all those damned New Coalition Governments of Earth, those UPL bureaucrats, those damned bastards, ugly dictators! Leona thinks that all of them deserve to go to hell!

"Captain Leona! Hope has now begun to cut into the synchronous orbit of Planet JNO.3 and is expected to be completed in ten minutes, please indicate! ”

While Captain Leona was wandering the world, still nostalgic for the distant and beautiful Earth, and cursing the bureaucrats of the UPL, the navigator on the bridge of the USS Hope began to report to her loudly.

"Very good, keep the synchronous track, pay attention! We don't need to land, we just stay here. ”

Captain Leona came to her senses, nodded, and commanded the navigator directly.

Frowning once more at the huge earthy yellow planet outside the Xuan window, Leona exhaled and began to turn to look at the first mate Doug standing next to her.

"Doug, how's the Colonial Command Center preparing?"

Captain Leona takes this command center very seriously!

You must know that on the huge No.5 interstellar colony ship No. 5 on their Hope, there are only two colony command centers in total.

This kind of command center, which can land on the planet to carry out production and colonization activities, is an extremely precious non-renewable resource for their current Hope!

Judging from the current energy and material reserves of the Hope, once it is lost, it is absolutely impossible to make it again! Therefore, when it comes to landing on this planet, we must be cautious and cautious, and there is no room for mistakes!

The Colonial Command Center is an extremely important service unit for all human outposts, mines, or colonies on Earth.

Originally, it was designed to patrol the federal mining districts, and it could stow the piles and move them to new high-energy crystals or high-energy gas springs, and of course, if there were enough energy and supplies, they would have their own interstellar industrial machine and the ability to build SCVs, receive and store resources, and construct other buildings.

To put it simply, as long as there are enough materials and energy, plus enough manpower, it can build a mining base on its own!

After all, it was designed with this in mind from the beginning.

But then, due to its heavy armor and gravity engine flight ability, coupled with its reliable development and resource recovery smelting function, it gradually became one of the most important structures for all human military advance bases or colonies!

Whether it is an army or a colony starship, it is common to set off with this important strategic resource in the fleet, so as to rely on it to gain a foothold on a strange or dangerous planet.

"Report to the captain! The command center is ready, equipped with and carrying five T-280 SCV space engineering vehicles, and the YS001 heavy armored transport ship has also carried all the members of the Cobra team, which can follow the command center to land on planet JNO.3 and provide it with the necessary protection! ”

The SCV space engineering vehicle is one of the standard equipment of the command center, which is an engineering machine that can adapt to multiple operating environments.

Due to its ability to perform a wide range of tasks, whether it is the construction of new buildings, the collection and transportation of energy minerals, or even the operation directly in space, it has demonstrated great adaptability and reliability.

Therefore, they have gradually become the main force in the construction and construction of colonies, and sometimes, they even have to go to the battlefield with the army to build outpost military attack positions, which have contributed an extremely important role to the colonization of space by human beings on the earth, and are an indispensable and important part of human colonization of aliens.

Now, as the Hope prepares to land on the planet and carry out production and resource gathering missions, they rely on a command center fortress and five SCV engineers who are initially going down for construction, as well as a Cobra Marine team of ten to defend and reconnoiter the surrounding terrain.

Under normal circumstances, only SCV engineering vehicles and marines need to work outdoors, and the commanders in the command center and the engineers responsible for manufacturing various standard units will definitely not easily leave the protection of this fortress-like building.

"Now, how is the recruitment of new recruits and new engineers going?"

And then, that's the second thing Captain Leona cares about.

Later, after they put the command center and the marine team on the ground of this planet, the five SCV engineering vehicles are only responsible for building a basic small base and initially collecting some energy crystals.

Whether it is a large number of SCV engineering vehicles or the follow-up marines, they need the hope to spare no effort to support!

After all, near this star field, there is the wreckage of alien warships, and the rescue capsule of the little girl Annie who was rescued by them is proof of this!

After orbital calculations, they also preliminarily calculated the approximate location of the wreckage of the alien battleship, which does not seem to be far from here? Therefore, no one dares to be optimistic about this planet with a lot of energy.

Who knows, on this planet, there will be aliens in the end?

Therefore, the necessary armament of the ground base is absolutely indispensable!

They must use the Hope to open a small colony production base on the planet as fast as possible, and when they have collected enough energy and produced enough warships, they will quickly leave this seemingly dangerous place!

In this regard, the deadline given by Captain Leona is: within one hundred standard Earth days, within this time limit, the colony base on planet JNO.3 must mine enough energy for her, collect all kinds of other mineral resources, and of course, the fleet of battle cruisers that she has planned for a long time!

Leona no longer wants a colony ship of her size to run naked in space, she must have enough defenses.

Whether it's transports of all sizes, warplanes, aerospace carriers with fighters, and at least ten or more large battlecruisers, she Leona wants them all!

She wants to build a small defense fleet in the shortest possible time with the abundant energy here on Planet JNO.3 and Li Yong's abundant energy.

If it was in the old earth era, if you want to complete so many arduous tasks in such a short time, it is simply wishful thinking, and it is simply an impossible task.

Like an important unit in the universe: battlecruisers! If it is in the old earth era, it will not take ten or eight years to build such a warship, then you can't even think about it!

However, in this interstellar age it is different!

Now everything is modular, standardized production! As long as the starport is successfully built, under the condition of ensuring that all kinds of resources are sufficient, it is also very easy to produce a medium-sized space battlecruiser in ten days and half a month!

And if you go out and build a sufficient number of starports, and each starport completes a certain part of the battleship separately, and carries out assembly line production as a whole, it will not be a problem at all to spell out a battlecruiser for you in three or five days!

Of course, the battle cruiser is equipped with various control personnel and logistics supplies, etc., and other problems need to be handled by the Hope itself, and their starport can only produce empty shells one by one, after all, no matter how good the weapon is, it needs to be manipulated by people.

If you want to ask, how long will a starport be built, then the head of the engineering department can tell you very responsibly: allocate him hundreds of SCV engineering vehicles, plus enough resources, it will not be a problem to build a huge starport for you in three to five days, proper!

This is efficiency in this StarCraft era!

Whether it is construction or production, all tend to be efficient automation, module standardization, and the time required for production and construction is reduced to a minimum.

"Report to the captain! The recruitment of personnel is already in full swing, and the citizens of the Hope are very cooperative! ”

First Officer Doug quickly gave a set of data, and at present, whether the training is a new Marine or a large number of SCV engineering vehicle operators, it is already being carried out in an orderly manner.

"Doug, if I let you be the commander-in-chief of this command center and ground base, will you be up to the task?"

After thinking for a moment, considering the enormity of the task, Captain Leona asked about his first mate.

Now, I'm afraid that in the entire Hope, there is more capable and able to coordinate a ground base, perhaps, only this first mate of his own, right?

As for the rest......

It's all a bunch of recruits, and she really can't expect too much......

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

Doug's eyes lit up when he heard the captain's words, and he put his feet together and raised his head in a standard military salute.

Being able to be the commander-in-chief of a ground base is the captain's trust in her and recognition of her abilities, and she certainly has no reason to refuse.

Besides, Captain Leona designated the blueprint for the future development of the Hope, and she Doug had seen it. If it can really be realized one by one at that time, she is now taking up this important position, which is of incomparable importance to her future development.

Participating in the first development operation of the Hope and serving as a commander is a valuable credential!

"Very good, you can go and get ready now! It's still dark here on this planet, and you still have three hours to prepare, and then, when the light of the stars shines here, you'll be on your way! ”

Captain Leona's finger swiped to a point on the 3D holographic map located on the planet's equator, here, is a large island, located on the high ground, with its back to the sea, not only is it easy to defend and difficult to attack from the topography, but there are also a large number of high-energy crystals and high-level gas resources nearby, which is an ideal place to build a colony.

Among the dozens of locations that have been detected before, although this one does not have the most minerals, it does seem to be the most suitable and safe!

If all goes well, they'll only need to spend more than a hundred Earth days in this location, and then they'll have everything Hope needs from the planet!

"Yes, Captain!"

Doug, the first mate of the Hope, gave another military salute before turning around and walking to the second officer on the other side.

Doug didn't care about the other party's eyes full of envy and jealousy, and directly used her terminal to transfer authority to the other party, and then resolutely turned away.

Now, she Doug is going to pack her luggage and prepare to go to the JNO.3 planet below to serve as the commander-in-chief of the base, and the authority of the first mate of the Hope and some unfinished tasks naturally need to be handed over to the second officer to deal with.

“……”

Good luck, Doug......

Watching the other man leave the bridge and disappear into the self-closing hatch, Captain Leona began to pray silently to the other party.

I don't know why, when she turned her head again and looked at the huge earthy yellow planet in front of her, she always felt that she was like facing a giant beast in the wilderness, and she had an inexplicable palpitation?

It seems that there is some great danger waiting for them below?

Hope...... It's just her delusion, right?

However, thinking about the destroyed alien warship that was calculated in this star field before, Leona's brow furrowed even deeper.

What kind of existence is it that makes a seemingly powerful alien warship be destroyed here? Are they passing by? Or was it destroyed by the native forces here?

That alien battleship, it's impossible not to discover this planet with huge energy reserves, right?

So, are they just like themselves, thinking of gathering supplies on the ground on this planet? And then...... Flee in a hurry when you find out you're in danger? But in the end, they were destroyed by the enemy?

As soon as she thought of this possibility, Captain Leona's heart couldn't help but feel a pang of fear.

If they hadn't had a choice, she would never have approached this strange star field, let alone stayed in the synchronous orbit of this planet!

It's just that they really have no other way now, even if they don't venture to land on this planet, the little energy they have left may not be able to get out of this star field, right?

So, you have to take a risk!

That's why she only gave Doug just a hundred days to collect and produce!

This is already the time limit that has been compressed to the minimum by her!

If she hadn't sensed that there was some kind of danger in this star field, she would definitely have collected all the energy of this planet and built a huge fleet before she began to sail again and find a habitable planet suitable for human beings on Earth.

……

"Wow! Where are you going? Are you going to fight? ”

Little Annie, who was wandering around in the military zone of the Hope, when she walked to the combat readiness area of the Marine Corps and saw Galen's large Cobra squad wearing their power armor combat suits and testing various weapons and equipment with the help of intelligent machines, Little Annie's big blue eyes immediately lit up, and then she hurried forward.

She thought, looking at the situation, they must have something funny, right? Well, the all-powerful Queen Anne doesn't want to miss it!

Besides, fighting or something, she's the best at it!

"Go and go, find a place to play yourself! I warn you, little Annie, don't make trouble! We are preparing to land on the planet JNO.3 and carry out a combat mission on the ground for more than 100 days, this is not a fun thing, you have nothing to do, you can stay on the Hope! ”

Captain Galen, dressed in armor, checked his 8mm spike electromagnetic rifle and waved little Anne out of here to stop messing with him.

After several days of getting along, Galen and the other Marines understood the temperament of Annie, the little devil, and the temperament of this little girl, sometimes, it was very bad!

After inspecting his weapon and making sure there were no problems, Galen nodded slightly.

Regardless of whether there is danger on the ground of Planet JNO.3, it is still necessary to do a good job in this kind of urgent basic work of checking weapons and equipment, which is the basic combat process, and there is no room for sloppiness.

Now that their equipment is working and the performance of their weapons are performing well, everything is ready, and when the time comes, they will land on the planet on a transport spacecraft for a hundred days of combat mission.

Galen only hopes that there won't be much danger on the ground of this planet, right?

Presumably...... Probably not, right?

In Galen's view, it is unlikely that such a harsh planet will be alive with living creatures.

The early detection vehicles and satellites also proved his conjecture, but since the captain has set this mission as a second-level dangerous mission, he must be 10,000 careful!

This level of second-level danger is not far from the first-level state of war. It is said that only in the absence of fighting at the forward bases, there will be a second level of alert? So, is there some invisible danger on the planet below?

"Landing on a planet? Is it the big planet outside that Huang Bulaji? How can such a fun thing not have my share? No way! I must go! ”

As soon as she heard that she was going to land on the planet she saw outside, little Annie's eyes brightened.

This is landing on a strange planet, this kind of thing that is very interesting just by listening to it, how can it be without her?

In any case, she is going to have a fun, and if she doesn't give it to go, she will go!

"Go away, go away, get out of the way!"

Seeing little Anne stop in front of him regardless of the situation, Galen impatiently used his mechanical armor arm to gently push her away.

"We're going to war! It's not to play, how can I take you? ”

This time, it's not a simulated confrontation, it's a real battlefield mission!

How could he possibly take a little girl? Besides, he, Galen, is just the captain of a small Marine Corps, with the rank of second lieutenant, where does he have any authority to take a little girl? On the Hope, there is basically no room for him to speak!

Moreover, even if Galen had this authority, he didn't want to take a little girl with him when he went to war, how dangerous would that be?

"When it comes to fighting, I'm much better than you! Three simulated confrontations, twenty of you can't beat me, do you dare not admit it? ”

Speaking of war, little Anne is even less cowardly!

She has fought less battles? Whether it is the dangerous world of Azeroth, or the ordinary and mysterious Caribbean, there are fewer people, monsters, and undead people she kills? It's just that they don't believe her when she says it!

Besides, the few simulated confrontations in the past few days have fully demonstrated that the great Majesty Anne's individual combat ability, even if she doesn't use magic, just by relying on the ability of ghost equipment, she can completely destroy these useless Marine uncles and sisters!

(Ahem, seriously, Master Anne, if you hadn't used me to cheat, you wouldn't have won so easily, uh...... - Tibbs finally couldn't help but vomit on the side, every time she fights, she has to cheat to watch the holographic map, plus her strong physique and stealth ability, so, she can win the opponent every time.) ）

Shut up! Tibbs!

Little Anne took Tibbs, which she was carrying in her left hand, into her arms, and then tightened her neck with both hands.

"Okay, okay! My little ancestor, my Lord Anne! Can you please stop talking about it? We've conceded defeat, what do you want? ”

At the mention of this, Captain Galen's face could not be covered.

All of the twenty most elite marines on the Hope were planted under the hands of a little girl, and this kind of thing is estimated to have spread to more than 100,000 people on the entire Hope, right?

Alas......

Think about the day, after they lost to little Anne for the first time, they still naively thought that she was just taking advantage of the confrontation between the two sides to make a profit?

Therefore, later, in the second three-way confrontation, he Galen and De Lyles shamelessly did not do anything or lay mines, but directly joined forces and rounded up little Anne all over the map.

But the result? It was still after letting little Anne harvest twenty heads, and easily won the final victory of the second Triwizard Tournament!

Then, there was the third one......

This time, in order to hunt down the abominable ghost, they once again shamelessly asked the referee to reduce the size of the island, but in the end, ...... The ending is still a fiasco......

It is precisely because of this that these twenty marines have become the laughing stock of the entire Hope?

Even if they had protested vigorously, they tried their best to prove to others: how powerful and cunning Annie, the little demon king, was! But in the end, it still didn't change the fact that their twenty adult warriors lost to a little girl.

The reality is so cruel, and the lost face may never be regained.

"I don't want to do anything! As long as you take me to the planet down there, that's it! ”

Although little Anne does not need their consent to teleport to the planet below on her own.

It's just that the magic power in this universe is too thin, and the mana recovery is relatively slow, and it is difficult to replenish the power she consumes from nature, so ah, she doesn't want to waste her magic power casually without knowing how long she will stay here.

Tiebs the bear had told her many times about this: as long as it wasn't necessary, use as little magic as possible.

Having wandered so many worlds together, Anne felt that her little bear's advice was sometimes quite reliable. So, she decided, if not necessary, to use as little magic as possible in this world until a solution was found.

"It's absolutely not going to work! The planet below is dangerous! Besides, we don't have a power armor suit for you, let alone a ghost suit for you, and on the planet below, it's not like the environment inside the Hope, and if you don't have armor, you're going to die! ”

Other conditions may be okay, but Galen will never dare to agree to this request.

They went down this time, but they had to carry out a difficult combat mission, where could they take a little girl down to play?

This is not a trick, nor is it a simulated confrontation competition, I don't want to think about it, Galen believes that neither the captain nor Commander Doug of this mission will definitely agree to little Annie going down to make trouble!

"I'm just going!"

Little Anne puffed out her cheeks and glared at Galen.

Even though the other party pulled on the glass mask and armor plate, she could no longer see the other party's hateful face, but she still glared at the other party angrily.

"Annie, if you really want to go, I can take you with me!"

While little Anne and Galen were confronting each other, First Officer Doug Jones, the commander-in-chief of the mission, was carrying one of her sci-fi bags and walked into the Marine Corps' combat room.

After a while, she will go from here to the command center to officially launch this landing operation.

Therefore, when she heard little Annie clamoring to go to the planet, she remembered the record of Annie in these few confrontations, and then thought about the past few days, the assessment of the little girl's safety level by the Dawning Intelligent Brain, whether it was the views of the Marines or the evaluation of the Hope Intelligent Brain, their reports showed that this girl, she had no ill will towards the Hope.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Doug first mate directly agreed to the other party's request.

Presumably, that's what Captain Leona wants to see, right?

Otherwise, the captain wouldn't have ordered the equipment production department to work overtime to tailor a miniature version of the ghost suit for little Annie, right?

Even the weapons are tailored to the special physique of this little alien girl?

As soon as he thought of the custom-made powerful large-caliber sniper electromagnetic rifle, Doug was embarrassed...... If you don't have a good physical fitness, I'm afraid, the average person really can't use that thing, right?

"However, First Officer Doug, little Anne has no armor, and it is too dangerous to go to the environment below! In this case, even if she goes down, she can only stay in the command center, so what's the difference between that and not going down? ”

Seeing that the first mate of Doug actually agreed to Little Annie's request, Galen was a little anxious.

After so many days of getting along, they all like this little alien girl.

Although she was a little naughty and mischievous, she was a little more mischievous, but it was still not too much. So, for safety reasons, he still suggested that little Anne should not be taken to the dangerous planet below.

"Uh...... Who said Anne didn't have the right armor? ”

Doug smiled mysteriously at Galen, of course she knew that this task was difficult, and it was because of this that she wanted to take this little alien girl with her.

After all, the combat effectiveness of the other party is already obvious to everyone on the Hope!

Under the head-on confrontation, a little girl can completely blow up twenty marines? This terrifying individual combat ability, on the current Hope, I'm afraid there is no one who can be more powerful than her, right?

"Come on, laughing Annie, come over here, I'll take you to put on your exclusive Ghost Agent armor now."

After carefully arranging his salute, Doug smiled and beckoned to little Anne.

She now plans to take the other party to the special equipment area on the other side of the military zone first, and take the set of precious small gifts that were specially produced urgently and tailored for the other party.

"Huh? Ghost Agent's armor? Is it really for me?! ”

Do you really have your own armor? Is it like the ghost suit in a simulation versus game?

Hearing this, little Anne was a little surprised, could she really have ghost armor? It seems, how much fun to have?

So, she hurriedly stepped forward and followed behind this big sister Doug.

Anne has secretly decided now: for the sake of this big sister Doug being so kind, in the future, she will no longer call each other aunt to her face, at most...... In private, it's okay to secretly scream a few times?

That's right, then happily decided!