In the classification of earth sciences, planets are generally divided into terrestrial planets and jupiter-like planets.

The former is a planet with a solid surface like Earth, while the latter is similar to Jupiter, a planet whose surface is made of non-solid matter and has no land.

Terrestrial planets are relatively easy to modify because they have land, but Jupiters are not, after all, there is no land, and conventional buildings have no basis for construction.

Saturn is a Jupiter-like planet that is not suitable for modification, in contrast, several of its moons are very easy to modify, and now they have basically become important colonies of the Star Alliance.

But that doesn't mean that Saturn really can't be inhabited.

In fact, at the location of Saturn's North Pole today, in the deepest part of the liquid hydrogen helium ocean layer that is more than 10,000 kilometers deep, there is an extremely large all-metal structure building, and this is the legendary Star Covenant Recruit Training Camp.

Why is it legendary? Because of its special geographical location, no one can see the true face of this boot camp except for the real Star Alliance soldiers.

But every soldier who walks out of here prefers to call this place hell...... The extremely harsh planetary environment, the long-term absence of sunlight, the vicious recruit instructors, and the training process of recruits who want human lives all make the name of hell worthy of its name.

The surface area of the entire boot camp looks small, only thirty square kilometers.

But this is just the appearance, after all, the pressure in the depths of the liquid hydrogen helium ocean of more than 10,000 kilometers is extremely terrifying, and the pressure of more than two million times the atmospheric pressure is a great test even for the technology of the interstellar world, if the surface area is too large, the cost of its construction and maintenance, even Chris can't stand it.

The real main body of this boot camp is actually in the solid layer below, at a depth of more than 100 kilometers, so that this pure metal creation is firmly rooted on this planet.

Therefore, the usable area of the entire building is actually tens of thousands of square kilometers.

Under normal circumstances, such a large usable area is enough to accommodate tens of millions of people.

But this is impossible, because Saturn has almost no means of living output, and if you really raise so many people here, the logistics will really pull your hips, in fact, the original intention of the construction of this building is not a training camp at all, how much does Chris have to eat and support, choose such a place with a harsh environment, and spend a lot of money to build such a thing as a training camp?

In fact, the real function of this building is actually a super arsenal + mine.

What is the most stuff on Saturn? The answer is hydrogen.

Among all the Jupiterians in the solar system, Neptune and Uranus are mainly composed of water, ammonia and methane, and are called ice giants because of their blue color, but they are actually freaks with extremely high internal temperatures, and have little mining value.

But Saturn and Jupiter are different, although the environment of these two planets is also very harsh, but their main component is hydrogen. Especially Saturn, 70% of the entire planet is hydrogen, and it is not ordinary hydrogen, deuterium, tritium, which are very rare hydrogen isotopes that rarely exist naturally on other planets, but they exist here in a deep layer, as long as they are slightly purified, they can be directly transported away by spaceship, and in Saturn's deeper solid crust, there is still a large amount of metallic hydrogen.

These things are very important conventional industrial raw materials, and they are also the main source of energy for the Star Alliance today, and their importance is equivalent to the oil of the old era of the earth, such as the early power armor that has now been classified as police or civilian, and the fuel used in the fusion reactor used in the power armor such as the basic CMC power armor that is fully installed in the military is tritium...... Of course, this is not to say that there are no better sources of energy in the universe, but the isotopes of these hydrogens are abundant and cheaper than others.

Even in the interstellar world, before the discovery of silicon crystals, these hydrogen isotopes were one of the most important industrial raw materials.

So in the early days of development, Chris built this Saturn mine, which is also an arsenal, and the main production is various types of military fusion reactors...... Saturn was chosen over Jupiter because, of course, Jupiter is larger, its liquid layer is deeper, it is more difficult to mine, and Jupiter is too close to Earth to be easily observed.

And now the role of the mine and arsenal here is also retained, but the ownership has become the entire Star Alliance, and in addition to the fusion reactor, all kinds of guns, military basic genetic potions, power armor, various types of mechas, heavy transport aircraft (Star 1 transport aircraft, about 30 meters in length, about 10 meters in height), Hercules transport aircraft (about 90 meters in length, 30 meters in height) production lines are also here...... The raw materials for the production of these things do not need to be transported from the outside world, and all of them can be mined and refined directly from the interior of Saturn.

Don't look at 70% of Saturn's composition is hydrogen, the remaining 30% is 20% of helium, ethane and other elements, and only the remaining 10% is other geo-like materials.

But the remaining 10% is several times the sum of the four terrestrial planets (metal, water, earth, and fire) in the solar system. Because the most massive of the four planets is the Earth, and the other three add up to less than one and a half Earths.

Saturn, on the other hand, has 95 times the mass of Earth...... 10% is equivalent to 9.5 earths, the resources are not too rich, at this stage, the size of the Star Alliance fleet and the marines of the Star Alliance fleet alone can basically be satisfied...... Of course, this does not mean that the Star Alliance only has such an army arsenal, in fact, there are more than a dozen similar army arsenals in the solar system alone, and they are located on different planets, but Saturn is the largest.

According to the current recruitment rate of the Star Alliance fleet, basically about 500,000 recruits will be sent here in batches every month for a three-month training, that is, more than 5 million qualified army soldiers can be trained every year.

Coupled with some resident instructors and garrison staff and various staff, this base will have more than 1.6 million people living here all year round, and this number is also the best limit that can be supplied by calculating the self-production capacity of materials in this base...... Of course, the main source of self-produced goods here is food, and there is no shortage of other materials here. For the Honored Academy

After the recruits are sent here, they will undergo basic physical training for the first month, adjust their bodies to the best condition by using a balanced nutrient solution, and after completing the assessment, they can use the genetic enhancement potion at the end of the month. Only in this way can the effect of genetic drugs be maximized.

This stage of training is also the most rigorous, because at this stage, the recruits have not been genetically modified, so the cruel training is extremely testing the willpower of the recruits, if you can't complete the training and assessment at this stage, then you will be eliminated, basically only this stage will be eliminated, the elimination rate will not be too high or too low, basically will be controlled below 1%.

And those who are eliminated also have two options, one is to pack up their things and go home to be rice worms, and this type of person will permanently lose their qualification to become citizens.

The other is to sign a secret agreement, carry out special "resocialization" transformation, and become a "good brother" who is truly not afraid of death.

There is also a difference in resocialization, for example, the criminals that Chris has collected through various channels in the past, including the felons who have seriously violated the laws of the Star Alliance, will be very brutally reformed, and will be completely erased from their personal will and become a killing machine that has no emotions at all and only knows how to act according to orders.

This kind of transformation is very fast, you can do it with a one-time hand speed, and even eating and drinking are free after being transformed, as long as the basic nutrient solution maintains the body's functions...... It's basically the same as a robot. If the average Marine soldier is a good brother for fifty dollars, then this kind of reformed soldier is only worth twenty-five dollars. The meaning of the existence of this kind of soldier is to do something that can't be put on the table, and he won't feel distressed when he is an outcast. In the interstellar world, the Tyranid Federation mainly used this transformation method in the early days.

The voluntary signing of the agreement is different, this kind of soldier will undergo many times, long-term subconscious transformation, and eventually become a fanatical loyalist of the Star Alliance, but its own memory and character can be retained (of course, if the transformed person wants, it can also not be retained), and this type of soldier's brain will also be specially implanted with a combat assistance chip, so that it instantly becomes an elite soldier with more powerful combat ability than ordinary marines (except for a small number of BT), The genetic potions they use will also be a notch better than those of ordinary soldiers.

After the transformation of this type of soldier is completed, because of their loyalty and elite, they will either become military police or become high-level guards of the Star Alliance, and their service period will no longer be 10 years, but lifelong, but their treatment will also be the best...... In addition to the benefits they should have enjoyed, their families and descendants will also have some special benefits.

So the value of this category of soldiers will be high. Well...... Worth a hundred dollars.

And the range of choices is not limited to the eliminated, in fact, all soldiers at the end of their service, soldiers who are not able to become high-ranking officers will have such a choice, but now that the Star Alliance has just been established, there are no retired soldiers at all, so Chris will find another way to give the eliminated a chance.

The second month of recruit training is the adaptation training after genetic modification, the use of various weapons and equipment, including power armor, and the learning of various theoretical knowledge...... This stage is basically done on the virtual trainer except for the shooting training of light firearms (self-defense weapons used in non-armored states), after all, this is a submarine base, although the entire base is composed of super strong Erdman alloy and super strong alloy composite armor, and there is also a full range of energy shield coverage to ensure the safe operation of the entire base. However, this does not mean that recruits can conduct all kinds of live-fire training in the base, especially heavy equipment weapons such as siege tanks, wolf warrior mechs and even Thor mechs, which are even more unlikely to be used inside the base.

Therefore, although there is a lot of content at this stage, because the physical fitness of people after genetic modification is comprehensively improved, and the energy will become extremely abundant, there is basically no elimination, and if there is, it can only be an off-site factor.

In the third month, each soldier will be issued real weapons and equipment, including but not limited to power armor, engineering tanks, various mechas, and other equipment, and all of them are brand new equipment...... Of course, it is still unloaded.

After initial familiarization with the equipment, the soldiers who have been issued with the new equipment will leave the base in a similarly newly produced transport ship and travel to the numerous moons of Saturn's outer ring for live-fire training, fully armed (unloaded...... Anyway, there are many moons of Saturn, more than a hundred, large and small, except for a few important colonial planets, it doesn't matter how to bomb them.

After leaving the boot camp, these recruits will never return to Saturn, and after completing the live-fire training, they will be assigned directly according to the final comprehensive assessment results...... Those with the best grades will be assigned to serve in the main fleets or important areas of the Star Alliance, those with average grades will be sent to various colonies as garrisons, and those with poor grades can only go to defend the mines. As for elimination? There is indeed an elimination rate in the third stage, but there is only one way to eliminate, and that is death...... After all, it is live-fire training, and there are death indicators.

With dreams and expectations for his girlfriend, Johnny Rego clearly has only one goal, which is to become the best member of the Marine Corps, and even become an officer. Only in this way will it be possible for him to reunite with his girlfriend Carmen, who aspires to be a good pilot, during his service.

But what he didn't expect was that just when he was about to complete the first phase of recruit training, he waited for a breakup letter from his girlfriend Carmen...... Because whether it is the Starship School or the Marine Corps, during the training of recruits, they cannot communicate directly with the outside world, so Carmen sent a holographic video.

"I'm sorry, Johnny. I hope to become a professional soldier and become the best pilot, but the competition in the Starship School is too fierce, in my recruit flight team, I can't compare to Liu Peiqiang, before I joined the army, my grades were not as good as him, and now both training and theoretical results are still inferior to him, and it is not even easy to maintain a stable second grade, so I hope to put my personal emotions aside for the time being, and devote myself to study and training, sorry Johnny, I hope we are still friends. Carmen's hologram was slightly embarrassed to say what Johnny Rego least wanted to hear.

Silently turned off the holographic video, Johnny lay on the bed in the dormitory, and the whole person looked a little depressed. Fortunately, the treatment of the Star Alliance is good, even if it is a Marine Corps recruit, the dormitory is an independent cabin, although it is very small, only five or six square meters, but it is completely comfortable, and there is no privacy problem, so Johnny does not have to worry about being seen embarrassed.

He lay on the bed for a long time, and it wasn't until a comrade came over and rang the doorbell that Johnny got up.

But no one knew that Johnny had already made a decision at this time...... Having lost his love, he wants to go to the front.

And where is the front line of the Star Covenant during this period? There is undoubtedly only one, and that is the star field where the Zerg in the war mobilization order previously announced by the Star Alliance is located. Although the Star Alliance and the Zerg had not officially started the war at this time, and it was only in the mobilization stage, Johnny already knew the possible way to go to the front line in advance.

Unlike Carmen, who was the second oldest in his squadron after entering the Starship School, Johnny was undoubtedly the best soldier in his recruit company, so he was highly valued by instructors and company commanders.

Because of this, Johnny once saw an application report on Instructor Sim's desk, which stated that Instructor Sim wanted to be demoted to a unit called the Task Force after bringing their group of recruits.

Although the application report does not indicate the specific situation of this task force, it is not difficult for Johnny to see the situation of this task force from Instructor Sim's "please fight" style text throughout.

So he was going to find out what Instructor Sim was going to do.