The next day, Johnny Rygo and his new recruits ushered in the most important day since they joined the army...... Genetic modification.

Whether it is a poor child or a rich child who has spent money to renovate, they are very excited, and they are so excited that they stay up all night.

For the children of the poor, there is no doubt that this is a day that can change their fate, because if they don't join the army, expensive genetic drugs will basically not be available to them, although the free medical care of the Star Alliance can also ensure that ordinary civilians can live without disease and disaster for a hundred years, but if they can, who doesn't want to live a long life?

As for the risks of joining the army? In the eyes of most people, it is completely worth it, because the benefits of joining the army are extremely high, and the salary level of Star Alliance is simply incomparable to ordinary social work...... Or in other words, in this situation where the Covenant official is completely in control of the social economy, there is no job like working for the Covenant.

Therefore, in today's Star Alliance, joining the army has become the best way for ordinary civilians to change their fate, and there is no one.

And those rich children who joined the army, including those who have already been genetically modified, are also very enthusiastic about this modification, although their wealth allows them to enjoy ordinary or even top-level civilian genetic modification in peace...... But please pay attention to the word civilian.

Just like in the old days, there has always been a difference between military and civilian supplies because they are aimed at different groups, and the same is true for genetic drugs...... Both have their own grades, but in the case of the same level, although the civil gene medicine is not small to improve physical fitness, it is more inclined to prolong life. Although military genetic drugs can also prolong life, the physical fitness modification is more powerful.

In this way, it can not only ensure the desire of ordinary wealthy people for longevity, but also ensure the deterrent effect of the army on the people.

Not all wealthy people are satisfied with just prolonging their lives, so they choose to join the army...... Moreover, according to the official announcement of the Star Alliance, the civilian and military genetic drugs not only do not conflict, but the effects can be superimposed to a certain extent.

Of course, this superposition will definitely not reach the level of 1+1=2, and may only be equal to the degree of 1.2 or 1.3.

But for these rich children who joined the army, what they want is the extra two or three percent of the effect...... Because it didn't seem like a big effect, but it was enough to widen the gap between them and those soldiers who came from the poor.

This gap may be the difference between whether you will be assigned to a regular army or even an ace army or be assigned to defend the mine when you graduate.

And it also has a big impact on what class it becomes...... This does not refer to the big classes, but to the small ones.

For example, in the same Marines, it is obviously not the same as being the most ordinary machine gunner and becoming a more elite fire bat or marauder.

The same armored forces, driving low-end vulture mine-laying vehicles or Sidewinder chariots and driving siege tanks, wolf warrior mechas, and Thor mechs are obviously not the same.

The biggest difference is the fleet pilots...... There is a difference of 108,000 miles in military rank between the pilots who go on battle patrols and the pilots who fly Banshee, Viking, and Wraith fighters, and there is obviously a big difference between these front-line combat pilots and logistics pilots who drive transport planes and science ships.

It is this gap that greatly increases the probability of these soldiers born in rich families becoming those high-level soldiers. And becoming one of these high-ranking classes often means that you can move up the ranks more quickly and then enter the ruling class of the Star Alliance...... In any era, with the exception of some people who are moderately wealthy, the wealthy class who meet various material needs will naturally have priority over the common class in the pursuit of power and higher social status.

The difference is that in the old generation, the rich class could easily grab all their strength by constantly accumulating wealth, but in the Star Alliance, except for the members of Osborne's faction who joined the Star Alliance at the earliest, it is no longer possible for the ordinary rich class to reach the power center of the Star Alliance through conventional means...... Because in the present era, the old generation of relations of production has completely ceased to exist.

The three elements of matter: labor, means of labor, and means of production

In the old days, as long as you could master one or two of them, you could get power, but in the Star Alliance, these three elements have been completely controlled by the Star Alliance...... The grassroots labor force has been completely replaced by machines, and at the same time, the Star Alliance controls various core technologies that represent the means of labor, and the various resources that represent the means of production are completely taken by the Star Alliance in the whole space.

To a certain extent, the Star Alliance has entered the stage of "communism" in the true sense, and ordinary people do not need to work, and can enjoy a fairly rich material base. "Capital" has completely lost the soil on which it gained power.

Not to mention, the Covenant also has absolute military power.

In this case, the wealthy class, like the civilian class, can only obtain a higher social status by joining the army, and their wealth, except for helping them to start a little higher, is meaningless to the Star Alliance officials.

There is no doubt that this is a situation deliberately created by the Star Alliance, or Chris.

However, it was at this special time that the recruits of Johnny Rygo's original platoon found that the star pacesetter among them was missing.

The first to notice that Johnny is missing is undoubtedly his friend Ace...... Excited and sleepless all night, he got up early to knock on Johnny's door, but there was no response.

At first, he thought Johnny was just delayed because of something, but when all the recruits were assembled to go for genetic strengthening, Johnny didn't show up, making him realize that something was wrong. What made him feel even more wrong was that there was obviously such an important person missing, but the instructor Sim who led the team seemed to be completely unaware of it.

"Instructor, Johnny hasn't arrived yet!" When it was time to leave, Ace finally couldn't help but say to Sim.

Sim glanced at him, and then said in a loud voice to the platoon, "I know many of you are very strange that Johnny Rego went there, yes, he did leave the training camp, but this is not to say that he left the army, but was ordered to carry out a special mission, as for the specific mission, I can only say that it is a military secret...... Do you have any questions? ”

After listening to Sim's words, although the recruits were still full of question marks in their hearts, they did not dare to continue to ask because of the majesty of Instructor Sim and the seriousness of the word military secret.

But the female soldier named Rita was thoughtful.

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At this time, on an unnamed small moon in Saturn's outer ring, a small military spacecraft slowly approached.

As the second largest planet in the solar system, Saturn's moons are unknown, but except for a few large moons, most of them are small stars of little value, the kind that cannot be found on the star map.

The small satellite in front of us is one of them, and the maximum diameter of the entire star is less than 20 kilometers, and it is in the shape of a saucer instead of a regular ellipsoid.

As the ship approached, a hill on the satellite opened a deep passage that allowed the ship to slowly descend...... It turns out that the interior of this satellite has long been hollowed out and transformed into a man-made structure.

And this is one of the scientific research bases of the Star Alliance...... Research Center of the Spartan Project.

After the spaceship was connected to the star and stabilized, six women, nine men and fifteen recruits dressed in the same clothes, including Johnny Rego, walked down the spaceship one by one.

"You wait here, someone will come to pick you up!" After all the recruits disembarked, the pilot left with a single sentence and left, leaving only a group of apprehensive recruits...... They were all chosen to be the experimenters of the Spartan Project.

It is clear to everyone that the experimenter is just a nice way to put it, and to say that it is a guinea pig.

The only thing that is stronger than the guinea pig is that if the experiment is successful, there is a high probability that they can soar, and if the experiment fails, they can also get a death pension.

Among the fifteen people, Johnny Rego was the most calm one, waiting and looking around at the base...... Because compared to others, he is an exception, everyone else is randomly extracted by the big data of the military intelligence brain, and he was recruited after consulting his own opinion, but Johnny is considered to have applied by himself.

They didn't have to wait long, and soon a tall figure in military uniform stepped out of the gate of the passage in the distance and walked towards them.

With the approach of the other party, the recruits, who were already a little apprehensive, couldn't help but swallow their saliva subconsciously...... The visitor was a white female colonel with dazzling blond hair.

But the focus is not on the gender and rank of the other party, but on the height and figure of the other party.

The tallest male soldier was 192 tall, Johnny Rego was 178, and the tallest female was 176.

But the female major standing in front of them now was a head taller than the tallest male soldier, at least two meters taller.

In ordinary life, even among white and black men, who are generally relatively tall, it is not common to be more than two meters tall, let alone women.

But under such an astonishing height, the other party's figure is not out of shape in the slightest, and the limbs are slightly muscular, but it does not make people feel too strong at all, and it does not look numb, the body is very symmetrical, and the measurements are even better to explode.

The exaggerated height and perfect body are combined, but it does not make people feel disobedient at all, which makes some of the recruits amazed by all men and women.

However, for this kind of exclamation of the recruits, the female colonel has obviously been used to it for a long time, and even quite disgusted, and snorted coldly at the moment, "Recruits are recruits, there are no rules at all, didn't your instructor teach you the basic regulations?" ”

It's not loud, but it's oppressive.

The recruits who heard the news reacted immediately, and then quickly lined up according to their height, and there was no provocation of officers like ordinary TV...... It's not that there really isn't any, but similar episodes only happen in the first week of recruits, and once they do, the instructors will use their actions to tell these recruits who dare to provoke their superiors what cruelty is.

Broken hands and feet are all light, and it is normal to be beaten to half a body.

So these recruits, who have just undergone a month of primary training, are honestly like quails after the female colonel speaks...... The instructors in the training camp are so ruthless, what about the official officers outside? What's more, there is still a colonel in front of him whose rank has thrown off the instructors for eighteen streets? If you get angry, will you just beat them to death?

These poor recruits would never have imagined that in fact, the instructors of the boot camp were actually the most ruthless, and after being assigned to the combat unit, the commander of the unit might be very strict, but he would never beat and scold the soldiers at will...... One is that military law does not allow it, the second is that the recruits have been strengthened and it is not so easy to fight, and the third is that they are afraid of being shot.

But these things, Johnny and they will only know after they have experienced a lot.

"It's not hopeless" Looking at these honest recruits, the female colonel was much more satisfied, compared to the previous batches of veterans who were experimental subjects, it was really a recruit who was obedient "Introduce yourself, my name is Samus Alain, and I will be your instructor in the future, now follow me!" ”

After speaking, without waiting for the recruits to react, they walked straight to the same way they came, and the recruits who saw this also hurriedly followed in an orderly manner.

On the way, Johnny and his party passed by a huge training ground, where they saw dozens of soldiers training, some of them wearing power armor...... However, it is not the CMC-based power armor that conventional troops are equipped with, but the kind of power armor used by Overwatch troops in the past.

However, after the formation of the Covenant, this power armor was abandoned by the Overwatch Force, and no regular Covenant unit was equipped with it except for the Overwatch Force.

Because although this armor looks more flexible, in fact it is not very powerful...... In the old generation, it could be crushed in various ways in the face of the countries of the earth, but its flexibility could not escape the powerful sighting system of the CMC power armor installed in the Star Alliance, and its armor was more like paper paste in front of the powerful C-14 Gauss rifle.

But now this power armor is here.

However, compared to this kind of power armor abandoned by the military, it was the soldiers who did not wear power armor that attracted Johnny's attention even more, because these soldiers were all over two meters tall like Colonel Samus, but they were also very well-proportioned.

Obviously, this situation does not come naturally...... Either they were of this height before they were recruited, but this is highly unlikely, or the other is that the soldiers were all reinforced by the so-called "Project Sparta".

"Hey, Instructor Samus, are these little guys the recruits you're going to bring? Oh, it looks like a bunch of poor chicks following their mothers. Seeing Johnny and the others appear, one of the soldiers whistled and said with a smile, and many of the rest of the soldiers also began to heckle when they saw this.

"Shut up! Jennings, believe it or not, I'll punish you for cleaning the women's bathroom? Seeing this, Samus asked angrily.

"Oh, Shet, Colonel, you can't use this trick every time!" Hearing Sams's words, the soldier held his head and said helplessly...... Although many male compatriots will have the idea of exploring the women's toilet, this definitely does not mean that cleaning the women's toilet is a good thing.

"Sir, are those experimenters who have gone through Project Sparta?" Walking through the training ground, Johnny couldn't help but ask Samus, who was walking in front.

"I guess you've guessed it, haven't you?" Samus glanced at Johnny and said as he walked, "That's right, they are all experimental subjects of the Spartan Project, including me, the entire Spartan army has a total of 35 people, you are the latest batch, I am looking forward to you joining." ”

Hearing Samus's affirmation, the recruits all became excited...... They don't know what other effects of the Spartan plan are transformed, but judging from the height of the Samus instructor and those soldiers, this Spartan plan is not simple.

Because ordinary genetic drugs also have a certain height-increasing effect, but they are not too exaggerated, generally speaking, they increase their original height by four or five centimeters, and seven or eight centimeters are extremely rare...... And jumping twenty centimeters like Captain America can be said to be a miracle, in addition to the fact that the original super soldier potion he used is indeed special, it is also related to the fact that he has not developed normally because of the influence of various diseases.

But the transformation of the Spartan plan has clearly broken through the convention...... They can't do it, Colonel Samus and the others were originally about two meters tall.

However, compared to the excitement of the others, Johnny felt that things were not simple.

It wasn't long before Johnny, led by Samus and receiving their new identity badge, looked at his 117 number and fell into deep thought...... Because Colonel Samus made it clear before that the entire Spartan army was now 35 people, including her, but their 15 recruits were numbered 106-120.

So here's the problem...... Where did the remaining 70 people go?