Chapter 10: Battlefield and Choice (Part I)
The Sixth Star Region was the first of several regions to start a war, and at that time, Qin Ming thought that only this one Star Region was in trouble, so he only declared the Fifth to Eleventh Star Regions around the Sixth Star Region as war zones, and ordered each Star Region to cooperate with each other to fight against the Sixth Star Region. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Unexpectedly, this time the action was already planned by several star regions, and in just one month, wars broke out in several other star regions one after another, and the territory of the Galactic Empire was suddenly full of smoke.
In the process of Benjamin's rush back to the capital system, Qin Ming has issued six decrees in a row, and the content can be summed up in only one sentence - all the star regions loyal to the empire are fighting separately and waiting for support!!
The days of peace have been so long that too many people have no idea what war is all about, and the generation born in the era of great development has the most idea in their minds about how to make more wealth, and no one will believe that war broke out like this, and more importantly, except for a small number of people, too many people do not know how to fight war.
Thus, when several sectors had won the first battle and had joined forces with each other and flaunted the Union flag, most of the citizens of the Empire were still imagining that the two sides could sit down and negotiate peace, and finally achieve coexistence.......
The reality is cold, the empire that is extremely powerful on the surface has actually weakened to an extremely dangerous level, the federal side has been preparing for many years, once launched, with mental calculation or unintentional, the imperial army is basically about to collapse, and after half a year, it has lost a large area of territory in the fifth, seventh, twelfth, and fourteenth star regions, and it is still constantly losing and retreating, and the situation is erosive.
The old captain told me that immediately after returning to the Capital Star, he received an order from the Imperial Army Department to rush to the Tenth Sector, where a reserve of the Imperial Army awaited his command.
Subsequently, he asked me to make a decision, or he found a way to send me back to my parents "somehow", or I followed him and Sister Isha to the Tenth Sector, and he would continue to take care of me until the war was over.
I was 12 years old, what choice could I have? Besides, every boy will have a hero complex in his heart, so I chose to follow him almost without hesitation.
This walk is a full five years.
The characteristics of interstellar warfare, first of all, are time, and the long distance between galaxies makes the process of attack and defense very long. The Federation Army, which was overwhelming at the beginning of the war, finally occupied the territory of the nine star sectors, but was blocked by the Imperial defenders who were constantly reinforcing by the space-time jump base points.
The space-time jump points were discovered by chance by the captain of a cargo ship during the Great Development Period, and they are widely found in all corners of the galaxy, some in space, some on planets, showing random distribution.
As they were further studied, it was finally discovered that under the impact of different energy intensities, these jumping base points would react differently, eventually teleporting the objects that entered them to another base point at different distances. This discovery finally verified the "wormhole" theory that human scientists had already guessed, and there are indeed space-time gates in the universe that can be connected to each other.
After countless attempts, mankind's research on these base points has finally entered the practical level, and a precise energy impact standard has been successfully formulated, and mankind has begun to search for and mark the space-time base points in the developed star fields. Then the problem became simpler, and it was only necessary to set up an energy station and related facilities near the base point to be able to travel through space.
In the first hundred and fiftieth year of the Empire's founding, the main space-time base points within the empire's territory were marked, and in the following fifty years, the empire invested a great deal of effort in building base point stations. By the time of the Empire, this huge project became a highlight of the celebration, and some media jokingly called it the "Galactic Metro" in the space age, because its fast and accurate transportation method did have many similarities with the popular transportation mode in that Earth era.
However, there is a big flaw in this project -- the cost is high, and the larger the object has to be transported through the base point, the higher the energy requirement, and if it is a 10-million-ton cargo ship like the Benjamin, or a more massive aircraft carrier-class warship equipped by the military, the energy requirement is ridiculously large. Moreover, in a limit test, because of the excessive energy input, it also directly led to the complete annihilation of a basis point, and the impact of its subsequent explosion directly created a new black hole in the Milky Way.
It was precisely by relying on the convenience of the base point project that the empire was able to send a steady stream of soldiers to the frontline star sector to participate in the battle, and finally temporarily blocked the Federation's step-by-step approach, dragging the war into a stalemate stage.
After coming to the 10th Sector with the old captain, I was sent to school by him, and continued to complete my studies, and every night when I returned to my residence, it was he or Sister Isa who tailor-made small class teaching time for me, of course, the main thing that really implemented the teaching was AI.
During those three years, the old captain tried many ways to get me in touch with my parents, but they were unsuccessful, and after the establishment of the Federation, the control of the border was unprecedentedly strict, and many of his former friends could not be contacted, so we had no choice but to accept this reality.
At the end of the three years of study, my educational level met the minimum requirements for joining the army, so at the birthday banquet held for me by the old captain and Sister Isa that year, I proposed the idea of joining the army to him.
At that time, the old captain had become one of the senior commanders of the Imperial Army in the 10th Sector, but he thought about my request for a long time before finally agreeing to let me undergo military training, and if I could pass the examination, I would be allowed to join the army.
After three months of military training, I got an A+ evaluation, but when I excitedly put this report card on the old captain's desk, he fell silent. After a long time, he sat me down and told me why he hesitated.
The old captain really had a family fifty years ago, and finally he was a little tired of the interstellar adventure life and returned to the Holy Capital Star, and the next year he formed a family with a female captain named Jenny, and the next year he had a lovely boy.
The couple has accumulated a lot of property in their adventurous life for many years, so they bought a property in Shengdu Star, ready to live a stable life, and their son Tony has also made them full of happiness and even have the idea of retirement.
In this way, they really live the same life as ordinary people in the Holy Capital, shopping every day, buying vegetables and cooking, and taking care of children...... All in all, it is very fulfilling and happy.
Days like this always go by quickly, and in the blink of an eye, Tony graduated from college, and the career choice he made was to be an intergalactic adventurer, just like the old captain and his wife. Although the old captain and his family were a little reluctant, the young Tony felt that it was a waste of life to live on only one planet, and he insisted on leaving. Under the two-phase game, in the end, the child still can't be defeated.
Tony was very competitive, he became the second mate within a few years of sailing, and found true love during the journey, and married Lin Lier, the navigator of the same ship, and the next year Sister Isa, the little princess of the whole family, was born, which can be described as a lot of joy. In those years, the old captain couldn't help but smile when he talked to me, but I know what an unforgettable memory.
One day half a year later, Tony and Lill went home to visit relatives, Jenny went to the airport to greet her, and the old captain prepared a family dinner at home, taking care of Sister Isha who was still in her infancy.
The accident happened on the way home for a family of three, and at first there was a small collision between the taxi they were riding in and another flying car, and the driver got out of the car to reason with the other party; Just as the two sides were arguing, another runaway truck crashed into it...... The investigation after the incident was indeed an accident, but this tragic accident caused the loss of relatives to all three families, and the old captain also lost his three most important relatives.
Later, he sold his property in the Holy Capital Star, bought "Benjamin", and left this sad place with Sister Isa, and did not return there until he met me and the war broke out.
He said that the most important reason why he didn't want me to join the army was that he didn't want any more accidents with people close to him, but once he joined the army and went to the battlefield, accidents could happen at any time......