The preschool training ended with a big bonfire. The next day, the trainees took the transport ship back to the Ares Campus after a month-long absence.

Nothing was said all night. Early the next morning, Qiao Yu and Lin Fan rushed out of the dormitory to the teaching building of the mecha department, and found a middle and back position to sit down. Today's first class is a mecha theory class by Lei Mingjun, a well-known professor in the mecha department.

As the class bell rang, the freshmen of the mecha department sat down in their seats one after another, only to see a burly middle-aged man walk in outside the door, with a slight stubble on his face and slightly dark skin, as if he had been trained by the years. A pair of lightweight, gold-rimmed glasses rested on the bridge of his nose, adding a few wisps of bookish air to him. He walked to the podium and smiled at all the students, "Hello students, I'm the teacher of your mecha theory class, Lei Mingjun, it's a pleasure to meet you." ”

"Today, this is the first formal teaching of our mecha theory class, before explaining the relevant course content, I want to see what everyone knows about mechas? The student in the blue shirt sitting in the third row, tell me what you know about mechas, anything. ”

Passerby A in the third row stood up, "Well, first of all, what I know is that the mecha soldier is an elite branch of the empire, it originated in 3050 AD, when there was no current human empire, we humans just left from their home planet Earth, passed through the unknown wormhole and came to the current star range, but at that time, our ancestors did not find the habitable planet of today's capital star at first, but drove the ark in the universe to wander, in order to fight against various unknown attacks in the universe and cosmic creatures, The original army and air force weapons could not meet the strategic needs, so the mecha was born. As a weapon, the mecha has the ability to adapt to almost the entire environment, it can perfectly fight in the air, land, and space, even in the sea, there are specific mecha or specific modifications to the mecha to make it possible to carry out deep-sea combat. This is something that cannot be achieved with traditional weapons. ”

"This classmate said it very well, this is the birth of mechas, does anyone else know anything about this?"

A passer-by B stood up and said, "Teacher, I know!" Along with the birth of the cutting-edge weapon of the mecha, it is a new class called the mecha division, but after a long period of actual combat, it is found that not all people and all mecha types are suitable for combat, so the mecha is divided into two factions today - artificial and intelligent. The intelligent faction firmly believes that relying on machinery, artificial intelligence and computer technology can maximize the power of the mecha, but limited by the level of science and technology, the current intelligent mecha in actual combat performance is very poor, mostly civilian, intelligent mecha all actions, most of the intelligent system for calculation, such as shooting, the operator only needs to designate the target, the rest of the calculation and locking all rely on the on-board computer itself to calculate and lock - while the artificial faction is the opposite. The artificials generally believe that people's subjective initiative and potential are far from being comparable to machines, so the on-board computer and intelligent systems are only used as auxiliaries in the artificial-sent mechas, and most of the actions of the artificial-sent mechas require clear instructions from the operator. In actual combat, the performance of the artificial mecha completely crushed the intelligent faction, which also led to the fact that the intelligent mecha is now more of an in-depth research institute doing in-depth research and has not been popularized, and the proud star knights of our human empire are using artificial mecha to repel various enemies. ”

"Very good, I have to add a little to what this classmate said, that is, the artificial mecha was also very disadvantageous at the beginning of development, because the complex operation of the mechanical console made the training of the pilot very difficult, and the training cycle was also quite long, which also led to the early days of the mecha, the number of pilots was extremely rare, but they still fought for the survival of the human race, so they were respected by the people at that time as the Star Knight and passed down to this day. This situation continued until the development of a new neural connection system, which replaced the previous helmet connection mode, and instead used a chip implanted in the pilot's body, the nerve signal interception was converted into a quantum signal and transmitted to the on-board computer in the mecha, which then converted the signal into various actions of the mecha. On the whole, the popularization of this system has liberated the trainee knights from lengthy mecha training, and for new mobile phone masters, they can also get started in battle faster - because the control of mecha is not much different from the action of people themselves, which is why today's mainstream mecha are humanoid mechas. ”

"Of course, just like the limitations of the intelligent mecha relying on the computer combat are very large, although the neural connection system seems to be worth relying on most of the time, but the speed of its signal conversion is limited by the performance of the on-board computer, so when the level of the pilot is improved to a certain extent, it can get out of the neural connection system and use the traditional mechanical console to obtain higher mecha operation efficiency. This is one of the reasons why all mechs today have two operating systems on them. ”

The students below suddenly realized that most of them really didn't know the difference between the two systems of the mecha before this, and all the civilians touched in the reserve was a trainer that simulated the cockpit of the mecha, and there was only a mechanical console.

Lei Mingjun helped his eyes and continued, "As we all know, even if the neural connection system reduces the requirements of the pilot, in order to ensure the smooth operation of the mecha, there are not low requirements for the pilot's neural reaction speed and brain domain development. Or rather, the bar is quite high! There are only 1w official Star Knights at all levels that are routinely maintained by the Empire! You heard it right, in the empire's population of more than 100 billion, there are only about 1w official knights, of course, there are a larger number of probationary knights, these probationary knights are the first steps taken by you students after graduation and some pilots trained by the army. The Star Knight of the Empire, which has developed to this day, is a different system from the military rank system, it is more similar to the nobility system, a system of honorable titles - of course, this title also brings various rights. Most of the lowest-level probationary knights are assigned to garrison various places to carry out guard tasks, and clean up the surrounding space creatures to accumulate actual combat experience. Their corresponding military ranks are generally corporal to sergeant. Formal knights are divided into Morning Star Knights, Radiant Moon Knights, and Radiant Sun Knights, corresponding to the rank of captain, colonel, and general, respectively. Regular knights are generally stationed in the border areas and rotate to the front line to fight. ”

"Of course, in addition to the above-mentioned midshipmen and full-fledged knights, there are also some pilots with mecha piloting skills, who serve in the academy and other places. But in general, mechs and star knights are the precious high-end forces of the Empire. ”

Qiao Yu raised his hand at this time and asked Lei Mingjun, "Then teacher, what I want to know is how many pilots do our main enemies, the Forsyken clan, have?" What about their mechs? ”

Lei Mingjun motioned for Qiao Yu to sit down and replied, "How many pilots there are in the Fosaiken clan, we humans can't estimate it at the moment, judging from the constant attacks and front-line confrontations in various places, the number of Fosaiken mecha is much more than our humans!" The exact number is due to our lack of information - human spies are completely unable to blend in with the Phosykens, so we can't give an accurate estimate. In terms of combat power, the current attacks on our human planets are mainly the basic mechs in the Forsyken mecha, because they are large in number and relatively low in combat power - this is relative to the official knights. Since the first encounter with the Fosyken clan 50 years ago, the two official knights could only rely on self-explosion to die with the enemy because of the lack of power of the weapon, our human empire has continuously improved the power of mecha weapons, and now, the power of mecha weapons can easily cause damage to this kind of mecha of the Fosyken clan, as long as it is an experienced knight, it is actually completely one-on-one, or even one-to-many to destroy the enemy. Even if you are a trainee knight, you can generally rely on a two-person team to have a relationship with the enemy. The higher-level Forsyken mecha rarely appears in the human territory to attack, and is more likely to engage with our large forces on the front line, and the characteristic of this mecha is that it can launch an overload similar to our human mecha, which can improve the various performance of the mecha in a short time. Therefore, in the front-line confrontation, we humans basically will not invest in trainee knights, because of the immaturity of trainee knights, the standard mecha of trainee knights does not have the function of overload engine, and it is difficult for them to adapt to the sudden increase in speed and other performance of the mecha, but it will affect their own combat power. ”

"One level higher, it is a personal mecha with characteristics, which is the same in the Fosyken clan and our human empire, experienced warriors have personal characteristics, so the performance and assembly of the mecha are more equipped according to the personal conditions and wishes of the pilot. We don't know, but in our Human Empire, only the top Morning Star Knights and the ranks above them can get the Imperial military to build their own personal mechs for them. These knights with personal mechs also responded to the Empire's expectations with outstanding performances on the battlefield. ”

The individual mechas, the students in the audience all revealed fanatical eyes. It is the dream of every hot-blooded young man of the empire to drive a personal mecha that completely suits him, gallop in the vast starry sky, fight with cosmic creatures and alien races, protect his relatives and friends, and protect the home of mankind from being violated. Qiao Yu showed a yearning look, "Personal mecha, I will definitely get it in the future!" ”