A few photos, an impromptu meeting, and a treacherous deputy commander with a cerebral twitch and nerves became the fuse of the incident, instantly disrupting everyone's trajectory.

The war broke out in a posture of being caught off guard.

And at this moment, neither side of the war is fully prepared -

The Reapers, despite having assembled a large number of fleets, are still very interested in the question "How to fight?" "Who is the main target?" and other issues are still being debated, and the three planetary-class "Crab" fortresses have not yet completed the renovation work. Therefore, when the Starlink mutineer sent back the signal "We have begun to mutiny", the Reaper was quite speechless......

Then they had to send their fleets to the Arcturus system in batches - the only chance to completely wipe out the upper echelons of the Star Federation was this one, and the Reapers had to seize it. It stands to reason that the Reaper has formed a de facto "refueling tactic", and any "big take" in the military version can be taken down by commanding it with his feet! However, the essence of winning the "refueling tactic" lies in "concentrating superior forces and annihilating each one", if the opponent exceeds the total combat strength of the Star Alliance military in each wave, it will become a killer move of "forcing it to retreat and pursuing it in waves......

In the Star Alliance, first of all, thanks to the years-long brainwashing work of "History of the Planet", Lu Yuan completely completed the science popularization work while taking away a large number of star elements, and the ordinary people of the pan-galaxy generally have enough understanding of the reaper.

This familiarity can not only calm the panic of being invaded by the Reapers, but will even bring "great surprises" to the Reapers in the future! For the first time in 50 million years, the civilizations of the galaxy are not at war in a situation of "sneak attack". Although the disparity in strength is still huge. But if you count the 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000......,00 Maybe the gap isn't that big!

At the top of Starlink. There are those who firmly believe that the Reapers will invade, such as General Hackett, Shepard, David. Anderson, "Phantom Man" and so on; Some will be skeptical, but they choose to be prepared. For example, Vice Admiral Yang of the Seventh Fleet...... There is also Admiral Drescher, who has retired. If you are not a villain, you have always been a villain, the old man has been fighting aliens all his life, and in his eyes, aliens will always be a threat! It doesn't matter if it looks like a shrimp crawler (Reaper) or looks like a praying mantis (Turui); There are also people who don't believe in death, like the politicians in parliament, we can never wake up people who are pretending to be asleep......

It's a pity that when the great era was about to surge, Master Lu was still sleeping beautifully.

*****

Li Huamei summoned Annie and a big man, but after a simple hug. He left the job of cleaning up the Arcturus space station to Anne and returned to his flagship "Kunlun" alone.

Despite not being backed up by any intelligence sources, the information she and Anne brought was unanimously determined. There is a high probability that the Reaper will attack immediately! Therefore, Li Huamei must seize all the time to activate her flagship, and then preemptively lead the space station escort fleet to block the "triangle area" of the Arcturus galaxy (the intersection of the main repeater, the civil waterway and the cruise route)! to fend off the first wave of attacks from the Reaper fleet.

"Call 'Hangzhou', 'Shanghai', 'Budapest', 'Istanbul', this is Li Huamei! I order, go to the B4 airspace immediately! "When Li Huamei entered the logistics department as the deputy director. Her detachment was also temporarily out of the sequence of the Second Fleet. It was incorporated into the sequence of the Arcturus space station escort fleet - everything is traditional, in fact, the detachment is still under the command of Li Huamei.

After receiving the order, the four old and new cruisers broke away from the formation of the convoy and headed for the triangle. They all belong to Li Huamei's lineage, but if you list the main officers on these four warships, you will find an interesting phenomenon - this seems to be almost a copy of the "Tofan Encounter" (the battle where Vice Admiral Yang attacked the pirate base)!

In addition to Shepard, who was soaring on the battlefield at that time, Mu Yu (the hero of the Schillian raid), Zhang Tan (the chief judge of Li Huamei at the time), Lin Zhuxue (Annie's captain), and Leona (the terminator of the battleship "Kashi") served as the captains of four cruisers, these famous battle heroes of the year. actually appeared in Li Huamei's small detachment!

Although these guys, except for Leona, are all "thorns" in their respective troops. But it is also a hot naval star. You know, war in peacetime is more precious. The actual combat experience provided by a "first contact battle" in that year contributed to the talent pool of the huge navy for the Star Alliance. The fleet of the "Tofan Encounter" is larger, and the generals involved are all carefully selected elites, and some people even say that the Star Alliance Navy can be worry-free for the next fifty years.

It can be seen how many small actions the old man Hackett has made in private over the years to gather so many "untimely" guys under Li Huamei's command......

Li Huamei's voice echoed across the empty bridge, but a neat "Ayeaye" sound could be heard everywhere in her intercom. The reason for the emptiness was the meagre staffing of her flagship—a mere 12 men—which could not even sustain an average cruiser, let alone a 1.26-kilometer-long battleship.

Many people thought that Li Huamei had just not started to select the crew members, but they didn't expect that Li Huamei didn't want so many people from the beginning...... She sat in the command seat and placed her left upper hand in a groove filled with honeycomb holes in the armrest of her chair. From her "Wizard" X-type multi-tool, countless blue transparent tentacles poked out and inserted into the armrest.

On Li Huamei's retina, holograms are flashing rapidly.

Suddenly, the entire "Kunlun" battleship shook violently and left the dock!

*****

After the "General...... released Shepard's tiger, Hackett and Anne rushed back to the space station. By this time, the purge of the rebels was nearing completion. More military personnel will be organized, a new command will be created, and then the evacuation operation from the Arcturus space station...... There is also the gradual retreat of the fleet and the arrangement of layers of blockades, etc.

The rest of the work is endless! Hackett frowned all the way, he didn't even look at the road, he was walking completely according to his habits, and his mind had completely turned to this aspect. At this moment, Anne stopped him from behind.

"What's the matter?" Hackett asked solemnly, looking back.

"Ah Yuan...... No, it's someone! Anne pulled out two electronic boards in a slight panic and handed them in the direction of General Hackett. Two lists made by someone, do you want to take a look? When she took out the electronic board, she stared at the general's face without blinking, trying to see something. Hackett, however, kept his face straight and did not show the slightest expression.

On the electronic board, you can see that all the names are written - only a few dozen on one of them, and several pages on the other!

It's a small corridor leading to the dock, one of the countless remote corridors of the Arcturus space station, with no people and no cameras...... In other words, no one knows what's going on here! Hackett's eyes were fixed on the two lists in front of him, his gaze was as sharp as a knife, as if he wanted to shred the nasty characters on them!

Hackett was silent with his hands behind his back, and the atmosphere gradually tightened, and even the temperature in the hallway seemed to begin to cool.

Anne waited with bated breath...... One minute...... Five minutes...... Just when she saw sweat on her forehead, her hand moved slightly, and she wanted to take the list back. Hackett finally moved, his thin fingers tapping lightly on the short list, and then turned and left the hallway alone without looking back.

Seeing General Hackett leave, Anne breathed a sigh of relief and broke out in a cold sweat. The job was harder than she thought, and Anne hated asking her to do it. You must know that in the past, most of the time she played the role of a charged, front-line commander, and she was a powerful pawn under Lu Yuan. As for Artoria, which he assisted back then, it was a second-class ...... No, that's a foodie with zero political mind.

Now that the general has made a decision, and before Anne came, Zhao Min also clearly told her that this list came from Lu Yuan's opinion...... Anne gritted her teeth and scratched the short electronic board on the universal tool. After scribbling, all the names on the list turned red in unison, and were marked with a shocking blood-red mark - "Enlightened"!

After a while, sporadic gunshots were heard again in the huge space station - another group of people who had been "educated" by the Reapers were screened out and killed directly! Among them are parliamentarians, high-ranking officials, and some "famous scholars...... But the people who were being shaken by the horrific news of the "Reaper Invasion" did not pay more attention to it. They are more concerned about whether the fleet can stop the Reapers, and whether there are enough ships on the space station to ensure that all personnel are evacuated!

And the people who were "indoctrinated" by the Reapers, they have seen them - those who were their colleagues an hour ago, and in the blink of an eye they have become fanatical religious elements! Shooting at his past colleagues and denying his six relatives, this kind of face-turning ruthlessness is simply chilling! Therefore, instead of resisting the use of slightly harsher means to purge the "indoctrination personnel," they applauded loudly.

Many people say that this is the beginning of the "Hackett junta"! It's a regression of thousands of years of civilization!

But historians will note that almost all of the second group of dead were those who "did not recognize reality", that is to say those who were deliberately holding back before the war against the Reapers began! However, these people have some power and influence, and they have caused great damage to the preparation for war. They bear unshirkable responsibility for the heavy casualties caused to the Star Alliance in the early days of the Reaper invasion!

…… Oh, so they really do look like "indoctrinated".

Well, this black history is fine! (To be continued.) )