According to the instructions in the captain's manual, the home system is a portable version of the second world, but after a short experience, the sun always has an indescribable weirdness.

The captain's mission is not to play in the home system, and before the doubts are solved, the commissioner of the colonial bureau is ushered in.

Looking at the bald man from the earth in front of him, Rhodes only had admiration and incomprehension in his heart.

For earthlings, the second world is a far better place than the real world, and the person in front of him, according to a recent survey report, is already the most well-known and influential NPC player in the player group, and more than half of the players can be linked with one finger.

The captain, chosen from among tens of billions of humans, is admirable but not surprising that he can let go of everything in the second world. What Rhodes couldn't understand was that the person in front of him actually came to the orbit of Mars a month before the planned time, and there was no rest time along the way.

Perhaps these choices that ordinary people can't understand are the reason why he can become the captain of the ship.

Rod politely shook hands with Lieyang and began to introduce the next arrangements to the other party.

"Captain, I'm sure you've read the relevant materials of Lancer IV, and the last part will be completed for you in a purely manual way, please come with us."

Rhodes and one of his assistants take Blaze Sun to a small vehicle with a hatch in the space station, and after completing the manual separation procedure from the station, they begin to replenish the ununlocked secrets of Mighty Cavalry IV.

The action is so cautious, and the ancient pure manual mouth-to-mouth explanation is actually only for one thing.

The relationship of the captain of both the Lancers IV with the alternate chain of command.

Lieyang is the best candidate for captain among countless candidates, but the captain's responsibility requires him to spend two hundred years of sailing without dormancy, which is definitely challenging the limits of life. With the help of nanobiotechnology, longevity is not an issue, the question is whether the human psychological state can support the completion of this task.

So, no matter how reluctant you may be, with the highest priority of "Ensuring Colonization Success", Lancer IV has prepared an alternate command system - a new unpowered Overseer system!

Yes, it is the fifth-generation planetary-level self-maintenance intelligent regulator who is the same as the wind, frost, snow and rain of the four major districts!

There is no need to question whether the regulator system is good or not, but the intelligent control power of the planetary level also has relevant interfaces that can complete self-maintenance and hardware upgrades without manpower, and there has always been a potential safety risk that cannot be ignored for humans, a species that can only be regarded as "planetary surface bacteria".

Getting rid of the dependence of human society on regulators in the process of colonization is an important part of the Lancer colonization plan. However, with the failure of the three plans, the internal contradictions between the various groups in the solar system may increase in the future, and the plan has to put the "completion of the task" before the "free from the regulators". So even if you have a captain with an iron will and execution, you can't ignore the possibility of the captain going crazy.

The core command system of the Lancer IV will power up the Overseer in the following situations: the highest risk for the captain for two consecutive routine psychological assessments, the high risk for four consecutive psychological evaluations for the captain, and the death of the captain.

According to Rod and his entourage, once the Supervisor of Lancer IV is activated, in addition to taking over all the electronic equipment, the Supervisor will enter the self-maintenance process for all core systems, which will cancel the access of all crew members to each maintenance channel, and theoretically there is no possibility of shutting down the Supervisor unless the Lancer IV is destroyed from the outside.

However, after reading the pure paper hand-drawn indicator map of the Overseer that Rhodes attached, Lieyang realized that even if he could artificially cut off the power supply to the captain's protective cabin, he would not be able to turn off the Overseer. Because the automated system will deliver a radioactive fuel cell to a designated location next to the Overseer's main engine after powering it on, the Overseer can still command the Lancer IV remotely after an external power outage, and use the backup robot system to repair the damaged parts.

In short, once the regulator is electrified, the new colony will never be able to get rid of the regulator administration system that is difficult to assess.

It seems that humans are a bit silly, and if they are worried that the relationship between humans and regulators will become hostile and out of control, why not choose a less intelligent one?

Of course, countless people who have been involved in secret programs have thought that the problem is that low intelligence leads to two more serious risks than fifth-generation regulators - misjudgment of behavior and misjudgment of motives.

Misjudgment of behavior, that is, the possibility of improper judgment by the regulator in the control of society. For example, if two people push each other on the road, and one of them is rubbed by a passing object and falls to the ground, the regulator who is not smart enough may take extreme actions, such as forcing a large area of vehicles to pull over and stop the road to vacate the road to carry out special arrest actions against the target.

Miscalculation of motives, which is more serious, refers to the possibility that low-intelligence regulators may suddenly turn to the hostile side of humans, such as someone venting violence against a robot, which may become the trigger for a robot rebellion, and then tens of billions of people will die with them.

The above two examples may be a bit extreme, but they also express a conclusion very simply, the intelligence and authority of the fifth-generation regulator may be a bit high, but in fact, the risk of the automated planetary star management system is the most controllable.

The manual decryption session is over, and the Q&A begins.

"There will be ten minutes to re-connect with the space station, and if the captain has any other questions, I will try to answer them as much as I can."

After sorting out his thoughts, Lieyang asked the first question: "Why me?" ”

"You have two very high scores: emotional control, and a tendency to act in a way that is not forced."

"Emotional control?"

"Yes." Rod opened and closed his mouth, not continuing.

What he didn't say was this: You have complete control over your actions and judgment in a mentally unstable state (psychosis), which we think is closest to the state of a captain in the second half of the mission.

Although there are slight differences from the name of the previous captain's agreement, it seems that the captain was selected fairly in a fully indexed selection?

Back at the space station and seeing off the commissioner, Lieyang sorted out the information alone.

There's no Overseer, so the NPCs in the home system feel a little weird?

Yes, without a smart enough host, the uniqueness of the individual will of the same occupational group or community group is lacking in NPC allocation, so it unconsciously gives people a sense of incongruity that is "not vivid enough".

It's not a big problem, the captain of the Lancers is used to replace the overseer, there is enough authority, and after getting on the ship, it takes some time to fine-tune the AI composition to solve things, anyway, there is more time to do more tasks, and in order to ensure the mental health of the crew, it is necessary to spend some time.

After a brief understanding of the home system and some secrets, after half a month of isolation and adaptation, various inspections, I finally came to the day of going on the ship.

The same ship, which took six hours from synchronous orbit, transported Sun and the first crew to Lancer IV on the other side of Mars, the first time Sun and the crew actually saw the ship.

The first feeling of seeing Lancer IV, big! Oversized!

If the cruiser in the second world is already large enough, this colony ship that cannot perform warp speed and hyperspace operations obviously has dozens of times the material reserve space of the cruiser.

The head of the Lancer IV is a huge vertebrae, which has the sense of déjà vu of the ancient Western knight's spear. The maximum length of this vertebral body alone is 300 meters, and the diameter is more than 200 meters. It is a giant defense mechanism, which is mainly used to defend against particles and small dust when traveling at high speeds, just like the head armor in the second world, and has the largest diameter of the whole ship.

The next part is the physical connection area, which is actually a giant mechanical damping buffer for the head and the main body, and there is an auxiliary thruster for changing direction on the outside, so there is nothing to introduce.

The third area is the compound rotating structure of the main part, the center is the zero-gravity material reserve cabin, the second ring is the low-gravity water cycle, ship-borne laboratory, medical and other facilities area, and the outer layer is the gravity simulation area, that is, the living area.

The fourth area is the colony cabin, the cross-section is an octagonal column, the static cabin part of the colony cabin for the crew is only a very small part, and most of the area is used as gene reserves, colonial materials, cloning equipment, etc., by the way, the captain's room is located in the core of the colonial area. In addition, the exterior of the colonial area is equipped with communication equipment to the earth, and there are two larger personnel landing spaceplanes, one of which has been connected to it, and the other according to the entourage, has some problems in the test, and it will take a few days to reconnect, and several supply boxes will be attached to the colony cabin before departure.

The fifth section is another rectangular damping buffer connection mechanism, and finally the key propulsion mechanism, which occupies half the length of the whole ship, most of which is the fuel reserve area.

…… Well, the total length of the Lancer IV is almost two kilometers!

Lieyang and the crew were sent to the crew quarters and the "captain's quarters" by small aircraft in batches.

The so-called "Captain's Zone", in addition to a few screens that display the status of each area of the ship, and some special buttons, the most important equipment is the captain's special nutrition cabin. Although there is a hidden passage structure from the captain's room to the universal passage, it is probably not used.

"Captain, during the normal test of all equipment, you can check the status of the whole ship at any time through the equipment in the captain's room, or enter the nutritional sleep cabin and use the interactive mode to move around the ship." The accompanying colonial bureau official said, took out a panel and continued, "This is a subsequent test item, please take a look at it." ”

Lieyang took the panel and looked at it, and the rest were not important tests, most of them were materials loaded on the ship, and a small number of crew members were taught before the voyage and crisis drills. Theoretically, the teaching and maneuvering could be done through the homestead system's physical laboratory function, but the Colony wanted to minimize the number of crew members switching between homecoming mode and other modes as much as possible to minimize the probability of inducing mental problems, so their actual activities and dormancy were completely separated.

"Is there anything else I need to know?"

The colony officer shook his head: "Everything you need to know has been informed, and the rest of the part, as long as you enter the nutrition sleep pod and use the interactive mode, you can use the ship's data to view, from now on, except for not igniting without consent, you already have all the authority of the captain." ”

After speaking, the colonial bureau official also saluted.

Lieyang was stunned, and after thinking about it, it didn't seem that there was any earth-shattering ceremony.

"Okay, I'm going online, and if nothing else, I don't really want people to stare me into the nutrition pod."

"Yes, Captain." The colony officer saluted again and turned to leave the captain's room.

Getting into the role pretty quickly.

Blaze Sun took one last look at the captain's room, pursed his lips, and pressed the button on the wall.

The walls slide open to the left and right, revealing the Captain's Nutritional Sleep Pod and a group of egg-shaped nursing robots, somewhat different from the egg-like structures used on Earth, with a cylindrical body, but also opaque.

After opening the door, the egg robots started to levitate, helping Lieyang to store the clothes they had taken off, and two of the mobile standby positions at the door of the captain's room began to nag: "The captain is ready to be in place, please authorize whether to close the passage and enter and exit freely." ”

"Authorization Closed."

"Hiss." With a faint aerodynamic sound, the indicator light next to the door of the captain's room went out, and it was very simple to complete the physical blockade of the "captain's area" and the rest of the ship.