"Boss, what are you going to do with the bugs?" It was Doris who asked the question.

"I haven't thought about it, let's see the situation first."

Although he knew that the new bugs that were protected were the primary target, considering the time lag of a hundred hours between the news being sent back to the fleet, Pan Wen didn't bother to decide in advance.

"The bugs are so different from the historical record that I'm a little worried." The unknown is a source of fear, and even Doris, a battle-hardened female captain, is uneasy about the organization and cooperation shown by the swarm in the battle profile.

Pan Wen turned his attention back from the knowledge extension on his desk and looked at the projection of Doris's expression.

"Go have a dinner with the crew and relax, we can get rid of them."

He didn't directly soothe Doris's emotions because he himself didn't know what the outcome would be. The bugs of E7 have developed to this point, and they can only blame this group of investors for being too economical, and they blew up E7 earlier regardless of the cost, where are there so many things.

"Let them go for dinner, I'll go to the panorama room, boss, you can rest more, the bugs don't seem to be tired."

The two shut down the communication, and Pan Wen thought about Doris's last sentence, feeling more and more that after a hundred hours had passed, D21's condition might be terrible.

Astronauts are still not out of the human category, the attention of all positions in the ship combat needs to be highly concentrated, the hangar and housekeeping also need a lot of physical fitness, even if the crew has basic genetic optimization, the error rate of more than 20 hours on duty in the combat state will be greatly increased. There are very few shareholders who are willing to prepare 50% of the combat guard change like Pan Wen, and the lack of sufficient rest may lead to a decrease in the operational efficiency of the battleship, and if the attack intensity of the bugs does not change, the probability of battle damage in the orbital fleet will be greater.

Worried that it would not have a practical effect, Pan Wen glanced at the time and ran to mingle with the students for a few hours.

After months of study, the cadets have also entered the middle of the course, in the non-combat state, they will follow the crew to familiarize themselves with the work of various positions on the warship, and the facilities of the Gold are very suitable for similar comprehensive education, so that these students who are not well educated can learn more intuitively. At this stage, the trainees are not required to study by position, and everyone is treated equally, at least so that they understand what the work of each position is for and how important these positions are in the process of battleship combat.

There are some inconspicuous posts on the battleship, and when the battleship is running normally, they don't realize that there are such a group of people working, but if they don't even understand whether the posts exist, they don't know which channel to dial if they are in trouble. For example, two of the most representative of them are the material manager and the fuel control officer.

The material manager sits in the internal control room of the first mate, the position is to keep an eye on several material sorting warehouses and water meters on the ship, nine out of ten shifts may not have to do anything, but it is a formal position only on the cruiser, and does not work part-time for anything else. The material manager is very idle, but it is very problematic to say that it is useless, the cruiser is designed to wander in space all year round, and it is equipped with an ecological zone such as a nutrient self-sustaining area that will produce/convert materials, and the entire material storage and distribution mechanism has a certain degree of complexity. Complex things are error-prone, and even in the space age, the main job of the material manager is to evaluate the analysis results of the automated system and modify the labels for the results they think are problematic, such as the degree of water savings, the replacement of parts from usable to scrapped, and so on. In the period of material shortage, their work can effectively increase the endurance of the ship, and they are also contributing to the reliability of the ship.

The position of fuel control officer is on the frigate, and it is just to keep an eye on the automatic system without problems. On the heavy cruiser Gold, because the conventional power source became a fusion reactor, the quantum engine was furnished most of the time, and there was no fuel added during non-full-effect combat, so the fuel control officer on the Gold was more idle than the material manager. Their work is mainly focused on radiation control of the engine area in the event of an automatic system failure, and manual loading of high-radiation fuel rods, which makes it more difficult for the energy mode to provide maintenance clearance for frigates that are actually a high-risk profession if they serve for too long!

According to Pan Wen's plan, the trainees will pass a series of psychological tests by medical staff, and select the trainees to participate in the actual combat observation according to the results of the psychological evaluation and the results of weekdays. After this process, when the study is over and the license is completed, it will have a higher assimilation rate with the fleet, which is far better than that of ordinary mercenaries.

Pan Wen has a poor ability to match names with people, but he still remembers a few names in this group of cadets, and maybe they will become the core force of the fleet later. However, although he was very optimistic about them, he did not say anything in the contact that everything was false until the results of the licensing examination came out, and it was not good to add a bad habit called "vanity" or "pride" to them for no reason.

After a short break from the trainees, the fleet finally completed the final jump and arrived at MR251.

"Turn on a galaxy scan and focus on the surroundings of Hemer." The fleet was still stationary, and Pan Vin gave the order and did not rush to move.

The gold number can communicate at an ultra-long distance, but D21 can't respond without corresponding equipment, and Pan Wen is too lazy to contact his teammates to simply notify him of his upcoming arrival.

The celestial objects of the Haimer galaxy are mainly the Haimer star and its surrounding satellites, which has a better scanning environment than MR241, and the efficiency is very high when the centralized scanning is carried out.

The high-energy response confirms that the battle continues...... It should be considered good news, at least it proves that the fleet of the D21 is not completely destroyed. In addition, there is not much effective information obtained, and insects are a little brittle as living organisms in outer space, and it is very difficult to find traces of movement in the distance.

Let's start moving the fleet towards D21 first.

Nadezhda had been staring at the jump before, and now she was resting, and Pan Wen leaned on the backrest and thought about it for a while, and summoned the tactical team to the bridge control room in advance.

"I'm going to blow up E7, at least so that the temperature in the atmosphere is not suitable for organic matter. Now the E7 bugs have evolved the type that can intercept missiles, so let's only consider the asteroid scheme and make a plan with the fleet's existing resources. ”

…… His thoughts have always been jumpy, and in a short period of time, he even wanted to dig out asteroids for planetary bombing.

“…… Captain, this won't save your collaborators. "The tactical team has a role in giving a hint to the captain's deviation decision, and the team leader speaks up before discussing strategy.

Pan Wen's habit is to inform the crew in advance of who they are fighting against, and the tactical team will be given more detailed information than the average crew, allowing them to make quick decisions when necessary.

"I know, you plan first, if you can slow down this time, E7 can't stay." Pan Wen felt that his teammates might still be entangled in the cost or vainly trying to leave E7 as a second development zone, so he simply did it himself.

The asteroid bombing to meet his requirements is not just to pick up a stone on the road, the size of the asteroid, the composition of the main elements, the strength of the structure and even the appearance of the shape of the asteroid, the first problem faced by the plan is how to quickly push a guy with a tonnage of more than 1e13 (1 plus 13 zeros) out of orbit. At this tonnage, even if the Golden can be transformed to a strength sufficient to support direct traction, the full thrust can only give less than 2 millimeters per second square acceleration, and the speed of only tens of kilometers per second in a year is not known, and it is not known how long it will take to cross the distance of nearly 10 million kilometers from the asteroid to Hemer.

In the transformation of planets, it is sometimes necessary to use asteroid bombing to change the surface and atmospheric environment of the planet, and the common way is to use gravitational traction, that is, to put a tens of millions of tons of powered guides in front of the target asteroid, and use gravity to interact with each other to slowly change the orbit of the satellite, during which it is necessary to avoid the propulsion particles of the guide hitting the asteroid. The cost of gravitational traction is ultra-low, a nuclear fuel cell, a propulsion group, and an asteroid that is small enough to be strong enough to pull a big guy at the asteroid belt site, all it takes is time, and it takes time to calculate it in ten years and a hundred years.

Since Pan Wen proposed to let the tactical team make a plan, it naturally can't take too long, and it must take effect as soon as possible, and gravitational traction is directly ruled out.

After a while of discussion, the leader of the tactical team gave a preliminary plan: "We can use a composite method including traction, thermal radiation and some small impacts to drive the asteroid, and the target must be selected after on-site investigation, and the impact should be completed within three months." ”

Three months, it's very fast, but since E7 has been abnormal, it seems that it has only been three months since it has become like this, and I don't know what will happen if I wait for another three months.

"What does it take to speed things up?"

"More thrust, keep the number of main guns." A member of the tactical team cut off their team leader to popularize Pan Wen, "We need to bring stones used to accelerate and change the course of the asteroid as a traction head, and the thermal radiation power needs to turn part of the asteroid into a liquid state and maintain the shape of the liquid part, and the construction machinery does not have enough power to do it." ”

It sounds a bit troublesome, but as long as you can rescue your teammates, there must be a few people who support the decision to blow up E7, and if you don't support money, it's always okay to temporarily transfer back the fleet you left in the orbital fleet, of course, provided that the fleet is still sound.

The bombing temporarily allowed the tactical team to select some prospecting candidates from the previously scanned star map, and the fleet still solved the matter at hand.

When they approached Hemo about two million kilometers and began to slow down, Pan Wen and Kareda made contact.

"You have dark circles under your eyes." He doesn't speak at all to please people, and he directly reveals the scars.

There were obvious bloodshots in Kareda's facial projection eyes, and when she heard his words, she subconsciously touched her lower eyelid with her finger and gave him a wry smile:

"The number of bugs is under control, and our fleet has suffered heavy losses, just the twelfth."

"Just under control?" In the part of the data sent back before, the reduction rate of the part of the war insects outside the E7 atmosphere was nearly 1% per hour, and it was delayed back and forth for more than 100 hours, but it was only controlled!

"Well, dozens of hours ago, the production rate of war bugs doubled, I don't know if it will continue to increase in the future."

Crazy stuff.

"How did you carry it?"

"They took advantage of our fatigue to launch a massive attack, and the scale of their attack slowed back when we activated the barrage."

I see, Pan Wen nodded. Judging from the results of the previous trial, the insect leader or the command group must have a high IQ, and with a high IQ, it is impossible to play to the end with a single tactic, and some moths will inevitably come out in the middle. But fortunately, the bugs' troops are still a little weaker when attacking the human fleet, and the electromagnetic barrage can indeed be regarded as the nemesis of plasma weapons.

The defensive surface of the orbital fleet backed by the D21 atmosphere can only be regarded as hemispherical, and the density of dozens of frigates with live barrages can be imagined, and it can really be called an iron curtain (aluminum curtain?). It's almost inevitable that something like plasma will hit the wrong target, and the bugs can't simply increase the number of bugs to kill the fleet.

"How can I help?"