Chapter 21: Meritorious Service (I)
Warehouse No. 9 at the airbase.
At present, this huge warehouse has become the station of the crew of the TR-735 ship. In order to speed up the process of modification and repair, Second Lieutenant Borg set up a simple dormitory in the warehouse, and all personnel involved in the maintenance spent almost all nights in this warehouse 9.
As one of them, Robin is also busy here day and night. Aside from his sweet date with Cecilia on the first day, he spent almost all of his time refitting the two damaged Federal Patriot 2 heavy infantry armors.
After experiencing an incomparably tragic space battle, Robin has realized the importance of aviation armor in space warfare. If he had a working Republic Skywalker 2 aeronautical armor at hand, then Robin would be sure that he would never be so embarrassed, at least, there would be a lot of people who might not have to die.
However, when he got the construction diagram of the Republic Skywalker 2 aviation armor that Borg had found for him, and tried to modify the Patriot 2 heavy infantry armor, he realized that he was a little too idealistic. Or rather, he underestimated the technical content of heavy infantry armor.
Modifying two types of armor with different purposes is already far beyond his capabilities. At present, he can only barely understand the relevant uses and basic principles of various parts of heavy infantry armor, and he is still far from really starting to transform.
At this moment, equipped with a huge robotic arm, sitting in a large pile of parts, Robin's mind is full of circuit diagrams and structural parts. Partial drawings flashed through his mind, and he would soon be flipping through the electronic notes as if he had been enchanted, looking up the relevant operating principles of these parts and structures from the database connected to the central computer.
In fact, Robin is not a studious person, in the academy days, what he hated the most was theory classes, and what he hated the most was reading theory textbooks. He has always believed that practice leads to truth, so he prefers to enrich himself directly with action rather than reading.
But now, in the face of these mechanical principles that are far beyond the scope of his practice, he can only force himself to study theoretical knowledge. And what especially troubles him is that heavy infantry armor contains a lot of ergonomics in addition to mechanical principles, electronic energy technology, and information technology. To be fully proficient in a heavy infantry armor, you need to at least master each of these disciplines to the level of a professor, and Robin obviously doesn't have the time or talent for it.
However, even so, Robin did not intend to abandon the modification of the two heavy infantry armor. For him, it was his dream to put on armor and become a 'knight', and now that this dream was placed in front of him, he did not want to give up no matter what. Moreover, he believed that sooner or later he would be able to figure out the mechanical part of the armor of the heavy infantry. As for electronic energy technology and information technology, he could consult Colin. He could also consult Leona about ergonomics, and ergonomics were very important to him, and as long as he thought about the next experiments agreed with Leona, Robin was eager to make rapid progress in ergonomics.
Now he is like a dry sponge, in the ocean of knowledge, he is hungry to absorb a huge amount of information, and store this information and theories in his brain to savor.
At the same time, he did not stop practicing the physical aspect. After being injected with H2 potion by Leona to get an unexpected breakthrough, Robin used his 'subtle' ability to constantly consolidate his foundation and slowly adapt to the physical changes brought about by the breakthrough ability.
With his current second-order strength, second-order speed, second-order agility, and second-order reflexes, he has completely departed from the category of ordinary people and has become a warrior in the true sense of the word. Even, the requirements for entering the main combat forces of the republic have been met.
In the military system of the republic, the military has a variety of functional divisions, and although they are also soldiers, most of them serve in the logistics department that does not participate in the war. In the participating departments, the combat units will also be divided into five levels according to the different levels of combat power.
The lowest level of the unit is the local vigilance unit, and although this fifth-level unit also belongs to the operational department, it is only responsible for the local vigilance work in the combat area. Therefore, they do not require super combat skills because they do not have too strong combat pressure, and most of the personnel are composed of eliminated people in some training camps.
As for the Caron B-57 outpost team that Robin served in before, and the TR-735 transport ship Air Force Marine Corps that Robin served in before, they belong to the fourth level of troops, and they are relatively weak garrison units. It is mainly composed of a group of veterans and recruits with limited potential, and is responsible for some combat missions that are not frequently stationed.
Above the fourth-level troops are the third-level main combat forces of the main armed forces of the republic. The main combat units are mainly responsible for difficult combat tasks such as storming fortified positions, large-scale positional warfare, field battles, and landing battles, so they also have relatively high requirements for the basic quality of soldiers. Generally speaking, only those who have attained the second level of all four physical abilities are eligible to enter the main combat force. And when you enter the main combat unit, you will be recognized as a real warrior.
The special battalion of the main combat force in which Yarman served before was a second-level special operations force one level higher than the third-level main combat force. The soldiers of the special operations forces are generally above the third order, and each soldier will be equipped with heavy infantry armor. Therefore, those who can enter the special battalion are the elite of the elite.
At present, the second-class special battalion is already the highest level of force available in the republic. However, in the army establishment of the central computer, there is a mysterious unit that is one level higher than the special battalion, the Knights.
Legend has it that the Knights are a super-armed force composed entirely of high-level special abilities, and are said to exist in the Raymond Federation and the more distant Hoffman Empire. However, the Republic is limited by the generally low combat effectiveness of individual soldiers, so it is not yet capable of building such a super force.
A legendary existence like the Knights is undoubtedly too far away from Robin. But the second-level special battalion is within Robin's reach.
With his current second-order physical basic ability, he has basically reached the minimum requirements for becoming a 'knight', as long as he goes one step further and fully develops his physical basic ability to the third order, he can touch the threshold of the special battalion.
Becoming a 'knight' and becoming a hero has been a dream that Robin has had since he was a child. He dreams of becoming a powerful being, able to roam the vast world of the universe freely, so his restless heart forces him to constantly squeeze his potential and chase this dream that ordinary people may never realize.
Now he is working on refitting heavy infantry armor, also because of his attachment to his dream. Even if his idea seemed impossible to achieve in the eyes of others, he didn't want to give up, he didn't want this opportunity to slip away from his hand, even if he would end up with nothing but these two useless piles of rags, he would feel that he was one step closer to his dream.
"The energy circuit corresponds to the nervous system, and the heavy infantry armor will automatically sense the bioelectric impulses flowing in the neurons after activating the power plant, and match the corresponding ......energy in the circuit," Robin bit an electronic pen, his brain racing, using his current knowledge to analyze and understand this complex and difficult principle.
If it had been a few days ago, this difficult principle would have baffled Robin, who had never been exposed to neurons and bioelectric impulses. Now, thanks to Leona, Robin has learned something about the nervous system, so he's already trying to use what he's learned to slowly crack the mystery.
"The gravitational pull on land and the weightless environment of space are very different, so there is also a big difference in energy output between heavy infantry armor and aviation armor. However, if the armor matches the human nerves, then can it be explained that it is the difference in the armor sensing system! ”
Suddenly, Robin's mind flashed, and he suddenly found that he seemed to have captured the most critical point, and the originally vague thoughts seemed to have become clear because of this small breakthrough.
"That's right, the biggest difference between heavy infantry armor and aviation armor is the combat environment." Robin slapped his thigh excitedly: "The instinctive difference between the human body in the combat environment is the fundamental reason, and if you want to modify the heavy infantry armor into aviation armor, you must first know how much the human body is physiologically different in the two environments!" ”
The breakthrough in his thinking made Robin sit on the floor like crazy and read words, and he completely entered the world of his self, not even realizing that Cecilia who came here to find him was like a complete loss of sight and hearing.