Volume 1] Chapter 269 The Frontier Realm (I) -

Chapter 269: The Frontier Realm (I)

February 2090 AD.

After welcoming the birth of his first daughter, the new Emperor Robin announced his swearing-in on the same day.

The next day, the fleet that had already been assembled converged into a spectacular torrent of steel on the Pioneer Passage from the Big Dipper Galaxy to the extragalactic galaxy. This time, in addition to the First Army of the Imperial Central Committee, which needed to defend the imperial capital and was stranded in the country, the second, third, and fourth armies of the four major armies established by the empire after the promulgation of the new policy were all under the leadership of the imperial dragon banner, and they fought towards the murderous extragalactic galaxy without turning back.

On February 14, 2090, on the first day of the Han Lunar New Year in the old era, Robin personally led his army to the Grand Magellanic Nebula Quinnir system.

At the beginning of 2085, after Robin and the Empire's predecessor, Emperor Hoffmann the Great, formulated a military policy with the main goal of unifying the galaxy first, the progress of the Empire's conquests in the extragalactic galaxy was greatly limited. According to statistics, in the Magellanic Nebula, where the Insats had a serious invasion, the imperial power had completely withdrawn, giving up all the territory that had been occupied. In the large Magellanic Nebula, which is more favorable than the Empire, the galaxy under the actual control of the Empire has also shrunk significantly. According to Huggins, who led the vanguard fleet to the Great Magellanic Nebula first, the empire now controls less than half of the systems it had five years ago, and most of its military garrisons are under severe pressure to survive the ground assault of the Insats. There are only five or six star systems that can really guarantee safety, and even if they are, there is no guarantee that there will be no Insats dormant in the depths of their planetary crust. So, in a sense, this is a real struggle for survival, where every inch of land and every starry sky is filled with that suffocating killing machine.

"It's not optimistic, it's worse than I thought."

In the ground fortress of Hayden Planet in the Quinnir system, Robin, who arrived at the army base on a landing ship, immediately consulted the combat reports of Hayden Planet in the past five years.

The Quinnier system is the most powerful system in the Great Magellanic Nebula, and Hayden is a military powerhouse built as a military bridgehead. Five years ago, during the Empire's frequent expeditions to the Great Magellanic Nebula, the planet Hayden, which served as a transit ground for military supplies, had been very peaceful, and there were few records of encounters with the ground forces of the Insats. However, in the past five years, the records of operations kept in the Harbor Planetary Fortress have been as high as more than 700, and there have been dozens of battles with more than 1,000 people. From this figure, it can be seen that at present, in the Great Magellanic system, the pace of invasion of the Insats is accelerating rapidly, and while constantly encroaching on those unoccupied empty galaxies, they have even begun to probe their tentacles into the core military frontier of the empire.

"According to the usual rate of the Insats, if they were to launch a thousand-man invasion of the ground, they would probably be ten to twenty times as numerous as that underground, and perhaps one or two dragon chrysalis eggs lurking. This is the greatest threat, which allows them to make this planet a real death star in two or three hundred years. ”

Robin was not the only one who was worried about the situation, as Robin's chief of staff, Ansel had made a detailed investigation into the way the Insats were fighting. Through this investigation, combined with the current situation, Anse Air believes that the situation can even be described as extremely bad. If it is not effectively deployed, it may not be long before the power of the Empire will be completely driven out of the Great Mager Nebula, and the buffer zone of this human world against the invasion of the Insats will be completely lost.

"Why is there such a big increase in numbers? How did these things get in? Robin's brow furrowed, and due to his lack of experience in direct confrontation with space life like the Insats, he had to turn to Colonel Mark, the commander of the army, who had been stationed at Hayden Ground Fort for seven years.

Colonel Mark is a replicant in his forties, and his bloodline is Duke Clarence, one of the Empire's Big Three. More than a decade ago, Mark, who had made great achievements, was given the title of a first-class replicant and had the right to name himself. Seven years ago, he took over as Army Commander of the Terrestrial Fortress of Hayden at the behalf-time appointment of Hoffmann the Great, and to this day, he has been at war with the Insats for fifteen years, and is currently the most familiar with the habits and methods of warfare of the Insats in the Empire.

"Your Majesty, these creatures sneaked in through meteorite fragments and some large celestial bodies." Colonel Mark, who had a hideous scar on his face, respectfully said: "The Insats are space creatures that can travel freely in the space environment, and they are not limited in space like us humans, so they tend to hide in some large celestial bodies or meteorite fragments, and push these celestial bodies close to the planets, break through the atmosphere and land on the ground. ”

"Won't our ground fire network be able to effectively intercept them?" Robin was surprised by this, in his opinion, when the planet has a well-equipped army base on the ground, then it means that the entire planet's atmosphere is covered by anti-aircraft fire, in this case, unless the space fleet destroys the ground air defense facilities first, it is impossible for anything to land on the ground through the atmosphere.

"The so-called absolute defense of the ground is nothing more than theoretical, Your Majesty, in the Grand Mager Nebula, the density of celestial bodies and meteorite fragments is much higher than that of the Milky Way. Under normal circumstances, dozens or nearly 100 pieces of celestial debris hit the planet's ground through the atmosphere every day. Of course, if the fortress has sufficient energy reserves, it is not impossible to intercept them all. But the problem now is that our energy reserves are too consuming. Due to the thin density of stellar winds, the solar energy system built by the fortress can only produce energy to maintain the daily ecological needs of the fortress, and there is no excess energy to supply to the weapon system. ”

"Sunshine ......" Robin frowned and looked up at the sky, and found that the sunshine in the sky was really not strong.

Compared with the mature large galaxy clusters such as the Milky Way, the Great Magellanic Galaxy can only be regarded as a nebula, not a real galaxy cluster. As a result, nebulae have much higher gas reserves and densities than the Milky Way, and the number of stars is less than that of the Milky Way, and most of them are relatively young, and have not yet formed a stellar wind that is as extensive as the Sun. As a result, the solar system, known as the 'eternal energy' in the Milky Way, can play a very limited role in the Magellan Nebula, only to meet the huge daily consumption of the fortress ecosystem, and can no longer provide excess energy for weapon systems to use in combat.

"What about geothermal systems and nuclear systems?" Robin asked about two other sources of primary energy for the human energy system.

"The geothermal system has been severely damaged by the Insats because of the need to send the heat grid deep underground, which has a significant impact on our geothermal energy supply. At present, the only thing that can operate normally is the nuclear energy system, but ......" Speaking of this, Colonel Mark obviously hesitated, but after thinking about it, he still stubbornly continued: "But five years ago, due to your policy change, Hayden Planet terminated the construction of the ground, which makes our ground-based nuclear power plant limited in scale, and the energy currently generated can only supply five to ten long-range space plasma cannons per day. So now we can only intercept part of the meteorite, and as for the other part, we can only do nothing. ”

"That's ...... so"

From Colonel Mark's words, Robin clearly sensed that it was he who had transferred five years ago... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］