In the asteroid belt, on the truss that is more than ten kilometers long and kilometers wide and high, countless robotic arms slide along the truss, sending pieces of plates and pipelines into the truss, which has been mostly formed in the truss. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info truss interface, occasionally spewing out a light air dust, which is the internal stress caused by structural changes under the intelligent control of the structural stabilization engine.

The main truss extends outward with several branches, on which are hung various pods, the smallest of which are tens of meters in diameter and up to 100 meters long. More than 20 years ago, such pods were enough to be called a miracle of human space architecture, but now, compared to the nearly finished battleship in the truss, it is as small as a grain of rice.

"She's beautiful, isn't she? You can see it, she looks a lot like the Executor, the Super Star Destroyer......"

In a pod, Wei Long, deputy chief engineer of the Ship Design Center of the Star Alliance War Academy, crossed his arms and looked at his masterpiece like a daughter.

"Of course, she is not as sharp and thin as the Executor, she is fuller and more elegant. Moreover, she finally has artificial gravity, a space nuclear fusion reactor, and a big killer enough to destroy the planet, she is a star destroyer! ”

Wei Long said as he spoke, and turned to denounce the Space Army: "Those old-fashioned fishermen, what do you call the name of a star destroyer is to take science fiction too seriously, and stubbornly classify it as a battleship, oh my God! Battleship! This is the Phoenix, which is 17 kilometers long, equipped with three heavy ion cannons that can burn the moon into glass, and they call it a battleship! This old-fashioned title, my first reaction is space fat woman Domi! ”

"That...... Mr. Wei", Li Jingze finally couldn't help but remind him: "The level of the battleship is determined by the leader. ”

Wei Long didn't give up: "Leader? How could Xiao Xia manage it so carefully, isn't it still the Navy's bunch of idiots who have no aesthetic cells and are ready to sign it for Xiao Xia? ”

"I understand Mr. Wei's deep affection for the Phoenix class very well, and it would be great if you could explain more to me on distributed intelligence, not every captain has such an honor and can get the designer's personal guidance. You should know, this guy is too big and too new. ”

Li Jingze cautiously changed the topic, this is a new generation of star designers of the Star Alliance, and most of the vision of the Space Force Battleship Force for the new generation of warships is pinned on him. It's a bit of a shame that the designer is a Star Wars fan, and the series of warships and ships he designed have a bit of Star Wars in their tracks. It's very different from the previous generation of designers who liked to look for inspiration in sci-fi titles like EVE.

As far as Li Jingze is concerned, he doesn't think there is anything wrong with this, but he still thinks that the appearance of the Phoenix-class battleship designed by Wei Long is actually closer to the Republic assault ship.

"Uh...... Okay, Lieutenant Colonel, I'm sorry, but I just, I just think we need to have a new idea of space warfare, which has nothing to do with intelligence, it's a sentimental understanding, and in this regard, we're still bound to the traditional model of naval warfare. ”

Wei Long waved his hand, and it was quite difficult to express it. Li Jingze understands very well that Wei Long still has half of his consciousness on work at this time, and these designers are much more powerful than soldiers in terms of flexible division of consciousness and application efficiency.

"Why do I say that the fishermen of the Space Force are full of naval thinking, you see, you said that you have 440 basic crews, but in fact, this battleship is still essentially a single battleship, one pilot, plus a superintelligence, and a Maguling, and a set of distributed GEI, it is enough!"

"In order to accommodate the redundant crew, we had to adjust the internal structure of the hull, reduce the space for other systems, and accommodate the increased life support system. It is also necessary to expand the size of the egg compartment and install more egg compartments, don't be surprised, it is still us designers who call the core protection cabin the source of the egg cabin ......"

Wei Long unfolded the projection of the Phoenix-class battleship and explained to Li Jingze. Behind Li Jingze, a short-haired girl held his shoulders and looked curiously at the details in the projection.

The girl's voice came to his consciousness: "This is our ship, right?" ”

"Yes, Xiaoyu", Li Jingze put his backhand around the girl's waist, feeling the softness and warmth of the other party.

"That's why I refused to let the super-intelligence use a humanoid interface", Wei Long suddenly turned to this topic: "The boat is the body, we should love the ship, not the strange existence between man and God!" ”

Lee Kyung-taek patted his super-intelligent partner's hand a little awkwardly and let her float to the side, so as not to provoke more anger from the grumpy designer.

"Don't care, I just remembered the previous controversy, my opinion is to bind superintelligence to the ship, and both the War Academy and the Evolution Academy are against it, saying that it is difficult to solve the problem of ownership ...... the ship girl who made it like this."

Wei Long was still talking, seeing Li Jingze smiling faintly, he sighed, and turned back to the topic: "Then, you have to pay special attention to the preparation of the fleet headquarters, your phoenix is General Su's ship, and the coordination of warship intelligence and fleet intelligence is very important, don't ignore it." Not...... Where did you get the **** luck, all the captains of the entire universe army are eager to stab you. ”

Li Jingze's smile turned thicker, he is the **** luck from the sky, the captain who is more senior than him will either be promoted to the commander of the detachment or take over more important work. When the second Phoenix-class battleship was completed, he couldn't find a suitable captain, so he had to be promoted. Also because the Phoenix-class battleship needs to be equipped with superintelligence, he also jumped over many seniors in line at once and received superintelligence first.

"I've sent you all the other information, so you can sort out the main points yourself. In short, you can take your little beauty and drive this phoenix back next month. The weapons will be assembled in Valkyrie, and the GCS will be installed and commissioned by Bassensbeka. ”

Wei Long waved his hand impatiently, and Li Jingze also knew that the designer was afraid that he would have some inspiration, float to the short-haired girl, and take her away.

Stepping on the conveyor belt, through the portholes and trusses, Li Jingze looked at the battleship that was about to belong to him, and clenched the hand of the girl next to him. For the sake of humanity, for the sake of her, he desperately longs for the arrival of war.

The Phoenix-class battleship is a new generation of capital ships that began to be built after the periscope team acquired the Strange Stone Array technology, and she will replace the previous Warhammer destroyers and assume the main role of space warfare. In the upcoming large-scale war with the Qimu people, the fire demons, and the fire demons turned into the Qimu people, the chances of survival of small warships like the Warhammer destroyer on the battlefield are too small, and the Star Alliance cannot afford to use the new humans as cannon fodder, so the Phoenix-class battleship and the modification of the Zhenwu-class cruiser came into being.

The first Phoenix-class battleship, named "Xu Ping", was already being tested in Bassensbeka, and the captain was Natsume Shiki, who volunteered to be demoted to brigadier general, and even then, he was the only general to serve as the captain. Of course, the Xu Ping is the new flagship of the Space Army. Li Jingze's "Wen Dehua" is the flagship of the Valkyrie wargroup and the new ship of Su Yu, the leader of the wargroup.

"I heard that Wei Long is Wulianxing's roommate, Wulianxing...... Especially Wu Kang, there must be all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred for me. ”

Li Jingze thought a little proudly, but then thought that Wu Kang would be promoted to the deputy commander or chief of staff of the war group, and the command seat might be behind him, and he suddenly felt that being the captain of the flagship was actually not such a beautiful thing.

"If there are more Phoenix-class, maybe Wu Kang's seniors will rush to be the captain."

Li Jingze comforted himself, but unfortunately the construction period of the Phoenix class is too long, and by the time the war breaks out, it will be difficult to save 10 ships.

10 battleships, 50 cruisers, 200 standard and light fighter carriers, 1,000 female destroyers, and 3,000 Morning Star assault ships, this is the limit of the expansion of the Star Alliance before the arrival of the war. Reconnaissance ships, transport ships and other special ships are not counted.

The 200 motherships will carry 100,000 fighters, half of which will be Maguling fighters and half unmanned fighters. The 1,000 female destroyers are used as heavy fighters, and the 3,000 Morning Star assault ships can carry 1 million Marine commandos per wave. One-third of the commandos are humans, one-third are scarlet people, and one-third are robots.

Both destroyers and assault ships have been converted into units that can be stored by battleships and cruisers, that is, the star union plus the Scarlet Star Man will appear as the protagonist in this war, that is, 60 capital ships. Although it has tens of millions of soldiers, not to mention compared with its opponents, it looks humble compared to the allies, but this is the limit of human beings.

In the starry sky in the gap of the truss, there are occasional meteors passing by, which are not meteors, but materials and personnel launched from the rainbow bridge to the vicinity of the star gate. After being accepted by the buffer station, it is then towed through the stargate by a space trailer and transported to various places. The personnel are sent to the Valkyrie system, where there is a large military camp where these recruits can become real soldiers in a matter of months.

Li Jingze's eyes fell on the unfinished battleship again: "It's only a few months, and we must race against time." ”

Valkyrie, the planet Valhalla, the karst-like terrain gives people an eerie sense of oppression in the eighteenth layer of hell, even if the sun is shining overhead, even if it is in a double-layered transparent shield.

The gravitational force of 0.8G makes the 120 kg weight on the body much lighter, in fact, it doesn't feel heavy at all, after all, it is power armor that supports the weight.

Xiao Ning in the phalanx is a wave in the sea, and she feels completely lost herself. In front of him were countless power armor like himself, dressed in pure white background and inlaid with black lines, marching on this great plain with a neat pace like a military parade.

Hundreds of thousands of people marched on this plain, and these were the first commandos to come to the training camp, all of them were the dregs of society. Regardless of gender, regardless of skin color, they are all the same as Xiao Ning, wearing armor, carrying electromagnetic rifles, and conducting routine queue training.

What they received was not training, but forging, Xiao Ning didn't expect that he had such great potential, under such a cruel toss, not only did his body and spirit not collapse, but also showed a kind of vitality. Unlike the madness that only knew to be immersed in indulgence, this is a very orderly vitality with direction, purpose.

"Do you know what the designers call it, whether it is armor that protects you, a prison that imprisons you, or an iron whip that punishes you at any time? Iron virgin! That's right, that's the name! ”

"We don't have three years to turn you from the dregs of society to the elite on the battlefield, only three months! You'd better forget that you still have flesh and blood, and you still have bones, or it's going to be a very painful, very difficult three months. ”

The words that the trainer said to them on the first day gradually changed from initial disgust and fear to throbbing and shocking aftertaste.

The queue training at the beginning made them understand the meaning of these words, the armor will carry you away, and if you relax completely, there will be no punishment, because you have already punished yourself. The inconsistency between the exercise environment and the physical state leads to cerebellar dysfunction and you will be in a state of dizziness and vomiting throughout the day. If you want to take a step on your own, any movement that might disrupt the queue will be corrected by an electric shock, or it will simply soften you, leaving the armor to carry you with double the pain.

It's just a queue of training, 8 hours at a time, and you feel like you can't stay up anymore, but the robotic arm pulls you out of the armor, throws you into the physiotherapy pool, pours you a completely tasteless liquid food, kneades you like dough, and after two hours, you feel refreshed again.

This is followed by another 8 hours, basic tactical action training, shooting training, knowledge indoctrination and verification, through the visual nerve interface and electric shocks comparable to pacemakers, so that your brain is always in a state of excitement, understand what is right, what is better, there is not even ten seconds of rest, and only gradually and regularly press the size of the pointer to make people take a breath.

You only get 4 hours of sleep, but the hood you are forced to wear in the barracks will make you fall into a deep sleep with your head on the pillow. When you wake up and feel like you're alive again, yesterday's suffering is just a dream. You have 12 points of confidence to continue to survive today's dream.

Not everyone has that much confidence, and in the first two weeks, Xiao Ning was on the verge of collapse a few times, but each time a soft female voice appeared and chatted with her like a friend. Talk about Xiao Ning's past, talk about the two empresses of Scarlet Star, and talk about this war.

This female voice is a super-intelligent named Siren and is the super-intelligent partner of the training director. Shawning and others know that brutal training is a slap in the face and the siren's comfort is a sweet date, but no one will refuse a siren.

Xiao Ning used to be a good girl with tattoos all over her body, even wearing oyster grains, indulging in the smoke of big hemp all day long, often using online live broadcasts to commit fraud, and frequently going in and out of detention centers and prisons. When the police put an agreement in front of her and told her that if she didn't sign the agreement, she would be thirty years in prison, and she signed it. As for the content of the agreement, I was addicted at that time, and I only saw the words "interstellar immigrants" clearly, and vaguely thought, go to space, my live broadcast can have thousands more fans.

When she came to her senses, she felt cheated, but Antanya's sticks and electric shocks had taught her that wallowing and rolling was not only useless, but also more painfully punished.

When she arrived on the planet Valhalla, she gradually accepted the reality, and occasionally felt that it was actually good to have such an experience in this life.

A small fire ignited in her heart when the siren told her that the drug addiction had been completely cleared, that the tattoos and scars on her body could be surgically erased after she had earned enough combat points, and that her body would return to the purity it had been 10 years earlier.

Fighting for humanity or something, to her is a joke at all, but fighting for herself, the scenes buried deep in her heart become extremely real.

Then she realized that she had made a late transition, and that her companions were already in the cafeteria and bathrooms discussing training sessions and showing off their results.

Then she became more and more fond of all kinds of tactical training, especially shooting, and the whining of electricity and rhythmic recoil during the rapid fire of the electromagnetic gun reminded her of the thrill of the first contact with Da-hemp. Sometimes, she can even taste the feeling of climbing to the top.

"I long for the coming ...... war"

Xiao Ning marched in the queue, his body neither relying on armor nor relying on his brain to pay attention, it was completely physical-physical, but his pace was neatly consistent with that of his companions.

Under the full-hood helmet, the face that used to be heavily makeup in VR or AR images, without any traces of makeup, has a straight and delicate female face, the expression is firm and solemn, and the clear pupils are full of longing for heat.

"In half a month they were able to finish training, and to be honest, it was a miracle that I didn't believe in before. Three months can turn a bunch of scum into qualified soldiers, and I'm even a little scared, have we opened another Pandora's box? ”

In the office of the director of the training camp, Brigadier General Morris crossed his hands on his hips, looked at the 300,000 commandos in his field of vision, and muttered to himself with mixed feelings. (To be continued.) )