In fact, Beacon Mars is also the only recolonized planet of the Human Federation.

It took about a hundred years for the Human Federation to complete the environmental transformation of Beacon Mars. It's just that due to the technical limitations of the time, the transformation was not thorough. The point is that the Earth's core has been severely damaged, and even with current technology, it is impossible to make Beacon Mars become its original appearance without using a lot of resources. As a result, after the transformation, the environment of Beacon Mars is still not very suitable for human survival.

Of course, after the temperature drops, it is already possible for humans to survive.

Over the next few hundred years, before the outbreak of the Fourth Greenwich War, waves of colonists arrived on Mars. Strictly speaking, these people are not colonizers, but adventurers who are in it for money, for profit, for getting rich overnight, and for becoming famous overnight.

These people brought a short-lived prosperity to Beacon Mars.

It can be said that this is also a return to the light.

Although this wave of openness continued until after the end of the Fourth Greenwich War, there was a time when it would end, and it could never be restored after that.

In the Fourth Greenwich War, the Galactic Alliance was heavily defended, and the Wolf Smoke Galaxy, where Mars is located, was a key defense area. Although the Silicon Charm Alliance has entered the Wolf Smoke Galaxy many times, none of them succeeded, and none of them even approached, and they were all blocked from a few light years. It is precisely because of this tragic war that the Wolf Smoke Galaxy has not been affected much, let alone severely damaged. In addition, during the centuries-long war, legions of various civilizations came here, and thousands of soldiers were stationed in Mars, bringing a huge amount of consumption. For the inhabitants of Mars, this is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a fortune.

At its peak, there were more than two billion soldiers of various civilizations stationed on Mars!

To know. That's two billion officers and soldiers. If you count the entourage, especially the businessmen who smelled business opportunities and came here to make war profits, then even more. Although there are no accurate statistics, it is conservatively estimated that at least 50 billion people visited Mars during the Fourth Greenwich War. And the civilians who stayed on Mars for more than a year were not 10 billion, but 5 billion.

This prosperity lasted until the end of the Fourth Greenwich War.

Because it took time to demobilize soldiers and redeploy the Greenwich Line, Beacon Mars did not decay immediately after the end of the war.

It's just that the decay of Beacon Mars is inevitable.

To put it bluntly, before the outbreak of the Fourth Greenwich War, the resources on Mars were almost exhausted. In times of war. In order to provide the army with words, the remaining resources on Mars were frantically exploited, mainly because it was cheaper to obtain resources on the spot than to transport them from the rear.

Without resources, Beacon Mars would not have everything.

As the resources were depleted, the inhabitants of Beacon Mars also left.

For the next few hundred years, Beacon Mars was almost completely forgotten by the outside world, and even the colonists who moved out of Beacon Mars were reluctant to look back.

Until the outbreak of the Fifth Greenwich War, Beacon Mars failed to regain its glory.

Very simple. In the midst of the most tragic war in the history of the Galactic Alliance, especially in the early days of the war. The Silicon Alliance occupies an absolute dominance. What's more, because as early as during the First Greenwich War, Beacon Mars was occupied by the Silicon Charm Army, and was severely damaged, and the Earth's core was almost completely lost, so it was occupied again by the Silicon Charm Army. Beacon Mars was not taken seriously.

Not to mention, without the Earth's core, it would be difficult for the Silicon Alliance to transform Beacon Mars into a planet suitable for silicon-based creatures.

Of course, this is not a bad thing.

Because it was ignored by the Silicon Charm Alliance, Beacon Mars was not destroyed. After the Human Federation launched a counterattack. Beacon Mars was soon recovered.

At that time, in order to recover the Wolf Smoke Galaxy, the two sides also fought a big battle here.

This battle also became a turning point in the fate of Beacon Mars, but it failed to make Beacon Mars glorious again.

That is, after the defeat of the Silicon Charm army, some remnants of the army fled to Beacon Mars, and some Silicon Charm warships that were damaged in the decisive battle of the fleet were forced to land on Beacon Mars. After recovering the Wolfsmoke system, the Human Federation left a legion to sweep away the remnants of the enemy. The regiment was stationed on Mars, and some of its officers and soldiers stayed behind after the war. After the end of the war, some adventurers came to Beacon Mars to earn the income they needed to survive by digging up the silicon-succumbed battleships that crashed on Beacon Mars and selling the items on the ships. It's just that there aren't many Silicon Charm warships that can be mined, and they are non-renewable resources, so there aren't many adventurers left to settle down.

The soldiers who remained, and the adventurers who came after the war and made their home here, are the ancestors of the current inhabitants of Beacon Mars.

Wick's father is a descendant of a military man, and his mother is from a family of adventurers.

Of course, there are not a few people like Wick. It can be said that almost all the inhabitants of Mars have the blood of soldiers and adventurers.

In Wick's memory, Beacon Mars has always been like this, and it has nothing to do with "prosperity" at all.

In fact, almost all young people, including Wick, want to leave this hellish place, even if they can't go to their home galaxy, they can go to other colonized planets.

It's just that for them, leaving Beacon Mars is almost impossible.

The point is that Beacon Mars has long since fallen and has long been forgotten.

You know, there are only about 100,000 inhabitants here, and all of them are poor, not only destitute, but also living an almost barbaric life.

Normally, there are only two kinds of people who come to Mars. One is the postman who comes once a year, and rarely lands, and he will leave after dropping the parcel, and he will definitely not stay. The other type is the merchants who come here to buy goods, and there is no pattern, sometimes several ships come a month, sometimes they don't see one in a year. The frequency of the merchants' visits is actually determined by the discoveries made by the local residents, i.e., when the residents make major discoveries, such as digging up the wreckage of a silicon phantom spaceship. To put it simply, merchants will come when there is a place to buy and sell. Even then, merchants rarely took the local population with them. Quite simply, these indigenous people, who have not received a modern education, are not a labor force at all.

As for the federal authorities, if they have not forgotten Beacon, they have long forgotten about the inhabitants here.

Among other things, Wick had never met a federal official in all these years.

That is, for the past thousand years, the inhabitants of Beacon Mars have lived on their own. If it weren't for the occasional spaceship, I'm afraid no one would have thought that this was a colonized planet of the Human Federation, and no one would have been able to connect this place with modern civilization.

To put it mildly, the people of Wick are no different from the natives who lived here more than 5,000 years ago.

Actually, this self-fending way of survival isn't very bad, at least Wick thinks.

Although the environment on Mars is extremely harsh, the resources produced are enough to feed 100,000 people. Besides, fewer people means that everyone gets enough and everyone is important. Without the disturbance of the outside world, Wick and their lives are very comfortable. Even if it's a little harder, it's not much of a pleasure, but being able to live peacefully with his family is very satisfying.

It's a pity that the arrival of the Silicon Charm army has ruined all the good things.

By the time the enemy attacked, Wick had already fallen asleep. The violent explosion woke him from his sleep, and by the time he could react, the enemy had landed outside the village. Despite his panic, Wick immediately came to his senses. What's more, he is familiar with all the roads near the village, including those that lead to distant places. Before the enemy could kill him, he escaped with his sister. Sadly, Wick's parents didn't make it. Wick and his sister waited outside the village until dawn, until the enemy set fire to the village, and then they left. They then found the villagers who had escaped and followed the army of refugees to a shelter more than 1,000 kilometers away.

It was the first time in Wick's life that he had traveled so far from the village.

Here, Wick met many refugees, including his brothers, who later fought side by side. In the same way, he met the leader here.

When they first met, Wick didn't believe that the mediocre-looking middle-aged man was the leader.

Of course, it doesn't matter.

After following the leader to victory after victory, saving batch after batch of refugees, Wick came to believe that they would lead the leader to achieve the final victory, destroy all the enemies, defeat the invading enemy, and take back the homeland from the enemy.

Of course, Wick also had doubts, especially when his comrades-in-arms fell one after another, he had doubts and even lost confidence.

It wasn't until one day that Wick suddenly understood.

It doesn't matter if they win, it doesn't matter if they can take home or not, it's what they should do and what they can do, or what they live for.

The homeland is gone, and no one can go back to the past.

Although this is not the war they want, they can only accept it, and the only thing they can do is to fight the enemy to the end.

No matter if you lay down your arms or make a living, you can't change anything.

Even if you fight, you can't change anything, at least you have fought, at least you have done something meaningful while you are alive, and you can prove that you are still alive.

This realization let Wick know that to fight is to live, and to live is to fight.

The enemy does not take prisoners and does not treat prisoners of war well. Surrender is death, being caught by the enemy is also death, and fighting the enemy is also death at worst.

Since death is the final destination, why not let go of your baggage and fight the enemy with all your might?

In fact, this is also the thoughts of other people who are alive and continue to fight the enemy. What keeps them going is not the hope that the leader has proclaimed, but a way of life that has been fixed. In fact, this is also the way of life that all residents such as Wick have long been familiar with. It's just that in the past, it was a struggle against the harsh natural environment, but now it is a battle against a powerful, armed enemy to the teeth. (To be continued.) )