seemed to notice An Kang's puzzled expression, so Major Xu Zongfu deliberately paused for a while to explain the proper noun to An Kang, that is, the matter of the Great Expedition.

The so-called Great Expedition, to put it simply, was a large-scale war by the UN against the Confederacy.

Its purpose is to deter the alien barbarians who are peeking into the human realm and human technology, and to deplete the power of the Confederacy. Although it does not appear to have any political or economic purpose in itself, it does have the effect of facilitating the economic penetration of humanity into the Confederacy and consolidating its interstellar supremacy.

Hundreds of years ago, the Great Expedition was actually an attack by human civilization on some alien civilizations, the purpose of which was to ensure the relative security of human civilization in the universe, and the attack was only on some alien civilizations that declared war on human civilization.

Human civilization has basically established the status of interstellar hegemony through three great expeditions, and all alien civilizations have been wiped out or driven out of the galaxy. Humanity, on the other hand, is unable to control the wider galaxy due to its own population shortage, so it only occupies a corner of the galaxy.

And in reality, the current human population is not large enough for humans to effectively control a larger star field (less than 100 billion people is too small for the Milky Way, the Greater Magellanic Nebula, and part of the Andromeda Galaxy). ）。

For a long time after the end of the Third Expedition, the universe was generally in a relatively peaceful state, although the tonnage of alien ships destroyed by the UN Starfleet every year even exceeded the total tonnage of the UN Starfleet, but compared to the more brutal interstellar wars before, this can only be regarded as a border armed friction. (At that time, all the extragalactic races outside the galaxy were eyeing human technology)

In two hundred years, mankind has only made one great expedition, and the fuse known as the fourth great expedition was the formation of the Confederacy.

The Confederation is an unprecedentedly large interstellar state established by most extraterrestrial races except humans, and it may be more appropriate to say that it is an organization of cooperation among civilizations.

But in any case, this is a manifestation of the gradual integration of the forces of the alien race due to the oppression of humanity, so that humanity has launched a large-scale attack on the nascent Confederacy as no one (and aliens) expected.

As no one expected, the nascent Confederacy, with an unprecedented fleet of tribes, was defeated in the first great decisive battle.

As the supercarrier formation of the UNSF (United Nations Starfleet) proudly flew through the huge fragments of the two planet fortresses that the Confederacy had built with all its might in a military parade of extreme death.

The Confederacy, it seems, will only be a fleeting existence.

Surprisingly, however, after the powerful UNSF had scattered in six directions, one of the still large squadrons was thwarted in the advance of the Confederate hinterland - and the first star of one of the local Confederate confederates that had been strategically targeted was not captured. The fleet's offensive timetable was delayed by countless Confederate ships for half a year, and finally the UN squadron at that time took the initiative to withdraw from the Confederate domain.

This was seen as a major victory by the alien race at the time, and the Confederacy seems to have continued to exist because of this factor.

After that, there was a period of relative peace.

It wasn't until 160 years ago that the outbreak of cyber warfare caused most of the cyber people and some advanced AI to declare their secession from the UN and establish the Cyber Burg Republic.

Although the cyber war, which lasted for nine years, did not eventually evolve into a doomsday war in which doomsday weapons attacked each other, but when the war spread throughout the UN universe, even if both warring sides maintained a minimum of restraint, the entire human society did suffer a heavy blow.

Not to mention that in terms of the size of the territory, the territory of the United Nations has shrunk by roughly one-thirty-four, which can be clearly seen on the star map, and the thirty-fourth is finally designated as the territory of the Republic of Seborg.

Nine years of cyber warfare had left the alien race on the verge of mobilization, and both the UN and the Cyber Republic seemed to be the target of the Confederate campaign at the time.

So, between 2509 and 2660, after the end of the Cyber War, the UN conducted two great expeditions.

During the Fifth Great Expedition, in order to achieve the purpose of deterrence, the Cyborg Republic directly attacked the Holy Court System where the Confederate Council was located, as if entering a no-man's land, and directly held the first ship parade after the founding of the State three light-seconds away from the Holy Court Star.

"To be honest, at that time we really wanted to drop a black hole bomb on the parade of ships in the Republic of Cyberborg."

Speaking of this, Major Xu Zongfu added with a smile.

"In about two or three days, the media will start reporting on the Seventh Expedition, in fact, all the preliminary preparations have been basically completed, and all that remains is to pull the anchor and set sail."

"Straight to the point." Major Xu Zongfu turned off the documentaries of the previous Great Expeditions, and then sent the resources to Ankang's PDA and continued: "There will also be land battles in the Great Expedition, after all, it is more deterrent. Originally, this kind of thing was immediately drawn from the ranks of the planetary defense force, but this time, the land battle part of the Great Expedition was in charge of our solar system planetary defense force. ”

Major Xu Zongfu sighed: "To be honest, it feels really uncomfortable to take revenge on the alien barbarians for this reason, the only thing worth reassuring may be that the lair of unknown creatures will be the first stop of the Great Expedition!" Oh, now that the official names of the unidentified creatures have been finalized, we can call them the King Meda Swarm. ”

"And when are we leaving?"

An Kang's voice trembled slightly when he said this, after all, he didn't really want to do this kind of life-saving work.

"It's not in a hurry, your vacation is still as usual, which means that there is still a month and a half to go. In fact, the Great Expedition itself is not a very quick thing. It will be a month and a half before the official expedition will be launched. ”

Hearing this news, An Kang still breathed a sigh of relief.