Chapter 438: Negotiation (2) Weighing the Pros and Cons
While both the Fugitive Fleet and the Theron were busy preparing for negotiations, Shen Chao had already returned to Space Station Zero and summoned the other core members to prepare for an emergency meeting. Since the development of the 035 plane had exceeded all of their initial expectations, Shen Chao felt that it was necessary to convene a meeting to re-examine the preparatory plan he had prepared earlier.
Since his previous military management ended a week ago, there are quite a few civilian staff members on the space station now. As he hurried to the conference room, there were many people in the hallway who greeted him.
Interestingly, except for a few members of the expedition team who habitually called him the captain after seeing him, the others, including the students who had just rushed back to rest, called him Speaker, and he was still not very comfortable after hearing this title. But since there was still a meeting to spare, he didn't think much of it.
Since all the core members were required to attend this emergency meeting, the guys who were in charge of the proctor had to suspend the exam altogether and take back all personnel. All of the students who had previously taken the exam were recalled to Space Station Zero to await new orders.
In the conference room on the top floor of Space Station Zero, the core members also began the meeting process after arranging the handover. As usual, Shen Chao sat in the chair and was only responsible for presiding over the meeting, not directly participating in the discussion.
Before the discussion, Shen Chao first spent half an hour recounting the achievements of his personally led team in the past few days and several brief contacts with the forces of humans and Theron, and showed in detail the process of the latest fleet battle. Then, after confirming that everyone was aware of the latest form, the discussion under his auspices began.
"We had to follow the original plan. There is so much work to be done and put to rest in the fugitive fleet, to make a non-aggression pact with the Therons or to give up the resources of that plane altogether, and then to return to the two existing occupation planes, there is so much work to be done and finished, we don't have the energy to engage in a new conflict with the Therons......"
Custer was the first to give his opinion. As a veteran of the expedition and the leader of many important projects, his opinion was very effective in influencing the opinions of others, and as soon as he stopped to speak, his opinion was agreed.
"I agree that the scale of the ongoing peacekeeping and reconstruction mission in the newly occupied Elysium Plane has exceeded expectations, with the exception of a fairly generous supply of living and basic medical supplies. We lack everything. The Samaritan and his father have already sent out a request for more computing resources and ......vehicles from the Parliament," Jonathan echoed.
"No, this is a rare opportunity, and we can't give up on it because of this little pressure. The Theron have the ability to mass-produce warships. We should make full use of this peace talks. End the conflict and invite them to join the Space-Time Alliance, using their industrial resources and technology, the fleet can quickly become a fighting force. Even if it doesn't apply to the fleet. We can still buy or requisition their transport ships, and imagine how much less pressure on our peacekeeping and reconstruction will be with their capacity added......"
Sebastian obviously disagrees with the opinions of the first two, the fleet department he is in charge of has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, the fleet department now has a large number of applicants from several planes applying to join, but due to hardware limitations, that is, the lack of ships, the overall size of the fleet is still small.
As an excellent soldier from the Star Alliance in the Mass Effect world, he knows very well how much the combat power of the fleet will increase after forming a cluster. Today's expeditions need to manage the capacity and use of ships on hand.
And once they have a new ship, with the knowledge infusion machine they brought back from the Wandering Earth plane, they can train a large number of ship operation and maintenance personnel, and immediately start to blow up the fleet.
Of course, this plan is only his imaginary existence, and the safety of the knowledge infusion machine has been questioned by their group of scientists, many of whom even believe that this kind of machine is the culprit of the lack of technological creativity and imagination of humans in that plane.
So the devices they brought back from various planes with similar functions are still in the security testing stage at this time. If you want to verify the safety of these devices and people, it will take at least a year to complete, and now you don't have to think about it.
As for the Space-Time Alliance he mentioned, it is actually just an organization that has zài in name and almost no zài in actual operation, because they now have only one interdimensional ally in other planes, and that is the autonomous organization of the free replicants of the Blade Runner world.
"It's too dangerous, your plan will inevitably bring a large number of Theron people into our control area, how many of them are the same-looking individuals?" Have you thought about how to effectively manage this migrant population? Not to mention that they have a history of genocide and may also suffer from collective psychosis. This qiē is too dangerous for the people in the area we control. Alice objected after hearing his words, I don't know if it was because the next exam venue for the students was her hometown, and she had been more excited in recent days.
At this stage, there was no need to continue the discussion, and the oldest members of the expedition disagreed with the Therons of the Alliance, and Sebastian couldn't give any reason why he had to ally them, so the few remaining people did not continue to express their opinions on this issue.
In the end, under the chairmanship of Shen Chao, the result of the vote was 8 to 1 to 1, with 7 votes in favor of taking in the fugitive fleet and alienating the Theron people. Sebastian still insisted that the alliance with the Theron was the best option, and he also abstained.
Shen Chao did not express any personal opinion in the end, and the final result of this vote was passed. In other words, the expedition's policy towards the two major forces of the 035 plane has been determined, and the next step is to implement this decision.
After the meeting, everyone did not immediately go back to reorganize the exam, everyone thought that it was more important to get the technology of the jump engine, so they went to organize technical forces to prepare for tackling key problems, and there were a lot of wreckage of Theron fighters left on the battlefield before, and several of them were relatively intact and had been sent back.
And in the hallway outside the conference room. Shen Chao and Alice talked about a hot topic recently, that is, the materialization of the space-time council. Now, as their influence has expanded, the name of the Plane Council has begun to be used more and more.
While their mode and approach to heavy issues has not changed, it is clear that outside of the expedition, changes have taken place. The Temporal Council is no longer a mere stamp or a concept of existence, on the contrary, the concept has begun to become more and more the official vest of expeditions.
"I've been thinking about the fact that we've established the Plane Council. But this organization is just a name for us. But today's events made me understand. No matter how empty this name may seem to us, its name has spread to the hearts of hundreds of millions of people. ”
"These people don't see me as the leader of an expedition, or you and the others as expedition leaders, they just know that our organization is now their hope for a life-changing future. So maybe it's time for a transformation. ”
Shen Chao said upstairs to her waist. Join Alice as she looks at the starry sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window. They've been busy with their own business for a while now. Alice is even planning a big operation, which makes them rarely see each other.
"You're going to move HQ back to the ground?" Alice leaned her head on Shen Chao's shoulder and asked with a little expectation. She had always advocated leaving the expedition's headquarters on the ground. Prefer the scenery on the earth and the solid feeling.
"That's right, what's the matter, you're used to living here?" ”
"Of course not......"
In this way, they enjoyed the two-person world here for a while, until Shen Chao's communicator sounded again, and they had to separate again, and it was obvious that the negotiations to decide the fate of the fugitive fleet and the Theron people were about to begin.
Shen Chao returned to Budapest soon after leaving the space station zero, and at this time, the delegation of the fugitive fleet had already boarded the ship and was waiting at the airport, and the delegation of the Theron people was very close to landing. Dozens of heavily armed expedition members were maintaining order and preventing the delegations from both sides from doing anything out of the ordinary.
Soon, two Theron shuttles landed in the designated area, and more than a dozen Theron people walked out of it. The leader is still No. 1, and the humanoid Theron in the back includes all the other models, including No. 2 and there are as many as four.
The representatives of the fugitive fleet and they were slightly embarrassed to complete the pre-negotiation meeting, and after Shen Chao arrived, the atmosphere was very tense for a while, because the No. 1 of the Theron delegation had broken his disguise as soon as they met.
"We're here to negotiate, Commander. But before we move on to the next step, we need to know who we are negotiating with, and we already know that you can't be from Earth, let alone the people of Kobo......"
Number 1 stared at Shen Chao's face tightly when he said these words, trying to find out the other party's violent reaction after the lie was exposed, and he also hoped that Shen Chao would say something else to fulfill the lie. But he was soon disappointed, and Shen Chao was not prepared to hide his true identity in this negotiation. On the contrary, he was about to take advantage of this opportunity to have a showdown.
"You're right, I'm not from Earth, at least not from Earth, as you call it. But it doesn't matter, does it? Wouldn't the negotiation you proposed be just going to talk to me about this......" Shen Chao smiled, and naturally admitted that he was not from the earth, which shocked the delegation of the fugitive fleet next to him who still thought he was the representative of the earth. (To be continued......)
PS: First of all, thank you for your generous tips "Night Ghost Cat, Valky, Oh Just Cheer Me" and "Jackyc" who voted for it, I wish you a happy and fun New Year.
The birth of today's chapter is actually ill-fated.,Originally, I opened a brain hole to let the protagonist have an affair.,So that the direction of his relationship with Alice is weird.,For this reason, I also made a vote in the group.。
As a result, the final result was 1:6:6, one was in favor of opening a harem, 6 advocated starting from the beginning, and 6 advocated having a one-night stand. I voted for it myself.,So in the end, the referee decided to write it like this.,Otherwise,Half of the chapter you're seeing now will be about the cold war of the male and female protagonists instead of the current one.。
In the future, if I open a new brain hole, I will try my best to take such an interactive mode to listen to everyone's opinions, welcome everyone to join the group interaction, the group number is in the comment area, I try to send a 259711351 here
Again, it's interesting for everyone to talk about me a lot, and it can be productive. Okay, that's all for now, and I'll see you tomorrow