Chapter 583: The Shadow of War
In fact, if it wasn't very serious, Shen Chao could have directly canceled the rescue of the few remaining Jaces, after all, more than 95% of the Jaces who had defected to him had been rescued, which was far more successful than their rescue operations on Zhiyuan Star against the fellow UNSC citizens.
However, as a person who values credibility and has developed to this day by relying on credibility, Shen Chao knows that his authority is largely derived from his style of doing what he says and doing what he does. He would rather take some risks to prove his credit than subjectively default.
As a potential strong ally, Jace naturally can't be dismissed at will on this kind of issue. So, although Jace didn't have the ability to force him to complete every detail of his promise perfectly, he still forced himself to do the best of his self-sufficiency commitment.
Since it no longer uses a super giant ship like the Long Night as a tool, even people and ships are engaged in plane teleportation, so the rescue operation after this has been much smoother. The other warships he sent back to carry out rescue missions were all modified warships from the Star Alliance.
In order to avoid the main force of the Combined Fleet, these infiltrators all use camouflage signals to disguise themselves as members of the Combined Fleet. This was used to avoid suspicion and contact the Jace unit for help after being out of the observation range of other ships.
Due to the small size of the target, the concealment and the chaos on the main battlefield, they effectively avoided the tracking of the Combined Fleet. Little by little, find the other stranded Jace units, take them covertly onto the ship, and send them to their destination through the time and space gate on board the Guò ship.
Due to the guarantee of their kindred, the remaining Jace units also cooperated with their rescue, abandoning their warships and taking various small shuttles to the designated meeting area, and in the end, all Jace who could be contacted were safely taken to Plane 046 for temporary resettlement.
This plane is not the No. 035 plane that Shen Chao wants to focus on developing and contributing to Jace. But as a pre-transfer foothold, it's a fitting place. Like many planes affected by the Temporal Council, Plane 046 has left many traces of Council interference.
The wreckage of Tate still floats in Earth's outer orbit, and from the ground you can see a star ring made of these fragments, hanging in the sky like a silver ribbon, silently telling the hostile nature of the Temporal Council. The attitude of a homicidal AI.
Because he had kept his promise during the rescue of Jace, Shen Chao was widely recognized by the Jace group after this. As if they had accepted Sister Xue before, they began to truly believe that Shen Chao was their reliable ally.
This made the subsequent negotiations between the two sides very smooth, and Jace finally decided to assist them in the development of Plane 035 after learning more about the conditions that the Space-Time Council had set for them, and officially became the biggest "ally" since the establishment of the Space-Time Council.
That's right, allies, not vassals like those Therlons before them. While grateful for the Plane Council's rescue of carbon, Jace decided to preserve his racial independence. At least the right to self-management within.
They still know too little about the Space-Time Council, and they don't know that the Space-Time Council will not treat a mechanical race like them unequally, so they don't dare to hand over the fate of the entire race at once. Shen Chao did not press on such an issue, but took this opportunity to negotiate the details of the development of the two planes 046 and 035.
After learning the details, Jace agreed to assist the Plane Council in developing the two planes and defending their solar systems, in exchange for the permanent residence of their race in these two planes.
Both Plane 046 and Plane 035 have been proven to be relatively empty planes, and the galaxy of these two planes is indifferent. No powerful interstellar dominants have been found, other than a lack of infrastructure for development. In every way, it is suitable for interstellar expansion.
The addition of Jace can help them solve the lack of infrastructure, especially the shortcomings of independent shipbuilding capabilities. The Temporal Council is inadequate due to its subordinate industrial system. The system integration is low, so until now there is no ability to build ships independently.
Although the assembly and interstellar ship modification industry has developed vigorously, and a lot of various black technology materials have been collected, there has always been a lack of opportunities to integrate shipbuilding capabilities. As a master at simplifying the production process, JESS can help them solve these problems perfectly.
First of all, Jace can build all kinds of buildings at high speed. And quickly set up a basic industrial production line in a zone with almost zero industrial base. This powerful building ability has always been their signature skill.
After building various basic production lines, they can use such production lines to achieve self-circulation and development, improve the category soundness and development process of the industrial system at a very high speed, quickly push the production to the level of precision machining, and start to build ships that meet their own requirements.
Of course. This "very high" rate is relative to the organic intelligent races of industrial production that lack a planned physique. Under normal circumstances, even a large number of Jaces would have to take decades to upgrade to a production line capable of building starships in the face of zero industrial base.
However, when the Temporal Council cobbled together the technical achievements and industrial equipment scavenged from various planes, this progress could naturally be greatly improved. Theoretically, with Jace's help, it might only take a few months for the Plane Council to make up for the shortcomings in its production system.
As long as they solve some technical difficulties that the council itself has not been able to overcome, combined with the existing industrial system, they will soon have the ability to build ships on their own. Get rid of the import pressure on ships from other planes.
Of course, building a ship on your own is not easy for any race, and the process will not be smooth sailing. The performance at the initial stage may not be comparable to that of advanced ships in other planes, but it can definitely meet the initial development needs of planes 046 and 035.
And this is where Jace's greatest value to the Plane Council lies, even more so than their military value. It is precisely because of this that when Jace proposed in the negotiation that if possible, they would try to negotiate with Theron after reaching the 035 plane to avoid a direct war, Shen Chao would readily agree.
That said, whenever possible, Jace would still try to make peace with the Theron people on Plane 035. And the reason why Shen Chao agreed to Jace's small request was not because he thought that the main body of the Theron people who stayed in the 035th plane would take the initiative to choose peace.
In his opinion, most of the Theron people in Plane 035 do not know the truth about the birth of their race, and are accustomed to using violence to solve historical problems related to humanity. Coupled with the fact that the main battle faction's No. 1 Theron is a persecuted paranoia, Jace will not be able to achieve the peaceful ending they hope for, no matter how good he is.
In Shen Chao's opinion, it would be difficult for them to regain their sanity without using overwhelming force to teach the Theron people there a few times. However, he did not share these thoughts with the Jaces during the negotiations, after all, there are some feelings that can only be understood by experiencing them. He believed that the Jaces in front of him would finally see the big picture and recognize it.
After agreeing on the details of the cooperation with Jace, the cooperation process between the two parties began immediately. Shen Chao first returned to the Earth of Plane 035 with the warships and personnel that accounted for almost one-third of the current Jace population, and arranged the fleet defense line there.
After that, Jace will be responsible for most of the defense of the plane, starting in the solar system and slowly moving on to the rudimentary mining and energy development. When their development first yielded results, Shen Chao would send a large number of immigrants to live there.
Of course, at any point in the process, the Theron will find that they have encountered far more enemies than expected. In fact, only a dozen hours after Shen Chao finished arranging the defensive line, the Theron human fleet, which was tens of thousands of light-years away, had completed its assembly and was ready to collectively jump to the solar system and tear apart the small space-time fleet they imagined.
The assembled Theron fleet consists of thousands of warships, including more than 900 Battle Fortresses over 2 kilometers in length, including a heavily guarded reborn ship and a supermothership that appears at the end of the BSG series.
Thousands of warships lined up in a parade-style phalanx, listening to the morale-boosting speech that One-One gave before departure. In order to achieve his goal of "redeeming" his kindred, he has gambled on the main force of the Theron fleet. One used all the resources at its disposal.
The total size of the Theron fleet had caught up with the size of their previous surprise attack on Kobo 12 Colony during the Second Theron War, equivalent to 80% of the combat strength of the Theron fleet. In such a situation, success seems to be an inevitable result that does not need to be considered, and in this way, One is already fantasizing about a bright future after its success.
From his point of view, it had only been 2 days since he and Shen Chao had last met, and in his opinion, it was impossible for Shen Chao to gather a fleet that was enough to stop them in such a short time. As long as they can rush over and level the earth, victory will be theirs.
"Brothers and sisters, today, we will fulfill our mission to wipe the sinful race of humanity from the universe once and for all......" One fantasized about what would happen after the battle, and tried his best to incite all the other Theron people in the fleet in his own words.
Every time he said a highly inflammatory word, the tsunami-like responses that would be transmitted back from various channels, combined with his excellent view of watching the parade in the supermothership, gave him a sense of extreme expansion.
No matter how much he justified his thoughts and motives, or how he anesthetized himself, the number one at this time was no different from an ordinary human who was hated by him. The responses of thousands of people greatly strengthened his already strong sense of self-identity. (To be continued......)
PS: First of all, thank you for the monthly pass of "Sky Easy, Jackyc, Huang Chun, Dancing Girl 00, shenyiqi", I'm too busy during the day today, and I can only change one chapter at night, in fact, today's inspiration is pretty good