Chapter 578, the opportunities and challenges brought by Shepard
It has not been more than 24 hours since the Citadel Combined Fleet officially started the war against Jace, but the battle lines of the two sides have been pushed hundreds of light-years away by the Citadel Combined Fleet and have reached the edge of Jace's hinterland, which shows how huge the difference in strength between the two sides is.
Jace fought and retreated in order to survive, and although they tried their best to resist the invasion of the Combined Fleet of the Citadel, these resistances did not play any role in the face of the Combined Fleet, which far outnumbered them and outnumbered them.
In one of the main battlefields, Jace gathered nearly 10,000 warships to fight a great battle with the Combined Fleet of the Citadel in order to defend an important database and save the hundreds of millions of native intelligences stored in it.
The battle ended after only an hour, although Jace had the upper hand for a while after the battle began, holding down the Citadel fleet for a while. However, the good times were short-lived, and only 10 minutes after the battle began, a large number of reinforcements from the Combined Fleet of the Citadel arrived on the scene.
Tens of thousands of warships of various clans formed five clusters and simultaneously launched a surprise attack on the recalcitrant Jace Grand Fleet. With their joint efforts, Jace lost thousands of warships in just a few minutes of fighting. The main fleet, including two Jace dreadnoughts, was heavily damaged.
After that, the entire front was quickly broken through by the ever-increasing Combined Fleet of the Citadel, and Jace's Grand Fleet was almost completely annihilated. After this sudden defeat, Jace no longer dared to concentrate a large-scale fleet against the Combined Fleet of the Citadel, and could only disperse to avoid the pursuit of the Citadel Fleet.
As a result of their retreat, many of Jace's large hubs in the rear were destroyed, and hundreds of millions of Jace agents were quickly wiped out. For the first time in hundreds of years, Jace suffered a truly massive number of casualties and was in danger of extinction.
They realized that if they continued to fight at this speed. In less than a month, all of their main fleets will be wiped out by the Combined Fleet of the Citadel. When the time comes, there will never be any Jace who will have room in the galaxy.
Jace has a very clear understanding of such a fate. Some of them immediately turned to the Reapers, and through the relics of the reapers, they contacted the reapers, who were still slowly crawling back in the dark space outside the galaxy, for help, hoping that the reapers would immediately transfer some technology to them for self-preservation.
The other part of Jace chose a different path. Even in the face of extermination, they are not willing to accept the enslavement of the reaper. With the last hope for peace, they sent Sister Xue out of their star zone.
As a highly developed mechanical race, these Jaces are able to recognize their enemies and friends. For them, even if their own race is at war with almost all the organic intelligent races in the galaxy, these negative factors do not affect them to regard Sister Xue, who is a human being, as their friend, because Sister Xue has indeed made a lot of efforts that cannot be ignored in order to help them fight for peace.
It is precisely because of Jace's extremely high self-discipline and calmness in the face of the genocide crisis that Sister Xue finally decided to do her best to save this race. Even so, it means being regarded as a traitor by the Citadel Council and even the Star Alliance.
In her opinion, Jace's cousins have proven that they are worth saving as an intelligent race. It can even be said that it is more worthy of salvation than many of the organic intelligent races that are committed to continuous death. However, because she is not Shen Chao. It is impossible to cross the plane with a warship, and it is impossible to open the space-time gate large enough to bring Jace's fleet back. Therefore, she used her authority to set up an emergency passage so that Jace could be rescued as an individual.
With her Normandy as the entrance and Space Station Zero as the relay station, convince as many Jace individuals as possible to move their locations and bring them to the council's control zone. Of course. The statement she gave was naturally not plane crossing, but continued to use the bunker plan as cover.
The Jace she brought with her was like a "legion". Each unit is equipped with at least hundreds of Intelligence Cores, which is extremely intelligent compared to the average Jace. They could see that Sister Xue didn't tell the whole truth, but the crisis of genocide was imminent, and many still chose to take risks.
Although not the whole clan pressed the treasure on Sister Xue, even so, hundreds of thousands of Jace had already agreed to Sister Xue's proposal. Carrying intelligent cores that make up 2 percent of their race, they lined up for an unexpected transdimensional migration.
For the Jaces as a whole, 2 percent of the intelligence core is only a small fraction of their race, but since there is almost no individual distinction within their race, 2 percent is more than enough to rebuild the entire Jace civilization.
For the Jaces. The body is just a carrier, and their software, the intelligent core, is where life lies. And they share knowledge and experience on a regular basis, and they learn synchronously to reach an agreement, which keeps their race highly aligned like a software update.
The reason why Custer is not on the space station at this time is because Sister Xue has made too much movement, which has threatened their continued existence in the Mass Effect world, and in order to stabilize the situation, he has already led the team to persuade Sister Xue to give up this rescue operation.
After learning about what happened before and after, Shen Chao sat down and was silent for about a minute before standing up again. Although Sister Xue's rescue operation is reasonable, the danger it brings is real, and for him, the current situation is also a big challenge.
Shen Chao instinctively realized that although the current situation was complicated, it was not unsolvable. If it is handled well, this emergency will not only not affect the existing order of the Space-Time Council, but will also effectively promote the further development of the Council.
However, opportunities and risks coexist. If it is not handled well, the large number of Jaces brought by Sister Xue will become a huge security hazard, and may even completely subvert the existing fragile order. After all, there are many unstable factors in the two planes that the Space-Time Council currently controls, and the Elysium plane has only recently succeeded in suppressing the rebel forces.
Jace is essentially an AI that can store zĂ i without immobilizing its body, and if they suddenly decide to hack into the network system of the council-controlled district and work against the council, then there is hardly anyone who can stop it right now.
From Shen Chao's own point of view, if he seeks stability, he can close the space-time gate now and isolate all Jaces who have already passed through the space-time gate. But doing so also has its own disadvantages, that is, it will damage both the credibility of himself and Sister Xue.
As a person like him, who is in a high-profile position, credibility is not only a personal moral issue, but also a very strict political issue. The reason why Sister Xue was able to open an emergency passage to evacuate a large number of Jace was because of his authorization, otherwise the thousands of soldiers and hundreds of expedition members on the space station zero would not sit idly by and watch her mess around.
As an A-class member of the expedition, Sister Xue does have the right to open such an emergency passage for tasks that she personally deems necessary without notifying anyone. Of course, in the expedition, only Shen Chao had done similar behavior before.
After thinking about it for a while, Shen Chao still couldn't understand what Sister Xue came up with. In order to clarify his thoughts and solve the problem at hand, he decided to go to the scene of the problem and observe it himself. After all, it's useless to sit in the center of the control and guess.
After thinking about this, Shen Chao led a team of people to pass through the time and space gate and found Sister Xue who was on the Mass Effect plane. At this time, Sister Xue was arguing with Castor's CIC on the Normandy, and the circle of people next to her couldn't interject. However, as soon as the two of them saw Shen Chao suddenly arrive, they immediately ended the quarrel.
Custer looked very helpless, as if he was tired of persuading Sister Xue. On the other side, Sister Xue looked dusty but full of confidence, and it was obvious that in the debate just now that she didn't know what the topic was, Sister Xue had the upper hand.
"Okay, I'll convince you, but it's him that you need to convince. Give it a try and sue him for your "genius" plan! Custer pointed at Sister Xue and said to Shen Chao. Obviously, no matter what they discussed before, they have now reached an impasse, and since there is no essential difference in their authority within the expedition, it can only be decided by Shen Chao on the spot now.
"Wait, before any of you continue, I have to ask, what's going on?" Shepard, I know you sympathize with Jace's situation, but we've said it before......" Shen Chao instinctively questioned Sister Xue from Custer's standpoint.
Although he has not yet learned the first-hand information of the scene, but the long-term cooperation has made him believe in Custer's words very much, even if he is not clear about Sister Xue's plan now, but since Custer objected, he instinctively thought that there must be something big wrong with Sister Xue's plan.
"Alright, stop, you haven't heard what I'm going to say!" I've been working here for almost a week now, and no one knows what's going on better than I do. Jace is not a problem, it's a solution......" Sister Xue was very angry when she saw Shen Chao questioning herself without thinking, and immediately retorted.
Fortunately, although Shen Chao was not in a very good mood, he was willing to calm down and listen to her explanation. At first, listening to Sister Xue's explanation, Shen Chao didn't care too much, and always felt that Sister Xue was too emotional on this issue, which would ruin their layout in the Mass Effect plane.
However, after a few words, Sister Xue mentioned the matter of the 035 plane. As soon as he mentioned this, Shen Chao suddenly understood Sister Xue's deep meaning, and Sister Xue's subsequent explanation only confirmed his hunch.
In the end, after listening to Sister Xue's plan, Shen Chao's face finally showed a relaxed smile. Now, it not only confirmed that Sister Xue was not emotional, but also that the other party had learned to put the interests of the expedition team first. If they follow Sister Xue's plan, they will have the opportunity to solve the historic problems left over from the two space-time councils at once. (To be continued......)
PS: First of all, thank you for the monthly pass of "wsos", I was not going to change it tonight, after all, it was too busy during the day. But after going home in the evening, the thinking is quite smooth, and there are book friends in the group asking for updates, so I hurriedly coded out a chapter, and I'll see you tomorrow