For the Space-Time Council, the refitting of the fleet means an all-round increase in combat effectiveness and a comprehensive adjustment of foreign policy. In the vast majority of the Discovery Planes, they no longer need to be cautious of low-intensity operations. Soon they will have enough force to force a strong government like the Wandering Earth to join their system.

This is the decisive development goal set by the expedition team a long time ago, and it is for this operation that they will devote themselves to seeking high-end forces in the Star Wars plane. Otherwise, with their existing weapons and equipment, they would have been able to deal with ordinary xenotope conquests.

Once they succeed in reaping the human and industrial resources of the Wandering Earth Plane, their power can grow explosively. With the help of the super-large-scale industrial system of the Wandering Earth plane, they can produce a large number of high-specification warships in a very short time. After that, it will no longer be a fantasy to confront forces like the Reapers, or even the Covenant.

For Shen Chao personally, the formation of the fleet will have potentially more significant significance. As early as a few years ago, a scientific research project called "Xingtian Phase I Project" was officially put on his agenda, and this scientific research project named after the god of war in the ancient mythology of the Celestial Empire has been the focus of Hargrave's research in the last two years.

The upgrade of the nanosuit has been handed over by his old man to his assistants, and he is studying the main brain architecture of CEPH in depth. Trying to figure out the vulnerabilities that can be exploited from it. After all, in his home plane, CEPH is still the dominant race in the galaxy and a great threat.

Although the CEPH population on the Earth's surface has been wiped out by the space-time council, the CEPH headquarters of the M55 nebula still has the potential to invade the solar system at any time. These top-level CEPHs have evolved over hundreds of millions of years, and are far more advanced than the primitive individuals on Earth, and even expeditions dare not get too close to investigate.

After only a few hundred top-tier CEPH instances were captured over the course of a few years, Hargrave was able to discover the true weakness of CEPH. That is, their population has a supreme mastermind who directs everything.

The High Mastermind is located on the home planet of CEPH, and its exact orientation and appearance are unknown, and it is possible that the entire planet is the body of the High Mastermind, but in any case, it has been confirmed that the High Master Brain is on the home planet.

Through many previous tests, the academic community has reached a consensus. Shen Chao's personal nervous system is protected by some unknown mechanism, allowing him to be immune to any mind control skill from any source.

Further research has shown that this unknown mechanism has a larger application than self-preservation, that is, for reverse thought invasion. Since Shen Chao's own thinking itself could not be invaded, the tentacles of his thinking would be protected by this mechanism no matter where it extended. So if his nerve signals are connected with other external signal sources, a miraculous phenomenon will happen.

Exogenous signals will be quickly assimilated by the signals emitted by his brain, whether it is the exogenous nervous system or the AI, they will be "assimilated" by his thinking signals, showing the same properties, if Shen Chao's own brain is used as a computer. Then the exogenous nervous system invaded by him will become his "peripheral".

The whole process is very similar to the reaper's indoctrination in terms of effect, but the effect is more subtle than that of indoctrination, and no one has yet studied the specific cause of this phenomenon, only some immature theories.

However, there are already some truths in these theories that are very close to the truth, for example, some neuroscience experts have determined that Shen Chao's thinking operation level must have one more link than ordinary people, and his thinking must be connected to some unknown energy source. And this mysterious energy source that is completely undetectable should be the key reason why his traversal ability and mind are protected.

This theory has been in contact with the truth to a large extent, if it weren't for the fact that Shen Chao himself didn't know about the existence of space-time fragments. This theory should have been proven. However, although the theory itself is still in the development stage, the pace of practice has been advanced because a series of previous experiments have been successful.

Although he didn't know the specific principle of action, this kind of thing never stopped Shen Chao from applying this type of scientific research results, his ability to travel has brought him countless surprises, and it has always proved to be his most powerful reliance.

So driven by the background of ever-expanding self-confidence and the rapid development of the organization. He formulated the complex plan of "Xingtian Plan" early. At the heart of the plan is to use a powerful space fleet to penetrate the perimeter defenses of CEPH's home planet and then find a way to land.

After landing, he will use the nanosuit to connect his nervous system with the thinking core of the CEPH mastermind and begin a reverse invasion. Then, as in a test, he will quickly eliminate external interference sources that are directly connected to his nervous system, and gain control of the object. It's like in countless experiments.

Here, this object is not an alien organism or a rebel AI, but refers to the dominant race of the Crysis Plane Galaxy, the supreme mastermind of the CEPH population with at least hundreds of billions of individuals.

This is a bold plan, once successful, Shen Chao will become a god in a relative sense, and the evolutionary results accumulated by the intelligent population of CEPH, a half-machine, half-organism that has spent hundreds of millions of years, will also be used by him, and theoretically all CEPH individuals will become an extension of his own body!

The temptation to have direct control over hundreds of millions of CEPH individuals is not insignificant, after all, it is a huge force that can change the pattern of an entire river system in an instant, not to mention that this "upgrade" can make him almost impossible to kill. This is the point that Shen Chao is most concerned about.

Unlike what many people think, this man who stands at the top of the known world is not without worries. The organization he and his companions had set up with their own hands had begun to show signs of corruption, and had attracted his attention.

The Temporal Council has grown much faster than any of them had anticipated, and the organization, which was originally used to provide logistical support for expeditions, has truly grown into a giant regime.

It directly or indirectly manages the lives of more than 20 billion people and continues to grow stronger as the space-time gate network expands. Today, its influence has long surpassed that of its theoretical superior, the Space-Time Expedition. In order to effectively coordinate the scheduling of resources and the arrangement of operations, Shen Chao had to allow the representatives of the Space-Time Council to be present even in the most senior internal meeting of the expedition.

Although this parliamentary representative was also one of his men, this trend gradually made him feel the pressure. After all, compared to the rapid development of the Space-Time Council, the expansion of the expedition he truly trusted and understood was ridiculously slow.

In the earliest days, the expedition was the most powerful tool in Shen Chao's hands. But now, the expedition has transformed more and more like a multi-functional tool knife, and the real decisive force is within the organizational system of the Space-Time Council.

Due to this change in management relationship, Shen Chao had to spend more and more energy dealing with the affairs of the Space-Time Council. But because the latter was millions of times larger than the expeditions he carefully selected and managed, this direct management became increasingly inadequate.

It's hard to say what the scale of the current space-time council has grown, and thousands of large and small government projects are established or closed every day, and there is enough room to operate in them to feed a large number of interest groups. And he, as a person, can only effectively regulate a small part of it.

This is why Shen Chao will vigorously promote the development of AI technology, and AI's participation in social management can effectively reduce the management level and greatly liberate the potential of each individual. But in the long run, this is only a mitigation measure.

After all, at the current rate of development, it won't take a few decades for their organization to develop into a galaxy-level dominant civilization, and at that time, even the monitoring capabilities of AI will be powerless in the face of the vast universe.

What's more, any AI that can integrate into human society and coexist peacefully has the same weaknesses as humans, and these electronic lives are not immutable or always reliable. This was determined when he was involved in the construction of the Samaritans.

Shen Chao knows that the real solution lies in the further development of technology and the transformation of social systems. Only by relying on the large number of people under his rule can he truly achieve long-term peace and stability, otherwise as the parliament is strong as a whole, the voice from the grassroots will only become smaller and smaller, and eventually it will never reach his ears again.

At that time, his organization will inevitably go down the downward path of the historical cycle. Right now, the cycle has actually begun. In the area controlled by the Space-Time Council, many grassroots affairs are actually gradually getting out of his control.

New interest groups are quietly growing and rapidly developing under the shell of parliament, and eventually bursting into the existing power system after they have become full-fledged. He knows this, but he can't really solve the problem, because every time an interest group is eliminated, a new one jumps out to take its place. Without solving the fundamental problems of the power structure, it is useless to arrest as many people as possible.

Of course, since Shen Chao's control over the military is very strong, even if other interest groups grow, the process of this power erosion will be slow, and it is expected that it will be at least a few decades before the power groups grow into a real threat worth mentioning.

But as a person who can cross the plane, witness all kinds of wonders, and have developed his abilities in all aspects to an unprecedented level, Shen Chao is unwilling to bow to the challenge in front of him. Buoyed by a series of growing military victories, he already has a tendency to think of himself as the end of history.

Like all people at the pinnacle of power in history, he began to fantasize about building a solid, reliable, and eternally effective system of power on his own. Create a strong era that will never fade...... (To be continued......)

PS: First of all, thank you for the monthly pass of "smashing a mobile phone for a different place, bdongbird, and Montenegro", and the black cat will try to code another chapter out, but to be honest, the state is not very good today, so I can't guarantee that it will be updated again tonight