After doing this, the two sides spent another day distributing the battle power and making final preparations. As agreed before, all small arms, including all the robots dormant in the warehouses, were distributed to the expedition team, and Vader also selected a number of warships from several other large warehouses to strengthen the firepower of his fleet.

Since his fleet had experienced battles before, he was not well manned, so he did not add too many warships, and if there were too many, he would not have enough personnel to drive. So he only reluctantly doubled his fleet to the level of an empire-standard heavy fleet of 140 ships.

The Eclipse was quickly launched by his crew aboard the Executor and underwent a short sea trial, which took another full day. It was not until the third day that Vader's fleet completed all preparations for departure, and all ammunition, spare parts, and other supplies were replenished on the spot.

Although the new fleet still needs some grinding to reach its best, they have no more time to waste. For each additional day of delay, the emperor was more likely to be alert.

Of course, he didn't forget the handover of the Executor before leaving. It is nonsense to say that there is no regret at all about handing over his ship. However, since the Eclipse was newly listed, it required more operators than executors, which made it necessary for him to transfer all the skilled operators to the Eclipse.

Even without an agreement with the expedition, it would be difficult for him to have enough personnel to control the Executor after receiving the Eclipse. As for how the expedition team received the Executor and brought it back, this was not something he could know now.

Sister Xue only explained that before Vader's fleet arrived in Coruscant, it would be emptied, but how it was emptied was not mentioned. The planetary base still houses the full equipment of a large fleet, including more than 400 warships and auxiliary vessels of various types.

In addition, there are several production lines for light and heavy weapons, which are more difficult to carry in terms of size and transportation than an executor warship. Nearly 10 billion tons of supplies and equipment are scattered in all corners of the planet. Vida didn't know where her partner's confidence came from, and she emptied it in a matter of days.

But the good thing is that he doesn't particularly care about this. For him, the most important thing at the moment is to rush back to the imperial capital and kill the emperor quickly. For this reason, as soon as his fleet was ready, he immediately ordered to set off, avoiding the busy trade routes and taking a remote route to the imperial capital.

All the best. It would take him 11 days to reach the Imperial Capital, and judging by the garrison he now had near the Empire, it should only take a few minutes for his fleet to crush the defenders' outer defenses, and then it would be the fateful duel.

Thinking of this, Vader smiled, because he realized that he didn't have much excitement. The throne of the empire was only one step away from him, but he did not have the excitement and hesitation that he imagined. The most important thing on my mind was how to restore peace after killing the emperor.

Shortly after his fleet left, a huge warship suddenly appeared in the sky on the planetary base's periphery with a sparse escort fleet. This is exactly what the Slow Long Night and its escort fleet have completed their third major overhaul.

After the last combat mission, the Long Night finally completely clarified its battlefield positioning. Turned into a complete aircraft carrier. At this time, the Long Night was loaded with a large number of transport ships and nearly a million engineering mechs.

In addition to the ship's crew, there are nearly 3 million "militiamen" on standby on board, supporting the 30-kilometer-long giant ship to the full. Of course, these so-called militias are not combat forces. They were all engineers, and almost all of them did not participate in any form of combat operations.

More than 97% of these people have been recruited by the Space-Time Council within the last six months. Before that, they had been the main force in the construction of various large-scale livelihood projects in the Elysium plane, and were good at the construction of various large-scale projects and the large-scale demolition of fixed facilities.

To put it simply, they are a large group of organized and disciplined migrant workers. Until a year ago, most of them had never used engineering mechs, but since the Space-Time Council had the ability to produce engineering mechs on their own and began to promote policy promotion. Engineering mechs began to spread rapidly in the engineering corps and the construction industry.

The expedition has been in control of the Legendary Plane for the longest time, but the personnel of this engineering unit are almost entirely from the Elysium plane. Not only because the latter is more populous, but also because under the rule of the Samaritans, the structure of human society in the Elysium plane has become highly organized.

Not to mention organizing millions of people, a few months ago the Samaritans even organized a large-scale ecological project with the direct participation of more than 20 million people, which managed the ecological imbalance in many regions of the world and completely stabilized the ecological environment in many regions.

From that large-scale livelihood project organized by AI. The Temporal Council saw that it was feasible to organize a unified and coordinated work of the civilian population on a very large scale. And accordingly, the material collection part of this operation was ordered.

All of the Temporal Council's own combat forces are currently only about 2 million people, and even if they are all used for this mission, it will not be enough. But the number of well-trained workers is much higher than that.

In the case of ensuring the security of the perimeter, a professional engineering team can even organize the work of material handling and transportation more efficiently than the military. That is why so many militia units were organized to participate in the operation.

Their job is simple, after being safely placed on the ground, they act on electronic commands issued by AI. Move all kinds of materials to the designated place as quickly as possible, and the AI that gives them instructions is the previous batch of AI that has been enlightened by Cortana.

Considering that this is the largest, most participatory, and most frequently used AI mission ever carried out by the expedition, there is a lot of psychological pressure on all command staff, even the Master Chief who has just boarded the Long Night Horn.

The later missions no longer require him or anyone else to participate in the battle. He and Cortana will be tasked with coordinating dozens of first-time AIs and millions of militiamen in similar situations over the next few days.

All ships and shuttle-type vehicles are piloted by Space-Time Fleet personnel, preventing militia members from taking advantage of this opportunity to leave the target area. Honestly, that's the biggest danger in the mission. In past missions, no matter how complex the objectives, they were at least able to make sure that the purpose of all involved was the same.

But there were 3 million people involved in this mission, and God knows how many of them participated in this work with the idea of travel or even adventure. There have been cases in the past where ordinary people who pass through the space-time gate for the first time in the area controlled by the expedition team have always received special attention.

Because it is very easy for some of these people to be so excited that they forget about time and their own plans, and even some of them have a brief period of insanity after that, showing unprecedented exploration**, wandering around without getting down to business.

Fortunately, this time, there is a large number of AI and about 150,000 elites of the space-time fleet who will protect and monitor the movements of the engineering units throughout the process, ensuring that none of them will act excessively. The biggest difficulty is how to make so many people withdraw one by one when they retreat.

Despite the many concerns and obstacles, the transportation step began quickly, and the first to start the transportation was naturally the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer left behind by Vader. It's the biggest, but it's actually the easiest part of the plan.

All they needed to do was bring the Long Night up and cover the Executor in their Mass Effect Field, and after doing this, Shen Chao would briefly come to the Long Night and bring the two giant ships back to the plane of their control.

It didn't take long for him to return to its place again in a few minutes, ready to receive the next shipment. The first batch of receivers was naturally all kinds of warships, and multiple groups of operators cooperated with their assigned AI partners to drive out the various warships stored in the base one by one and send them into the sky.

After the formation has gathered a certain number, the Long Night Signal will come up and take a batch. In this way, it took them three days to move all the more than 400 warships back to the base camp, and some of them began to be transformed almost as soon as they were brought back.

In particular, the Super Star Destroyer, which has high hopes, has just been fixed in the rear slipway, and tens of thousands of engineers have boarded the ship to conduct a full body inspection, confirm the status of the whole ship and make plans before the transformation. The first of these to be dismantled was the executor's extracorporeal bridge.

According to the original plot, this powerful super battleship fell into a brief loss of control and finally crashed because of the destruction of this outer bridge. Although it also has a No. 2 bridge located inside the hull, it is unknown why it did not play a role in taking over control.

To this end, the expedition team decided to thoroughly understand and transform the control system of the whole ship, integrate all the control systems, and completely abandon the leakage of the No. 1 bridge and place the observation and sighting equipment instead. Other warships will also mainly carry out the integration and informatization transformation of control systems.

The warships of the Star Wars plane are durable, and the firepower and protection are very rebellious, but only the control system is very primitive, and neither the fire control system nor the command system has achieved complete electronic control, which greatly affects the efficiency of the combat system.

The expedition team wants to reduce the control personnel of the modified Executor from tens of thousands to less than 1,000 people, and the cover can greatly reduce the command level and improve the overall combat efficiency. And just when the engineers in the rear had already begun to demonically transform the battleship back, other projects on the ground had also made significant progress at this time.

Nearly one million mechs and hundreds of thousands of large engineering vehicles were transported to the ground by transport ships in batches, and then operated on the ground in three shifts, concentrating hundreds of millions of tons of materials at several major transportation sites. They are progressing faster than originally anticipated, and expect to be able to ship back all of the high-value items in the planetary base within the next five days. (To be continued......)

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