Of course, from the critics' point of view, this merger against the Theron is not very fair. After all, with the exception of a small number of Therons who started the war and were executed, most of the Therons who voted in favor of the war were only lightly punished.

The typical punishment received among these people is something like hibernation for a century. This punishment is not so terrible for the Theron people, who have no upper limit on their lifespan, and they also mix some water in the execution process.

From the point of view of the victims of the 12 colonies, this result did not completely satisfy them. However, their numbers are very small after all, and their social influence is not comparable to that of the Theron people in the same area as the council. Overall, the overwhelming majority of people in the parliamentary districts agreed that the ruling was fair.

Since the Council of Time and Space still had a superficial knowledge of Theron society and the Zoena at this time, the escaped Theron people were discovered much later, causing a riot in the future.

Of course, that's for later. From today's perspective, the attempt to annex the Theron group has been very successful. The population of the Theron is less than 100 million, although it is only a few tens of millions. Excluding those who are being forced to hibernate, fewer than 40 million remain.

However, there are many star regions and resource producing areas that they control. The industrial system is complete, and it only takes 10 million Theron people to successfully operate a complete set of automated shipbuilding industry, producing ships of various sizes and models.

Such an industrial structure and technological height have a strong complementarity to the industries in the existing control area of the Space-Time Council. After merging the Theron regime, the Space-Time Council finally ushered in the long-awaited productivity explosion of Shen Chao.

Not only did it gain shipbuilding capabilities in a short period of time, but all industries related to manufacturing ushered in an era of great development. In less than two years, the council-controlled district will be fully brought into the interstellar age.

The shortfall in production and living materials in all sectors has been greatly alleviated during this period. All the places in the control area of the Council of Time and Space showed a scene of rapid development, and soon officially entered what later historians called the golden period of development......

Of course, that's for the future. Even Shen Chao, who had already seen these signs, did not let himself fall into a vain sense of achievement. Because compared with industrial development, improving people's livelihood and other goals, he pays more attention to the self-construction of the space-time council.

After the completion of the initial administrative consolidation of the Terron regime. He led the team out of Plane 035 and handed over the management of this plane for the next year to the Jace fleet, which had contributed greatly to the previous war.

Jace thus obtained temporary management and law enforcement rights in this plane, while Shen Chao himself returned to the work of plane exploration after arranging the finishing touches. A number of accidents on Plane 035 have already caused him to experience the dilemma of insufficient force.

As the forces in contact with the Temporal Council become more and more powerful, they can no longer carry out touch-and-go operations everywhere like before, and in the face of new battle modes and scales, it is difficult for them to adapt to the latest scale and pace of battles in the warplanes they have scavenged from other planes.

So. They need to update their arsenal, especially the warship part, and they must do their best to get a group of main fleets with guaranteed combat effectiveness and enough to meet the requirements of most dimensional missions.

And in order to do this, he summoned a special team of guests to meet him according to the plan.

There are three "special guests" here, two of whom are Master Chief and Cortana. When they left the aura plane before, they were taken by Shen Chao to the control area of the space-time council, and after that, they received special hospitality from the space-time council.

During the time and space council controlled the zhì district, the master chief was treated with good food and drink. Food, clothing, and living are arranged, and he can also freely visit most of the districts and councils, which is far more free than ordinary residents.

Cortana, on the other hand, temporarily separated from the Master Chief as soon as she arrived in the council-controlled district, went to collect the new body that Shen Chao had promised her to customize. Due to the abundant technical reserves related to the Space-Time Council, Cortana got the new body she wanted with a high degree of simulation that day.

Her new body is the latest generation of nano- and biotechnology-based products, with about half organism and half synthetics, all the genetic characteristics and functions of the human body, as well as the characteristics of synthetics that are not afraid of disease and extreme environments.

The back of the body has custom slots in the back of the head that can run on her chip. It is also possible to get rid of her neurotech chip to run "offline". In other words, Cortana can choose to plug in the chip to indirectly control this new body. It is also possible to completely transmit one's consciousness to the brain of this new body. Directly control your body like any natural organism.

The latter of these methods will make her an "individual" in the true sense of the word, and there is no essential difference between her and ordinary people in terms of thinking and operation. Because the latter way is irreversible, once her consciousness fully enters this new body, she becomes an ordinary person who cannot directly transfer her consciousness.

This approach is undoubtedly more in line with Cortana's original wishes, as it means that she is a human again. However, after second thought. Cortana still chose to stay in the chip, indirectly manipulating and experiencing her new body.

On the one hand, this is a sign of her inner desire for stability, and on the other hand, she is relieved that she will not be a sergeant. Once she fully regained her human form, it would be difficult for her to participate in combat operations with the Master Chief as before.

Staying on the Neurochip is different, she will also have the opportunity to work with Master Chief. Brainfuck her with a chip and flirt with him in your mind...... Under such special requirements, the scientific research team responsible for giving her a new body gradually improved the new body, strengthened the simulation, and improved the sensitivity and limb flexibility of various sensors......

In short, the core purpose is to make Cortana feel more like a real person. In that sense, they have undoubtedly been very successful. When Master Chief saw Cortana again, he could hardly believe that the beautiful woman in front of him was Cortana, who had lived and died with him and had crossed his mind countless times.

It is worth mentioning here that Cortana's customization options for her new body did not choose to be exactly the same as her hologram when materializing.

Instead, she tweaked her facial features to enhance her appearance and effectively distinguish her from that of a young Dr. Halsey. According to her own explanation, she didn't want the Master Chief to see her as a reminder of Dr. Halsey's youth.

After all, the relationship between Dr. Halsey and Master Chief is more like that of mother and son. Cortana's own mind body was already a clone of Halsey, and she didn't want her physical body to be exactly the same as Halsey's when she was younger, hindering her relationship with Master Chief.

After getting a new body and meeting the Master Chief again, Cortana took the initiative to help Shen Chao persuade the Master Chief to stay here. Shen Chao originally figured out this method to show his technical strength and attract the non-commissioned officer to join the team.

And according to Shen Chao's understanding, this method is still very useful at least at first, after all, the Master Chief has a very deep relationship with Cortana, before this, he has never seen such a rapid development of a military organization, Shen Chao also promised that once he joins, he will assist the UNSC against the Star Alliance.

Stimulated by both emotion and reason, for a while, the Master Chief almost agreed to his request to join the space-time expedition. However, the fighting of the previous period broke this good situation. When Shen Chao's ship was destroyed on plane 035, Master Chief watched the whole battle process as a "special guest".

At that time, Shen Chao originally wanted to show the Master Chief and some other important people the credibility and strength of the Time and Space Council with an undisputed victory. However, as we also know, the self-destruction of the Pegasus ultimately failed to make this demonstration a success.

After that, Shen Chao didn't mention the matter of letting the Master Chief join the expedition again. It is difficult to say what effect such a change has had on Master Chief. The only thing that is certain is that the current situation of the insufficient strength of the space-time fleet has been fully leaked in front of the other party.

And at the moment, Shen Chao invited the non-commissioned officer chief and them to him to talk about this issue. It's just that this time, instead of being in the same hurry as before, he asked the Master Chief to choose whether to join the expedition or not, instead, he proposed a temporary arrangement, asking the Master Chief to help him complete a mission in an alien plane as a supernumerary.

The target world of this mission is quite dangerous, and according to the schedule, it will be at least another two years before the expedition team has sufficient manpower and technical conditions to complete it. However, the accidental destruction of the Pegasos accelerated the progress of some of the riskier programs, affecting many areas. One of the most important effects is forcing the Plane Council to renew its fleet.

The existing fleet, neither in size nor in single combat power, was not enough to cope with the new requirements, as usual, in order to achieve such a difficult goal, Shen Chao did not pin his hopes on his own control area, but stretched out his eyes and hands to other planes that already had corresponding finished products.

As for the way to get the warship? Naturally, borrowing from their successful experiences in other planes, it is expected to rely primarily on looting and buying. The only problem was that the potential danger of the target plane he was aiming at this time was very great, so big that the other core members of the expedition team unanimously requested that Shen Chao should not be allowed to personally lead the team. At that plenary meeting a month ago, they were talking about it for a long time. (To be continued......)

PS: First of all, thank you for the monthly pass of "two catties of meat" and the reward of "Book Friend 1507081...", today the black cat is suddenly idle, and I will try to make up for the updates of the first two days