In fact, there is usually only a maintenance team of less than 20 people on the current Budapest, who is responsible for maintaining the major systems of the entire ship. The Budapest is guaranteed to be ready to set sail at any time. Usually the ship is mostly empty. The crews are either on leave or training new personnel for the rapidly expanding fleet. Only when the Budapest is needed to go on a mission, the professional team responsible for the ship's piloting, navigation and fire control will be urgently assembled to board the ship.

This is a protective measure and a concrete manifestation of a de facto quarantine policy. Although the Budapest's operations and maintenance personnel enjoyed almost exactly the same treatment and security as other members of the expedition in terms of overall treatment, only a few of them were full members of the expedition. With a formal establishment, everyone else is theoretically "temporary" and may be assigned to another place at any time.

The threshold for joining the expedition is so high that many visitors from the high-tech plane can't even enter the training camp, but many of them have experience in piloting and maintaining large ships, and they belong to the talents urgently needed during the fleet expansion period, so at the moment when the expedition fleet sub-department is very short of people, after a simple political examination to confirm that there is no danger to the expedition, these people have a great chance to work on the ship.

However, due to their low overall ability, especially their organizational and combat capabilities, their status within the expedition has not been high, and their security authority and dedication to the expedition are not at all comparable to those of the official members of the expedition who have undergone various tests. Therefore, Shen Chao generally doesn't like to take them on missions.

However, due to the rapid expansion of the fleet in recent times, there are only six cruisers of the same class as the Budapest. There are as many as 11 frigate-class starships docked at Space Station Zero alone, so it is obviously unrealistic to expect all the people in the operation positions to be highly skilled and reliable expedition members.

Therefore, these "temporary workers" are also used in many low-risk missions, specializing in various logistics and ship operations. So far, this arrangement has not gone any way. This mission was temporarily arranged by Shen Chao, and he didn't want to waste time temporarily borrowing drivers from other places, so after thinking about it, he decided to bring some temporary workers to supplement the gap in the navigation group on this mission.

These people may have some personal combat effectiveness and lack enthusiasm for the expedition team's exploration of the unknown, but there is no problem in terms of professional ship maintenance and operation capabilities, and the plane they went to this time is not considered to be any danger, compared to the mission in some dangerous planes. This mission was an outing at best.

Come to think of it. They had already walked to the airport where the Budapest was docked, and through the large, thick wall-like floor-to-ceiling windows of the airport, they could see the Budapest firmly parked in the airport and the other four cruisers from the Mass Effect world in the distance.

The expedition's material collection program in the world of Mass Effect has been very successful, and the ships currently equipped by the space-time fleet come from there. And most of them are standard warships of the Star Alliance. These warships have undergone significant "futuristic" refits.

The ships that are now docked in the space station zero airport have been basically refitted. There are also two recently brought cruisers still lying on the slipway of the I Am Legend Plane for overall overhaul and preliminary transformation, and after all 7 cruisers are transformed and installed, the space-time fleet will form a preliminary cross-dimensional scale combat power.

Of course. To achieve this, they still lack some necessary technologies, and Shen Chao personally led the team this time to search for one of the key technological achievements: the jump engine. It's not the faster-than-light engine that uses element zero in the Mass Effect world and has many limitations, but a technology that can really make rapid jumps in a wide range of galactic areas.

Back to the present, not long after Shen Chao arrived with people, all the ship's operators also arrived. The two teams of people gathered, counted the number of people again, and confirmed that all the people they needed were present, Shen Chao briefly restated the mission briefing, and then boarded the ship with the nearly 100 people.

After boarding, the crew took their positions, conducted a routine ship-wide inspection, and notified the space station tower of their departure. Naturally, the tower has no objections. The Budapest then departed quickly, slowly sailed into deep space at low speed, and suddenly disappeared in space just a few hundred kilometers away from the space station.

Of course, the Budapest that disappeared in the main plane did not disappear out of thin air, after its departure, the mass effect core of the battleship was activated, and the hull was quickly covered by the mass effect field emitted by itself and was reduced to nearly zero, and was finally teleported to this relatively unfamiliar plane by Shen Chao in an instant.

No matter what plane it is teleported to, the first thing the expedition team has to do is to reposition itself in the latest position in the heterotopic plane, so now the Cambridge of the Budapest is very busy, and the navigation team is nervously verifying the latest coordinates from countless sensors on and off the ship, and Shen Chao took this opportunity to leisurely lean on the guardrail of the command platform, patiently drinking a glass of juice and waiting.

"Celestial bodies 1 and 2 were discovered, and the distance was safe...... Optical Feature Scanning ...... It is confirmed that it is the earth and the moon, and the current position of our ship is 1400 deviations from the predetermined positioning point, and we are now in the sky over Australia...... "The navigation group quickly reported the latest information one by one, and soon, a bunch of synthetic holographic images and the number of channels appeared on the hologram in front of Shen Chao.

: "Deviation 1400? It's a new record, so let's celebrate, you're getting more and more accurate in positioning. Roy, who was standing on the side, commented after hearing their latest azimuth jù, and the surprise in his tone was very sincere, which made Shen Chao a little embarrassed.

Although he himself has been able to locate the drop-off point of the heterotopic plane quite accurately when carrying out the ground-to-ground plane teleportation, many times it can be accurate to within one or two kilometers. However, in space on the opposite plane, even if the landing point is a fixed star region between the Earth and the Moon every time, it lacks a reference object and a sense of direction. The first one he positioned was not very high.

In the vast universe, it is common for his positioning to deviate by tens of thousands of kilometers, and on several occasions their final landing point even deviated from the predetermined location by more than 100,000 kilometers. This is still in the solar system that he is already relatively familiar with.

That's why if there are no special requirements, when Shen Chao first crossed into an unfamiliar plane, he set the space-time gate of the alien plane within the solar system, at least he was more familiar with the stars in the solar system, and the deviation of jumping over was small. Like this time, the precise positioning that is only more than 1,000 kilometers away is really a big explosion of character.

"People, there is always progress. Well, don't talk about that. Attention pilot, heading turns 159.224. Speed increased to 100. And also. Hurry up and confirm the latest coordinates of Team 401, and then plan a route for me to arrive the fastest......" Shen Chao gave these orders while drinking a glass of juice.

Checking the direction and planning the route is time-consuming and requires patience. On average, these two steps are the most time-consuming part of each transgalactic exploration of the Plane of Eternity. That's why he is so leisurely drinking drinks and giving orders. This kind of thing can't be rushed.

To talk about the drink he was drinking. In fact, it has a lot of origins. The raw material was collected from an ancient plane where dinosaurs still ruled the earth. The plants on the earth of that plane are very ancient, and there are many strange plant fruits.

One of the most special fruit trees in the rainforest is the strange fruit that grows on it. The flesh has a very strange and changing taste, which is sometimes sweet, sometimes spicy, and sometimes sour or bitter. And it is also accompanied by a slight anesthetic effect after drinking.

About three months ago, this fruit was brought back by a team that went to the scientific expedition from the plane that was still in the Jurassic era, and was later artificially cultivated and made by the people of the biological real room. After proving to be non-toxic and harmless, the fruit was squeezed into juice and drunk by a few members of the team who were overly curious, and soon became popular within the expedition.

Now, even the big boss of the expedition team like Shen Chao has become a supporter of this new special drink. It can be seen that its popularity is dù. Since the raw materials of this drink are tentatively named Red Flame Grass by the people in the biological laboratory, this small-scale circulating drink is tentatively named Red Flame Wine.

Usually, this juice is drunk by many people as alcohol, and some people even carry it with them when they go on missions. Of course, the reason why they were able to carry it on the mission was because there was no alcohol in the drink, and its anesthetic effect was limited to making the tongue slightly dull after drinking, and did not affect the human brain's advanced judgment. That's why the leadership of the expedition didn't ask, and even joined the ranks of drinking.

Back to the present, just when Shen Chao's glass of juice was almost at the bottom, the navigation team finally planned a route that echoed Shen Chao's request and handed it over to him for review. Shen Chao took a rough look, this route requires the whole ship to make 8 interstellar jumps, with a total span of 255 light years.

Although they were less than 140 light-years away from Team 401 in a straight line, upon closer inspection, it seemed that they really didn't have a better shipping route to choose from, as a supernova was in the way of the closer route.

On the whole, the route given by the navigation group is indeed relatively fast. The other possible shipping lanes are either farther or unexplored along the way. After confirming this, Shen Chao finally decided to use this known route, and soon organized the crew to start preparations before the jump. (To be continued......)

PS: Okay, I'll admit I'm addicted to the game again, some time ago I heard that there is a deep plot on the dragon to start with a female elf and go to the Solas line, so I, an old player, jumped into the pit again, pinched a female elf, and watched her talk about a fruitless love with the domineering wolf god (spoiler eye-catching). The plot is really tall, all kinds of abuse! But what's going on with the immediacy of this Korean drama? Well, from today to the end of the Spring Festival, I will be more idle, and I will have more code words when I have time, and update as many as possible.

Finally, I was shocked to find that someone was rewarding me today. Thanks to "Lost in the Purple Sky" and other book friends who are still paying attention, Lao Wei felt ashamed of himself, and decided to write more words for a while, and if he followed the words, he would like to express his gratitude for a more chapter later.