Chapter 418: Wandering Fleet
Although he said that he did not like to use violence, the reality is that violence was and is still the most effective means for the expedition to accomplish all its goals, so whether he likes it or not, he must continue to promote the expedition's deep violence with practical actions. Until the absolute peak of violence is reached.
So, not long after leaving the Elysium World, Shen Chao immediately rushed back to the space station zero by the same way to check what happened to make the people in the central control room so anxious to call him back.
The reason why he ended the conversation with Arthur in a hurry just now was because of a message from the central control room, saying that a team of missions they were exploring at a low intensity had encountered some sudden emergency and needed his authorization.
The expedition team is now spread out so much that there are more places where emergencies have occurred, but the handling of many serious incidents still requires his personal authorization. It was obviously impossible to describe the incident clearly in a short message, so he hurried back.
"What's going on?" Don't leak the supply point of some logistical plane, if that's the case, don't ask me, just let the team in charge just withdraw and keep our people. ......" As soon as he walked into the central control room, Shen Chao said to the platoon of personnel sitting on the command platform.
The expedition team has been trying to break away from the dependence on the material supply chain of the Mass Effect world for several months, and has established material procurement points in many low-tech planes, but as their stalls are too large, and at the same time explore too many side effects of the plane, many of these material procurement points cannot be maintained for long.
Some of the supply points are running very well. Expedition operatives and agents in the target plane who had no knowledge of their backgrounds set up a series of logistics and other cover types of businesses, and transported large quantities of supplies back through these channels.
However, there are also many cases of failure, most of which have occurred recently, and due to the scale of their procurement, those companies that are not well covered are vulnerable to investigation by some of the more vigilant government departments in the target plane.
In addition, there were several incidents of proxy mutiny, which were similar to the situation that Shen Chao himself encountered in the main plane earlier. Whenever this happens, the expedition will call a mission aborted, recall personnel from that plane, and close the space-time portal.
There are a lot of things like this. Shen Chao didn't care too much about the loss of materials. As long as people are okay, he generally does not hold the mandate holder accountable, so as soon as he rushes back, he says he has no interest in dealing with such an emergency.
"No, it's not a logistical problem. But the situation is urgent. ......" Custer explained the basics to him. Although there were several core members of the expedition team such as Todd and Sebastian sitting next to them, the examination plane they were responsible for needed to be fully monitored by these examiners, and they could not be distracted to answer Shen Chao's questions.
Custer gave him a brief briefing on the situation, and then pointed to an information analyst standing next to the command platform. After getting Shen Chao's approval, the somewhat nervous information analyst walked over quickly with an electronic report to report.
"Captain, it's an urgent report from Team 401 from Plane 035, who discovered a large man-made spacecraft a few minutes ago while searching a predetermined galaxy, presumably the intended target for the BSG-10 mission. However, they are too far away to determine the specific model and ownership, and require your authorization to investigate. ”
"So that's it, okay, I'll authorize ......," Shen Chao said and sat back on the chairman's seat on the command platform, quickly signed an electronic authorization order and issued it through the guò security link.
Plane 035 was a plane they had been exploring for months, and on the surface, it was an ancient plane, as the expedition had only found a group of uncivilized Neolithic hominids on Earth in that plane. The characteristics of the environment are consistent with this inference.
But in fact, Plane 035 is a high-tech plane, and there are some alien astronaut races in it with very advanced space technology, among them, their unique jump engine technology is what the expedition team has been fascinated by for a long time.
This is also the reason why the expedition team is still slowly exploring in that plane after several months of fruitless exploration, in the past few months, several teams have been constantly rotating, driving small warships in the 035 plane in the vast space to search for targets, and there have been a few false alarms that made them mistakenly think that they had found the ship they were looking for, so Shen Chao didn't have much hope when he signed this investigation order, and quickly returned to the examination room.
The electronic order he signed entered a dedicated server in the traversal zone shortly after leaving the console, and after transferring, the information passed through one of the many open space-time doors in the traversal zone and reached a mission plane that the expedition had been exploring for a long time.
Upon reaching the other end of the space-time portal, the electronic command quickly passed through a handful of previously erected information nodes and was sent to a Razor-class high-speed frigate with the Expedition's logo stamped with the expedition's logo far from the solar system. The team that received the order then began to make exploratory contact with the target they had previously discovered.
Half an hour later, just as Shen Chao had returned his attention to the examination room and had almost forgotten the order, a new emergency electronic report appeared on the terminal in front of him, and it seemed that it was actually sent back by the team that had been authorized just now.
"Is there really going to be a discovery this time?" Shen Chao thought with some surprise after seeing this message. Then he quickly flipped through the report, and after reading it, he was in good spirits.
Because this report was different from his previous expectations, this report did not describe another empty joy, but really located the target they had been searching for, a large starship of unknown structure.
The report is accompanied by a large number of pictures and a video screen, and looking at these images, it is very similar to the background information, which means that their continuous exploration efforts in the previous months on the 035 plane have not been in vain, and now they are finally about to produce.
If the situation is as rosy as the report suggests, the ship's jump engines for the new structure they have been waiting for months to build a fleet may soon be hopeful. In conjunction with the Halo World Exploration Project, which will begin after this exam, the timetable for the establishment of an autonomous fleet has suddenly been greatly advanced.
Thinking of this, he immediately put down the invigilation responsibility in his hand, exchanged a few words with several teammates on the command platform, and authorized Custer to continue to be in charge of the decision-making at the exam site, and then he called Roy, who was still in the invigilator position next to him, to prepare to go to the 035 plane for a field trip together.
"Are you sure you want to go now, what about our exam schedule?" Custer suddenly turned his chair around and asked, after all, in their original plan, they were going to be here to monitor the students' performances the whole time. When he met a student with an excellent performance, Shen Chao also planned to commend him in person, but before this could be done, Shen Chao temporarily changed his hexagram.
"Don't worry, I've already tabulated the detailed plan, and I'll leave it to you here." I don't have to worry about you. Also, the enemies of the latest test planes are all scumbags, even if there are outstanding students, can I come back and commend them again, don't worry about this moment......" After speaking, Shen Chao took Roy and quickly left the rostrum, and went to the living area on the space station to gather the entourage.
Because of this exam, most of the official members of the expedition team have suspended their daily plane exploration missions, and most of the space-time gates that are usually open have also been closed. Among the teams that stayed on the Zero space station to rest, the most suitable for mobilization was undoubtedly the 2nd Squadron of the First Brigade, referred to as the 2nd Squadron.
More than half of the team was made up of soldiers, and it was one of only two permanent squadrons in the expedition. The rest of the expedition team members are basically pre-mission ad hoc operations, which has achieved maximum deployment flexibility.
Originally, Shen Chao preferred to use the first squadron in normal times, but the first squadron is now carrying out patrol and vigilance tasks in major examination rooms, secretly providing security and monitoring for the students, so Shen Chao can only take the second squadron to investigate the latest progress of the 035 plane.
The reason why Roy was called to go with him was because Roy was the captain of the second squadron, although according to the professional ability and flexible organization of the members of the expedition, the absence of a captain of the second squadron would not affect his command and operation, and several alternate captains were capable of taking over the command at any time.
But Shen Chao doesn't often take the second squadron on missions, and he is not particularly familiar with this squadron. Therefore, he needs someone who knows more about himself and knows the current situation of the second squadron to assist him in commanding this squadron, and in this case, Roy is naturally the best candidate.
In this way, Roy had to put down the part of his invigilation and rushed to the living area on the No. 0 space station with Shen Chao. At this time, the members of the 2nd Squadron heard the assembly order broadcast from all over the station.
It's been assembled, and everyone is wondering why there is a mission here, they have all heard that there is no mission in the past few days.
Shen Chao did not explain the purpose of the assembly after they arrived, but just quickly counted the number of people, and after confirming that all of them were in the ranks, they took dozens of people from the second squadron to the nearest weapons depot to receive equipment, and the second squadron had carried out a large mission before and was in the recuperation period, and had been resting in the space station for half a month at this time.
So although Shen Chao's sudden assembly made everyone very confused, everyone was full of energy, and they didn't have any questions about this sudden new task. Since it was already an old unit in the very new organization of the expedition, after sorting out the equipment, Shen Chao did not talk nonsense about asking everyone to check the equipment or do any ideological mobilization, but took everyone directly to the airport where the Budapest was located to board the ship. The ship's pilot team is also here to meet everyone. (To be continued......)
PS: The main reason for not updating during this period of time is that as soon as you are free, you will be in Tonglongteng 3, and there is no time code word. Now that the game has been played a few times, I shouldn't be addicted to the game again in a short time......