The division of military and political jurisdiction within the Star Alliance is very clear, and the chief executive cannot meddle in the command of the army, and the army cannot meddle in political affairs. So, Hackett as commander-in-chief of the fleet. In fact, there is the right to arrange the deployment of a certain number of troops at will.

According to the law enacted by the Star Federation during the early expansion period, the fleet can be dispatched within a certain size, and the fleet commander can be fully responsible for it, without any explanation to the Executive Council, and only need to report the mission progress to the Star Alliance Defense Council at the end of the mission.

That's why the bigwigs in the Star-League government are also kept in the dark. Hackett couldn't trust them, so he arranged for the fleet to go without saying hello.

When the Defense Council asked him, the commander-in-chief of the fleet only said that he would do his best to arrange for these missing warships to return to Arcturus, but he didn't say a word about where the fleet went.

Now, they have finally returned to the absolute control area of Starlink, and the news can finally be safely spread. Don't worry about other races getting red-eyed.

No armed force of any size in the galaxy today would dare to storm a fortress as powerful as the Arcturus space station. So, it's safe to put the Collector Ship on display.

After returning, Hackett first sent an operational report to the Star-Federation's Defense Council, detailing the process of the mission. And explained his previous arrangement.

Then, he contacted the Executive Council of the Star Alliance, and after being questioned by the leaders of various states, he proposed that the Star Federation could use this incident to greatly improve the status of mankind again.

As in the last Battle of the Citadel, Hackett keenly saw a new opportunity to strengthen the strength of the Star Alliance from this incident. While they were discussing, the leaders of the major races finally learned the general story of what had happened through their respective intelligence channels.

Naturally, there is no shortage of intelligence agents from other forces on an important military space station like Arcturus, and the most powerful ones are naturally the Shadow Brokers and Cerberus agents.

Although Cerberus has more informants here, their basic interests do not conflict with the Star Alliance, so they just sent the information to the Phantom Man.

And the agents of the Shadow Broker also rushed to pass on the information after receiving the news. After the Collector Battleship arrived, Shen Chao on the Budapest immediately received several initial reports with pictures from agents on the Arcturus space station.

The Shadow Brokers have a total of 5 high-level undercover agents on the Arcturus space station. The highest rank is a colonel, so this efficiency is not surprising.

Since Shen Chao was at the CIC, Custer, who was performing his duties as a shadow broker, simply edited the reports. Then it hung on the intranet and sold.

Now that the Collector Battleship has arrived, there is no need to continue to help Starlink keep secrets, and as newcomers' shadow brokers, they can't do any intelligence trading at all.

Speaking of which. I have to mention the extremely complex intelligence sales network of the Shadow Broker, because of the need to remotely process a large amount of information, so the Shadow Broker has long established multiple quantum communication base stations in all corners of the galaxy to send and receive information.

All of the Shadow Broker's main intelligence incoming and outgoing information is carried out through these six major quantum communication base stations. These base stations are distributed all over the place and are important nodes connecting to the Shadow Broker Intelligence Network.

Underneath these nodes are a wide range of Level 2 and Level 3 nodes, and tens of thousands of agents of the Shadow Broker Control use these multi-layered dynamically encrypted communication nodes to contact him.

The shadow broker itself is the most important node in the flow of information in and out of the entire network, and any high-value information must be passed through him in order to complete the transaction.

When Karst sends out the information with the price code, the next level of intelligence will automatically be responsible for the sales pitch of the information, knocking on the content of the information to multiple customers, and making an offer according to the actual situation.

The customer then buys their intelligence. After the transaction is completed, the person in charge will report it layer by layer. Send the trade report back, and this completes a typical intelligence trade for a shadow broker.

The intelligence of this trade was quite sought-after, so the trader sold the intelligence to multiple buyers at the same time, and that's it. The major forces were shocked after buying the information.

The Citadel Council was even more furious when they learned about this, and although the two human ghosts deserved to be celebrated again, they were the most important leaders of the galaxy.

"Your sister, shouldn't these two guys report to me first?" "In the Citadel, the three members of the Council of the Venerable Non-Human Race Citadel all thought so in their hearts after seeing the information. In his heart, he scolded Sister Xue and Shen Chao fiercely.

Then, at the same time, they looked at the innocent-looking Councillor Udian next to them with vicious eyes, and the new human councillor really didn't know about this before they did.

They don't know that the information they just paid for was obtained from their theoretical subordinates, and they would be even more depressed if they did.

Back to Arcturus, since Hackett had a successful case of "forcing the palace" council in the Divine Citadel Tower before, it didn't take long for the high-ranking officials within the Star Federation to agree to Hackett's proposal. Get ready to play Yang Mou one more time and elevate the overall status of humanity.

On the same day, under the instruction of these bigwigs, the propaganda network of the Star Federation was in full swing, and the next day it "broke" the exciting "news" that the Star Federation had once again thwarted the Reaper and captured the Collector warship.

With the release of a full set of photos of the Collector ships being escorted back to the Arcturus space station, public opinion in the galaxy was in an uproar again.

There are other conventional warships in these well-proportioned photos as background comparisons, so it can easily confirm the authenticity of the news sent by the media of the Star Alliance.

The last time there was such an uproar was at the Battle of the Citadel two months ago, when people were stunned by the mighty and unrivaled Overlord.

Now they saw a second battleship of a similar size. And according to the official explanation of the Star Federation, the original owner of this battleship also served the Reaper.

Public opinion and the governments of the major races were shocked by this news and had nothing to say, and after a short period of aphasia, the governments and media of the major races sent a large number of requests for visits.

The government agencies of the major races got the news a little earlier, so after discussion, their requests can be said to be similar. It's all about asking Starlink to involve its own scientific research team in the dismantling and research of the Collector warship.

The governments of Asari, Touareg, and Salari all sent messages to congratulate Starlink on its success again, recalled the "traditional friendship" with Starlink, looked forward to the "common pursuit" in the future, and then unanimously asked to participate in the technical analysis of the battleship.

Such a large ship, in any case, is much stronger than the existing ship-building technology of the major races, and the wreckage of the last overlord has been divided between the Star Federation and the Touareg government. No other race has caught up.

Since then, both humans and the Touareg have secretly organized countless scientific research groups and invested massive resources in reverse engineering. But progress is still slow. And this time, the battleships captured by the Star Alliance are quite complete.

There is no doubt that there will be far more technology that can parse and restore than the wreckage of the overlord. That's why everybody wants to come over and get a piece of the action. Make up for the opportunity you didn't catch up with last time.

Even the Citadel Council has sent a formal request, hoping that Starlink will publish the technical results of the analysis. Not many people doubt the authenticity of the Reaper threat now.

In the past, there was an Overlord-class Reaper who opened a peerless in the Divine Citadel, and then there was such a super-large collector warship that was captured. There is no other explanation than that the Reaper really exists. And if you want to fight this threat, following humans seems to be the best option at the moment.

None of them yet knew that the actual overall technical level of the Collector battleship was a generation behind the Reaper. and the size of their master reaper.

After the requests of the governments of the various races, the Star Alliance did not bargain as most people expected, but agreed to the requests of the major racial governments, but required that all research be carried out within the control of the Star Alliance.

In other words, anyone who wants to study the Collector Battleship or the Collector itself will have to do so under the watchful eye of the Star Alliance. Any high-level scientific research equipment must also be inspected by Starlink before entering the research site......

The purpose of this is to absorb the work of the best scientists of other races, while also consolidating the leadership of humanity after the Battle of the Citadel.

Although the actual military scale is not the largest, the limelight of the Star Alliance Navy is the most dazzling among the armies of all races. Defeating the Overlord makes them seem like they can do anything, and many of the governments of the minor races are now nodding to the human governments.

This situation is also common in the civilian class of several council races, and they all feel that the Star Federation has brought the aura of the protagonist in the past few months, the invincible kind.

So in fact, the Star Alliance is still in the kind of buff that responds after the Battle of the Divine Castle. And Starlink also wants to protect this positive buff through this incident, so that it will not disappear due to the passage of time.

Back to the present, the reporters were very interested in the process of the Star Alliance's capture of this super-large warship. Major news networks in the galaxy have sent reporters to the vicinity of Arcturus to interview.

After the "artistic revision" of the facts, the official spokesperson will recount the official version at the press conference. According to this official version of the story, Shen Chao and Sister Xue have become partners who are like gods.

In this version of the story, they work together to investigate the Collectors, then lure the Collectors into attacking the lone Normandy, before the Budapest suddenly appears and captures the enemy ship in one fell swoop......

In a sense, this artistically processed version is more real than the "real" version within Starlink, at least, the part about Shen Chao is not much different from the facts.

After such a successful image marketing, the curiosity of the media was satisfied, so they added more oil and vinegar to the version of Starlink, and the next day, all kinds of news praising Starlink and human contributions were freshly released. (To be continued.) )