"Colonel, the route is planned, and it is expected to arrive in fifteen minutes."

"Okay, remind me five minutes in advance."

Aaron's image disappeared, and Lin Feng looked back at Yang Yi who was following behind, and then pushed open the door and entered the conference center of the "Shadow".

Inside, dozens of officers and soldiers who participated in the operation were sitting in danger, waiting for Lin Feng and Yang Yi.

After receiving the order issued by the theater command, Lin Feng made arrangements and deployments. Because he was going to the first war zone, in addition to bringing Yang Yi and others, Lin Feng also added a squadron. It's not that Lin Feng doesn't have confidence in Yang Yi, but he doesn't know the difficulty of this mission.

This can't be blamed on Lin Feng, but the theater command didn't explain it clearly.

The order consisted of only one sentence: go to Prometheus and assist the local garrison in resisting the invasion until reinforcements from the First War Zone arrived.

Although Prometheus Star is no stranger to Lin Feng and other officers and soldiers of the Special Investigation Brigade, the mission order does not mention the current combat situation, nor does it mention the size of the garrison. As for when reinforcements from the First Theater of Operations will arrive, it is even more unknown.

In the first war zone, Prometheus can be said to be famous, on a par with the Confusing.

Located in the heart of the Greenwich Meteorite Belt, less than 100 million kilometers from the ceasefire line, the planet is a lone star wrapped in a gaseous nebula, despite its planetary size. According to scientists' speculation, Prometheus is a product of the Big Bang, a remnant of the star to be exact. In time, probably hundreds of millions of years later, Prometheus will be able to rely on its own gravity to attract materials from nearby nebulae. After gaining enough mass, it evolves into a star. If you're lucky, there are also a few planets that may appear. It's just that that's hundreds of millions of years away. Moreover, it is unknown whether Prometheus will be able to exist stably for hundreds of millions of years.

It's not that the area where Prometheus is located is unstable, but that its strategic location is too important.

During the Fifth Greenwich War a thousand years ago, there was one of the most tragic battles here. At that time, in order to cooperate with the Third Theater's march into the North Alpha System and launch the military operation of the Battle of Peace Dawn, the First Theater also launched a combat operation against Prometheus. Because the Third War Zone has advanced to the Northern Alpha System, the Silicon Alliance is not stubbornly defending Prometheus. Furthermore. The First War Zone successfully captured Prometheus Star, uprooted the last stronghold of the Silicon Alliance in the southern region of the Greenwich Meteorite Belt, and also signed a truce agreement with the Silicon Alliance. One of the reasons to cede half of the Greenwich meteorite belt to the Galactic Alliance.

It can be seen that Prometheus Star has extremely high strategic value.

The problem is that it is too close to the middle line of the Greenwich meteorite belt, which is the ceasefire line.

Although the value of the Prometheus star. It is mainly reflected in its location. However, after the end of the war, according to the armistice agreement signed by the two sides, the area where Prometheus is located is a military restricted area, and not only can troops be stationed, but even garrisons are not allowed.

To put it simply, if the Human Legion is stationed on Prometheus, it can use this as a springboard to sweep through the northern part of the Greenwich Meteorite Belt at any time.

It's just that. The armistice was not strictly observed in the First War Zone, and Prometheus became what it is today.

Before the end of the Fifth Greenwich War. The First Theater Command secretly formulated a set of plans to build Prometheus into a forward-fortress military base, and after the formal cease-fire, it dispatched military engineers to Prometheus to conduct field investigations in the name of battle damage statistics. Subsequently, the First Theater Command began to gather equipment and materials, and also formed a special engineering unit.

Unfortunately, the armistice negotiations ended before the construction plan drawn up by the First Theater of Operations could be implemented.

According to the armistice, the 1st theater of operations could only abandon the plan to build forward fortresses. However, the strategic value of Prometheus Star has not been reduced because of this.

In fact, the origin of the name "Prometheus" is interesting.

Unable to build a forward military base on Prometheus, the First Theater did not give up, but exploited the loopholes in the armistice. This means that the two sides can maintain stability in the demilitarized zone by sending non-resident paramilitary forces to the demilitarized zone on the grounds of law and order.

As a result, less than a hundred years after the end of the Fifth GMTF, the first interstellar mercenaries and pirates appeared on Prometheus, and temporary bases were built to support expeditions to the northern part of the Greenwich Meteorite Belt and even the Northern Alpha system.

It was also during this period that the first mercenaries and pirates who arrived here called the planet "Prometheus".

Shortly thereafter, the First Theater dispatched a vigilant paramilitary force to Prometheus under the pretext of maintaining law and order in the demilitarized zone, and built a military base there. Over the centuries since, the improvised military base has steadily expanded into a massive military fortress, making Prometheus the most important forward base in the First Theater of Operations.

It's just that the Silicon Charm Alliance didn't watch the fire from the other side.

You know, Prometheus is too close to the ceasefire line, and there is no obstruction in the direction of the northern sector of the Greenwich Meteorite Belt. If it is a fleet, it will be able to cross the ceasefire line in a few hours at a tenth of the speed of light, even without a space jump. Starting from this, all the way to the north, the human legion can successfully attack the North Alpha system, and the Silicon Charm Alliance has nowhere to defend.

Of course, attacking Prometheus is impossible.

In order to deal with the threat from the human legions, the Silicon Alliance has resorted to the usual method of creating a beast tide and allowing wild silicon beasts to attack Prometheus.

Over the past thousands of years, every once in a while, from a hundred years to a few years, a wave of wild silicones has visited Prometheus. Although most of the time, the size of the beast tide is not very large, and the silicon beast is not too strong, the army stationed on Prometheus can fully handle it. It's just that, on average, every hundred years, there will be a wave of beasts that hit on a large scale, and even a twelve-level wild silicone beast will appear.

Whenever such a beast tide comes, the garrison on Prometheus will be almost completely wiped out.

The last large-scale beast tide attack occurred two years ago, the year Lin Feng joined the Special Reconnaissance Team.

In just a few days, the garrison on Prometheus suffered most casualties. Although the First War Zone had partially mobilized and dispatched support troops when the beast tide arrived, the fleet transporting the support troops encountered a level 12 silicon beast before reaching Prometheus. As a result, instead of reaching Prometheus, the support forces lost most of them. Unable to muster more troops in a short period of time, the First Theater had to call for help from other theaters. The reinforcements sent by the third theater were the special reconnaissance brigades. In that battle, the former captain of the Special Reconnaissance Brigade joined forces with eight warrior-level masters from other war zones to take out the twelfth-level silicon beast entrenched on Prometheus. It's a pity that they still went one step too late. Although all the wild silicons were eventually wiped out, the local garrison had all been sacrificed, and even the military base that had been painstakingly run by the First War Zone was devastated.

Because the strategic value of Prometheus was so important, the First War Zone did not give up, but began to rebuild shortly after the recovery of Prometheus. Only a year later, the First Theater of Operations rebuilt its military base and again sent troops to Prometheus.

Of course, there are not only the armies of the First War Zone on Prometheus, but also many mercenaries and pirates.

Although the First Theater Command has never admitted it, anyone knows that these mercenaries and pirates who use Prometheus as a springboard to explore the northern region of the Greenwich meteorite belt and the northern alpha system are actually raised by the first theater, at least with the covert support of the first theater. In addition, a small number of mercenaries and pirates are themselves secret forces in the First War Zone, and the value of their existence is to monitor the movements of the Silicon Phantom Alliance in peacetime, spy on military intelligence, and obtain the enemy's military deployment. If war breaks out, these mercenaries and pirates will immediately be transformed into active soldiers in the First Theater of Operations, participating in the battle as regular troops of the First Theater of Operations.

Although it was the wild Silicon Beast that attacked, the war between the Galactic Alliance and the Silicon Charm Alliance did not end here, but lasted for nearly a thousand years. If the Sixth Greenwich War had not broken out, this situation would have persisted, perhaps for thousands of years.

Frequent beast tide attacks have made Prometheus a veritable hell on earth.

Even in relatively calm times, Prometheus is full of dangers, and those who dare to operate on Prometheus are outlaws.

Jackson felt this deeply.

Although before meeting Yang Yi, Jackson was already well-known in the mercenary world, and the strength of his "Warrior Army" was not very weak, but Jackson had only been to Prometheus once, and he stayed for a very short time. In Jackson's words, he was a level 6 soldier at the time, and on Prometheus, a level 6 soldier was not even a fart. Mercenaries who have been active on Prometheus for a long time need at least the strength of an eighth-level soldier, and if they want to explore the northern area of the Greenwich Meteorite Belt, they need the strength of a tenth-level soldier. As for going to the Northern Alpha Galaxy, a level 10 soldier is the lowest threshold, and only when you reach the level of a human warrior can you hope to come back alive.

Danger comes with an extremely harsh environment.

Prometheus is a lone star, and it is a lone star shrouded in a gaseous nebula, and the environment is extremely harsh, both on the surface and underground.

It is a miracle in itself to survive on this planet and endure such extreme conditions.

If the Prometheus Star in peacetime is a hell on earth, then the Prometheus Star at this time is probably the real purgatory. (To be continued......)