Chapter 223: A Changed Situation
Of course, no matter how Shen Chao complained that he was not creative, the Theron people were very thorough about their "re-creation", and the medical team only found a very small number of synthetics attached to some vital organs during the dissection, which seemed to be used to protect or strengthen the physiological functions of these fragile organisms. 、
The structure of the brain, the most important nervous system center of intelligent life, is exactly the same as that of humans, except for a few places in the body, where there are synthesized parts in the nerve protrusions to coordinate the operation of the endocrine system.
Previously, they had always thought that the Theron people should at least retain their mechanical brains, but now it seems that in order to completely imitate the appearance of humans, they really completely abandoned their previous form.
In this sense, the Therons are at least a subspecies, if not human. Speaking of the nervous system, Dr. Sainz also showed him a white object that they had taken out of the corpse's cranial cavity that looked like a small shell.
According to their device scans, the mechanism inside the small, sleek, seamless object is very complex, and it is likely that it is the terminal device that transmits consciousness to the Theron when they are reborn. Of course, to test this suspicion, they would have to dissect more of the Theron corpses and send the unidentified object to the technical part of the rear for further study.
After listening to Dr. Sainz's comprehensive report, Shen Chao returned to Space Station Zero for a short meeting with his teammates, and finally decided to temporarily designate the Theron people as non-hostile targets, and they would avoid violence as much as possible in the first contact in the future.
Besides. Shen Chao also decided to send troops to expand their search area in Plane 035 in order to find either the human wandering fleet or the Theron fleet as soon as possible. To this end, he issued an emergency mobilization order to the space station zero in the rear.
The order asks all full-fledged units in the fleet that have no recent missions to cancel their vacations or standby and immediately assemble at Space Station Zero, where he is to send the main force of the fleet to search for signs of humans and Therons, and to obtain from them the jump technology that the expedition desperately needs.
After his order was issued, the Zero space station immediately entered a state of general mobilization, and as the command center of the expedition and the passage node of the various bases, the radio of the Zero space station also issued a notice of full military management for the first time. All non-combatants are requested to leave the military area on the space station immediately.
At the same time, dozens of commands are also passing through space-time gates after being encrypted. Groups of officers and men of the space-time fleet, who were training or on leave in different planes, gathered as soon as they received the order. And enter the space station zero through the guò space-time gate.
Inside the traversal area, the stabilizers of the space-time gates increase the output and expand the size of the openings of the space-time gates. And the whole team of personnel and cargo transports are constantly jumping out of these time and space gates. It looks like the platform of the train station during the Spring Festival.
Some of the people who passed through the Time Gate were well-dressed and heavily armed, while others wore casual clothes such as Hawaiian shirts. Apparently on vacation just now. Behind the gate of time and space through guò. All of them are familiar with the guidance to carry out rapid physical examinations and perform body surface sterilization procedures.
After doing this. Under the command of different commanders, they went to the weapons depot to collect weapons and equipment, and gathered at the airport to receive a briefing on their mission. Soon, the huge airport was filled with nearly 10,000 people who had gathered. It was also the first time that the airport had become so busy.
Fortunately. The briefings on the tasks of all the personnel before departure were not complicated, and most of the personnel were briefed and boarded their respective ships outside the airport. These ships consisted of a total of 17 warships, three of which were cruisers of the same class as the Budapest. This lineup is the most luxurious fleet collective operation of the expedition so far.
As the battleships were full of crews, under the command of the tower, the battleships also left their dock one by one and left the space station zero in a long line. After a certain distance from the Zero space station, these ships will disappear one by one, just like the previous Budapest.
Of course, this is still the effect of Shen Chao teleporting one by one after boarding the ship one by one. With the current technical strength of the expedition, they have not been able to build a space-time gate stabilizer that can reliably pass through large ships, so the cross-plane movement of the ship must be "manually operated" by Shen Chao.
Fortunately, the scale of their current fleet is not large, if it is like the large fleet of the Star Alliance, a fleet of thousands of warships, that one will exhaust him to death. After transferring the 17 ships in front and behind to the star field where the Budapest was located in 1 hour. After teleporting all the ships participating in the mission, Shen Chao assigned each battleship a series of galaxies that needed to be searched.
Of course, the specific search order and procedure are up to the captains of each ship to decide. After receiving the mission, the fleets that had just assembled in this plane scattered one after another, and each began to jump interstellarly, to search for the nearest galaxy in their mission.
The galaxy is a very large place, although they have found the wreckage of the Theron warship in this system, indicating that this should have been the area where the two sides were at war before. But it's hard to say if there will be other tracks found in nearby galaxies within tens or hundreds of light-years years.
Although the interstellar battleship in this plane has a bit of a funny firepower delivery ability, in terms of interstellar jumping ability, it can completely destroy their Mass Effect battleship. This is also why Shen Chao put the main breakthrough in search and transition technology here.
Even if the Theron or humans encountered by the expedition here were hostile, it was difficult to threaten their ships in terms of combat effectiveness, and the difficulty of obtaining the relevant technology was much lower than that of the aura plane where they had previously stayed with an advance team.
Two days later, in another galaxy 1,000 light-years away from the wreckage, an entire Theron assault fleet was conducting an orienteering cruise, and this fleet was quite large, far larger than the ships sent by the expedition and the human fleet on the loose.
This assault fleet consists of 16 large Theron Battle Fortresses at its core, two dozen auxiliary ships, and a rare reborn ship. The Reborn Ship is one of the most important strategic technological achievements of the Theron people. Within the effective range of the Rebirth Ship, after any Theron dies, the consciousness can be teleported back to the Rebirth Ship, and then into a new body, achieving the effect of "Rebirth".
Superior to the importance of the Reborn Ship, even in the pursuit of the human fugitive fleet, the Theron Pursuit Fleet kept the Reborn Ship under the heavy protection of the fleet. The Reborn ship is protected by hundreds of Theron warplanes at all times.
At this time, on a battle fortress on the periphery, several Theron people were in the command room discussing the latest pursuit form. The human fugitive fleet was much stronger than they expected, and after a year of tug-of-war, they still failed to deal a substantial blow to the fugitive fleet.
The results of the search network, consisting of dozens of battle fortresses and tens of thousands of space fighters, have also been unsatisfactory. Only luck can be relied on to find the escaped human fleet. This disappointing result led to a more aggressive strategy on the part of the Therons, led by One.
They were already quite far from the place of departure at this time, and it would be difficult to increase the size of the pursuing fleet, but they could increase the dispersal of the pursuing fleet, i.e., further split the fleet organization, in order to increase the discipline of finding the fugitive fleet in the next round of search.
The rest of the Theron have a different view on the pursuit of humanity. Some of the more naïve Theron wanted to stop the pursuit and talk to the rest of humanity about the possibility of peace the next time they ran into the fugitive fleet.
There are also those who advocate stopping this seemingly endless pursuit now and returning to their hometown to live a good life. After all, the main force of the human race has long been wiped out by them, and a fugitive fleet poses a very limited threat to them.
Of course, as with the countless different and equally unnutritious discussions held by the Theron people before, One, the oldest of these guys and the one with the highest emotional intelligence, eventually succeeded in suppressing all objections at the end of the "discussion", and successfully "convinced" all the Therons to agree to his plan to continue pursuing the fugitive fleet.
So after the meeting, the Theron pursuit fleet was split again, and this time it was very complete. Most of the battle fortresses in this formation left the current sequence and dispersed to search for nearby star sectors.
Unbeknownst to them, the space-time fleet, which was only less than 1,000 light-years away from them, had already done the same, and it would soon be a very dramatic encounter between them. That would be a turning point in the fate of the Therons.
In contrast, the status quo of the human fugitive fleet, which was closer to them, was much calmer, and the fugitive fleet, which had just been reunited, gradually regained its apparent calm after days of revelry. The captains of the Pegasos and the Galactica also exchanged a batch of strategic materials urgently needed by the other side, and hoped that the officers and men of the two sides could take this opportunity to get acquainted with each other while supporting friendly forces.
However, the personnel of the two sides did not become as familiar with the exchange of personnel and materials as many expected. On the contrary, a few days after the exchange of logbooks between the captains of the two sides, the exchange gradually increased. The crews on both sides had considerable misunderstandings about a lot of each other's actions during the year.
And a few troublemakers on both ships fought with the officers of the other side during this sensitive period, and the reason why the two sides fought turned out to be because of the different policies of both sides towards the Theron prisoners of war! The only good thing is that Brigadier Adama's very bad son was not involved in this incident.
It has to be said that these ruffians have all been spoiled by their respective captains in the last year. In a few words, you can start fighting and even pulling out guns to face each other. This also reflects from one side that the actual level of discipline of the crews of the two ships in the context of the end of the world is much worse than before the war. (To be continued......)
PS: First of all, thank you for the ticket of "Xuanhu NO1, 3968487" and the reward of "Breathe Freely, the Round Table of the Dull Mao King". I'll keep working hard......