In other words, how to deal with the sudden appearance of unplanned supplies is an important criterion to test the qualification of a ship captain. If Lieutenant Colonel Case had been the stunned young man who had just come out of the military academy more than 20 years ago, he would have reported this mistaken material to his superiors as soon as possible. Avoid the UNSC's combat materiel being wasted or friendly forces not getting what they need, and be praised by their commanders.

But time is a pig-killing knife, and Captain Case, who is now middle-aged, is no longer the stunned young man who just joined the UNSC Navy. So, after seeing that there were unplanned free supplies, his first thought was to swallow them!

This is something that any experienced captain would do, regardless of honor or anything, simply because it increases the chances of his ship and crew surviving! The war on the front line is brutal, and no matter how much material is thrown, it doesn't feel too much.

As the main force of the front line and the Star Alliance, the resources allocated in the fleet have always been in short supply. Although it was not known what the unknown civilian transport ship was transporting, Captain Case rushed to the airport as fast as possible to receive the supplies.

He was fast because he was afraid that if he took a slow step, he would be preempted by his peers. When there is a war, the people who belong to the same fleet are all brothers, but when it comes to grabbing supplies, everyone is an enemy and a competitor.

By the time Captain Case arrived, the heads of the other ships had already taken the lead in talking to the ship's owner, apparently talking about the supplies that were being unloaded. Seeing this, Keith, who had just arrived at the scene, immediately sank in his heart.

"Oh no, I'm a step slower. That's what he thinks at this point.

Although no one should want to drag the supplies away from him after grabbing them, there is another unspoken rule in the fleet, that is, if you take a step too slow. Then you can't prevent the original owner from picking up the goods, and Keith is quite sure that the materials brought by the civilian ship are definitely not for him, so seeing this, he has the illusion that the original owner has taken the lead.

"Wait, Lieutenant Colonel Case? Are you Lieutenant Colonel Case? Shen Chao, who was dressed in civilian clothes and pretended to be a ship owner, waved and asked when he saw him, he was wearing an ordinary-looking overalls. Several members of the team around him were also dressed as stevedores and crew members, and they were mixed around. Shen Chao's appearance as the shipowner made Keith feel hopeful again, so he went up to confirm his identity.

"I'm Case, do you have supplies for me?" Keith asked.

"That's right, 6 large boxes of sealed weapons, with a total weight of 40 tons, I don't know what's inside, but your name is on the receiving information!" Shen Chao opened his eyes and said such groundless nonsense, but he also took out a very convincing bill of goods and pretended to be in a hurry to deliver the goods and leave.

His acting skills played their due role, and the owners of civilian and cargo ships were indeed in such a hurry to deliver as he performed. In order to evade the fighting and the UNSC's requisition rights during the fighting. But more importantly, Captain Case, in his thirst for new supplies, did not look closely at his evidence.

As Shen Chao said, these large containers were indeed full of weapons, and they were specially given to them or to the master chief for trial, and each box contained a bunch of individual weapons and brief instruction manuals that were higher than the current level of technology at the UNSC but were not needed by the expedition team.

Shen Chao is confident that after the battle begins, the Autumnwind Fordon's shipboard AI Cortana will definitely find these strange goods and use them properly under the guidance of the electronic beacons they left on the ship.

Of course, the reason why Shen Chao pretended to be the owner of a cargo ship and specifically found Keith was not just here to give gifts. He led the team here because he needed to locate the very important Autumn Wind Atsushi in the plot and the Master Chief that this battleship will carry, that is, the absolute protagonist of the Halo series that everyone is very familiar with. Commander of the II Spartan Warrior, John-117.

Now, the battle of Zhiyuanxing has not yet broken out, and when the battle starts, it is a dream to find this battleship in the chaotic ship group. That's why Shen Chao decided to investigate the important plot points and some characters now.

After completing the delivery, their cargo ship quickly departed the port and left the system. Shen Chao quietly stayed behind with a small group of team members who had previously pretended to be crew members. They drove optical camouflage and infiltrated the busy military space station in several ways.

Shen Chao followed the goods they sent to Keith and found the Autumn Wind Dun very smoothly, and after confirming that the Autumn Wind Dun was still in the modification stage, they carefully sneaked in to have a look. Of course, they're just there to visit. I'm not going to take the ship or anything.

Although the Autumn Wind is also a very advanced warship in the UNSC sequence, its main weapon engagement distance is too close, and it can only accelerate the projectile to 4% of the speed of light.

This also shows that different tech trees are destined to produce different fruits. In the Mass Effect plane, the weapon range and shield strength of space warfare are the key factors in victory, so the development of small-caliber high-speed main guns for armies of all races.

Although the Star Federation also tried to exchange quality for quantity at the beginning of the space age, and only built a few warships with long-range direct firepower, but after the first contact war, they were defeated by the Touareg clan, and since then they have embarked on the road of exploding fleet size, attack range and absolute defense capability without hesitation.

On the other hand, the UNSC's navy, without the support of Element Zero, could not accelerate the small projectile enough to cause a destructive killing effect, so they took another path, which was to increase the mass of the projectile as much as possible in order to increase the export kinetic energy of the shell.

The result was a "wonderful" design of a 300-ton low-velocity projectile on a ship several hundred meters long carrying a cannon with a muzzle diameter and firing a 300-ton low-velocity projectile after charging for a long time. This is the case with the MAC guns that are equipped on the Atsushi of Autumn Wind and many UNSC battleships.

While it seems that the MAC cannon has reached the projectile power of the dreadnought's main gun on the Mass Effect plane, it also sacrifices long-range strike capabilities. Due to its low speed and large mass, the projectile is prone to deviate from the target, so the effective range is only about 3000 to 5000 km.

That is why the UNSC also keeps a large number of missiles on the warship as a weapon for attacks on the ship. It's not that they don't want to use more direct-fire weapons like MAC guns, but because of technical limitations, they can't put the heavy burden of firepower output of the entire battleship on MAC guns.

In the Mass Effect plane, the anti-ship missile was eliminated by all races thousands of years earlier, because the distance between the two sides was too far. By the time the missile slowly flew to the original target, the battleship would have long been out of place or the battle had already been over.

It is precisely because of this that Shen Chao has no plan to capture any UNSC ships, and the difference in the technology tree is destined to snatch such a battleship over in addition to reverse-engineering some useful technologies, it is useless for the expedition team.

The reason why Shen Chao had to board and take a look before the war was to facilitate the positioning of the plot in the future. If he imprinted the main features of this place into his mind, then he could open a door in the Alien Plane. Quite precisely appeared near the ship. This is very useful for them to intervene in the direction of the plot later.

After staying on the ship for half an hour and taking a lot of video data, Shen Chao summoned everyone to gather in the hibernation cabin, ready to open the time door and leave the ship. The hibernation compartment is the most deserted part of the ship, almost completely unoccupied, and is a good evacuation point.

Almost at the same time as Shen Chao and the others withdrew, the surface situation of Zhiyuan Star also began to become interesting. In a small frontier base, a special operations team codenamed Noble Squad, composed mainly of Spartan fighters of Phase 3, has just welcomed its new members.

Their new recruit, codenamed Noble6, is a third-term Spartan warrior, like most of the squad. The Spartan warriors are the ace units in the ground battles of the UNSC. Equipped with state-of-the-art exoskeleton armor and a variety of new weapons.

Although the number of the most famous Spartan warriors in Phase II is very small, these people have repeatedly performed amazing tactical miracles in previous battles with the Star Alliance. Carefully packaged by the UNSC's propaganda department, the Spartan warriors of the second phase are like an invincible myth.

Their success has allowed the UNSC to invest a lot of effort in the last 20 years to build a large number of Spartan warriors in the third phase. Compared with the second phase of the Spartan warriors, the training of the third phase warriors has many deficiencies, and the weapons and armor equipped with them are not as advanced as the second phase of the warriors.

However, by this time, UNSC's human augmentation technology had developed significantly, and it was possible to mass-produce these Phase III Spartan warriors, who were used as high-level cannon fodder to participate in various suicide missions. Almost every time there were heavy casualties, but strategically it had a great restraining effect on many of the Covenant's previous attacks.

Noble6 is an outlier who has survived many suicide missions like this. Immediately after adding the Noble team, they were given their first assignment to investigate a nearby compromised base station.

After receiving the mission, the group of Spartan warriors immediately set off and rushed to the target location in a small spaceship that came up to pick them up. They don't know yet, as their mission progresses. The Covenant's infiltration forces will appear in their field of vision, and the war that will engulf the entire planet will soon begin.

Just as the Spartan warriors were about to set off, several members of Team 102 were also observing them on a hillside a few kilometers away from them. They arrived in a new, stealthy-enhanced shuttle.

Their mission is simple, to follow the Noble squad. Observe their combat capabilities and gather information available along the way, including hacking into their secure links. If feasible, Team 102 may also decide at its discretion whether or not to intervene at critical points in the story.

For example, if Noble's watch xiàn is very different from the one in the story, Team 102 can decide whether or not to intercept the AI they escorted later, which is the Cortana that will be given to the Autumn Wind Dun. (To be continued......)

PS: First of all, thank you for the "Zhizhen, hzhzzz" who voted for the monthly ticket after yesterday's update and the "Zhizhen, HALO4UNSA, valky, Tianxin Ruthless, hill2"

There was no double update last night, and I'll try to make it up today, but the update time is still uncertain, so book friends who need to go to bed early can go to wash and sleep early