Chapter 605: Caste is hard to move
In other words, after encountering the alien, the officers of the Imperial Army only treated it as a minor crisis. Aware of some of the dangers, they sent a large number of Storm Infantry to search the entire ship, killing all the xenomorphs they could find. In order to do so, they also cordoned off all secondary rooms, locking several of the ship's non-combatants in their cabins.
This is a standard emergency plan for disease prevention and control and against unknown dangerous organisms, aiming to avoid the emergence of new infected people as much as possible, eliminate all potential sources of infection with professional combatants, and achieve the purpose of protecting the entire ship.
But the commanders of these Imperial armies did not know that the chaotic scene in front of them was only a symptom of the problem. Taking advantage of this chaos, the Master Chief who was hiding in the cabin on the ground floor unknowingly attacked the cabin where Cambridge and the communications department were located.
Just like last time, Cortana, with the help of an expedition team, infiltrated the control room of the life-sustaining system, obtained control of some of the ship's key systems, and began to prepare for the release of hypnotic gas. Then, just as they had done when they attacked the first Star Destroyer, they coordinated their progress and began to strike at the same time.
A sudden blow will startle the enemy, especially the officers on the bridge. Before they could react, the whole ship was shrouded in hypnotic gas and a large number of mechists. As before, most of the crew were immediately gassed.
But unlike the last time the ship was captured, this time the fighters of the Imperial Army resisted for a very long time. Despite the large number of troops involved in dividing and encircling the Imperial soldiers in different areas, due to the fierce vitality of the enemy, in the end, it took the expedition nearly four hours to clear the resistance of the entire ship.
During this period, nearly 10,000 armed aircraft were destroyed, and hundreds of Titan mechs were damaged by different processes. More than a dozen members of the expedition team who participated in the battle were also wounded.
The Star Destroyer they had managed to capture had multiple lines and pipes damaged. Compartments in several areas are completely deformed. And when the results were counted after the war, an unexpected discovery caught their attention, and several xenomorphs that were supposed to be guarding near reactor 7 were missing!
And the reason why they were able to find out so quickly was because all the aliens in this operation were second-generation genomarker aliens created by the research team in the rear in the culture tank. They are injected with a set of exogenous genes for localization while they are still embryos.
Possession of this set of genes does not alter the aliens' external traits and habits, but only leaves them with a small amount of traceable chemical pheromones as they act. Researchers initially used this method to study the movement habits of aliens, tracking them down and attempting to domesticate them, and at one point achieved some results.
At the scene of this operation. These remaining pheromones are used as a means of tracking to ensure that the aliens do not run away and cannot find their shadows. All expedition members have built-in devices on their armor that can track this unique pheromone.
While inspecting the battlefield, a fireteam noticed anomalies in the pheromone footnotes left by several of the aliens, and when they chased after them, they found that a shuttle was missing from a hidden secondary airport. Upon learning of this, the Master Chief immediately began to investigate the issue. After a preliminary analysis, they basically determined what happened.
It turned out that this Emperor-class Star Destroyer underwent a small renovation a month ago, and a new concealed small airport was built for the transfer of dignitaries, and a "Lambda"-class shuttle was parked in it on weekdays.
Since it is a new renovation project, this project is not recorded in the ship's number of jù libraries. This small, secluded airport also doesn't have any surveillance system. So Cortana, who had hacked into the system before, didn't find out about it either.
The intensity and duration of the previous exchange of fire between the expedition and the Imperial army on the ship had exceeded expectations, and there was no room for attention to this kind of area, which allowed several of the aliens that should have attracted the attention of the Imperial army to seize the hole.
They were lucky enough to discover this small airport, as a highly intelligent predator, the aliens not only understood human speech like the rest of their kind, but also learned some ways to deceive humans during the experiment.
Aliens grow at a much higher rate than humans, and although it has been less than two years since the expedition captured the first aliens and started researching, more than a dozen generations of aliens have been born in this time. The intelligence of the aliens evolves extremely quickly under the influence of humans.
They quickly learned the language of the human researchers, and realized that the humans who captured them were not the same as the humans who had gone before them. The humans they had encountered before looked pretty much the same. But the level of organization is much lower than the current batch.
After a whole generation of study, the Xenomorphs learned that the group of humans who controlled the fate of their race belonged to an organization called the Space-Time Council. And soon realize that no matter how hard they try, they can't escape the cage of this organization by brute force.
Subsequent generations of Xenomorphs have tried to find security vulnerabilities in their scientific space station and escaped, but have all failed. After that, the new generation of Xenomorphs changed their tactics, and in order to survive, they began to cater to humans who only appeared in front of them through holograms.
After several generations of Xenomorph efforts, some scientists finally believe that they have found a way to domesticate Xenomorphs and have done a lot of radical biological realizations. In order to gain freedom and evolution in the future, the aliens are very cooperative with these realities.
In recent generations, the Mother Emperor has even begun to listen directly to the orders of humans. in exchange for trust. Eventually, their patience paid off, and the humans finally let their guard down on them, and they had a rare chance to escape.
Before discovering this hidden airport, the Alien Mother Queen had no plans to escape. As a race capable of genetic memory. It also remembers the aftermath of those attempts from generations ago, when all xenomorphs who tried to escape were thrown into the sun along with their cages or chambers and burned to ashes!
The Mother Emperor in this area still clearly remembers the e-mail of that generation of Mother Emperor, who sensed the wails of those alien offspring before they were scorched by the sun. If she doesn't have a certain certainty, she won't try to escape again.
Obeying the orders of the humans may make it and the other aliens feel disgusting, but at least they can live without worrying about eating and drinking. However, when Guò telepathically saw the unattended, unguarded shuttle from the alien offspring. She soon realized that this was the unique opportunity she had been waiting for. With its advanced intelligence, it naturally did not want to be enslaved by the expedition, and after seeing the opportunity, the Alien Mother Queen was very shrewd in planning an escape.
She knew that she would not be able to escape under close guard, whether it was the previous researchers or the armed humans around him now, they would do their best to monitor the every move of each generation of the Mother Emperor. As the mother queen, it is undoubtedly whimsical for her to want to escape.
But Xenomorphs, as a species, have never put the value of the individual first. As the mother queen, she may not be able to run away, but that doesn't mean that their race doesn't have the possibility of breaking away from the control of the Space-Time Council.
Although the Mother Emperor who has evolved to the present level of intelligence does not quite understand what the Plane Council represents, she is like any alien. Instinctively repel any foreign control. With no escape on her own, she decided to leave her chance to the few aliens who had found a way out. They are the individuals who have the best chance of perpetuating the alien race.
After making a decision, the Alien Mother Queen asked the aliens who had discovered the hidden airport to attract a team of storm commandos, but instead of fighting them, they left one of the strongest aliens to hide in the cargo hold of the shuttle, hoping that the soldiers of the Imperial Army would escape in the shuttle.
The Storm Commando team that had been brought in did exactly that, and when they contacted friendly forces to no avail, they hurriedly flew the shuttle that was supposed to be used for the evacuation of VIPs. At that time, Cortana had not yet moved to the bridge and could not obtain full control of the system, so there was no detection system on board to detect the departure of such a shuttle.
Now. The battle is over, and the shuttle has been gone for more than half an hour. If the faster-than-light engine had been used, it would well have been hundreds of light-years away by now, and it would have been too late to intercept it
Indeed, the group of Storm Commandos who thought they had escaped the trap had indeed appeared hundreds of light-years away, trying to find the nearest Imperial base in the shuttle, but while transiting on a remote mining planet, the xenomorph quietly left the hold. Look around for prey.
It must find its prey immediately, as the continuation of the race requires it to quickly metamorphose into the new Mother Empress. As a group predator. Aliens can usually only produce a new one after the old one dies.
But in order to adapt to the new environment of being bred and imprisoned, the xenomorph had carried out a partial degeneration of its reproductive system several generations earlier. It restores a method of reproduction that their race used in the past.
Now the alien race can have multiple mothers at the same time, and even adult alien hunters can start to "transform" after being stimulated by the mother's orders, and gradually turn into new alien mothers, quickly spreading the race.
But in order to transform into the new Mother Empress, it needs a lot of energy to support the growth of the body. Aliens are far from evolving to survive using electricity or other energy, so energy can only come from food.
After escaping, the sturdy xenohunter quickly found a relatively populated area and began his own journey of "evolution". Its current planet, like most other planets ruled by the Empire, is a multi-intelligent planet. No doubt. Once it has successfully metamorphosed into the Mother Empress, it will produce a new and stronger batch of Xenomorph offspring! (To be continued......)
PS: First of all, thank you for the monthly pass of "Xuanhu NO1, Professional Tank, Death Sima Chen, ct80642470", yesterday's creative state was not as good as I imagined, and today I was very busy, and I didn't go home until 10 o'clock in the evening, so I updated it so late.
As for the questions raised by book friends after the update of the first two chapters, I have already explained them in the book friend group. In general, what happened in these chapters is a very important clue, and new plot points will be corresponded to one by one in the future.
It's true that I'm misremembering about the Naboo part of the government.,After all, it was two years ago to check the Star Wars information and prepare.,I forgot these details.,Later, I wrote here and thought that there would never be any reasonable voter who would elect a little Lori as the queen.,So I made up the path of hereditary royalty......
Since it doesn't affect the follow-up plot advancement, I won't change this part, and I'm just bringing it up here to give Star Wars fans an explanation, okay, that's it, see you tomorrow