The press conference held on Arcturus was a great success, and the information that the Reaper threat was confirmed spread through the faster-than-light communication network in the main regions of the galaxy, and Shen Chao and the others also watched the entire press conference through the intelligence network of the shadow broker.

At the press conference, Hackett presented a wealth of evidence about the Reaper's existence, the wreckage of the Overlord, the Collector's spaceship, and a very considerable number of images of the Reaper's relics that the various governments had previously hidden.

And, of course, most importantly, warnings from the Protheans. They first showed the hibernation facility discovered by Eden Primary, and then the hibernation pod that had been dug up.

In the end, Javik, who was escorted into the venue by a whole team of soldiers, was clear when this Protédem appeared in front of the media.

Why did the parliament look like it was ignoring political affairs during this period of time, and why were the leaders of all ethnic groups suddenly too busy to find anyone? Now, the media and the viewers who watched them finally understand what was going on.

After arriving, Javik took the microphone, as the last Protén, on behalf of his own race, he issued a long-prepared warning for this reincarnation.

At the press conference, he recounted in detail how his race failed against the Reapers, how they lost the Citadel, and how they fought a bloody war with the Reapers, which lasted for hundreds of years.

How they were systematic, planet after planet, city after city destroyed by the Reapers, until the entire Prosian race, with a population of hundreds of billions, was wiped out.

Evidenced by his testimony and the multitude of irrefutable evidence before him, even the most stubborn man could not believe in the reaper's existence.

With all the evidence presented, Javik was escorted out of the scene, and Hackett took the microphone and announced the final decision that the tribal governments had reached these days.

According to the decision of the joint meeting of the top leaders of the four major races of the Citadel Council, from now on, the galaxy is in a state of combat readiness, and all races and governments should immediately prepare for the inevitable invasion of the Reapers.

And to achieve this. The Citadel Convention was substantially amended, first of all, the arms limitation treaty in it was abolished. Other words. From now on, any race can build ships without restrictions.

Secondly, the business activities of the Citadel Bank Consortium will be subject to the supervision of the Citadel Council from now on, in order to stabilize the financial markets of the Divine Galaxy.

And after that. The main leaders of the governments will form a joint meeting to arrange the political and economic order of the galaxy in preparation for war.

Senior generals from all clans also form a Joint Staff Committee to discuss specific military strategies to deal with the Reapers, and to oversee the development of a new generation of weapons specifically designed to deal with the Reapers.

And the most important part is: The parliamentary races decided to form a real combined fleet, consisting of a detachment of each of the four council races.

The Combined Fleet will be responsible for reporting directly to the Joint Staff Committee, and will be responsible for improving the combat effectiveness of the armies of different races in cooperative operations.

The newly formed Combined Fleet will also have independent conscription rights, allowing it to recruit from any sapient race in the galaxy in order to deal with the upcoming warship construction boom.

All of the above are for parliamentary races, but for those who do not have an army or are weak in self-protection, the parliament also offers some "protective" programs.

At the heart of these programs is the idea that these weaker races will be able to provide goods and services to the larger races in the vicinity during their war readiness. in exchange for protection.

In order to reassure these small races with a large number and a large economic aggregate, some drawings of the Reaper Killer being designed were also released at the press conference, so that they would know that the council race was still very awesome, and if they wanted to save their lives, they should obediently get closer.

Eventually, the press conference ended with a speech by Hackett. He recounted the process of discovering the Reapers, and encouraged everyone to say that the Reapers were just a group of machines without the power to create a reaper. With the cooperation of all the tribes, they will eventually defeat the Reaper......

Shen Chao almost laughed out loud when he saw this from the broadcast screen, when the results of the battle simulation came out a few days ago, Admiral Hackett looked the most pessimistic.

The boss and most of the officer corps didn't believe that just a few years of preparation would give the galaxy the power to defeat the Reaper's army. Want to win the Reaper with regular fleet battles? That's dreaming.

If the major powers in the galaxy really work together and prepare for the war for another few decades, they still have the possibility of a fleet war with the Reaper, but within two years? It's just a wonderful fantasy.

However, Shen Chao also understood the purpose of Hackett's words, and like Shen Chao, Hackett also wanted to divert the reaper's attention.

He has a very important plan going on, so it is up to the Reaper to look elsewhere where it is not important. Unlike Shen Chao, though, Hackett didn't try to get the Reaper to take his eyes off himself.

He was trying to keep the reaper's attention on their important military and political leaders. Instead of Sister Xue, who was discovering the design of the Qingtian Furnace.

Sister Xue had already reported to Arcturus yesterday that she had made a great discovery in the Mars Archive, and they expected to be able to extract all the numbers of the Optimus Furnace from the massive number of jù soon.

When the time comes, with the blueprint of this "ultimate weapon" that is said to have passed down many reincarnations, they may have a chance to turn the tables.

After the press conference, public opinion in the galaxy boiled over as all those in the know expected, and countless media began to report on participating in the discussion, and all kinds of sensational statements appeared.

The Shenma Council has long known about the existence of the Reaper, and rumors have appeared that the top leadership has been indoctrinated agents. However, due to the early preparations of the various ethnic governments, there were no riots or anything like that in the major star sectors.

Back to Shen Chao, after watching the press conference, he didn't make any comments, because as soon as he got the same information, the development of the situation was also expected. The tense atmosphere of preparation that was about to take place across the galaxy did not affect him in the slightest.

So, after emptying all the supplies on the space station, he commanded the Budapest to leave the Robert's Abyss and continue to the next supply site.

The supplies they obtained using the Shadow Brokers were scattered across a number of bases in different sectors. This space station in Robert's Abyss is just one of them.

Over the next nearly a month, he visited six space stations filled with supplies, and transported all the supplies back to the base of the main plane through the Guò Space-Time Gate.

At this point, all the munitions are in place, and now it's time to prepare the main base outside the main plane. Although a large amount of military supplies is their main gain this time.

But the most critical trophy of this plan is a large space station built in the main plane solar system, which belongs entirely to the expedition.

This space station, which has been in the works for a long time, is the centerpiece of their next phase of development, and they will move the center of operations from the base in the second year to this space station.

Then, relying on this, establish a network of space-time gates, and slowly unfold various plans for dimensional occupation and control. Radically develop the expedition into a supranational organization.

In order to achieve this, they will have to wait a little longer and bring the last batch of materials and personnel involved in the construction of the space station back to the main plane.

A few days later, the Budapest appeared in a remote galaxy within the JMC range and occupied an "uninhabited" terrestrial colony here.

The uninhabited colony, which had also been arranged the previous month with a Shadow Broker's subordinate construction agency, had nothing but a few large warehouses and a docking area.

Reasonably, it will serve as a relay station between the main plane and the mass effect plane for a period of time in the future, and Shen Chao will set up a space-time gate here, and transport the last batch of materials and personnel to the main plane through guò.

For the next three months, it became a distribution center for a large number of goods, and many cargo ships would take off and land here every day, carrying goods of various sizes.

The goods carried by a small cargo ship are not much larger than a yacht, but more precision equipment or medical equipment, and Shen Chao will arrange for the delivery of these goods to the main plane on the day they arrive.

Some of the larger cargo ships were not so easy to handle, and they carried a total of hundreds of similar components the size of the main plane carriers. All on the ground of the colony.

These components are all components that Shen Chao said earlier are needed for a large military space station. Putting them together correctly can be reproduced into a giant annular space station.

Unlike the dreadnought's collection of cutting-edge technology, the Mass Effect world is very sophisticated in its ability to build large space stations, and there are never any treaty restrictions.

Therefore, all major races have very rich experience in the construction of large space stations. Shen Chao: What they call for in their plan is a very common spin space station. The whole looks like a giant rotating ring, which generates artificial gravity through guò spin.

Compared to space stations, which require mass effect fields to create artificial gravity, this design of a space station is more energy-efficient and less technically difficult to build.

These huge prefabricated parts were produced by an equipment manufacturing company under the shadow broker that had been working overnight for more than a month.

Theoretically, with just a handful of professionals hired and a few simple pieces of equipment like an interstellar tug, they could reassemble the big guy. Make it a large space station with a diameter of 3.5 kilometers.

After all the prefabricated parts were delivered, Shen Chao brought these huge prefabricated parts back to the main plane in batches, how did he bring them? Each of these things is the size of an aircraft carrier!

It's actually very simple, starting with a large prefabricated piece being fixed to the bottom of the Budapest. Then turn on the Mass Effect Core in Budapest. Creates a mass-effect weakening field with a large area of coverage.

This Mass Effect weakening field will reduce the mass of the Budapest and the prefabs mounted below to near zero, and finally Shen Chao will use his traversal ability to bring it back to the orbit of Jupiter in the main plane. (To be continued.) )