Eventually, the Castle Council put a halt to the unreliable arguments and returned to the rhythm of preparing for the Reapers. Several Leviathans who had come to help were taken by the Citadel fleet to a nearby sparsely populated habitable planet to be closely guarded due to their sheer size and psychic abilities.

Sister Xue was once again honored by the Citadel Council for her outstanding contributions, and her personal influence further increased throughout the galaxy, and the Council's dislike for her reached new heights. After all, their perspective is very different from that of ordinary people.

From the perspective of ordinary people, Sister Xue's behavior is undoubtedly beneficial. But from the perspective of the parliament, Sister Xue ignored their orders many times and undermined their authoritative image. For this reason, the parliamentarians decided to refrigerate Sister Xue for a while.

It's not that these guys aren't grateful to Sister Xue for saving them every time. It's just that every time Sister Xue comes to them with important information, it makes them look like idiots with their status.

However, these changes are not important to Shen Chao. The most important thing for him is that through this incident, Sister Xue, whose influence has increased again, helped him mediate, allowing him to reach an agreement with the Citadel Council and other major governments, and his bunker plan can continue to proceed undisturbed.

Shen Chao could freely travel to and from the major sectors in his Budapest to recruit any galactic citizens who volunteered to join the bunker program. After personally confirming that this authorization worked, they spent a month recruiting volunteers everywhere, and a total of more than 400,000 people were recruited.

These 400,000 people are not the low-tech population of the pre-interstellar era, and all of the accepted volunteers have at least one skill that is important in the interstellar age, such as ship maintenance and interstellar mining......

These talents are all urgently needed by the Space-Time Council. After confirming that there is no problem with this recruitment for a short period of time, it will not be attacked suddenly. Shen Chao, as usual, still gave the burden to the people around him, and then returned to the No. 1 fortress space station on the 042 plane to check the progress of an important warship modification project.

During the previous fight against the Reaper battleship, the Budapest Burst leaked a series of birth defects of its own, such as a lack of firepower (compared to the Reaper) and a small Mass Effect core. There is a limit to what you can handle......

These problems were not a problem before, because their opponents were all less skilled astronauts, and some of them had not even entered the space age at all. But they will soon go on an expedition to a number of planes with fairly advanced aerospace technology.

Some of the expedition detachments had already gone to the front of those dangerous planes, and in such a situation, the lack of a capital ship that could withstand a lot of damage became an obvious problem. They must use the available technology and human resources to quickly build a capital ship that can take the lead.

Fortunately, such a project has actually begun for some time. Although the technology and human resources at the current disposal of the Space-Time Council did not allow them to build a large starship from scratch, they did have a lot of starships on hand that could be used as a template for transformation.

Among them, the most in line with Shen Chao's latest requirements is the batch of large starships he brought from the 035 plane some time ago. One of the modifications that most met his requirements was the battle aircraft carrier Pegassos.

The Pegasos is nearly 1,700 meters long, as wide as 11 football fields together, and nearly as tall as a 60-story building. Such a giant ship is much larger than the Budapest in terms of keel strength and internal remodelability.

Shen Yu quickly found Hargrave, who was in charge of the project and was inspecting the engineering team. Theoretically, Hargrave and his research team are on vacation, and they have just finished a major research project.

As for why they came here to inspect the expedition, Hargrave was mainly motivated by the curiosity of the scientists, who wanted to see the latest achievements of the second-rate technical talents in the expedition, and on the other hand, to recruit new talents for his research team.

As a well-deserved first scientist in the space-time council system. Hargrave directly establishes and leads the vast majority of the expedition's research groups. As the expedition's chief scientist, Hargrave selects his favorite talent from each batch of new alien arrivals sent by the expedition. Participate in the development of a growing number of new technologies within the expedition.

Because of his super high authority, the first-class scientific research talents collected by the expedition team were basically poached by him to engage in scientific research. And those who specialize in a particular technology and naval engineers have little chance of being absorbed into these important research projects.

In the news from various propaganda and other sources, those who participate in the scientific research group seem to have higher salaries, and can also pass through some time and space gates without obstacles, far more chic than ordinary people under the rule of the parliament. So the engineers later deprecatingly called themselves "second-rate talents" under the council.

Of course. This "second-rate talent" is just a kind of collective self-deprecation, their skills determine that they are still the most needed talents for the expedition, and there are many ship overhaul projects in the fleet, and ship engineers are still very popular.

"How's the progress going here?" Shen Chao leaned over and asked, Hargrave, who was watching the construction outside from the observation deck.

The battleship renovation project outside is in the middle stage, and the slipway is extremely busy. Nearly 100 engineering mechs busily shuttled between the slipway and the nearby airport. Push various pieces of equipment and armor as thick as a wall to the mount.

The whole body of the renovated Pegasos can barely be seen under the high-power lighting equipment near the slipway, and the reason why it is barely said is that many parts of the slipway that have been renovated have been turned off by the lighting.

In the cosmic space, where light is almost not reflected by nearby celestial bodies (if any), the parts of the hull that are not directly illuminated are essentially in complete darkness.

Even if only a part of the hull can be seen, it can be seen that the appearance of the Pegasos has changed drastically. The bow was converted into a structure that could withstand frontal bombardment. Not only was the length elongated, but the shape almost became triangular.

If the new shape of the bow is used to calculate the current appearance of the Pegassos, many people are afraid that the part of the brain that cannot be seen clearly from the outside will be made up to the appearance of the Imperial-class battleship in the Star Wars series. In reality, however, the modification of the hull did not reach that level.

Although the bow of the Pegasus has been made to look pointy, the hull has not been transformed into a triangle, but the weak part of the middle of the hull has been greatly changed. It was covered with a thick outer structure and multiple armor.

The telescopic airport of the Pegasus should have been fixed after being reinforced, because the space required for the expansion and contraction had been covered by a thick layer of armor, and there was no room for the previous expansion and contraction.

"How do I know, I only ......came here a day ago," Hargrave replied to Shen Chao's question, he seemed to be in good spirits, and his appearance looked younger than the last time Shen Chao saw him, and he looked about the same age as the phantom man, like a middle-aged man in his 40s.

Shen Chao knew that this was due to many factors, and Hargrave's ability to regain his youthful appearance so quickly was partly due to the drugs distributed by the expedition team, and on the other hand, it was also the result of his latest biochemical technology.

Since there is no need to worry about CEPH's control of nanotechnology in the plane of Shen Chao's control, Hargrave "integrated" a set of nanosuits into his body. Now that this technique has matured and confirmed that the operator will not be forcibly controlled by any external force, Shen Chao is preparing to slowly implement it within the expedition.

Hargrave now looks like a strong middle-aged man, but in fact, he is already a half-biological, half-mechanical "newcomer", and the transformation technology that Shen Chao introduced to the Theron people before came from this.

"How was your journey, did you bring me new people?" Hargrave suddenly remembered that Shen Chao had just returned from the "front line", so he hurriedly asked. Every time Shen Chao goes to the "front line", he basically brings a lot of new immigrants with him when he comes back.

"No, no, no, the outstanding talents in this group of people have to fill the holes in the fleet first, and your scientific research group wants people too quickly......" Shen Chao knew that Hargrave was asking him for someone again, so he hurriedly refused.

Although the research results of scientific research institutions are very important for the development of the expedition, due to the lag of scientific research, the results will not appear immediately after investing talents and resources, so the main means of strengthening the strength of the expedition is still dimensional plunder.

"Don't be so short-sighted, you know that as long as I make a new breakthrough in my research, I can get a large number of unmanned engineering aircraft and nanoworms to build you a warship like this in a few months......" Hargrave said in a consultative tone.

As for the fact that this technique he said was indeed possible, this is how the Reaper reproduces and repairs itself. But the threshold of this technology is much higher than it seems, and Shen Chao knows that Hargrave said this as a precursor to asking for someone from him, and it is impossible for the scientific research institutions under the expedition to achieve a breakthrough in this technology in the short term.

"You said that a few months ago, I won't be fooled again. The next batch will be left to you, but this batch will not work......" After Shen Chao finally got rid of Hargrave's dilemma of asking for someone from him, he returned to Space Station Zero to continue to deal with various trivial matters that required his authorization, and he spent most of the next month on Space Station Zero.

During this period, Shen Chao did not let the expedition team start a new plane journey, and more than half of the team members were preparing for the next major mission at the station. Shen Chao focused on solving the historical problems of the two planes under his rule. (To be continued......)

PS: First of all, thank you for the "valky, diving first, and heavenly heartlessness" that was rewarded after yesterday's update.

Yesterday was too tired, and I didn't have a double shift as usual, so I hope you understand. Tonight is expected to be a double update, but the second chapter will be very late, so let's come back tomorrow morning for those who can't stay up late