Chapter 128: Planet Tikru
Although it is only the second largest inhabited planet in the St. Proli Star Zone, in recent years, Tikru has faintly surpassed the momentum of the capital city of Myrsa in terms of economy, environment and climate, especially the scale and income of Tikru's tourism industry, which far exceeds that of the capital star. Before the outbreak of the Confederate Civil War, Tikru relied on the ten natural landscapes on its planet, attracting countless Confederate citizens to visit for sightseeing.
These ten famous natural landscapes are most famous for a strange and gorgeous plateau near the polar location in the northern hemisphere.
With an average altitude of 10,000 metres above sea level and covered with snow all year round, this strange plateau towers between the state of Montana and the North Pole in the northern hemisphere of Tikru. Because of this, people gave it the name of Tenjindai, which means that above the top of the plateau, it is a stage of the gods. Almost every year, millions of tourists take a scenic plane and climb to the Tenjin Terrace to enjoy the grandeur of "seeing all the mountains at a glance".
This year, however, the famous Tenjintai has been rarely frequented, especially since the outbreak of civil unrest in the new government forces in the St. Prolis district a few days ago, and the Tenjintai has become even more deserted, with hardly a single tourist being seen on the plateau platform at the top.
Tikru and the capital star Milesa occupy the northeast and southwest corners of the St. Proli region, respectively, and in the middle are the three mineral planets S01, S02 and S03, which are rich in rare minerals, and the large star that the St. Proli people also named the "new sun". In addition, there are only a few small moons orbiting the main star in the San Proli region.
Tikru and Myrsa are tens of billions of kilometers apart, and if it were a spaceship that couldn't make a space jump, it would take months to get there. However, this distance is only a blink of an eye for even the most antique battlecruisers. Of course, the premise is that the hopping destination is safe enough.
On this day, somewhere in outer space of Tikru, the pitch-black cosmic space suddenly twisted and shook violently. Immediately after, a SP01944-numbered Behemoth-class battlecruiser suddenly flashed out as if it had torn open a curtain of space. The battleship that had just flashed out, with a faint stream of light around it, as if it had been frozen, quietly stayed in place.
After about a few minutes, the four huge nuclear-powered engine vents at the back of the battleship spewed brilliant blue and white tail flames and roared towards Tikru's outer space orbit. After stopping at a military orbital spaceport, a landing craft flew out of the large take-off and landing hatch in the middle of the battleship and headed straight for Tikru's capital, Tico, on the ground.
Although there are few warships in Tikru's outer space, once you enter the planet's atmosphere, you can clearly feel the tension that preceded the great war.
In the sky, in the gaps of the thick clouds, there were fighter ships shuttling back and forth quickly. On the ground, between the billowing smoke and dust, armored troops were rapidly moving and gathering. Even on the water, old surface warships are frequently swimming back and forth. Almost all the inhabited towns and cities had fortified defensive lines, although even the soldiers who built them could not figure out what they were for.
Tikru's capital, Tiko, was built on a vast plain, less than a hundred kilometers from the famous Tenjindai Plateau. As the closest city to Tenjindai, Tico City naturally followed the famous spot and prospered. The total area of the city is nearly 200,000 square kilometers, with countless high-rise buildings. In the old days, the bright lights of Tico City throughout the night often reflected the clouds in mid-air. Viewed from outer space, the entire city of Tico looks like a colorful and dazzling flower blooming on the planet Tikru.
However, even with its bustling and convenient transportation and flat plains, Tico City is an extremely vulnerable city in the eyes of anyone with the most basic military knowledge.
However, everything has changed abruptly since the first Wehrmacht armoured unit arrived on the outskirts of Tico two days ago. In less than two days, millions of IDF troops were rapidly massing on the outskirts of Tico. Almost instantly, the bustling city of Tico was surrounded by a sea of steel composed of chariots, mechs, fighters, and ants of marines. Nearly every passage in and out of Tico City was guarded by teams of marines. All of this is a question of telling the Tikos that a great war is about to break out.
Suddenly, the prosperity of Tico City froze. The bright lights, which had been going on all night, were abruptly cut off in the middle of the night, leaving only an endless and solemn black with a thick smell of gunsmoke, shrouded in the sky over the city.
Located in the center of Tico City, the new government planetary administration center, which covers an area of nearly 100 acres, is only sporadic at the moment, and the only staff members who are in a hurry are still busy with something. Also two days ago, when the Wehrmacht vanguard arrived outside Tico City, the planetary administration center received an evacuation order from Bob, who was then the Captain. The order demanded that all government offices in the Administrative Center must be quickly withdrawn from the city of Tico within forty-eight hours and entered a backup secret base that would only be activated in wartime.
As a result, with the withdrawal of government offices from Tico City one after another, this once extremely prosperous capital city was unstoppably depressed in an instant. At the same time, a message supposedly from an authority source spread among the Ticos.
"Hey, did you hear that? Fighting? ”
"Who's fighting whom?"
"Who else? O our Ball Boss and Prime Minister! Don't you see piles and piles of Wehrmacht everywhere outside the city? ”
"How is that possible? Aren't they brothers? ”
"Hmph, you haven't studied, have you? In history, in order to compete for a position of power, there were many things of cannibalism......"
Rumors like this turned out to be like snowflakes, causing a stir all over the city, making Tiklu's captain Bob Teuton disgraced but helpless.
"Master Qiu, Colonel Guo Ling, they're back!" In an underground base near the foot of the Celestial Terrace, Bob was fascinated by a holographic star field map of the St. Proli Star Zone in front of him, and a half-length image of a beautiful secretary flashed out of a small communicator on the table, and reported sweetly to Bob.
"Oh? Where are the people? Bob came back to his senses and asked happily.
"Colonel Guo Ling has arrived at the door of your office, Master Ball!" The beautiful secretary replied with a smile.
"Got it!" Bob nodded, waved his hand to switch the screen on the communicator to the door of his office, and saw that Guo Ling was indeed standing upright at the door of his office.
"Come in, Xiao Guo!" Bob clicked on the automatic door and waved to Guo Ling outside the door with a smile. Bob has always admired this extremely capable and talented young colonel, and usually affectionately calls him "Xiao Guo" in private
"Master Ball! Subordinates come to restore their lives! Guo Ling strode up to Bob's desk, saluted a standard military salute, and said loudly: "First of all, my subordinates want to ......."
"Don't worry, Xiao Guo!" Bob waved his hand to interrupt Guo Ling's words, got up and walked to a wine rack next to the small reception hall of the office, took off a bottle of whiskey and two goblets, and said to Guo Ling: "Sit down and talk slowly!" ”
"Yes, Master Ball!" Faced with the enthusiasm of his boss, Guo Ling had no reason to refuse, so he had to respond respectfully and sat down on the leather sofa.
"Boom!" Bob opened the wine bottle and poured half a glass of wine for Guo Ling and himself, and asked seemingly casually, "How is it?" Did you come back well? Didn't you get noticed by Copol's men? ”
"Nope!" Guo Ling took the wine glass handed over by Bob, thanked him, and continued to report: "According to your prompt, we pretended to be a warship under the command of Copolo, and first mixed into their fleet in charge of logistics. Then he found an opportunity, under the pretext that the power system was malfunctioning, sneaked out of the fleet, and when the fleet headquarters was not paying attention, he hid behind an asteroid, made a space jump, and jumped back directly. ”
"Don't put gold on my face, this was originally the jihua you came up with yourself, I just nodded and approved!" Bob took a sip of the whiskey in the glass, looked up and daxiao heartily, and then suddenly lowered his voice and asked, "Then have you figured out the true intentions of the Copolo fleet?" ”
"Captain Ball, according to the judgment of his subordinates, Copol's space fleet has signs of betraying the Republic!" Guo Ling put down the goblet in his hand, first said to Bob worriedly, and then continued to explain: "After we cut into the communication channel of the Copolo fleet, we inexplicably received a route map, asking us to follow the designated route. Although they did not mark the final destination of the voyage, their subordinates could tell that the real destination of this route map was probably Melsa. Originally, his subordinates and others thought that Copolo's space fleet was likely to be preparing to destroy the rebellious Shili of the field army led by Jeff.
However, the formation of the space fleet did not look like a formation ready to attack. And there is another point, almost all the battleships did not carry out the replenishment of ammunition, energy and other strategic materials, but set sail in a hurry, following the flagships of the detachments along the established course without a head. Rather than preparing to attack Melsa, Copollo's fleet seemed to be preparing to move. ”
Hearing Guo Ling's words, Bob's face couldn't help but become solemn. If things are really as Guo Ling said, then the only space fleet in the St. Proli Star Region may stand on the opposite side of the Republic and collude with the rebellious Jeff Shili. This undoubtedly means a huge imbalance between the two sides for Shili, the new government headed by Bertelem. After controlling all the armies on the planet Melsa, coupled with the formidable combat power of the Copolo Space Fleet, Jeff Shili may be able to sweep through the entire St. Proli Star Sector. At that point, the planet Tikru will most likely become an uninhabited planet full of ruins.
"Copol, old man, are you really going to do this?" Bob got up and walked to the holographic window of his office, looking at the simulated scene in the window, and was stunned.