Chapter 173: "Science and War Are Unscrupulous" (3)
For the next few days, the people of Starport had to face the planet that seemed to have fallen in solitude. On the third day after the Emergency Committee call, the long-range communication function failed, indicating that the space station, which was the colony's communications center, should have had an accident.
The only consolation is that their management logs are sent to the organization for backup, so maybe they can analyze the status of the space station through the logs as well. And now, the only thing they can do without contact with the Emergency Committee is to wait for help – and apparently, they won't make it until it arrives. Two days before Hyperion's arrival in Haven, the defenseless starport had been breached by a wandering Alien force. As for the survivors...... No trace of survivors has been found in Starport.
According to the logs of the last period of time, the starport did receive various communications from various locations in various frequency bands and through various means, but in view of the tragedy of the space station, they chose to follow the instructions of the Emergency Committee and never received any more communication from anyone else, including the civilians who had fled here in great difficulty, and they all chose to refuse to accept them.
They probably had some rough idea of the situation on Haven. Renault decides to set up a forward base in the abandoned starport first, and then send reconnaissance and search teams to nearby strongholds to search for survivors and other useful clues. On the other hand, Hyperion sent a refuge broadcast to Haven Worldwide on the public channel, asking all survivors who could hear and move to organize themselves as soon as possible to go to the surface starport, where the Rangers had set up a base to house the survivors.
As for the Emergency Committee mentioned in the management log, since the means of contact were not recorded, they were unable to contact the organization on their own initiative, and could only hope that they would be able to contact them as soon as they received the broadcast message. As for the Executive Council, they did know that it was the self-government that was set up by Dr. Hansen after they had brought the refugees from Meinhof to Haven. However, the government is actually more of a neighborhood committee-like character, and in most cases it plays the role of peacemaker between various strongholds.
Although the swarm showed no signs of attacking them, Renaud and Matt were still worried about a possible swarm interception. They demanded that the Rangers do everything possible to speed up the delivery to the ground. Most of the ship's transport aircraft were sent to transport troops to the surface.
After several hours of intense back-and-forth flights, most of the troops expected to go to the surface had been assembled in the abandoned starport. The Engineer Corps was urgently building this area into an advance base, and Renault decided to leave the battalion, which still had some troops still waiting for transportation, to protect the engineering operations in Starport, and the company that had arrived on the surface as an assault team advanced to a nearby reconnaissance stronghold.
In order to ensure that the company had sufficient firepower in the event of an encounter with the enemy, Reynaud asked the remaining battalion to reinforce the company by two platoons and form a temporary reinforced company to advance together. Although the reconnaissance report indicated that there were no survivors in the base, Renault had no choice but to take chances, as it was the only one in the vicinity that had been detected.
It was around this time that Renault received a communication from the Mobius Foundation, a certain Little Prince, to be exact. He was told that the last artifact fragment had been found in an artifact showroom of the Sarnagar World Ship, which was garrisoned by Tadarin, and asked when he was going to do it.
Renault said that he needed to read the details before deciding, and he also asked the little prince's men to give him a draft plan for him to refer to possible combat options. The little prince hesitated but chose to agree.
There was not much to say about the rest of the matter, and the information from Valerian made it clear that there was an entire detachment of the Death Fleet stationed there, and if nothing else, they would have to fight Tadarin head-on. When he thought of naval battles, he remembered some guy under his command of Behemoth. If you want to say that the fleets he cares about the most in the entire Koplu Star District, in addition to the naval fleets of various sovereign countries, they are Mira Han's raider fleet and Yang Yi's Black Rose Pirate Regiment.
If Behemoth and his swarm units were to fight, their casualties would have been reduced considerably. As for the honorarium...... With the Mobius Foundation, he doesn't need to pay for it.
In the next few days, after discussing the next mission with Yang Yi, Renault was searching for survivors in vain. Again and again, they expanded their search area, and even ventured out far from their main base on several occasions, but found nothing. In addition to the corpses of the few former colonist strongholds explored, there are wild alien units roaming around.
In some cases, the electronic systems of the strongholds have been completely damaged by human damage, and even the logs cannot be seen, and the visible logs can provide very few clues. It is difficult to deduce useful information. The only thing they knew was that about a week to a half before they arrived, the swarm virus that had swept through Meinhof had erupted again in one of Haven's strongholds. Although the infected people were quickly contained, for unknown reasons, the virus broke out on Haven on a large scale. The Administrative Council tried to control the situation through a state of emergency, but for the reasons mentioned above, the authority of the Committee was not so strong, so that only a few of the dozen or so strongholds on Haven Star obeyed the orders of the Committee to enter a state of emergency, and the rest of the strongholds either simply fled on a large scale, or chose to impose a mandatory quarantine and blockade instead led to civil unrest, and some even began to drive their own infected people to attack other strongholds.
The Executive Council went missing after an unknown number of days of the outbreak, and most of the speculations found were that the committee itself was not safe, and that the base where the committee was located was also infected and that the base was lost. The day after the committee went missing, a group known as the Emergency Committee began contacting the surviving sites, demanding that they follow orders to consolidate available living forces and ensure that more people survive. Some of the strongholds chose to ignore it, some chose to obey, and some sneered at it.
But like the Executive Council, the Emergency Committee lost contact three days after it appeared. However, in fact, it is not only the Emergency Committee that has lost contact at this time, but all telecommunication functions have failed, which means that all the strongholds on Hywin are now completely isolated from each other. Then the logs of each colony are basically only different states showing waiting for death. Some choose to unite and build fortifications to delay as long as possible for rescue, and then there is none; Others fell into a complete panic, and the stronghold directly covered the food and civil strife, either fleeing en masse or starting to abandon themselves. The leadership of a stronghold called "New Dawn" tried to control the situation, but the refugees who were driven crazy dragged them out of their offices and dragged them to the square before being burned at the stake.
The person who recorded all of this may be one of the few people who still has some sanity in this disaster. But in any case, they have probably fallen on the ground with the revelers of this catastrophe, as a wordless corpse.