The scene of the future northward expansion is already imagined, and many people living in the present are full of ambition, and the only problem here may be "time";

But trolls already live a long life, and their lifespan will double after elves, so whether this "future" refers to the post-300 or post-600;

For the Republic, it is nothing more than the time of a few generations of trolls, or one or two generations of elves, who are completely waiting and willing to wait.

However, there are still a few important issues with the northward expansion....

First, it is the "population base";

If the number of ethnic groups is still as pitiful as it is now, then the continent tribes may be able to drown the warriors with a mouthful of spit.

second, the resistance of the northern tribes;

The northern tribes seem to be savage, but in fact they are not, they have their own development paths, and they cannot simply be regarded as nomads who can sing and dance under machine guns because of the differences in road choices and the appearance revealed.

But it's useless to think too much, after all, you have to slowly lay the foundation;

Therefore, for the time being, we will end the imagination and return our attention to the present and the construction of the base station.

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The relevant totem tree is named "base station tree" because of the various functions it is given;

In addition to a series of "face-to-future" missions such as prospecting, infrasound exploration, and initial orbital construction, as a part of the current intelligence system, it naturally also has corresponding functions such as food and water supply, weapon repair, and voice transmission and reception.

At the same time, in addition to providing separate structures such as rest rooms, storage rooms, work areas, and prison cells for its internal resident liaison officers, it will also become the general logistics supply base for front-line intelligence officers in the entire area.

Among them, the logistics supply function is an item that the previous "liaison transfer station" did not have, and in fact did not need it;

And the reason why there is a need now is that the weapons and equipment system of intelligence officers has been updated.

In addition to the traditional conventional weapons such as knives, guns and spears that can be provided by the intelligence tree itself, the choice of its long-range equipment has become a problem for a while;

Even the "Bow and Arrow" and "Individual Crossbow", which had been swept into the stall room before, also made a slight appearance, and almost came to life again and became fixed equipment, but in the end they were eliminated by the new technology.

As a result, in the past few years, the headquarters has upgraded the long-range "firepower" configuration of intelligence officers with "new technology", and has successively equipped them with two new weapons.

First, the improved product of the 30 assault gun - the "airburst sniper";

By reducing the rate of fire, configuring a high-precision rifled barrel, and installing a resin telescope sight lens, the gun obtains high-precision and high-lethal shooting performance within 800, and if it is regardless of accuracy and lethality, it can also maintain a certain deterrence within 1500 meters;

In addition, by adding silenced totems to the reactor compartment and gun barrel, a certain degree of shooting concealment is guaranteed.

However, for the purpose of enhancing portability, ensuring accuracy, and reducing shooting noise, the sniper gun does not have functions such as self-repair;

Therefore, as a vulnerable part, rifled gun barrels, resin sights, totem parts, and even some internal mechanical structures are facing the need for logistics support in terms of maintenance and replacement.

The repair, new construction and replacement of these components will require a high level of operational accuracy and a high demand for material supply in the "machining area".

The improvement of these two will cause the core components of the intelligence tree to become more bloated, so after considering the need to maintain the "mobility" of the intelligence tree, the relevant logistics functions are attached to the "base station tree".

In addition, snipers are weapons that need to be killed by shooting metal projectiles, so there is naturally a need for logistical support in terms of projectile supply;

Similarly, for the purpose of maintaining the "mobility" of the intelligence tree, this part of the metal element extraction and projectile processing capabilities have also been added to the "base station tree".

As a result, the "base station tree" has added a related "airburst sniper" and a series of logistics support functions extended from it.....

second, the product of the Wind Wolf spell - the "Wind Blade Assault Gun";

The weaponization research of the "Wind Wolf Spell" began almost at the same time as the reactor weapon;

Although Nesta was directly involved in this project, after gaining experience in the design and manufacture of the "reactor weapon", the former also achieved certain results for a period of time;

And its initial finished product is the so-called "Wind Blade Assault Gun".

The "firearm" is designed to kill through a wind blade in the form of a permeable pipe with a handle attached to the lower part;

Wherein, the grip is an inner hollow structure, and a control totem structure such as a transmitter key and a power adjustment key is integrated on it;

The "pipe" above the grip is three-dimensional and multi-layered, with many totems related to "attack".

Unlike the need to consider additional matters such as "loading", "projectile propulsion time in the inner tube", etc., the "reactor chamber weapon" with a separate layout is adopted, and the core totem structure of the Wind Blade assault gun is evenly divided into the entire tube body.

On the whole, the pipelines are arranged from back to front, with functional totems such as suction, compression, shaping, acceleration, orientation, and launch;

As it performs its own functions, air is quickly drawn in from the rear, and after a series of spell changes that follow each other inside the barrel, it is finally activated in the form of a "wind blade" at the front exit.

As a result, the "Wind Blade Assault Gun", which has lost a lot of redundant structure, is presented as a very simple-looking "T" shape, and has the advantages of small size, light weight, low energy consumption, no need for physical bullets, quiet attack process, etc., and only one soldier can easily hold and attack with one hand.

In addition, it also has two modes to choose from: "full-power single-shot slow fire" and "low-power rapid-fire", which have more flexible use scenarios.

Of course, while there are many advantages, its disadvantages are also obvious, which are realized in low shooting accuracy, short range, and weak power.

For example, when the weapon is set to attack in "full-power single-shot slow-fire" mode, its effective kill range can barely reach 700 and will be attenuated), but the ballistic stability of the Wind Blade can only maintain a considerable accuracy within 100 meters;

In the "Rapid Fire" mode, while the kill range drops to 200, the stability distance of the Wind Blade projectile will be reduced to only 30.

In addition, although the overall structure looks simple, it actually contains many modules engraved with precision totems, and the manufacturing and maintenance work is not as easy as expected.

With such obvious advantages and disadvantages, the witch doctors naturally spent a lot of effort on promoting their strengths and avoiding their weaknesses, and made certain achievements;

In order to get rid of its disadvantages and make the most of its advantages, the witch doctors have eliminated the usual "grounded roots" and "photosynthetic blades" modes on this weapon, and instead used "energy boxes" to provide shooting costs.

The "Energy Cartridge" is a detachable structure inserted into the grip, which is filled with "High Energy Concentrate", and the reserved slot in the grip has whisker-like roots extending into the cartridge to obtain the required nutrient supply.

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When the cartridge is removed and placed in the Intelligence Tree, the Roots will connect to the supply port reserved in the Intelligence Tree and maintain their activity through their nutrient delivery;

When carried on the body but not used, even if the energy cartridge is removed, the firearm can maintain a low power consumption state and rely on its own internal energy to standby without damage for more than 10 days;

In the attack state, the "Energy Box" will be used to supply the energy needed for the totem to be activated.....

The "High Energy Magazine" can supply 50 rounds of slow fire (1 round/s) and 300 rounds of low power rapid fire (up to 5 rounds/s) of full power.

When the energy liquid in the crate is depleted, you can continue to use the weapon by refilling it or simply changing to a new crate.

The "Energy Crate" is filled with "High Energy Concentrate", and the important ingredient of the liquid formula is "Cave Wolf Cell Liquid", considering its preciousness, the witch doctors specially designed the "Wind Blade Assault Gun".

Another firing mode - low-energy crate or even incapacitated crate shooting.

In the "Low Energy Box" mode, the "Nutrient Concentrate" of the Cave Wolf Cell Fluid is missing, and it can also support the firearm to shoot 6 rounds of full power or 36 rounds of low power, while maintaining the same accuracy as the "High Energy Box", with an effective range of 300 and 100 respectively.

The "low-energy cartridge" required by this mode can be supplied independently by the base station tree, and it is expected to replace the "high-energy cartridge" as the main output mode of the firearm when it is not necessary.

In the "Incompetent Crate" mode, you can also rely on the spell plant "Internal Energy" that makes up the body of the gun to carry out emergency attacks, but the body of the gun will also start to be damaged in stages;

In the first stage, after the first 3 full-power shots, or 18 weak-power shots, the secondary part of the gun body will enter a withering state one after another;

In the second stage, during 3-6 (full/slow) and 18-36 (weak/fast), the wither will spread towards the area inscribed with the functional totem;

In the third stage, during 6-9 (full/slow) and 36-54 (weak/fast), the wither will spread throughout the gun and die completely while the totem area is damaged to the point where it is impossible to shoot.

While still within the first stage, the withering of the gun can be slowly repaired by connecting to the slots inside the intelligence tree;

After entering the second stage, although the totem structure has been affected, but since it has not reached the critical point that will make the totem invalid, if the heart is large or time does not allow, it can maintain its function by simply repairing the body of the gun with nutrients in the intelligence tree;

However, if you want to repair the totem portrayal area, you need to go to the base station tree to do so.

As for entering the third stage, if it is done to the final stage of "complete death", then naturally there is no room for repair;

But if you haven't done that yet, you can restore it by carrying out a major overhaul at the base station tree that is not much less than the amount of work required for a "new one".

When these matters are put on the logistics side, there are several needs;

1. Replenishment of concentrated liquid in the energy cartridge;

The base tree has the ability to extract all of the ingredients in the recipe except for the Cave Wolf cell sap, so the "low-energy box" can be independently manufactured by it and supplied to the informants in the area;

2. Repair and redo the totem components;

The Wind Wolf assault gun is a precision weapon, whether it is the maintenance of the mechanical structure, or the repair of totem components, or simply the production of parts, which requires quite high processing and material requirements;

For intelligence trees that need to be moved frequently, the addition of these functions will cause its core structure to be overly bloated, which is not conducive to its own equipment positioning, so it is necessary to implement these capabilities through the base station tree.

Returning to the base station tree itself, while taking into account the "future-oriented" functions mentioned above, and adding "now-focused" capabilities such as logistics, the structure of each part of the tree will inevitably have a larger scale system than the intelligence tree.

In this way, a larger underground bunker space is needed to accommodate the core, and a larger surface photosynthetic jungle and a deeper underground root system are needed to maintain the huge nutrients required for its various functions.

Among them, the aboveground part, which is the fulcrum of photosynthesis and the only means of attack, "gaseous neurotoxin secretion", will form a forest covering 1,000 square meters;

The underground bunker part will also have a length of 20 * width 20 * height 14 specifications;

The bottom root system is even more of a huge to uncountable scale.

And as the core of all this, there is a cubic totem stacking structure with a length of 7 widths, 7 widths and 10 grids high;

Although it can theoretically be dismantled and turned into three types of parts that approximate the core of the intelligence tree, because the deployment of the "base station tree" takes too long, and a considerable part of the deployment process is completely irreversible, coupled with the special function positioning of the "base station tree" itself, the witch doctors no longer have to bother to carry out the removable design;

Therefore, it is defined as a "permanent immovable" object.

As for the separable state design before assembly, it is more for the first transportation and subsequent functional supplement needs

Consider.

Among them, there is no need to mention "functional supplements.....

For now, the functions of the "base station tree" are rich enough, and even because there are too many fundamental technologies integrated in it, the witch doctors have also set up a self-destruct function with a triple control structure of near, medium and far for its core area;

Nearby, the liaison can directly say a specific password to initiate the self-destruct program.

In the center, the liaison officer has a "remote control" that can only emit a set of audio codes, and when faced with a self-destruct that must be carried out and he is not at the base station, he only needs to press it to start the self-destruct program (but there is a distance limit).

In the distance, when the headquarters finds that there is a problem with the base station through abnormal situations such as regular contact, it can also remotely start its self-destruct program.

In order to achieve "self-destruction", the core components of the base station tree are also deliberately given a weak point in terms of strong acids;

When the self-destruct procedure is initiated, the strong acid stored in the specific space is immediately released, and the entire Totem Cube, as well as the storehouse of paperwork that would otherwise be destroyed on a regular basis, will be completely melted down.

Of course, the protection capacity of the underground bunker is still considerable, and it is completely possible to lock all the entrances and exits without necessity, rely on the water circulation, gas supply, and food supply within it to survive, and wait for rescue from the surrounding intelligence officers, or directly from the headquarters.

Therefore, the self-destruct system is actually just a waiting option in desperation.

And what is the most troublesome problem at the moment..... In fact, it also lies in how to send 120 of these big guys to the predetermined positions.

After thinking about it, the intelligence department found that it seemed that it could only be transported in batches by multiple intelligence officers and liaison officers, as if ants were moving;

Therefore, under such an idea, the transportation of many components formed an echelon, and the base station closest to the headquarters was built in advance, and extended to the more peripheral areas based on this point....

This delivery is a few years have passed, but in the current rune calendar 54 years, less than twenty base stations will be completed.

Even though they are still far from the total number of 120, these base stations have had an immediate effect, and the intelligence transmission in the corresponding areas has become faster, and the intelligence officers have been using the most advanced weapons.

Of course, because of this, many of the previous transfer stations were abandoned, and the liaison officers working in those stations were first required to return to the headquarters to report on their work, and then reassign their work according to the actual situation.

Some of them were technical attachés who had been seconded from the Ministry of Communications or the military;

For them, the Department of External Exploration will either transfer back to their original post or retire after taking into account the opinions of their original department and their own "person".

Or, after training, they can be re-employed as intelligence officers and permanent liaison officers for new base stations.

In addition, some liaison officers are the backbone recruited and cultivated by the Department of External Exploration itself, as well as the technical "talents" specially cultivated in these years through the Central School and the Middle-aged Interest School.

These specialists will be internally digested according to the normal process, and may become intelligence officers or be resident at new base stations.

In view of the slow progress of the base station laying work, the ruling government has also put forward a three-step plan for the front, middle and late stages;

In the plan, it is natural to continue the existing "ant moving" model in the early stage, no matter how slow it is, it must be carried out unswervingly;

As for the mid-to-late arrangement, they have taken into account the ongoing "Nautical Ship Program" and "Aero Engine" program, and are preparing to transport base stations in offshore areas by sea and base stations in deep land areas by air transportation.

As a result, in terms of air transportation, although even the engine project team has only been established for a short time, out of fear of the air cavalry of the mainland tribes, as well as the air monsters, coupled with the consideration of "load" and other aspects, various targeted air operations and transportation forces have also begun to start in advance;

The application ideas of heavy air transport machinery and air escort machinery, as well as the exploration of natural physics and magic closely related to their design, have also begun to develop.

For example, the form of the aerial machinery, the output of the engine, the take-off method, and how to replenish energy when the air cannot be absorbed by traditional means....

These subjects have taken root in the hearts of witch doctors and scholars, and even related studies have begun to be conducted.

In addition, considering that "concealment" is still the first priority at this stage, how to avoid detection has also become one of the hot issues.

The first idea for this is the application of optical stealth techniques in machinery, and its derivative discussion - the choice of "metal materials and plant materials";

The second idea is physical evasion, such as how to make flying machines rise to thousands or tens of thousands of meters in the air that air cavalry cannot set foot in.

Of course, these assumptions are still on paper for the time being, and it seems that they can only do some theoretical research before the real emergence of aero engines;

It was another technology that seemed to be much behind that was the first to become a reality.....

When considering "air transportation", although there is no shadow of the flying machine itself, there are already scholars and witch doctors who are thinking about how to put it on the ground even if it is transported to the target.

At this point, due to the observation of nature, and the physical cognition and theories that followed, the concept of a "parachute" similar to the previous life was proposed at this time, and it was thought that the core components and the liaison responsible for the assembly could be sent down in this way.

This proposal has been widely accepted on the premise that "laying the landing strip in advance" cannot be realized;

But after the recognition, the witch doctors were not idle, they thought that the fantasy was not enough, and they should try to climb high in the air to actually see it first.

Trolls and elves have been able to go down rivers (walk at the bottom of the river), climb trees, and fight on the ground, but so far they have zero experience with the sky.

So when this idea appeared, the person concerned immediately became excited, and began to think about how to really go to the sky to see it without an engine, no flying machinery, and no flying magic ability.

After that, it was physics that brought the inspiration ....

Witch doctors, and even ordinary scholars, understand that heating causes the air to climb upwards;

So, if you can limit the diffusion range of air in a certain area to a relatively fixed range and find a way to heat it, can you drive the heavy objects below to lift into the air?

So, without Nesta knowing or giving any advice from beginning to end, the "hot air balloon" appeared as a matter of course, and literally pulled the basket below and the stone as heavy as a troll in it quietly lifted into the air.

This situation made the participants excited and at the same time, they also realized the problem of "controllability", and made persistent efforts to find a set of related up and down, forward and backward, left and right movement control methods, and then carried out a low-altitude test under the pull of the tow rope.

When the research reached the mid-altitude and high-altitude flight test stage without a leash, several witch doctors, such as Nesta who was practicing and Eshara who was in retreat and impacted the third order, were also summoned to witness this "grand scene of liftoff" with their own eyes.....

Ignited and a huge hot air balloon gradually filled the square, and then slowly gained upward force;

Little by little, it lifted the hanging frame on the ground, and inside the hanging frame stood a witch doctor and two scholars, who were the participants in this "study".

This is a very difficult study, in which "inspiration" plays the most important role, but the sensation it caused is obvious...

From the moment the frame was completely off the ground, the cheers in the square never stopped, and the cheers continued to rise wave after wave;

50 meters, 100 meters, 200 meters..... Until higher in the air.