Resurrection Empire

Under Viscount Nan Jiu's language skills, everyone felt like they had won.

There are no losers in this little intrigue.

Everyone wins.

On the way back, Ren Zhong had already organized and convened an online meeting with the participation of all middle and high-level personnel.

At this time, the recruitment team led by Gruen had left the Source Star Fleet in despair, taking only less than 40,000 people with them.

Most of them are waste teams composed of the nine major families and their direct relatives.

Only a small number of people are old fritters who have worked their way up from the bottom.

But the purpose of these people taking refuge in the nine viscount families became complicated.

After the escort fleet left, many of the relatives and friends left behind by the defectors took the initiative to find the managers on each ship and turned over the paper handwriting left behind by these people before they left.

The reason why they did not leave electronic files through the "net" is probably because the habit that Ren Zhong developed back then was spread unknowingly because he was afraid of exposing his secrets under the eyes of the "net".

Many people said that they did not really want to leave the Source Star Fleet, but they just felt that someone had to go outside to develop, get in touch with people and things outside, follow up on the development of science and technology, and accumulate contacts and resources to facilitate the expansion of Source Star forces and needs. There is always a bridgehead to communicate with other forces in the cluster.

It has to be said that the considerations of these people do make some sense.

So much so that the fleet's senior management's perception of these "traitors" has secretly improved a lot.

But new doubts arose in the minds of senior executives.

Since even the best among the grassroots staff are aware of this problem, why has the Earl, who is so ingenious, not made arrangements for this in advance?

At the meeting, Ren Zhong gave an answer to this.

It's not that he hasn't thought about it, but since there are professions like telekinesis on the Source Star, he doesn't think that when his own side is at a technical disadvantage, it can easily take the initiative to plant spies.

Rather than doing it deliberately, it would be better to let nature take its course. He even hoped that those who took the initiative to leave a "criminal record" would not care about the Source Star Fleet in the future, but would instead serve the new master and create value in a down-to-earth manner.

As long as he can lead the Source Star Fleet to successfully establish a foothold in the Nanxiang Star Cluster and become stronger and stronger, the descendants and families left behind by those who left the fleet today can always wait for the opportunity to activate their bridgehead status without any worries. Instead of becoming an activated spy now, and then being in danger and falling into a precarious situation.

Ren Zhong said: "It is one thing to get more help if you are good, and less if you are not good. But the empire is actually the same as the original Source Star. They implement the jungle law of the jungle with the same purpose. When we are still weak, deploying spies to the outside world will not create value. , on the contrary, it will only cause fire and trouble in life. Instead of pondering heresy, it is better to focus on developing ourselves first. As long as we are strong enough, these people who choose to leave the fleet today will naturally become the bridgehead for many external forces to try to contact us, which is the so-called diplomats."

"In the final analysis, strength has the final say. I know what they are thinking. They are worried that the Source Star humans will be completely blocked in the Nanxiang star cluster and fall into a state of forced isolation. But in fact, this is too much to worry about. The technology sharing of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Strategy, the most they can do is block us in terms of resources, but technological blockade is not realistic. What will limit our technology is just my title."

With Ren Zhong's statement, everyone suddenly understood and relaxed a lot.

Next, at the meeting, everyone first analyzed the internal situation of the Nanjiu Galaxy from a diplomatic perspective.

According to the basic positioning of the empire, the scope of fiefdoms obtained by different titles is different.

The earl can control fiefdoms ranging from dozens of planetary systems to hundreds of planetary systems.

A viscount fiefdom cannot exceed a maximum of ten adjacent planetary systems.

As for the baron's fiefdom, it suddenly dropped to the range of at least a continent and at most a planet.

The huge empire has built unique civilization characteristics. Unlike the civilization on the surface of the planet that is isolated in a corner, no matter what you do in the empire, it will always be extremely slow and consume a lot of resources.

For example, if a scientific research activity is carried out on the Source Star, even if it is extremely large, only millions of people will participate at the same time. The time from project establishment to results can be as short as a few years or as long as decades, and rarely spans a hundred years. .

But in the empire, when the level of science and technology has developed to an astonishing height, if you want to make breakthroughs in some key fields and promote a core project at the level of basic science, you will often need at least dozens of planetary systems, or more. Thousands of planetary systems are linked together, and the time to promote the project is often measured in units of hundreds of years. Ultra-long periods of ten thousand or even one hundred thousand years are not uncommon.

This is no exaggeration.

As for some public knowledge obtained under the authority of the responsible Earl, although the scientific researchers and scholars in the Source Star Fleet are working very hard, they can still only digest the existing knowledge.

No one can go any further on the basis of existing knowledge.

Even if it is just to verify the completed principle, the resources and time required are beyond imagination.

These are not problems that can be solved by individual wisdom. They require a huge civilization to support them with historical precipitation.

In terms of political and economic systems, a huge empire seems a bit like a loose but tight federation.

Interspersed among the royal territories, different nobles divided their territories in different areas based on their titles and strength.

Most of the ultra-long-distance trade across star clusters and star fields is based on the communication platform established by the Imperial Department of Commerce.

Relying on ultra-long-range stargates and warp subspace channels, long-distance trade across thousands of light-years to exchange what is needed has become a feasible thing.

Militarily, the mechanical empire's governance method is somewhat similar to the aristocratic private military system of medieval Europe on ancient Earth.

Nobles holding titles were obliged to raise their own armies and form fleets to defend their fiefs.

Due to the pressure of war between the four major star nations, the Machinery Empire did not restrict the nobles from developing their own military power at all.

As long as you can afford it, even a viscount can own a star cluster-level fleet. On the contrary, the imperial family has stipulated the minimum combat power of different titles. If a count only owns a planetary system-level fleet and still fails to complete the expansion of the force after the grace period, the title will even be reduced.

Thanks to the convenient communication brought by information flow technology, the fast movement capabilities brought by stargate technology and warping technology, and the natural hostile relationship between the empire's humans and the other three classification branches, even though the empire is vast , the royal family is not worried about the rebellion of the nobles below.

Once it enters a period of large-scale war, the imperial family will use stargate technology to dispatch the powerful fleet of the Imperial Guard to the front line, and simultaneously requisition the private fleets of nobles at all levels.

This kind of requisition is not free. The royal family will give substantial rewards to the nobles who provide the army in the form of military exploits, contribution points, technology, resources, fiefs, etc.

At the same time, in various regions, there are still fleets directly managed by the Imperial Military Department. For example, the fleet under the Nanxiang Xingtuan Military and Political Council is not the private army of Nanxiang Bo Liu An. The command belongs to an official appointed by the empire, but this official happens to be Liu An himself. The situation is similar in the South Nine Galaxy.

At the beginning, the nine managers of the Origin Star Civilization were all lifelong barons. If they could complete the mission of tracing the colonization, they could be promoted to hereditary barons.

According to the original plan, after returning to the empire, the nine hereditary barons will jointly take charge of a large planetary system with nine habitable planets.

Of course, this is all a fantasy now.

In terms of private power, the largest power in the Southern Nine Galaxy is naturally the Augustus Viscount family, which has been here for many years, and there are also three hereditary baron families. But these three baron families are also branches of the Augustus family.

In terms of administrative power, the most powerful agency in the South Nine System is the Military and Administrative Office. The Director of the Military and Political Department is Southgate Augustus, who is in charge of all military and political power in this system.

In terms of their strong control over their own territories, Southgate Augustus and Liu An are somewhat similar.

Zheng Tian gave a very good summary at the meeting, "So, in the first hundred years, that is, during the 100-year review period of the Earl, our main enemy was the Augustus family. Different from the past, although Austria The Gustus family has chosen a hostile relationship, but they are unlikely to use troops directly against us. Therefore, the shape of the next war will change, from a military war to a trade war and a resource war. This is not my expertise. But I don’t think we can just let it go.”

"Today we have an army of nearly 400 million people, as well as more than 3,300 armed warships, as well as a larger number of eye reconnaissance ships, shuttle ships, Veyron fighter jets and other small and medium-sized warships. I propose that in The high-Earth orbit of Nanjiu C will be reorganized, and new technologies will be used to implement technical transformation of all ships, so that the performance of the warships can catch up with or even exceed the performance of space pirates. The technical transformation should focus on improving the speed, detection and concealment capabilities of the ships. Then This fleet should take action immediately and go to conquer the many space pirate bases located in the Broken Star Ring to seize the resources urgently needed for development, while maintaining and continuously increasing the combat effectiveness of the fleet."

Zheng Tian's proposal was immediately recognized by most people.

But the considerations need to be more comprehensive.

He said: "Preliminary agreement. However, the current resources and energy in the fleet's inventory are not enough to complete the transformation of all warships and small and medium-sized warships. According to the calculation of 'Net', only half of the warships and small and medium-sized warships can be dismantled for use Make every effort to enhance the performance of the other half of the warships and individual equipment. It is initially estimated that the cruise speed of the armed warships can be increased to 0.2 times the speed of light, which is consistent with the regular army of the empire and stronger than the ships of space pirates."

"As for reconnaissance equipment, the space pirates, the Imperial Regular Army, and our ultra-long-range reconnaissance devices all rely heavily on information flow technology. The Imperial Regular Army learned lessons from its previous fiasco with the Ascendants and completed rapid iterations, one generation ahead of us. We and space Pirates are all on the same starting line. But we have some unique features at the level of photoelectric radar and gravitational wave radar that can be strengthened. Coupled with undifferentiated information flow jamming technology, we can obtain information transmission in confrontations with pirates and advantages at both levels of investigation.”

"In addition, the ultra-long-range missiles of the current fleet can also be equipped with reconnaissance equipment and radio transmission equipment after modification. This is the unique skill of the Source Star Fleet. As for the concealment capability..."

Speaking of this, a smile appeared on Ren Zhong's face, and he said: "It's time for our decades of research on the fourth-class mother-imperial ship to bear fruit."

After the battle of the Imperial Mothership, the fleet not only collected the most important ovarian megablast cells, but also collected a large number of corpses of other secondary units including critical stingers.

After decades of deciphering research, before handing over the megablast cells, the Source Star Fleet had completed the translation of the fourth-level queen's megablast gene library and stored it in the database.

Of course, understanding genes is one thing. It is still completely unrealistic to mass-produce them through artificial synthesis like the Queen Mother Ship. On the one hand, there are not enough resources and energy. On the other hand, it is not yet technically possible. Knowing all the genetic information of a person and creating a person by stacking atoms are two different things. What's more, with the bioscience research and development capabilities within the fleet, even the inside of the megablast cells can't be understood. It is not possible to reasonably segment the huge genetic information to determine the specific genetic information components of different proliferating arms.

However, the Source Star Fleet has finally gained something. The biggest gain so far is to collect the cuticle layer on the surface of the critical stinger body that can completely absorb information flow, and then synthesize and dilute it with the structural parts of other sublimated proliferator bodies to create a paint.

Applying this paint to the surface of the ship in an extremely thin layer can increase the ship's ability to absorb and diffuse information flow by more than 5%.

Although this seemingly small improvement cannot be compared with the critical stinger itself, when the distance is far enough, it can already allow the ships of the Source Star Fleet to have a considerable degree of stealth performance on the space pirates' information flow radar. In relatively close combat, it can also effectively confuse the opponent's detection methods, such as making the information flow projection surface of a large ship look like a medium-sized ship.

"To sum up, the transformation of the military can proceed as scheduled. The number of combat ships and individual equipment will be reduced by half. The number of combat personnel who can join the fleet will also be reduced by half. But the other 200 million soldiers are not useless. On the ground, they will be converted into engineering troops and devoted to the landing project. Due to the harsh environment on South 9c, early landing will be full of dangers. The ship crews are required to have better driving skills and psychological quality. Tracer The manufacturing plant inside the spacecraft is also working as quickly as possible to manufacture small and medium-sized engineering spacecraft that are improved for the atmospheric environment of Nanjiu C. In any case, we have to establish a foothold on Nanjiu C first. Okay, the meeting is here Here. I hope all departments will work together and we will be able to take root on Nanjiu C faster than imagined. The meeting is dismissed."

Through the online meeting room, Ren Zhong watched the changes of everyone in the venue.

After everyone's avatar projection disappeared, he began to personally read through the planning reports submitted by each department.

Four hours later, after reading all the reports, he took a rare stretch.

He hadn't felt this relaxed in a long time.

In more than sixty years of deep space navigation, the Origin Star Fleet has never stopped moving forward as a nomadic civilization, and the people in the fleet have never stopped learning and growing.

So far, more and more useful talents have appeared in various departments.

Finally, he no longer needed to pay attention to every detail as he once did.

He finally no longer had to use his own life to reset time and steal technological achievements from the turbulence of time and space in order to break through a certain technology.

Of course, he couldn't do it now.

A large number of professional researchers in the Fleet Academy of Sciences have used the advance exploration report of Yuanxing Commercial Transport to quickly compile a set of large and precise landing plans, which are closely linked and closely integrated, taking into account various possibilities.

Perhaps Nanxiang Bo and Nanjiu Viscount both believed that it would take at least a hundred years for the fleet to take root on Nanjiu C, but these people had lived in the pampered empire territory for too long, formed a fixed mindset, and made serious errors in judgment. .

According to the timetable in Ren Zhong's hand, he only needs to implement it step by step and deal with the harsh environment on Nanjiu C. The fleet will only need eighteen years of struggle to take root, and then in 20 A comprehensive landing of the entire civilization will be completed within the year.

The people who have a heavy responsibility are completely different from those people in the Nanxiang Star Cluster who have been enslaved by the imperial nobles for life, had their genes tampered with, and were injected with innately twisted personalities. They were born as hopeless civilians but are actually slaves.

In a sense, even if you look at the entire mechanical empire, you can't find better people than the responsible people.

Today, these people, together with the distant source star and the ability to predict, constitute Ren Zhong's three trump cards.

Just when Ren Zhong was confident about the future, in the Yuanxing Commercial Transportation command ship that arrived at Nanjiu C in advance, the general manager of Yuanxing Commercial Transportation named Chen Yinghua was revealed in a large number of high-definition photos taken by the exploration ship risking his life into the atmosphere. The message turned pale with shock.

Chen Yinghua originally wanted to use this routine planetary exploration operation to present a certificate of surrender to the new owner and complete some basic work for the colleagues who were about to meet. However, he did not expect that the last time he ordered the exploration ship to venture into the atmosphere was astronomical and geological. Research has brought back such bad news.

On the planet that was about to become the new home of the Origin Star Civilization, he saw a creature that had never been seen before, proving that the ecological environment of Nanjiu C was not at all what he had imagined before.

Based on basic logic, Chen Yinghua speculated that this ant-like creature should have appeared on Nanjiu C for a very short time, not even more than ten years.

Because, with the reproduction and terrifying appetite of these ants, they can completely pulverize the entire planet within a hundred years.

In just ten years, they can completely change the geological environment and even the external form of the planet.

In addition, he could not imagine any technical means that could completely eliminate these tiny monsters that could multiply at extremely fast speeds in harsh environments without destroying the planet.

Chen Yinghua started tremblingly, labeling the exploration report as urgent, and then submitted it.

Two seconds later, Ren Zhong received two reports at the same time.

One came from Chen Yinghua, and the other came from Sun Ai, a planetary transformation plan full of genius and imagination submitted by the Yuanxing Academy of Science, which was seven light years away.