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- Chapter 269: Borderland (Part 1)
February 2090 AD.
After the new emperor Robin personally welcomed the birth of his first daughter, he announced his oath to fight on the same day.
The next day, the fleet that had already been assembled gathered together into a spectacular torrent of steel on the pioneer channel from the Beidou Galaxy to the extragalactic galaxy. This time, except for the Imperial Central First Army that needed to defend the imperial capital and was stranded in the country, the Second, Third, and Fourth Army of the four major armies established by the Empire after the promulgation of the New Deal were all led by the Imperial Dragon Flag. Next, he headed towards the murderous extragalactic galaxy without any return.
On February 14, 2090, the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year in the old days, Robin personally led his army to the Kunir Galaxy in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
In early 2085, after Robin and the Empire's previous emperor, Emperor Hoffmann, formulated a military policy with the main goal of unifying the Milky Way first, the progress of the Empire's conquests in extragalactic systems was greatly restricted. According to statistics, in the Small Magellanic Cloud, where the Insat invasion was serious, the imperial forces had completely withdrawn, giving up all the territory they had already occupied. In the Large Magellanic Cloud, where the war situation is more favorable than that of the Empire, the number of galaxies under the Empire's actual control has also shrunk significantly. According to Huggins, who led the vanguard fleet to arrive at the Large Magellanic Cloud first, the empire currently controls less than half of the star systems it had five years ago, and most of its military stations are facing serious challenges from the Insat ground attack. survival pressure. There are only five or six star systems that can truly guarantee safety, and even in these five or six star systems, there is no guarantee that there are no Insats dormant deep in the planetary crust. Therefore, in a sense, this is a frontier land where people are truly fighting for survival. Here, every inch of land and every starry sky is filled with suffocating murderous intent.
"The situation is not optimistic. The situation here is worse than I imagined."
In the ground fortress of the Hayden planet in the Kunir system, Robin, who arrived at the army base on a landing ship, immediately reviewed the combat reports of the Hayden planet in the past five years.
The Kunir system is the system with the most stable power of the Empire in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and the planet Hayden is a military stronghold built as a military bridgehead. Five years ago, during the Empire's frequent expeditions to the Large Magellanic Cloud, the planet Hayden, which served as a transit point for military supplies, had been very peaceful. There were few records of battles with the Insat ground troops. However, in the past five years, there have been more than 700 battle records kept in the Hayden Planet Fortress, and there were dozens of battles involving more than a thousand people. It can be seen from this number that in the Large Magellanic Galaxy, the Insat invasion pace is accelerating at a rapid pace. While they are constantly encroaching on the unoccupied empty galaxies, they have even begun to extend their tentacles into the core military of the empire. cutting edge.
"According to the usual ratio of the Insat people, if they can launch a ground invasion of a thousand people, then the number of them underground may be ten to twenty times that number, and maybe there is still a torrent of people lurking there. Two dragon pupa eggs. This is the biggest threat, allowing them to turn this planet into a real Death Star within two to three hundred years."
Robin is not the only one who is worried about the situation. As Robin's general staff officer, Ansel has conducted a detailed investigation into the Insat's fighting methods. Through this investigation, combined with the current situation, Ans Aier believes that the situation can even be described as extremely bad. If effective arrangements are not made, perhaps soon, the empire's forces will be completely driven out of the Large Magnet Nebula, thus completely losing the human world's buffer zone against the Insat invasion.
"Why did the numbers increase so much? How did these things come in?" Robin frowned. Due to the lack of direct experience in fighting with space lifeforms like the Insat, he had to resort to the people already stationed on the ground in Hayden. Colonel Mark, the Army commander of the fort for seven years.
Colonel Mark is a clone in his forties. His blood body is Duke Clarence, one of the three giants of the empire. As early as more than ten years ago, Mark, who had made great military exploits, was given the title of first-class replicator and had the right to name himself. Seven years ago, he took over the post of Army Commander of the Hayden Planet Ground Fortress under the appointment of Emperor Hoffman. To this day, he has been fighting with the Insat people in this desolate land for fifteen years. Currently, they are the group of clone officers in the empire who are most familiar with the habits and combat methods of the Insat people.
"Your Majesty, these creatures sneaked in through meteorite fragments and some large celestial bodies." Colonel Mark, who had a hideous scar on his face, respectfully reported: "Space creatures like the Insat can travel at will in the space environment. They are not restricted in space like us humans, so they tend to hide in some places.?In larger celestial bodies or meteorite fragments, these celestial bodies are pushed closer to the planet, break through the atmosphere and land on the ground. "
"Can't our ground fire network effectively intercept them?" Robin felt puzzled by this. In his opinion, when the planet has a well-equipped army base on the ground, it means that the entire planet's atmosphere is In the coverage area of ????air defense firepower, in this case, unless a space fleet destroys the ground air defense facilities first, otherwise, it is impossible for anything to land on the ground through the atmosphere.
"The so-called absolute defense on the ground is just theoretical. Your Majesty, the density of celestial bodies and meteorite fragments in the Large Magnet Nebula is much higher than that in the Milky Way. Under normal circumstances, there will be dozens or nearly hundreds of celestial body fragments every day. Impacting the planet's ground through the atmosphere. Of course, if the fortress's energy reserves are sufficient, it is not impossible to intercept them all. But the current problem is that our energy reserves consume too much. The solar system established by the fortress is thin due to the density of the stellar wind. The energy it can generate can only maintain the daily ecological needs of the fortress, and there is no excess energy to supply to the weapon system."
"The sunshine" Robin frowned and looked up at the sky, and found that the sunshine in the sky was indeed not strong.
Compared with mature large galaxy clusters such as the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds can only be regarded as nebulae, not real galaxy clusters. This makes the gas reserves and density in the nebula much higher than that of the Milky Way. The number of stars in the nebula is also smaller than that of the Milky Way. Most of them are relatively young and have not yet formed a stellar wind with a wide range of radiation like the sun. Therefore, the solar energy system, which is called "eternal energy" in the Milky Way, can play a very limited role in the Magellanic Clouds. It can only meet the huge daily consumption required by the fortress ecosystem, and no more excess energy can be provided. Apply weapon systems to combat operations.
"What about the geothermal system and the nuclear energy system?" Robin asked about the other two main energy sources of human energy systems.
"The geothermal system was severely damaged by the Insat people because it has to extend the heat source network deep into the ground. This has greatly affected our geothermal energy supply. At present, the only one that can operate normally is the nuclear energy system, but" At this point, Colonel Mark obviously hesitated for a moment, but after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and continued: "But due to your policy changes five years ago, Hayden Planet terminated ground construction, which made our ground nuclear power The scale of the factory is limited, and the energy currently generated can only supply five to ten long-range space plasma cannons per day. So we can only intercept some of the meteorites now, and as for the other parts, we can only do nothing."
"So that's what it is"
From Colonel Mark¡¯s words, Robin clearly realized that it was his decision to shift the focus of the military five years ago that led to the current vicious cycle.
And the fact is, as Colonel Mark said, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, most of the stars are relatively young, so the planetary groups are far less stable than many star systems in the Milky Way. In most cases, there are some small asteroid belts gathered around the planet. Due to the gravity of the planet, the meteorites in these asteroid belts often collide with each other due to irregular orbits. When the meteorite fragments When an individual is small enough, it will be attracted by the planet's gravity and fly towards the planet, penetrate the atmosphere and directly hit the ground.
At present, most planets in the Magellanic Cloud have not yet formed a thick enough atmosphere. Therefore, the Insat can even carry meteorite fragments to the ground without equipping them with biological armor. In this process, the heat generated by gas friction cannot burn the entire meteorite, and it cannot prevent them from landing on the planet's surface in this way. In addition, when not equipped with biological armor, underage Insat can completely use the form of their own soft objects to compress their bodies to only the size of a fist. This also makes it impossible for the ground fortress to accurately distinguish which meteorite is carrying the Insat. Even if the meteorite is bombarded by missiles from the ground fortress during its landing, the Insat, which is only the size of a fist, has a high chance of surviving. Come down, hide deep in the earth's crust and slowly recover and gradually grow your own tribe.
If the army fortress established by the empire on the planet's surface has sufficient energy supply, then the fortress' long-range plasma cannon will be confident enough to bombard and vaporize every meteorite that tries to approach the planet's surface directly in mid-air. But the problem now is that the light produced by the star cannot meet the energy demand of the long-range plasma cannon at all, and the geothermal system has been largely paralyzed due to the destruction of the Insat people deep in the earth's crust. The only useful nuclear energy system has not yet been formed. Large-scale construction. The superposition of all these problems suddenly formed a desperate endless loop.
Energy, this has become the biggest problem facing Robin.
Indeed, with a large-caliber long-range plasma cannon?. Taking the attack distance of one light minute as the standard, the energy consumed by each long-range plasma cannon is the total amount of electricity consumed by the entire population of the earth in the old era for one month.
When in space, because it is directly within the radiation range of the stellar wind, the battleship's own energy system can operate to the maximum extent and produce enough energy for the battleship to fight. On the surface of the planet, because a considerable part of the stellar wind is blocked by the atmosphere, the solar system of the ground fortress can only illuminate a limited part of the infrared and ultraviolet rays. Therefore, in terms of solar energy utilization efficiency, it is impossible for ground fortresses to compare with warships operating in space.
"Order the warships to temporarily take over space defense and intercept any celestial body approaching the planet. In addition, send all engineering troops. I want to expand the Hayden Planet Fortress on a large scale!"
"yes!"
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