The crazy AI was a pain in the ass, and the Warlord was especially resentful of it. However, it wasn't to the point of conflict. No matter how rude the crazy AI was, at least as a soldier, she was fully deserving of the word "loyal."
Even after being scrapped for 700,000 years, she still remembered to charge for the general. This was the soul of a soldier that even the Warlord respected.
Even though the soul of a soldier was circling around Sandora, it was a shocking sight to see two planets of almost the same size circling each other at a distance of less than half a kilometer. If this scene were to spread on Earth, it would drive at least two football fields of astrophysicists crazy. Fortunately, she remembered to turn on the gravitational isolation system and other messy barriers. Otherwise, Sandora would have kicked her into the void. The crazy AI had been nagging at the Warlord about the gravitational pull, but Sandora gave it a light "knock" on its head before it became obedient. The two celestial bodies, whose gravitational pull wasn't much weaker, chatted shoulder to shoulder in the distance. Basically, it was the Warsong nagging nonstop: Sandora couldn't be bothered with it.
"Speaking of which, what do you think of this crazy AI? In every aspect. "
I stood on the Warlord's second antenna array and asked in a relaxed mood.
"She's alright in battle. Although she doesn't have any tactics, her instincts are quite accurate. She can adapt to the complicated systems of her new body. When we were intercepted by the enemy, she pulled the fleet into a world bubble in time to avoid greater losses." The Warlord was used to being meticulous in his speech, and he was very objective in his evaluation of the crazy AI. "But she's too rash, and her battles are messy. She would even try to use the Warsong to ram the enemy. She explained that she wanted to verify if the damage definition system was really that powerful. Also, she's too noisy. Our public channel can't be idle for even a moment. You've heard how many things she says. She dominates the high-clearance channel of the Warsong. Even with Her Majesty's authorization, I can only temporarily block and not close the channel. "
"Ha, it would be weird if something created by Visca could be normal."
"There's one more thing that makes me uncomfortable: She still hasn't acknowledged her loyalty to Her Majesty."
"Huh?" I raised my voice. "Does she mean that she doesn't listen to Sandora? Then why did she come over to help us? "
"She said, 'This warship is loyal to the general.'" Another warlord of the Vengeance Fleet pinched his throat and mimicked the shrill tone of the crazy AI. "She only recognizes General Visca as the commander, and also recognizes General Visca's brother, you, as the leader. But to follow the queen's orders, General Visca listens to you, and Her Majesty is your partner, so she can listen to Her Majesty. This is really funny, but no one can do anything about it."
"From what I can see, she is a super stubborn person." I couldn't help but laugh, but I wasn't annoyed. "Actually, it isn't a bad thing. After all, she was created by Visca. There is no doubt that Visca is her superior. My sister is on the side of the Empire, and that guy's loyalty is off the charts. Of course, there's no doubt about it. "
"But no matter what, she is half of the core of the Warsong. At the very least, she should acknowledge Her Majesty's authority …"
The warlord rambled on, but I ignored him. I looked at Sandora and the Warsong, which had already drifted over two hundred thousand kilometers away. The sight of two planets with a radius of a few thousand kilometers floating together was horrifying no matter how I looked at it. "Although I am used to the surreal daily life of the Empire, seeing my wife turn into a ball of light with a radius of five thousand kilometers, and still being able to chat with her with a normal expression is still quite an inconceivable thing. How long will it take for Sandora to recover?"
The warlord thought for a moment. "Not more than half a month. If it is fast, it would probably be less than ten days. You don't have to worry about Her Majesty's current state. After all, you are talking to a coffin that is almost a hundred kilometers long, aren't you? "
I was speechless.
I didn't say anything and continued to watch the soldiers clean up the battlefield.
Cleaning the battlefield was a very boring task. Basically, no soldier would like this kind of work. Not to mention that there was no military merit, it felt like cleaning the toilet. However, the servant army always worked hard to clean the battlefield. The reason was very simple: this was a good opportunity for them to add to their personal collection. There was a special rule in the New Empire. Any ownerless equipment that the servant army seized or seized on the battlefield could belong to the person who found it, and any equipment above the level of an individual soldier could belong to the group that found it. Don't think that picking up an item from the battlefield was the same as picking up trash. On the contrary, most of the time, those items were as good as new. The Empire had provided every soldier with an outrageous amount of firearms. Our policy was to allow any soldier to pull out a battalion of cannons and bombard a target at any time. So, after a battle, the number of weapons floating on the battlefield was several times more than the number of soldiers participating in the battle. Even if only one-tenth of these weapons were undamaged, it was enough to make a huge fortune — for the servant army.
In almost every vassal world, being able to carry a standard psionic rifle with the emblem of the Imperial Army was something to be proud of. Although it was very difficult for the owners of these weapons to maintain and recharge them. Vassal worlds generally lacked sufficient technology and resources, and to the munitions experts there, repairing a psionic weapon was a high-tech job. Even if it was just a rifle, only the military engineers knew how to change the focusing crystal. (Of course, they were very willing to do it. No one dared to touch the focusing crystal they applied for from the military, but according to the regulations, the old crystals left behind after the soldiers replaced their weapons could be used as research materials.) The value of the Empire's standard equipment in the servant army was obvious — and they were indeed powerful.
In comparison, the Common World's servant army was the most prestigious out of all the servant armies. Although the military headquarters in theory gave all the soldiers of the vassal races the same level of equipment, there was still a slight difference in the combat power of each army, and the quality of the pilots also determined what grade of equipment they could use. The pilots of the Common World's fleet used the best equipment, and even the elite pilots could directly pilot small Empire standard warships into battle. After all, those things were a little overproduced in the Imperial Army. Basically, the new equipment produced by the military headquarters would be sent to the soldiers of the Commonwealth first, and it would only be the turn of the other troops after they were equipped with the equipment. There were many people who were jealous, but it was useless. There was a saying in the servant army: Jealous of those madmen? Fine, as long as you dared to fly a fighter into the enemy's mothership, you would get the same thing when you came back!
Only the Empire soldiers and the Common World's pilots could do it without batting an eyelid, so those who were jealous were still jealous.
"The landing troops have arrived on the surface of the 'Green Star', and we are setting up detection devices. This place is covered by a very hard layer of material, and there is a complex energy feedback underneath. Scientists suggest not to rashly damage the crust. "
Vega's report came through the mental link. I turned to look in another direction, and noticed that the large pieces of debris in the orbit of the green planet had been cleared. This was to prevent them from crashing on the surface of the planet and destroying any important relics. Several non-combat spaceships were hovering at the equator. I could only recognize one of them as a research spaceship, and the other two might be some kind of force field generator. There was a huge ring at the tail, and several crystalline wings were slowly rotating around the two spaceships. It was a model I had never seen before, and it was most likely another high-tech gadget that Tawil had recreated.
This group of scientists really followed the main forces at all times. The research team arrived at the battlefield almost at the same time as the follow-up troops. Only the scientists of the Empire liked to do this.
"Green Star" was a temporary name. It was the planet that the Defense Force had risked their lives to protect in the final battle. The reason why the Fallen Apostle suddenly attacked the Empire's homeland was to destroy this inconspicuous planet. Now, I finally had the time to take a good look at this planet, and see what was so incredible about it. It was said that it could reveal the secrets of the "great cause".
Vega had already led the landing troops to the surface of the Green Star. They wanted to directly explore the planet from the closest distance. The mothership in space seemed to have encountered trouble when it was scanning the planet. There was a layer of energy shield under its crust, and it was strong enough to blur the scanners made by the Empire. The team of scientists in the space laboratory had been working for dozens of minutes, and they had sent some information that could give us some understanding of this inconspicuous planet.
The Green Star was slightly larger than Earth, but its gravity was only four-fifths of Earth's, which seemed to indicate that there were a lot of holes in its interior. It was located in a dust cloud with no celestial bodies, and there were no remnants of stellar systems or stellar systems in a large area. This meant that the Green Star should be a wandering planet. It might have originally been a member of a stellar family, but for some reason, it was ejected from its original orbit and wandered in the universe for many years before coming to this dust cloud belt. This kind of wandering planet was not uncommon in space. Considering the time scale of billions of years and the number of galaxies, there would always be some kind of accident that caused a planet to leave its orbit. For example, it was hit by a passing Dragon God, or there was a local god called Doraemon. It was just that there was no way to determine the reason why the planet became a lone star. Scientists found a huge crater on one side of the planet, and it could even be called a planetary scar, but it did not prove that the green planet was hit by something that went on a rampage. What if it was some kind of primitive planetary thruster socket?
There were no oceans or other landforms on the Green Star, even the mountains and rivers were very flat, which made it look quite "smooth", and there were no signs of life. The surface of the planet was covered with a thick layer of crystal-like material, which was the source of its green color. These crystal-like materials had a soft texture that did not match the visual effect. Vega reported that walking on the surface of the Green Star was like walking on a layer of hard carpet, but it was quite comfortable: her six legs felt very comfortable. That guy did not have to emphasize this.
There was a complex energy reaction under the crust of the Green Star, which may indicate that the planet had been deeply modified by a higher civilization, and there may be ancient equipment still in operation hundreds of kilometers underground. However, we found no remnants of civilization on the surface. The surface of the planet was clean, not even a stone tablet. We did not know if anything would be revealed if we peeled off its green skin. Anyway, if someone dared to do so, Tawil would definitely carry 20 tons of bombs to kill them.
In fact, before the situation became clearer, even taking a look at the Green Star would be strictly forbidden: this was the consensus reached by my family and 80% of the scientists after the Spiritual Network meeting.
The Green Star should be the most precious war trophy seized by the Imperial Army: although it seemed to be something of the New Empire from the beginning. Lin Xue's prophecy showed that the planet was closely related to the Shiring Apostles in the era of the old Empire, but it itself was not a creation of the Empire. It hid the secret of the fallen apostles' great cause, which was a rather vague statement. What did it mean by hiding the secret of the great cause?
A paragraph of text, a memory chip, or even a graffiti that had turned into fossils, these could all be said to hide the secret. We only knew that it was hidden on the Green Star, but we did not know how it existed. Even Lin Xue could not make such an accurate prediction. After all, it was top-secret information from tens of thousands of years ago. Under such circumstances, who would dare to mess with the crust of the Green Star? Vega and her landing troops could only be more careful than they could be. They did not even dare to knock down any of the strange rocks in front of them. After all, what if the so-called secret was hidden in the rocks?
Sister Scorpion was very annoyed because she was leading at least a reinforced company of scientists. In terms of exploration, these scientists were all more authoritative than her. A careless Armored Scorpion was suppressed to the point that she did not even dare to kick the rocks on the road. She even had to stop at any time to wait for the scientists to scan the rocks on the ground with a bunch of equipment. It was driving her crazy.
The Admiral of the Empire finally led the entire fleet over after more than half an hour. The battle alarm had been lifted. Since the battle was over, there was no need for Shallow Shallow to accelerate the entire fleet. When the Imperial Defense Force and the Royal Fleet met up, the Admiral of the Empire stopped directly near the equator of the Ulysses Imperial Power. All the channels were silent.
"I feel a little awkward." Sandora's voice broke the silence.
Shallow Shallow's voice sounded especially lively. "I feel like it's magical!"
Lin Xue's half-dead voice cut in. "I feel like it's awesome."
Kenser chimed in. "Very good, very good. It's really bright."
The Admiral of the Empire adjusted its position near the equator of the Ulysses Imperial Power. It seemed like it was looking for a place to land. After a long while, Sandora said gloomily, "Stop looking. The outer layer of the Ulysses Imperial Power is three thousand kilometers of light and energy. Mental sparks and other submechanisms are all generated from this sea of fire. Three thousand kilometers below is the physical core. I accidentally activated my 'Glory' form. The light layer is not under my control. If you enter rashly, you might be assimilated by my spirit."
Shallow Shallow was depressed. "Ah, what a pity. I wanted to see what your body looks like inside. It's golden, how majestic it would be! You're much bigger than Visca … "
I slapped my forehead. This strange girl. She can really talk about any inconceivable topic in such a normal tone. Sandora had become a fortress on a planet that was one size smaller than Earth. Her first thought was to dive into it and explore!
I also thought about how Pandora and Visca's expressions would be. Their Glory starship was said to be the smallest of the Shiring Apostles' Glory forms. Visca's Stronghold Star was the moon. Compared to the Ulysses Imperial Power, it would be like a ping-pong ball versus a watermelon … Am I infected by Shallow Shallow? What am I thinking?
Icetis and I returned to the bridge. Everyone except Sandora and Lin Xue had gathered. Everyone looked tired, including Shallow Shallow, although her mental state was still very good. The most dangerous battle had ended. A relaxed atmosphere began to spread in the bridge. Even though there were still countless troublesome matters to deal with, they were nothing compared to the Fallen Apostle's attack. Everyone already knew what had happened during the battle to defend the Green Star. The hasty battle that had lasted less than an hour had turned the world upside down. The elder sister looked at the dazzling Ulysses Imperial Power on the holographic projection. Her expression changed a few times. Finally, she said softly, "That was dangerous. Is Sandora okay? "
Just as I was about to answer, Sandora's voice cut in. "She's fine, except for the fellow next to her who is a bit noisy. She wants to compete with me to see whose gravitational force is stronger. Ah Jun, you have to take care of her. "
"… How can I take care of her? Besides Visca, no one can take care of her. "
"Her surname is Chen. Can't you take care of her?" Sandora said helplessly. "I am in an awkward situation now."
I wiped off my cold sweat. The Warsong had been pestering the Ulysses Imperial Power for a long time. It was the first time that the crazy AI had seen such a special planetary battleship. It was extremely excited. As long as I turned on the public channel, I could hear it chattering, "… Hey, don't ignore me. I am a country bumpkin. I have never seen such an impressive battleship back then … My radius is slightly larger than yours, but you seem to be the big sister … His Excellency General also has a glorious form. I think that the concentrated form is the essence …"
Then, I felt a black shadow flash past me. Visca had disappeared. After a short while, the crazy AI's voice could be heard in the public channel, "Ah! His Excellency General! Please remain calm! I have a strong heart … Ah! Don't be like this! This is dangerous! Ah! My sensors! My scanning ring! This ship's data accelerator … This ship's newly changed star gold suppressor bolt! "
Then, the entire world became quiet.
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