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"The Hive is now safe, and the M destroyer has returned to the battlefield to begin a search and rescue of friendly crew members who had been sunk during the previous engagement. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" The voices of the crew kept sounding inside the bridge, "Other M warships in the nearby waters are also on their way to the scene. ”

"Let the 'Hive' also return to the battlefield to locate and pre-salvage the remains of the Super Fortress. Don't let country M get ahead of the curve. ”

"The salvage ship of the M Army in the Japanese area is on the other side of Japan, and it is not so fast to come over. We're sure to grab the best part. ”

The rest of the matter, the commanders no longer need to say anything, and the crew of the "Leviathan", which serves as a temporary command center, solves a large number of problems.

"Leave the affairs of space to Torwin and you." Seeing that the battle on the ground was over, and his subordinates were also familiar with dealing with the aftermath, Lin Hai got up and stretched a big lazy waist, moved his body, and then said to Targate, "The work of clearing Taijing in the Japanese area is now also completed by you." ”

"Where are you going?" Liu Yan asked.

"I'm going back to the surface." Lin Hai said and looked at Tagate again, "Colonel, prepare a shuttle for me, I want to go to the Gorgon base." The meeting on the adjustment of the mandate of the GDI will continue, although the Security Council, for its part, intends to relocate the venue to the Kingdom of Alvincent. Probably they think it's safer on our turf. Although the resumption of the meeting does not mean that it will start soon, I still need to go over and make some preparations. Also, ask Dr. Kane some technical questions. ”

"Understood, I'll arrange the shuttle and the escort right away."

"I'm going with you, too?" Liu Yan asked.

"Of course, if you say, I have other work for you."

"I still have a mission?" Liu Yan grinned, "I thought I only needed to follow you to eat and drink all day long, and just spit out a groove by the way." ”

"I'm looking for you to work, not to be a complaint." Lin Hai rolled his eyes and expressed his dissatisfaction with Liu Yan's shameless remarks, "Brothers are brothers, you have to do a good job when it's time to work." My brothers still have to settle accounts. ”

"Yes, you're the boss, you have the final say." Liu Yan shrugged his shoulders and said nonchalantly, "Then what am I going to do?" ”

"After returning to the ground, you will go to Zhao Wu for me to join the combat staff of the defense regiment, which was originally prepared to be transferred to the GDI unit, and it is also in line with your current status. Don't forget, your current status is an officer assigned to GDI by country Z, and your military status is still PLA. ”

"Well, I really almost forgot that I was still PLA, I spent a lot longer at Iron Eagle than I was at PLA, I'm used to it." Liu Yan patted his head with a look of sudden realization, and then laughed again, indicating that he was deliberately pretending to be strange, and then he suddenly became serious again, "But I'm just a captain, and I don't have much say in the combat staff, right?" Could it be that you want me to do chores? ”

"Do you think I gave you an easy job?" Lin Hai sneered, "Since we have to start a large number of starships in the future, we can't be self-sufficient by relying on the moon base alone, so we need to obtain other sources of resources." In addition to having those who want starships pay for their own resources, we also need a lot of resources ourselves in case we need them. So it's imperative to move into the whole of Africa, where we have a lot of resources that are easier to mine than anywhere else. ”

"We already have a base in Africa, don't we already have a base? Quite a few and a good location. Liu Yan said with some doubts, "Do you still need to continue to send people to expand the sphere of influence in the African region?" ”

"In the past, it was our own base, but now we go under the banner of GDI, with different identities and different forces. Do you think we should 'donate' our bases in Africa to GDI as well? ”

"How is this possible! I'm not crazy! Hearing Lin Hai say this, Liu Yan was about to jump up immediately, but the magnetic lock on the sole of his shoe firmly locked him to the floor, and he couldn't jump up at that time, making his action of wanting to jump but not jumping looked particularly strange and ridiculous, "I mean, are you planning to take down the whole of Africa!" ”

"Eating the whole of Africa, that's too much of an exaggeration." Lin Hai spread his hands and said, "To be honest, for us who already have the ability to colonize outer planets, mining those meteorites, asteroids or something is the best choice. It's a pity that our military strength can't control that place at the moment, and if we rashly send a mining ship to mine in the asteroid belt, it is very likely that we will be attacked by the Sijing people. Moreover, our spacecraft is not fast enough now, even the fastest spacecraft to fly to the asteroid belt will take nearly a month each way. It's just peacetime, it's wartime, and who knows what will happen on the road. So for the time being, we can only rely on the resources of the earth's sphere. ”

"So in order to prevent being tied down because of resource issues, we need to control those resource points?"

"That's right, that's why I want the Defense Corps to carry out large-scale activities in Africa. The reason why you want to carry out this activity in the name of GDI is only because if you go to those African countries as a defense group, it will give people a bad idea, after all, Iron Eagle only represents ourselves, and if we go to other people's territory, unless we are invited by the local area, we will be accused of invasion, which is not a good thing for us who are improving our own image, and we should avoid it as much as possible. In addition, in order to prevent others from saying that we are using the United Nations signboard without authorization, but we are carrying out Iron Eagle's own mission, I will also send some members of the GDI forces of other countries to participate in the operation. ”

"Yes, I know what to do." Liu Yan nodded, his expression a little solemn.

"Alright." Lin Hai raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, then pointed to the exit of the bridge, "Wait a minute, it's about to leave, if you need to pack something, go quickly." See you on the other side of the shuttle. ”

Ten minutes later, a space shuttle flew out of the "Leviathan" hangar, and immediately joined the long-awaited space fighter escort team sent by two Kodiak-class battle cruisers and flew off to the ground. (The Sea Behemoth-class heavy cruiser canceled the fighter hangar and only retained the space shuttle hangar, so there was no escort fighter configuration)

In just a few minutes, the fleet passed through the atmosphere and into the Earth's surface region. At this time, a team of eight Dragon Eagle fighters joined the escort fleet, and those space fighters did not leave the escort team to return to space, but continued to follow the shuttle fuselage, flying in the direction of the Mediterranean Sea - to return to space, they need to replenish fuel and additional propulsion equipment at the ground base before they can break through the atmosphere on their own, and the technology of the Global Defense Force is not advanced enough that ordinary fighters can independently shuttle through the atmosphere.

After continuing to fly for half an hour, the fleet safely arrived at the coastal city of Gorgon in the Mediterranean country of Alvincent, and the military base set up by Iron Eagle here.

As soon as he got off the shuttle, Liu Yan was taken away by another transport plane that had already been ready, and went to the Obiya base set up by Iron Eagle in Somalia, Africa, now their time is very tight, and there is no extra energy for him to rest at the Gorgun base before going to Africa, anyway, the conditions on the standard transport plane are not bad, and it is the same if you want to rest on the plane.

Lin Hai went directly to Dr. Kane's laboratory, and he still had a lot to talk to about with the other party.

Kane was a little surprised to see Lin Hai walk into the research room, he hadn't been paying attention to things that had nothing to do with research, so he didn't know about Lin Hai's arrival in advance.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, why did you suddenly remember to come to me?" Kane, who was sitting in front of a lab table, didn't get up to greet him, but just looked up, "Is there anything you need to do yourself?" ”

"The United Nations intends to change the venue of the meeting to the Kingdom of Alvinson, so I will come over first, and by the way, I will ask you something."

"If you're trying to ask Tae-jeong about the progress of her research," Kane casually gestured to the next door to the lab, "then I can only say that as before, it will take some time to conduct in-depth research." ”

"I'm not here to ask Tae-jing, although I also care about that substance, but I also know that there are some things that can't be rushed." Lin Hai waved his hand, copied a chair and sat opposite Kane, "But since you have already mentioned it, then I will ask by the way, when that thing is being studied here, has there been any leakage and other out-of-control situations?" ”

"Who do you think I am?" Kane said disdainfully, "All observation rooms have harmonic resonance equipment working 24 hours a day, whether it is the walls or floors, and even the ceiling in the observation room is covered, and those Taijing have no chance of penetration." And there are people staring at those things at any time, and if there is any abnormal change, a saboteur tank platoon outside the research center will turn all those Taijing into dust. So you can rest assured that the experiment is safe. Of course, if someone is deliberately sabotage, then it is not something I can control. ”

"That kind of security work is entrusted to Chen Xi, and I don't think he will make such a mistake." Lin Hai raised his hand to indicate that this question could be over, so he began to formally ask what he really wanted to know, "Doctor, with the technology we currently have, can we deploy a space defense platform in the orbit of a planetary satellite?" A weapon system similar to an orbital ion gun, except that it is not used for ground attacks, but for space defense operations? ”

"Isn't the Orbital Ion Cannon a defensive platform?" Kane asked him rhetorically, "You don't think the Orbital Ion Cannon is just a ground-attack weapon system, do you?" You, and Towin, have used the Orbital Ion Cannon several times to attack targets in space. ”

"Of course I know that the Orbital Ion Cannon can be used to attack space targets, but what I mean by that is that the Orbital Ion Cannon can be used to attack space targets, but it is inherently fragile. To put it mildly, let alone use heavy firepower such as anti-ship missiles, large-caliber rail guns, and pulsed lasers, even laser close defense guns can easily destroy ion cannon platforms. Lin Hai corrected, "What I want is a defensive platform that has both offense and defense, and can carry out independent calculations and have a little automation ability." Because I'm going to make a batch of that and deploy it in the orbit of the Earth's satellite to strengthen the defense. ”

"You want a simplified, weakened version of an unmanned space ultra-small fortress, right?" Kane nodded, indicating that he understood what Lin Hai meant, and he said, "Although the Global Defense Force does not have such a thing, because there are a lot of orbital ion cannon systems, and there are more armed space stations, they don't need that kind of thing. But we are understaffed and underequipped here, and the orbital defense platform is indeed a thing that meets our needs. If it's technical, it shouldn't be a problem, give me some time, and I'll be able to design a combat platform like that in no time. ”

"Let me first explain that the orbital defense platform I want, in addition to having the firepower to damage or even sink the Sea Behemoth-class heavy cruiser, also needs to have the defense ability to defend against all weapons except super heavy artillery such as fusion cannons and pulse laser cannons, at least not as easily as ion cannon platforms. In addition, the time required to manufacture those platforms is also minimized, so that we can deploy more defense platforms in less time. ”

"There are a lot of requirements, and there are a lot of difficulties." Kane rubbed his chin and frowned slightly, "I think I need to fix your request." First of all, in order to quickly build a space platform that can carry heavy firepower and heavy armor, the design must be as simple as possible, and the various structures must be as modular as possible. But in this way, the firepower and defense will be somewhat affected. So I think that the firepower of a single platform only needs to be enough to damage heavy cruisers and sink destroyers, so I plan to equip them with two twin 300 mm caliber railguns, as well as two strong laser cannons. The same goes for defense, just a few close-up lasers and armor plates are all you need. Anyway, that kind of thing is a consumable, used to replace the starship consumption. If the firepower and defense are insufficient, we will make up the numbers. Even the latest space battleships of the Global Defense Force, in the face of a hundred or more defense platforms, can either only hold their heads and flee, or they can only use long-range weapons to slowly consume those platforms outside the effective range of the defense platform weapon system, but that will buy more time for the defenders to respond. With this design, I estimated in my mind that it would probably take no more than an hour to build each platform, and even if you add some other equipment of the same level and more advanced fire control systems, it would not take more than three hours. ”

"I can accept this idea." Lin Hai said, "So when can you come up with the first draft?" Not only the geosphere, but if time permits, I would like to deploy orbital defense platforms in the asteroid belt and other planetary gravitational spheres. ”

"Most of them are ready-to-use mature technologies, and they just need to be combined and adjusted. The only thing that is more troublesome is the automatic control system, which needs to be redesigned with a set of programs. If all goes well, it will take no more than a month to complete. Kane didn't think much about it, and replied, "If I have more time, I can design a few more plans, and you can choose one of them that better meets your requirements." ”

"So, how about I'll give you half a year?"