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Chapter 571 - Chapter 571 Chapter 420 Star Creation Project_2

Chapter 571: Chapter 420: Star Creation Project_2 Chapter 571: Chapter 420: Star Creation Project_2 Watching the back of the real machine spirit, Duanmu Huai is also somewhat hesitant. However, after careful thought, it seems like something you might find in online literature, at least it is the main character in something like “Horse Maiden Goes on Air, Becoming The Strongest Internet Celebrity”.

Given the strength of the real machine spirit, there should be no problem.

Let her do what she wants

At this time, Duanmu Huai did not yet know what little shock the real machine spirit would bring to him… Well, we’ll talk about this later.

While the real machine spirit is a chess piece set against the Ashali people, what Duanmu Huai has to worry about next is a different issue.

That is, the further military cooperation between the Tribunal and the Star Alliance.

Well, talking about live streaming, Duanmu Huai is not up to the task, but when it comes to this, he is not troubled.

This is also one of the goals agreed upon by Li Longcheng and Duanmu Huai, that is —-The Boundary God Star System.

The Boundary God Star System is situated at the edge of the current Star Alliance. This system houses a myriad of races that are ruthless and extremely dangerous, a lawless area in the Milky Way galaxy. Even the Divine Assembly can’t do anything about them, let alone dare to send troops recklessly. They fear that once they mobilize troops, it will unite the chaotic racial forces within the Boundary God Star System while abandoning their animosity, and face the outsiders.

So, the Divine Assembly doesn’t want to deal with this place.

But the Star Alliance has to manage it.

Just as mentioned before, the Boundary God Star System is a lawless area, which naturally houses numerous criminals who often venture out for raids. The adjacent Star Alliance Colony to the Boundary God Star System naturally suffers from their nuisance, and these criminals hide in the Boundary God Star System after their raids. No one can find them, which drives the Star Alliance to the

verge of insanity.

In previous negotiations, Li Longcheng had discussed the issues of the Boundary God Star System with the representative of the Divine Assembly. The latter also made it clear that the Boundary God Star System is intractable and impossible to control. You knew it was dangerous but chose to establish colonies there. Thus, the disaster that befell you is your own problem. The Divine Assembly was powerless, and could only provide some superficial support.

Therefore, Li Longcheng had no choice but to negotiate with the Tribunal.

After listening to Li Longcheng’s request, Duanmu Huai also agreed with his opinion. The Boundary God Star System is in a terrible state, just like a slum in the Milky Way, poor, dirty, and corrupt, indeed, it needs a severe crackdown.

Besides, it is full of aliens, so the Tribunal is certainly willing to get involved.

Originally, Duanmu Huai wanted to dispatch the Wan Yi battleship to directly bomb the stars of the Boundary God Star System, just like they did to the Star Alliance, and completely obliterate it. However, upon hearing what Li Longcheng had to say, Duanmu Huai immediately changed his mind. According to Li Longcheng, the Boundary God Star System has rich mining resources, and many planets contain abundant ores. If they could obtain the ores of the Boundary God Star System, it would enhance the Star Alliance’s power undoubtedly.

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai also changed his mind because the Tribunal… also needs ore!

After cooperating with the Star Alliance, for Duanmu Huai, the biggest threat right now is not the Evil God, but the upcoming content extension “A Crisis of Mechanized Intelligence”!

This brings us to the main enemy of the “A Crisis of Mechanized Intelligence” content extension, the Reapers.

The Reapers were created by a race called the Leviathan within the Milky Way. The Leviathan initially created the Reapers to counter the Human Empire at that time. Unfortunately, as the Reapers were newly created and hadn’t had time to be deployed to the battlefield, the Human Empire initiated the Black Hole Project which wiped out almost all races in the Milky Way.

Leviathan naturally didn’t want to be obliterated, so in the last moments, it issued an order to the Reapers, demanding that they must protect the Leviathan and its subordinates at all costs.

However, just as how the ridiculous Skynet only restores files, the Reapers, following half a year of contemplation, drew up a conclusion.

If organisms are allowed to grow unrestricted, they will inevitably cause their own destruction one day. To prevent this, the best method is to forcibly obliterate civilizations that have reached a certain extent, much like trimming leeks- you cut off one, wait for a new one to grow, then cut it off again, preventing total extinction.

As for whether the Reapers drew inspiration from the black hole project of the Human Empire, only God knows. But after this, the Reapers indeed took action, firstly turning their slaughterhouse on their creators, the Leviathan.

Unlucky Leviathan wasn’t exterminated by the Human Empire, but was instead wiped out by its own creation.

Pitiful, to say the least.

After this, the Reapers established a cycle of returning every few thousand or million years to reap once more. The second unlucky one was the Prolo Deity, which was purely screwed over by Leviathan.

The expansion pack, A Crisis of Mechanized Intelligence, tells of the Reapers’ third cycle of return.

Of course, the game ends with the player’s victory. The reason is simple: no matter how many Reapers there are, there are always more players. The players killed so many reapers that they nearly went extinct. Basically, there were multiple players squatting in one galaxy per reappearance of the Reaper Fleet. Once the fleet reappeared, it was directly wiped out, poor them.

However, as the first expansion pack, A Crisis of Mechanized Intelligence is indeed intense. If this was a game, Duanmu Huai wouldn’t be scared. But the problem is, in reality, there aren’t that many players. To combat billions or even more Reapers, Duanmu Huai’s only option is to build enough warships in a short period, thus enhancing the Tribunal’s combat power.

This is one of the reasons why he wants to help the Star Union. The Tribunal’s purpose is one thing, and the other is that if the Star Union were only a non Divine Assembly species that joined the Shenbao Council, their warship building would be held in check by the council, just like the naval warship treaties or the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

And now, the Star Union’s status in the Divine Assembly is no less than that of the three major species, and they will not be restrained in the construction of warships.

Moreover, Duanmu Huai had warned Li Longcheng that Reapers will return soon. If you don’t have enough warships, just wait to die. Therefore, the Star Union must go full throttle in order to build more warships.

However, mobilizing troops on a large scale needs a reason and an excuse. If you mobilize troops without reason, it will inevitably cause suspicion and uneasy feelings among other races. Therefore, the human’s colonizing expansion is a good excuse: we humans have just stepped into the universe and need large colonies, and with large colonies, we need more warships for protection. So I am building more warships to protect these galaxies and colonies. Any problems?

Of course not, the logic is sound.

The Boundary God Star System is just such an excuse.

Not only can it provide the Star Union and the Tribunal with enough resources to build warships, but it can also give the Star Union a valid reason to mobilize a large number of troops. Therefore, for the Star Union and the Tribunal, conquering the Boundary God Star System has become a top priority.

That’s why the Star Union will not only dispatch a fleet to work with Duanmu Huai’s Tribunal Fleet to proceed with the plan to conquer the Boundary God Star System, but they will also send a human elite squad to fight on the ground alongside the Tribunal’s forces, learning the Tribunal’s combat skills and tactics.

And what Duanmu Huai was looking at was the information of the leader of this elite squad.

Major Shepperd, born into a fleet military family, often moved around with his parents. He joined the Star Alliance Army when he turned eighteen. When the Batarei Warlords allied with slave traders and crime syndicates to attack the Colonial Bliss Territory, Shepperd, who was vacationing there, stepped forward. He gathered the colonists, led them in desperate resistance against the invaders, and eventually received reinforcements, repelling the attack of the Batarei Warlords.

Hmm… with such a record, it’s no wonder that the Star Union appointed him as team leader. At least, as it stands, he seems to have plenty of strength. Otherwise, he would not have been able to withstand an alien invasion, right?

However…

Duanmu Huai read and reread Shepperd’s file, flipping back and forth.

Why is there no mention of whether this Major Shepperd is male or female?