Resurrection Empire

Ren Zhong's message was not only sent to the reconnaissance corps, but was reported to the entire ship.

Everyone in the fleet knew that some brothers and sisters would leave them.

This is the new sacrifice.

…

The scientific researchers stopped the experiments at hand, the production staff put down the semi-automatic instruments in their hands, and the recruits who were training for battle stopped their hands and stared up at the huge projection in front of them.

All activities on the Source Star Fleet were temporarily frozen at this moment.

The same picture is being played on countless projection screens.

One after another, willow-leaf-like work ships detached from the surface of different annual ships, accelerated, changed directions, and then gathered into a swarm-like fleet, heading for another road like dandelion seeds blown by the wind.

From then on, the work fleet and the headquarters troops were divided into two groups, and they were separated.

A special emotion brews in everyone's heart. Everyone knows that there are others in their life.

Luchad Sami and Pansim Sami stood side by side, looking up at the scene above them.

Although they could only see the entire fleet and didn't even know which one was Ahmed's ship, the two of them had established a mysterious connection with the fleet that was going to die.

"Brother can definitely do it." Lucchard clenched his fists.

Pansim hummed softly, "Yes."

Although Ren Zhong only announced the screening rules and decision-making basis, the two brothers already understood his intentions.

Although the two of them felt regretful, they were more grateful.

My father had such an unusual attachment to the surname Sami. If all three brothers died in battle, who would educate the next generation of little Sami to become excellent space pilots? The Earl took this into consideration and made such a decision.

The two put all their faith in their eldest brother.

They firmly believe that if this mission is really that difficult and requires the best driver to complete, then the eldest brother will definitely do his part and become the most dazzling one.

The two of them had no theoretical basis for this, it was purely blind intuition.

In the communication hub control room of the Tracer spacecraft, Ren Zhong stood in front of the console with his hands behind his back, looking at the large projection directly in front of him.

Chen Qiao, who took over Hua Yuelan's position, was looking at the central control screen of the smaller one in front of him.

What jumps on the small central control screen is one low-level data after another.

As for the heavy task, he raised his head and looked at the simulated star map of the entire fleet headquarters and work ship fleet above.

He controls the overall situation, while Chen Qiao is responsible for the details.

At this time, the fleet was beginning to slowly turn, changing from the original straight direction towards the black fog area to a tangential movement.

This steering process will last for a full twenty days, and will be a gradual fine-tuning. Combined with the synchronous changes of the anti-gravity device, the crew inside the fleet will have no physical sensation at all.

After a while, Chen Qiao breathed a long sigh of relief and said: "The stability of the information flow communication between the work fleet and the headquarters is still above 99.99%, which is better than the 99.9% level estimated in the previous experiment. The reason should be that the teacher is sitting on the cutting-edge simulation work ship Internally, she optimized the algorithm based on temporary changes at the edge of the Black Mist Zone."

Ren Zhong's eyes fell on the thousand work ships that were quickly dispersing at the front, and he nodded slightly, "After all, she is the best programmer and artificial intelligence expert in the fleet. With her sitting on the front line, she should indeed have something like this." Performance."

After saying that, Ren Zhong turned around and left.

Returning to his office, Ren Zhong called Ys Locke again and gave a few simple instructions, saying that he was about to enter cryo-sleep and not to wake himself up unless the working fleet encountered a major situation.

While he slumbers, Ys will assume primary administrative duties within the fleet.

Ren Zhong has made some general adjustments.

In the early days of the fleet, contraception was strictly prohibited.

After a total of 10+3+12, a total of 25 years of voyage, even without artificially cultured embryos, the total population of the fleet has gradually climbed to nearly three billion.

Although Ren Zhong hopes that the more people the better, but we still have to consider the load limit of the fleet.

Even though a large amount of resources have been collected in the Tamron Nebula, many small ships have been built using annual ships for the fleet, but now these small ships are also overcrowded, and these small ships have their own clear division of labor, and their functions are not comprehensive. .

Some people have proposed building small and medium-sized passenger ships with low defense performance and focusing on living space to further accommodate the population.

But Ren Zhong rejected the proposal for the time being.

A too narrow activity area is not conducive to cultivating a new generation.

In high-speed aerospace, the cost of personnel exchanges between different ships is also high. Every time a small ship is detached from a large ship, most of them are performing important military tasks and scientific research and production tasks. People cannot communicate with each other as seamlessly as they can on the surface, which is not conducive to the implementation of a system of comprehensive education for children and teenagers, and then classification, screening and promotion.

Therefore, at the current level, the population should be properly controlled and a new concept of focusing on the elite rather than the large number should be formed.

The big goals were put forward, and the specific details were completed and implemented by Ys Locke.

Ys has drafted several plans, including liberalizing contraceptive measures and implementing family planning combined with quotas in the short term.

After reading it, Ren Zhong said: "This is a feasible interim plan. During the eighteen years we fly over the Black Mist Zone, we must control the population size to less than 3.2 billion. After the incident in the Black Mist Zone is over, I will use my discretion to decide whether to change my strategy."

Since Liu An has shown obvious hostility and has become a huge threat that the fleet has to face, it is obvious that the Source Star Fleet must be temporarily disconnected from the Imperial Supernet in five years at the latest and become a fleet. The inconspicuous lone soldier advanced cautiously.

After leaving the Black Mist Zone, it will take another five years for the fleet to reach the Broken Star Ring.

This broken star ring is a huge planetary belt orbiting the Nanxiang star cluster. It looks like the ring of Saturn in the solar system, but its scale is countless times larger.

The entire Broken Star Ring contains at least tens of millions of small planets of varying sizes.

In addition, there are a large number of space pirates hiding in the area of ​​the Broken Star Ring close to the Nanxiang Star Cluster, choosing different asteroids as their bases.

Some space pirates have even existed and developed for more than five thousand years, looking like a thriving space civilization.

Its force size is even stronger than the Source Star Fleet.

In the normal route, there is a navigation channel in the Shattered Star Ring that is officially stamped and approved by the empire, and any space pirates are prohibited from getting involved.

Once any space pirates dare to attack the spacecraft on this route, they will be severely punished by the military and political departments of the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

The outgoing seeker spacecraft and the colonial fleet returning to the Nanxiang star cluster from the source star usually use this channel, and will register in advance.

In this official passage, dozens of supply and rest points similar to inns were also built.

For other level-seeking colonial fleets and merchant ships, arriving at this channel is basically equivalent to arriving home.

You only need to keep moving along the channel, and it will take three years to pass safely. In another three years, you will reach the edge of the Nanjiu Star gravity zone with the jump channel.

But for the Source Star Fleet, things are obviously not like this. They must bypass the Broken Star Ring, arrive at the Southern Nine Stars without anyone noticing, and then contact the higher-ups of the Mechanical Empire as quickly as possible to hand over the giant reproductive cells. Only by entering the empire's management order can Liu An surrender.

So all in all, it will take another fifteen years for the Source Star Fleet to reach its destination after leaving the Black Mist Zone.

If the population really needs to explode, Ren Zhong feels that fifteen years is enough.

Of course, he did not absolutely prohibit having children for the next eighteen years.

An ordinary family can raise two children who show talent in academics, production technology, military capabilities, and various other special abilities. Those with higher ratings can increase the upper limit of raising children as appropriate.

This policy may seem a bit ruthless, but with Ren Zhong's current authority, there will be no backlash.

After arranging everything, he stopped talking and just fell asleep again.

…

A year later, Ahmed Sami sat upright in the driver's seat, staring at the simulated star map in front of him.

In the star map, the olive-shaped black fog area is simulated as a light yellow translucent structure.

997 light green vertical data lines are extending upward from the center of the black fog area and spreading outside the black fog area.

At the bottom of the data line, there is a larger green dot. When you focus on it, detailed data will be displayed.

"The simulated working ship array has 997 existing ones, the average damage condition is 0.004%, and the information stability is 99.9%..."

At the top of the data line is the fleet headquarters.

On the surface, these appear to be stationary.

But at this time, both the simulated work ship array below and the fleet headquarters at the top are actually in continuous motion.

These 997 lines are still being stretched.

If you zoom in and look at it, you will find that these lines are continuous polylines composed of straight lines one after another.

Since the work ships all follow non-standard waterways, it is difficult to arrange their respective courses in advance. In order to avoid the gravitational zone of large or small dark energy clusters, they must constantly change directions.

Ahmed Sami's Falcon is in the middle of one of the data lines.

The Falcon was a name he chose himself and was not recognized by the fleet.

All work ships have only numbers and no names.

For example, the specific number of the Falcon is 981-27, which means that it is the 27th relay work ship in the 981st data link.

Ahmed switched the display mode and found that in addition to the 997 green data lines, there were countless horizontal and diagonal red lines of different colors.

At this time, there are many red lines connecting the Falcon with ships 980-27, 980-28, 980-26, 982-27, 982-28 and so on.

Relay ships that are closer together also have horizontal links with each other.

If Ahmed's Falcon explodes for no reason at this time, several other nearby work ships will immediately form a parallel neural network through horizontal links to preserve the No. 981 data link to wait for the loss of three ships due to the forward simulation work ship. One of the hundreds of idle work ships came to take its place.

If nothing unexpected happens, this net will cut through the black fog area silently like the knife line of a wire cutting machine cutting through an olive.

But this is the danger of the universe, it is always full of surprises.

"Captain, don't your eyes get tired if you keep staring at the star map like this? Nothing will happen. You should also take a break."

The technician on the Falcon, a young man named Mavian, came forward and said in a slightly nonchalant manner.

Ahmed turned away and glared at the man fiercely, "Shut up."

He hates this guy named Mavian.

there are many reasons.

Unlike most people on the fleet, Ma Wei'an came from the Shenxuan Ma family, the core family of the nine major groups.

His father's name is Ma Xiayun, and he and Ma Xiacheng, the former chairman of Shenxun Group, are very close cousins, and they have a respected status.

Mavian was born on the fleet.

Although Ren Zhong has implemented fair education as much as possible, the natural talents of Ma's core tribe members in the field of programming cannot be ignored.

Mavian has enjoyed the best education since he was born, and smoothly entered the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute as a senior researcher. He is also considered to be expected to inherit his father's mantle and continue to play an important role in the scientific research system of the fleet headquarters. Role.

Logically speaking, this kind of person should stay in the fleet headquarters and be his prince.

No one would have thought that when Hua Yuelan was selecting candidates, Ma Weian would forcefully sign up despite the objections of her elders in the family.

After he was actually selected, Ma Xiayun's widow, Ma Wei'an's mother, even went to Hua Yuelan to intercede, but was rejected without any suspense.

Maybe Mavian is really talented, or maybe he has had such a smooth life that he can be better than his peers even if he doesn't need to be serious, so he has developed the lazy temperament he has now.

This formed an irreconcilable conflict with Ahmed, who had always been strict with himself and obsessed with self-discipline. Ahmed even believed that he was wasting his talents by coming to die. If you have such ability, you should stay at the fleet headquarters and become an even better researcher. He could have created more for the Earl, but he despised his own life so much.

It happened that this man was actually the technical chief officer on the Falcon, and he could not be locked up. Ahmed could only use harsh words to try to influence the other person with his seriousness and sense of responsibility.

Unfortunately, it's been like this for a whole year and nothing seems to be working.

After being scolded again, Mavian was not angry. He just rolled his eyes and shrugged, "Boring. I don't know what you are nervous about. Even if the Falcon is knocked into a dark energy mass by you, there will still be someone else taking over the signal." Well. In other words, even if our 981 line is disconnected, there are still 996 data links, which are as stable as an old dog, okay?"

Ahmed finally couldn't bear it anymore and roared: "You have lived enough, but we have not lived enough."

Mavian curled his lips and said, "The Earl said that everyone will die in the end, right? Is there any difference?"

"Idiot! I don't want to die so casually! I don't want to be the one holding me back!" Ahmed was finally completely irritated, stood up, and pointed at Mavian angrily, "I don't even know how people like you got through. Selection. I don’t understand why you come here. But you’d better have enough respect for me. Like you, you have never lacked anything since you were born, and your ancestors will always stand at the top of the Source Star Pyramid. People can never understand the glory of a man from my Sami family. I have carved this glory into my heart!"