Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 6 The colonial ship sets sail

Today, the United Nations of Earth has a total of 5 docks, one on the top platform of the space elevator, three in the Solar Space Station, and one in the Centaur Space Station.

Two huge colony ships are currently parked in No. 2 and No. 3 of the Sun Space Station.

There is a 10-kilometer-long cruiser named Shuguang parked in the No. [-] dock of the Sun Space Station.

This is a behemoth that cannot be imagined by the United Nations of the Earth, which currently only has the ability to produce frigates of 800 to 1000 meters.

Not only is this a big problem, the colony ships are also huge, but the technical content of the two is completely incomparable.

People who want to colonize Alpha Planet are sent back and forth from the earth to the solar space station in batches via transport ships.

Passing by the Sun Space Station No. [-] Dock, everyone stopped to take photos when they saw this huge war machine.

The marine life, marine algae, etc. that climbed on the Dawn cruiser have been cleared away, and the fleet logo that originally belonged to civilization has also been daubed and spray-painted with the logo of the United Nations Space Forces of Earth.

At present, there are still many things that have not been understood in the Shuguang. A group of scientists from the Mozi research ship have been living in the Shuguang for a long time.

It can be said that you are researching and performing tasks at the same time.

Two colonial ships, with a total of 200 million people, although the risk factor is very low, it is impossible to let them go to the Centaur galaxy alone.

Therefore, the escort task fell on the Dawn, which had just been repaired.

It is impossible to completely repair. At least a few broken ion thrusters. The Earth United Nations does not yet have such technology, so it can only make do with chemical thrusters.

Other weapon systems are also broken a lot. It seems that one ship of the Dawn can lift up the entire United Nations Space Force on Earth and attack it, but in fact, it can currently exert less than 1% of its combat effectiveness.

"mom?"

Qin Xu was startled when he picked up the phone and heard the voice.

After looking at the phone again and confirming that it was my mother's voice, I felt heartbroken.

"Mom. Do you know how much it costs per second to make long-distance interstellar calls? Then follow..."

His father grabbed the phone and said, "Little bastard, get out of that big ship quickly. Your mother and I are waiting for you in the civilian hall of the Solar Space Station."

"what?"

"Stop it, we'll talk about it when we get here."

"Ok."

Qin Xu came out of the bedroom and ran into Chen Xiaomeng, "My mother is here to see me, are you going?"

"what?"

Chen Xiaomeng was looking down at her phone when she was suddenly stunned by the question.

"Stop it, let's talk about it when we get here."

"No, why, why did you take me with you when your mother came to find you?"

Chen Xiaomeng was pulled away and asked in confusion.

"I have to bring someone with me, otherwise my mother will be worried if she finds out that I don't have any friends in the research ship."

"Brother Liu, didn't he have a good chat with you?"

"Then do you know where Brother Liu is now?"

"..."

"That's right, come with me quickly, my mother is waiting."

"Ok."

Chen Xiaomeng was dragged along reluctantly. She had dragged Qin Xu to do hard labor too many times, and she was too embarrassed to refuse now.

Although people were coming and going in the waiting hall of the Sun Space Station, they were all going to the No. 2 and No. 3 docks. There were not many people on the No. 1 side, and it was easy to see the parents waving to this side.

"Oh, why are you bringing your girlfriend here? The gifts I brought are not enough."

Seeing Qin Xu holding a beautiful girl by the hand, and looking at her bag full of things, her mother felt a little embarrassed.

Just as Chen Xiaomeng was about to explain, Qin Xu said first, "Mom, you misunderstood. This is my senior. I usually receive a lot of care from her at work. Otherwise, I would not be able to do many tasks well and would be a hindrance to everyone." It’s not good.”

Chen Xiaomeng's beautiful cheek couldn't help but twitch, and she gritted her teeth and whispered in Qin Xu's ear: "It's true that you are being taken care of, but can you not add the word "senior"..."

"Shh."

Qin Xu signaled her not to talk nonsense.

Chen Xiaomeng resisted the urge to throw Qin Xu over his shoulder and said with a forced smile: "Hello, uncle and aunt, I am an astronaut at the same time as Qin Xu, not a senior."

My mother looked like she understood, but in fact no one knew what she understood.

She gave a bag of fruit to Chen Xiaomeng, "Oh, Qin Xu, I'll leave it to you. This child has not been very smart since he was a child, and he doesn't know how he was chosen to be an astronaut... I need you to take more care of him. .”

"Yes, this kid almost emptied our family's fortune by getting admitted to college. In the end, he got in through some connections. Who knew he would take the astronaut exam and get in right after he took the exam? It's true that our ancestors were in smoke, and now they still marry So..."

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Faced with his parents' crazy revelations, Qin Xu finally couldn't stand it anymore, "Okay, okay, parents, let's finally come here and let's not talk about the past. Come on, let's get together over there, Sun I’ve been here on the space station for a few months, and I’m familiar with it. There are several delicious restaurants, and I’m just about to pay my wages. I’ll pay for whatever you want to eat!”

"Really?"

"Anything is fine?"

"Of course, I found that astronauts' wages are quite high, really."

"That's good, my son is promising." "How much is your monthly salary? Your mother and I's combined annual salary is just over 30. The salary of astronauts should be quite high, right?"

"Annual salary? It seems to be 400 million?"

"what?"

Qin Xu took his parents away, leaving Chen Xiaomeng standing alone in the crowd with a bag of fruit.

Chen Xiaomeng stood so quietly, watching, until he couldn't see them at all.

I don't know how long it took, but Chen Xiaomeng carried the fruit, walked to the chair next to the waiting hall, sat down, and put the fruit on the table.

People were passing by, but Chen Xiaomeng just sat like this. Suddenly she took out the apple in the bag and took a few bites, and a few more bites.

"Xiaomeng, daddy is going to heaven."

"What in the sky? Daddy is going to turn into a star?"

"Haha, what about you, use this astronomical telescope and look here."

"This?"

"Yes, do you see the biggest star?"

"I saw it."

"Ask, what is the star that shines?"

"It will shine...wait a minute, the book dad gave me said, yes, it's a star!"

"That's right. The star there is Barnard's Galaxy. Dad will build a huge space station there. The name is Barnard Space Station. When the time comes, as long as you miss Dad, use this astronomical telescope. You can see daddy."

"Oh! Dad is so awesome! I will also go there in the future, to Barnard Space Station!"

The little girl jumped up excitedly.

"A piece of urgent news. Recently, the Barnard Star space station under construction has been attacked by unknown forces. The other party has no intention of communicating with us. They blocked all signals and only wanted to destroy the space station."

"Currently we have lost control of Barnard Galaxy, and all 30 construction workers on Barnard Space Station have lost contact. We mourn deeply, but the United Nations of Earth's space army is still in the construction stage, so we cannot We will send troops."

The little girl rushed out of the room, picked up the astronomical telescope on the balcony, and adjusted the angle everywhere.

But because she rushed out too quickly, she bumped into the angle of the astronomical telescope. It was obviously impossible for a little girl who had just entered first grade to aim the astronomical telescope at the star named Barnard. matter.

The little girl was so anxious that she was about to cry, but no matter how she adjusted the angle, she still couldn't see the star again.

The little girl rushed back to her room and took out a set of One Hundred Thousand Whys books that her father had bought for her. However, no matter how hard she searched, she couldn't find them. It didn't tell her how to find Barnard's Star.

That night, the girl not only lost her father, but also the star named Barnard.

At the same time, the United Nations on Earth also encountered the largest riot in history. A large number of improvised Molotov cocktails, stones and firecrackers attacked the government building. The government building was burned into ruins at 0:[-] that night.

However, the attitude of the Earth United Nations remains firm and will never send troops.

The girl at that time hated the Earth United Nations government so much, but as she grew up, she gradually understood that it was not that the Earth United Nations did not want to send troops.

But -

Barnard's galaxy is lined with countless warship wreckage of the United Nations of Earth stretching for tens of millions of kilometers. They are piled up in a corner of the universe like garbage being swept away.

"dad……"

A line of tears soaked his cheeks, and Chen Xiaomeng felt as if he was flying up.

When he came back to his senses, Chen Xiaomeng found that he had been dragged far away by Qin Xu.

"Oh, I only bought six apples in total, and you actually ate them all in one go behind my back! My mother bought them for me. My mother knows that I like to eat fruits, so she bought them specially because I want to eat one in space. It’s not easy, but you’d better eat them all without leaving any one behind.”

Qin Xu complained while dragging Chen Xiaomeng towards the crowd.

Chen Xiaomeng hadn't wiped the tears on her face, so she broke away from Qin Xu's hand, wiped her face, and said angrily: "What are you doing all of a sudden!"

"Are you eating? Or are you full of fruit?"

Qin Xu said with a confused look.

"Didn't you just leave? What are you doing back?"

Chen Xiaomeng said angrily.

Qin Yuan was so angry that he hit Chen Xiaomeng on the head.

"what."

"You still have the nerve to say that? Just follow us when we leave! What are you doing standing there blankly? If you want to eat an apple, you can't eat it now. My mother just scolded me and told me to leave you alone. I All convinced."

Qin Xu looked at his watch and said impatiently: "Oh, after being delayed like this by you, my mother should be worried again. Let's go quickly."

"Huh? Why are you crying again? What did I do? Don't cry. It's time for my mother to talk to me again later."

"Hey, don't cry, okay, be good, don't cry. Although I don't know where I went wrong, I was wrong..."

"Ah, why are you crying louder and louder? Come on, I've ordered a table of expensive dishes over there, and I'll treat you to a feast."

Chen Xiaomeng raised her hand to wipe her eyes, pouted and said, "I want the most expensive one, order them all."

"Okay, okay, as long as you go over and don't cry in front of my mother, I will promise you anything."

"Ah."

(End of this chapter)