Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 440: Taking Action to Survive the Crisis

Although to the discerning eye, neural technology has many advantages.

But the implementation of new technologies is not always smooth.

When the various armies of the Empire first implemented this technology, all the armies could do was to group the soldiers by conducting simple psychological tests, grouping people with similar personalities, thinking styles, etc. together to work together to control the spacecraft.

This approach is obviously not perfect.

Internal conflicts frequently occur among soldiers due to minor conflicts and problems such as memory leakage.

But the top brass of the empire issued a strict order, and the top brass of the armies of all parties also knew how much improvement such a technology could bring to the army.

No matter how big the internal contradictions and conflicts are, they must be erased under this voice.

After about two weeks of forced adjustment.

Basically, every unit fighting against the mechanical race on the front line chose to eliminate nearly one-tenth of its soldiers at the most intense moment of the battle.

This further increases the pressure on the front line.

However, it was precisely because of the elimination of this one-tenth of the manpower that after the integration of the army was completed, the direct military force that the empire could mobilize at least tripled.

This is 20% higher than the originally expected increase in military strength.

After human consciousness enters a hive mind network with similar thinking patterns, each person's subconscious mind will coordinate with the other.

It allows the mental power originally latent in the human brain to be fully unleashed, allowing the hive mind cluster to reduce the proportion of personnel controlling the ship to a greater extent than in the test.

This is the source of the extra 20% of military power.

The eliminated soldiers will be diagnosed by a psychologist and transferred to logistics after a certain period of psychological treatment.

There will also be people in logistics who will join the front-line troops because of the strength of their awareness.

This is a comprehensive deployment at the military level, and no one will be left out.

Everything is just for the sake of war.

In addition to problems at the soldier level, there are also problems at the officer level.

The commander's consciousness often needs to coordinate the consciousness of his subordinates, which requires him to bear enormous pressure.

The middle and lower-level officers are fine. The mental pressure of dozens or hundreds of people is still acceptable with the presence of Zerg neurons.

However, the mental pressure faced by officers who can command larger numbers of soldiers is no longer something that ordinary people can easily accept.

Psychotropic drugs will also become standard in military rations.

The drugs originally produced for psychics will be produced after the drug ingredient content is reduced in proportion and distributed to every officer in need.

And the higher-level generals.

There are also various mental drugs, various equipment to stimulate mental power, and so on. All things that can enhance the mental power of ordinary people and protect consciousness must be used.

Even so, this is still a huge test for the generals.

Some generals still find it difficult to adapt to the new way of fighting, even though the subsequent research institute has specially prepared various facilities for the neural connection of the hive mind network to reduce the mental burden of the generals.

They also found it difficult to withstand the shock of coming into contact with an entire army during this period of time, and were forced to retreat to the second line.

Only the true elites can remain on the battlefield.

After completing the comprehensive optimization from ships to soldiers to generals.

The empire is almost completely different from the past, and its strategic approach is no longer a pure retreat of defense.

Instead, while ensuring the stability of the defense line, they continued to infiltrate and harass the mechanical clan's front line.

Investigate the use of colonial resources by the mechanical race after they invaded the empire and occupied the first and second rings outside the empire.

The reason is naturally for future counterattack.

Although in a short period of time, the Empire's suddenly growing military strength has surpassed the strength of the Mechanical Race on the front battlefield.

But the empire was in no rush.

The Mechanical Clan most likely has backup reinforcements.

and……

The empire does need to wait for a critical opportunity.

March 5605, 6 AD.

In the second month after the neuron ships were fully commissioned.

It was also the third month and a half since the war between the Empire and the Machines began.

The Extraordinary Research Institute released a paper titled "Deconstruction of the Super Body".

Several people who signed their names included Brilliant, Extraordinary, and the former director of the Fourteenth Legion's Ship Research Institute and the director of the Psychic Research Institute, who are now retired and are living off Chen Ming.

This paper gives in detail the complete research process of super bodies by the Extraordinary Research Institute.

Analyze the manufacturing of super bodies from macro to micro levels, from theory to practical manufacturing, from basic material disassembly to the top-level operating logic.

An in-depth analysis of all the capabilities of a warship like the Supercell.

At the same time, the weaknesses of the super body are thoroughly analyzed and the means to deal with the super body are given.

Even though the methods given for dealing with superbodies are extremely difficult.

But on the sixth day after the publication of "Ultrasound".

The Empire successfully destroyed the second super body of the Mechanical Clan without any casualties.

The last time a super-body was destroyed, a level 6 psychic was lost.

This time, it can even be said that the Empire did not consume any mental energy except for the few psychics who participated in the battle to destroy the super body.

Of course, if we have to count, there is also Chen Ming's complete prototype super body that failed to be controlled by the Alpha-class afterglow and appeared on the battlefield in the early days of the war between the Empire and the Machines.

But in short, as long as this paper comes out, as long as the mechanical super body is destroyed.

Then it's all worth it.

The technical environment left by Chen Ming before finally played a role and promoted the further development of super-body related technologies.

The super body is no longer an untargetable enemy.

If it dares to appear on the battlefield again, it will be hunted down by several level 6 psychics under the guidance of the president.

This solves one of the biggest problems facing the empire right now, which is the lack of any follow-up means of counterattacking the mechanical race.

The mechanical race's suppression of the empire is all-encompassing.

Early defeats in the war prevented the Empire from achieving this goal through its fleet.

Only truly top-tier psychics can try to play a role after breaking through the siege of the mechanical fleet.

Unfortunately, the mechanical race had previously used super bodies to hold back all of the empire's advanced combat forces.

In a one-on-one fight, not all level 6 psychics can withstand and repel the attack.

Therefore, most psychics cannot be deployed on the front lines of the war, and those who can be deployed must always be vigilant against sudden attacks from super bodies.

Therefore, the mechanical race can use ships to suppress the empire and delay time.

The longer they delay, the easier it will be for them to gain a foothold on the border of the empire, but the empire cannot afford to delay.

The longer the mechanical race delays, the more dangerous it becomes that the empire is confined.

Even if there is new technology, it cannot be used indefinitely. The longer it is used, the greater the damage to consciousness.

Especially for generals and commanders.

A stalemate with the Mechanicals is the worst possible scenario for the Imperial generals.

The mental cost they pay will continue to increase as the number of wars increases.

In this stalemate.

The emergence of this paper on super body design instantly reversed the situation.

After this, the Empire's top psychics will no longer be restricted by super bodies and will be able to better play their due roles.

The Empire is fully capable of relying on the top combat power of psychics to accomplish many things that it was unable to do before when it was restricted by super bodies.

There is something even more important.

That is, with the solution of the super body problem, the long-dormant Zerg fleet can finally reach the front line.

Chen Ming has not yet taught the Queen Insect how to speak language, so it cannot communicate with humans other than Chen Ming.

Therefore, the Zerg cannot join forces with the Empire and can only play a logistical role in the war between the Empire and the Mechanoids and produce more neurons for the Empire.

The Zerg fleet could not be mixed with the Imperial fleet and could only act on its own.

But when the threat of super bodies was still there, the Zerg's own actions were just a waste of time for the mechanical super bodies, and they had no means of counterattack.

The situation is completely different now.

The greatest constraint on the Zerg fleet has been removed.

The situation of the war between the Empire and the Machines will change from the moment the Machines' second super body is destroyed.

Time flies.

A few days after the second super-body was destroyed.

The Mechanicals did not simply give up on using super bodies as top combat force to fight against the Empire's psykers.

They are still continuing to use super bodies to do what they did before.

Then, the third super body of the mechanical race was destroyed.

There are currently a total of 6 super-bodies, one of which was destroyed by Imperial psychics in a mutual destruction manner when it first invaded.

Now that they have lost two super bodies again, they have finally realized that the Empire really has the ability to deal with super bodies, and they can no longer continue to threaten the Empire from this aspect.

As for the empire.

As the Super Body had previously caused several heavy casualties to the Empire's front-line fleet, the news that the Super Body was destroyed, and two of them were destroyed, undoubtedly brought unprecedented excitement to the front line.

The battle line has been stabilized thanks to the rapidly expanding technology, and the arrival of this good news will further increase the combat effectiveness of the front line.

The empire can no longer be said to be strangled by the mechanical race, and can barely breathe through the mechanical race's blockade.

In the entire empire, the place that was most affected and felt the most obvious was of course Baiquan on the front line.

In the headquarters building in the direction of the Galo star field, he was holding a regular tactical meeting.

Sitting in the main seat of the conference room, he looked to be in a very bad mental state, and it was obvious that he had been through frequent and many battles.

The mental states of the other generals at the conference table were obviously not very good, but not as serious as Baiquan's.

At present, Baiquan is basically relying on drugs to maintain his mental state.

If he hadn't had the psychics specially assigned to him by the legion to monitor and maintain his mental state, he would have collapsed long ago.

Baiquan didn't seem to care about this.

A star map of the direction in which he was stationed was projected on the conference table in front of him.

The above clearly shows the situation between the Empire and the Machine Race.

"We need to coordinate with the fleets of several neighboring star regions and try to counterattack the mechanical race."

“Here is the key.”

Bai Quan moved his hands and marked a route on the star map that passed through the weakest point of the Mechanical Clan's front line and attacked their rear, which was originally the outer ring of the empire.

He pointed to the end of the line and said, "Although we have dealt with the mechanical super-bodies, we still have problems to face."

"That means the mechanical race has indeed occupied our territory. They are active in these places and use our resources to provide them with blood transfusions."

"Although those are border galaxies, the mechanical race has to find ways to develop them if they want to use their resources, but it's not a long-term solution after all."

“So we have to find a way to curb this.”

"This is a plan that needs to be carried out simultaneously on the front lines and behind enemy lines."

"We need to put pressure on the mechanical tribe on the front line, and we also need someone to lurk behind the enemy lines and destroy their industrial bases."

"Let's discuss the issues behind enemy lines first."

"Lu Bai."

"To!"

Lu Bai, who was sitting in the middle of the conference room, stood up immediately.

Bai Quan understood again and enlarged the star map, showing the end of the line he had just marked, and some new marks appeared on it.

"This is the news sent back by the fleet that infiltrated. There is an important colony of the Mechanical Clan and one of their Colossi."

"We lost about five hundred people in total for the news of this galaxy and this Colossus."

"The value of this information is...very heavy."

A trace of regret flashed across Lu Bai's eyes, and he said, "It's a pity that the technology couldn't be promoted earlier."

"It would have been difficult to implement earlier. Only now can this technology be implemented nationwide so quickly."

“Now is not the time to reminisce.”

Bai Quan began to explain in detail the task that would be assigned to Lu Bai: "According to investigations, this industrial colony of the Mechanical Clan is producing core components for the manufacture of Mechanical Clan ships."

"As long as this industrial colony is destroyed, their ship production will come to a standstill."

"And there should be a personality core belonging to the mechanical race in this industrial colony."

"If we can bring it back, we can use Chen Ming's artificial intelligence, which he calls the Machinery Queen, to read the data inside and figure out the military deployment of the Mechanical Clan."

"The mission has three objectives: the colony, the personality core, and the Colossus."

"As long as one of the three tasks can be completed, it will be considered a success."

"The front line will continue to apply pressure, and the rest will be up to you."

Lu Bai simply agreed: "I understand."

"Well, you can decide on the resources yourself. Just like last time, only you and the team members you personally selected will participate in this mission."

"I hope that this time you can complete the mission just like last time, losing only one team member."

Lu Bai was silent for a moment.

Bai Quan handed Lu Bai a document that had his name already signed on it but the content had not yet been filled out.

Lu Bai took the document and saluted Bai Quan, saying, "There will be no losses this time."

(End of this chapter)