From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 395: Is it time for the military-industrial complex to start taking effect?

"Yes. Simply winning a strategic decisive battle cannot solve all problems."

Miller nodded, looked Brandon in the eyes seriously and said, "Especially internal issues."

"I'd like to hear more about it." Brandon seemed to realize something and stopped avoiding Miller's gaze. Instead, he started to look into Miller's eyes.

"Originally, I shouldn't be the one to comment on these issues, after all, they are all internal affairs. But now, after this series of events, and based on the information I have, I have reason to believe that these 'internal affairs' have risen to the level of threatening 'national security'."

"Do you really think these things involve 'national security', or is this just an excuse for your military to interfere in 'internal affairs'?"

Brandon's words did not conceal his malicious speculation about military leaders such as Miller and Trafalgar, and the latter two did not respond to this.

Perhaps it was because Miller and Marshal Trafalgar had prepared themselves mentally in advance, or perhaps it was because after spending more than a year at the front line, his hot temper had subsided a lot. In short, even Marshal Trafalgar did not lose his temper as usual.

"Hahahaha, you are joking, Mr. President." Miller smiled and shook his head.

"To tell you the truth, if it is not really raised to the level of 'national defense and security', our military has no interest in the bullshit going on within the federal government, let alone getting involved.

But whether it is the restless autonomous governments of various galaxies or the rapidly rising Atlas, they have already touched the boundary line of "national defense security."

The former, at best, could directly lead to the division of galaxies and eventually plunge the Federation into civil war, while the latter has already strangled us in key areas and is relying on this technology to continuously infiltrate the Federation.

Although we don't know the true purpose of Atlas yet, there is no doubt that it is a threat to the Federation."

"That's right." Trafalgar took over the words of Defense Minister Miller and continued:

"The military has spent almost all its energy just focusing on the war on the front line. We are raising these issues now just to hope that you and the federal government can pay more attention to these two hidden dangers, rather than us fighting on the front line and then suddenly a fire breaks out in the backyard."

"Okay. So what do you want to do? Or what do you want me to do?"

Brandon spoke up, and at the same time he began to think about the "hidden dangers" Miller mentioned, and how likely they were to actually happen.

"Speed ​​up the transformation of the unmanned fleet into a 'semi-automated' fleet, and at the same time free up more manpower and material resources from the initial construction of the third and fourth mobile fortresses - the construction of the mobile fortresses takes too long, and if we wait until they are completed before the decisive battle, everything will be too late.

The liberated manpower, material resources and production capacity will be invested in the regular fleet crew training and the production of proton annihilation bombs. We hope to have at least 5 more proton annihilation bombs before the strategic decisive battle begins. "

"Five? Are you kidding?" Brandon laughed.

"Before the war, we only managed to collect less than 20 missiles. You need to produce 5 missiles in a short period of time."

"Before the war, it was before the war. Now it is the military capacity under the current total mobilization. Can it be compared with peacetime? We have consulted with relevant personnel. As long as more manpower and material resources are invested in this regard, this number can be achieved."

In response to Brandon's question, Miller answered confidently that he has always been good at considering all possibilities and preparing for all problems before non-temporary meetings.

".Anything else?" "There are also issues within the Federation. These are all matters that the Federal Government needs to worry about. You and the various government departments should start suppressing the autonomous governments of various galaxies, and strengthen them when necessary. By the way."

Miller's eyes suddenly lit up as if he had thought of something.

"I remember that the Atlas Group has a close relationship with the Rubion Galaxy Autonomous Government, right? You can start with this galaxy first, suppress the momentum of the separatist forces in the galaxy, cut off their relationship with the Atlas Group, and remove this 'nail' to achieve the effect of 'killing two birds with one stone'."

"What are the specific methods?"

"This is not something you and I need to consider. From a certain perspective, with the rapid rise of Atlas, those military-industrial complexes that you have a good relationship with should now have a sense of crisis, right?
Since they have been sucking the blood of the Federation for so long, now facing a common enemy, shouldn’t they also do something?"
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Just as Brandon and two military leaders were discussing how to use the power of the military-industrial complex to cause some "little trouble" to Atlas in the Rubion galaxy, and at the same time to crack down on this increasingly restless galaxy autonomous government.

Atlas' main combat force began to "clean up and sweep" the still somewhat "hot" planet of Pella IV.

At this time, Infinity was also anchored in the low orbit of Pyra IV, and lowered the "Deployable Earth-to-Earth Round-Trip Module", which seemed like a "miracle" to many people.

The 'Deployable Space-to-Earth Round-Trip Module' is essentially powered by a large number of carbon nanotubes and microwaves hanging from the hull, which then generate a gravity-controlled channel with a cross-section of three square kilometers.

Ten gravity control rings manufactured according to the pioneer technology were detached from the bottom of the ship and then arranged at a certain distance along the entire round-trip channel between heaven and earth.

Inside this channel, gravity is not the same as outside, but is determined by the operating mode of the gravity control ring.

In the delivery mode, the gravity inside the space-to-earth round-trip channel will be much lower than that outside, and the materials being delivered will be precisely decelerated.

In the 'base area' at the bottom of the ground, there will be a large number of worker bees responsible for the transportation and sorting of materials, moving the delivered items to the 'material sorting area' outside the round-trip channel.

In recovery mode, the gravity inside the round-trip channel will be directly reversed, and the materials entering the recovery channel will "fall" toward the Infinity above under the action of anti-gravity, and then be guided and recovered by the "worker bees (outer space working type)" in the last section of the channel near the Infinity.

After seeing the round-trip channel between heaven and earth operating successfully, Amber couldn't help but sigh that the shock of seeing this thing in reality was definitely not comparable to that in the game.

This channel, which has a much higher delivery efficiency than the orbital elevator, also deployed a large amount of materials and personnel to the ground at a very fast speed. Even the Infinity itself became a temporary spaceport after the module was deployed.
Of course, according to Saleh, the 'earth-earth round-trip channel' currently deployed by the Infinity is actually the least efficient one among the Forerunner technologies.

After all, only one of the delivery mode and the recovery mode can be activated at the same time, so the current operation mode of the delivery channel is to rotate once a day. If there are no personnel and materials that need to be recovered for the time being, the "delivery mode" will be kept activated for a long time.

But Amber didn't feel any regret about it, as long as it could be used.

To be honest, he was already very surprised that the Equipment R&D Center could develop gravity control in such a short period of time. In his opinion, the speed of replicating this technology was no different from having a "golden finger".

During this period, relying on the efficient transportation capacity of this delivery channel, Atlas has deployed a large number of ground troops and a number of experimental weapons. The purpose is to clear out various armed forces entrenched on the ground and conduct actual combat tests on these new weapons.

Amber also returned to the ground and was looking at a five-axis special vehicle beside her, slowly raising the electromagnetic cannon with a huge inner diameter on the track high up.

(End of this chapter)