From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 602: Dragon × Combat Weapon × Pilot

Amber felt that the melon she had eaten today from the pioneer 'Old Frozen Meat' in front of her was probably the most satisfying she had ever had since she crossed over to this world.

The first royal family of the Star Dragon Empire was actually an "experiment" of the Forerunner civilization.

The purpose of creating these "half dragons, half humans" was to allow them to "drive" the so-called perfect cosmic creation, the Star Dragon.
If this information was published in the past, Amber would have sorted it out and posted it on major video websites and game forums, and it would have become the top story in the plot area of ​​Starry Sky OL overnight.
It's just that now Amber can't find many people to share these secrets with.

Salih had nothing to hide from Amber, so she quickly told her everything she knew.

In the eyes of the Forerunner civilization, the star dragon is the most perfect and powerful creature among all the cosmic creatures they have discovered, except for themselves.

An extremely long lifespan, intelligence far beyond the imagination of most creatures, a body strong enough to span hyperspace, a special ability to transform cosmic psychic energy into 'dragon power', and the ability to destroy fleets in single combat.
The only two shortcomings are that the reproduction capacity of the Star Dragon race is very low, resulting in the number of the entire population being at an extremely low level.

Although it is not easy for an adult Star Dragon to die, the problem is that it is not easy for a new Star Dragon to be born.
Another disadvantage is that this group of people is very lazy.

The star dragons clearly have superior command, and can easily calculate complex hyperspace routes without any external help, and can also create various strange 'Dragon Power Techniques'.

But they are too lazy to use their wisdom to the fullest. They don't want to build civilization or overcome the only two flaws of their own race so that the entire race can evolve further to "perfection".

In addition to foraging, playing, mating, and trying to reproduce, the dragons' greatest hobby is to find a planet with intelligent life, then hide in the dark and secretly observe their development.

Just like human children love to watch ants moving.
Amber could imagine how devastated a civilization like the Forerunners would be after seeing such a talented group living such a decadent life.

So under the impetus of some pioneer scientists, they finally decided to give a good help to the star dragon clan so that they could truly realize their value in this universe.

The way the forerunners "helped" was to transform these powerful star dragons into combat weapons and then join them in their glorious "time and space expedition".
It can only be said that it is a very "pioneer".

But the final result was just as Salih had said, the forerunners found that they could not convert the star dragons into combat weapons in large quantities.

The few semi-mechanized combat puppets, after losing most of their special abilities including 'physical leap' and retaining only their physical combat capabilities, were arranged to act as 'security guards' in some facilities.

The Forerunner researchers, after spending a huge amount of money to capture a group of star dragons and racking their brains to thoroughly dissect and test them, finally came to a conclusion.

That is, these proud cosmic creatures can never be controlled by them while still alive.

The only way to control them is to erase their original consciousness or soul, but this will cause these star dragons that have become "puppets" to lose the ability to use "dragon power"
In this context, the research on transforming the star dragon into a combat weapon is about to be stopped, and the forerunners also plan to exterminate the star dragon as they did with other powerful cosmic creatures in the past.

But at this moment, a crazy Forerunner scientist stood up and proposed a crazy plan.

That is to let the "Homo sapiens" "drive" the Star Dragon.
In earlier research, the pioneers have discovered that Homo sapiens can be controlled through various means, and is very adaptable to various transformations and evolutions. Although Homo sapiens is physically weak, some rare individuals in the group have a strong affinity for cosmic psychic energy.

Therefore, this pioneer scientist planned to replace the missing 'consciousness' of the Star Dragon's body with carefully selected humans with high psychic affinity and who had been greatly enhanced after stripping away its consciousness.

In this way, theoretically, we can obtain a controllable combat weapon that obeys the orders of the Forerunners and has 90% of the strength of the Star Dragon.

In fact, according to the theory of this pioneer scientist, the Jeram people themselves are the most suitable "drivers" of the star dragon.

However, due to concerns about uncontrollable risks and the risk of the driver being completely integrated after entering the "plug" in the body of the Star Dragon, the Forerunner's top leaders prohibited the Jeram people from serving as drivers from the beginning.

As for why the transformed 'Homo sapiens pilot' has a handsome appearance and extremely beautiful features such as dragon horns and dragon scales, it can only be said that it is due to the distorted aesthetic concepts and obsessive-compulsive disorder of the Jeram people.

They couldn't accept that the pilots of their most powerful combat weapons were a bunch of idiots, so when they transformed these humans, they also helped them do a round of "beautification".
In fact, when Amber heard this, he already felt that this story was a bit "familiar", and the various settings were very similar to the two works he had read in his previous life.
But when he thought of the rumors that all members of the "Starry Sky OL" production team had become "otakus", he was immediately relieved.

"Fuck, why did these guys have to copy these two works when there are so many other things to copy."

Saleh: "Amber, what did you say?"

"It's okay, just continue." Amber shook her head and brought her thoughts back to her senses.

Saleh shrugged. "There's nothing much to say about what happened next. It's pretty much what you thought, Amber~"

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Like similar experiments in different works, this experiment by the pioneer was successful for a period of time at first, but then something went wrong when it was about to be put into mass production.

Even Saleh didn't know what exactly happened.

The only information she knew was that before the Forerunner civilization started the "Time and Space Expedition", it exterminated all wild star dragons, and then sealed up the transformed star dragons and humans.

No one knows how many years have passed, and no one knows what went wrong with the storage facilities, but in any case, some of the humans who were sealed up at that time woke up and successfully escaped from the storage facilities.

"Then they returned to the human world, and just like the stories circulating in the Star Dragon Empire, they successfully rose up in the chaos of human warfare. Huh."

Amber let out a long breath and then collapsed.

“I never thought it would be a story about a brave boy who creates miracles.”

(End of this chapter)