From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 9 Federal Army Day (Please read it! Please collect it!)

In "Starry Sky", the humanoid tactical machine HCP is just created by the game manufacturer to attract "mecha" enthusiasts.

But now, they are real war machines.

Amber's body's memory contains a large number of battles in which HCPs participated as seen in the military academy's 'HCP Driving Course'.

Whether it is airborne from low orbit to support mobile force operations on the ground.

Or become a knife-wielding guard of a space battleship and participate in the cruel "fleet combat".

Or on the surface of a planet with complex terrain, relying on the super mobility brought by the plasma propulsion array and metal muscle bundles to crush conventional units.

All demonstrate the super combat effectiveness of this humanoid tactical machine.

The infantry gave these guys who often jumped from low orbit to "support the field" for them an appropriate nickname - "Titans".

Soon, the nickname spread, and it has now become a recognized term for HCP.

But in this chaotic war that is about to engulf the entire human society, the HCP, which is as powerful as a 'Titan' in the eyes of the infantry, is nothing more than a consumable in every war.
  Looking at the HCP disappearing in the distance, Amber shook her head to stop her divergent thoughts.

Two days passed quickly.

During these two days, Amber was actually not assigned any serious work.

After running to the tactical support team under the combat intelligence center to report.

Amber discovered that the tactical support team at Yassin Base was a real idle job.

The daily task is to carry out regular training of psychics and some cooperative combat training.

On this frontier agricultural planet, the tactical support team basically has no opportunity to go out in the field.

Even if there is an accident such as a demonstration, strike, or uprising, the police force will not be able to use it.

There is no need to even dispatch heavy equipment such as multi-legged tanks and HCPs.

Mechanized infantry alone can easily suppress these 'mobs'.

In addition, Amber is new here, and the commander of the tactical support team is a "good guy" who is kind to others.

So with a wave of his hand, he immediately gave Amber three days of leave.

It is not too late to let him get familiar with and adapt to the environment first, and then participate in daily training.
  This is the normal state of the army in the border areas in "Starry Sky".

Unlike most people's imagination, the situation in the border galaxy with millions of soldiers and tense situations on both sides is different.

Whether it is the Federation or the Star Dragon Empire, after decades of ‘peace treaty period’.

The border army has suffered a massive decline in terms of military discipline, style and combat effectiveness.

Not to mention that as humans relied on the ‘jump engine’ technology unearthed from the ruins, they began to sow seeds throughout the galaxy.

The territory of the entire human society has reached an extremely huge level.

Conventional communication methods can only ensure the timeliness of information transmission within the galaxy within one day when the communication relay satellites and relay terminals are operating normally.

If it is communication across multiple galaxies, we can only rely on the 'penetrating fault communication terminal' to transmit information.

This kind of space communication technology can penetrate the distance of about five galaxies at one time to deliver messages in as little as three days.

Moreover, there are various restrictions on content and information length.

But even so, it would take nearly half a month for a message to be sent from the border galaxy and transmitted to the capital galaxy through the communication terminal 'relay'.

This is just the time for pure information transmission, if we include the 'artificial time' spent by various agencies reporting upwards.

This time will only be longer.

At this point, the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire are both "laughing at fifty steps and laughing at a hundred steps", so no one should laugh at the other.

At this point, the situation that the ancients said that "government orders cannot leave Chang'an" has appeared again in the interstellar era.

In various remote galaxies, it is too common for the government orders issued by the capital galaxy to be followed and violated.

To some extent, there are already signs of warlordization.
  Under this background, one can imagine the combat effectiveness of the standing armies of each galaxy.

But the federal army's combat effectiveness was only one aspect. What made Amber even more uneasy was the strangely quiet situation in the past two days.

Such important news that the Empire was about to launch a surprise attack was immediately ignored after it was delivered to Major Mars. It was just that there was no reply. What was even more outrageous was that Amber found that she could not even contact Major Mars.

I called the terminal directly or sent a private message, but there was no response at all.

As the boss of the Tactical Intelligence Center, Major Mars has not shown his face in the past two days.

But the people in the intelligence center looked like they were used to it.

"What kind of outrageous military discipline and organization is this?"

In Amber's complaint, the time finally came to August 588, 8 in the New Calendar.

This day is not only the day in Amber's memory that the imperial fleet launched a surprise attack.

It is also Army Day in the Union.

Therefore, Yasin Base not only held a grand celebration, but also opened the military camp and invited surrounding civilians to visit.

At the evening celebration party, Commander Adam personally took the stage and performed a traditional song of the Federal Army, "Today is the Day for Generosity" to the officers and soldiers of the base.

"Courage, responsibility, honor!"

"We call upon the federal military in our hour of need."

"This is what our lives are for."

"Be generous and generous today!"

"When you know why this is the case, civil rights need to be defended!"

"When duty calls, heroic sacrifice is required!"

"I will devote my life to the Federation!"

Looking at Commander Adam on the stage, neatly dressed in uniform and singing hard with determination.

Amber had to admit that this guy was still very talented in singing, and he sang very emotionally.

Especially when he sings 'I will dedicate my life to the Union! ’, it even triggered a chorus from the whole audience.

At this moment, Amber almost had the illusion that this was a heroic and elite force.

With the entire base immersed in a "happy" atmosphere, Amber quietly left the venue.

After returning to the dormitory, he unfolded the equipment rack in the room.

The psychic agent combat uniforms and light exoskeletons received from the logistics department are stored there.

Amber quickly put on these two pieces of equipment.

With the final ‘click! ’ sounded, and all the links on the lightweight exoskeleton and combat suit were connected.

On the HUD projected inside the full-coverage visor, the green dots representing each node of the lightweight exoskeleton have lit up.

Amber looked at herself in the floor-to-ceiling mirror. Under the tactical visor was a matte black one-piece combat uniform.

The lightweight exoskeleton, also painted in matte black, clings tightly to his back and limbs.

Except for the slightly raised metal hydrogen battery pack on the back, this exoskeleton has no raised parts.

As the power was turned on, Amber briefly moved her limbs.

Driven by the motor, he felt that his strength and speed had increased by nearly 6% on the original basis.

Although in terms of improvement, it cannot compare with the medium and heavy exoskeletons and power armor commonly used by mobile infantry, which are driven by a mixture of gas turbines and metal hydrogen battery packs.

But it is completely sufficient for reconnaissance and infiltration operations.

After confirming that the exoskeleton was working properly, Amber used the psychic energy in her body to activate the synthetic cell coating on the surface of the combat suit and exoskeleton.

As a honeycomb-like shimmer flashed throughout his body.

The next second, his figure completely disappeared from the dormitory.

(End of this chapter)