Stars for the good Warhammer.

Chapter 294 [Earth Union] and [Human Federation] (4K words combined chapter)
Again.
When Falin woke up from the familiar dream again, the first thing that appeared before her eyes was the operating panel with a torrent of data flowing through it.

In an instant, countless familiar yet unfamiliar scenes flooded into her mind like a tide, and the dreams that followed one after another seemed to have been repeated countless times.

In her dream, she saw that the scientific research planet she was on was attacked by an unknown force, and at the critical moment, her old superior killed her in order to seize the scientific research data about the "Giant Elephant".
In the huge room, the alarm sounded repeatedly from the base center. Perhaps this was the reason why he woke up?

At this moment, Falin didn't know whether she had woken up or fell into another dream again?
Just as she was looking at the busy main control hall, trying to recall where she was at the moment, and stood up with her hands on the operating table with a confused look on her face, an extremely anxious voice suddenly came to her ears.

"Falin! Immediately confirm who attacked us!"

The person who spoke was an old professor with a serious expression as firm as a rock. Falin stared into the old man's eyes. After an unknown amount of time, she suddenly remembered who she was.

Oh, yes. I am a scholar of the [United Nations on Earth], and this is a [scientific research planet] established by the United Nations in the Centauri galaxy with the help of the [Ashes Alliance]. It is an important research node of the [Colossus Project].

The resolute old man in front of him was the murderer who killed him in his dream.
As her memory gradually became clearer, Falin began to be surprised that she had forgotten so many important things. At this moment, she did not understand what had happened to her.
"Falin! Stop standing there!"

I don't know how long it was, but under the constant urging of the old professor and the system terminal, everyone was watching the busy scene in the hall. Even though they had many questions in their minds, this was obviously not the time to hesitate. Then, as the images of the periphery of the scientific research base were displayed in the center of the screen in the hall, the results in front of them immediately surprised everyone present.

From the images captured by the base's sensors, we can see that the inside and outside of the base are in chaos. The mechanical guards who were supposed to be responsible for guarding the safety of the research center, the iron men equipped with particle weapons and entropy amplifiers, are now pointing their guns at their masters without hesitation, and fighting with the human soldiers in void-powered armor in the base.

Outside the research base, spears of light falling from the sky are bombarding the surface of Proxima B indiscriminately. Laser beams with temperatures reaching hundreds of millions are efficiently destroying the beautiful earth that was once like a paradise after planetary transformation.

The raging fires caused by the bombing evaporated the rivers and destroyed the forests carefully planned by the Earth Union's environmentalists. In the explosions caused by the light spears, mechanical combat units as tall as mountains were driving across the devastated land. At the same time, more and more airpods in the sky were transporting locust-like mechanical units to the surface.

From their extremely aggressive appearance and the plasma and particle lance weapons they use, it can be seen that these things are not creations of the Earth Alliance, but belong to some unknown force.

In response to the invaders, the defense sub-node of the scientific research outpost's central system launched a [Singularity Weapon] towards the artillery position in the distance that was firing plasma shells. Accompanied by a black lightning, it landed in the center of the enemy's artillery position. The micro black hole that appeared immediately afterwards almost instantly swallowed up all material structures within a diameter of ten kilometers. Even the ground beneath the feet was torn into a gully several kilometers wide.

In the face of such regular weapons that can distort and destroy the structure of space in a short period of time, any armor and any energy protection measures will become useless.
Obviously, this was a blatant invasion. After realizing this terrible fact, the scholars in the institute showed disbelief on their faces. They couldn't believe who dared to openly confront the powerful [Earth United Nations].
Especially for Falin who was standing in front of the center console, everything in front of her corresponded to the scene she saw in her dream, which made her shudder.

"Professor! Our central system has been artificially altered by the [Ghost Signal]! We just detected that the signal has suddenly become abnormally active. Currently, 73% of the mechanical units under the base have fallen into chaos due to the interference of the Ghost Signal. The defenders of the institute have now lost the ability to control the situation!"

After hearing this terrible news, the younger scholars present were in a panic. With a gloomy face, a scholar and a research director

"Who do you think did this? Was it those pointy-eared people from the Aida Empire? But we just signed a non-aggression pact with them. Or could it be that these are the enemies called the Rectification Agreement that the hymn girls mentioned?"

However, just as the young scholar finished his words, there was a thud. Under the gaze of many scholars present, the technology director who was staring at the screen punched the console beside him, and then squeezed out these words from between his teeth in a decisive tone.

"It must have been done by those terrorists from the Human Federation! They must have invaded our central system!"

Human Federation
No, it can't be them.
The moment she heard the name, Falin, who was standing next to the supervisor, wanted to express her objection. In her impression, this was not the style of the Federation. However, before Falin could say anything, the supervisor next to her seemed to have thought of something.

"Oops."

"Those people may have set their sights on the [Thermal Stream Weapon] that is currently in the development stage! Check immediately to see if the database has been hacked!"

As he spoke, the other party once again set his eyes on Falin. Although she hesitated about such an order, she was at a loss in the face of the professor's ferocious eyes like a beast and did not dare to neglect it. Then she had to call up the information about [Thermal Energy Flow Weapon] from the data panel in front of the other party.

Thermal energy flow weapons, or according to the weird naming style of the Ash Alliance, this type of weapon can also be called.

——【Earth-shattering Star】

This is a planet-destroying weapon that can be mounted on a Colossus-class star destroyer. It can emit a thermal energy flow to boil the target planet's atmosphere and detonate the planet's core, thereby completely destroying the planet's crust structure until the target planet is blown to pieces.

The most important thing is that the planets killed in this way will no longer have the possibility of environmental restoration. According to the Ash Alliance, this is the best way to destroy the [Artificial Intelligence Planet] where the [Rectification Protocol] host is located.

Those alien civilizations from the other side of the veil handed over these weapons, along with many puzzling technologies such as the [Colossus], to the Earth Union, and then mysteriously disappeared again like ghosts wandering in the galaxy. They claimed that they would return when the Zheng Dynasty revived next time to assist the local human civilization in resisting.

The Earth Alliance was divided into several different factions as to how to deal with these gifts from the Alliance.

"awesome"

When seeing the data parameters flashing on the screen, the supervisor's originally serious expression suddenly changed. A hint of joy gradually appeared in his eyes, and he soon regained his composure. This situation naturally attracted Falin's attention.

"This place is hopeless. Copy all the templates in the database. We need to be ready to leave here."

"I see"

Hearing this, Falin, who was confused about her current situation, just mechanically executed the copy command and copied the information about [Giant Elephant] and [Earth-shattering Star] into a newly manufactured STC template. But just as she was about to take the thing out of the system center server and hand it over to the research director in front of her, it was as if an electric current hit her nerves. A familiar intuition made her stop and began to look at the old professor with a suspicious look.

The strange look and the urging words made Falin very sure that she must have seen a similar scene somewhere. If she gave the template to the other party, the situation would become worse.

Thinking of this, Falin withdrew her hand hesitantly.

"Sorry, Professor."

"According to the regulations of the local union, I cannot give this thing directly to you."

However, before she could finish her words, a bomb fell directly on everyone's head the next moment. The blast caused by the explosion, accompanied by flashes of fire, threw Falin, who was standing behind the operating table, to the side, and her back hit the plastic steel wall of the hall hard.

It was the AI ​​host located in the center of the hall. Affected by the [Ghost Signal], it chose to self-destruct without receiving any orders. The fragments stirred up by the explosion and the indiscriminate leakage of energy caused heavy casualties among the scholars present.

An unknown amount of time had passed. When Falin dragged her injured body and struggled to stand up from the ground again with a splitting headache, she looked at the tragic scene in front of her and her colleague whose head was cut off by the explosion fragments not far away. At this moment, there was no fear in Falin's heart because the scene in front of her once again corresponded to the scene in her dream.

Could it be that I have accidentally experienced a reincarnation?
Is this some kind of time and space overlap effect?

Did I catch a glimpse of the future during my brief sleep?

Just when Falin was still confused about this, a slightly trembling voice suddenly came from her side.

"Give me that thing"

Turning around, he saw that the person who spoke was the old professor. At this moment, he was staring at him with eyes full of resentment, staring at the STC template that he was holding tightly to his chest.

Looking at the hostile expression on his face, which was very different from the professor she remembered, Falin was now basically certain that the old man in front of her must be an imposter, someone disguised himself as him.
"You're not a professor! What the hell are you!"

Falin's words successfully attracted the attention of the scholars who were busy with disaster relief. Some Ground Alliance soldiers who noticed something was wrong had already pointed their weapons at the two men.

Realizing that something was wrong, after glancing at the directed energy weapons in the soldiers' hands with his peripheral vision, the old professor first steadied his body and then questioned in a righteous tone.

"I've heard that your boyfriend Neos has had contact with the separatists of the Human Federation. It seems that the news is true. You are indeed in cahoots with them. You are the traitor hiding among us! It was you who brought those things here!"

When hearing this name, a soldier from the Ground Force asked a question in confusion.

"Who is that, Neos?"

The AI ​​installed inside its armor gave this answer.

[He is a scholar in the Earth United Parliament, and he is also the first senior councillor to contact the Ash Alliance. According to reliable information, he has now defected to the separatist Human Federation.]

Immediately afterwards, the auxiliary AI of the armor gave such an order to the ground-based soldiers.

[Please arrest Falin and return the data chip to the professor for safekeeping. ]

However, just as the soldier was about to follow the advice and temporarily control the female scholar named Farin, as the distance between the two sides continued to shorten, the soldier suddenly caught a glimpse of a dagger-like metal fragment deeply inserted into the old professor's waist.

That was the wound that was pierced by the explosion just now, but the old man in front of him seemed to be unaware of it. Not even a drop of blood flowed out of the wound. He was just impatiently urging the soldiers to quickly take back the STC template from Falin's hands.

Such a situation naturally aroused the vigilance of the ground soldier. Just as he was about to turn around and point his gun at the professor, his armor was suddenly locked, completely restricting his movements.

damn it.
AI actually betrayed itself? !

Before the soldier could react, a sharp alloy sword blade pierced his neck in the next instant. The person who did this was the seemingly frail old professor in front of him.

As the soldier looked on in disbelief, he saw that the other person's white robe had completely opened with the movement of his arms, revealing the mechanical body hidden under the clothes. It was not until then that Farin realized that the scientific director in front of him had been replaced by a synthetic human without his knowledge.

Thinking of this, the woman looked at the photo of a young couple placed in front of the operating table with a desperate look. She stared at the young man in the photo who was wearing a white coat and had a gloomy Central Asian face, and called out the familiar name softly.
A name that represents many historical pasts and once belonged to the Emperor of Mankind.

*
*
"Nyos"

(End of this chapter)