Him and their stars

Annual major productions such as "Skull Squadron" are filmed here because Coldstream City, located on the Highland Coast, is one of Nephi's most important film and television shooting bases. Around the city, there are also scenes from all historical periods of the Alliance in the past ten thousand years, from the era of the interstellar republic to the era of the mother planet's monarchy. It can be regarded as a very important shooting base for costume films.

In addition, it is more than 3,000 kilometers away from the coast of Falling Star Sea. The low price is not too high, but after all, it is still on the mother planet. As a result, the Universal Group acquired a large area of ​​​​Lengxi City and built the largest studio in the entire Galaxy. Its scale could be considered an architectural wonder even in the industrial era.

However, the crew of "Skull Squadron" was not in a studio in the city, but in a beautiful place fifty kilometers away from the city.

It is the late spring season in the northern continent of Nephi. It is cool, the grasslands are dense, the air is fresh, and it is a resort with beautiful scenery.

For a well-trained photographer, almost every frame here can be turned into wallpaper. And for a well-trained director, it is naturally a good place to shoot outdoor scenes. An excellent film artist will never think that post-production synthesis in a studio can completely replace real shooting on location.

Of course, Colonel Fina Lee, the director of "Skull Squadron", although he is a well-trained and excellent director and even won the Yagomi Award at a young age, he is a very pragmatic person. She felt that a crew of thousands would be a huge expense even if they traveled dozens of kilometers out of the city. Why do we have to go to the mountainous areas in the countryside when things can be solved in a studio?

However, the producer sent by Huanyu waved his hand and said that this was part of the shooting budget. How can the unpredictable beauty of natural scenery be completely restored by post-production synthesis in a studio?

What's more, since the leading student from T\u0026T is coming to visit the class and is condescending to make a guest appearance in person, why must he choose to do it in a dark studio with turbid air? Isn't it too rude?

Feifei felt that these words were really not something that an executive of Huanyu Group could say. You know, the interior space of that studio is as open as a celestial ball court, and the ventilation effect is also very good. The main focus is "living". The sky is dark and the air is turbid, but where do we start talking about it?

"Besides, didn't you also say that this scene is very important? Our Captain Falk only rekindled his fighting spirit by watching the plane pass between the sky and the grassland. Such an important scene, Be sure to use a real sky!”

Actually... it's not that important. I also heard that the commander-in-chief wanted to make a cameo, so he added it specifically. Feifei thought.

Anyway, it’s not like you’re paying for it out of your own pocket. Moreover, during the previous two months of filming, the producer was very candid and did not object strongly.

As for the security department of the Grand Commandery Mansion, they are also very satisfied with the arrangements made by the producers. The main reason is that these experienced bodyguards feel that the wilderness in the countryside is actually more suitable for arranging security and guards than in the city.

After all, there are anywhere from a thousand to eight hundred theater crews in Lengxi City every day, and there are hundreds of thousands of staff and extras who go in and out of the city and scenic spots, a mixed bag. Who knows if there will be a few anti-system elements mixed in.

The same security measures are much easier to put in the wilderness. Now, the wilderness with a radius of five kilometers around the crew is actually completely blocked, with drones patrolling and even satellites in orbit to provide warning. Not to mention the person with evil intentions, even if a cockroach approaches the warning circle, it will probably be discovered.

At this moment, more than a thousand crew members on the entire crew are nervously preparing for the filming.

For most of them, even the large-scale expedition in the New World last year was just a bit of talk, let alone a mere "anti-terrorist operation" - this terrorist organization called the World Serpent claims to be a piece of history. There is a long-standing behind-the-scenes villain, but most people say they have never even heard of it. It always feels like the big shots set up a random target to defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned money.

Again, the fortress attack in the Canchuan Galaxy may be a big deal to the Spiral Cross Nebula, but it is nothing to the universe, and it will not affect the work of these crews thousands of light years away. people's mood.

Of course they don’t know that their entire family has been thoroughly investigated to ensure that no one has dangerous anti-system tendencies. Various filming equipment and props were also checked three times inside and out to ensure that there were no harmful weapons.

Fortunately, perhaps because "Skull Squadron" is a project mainly managed by the Huanyu Group, almost all the staff are regular employees and official citizens of the alliance with stable jobs and harmonious families. Overall, they are trustworthy.

This is the good thing about the regular and big crews of big studios, and everyone knows the basics.

...What, you said Director Fina Lee is a psychic? The second female lead, Miss Gongsun Qing, who has been following the team, is a stronger psychic, and she also has a accompanying Noble Phantasm that cannot be detected by inspection equipment?

Hey, one of them is a senior military officer of a close allied community of the alliance, and the other is a foreign guerrilla of the association. They can both be regarded as one of our own within the system. After all, this is the time. Psychics who know their roots are often more trustworthy than ordinary people who know their roots.

As for the little commotion in Binggu City, 150 kilometers south of the filming location, it has nothing to do with the crew of "Skull Squadron". In theory, it has nothing to do with the commander-in-chief.

Ice Valley City is located at the southernmost foothills of the picturesque Ariel Highlands, nestled between a large valley and hills. There are a large number of open-pit iron mines hidden here. In the era of the alliance's home star, it was once the largest metallurgical base and industrial area in the northern continent of Nephi, and later evolved into a complete military industrial base.

In the current cosmic era, this ancient industrial city has eliminated relatively extensive and intensive labor industries and moved a large amount of surface metallurgical work to space orbit. However, the city's high-end military industry has been preserved and has become the city's pillar industry.

Speaking of which, Lengxi City and Binggu City, one on the western coast and the other on the southernmost tip, are both the most famous big cities on this plateau. The distance between the two cities does not exceed 200 kilometers, and they are not connected by light rail trains. It's an hour's drive away, but one is a film and television base and tourist attraction, and the other is a high-end military industrial base, but it's also quite interesting.

The so-called high-end military industry refers to the design, development and construction of weapons and military equipment that are (relatively) small but have relatively high technological content.

For example, Taita Shipyard has a dock in the orbit of Nephi's space city, and has also undertaken the construction of the main hull and large equipment of the God-class dreadnought ordered by the Community. However, some equipment, such as the twelve-type deflection shield required on the battleship, all 480 sensing crystal planes of the active gravity source radar, the core generator and restraint field of the neutrino engine, are all in this city. Built in an arsenal.

These devices are very important and can be said to be the source of God-level combat power, but they do not weigh more than 100 tons, and the smaller ones only weigh about ten tons. If it is built here and then transported to a shipyard in outer space orbit by an orbital elevator for installation, the cost will still be completely within the affordable range.

In addition, most of these are semi-experimental products that have just been designed and need to be manufactured and debugged at the same time. Coincidentally, the famous Polaris and Kajal Design Bureau have branches here, and some of them are top engineers and military experts.

Due to last year's war in the New World and the expansion of the Alliance fleet, the Alliance government placed large orders for major arsenals. In addition, the construction project of the Lord God-class dreadnought was also very urgent. Even the high-end arsenal in Ice Valley City had to Entered the 996 process of working overtime.

Many factories have even opened many new production lines and hired a considerable number of temporary workers.

Big shots are not worried about weapons secrets being revealed. After all, the most important processes are completed by engineers, and temporary workers only need to perform relatively low-end basic operations.

Of course, there is no need to worry about temporary workers not being able to do the job. Here in Nephi, there are actually skilled workers who have lost their jobs. Although the alliance's citizenship is not like the "quasi-noble" status in the empire, it still has a high threshold. They need a job to maintain a steady income in their bank accounts.

But on this morning, the workers in Binggu City did not go to their workplaces as usual.

They gathered in the station square leading from the residential area to the industrial area, looking at a man standing on the roof of a large truck, a man who was shouting at them.

"The fruits of our labor have been stolen! We have always been told that we have to work silently, endure pain and illness, and then die silently! We obeyed, but we were betrayed again! When we were When we are forced to work 12 hours a day, where is the 'overtime pay' promised to us by the big shots? When we risk our lives to manufacture more advanced but more unstable experimental equipment, our workers are swallowed up by uncontrolled ions. Where is the 'pension' they promised? What do you have?"

They literally have nothing. Then, anger began to gather among the crowd. Even most people who are honest and just want to survive can't help but be affected by such emotions.

As a result, more and more citizens and workers gathered in the square.

"The space battleship traveling through the sky destroyed the martial arts of an ancient cult in just 24 hours. What does it have to do with you?"

The man giving the speech paused for a moment, but then showed a narrow smile: "Oh, by the way, it actually does matter. Obviously those battleships were made by you."

There was some faint laughter in the crowd, but most people couldn't laugh at all.

"You all already know what happened in Steel Flame City and Green Locust City. Because our workers could no longer endure the harsh treatment, they made reasonable demands to the gentlemen above. However, the pioneers who led them to fight Silently disappeared into the prison, and until now, the stigma of criminals, thugs, and madmen is still attached to their heads. This kind of despicable behavior has always been the characteristic of the big shots above. Remember Ice Valley City How was the Craftsmen’s Guild banned twenty years ago? Do you still remember how the then guild president, Mr. Nemos, was taken to court?”

Many older workers have gradually become emotional and have begun to tell stories from the past to the younger workers.

Two young people hidden in the crowd were secretly observing the surrounding situation and discussing the content of the speech.

"So, who is Mr. Nemos?" A young man wearing a gray-black traveling windbreaker and covering most of his face with goggles asked his companions in a low voice.

"Didn't the big leader of Guimo say that the president of the mechanics guild is a very prestigious old mechanic. Twenty years ago, he also led the workers of Ice Valley City to cause trouble, forcing Hearth and Thor to I gave them a 15% salary increase." said the young woman wearing a travel sweatshirt and covering her head and face with a hood. She was also holding a small dashboard-like prop in her hand, which was actually a drone terminal that could operate six drones at the same time. It was a must-have prop for candid photography...ah, bah, for editing.

"He was killed?"

"No. It was discovered by the prosecutor that he had misappropriated the guild's activity funds to buy a farm and shop for his brother-in-law in the countryside, and also introduced his mistress to work as a clerk in the guild."

"...Isn't this similar to last time in Green Locust City?"

"It's just a means."

"Hey, big shots are really dirty."

"However, the things that Mr. Nimos was charged with actually happened. The prosecutor's office did not unjustly accuse him."

"I see……"

"Of course, the real estate agent who contacted Mr. Nemos is a small peripheral company of Hearth Industry. His mistress is also an 18th-tier idol who signed a contract with a small economic company."

"...The big shot is so dirty!"

Yes, these two are naturally Asher Stern and Taina Moen. One of them is a guerrilla, and the other is a reporter from the "Pioneer" and the eldest lady of a noble family, but they have almost become the core members of the alliance's rebel organization "Sons of Loha".

Of course, according to Miss Taina Mohn, they were not rebels, but fulfilling the duties of a reporter plus a reporter's bodyguard. As a reporter for the Herald, of course she couldn't completely side with the Hearth Industries and the mouthpieces they supported. Of course, we must interview the other side at close range and understand the demands of the "Son of Loha" in order to get the truth of the matter.

This is the responsibility of a good journalist and a left-wing newspaper like the Pioneer.

...Okay, this is actually very reasonable. At least if he was really caught by the authorities, he would have something to say.

As for the person on the stage who was giving a speech, he was naturally the current leader of the "Sons of Loha", Mr. Guimo, who was once a lieutenant colonel of the Alliance Marine Corps. Although he is a human, he now leads a large group of non-human warriors to resist the tyranny of the human masters.

However, after he had finished reading "Principal Theory", he said to the reporter: "What we want to resist is not human beings, but the master. Therefore, ordinary humans other than the master should be our allies."

"So, your action is to launch an operation in Ice Valley City?" The reporter shook her head and said: "That is Nephi, the capital of the alliance. It is not Steel Flame City and Green Sophora City in outer space, nor is it another planet. . We will soon have a crackdown."

She didn't even realize that she was talking about "us" now.

"But if they weren't in Nephi and under the eyes of the big shots, they wouldn't do anything."

"...Is it so that the commander-in-chief can see it? However, the commander-in-chief of the alliance is not the emperor of the empire!"

Mr. Guimo smiled: "If it were the emperor, I would lead my brothers and charge over there. Maybe the emperor would think that we are warriors and look at us with admiration."

"Like the ancient Meians?"

"Just like the ancient Meiya people. However, in the final analysis, doing this is the same as a wild cat acting coquettishly and cutely towards people in order to be pampered and supported." Mr. Guimo sighed.

...Well, this is so rude to Agnes. Miss Reporter thought.

When she was in Xinyumen, she met him twice, interviewed the ancient Meiya pioneer once, and even left communication codes with each other. The two occasionally say hello to each other and exchange some information. They can be regarded as ordinary friends with some friendship.

"I just want to let the big guys in the Alliance know that ants can also make sounds very close to them. You know, the Sons of Loha can no longer be crazy avengers, and can't rely on killing civilians and destroying civilian buildings. If you want to use facilities to gain a sense of presence, you need to use legitimate means." At this point, Mr. Guimo showed a cautious, even solemn expression for the first time.

"I think workers striking for their legitimate rights and interests is the most legitimate way to speak out. Ms. Reporter, don't you think so?"

The reporter lady was immediately speechless.

"More importantly, I also want to see what the ordinary union workers' attitude is towards the current situation. Only by taking action first can we see clearly this kind of thing." Mr. Guimo said.