Kochugunshikan Boukensha ni Naru

The first encounter between humans and the intellectual creature Bagus was in the Emperor calendar 1254, on the planet Vesta of the Arturo system. Vesta was a simple colonial planet with agriculture as its primary industry, a planet with a small population of around 200,000, no troops, and minimal defense.

Bagus warped out with 16 ships, attacking major cities from satellite orbit, and descending with dozens of landing craft to paralyze city functions. Residents without weapon-like weapons were breached with no means of doing anything, and most of the 200,000 human races were killed, with no exceptions: men, women and children. Worst of all, Bagus's innate cruelty and his preference for human flesh.

Ten days later, the two Imperial Space Force fleets rushed to the Arturo system in response to Vesta residents seeking help via FTL communications, defeating the Bagus fleet and destroying any Bagus that had landed on the planet Vesta. However, there were no survivors. The Imperial Army landed on the planet Vesta and was shocked to see the images on security cameras installed at various facilities. The picture was just the hell of this world.

Since then, humans and Bagus have been at war for over a thousand years.

As of Imperial Calendar Year 228, the human galactic empire spacecraft Iris Konrad was on a long exploration mission, leaving his base for almost two years.

The purpose of the exploration is, of course, the discovery of the home planet of the human enemy, Bagus, a human ambition. He was currently sailing in hyperspace, and was on a sober endless mission to warp out at regular intervals, search and map.

Alan Corinth, Lieutenant Lieutenant of the Imperial Space Force, was replacing processor modules in the mainframe cleanroom, the heart of the battleship Iris Conrad system. The other day, at the time of the warp-out, the FTL communication was used to replace the production lot with the processor module after being notified that there was a possibility of a defect.

Iris, a spaceship AI, was monitoring the replacement of the Lieutenant. While sailing in hyperspace, most crews are in cold sleep and have few tasks to perform, and if Iris were a human, it would be frustrating to be free. In these situations, Iris' main program recommended that resources be devoted to research in observing humanity and understanding behavioral psychology.

Alan Corinth's Imperial Space Troops Air Corps Lieutenant Battleship Iris Conrad belongs to the Air Corps Information Corps Informational First Platoon Age 25 years oldTrader star system Worked for three years on the heavy cruiser [Theo II] Transferred to the Squadron for a new dreadnought battleship [Iris Konrad] Two years on the same ship

She is 175 cm tall and weighs 70 kg, but she has a slim profile like a soldier, but she is slim. It is a white species that accounts for 50% of the human race, and has blonde eyes and gray eyes. He has a clean face.

A clean face is a judgment of the face evaluation application developed by Iris, and the app is rated as [B ++]. The face evaluation application was developed secretly by Iris for the study of human behavior comprehension, and it spread quickly when it was released anonymously to the human world, and was highly acclaimed. It is.

According to the assessment system, Lieutenant's job was polite and reliable. No problem behavior. In the overall rating of the system [A-], this ship is one of the highly evaluated human beings, with only a handful. There are no human resources to be a paratrooper.

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"But is it OK? Miss Konrad. I put people like me in this place. In the case of battleships, I think it would be unpleasant if you were not a qualified person or more."

I asked the ship's AI, who instructed me what he was doing.

Her name is Iris Konrad, the same as the ship's name. The battleship AI was customarily given the rank of honorary captain, and I, as a lieutenant, was not allowed to speak grossly. I don't think I'm allowed to enter this room because I'm not the regular fleet officer of this ship, but the information officer of the airborne troops on board.

"It can't be helped! Six crews are qualified to do the job, four of them are in cold sleep, and another awake qualified person, as you know, isn't going to work here. I don't have it. "

Certainly another qualified person, Major Amart, is a pretty big giant, nearly two meters away, and working in this small space in a clean room may be difficult.

In any case, it crawls through a space like a hole with a diameter of less than one meter in the wall of the clean room, and simply replaces the specified module among the processor modules that fill it.

The female officer displayed in the virtual window is, of course, an AI avatar rather than a living person, imitating the female officer whose name came from. The female officer is a hero in the Tau Vegas two-star system ten years ago. Fight time with just one heavy cruiser to gain time to escape the 20,000 colonial star inhabitants of Bagus' fleets, and gain time while being devoured by Bagus through melee combat. Finally, he was a hero of the Imperial Army who had defeated himself.

It is customary for the Imperial Space Force to name ships with heroic accomplishments, and this ship is named after Brigadier General Iris Conrad, whose AI avatar is Iris Conrad. He imitated a brigadier general.

"I see. I understand. The replacement is completed with one more. By the way, what happens to the processor module of the defective lot after this replacement?"

"I don't know because I have no instructions. I guess I'll destroy them or collect them and send them to me for inspection. What are you thinking?"

"No, I think it's better to use it effectively if you want to discard it."

"How do you use such things? I guess you can't use them without a mainframe?"

"No, no, there is, how to use it. In fact, it is also my research theme."

Except during Cold Sleep, long technical sailings were required for technical officers to conduct research. Research isn't a real researcher, so it's more like training to keep your arm straight. The value of the processor module is one, and far more than my annual income. There is no way not to use it effectively.

My research theme is about virtual reality in a standalone environment. The contents are literally technical considerations for realizing VR in a standalone environment without a network connection. In the simulation by the system, the research was advanced to the stage where it could be put to practical use. In this research paper, we assumed the use of this processor module.

"I read through your research theme, but I didn't understand why. Why not stick to a stand-alone environment instead of using a mainframe? Virtual reality for something suspicious. I just thought it was. "

"It's a misunderstanding! I'm sorry, Captain! It's human arrogance to think that you can always access the mainframe at any time. Humans have the means to realize VR even in situations where they can't access the mainframe, such as in an emergency. We should do it. ''

I was in a terrible panic at the heart of my heart. Iris is still sharp.

"Well, when I get an order to destroy it, I'll think again."

"Thank you, Captain. The result of my research depends on obtaining the module .... OK! This is the end of the module exchange."

Replacement of all 64 processor modules is completed. At the moment when I tried to get out of the maintenance hole in the clean room, the wall suddenly came closer.

"... Lt! Lt. G! Lt. Alan Corinth!"

I woke up in response to a loud call.

"No, I'm awake!"

He replied with no meaning at all without understanding the situation.

"I'm glad, Lieutenant. I wondered what to do if I didn't wake up."

Then I realized I was full of blood. It is already dry and shiny. Moreover, there is no gravity without gravity.

"Oh! What's this! What happened?"

The head injury seems to have been repaired by Nanom.

------------------ Nanom is an abbreviation of nanomachine, which is a military nanomachine that is symbiotic and cultured in the body by any aeronautical soldier. A tiny machine that can only be seen with an electron microscope. It is a machine that functions by forming an aggregate of at least 100 billion units. Its functions include AI functions, internal monitoring, medical / restoration functions, complete access to the five senses, and short-distance communication functions. Nanomachines could not be made from the components of normal human diet, and special rare metals were needed. ------------------

"I was attacked while sailing in the hyperspace. I don't know the means of attack. In the first place, the ship itself should be incomplete when viewed from the outside during the navigation. I can't imagine any means of attacking. ''

"A Bugs !?"

"No, it wouldn't be possible. Bags technology wouldn't be able to do that at all. Anyway, the attack was devastating. The ship warped out and is now inaccessible. No. The attacks were made from all four directions, and the engine section, first cold sleep, second cold sleep, communications section, gravity control section, hangar section were all done. "

No words come out. I can't say anything. Galaxy-class battleships would not have suffered this much more than a hundred years.

Both cold sleeps were done! ? So what about the crew? Everyone in the squad?

"Then survivors?"

"There is no survivor except you. Lieutenant Augilio, who was alive in the canteen, died shortly."

Even though it was sailing in super space, it should have been about 50 people out of a total of 1,200 crew members. Is it all dead?

"That's it! Then, the captain, the deputy commander, the captain, and the platoon are all ...

"Yes, the crew in the section where there was no direct attack also died almost instantly on warp-out impacts due to the failure of the gravity control section. This clean room is equipped with gravity control dampers because it is the most important section of the ship It seemed that the impact was reduced and the lieutenant was saved. "

Well, I was in this room, so I was injured so much ... Outside of this room, he must have been slammed against the wall with tremendous momentum. Crawled out of a maintenance hole.

"There are further reports. With some time to spare, the ship is falling towards a nearby planet."

"Oh! What is that ..."

It's impossible for there to be a planet just happening to warp out in this wide universe! It is a probability that is impossible.

"The engine section has ceased functioning. The only way to avoid falling is to disassemble the ship and discard unwanted sections."

Unexpectedly, I noticed that Iris had a language similar to honorific.

"Then you have to do that?"

"It requires a first-class emergency declaration and direct order from the captain."

"But the captain ..."

"I admit that Lt. Alan Corinth is eligible to be promoted to captain under Imperial Military Regulations Article 12 (3) C."

"It is a such a fool!"

The commander of a Galaxy-class battleship is at least Brigadier General. The Lieutenant of the Squadron cannot be qualified to be a captain. That being said, I am the only one who survives. It may be inevitable. It would be formal just to issue an order.

"It requires senior officer training, which is a military rule."

Senior officer education, which is a prerequisite to learn the actions and rules to be taken by senior officers, but the actual purpose is brainwashing to prevent actions against military regulations. The military is not officially so, but anyone in the army knows. It was a lesson learned a long time ago when a madman destroyed a manned planet that lived in the billions.

Education was not a class, but a brainwash that was beaten into the head using nanomes and biological patches. They usually lose consciousness because a huge amount of information is driven into their brains.

"When I don't have this time! ...... What should I do?"

"Paste the console's biometric patch on your forehead and sit in a chair to take a comfortable position."

A biological patch appeared from the console. When you stick it on your forehead, you sit on a chair and lean on your back. At that moment, I lost consciousness with a clicking sound.

"... Captain! Captain G! Captain Corinth!"

I woke up with Iris calling.

"It was good! I wondered what to do if I didn't wake up."

Feel the dejab.

"How lost were you?"

"Thirty minutes. And the captain. You don't need to use me honorifics."

"... I understand. Let's get started. I am the captain of this ship.

"I confirmed. The biopatch confirmed that the drug was unused and had a normal mental state."

"I declare a first-class emergency with the authority given to me. In addition, I have given spacecraft Iris Conrad all the necessary means to maintain her ship's strength and the space force's strength. . This is a captain's order. It supersedes all rules. "

It was the first time to give such a cool order. No, no, it's my first time listening. After all, it would be different if you received senior officer education. There was nothing wrong with it, and I was just reading it because Iris was showing me what I would say in a virtual window via Nanom.

Orders issued by captains and senior officers have always been cool! I was really impressed that he was a senior officer, but he must have read the subtitles.

"Isa. I received your order."

"Okay, you can start rebuilding the ship."

"Immediately, but the captain has to leave the escape pod."

"Huh! What are you talking about?"

"The connection to the life support section was broken, and the airtightness was lost outside this clean room. There is no more oxygen here."

When it is said, it seems like it is stuffy and not.

"But there is an atmosphere and air on the planet even if we say escape?"

"Optical spectrum analysis shows that there is a 93% chance that there is air that humans can breathe."

"What is the remaining seven percent?"

"Unknown harmful gases, viruses and parasites."

"But an escape pod ... how about a landing boat?"

"The passage to the hangar section has been blocked, and all liaisons and landing craft have been wrecked or destroyed."

Oh, so I can't return to the ship.

"Even if you stay here, you just die of lack of oxygen. Wouldn't it be better to escape to the planet and find a way to return after rebuilding the ship? Also change the trajectory of the ship and the probability of a successful rebuild Is currently 54 percent. "

How! I did not think that the probability was so low.

"Okay ... food and weapons?"

"Unfortunately, there is only one thing on the escape pod."

He ordered Nanom (nanomachine) to examine the equipment of the escape pod. I grew involuntarily at what was displayed on the virtual window. . M151 pulse rifle A18P laser gun electromagnetic blade knife Emergency solid food 42 meals 28 liters rare metal 1 bottle (100 tablets) blanket 2 sheets

To be honest, I am a fleet of soldiers. Firepower is overwhelmingly short. And there is not enough food and water. I guess there's no such thing here ...

"Is there anything you can take out?"

"What if the captain had the processor module that was just replaced?

That's exactly what it is said to be. You have to break it down to take it, but it will be managed. Rare metals are the raw materials of nanom. It may be possible to supply locally, but I want to save you time and effort. Nanom is a lifeline for a paratrooper. No matter how much rare metal you have, don't worry.

The boarding gate for the escape pod was right beside the entrance to the room. Oh, I'm grateful to those who decided to attach an escape pod to this room as well. When Iris opens the boarding gate, she loads the processor module. The escape pod was like five people and had five seats. The inside is quite wide.

That's it! You need a uniform. It is an unexplored planet anyway. No matter how much you wear, you will not. Now she was wearing a tether for working in a clean room. Load the uniforms that changed before entering the clean room and the spare ties that were left. What else can I load? If you think about it, this is the mainframe computer room. There is no need for daily necessities in such places.

"Ready"

"Now, get on the pod."

Gently get into the pod, sit on one of the seats and fasten your seat belt.

"Now, good luck. Captain."

"Oh, Miss Konrad, too."

The escape pod was launched towards the planet.