Kochugunshikan Boukensha ni Naru

Fifty days ago.

Three days have passed since the reconstruction of the ship.

The ship's trajectory has stabilized and there is no danger of a crash. After that, if you take the time to adjust the orbit, you will be able to get on a completely stable orbit.

Ship repairs were also being carried out at a rapid pace by maintenance bots. The airtightness of the ship has already been maintained. However, there are too many repairs and there are not enough maintenance bots. It will take some time to fully restore the functionality of each section.

The priority of repairs is that which will lead to the maintenance of the ship's strength, which is the command of the captain, and the maintenance of the space force. The main and secondary guns can no longer be used because the engine section has been lost.

However, photon torpedoes are still available, and there are fifty-two, but not as powerful, laser cannons. There is no problem if the shield is not long. If all the attitude control auxiliary engines are back, five of the Bagus BG-I cruisers should be able to compete.

The plan is already in place, not only to repair the ship but also to increase the lost power.

There is no communication with the escape pod on which the captain was. At first I thought it was just a malfunction of the escape pod, but after three days, the captain and Nanom should not be able to repair it. There must have been something.

The escape pod should emit a signal to indicate its natural location, but there was no beacon signal immediately after the launch. He confirmed that the parachute had opened after breaking through the atmosphere, but soon after he hid in clouds and lost his escape pod.

Why was there no beacon transmission? There is no particular problem even if you check the specifications of the escape pod.

So the awareness of the manufacturer of the escape pod turned. Orlando Heavy Industries Ltd. In the empire, it is a company that is a problem with performance spoofing.

Iris had fallen into what he called a bad premonition for humans.

Launching an escape pod and communicating with the pod's AI was terrible. It was not used for military equipment. Why has such a defective product not been discovered until now?

Certainly, escape pods are not frequently used. Because each other's weapons are strong in the battle against Bagus, the hull is unlikely to be destroyed halfway. The chances of using an escape pod are unlikely as they are either intact or exploding.

Looking closely, three years ago, Orlando Heavy Industries entered a new market for escape pods, and the newly developed escape pod was the escape pod mounted on Eris. I was convinced that it had not been discovered.

It is necessary to examine not only AI but also the hull.

The escape pod is dismantled using the integrated maintenance bot. It was just material with specifications different from the specifications. This is a good quality inspection. Probably, only materials for inspection were used according to the specifications. By the way, adhesions with Imperial inspectors were also reported.

Fortunately, the landing itself should have no problem because only the parachute-related structures and parts were made properly.

Since the exact landing position of the captain is not known, simulate the estimated landing point based on the last confirmed position. I regret not having the weather data.

The landing area was quite different between the calm and the strong wind, and the search range was vast.

At present, 90% of reconnaissance drones, 73 aircraft, are being searched for captains.

The drone is constantly calling for communication, but there is no response.

Information from drones was coming in one after another. Surprisingly, this planet seems to be prospered by those who are linked to humanity. At least it looked exactly like humankind.

One of the drones found a dead human body along the highway. Just check the gene.

The road is not very wide, but there was enough space for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft drone to land without any problems. Check the area, but no other humans or animals.

The drone is always in stealth mode while operating on this planet. Stealth is a stealth feature that combines radio wave absorption and optical camouflage, so if you're limited to vision, you won't even notice when humans are in front of a drone.

Landed slowly beside the corpse. The engine noise is so loud that something might have been discovered. I was alert to my surroundings, but it didn't seem to matter.

Extend the flexible arm and let the sensor at the tip touch the corpse. The corpse was undoubtedly [a person linked to mankind].

The arm was used to catch the luggage near the corpse, but nothing was particularly noticeable. Clothes, food, coins, swords, etc. Perhaps he was attacked while traveling.

From the luggage, the approximate scientific level of the planet could be ascertained, but no further information was available.

He took off and passed control to the drone's AI to continue the search.

Thirteen days after the ship was rebuilt.

The captain had not yet been found. Considering the size of the escape pod, the search had progressed to the extent that it would be okay to find the pod alone.

Let's expand the search area further.

Surprisingly, several other humanoid creatures have been discovered on this planet besides human beings. This is something that has never been found on a previously discovered planet. Intelligence seems to be much lower than humanity, but very interesting. I want to find out the captain and study it if I can afford it.

Surveys of humanity's metropolises are progressing little by little. We collected as much information as we could see from above.

In the future, let's collect information more actively. By all means, I would like to learn the language, customs and culture used on this planet and collect more information. That may lead to the discovery of the captain.

Looking into the city from the sky, people enter a building with a boulevard and come out after a while. The building was probably a restaurant or bar.

At night, while monitoring with night vision sensors, some people began to wander around the people coming out of the store. It will definitely be at the bar. This is good, in a tavern everyone talks loudly, something that you wouldn't normally say. This was the same on any human planet.

Check the store closing time and hit a bit into the store tomorrow night.

A bit is an ultra-compact information-gathering monitoring device that is 5 cm long and shaped like a pile. It has a small image sensor and a microphone and can send information to the drone by communication.

The drone has a function to eject this bit, and can launch toward the target. Each drone had 200 bits.

At midnight the next day, the strategy was finally started. The store closes soon. Before that, let's hit a bit. There are still people on the street, but sparse and not near the shops. The drone began to descend.

Go as fast as possible. We descend toward the main street at a descent speed that we do not usually do. One person came out of the store, noticing the anomaly, but was rushed back into the store by the jet hot wind. There is no door in the bar, and the inside of the store is completely visible. Let's make that joint with the ceiling of that pillar.

I fired a bit and hit the target. The bit rotates and dives into the pillar. The entire case of the bit was hidden inside the pillar, and only the image sensor was visible. In this case no one will notice the bit.

As the goal is achieved, it rises. The inside of the store was immediately sent via drone. Apparently, it wasn't too much fuss because it was just before midnight. The operation was successful.

Suddenly, a high-pitched hum sounds and a gust begins to blow. A flurry of wind came into the store. The barkeeper jumped out into the street for some reason, but returned to the store in a hurry due to the hot wind blowing through the rust and dust. After that, the sound gradually went away and the wind subsided, and soon nothing was heard. The uproar seems to be a lie. The store owner twisted his head, wondering what it was.

The same was done in major cities.

Every day, a huge amount of data gathers. Due to the large number of samples, the language could be translated immediately. Fortunately, the continent seems to use only one language.

Information about people's lifestyles, names of countries and towns, forms of politics, and various other information are gathered. The vast amount of data was accumulated.

Twenty-three days have passed since the ship was rebuilt. If the captain had a horse or carriage, he could be quite far away. The search area is expanding.

At this point, he inferred that the captain might have assumed that the ship no longer existed.

Many of the sections were discarded during the rebuilding, and from the ground, it would have fallen over the sky. Discarding objects on a planet with living organisms is a serious violation of military regulations. It's no wonder that the captain thinks I can't do that and misunderstands that the ship has been lost.

In this case, it is assumed that you have forgotten that you are currently in a first-class emergency declaration.

The military has educated unnecessary interfaces to be closed from a security perspective. Of course, this only applies to ships that are not secured or during operations.

In particular, the captain was a security-conscious air force intelligence officer who was more likely to leave the ship than a regular officer. It was not surprising to close the communication interface by custom, assuming the ship no longer existed, but it was more natural.

If this inference holds, even if the drone approaches the captain and enters the communication range, communication will not be possible unless the captain recognizes the drone, and the drone will leave the communication range as it is.

This seems to require a change in search policy.

Until now, the search had been conducted primarily with stealth, but it was necessary to cancel the drone's stealth mode and make it appear in order for the captain to recognize the drone.

However, things that always appear and mislead you may be a matter of interference in internal affairs on this planet. The captain must not want that either. Keep it to the bare minimum.

You may also find that humans are being attacked by animals while searching for highways. Until now, I thought it would be domestic political interference, but I did not interfere, but I will help you in the future.

He looks up at the drone and raises his face so you can easily find out if he's a captain, and the helped person will probably tell other people about it, and that will eventually be rumored.

The rumor may be heard by the captain. The captain will surely consider it to be a drone and will open the communication interface and actively search for a drone.

Make it appear in major cities on a regular basis. The drone will make a fuss and the captain will find the drone if he is in the city.

The ship was repaired, all the auxiliary engines for attitude control were restored, and the functions of the main ships were almost restored.

We have already implemented various plans to increase our strength. It's currently in a first-class emergency, so it's probably safe to go a little crazy.