From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 479 Saleh's Advice
"Voted?"

After realizing that Saleh couldn't pick up the gag, Amber coughed awkwardly and continued, "Ahem. What I mean is that it's approved. We'll expand and optimize it based on this plan."

"So straightforward?" Salih was stunned. She thought Amber would make some suggestions.

"What else? At least your current design does meet my current needs. After all, I am not a professional ship designer, so there is no need to make any unreliable suggestions. Anyway, the people from the Atlas Ship Design Team will come to meet with you at that time. With the two professionals of you as a backup, I am still quite relieved~"

Amber's tone was relaxed, and it was obvious that Saleh had thought carefully about the solution of "rapid deployment of large numbers of ground troops" before.

The psychic's imagination ability has become extremely strong due to the deep development of his brain, which also allowed him to quickly imagine the scene of using the "planetary landing fortress" in the future.

Currently, neither the Federation nor the Star Dragon Empire has a good solution to the combat subject of large-scale deployment of ground forces.

Although orbital paratroopers can be directly dropped, the size and load-carrying capacity of the airdrop capsule mean that no matter how many times they are dropped, they are only a light infantry tactical unit.

In more cases, when combat commanders choose to use orbital paratroopers, it is to achieve some tactical goals, such as occupying key nodes, decapitating high-value targets, or intercepting evacuating enemy forces.

Conventional ground forces that require a large number of combat vehicles and technical weapons support obviously cannot be deployed via airdrop capsules, so apart from using space elevators for delivery, the only option left is aerospace transport aircraft fleets.

But both options have a prerequisite without exception, that is, the fleet in orbit must gain control of the sky so that it can control the space elevator or suppress the enemy's air defense units when the aerospace transport fleet descends.

When launching a planetary landing or when troops need to be deployed quickly, although aerospace transport aircraft can be sent to force a breakthrough, the huge losses that follow are not something every commander can afford or accept.

This is why after Amber "picked up" Salih and obtained the Forerunner's gravity control technology, she has been asking this think tank deacon to help design and develop a planetary landing vehicle.

The 'Planetary Landing Fortress' that the other party has taken out now, except for the temporary lack of the ability to take off again from the surface of the planet, can be said to fully meet Atlas' current needs in other aspects.

Imagine that one day in the future, Atlas needs to quickly deploy an army-level ground force to a planet to support the operations of "friendly targets" on the planet.

However, due to the presence of an enemy fleet in the planet's orbit, the window for large-scale airborne operations becomes extremely short.

Therefore, after the combat fleet entangled the enemy's garrison fleet, the 10 planetary landing fortresses loaded with an army's strength began to forcibly penetrate the planet's atmosphere through a round of orbital strikes on the surface "landing site" launched by the escort fleet.

The enemy air defense units that survived the orbital strike immediately organized their forces to intercept, but in the process of breaking through the atmosphere of the planetary landing fortress, a layer of high-temperature plasma wrapped around the outside greatly reduced the effectiveness of the attack of charged particles such as heavy particle cannons and charged particle cannons.

The specially reinforced bottom armor plate not only isolates the high temperature generated by atmospheric friction, but also provides strong protection against high-energy laser beams or live ammunition attacks.

As the escort warships in low orbit continued to suppress ground air defense units with their main guns, the 10 planetary landing fortresses successfully passed the most dangerous stage of the breakthrough.

At the same time, with the help of the gravity control unit, the fortress also entered the final landing stage at a relatively slow speed.

When the 10 fortresses were dropped to the ground in a circular shape with a distance of about 10-20 kilometers between them, the area circled in the middle naturally became a sufficiently safe 'large landing site'.

The 10 fortresses will also release combat-ready troops one after another. These ground forces will advance outward and clear out the remaining enemies in the fortress-controlled areas under the cover of large-caliber electromagnetic guns, missile launch arrays, high-energy laser turrets and other weapons carried by the fortresses.

At this point, a reorganized army's ground forces and the "ground fortress group" as the attack support point were deployed on the planet's surface in a short period of time. Coupled with the subsequent deployment of the honeycomb core and backup forces, the Atlas Group can use this powerful force to carry out armed intervention on the planet.
However, after staring at the design that Saleh had created at light speed for a long time, he pointed at the "half-buried" jump engine and asked:

"Is it really okay to leave this thing here like this? Isn't it a little too crude?"

"Don't worry, Amber. For us Jeram people, the 'plug-in' jump engine is a fairly common design. Besides, this thing is originally our technology. Are you still afraid that I can't handle it?"

Speaking of technical issues, Saleh, the think tank deacon, couldn't help but become full of confidence. In her opinion, the technical advantage might be the only thing that allowed her to "hold her head high" in front of Amber.

After the two continued to communicate for a while, Saleh suddenly stared at Amber and asked, "Amber, you are in a hurry to get this thing out. Does it mean that the Atlas Group is going to officially start armed intervention abroad?"

"In fact, it cannot be called 'armed intervention'. Your wording and description are not quite accurate. To be precise, the 'planetary landing fortress' is to facilitate our ground forces to quickly carry out operations."

Amber opened her mouth to correct Saleh's statement, and then continued: "You know, our Atlas Group also provides military contracting services."

"Do you need to tell me this?"

Listening to Amber's words, Saleh rolled her eyes in annoyance, which was the way she had recently learned from humans to express speechlessness.

Then, she controlled her expression and said in a relatively serious tone: "In fact, I strongly support and suggest that Amber use force to 'unite' all humans and even the elves."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because I said before that the arrival of 'bad news' can no longer be prevented or corrected, so now there is only one way to deal with it, and that is to unite all the forces that can be united and make a final struggle."

There was no joking in Saleh's words. This was the first time Amber saw this pioneer speak to her so seriously.

After a while, Amber said, "Why do I feel that the 'unity' you mentioned is different from the unity I understand? Moreover, given the current situation, uniting the entire human society alone can be considered a 'great cause', not to mention that there are even stronger elves."

Saleh: "So my advice is to conquer at all costs, even by force."

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Seeing that Amber didn't say anything, Saleh continued to speak seriously: "Amber, in fact, you are already in conflict with the Federation, and I believe that with the continuous development of the Atlas Group, it is only a matter of time before you and the Star Dragon Empire come into conflict. As the saying goes, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. When you become threatening enough, other forces will no longer be able to communicate with you in a peaceful way."

Saleh's words silenced Amber. He admitted that the pioneer was not wrong and that what she said was exactly what he had been thinking about.

As Atlas continues to expand, direct conflict with the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire is almost certain.

Even if there are conflicts with the elves of the Thousand Star Empire due to various interests in the future, Amber will not be surprised.
"so?"

"Since you've come this far, why not just go a little further?"

(End of this chapter)