Tomorrow's Ark, the journey of hardcore and ruthless people

1. In addition to the confrontation of conventional forces on the frontal battlefield in this civil war in Ursus, there is also a duel of extraordinary warlocks on the hidden front.Recently, there have been many internal guard infiltration incidents in the liberated areas of the integration movement.

2. A large number of new weapons and equipment of Ursus can now be determined to come from... the STC in operation.

STC!

After closing the report, Comand's gaze became threatening: "How to say?"

"On the issue of extraordinary combat power, we have nothing to do. This can only rely on random refreshing and directional training in the territory. This is still dependent on the Astartes of the People's Federation, and our intelligence agents can only be used as assistants. .”

Dzerzhinsky paused: "As for the sudden development of Ursas' industrial and scientific research capabilities, the work behind the enemy lines in this area will be led by the Extraterrestrial Corps. We will assist your actions."

Ulyanov continued in a low voice: "The decision-making committee of the 113th division just sent us a report, asking you to finish your work here and report to the Atlas office in Hongqi City immediately."

Comand nodded: "When it comes to these matters, our side will immediately regain their energy. I will leave the front to you, Vladimir Ilyich."

"Ah, don't worry. I will drain the blood of the Ursus Empire."

An hour later, Comand sat in the remote conference room in the basement of the office building.

The holographic projection lights up. The pictures of the commander of the 113th division and the sergeants of the division's administration and warfare appeared in this teleconference room.Even the salute and greetings were omitted, and the teacher asked immediately: "With the current level of resource input, do you think the integration movement can end the current deadlock and seize the national power in Ursas?"

"Yes." Comandel replied briskly.

"Do you think there is any more feasible solution?"

Comand stared at the holographic projection map of the Ursas region that had been displayed in mid-air: "There are two solutions that are neck and neck and the most feasible."

"Either, in the main direction of the northeast-southwest front of the two sides, that is, on the southwestern section of the front mainly located in the Don River Basin, launch a large-scale offensive at the campaign level to annihilate and eliminate the main force of the imperial army gathered in the Don River Basin Group. The imperial regime will lose the biggest pillar of its own survival.

"Or, attack in a secondary direction. Launch an attack on the northeast section of the front, annihilate the weaker imperial army group in front of you, and then outflank the enemies in the Don River valley."

The division commander replied: "This is indeed the main opinion of the current joint staff of the National Defense Army, and even our division staff, but obviously, neither of these two points is feasible."

This is true.

Let's talk about the frontal breakthrough in the Don River Basin first.Technical and tactical advantages and weapons and equipment advantages can indeed offset quantitative disadvantages to a certain extent, but this is also limited and cannot be offset without limit.After several rounds of mobilization, the total number of armed forces of the Ursus Empire has approached one million, and more than 50 people have been assembled in the Don River Basin alone.

The mobilization of the People's Liberation Army was slow and slow. In addition, the available population was much lower than that of the imperial government. The number of soldiers in the Don River Basin was only 28.Under such a huge disparity in strength, the Protectorate's front remained motionless and could even slowly advance in a piecemeal manner, squeezing out all its technical and material advantages.If a military adventure is carried out rashly, even if the imperial army is completely defeated in the Don River Basin, it is likely that it will not be able to give the opponent a decisive blow. It will only be able to bite a part of the enemy and allow a large number of enemy troops to escape and organize new defenses.

Expecting to completely annihilate the opponent's 30-strong army with the current 50-strong force not only needs to meet a large number of hard targets, but also requires the superposition of a large number of auxiliary factors and accidental factors.Carrying out this kind of plan earnestly is called "all-or-nothing" at best, or "gambler" at worst.

The idea on the northeastern section of the front is more like a bad idea.Why is this a secondary front?In addition to being sparsely populated, it is also densely covered with a large number of mountains in the north and northeast of Ursus, and transitions all the way to the plateau.There are steep mountains and long and narrow mountain roads, surrounded by rivers and forests, and the area of ​​maneuver is extremely narrow. It is the most complex terrain area on the front line between the Integration Movement and the Ursus Empire, and is considered unsuitable for large-scale military operations.Light infantry may be able to pass through, but it is difficult for organized troops, heavy equipment, baggage convoys and other units to pass through.Once the attack is delayed, it is easy to fall into the dilemma of being unable to follow up.Even if you choose the most feasible route, you still have to pass through Verkhyansk, Chersky and other mountains.

In fact, in the eyes of most people with military common sense in this era, the terrain on the northeast section of the front is synonymous with the "insurmountable natural moat".When someone told them that a large army chose there as a breakthrough direction, the subconscious reaction was "impossible".This also includes the staff officers of the Imperial Army and even the Civilian Army.

It may be possible for the Tribal Army to make a breakthrough here, but demonstrating the feasibility of this operation is itself a difficult task.

"The situation is indeed complex and requires further discussion. Therefore, we decided to deal with some unusual aspects first."

The political sergeant got up, and the goggles of the space warrior's power armor glowed red: "There are a total of eight army numbers in the Ursus Empire. After the start of the all-out war, the current emperor Fyodor, with the help of the war belt, The centralization of power in the past, to a certain extent, the army was gathered and reorganized, and the eight army groups were enriched or rebuilt. Those army groups that were rebuilt were more loyal to the emperor, while the original group armies that continued were too big to lose.

"But no matter which group army it is, it has received brand-new weapons and equipment supplies. In the production of artillery including city defense artillery, naval guns, and small and medium-caliber field artillery, as well as gun shell manufacturing, precision machining, optical equipment, strong pyrotechnics, In terms of artificial rubber and lubricants, high-performance materials, and microelectronics, the overall level of the Ursus Empire has at least reached the level of 'World War I', and some of them can reach even higher.

"The evaluation of the technical department believes that even taking into account our technological stimulation and the fact that the empire itself is about to be on the eve of technological development, it is illogical to make such a large-scale and systematic progress and immediately overcome many difficulties and put it into assembly line production. Yes. The only reasonable logic is——"

"STC." Command read the term with him.

The division commander took over: "Among the Ursus personnel involved in the technological explosion that we are currently concerned about, there are a few with the highest level:

"Minister of Industry of the Ursus Empire, Lord, Grand Scholar Nevsky. He directly used Ursus's own industrialization foundation, combined with the pre-civilization STC they mastered, to establish a support for the current Ursas Empire. The military industrial system of military weapons and equipment.

"Sixth Army Land Fleet Commander Kirilenko - simply put, this fleet general is working hard to raise the technological level of the Imperial Army Land Fleet from the early twentieth century to the interwar period 30 years later .

"Beowulf, the infantry director of the Sixth Army - inspired by the partisans, this man worked hard to build his infantry into a new force that could keep up with the times."

The photos and the introductory text appeared successively in the form of holographic projections, and Comand made a simple evaluation: "It's a bit interesting."

The division commander finally said: "Comrade Comand, originally the integration movement was mainly responsible for the work behind enemy lines in the Ursus Empire. But now, the situation has proved that we need to strengthen in this direction. We think you should be responsible for this task."

Chapter 21 The start of a new contest Refresh

STC stands for "Standard Construction Template".

It is difficult to give an accurate definition of the STC system.Generally speaking, it is the treasure bag of Doraemon; more precisely, it is an automated production, manufacturing, and construction system.

In the "dark age of technology" of that cold and dark universe, STC is an extremely large system.In order to allow the colonists after the interstellar voyage to establish a self-sufficient colony as soon as possible, STC came into being.The entire system of this gadget integrates advanced software and hardware including artificial intelligence and automated engineering systems. The full version can start from ore dressing and mining, and use all locally available materials to provide what human society needs without any relevant knowledge. All material bases required.

In terms of software, this thing involves advanced artificial intelligence and massive technical data; in terms of hardware, this thing involves advanced automated production, manufacturing, and construction systems.It is said to contain all human technology.Unfortunately, during the long nights and countless disasters of the Dark Ages, STC became increasingly rare until it completely disappeared.In the current Empire-Human Alliance era, humans only own a very small part of STC's software and equipment. People can only imagine the glory of the past from this miraculous legacy and use them as much as possible.

To humans today, STCs (and certainly fragments of the entire system) represent either data from ancient technologies or automated manufacturing systems.Recovering STC is a crucial task for all soldiers and civilians of today's People's Federation.

Humans in another universe will also have similar needs, so the 113th Division of the Extraterrestrial Corps of the People's Federation also classifies similar relics of the pre-Tara civilization as "STC".However, the automated manufacturing system of the pre-civilization and the STC of the People's Federation are two completely different technical routes, so the technical sergeants, oil guys, researchers and engineers in the foundry hall are not very urgent about the automated production line of Ursas.

But the technological explosion of the local indigenous people is indeed an important topic, especially when the most important enemy has also experienced a technological explosion.So, while Command was busy taking over the work, the other two "special consultants for time travelers", Space Marine Captain Hangou and Technical Sergeant Bai Ye, were strolling in the largest arsenal of the Ursus Empire.

What a stroll, without any exaggeration.

From a small alien force that almost no one knew about, to the Alpha Legion, and then captured from the Alpha Legion.The camouflage penetration kit of the Human Alliance Space Marine Power Armor is already very mature.The power armor the two men are currently wearing has an optical stand layer and a sound wave interference device installed on the surface of the armor. The armor itself has also been specially modified for noise reduction; small gliders and anti-gravity modules allow them to easily jump out of the sky. Kilometers away, avoiding walls, checkpoints and patrols.

Under the adjustment of the optical position, the surface of the power armor blends with the dim light around; the two people who walked as lightly as possible also literally "silently" after the sound wave cancelled, and even stood directly in front of people passing by. Observe on the walkway.The Ursus guards and workers walking back and forth could only spot the two United Space Marines by bumping their heads against the steel chest.

Two reformed fighters who started at [-] meters in height were currently "investigating" in this noisy and busy industrial mobile city of the Ursas Empire.

"It's a little worth taking a look at..." Bai Ye sighed in a low voice in the communication channel with Hangou, while looking at the surrounding environment.

The emerging industrial city named "Tula" consists of two-digit mobile city modules.In fact, this is an industry-university-research complex consisting of steelmaking plants, machinery processing plants, chemical plants, and military research institutes stretching hundreds of square kilometers. All new technologies and new production methods of the Ursus Empire will be tested here. Departments with urgent needs may even request direct production here.

Here lies the beating industrial heart of the Ursus Empire.Its foundation is several mobile cities that have been disassembled. The extremely precious giant origin stone power furnaces of the mobile city are evenly distributed into six groups to form a huge hexagonal hexagon. The production unit is centered on the power unit. Spread all around.Power furnaces radiate cables, pipes and rails around, pumping fresh blood into this industrial behemoth around the clock.

The sudden all-out civil war and the advanced technology of the Civilian Army played a great stimulating role, allowing this industrial city, which was still on paper according to the plan, to take shape ahead of schedule.

Those overly classical factory workshop assembly lines were not the goal of the two people's trip.Those more heavily guarded areas are housing equipment classified as STC.

The two Astartes reduced the power consumption of their respective power armor to the minimum, all non-essential systems were shut down and ready to be restarted at any time, and almost all the energy was used for the camouflage system.Optical stances and camouflage layers from Xenotech changed color, like chameleons, thoroughly modulating the cement hues of the Red Scythe and Hammer Legion into the dim light around them.

The two Space Marines easily passed through the guard of three steps, one post, and five steps.During this period, he was close enough to Ursus sentries carrying automatic rifles that he could slit their throats, but the other party could not see them.

The self-developed industrial system of Ursas with the style of the second half of the 19th century is not the essence of this magnificent industrial city, they are just appendages of the standard construction template STC.The driving force behind Ursus' technological leap is not Nevsky, let alone the Royal Academy of Sciences, but archaeologists and drilling teams directly under the Ministry of Industry.They drilled all over the vast Ursus, expecting to hear a thrilling gold-stone collision-that is when the drill bit hit the outer shell of the STC.

When Ursus miners first discovered the STC nearly a hundred years ago, they thought they had dug a huge piece of volcanic rock.Scholars were surprised to find that the black silicon shell actually sprouted roots and penetrated into the rock disk. This phenomenon was attributed to the biological characteristics of the STC given to the STC by the nanomachines cluster with self-healing, self-adapting, and self-assembly functions, which made it unique among the Terran people. There was a layer of mystery in my heart.

Each STC in the factory area has a large open space specially designated, which is half-buried in clean sand. The periphery of the sand is a shielding wall that can generate high temperatures.The feeding port is placed at one end of the "volcanic rock", greedily swallowing all the refined industrial raw materials transported from the factories in the industrial city like a giant snake.If you use a probe to look inside at this time, you can see countless swinging cilia transporting raw materials deep into the body.

Unlike the Ursus self-built production line that makes all kinds of loud noises like a military band beating gongs and drums, STC only has a dead silence that makes the Ursas incomprehensible, which is one of the proofs of its superiority.Because inside the STC, the highly complex biochemical reaction decomposes the raw materials into the molecular state, and then assembles them from the microscopic level, and manufactures the metamaterial giant structures and microscopic fine structures in a way that Terrans cannot understand.

But "incomprehensible" is for the people of Terra.

After activating the Technician's personal cyber implant, Bai Ye's eye mask monitor flashed out the analysis results.Even without intelligent auxiliary equipment, Bai Ye can judge the type of this STC at a glance: This kind of general-purpose automated production line with nano-machine clusters as the main body is the most classic of Renlian's various general-purpose automated production lines. structure.

Two space warriors got into the aisle on the side of the main body of the STC, formed an indoor search formation, and moved towards the finished product finishing workshop on the other side of the STC at the standard "slightly slow" speed of the space warriors.

The other end of the STC is also a giant mouth: there, film-wrapped products are pushed out by wriggling flexible pipes.Workers use sharp knives of different lengths to break open the film to harvest the product - Orthodox priests claim that this symbolizes the birth and birth of the Son, and has been recognized by many workers.Because everything from majestic mobile cities to integrated circuits in computers relies on this living creature.

However, such an extremely advanced automatic factory will not help the utopia of visionaries.The lesson of blood tells the people of Terra: Be cautious when using STC.No one knows what the STC will produce when it is activated, and it is not sure whether the STC is damaged, let alone what the consequences of the damage will be.And now, one of the disastrous consequences happened.

When two infiltrators came to the finished product finishing workshop quietly, they observed the busy Ursus workers in the corner.A dull explosion suddenly sounded.

That was coming from the direction of the main body of STC.It looked dull because it was separated by a complete set of protective layers and several walls and corridors.

The workers first stopped what they were doing and looked at each other, and then found that the discharging process had stopped.The sharp evacuation alarm suddenly sounded, and the security officer on duty ran out of the aisle almost crawling.

So people dropped what they were doing and left.

The two space warriors stayed in the corner.As the workers escaped from the workshop, Bai Ye activated the communication system of the power armor, using direct electronic signal communication in the camouflage infiltration mode: "Do you want to withdraw?"

Hangou unhooked the plasma pulse carbine from the magnetic hanging point on the waist of the power armor with his left hand. With his right hand, he pulled out a silent bomb pistol with a fixed silencer structure in the barrel from the holster on his waist. It contained a magazine full of silent bombs. Ready to go: "Our mission is to closely observe the STC controlled by the enemy. My mission is to protect you to complete this mission. So, I listen to you."

Bai Ye's little white face smiled under the helmet. He flipped his hands, and a short-handled Omenissian power ax and a heavy-duty laser pistol appeared in his hands: "Let's check the situation first and collect information. If possible Just—get a sample."

**

A piercing bell rang.

Nevsky is at his desk dealing with piles of reports and experimental data.He picked up the phone receiver dissatisfied, thinking that he must replace this annoying ring system.

But the voice in the microphone made him immediately forget this insignificant detail: "Your Excellency, the automatic production machine of the small power furnace has abnormal proliferation and perforation, and there is live mercury leaking. Please come here immediately."

The Minister of Industry of the Ursus Empire was shocked, put on his coat hastily and rushed to the scene.

The meaning of the automatic production machine is obvious, and the "living mercury" is the product of the differentiated nanomachines that have been differentiated into a propagule state.Theoretically, an STC based on nanotechnology is immortal, as long as it is given enough construction materials and input with specific instructions, it can self-assemble another brand new STC, and if the STC can be reedited, it will be almost infinite. What it can't - making all kinds of stuff is just a small use for it, manipulation on a molecular level allows it to cure any known disease, use it as a weapon to destroy most conventional matter, and terraform alien planets at very low cost.

However, the technological level of Ursus and other countries cannot understand the highly complex molecular computer of STC. Therefore, all they can do is to connect the power supply to STC, control its own simple control panel, and pray for this god's creation to come down. Gospel.

"That's what you see, my lord. We came to the scene when we heard the explosion, and found live mercury leaking from the automatic production machine."

Everyone at the scene was wearing rubber jackets, steel helmets and gas masks on their heads, and long breathing tubes connected to the filter tanks around their waists.Nevsky stood on a scaffold and watched the accident scene 100 meters away with a telescope.

These sets of STCs, which are about the size of a container, were unearthed two years ago, and the general control program developed by him was completed and put into production one and a half years ago.Four of them can synthesize pure benzene at an annual output of 10 tons, and the product of the remaining one has made the industrial sector overjoyed: it produces a small fossil-derived power furnace with extremely high performance—although the high performance comes at the cost It consumes a lot of precious metals and rare earths.

Now Nevsky's heart bleeds at the horrors of the precious STC: a deep hole in its otherwise sound silicon shell, surrounded by countless shiny dimples that radiate out.Mercury-like nanomachines gurgled from the holes, dripping to the ground revealing its biological properties.They gathered in shiny piles, with roots growing from the bottom into the surrounding sand pools, transporting the vast quantities of silica within.

The crystal-shining frame is built in a fractal pattern, with liquid nanomachines seeping into the porous structure of the frame. Black and shiny blades stretch out from the frame to absorb the light energy of the searchlight - they are solar panels.If a priest with rich imagination sees this scene, he will definitely claim that this is the blood of God that creates life.

If that were all, it wouldn't be enough for those present to be armed to look like poisonous gas leaks.What made Nevsky and the workers fully armed was the thick layer of chlorine gas that settled on the ground.

A long dead gray tube grew around the wound of the STC. At this time, it snaked and climbed along the shell, standing tall at the top of the STC, spraying out a yellow-green poisonous mist.Nevsky, who was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, thought of the dragonfly on the conch, but more people thought it was more like the chimney of a steel factory.

Seeing this situation, Nevsky categorically ordered: "Seal the breach immediately, and then throw the live mercury with the shovel into the feed port!"

The accident emergency response team wrapped the film on the steel bar and nailed it into the wound as a wedge, and melted the end of the steel bar with an acetylene flame to melt and seal the gap; Ursus workers fearlessly climbed up the STC , smashed the long calcium pipe that sprayed the poisonous gas, and sealed the remaining spout with a wedge; as for the beautiful crystal tree, it was dug up by the shovel, and it was thrown into the feeding port with the shovel, and then the sand pool was extinguished with thermite. live.

The biological crisis created by STC has been temporarily resolved.

The advance team member in charge of collecting the samples opened the protective cover of the metal tank, which contained the collected fresh samples: "My lord, these are the things that were made during the failure just now, please have a look."

Through the thick glass, Nevsky was able to glimpse the deformed child born to the sick mother: the originally smooth heat dissipation fins of the power furnace were distorted and bubbling, as if they had smallpox; The core of the power furnace is the most terrifying: several spider-like limbs grew out of it, knocking on the glass lining, and a bulge cracked a piece of it. slit, revealing a lifeless eye.

"It's really disgusting." Nevsky's hair stood on end. He recalled the files he had read more than ten years ago: a careless guy was away from work for a few hours and didn't pay attention to the vision of the product.As a result, the products transformed into xenomorphs killed hundreds of workers, only to burn an entire factory area to end the disaster.He was still a student at the time, half-believing in this strange story, but now the live samples were placed in front of him.

The Minister of Industry frowned, thought for a moment, and then shouted into the intercom: "Physically cut off the power supply immediately, this damn machine is temporarily unusable!"

Having made up his mind, he pressed "Emergency Stop" on the operation panel without hesitation, and then scrawled in his work log: "...Based on the above phenomenon, I judge that it is extremely dangerous to continue production. . The automatic production machine of the small power furnace will be shut down for 100 days from today, waiting for self-repair."

The temporary paralysis of small power furnace production angered Nevsky.He does not allow anyone to touch the most advanced and greatest factory in the world. This is not only related to the fate of the empire, but also because this factory is his painstaking effort and the highest proof of personal value.

After hastily washing and taking off the protective clothing, Nevsky thought hard, and sat down after returning to the office: Why did this happen?

No, who did the sabotage? ——This is the question that should be considered.

The holes on the shell are obviously the work of the energy-concentrated armor-piercing warhead, and the leakage of a large amount of chlorine gas is even more unreasonable. Since there is never chlorine in the raw materials, how can we create such a large amount of poisonous gas?This is definitely man-made sabotage.

Nevsky took out a piece of paper to sort out his thoughts.He first drew the logo of "To no Maru" with a pencil on it, and said to himself, "Is it Dongguo?"

Then he crossed out the sign.

The warning system for Source Stone skills is the specialty of the Terran people. No matter how powerful the extraordinary hero or natural disaster warlock is, it will be difficult to get through it.Nevsky's first move since taking office was to greatly strengthen the strength of the factory protection team and strengthen the means of routine infiltration against mortals: