I participated in the development of EVA

I took a look and saw the caller ID was: NERV Council.

parliament?

What are you going to do by calling me at this time?

He answered the call.

"There's a meeting you need to attend in three hours."

"it is good."

I glanced at the time. It was already past seven o'clock, and in three hours it would be ten o'clock in the evening.

He was a little confused about what the meeting was about.

Could it be that another team has come up with some scientific research results, such as a detector that can retrieve the location of the apostles on Earth?

But this also gave him a reason to avoid Ritsuko Akagi.

"I have a meeting at ten o'clock. I'm going to go take a rest first. Ritsuko, please help look after Rei."

"okay……"

Ritsuko Akagi was a little disappointed, but didn't say much.

When the phone call came just now, she subconsciously took a look and knew that the call was from the NERV Council.

Ten o'clock is just the meeting time. In order to prevent the next meeting from lasting too long, Fumihiko Ikari prepared to take a break.

I came to the lounge and spoke to the camp attendant.

"I have a meeting at ten o'clock. Wake me up at nine-thirty."

"Yes."

Close your eyes and enter the game world.

Ok……

He felt that no matter how long the meeting lasted, he could handle it with his age advantage.

He just finished quickly clearing two copies when it was half past nine. At the waiter's notice, he quit the game and entered the nerv dream.

This dream is specially built for nerv.

After a feeling of weightlessness, he appeared in a modern square.

The square was clean, with only a huge obelisk and the UN flag.

There are names written on the obelisk. This is not a list of merits, but a second attack on the monument.

When order was just restored, an unofficial organization collected the names of the victims of the Second Impact from all over the world. The reason they did this was not complicated, they just wanted to record this catastrophe. Later, when the nerv dream was being built, someone mentioned this organization and decided to build a monument in the square.

So there was this huge obelisk that reached into the sky and recorded over three billion names, like the Tower of Babel.

He withdrew his gaze from the obelisk.

He walked with his short legs into the nearest transmission device.

This is a dream so a virtual image is used. His virtual image is a mini Gundam.

If it weren't for his current identity, he would still need to pay attention to his image, otherwise... he would definitely set his avatar to the anime character from his previous life. Of course, in a private space with no one around, he would also replace his avatar with the anime character from his previous life, and appreciate it in front of the mirror with the attitude of art.

"Identification confirmed, Minister Ikari, it's a pleasure to be of service to you."

"Go to Conference Room 0."

"The target has been identified and is being transmitted."

Before he finished speaking, he appeared in the conference hall. Although he arrived half an hour early, the place was already almost full.

At the same time, his virtual image was replaced with a real one.

"Minister Ikari."

"minister."

His appearance immediately attracted everyone's attention.

When he sat down at his seat, the head of the logistics department beside him immediately asked him a question.

"Minister Ikari, do you know what happened?"

Although both of them are ministers and seem to be at the same level, Fumihiko Ikari is one level higher than all the ministers, so the minister of the logistics department uses honorifics.

Ikari Fumihiko shook his head.

"I don't know. I also received a meeting notice three hours ago. Do you guys know what happened?"

The other ministers also shook their heads and said that they, like Ikari Fumihiko, had received the notice at the last minute.

But unlike Fumihiko Ikari, they did not receive a call from the parliament, but only a meeting notice.

Dozens of people later arrived at the conference hall, and no one was teleported into the conference hall twenty minutes before the meeting started.

Everyone sat in their seats, talking quietly, waiting for the meeting to begin.

Soon it was ten o'clock when the meeting was about to begin.

Three people from the parliament appeared in everyone's sight, and in addition there was another person who looked familiar to Fumihiko Ikari.

Isn't this the scholar who proposed creating a JA robot at the last meeting?

Is it difficult to successfully develop the JA robot?

Not only did he recognize this scholar, but most of the people present also recognized him. Unlike the independent research and development of the Dongying Heavy Chemical Industry Community in the original work, this scholar proposed the JA concept at the last meeting and attracted many scholars to participate. Therefore, the development of the JA robot is a relatively popular scientific research project.

Everyone started talking quietly.

Fumihiko Ikari had a different understanding of the research on JA robots, so he called up the relevant information of JA robots through the virtual screen.

There are quite a few people who do this. Although JA robots are popular, they are only relatively popular and not mainstream. Therefore, most people present know about the JA robot project, but not many people really understand this project.

After taking a look, he was a little surprised.

The development progress of the JA robot is different from what we imagined. It is not a pure mechanical armor like the Gundam equipped with a nuclear reactor.

It is a branch mecha of EVA.

To put it simply, the JA robot is an EVA without its brain and core, or it can be understood as using a nuclear reactor to drive the EVA body.

The advantage of this is that anyone can drive it, even unmanned. The disadvantage is that the upper limit is too low, and the shape is not much different from EVA. Er... No! The high shape is not a disadvantage, because although the cost of JA robots is high, they can be made into JA beast robots without the use of Longinus metal.

After reading the information, he became even more confused.

The biggest function of the JA robot is that it can get rid of the dependence on Longinus metal, allowing Nerv to master cutting-edge technology that truly belongs to him.

But even if that's the case, there's no need to make such a big fuss to show off, right?

Just as he was wondering, the meeting began.

The lights in the conference hall were turned off, plunging it into darkness, and a technical drawing was displayed on the big screen.

Just by taking a look, everyone knew what it was...

Rotating gravity space station.

Ikari Fumihiko was a little confused when watching this scene.

Aren't you the originator of the JA robot concept? Why are you not researching JA robots now, but researching space stations? ? ?

jaRobots have their limits, so you stop studying robots and start studying spaceships?

"This is not a space station, but a spacecraft equipped with a large nuclear reactor. Its name is Mars Explorer. Just like the name, its mission is to explore Mars with human hopes and build a colonial base there." Having said this, the scholar paused for a moment and then continued.

"The members of the Spark Project will represent the first group of Martian immigrants of human civilization."

20:18:10

645. Apostles are coming? ?

The originator of the JA concept briefly introduced the rotating gravity spacecraft.

When he finished his introduction, a scholar stood up.

"How can such a large device withstand frequent sandstorms when it lands on the surface of Mars? You know, super-large sandstorms often form on Mars and last for several months."

"Our initial goal was to keep the spacecraft in orbit around Mars and use Deimos to protect it from cosmic dust."

"Even then it can't keep running for long."

"The Mars Explorer is just the first step. We will send spacecraft to Mars later to find stable areas of the crust for the Explorer and open up a large enough space underground for it to use."

"Why not find a suitable location first and then send out the Explorer?"

"Even if there is a space elevator, it will take at least eight years to build a spacecraft like the Explorer."

Scholar ja paused and then added another sentence.

"If Earth fails to send a follow-up spacecraft as planned, the Explorer will select the best landing site on Mars based on the data collected one year after losing contact with humans. The artificial intelligence on board will try its best to keep the Explorer alive for as long as possible according to the final plan we send."

The scene fell silent.

Because there is only one situation in which humans will lose contact with the Explorer, and that is if the third impact fails to be prevented and human civilization is therefore extinct.

The first explorer sent out will transform the Mars colonization into the Spark Project.

And it was a fire plan that was doomed to fail.

Given the conditions and climate on Mars, the Explorer would not last long no matter how lucky it was without support from Earth.

As for why Mars was chosen instead of other more suitable planets?

The reason is simple.

lack of ability.

With human beings’ current capabilities, the only option is Mars.

After a long silence, other scholars spoke again.

"There's no need to choose Mars, right? It would be better to build a base on the moon! It would take less time to build, and we could build more supporting equipment."

"It's too close to Earth, and the resources aren't as abundant as on Mars, which is not conducive to the development of a civilization."

"How can we still develop? Without the support of the Earth, how can a few embryos develop a civilization in the environment of Mars?"

"Just build a moon base?"

"We can deploy supporting facilities on the lunar base, manufacture EVAs, launch a counterattack, and retake Earth."

"They're still counterattacking! The moon is so close to the earth, it's not certain whether we can survive."

……

Listening to these discussions, Fumihiko Ikari understood that this meeting was about whether the Spark Project should choose Mars or the Moon.

Compared with the former, he thinks the latter is more reliable.

Of course, counterattacking the earth doesn't count.

With the power that humans have now, they have already been defeated. With the few resources on the moon, no matter how hard the remaining humans fight, they cannot turn the tables. If they just want to turn the tables, they might as well equip the moon with a few stellar engines, which will automatically activate when humans lose contact and push the moon towards the earth, so that they can complete revenge for humans.

Of course, Lilith, who became a god, is not included.

In the original book, in Lilith's final state, the AT force field she deployed could definitely block the moon.

While he was daydreaming, he noticed that many people were looking at him, and he reacted immediately.

Uh……

The reason why they asked me to attend this meeting is not that they want to use my influence to make the final decision on whether to choose Mars or to build a lunar base, right?

"Minister Ikari, what do you think about this matter?"

Just as he thought, the nerv council called his name.

After a moment's hesitation, he expressed his thoughts.

"The moon base."

After a pause, he added.

"Even if we can survive on Mars and fight for a while, we are just waiting to die. It is better to build a base on the moon! If we can counterattack, we can do so. If not, we can also place enough nuclear bombs on the moon and detonate them when mankind is completely destroyed, thus destroying the balance between the earth and the moon, and causing the moon to be captured by gravity and crash into the earth to destroy the enemy."

Everyone fell silent.