After two years of construction, the lunar camp has grown into a small town-sized area capable of accommodating hundreds of thousands of people.
The camp was located around Hansen Crater on the Moon.
Compared to other impact crater areas, this place has relatively abundant water resources, a relatively flat surface, making it easier to build houses and travel, and the nearby shaded areas also have more ice and minerals.
Moreover, some areas here are bathed in sunlight all day long, making them suitable for solar power generation.
As for communication capabilities, with our current technology, real-time communication is already possible. In space, all we need to do is set up communication light towers.
The camp not only housed personnel from the First Fleet, but also scientists.
In the past, they didn't have the opportunity, or rather, they could only rely on the probe to bring back soil and other materials for research and analysis.
Going to space was very complicated, requiring excellent physical fitness and training in space.
These are no longer problems; these elderly scientists can directly travel to the specially built camp by boarding a spaceship.
If data collection is needed, there are also dedicated convoys traveling on the moon.
Furthermore, the vehicle is equipped with a dedicated oxygen generator and specially made spacesuits to protect them while they are walking outside.
So these old professors are now full of confidence, and have come directly from Earth to the Moon.
This was a place they had never even dared to imagine before.
Inside the camp's command post.
"sit."
Yuan Yi led everyone to sit down.
"Tell me about the current situation."
"Yes, Commander-in-Chief."
Zhang Liang directly opened the virtual screen, which projected the entire moon.
Under Zhang Liang's control, a portion of the area was quickly locked down.
"Our First Fleet has already searched the area marked 01, 02, and 03, but found no trace of anything."
"We are currently exploring areas 04, 05, and 06!"
On the virtual screen, a cold blue light outlined the barren contours of the lunar surface.
The crater resembles a giant eye carved by a meteorite, with concentric ridges layered with dust accumulated over millions of years, and radial patterns gleaming with a metallic, cold white under strong light.
The lunar maria are characterized by dark brown basalt plains, where shadows are elongated into sharp knife marks within the solidified magma folds.
Here, sunlight and shadow are clearly distinct, and the lack of atmospheric scattering makes the terrain's edges and corners stand out, with every speck of lunar dust so clear it seems almost tangible.
The data stream at the edge of the screen displays latitude and longitude coordinates, and where the cursor moves, the local terrain is magnified—a ilmenite crystal half-buried in the gravel is reflecting simulated sunlight, refracting tiny starlight.
In the distance, a simulated tracked probe is rolling over loose topsoil, and the lunar dust it kicks up falls like a slow-motion scene, drawing fleeting arcs in the silent virtual space.
Yuan Yi frowned as he looked at the scene before him.
"Are you sure you've searched every area thoroughly? What about underground? Inside the mountains?"
There are also mountain ranges on the moon, but their mountain ranges are called lunar mountain ranges, which are continuous mountain peaks distributed on the lunar surface.
There are not many mountain ranges on the moon, and they are usually named after mountain ranges on Earth.
The general characteristic of lunar mountains is that they are steep on the side facing the lunar maria and gentle on the side facing the lunar highlands.
There are some lunar peaks near the lunar south pole, reaching heights of 8,000 to 9,000 meters.
Upon hearing Yuan Yi's words, Zhang Liang immediately stood up and patted his chest: "Commander-in-Chief, rest assured, we have already used the most advanced technology to conduct a thorough search of all places that cannot be explored by manpower, including the surface, underground, and mountain ranges."
"We guarantee that there will be no discovery within a depth of 3,000 meters underground, and certainly not within the mountain itself."
Three thousand meters is the maximum detection range that their machines can currently detect. Furthermore, if they probe further down to five to eight thousand meters, they will receive special feedback if they find warships or machinery.
Yuan Yi knew this, and he also knew Zhang Liang's personality.
Since he said there was no trace, it proves that there were no traces at least eight kilometers above the surface in the areas that were explored.
"Could these Moen people still be hiding in the core of the moon?"
The moon has a diameter of 3,476 kilometers, a volume of approximately 2.1958 × 10^10 cubic kilometers, and a mass of approximately 7.346 × 10^22 kilograms.
The moon's diameter is about a quarter of that of Earth, and its mass is about one eighty-first of that of the Earth.
Its surface is covered with impact craters formed by small celestial bodies.
This didn't seem to be a difficult thing for the Moen tribe at the time.
Moreover, they seem to have brought with them blueprints and technology from a six-star civilization.
"Okay, assign them tasks."
"Have someone take them to familiarize themselves with the local area and the terrain."
Yuan Yi directly handed over the training and combat missions of the four newly formed fleets to Zhang Liang.
He was a veteran space soldier, having not only experienced the creation of a spacefaring force but also the previous battle.
"Yes, Commander-in-Chief."
Yuan Yi walked directly out of the command post and into the camp area.
Looking at the boundless starry sky, Yuan Yi waved to summon an advisor.
"Go get me an all-terrain vehicle, I want to go out for a drive!"
"Yes, Commander-in-Chief."
"Would you like to send troops to accompany us?"
Who in the interstellar space force doesn't know that their commander-in-chief has the highest combat power among them?
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