With the new Mars planetary fortress spacecraft put into use, the defense line of the entire Pass C11 system finally took shape. Before this, the system actually had no reasonable defense force.
Because so many resources were allocated to the transformation and construction of New Mars, Bai Yi had little time to build other defensive platforms. Although he appeared to have built numerous tachyon cannons, they were essentially mere decorations. These turrets were attached to the planetary fortress ship and relied entirely on the ship's zero-point energy reactor for power.
Apart from these, the only defense facilities in the entire galaxy that could be considered as the first-class ones were the automatic sentry guns and air minefields deployed in the outer asteroid belt. However, these two things were passive defense facilities and could only play a delaying role in the face of large fleets.
The planetary fortress ship was different. It was no exaggeration to say that it was a mobile super fortress, capable of both attack and defense. With it, Bai Yi was like Li Yunlong with the Italian cannon; he finally had the confidence to speak with his head held high.
Looking down at the silvery new Mars from a low-Earth satellite, Bai Yi's affection grew. This massive planet, to him, resembled a gigantic planet. The destructive ray jets were the planet's head, its white shell its snow-white body, its towering tail jets its six legs, and the 1,100 steering engines scattered around its equator its 1,100 tentacles.
Just when he was about to find something to test the power of the destructive ray, an urgent communication was received on the communication channel.
This is what the message begins.
"The Second Fleet of the Pan-Galactic Defense Force is about to arrive. Please prepare for the reception according to the original plan."
The sender is Kachi.
Bai Yi checked the date. The Second Fleet had arrived nearly half a month earlier than scheduled. Judging from the latter part of Kachi's message, they seemed to have been in a hurry. Many of the ships were smoking as they left the subspace.
This situation is not common. As a militarized logistics fleet, the Second Fleet, while lacking in direct combat capabilities, boasts the best large-scale mobility of the three combined fleets. Due to its constant presence in transport operations, the fleet's ships boast the most powerful and fastest engines in their class. However, it's unclear what happened this time, causing such a renowned fleet to suffer from a warp engine failure.
Bai Yi couldn't help but think of the exploration mission six months ago. The Galactic Alliance had launched a probe to a rogue galaxy 5,000 light-years away, and they might have formed a manned exploration team to go there later. However, as of now, Bai Yi hadn't received any news related to this.
Logically, whether the assessment of the rogue galaxy was correct or not, there should have been an investigation report, but he hadn't seen anything like it yet. So there were only two possibilities: either the higher-ups had blocked the relevant information, or the exploration team hadn't reached their destination at all.
Considering the current situation, Bai Yi was more inclined to the second hypothesis. The Border Guardians were the galaxy's first line of defense, and they were also artificial intelligence designed by humans and governed by the Three Laws of Robotics. The higher-ups had no reason to hide the war situation from them.
Before Bai Yi could figure it out, the second piece of news came.
The sender is still Kachi.
After opening the message details, Bai Yi took a quick glance and immediately felt something was wrong.
The content is not long and is easy to understand. It can be summarized in two sentences.
"The Second Fleet requires that the construction period be shortened. Each border defender must deploy an additional 50% of the original construction units."
"Your mother, where are you offering sacrifices?"
Bai Yi's heart was bleeding. He was originally going to provide 200 construction tanks to the Second Fleet, and he had been working very hard to produce only 150. Now he had to increase the supply by 50%, which meant he had to give another 150 to the enemy.
Where would the extra 150 come from? Of course, they could only be drawn from the existing ones.
Bai Yi currently owns more than 400 space construction units, 200 of which are constructing atmospheric condensers on the star Forgiveness, 40 are monitoring and assisting the planet harvesters in harvesting planets on the star Luofan, and the rest, except for a small number of them maintaining crystal minelayers in the outer asteroid belt, are basically busy building a deep space defense network.
The deep space defense network consisted of the Lofan Orbital Tachyon Cannon and hundreds of thousands of defense platforms scattered throughout the C11 system. Because the distances between adjacent platforms were vast, the more than one hundred construction teams worked in pairs simultaneously on multiple points.
Bai Yi had originally planned to take seventy or eighty of these construction units from the deep space network, and then use the remaining hundred or so from the atmospheric condenser on Forgiveness Planet to make up the remaining supply. After all, the atmospheric condenser was already partially operational, and with a steady stream of resource income, such a thing would eventually be produced. While life would be tight in the short term, he could manage it by tightening his belt and suspending some non-critical construction sites.
The need to withdraw 300 units at once really troubled Bai Yi. The condenser couldn't just sit idle, so at best, they could squeeze out 150 of the 200 construction units. The deep space defense network could squeeze out even fewer, at most 100. The remaining 50 construction units would have to be drawn from Luo Fan's planet harvesters and crystal minelayers.
After careful consideration, Bai Yi decided to transfer 150 units from the construction team of the atmospheric condenser on Forgiveness Star, 100 units from the deep space network construction team, and 15 and 35 units from the planet harvesters and crystal minelayers respectively.
These 300 construction machines, which were pieced together from various sources, accounted for 3/4 of Bai Yi's assets. In order to support the construction of the star gate of the Second Fleet, all of his construction sites were almost shut down.
There is no other way, I have to make a contribution.
The selected construction sub-ships were assembled within 48 hours and arranged in a 10×10×3 array on the high orbit of the star Forgiveness. Because the construction sub-ships did not have jump engines and could not enter the subspace, they had to wait here for the other ships to pick them up.
The receiving spacecraft belonged to the Second Fleet and was a deep space transport ship.
The Deep Space Transport is an improved version of the regular Industrial Ship. Compared to regular Industrial Ships, the Deep Space Transport boasts a larger cargo capacity and stronger shielding and armor, making it ideal for transporting large quantities of cargo to dangerous areas unreachable by civilian spacecraft.
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