Chapter 196: Ruins "Capture" Shipbuilding [Advent]

February 27.

The northern polar region of Harvest during the polar day.

Although Harvest is only 4,000 kilometers in diameter, not as big as Mars, its atmosphere provides a habitable environment thanks to its strong magnetic field protection, and it also has complex seasonal changes.

The northern polar region of Harvest is like the South Pole of the Earth, with the original land and everything covered by ice.

According to the various scans, tests and analyses of the Enio, it can be found that the average thickness of the Arctic ice cap is about 200 meters, and at the same time, many places with abnormal magnetic fields have been found.

The local colonists, together with the previous intelligent artificial intelligence, have never carefully explored these places with abnormal magnetic fields. After all, their main goal is development, construction and land reclamation, and they don’t have much energy to engage in scientific research and exploration.

On the other hand, Atlas, which was deployed to Harvest through the space gate, invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the search with a firm attitude that "there are high-value alien relics here".

With the help of Apu, the Atlas engineering team locked one of the unusual locations in just two Earth days and started rapid excavation.

Come to the top of the site to overlook.

The first thing we found was that there were many temporary buildings on the edge of the excavation site, as well as landing platforms for flying vehicles to park steadily.

As for the central location, there was an "ice pit" excavated by a snow-type Hex robot, and metal ruins at the bottom of the "ice pit".

Get closer to observe.

You can find metal walls with unknown patterns, inserted diagonally into the hard rock layer, and the gaps are still overflowing with blue-green light.

Enter the ruins through the opened gate.

The spacious passage is also illuminated by the blue-green light. The technicians belonging to Atlas, under the protection of the accompanying emergency response team, carry out on-site collection and research.

Continue down.

The structure of the ruins is simple and clear, without the maze tunnels, paths or traps of the ancient tomb.

Following the spacious main passage, deep below the surface, we arrived at an extremely open cave space.

A large number of metal pillars supported the area, and the rock walls were still embedded with a large amount of metal. The main control platform in the area was like an isolated island, surrounded by a bottomless dark abyss.

At the end of the main passage, there were two "light bridges" that looked like transparent glass, crossing the abyss, and then connected to the main control platform, making it convenient for Atlas' personnel and vehicles to pass through.

At this time, the team led by Sui Yang came to the end.

He stepped on the light bridge without hesitation and headed towards the main control platform.

Fulgrim and Angron, as well as researchers with many titles, followed closely behind, as if they were floating above the abyss together.

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But Riemann, standing on the edge of the cliff, hesitated a little and was reluctant to walk on the light bridge.

He looked down, and with the extraordinary vision of the Primarch, he vaguely saw that there seemed to be a rolling magma river at the bottom of the abyss.

Looking at the light bridge that seemed to be formed by some particles, Riemann always felt that the bridge would suddenly dissipate and let him fall into the abyss.

There was no way, because he was not yet an adult, and could not take on the responsibility of guarding the space gate like his brother Vulcan, so he could only follow his father into this dark alien ruins.

And he was a little afraid of heights.

Slow down.

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Riemann took a deep breath, opened his eyes and walked quickly, following a researcher whose hair was a little bald due to years of thinking and overtime through the light bridge and came to the main control platform.

And under the puzzled eyes of Fulgrim and Angron, he met up with the two brothers, and then looked at his father who was approaching the main control console with a look of "nothing happened just now".

On the other hand, Sui Yang.

For him personally, everything here is very familiar, because as early as a hundred years ago, he learned about the Harvest Planet and the Forerunner Ruins in advance by repeatedly playing "Halo Wars 1".

Moreover, after the communication was restored on Harvest, Apu did help them confuse the UNSC and UEG's judgment on the situation on Harvest, and also provided a large number of mature technical blueprints, as well as the specific coordinates of all colonies including Reach and Arcadia.

The intelligence that Sui Yang valued most was that Apu obtained the UNSC's Naval Intelligence Bureau through the AI ​​Parliament, which is the notorious ONI that protects all mankind in the "Halo" universe, and is discussing the "next step" with the 18-year-old Katherine Halsey.

ONI senior management analyzed that if humans continue to fall into civil strife, the war will last at least 30 years and 5 billion people will die.

This will eventually lead to the collapse of human civilization, the Earth will completely lose contact with colonies everywhere, technology will regress, and some colonies will even regress to the Middle Ages or the Stone Age.

Therefore, ONI intends to restart the Orion Project and prepare to build a super soldier who has been trained since childhood and undergoes transformation surgery to accurately assassinate the leaders of the rebels and reduce the cost of suppressing the rebellion and casualties as much as possible.

The plan provided by Catherine Halsey is in line with the expectations of ONI's top management.

However, the UNSC is still waiting and watching, seemingly not wanting to be accused of "kidnapping children" and "anti-human transformation surgery", which has caused its already very bad reputation to decline again and again.

Sui Yang, who learned of this, is ready to send the elite of the Investigation Department to Reach and take the opportunity to "capture" Catherine Halsey.

As long as we get that genius among geniuses, Atlas will make rapid breakthroughs in various fields.

Especially combined with Atlas' existing biotechnology, it may be possible to create a more powerful "Spartan II".

In addition, Apu also assisted the company in improving the modification plan of the Selune class and the Fidus class, so that the jump engine can be installed in the shortest time without affecting the hull structure.

Therefore, as long as Atlas is given some time to relax and a 3D printing factory and automated shipbuilding dock are set up on Harvest, the speed of shipbuilding can be replicated.

You must know that Apu not only perfected the Selune-class and Fidus-class, but also provided the construction of mainstream UNSC ships, such as Stalwart-class frigates, Phoenix-class support boats, Sahara-class heavy cruisers, New Era-class heavy aircraft carriers, etc. blueprint.

It is equivalent to Atlas being able to directly build mainstream UNSC ships with only minor adjustments.

now;

Sui Yang no longer thought about "capturing" Halsey and shipbuilding, but focused on the main console in front of him, stretched out his left hand, and touched the blue sphere engraved with unknown runes.

Swish——!

In an instant, the sphere burst out with a burst of dazzling light, and then released a three-dimensional star map outwards, allowing the people gathered on the master control platform to be immersed in the vast ocean of the universe with various planets and stars.

But before Sui Yang got Apu's preliminary analysis results, he heard the cold voice in his mind:

[The two heirs have arrived in the Arctic region of the Harvest Star]