The Legendary Mechanic

The fleet spent two days on Beacon, receiving various exploration equipment from Tarlokov, and a huge alloy container was transported to the Black Star Corps carriers by ground transport vehicles, with neat yards.

These are imperial exploratory items such as stargate devices, silly planetary fortress expansion kits, cosmic surveillance buoys to refine star maps and provide dynamic environmental surveillance capabilities, etc., are all military equipment that will not circulate in the formal interstellar market and will occasionally appear on the black market at most.

Han Xiao asked Philip to take a look and receive about 500 sets of stargate equipment, 6,000 silly planetary fortress expansion kits, and 15 billion cosmic monitoring buoys, instead of giving them to him, but borrowed mission props, long enough.

In addition, Tarlokov dispatched an Imperial Fleet temporarily integrated into the Black Star Corps to assist him in exploring the Gaulu Star Regiment, commanded by a Major General rank officer under Tarlokov, known as Seniko.

As commander of the Town Lighthouse Star, Tarlokov dispatched several Imperial Fleets with commanders. Senikov is a subordinate of Tarlokov's department and one of the Imperial cadres that Han Xiao remembers stationed in the sparkling world.

As a partner in the future exploration period, Han Xiao met with Seniko to reach a simple cooperation consensus and Seniko said he would not interfere with the Black Star Legion's exploration programme, mainly to assist.

Two days after the preparations, the Commander-in-Chief finally announced the start of the official operation. Fleets from all sides of the Beacon split and went to the clusters of their choice.

The Reynolds were explored by the war realm and the Kront, the Gaulu by the Black Star Legion and the Crown Circle by the remaining Imperial Direct Fleet. In contrast, the Capricorn rings have the most people, while the Gaulu rings have the fewest.

The Black Star Corps fleet accompanied Senico's fleet to the southernmost border galaxy of the Gaulu Constellation.

Prior to departure, Han Xiao had notified all members, including millions of players, of the regiment's exploration plans.

He put all kinds of work on a list of camp tasks, including exploring the planet, arranging buoys, etc., subdivided into different areas with a large number of tasks, but each with a number limit for millions of Legion players to choose from.

A wide variety of exploration tasks trigger discussion in the forum, as the mechanism for shining the world's main task is the point system, divided into individual points and total points. Points awarded for different exploration tasks vary depending on the actual harvest. Only when completed do players know how many points are awarded. At this time, players can only guess the analysis, but are still happy to do so.

At the forum, players generally agreed that exploration of the planet was the most rewarding in theory, discovering resources, discovering life, archaeological planet history, exploiting resources and other behaviors all had points rewarded, and the process was full of unknown fun.

In the eyes of the players, other tasks such as arranging monitoring buoys, erecting stargates, and building outposts are hard work, with the fewest currently selected.

Han Xiao knew that once the players had figured out the process of exploration, the Guild would begin to argue clearly. The Grand Duke wanted the resource-rich planet to be the Guild's resource point. Although only a small fraction of the total amount of resource extraction could be obtained, amounting to a little bit of oil and water, it was already extremely rich in terms of the average wealth level of the players.

In previous generations, there were two important reasons why players from all over the world were fighting and competing for the planet's resource points. Now that millions of players belong to their own camp and there is no battle between them, the only reason is to compete for resources.

Han Xiao was clear that in order to compete for planets with rare resources, the Guild fiercely competed, frequent Guild wars broke out, and robbed each other of their “territories”. Although it was not yet that stage, he had a number of hearts, especially at this time when there were club associations from different countries within the Legion, and the competition would inevitably occur.

He promotes social interaction between old and new players. Another aim is to be proactive and minimize the impact of competition between national guilds on ordinary players. Normal players cannot avoid fighting each other for fun. What he prevents is a clear attitude of hostility between ordinary players, which is why he uses two tasks to brush the contributions of the camp to promote active friendship between national players.

As long as the internal player does not create obvious cracks, the Guild competition is no loss to him, anyway, the player's equipment is broken and has to be repaired, instead promoting consumption.

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The fleets of the parties sailed for a number of days, entering their scheduled positions and officially commencing their respective exploratory work.

The Black Star Corps Explorer arrived at the southernmost border galaxy of the Gaulu Constellation to construct the first transit station to connect the Dawn Constellation as planned.

Engineering forces used a silly planetary fortress expansion kit for a deserted planet on the edge of the galaxy - the carrier opened the drop bin and hundreds of thousands of giant mechanical pedestals with their own space propellers flew out, looking like a steel nail - all of them fortress nodes.

Fortress nodes are arranged in outer space of the planet at the same spacing, forming a mesh that encloses the entire planet.

Immediately afterwards, the thrusters of these fortress nodes erupted into the flames of orange yellow tails, breaking through outer space, like hundreds of thousands of space-based gravitational weapons, landing abruptly on the planet's surface, all penetrating deep into the Earth's crust and lifting up endless dust.

Next, all the Fortress nodes are activated, with red light shining at the top, beginning to transform the planetary atmosphere, transform the topography, each node is vibrating, emitting a ring shock wave, causing a burgeoning earthquake, tearing up the subterranean formation and infiltrating a large number of metal structures.

Silver, gray metals continue to extend from the source of the nodes, spreading the earth, covering the soil and turning the planets into metal surfaces. According to the preset procedure, these engineered alloys with nano-retrofitting capability are automatically deformed and assembled, with a base, fortress, warehouse pulled out of the ground.

Dozens of hours later, the initial renovation was completed, and the yellow and black deserted planet was renovated into a silver-grey planetary fortress, the first stronghold of the Gaulu constellation.

Empire engineers are also idle, dragging a huge section of stargate parts with a traction beam to assemble the stargate next to this position.

The unopened stargate appears to be a huge, hollow mechanical ring. After activation, the inner circle of the mechanical ring lights up the blue light like an indicator light, releasing space energy and connecting to one of the stargates near the star of the lighthouse according to the set coordinates.

After the activation process is completed, the hollow part of the mechanical ring turns into a wormhole blue vortex and becomes a complete body stargate.

In addition to the troops that stayed behind to build strongholds, others dispersed their movements, some went to the surrounding area to place space monitoring buoys, and some went to explore an unknown planet.

A galaxy is divided into ten stars or so, as the Black Star Legion's forces begin to explore the first star zone.

According to the plan, Han Xiao dispatched a contingent, led by Hardaway, to operate alone with one hundred and fifty sets of stargate equipment, with the goal of crossing more than a dozen galaxies to the eastern part of the Gaulu Constellation to establish long-distance stargate access.

Contingent-configured spacecraft are all high-warp advanced carriers with a maximum of 14.1 warp speeds, and the journey continues at the maximum speed, taking about four months to reach the destination at such a distance.

By the time the contingent has established a long-distance gateway, the four-month journey can be shortened to a few hours - because it is not a direct gateway and will have to travel within a dozen galaxies in the middle, so it will take a little extra time to make the journey.

Countless Legion members partnered forces, and Han Xiao himself was not idle. He boarded the main ship and took a group of regular Legion fighters and Legion players to explore a planet in the center of the star zone in the field.

In his memory, the planet was a transit point for trade in previous generations, one of the gateways to the Gaulu constellation, with considerable mining value and no overly harsh environment, a livable planet with indigenous civilizations.

Nowadays, the planet doesn't have a name, only a number, just to take it up early and develop it.

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The outer border of the broken rings.

This is the edge of the explored universe, a long strip of desolate universe away from the sparkling world.

A fleet leaves the border from different directions, turning into a lane of transcendental light into a deserted cosmic belt, heading in the direction of sparkling the world.

The news of the Red Empire's development of a sparkling world has spread all over the Star Sea. Although the Empire expressly banned the entry of other civilizations, a single paper-based agreement could not deter high-ranking forces and all wanted to bypass the Empire's monopoly and enter the sparkling world ahead of schedule.

These fleets were not the first, they came from different civilizations and organizations and did not want to be discovered by the Empire and concealed their identities.

Since it is not possible to borrow the Empire's gates, it is only possible to smuggle them into the sparkling world, carrying the stargate equipment, with the intention of quietly establishing secret gateways to avoid the surveillance of the Empire.

Even if these fleets have high warp speeds, it will take a long time, at least, to cross the wilderness belt and reach the sparkling world.

And most of these stowaways are for the benefit of a small group of people.

One of those dials was the secret dispatch of members of the spiritual sect.

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(I have a cold, I slept for 11 hours, the thought is the same as the nose, not too easy, I have to pack tonight, I have to catch a plane in the morning, so the last two or three days will be relatively few words, try not to take time off (; D))