614. The beast comes out
The successful sea trial of Enforcer-class heavy destroyer gave Tang Xiao great confidence. It does not mean how powerful this battleship is, but it opened a window for Fourth Civilization to develop those powerful battleships in "EVE".
The overall technological level of the "EVE" universe is much higher than the technology of the Emergency Traders Alliance in the current Fourth Civilization main technology tree "Sins of a Solar Empire", and there are many types of battleships with complete functions. They play a decisive role in the second phase of the three-phase development strategy formulated by Tang Xiao for Fourth Civilization.
If Fourth Civilization wants to compete with the powerful battleships of the Galactic Empire for a long time in the future, it will rely on the battleship technology of the "EVE" world.
Now that it has been proven that this path is feasible, and the technical difficulties have been successfully overcome, what awaits is a broad road.
Before leaving, Tang Xiao specifically told Arroyo-Barlow that in the future, if it is difficult to make a breakthrough on a larger warship, then they can concentrate on developing the naval version Cutter-class frigate. He told Arroyo that Cutter-class frigate's performance on the battlefield was actually much higher than reflected in the data.
After that, Tang Xiao bid farewell to Arroyo and went to the capital of Selurite on the planet Cave-Bill. Accompanied by Professor Modin, he visited High Elder Council, which Selurite had already established.
The supreme elder was a female Selurite named Jacinda. She told Tang Xiao that Selurite was very grateful for his efforts in rebuilding his tribe and was willing to join Fourth Civilization and form a permanent alliance with Tang Xiao. In the current war, Selurite will not stay alone and actively asks to participate in the war.
In addition to participating in scientific research projects and intelligence work, Selurite will dispatch a staff team of 3 to 5 people to each battleship of Fourth Civilization to help the captain of the warship handle all aspects of intelligence. And Tang Xiao also told them that all races in Fourth Civilization are treated equally. Selurite can not only serve as captain, but will also enter high-level decision-making bodies such as Staff Department and High Command.
After that, Tang Xiao accepted Professor Modin's fate and joined the cabinet, becoming Selurite's current highest administrative level person. At the same time, he also appointed another Selurite as Senator's Aide, who entered the parliament of Confederacy of Independent Systems as a representative of the planet Cave-Bill.
Finally, Jacinda told Tang Xiao that Selurite had organized a Special Operations Department that would secretly serve Fourth Civilization. However, due to confidentiality, all information about this Special Operations Department except its existence itself would not be made public. They will not report their whereabouts to anyone. If necessary, they can give orders through special channels. They themselves know how to complete the task.
Going back to Glory mothership, Tang Xiao will also handle three calls.
He looked at the records Mainframe gave him, which were from Count Dooku, Yuri-Orlov, and... Geth.
Tang Xiao thought for a while, went to his secret room, and first connected to Geth's communication.
The holographic projection showed a somewhat ferocious-looking humanoid figure covered in armor. Tang Xiao recognized it as Trimi Brad. The Master Class computer expert who plugged himself into Geth network and directly gave birth to Geth.
Now his body has regained its activity after being resurrected by Tang Xiao, but it still must be maintained with the help of Bacta tank. However, it can be seen that Geth has also done a lot of processing on this body that is difficult to describe as a corpse or a human being, making it into the half-human, half-robot state it has now.
"Sojourn Planet, there are no enough resources. We... need to expand." Geth said.
"I have sent you the star map of the Milky Way. I will not interfere with your development. As promised before, the only reward for creating you is to kill Sheev-Palpatine. I don't know where you are now. What is the strength of the fleet, but I am certain that Galactic Republic is far stronger than you, and once you appear, Galactic Republic will not tolerate the existence of mechanical intelligent life," Tang Xiao said.
"The agreement will definitely be reached, our allies. We are seeking more resource planets and will conduct a combat test on Galactic Republic." Geth said.
"Try to avoid first-level habitable stars and start from edge planets. In addition, you can send an army to help. I happen to have a large-scale military operation at the moment." Tang Xiao said.
"Suggestion, accepted." Geth replied.
After the communication ended, Tang Xiao touched his chin and looked at the inconspicuous position of Sojourn Planet on the star map. This planet is very inconspicuous and very remote. Its approximate location is in the northwest direction of the Milky Way plane star map, roughly in the Makito area.
Between Endor system, there is the entire Galactic Republic.
If Geth rises in this direction, it will give Fourth Civilization more strategic space, especially Fourth Group.
The main reason why Fourth Group has not shown much performance until the war started. Glosse-Shelbia is busy with the group's affairs most of the time and does not come to Endor system. The main reason is the pressure from Galactic Republic on Makito.
After the war between Galactic Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems, there are two groups with a very special status - one is InterGalactic Banking Clan, and the other is Trade Federation.
Because they are too large and spread across the entire galaxy, it is impossible to be divided into any party in the civil war alone. Therefore, in fact, on the Galactic Republic side, these two Mega-corporations giants are still active, but they are in a state of being sanctioned and restricted by Galactic Republic.
The representatives of the InterGalactic Banking Clan and Trade Federation are still in Galactic Senate. Their public statement is that Thorn Hill and Newt Gunray can only represent part of the capital of the InterGalactic Banking Clan and Trade Federation, and their actions cannot be equated with the group itself.
But even so, Galactic Republic is highly wary of them. Especially InterGalactic Banking Clan, which holds the economic lifeline of almost the entire galaxy, has received special attention.
In order to subdue InterGalactic Banking Clan, Galactic Republic gathered a large number of warships and immediately surrounded InterGalactic Banking Clan's headquarters, Makito, after the war started.
Since Fourth Group is also registered in Makito, and Tang Xiao wants to support San-Ciel, Glosse-Shelbia also invests the power of Fourth Group into Makito to help InterGalactic Banking Clan fight.
After all, before the secret plan between Thorn Hill and Tang Xiao is completed, the InterGalactic Banking Clan fleet dominated by Munificent-class communications frigate will be vulnerable.
In the original plot, Galactic Republic finally broke through Makito's defense line and burned the war to the planet's mainland. But now, with the addition of Fourth Group, more than 400 warships from both sides are still confronting each other on the periphery of the planet.
This is a situation that Confederacy of Independent Systems, InterGalactic Banking Clan and Tang Xiao are still very willing to see.
So now that Geth has joined, there is a good chance to stab Galactic Republic in the back. When InterGalactic Banking Clan and Fourth Group fleet merge with Geth, then the northwest direction of the Milky Way plane star map will no longer be owned by Galactic Republic!
Of course it will not belong to Confederacy of Independent Systems.
Not only Fourth Group, InterGalactic Banking Clan and Geth are here, Caladanian, one of Fourth Civilization's hardcore allies, is also in this star area.
When Geth rises, it will also directly threaten Muun's home planet Muunilinst. Later, Palpatine will also attack the inside of the InterGalactic Banking Clan. This situation will also help to bring InterGalactic Banking Clan into submission.
In other words, this area will become Cooperative Alliance's back garden! -
[Picture 1 attached to the Easter Egg Chapter: 1 is the location of Makito, 2 is the approximate location of Sojourn Planet.]