After three standard Earth Days 72 hours later, Hope, the huge interstellar colonial spacecraft, has gradually approached this mysterious planet they numbered JNO.3.

This yellowish-yellow planet surrounds a star in the planetary system, with an orbital period of about 500 Earth days, and a rotation period of between 30 Earth standard hours. It also has a gravity environment of 1.3 times the standard Earth, covering more than 80% of the ground's strong acidic oceans and the same corrosive atmospheric steam...

In any case, it seems to be very unfriendly to humans who come from afar!

Now, the reason why Hope has come here to this planet that is full of malicious intentions towards humans is because on this planet, there are the precious energy materials that Hope is urgently needed: high-energy gas and high-energy crystal mines!

This is the only planet among the last twenty best planets detected by Hope that possesses a large number of these two rare energy minerals at the same time, while the other planets detected are not at all!

This is something that I cannot ignore. Is this the luck of Hope?

Otherwise, they would have to find a suitable planet within their voyage distance, and then start colonizing and living a difficult life. With no energy, Hope, at that time, they would probably have to become a large fortress city and landed on the surface of the planet in a frustration?

After no longer having advanced energy for interstellar navigation and migration, we can only rely on the illumination energy of stars and nuclear energy to navigate within the galaxy, right?

Through the high-intensity space glass window in the bridge above Hope, looking at the huge large planet in front of me, covered by a mortar atmosphere, and the brown ocean that occupies more than 80% of the area above it, Captain Leona couldn't help but frowned slightly.

For some reason, she doesn't like this planet very much!

Because, she seemed to be able to feel some faint hostility coming from above? This gave her the urge to command the Hope to change direction and enter the warp speed and jump away...

If it weren't for the energy minerals they urgently needed on this planet... they would definitely not have looked at it more, right? Not to mention coming here.

Compared to this sinister earthy planet, Leona prefers their original earth.

That is a beautiful and livable planet suitable for human habitation. Until now, Captain Leona still clearly remembers that when the earth looked at from outer space: it was a beautiful white cloud, brown continents and islands, and a blue ocean like gems...

If she was looking at the Earth in outer space farther away, she could even see that the Earth is actually a charming planet with a blue overall appearance. Its surface is nearly 78% covered by the ocean, and there is a thick blue atmosphere...

It’s a pity that these people in their Hope Number will probably never go back to their former home in their lifetime, right?

That was the long distance they had sailed at warp speed for more than a hundred years...

I'm afraid that after several generations of reproduction on Earth, no one can remember the so-called "criminals" who were expelled from Hope?

And, more importantly, now, they don’t even have the coordinates of the earth…

The vast universe is in the infinite sea of ​​stars, where do they want to find that small earth?

They are all those damn new coalition governments on Earth, those UPL bureaucrats, those damn bastards, and ugly dictators! Leona feels that all of them should go to hell!

"Captain Leona! Hope has begun to enter the synchronous orbit of the planet JNO.3. It is expected to be completed in ten minutes. Please instruct!"

While Captain Leona was traveling outside the sky, still missing the distant and beautiful earth and cursing the bureaucrats of the new coalition government of the Earth, the navigator on the Hope Bridge began to report to her loudly.

"Very good, maintain a synchronous track and be alert! We don't need to land, just stay here."

Captain Leona came to her senses, nodded, and then directly ordered to the navigator.

Once again, he frowned and looked at the huge yellow earth-yellow planet outside Hyun's window. Leona exhaled and began to turn around and look at the first mate Doug standing next to her.

"Doug, how are the colonial command center ready?"

Captain Leona attaches great importance to this command center!

You know, on their huge No.5 interstellar colonial ship, Hope, there are only two colonial command centers in total.

This command center that can land on the planet to carry out production and colonial activities is an extremely precious non-renewable resource for their current Hope!

Judging from the current energy and material reserves of Hope, it is absolutely impossible to create it if it is lost! Therefore, when it comes to landing and landing on this planet, you must be cautious and cautious, and there is no tolerance for any mistakes!

The colonial command center is an extremely important service unit for outposts, mining areas or colonial bases for all human beings on earth.

Initially, it was a resource recycler designed to inspect federal mining areas, which could hold up foundation piles and move them to new high-energy crystals or high-energy gas springs. Of course, if the energy and materials are sufficient, their own interstellar industrial motherboards also have the ability to manufacture SCVs, receive and store resources, and build other buildings.

Simply put, as long as there are enough materials and energy, and with enough manpower, it can build a mining base on its own!

After all, it was designed according to this at the beginning.

But later, because it has heavy armor and gravity engine flight capabilities, coupled with its reliable development and resource recycling and smelting functions, it gradually became one of the most important buildings of all human military advance bases or colonies!

Whether it is an army or a colonial starship, it usually carries this important strategic resource in the fleet, and thus relies on it to gain a foothold on a strange or dangerous planet.

"Report to the captain! The command center is ready, with five T-280 SCV space engineering vehicles on it. The YS001 heavy armored transport ship has also been equipped with all members of the Cobra Squad. They can follow the command center to land on the planet JNO.3 and provide them with the necessary protection!"

SCV space engineering vehicle is one of the standard equipment of the command center. It is an engineering machine that can adapt to multiple operating environments.

Because it can perform a variety of tasks, whether it is building new buildings, collecting and transporting energy minerals, or even operating directly in space, it shows extremely strong adaptability and reliability.

Therefore, they have gradually become the main force in colonial construction and construction. Sometimes, they even have to follow the army to go to the battlefield and build outpost military attack positions, which contributes an extremely important role to the colonization of space by humans on Earth and is an indispensable and important part of human colonization of aliens.

Now, Hope is preparing to land on this planet and carry out the mission of producing and collecting resources. They rely on a command center fortress and five SCV engineers who are initially carrying out construction, and there are also ten Cobra Land Squad responsible for defending and reconnaissing the surrounding terrain.

Generally speaking, only SCV engineering vehicles and marines need to work outdoors, while the commanders in the command center and engineers responsible for manufacturing various standard units will definitely not easily leave the protection of this fortress-like building.

"How is the recruitment of recruits and new engineers going now?"

Then, this is the second thing Captain Leona is more concerned about.

Later, after they put the command center and the Marine Squad on the ground of this planet, the five SCV engineering vehicles are only responsible for building basic small bases and initially collecting some energy crystals. Later, Hope will need to continuously send various personnel to the ground base below to complete various subsequent tasks.

Whether it is a large number of SCV engineering vehicles or subsequent Marines, Hope will spare no effort to support it!

After all, near this star field, there are wreckage of alien warships. The lifesaving capsule that the little girl Anne who was rescued by them is a proof!

After orbital calculations, they also initially calculated the general location of the wreckage of alien warships, which seems not far from here? Therefore, no one dares to be optimistic about this planet with a lot of energy.

Who knows, will there be aliens on this planet?

Therefore, the necessary military equipment for ground bases is absolutely indispensable!

They hope must open a small colonial production base on this planet as fast as possible. After collecting enough energy and producing enough warships, they will quickly leave this seemingly dangerous place!

In this regard, Captain Leona gave the deadline: within about one hundred standard Earth days, within this time limit, the colonial base on the planet JNO.3 must mine enough energy for her to collect various other mineral resources, and of course, the battle cruiser fleets she had planned long ago!

Leona no longer wants to run naked in space such a huge colonial spacecraft. She must have enough defense.

Whether it is a variety of transport ships, various types of fighter jets, aircraft carriers that take flights, and at least ten large battlecruisers, Leona wants them all!

She wants to form a small defense fleet in the JNO.3 planet, Li Yong, with abundant energy, in the shortest time.

If it was in the old era of Earth, it would be a delusion and an impossible task to complete in such a short period of time.

Just like an important unit in the universe: battle cruisers! If it was in the old era of Earth, it would take less than ten or eight years to build such a warship!

But, it's different in this interstellar era!

Now, everything is modular and standardized production! As long as Star Port is successfully built, it is easy to produce a medium-sized cosmic battlecruiser in ten days and half a month without ensuring sufficient resources!

If you do your best, build a sufficient number of Star Ports, and each Star Port can complete a certain part of the battleship and carry out assembly line production as a whole, it will be no problem to build a battle cruiser for you in three to five days!

Of course, the various operators and logistics supplies equipped on the battle cruiser need to be dealt with by Hope itself. Their Star Port can only produce empty shells. After all, no matter how good the weapons are, they need to be manipulated by people.

If you want to ask how long it will take for a Star Port to be built, then the leader of the engineering department can tell you very responsibly: allocating hundreds of SCV engineering vehicles and adding enough resources, it is no problem to build a huge Star Port for you in three to five days, it is absolutely true!

This is the efficiency in this era of StarCraft!

Whether it is construction or production, all tend to be efficient automation and module standardization, and all the time required for production and construction is compressed to the minimum level.

"Report to the captain! The recruitment of personnel has been fully launched, and the citizens of Hope are very cooperative!"

First mate Doug quickly gave a set of data. At present, whether the training is new Marines or a large number of SCV engineering vehicle operators are already in an orderly manner.

"Doug, if I let you be the commander-in-chief of this command center and ground base, can you be competent?"

After thinking for a while, considering the arduousness of this task, Captain Leona asked about his first mate.

Now, I'm afraid that the only one in the entire Hope Account is more capable and able to coordinate a ground base, perhaps, is it his own first mate?

As for the others...

It was all a group of new recruits, and she really couldn't expect too much...

"Make sure to complete the task!"

After hearing the captain's words, Doug's eyes lit up, his feet were put together and his head was raised and his chest was raised, and he gave a standard attentive salute.

Being able to serve as the commander-in-chief of a ground base is the captain's trust in her and recognition of her abilities. Of course, Doug has no reason to refuse.

Besides, Doug has seen the blueprint for the future development of Captain Leona's designated Hope. If it can be realized one by one by one, now she will have unparalleled importance to her future development.

Now participating in the first development operation of this Hope and serving as commander is a valuable qualification!

"Very good, you can prepare now! The planet is still in the dark, and you still have three hours of preparation time. Then, when the light of the stars shines here, you will start to set off!"

Captain Leona's fingers struck a point on the 3D holographic map on the planet's equator. Here, it is a large island, located on a high ground, facing the sea, not only easy to defend and difficult to attack from the terrain, but also a large number of high-energy crystals and high-gas resources nearby, making it the most ideal place to build a colony.

Among the dozens of locations detected before, although this one is not the one with the most minerals, it does look the most suitable and safest!

If everything goes well, they only need to stay at this location for more than a hundred Earth Days, and then they can get everything Hope urgently needs from this planet!

"As for orders, Captain!"

After another military salute, Doug, the eldest lieutenant of Hope, turned around and walked to the second lieutenant on the other side.

Doug didn't care about the other party's eyes full of envy and jealousy, and directly handed over the authority with her terminal, and then turned around and left resolutely.

Now, Doug is going to pack her luggage and prepare to go to the JNO.3 planet below to serve as the commander-in-chief of the base. The authority of the first lieutenant of Hope and some unfinished tasks naturally need to be handed over to the second lieutenant for processing.

“…”

Good luck, Doug...

After watching the other party leave the bridge and disappear into the automatically closed hatch door, Captain Leona began to pray to the other party silently.

For some reason, when she turned around again and looked at the huge yellowish-yellow planet in front of her, she always felt that she was as if she was facing a prehistoric giant beast, and she felt inexplicably palpitations?

It seems that there is some huge danger waiting for them below?

I hope... this is just her illusion, right?

However, thinking about the damaged alien warship calculated in this star field before, Leona's brow frowned even deeper.

What kind of existence is that a seemingly powerful alien warship was destroyed here? Are they passing by? Or are they destroyed by the native forces here?

That alien warship cannot discover this planet with huge energy reserves, right?

So, are they the same as themselves, thinking of collecting supplies on the ground of this planet? Then... after discovering that there is danger, they hurriedly escaped? But in the end, they were still destroyed by the enemy?

When Captain Leona thought of this possibility, he couldn't help but feel a sense of fear.

If they hadn't really had no choice, she would never have come close to this strange star field, nor would she stay in the synchronous orbit of this planet!
To be continued...