Chapter 9 Federal Army Day (Please read! Please collect!)
In "Starry Sky", the humanoid tactical machine HCP is just created by the game manufacturer to attract "mecha" enthusiasts .
But now, they are real war machines.
The memory of Amber's body contains a large number of battle examples in which HCP participated in the 'HCP Driving Course' at the military school.
Whether it is airborne from low orbit, it supports mobile troops on the ground.
Or become a knife-wielding guard of a space battleship and participate in the cruel "fleet combat".
Or on the surface of a planet with complex terrain, relying on the super mobility brought by the plasma propulsion array and metal muscle bundles to crush conventional units.
All demonstrate the super combat effectiveness of this humanoid tactical machine.
The infantry gave these guys who often jumped from low orbit to 'support the field' for them an appropriate nickname - 'Titans'.
Soon, this nickname spread, and now it has become a recognized name for HCP.
But in this chaotic war that is about to engulf the entire human society, the infantrymen regard the HCP, which is as powerful as a 'Titan', as nothing more than a consumable in each war
Looking at the HCP disappearing in the distance HCP, Amber shook her head to stop her divergent thoughts.
Two days passed quickly.
During these two days, Amber was actually not assigned any serious work.
After running to the tactical support team under the combat intelligence center to report.
Amber discovered that the tactical support team at Yassin Base was a real idle job.
The daily task is to carry out regular training of psychics and some cooperative combat training.
On this border agricultural planet, the tactical support team basically has no opportunity to go out in the field.
Even if there is an accident like a demonstration, strike, or uprising, and the police force cannot be used.
There is no need to even dispatch heavy equipment such as multi-legged tanks and HCP.
Mechanized infantry alone can easily suppress these 'mobs'.
In addition, Amber is new here, and the commander of the tactical support team is a kind-hearted 'Mr. Nice Guy'.
So with a wave of his hand, he immediately gave Amber three days of leave.
It is not too late to let him get familiar with and adapt to the environment first, and then participate in daily training
This is the normal situation of the army in the border areas in "Starry Sky".
Unlike most people's imagination, the situation in the border galaxy with millions of soldiers and tense situations on both sides is different.
Whether it is the Federation or the Star Dragon Empire, after decades of ‘peace treaty period’.
The border army has experienced a large-scale decline in terms of military discipline, style and combat effectiveness.
Not to mention that as humans relied on the ‘jump engine’ technology unearthed from the ruins, they began to sow seeds throughout the galaxy.
The territory of the entire human society has reached an extremely huge level.
Conventional communication methods can only ensure the timeliness of information transmission within the galaxy within one day when the communication relay satellites and relay terminals are operating normally.
If it is communication across multiple galaxies, we can only rely on the 'penetrating fault communication terminal' to transmit information.
This kind of space communication technology can penetrate the distance of about five galaxies at one time to deliver messages in as little as three days.
Moreover, there are various restrictions on content and information length.
But even so, it will take nearly half a month for a message to be sent from the border galaxy and transmitted to the capital galaxy through the communication terminal 'relay'.
This is just the time for pure information transmission, if we include the 'artificial time' spent by various agencies reporting upwards.
This time will only be longer.
At this point, the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire are both 'laughing at fifty steps and laughing at a hundred steps', so no one should laugh at the other.
At this point, the situation that the ancients said that "government orders cannot leave Chang'an" has appeared again in the interstellar era.
In various remote galaxies, it is too common for the government orders issued by the capital galaxy to be violated.
To a certain extent, there are already signs of warlordism
Under this background, one can imagine the combat effectiveness of the standing armies of each galaxy.
But the combat effectiveness of the federal army is only one aspect. What makes Amber even more uneasy is that it has been strangely quiet in the past two days.
The important news that the Empire was about to launch a surprise attack was immediately ignored after it was delivered to Major Mars. That's all there was no reply. What's even more outrageous is that Amber found that she couldn't even contact Major Mars.
I called the terminal directly or sent a private message, but there was no response at all.
As the boss of the Tactical Intelligence Center, Major Mars has not shown his face in the past two days.
The people in the intelligence center looked like they were used to it.
"What kind of outrageous military discipline and organization is this."
As Amber complained, the time finally came to August 17, 588th year of the New Calendar.
This day was not only the day in Amber's memory that the imperial fleet launched a surprise attack.
It is also the Federation’s Army Day.
So Yasin Base not only held a grand celebration, but also opened the military camp and invited surrounding civilians to visit.
At the evening celebration party, Commander Adam personally took the stage and presented a traditional song of the Federal Army to the base officers and soldiers, "Today is the Day for Generosity".
“Courage, responsibility, honor!”
"We call upon the Federal Army in our hour of need."
"This is what our lives are for."
"Come generously to justice today!"
>"When you know why this is so, civil rights need to be defended!"
"When duty calls, heroic sacrifice is required!"
"I will dedicate my life to the Federation!"
Looking at Commander Adam on the stage, neatly dressed in uniform and singing hard with a determined expression.
Amber has to admit that this guy is still very talented in singing, and he sings very emotionally.
Especially when singing ‘I will dedicate my life to the Federation! ’, it even triggered a chorus of chorus from the whole audience.
At this moment, Amber almost had the illusion that ‘this is a heroic and elite force’.
With the entire base immersed in a "happy" atmosphere, Amber quietly left the venue.
After returning to the dormitory, he unfolded the equipment rack in the room.
The psychic agent combat uniforms and light exoskeletons received from the logistics department are stored there.
Amber quickly put on these two pieces of equipment.
With the final ‘click! ’ sounded, and all the links on the lightweight exoskeleton and combat suit were connected.
On the HUD projected inside the full-coverage visor, the green dots representing each node of the lightweight exoskeleton have lit up.
Amber looked at herself in the floor-to-ceiling mirror. Under the tactical visor was a matte black one-piece combat uniform.
The lightweight exoskeleton, which is also painted in matte black, is tightly attached to his back and limbs.
Except for the slightly raised metal hydrogen battery pack on the back, this exoskeleton has no raised parts.
As the power was turned on, Amber briefly moved her limbs.
Driven by the motor, he felt that his strength and speed had increased by nearly 60% on the original basis.
Although in terms of improvement, it cannot compare with the medium and heavy exoskeletons and power armor commonly used by mobile infantry, which are driven by a mixture of gas turbines and metal hydrogen battery packs.
But it is completely sufficient for reconnaissance and infiltration operations.
After confirming that the exoskeleton was working properly, Amber used the psychic energy in her body to activate the synthetic cell coating on the surface of the combat uniform and exoskeleton.
As a honeycomb-like shimmer flashed across the whole body.
The next second, his figure completely disappeared from the dormitory.
(End of this chapter)