After more than a year and a total of 167 clinical trials, the first generation of gene-enhancing drugs has officially entered small-scale mass production.
However, due to the current high cost of mass production, it is temporarily unable to be promoted to the whole population, and can only be prioritized for scientists and mecha soldiers in the fleet.
It is assigned to scientists so that they can have more energy and a longer life.
The purpose of assigning mecha soldiers to mecha soldiers is to greatly improve their physical fitness and enable them to better control mechas.
Especially the improved Raider mecha.
However, even after these two groups of people are satisfied, it will still be the priority fleet.
As for others, they can only wait until the manufacturing technology becomes more mature and can be mass-produced.
Of course, the above is just a regular distribution method. In fact, about 10% of the current output is secretly used in a top-secret plan of the fleet command.
Over the past two years, although the resistance forces have attacked countless planets, they have even rescued nearly 100 billion humans.
But similarly, many problems were exposed in this process.
The biggest problem is...
Planet suppression operation!
At present, when the rebels carry out planetary suppression operations, they basically use orbital precision strikes to clear most of the anti-aircraft weapons on the surface, and then the mecha troops and interstellar marines carry out orbital airdrops to finally complete the suppression of the entire planet.
The problem lies in that last part.
After all, the planets attacked by the rebels have a large number of human slaves. In almost every suppression process, the enemy will take human beings hostage and resist.
In this situation, although the mecha is powerful, it is completely useless.
As for the Space Marines, the number of rebels is too small.
After all, there are only so few troops in hand. Who would use these limited resources to form a huge marine force?
Therefore, the entire resistance force and space marines numbered less than 100,000.
So, a big problem arises.
The number is small, and individual weapons have no advantage. In addition, humans are originally weak in all civilizations in terms of strength and speed.
This puts the Marines at a huge disadvantage during combat.
Under normal circumstances, because there are mechas fighting together, this problem is not too obvious.
However, when encountering enemies who are holding humans hostage and hiding in buildings to resist, they often have to pay a high price in order to be resolved.
So, in order to solve this situation.
A top-secret project called Motorized Infantry was born.
This plan is divided into two parts.
One relies on genetic enhancement potions to enhance the basic physical fitness of soldiers, and the other is to create a brand-new equipment for them.
This kind of equipment is somewhere between an interstellar combat suit and a mecha.
You might say this is a mecha, but its height is not even three meters.
But you said this is a combat uniform, right?
It does have thrusters and many external hardpoints, and can carry a variety of optional equipment and weapons, and even some special equipment when necessary.
Such as missile pods...
Another example is flight equipment, etc...
Of course, this thing is not suitable for space combat, but if it is only used for orbital airborne landings and ground battlefields, it still has a wider range of uses than mechas.
At the same time, countless simulations have proven that it has overwhelming advantages over ordinary soldiers wearing combat uniforms.
Even a five-man squad wearing power armor can easily eliminate a 200-man squadron of Space Marines in combat uniforms.
And in a street fighting environment, it showed amazing results.
The only problem is...
The cost of this thing is too high. The price of a set of power armor is enough to make a thousand sets of conventional combat uniforms, which is almost half the cost of a mecha.
Therefore, the first fleet command approved only one thousand sets.
After all, this thing has not been tested in actual combat. If it is a mule or a horse, it needs to be taken for a walk on the battlefield.
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The Arm of Orion, 1,700 light-years from the Death Nebula.
As if entering uninhabited territory, the Xingchen arrived in the Yuluo star system.
Although the entire fleet on the arm has now been mobilized by Kyle, the garrisons on each planet are still there.
However, all civilizations now know that in order to completely block the Starry Sky Zerg, no matter how hard humans try, Kyle will not detach a fleet to support it.
Therefore, most civilizations simply adopt a policy of non-resistance.
When the resistance comes, let them rescue people. Some civilizations will even offer ships and pilots to help transport those human slaves to orbit.
Just ask the rebels to leave after rescuing people, without causing more damage or looting their supplies.
It can’t be stopped anyway, so why not minimize the losses?
Therefore, invisibly, everyone has reached such a tacit understanding.
The rebels only save people, and those civilizations don't resist.
However, as I said just now, this is the vast majority of civilizations, not all.
You must know that for these civilizations, human slaves are an asset, and they are quite valuable assets. Some civilizations will always choose to resist to the end because they are reluctant to part with them.
This Yuluo star system is one of them.
Currently stationed and managing this star system is a second-order advanced technological civilization called the Abela Empire.
On one of the living planets, there is a sizable army stationed, including six planetary aircraft carriers, 1,200 fighter planes, tens of thousands of ground combat vehicles of various types, countless artillery missiles of various types, and even a
A complete naval fleet.
In addition to these equipment, they also have more than 500,000 marine soldiers stationed there.
If that's all it is, it's not that difficult.
No matter how large the surface army in your planet is, it will never be able to withstand an attack from orbit by a battle star.
But after all, this is a planet with more than one billion human slaves, and in order to block the human attack, the Abela people even deployed most of their troops directly in some human settlements.
Therefore, large-scale bombing of the earth's surface from orbit is not feasible.
Otherwise, I'm afraid that with one shot, not many of the Abelians would be killed, but a large number of humans would be killed.
Although Jiang Xingchen is not the kind of person who restrains his hands and dares not attack because he is afraid of human casualties, he cannot be so reckless.
Therefore, if we want to solve the problem of the Yuluo star system, we can only deal with it through ground troops.
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"Report, all fleets on the sea have been sunk."
"Report, 87% of the anti-air fire system has been suppressed."
"Report, Abela ground troops have been detected and are deploying in various settlements."
"Report..."
Jiang Xingchen frowned slightly as he listened to the reports that kept coming.
Without any surprise, the naval fleet was directly destroyed.
Most of the anti-air defense systems that could be found were suppressed.
But the key is that its ground troops suffered almost no losses.
Whether it is planetary aircraft carriers, various types of tanks and artillery, or the 500,000 marine soldiers, they are all deployed in human settlements at this moment.
There is no way to start with the Star!
"Has the mobile infantry landing ship arrived at the designated location?"
"17 seconds left, Commander!"
"Order Lu Li and the mecha group to immediately carry out an orbital airborne landing and clear out all remaining enemy anti-air firepower!"