In short, by this time, of the 450,000 human soldiers dropped on Planet 3, only more than 60,000 were left.
Although the Zerg suffered heavy losses in successive battles, and were later hit by the red dwarf star projection and wiped out most of the Zerg base, it would take a long time for humans to make up for the loss of nearly 400,000 troops.
It is precisely because of this that after Fang Xiaoyue and others were rescued and reassigned to their posts, the fleet's senior officials did not issue an order for a counterattack.
There is no way, there are only tens of thousands of marines left in the fleet, how can we fight against the Zerg?
Fang Xiaoyue, who came back alive, received a third-class fleet medal.
Well, this third-level fleet medal is almost the penultimate level of medal.
In the Blue Star Alliance, there are three types of medals, each with 3 levels.
The highest-level medal is the Blue Star Medal, which is awarded by the Blue Star Alliance. The number is very small and is only awarded once every ten years. It is generally awarded to humans who have made significant contributions to the Blue Star Alliance.
The current territory of the Blue Star Alliance covers more than ten star systems. It is understandable how difficult it is to obtain the highest-level medal in such a civilization.
To put it simply, the Blue Star Medal awarded once every ten years is only the second and third class Blue Star Medal.
As for the First Class Blue Star Medal, since its establishment, it has only been awarded to scientists who have successfully realized controllable nuclear fusion technology, human cloning technology, etc.
Below the Blue Star Medal is the Medal of Glory, which is generally awarded to the first expedition team to reach an unfamiliar star system or to the commander who leads a major battle to victory.
As for the Fleet Medal, it is awarded to those who have made meritorious service in the exploration fleet.
For Fang Xiaoyue's deeds of escaping from death after the landing and killing many bugs, it is quite appropriate to award him a third-class Fleet Medal.
Of course, if Fang Xiaoyue can destroy a Zerg base on her own, it is inevitable that she will be awarded a first-class fleet medal, and she may even be able to get a third-class honorary medal.
Fang Xiaoyue's new position is the assistant to the head of a certain logistics warehouse, which is equivalent to a secretary to put it bluntly.
However, the logistics warehouse chief had just been transferred, and the logistics warehouse he managed was empty, which gave Fang Xiaoyue a lot of freedom.
With a lot of free time and a third-class fleet medal, Fang Xiaoyue easily applied for the opportunity to study part-time at the Fleet Academy.
That's right, until this moment, Fang Xiaoyue didn't know that the Third Exploration Fleet had such an incredible institution as the Fleet Academy.
Simply put, Fleet College is an institution of higher learning that integrates learning and research.
Every once in a while, the fleet's senior management will select soldiers with sufficient intelligence from the entire fleet to enter this academy. After they graduate, they will be assigned to various research departments in the fleet to engage in research work.
It is precisely because of the existence of such universities and research institutions that the Third Exploration Fleet did not stand still for hundreds of years after leaving its home star. Technology can also develop with the passage of time and not stay at the level of hundreds of years.
years ago.
When Fang Xiaoyue gets up every morning, after handling warehouse-related matters through the distributed intelligent robot, she takes the electromagnetic car to the Fleet Academy to study.
Well, compared to the classroom-style teaching on the home planet, there are two types of teaching here.
One is that after testing the learning foundation, the smart computer plays relevant teaching videos for preliminary simple learning.
The second is that after you have studied to a certain level, you need to study and research with tutors in relevant majors.
In fact, in the Fleet Academy, learning focuses more on the second type.
As for the first type, it is actually to further test the students’ learning ability.
If you don't have enough learning ability and can't keep up with the teaching videos, then just be cannon fodder. Scientific research is not suitable for you.
To be honest, Fang Xiaoyue's entrance test was pretty good, much better than the hundreds of clones who took the entrance test at the same time.
But having said that, as long as the clone is instilled with basic knowledge, well, it can pass the entrance test, unless the clone's talent in learning is really poor.
While doing some initial simple learning with the smart computer, Fang Xiaoyue found that the biology knowledge here was quite advanced, at least better than the junior high school and high school biology he had studied in his original world.
However, Fang Xiaoyue's current learning ability is not comparable to that of ordinary humans.
In just three days, he learned what normal humans would need three months to learn.
Thirty times faster learning.
Of course, this is not surprising. Compared with Fang Xiaoyue's learning ability after igniting the divine fire, her learning ability at this time has been greatly weakened.
In this way, he successfully registered the biology data and upgraded it to level 10.
After completing biology level 10, Fang Xiaoyue completed the first phase of study, applied for the assessment, and successfully passed the test, becoming a student of a researcher named Huang from the Institute of Biology.
There are more than thirty research institutes in the Third Exploration Fleet, but for now, the most popular one is the Biological Research Institute.
The reason is very simple. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle.
As I said before, unlike human technological civilization, the Zerg is a civilization based on biological evolution.
Therefore, soon after the war with the Zerg began, the Third Exploration Fleet began to look for more efficient ways to deal with the Zerg.
After all, humans were relatively experienced in dealing with bugs when they were on their home planet.
Chemical pesticides, biological control, etc.
Therefore, I want to copy the relevant experience to deal with the Zerg.
In fact, this set played some role in the initial battle with the Zerg.
For example, the special insecticide once invented by the Institute of Biology has caused considerable harm to the insect race.
After spraying special insecticides on those Zerg bases, those Zerg bases will soon rot, shrink and die.
But the evolutionary ability of the Zerg is really amazing.
The same trick becomes useless after a few months.
The newly bred bugs have the ability to resist special insecticides.
Of course, the Institute of Biology has also successively developed new pesticides since then, but the devil is always smarter than the devil, and these pesticides were quickly cracked by the evolutionary capabilities of insects.
But no matter what, the pesticides developed by the Biological Research Institute have always caused considerable harm to the Zerg.
Besides, the weapons developed by other research institutes to deal with the Zerg are actually not as effective as insecticides.
Therefore, the status of this biological research institute in the fleet is much higher than that of other research institutes.
Fang Xiaoyue's ability to become a researcher in one fell swoop is truly the envy of other students.
But in fact, this result did not satisfy Fang Xiaoyue.