Chapter 3: 3 Another Amazing Database!
I want to go back home... If it's Star Wars, we can't stand the Deathstar, and the horrible Star Destroyers... Jon Roberts held his forehead in silence for a long time, and the joy of being brought by the Higaran Mothership becoming a reality in the game was gone.
"Okay then, Skylar, my chief of staff. Now, would you please tell me how many Defenses Forces we have right now?" Jon Roberts sorted out his mood and decided to struggle all the way till he died.
Skylar immediately entered the role, immediately pushed his hand to his head and saluted and answered: "We have 10 N'Bex-class recon starfighter, 100 Interceptor-class starfighters, 50 Sho'az-b Fleet bomber and 15 Salvage Corvettes."
Jon Roberts looked at him and smiled. Then, there was an awkward silence. After more than ten seconds, he smiled and said, "Go on I'm waiting."
"No more..."
"FUUUUUCCCCCCCK" Jon Roberts almost sprayed blood on his face. "This fucking Mothership is carrying over 1 million people, but all we have is strike-craft and salvage corvettes to protect it?"
Skylar quickly lowered his head and responded: "I'm sorry Commander, the voyage logs are completely wiped clean like they were never there. So, I have no idea what happened during the past voyage. The reality is that we only have these strike-craft and corvettes to protect us, Sir."
"Mei, pull up the data for these strike-craft and the corvettes and any other data that we can us to make any more." Jon returned to his seat and spoke.
In front of him the holographic projection displayed there was a simply and ugly small spacecraft. The voice of Mei came, [The N'Bex class recon fighter is a high-speed, low-cost Strike-craft designed to get sensors on target as fast as possible and get out of trouble as just as quick. The N'Bex is lightly armed but has the speed to function at squadron strength as an effective deep raider against resources or to tie down enemy Strike-craft until more heavily armed units arrive. Its excellent maneuverability makes it ideal for the adoption of structure-close terrain tactics. A N'Bex is likely to be able to make high speed entries and execute maneuvers in confined spaces that would mean disaster for larger, more heavily armed craft. Manaan Technical Systems, the designers of the N'Bex have also incorporated a drive system that allows for increased fusion element throughput giving pilots to directly vent drive plasma momentarily for a great burst of speed.]
Then, the projection was replaced by a slightly bulkier strike-craft winged fang design. Mei continued: [This is the Blade MK. 31 Interceptor strike-craft, length of 17 meters, with no hyperspace flight capability or atmospheric combat capabilities, a max acceleration 480 m/s and 1 Kinetic cannon installed.]
Then, the projection was replaced by the "Sho'Az-B" advanced Fleet Bomber combines the devastating power of heavy Penetrator missiles with an efficient EM-redirection field. Unfortunately, the B model does not yet have the power to maintain EM invisibility while firing.
Jon Roberts' whole body started shaking...
"Commander, what's wrong with you?" Skylar hurried over to ask.
Jon slowed down for a long time before coming back and asking: "This is to say, in addition to these three units, we are basically not fortified at all, right? Tell me, Mei! Give me an explanation! That's all you have to colonize?"
[There is no record in the database of how many craft our Mothership began its colonization program, but what is certain is that we had very little and that the Mothership originally had dry dock modules that could build frigates, destroyers, and cruisers, but the vast embryo bank took up most of the space to carry 500 billion frozen embryos. Before the construction of a separate space dock, er only have the capacity to produce strike-craft, corvettes, transport spacecraft and resource collectors.]
"What if there is an enemy coming? What are supposed to do? Jon Roberts asked, rubbing his forehead.
[According to preliminary scans, no other habitable planets within 50 light-years of the system exist, so the colony has minimal security threat.]
"It's all right, Commander! We have a huge spacecraft data in our database! Skylar soothed, with a hint of pride in his voice. "Have you forgotten? It is you who have given us the great honor and made us qualified to board this incomparable Mothership!"
"The database? Mei, what's in our database?" Jon asked back.
[There are many other spacecrafts in the database, including a giant warship with a length 74,000 meters, but to build these spacecrafts, the data alone is not enough, and the Scientific Research Department needs to convert the data into production capacity, which requires a lot of time and resources.]
Jon Roberts was moved in his heart and quickly asked: "Show me what kind of spacecraft?"
Brush, the same data and items immediately appeared in front of him, leaving him too dizzying. There were spaceships and all kinds of data covering people's livelihood, society, culture and other aspects of Science and Technology.
This made him a little curious. His memory of [Homeworld] should not have so many spacecrafts. Even if the [Homeworld] series of several works together, the total count is not more than 100. Where did so many projects come from?
However, just at this time, some familiar figures from Jon Roberts across the eyes...
Wait a minute... a Raven-class Battleship? Minotaur-class Battlecruiser? Harrower-class Dreadnought? Aeon-class Super Carrier? Mercury-class Battlestar? Infinity-class Supercarrier? Seeing these familiar names and familiar looks, Jon Roberts' mouth opened wider and wider, and his jaw almost dropped to the ground.
"What's going on here? This gorgeous database... Does this include data from all space science fiction games?" Jon Roberts Murmured.
[To be exact, the author played #$@%^%^$%#&&&$%@ system error @#$## fixed.] Mei suddenly makes a noise and then says: [The data is already in the database; no other information, including the source.]
"What a minute! So, the one you say is over 74,000 meters long... really? Jon suddenly thought of what, hurriedly found in the list, sure enough, a very gorgeous shape of a Golden warship appeared in front of his eyes," ... Spear of Adun? Truly the Spear of Adun!! The Protoss's Flagship in [Starcraft]!
[Yes, the warship's name is the Spear of Adun, and it's 74,550 meters long.]
"Can we build the Spear of Adun If we had the technology, materials, and time?" Jon Roberts was so excited that his voice trembled.
[We can but we cannot build the Spear of Adun now. We need to wait for our Scientific Research Department to analyze and digest the data of the Spear of Adun before we can start construction.]
Jon Roberts also gave aa wry smile, and he immediately figured out that this result was predictable. "Oh, I know. The Science and Technology of the Protoss is completely different from us so it will take a long time to build such a thing.
"Commander, what are the Protoss?"Skylar asked.
"Nothing, just another race that built this ship here." Jon shows Skylar the holographic projection.
[The production line on the Mothership can only produce four types of spacecrafts, the N'Bex-class recon starfighter, Interceptor-class starfighters, Sho'az-b Fleet bomber and Salvage Corvettes, there is four small transport ships that can transport cargo between the moon and the Mothership. The construction of a large spacecrafts requires the construction of a shipyard. In addition, there are some production processes and technologies closer to our system, the Scientific Research Department should be able to complete the analysis soon, need to list?]
"No, we don't have the space or resources to invest in research right now." Jon Roberts shook his head to re-enter the state, turned to the civilian staff and said: "Have the materials on the Mothership been sorted out?"
"It has been sorted out. As Mei said, our material stock has been much lower than the red line. I just received a message from the Ministry of Agriculture. The vast majority of the crops in the hydroponics rooms have withered, mainly due to the mechanical failure of the hydroponic rooms 1 thru 3." A female crew member replied. "So, the best thing is to start landing as soon as possible. We should be able to find food on the Moon."
Jon Roberts was thinking and turn to the female crew member that just spoke. "Have the Maintenace Department work with the Agriculture Department and get the hydroponic rooms working again because we don't know if the food, we find we can eat."
"Skylar, you will arrange for the waking up enough crew to man all starfighter, bomber, and corvettes. That is to ensure the basic safety if the Mothership. The transport spacecraft will be sent down to scout the moon to determine the landing site and wake up another 500 Marines to be on standby. What is our Army equipment?"
"5,000 Assault Rifles, 400 General-Purpose Machine Guns, and 200 Pistols, and that's it." Skylar looked at the supplies.
"Well, at least hunting some native wildlife and the Marines are enough for that. You arrange these things as soon as possible." Jon told Skylar and the crew in the bridge.
"Yes, Sir!" Skylar and the bridge crew quickly stood at attention and saluted, then they immediately threw themselves into the work.
"By the way, there is one more thing." Jon Roberts thought for a moment and stopped Skylar, "Now, this is the starting point in our journey in this strange universe. From now on, we will name this habitable moon Sanctuary! And this will be our new home!"
"Yes! Sanctuary! This is our new home!" Skylar was very excited and saluted heavily. All the other on the bridge immediately stood up to salute and then started clapping again, sharing their excitement with each other. Looking at the cheering crowd, Jon Roberts sighed, without any joy on his face, and sat back in his seat thinking about what needs to be done so that everyone can survive.