Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 468 Noah's Project
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The news of the Imperial Mars Expeditionary Army's defeat on the Twilight Plateau was sent back to the capital of the Empire, Yixun City. The Emperor Robin Farias held a high-level meeting of the Empire for this purpose.

Crown Prince Atef Farias, Imperial Prime Minister Hans von Bachmann, Chief of the Imperial Army General Staff Marnius Felho, Minister of Military Intelligence Gevar Dragon, and more than a dozen imperial military officials Senior officials attended the meeting.

All the participants were pessimistic about the development of the war situation. The empire could no longer send more reinforcements to the Mars theater.

The Chief of Staff of the Imperial Army, Duke Marnius Fairho, reported the current state of the Imperial Army's military strength. Apart from the 900 space fleets, the Imperial Army still has more than [-] million mech troops.

Among them, there are nearly 500 million mecha troops in the Mars theater, 200 million people in the Ceres and Earth theaters, more than 100 million deployed on the asteroids in the asteroid belt, and 100 million defense troops in the empire. This is the current total of the imperial army. mech troops.

In the past two years, most of the elites of the Imperial Army have been transferred to the Mars theater, and now they have been destroyed, making the Empire face the danger of insufficient troops in all theaters.

The Minister of Military Intelligence, Duke Geval Dragon, also reported that the federal forces in Ceres and Earth theaters are already ready to move.

Without the protection of sufficient mecha units, the empire's space fleet may become the next target of the federal army.

The Minister of Logistics of the Imperial Army, Barras, is currently in charge of supplementing the military resources of the Imperial Army. He pointed out that the high-quality military resources of the Imperial Army are already facing exhaustion.

There are [-] million people in the empire, but since the outbreak of the war, they have lost the opportunity to strengthen their bodies in the online game Dream World.

The Imperial Academy of Science and Technology has not yet developed an alternative method, which has led to the repeated reduction of the conscription standard in the past two years, and it will almost reach the level of ordinary people before.

These ordinary people are not even qualified to serve as cannon fodder on the front line.

As for the genetic warriors that the Imperial Army has always relied on, the annual production has reached a scale of 100 million a year, but it is still far from keeping up with the consumption of the war.

Currently, there are still 50 genetic fighters in Yixun City, but it will take several months of training before they can be sent to the battlefield.

Robin asked in a cold voice: "In a word, is there no more troops to transfer now?"

Everyone expressed their affirmation in silence. Now it is not a problem of not being able to deploy troops to reinforce Mars, but that troops need to be deployed from the Mars theater to reinforce other battlefields.

But no one dared to raise this point, because the strength of the Mars battlefield was even difficult to defend.

Abandoning Mars will mean the total defeat of the empire, and the federal army released from the battlefield of Mars will be a nightmare for the imperial army.

Robin looked at these senior officials under him one by one, and finally stopped on the face of Hans, the Prime Minister of the Empire.

"Prince Bachmann, what's your opinion?"

Hans had no choice but to reply, "Your Majesty, I think we should be prepared. If the war gets to the point of no return, we can leave the solar system."

In fact, Hans originally wanted to say that if he couldn't beat him, he could just surrender, but he could surrender, but Robin and his group were not qualified to surrender.

As the initiator of this brutal war, Robin led a group of people with bloody hands, and their only ending was to be sentenced to death by the Federation.

Hans' suggestion made the high-ranking officials of the empire excited.

Atef shouted loudly: "Master Prime Minister, please pay attention to your words, you are shaking the morale of the army, the current difficulties are only temporary, and the final victory must belong to the empire!"

Others also echoed, accusing Hans of letting the empire flee, and expressing their firm confidence in the imperial army.

Robin looked on coldly, and he only saw in the eyes of everyone that he was stern and indifferent. He was obviously moved by Hans's proposal, but he said insincere words in order to express himself in front of him.

In fact, everyone understands that the empire is really coming to an end!

The huge population gap between the Empire and the Federation determines that the Empire can only defeat the Federation in a short period of time when the Federation has not yet exerted its population advantage.

Now the Federation is like a lion waking up from its slumber, surpassing the Empire in both military production and recruiting.

Originally, it was hoped that after quickly occupying Mars, the flames of war would be spread to the earth, and the contradictions in culture, race, and nationality among human beings would be used to expand the population base of the empire and reduce the gap between the two sides.

In the end, the disastrous defeat of the Mars Expeditionary Army made all of this come to naught. Damn Zhong Cheng and damn Paul, they should all go to hell!
Robin regretted his decision to attack Mars. If he had attacked Ceres or the Earth with all his strength, it would have ended differently!
But it's too late to say anything now, Hans' words are not unreasonable, and he should really prepare to retreat.

He and Hans made a backup plan in the early days of the war, which was to build a sub-light speed spaceship for the high-level empire, and when the war failed, they could carry them to escape the solar system.

This spaceship named "Noah's Ark" is ten times larger than the largest spaceship in the solar system at present, with a maximum load of 800 million tons, can carry more than 100 million people and has a large amount of equipment and materials .

However, Noah's Ark is divided into ten hulls connected front and back, and 90% of the load is the power part, similar to the original multi-stage rockets of humans.

After the power raw materials in each hull are exhausted, together with the nuclear power engine, cabin, hull shell, etc. therein, they will be disassembled and used as spare parts or power working fluid.

Until the main hull is finally accelerated to an ultra-high speed of about 80% of the speed of light, it will take more than ten years to escape to the star system adjacent to the solar system and re-develop.

Since the progress of the war in the past few years has been very smooth, the imperial army has been victorious, and it seems that there is no time to use it.

Robin ordered the suspension of the Noah project, which had been in progress for more than half of the year, to save manpower and material resources for the production of weapons and equipment.

But God seems to have played a joke on him, and now he seems to really have to use Noah's Ark.

He sighed in his heart, and waved his hand to stop the condemnation of Hans who was still chattering.

His Majesty the Emperor has been silent, which has already made the high-ranking officials of the empire suspicious. They looked at Robin nervously, waiting for his final decision.

"I have never doubted your loyalty to the empire. At the moment when the empire is facing the most difficult time, we should work together to tide over the difficulties together!"

After Robin said a lot of irrelevant nonsense, he turned to the topic.

"In view of the fact that the imperial army is difficult to support the war on the three battlefields, I decided to temporarily shrink the front line. The six space fleets in the Earth theater will immediately withdraw to Mars and be placed under the command of the Mars Expeditionary Command. They will be ordered to formulate a new battle plan to destroy Mars. Federal Army!"

"It is meaningless for the eight space fleets in the airspace of Ceres to encircle Ceres again. They are all ordered to withdraw to Pallas to rest and replenish the carrier-based mech troops before carrying out the defense mission of the asteroid belt!"

"Atef, hurry up to recruit and train the reserve army, and supervise the production of genetic soldiers. After we accumulate strength, we will fight the federal army to the death!"

Everyone took orders one after another, but Robin felt the disappointment in their hearts, and he knew what they were thinking.

He paused for a moment, deciding it was better to reassure them.

He turned to Hans and said, "Master Prime Minister, I still have to entrust military production to you, but let's resume the Noah plan!"

Hans replied respectfully, "Of order!"

(End of this chapter)