Stellaris from the Automata Era

Generally, the so-called invincible fleet is sent faster.

Let’s not talk about the cases before the Earth entered the universe. Let’s just talk about the fleet that may exist at present, which is called the invincible fleet, that is, the Protoss Golden Fleet.

That is a fleet that even the Scourge Swarm dares not confront head-on. Although it is not known whether it can be invincible throughout the universe, at least no one in the known Koprulu sector can fight it head-on.

The only problem was that it seemed to have contracted the common problem of being invincible, and was directly destroyed by Artanis, the Protoss leader who had become a Great Khan, during another Protoss "civil war".

Well, come to think of it, Adam didn’t encounter any fleet. Could it be that the Protoss are currently fighting or have just finished fighting Legacy of the Void?

But it's unlikely, after all, the current situation of the Terran and Protoss opening up the war is not like the peaceful era later...

"Anyway, let's develop ourselves first. N2, can you transfer and use the blueprints of the humanoids?"

The development of science and technology is not actually a leap forward like overtaking on a curve, but a step-by-step progress based on the solid foundation of various foundations.

After all, science is like a primary school student doing advanced mathematics. If you don’t understand it, you don’t understand it.

Yan Luo had given them the blueprints of the humanoid spacecraft in advance, preventing them from rushing towards an alien worldview due to the incorrect installation of a screw. It was already considered that someone had cheated them in the dark.

Of course, this may also be attributed to the fact that the humanoids have actually already stepped into the interstellar age. In addition, the drawings given by Yan Luo are relatively basic, which prevented the humanoids from taking detours.

Even so, except for the first engineering ship designed by "humans" that can be displayed in a museum, the ships built by humanoids have all been secretly modified by them and their internal structure has been completely changed.

Therefore, Yan Luo was worried that the design drawings of the humanoid would be incompatible with the mechanical life form.

After all, a fleet can be built based on blueprints alone. I'm afraid that a Ranger commander who is still wandering in the Koprulu sector and his loyal engineer may have the following strange conversation.

"Don't worry, Mr. Cowboy. I got you the blueprints for the Spear of Adun from my friend. You can build them at the starport."

'Tell me honestly, who is your mysterious friend? A Xel'Naga?'

Ahem, anyway, let’s stop here for now.

n2 quickly gave a positive response to concerns about technological incompatibility.

I don’t know whether it was evolution or destruction, but one of them stared at Yan Luo.

“No big problem.”

In fact, Yan Luo's worries were too much. There was not much difference in technology between human and mechanical life forms in essence.

Considering that YoRHa is still using the technology of a mechanical life form, you can understand how high the conversion rate between them is. The only difference is their appearance and energy core. Perhaps the core is no different, because the reactors used by traditional humanoids are based on magic energy, and the cores of mechanical life forms seem to also be magic energy...

After solving this problem, Yan Luo no longer paid attention to it. From then on, he just had to operate according to his plan.

What is more important now is that he must know what the two interstellar-like races on the opposite side are like.

Are there two races in this world that just happen to be similar, or is it a fusion of some kind of worldview?

If you want to solve this problem, the best way at this stage is of course to get information from the other side.

Let’s not think about the Protoss for now. Not to mention the language issue, their warping technology alone makes capturing someone alive and interrogating them as difficult as hell.

Therefore, we can only focus on "humans". They are easy to catch.

Of course, we are all a race that can travel in the sea of ​​stars, so it does take some effort to capture prisoners.

Originally, Yan Luo thought that this would take some time, but just a few days later, N2 came to report to him that the Protoss had set out to attack "humans".

.....

How could a "small" planet allow three races to fight each other? Even the Tal'darim executive himself might not be able to figure it out.

The mechanical chaos at the beginning might have been due to his own decision. After he shot down a spaceship, he attracted endless machines like bugs.

But the war has been going on for so long that the enemy's mechanical wreckage has almost circled the planet several times, but they still have no intention of retreating. I don't know what their motive is. It can't be that they are angry, right?

But the behavior of the humans who came later was very obvious.

The cause was also the explosion of the spacecraft. It is understandable that they quickly established a forward base after landing.

But now a huge solar drilling rig rose from the ground, which made the executive instinctively feel that something was wrong.

Especially recently, the detector has detected that the drill is aimed at the gate of the sanctuary left by the Xel'Naga, which instantly calmed his angry brain which had been struggling with mechanical life for a long time.

He finally remembered what his job was, the guardian of the Xel'Naga's remaining sanctuary.

When the newly arrived human made his motives clear, he almost subconsciously felt not anger but panic.

No one is allowed to desecrate that area.

Therefore, driven by various factors, the Tal'darim Executors quickly assembled their troops, vowing to flatten the "humans" before they could cause damage to the gate of the sanctuary.

For this purpose, he prepared to attack directly with his family without reservation, and even withdrew all the defense forces to deal with mechanical life forms.

His decision can only be said to be very correct.

Mechanical life forms actually do not have very effective means of detection. Compared with the various reconnaissance devices of humans and Protoss, mechanical life forms can only rely on the relatively primitive naked eye observation.

That is, the round heads scattered around and jumping around provide vision. Anyway, they are cheap and connected to the network. As long as one of them is hit, we will know where the attack is.

In fact, the Tal'darim's offensive against 'humans' could be detected by the mechanical life forms, or they took care of the round-headed people on the road during their march.

Then the destroyed round head pointed directly in a straight line to the command center of another human.

Of course, due to the limited field of view of the round-headed camera, the mechanical lifeforms were not aware of the specific number of troops dispatched by the Tal'darim.

But it did not prevent them from recalling the instructions from the highest network and reporting them quickly.

Soon, a male voice spread among all mechanical life forms.

"Now everyone listen to my command!"

This is Yan Luo. At this moment, he is like Kaishen in the world, performing micro-management.

Chapter 154: Reconnaissance means entering with integrity

"So what's the situation with that group of star spirits now?"

In conclusion, there is still a difference between General Kaishen and Captain Kaishen. After all, the former's highlight moment is to fight to the last man, while the latter is purely engaged in logistics.

Although Yan Luo personally took part in the micro-management, he was actually just dealing with tactical and strategic planning. If he really shouted something like "shooting forward ten meters", to be honest, he might be even better at giving up than Captain Kaishen.

However, if it does not involve the positioning of individual units, but rather the confrontation between rising groups.

The humanoid and mechanical life forms that had been fighting each other for thousands of years on Earth were no match for him with just one hand.

Because only the confrontation between masters is called raising poison, while the confrontation between noobs is called competing for the worse.

As for the level of humanoid and mechanical life forms, their true level can be seen by looking at the fact that for thousands of years one can only deliver troops by airdrop while the other can only conduct human wave assault.

So just like them... Yan Luo felt that he would be a better fighter.

"I don't know. They destroyed all the 'probes' along the way. The last images we received only showed a small number of their troops."

"That's really bad."

Yan Luo didn't complain about the round-headed man who went out to explore the field of vision being named "probe" for the time being. Anyway, they will definitely have conflicts in the future. At that time, let both sides pull out the "farmers" to compete and see who is fake and who is real.

What’s more important now is that Yan Luo is a little confused about the specific situation on the Xingling side.

In terms of technological confrontation, Yan Luo is indeed lagging behind, which means he is now unable to know the situation on the battlefield.

I was completely lost in the mystery of where the Star Spirits were, how many of them there were, and what they were going to do.

It is said that the interstellar world is a battle between the blind. Yan Luo now feels that the situation is even worse. If there is no word more derogatory than "blind", perhaps he can now enjoy the title of a blind person.

Fortunately, the current commander of this planet, Adam, has gained a lot of experience in the confrontation with the Protoss. In addition, he is a "super life" created by mechanical life. His strong learning ability has made him a somewhat qualified commander.

At least he understood the importance of battlefield intelligence. The 'probes' he had spread along the way had already indicated the movements of the Protoss army. Just this point alone made him like a 360 that had been turned on, surpassing 99 percent of the leader-type mechanical life forms on Earth.

Of course, this only knows the opponent's movements. As for the deeper purpose, whether it is a tentative small-scale confrontation or a full-scale war, more intelligence is needed for analysis.

Unfortunately, the biggest problem now is that we can’t get any intelligence.

However, there is always a way out. Just when Yan Luo was at a loss, N2 beside him gave him another way.

"Master, perhaps we can see the situation from the human side."

"Are there any of our reconnaissance aircraft near the humans?"

"There are none in the surrounding area, but they have some in their base."

Yan Luoyou raised his head in confusion, and for a moment he couldn't understand the meaning of N2's words.

"Inside their base? How did our reconnaissance model get in?"

"Anyway, please take a look at the actual situation first."

In fact, n2 himself didn't know how to explain Yan Luo's question, so he could only switch the projection interface and adjust it to the sight of a certain round head.

Two figures appeared in the holographic image.

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"Head Nurse Catherine, why did you bring this thing back?"

The Sergeant of the Mobis Foundation Guard Corps expressed his doubts, and the fundamental reason was a certain mechanical creature jumping around nearby.

After they made an emergency landing on the planet, they could clearly detect two different forces fighting each other. One was the Protoss they were familiar with, and the other was a strange mechanical...

To be honest, something as powerful as this that can stab the Protoss in the back should not be allowed into their base for safety reasons.

However, they couldn't stand the other side's seemingly excessive friendliness. On this planet where the Protoss lived together, the patrols of both sides had actually met several times.

Apart from some tension during their first encounter, they seemed to be completely ignored by these mechanical creations, passing by them without a trace of hostility.

Compared with the Star Spirits who come over from time to time to ask for money, they can be called model neighbors of harmony and friendship.

In today's dark and cold universe, there are not many good people and machines like this.

While being moved, humans still need to maintain necessary vigilance.

However, the conversation between the sergeant and the head nurse was more of an inquiry than a questioning.

After all, he's a medic...

The mysterious medical technology brought by the expeditionary force UED formed by Terra, the hometown of mankind, has now become the dark side of human technology (black technology).

It is said that as long as you have a breath left, the medical soldier can snatch you back from the hands of death.

This forces veterans like Sergeant to become bootlickers, because these women control their lives.

"Sergeant, don't you think these little guys are cute?"

This reason is a bit outrageous. It's like forcing the logic of reality into a fantasy world.

In fact, the sergeant had already raised a series of question marks in his head for such an answer.

He simply didn't think that this rusty lump of iron had anything to do with cuteness.

However, due to the gender gap, he couldn't generalize and use the word "cute". Perhaps the perceptions of both parties were different.

"And didn't the doctor above say that he's very interested in this kind of mechanical creation and gave us a chance to bring one back?"

In truth, that's not the real reason.

The truth was that Catherine, a medical soldier who was patrolling with the team, happened to see Round Head jumping and hitting a tree and falling.

Its clumsy movements really made the medic feel cute...especially when the medic didn't know where the courage came from, and he bravely approached the round head and gently tapped its head with his index finger joint.

Then, as the other person's yellow eyes open and close to simulate a confused expression, it really feels cute.

This sounds a bit outrageous, but considering that reality itself is so magical, this logic is barely convincing.

After all, there is a certain red-haired girl who has won the hearts of many people by relying on high jump and laid a solid foundation for her harem.

Since the reasons are so sufficient, please stop finding fault.

"That seems to be the case." The sergeant nodded thoughtfully.

He was convinced by this reason.

Chapter 155: Human Orthodoxy in Mechanical Life

"I can't understand it!"

The reconnaissance probe of the mechanical life form was actually modified from Yan Luo's early design. Yes, it was the kind of reconnaissance-type round head made in the desert.

After entering the interstellar era, management models such as N2 quickly discovered that the mass military tactics that were originally able to oppress the humanoid living environment were no longer suitable for the current era.