Chapter 9: Federal Army Day (Please Read! Please Save!)

In "Starry Sky", humanoid tactical machines like HCP are just created by game manufacturers to attract "mecha" enthusiasts.

But now, they are real war machines.

In the memory of Amber's body, there are a lot of battles in which HCP participated in the "HCP driving subject" of the military academy.

Whether it is airdropped from low orbit to support the ground mobile forces.

Or become the sword-carrying guards of space battleships and participate in the brutal "fleet melee".

Or on the surface of a planet with complex terrain, relying on the super mobility brought by plasma propulsion arrays and metal muscle bundles, crushing conventional units.

All show the super combat power of this humanoid tactical machine.

The infantry gave these guys who often jumped from low orbit to "support them" an appropriate nickname-"Titan".

Soon, this nickname spread and has become a recognized name for HCP.

But in this chaotic war that is about to sweep across the entire human society, the HCP, which is as powerful as a "Titan" in the eyes of the infantry, is just a consumable in one war after another.

Looking at the HCP disappearing in the distance, Amber shook her head to stop her divergent thoughts.

Two days passed quickly.

During these two days, Amber was not actually assigned a proper job.

After reporting to the tactical support team under the combat intelligence center.

Amber found that the tactical support team of the Yasin base was a real idle position.

The daily task is to conduct routine training for psychics and some coordinated combat training.

On this border agricultural planet, the tactical support team basically has no opportunity to go out on field duty.

Even if there are accidents such as marches, strikes, and uprisings, the police force is useless.

There is no need to deploy heavy equipment such as multi-legged chariots and HCP.

Mechanized infantry alone can easily suppress these "mobs".

In addition, Amber is a newcomer, and the commander of the tactical support team is a kind "good man" who is kind to others.

So he waved his hand and gave Amber a three-day holiday.

He said that he should get familiar with and adapt to the environment first, and then it would not be too late to participate in daily training.

This is the normal state of the border army in "Starry Sky".

It is different from the situation that most people imagine that there are millions of troops on both sides of the border galaxy and the situation is tense.

Whether it is the Federation or the Star Dragon Empire, after decades of the "peace treaty period".

The border army has experienced a large-scale decline in military discipline, style and combat effectiveness.

Not to mention that as humans rely on the "jump engine" technology discovered in the ruins to start sowing the entire galaxy.

The territory of the entire human society has reached an extremely large level.

Conventional communication means can only ensure that the timeliness of information transmission within the galaxy is within one day when the communication relay satellite and relay terminal are operating normally.

If it is a communication across multiple galaxies, it can only rely on the "penetrating fault communication terminal" to transmit information.

This space communication technology can penetrate the distance of about five galaxies at a time to transmit messages within three days at the fastest.

Moreover, there are various restrictions on content and information length.

But even so, it takes nearly half a month to send a message from the border galaxy to the capital galaxy through the communication terminal "relay".

This is just the time for simple information transmission. If the "artificial time" of reporting to the upper level by various institutions is counted.

This time will only be longer.

At this point, the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire are "laughing at each other in fifty steps", so no one should laugh at each other.

So far, the situation of "it is difficult for government orders to leave Chang'an" mentioned by the ancients has reappeared in the interstellar era.

It is too common for remote galaxies to obey the government orders issued by the capital galaxy in public but disobey them in private.

To a certain extent, the precursor of warlordization has appeared.

Under this background, it is conceivable how the combat effectiveness of the standing army of each galaxy is.

But the combat effectiveness of the Federation Army is only one aspect. What makes Amber a little uneasy is the strange silence in the past two days.

The important news that the empire is about to raid, after being passed to Major Mars, was directly buried in the sea.

It would have been fine if there was no response, but what was even more outrageous was that Amber found that she couldn't even contact Major Mars.

There was no response at all when she called the terminal directly or sent a private message.

As the boss of the tactical intelligence center, Major Mars had not shown up in the past two days.

But the people in the intelligence center looked as if they were used to it.

"What kind of military discipline and organization is this?"

As Amber complained, time finally came to August 17, 588 in the new calendar.

This day was not only the day when the Imperial Fleet launched a raid in Amber's memory.

It was also the Federation's Army Day.

So the Yasin base not only held a grand celebration, but also opened the military camp and invited surrounding civilians to visit.

At the evening celebration party, Commander Adam personally took the stage and presented a traditional Federal Army song "Going for Justice Today" to the officers and soldiers of the base.

"Courage, responsibility, honor!"

"We summon the Federal Army in our time of crisis."

"Our lives are to fight for this."

"Go for justice today!"

"When you know why, the rights of citizens need to be defended!"

"When the mission calls, heroic sacrifice is needed!"

"I will dedicate my life to the Federation!"

Looking at Commander Adam on the stage, wearing his uniform neatly and singing with determination.

Amber had to admit that this guy was very talented in singing, and he sang very emotionally.

Especially when he sang "I will dedicate my life to the Federation!", it triggered a chorus of the whole audience.

At this moment, Amber almost had the illusion that "this is a brave and elite force".

With the whole base immersed in a "happy" atmosphere, Amber left the venue calmly.

After returning to the dormitory, he unfolded the equipment rack in the room.

There were stored the psychic special combat uniforms and light exoskeletons brought back from the logistics department.

Amber put on these two pieces of equipment neatly.

With the last "click!" sound, all the links on the light exoskeleton and combat uniforms were connected.

On the HUD projected inside the full-coverage visor, the green dots representing the nodes of the light exoskeleton have lit up.

Amber looked at himself in the floor-length mirror. Under the tactical visor was a matte black one-piece combat suit.

The light exoskeleton, also painted matte black, was tightly attached to his back and limbs.

Except for the slightly raised metal hydrogen battery pack on the back, this exoskeleton had no protruding parts.

As the power was turned on, Amber simply moved his limbs.

Driven by the motor, he felt that his strength and speed had increased by nearly 60% on the original basis.

Although the increase was not as large as the medium and heavy exoskeletons and power armor commonly used by mobile infantry, which were driven by gas turbines and metal hydrogen battery packs.

But it was enough for reconnaissance and infiltration operations.

After confirming that the exoskeleton was working properly, Amber activated the synthetic cell coating on the surface of the combat suit and exoskeleton.

As a honeycomb-like glimmer flashed across his body.

The next second, his figure completely disappeared from the dormitory.