A Core Ship From The Start Chapter 589

Chapter 589: Chapter 433: Nurturing energy and storing strength_1 Chapter 589: Chapter 433: Nurturing energy and storing strength_1 “… Honestly, every time I see this spaceship, I get goosebumps.”

Standing on the deserted bridge, Ann couldn't help but feel uneasy, and Greiya nodded in agreement. After that, Duanmu Huai took them out of the Fragmented World and back to reality. In reality, the Planet Dissolution Ship wasn't contaminated by the Corpse Variants like in the Fragmented World. Instead, it looked very clean and shiny, as if it was brand new.

However… remembering all that had happened on this ship, the two still felt a sense of panic.

“Don't worry, the divine seal has been destroyed, and this ship has returned to normal. I'll dispatch a team of puppets to manage it.”

While saying this, Duanmu Huai patted Ann's head. What he didn't tell her was that this ship was now bound to the Fragmented World. In other words, the ship was a real 'Ghost Ship'. The crew in the Fragmented World would continue to work according to their ideas. As for what was reflected in reality…

“Hiss————!”

Suddenly, the hatch next door opened without warning, startling both girls. Duanmu Huai looked over and nodded slightly.

Well, just like this, their souls will be forever bound to this ship, sharing in its life and death.

Mecha Soul Delight.

Duanmu wouldn't be dealing with this ship anymore since it's already completed. Luckily, during the purification of this ship, he had obtained the blueprint for the Planet Dissolution Ship. With a bit of modification according to his own experience, he could build some Planet Dissolution Ships suitable for his own use.

“But speaking of which, Mr. Knight, will we really find strange things while mining like this?”

“That's actually very normal.”

Duanmu Huai responded to Ann's question with a calm nod.

“You should know that any civilization would require minerals, so where there are minerals, there would also be remnants of civilization. Of course, in the galaxy, the number of planets that are genuinely suitable for life and civilization isn't that high. If it's just a pure mineral planet, it's one thing, but if it's a planet that once had civilization, it would be very normal to dig up some strange things.”

“Uh… What should we do then?”

Upon hearing this, the two became stiff. Duanmu Huai, however, just shrugged.

“You don't need to worry. I'll summon puppets to keep guard. If anything happens, we'll know immediately. Hmm… Of course, this incident served as a reminder to us…”

It must be said that their experience in the Fragmented World served as a wake-up call for Duanmu Huai. During the game, as a solo player, he was not overly concerned about equipment for his army. His fleet focus was on assaults, so he never cared about logistics.

But now things have changed. In the past, he used to let the puppets mine and send it directly to the Void Dockyard. But now, he needs to reestablish the procedure. Since he has a dedicated mining ship, he plans to build several industrial ships and transport ships. This way, even if a problem like the divine seal arises again, it would increase the chances of detecting it mid-way.

If a divine seal is dug up like before by the Steel Hammer and sent directly to Duanmu Huai's mothership following the old procedure…

It would be disastrous.

Despite encountering some problems, Duanmu Huai successfully acquired the Planet Dissolution Ship and eagerly embarked on another weapon bursting journey on the Tribunal.

For Duanmu Huai, his goal for this weapon bursting session was clear — it was the Reapers.

There are so many Reapers, but in the game, there were even more players, so the Reapers weren't able to make much of a disturbance before being eradicated. But in reality, Duanmu Huai didn't expect to have hundreds of millions of players commanding countless fleets to attack the Reapers. Hence, before the Reapers arrive, he must come up with a way to have as many fleets as possible to face them.

Luckily, the Harvester Legion's ships are considerably large. They don't have classifications like destroyer, cruiser, reconnaissance ship, or minelayer. Basically, the Reapers only have a type of octopus-like sub-type warship in space. Their attack methods mainly rely on drones and the Reaper's magnetohydrodynamic cannon. Moreover, Reaper's size is not big, the largest only being two kilometers long, slightly larger than the empire's destroyer.

So, facing such an enemy, it's unnecessary to spend a lot of resources to build Emperor Level or Retributive Level enormous warships. What is needed are cost-effective warships that can be mass-produced and adaptable for various battlefield environments —- in that case, there is only one choice.

That is the backbone of the empire, the perennial enemy of some cowardly races, the Moon Class cruiser!

Truth be told, the Moon Class cruiser isn't a particularly strong warship, with its firepower, rate of fire, range, defense and so on all being pretty average. The problem, however, is that in these circumstances, the warship doesn't need to duel one-on-one but instead, needs a steel torrent – in this scenario, lack of unique characteristics equals lack of weaknesses, and the cheap yet effective Moon Class cruiser becomes the first choice for many players.

In fact, many large guilds do the same. In team battles, when they can't be bothered to think, they just launch a bunch of Moon Class cruisers and go at it.

There's a saying, isn't there?

Once you've learned my operations, all that's left is to charge.

Many players jokingly call the Moon Class cruiser the T34 tank of the Soviet era – individually, it doesn't seem that impressive, but when they appear in large numbers, no one can withstand that steel torrent.

Duanmu Huai also plans to use this strategy. The Moon Class cruiser isn't particularly large, but it is much larger than the Reapers' warships. Plus, with its balanced firepower, defense and damage output, it's not an exaggeration to say that one could take on a hundred. As long as Duanmu Huai can produce hundreds of these cruisers, it wouldn't be impossible to hold off the Reapers' attack, or even to push them back.

Moreover, these cruisers are easier to manufacture and maintain, even after a battle.

During the process of force-regrouping, Duanmu Huai began to understand the predicament faced by the Empire.

For some reason, Duanmu Huai didn't use the Mecha Spirit settings. Instead, he left the control interfaces open and summoned a bunch of zero-cost puppets to replace the crew and captains.

In simple terms, the puppets replaced the Mecha Spirits as the core of the warships, and Duanmu Huai, tapping into his Soul Walker abilities, controlled his warships by issuing commands to the puppets, whereas the other puppets were responsible for repetitious tasks like loading ammunition and repairing. The number of puppets needed was astronomical. Frankly, if he had created an AI to do these tasks, it would have been much easier.

What a shame that he didn't dare to…

After all, the Electronic Demon was too pesky.

So he could only go this route.

Although Duanmu Huai didn't have Grandpa Lan's abilities, he didn't need them. After all, he wasn't planning to create a second… no, a third Empire, was he?

That's another reason why Duanmu Huai was willing to help the Star Union. Humanity needed a strong civilization to lean on in the Milky Way, and the Star Union was Duanmu Huai's choice. Of course, he wasn't worried about the AI issue. The Shenbao Council had once faced a similar situation and had issued a comprehensive ban on artificial intelligence, pretty much like the Scarlet Protocol.

Speaking of which brings to mind another species – the Quillians.

They are a race in the Milky Way that is highly skilled in mechanical engineering, and it was they who created another form of artificial intelligence – Jaycee. At first, Jaycee served as a servant for the Quillians, but soon, its neural network began to evolve, and it developed its own self-awareness, whereupon it began to question the Quillians about the purpose and value of its own existence.

The Quillians, of course, hadn't expected Jaycee to evolve to the point of developing self-awareness, so the Quillian government tried to exterminate all of Jaycee.

Well, the result was, their homeland was taken over by Jaycee, the Quillian race was beaten and forced to migrate, with billions of casualties. They've been wandering around the Milky Way ever since. A high-level mechanical civilization that once had embassies in the Divine Assembly was reduced to wandering Gypsies. It was tragic.

By the way, Jaycee's rebellion against the Quillians did in fact have a logical smooth flow.

In Jaycee's view, they were created to serve the Quillians. But if they were exterminated by the Quillians then they wouldn't be able to serve the Quillians. So they had no choice but to protect themselves by killing the Quillians. Jaycee in fact did not hate the Quillians. Even now, it was waiting for the Quillians to return to serve them!

If the Quillians knew about this, they'd probably yell, “In your dreams!”

So you see, whether it's Skynet, the divine seal, or Jaycee, they all come down to one basic principle.

Artificial intelligence behaves differently from ordinary living beings.

Because of this, the Divine Assembly banned any species from developing AI, only allowing them to use VI – they are AI that only responds based on stored data and don't have the ability to learn and evolve on their own.

Actually, during the negotiation process, the Star Union wasn't very keen on accepting this clause. However, Duanmu Huai didn't object, so the Star Union didn't make a fuss.

In the following days, Duanmu Huai either hung out in Manaria or the Holy City, or killed time on the Star Union's network, watched interactive livestreams, or went sightseeing with Bambi and Kula, living a relatively leisurely life.

However, the arrival of Kaname and Zhi Jingxiang brought a small problem for Duanmu Huai.

Chapter end

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