jdhmnovel Chapter 411 Armed Diplomatic Expedition – Codename "Homecoming"
Chapter 411 Armed Diplomatic Expedition – Codename "Homecoming"
"UASR-07, Alert, your ship has been registered in this port. Welcome, welcome to the United Nations Starport, welcome to the United Nations Armed Peacekeeping Fleet."
To date, the Vigilant, as a legendary ship, has gone through three generations. The original Vigilant was just a primitive wooden-hulled, iron-ribbed airship, while the latest Vigilant is a state-of-the-art interstellar cruiser built by the Amelansi Central Shipbuilding Corporation and is the latest interstellar cruiser of the Amelansi Social Republic Alliance Aerospace Force.
"Received, United Starport. My ship is ordered to resupply at your port and carry out Operation 'Flame Rising'. Identification code R-712X1."
The starport surrounding Amelansi IV is slowly growing—the Babel space elevator, which has been reactivated in Antarctica, transports large quantities of building materials every day, enabling numerous ships to be built in geosynchronous orbit in a cost-effective manner, saving precious magic crystal batteries.
However, due to the enormous technological, industrial, and human resources required to build such orbital starports, more terrestrial nations choose to build warships on the ground that can meet interstellar travel standards. Firstly, industrialized nations can reuse the large-scale airship industry that began to be built twenty years ago. Secondly, these warships also demonstrate a silent, atmospheric hegemony.
The same is true for Amelansia. Due to its vast territory and continuous technological breakthroughs, as the most developed country in this civilization and the so-called "leader of the free world," it also possesses a powerful air fleet and a supporting shipbuilding industry. The Hilla Shipyard, which Alice established in Hilla Port, has weathered many storms and transformed into today's Amelansia Central Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Group. In the port of Hilla, those huge docks simultaneously produce oil tankers, container ships, submarines, and interstellar warships.
The latest generation of main interstellar cruiser named by representatives of the Hilla Port People's Commune, the "Xianqingtuan" class, is essentially an Emeran West version of the UN standard "Satellite" class cruiser. It is equipped with the "Blue Sword-A" interstellar jump anti-ship missile launch system as its main anti-ship device. Compared with "Blue Sword", "Blue Sword-A" is smaller in size and more integrated, and can be packed into a large-caliber shipborne vertical launch system.
HMS Vigilant was the second ship of this class, named in honor of the legendary Amerlane warship HMS Vigilant.
Following the invasion of the distant Supreme Human Empire, the swiftly commissioned "Vigilant" was chosen to undertake a crucial mission—a UN armed diplomatic expedition codenamed "Homecoming."
Based on the deciphered star map of the Supreme Human Empire, the United Nations Space Fleet Joint Command will dispatch an armed diplomatic fleet consisting of twenty ships. This fleet will traverse the southern part of the Supreme Human Empire, passing through several noble territories, royal territories, and directly administered provinces, with its target being the Solar System.
All of this is to reconnect the stargates within the Amelansi system to the central stargate hub of the solar system. According to distant records, there were once ten "planets" in the solar system, and the tenth one, the central stargate hub, was no less massive than Earth or Mars.
"Comrade Alice! On behalf of the Watchtower and all officers and soldiers, I salute you!"
At Starport, Lynn Sabrina, the young captain of the HMS Vigilant and Sabrina's young daughter, solemnly saluted Alice.
"Very good, Comrade Lin Sabrina, you are young and promising. You must live up to the glory of our Amerlansi proletarian people's army."
"Serve the people!"
The commander-in-chief of this expedition is Alice Delalaye. Naturally, her goal is not only to find Earth. The expedition fleet set off at a time when the Supreme Human Empire is about to be shaken.
If they could turn the tables and exert their own influence, it would be beneficial for both the survival of the United Nations and for future wars.
As for danger? Imperial ships do not have the ability to jump between star systems, but thanks to the hyperspace core, the expeditionary diplomatic fleet can move freely within Imperial territory.
A cheer suddenly erupted from the crowd—five identical ships blocked out the starlight. These ships were lined up in a row, their sharp, cold hulls and the technology on them derived from distant data.
The West Stargate Automated Shipbuilding Center in Amellan, a secret UN facility, can launch a ship like the "Star"-class battleship within a few months. These ships were the standard battleships of the UN fleet tens of thousands of years ago, with their main guns being "tachyon lances" mounted on the ship's hull, capable of destroying enemy warships from hundreds or thousands of astronomical units away.
Essentially, it is a scaled-down version of a dreadnought.
Because of the fully automated production process, no one needs to understand the principles, and even after the shipborne artificial intelligence is activated, no human intervention is required. Such ships are mass-produced in distant stargates and have become the core of the armed diplomatic expeditionary fleet.
"Alice."
The fleet assembled, and the people cheered. Suddenly, Alice heard a gentle voice coming from behind her.
She turned around and looked at Alicia, who stood there gently, her long black dress swaying in the air conditioning.
"Alicia... Mom, we'll come back, when we find Earth."
"Don't forget, this is your home too, Earth~ When you get there, remember to come back and tell me which is more beautiful, Earth or Amelanxi Star."
Alice suddenly felt a lump in her throat, thinking of all the twists and turns over the years, all the foundations she had laid here, and all the achievements she had made.
Her eyes welled up with tears, which she gently wiped away with her hand before nodding.
"Ah."
Alice now has two homes, two versions of herself from her past life and this life, two hometowns—now, the wanderer embarks on the journey home, not only her, but all descendants of humanity will embark on the journey home.
For all humanity.
Alice's figure disappeared behind the alloy hatch. The highest power of the United Nations was temporarily transferred to the Joint Conference of the UN Secretaries-General, and the Alliance of Social Republics of America was also temporarily decided by the reformed National People's Assembly.
The fleet roared to life. Alice stood aboard the Vigilant, with a Colombian Republic-class cruiser on its left and a Catherine the Great-class cruiser on its right—the Wide-Range Silence was in the fleet preparing for a synchronized jump to the left.
“Then, I, Alice Delalaye, hereby issue the order to all ships of the United Nations Armed Diplomatic Expeditionary Fleet.”
"Operation Homecoming, commence! Target—The Solar System!"
Ripples spread through space as an entire fleet precisely synchronized its jump coordinates, and the computer meticulously calculated the target's location—the Supreme Human Empire would never have imagined that a "human civilization that needs to be conquered" on their frontier had inserted a fleet into their empire.