After the Battle of Gold and Mercury, the Alliance finally got rid of decades of coercion and persecution by the Dark Star Hall, and stood on the same front as the Empire.
There are no permanent enemies or friends between countries, only permanent interests. Judging from the current situation, both the empire and the alliance have what each other needs most. The relationship between the two regimes has finally found a delicate balance after several reversals.
With a relatively peaceful internal and external environment, the social order of the alliance has developed rapidly: first, the Consetlin family and the "puppet speaker" Marcus, who had held power behind the scenes for many years, both stepped down one after another, and then the alliance announced the abolition of the speaker system , with reference to the model of the Imperial Senate, a central council with many people was established. In addition, real power organizations such as the House of Representatives composed of people's representatives, and the Grand Court composed of representatives from various regions and surrounding planets are also being established one after another. The allocation and containment of government powers and responsibilities has drawn a clear blueprint.
Because the time of war is about to usher, and after the "Congress Incident", the power of the military department has been rapidly increased, and the marshal, regimental commander, general and others have almost become de facto dictators. Although the current heads of the military department—Silia, Kaleyan, Mowen, Abel...and others are all rare hardcore soldiers, there is no guarantee that the successors after a hundred years can maintain such pure qualities. Therefore, in order to prevent problems before they happen, and to make way for the upcoming establishment of the House of Representatives and the Grand Court, the military has formulated a strict "wartime temporary power and responsibility mechanism", announcing that important traffic controls will be canceled after the war is over, and social The power to allocate resources was returned to the House of Representatives.
—The reason why it cannot be repaid now is, of course, that the nascent "Three Houses" system has not yet experienced enough tests and has not yet gained sufficient trust. But everything is developing in a positive direction. The social security, medical care, and education systems that were tried out in the Gold Mercury capital after the three chambers of consultations have been widely recognized. Big burden.
Of course, it is impossible for Celia to accomplish so many things alone—to be fair, although five hundred years of time has given him a lot of precious wisdom, as an ordinary person, Celia still has his own limitations . Hidden behind the grand blueprint of the alliance, the person who proposed some key points of inspiration for Celia was actually Gemini Emperor Heinrich.
It is true that it is quite funny and absurd to let an autocratic emperor make suggestions for a democratic political system; but Heinrich slowly constructed his conception of the future constitutional monarchy through this matter. In the hundreds of letters between Asia and Asia, every sentence and every line is full of the emperor's strong will and determination.
These letters were not published at the time, and even Aaron of the Empire, Kaleyan of the Alliance and others did not know the contents. However, many years later, these texts were deciphered by the authorities of later generations, and finally the mind, wisdom and thoughts beyond the times between the leaders of the two opposing countries were made public to the world.
Of course, many historians insist that there are many details in these letters that can prove that the emperor and the marshal had "extraordinary feelings" at that time, such as the lyrical and romantic writing style that appeared every few letters of the emperor-mostly used Describe some disorganized emotions and daily chores; another example is that the emperor ended with "I remembered the parting kiss..." after inspecting the battleship, and the marshal used "The date of the next meeting will not be too far away, so why worry too much about it?" "Farewell" as a reply with ambiguous language...
Some people who firmly believe that the national barrier is unbreakable protested that "these contents must be forged" and "the marshal of the alliance is by no means the kind of euphemistic and emotional person"; Talk about it. However, regardless of the views of later generations, it is an indisputable fact that the relationship between the leaders of the two countries quickly eased during this period...
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The days of relative calm did not last long. In the 3452 year of the Milky Way Era, the Dark Star Fleet once again appeared from the five-dimensional void, and had a fierce exchange of fire with the local garrison near the Kuderia star field. The reinforcements led by Admiral Aaron did not have time to reach the distant battlefield. After the Dark Star Fleet easily smashed the local garrison, it forcibly broke into the Star Gate and jumped to the center of the empire—the border of Gemini.
The alliance's dispatch of troops is finally imminent.
When the news came, Celia was lying in a white and quiet consulting room of the military hospital.
The bright sunlight in late autumn meanders in from the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, swaying unscrupulously on the polished ground, like countless dancing golden elves. The melodious sound of the piano was faintly heard outside the window. It should be the students of the medical school next door playing in the open air. Celia did not open her eyes, but just listened silently, as if she could hear the cheerful voice of the young people through the music. laughter.
At this moment, there was a slight sound of footsteps from the other side of the consulting room. Celia opened her eyes and saw the military doctor standing in front of him with a report in one hand and saluted.
"No need," Celia waved her hand lightly and asked, "How is it?"
The military doctor hesitated for a moment, then put down his hand and said, "It's very unstable."
This answer did not seem to be beyond Celia's expectations. He nodded silently and asked for a while, "What is the reason?"
"Your itinerary is intensive and you think too much, which will be very harmful to the stability of your physical condition. In addition, you have undergone gene promotion surgery yourself, and your physical condition has jumped from adolescence to youth, and some organs have not yet been fully prepared. Prepare to bear the burden."
"Will it be dangerous to continue like this?"
The military doctor showed a troubled look on his face: "Yes... yes, this little life has a strong desire to survive beyond imagination, and its demand for nutrients and the speed at which it can obtain nutrients are astonishing. Your body…”
Celia was silent for a moment and asked, "And then?"
"...and then neither party could keep it."
The military doctor turned pale because of this terrible possibility, but Celia didn't panic. Instead, he just sighed and murmured: "I know it's like this..."
The emotion in his eyes at that moment seemed to be psychologically prepared, but it didn't last long.
Because he was lying down and covered with a coat, the slight deformation of his lower abdomen was not obvious, and he wouldn't even notice it if he didn't look carefully—but this slight deformation was the result of a large amount of nutrition in a short period of time, and the little robber was unscrupulous. The plundering has caused an unbearable burden to the mother, and may even threaten his own life.
"You must make a decision as soon as possible," said the military doctor with a serious attitude, "it will be very dangerous if you delay any longer. Now is the best time for surgery. Please rest assured that the technology of in vitro fertilization is very mature, although people repeatedly Emphasize the importance of natural childbirth to babies, but the existing technology can fully simulate all the processes of natural childbirth... ”
Celia remained silent for a long time, the military doctor looked at his face, and held back what he wanted to say.
In fact, he still has high hopes for this child, he secretly thought.
Although the origin is embarrassing, and once it is exposed, it will face a huge crisis, but for ordinary people, it is inevitable to have extraordinary feelings for the life that is connected by flesh and blood. At this point, even Celia is just an ordinary person with emotions and desires...
"I want to see the test tube equipment with my own eyes," Celia finally said after a while. "Please demonstrate it with a simulator. I want to confirm its safety with my own eyes."
The military doctor hesitated: "But you still have a lot of things to do, and you have to go to the public council to participate in the political review in the afternoon—"
"I know it's going to take hours," Celia whispered, with a voice that was slow and gentle and irresistible: "—but in these few hours, everything is worth making way for it..."
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The resolution that the alliance is about to dispatch troops has been unanimously agreed by the three houses of parliament and the military department. The alliance army was soon ready to go, and at the same time, the first batch of strategic assistance from the empire also set off with the mighty transport ships.
Because of the emergency development of the wartime space channel, the time for the transport ship to go back and forth was compressed to a mere seventy-two cosmic hours. But in the vast space, opening up a new channel will inevitably mean facing many unknown dangers, so the escort task is personally carried out by Lieutenant General Isaac of the Imperial Military Intelligence Department. He led a group of 20 people through the double artificial bug The hole came to Venus in Andromeda on the day the Alliance army left.
Dozens of imperial transport ships as huge as mountains went through a comprehensive scan of the space security check, and slowly landed from the gate to the ground. The information of all the soldiers in the escort team was sent to the Wartime Resource Coordination Office at the speed of light. Their avatars and body scans were displayed on the large monitor screen one by one. "Wait, who is this?"
"Ah?" The supervisor blankly read the name displayed on the screen: "Major Albert, Director of the Investigation Office of the Imperial Military Intelligence, what's wrong, Marshal Kaleyan?"
Kaleyan stared at the ID portrait in the projection with a military cap, ice blue eyes, and an expressionless face. The corners of his mouth twitched for a while, and he asked earnestly, "Hey, don't you think he looks a bit... familiar?"
The supervisor looked at it again and again for a long time, then shook his head inexplicably, "No, who is it like?"
"..." Kaleyan's persuasive inspiration: "For example, you have the temperament of a little boy?"
"… No?"
Kaleyan: "..."
Supervisor: "..."
The two looked at each other for a while, and Kaleyan walked away with a look of hatred.
The supervisor sat on the seat stupidly, and hesitantly let these imperial soldiers go after a while. What he didn't expect was that not long after the gate was opened, an internal phone call from the military headquarters rang when he turned his head, and when he answered it, it turned out to be the core figure in the core of the military—the commander of the Celia Army: "Please call Major Albert Lead him to the State Guest Reception, where someone will meet him."
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"Major Albert, please come with us." Two Union officers stood in front of the imperial mission and saluted with a snap: "The Foreign Affairs Office asked us to invite you to the State Guest Reception, and there will be special personnel responsible for your safety. "
To Lieutenant General Isaac, who was used to secret work, this was no different from "someone will send you on your way". The man with the scar was startled, and looked back at "Major Albert" in surprise, only to see His Majesty the Emperor wearing a military cap smiled lazily, with an indescribably twitching expression: "It's from the Foreign Affairs Department." mean?"
"Yes, that's it."
The man with the scar couldn't help but say: "Please wait, I have to-"
However, his words were interrupted by the emperor himself: "Oh, let's go, maybe someone is waiting for me there."
... Your Majesty, where did you get your confidence from? Hey!
The man with the scar ran through ten thousand grass and mud horses in an instant, and in the end he could only resist the desire to complain, and watched the emperor follow the two alliance officers away.
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However, in fact, when Heinrich and the two officers walked for more than ten minutes to reach the destination, he finally lost his confidence.
He was sure that it was not the state guest reception, but a small white two-story building, which looked a bit like a closed but still clean laboratory. Two officers stood in front of the small building, and the one with the captain's rank on his shoulders finally turned his head and said, "The commander of the Celia Army asked you to look here casually, please don't be restrained."
"What is this place?" Heinrich asked.
"Sorry, there is no comment for the military site."
"... Will the Legion Master himself come?"
"You have to ask the legion commander himself."
Apart from these two formulaic answers, the two officers had nothing else to say, and after giving a military salute at the same time, they turned around and strode away from the small building.
Heinrich frowned and watched the two leave, until their backs disappeared at the end of the long corridor, and then turned to look at the quietly standing white building.
I saw that it was a neat quadrangular small building, the walls were made of thick special alloy, there were many monitoring facilities at the junction of the corners and the roof, and a precise vacuum insulation layer was poured. The windows are high and very narrow, a bit like a biochemical laboratory with strict lighting conditions, and you can't see what's going on inside the windows from the outside.
— What did you bring me here for
"The commander of the Celia Legion let you take a look around here, please don't be restrained..." What are you looking at? Is it just this ordinary building with no abnormal shape
Heinrich stared at the closed silver metal door not far away, and finally walked over after a long while, pushing it tentatively.
——Unexpectedly, the door was unlocked. As soon as his palm touched it, the metal door slid open automatically without a sound.
Heinrich looked back in surprise, only to see that there was no one around, not even a bird could be seen.
He hesitated for a few seconds, then finally turned around and walked in the door.
I saw a circular hall covering an area of two to three hundred square meters in front of me, with soft light shining from the ceiling, reflecting on the bright and pure white marble floor. All kinds of sophisticated life-support instruments and computer terminals are placed around the wall. Nutrients are continuously input into the tree-shaped central device in the middle of the hall through several milky white hoses under the feet.
And there is a groove in the center of the device, which contains a transparent glass tube.
Heinrich felt his breath stop. He stood there, his eyes dazed for a while, and he couldn't hear any sound in his ears. Everything in the world was quickly passing away from his mind like an ebbing tide. He seemed to be standing lightly in the clouds, and he couldn't even feel his own existence. All his perceptions were concentrated on the transparent test tube filled with liquid in front of him.
— There is a fetus there.
A fetus smaller than the palm of your hand, quietly curled up in the amniotic fluid.
Heinrich took a staggering step—he couldn't feel anything on his foot, and even tripped over the hose halfway, but this little episode didn't reach his sensory nerves at all. He staggered to the front of the test tube, his pupils dilated rapidly due to excitement, his face flushed red and he was short of breath, he raised his violently trembling palm several times before touching the culture tube, and then he seemed to see some unparalleled treasure. Hugged it tightly.
At this moment, intense joy erupted from the depths of his brain, instantly sweeping through every nerve in his body. He couldn't make any sound at all, he could only stare at the unconscious fetus tightly and unblinkingly, his eyes were sore and his throat was choked, and he rubbed his fingers hard on the glass surface, as if he wanted to see through the thin glass. The barrier, touching the small and delicate body of the fetus with my own hands.
"Baby... baby..." His trembling voice was hoarse and hard to hear, and there seemed to be a trace of uncontrollable choking: "Baby..."
Heinrich pressed his forehead against the outer wall of the test tube, and the warm amniotic fluid stuck to his skin through the glass. It seemed that through this channel, the slight and steady heartbeat of the fetus was transmitted to him. At that moment, the blood-linked excitement and ecstasy swept through his whole body like a hurricane. He lowered his head and kissed the culture tube, almost instinctively chanting: "My baby, I love you... my baby..."
The deep and passionate love buried in the bottom of my heart for many years finally gushed out at this moment without trace. In the dimly lit hall, the emperor standing at the pinnacle of power in the Milky Way could only see his head deeply buried, his shoulders trembling violently, as if he was embracing the whole world tightly...
I love you my child.
—I love you, Celia.