The strongest commander in the universe

At the same time, Lin Fan also needs to discover some potential civilizations among these civilizations to become the first batch of affiliated civilizations of the federation.

Therefore, Lin Fan decided to plan a visit around the Loulan Starfield!

The plan will be carried out by the ten fleets of the First Legion. Each fleet will bring a professional team formed by the Federation. They will be responsible for diplomacy and conduct a comprehensive assessment of each civilization.

After all, even if the federation wants to accept affiliated civilizations, it doesn't want any rubbish, but only civilizations with great potential in one aspect.

After becoming a federation-affiliated civilization, you can receive missions through the federation's newly-built affiliated civilization platform, earn points, and exchange for technology, equipment, warships, and more.

At the same time, for the second-level civilization, the Federation will also have a set of support plans to support it into a third-level civilization in the shortest possible time. After all, the second-level civilization cannot help the Federation much!

Lin Fan's plan has already passed the authorization of the high-level federation, and Lin Fan is fully responsible. As for the professional diplomatic and evaluation teams, they are also being formed, and ten teams will be sent directly to Loulan.

In fact, Lin Fan was not in the mood to engage in this plan. After all, he was very worried about the relationship between the Sierra Empire and the Babawi Empire.

Will the Battle of Wien bring humans to the attention of the Babawi Empire?This is what worries him the most.

But a month ago, a piece of information from the federal presidential palace completely dispelled his worries.

Three months ago, Lin Fan directly captured General Basel, one of the three generals of the Sierra Empire, and all the members of the command team in his battleship, a total of 32 people!

After the war, Lin Fan arranged for a warship to send these captives to Earth, and a month ago, the Presidential Palace finally managed to obtain relevant information and sent it to Lin Fan.

According to intelligence, on a planet in the Sierra Empire more than 100 years ago, the wreckage of a warship buried underground was discovered. According to the research of the Sierra Empire, this warship is more expensive It is several levels advanced, and it is very likely to be a battleship of a fifth-level civilization.

So the Sierra Empire prevented a large number of top scientists from conducting research on this spacecraft, but this research lasted for a full 100 years, and no results were produced.

At this time, the Sierra Empire also understood that research across civilization levels is fruitless. It's like throwing a pistol to a primitive man and giving him 100 years, and he can't find out why. It's the same reason.

For science and technology, if you cross a level and have complete scientific research materials, it can still be researched.

For example, if you give all the technical information on the energy shield of the third-level civilization, there is no problem, but if you want to study the space shield of the fifth-level civilization for the third-level civilization, even if you give all the information, he will never be able to figure it out. Because the basic science supporting this technology is completely lacking.

After the latest emperor of the Sierra Empire came to power, he made a decision, that is, since the research can't be done, then don't study it, it's better to change something practical, so that the empire can get real tangible benefits !

And more than 20 years ago, the Babawi Empire's once-in-a-century inspection began. When it passed through the Serra Empire, the emperor of the empire presented the wreckage of the warship to the Babawi Empire.

Of course, the emperor of the Sera Empire would not be so stupid as to say that he had been studying it for 100 years, which was an act of courting death, but told the envoy of the Babawi Empire that it had just been excavated.

After careful identification by the team led by the messenger, it was confirmed that this is a battleship of a fifth-level civilization, and it is not the kind of foreign trade warship sold by the fifth-level civilization of the Milky Way, but a battleship for a certain fifth-level civilization, because the wreck Among the equipment, there are no anti-technology leakage devices on the foreign trade warships.

This means that after the Babawi civilization obtains this warship, it can completely conduct research on it to help itself break through the fifth-level civilization in the future.

After the news was sent back to the imperial capital, the emperor of the Babawi Empire was very happy, and immediately announced that he would reward the Sierra civilization with 36 foreign trade warships!

So, ten years ago, 36 warships were transported to the Sierra Empire, and the Sierra Empire used these 36 warships to form 3 royal guard fleets, each with 12 warships!

And what Basel brought to Wien this time was the Royal Third Guard Fleet.

Seeing this, Lin Fan understood.

First of all, there is no special relationship between the Babawi Empire and the Sera Empire. It is just because the Sierra Empire donated the wreckage of a fifth-level civilized battleship, which made the Babawi Emperor Long Yan very happy, so he rewarded the Sierra Empire with 36 A foreign trade warship.

Secondly, the Babawi Empire will conduct inspections on the arm every 100 years. Its purpose is also easy to guess, that is, to go around and see if there is no civilization that threatens itself, and then go to each civilization to collect it. Paying tribute can serve multiple purposes.

According to Basel's intelligence, the last inspection took place 22 years ago, which means that in the next 78 years, Babawi civilization will not reappear, and human beings are safe for the time being.

Finally, in the Sierra Empire, there are still 24 guard warships, which is a big threat.

However, the information sent also stated that the presidential palace has formulated a five-year plan.

There are two points in this five-year plan that are the most eye-catching.

One is that the Federation will form a new Third Army, and the other is that the Federation will urgently supply 50 sets of energy shields and jump engines to the Io Federation.

Chapter 174 Steam Civilization

With the information obtained from Basel, Lin Fan also breathed a sigh of relief, and concentrated on preparing the visit plan around the Loulan Starfield.

A month later, a small fleet escorting more than 1000 top experts in various fields of the Federation came to Loulan.

These people were divided into ten groups, with more than 100 people in each group. In each group, except for 10 people who were diplomatic groups, the rest covered almost all fields!

They will form an assessment team to conduct an overall assessment of the civilizations they meet during the journey, in order to determine whether the other party meets the basic conditions for the federation to recruit affiliated civilizations.

Originally, Lin Fan himself didn't plan to go, but he had been fighting with Liang Xue and Emma for so many years, so he didn't have time to stop and have a good rest.

Then it would be better to take this opportunity as a vacation, so Lin Fan Emma's third fleet became one of the two remaining fleets, commanded by her adjutant Xia Tina.

So the three of them set off with the guard fleet and expert team.

Two days later, the guard fleet arrived at the first stop, which is also one of the places directly connected to Loulan Youxing Road. According to the Orion Arm star map provided by the system, Lin Fan knew that this star system was called Ogg, and it belonged to a binary system. A super civilization, the Ogg Empire.

However, not long after exiting the transition, the people on the bridge were a little dumbfounded after acquiring images of some spaceships in the star system!Even the members of the expert group were a little dazed.

The thing I saw was a spaceship?Are you sure you're not joking?

I can't blame everyone for not being knowledgeable. The key is that the spaceship everyone saw was too weird. Is it full of steampunk style?

Even after scanning, it was found that there was something similar to a steam engine in the opponent's spaceship, can you believe it?This is a spaceship!

"Legion Commander, there is a communication connection, do you want to take it?"

"Come here!"

Lin Fan also recovered from his stupefaction, nodded and said.

"This is the border patrol ship of the Auger Empire. May I ask which civilization you are from? What's the matter with our Auger Empire? Do you need assistance?"

There was a hint of flattery in the voice, which made Lin Fan a little confused. What kind of border patrol ship is this? Seeing the arrival of an unknown fleet, it is so flattering?

However, Lin Fan immediately patted his forehead, forgetting that the other party was only a level 2 civilization.

Suddenly seeing a fleet of 2 battleships, they came up and shouted.

"The fleet in front stops and informs you of your purpose immediately, otherwise we will use force to expel them!"

This is the hell, okay!

To be honest, just as Lin Fan thought, the Ogg people in a certain patrol ship were almost paralyzed from fright.

Picking up the communicator, Lin Fan replied back!

"We are a Level [-] civilized human federation. This trip is for a friendly visit. Don't worry!"

Lin Fan may not know that his standard reply directly frightened the brains of several people from the Auger Empire.

Only the mouth kept repeating.

"Level [-] civilization... Human Federation... Level [-] civilization... Human Federation!"

Well, for them, the most awesome civilization they have ever seen is the third-level civilization Kabat Empire, which can destroy the existence of their own empire with just a breath.

And now there is an even better fourth-level civilization, isn't it a god-like existence!

Not to mention, just looking at this fleet, it is much stronger than the fleet of the Kabat Empire, and every battleship is so huge.

So the few Oggers in the patrol ship had no doubts about the fourth-level civilization.

Immediately replied with extreme respect and flattery.

"Masters of Level [-] Civilization, please wait a moment, I will immediately notify His Majesty the Emperor of our empire, and prepare to welcome you!"

Listening to the voice message sent by the other party, Lin Fan also smiled wryly. Sure enough, the fourth-level civilization is in this Loulan star field, which is indeed a bit too scary.

"Okay, Liang Xue, let's take Emma to their planet for a while, anyway, the expert team will deal with it at other times!"

"it is good!"

Liang Xue also smiled happily, she finally felt like she was on vacation.

That's right, Lin Fan came out this time to bring his two daughters on vacation, and he even told Lin Zhen, Ed and Sanders openly and aboveboard.

Lin Zhen didn't have any objections, and he even hoped that Lin Fan could have some results with the two women along the way, so that he could have more grandchildren.

As Lin Zhen's good friend, Ai De naturally has nothing to say, he has exactly the same brain circuit.

As for Sanders, his granddaughter is working under someone else, so she just turned a blind eye!

Soon, Emperor Augustus, who was processing official documents in the palace, received the message from the patrol ship, and he was stunned for a while before he recovered!

"Come on, immediately order the royal etiquette team to prepare for the reception, the highest standard! In addition, notify all the ministers to come to the palace immediately!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The guards were shocked when they heard what Augustus said. Could it be that the highest standard etiquette team came from the Kabat Empire?

Without thinking too much at the moment, he immediately ran out to convey Augustus's order.

And the patrol ship that came into contact with Lin Fan also received the order from Augustus, and immediately welcomed him to Planet August!

After communicating with Lin Fan again and getting Lin Fan's agreeable reply, everyone on the patrol ship heaved a sigh of relief, then adjusted the course, led the way ahead, and headed straight to Auger Star.

But in the Uranus, it was very lively. After all, the opponent was only a level 2 civilization. Under the various powerful scanning equipment of the Uranus, the entire patrol ship seemed to be stripped naked. The results were all scanned clearly.

But it was the results of these scans that caused the members of the expert group to fry the pot collectively.

"It's impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"Why do you say it's impossible? The scan results are already in front of you, but you just don't want to believe it!"

"I know, it's just a little unbelievable!"

"Okay, you have to know that the road we humans take is not the only one, all roads lead to Rome!"

Looking at the two experts who were arguing the most, Lin Fan was also a little curious.

"Two experts, what did you discover that surprised you so much?"

Lin Fan walked over to the expert group and asked the two of them.

"It's the head of the Lin Fan army. You don't know that the technological path that this civilization is taking is really unbelievable!"

"Oh? What do you say?"

Lin Fan became more and more curious. It would be very interesting to surprise the expert group like this.

"How should I put it? Well, it's like what would happen if humans didn't enter the electrical revolution after the steam revolution?"

"what do you mean?"

"That's right, the civilization in front of us is on the path of pure steam, and has developed steam technology to the extreme. That patrol ship was built on the basis of steam technology!"

"What, steam space battleship?"

Lin Fan had an expression on his face that you were teasing me.

Chapter 175 Affiliated Civilization

Inside the Uranus, Lin Fan looked at Meng Fei, the leader of the expert team, in a strange way.

A warship entirely based on steam technology?Are you sure you're not joking?

Seeing Lin Fan's expression, Meng Fei sighed.

"To tell you the truth, even I can't believe it if I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but our scan results won't lie. Although there are many parts in the power core of the battleship, I can't understand it, but it is indeed a huge ship. The steam engine system, a steam engine developed to the extreme."

Meng Fei said with a sigh.

To be honest, this is really subverting the three views, but it is understandable after thinking about it a little deeper.

After all, after human beings entered the steam revolution, they turned to the electrical revolution, and did not continue on the way of steam.

But the civilization in front of it is obviously all the way to the dark on the way of steam. In terms of technology alone, the Auger Empire is much more advanced than the Human Federation.

"Commander Lin Fan, we even scanned the structure of their weapons and ammunition. Can you imagine that their naval guns actually use steam power to project projectiles? Can you imagine that their ammunition is steam projectiles that are compressed to the extreme. Once After being hit, the extremely compressed steam in the bomb bay explodes, isn't it likely that the power will not be weaker than that of ordinary third-level civilization?"

"This is really an interesting civilization. I am very interested in going to their planet to see it now!"

Hearing Meng Fei's words, Lin Fan's curiosity was completely aroused, and he said with a smile.

At this moment, Lin Fan quite agrees with what Meng Fei said just now.

Don't think that the road followed by human beings is the only way, and don't think that the scientific and technological views you understand are the only correct scientific and technological views.

The so-called all roads lead to Rome. When humans see more and more civilizations, they will find that many things that humans thought were impossible will become possible.

This is so interesting, it is very similar to the steampunk world view in some film and television works he watched in his previous life, so this journey must be quite interesting.

Although Lin Fan is very excited now, the tragedy is that the speed of the spaceship leading the way is too slow!

The navigator on the bridge told Lin Fan that at this speed, it would take one day to reach Auger, but out of politeness, Lin Fan had no choice but to let the fleet follow the patrol ship slowly.

Finally, a day later, the guard fleet followed the patrol boats to the orbit of Org.