"I'm fine with it." Lan Jue's voice was low.
A steady stream of speeches came in, all of them discussing how the Major League would coordinate their forces.
The campaign was divided into three steps. The first was to take control of the skies and prepare for the landing campaign.
After that they would conduct reconnaissance of the alien planets to confirm their condition.
The second step was to land and fight. They had to regain control of the Administrative Planet as quickly as possible and rescue the surviving humans on the planet.
The third step was to surround the planets with all the Bastions and fleets and launch an all-out attack.
He wanted to completely defeat them in this Star Field to complete this war.
That was the general direction. Then there were the details of cooperation and how the Major League's forces would be deployed.
Based on these three steps, small command posts were set up to carry out different battle plans.
Lan Jue and the others were assigned to one of the command posts.
He was personally in charge of this area. Their goal was to take control of one of the planets during the landing campaign.
Once they cleared the planet of the aliens they could hand it over to the Eastern Alliance and establish a planetary defense system.
This time the Northern Alliance had brought a large number of railguns with them.
Once the planets were retaken, they would become the main base of the human army.
They would have the alien home worlds completely surrounded.
Based on the calculations of both sides, the first step was the easiest. The aliens were strong, but without the aid of the home worlds they couldn't compete with the human armies.
The landing campaign would be the most difficult.
There was no support from space.
Lan Jue and the others had a very difficult task ahead of them.
At the same time, the Battle Command of the three great alliances were also making deductions about other possible scenarios.
For example, if the home worlds appeared during the first phase of the plan, what to do? How to deal with them.
The Bastions would deal with the alien planets in the first phase of the plan.
All of this needed to be planned out in detail.
It would take several days to get from Luo to the battlefield. During this time the entire human military was in a frenzy, preparing for the battle that would decide the fate of humanity.
Lan Jue attended meetings with Lan Qing every day, listening to the progress of the battle plan.
The battle plan was constantly perfected, and gradually, even Lan Jue couldn't find the problem.
Reconnaissance of the alien planets would begin as soon as they had control of the skies. It wasn't too late, and would be much easier.
The Northern Alliance had already come up with a detailed plan.
Over the past few days, Lan Jue had come to understand what Middle Heaven was capable of.
In fact, calling it a bastion wasn't entirely accurate. It was still a planet.
Planet An Lun had always been the Eastern Alliance's greatest secret.
When the Eastern Alliance discovered and occupied this planet, they conducted a comprehensive survey of it.
Then, they discovered that this planet was not suitable for human survival, but it was rich in resources, especially mineral resources.
It produced a variety of rare metals.
It wasn't long before the Eastern Alliance began their exploration of the planet.
Because An Lun was close to the Northern Alliance, and because the Northern Alliance coveted the planet's resources, the Eastern Alliance had stationed a large number of troops there to defend the planet.
As An Lun was developed, the An Lun Army appeared.
A large portion of the mineral resources found on An Lun were used to construct the planet.
Even if the planet was completely mined out, its location would make it a crucial piece of the Eastern Alliance's game plan against the Northern Alliance.
Because of this, the Eastern Alliance had no intention of abandoning An Lun. Instead, they continued to develop it.
One day, as the planet was being developed, one of the Eastern Alliance's surveyors made a new discovery.
Deep within An Lun's vast mineral resources, there was a special substance.
This substance was dangerous in and of itself, similar to what humans used to make their first nuclear weapons. However, this unstable element also produced a tremendous amount of energy.
It was what formed the core of An Lun.
When the surveyors discovered this, they were terrified. They immediately suggested that the Eastern Alliance stop their exploration of An Lun and withdraw all of their manpower.
The element within An Lun was far too dangerous. If something went wrong, it could cause an explosion that could destroy the entire planet, and possibly even the nearby planets.
The energy inside An Lun was like a ticking time bomb. The moment it became unstable, there was a chance it could explode.
The East, of course, was taken aback. They'd already invested far too much power into An Lun, and if they were to withdraw now it would be difficult. Without An Lun to act as a shield, the overall situation would be unfavorable.
So the Eastern Alliance sent out a large number of scientists to investigate An Lun. They wanted to confirm the direction they should take.
That survey and research took more than two years.
In the end, the energy was determined to be an unstable element that could be used.
In other words, An Lun could be preserved.
The Eastern government had invested a large sum of money into the study of this element. They named it after the geological surveyor who first discovered it. It was now called ink.
It was unstable, but under certain conditions it could produce an enormous amount of energy.
How to stabilize it, so it wouldn't cause damage to An Lun, was the first problem the scientists faced.
As their research deepened, they discovered that it wasn't too difficult to stabilize the energy. But it seemed wasteful to just stabilize it.
Therefore, scientists began to try to guide and use them.
So that this energy could be used by them.
After five years of research, they finally found a way to harness it.
The core of An Lun was composed entirely of this element. The amount of energy it contained was unimaginable.
After a series of research and design plans, Middle Heaven came to be known as the bastion bastion.
The Eastern Alliance's military weakness made them determined to carry out this plan. If they succeeded, then the Eastern Alliance would have the strongest Bastion ship in all of humanity.
At first, it was called the An Lun Battlestar Project. It was a top secret of the Eastern Alliance.
Only a small number of military leaders and the President knew of it.
The project had been carried out in secret. Even the most senior members of the An Lun army were privy to it.
The strict vetting of the An Lun army was a direct result of this project.
As the An Lun Battlestar Project continued, the first thing they needed to do was control the element of ink. It would become the source of power for this new bastion ship.
Research revealed that too much of the element couldn't be used at once, otherwise it would affect the stability of the ship.
However, it could be mobilized and stored. The stored energy could then be transformed into stable energy.
Because of this, the scientists hollowed out the entirety of An Lun and isolated its core. Then, they built conversion stations around the core to convert the ink element's energy. The converted energy was stored and used for the construction of An Lun.
It was also to prepare the planet for future use as a Bastion ship.
Just like that, the Bastion Ship began to take shape.
When Lan Jue left for An Lun, it was already in its final stages of construction.
It was why Lan Qing had ordered Star Division to stay within a designated area.
Middle Heaven's greatest advantage was its propulsion system. Thanks to the power of the ink element, it could fly and fight at high speeds.
The rocky surface of the planet became the bastion's protective layer, and didn't need to be removed.
The massive amount of energy meant the bastion wouldn't be affected.
There were still rich mineral resources in these rock formations, and they could be exploited continuously.
As for the ink element inside, it was enough to power the bastion for a thousand years.
And that was assuming it could keep flying.
It was the most successful project in the history of the Eastern Alliance.
When Middle Heaven appeared near Planet Luo, the entire Northern Alliance was shaken to the core.
Unfortunately, they didn't know about the ink element. They didn't know anything about Middle Heaven, or Middle Heaven as it was called.
Middle Heaven was the embodiment of the Eastern Alliance's most advanced technology. The number of orbital cannons it carried was comparable to the fallen Terminator, but it had far fewer interstellar fighters.
After all, the Eastern Alliance had spent far, far too much of its resources.
Even the rumor that they were building another Bastion ship was a lie.
It was just a cover-up.
The Eastern Alliance had placed all their bets on this bastion ship, hoping it would be able to reverse the Eastern Alliance's military weakness.
Lan Jue also learned from Lan Qing that Middle Heaven contained vast amounts of Eastern Alliance DNA, as well as plant and animal DNA.
There were also other important Eastern Alliance resources.
If the war against the aliens was lost, the Bastion ship would be the spark that ignited the Eastern Alliance.
This bastion ship would be the spark for the Eastern Alliance, one that could expand to other corners of the universe.
In this regard, the Eastern Alliance and the Hanhai Group shared the same sentiments.
The Hanhai Group wasn't directly involved in the campaign. They hadn't yet made their move.
In private, however, they had reached an agreement with the Eastern Alliance.