I, a ship girl, am the savior of civilization.

Extending her senses toward New Alexandria, and with the help of the seed network updated to the latest level, Laura quickly located the Noble team that had achieved remarkable results on Reach.

However, before that, Laura felt she needed to take care of some things first.

Looking up at the sky above New Alexandria, a massive machine was slowly unfolding. The surging energy within it made Laura realize that it was unlikely to be some kind of welcome fireworks wishing goodwill to human allies.

Purification Beam, the Covenant's glass-burning expert, is a strategic weapon capable of swiftly annihilating the enemy by completely destroying the surface of a planet.

In terms of its role, it's similar to the Colossus of the Stars, i.e., a colossus weapon. While its destructive power isn't as great as Earthburst Star, its completeness isn't as great as Neutron Annihilation, and its benevolence (not really) isn't as great as Divine Judgment or the World-Blocking Screen…

However, since the launch process can be paused at any time, it is still a pretty good weapon overall.

The Covenant calls this highly efficient.

Having habitually replicated the purifying beam's firing mechanism, the Colossus Ring beneath Laura now boasts a new type of star-destroying weapon.

However, for humans, the purification beam used to indiscriminately slaughter civilians in attacks is not a good thing. Staring at the gradually brightening beam, Herbert's eyes seemed to burn with rage.

Once the purifying beam falls, the entire city of New Alexandria will be destroyed in a short time, and millions of civilians will perish, leaving no trace of their remains.

As a soldier protecting humanity, Herbert could only watch helplessly as all of this became a reality.

Noticing Herbert's emotional fluctuations, Laura floated to his side and patted him on the shoulder reassuringly, while unconsciously recalling the description on the mission panel.

Perhaps humanity doesn't need suffering and bloodshed to prove its greatness.

In fact, in the world of glory, humanity has already proven its greatness through suffering and bloodshed.

This unequal war should end.

Laura had no intention of helping humanity win the war against the Star Alliance. Neither Phantom nor Ariel within the Ship Girl Alliance liked to interfere in the wars of other civilizations or help humanity win.

Therefore, the Ship Girl Alliance will launch a war against the Star Alliance in the name of this civilization, with the aim of preventing the Star Alliance from activating its halo.

Speaking of the halo, we must mention the even more ancient pioneers and the Flood.

The Halo, a weapon created by the Forerunner civilization, is capable of striking star systems tens of thousands of light-years or even further away, completely destroying the bodies of organisms to deplete the food supply of the Flood Insectoids and starve them to death.

Perhaps Little Noah would really like aura weapons?

Judging from the technological relics of the Pioneers, this ancient civilization has undoubtedly reached the realm of a god-level civilization. For the Ship Girl Alliance, fighting against the Star Alliance not only saves the lives of an entire galaxy, but also allows them to obtain the technological crystallization of a god-level civilization, thereby glimpsing the possibility of stepping into the realm of god-level civilization.

For both public and private reasons, Laura has no reason to remain a bystander in the Halo world.

However, human affairs are ultimately better suited to be handled by humans. Although the relationship between the Human Alliance and the Earth Alliance is not harmonious at present, Laura believes that the two human civilizations should be able to reach an agreement when it comes to matters concerning the human race.

Needless to say, the Human Alliance, and even the pro-foreign Earth Alliance, would not extend an olive branch to the Covenant, which wants to completely destroy humanity.

"In that case..."

Through the Light of Noah, Laura contacted the Human Alliance and the Earth Alliance in the Starry Universe and held an emergency five-minute meeting.

Over the years, the leaders of the Earth Alliance and the Human Alliance have changed. President Lingyun donated his brain before his death to participate in the research on the Matryoshka Brain Megastructure jointly developed by the Earth Alliance and the Ship Girls. Sidney has also long since retired and no longer interferes in Human Alliance affairs.

However, Laura did not expect that the person who would succeed her as the Grand Marshal of the Allied Powers would be the captain of the guard she knew best back then, who had passed away.

Well, establishing contact with the universe, traveling to the Trisolaran universe to unite the human alliance with the international community on Earth, and opening up a new universe—judging from his resume, Shi's achievements are indeed quite remarkable.

"Ahem, you two are already aware of what happened. If you are interested, you can discuss it with Huanyu yourselves. I believe you two know the gist of it."

Because it was a small meeting of three, Laura got straight to the point. The two leaders of human civilization were equally straightforward, making guarantees on the spot.

"The Earth Alliance is aware of the Star Alliance's situation. On behalf of the Earth Alliance, I express my condolences to the human civilization in another universe and am willing to provide comprehensive support, including military and economic support."

The President of the Earth Alliance had a solemn expression. The Star Alliance's wanton slaughter of humanity had crossed the Earth Alliance's bottom line.

On the other hand, the deceased Grand Marshal was even more decisive.

"Damn it, is that true? Let's get them!"

Laura: ...

Things ended much faster than expected; within minutes, the decision to support human civilization in the Halo world was finalized.

However, due to the need for military mobilization, resource transfer, and diplomatic exchanges, a period of preparation is still required before the official departure.

In particular, the deployment of fleets was somewhat strained because the Human Alliance and later the Earth Alliance in the Trisolaran world had gained a significant advantage by leveraging Earth International as a bridgehead, which made border defense a bit difficult.

After all, the Earth Alliance and the Human Alliance are not like the Illusionary Alliance, which have very limited limits on both fleet command capacity and total fleet size.

Take the Human Alliance, the most powerful fleet, as an example. The Human Alliance currently has only twelve fleets, each with just over two hundred warships of varying types. Unlike the Ship Girl Alliance, where even a single fleet can easily exceed several thousand warships.

However, after glancing at the purifying beam that was gathering energy, Laura figured that by then, half of Reach would probably have turned into glass.

After much thought, I still need to contact the ship girl alliance.

With a sigh, Laura reluctantly connected to the Sentinel Array communication of the Ship Girl Alliance, transmitting the situation in the new universe and the necessary support to the home port planet.

"Thinking about it this way, it seems like Laura really has been working all along..."

After the communication was disconnected, Laura seemed to realize something, and a complicated expression appeared on her face.

To be honest, with the Dawn's capabilities, Laura could have rewritten the outcome of the Reach war single-handedly, but compared to doing it herself, it's better to have a ready-made ship girl alliance and not waste it.

No, Laura did this to train the ship girl alliance's ground attack capabilities.

Yes, this is very serious work.

Nodding silently, Laura convinced herself.

Next, we just have to wait for the arrival of the combined fleet of ship girls!

Just like he said before he died, "Damn, is that true? Let's do it!"

172. Arrival at Reach, Halsey's Fleet

Starry Universe, Ship Girl Alliance, Aieriel's Megastructure World

After forming a permanent alliance, Huanmeng and Aierriel's research team began attempting to reverse engineer the megastructures within the microcosm. As for the Silent Fleet, due to their short separation time, their independent research team was still conducting in-depth research on the deep-sea core and did not participate in the megastructure project.

To date, the Ship Girls Alliance has completed the reverse engineering of the Sentinel Array and the Research Center, and has set up its own strategic megastructure in the Starry Universe.

Due to technological limitations, although the Sentinel Array's sensing range reaches the entire galaxy, its precision cannot compare with the Universal Sentinel Array, which previously illuminated the entire galaxy. It can only roughly sense the location of various civilizations.

However, it is sufficient to play a strategic intelligence-gathering role.

In the first month after the flagship's disappearance, the ship girl sentinel array received a second communication from Laura. The first one was the message Laura had previously mentioned about going to find a new universe.

"Commander Kaga, signal received from the flagship. The coordinates of the new universe have been found. The inter-universe dimensional portal will be officially stabilized in the home port sector. Intelligence from the other universe has been summarized."

Having received the intelligence regarding the Covenant and humanity from the Halo world, the Supreme Commander Kaga, who was in charge of the Sentinel Array, nodded: "I will report this to the acting flagship. Is there any other news?"

The Trisolaran Universe and the Aieril Incident are hailed as the biggest turning point in the history of the Fantasy Universe, establishing its position as the dominant force in the galaxy. Although the Fantasy Universe's national structure ultimately disappeared, it brought about an even stronger alliance of ship girls.

Even now, the still unexplored galaxy brings enormous benefits and a boost to civilization to the ship girl alliance.

The emergence of the Halo World undoubtedly gave another hope to the group of ship girls who were at the top and had a long-term vision.

New development space, new technological systems, new ancient burial grounds—all of this is extremely significant for the Ship Girl Alliance. Even though the Three-Body universe still has greater development potential, who would complain about having too many resources?

"Yes, Commander Kaga."

The AI ​​quickly replied: "The flagship requests support from a small fleet and specifically requires a sufficiently powerful ground force to clean up the planet."

"clear."

Kaga nodded, then thought for a moment about the reserve fleet and said, "Notify Halsey's fleet to support the flagship's mission, and have Yukikaze provide backup support with her Fletcher-class carrier group to carry out reconnaissance missions."

"In addition, all reserve fleets have been mobilized, ready to enter the universe codenamed Halo on a large scale at any time."

Decades after the Great Khan's invasion, Lord Su's Mengu naval fleet naturally collapsed, leaving a way out for those interstellar empires that had been oppressed to the point of near extinction.

Lord Su, Odin, and Yukikaze were secretly recalled and given corresponding military ranks, taking command of the shipgirls' captured and updated Great Khan fleet.

This sleight of hand, switching the beams and pillars, is an incredibly clever maneuver.

While the fleet of the ship girls alliance was being mobilized, information about the Halo universe was also conveyed to Lexington.

At first, Lexington thought this was just Laura's excuse to dump the work on her. After all, finding a new universe could take decades, and knowing Laura as she did, Lexington didn't believe it would take less than a few years.

However, it seems that this flagship is more responsible than I imagined.

According to Laura's message, the current situation in the Halo universe is not urgent, and even a single reserve fleet of the ship girl alliance is sufficient to handle most of the problems.

"Then, let's wait for that irresponsible flagship to send back good news."

With a smile, Lexington opened a voyage request for the fleet that Kaga was calling upon, completely unconcerned that this reserve force might make any mistakes.

Not to mention Halsey is an extremely talented commander, not to mention the fleet equipped with the latest shipgirl technology, not to mention Yukikaze's auspicious aura...

As long as Laura is there, the final outcome is already decided.

Halo Universe, Reach, New Alexandria

"Alright, alright, don't think about such complicated things."

Patting the muscular man on the shoulder, Laura comforted Herbert: "Reach will not fall. The fleet of the ship girls alliance will arrive soon."

As soon as the words were spoken, the teleportation portal opened by the Light of Noah quietly appeared in the interstellar orbit of Reach. Nearly a thousand warships of different types poured out and then lined up in neat formations, awaiting the next command.

With the combined advanced anti-detection system of the ship girls, the Star Alliance fleet was completely unable to detect this massive fleet.

Although the Covenant's ground forces have begun a large-scale invasion of Reach, the space fleet that occupies absolute importance is actually not many. In fact, the UNSC's fleet can barely resist the Covenant by relying on its defensive facilities.

With very little knowledge of the Halo universe, Captain Halsey quickly issued the safest order.

"Launch photon sensors, activate the space bridge to deploy covert special forces and reconnaissance ships to gather intelligence on the planet below, and simultaneously locate the flagship's position. Until then, the entire fleet must remain concealed."

Spy satellites equipped with photon sensors were launched one after another, instantly reaching their designated locations via the space bridge. They fed back the terrain and battle situation of the entire planet Reach to Halsey's flagship. At the same time, Yukikaze also released a Shimakaze-class reconnaissance ship to Reach to gather intelligence on both sides of the war.

In addition, after tracking Laura and Belfast, a special task force was dispatched to Laura's side to protect her safety.

In addition, several army units were deployed to military bases on Reach that had been detected by Halsey's fleet to conduct intelligence gathering.

A light blue spatial vortex suddenly appeared beside Laura and Herbert. The unusual movement made Herbert instinctively raise his weapon, but Laura quickly pushed it down.

"Uncle Herbert, the reinforcements you wanted have arrived."

Laura winked at Herbert, and a smile crept onto her lips as she looked at the ship girls that had appeared before her.

Sukhbaatar, Veneto, and Yukikaze are all acquaintances.

"Lola, it's been a long time!"