The Reapers' saucers and fighters, after their mothership was destroyed, fell into a daze, becoming a flock of 'lambs' waiting to be slaughtered.
They were clearly a rogue and piratical alien race, intending to come to the Solar System to plunder Earth's core, yet they were completely destroyed by Umbrella before even seeing their true objective.
William was not like the high-ranking officials in "Independence Day," who would specially build a giant alien prison for the Reapers.
They were not just an anomaly, but an entire alien race.
Since they had reached the level of a race, William would absolutely not show mercy.
Why keep them around?
For the New Year?
Kill them all with respect.
The area of intense combat, which had been a fiery battleground, now became quiet.
The F-X and Viking fighters, along with the God-Body squadron led by William, were returning to the nearby fleet.
However, the flight paths of the Pelican dropships were opposite to those of the returning combat squadrons.
The Pelicans arrived at the battle area to search for pilots who had triggered distress signals or to retrieve damaged but repairable fighters back to the warships.
Upon approaching the fleet,
Spartan Red, White, and Black teams returned to their respective fleet flagships, while Blue Team headed to the three frigates of the stealth fleet.
As for William, the boss who was not originally part of the combat formation, he could only return to the aircraft carrier of the containment fleet.
After all, the God-Body's volume was simply too large; the three Paris-class frigates of the stealth fleet, though specially modified, could only accommodate one God-Body each.
Not to mention the much smaller Phantom.
Therefore, the 'Endless' project was imperative; God-Body combat combined with carrier-based aircraft could elevate Umbrella's fleet firepower to the next level.
Inside the cockpit;
Seeing the approaching aircraft carrier on the screen, William set the God-Body to autopilot.
With his hands free, he stretched his arms and relaxed his shoulders.
Then he looked at Cortana in front of him and asked, "Cortana, is there anything in the data you copied from the mothership that requires special reporting?"
"Special reporting?" Cortana pondered for a moment.
She shook her head and said, "No, the only things worth noting are their mothership's structure and various technologies that differ from our concepts."
"Is that so..." William nodded slightly and then asked, "Are there no other messages about their race? For example, other motherships."
Cortana still shook her head and said, "According to the existing data, the Reapers belong to a hive society system.
Their Queen's main control room was also destroyed by your ship-cutting sword, boss, so she's dead beyond dead.
Moreover, they called the mothership I blew up their 'home.'
So I believe there are no other motherships, or rather, the Reaper race has been completely annihilated by us."
Upon hearing this, William simply replied, "Good, I understand."
'According to Cortana... then the setting of the Reaper race should only be from "Independence Day 1," and has no relation to the second movie.'
William came to another conclusion inwardly.
If "Independence Day 2" also intruded into this world, then Umbrella would have to deal with 'The Mothership.'
That was a super-giant spaceship nearly 5,000 kilometers long.
When William watched this movie in his original world, he was indeed amazed by it.
To be honest, an alien race with the technology to build a 5,000-kilometer spaceship would still play aerial combat with humans? And would still land on Earth to 'dig holes'?
With that technology, blowing up Earth would be no problem at all.
Of course, the screenwriter would never allow a scene of Earth being blown up, otherwise, how would humanity turn the tables?
Movies are just movies after all.
William once thought he could easily deal with a 600-kilometer mothership, but the reality was not that simple.
Fortunately, Umbrella had the electromagnetic cannon developed by Halsey, and the almost heaven-defying God-Bodies, as well as AIs more powerful than the 'virus' in the movie.
Otherwise...
Then pray that the F/A-18 'Hornet' can defeat alien fighters and save the world and all humanity.
While William was momentarily lost in thought, the God-Body connected with the robotic arm in the aircraft carrier's decompression chamber.
Click-.
The slight vibration brought him back to reality.
He asked Cortana, who was analyzing the Reaper technology, in a calm voice, "Have the post-battle statistics been tallied?"
"The exact death toll is still unclear; rescue teams are still conducting search and rescue operations. As for the carrier-based aircraft...
A total of 142 F-X and Viking fighters were completely destroyed, and 336 suffered minor damage and were able to return to the ship on their own.
The ships of various fleets also suffered varying degrees of damage, and the casualties of the crew are being tallied."
"Hmm." William's face was a bit grim.
142...
This was under the condition that their performance was superior to the Reaper fighters, yet hundreds of their own fighters were still destroyed by the enemy.
142 meant that possibly 142 pilots had died.
Pilots were much 'more expensive' than fighters, not just in terms of training cycles and expenses, but most importantly, human lives.
If the fleet's crew members were included, the death toll could be several times higher.
Although this was insignificant compared to the twenty million carried by the Reaper mothership, and one could even say humanity had achieved a complete victory and should feel joyful.
But William believed that life was priceless, especially the employees of Umbrella.
"Sigh..." Thinking of this, William couldn't help but let out a heavy sigh.
Noticing William's sadness,
Cortana sat on the control panel, looking at his face and saying, "Boss, once the United Nations has the technology to build warships, we won't be fighting alone anymore.
The dead cannot be brought back to life, and Umbrella's employees fought to protect humanity; everything is worth it."
Seeing that Cortana seemed to be comforting him, William's face was no longer as grim as before.
He smiled and said, "How fragile do you think your boss is? Haha, but thank you anyway, Cortana.
Without you and Cortana, Umbrella would have suffered even more severe losses in this low-level interstellar war."
"This is what we AIs should do," Cortana also smiled.
During their conversation,
The God-Body had entered the hangar and parked in its designated position, and the ground crew, who had been waiting for a long time, gathered around.
At this point, the engagement with the Reaper race temporarily ended.
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Project: Battle of Saturn.
Access Level: B-Class and above.
Description:
This project details the interstellar campaign between Umbrella and the race codenamed 'Reapers,' and it is humanity's first large-scale interstellar war.
The existence of the Reaper race is known only to Umbrella employees and high-ranking officials and generals of other nations.
The general public still believes humanity is alone in the universe to avoid unnecessary panic.
Umbrella casualties: 649 killed.
Missing: 24 people.
Result:
The AI Cortana copied all data and information from the Reaper race, including various high-end technologies, to further advance Umbrella's technological level.
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