Alien Relic Hunter.

New Moon Fortress, No. [-] Crater.

The old moon in the double moon is a natural satellite captured by the gravity of the Alpha star, while the new moon is an artificial satellite built from scratch by the Alpha civilization—although it is man-made, from the appearance of the planet, the new moon There is not much difference between the month and the old month.

The performance of the new moon is also covered with a layer of crust composed of rock foundations. The average thickness of this layer of crust is about [-] meters, and the surface is covered with large and small ring-nested craters.

However, unlike the craters on the surface of the moon, which was once the satellite of the earth, all the craters on the surface of the new moon are "man-made" and not made by meteorites.

Both the new moon and the old moon have powerful self-defense facilities. These facilities can not only intercept all aircraft and weapons approaching the double moon, but also destroy all meteorites flying towards the double moon... During these tens of thousands of years, there is no one with a diameter of Meteorites over one meter can fall on the surface of the double moon. As for the craters on the surface of the double moon observed by the Ark people, each one is actually a carefully camouflaged fully automatic defensive position.

Crater No. 620 is the largest crater on the side of the crescent moon facing Alpha, with a diameter of [-] kilometers, which is more than twice the largest "Bailey Crater" on the moon. A "circle of firepower" surrounded by giant anti-aircraft forts. These giant forts, which are equivalent to a [-]-story building, are buried in the mountain body of the crater, and the position of the muzzle is hidden in the shadow cast by the mountain.

"The enemy fleet has entered the range of the anti-aircraft firepower. The air defense firepower saturation of No. 19 crater is [-]%. Do you want to activate the interception system?" Selene's phantom stood behind Ke Lan and asked aloud.

"Only 19% of the firepower, can it be stopped?" Ke Lan asked.

"I need to correct it. The available firepower of the No. 19 crater is 2.7%. The other defensive positions on the front of the crescent have all been offline... If calculated according to the overall defensive firepower, the available rate of the front of the crescent is [-]. %."

"What is the probability of successful interception?"

"According to calculations, the existing firepower can destroy 72% of the enemies, and the remaining 28% of the enemies will break through the firepower blockade and enter the interior of the New Moon Fortress."

"I wonder why such a large fortress is not equipped with any robot troops... If there are a group of autonomous combat machines, at least they can play street fighting with each other." Ke Lan complained.

"The program of the self-disciplined combat machine has a high probability of being polluted, and it will evolve into an erosive AI similar to the mastermind of the hive capital, and has extremely high concealment and penetration. For the safety of the Double Moon Fortress, the fortress master Except for controlling AI, any equipment with AI programs is prohibited from being brought into the fortress." Selene replied.

"Is there still time to catch up with work? There should be something like an assembly line and fully automatic production facility inside the fortress?"

"Fully automated factories also need AI to manage, so they are also banned in the New Moon Fortress." Selene's answer completely erased Ke Lan's last illusion, "In fact, you have already obtained the New Moon Fortress's All permissions, anything that does not appear in the list of available functions, are not available in the stronghold."

"Then the resources I can use now... are really pitifully small..." Ke Lan roughly scanned the "list" that was directly transmitted into the brain, and sighed, "Start the firepower interception first, if you can delay How long is how long... It really doesn't work, you will maintain the charging program of the Star Destroyer later, and I will go outside to resist those monsters, is this okay?"

"After the recharging procedure is started, no authority holders need to stay in the central control room." Selene said, "But if you need to stop recharging, you must do it yourself."

"There is no need to stop, just launch after charging." Ke Lan took a step back and walked out from the shroud of the beam of light, "I will leave this to you, and besides, I have to trouble you to send me outside the fortress... As for How long I can delay it depends on luck..."

……

In order to prevent rapid breakthroughs by foreign enemies, there are no space channels inside the New Moon Fortress, only six space teleportation nodes located in the shallow layer of the surface are connected to Alpha Star.When Ke Lan returned to the surface, he still took the vehicle called "Shuttle" - when Ke Lan arrived on the surface of the new moon, the fleet composed of hundreds of pale warships was close enough to be visible to the naked eye distance.

"The conscious fire control system is online, and the connection is complete." Selene's voice sounded in Ke Lan's earphones, "The defense system operation authority has been transferred to the connecter, and all weapon safety has been unlocked."

Ke Lan only heard a light "ding", and two light blue, ever-changing circles suddenly appeared on the retina.

These two circles are actually the focus of his eyes, and the operation method of this conscious fire control system is also very simple - Ke Lan only needs to focus his sight on the target that needs to be attacked, that is, use these two circles to "set" Hold the target, and then directly issue the fire command.

This operating system is simply more convenient than "pointing and hitting". Ke Lan silently gave it a new name in his heart - "stare at whoever dies".

The approaching Pale Fleet has a total of 240 six warships. Except for the "defective products" that are less than 37 meters long and have serious structural defects, there are [-] warships that have reached the level of "perfect simulation", including four aircraft carrier battleships, Thirteen secondary battleships plus twenty heavy cruisers—this size is more than three times that of a full fleet of the Ark Air Force.

These mimetic battleships simulate basically the active models of the Ark Air Force, but there is also an aircraft carrier battleship whose shape does not match all the aviation battles Ke Lan knows—the reason why Ke Lan classifies it into four ships Among the aircraft carrier battleships, it is entirely because of its nearly 2000-meter hull length... Except for the existence of the two "unique files" of Ark and Yagunaktor, only aircraft carrier battleships can reach this size up.

The shape of this battleship is very "characteristic". The front of the battleship is like a huge horizontal spindle. An enlarged hammerhead shark.Especially at both ends of the "spindle", there are two external energy shield generators that look like eyeballs.

"It is a 'fortress-class' warship of the Hive Civilization." Selene said, "It is one of the main battleships of the Hive Civilization. The design drawings of this ship were later inherited by the Alpha Civilization, but the Alpha Civilization did not build a large number of this model. Instead of a battleship, the design drawings were sealed in a certain ruin."

"It seems that this ruin has already been excavated by the Undead Crew." Ke Lan said, "Where are the weaknesses of the 'Fortress-class' battleship?"

"The bow." Selene replied, "The 'Fortress-class' battleship adopts a front-engine structure. The energy converter, main power furnace, and astral engine are all located in the bow. It is precisely because the bow is too important. That's why we added two external energy shield generators for protection."

"Astral Engine..." Ke Lan is both unfamiliar and familiar with this word. It is strange because he has come into contact with this term for the first time, and he is familiar because the information about the astral engine is in that part of the memory that has just been unsealed. Inside, and extremely detailed.

The astral engine is an engine developed by hive civilization for long-distance interstellar voyages. Unlike conventional engines that use jets to propel warships forward, the astral engine relies on "traction" instead of "thrust"—the astral engine. A "gravitational anchor hook" that cannot be seen by the naked eye is created directly in front of the battleship. This "gravitational anchor hook" can lock and connect to a large-mass celestial body in the target direction, and accelerate the battleship with the help of the gravity of the celestial body.

Or to put it more vividly - it is to use the gravitational force of the celestial body as the hook to "pull" the warship to the target celestial body.

The greater the mass of the target object, the faster the ship will be.

The advantages and disadvantages of this astral engine are equally obvious. The advantage is that it saves energy, and it is especially suitable for long-distance interstellar voyages without stable supplies. If it is beyond the locking distance, the astral engine will completely lose its function and become a "waste".

The "Fortress-class" battleship in front of me obviously set the crescent moon as the anchor point of the gravitational anchor hook—fortunately, the mass of the crescent moon itself is not too large, otherwise, this "Fortress-class" ship may have already rushed forward.

It should be known that under normal circumstances, the astral engine generally sets the star as the pulling target of the gravitational anchor.

With the movement of Ke Lan's gaze, the two circles that symbolized the "focus" were firmly locked on the spindle-shaped bow of the "Fortress", and then he tapped his fingers lightly.

"Fire."

A circle of bright light spots suddenly rose from the peaks of the No. [-] crater, and flew towards the "Fortress" located in the center of the fleet at an extremely fast speed, hitting the front end of the "Fortress" almost instantly. Spindle structure.

Ke Lan also saw the battle that took place on the deck of Yagunaktor just now. He knew very well that this kind of battleship or mecha simulated by mimicry means, when they are not attacking, even if they use their ammunition Exploding the energy capsule will not lead to martyrdom—but the astral engine is different. The astral engine is always in operation. Ke Lan chose this "fortress-class" warship as the primary attack target in order to destroy it. The opponent was caught off guard.

As long as this "Fortress-class" ship fails to shut down the astral engine in advance and "invalidate" the structure of the engine part, then this first round of attack can achieve huge results-the "Fortress-class" warship is indeed better than all of the Ark Civilization. Warships must be strong, but it is also a huge "security risk" in this fleet.

Ke Lan was right.

The energy shield of the "fortress level" was blown up by intensive shots in a blink of an eye, and the energy contained in each shot of those bright light spots was equivalent to thirty times that of the triple-mounted plasma main gun of the Skadi—if it was In its heyday, the Crescent Fortress can destroy this fleet in two seconds with full firepower. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Even if only 2.7% of the artillery can fire, if the firepower is concentrated to a certain point It is more than enough to break the energy shield of a "fortress class".

The spindle-shaped bow of the "Fortress-class" battleship was instantly engulfed by light spots—under normal circumstances, if the engine or main power furnace of a battleship is destroyed, it will cause a huge explosion, but this "Fortress-class" did not explode. , On the contrary, it showed a sign of inward collapse!

A "black hole" with a huge attraction appeared inside the spindle, and everything around it - including the wreckage of the "Fortress" and nearby friendly ships, were forcibly sucked in. In the center of the huge fleet, a gravitational vortex with a diameter of more than [-] meters appeared!

The reason why Alpha Civilization sealed up the design drawings of the "fortress class", in addition to that very obvious shortcoming, is also one of the very important reasons for the danger of the astral engine-although the energy required for the operation of the astral engine is only conventional engines One-thousandth of that or even less, but once the engine gets out of control, a gravitational vortex comparable to a small black hole will be created, and everything around it will be difficult to escape.

Several secondary battleships near the "fortress class" have been involved in this gravitational vortex at this time. Under the tearing of the huge force, first the external structures of the battleships such as armor, signal towers, and turrets were torn off, and then, It is the main body of the battleship... twisted, deformed, and then disintegrated... The huge fleet that was incomparably majestic in the last second has become a sky full of space junk in this second.

And it's still the kind of space junk that is thrown into the toilet...

The collapse of the astral engine destroyed nearly [-]% of the fleet in one breath, but the remaining [-]% of the fleet gathered together and adjusted all the energy shields to the same frequency—the shields of dozens of warships combined When they came together, they formed a super shield, pushing forward gradually against the firepower of the New Moon Fortress.

This "fortress-class" ship equipped with an astral engine is already the biggest flaw on the opposite side, but this flaw is not fatal.

The anti-aircraft turret on the No. [-] crater continued to fire, causing the opponent's joint shield to crumble, but it still failed to penetrate the shield.

"Tsk... You actually know how to respond on the spot... This is a bit troublesome." Ke Lan observed for about half a minute, and then discovered the problem—these mimic warships actually temporarily changed the internal structure, changing the armor, weapons, etc. All the "temporarily useless" equipment were replaced with energy shield generators.

Rather than saying that this is a battleship, it is better to say that this is a bunch of moving energy shield generators.

With the current offensive and defensive rhythm, unless the energy of the enemy fleet can be completely exhausted, it is absolutely impossible to break through this joint shield.

[PS Thanks for the 233 starting coins rewarded by the so-called trial theory; thank you for the 100 starting coins rewarded by the guardian. 】