interstellar involution king

Chapter 27 Beyond the Light Cone
Space combat is by no means an easy task.

This is a complex game involving oneself, the opponent, and the laws of the universe.

From knowing each other's existence to entering a ranged firefight, every step involves massive calculations.

Speed ​​adjustments, orbital changes, judicious use of propellants, distribution of the ship's energy flow, etc., can't go wrong.

What's even more desperate is that even if you do everything right, even if your combat power is much stronger than your opponent's, you can never guarantee a 100% winning rate.

Why?

Because of the large-scale space battle, the impact of the event light cone cannot be ignored.

And this is the power of destiny beyond the limits of human power.

That's why Mr. Li's reward is so high.

And even with such a high reward, the Lark spacecraft still chose to give up after feeling unsure.

Because the stakes are simply too high.

The moment he decided to change orbit to save people, Hope was already calculating a new orbit, and less than 2 seconds later, he output the calculation result to Lin Yuan's consciousness.

Lin Yuan reported the adjustment parameters one by one.

He reported one, and Zheng Wan transferred one immediately.

The flight attitude of the Hope spacecraft also changed accordingly.

First, the cargo compartment is separated and continues to slide forward along the original track.

Afterwards, the freed main control module deviated slightly from the original orbit, fitting the flight trajectory of the Byron bit by bit with the minimum consumption of propellant.

At the same time, Hope's detectors are operating at full power, quickly scanning the [-]-kilometer range around the ship to ensure that they are not attacked by opponents.

After setting the new course, Lin Yuan sent a broadcast message on the public channel again: "Call the Lark! Call the Lark! You and I join hands and share the bounty, how about it?"

At present, it is only known that the Star Thief spacecraft is equipped with the Rabbit Hunter weapon system, but what weapons are installed, what is the range, and how is the performance of the spacecraft are all unknown.

But since he dared to hunt and kill the children of the Li family, he must be well prepared.

Lin Yuan has full confidence in Hope's capabilities, but space battles are full of uncontrollable factors.With more help, there is less possibility of accidents.

About eight seconds later, a response came from the Lark: "Forget it, the Rabbit Hunter system is very strong, and I am responsible for the lives of the crew. Hope, I advise you not to meddle in your own business. We will deal with those important people's affairs." These civilians are not to be trifled with."

Apparently, the Lark doesn't want to wade into muddy waters.

The snake eye message appeared immediately: "Haha, it's still a lark. Hope, this matter has nothing to do with you. You should ship your goods honestly and stop dreaming of being a hero all day long!"

The risk of saving lives is high, and the risk of robbery is also high.Star robbers are also high-tech jobs, and careful planning is required before each robbery, and any accidental factors may cause the car to overturn.

Therefore, Snake Eye doesn't like someone to step in halfway.

Young Master Li of the Byron immediately said: "Hope, don't listen to him. I am a member of Yunmeng's Li family, and my Li family will repay any enmity and kindness. As long as you help me get through this, I, Li Bai Lun must never forget his great kindness!"

It turned out that Mr. Li's name was Li Byron, and his spaceship was also called Byron. It seems that this guy is quite narcissistic.

"Hahaha, Mr. Li, Mr. Li, the identity of Yunmeng's Li family is quite bluffing. But your father is a mediocre person, and you are even more incompetent. Look at you, you go to the gold mine island, but you don't even have a ship. There are no escort warships. Now I ask others for help, but I can only take out 40 star crystals, pitiful, pitiful."

"Snake eye, let your shit go!"

"Haha, have you become angry from embarrassment? It turns out that children from famous families like you can also swear. Hahaha, Hope, everything I said is true, and you should recognize the truth."

"Hope, don't listen to him. Although I can only take out 40 star crystals at the moment, I will definitely give you more benefits when I get to Gold Mine Island."

"Hope, don't trust him. Politicians are scoundrels! They change faces faster than an engine jet!"

"Hope"

Before Lin Yuan arrived, Mr. Li and Snake Eye started arguing on the public channel.

After listening for a while, he learned a lot of news.

After flying for a while, he turned his head and looked at the main control screen, and found that the distance was less than 10 kilometers, and after a while, the two sides would be in contact.

He turned on the communicator and interrupted the quarrel between the two sides: "Mr. Li, how is the situation on your side? Can you hold on?"

Hearing Lin Yuan's voice, Mr. Li seemed relieved.

"The cooling system of the spacecraft's main engine is damaged. I'm afraid it won't last long. Snake Eye's ship is 7000 kilometers behind me, and the distance is getting closer. I will soon enter the range of the laser cannon again."

After a pause, Mr. Li said again: "By the way, the opponent's main laser cannon is very strong, and the range is impressive."

The electromagnetic interference suddenly intensified, and the communication was interrupted again.

At this time, Zheng Wan reminded: "Lin Yuan, only 61% of the propellant is left."

Although trying to save as much as possible, a wave of orbital acceleration still consumed a lot of propellant.

Lin Yuan understood Zheng Wan's worries, and said seriously: "Don't worry, we will definitely win!"

Before his consciousness travels through the wormhole, he has no ability to break through the event light cone, so naturally he cannot guarantee it.

But now, things are slightly different.

He said silently in his heart: "Hope, be ready to activate the entanglement prediction at any time."

"I hope to receive it."

Then, he quickly entered a line of new instructions into the main control brain.

Five seconds later, the main control computer announced a message with a soft electronic tone: "The thunderbolt system has been activated, and the mirror heart is ready!"

'beep beep beep~~'

Amid the bursts of prompts, the three-dimensional starry sky displayed on the main control screen turned into a tense crimson.This crimson area covers a distance of [-] kilometers around the Hope, and is Jingxin's warning range.

As long as the target appears in this area, as long as the target does not achieve full-band optical stealth, it will definitely be discovered by Nozomi.

As the distance between the two sides continued to narrow, the breath of fighting gradually became stronger.

After the electromagnetic interference weakened slightly, Lin Yuan sent a message on the public channel: "Ultimatum, give up hunting the Byron immediately, or you will bear the consequences!"

"Hahahaha, what a crazy cargo spaceship. Do you think you're driving the Jade Bird Battleship from Yunmeng Continent?"

"It's still called Hope, if you dare to come, I will definitely turn you into Despair!"

"My Bunny Hunter system is already hungry, hahahaha."

There was a lot of information about snake eyes on the public channel.

Lin Yuan remained silent.

He waited patiently like a hunter after a wild beast.

After another 7 minutes and 37 seconds, the distance between the two sides narrowed to [-] kilometers.

On the edge of the three-dimensional image with a deep red background on the main control screen, two spaceships appeared one after another.

One is in front and the other is behind, and the distance between the two sides is less than 6500 kilometers.

The spaceship in front is about 60 meters long, [-]% new, and silver in color. The main body is a long strip-shaped engine group like a football, and the middle part of the 'rugby' surrounds a ring-shaped habitat.

It can be seen that the football is not complete, the second half is obviously damaged, three of the four jet nozzles have been extinguished, and only one is still barely working.

But even if the thrust of the engine is greatly affected, the maneuverability of the spacecraft is still quite high, and the acceleration has been maintained at around 1.2, pushing the spacecraft to continuously change its flight trajectory.

This should be the spaceship Byron.

The spaceship at the back is naturally the spaceship of the Star Thief Snake Eye.

This spaceship is about 50 meters long and very old. It looks like an ancient submarine. There are many pure black mirror shields welded on its surface to protect the important parts of the spaceship.

But the spaceship is too big, and the material is limited, and the armed spaceship must consider the maneuverability and is very sensitive to weight, so the protection is not very strict.

Judging from the ion flame of the tail nozzle, the engine horsepower of the star thief spacecraft is at least 7%, but its maneuverability is only slightly better than that of the spacecraft in front.

Although the two sides have been getting closer, the distance is decreasing very slowly.

At the beginning, Star Thief Snake Eye must have adopted sneak attack tactics, otherwise, given the performance gap between the two spaceships, he would have no chance of intercepting them.

Lin Yuan issued an order to the Thunderbolt system: "Lock on the No. 2 dark spaceship and set it as a level 1 kill target."

"Target locked."

"Killing mode has been activated."

"Start testing the maneuverability of the target."

With the voice of the main control brain, the engine power of Hope is increased, and the trajectory is constantly fine-tuned.The laser array on it quickly changed direction and fired at the snake-eye spacecraft.

One shot after another, the frequency is every 2 seconds, the speed is very slow, and it will not affect the energy reserve of the supercapacitor of the spacecraft.

As the main control brain said, this is not for attacking, but to test the opponent's reaction to calculate the performance of the opponent's spaceship.

After 30 seconds, the distance between the two sides was close to [-] kilometers.

Snake Eye's spacecraft also found the location of Hope.

Laughter came from the communication channel: "I thought it was some good spaceship. It turned out to be just a small iron box! Just a little thing like you, you dare to meddle in your own business, you are really asking for your own death."

Lin Yuan was silent.

Zheng Wan was a little impatient: "Don't we need to do something?"

Lin Yuan shook his head: "It's good to leave everything to the Raiden system. This system is very strong. Very strong."

The Thunderbolt system controls the laser array on the spacecraft, and it still fires continuously, but the frequency varies from time to time, with one shot at another.

Hope’s laser array has a maximum effective range of 4000 kilometers in vacuum. After this distance, even a laser with a nearly perfect direction will diffuse and cannot focus enough energy.

But at this time, the distance between the two sides was more than 4 kilometers. Every shot was fired, and it was clearly aimed at when it fired, but in the end it was all empty.

This is not to say that the Hope spacecraft has poor computing power, but because of the incident light cone.

In large-scale space combat, even light is not fast enough.

For example, for the current distance of 0.13 kilometers, it takes 93 seconds for light to travel, and the relative speed of the two spacecraft is 12 kilometers per second, and this time is enough to displace [-] kilometers.

On such a battlefield, all the information detected by the spacecraft is past information, and there is no way to obtain real-time information.

What state is the other party really in?Where is it again?What are you doing again?

Unless someone knows the FTL technique, it's impossible for anyone to know.

Just because the other party is just outside the information light cone, before the light arrives, there is no causal light-connection between the two parties.

Therefore, on a large-scale space battlefield, light-speed weapons have become the absolute mainstream.

Therefore, everything can only rely on prediction, that is, guessing!
Therefore, the computing power of the main control brain of the spacecraft and the targeting algorithm used become crucial.

"Om~"

Another laser shot, but this time, the laser hit Snake Eye's ship.

The whole process is not so much a hit, but a fateful collision between the laser and the spaceship after traveling through many spaces.

The main control brain sent a response: "Drip~ The prediction is correct, and the shooting parameters are being adjusted."

At the same time, the hope brain in Lin Yuan's consciousness sent a message: "Entangled particle pairs have been detected. Entanglement prediction has been activated, and the prediction time is 0.5 seconds."

0.5 seconds, the light cone corresponding to the event is 15 kilometers, enough!
Lin Yuan felt at ease immediately.

Snake Eye's voice immediately rang out on the public channel: "Boy, don't take random photos of your toy laser gun!"

The voice was as cold as ever, but there was a hint of guilty conscience.

"Drip, hit again. A sudden change in the target's flight trajectory has been detected and the maneuverability of the target spacecraft is being measured."

The voice of the master control brain was as gentle as ever, but it exuded a ruthless aura.

It can be seen that although the laser did not cause any damage to the Snake-Eye spacecraft, the speed of the Snake-Eye spacecraft’s trajectory change has greatly increased.

This reaction is perfectly normal.

No one likes their spaceship being hit consecutively, because it means that their flight trajectory has been completely seen through by the other party.

It's as if the underpants are seen by others. Although there is no actual loss, most people's first reaction must be to cover them up immediately.

At the same time, Snake Eye's spaceship began to fight back.

A small cabin fell off the spaceship, no, it should be a small spaceship.

The structure of the small spaceship is simple and rough.

Except for a cabin that couldn't be smaller.The remaining parts are divided into three sections, a huge vector jet engine, a huge laser cannon, and a huge super capacitor.

After detaching from the main spacecraft, the small spacecraft made a turn in space, began to accelerate continuously, and rushed towards the Nozomi with a nearly straight trajectory.

The main control brain of Hope issued a prompt: "No. 2 target has been found, and the relative speed is 287KM per second.The opponent's main gun is expected to have a range of more than 5000km, and it is expected to enter the firefighting distance after 165 seconds. '

Immediately afterwards, Snake Eyes sneered from the public channel: "Little Rabbit, the Rabbit Hunter is here!"

(End of this chapter)