The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 259 The first battle in space
Lin Yi had already known about the contact from the opponent's home planet through the "ghost" placed inside the scientific research ship - there was indeed no support from the mother civilization behind the opponent's back. In fact, judging from the performance of the two warships in orbit, the attack Those who destroyed their mother civilization were probably internal forces, and they were intent on killing people and silencing them.

In this way, the initiative lies in Lin Yi's hands - he hopes to achieve deeper cooperation with the other party, or to unilaterally squeeze the remaining value of the other party.

Even if a complete Ezki battleship is obtained for reverse engineering, due to the completely different technical systems, the final reverse engineering may still take some time, but now, Lin Yi probably does not have much time to conduct reverse engineering.

If you want to speed up the process, the best way is to use the existing resources in the other party's research ship to speed up the reverse engineering, such as ready-made technical information and scientific researchers who may be involved in this area.

But before that, now that the enemy and friend have been identified and there is no need to worry, there are still some things that should be done.

"Final notice, fleet in orbit, please explain your purpose, otherwise we will treat it as a declaration of war and fight back."

Large radio equipment emits signals in the universal band of the Ezki civilization, not only from Lin Yi's biological radio wave transmitting device, but also from the repaired radio communication devices on the Ezki scientific research ships and battleships.

As expected, there was still no response. The other party ignored Lin Yi's repeated calls and was still floating quietly in the earth's orbit. If the thermal radiation signal was not as conspicuous in the infrared band as a bright light in the dark night, it would have seemed like a few harmless small satellites.

On the ground, a large number of Cornerstone series biological launch vehicles have completed the final preparations. The space biological clusters originally located in the asteroid belt have also crossed the orbit of Mars. On the surface of Mars, a large number of ultra-large electromagnetic acceleration orbits have also been erected. Everything is ready. Ready.

After many calls to no avail, on the ground, a biological launch vehicle carrying a nuclear fission warhead, or a biological ballistic missile, took the lead in igniting, just like the scene when Cornerstone One took off - only this time, there were more missiles. The crew of the battleship Ziggy crash-landed as spectators.

A large number of Cornerstone series biological launch vehicles trailed across the sky, and above the orbit, the two Ezki warships that mutinied for unknown reasons finally couldn't sit still. The thermal radiation suddenly increased, and the hot propellant was sprayed from the nozzles. out, pushing the ship body to change its orbit.

The attack is roughly divided into two batches. The first batch is composed of Cornerstone Type 1, which is smaller in size and has lower thrust. It needs to be accelerated by the gravitational slingshot of the planet's rotation. It is launched in large numbers near the equator for the first wave of testing.

With such an acceleration method, the opponent must have the means to intercept it. Lin Yi does not expect to destroy the opponent with this wave of attacks. This is more of a test and consumption of the opponent's active defense means to help the real attack method. That is the second batch of attacks.

The second batch is a relatively small number of Cornerstone II heavy-lift launch vehicles, but only relatively speaking. These heavy-duty launch vehicles that once shouldered the mission of a one-way ticket to Mars have been improved. At this time, due to the change of mission, there is no need to use a gravitational slingshot to accelerate. Instead, they can directly lift off simply and crudely, and fly with great force.

They still retain a multi-stage design, but the last stage accommodates multiple smaller warheads, similar to later-generation sub-guided warhead technology, further enhancing the ability to break through enemy interception. On the ground, within the field of view of the large-scale biological astronomical telescope structures that guide these biological ballistic missiles, at the end of the enemy ship's hull, a structure that seemed to be specially used to dissipate heat suddenly erupted with a dazzling thermal radiation signal. Then, a corner stone One type exploded without warning and turned into a ball of fire.

Immediately, the thermal radiation signal on the heat dissipation structure became more intense, and bursting fireballs appeared one after another - these were probably directed energy weapons on the enemy ships, that is, laser or heat ray weapons intercepting approaching missiles.

Since space is close to a vacuum, there are no conditions for Tyndall effect scattering, and the light path of laser or ray weapons is invisible. Due to the high concentration of laser energy, only at the target's angle can you see a point that is so dazzling that it almost overwhelms the stars in the sky.

From other angles, what can be seen is that the output power of the heat dissipation structure suddenly surges, and then the target explodes without warning, as if killing people invisible. Only the intercepted Cornerstone Type 1 itself saw the death light.

The heat dissipation structure emits astonishing and dazzling infrared heat radiation, and the number of bursting fireballs gradually increases. There are also a large number of physical projectiles mixed in the directed energy weapons, which seem to be the shipboard version of the large rotary tube electromagnetic gun, which is splashing out. An astonishing number of barrages assist in interception.

But, at the same time, bright spots streaked across the sky, and the two enemy ships seemed to have discovered something. The fiery propellant spurted out, pushing the huge ship body to change its orbit, trying to avoid the attacks of these bright spots.

The dense barrage still made it unable to dodge. After a round of shooting, the hull of an enemy ship immediately burst into a ball of sparks. Although there is no medium for sound transmission in the vacuum, the flying debris can still directly reflect the blow. The destructive power is strong.

Between Mars and the Earth's orbit, the space creature's heat sink emits a dazzling thermal radiation signal. Just now, it was a salvo fired by a large-caliber electromagnetic orbital cannon that caused this killing.

The enemy ship's hull armor was not indestructible, but it was harder than expected. This round of bombardment did not fully achieve the effect Lin Yi expected, but it also gained valuable opportunities for other attack structures in orbit.

At this time, the opponent also turned the bow of the ship, aimed at the cluster of space creatures, and launched a counterattack - an astonishing heat radiation signal was emitted, and then, the body of a space creature burst open, and the internal flesh and blood tissue splashed out. A mass exploded in the void.

That seemed to be the opponent's main weapon. It killed a space creature with just one blow. With the energy output of the nuclear fission reactor currently used by space creatures, even if it does not rely on boiling water and has a stronger energy utilization efficiency, it is It is absolutely impossible to launch such a powerful attack.

The gap in combat effectiveness caused by the gap between fission and fusion energy is thus intuitively revealed. But the number of space creatures is far greater than that of the opponent, and such a main weapon must have its limitations - no matter what, the battle strength is thousands to two, and the advantage, no matter what, is on Lin Yi's side.

(End of this chapter)