The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 260 Formal Cooperation
The remaining space creatures launched another salvo, and a large number of projectiles passed through the bright spots and flew towards the two enemy ships in Earth orbit.

Compared with directed energy weapons launched at the speed of light, the projectile speed of electromagnetic weapons is relatively slow, which is a fatal disadvantage on astronomical scales at astonishing distances. A bright spot flashed across, and the opponent quickly changed its trajectory. A round of artillery fire failed to hit.

Due to the characteristics of directed energy weapons, the huge energy output array can be located in other parts of the ship body. The turret structure only needs to accommodate the focusing structure part. Therefore, the opponent's main weapon does not seem to be installed on the central axis of the ship, but is located on a specially structured spherical turret on the bow.

This also caused the enemy ship's attack to not stop. After a period of cooling, another directed energy weapon was fired out, causing a shocking burn mark on the body of another space creature.

The defensive structure of the space creature played a certain role in the design of directed energy weapons. The previous one was probably burned through the shell by the opponent's directed energy weapon and hit the core component of the reactor, causing it to explode.

While the battle was fierce here, on the earth side, a large number of Cornerstone series launch vehicles also used the time bought by the space creatures to face the surging close firepower and launched a charge towards the enemy ships above.

The large amount of high-temperature plasma produced by nuclear fusion reactions is a natural propulsion medium. Warships with fusion reactors as the core no longer need to be careful and save every gram of working medium as much as possible. This also makes kinetic energy weapons outside the central axis possible.

The electromagnetic surface defense system sprayed ferocious barrage, and the precise directed energy point defense system was mixed in, intercepting the approaching Cornerstone series launch vehicles. But what they are facing is a large number of Cornerstone series biological rockets created by integrating almost the entire earth's resources. Naturally, it is difficult to completely intercept them with just two battleships.

The separately guided warheads carried by the Cornerstone Type II split apart and attacked the enemy ship from all directions. Finally, under the double attack, a warhead broke through the interception of the numerous close defense systems and approached one of the enemy ships. The position of the ship.

A blazing fireball like a small sun bloomed in the space, engulfing the enemy ship entirely. In the firelight, other cornerstone series nearby, as well as another enemy ship, were all extremely conspicuous.

In space, the lethality of the shock waves generated by explosions is greatly weakened, but this does not mean that the lethality of nuclear bombs is weakened. Without the reduction of the atmosphere, the high-energy rays and high-temperature plasma it releases can be released without reservation, causing continuous horrific damage.

When the ray energy level reaches a certain level, it is no longer as simple as radiation, but violent. The x-ray thermal radiation produced by an effect called black body radiation is enough to evaporate everything within the range.

Although it is only the most primitive target-type fission bomb, its power cannot be underestimated - a thin layer of the battleship's shell is instantly vaporized, as if high-energy explosives are wrapped on the entire surface of the ship and detonated. Immediately, this part erupted together with high-temperature plasma, forming a shock wave inside the shell, causing horrific damage.

In a sense, a nuclear explosion in space is equivalent to a short-range but all-round directed energy weapon attack with no blind spots. When the nuclear fireball dispersed, the outer shell of the battleship seemed to have been bombarded entirely by directed energy weapons, which was extremely miserable.

If it was carrying a fusion warhead, the enemy ship might have been completely torn apart by the shock wave generated inside the structure by now.
Without the mutual cover of cross fire, the enemy ship's close-in firepower density immediately dropped, and it became even more embarrassed when other warheads and electromagnetic artillery shells hit it. Not long after, another electromagnetic artillery shell hit the center of the shell.

Under the continuous bombardment, the defeat of these two warships was determined. Some Cornerstone II models, which were not equipped with nuclear warheads but carried normal carpet tumor structures, began to be launched, preparing to further take over the wreckage of the two battleships. In the sky, the stars that lit up from time to time gradually stopped and were replaced by a brilliant flashing light band - it was formed by the violent electromagnetic radiation impacting the planet's magnetic field. It often appeared in the two-level areas of the planet. Now, it suddenly appeared Near here.

Combined with the large number of launch vehicles launched at the same time before, it is highly likely that the other party detonated nuclear bombs in low-Earth orbit in an attempt to destroy the mutinous ships No. 114 and No. 115. A large amount of radiation generated at close range impacts the Earth-like planet without any reservation, causing such a scene.

"The enemy ships in orbit have been cleared."

While thinking about it, the strange Ezki language came out from the vocal structure of the small crustopod creature that had followed him into the battleship and was now standing on the console in front of him.

After preliminary exchanges, Warmani already understood what kind of existence the civilization he was in contact with was probably.

If we apply it to Ezki society, the other party's social structure can be said to be quite deformed. It seems that it has abandoned all concepts of "civilian" or "private" and concentrated all resources for deployment.

Although the Ezki civilization has not imagined a similar idealized society, and even had similar ideas before the Planetary Unification War, due to various force majeure, it was ultimately considered impossible to realize.

Even considering the most ideal situation, this requires amazing computing resources to achieve detailed analysis of each individual, and there is a massive amount of information that needs to be transmitted. Once there is a slightest distortion, the consequences will be disastrous. But this is almost impossible for Ezki individuals who do not think alike.

Perhaps the artificial intelligence projects in the past could achieve this goal, but now, the Ezki civilization, at least the main civilization on the home planet, may no longer be able to see that day.

But the other party has achieved this somehow. The entire society, or cluster, is like a sophisticated machine, driven and operated by a special algorithm. This has also made the other party's social operation efficiency and resource utilization reach an astonishing level. Degree.

"Now, can we talk about formal cooperation?"

But all this is not important now - Warmani still asked the question he was most concerned about, that is, further cooperation between the two parties - the exploration fleet needs the help of the other party to complete the purpose of rebuilding civilization. This is a fact.

It was completely impossible to expect the other party to unilaterally lend a helping hand to help the unknown Ezki Exploration Fleet, but through some details, he had been able to determine that the other party's technical level was not as high as imagined - Exploration Fleet In his hands, he also holds a bargaining chip that the other party cannot refuse.

(End of this chapter)