The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

But Nilus did not back down because of Shepard's change of attitude:

"Your people are still new here, Shepard. The galaxy is a dangerous place." He asked deliberately, as if testing something. "Is the Federation ready?"

Sensing the increasingly tense atmosphere, Captain David Anderson hurriedly said:

"I think it's time to tell the major what we're here for."

This distracted Nilus, and he followed the captain's words:

"This mission is more than a simple sea trial."

"...I think so." This is obvious—although she thought so in her heart, Shepard was not stupid enough to say this in front of her boss, "What is the specific task?"

"We're going to Eden to receive the goods secretly, so we need to use the stealth system."

"That must be something very...important."

The captain nodded solemnly:

"The scientific expedition team on the Eden planet found a beacon in the recent excavation, which is a Prothean artifact."

Shepard's eyes widened.

It is known that the Protheans died out 5 years ago, but their legacy lives on.Digging out Prothean artifacts is a big deal. The last time humans discovered similar objects, human technology leaped forward by at least two centuries.

No wonder there was such a big battle, but... his peripheral vision unconsciously drifted over to Nilus——then why is the ghost of the God's Castle Council here?Eden Star is a human colony, and the human scientific expedition team excavated on it. Why does it look like they are going to hand over the excavated things?

Captain Anderson said as if to explain:

"The equipment on Star Eden can't handle this kind of thing. We need to bring the beacon back to the Citadel for detailed research."

"The castle?"

It is obvious that human beings have the ability to study Prothean products - in 2148, humans discovered the Prometheus ruins on the Prometheus Plain of Mars, and found the "Charon" mass relay based on deciphered data the following year Machines, but what about other old civilizations?They set foot on the universe thousands of years or even earlier, but what is the basis of the long voyage?Isn't it still a quality repeater?

"Obviously, Major. This is not just for the benefit of humans themselves. This discovery will affect all races in the council world." Nilus added, the expression of regret on the turian face "you humans Your reputation is not very good, some races think you are selfish and elusive, too solitary, and even a bit dangerous..."

These words do not represent Neilus' personal opinion, or in other words, ghost agents should not express personal opinions during missions, because they act on behalf of the Council of God's Castle.For the emerging race of humans, Nilus actually has some good feelings and sympathy-humans are developing rapidly, ambitious, and race against time, which makes many races hostile to humans, but on the other hand, humans are technologically backward but developing A race with a strong will, they are full of hope and vitality, but this kind of civilization with a strong will to develop will always give people an aggressive feeling.

They are entitled to stand tall, and a proper standing will help ensure that humans do not become a threat.Many people don't realize this, but fortunately, some people have noticed that they are actively promoting the status of human beings in the Council of God's Citadel. This is another task I came here to judge whether John Shepard can join Ghost Agent, It makes a lot of sense to have humans join Ghost.

Judging from the conversation just now, Shepard knows how to restrain his emotions, which is a good thing.

"..."

"Joint research on beacons will promote our relationship with the council, and we also need their technological advantages." Captain Anderson continued, "They understand Prothean better than we do."

In other words, is it to express human kindness to other races?Shepard could understand the meaning of the above, but he didn't think it would necessarily work.As a soldier, I probably shouldn't think too much about this, I just need to execute orders.

"The goal of my trip is not entirely the beacon, Shepard." Seeing this, Nilus winked at Captain Anderson.

The captain immediately understood:

"Nerus wants to see if you can..."

But before the words fell, Joker's eager voice sounded:

【captain!there is a problem! 】

"What's wrong, Joker?"

【It's a signal from the Eden star, sir, you'd better have a look. 】

In an instant, the atmosphere in the captain's room froze to freezing point.

It was a distress call, and the picture came from a soldier's head camera.In the violent shaking and noise, you can see human soldiers who are constantly shooting, vague enemies, and a huge monster with a thick mechanical arm-it seems to be a space ship, which will only be bigger than the dreadnought ship , it has overwhelming firepower and protection capabilities on the ground, and the red light beam shot from the tip of the robotic arm can turn the fortifications, bunkers, and vehicles into ashes with just one sweep.How could a warship of this size land on land?

[We are under attack!The troops suffered heavy casualties!repeat!The casualties were heavy!They appeared suddenly...we need to...]

The call of the soldiers echoed on the comm - but it seemed that it was too late, this was not a real-time report just now, but a looping content in the form of a distress signal, and everyone on the screen is probably dead now .It was a terrible attack, and Eden didn't even have time to communicate over long distances to call for help.

What is the enemy?What is their purpose?There are no special resources on Eden, and humans haven't been hostile to any race recently. The only thing that may be related to the attack is... the Prothean relic.

The captain frowned:

"Report the situation."

[We are about ten and seven minutes away from the target, Colonel, and there is... There are no other Star Alliance ships nearby, and there are a lot of debris in orbit. 】

"Stop the communication immediately, and drive us there, at a fast speed, and pay attention to concealment." He lowered his voice, "This mission has just become tricky."

Prothean relics are very important and dangerous things, because no one knows what's inside. It doesn't matter if it's just an ultra-ancient cesium map, but what if it's a blueprint for a Prothean weapon?What dire consequences would that fall into the hands of unknown persons?And this unknown person unscrupulously launched a brazen attack on a sovereign colony...

No matter what, the relic must be secured, and I only hope there is still time.

The three exchanged glances, and John Shepard was the first to speak:

"A small commando team can move quickly and covertly, so we have a better chance of securing the beacon."

There is nothing to hesitate, and no time to hesitate.The Normandie cut into the planet's atmosphere at a slight angle—she hid her thermal response with the mass of descending starship wreckage, dropping altitude like a falling leaf.In normal times, the Normandy could directly land and drop off the marines at the excavation site that was still fighting, but it couldn't at this time——

The unidentified dreadnought ship is more than 50 kilometers away from the coastline. If it is discovered by rash action, the fragile hull of the Normandy will not be able to withstand the opponent's firepower.And not long ago, an entire fleet was destroyed by it.

Therefore, Joker chose to land on a hillside away from the excavation site——

[Someone dug a lot of big holes here, Captain.The unidentified dreadnought at sea is silent...it's really big.Another dreadnought crashed there off the west coast, I've never seen anything like it. 】

"Don't worry about the wreckage." Captain Anderson stood in the hangar and said to Shepard who was ready to go, "Your team opened the way with firepower and quickly arrived at the excavation site to secure the beacon."

"What about the survivors?"

"Saving the survivors is a secondary task, the beacon is the primary goal."

"……clear!"

[Approaching Airborne Point No. [-]... Wait!captain!A fleet is approaching! 】The moment the Normandy lowered and the hangar door opened, Joker's voice suddenly increased by an octave, with fear in his voice【Comparison of ship types... none of them match! 】

There is no need for any electronic equipment to scan. Shepard, who jumped out of the hatch just now, just looked up and saw a series of light circles produced when the air fleet ended the transition.More than twenty flashes, which is no small scale.

"Fast! We don't have much time!"

The fire team rushed forward, and the turian named Nilus had already rushed out first. Ghost agents are good at stealth operations, and he will ensure all kinds of information in front.But before he had run past the first col, a series of flashes appeared in the sky.It was a blazing light, and the false dawn cast a sharp shadow on the sea, followed by a suddenly expanding fireball and a mushroom cloud rising into the sky.

One shot after another, the sea surface was boiled by the rising flames, and the bursting water vapor tore the entire space with the fiery impact.The originally tall and majestic unknown dreadnought ship was like a flat boat under the cover of this attack—whether it was traumatized or not, but at least it now looks rickety and embarrassed.

"That's..." Shepard swallowed, "Nuclear warhead?"

Following the Krogan Heresy, the Citadel Council's response to the devastation caused by the war and its efforts to prevent the Council from falling into brutal warfare was the signing of a political treaty known as the Citadel Pact.The treaty stipulates weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which will cause great changes in the planetary environment, and prohibits the use of WMD on "garden planets" similar to the earth, because if a habitable planet is destroyed, it will be destroyed in several days. It will not recover for millions of years.

The treaty classifies weapons of mass destruction by hazard.Level [-] is the greatest threat to interstellar peace.Level [-]: Large kinetic impactors, such as meteor showers and deorbited space stations.

The second level is uncontrolled self-replicating weapons, such as nano-devices, bacteria and viruses, etc.

The third level is large explosive weapons, such as nuclear warheads and anti-matter weapons.

Level [-] are alien species introduced deliberately to crowd out species essential to the local ecosystem.

Although everyone understands that a bomb that blows out a large crater is not considered a WMD, but a nuclear winter is, but in order to avoid suspicion, no civilization that has signed this treaty is willing to do such a thing that may cause sanctions.

What is the origin of this fleet?He watched the unidentified dreadnought leave the sea and rise rapidly, and the sound of the nuclear warhead explosion also arrived at this moment, thunderous explosions and shock waves—even after such a long distance, when the shock waves arrived, everyone still seemed to be on their chests. He was hit by a punch and was hammered to the ground, and his ears were filled with the roar of a splitting headache.

Before people recovered from the shock, the communication came again——

[Antimatter reaction detected!That fleet is bombarding the big robot squid that just flew up with antimatter bombardment! 】

"?!"

Do you have to go over everything that is not allowed in the contract? !Wouldn't they still have movable space stations, a large number of nanomachines, and alien species that can destroy the ecology?

But it was too late to think about it at this moment. Just after the shock wave ended, Shepard led people to rush up, and just after rushing through the col, he saw two 'flashlight' heads shooting uninterruptedly to kill a man in white armor. Human soldiers crouch behind stones.He recognized the flashlight head:

"That's...geth?!"

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The Very Leopard fired the second round of bombardment. Watching the fireball explode next to the flagship, and the rising water mist covered its shape, Oregana showed a satisfied expression:

"Perfect attack. Continue to output, don't give it a chance to breathe!"

Nuclear core bombs are not as powerful as fusion bombs, so they are suitable for use on such occasions. The heat waves and shock waves caused by their close-range explosions violently hit the enemy flagship, which is the shell of the Reaper Overlord—— As previously predicted, the other party could not completely withstand the impact, and it looked like a submarine that had been attacked by a depth charge.

But it is not an aircraft carrier after all, but a harvester dreadnought ship with surging power and advanced technology.It went through the second round of explosions, and climbed upwards with all its strength with terrifying heat. Along the way, the nuclear warheads exploded around it. Even if there was no direct hit, the heat and impact were still drawn on it like a big ear scraper.

While enjoying the fun of shooting, Liu Lizi said:

"Boss, after we checked the communication system, we found that the name of this planet is Eden Star." She said, "It is one of the first cosmic colonies opened up by humans in this world..."

This is interesting.

Oregana smiled with the corner of her mouth crooked—a Reaper dreadnought attacked the Eden star. This plot is the beginning of the first part of Mass Effect.At that time, attracted by the Prothean beacon, Saren, the ghost agent betrayed by the Jimbocho Council, took this battleship to raid the Eden star, and officially began to implement his grand plan—that is, the way to bring the Reapers into the galaxy. Open up again, so that the collection of pigeons once every 5 years can start again.

In other words...

"Interesting. Then if we destroy that flagship, there is at least a 1% chance that we will get through "Mass Effect [-]" in the first episode, go ahead and kill it! Prepare to induce, enter the flagship!"

"It will take about two hours for the flagship transition, and now we can only rely on ourselves."

"Tsk, then go all out and sharpen your claws first." She stood up. "That's right! There is also an airborne pod ready, come two teams!"

"What are you going to do?"

"We remember a Prothean relic here. Scan what looks like an excavation site, and drop us. Another squad joins our 'Robinsons' on the beach over there."

"During the artillery battle?!"

"We'll think of a way after throwing it away, and we'll talk about it after throwing it away."

The moment the airdrop pod flew out, the Reaper Overlord-class dreadnought had just left the atmosphere—it found itself in an ambush almost immediately.Twenty Poseidon-class strategic cruisers launched fierce bombardment from a distance of [-] kilometers. Just as it wanted to evade, the mechanical arm in front of the hull was hit by a series of green lights.The repulsive force provided by the mass effect field failed to bounce them away, and the powerful energy released by the annihilation reaction still exploded uncontrollably, causing fragments to splash everywhere for a while.

A large piece of armor plate broke away from the main body in the explosion, and floated away without a sound.But its retaliation is also extremely enthusiastic——

The red light at the end of the mechanical arm flickered one after another, and each shot accurately hit the cruiser that was maneuvering evasively, but it was supposed to be invincible, and the shelling that could even penetrate the armor of the dreadnought fell short of the escort of the Poseidon-class strategic cruiser. The former is defeated and returned.The armor was shattered, and large pieces of fragments were detached from the hull in a semi-molten state. As the battleship advanced, it was scattered in the universe, and the big hole that was blown out was quickly blocked by the nano-injector at full strength. up.

But soon, the opponent changed its tactics—it originally thought that it could sink it with one blow, so it used this rain and dew uniform shooting method. After realizing that this was ineffective, it immediately started a targeted attack.Using eight secondary guns to aim at a ship and shoot continuously, it is like unfolding a cage to continuously compress the dynamic space. If you want to get out of this death cage, you must resist several times. The Poseidon class that has been hit like this must leave the battlefield. Wait until the armor has repaired itself to the hole before continuing to fight.During this process, the other Seagods poured all their firepower towards the Overlord class, but again, as time went by, the visible damage caused became lower and lower.

There is no other reason, the opponent's reaction is very flexible - when its own armor is melted, evaporated, and blown away, it immediately uses the mass effect field to pull it back, instead of pasting it on the body again, it uses a multi-layer film Shaped shapes surround it.Next, the antimatter beam fired by the Poseidon team lost its binding field on the first layer of 'metal film', and was blown on the second layer in the form of a jet, and on the third layer, a powerful annihilation reaction occurred in a place far away from the battleship. place.Although each explosion will destroy the membrane protection around the impact point, it still minimizes the damage to the body.

This is a defense method that was never mentioned in the original work. The opponent made such a reaction immediately after knowing our attack mode, which shows that the opponent's intelligence and host computing power are indeed far beyond the level of ordinary AI.But until now, we still have the advantage - if the opponent can't sink a Poseidon in an instant and let the Poseidon start the jump engine, then the ship that has completed the emergency repair work will be able to use a half-new ship in a short time. The appearance reappeared. Although there is no way to repair the internal cabin, many places are in a mess, but as long as you can run and fire, you can come back and continue to fight.

Which side will be the first to fail?This question lingers in the mind of every driver.Once the opponent wants to leave, the multifunctional launcher equipped on each ship will aim at him and launch a simple jump interference probe, but is this rebound method that operates on gravity effective for warships equipped with mass effect fields? This matter, no one has guessed it yet.

In this violent firefight, two landing pods raced toward the ground, one to aid the stricken scientists, and the other—

"If Saron hasn't left the ground..."

In the violently shaking landing cabin, the Skullmaker tightly held the battle ax in his hand.Accompanied by a huge shock, she slammed open the metal gate of the landing cabin, and jumped out into the light made of flames and thick smoke.

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