The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

The probes of the scout ship determined the exact coordinates of the enemy, and then the ten Hells Angels of the Third Fleet adjusted their direction and fired their thrusters.They turned into a ray of light, and appeared around the enemy in the blink of an eye—high-precision superluminal navigation technology, and the leap of 300 astronomical units is only [-] meters away. If it is an ordinary civilization, it must have lost its fighting spirit at this moment Bar.

But the opponents were collectors with locked morale, and they immediately sped up and wanted to use the emergency super-light speed to distance themselves and re-enter their bombardment positions.But several kilometers away—the farthest being less than ten kilometers away—the main guns on the side of the Hell's Angels have already been lit.For a battleship with a long axis of [-] kilometers, this distance is equivalent to putting the main gun on the back of the head.

The dense gas cloud was once again illuminated by dazzling pulse lasers, and the beam cannons fired from the side of the Hells Angels made them look like they had spread out huge wings of light, and the devastating wings of light pierced deeply like blades. Into the engine departments of six Collector ships.Because of the relative speed, the Hell's Angels only got one shooting window, and the two sides sailed staggered. Before they drove far, a small pillar of fire was immediately sprayed out from the center of the Collector battleship.

It is said to be small, but it is also a plasma stream with a length of more than 200 meters. They are ejected from the large hole that was just created with surging momentum, mixed with a large number of semi-molten metal fragments.Following this round of internal explosions, even though they still maintained their complete shape, they were unable to continue fighting—the golden light flashing in the bow shaft gun immediately went out, and the whole ship drifted forward in a whirl.

"The engine of the enemy ship is stopped! The energy response of the main gun will reach the lowest point!" The analyst shouted, "The internal energy response still exists, and there are a lot of life responses!"

"Let the marines board the ship. We want these ships. The biological samples of the collectors must be kept, preferably alive."

【clear! 】

High-precision super-light-speed navigation technology, powerful naval guns, and extremely powerful ship-based marines—everyone has these things, but as the saying goes, there is no first thing in writing, and there is no second in military. high and low.

Seeing the Tiaobang torpedo crashing into these 'space hulks' one by one, Liu Lizi asked:

"Why do they come to join in the fun?"

"The collectors are also from the reaper faction, and it's not hard to imagine that they will act together. They really took out all their wealth..." Oregana raised the corners of her mouth, and her eyes drifted to the one who was still slowly crawling towards The 'overlord' of mass repeaters.

The guy crawling towards the mass accelerator looks like a DIO who is going all out to drill into the sewer after being hammered to the head by a small fist. Judging from the energy response that can be gradually detected, it is releasing the module and igniting the thrusters at the same time. The signal lights gradually came on.It was sure that the enemy's attention was on the other ships, so it planned to go all out and charge the star gate here.

Even in the long years, the reapers obviously have not seen the art of the clone driver blocking the door - all the door blocking battles that occurred in the long cycle of harvesting and the ten-year door blocking war in the [Dawn] server It is still unknown which side is more, after all, this kind of weird battle that is too targeted is generally really impossible to fight.

She watched the 'overlord' gradually accelerate and turned into a meteor approaching the mass repeater, but she didn't do anything, just turned on the communicator:

"Those behind the door get ready, let the Reapers learn."

【Good~】

Six minutes later, Oregana arrived at the other side of the mass repeater on the battle barge 'Frozen Tuna'.

The mechanical squid has been sliced, and the squid tendrils are scattered in the surrounding airspace. There are scorching metal fragments everywhere. There are several large holes in its body. Fry over.Thousands of kilometers away, a row of tornado-class battlecruisers lined up neatly, and the communication channel was filled with an atmosphere of joy and satisfaction.

Although so many people hit one KM, it was so refreshing—this is the essence of blocking the door.As soon as the opposite side passed the door and just landed, a shell hit him head-to-head while still in a daze. The alarm and attack came at the same time. Even the Reapers could not resist such a surprise attack.

【Boss, we've got the situation under control. 】The commander of the ambush fleet said loudly 【After the enemy ship lost its ability to move, we stopped the attack according to the instructions. As you can see, there should be something left here. 】

"Good job." Oregana raised the corners of her mouth in satisfaction, "Where is the planet Eros?"

[This is No.16 Marine Squadron, and I am Commander Karno. 】Another commander immediately replied 【We have completed the suppression - but in fact there are no enemies here, only relics.Vegetative growth covers the surface of the city, and there are many... what appear to be remains, no signs of life, no energy response, I judge the technicians can take over.There should be a lot to investigate here. 】

"Well, notify the technical department."

So far, the challenge in combat has not been the trouble of fighting with the God's Castle.As long as this 'star gate' is blocked, we must win. After all, the strength of the Reapers in the galaxy is still too weak. What can they do with only such a small number of warships?This victory completely blocked the idea of ​​Saren and the Overlord using the super-large repeater of the Citadel to recall the Reapers, which also extended the time for the Reapers' army to enter this world for at least three years.

"Now we want to understand why the protagonist team in games like Mass Effect usually have a maneuverable boat in their hands."

"Oh? Is there anything important?"

"Because if the protagonist is given a dreadnought, it will definitely become like this." The skullmaker put on his helmet, boarded the shuttle, pointed to the scattered 'Overlord' outside, and patted Liuli "Let's put an end to Overlord."

"Let's go."

The temperature in the cabin was not low, but it was completely dark. The only lighting that could be called was the light of the stars coming in from outside, and the orange light was still shining on the torn parts of the hull.It can be seen that a few minutes ago, the heat generated by the shelling had swept through the interior of the hull, softened the compartments, and tore apart various ducts and walls. Nothing was left where the heat waves and shocks swept past.

Through the collapsed ceiling, Oregana saw the fractured pipe cables in the vast space above, and she could clearly feel a strange feeling—that is, the ship was still alive, even though it was covered in scars, but It still has life.That's not data, but some kind of soul still exists somewhere on this ship.It is looking at itself through the wall, through every cable, and every interface, and there are even vague whispers in its ears.

There was a lot of spiritual pollution and hints mixed in that fragmentary language, and the sensor showed that it was not a sound—after all, there was no airtightness here—where did the sound come from—it was a 'feeling' created by electromagnetic effects.Judging from the data, this should be a part of 'education'. The influence of this frequency on the human brain is subtle. It is not surprising that the mind will be confused after being exposed to this kind of thing for a long time.

In addition to this kind of thing done with conventional technology, there is a faint but obvious spiritual response here.The subtle psychic energy tried to slowly penetrate into the soul of every intelligent creature that entered the range.Even if the psychic energy itself is weak, as long as the link is established, the huge difference in the intensity of consciousness between the two sides will instantly reduce the victim to the overlord's slave, and the matriarch Benezia should have turned over like this.

But for a group of Tartarus marines who are full of tough psychology points, equipped with psionic defense equipment, and have no external connections at all, and have set up at least six mental safety sandboxes... the mental pressure caused is not even as good as When I visited the Animal Husbandry Academy of the Naval Academy, I was attacked by a pelican raised by students. That ghost thing really opened its mouth and bit people's heads, and it once scared many people.

Liu Lizi traced the initial point of energy emission through the detection equipment, and the marines followed this 'line' all the way to find it. They didn't encounter any attacks along the way, but they saw many dead bodies—Krogan, There are also geth and collectors.Most of the bodies were lying in the hallway, apparently the crews were on their way to combat positions when the attack came.

And then here they were charred, and many of the bodies were left with nothing but powder, and their dying image was only a dull black shadow on the wall.

When walking into the final hall, Liu Lizi saw a charred corpse on the chair in front of the console, and the protective clothing had been completely integrated with the body.And at the position of the head, it can be seen that there is molten metal around the mouth, which is exactly the same as the position of the implant on Saren's face.She hurriedly stepped forward to take samples and took photos as evidence. After finishing all this, she suddenly raised her head and couldn't help but gasp.

A large hole had been torn in the ceiling here, and through the hole one could see the layers of armor plates outside, which had been melted through like the floor of Third New Tokyo City shot by the Angel of Power.The gushing metal vapor hit the thing in the center of this wide room at a terrifying speed—an extremely huge metal skeleton with a height of more than 50 meters.It is the heart of this 'Overlord', a true 'Reaper'.

This is really the way the harvesters 'preserve the species'. After harvesting a civilization, they will create a new harvester based on this species.In the original work, Shepard has seen the half-made human reaper—that is a huge mechanical skeleton. When it was discovered, the collector was taking tens of thousands of human genes that were killed. slurry into it.At that time, Shepard decisively used the individual weapon in his hand to destroy the human reaper with a very low degree of completion.

And now it is the 1400mm naval gun that completes this step.

Right now, the skeleton is no longer visible. The aftermath of the external shelling that destroyed the armor and structure of the hull has already destroyed more than half of it. Its parts are scattered all over the room, and the most conspicuous of them is a belt. Decorated with patterns, there are sealed spheres about three stories high.This sphere should have been protected by heavy armor before and connected to other equipment of the same structure. This can be seen from the scattered cables and smashed similar spheres. Maybe there were five or six such spheres before. , but now this is the only complete one left.

Even if it is damaged to this extent, it is still alive, and the ripples of psionic energy and thinking are still clearly visible today.

Liu Lizi pointed the instrument in her hand, then nodded to Oregana, and several people leaned over cautiously.

At this moment, a strong impact erupted centered on the sphere, the marines froze, and sparks flew under their feet—it was like a wall hitting them head-on, if the magnetic boots under their feet were not working normally Work will definitely be thrown to the ground.Even with all the equipment working, someone is still being pushed back a step or two.

The impact only lasted for a moment, and immediately disappeared without a trace, as if he lost his strength.

"...Did you feel it?"

"How can you not feel it, it's like being punched in the face..."

The whisper in the ear intensified, and the blue light flowed on the surface of the sealed sphere, followed by the second wave of impact.But everyone was prepared for this round, and it was just a shake.

"Well!"

"It's really interesting...it's not a mass effect field." Oregana licked her tongue, she snorted, and had an idea in her mind, "This is a psionic impact, and there are living wetware tissues in it."

Saying so, she unfolded her arm armor with a bang, and pulled out the Nekt blades that she hadn't used before. There were five in total. She shook her hand and threw one to everyone next to her.

Liu Lizi received the dagger with a puzzled expression on his face:

"Boss?"

The Blade of Nekt is a knife for saving people, but it is also a quite terrifying "magic blade" - to preserve consciousness, from another perspective, it is to extract the soul and seal it. If you change the background of the fantasy world, this thing It is definitely something that only the most evil necromancer will use.Moreover, a Nekt blade can store a consciousness, but when multiple Nekt blades act on a target at the same time, some less interesting things will happen.

This will lead to a disorder of consciousness. Although the memory can be preserved, it will destroy the personality data-after all... it is sucked away in different directions.But this kind of thing has never happened in the past. After all, the effect of the Nekt Blade is less than half a second. Unless it is intentional, it is absolutely impossible for this kind of accident to happen, and no one uses this thing against their own people' Deliberately' look.

"Has anyone ever thought of capturing a Reaper? It's definitely against the manual, but it's perfectly safe."

But the Reaper is not her own. Oregana is not interested in saving the "personality data" of the Reaper itself, but she is quite interested in the Reaper's memory.It seems that there is only one core of the other party's thinking left, so there will be some loss of memory data, but it is better than nothing.

That is, kill it, and take whatever it leaves behind - as the Reapers themselves have done.

Another burst of psychic energy, but this time weaker than before.Five clone warriors in heavy armor surrounded the sealed sphere, and the Necht blade in their hands touched the surface of the sphere, and the blue light beat more frequently.

"Three, two, one—"

Five Nekt blades pierced into the sphere at the same time.

Accompanied by a silent scream, the blue light on the sphere flickered violently for a few times, and then went out completely.It turned into a dark blue metal block, and then slowly and silently shattered, blending into the surrounding ruins.The whispers that had never stopped disappeared, and the surroundings were suddenly silent, returning to the way it should be in a vacuum state.

The emotion that floated out at the end was actually a trace of relief.

Oregana put away the Nector Blade, she inadvertently looked at the huge collapsed skeleton, the six eye sockets on the head were empty.It tilted its head up, as if looking up at the stars through a large hole in the ceiling.Thousands of years ago, the ancestors of this race must have looked up at the stars on the grassland of their mother planet, imagining the future above the stars.

At that time, they never imagined that their future would be like this.This metal tomb is a mass grave with an unimaginable scale. How much worse can the pain and fear contained in it be compared to the hell I have seen before?

Oregana turned her head and walked out of the hall without even looking at the specimens left by this sad race in reincarnation.

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Chapter 1205 Chapter 224: Proxian's Historical Records

catch up

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The battle of the Tartarus fleet at the repeater of 'Mu' has caused an uproar in both the Kaiser system and the Citadel Council.

Judging from the battle report released by the Ministry of Consolidation, Tartarus invested more than [-] dreadnoughts and at least [-] quasi-dreadnoughts in this battle, as well as a large number of auxiliary ships, which is more obvious than all races of the Citadel Council. All the dreadnoughts on the surface add up to more, and this is not concentrated use. After all, the fleet performing patrols and colony protection tasks in the geth-infested area is still cruising as usual...

Marathon-class heavy cruisers, Late Autumn-class heavy cruisers, Minotaur-class and Gorgon-class cruisers, Kirov-class missile battleships, and Dominix-class battleships and Nestor-class battleships... These warships with different styles are all With good combat effectiveness, coupled with the inevitable numerical advantage in local battlefields, they have achieved exceptionally good results in the battle against the geth.At the same time, it also opened the eyes of the military of the Citadel race, as well as any organization in the Jieshen galaxy.

Especially those warships of the UNSC...

Everyone knows that the main guns of dreadnoughts have amazing power. These main guns with a length of more than 800 meters can fire [-] kilograms of metal blocks at a speed of [-] kilometers per second, which is amazing.The Citadel's intelligence team observed the battle after noticing that the UNSC warships were using the same combat method, that is, bombarding with mass-accelerating cannons arranged along the central axis.

It turned out that the shells fired by these guys started at least [-] tons... As for the rate of fire, I don't know, because there is no need to fire a second round to fight the geth dreadnoughts.I got up, it took a second, what can I say? The UNSC has always adopted this method of combat, even when fighting the Covenant, but the problem is that the Covenant warships generally have a very strong shield, and this shield can usually withstand one MAC cannon, and the next one can be completely broken. Warships, but UNSC's main guns can't be recharged fast enough, so they have always been at a disadvantage—except for the one-button three-second human cannon of the Pillar of Autumn Wind.

But the first time I saw it was really bluffing, it had reached the point of being frightened.To be precise, there are no geth-infested areas anymore.Many Geth fleets have been observed retreating to the God of God galaxy and dormant again. Whether they are retreating or planning to take a wave of soldiers to catch their breath, at least the two sides have completely disengaged now.

What's even more frightening is that this group of people has no technology related to mass effect fields, and they are born purely by high output.This made the Star Alliance judge that the power cores of the "Dreadnought Class" (Castle Classification) warships of the two sides are at least three generations behind. Can try to further improve the output.

'It's like humans growing up on the earth are more powerful than those on the moon, they need to fight gravity, so they have stronger muscles. 'The technician explained to the generals 'For spaceships, the mass effect field is really convenient...'

'We should invest money in redesigning and manufacturing our warships.When the battleship Dreadnought was launched, all the warships in the world became obsolete overnight - and now it is not only us who are aware of this, but also the various races of the Citadel, and even the Batarians of the World God Galaxy They will inevitably design their new warships, and the power structure of the entire galaxy may undergo tremendous changes in the next few years... It mainly depends on whose new ships are built first. '

This statement was accepted, and the Star Federation's parliament and the council members behind it quickly passed the relevant bills.The arms race that has been terminated since the signing of the Fariksen Treaty has faint signs of restarting, but this time the focus is not on the number of dreadnoughts (after all, the treaty is still in effect), but on the development and use of new technologies. High-efficiency power furnaces for large ships, focusing cores for new laser weapons, and shield systems for defense against directed energy weapons are all high-priority research and development projects listed on the technology list.

But these things are not something that can be ordered with money. Breakthroughs in key technologies are either based on years, or a super European emperor is lucky to burst.At this moment of race against time, everyone's eyes are aimed at the integration department holding these technologies in their hands. If we can communicate in technical aspects, then all problems can be solved...

It's just that until now, there is no suitable channel for advanced technology communication in all aspects.But...there are a lot of channels used to hinder other people's communication.As a result, a large number of ghost agents are all busy - the Citadel and the Ministry of Integration will generally have a solution, but it is absolutely impossible to let Batary or any warlord of the God of God galaxy never have a solution to a solution!

It was at this time that Ansador's two cadres and their 'soldiers' were deployed to the Jieshen galaxy to develop the intelligence network, and there was a sudden undercurrent.

At this time, Oregana's fleet brought back a lot of unconventional things in the battle of the 'Absurd' repeater, which caused a large number of technicians and archaeologists to fall into deep thinking, and the decision of the Citadel of God Because of these ironclad evidences, the thinking at the bottom tends to be disconnected here.

The periphery of the Serpent Nebula, the dark universe.

The processed wreckage is towed by the night-class industrial ship and slowly transported to the temporary research area set up here. A large Minmatar control tower is responsible for the energy supply of the entire research facility, various warehouses, large-scale scanning facilities, and traction equipment. , and various research sites are illuminated by lights in the universe-here, where the nearest star is light-years away, the lighting has to be completely on its own.

But it is precisely because of this that the entire research facility looks even more impressive.Outside the scope of the second-level harmonic shield, the remnants of collectors, reapers, and Geth recovered on the battlefield are fixed in force field shields one by one. The lights cast sharp silhouettes on these broken metals, which seem to have A depressing feeling.

"You really... broke them all?"

Admiral Steven Hackett, the commander of Starfleet Fifth Fleet, looked out from the observation porthole above the multi-purpose barge "Mo Yu Duck", and what caught his eyes was the one fixed in mid-air A well-grilled piece of mechanical squid looks old and miserable.It reminded him of a dish from Earth - Grilled Boston Lobster...

It's weird to say that, but Reapers and geth wrecks look really reminiscent of seafood.

"That's right." Oregana nodded, "This way the victims of Star Eden can rest in peace."

Admiral Steven Hackett's shoulders trembled, and a surge of grief and indignation surged from his heart to his throat, and overflowed through the gap between his clenched teeth.He touched his lips lightly, allowing himself to evaluate—but it was not an easy task, and from then on, he couldn't calm down just thinking about it.

Admiral Steven Hackett, a highly decorated Starfleet officer, enlisted in 2152 and volunteered to join the high-risk mission to conquer other galaxies through the relay of the solar system.He was promoted to second lieutenant on Arcturus in 2156, and proved himself a year later in "First Contact".This brought him glory, status, and everything in the future.

And wary of the universe.

What is the purpose of joining the army?That is naturally to protect human beings in the universe.Admiral Hackett still remembers the day when he set off to fight the Turians. On that day, the warships assembled on Arcturus reflected the dazzling light from the stars, and seemed to be burning in the flames of truth and victory... Defeated on the battlefield, humanity narrowly escapes into a war that invites destruction.

The universe is not as safe as imagined.After that, humans joined the Citadel of God. After decades of ups and downs, they finally entered a relatively peaceful period. However, the drastic changes in Eden shattered the sense of security that had been established for a long time.Just thinking about the tragedy of Eden, the people and soldiers who died tragically, Admiral Hackett felt as if his heart was being scorched by flames.

When the alien suddenly mentioned this sentence, he couldn't help feeling a little emotional.It's not a transactional 'we regret what happened on eden', it's literally blowing up that battleship to scrap metal and hanging it in the universe azure, burning the murderer to a coke that shatters at the touch .With the emotion in her words, you can feel that she really has those who died in her heart.

Why do aliens care so much about human life and death?Is it because they have the same appearance as humans?