The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

The reason why what is said in the teachings can seem to be realized is that it is closely related to the thousands of years of social structure of Batari. The social structure guarantees the credibility of the religion, and the religion maintains the social structure. As long as one part of it is dismantled... …Or, even with a little thought in mind, a paradox emerges.For religion, there is a paradox in the teachings that conflicts head-on with reality. If the patch cannot be fixed immediately, there will be a hopeless gap in belief immediately.

"Who has ever seen God in action?"

"……No."

No matter how beautiful the teachings are and how sure the priests are, they cannot explain the fact that 'God' has never appeared before anyone's eyes.

"The doctrine says that God is the maintainer of the universe, can create and subdue the devil, and can bless our army, making us invincible—then why did those bastards lose the battle in Skilian?" Zik Ta stood on the table and said in a loud voice, "Why do you believe it? It's just because those bastards in floral clothes who can't walk on the road told you that if you don't believe in God, you will be slaves in the next life? Save it! We are enslaved." , was forced to separate mother and child, was forced to kill his own siblings, was forced to kneel on the ground and give everything he deserved! I spurn them!"

"We deserve to be free! For our brothers and sisters, for our children and grandchildren. We have a chance now, a chance to never be the same again--but this chance cannot be seized by stupid fools, you Can you catch it?"

The eyes of the gladiators changed, these slaves were moved by him, and everyone felt a fire burning in their hearts.A sense of exaltation surrounds everyone, and there is a feeling in the dark - if he leads everyone, maybe he can really accomplish this great cause that has never been seen before or since.

"I am willing to follow you, Ziketa." The middle-aged gladiator said in a deep voice, "but what should we do? There is an army here, and what we are fighting against is the entire Batarian hegemony—even if everyone in this arena follows You, we only have 3000 people. The garrison on this planet alone is more than [-] times that of ours, not to mention there are dozens of other planets... You know, you can’t win a battle with bravery alone. With less than ten men, swords and axes cannot defeat rifles, chariots, and space battleships."

Gladiators do not believe in spiritualism, they understand the importance of 'strength'.In the ring, the heavier person has a greater advantage, and the side with the larger number in the group battle is easier to win. This is the imprint carved in the mind by pain and experience.

"Next is what I want to explain."

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When the negotiations lasted for several months, the Ministry of Consolidation completely lost patience.Within a few hours, the news that the Planetary Strike Fleet under the [-]th Company of the Fist of Tartarus had unanchored from Eden and headed for the World God Galaxy reached the ears of the Salari, and the Citadel knew the news immediately. .At that time, from the perspective of the ambassadors who participated in the negotiation and pushing during this period, it was not so much that the Ministry of Consolidation was tired of meaningless diplomatic confrontation, it was better to say that after they finished the matter they had been preparing for, Finally started to act on the bright side.

From the perspective of the Citadel, Tartarus' actions have a lot to think about.

First, the number of Overseers they sent was very small - two Hell's Angel-class battleships, six scout cruisers and heavy assault cruisers combined, one stealth scout escort, and two Decapitator-class battle barges.This kind of battle barge is equipped with heavy anti-ground weapons designed by shadow hunters on the hull of the battlecruiser. There is a lack of weapons for duels between battleships other than bombardment guns.

The heavy guillotine that can only be used for "beheading" and cannot be used on the battlefield is the best portrayal of this kind of warship.

In everyone's eyes, a fleet of this size would be unable to engage in a frontal battle with the Batarian troops, but this was exactly the effect Oregana wanted.

A small fleet rushed into the Prime system, penetrated the defense system, and carried out orbital bombing on the Prime star, destroying the important laboratories on the Prime star—this is an extremely serious act of war, and it is also a terrible provocation.If the Batary do not go all out to fight and win, as a regime established by force, it will lose the spiritual foundation they have always relied on.

[Announcement, this is the Planetary Strike Fleet of the Fist of Tartarus, please hand over the Reaper wreckage immediately and hand over the relevant researchers to us!Otherwise we will take military action against you.For the future of the Milky Way and the lives of tens of billions of Batarians, I implore your cooperation. 】

The procedures must be in place, this is not fighting pirates, if the war between civilizations is not declared, there is a possibility of being turned into a chaotic egg, and even if it is Halloween to go to someone else's house to make trouble, you have to say 'no' Trick or Treat' will do. You must say the words 'Reaper wreckage or missiles'. Whether the other party listens or not is one thing, but you have to say it.

Advance with great fanfare, issue a notice to show your legitimacy, and then drive directly into the blockade line to attract everyone's attention.

In the intelligence agency of the Salari special service team, an elderly Salari who was over 30 years old asked eagerly:

"How long before this fleet reaches Ha'shan?"

"It's estimated to take 26 hours." The young intelligence officer saluted and replied, "They didn't hide their location at all, they moved forward while sending the report!"

"26 hours? This is literally crawling on the ground for them! This is not a raid at all..." The elderly special forces commander immediately understood "They did this to... attract Batarian troops? "

"Will it be wiped out in one go?"

"No, if they were going to wipe them all out, they would have done it a long time ago. It doesn't need to be so complicated." He picked up a few black beans from the bowl in front of him and stuffed them into his mouth, chewing slowly, feeling the sweetness spread in his mouth The feeling of opening, which can make your mind clear.After a while, he opened his eyes wide, "Could it be..."

"What... what?" The young people around all focused their attention.

"In the fleet sent by Tartarus, there are the largest battle barges we have seen so far. This kind of ship is mainly used to launch troops!" How many ground troops does Shan have, but what is certain is that these ground troops are completely incomparable with those of the Consolidation Department, so they will be annihilated or suppressed. At this time, I want to drive the Tartarus Marines from their home planet , they must transfer troops from other colonial planets to support them."

There are Planetary Defense Forces on every planet, but their function is not only to fight when the planet is invaded, but also to serve as an offensive force or reinforcement.If the home planet is under severe attack, reinforcements from all over the world will inevitably rush to Ha'shan. Even if the defense is empty, they must return to the home star, because it is the center of the entire civilization, politics and economy.

This is a conspiracy, and Batari must and can only do so. They must be aiming at the flaws that Batari sent a fleet to aid the home planet.

And after revealing the flaws... It will take several months to make the layout and the high degree of secrecy can only be a plan involving a large number of people and a large scope...

Could it be that!

Everyone in the entire control room came to their senses at this moment... Is that so!

Only in this way can the Batarian hegemony that will never cooperate be completely destroyed. The newly born Batarian will definitely have a welcoming and friendly attitude towards the Consolidation Department. At the same time, this also means that the Consolidation Department has essentially won the Realm God Galaxy.From this they will gain tens of billions of supporters, which will be of great benefit to the Reaper Wars, and they obviously have more than just the Reaper Wars in their eyes.

At this moment, what are they seeing in their eyes?Is it the newborn Batari who boarded the chariot of the Consolidation Department to fight against the enemy they called the 'Dark Worm'?After all, if the dark worms hadn't directly attacked, no one in the Citadel Council would be willing to join this war except for the Star Alliance. Concentrate your strength in one place.

The Consolidation Department has invested so much resources and energy in this world, of course they want to get rewards - in various aspects, besides the market, there are also 'war resources' used to fight against the dark worms.And now, they're about to get what they want.

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Oregana leaned on the command seat inside the bridge, looked at the speeding stars captured by the external viewfinder, and took a deep breath.Although a lot of energy has been invested this time, the harvest is definitely not small-if Batari's unconscious god-making is successful and the shell is broken, then the resources invested in this world will not be in the current state at all.

Are you killing a god yourself?

Suddenly, such an idea popped up in my mind.Regarding this, Oregana just shook her head noncommittally—this may be called a great achievement, but the key point is not here at all.What I value is other things. Once the Batari slave uprising succeeds, everyone including the Ministry of Consolidation will benefit, and this 'benefit' is not just [safety]...

However, there are bound to be some people who will disappear in the process.

"Boss, up to now, the intelligence feedback shows that everything is normal." Liu Lizi wagged his tail lightly, and poured a mouthful of degassed Coke into his mouth - there is a saying that the body can quickly recover in a short time through this method. Ingesting sugar, so I want to try this before the battle starts, anyway, it won't do any harm. "The rebels on all planets have not been found, and the infiltrated agents have also completed the second phase of the operation."

"Honestly, it's amazing. It's no longer the level of the goddess of fate kissing us." Oregana's mouth rose wildly. "This is simply being pressed by the goddess of fate..."

"Cough!" Liu Lizi interrupted Oregana's disrespect with a heavy cough, and she grabbed the back of her boss's neck, "The sensor detected the target, the Batary Fleet, directly ahead, at a distance of fifteen thousand!"

After entering the Ha'shan galaxy, the opponent's garrison fleet immediately greeted it.The scale of two dreadnoughts and more than twenty cruisers is a commendable large fleet no matter where it is placed, which is the level of fighting a big battle.The opponent's commander's spirit was obviously stretched to the limit, and he said loudly in the communication:

【notice!This is the Batary First Garrison Fleet, you have crossed the line!Go ahead and we'll use force! 】

"Announcement, this is the Planetary Strike Fleet of the Fist of Tartarus, please hand over the wreckage of the Reaper immediately and hand over the relevant researchers to us! Otherwise, we will take military action against you. For the future of the galaxy and Bata Rui tens of billions of lives, I implore your cooperation - this is your last chance!"

Fist of Tartarus Fleet Commander Dreka Naaru issues an ultimatum.

"Will it work?" Oregana asked, crossing her legs.

"Impossible to be useful." Dreka shook his head, pointed to the scanned image and said, "The opponent's main gun has already started charging, and it will soon..."

In an instant, intense sirens filled the entire bridge.

[Port side!The distance is six thousand! ] The shipboard AI roared loudly amidst the sirens [Batari Dreadnought!Quantity one! 】

The dreadnaught ship suddenly stopped jumping within the range, the muzzle light flashed, and the shells ejected from the mass effect cannon directly aimed at the flagship that Oregana was riding on, and the surrounding cruisers and fighters also accelerated towards them.

The first main gun was torn apart on the shield of the Hells Angels battleship. In less than four seconds, the dreadnought fired a second round, and the fleet on the front also started firing at the same time. They obviously wanted to take the initiative to focus their fire. The method of destroying a ship, by the time the first round of shooting was fired, the shield of the battleship was on the verge of collapse.

This is standard space combat play, with dreadnoughts firing from the rear while cruisers and light combat units advance and attack.It is a good move to use a dreadnought and some light warships to go around and attack the flanks, because if there is a conflict with other civilizations, this attack aimed at the flanks can cause huge damage to the opponent even if it cannot destroy the target immediately. Psychological Stress - In a world where warships use shaft guns as their primary armament, their broadsides are a huge weakness.Any commander commanding an axis-gun battleship would be afraid of this, even if he was Captain Keyes of the Whirlwind Assault.

The opponent's commander is a formidable figure, and this fleet should not be underestimated. With three dreadnoughts and small and medium-sized battleships of this size, even if a 'overlord' attacks, it will die in the sea of ​​stars—this is just In terms of the strength of the fleet, after all, the original intelligence shows that three dreadnoughts can penetrate the overlord's defense.

This does not mean that Batari can resist the Reapers. In the original work, the most fundamental reason for the fall of Batari is not the defeat of the fleet, but the educated cake and scientists directly shut down the defense system of the entire galaxy and open the door to welcome the Reapers. .

However, this kind of attack is useless against the Hells Angels. It is better to say that it just rushed into the best firepower coverage of the Hells Angels... The shaft gun ship does not get stuck in the distance and uses the shaft gun to play an excellent advantage at long distances. It is not a good choice to attack warships with side turrets as the main means of attack at close range.This may be due to the lack of flexibility of the opposing commander, or it may be due to a misjudgment of the technological gap between the two warships.

"Expand the barrage to the port side!"

Commander Dreka roared, and the pilot reacted quickly in the hydrostatic chamber.Eight sets of super pulsed lasers on the port side fired a salvo at the bow of the dreadnought—ten bursts of pulsed laser beams in half a second, like a quick jab from a good boxer .Like a car being shot by a machine gun, the bow of the dreadnaught ship was torn apart instantly.

Every battleship with axial guns will have this defect. The axial gun itself will become a huge weakness of the ship, whether it is the Yamato, the Tyrannian battlecruiser, or the Nymph class equipped with hyperspace projection guns, Therefore, these warships will have a reliable force field shield system to protect the muzzle, or they will fire super main guns from the thief so far away when others can't hit them... Although the UNSC didn't pay attention to this in the past, but that It's because it doesn't matter whether you pay attention to it or not, because no matter where you are, you can't stop the Covenant's plasma cannon. If you are naked, you should be naked. The bridge should be placed outside without protection.

Although warships in this world have bow protection, they are mass effect fields... As we all know, mass effect fields are not much different from vacuum in front of attacks other than kinetic energy bombs.

The explosion immediately destroyed the bow gun.

The most deadly thing is that several laser beams passed through the acceleration track arranged along the central axis from the unclosed muzzle, and directly hit the depth of the gun bore at the end of the hull, destroying the acceleration equipment, energy supply equipment, and ammunition supply equipment in one go. Agency, and -- Mass Effect Core.The leaked energy erupted from the damaged part of the acceleration channel inside the hull, turning several surrounding channels into a scorching hell. Before the engineers who took care of the cannon could react, they were already reduced to ashes in the steel furnace. The fire It spread in an instant.

"Seal the damaged compartment! Open the pressure relief valve!" The captain shouted amidst the violent shaking and the siren, "Exhaust the air! Get out of the battle line!!"

A damage control team member stumbled across the passage from the waiting room after receiving the order, but had to stop because of an explosion. The explosion penetrated the entire hull, the passage was cut off from the center, and his companions were thrown outside to the cold and hot universe.He escaped due to the normal operation of the magnetic boots, but was trapped in the damaged cabin by the closed hatch.Bright white light shafts flashed outside the breach from time to time, making people's eyes hurt. It was the light of the opponent's laser cannon.A cruiser speeded past, but then the light flashed, her bow slammed open, sparks splashed from the side of the ship, and then scattered due to the internal explosion, and the shells that bounced off turned into shells and struck head-on.

The damage control team members subconsciously used their hands to protect their bodies, but those fragments did not fly over after all. They were bounced off by the barely activated mass effect field at the critical moment. Only a few pieces hit the sideboard, leaving tear-like damage on the armor. scars.

In this silent world, the damage control team members could only shrink in a corner of the bulkhead and pray to the gods.But every time the light outside the hole flickered, the solemn and comforting prayers of the past paled a bit, and the solemn icon depicting the appearance of the gods gradually blurred in his mind, leaving only the images of his parents whom he had not seen for many years face.

If there is a chance to go back alive this time, I must go home...

Whether it was the emergency relief valves that saved the ship, a functioning damage control crew, a forward attacking cruiser, or whether the other side didn't want to continue wasting time and energy on a ship that was out of combat capability no one knows.But she successfully completed the turn after all, and accelerated away from the battlefield with all her strength.In the process of turning, the appearance of those cruisers being pierced continuously by the spears of light fired from the side by the opponent's dreadnought was imprinted in the hearts of everyone who saw it.

The two Hells Angel-class battleships easily tore apart each other's lines. Their shields were all extinguished, but none of the incoming shells could penetrate their solid armor.Oregana looked at the batarian dreadnought that was passing by and lost the ability to move, and said:

"There is no need to make up the knife. The newborn Batarians may need these people." Not out of emotion, keeping these Batarian soldiers alive is the result of pure rational analysis "Don't attack the communication station, let them send out the distress signal. The battle barge goes into low orbit to carry out the orbital bombing, and after the bombing is over, the marines are deployed to the ground to engage in a tug-of-war with the opposing defense forces."

"Just a tug of war?"

"Yes, it's just a tug of war. The main purpose is not to capture any strategic goals, but to keep putting pressure on the opponent to make us feel like we are attacking quickly. Let them believe..."

"I believe they can win as long as they have reinforcements."

Oregana put on her helmet and stood up:

"Yeah, that's it - we're going to give future winners a chance."

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On the planet Doban'card, Governor Pala was awakened from his sleep by a violent phone call.He sat up from the warm quilt, grabbed the receiver and asked in an impatient voice:

"What happened?"

【Ka'shan is under attack, it's those damn people from another world.They just dropped marines on the planet 10 minutes ago. 】

He was startled by the voice in the microphone, it was the commander of the garrison here, a silent, serious, unkind military nobleman.For many years, this commander has been earnestly managing his family and army, and has been praying to the gods to give him a chance to prove his ability on the battlefield.But what is happening now is not what he expected.

My family owns a lot of properties on Ka'shan, if they are lost in the war, years of hard work will be in vain.It's one thing to prove yourself on the battlefield, quite another to take a loss on your family business.

"Ka'shan?!" It took the Governor a while to realize, "No..."

[We have the obligation to encircle the first galaxy, Governor.The fleet is about to pull anchor and go to Ka'shan, gather troops, and set off as soon as the preparations are completed! 】

"God bless you."

【hope so. 】

This is the biggest mobilization since the establishment of this colony. Eighty percent of the troops took weapons and supplies, and boarded the space battleship through the transfer ship-this immediately filled the originally empty cabin to the brim.

From the roof of the gladiator dormitory in the arena, you can clearly see the heavy-duty trucks driving along the road to the space port.The car lights formed a river on the road.

A gladiator swallowed a mouthful of saliva, with a happy expression on his face:

"Really... The Planetary Defense Force has been transferred! Our chance has come!"

Ziketa also breathed a sigh of relief:

"Let everyone get ready, we will do it when the next signal arrives."

"it is good!"

It took a solid six hours to load the troops, and the fully loaded fleet sailed to the mass repeater with restless soldiers, disappearing in a flash.

On the small space station responsible for FTL communication, a young soldier reported:

"The fleet has passed the mass repeater." He turned his head and lowered his voice. "What happened to Ka'shan? Was it an attack from the Citadel?"

The information from the front is very complicated, and there are many inconsistencies, because many communications are sent by soldiers at critical junctures, and the inability to integrate these chaotic information means that the situation in Ka'shan is out of control, but the space force should still Resisting, because the spacecom station is still relaying this information - which proves that they have not yet been able to destroy it.

The two sides should still be in a stalemate, which is certain, so if they support immediately, there is still a chance of winning.Almost every commander has come to such conclusions with limited intelligence.Therefore, an older and slightly experienced officer comforted:

"No one knows. Young man, you have to calm down, as a Batarian soldier..." But his words stopped in the middle, and the officer stared out of the window in a daze, and then let out a miserable scream, "Ahhh AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!