The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

His investigation team finally determined that the planet's air pressure and oxygen concentration were too low and too hot to be suitable for large-scale human colonization.This is a normal thing for most civilizations in Mass Effect, after all, when you can find habitable planets just by jumping along the mass repeater, there is no need to go to some expensive and time-consuming planets Technology has been transformed.

The Alliance's technology in planetary climate modification is low, not much better than the Earth Alliance in 2199.But Batary is different.

The reason is that Batarian Hegemony dared to do it, and the method was more manic than UNSC's original transformation of Reach-this may have something to do with their green skin.

Following the retreat of humanity, the Batarian Hegemony colonized the planet's polar regions without resistance, beginning extensive soil modification with cyanobacteria and invasive plant species.It took decades for them to support a medium-sized colony of 30 people (21 of them slaves).In the past, this planet existed as a batarian military outpost for a long time, because it was too close to the human airspace, it has always been regarded as a trouble by human beings.

But now, because its governor, Wentworth, was arrested by the rebellious Commander Gelber and handed over to the rebels for execution, the entire planet has completely turned to the Neo-Batarian side—the rebels who sneaked into the planet are trying to figure out what Gelber commanded them to do. After considering the strength in the officer's hands and his dissatisfaction with the governor, he thought it would be better not to fight recklessly, but to win him over.It is also for this reason that the various infrastructures of the planet Aratot have been well preserved, and after the arrival of the Consolidation Department, they actively provided the local sensor array data.

Then, the Ministry of Consolidation deployed the mobile iron wall 'Calcifer' to the outer orbit of the planet Aratot.This made the Batarian soldiers feel surprised and then afraid - if Commander Gelber didn't turn his back on him, he would assemble troops and return to Ha'shan to carry out defensive missions like other places...

Although judging from the survival of the troops, Tartarus fought very restrainedly, and handled the captives properly or even gently after the battle, but the premise is that he can survive until the end of the battle. Who knows if he has recovered from that? The luck of surviving the dreaded gunfire?

And now, this Commander Gelber, who was praised by most people on Aratot, was sitting in the lobby of the Iron Wall main control room.As the commander defending the Bahak galaxy, he must understand what is happening at this moment—in the recent period of time, he has accumulated a lot of knowledge about the Reapers, and the more he looks at it, the more frightened he becomes.

Could it be that Batari is separated by a layer of window paper from Wanduzi?

But now, Wanduzi seems to be separated by a piece of frosted glass.

Commander Gelbur sits with past enemies - a bunch of Citadel commanders.Some of them came here in person, some were just stereoscopic projections, Salari, Turians, humans, everything, and even some other races such as the pink jellyfish.In addition, there are some commanders of the Consolidation Department, Katari, Tyron, Gamilas, as well as the generals of the Starlink Community and Gendaya, and even those who have no mouths and glowing eyes Yes, the hard-shelled ones also gathered together.

Tartarus is going to launch a large-scale combat operation against the Reapers, and the enemy's action patterns cannot be completely predicted, and the number and mobility cannot be ignored. Therefore, all forces that may participate in the next combat operations are gathered in in this hall.It is not an exaggeration to say that this is a meeting that affects the fate of the entire galaxy.

In front of them, Oregana, the commander of Tartarus, stood in front of a thumbnail star map of the entire galaxy:

"As we said before, the Reapers are gathering." The small stick in her hand slammed on the table, knocking on the metal tabletop. "The location is here."

"..."

"..."

The krogan sitting in the corner, Shepard's good comrade-in-arms, battle master Lex coughed twice:

"The stick in your hand points out of the star map."

"Because we don't know the specific coordinates of where the enemy is located, apart from knowing that the enemy is outside the Milky Way, opposite this alpha repeater," she pointed at the mass repeater outside. But the data has been deciphered so far, and we It can be teleported to the opposite side through the repeater."

"I don't know the number." A turian general said, his face was bitter (0w0). "I have never fought this kind of battle."

It's normal for Turians to panic... Everyone panics.This alpha repeater hidden by Batary is quite a powerful thing. This repeater usually only sends and receives passengers from a secondary repeater, but with certain adjustments, it can accept an unprecedented number of passengers. of dark matter, send the cargo to any repeater within sixteen hops.

The Batarian Hegemony has kept this secret, fearful of intervening in the Hegemony if the Council Races discover a sudden new route into their airspace.As a result, looking at it now, good guy, the Reaper landed and recoiled from the stargate, and he could jump directly into the solar system from here to the gate of the Star Alliance Arcturus base, to the gate of the first Turian star Paleven, and to the first star of Asari, Sessia double jump...

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Next, the attention of the generals immediately went to 'how large will the Reaper's attack be'.

"The number can be roughly calculated, and this is what we are going to talk about next." Oregana explained, "There is a planet called Clin Dagon in the Falcon Nebula, and there is a huge rift on it."

"I remember something like this. The scientists were able to determine that it was the trace caused by the mass accelerator." Admiral Hackett nodded.

"That's right, about 700 million years ago. And the Alpha Repeater... I'm going to ask Dr. Kenson."

Oregana stepped aside and let a middle-aged Star Federation woman come forward.She and Hackett looked at each other, and both of them saw a trace of helplessness in each other's eyes—after the new Batari took control of this galaxy, the fleet of the Consolidation Department arrived here and blocked the galaxy, no one can enter. No one could come out, including Dr. Amanda Kenson and her research team who were hiding on an asteroid to study the repeater.

According to various treaties, Dr. Amanda Kenson should never have appeared in Batary's actual control area at all. This is [-]% espionage.Although it is obviously not the time to pursue this matter now, and the new Batarian will obviously not pursue it in the future, but the Batarian Commander Gelbe who has been in charge of the military affairs of this galaxy next to him has a piercing gaze. ...and with twice the output of a human...

In the original work, Shepard received a mission from General Hackett to rescue Dr. Amanda Kenson on Aratot controlled by Batari, because Dr. Amanda Kenson was captured by the Batari military. The reason is that this person looks like a spy.But this doctor's level is far beyond the average 'spy'. In this outpost galaxy under the eyes of the batarian military, she smuggled from the black market, bought second-hand goods, etc., and fought hard on an asteroid. They set up a base where they could study the relics of the Reapers, and installed a bunch of faders on the asteroid, turning the asteroid into a large mass weapon that could destroy the mass repeater with one blow.

It is unbelievable that this set of operations can be completed, and it makes people think that there must be traces of the Star Alliance intelligence department behind it.

If this step can be achieved, then the whole plan is almost a success, and there is no difficulty at all in disguising it as an accident and blowing up the entire galaxy.However, because of another equally unimaginable reason, the people in the entire base have been educated, so that the final procedure must be handed over to our protagonist, Commander Shepard, to complete.

The reason for the reimbursement of the entire plan is very simple - Dr. Amanda Kenson's team claimed to know how strong the enlightenment of the Reapers is, but they placed the excavated ruins carelessly in a room in the center of the base. Surrounded by a circle of glass, it seems that this is a big turtle that can be touched in the aquarium.They stunned Shepard, and he was unconscious for two days with an injection of anesthesia. When Shepard woke up, the large army of the Reapers was already in a state of being unable to get close to the door. There was no way but to press the big red button to let the base fly over. Crash a mass repeater.

Although it resisted the invasion of the Reapers, none of the 30 Batarians in the entire colony escaped and were all blown up to death, which triggered a series of accidents... Whether it was for Shepard, the Star Alliance, or the Batarians. , the Citadel and even the Reapers are very big accidents.

Now she went up with the folder in her hand:

"I'm Dr. Amanda Kenson of Starlink. My team and I have been working on the mass repeater project over the years, and the oldest mass repeater found so far is this one—the Alpha Repeater." "The method is to detect the dust trapped in the gravity well of the repeaters, compare the relative velocity of the repeaters to the velocity of the star they orbit, and compare the composition of the dust around the dormant repeaters to the dust in the galaxy they are in. , you can draw up a timeline for the repeater to pass through the dust."

The doctor is a learned person. After she finished speaking, she subconsciously planned to display charts and column data, but was immediately interrupted by others. After all, this is not a thesis defense at the moment:

"How is the result?"

"Most of the repeater dates back millions of years, and the alpha is probably over 4000 million years old." She raised an eyebrow. "But there's still a margin of error, maybe 20% or so."

4000 years.

For most creatures, these are long and unimaginable years, and the heavy feeling brought by history and years is overwhelming.However, a long time does not mean that the opponent must be very strong.You will never be able to use Matou Shinji to upgrade your magic to a level that can suppress the first-class flight lieutenant Takamachi.

"Thank you, Dr. Kenson. Based on 25%, the Alpha Repeater has been built for about 5000 million years. It is harvested once every 5 years, and it is now counted as a thousand harvests." Oregana opened her palm and gestured a 'Five' - One-third of the people present could not make this gesture "There are five races targeted for this harvest, and it is estimated that there will be about five 'overlords' and some miscellaneous fish in each harvest, It took 5000 million years for the main force of the enemy to have—”

"[-] 'Overlords', maybe a little bit up and down."

Her words sparked a murmur.

Fifty thousand ships is a very large number, even if 15 battleships are placed in [that] (emphasis) "Legend of the Galactic Heroes", they are a force that cannot be underestimated.And based on the data collected so far, only the three dreadnoughts of the Citadel can barely draw with a 'Overlord'.In terms of pure numbers, [-] dreadnoughts are needed to fight against [-] overlords.

But because of some special reasons—for example, there is no Reinhardt’s oil lamp in the Citadel—there are only 45 dreadnoughts that can be used in the entire Citadel, and six of them are new ships that have just been launched. The power core of the main gun is used to increase the power of the main gun and the strength of the shield, and the single-shot power is piled up to the level of the MKIX-type MAC gun. It is believed that only two hits can destroy a Overlord Reaper. In the battle with the Reaper have greater advantages.

But even so, there are only 45 usable dreadnoughts, which is an extremely desperate reality.

No one knew what to do with such a fearsome army.

But the generals of the Ministry of Consolidation generally said, 'That's it? ' expression.The Reaper has always given people the impression that the number is like the stars in the sky, and the stars in the sky are enemies, and the universe is divided into three and seven.But in fact, this impression comes from the compound influence of [the number of enemies is large and has existed for a long time] [the number of opponents cannot be accurately grasped at the moment]. Wait until the time is clear, do a little calculation, and the approximate data comes out... I feel That's it.

5000 battleships, a lot less, but more... not many... And when the time span is stretched to [-] million years...

It took 5000 million years to build [-] shaft-gun battleships with mediocre performance. What kind of battle are you fighting? Go back to the planet to develop and grow vegetables?and many more?The reaper is actually growing vegetables on the planet, and from a certain point of view, the reaper itself is the harvested vegetable?That's fine.

The dishes are real dishes. (in various senses)

The commander of the sixth space mech division of Gamilas, Fomt Bagh, with a pair of dead fish eyes, put the elegant cigarette produced by Gamilas in his mouth but did not light it, with a helpless attitude said:

"If the Reapers are willing to fight us head-on, it will be over in an instant."

"But we don't know if they are willing or not. If these iron squids are not willing, it will be useless for us to defend this repeater." Sir Gures, the commander of the Katari Imperial Army, gently combed the fluff on his tail " It is impossible for us to defend all the more than 30 points in the sixteenth jump, and because there are habitable planets next to more than 20 of them, we cannot directly destroy all the repeaters. So we have to seek an opportunity, When the opponent gathers, try to reduce the opponent's number as much as possible."

"That's exactly what we think." Oregana nodded at Maomao. "Since we have been observing here, the repeater has been sending out pulse signals-the repeater is performing a pulsing signal on the Reaper's signal." Response, which is consistent with the energy response we detected. They are charging the repeater to make a large-scale delivery, and when the peak is reached, which is about six days, they will come."

"So fast?!"

"It's that fast." She waved her hand sharply, with a dangerous smile on her face, "And it's not the guerrilla warfare that was expected before, it's a frontal breakthrough! It's a godsend!"

"It's not guerrilla warfare, but a frontal attack?" A Hana floated in the air, a series of light signals flashed rapidly on the surface of the body-this jellyfish-like creature without a face used this form to express their rich emotions "This person thinks Weird."

Hana people have two names, one is called Face Name and the other is Soul Name.The table name is used as a general label among general acquaintances or strangers, while the inside name is only used between very close relationships and friends.They will never use "I" as No.1 in front of a person who only knows the name, which will be considered self-centered. Correspondingly, they will use "this person" or the impersonal "it" to refer to for yourself.

Also, there are some Hana people who have negotiated too much with the Consolidation Department, especially the cats and dark angel guards of the Consolidation Department in the Foreign Office of the Citadel, and began to use "this guy" and "meow" or directly use their watch names to refer to them. No.1 weighed it, such as "Hey~ Meow Meow I don't know~" and the like.

What a weird jellyfish man. (nod)

"Commander, what do you think the Reapers care about most?"

"This person thinks it's harvesting?"

"That's right, it's harvesting. Unlike intelligent creatures with complex emotions, they are purely logical 'creatures'. This means that their most important goal is to complete the harvest, not 'because they were shown a Face, so I plan to make us feel desperate'." Oregana snapped her fingers, she walked past the projection equipment, leaned on the console and said, "In this situation, what method will they adopt to try to Finished the harvest..."

"They're quite smart," a Salari figured out right away, "I'm sure that the old way of suppressing a planet by one overlord and then slowly developing the planet won't work—if the remnants of the reaper are always observing Through the battle in Ha'shan, the reader can know that the Ministry of Consolidation has very extreme force. Unlike the absurd repeaters who had a numerical advantage at that time, the battle in Ha'shan can better reflect your performance The advantage... I get it."

He blinked and continued:

"The Reapers judge that they can't beat us in a small-scale fleet battle, so there is only a decisive battle. This is the most likely way for them to complete their mission. Fifty thousand or more 'overlords' are their confidence— —As long as we defeat our main force, or cut off our transportation capability, then they can obtain a safe environment for harvesting. We can infer that the other party wants to confront us head-on.”

"And we have proof of that." A Dark Angel stood up "Over the past few months, we have detected seven mass repeaters pulsing. In response to the Reaper guerrilla fleet, we deployed The turrets, mines, and induction beacons used for the attack were continuously observed, and the possible arrival time of the Reapers was calculated. As a result, everything changed after the drastic change in Batauri."

"The readings of those repeaters have all stopped. Because the Reapers on the opposite side have changed their tactics." He pointed to the Alpha repeater. "Now, they are all over there."

Next, everything came into motion.

Various civilizations actively evacuate people on the predicted attack route. Compared with other places, the evacuation of only 30 people in Aratot is so easy.The Condo fleet was assembled outside the galaxy, and a large number of hyperspace projectile firepower was aimed at the alpha mass relay.And a doomsday dreadnought equipped with a lot of additional armor and disposable bomb projectors is ready to go.

The Scout Beacon would recoil back into the stargate on its own right after launch, and the doomsday dreadnought would set off—almost a suicidal mission.Rush into the center of [-] enemy ships, destroy the repeater with a doomsday weapon to cause a large-scale explosion while the opponent has not reacted, and then activate the emergency hull energizer to see if the core compartment and the internal induced The force field generator is saved.

The Emergency Hull Booster is an impractical flagship piece of equipment that functions as a shield launcher combined with an Electromagnetic Molecular Hull Booster to protect the structural integrity of the core compartment.But once it is used, the energy poured into the hull in reverse and the forcibly opened shield will destroy the hull structure of a large number of non-core compartments. In the end, although it can withstand the bombardment of a doomsday weapon, the entire ship still loses the battle. capacity and the damage is severe and difficult to repair.After other civilizations have obtained this technology, they can be used to protect the high-level commanders on the flagship who are difficult to train, but this is better than nothing for the egg people who are not afraid of life and death.

Conventional damage control systems work better in large-scale firefights.

And why use such a thing this time?Because the opposite side is far beyond the coverage distance of the subspace communication tower.

In the busyness of all aspects, the energy pulse reading that represents the countdown is getting higher and higher, and the frequency is getting faster and faster.Three hours before the final peak, Oregana sat in the hydrostatic cabin of Doomsday Intrepid and sent a signal——

"Reconnaissance beacon, release."

[Are you sure you want to go in person? 】In the end world on the side, War Scythe asked 【You can actually wait on Tiamat. 】

"Our butterfly stroke is the fastest."

She smiled, closed her eyes, and let her thoughts become one with the entire battleship.

Off to the side, the ring in the center of the Alpha Repeater was spinning faster and faster, so fast that it was not visible as a ring, but just a blur of white light.The energy bursting out from its core forms a circle of dazzling pulsating light, the energy is getting stronger and denser, piercing people's eyes so hard that they can't open them.The sensor flickered for a moment, then disappeared, as if being sucked away by something, and disappeared on the other side of the universe.

A silence.

The next few seconds were so long, just when people suspected that the scout had rushed over to deliver it, a mass of tumbling and burning metal suddenly appeared on the spot—even though the thing had been fragmented, it still It was still connected to Oregana's command link.

The huge fleet was immediately reflected in Oregana's mind. She was surprised at the opponent's reaction speed and scale, and was also grateful for their dense formation.

"Doomsday weapon energy charged, bomb launcher activated!" She grabbed the very EVA-style grip in front of the seat, leaning forward as if she was driving a huge motorboat "Go!!"

Chapter 1230 Chapter 247: Overlord 50K Event

In the last chapter, the number of 'Overlord' types became 10 times due to the accidental addition of zeros, and the Overlord 50K event occurred (cover your face)

Everything is subject to this chapter (cover your face)

I'm so sorry, Mi (Dogeza)

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As far as the eye can see, all are warships.

The number of 'Overlord' types may exceed 160, and the 3000-meter destroyer class, various types of transport ships, and the processing ships responsible for the 'construction' work are like clouds in the sky.In addition, there are some larger 'capital ships' with a long axis close to [-] meters. Although they still have the same design, they give people an amazing sense of oppression.

The number of those 'big overlords' is only a few thousand, and they are obviously older, and they still have some strange equipment on their bodies, which may be able to be traced back to Leviathan's time.Because there is no way to take down the entire civilization with only one AI, the Reapers at that time must also have an army-the ultra-ancient army that destroyed Leviathan is right in front of us at this moment.

Can a civilization create multiple overlords?

For now, I'm afraid it can.

In the original work, the collectors only took down a few outlying colonies, and they have already assembled half of the human harvesters. If they take down the entire civilization, maybe they can build several or even a dozen?This was a huge misjudgment, but——

Whether it's five thousand, fifty thousand, or one hundred thousand, it doesn't make any difference.When the opponent can kill you with a round of volley, and you can end the battle with just one shot of doom at the mass repeater, the number is not a problem at all.