The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"The scythe of war... are you here too..."

"I estimate that more than half of the group will come later."

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That night, when everyone squatted in the control room to eat compressed food, Huo Ling was surprised to find that his number was still small.

Everyone is in... Tartaros fleet, all assembled...

"What's next, boss?" The girl with a mechanical prosthesis on her left arm (ID: Tin Man) broke the compressed food into pieces and threw them into her mouth one by one. "Any way to go back?"

"According to the general urine, it is basically impossible to go back..." The brown-haired girl (ID: Xuefeng) with binoculars around her neck said something unlucky. "So think about it first and then what? Can you live better?"

"Why am I the only one with EVE's style of painting..." Scythe of War chewed the compressed biscuits with some pain, and then pointed at Xuefeng, "This is completely the style of the draw card game next door!"

"Forget it, what's wrong with inch sunglasses!"

"Isn't there a manufacturing array and blueprints now? Shall we hold back a wave of fleets and then find a way to go out?"

"Do something! It's good to do something!"

As expected of a group of guys with a tenacious psychology score of five, it is completely the style of clone pilots.Anyway, if you can't die, just do it to death...

"Anyway, let's develop production first." Oregana coughed twice. "Whether you want to find a way to go back or go out to do something, you have to pull up the fleet first."

Although I don't see any threats now... well, I can't find any threats when I stay in the base... In short, since I have arrived in another world, enhancing my strength is the most important thing.

"What ship is in the hangar now?"

"Four intra-atmospheric shuttles, seven gyrators, one Orca, that's all."

"... ... Locust team configuration."

"No battleships?"

"The gyrator is equipped with an Earth Spirit I-type combat drone..."

"That's fine..."

The gyrator-class mining barge is a large-capacity mining vessel suitable for novice miners. The large ore tank allows the gyrator-class to carry out mining operations for a long time without the need for logistical support like other mining barges, and has specially designed electronics. The system allows her to use large ore harvesters with excellent harvesting efficiency.

The Orca-class industrial command ship is a flexible mining operation management platform. She can coordinate with other mining ships in the fleet through a special command link, which greatly improves the mining efficiency.

The combined effect of these two types of ships is basically equivalent to the transit of locusts, which can cause a devastating blow to the asteroid belt with medium and low reserves...

"Let's wait and start the orca class. If there is no problem, we will start work tomorrow."

"learn!"

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[Successful neural connection link]

【The shield generator works normally】

【Main thruster starts】

Aurejana is sitting in the space capsule, and her mind has spread throughout the ship through the neural links behind her. Now she can "see" the footage captured by every external camera and the data received by every sensor. As well as "hearing" any voice coming through the communication channel.

【How does it feel? 】The Scythe of War took the communication in from the main control room.

"It feels... heavier than I thought."

Adjust the main thruster power to maximum, and the acceleration of the ship is still very low.The orca-class industrial command ship slowly moved from the hairpin of the iron wall to the outside, and the vast universe immediately appeared in front of her eyes.

Even when driving a 400-meter-long ship, it is still extremely small compared to the universe. In this empty universe, Oregana couldn't help but want to chant a poem:

"Gou..."

[Shut up for Lao Tzu! 】

"...All my life is in troubled times, and I don't ask for news to reach the feudal lords."

【…】

"The shipborne scanner is normal, and there are eight local space signals, including an abnormal area of ​​ore and an ice belt." Aurejana analyzed each signal point carefully.The abnormal area of ​​ore, as the name suggests, is an abnormal space, which contains a large amount of ores as raw materials for ships. As for the ice zone, it is usually formed by the continuous attachment of gas molecules to silicate dust particles, which can generally extract heavy water and liquid ozone. , isotopes and strontium clathrates, which are necessary to make fuel blocks.

[This is good news, what about the other six? 】

"We thought we might need a set of probes."

【Do we have sisters who will scan probes and transmitters? 】

For some spatial signals, it is necessary to use probe scanning to know what it is, and among the various probes, the performance produced by the Sisters is the first.

"How is that possible? We made the blueprints of T1 before. In short, let's mine first, and keep an eye on the situation when mining."

[Well, let everyone get up early tomorrow. 】

So, the next morning...

The mining barge moved its bulky body slowly out of the dock, keeping up with the heavier industrial command ship already waiting ahead.

"The bow points to the abnormal signal area of ​​JW-937, waiting for the flagship to jump."

"Understood, the state of the transition engine is normal."

"What drone did I bring? The mining drone I brought."

"Hey, what if a wild monster jumps out?"

"No matter how you think about it, there will be no wild monsters here, stay away from New Eden, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, we can do whatever we want~"

Allegana grinned and started the warp engine.

【and many more!and many more!I'm still in the dock!I don't have the Whirlwinder skill! ! ] The emergency communication from Scythe of War, the combatants whose skills were mostly thrown on the Caldari battleships and missiles said that they could not drive the gyrators, even if they arrived in another world.

One of the main points of EVE: You must have skills in order to sail.

[There are ten seconds before the collapse of the quantum leap force field, prepare for impact resistance, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, arrive. 】

Like a light streaking from the distant universe, the huge hull of the Orca-class industrial command ship appeared [-] kilometers away from the ore anomaly.

What caught my eye was a huge rubble belt with a length of more than [-] kilometers. The shipborne scanner also read that there were unstable space cracks nearby. Perhaps this rubble belt was thrown from the depths of the distant universe by some kind of space change. Come here.

This is good news for everyone in the Tartaros fleet.The abnormal zone of ore that appears here means that new resources may appear here periodically.It is definitely not enough to rely on the original asteroid belt in the star system. After all, this is not EVE. No star system has ever refreshed the asteroid belt from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] every morning...

【Little ones!Dig! 】

Assemble all the monitors to look around...it's empty, no one...

【What about people? !I wipe you people? !What happened? ! 】

According to the jump speed, the cruiser-level gyrator should be much faster than the flagship-level orca!

[…It’s nothing, but the daily capacitors of the cyclotron class are not enough. 】

【………】

Due to the small capacitance of the gyrator stage, when making a long-distance jump, it will stop halfway due to a power outage of the warp engine.Although it sounds LOW, the gyrator is such a funny thing (covering his face).

It was already half an hour later when the mine guns were enthusiastically smashing the ore and storing it in the ore compartment.

A large amount of raw ore was transported back to Salted Fish Steinburg one by one. Without the [one-second unloading] function in the EVE game, it would take more than 2 cubic meters of ore (weighing more than [-] tons) out of the ship. It took more than ten minutes, and then there was a power outage on the way back and forth, waiting for the capacitor to recharge, and take off... The efficiency is much lower than expected...

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Section 3 Chapter 3: Industrial Base

A gyrator-class mining barge with a ripped bow, aided by industrial robots, is slowly making its way to the dock, where she will be repaired for a week before returning to the front line.

"How did this happen?"

"I wanted to test if I could achieve the effect of accelerating towards the ore in EVE and then being bounced back, so I asked Yukikaze to try it," Oregana scratched her head, "The answer is no."

"This is the reason for driving the gyrator to hit a spar with a diameter of [-] kilometers?!" Scythe of War felt dizzy, "Do you have anything else you want to try? Tell me first and listen. Look?"

"We want to try setting the jump marker to 0 meters from the center of the spar, and then jump over, can it be ejected like in the game and become a ten-speed orca."

"Enough is enough! Stop it! You will make us lose our only industrial command ship!!"

This is the third day of mining. In these three days, a total of more than 500 million tons of ore has been dug. After refining, it has become a batch of good raw materials.

After an urgent consultation within the top level of the legion (actually everyone), a Caldari control tower and a set of assembly arrays were extracted from Saltfish Stan's warehouse and loaded into the huge Orca-class fleet. hangar.

With the future development lifeline of the Legion, Oregana tremblingly followed the instructions in the manual and jumped to a position [-] kilometers above the second satellite of the Anglerfish Star (commonly known as Angler).

It should be mentioned here that this galaxy is named [New Eden] by the members of the Tartaros fleet. There are six planets. According to the stars from near to far, they are a lava planet, a mild planet, and an ocean. Planets, a mild planet, a mild planet, and a barren planet, although no civilization was born, it is a galaxy full of life in terms of the type and quantity of life.

In order to make it easier to distinguish which is which, in short, the numbers are first, from inside to outside, they are number [-] to [-].Aurejana privately refers to them as Hot Dog Stars, Chieftain Stars, Angler Stars, Ouwang Stars, and what the hell is a cow star on it (the probe shows that there are plant-eating animals similar in size to cows) and birds. No egg star.

"It has entered the predetermined position, and the control tower is ready to launch."

The orca's cargo hold was unfolded upward, and an eight thousand cubic meter metal object was launched into the universe.After making a few laps in the gravity-free space, the big guy activated the propulsion system on which the body was mounted, automatically found the nearest space stable point, and [fixed] himself with Angle Guard as the frame of reference.

In this way, the core of a parent star building system is laid out.

The parent star building system is also called POS in EVE, that is, Player Owned Structure, which is a general term for movable buildings built near satellites. POS has various functions, including protecting allied ships, collecting satellites, producing secondary raw materials, manufacturing various ships and equipment, researching blueprints, refining ores, assembling ships, and providing all-round support for legion activities.

Although the importance of the homeworld's architecture was diminished after the birth of the fortress building, its industrial function was still indispensable.If possible, I really want to go to the CCP headquarters and ask, why the facade of such a big fortress does not even have a ship assembly workshop (fall).

After the control tower in its packaged state had secured itself, the building components began to work.The nanomachine slowly took shape according to the set program, and the iron-gray giant tower appeared in the void at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The [-]-high Caldari control tower, if placed on the earth, is high enough to overlook the Kilimanjaro Snow Mountain.

【is it finished?I can scan the control tower here. 】

"The control tower is anchored, we need a few minutes to activate it." Aurejana 0032 controlled the orca to approach the control tower carefully and filled the prefabricated fuel blocks into the fuel tank of the control tower.Dissatisfied with the inefficiencies created by dealing with multiple fuel types, Tucker's logisticians revolutionized the invention of a prepackaged fuel. In YC111, after a successful field test, they replaced the fuel in the clan's entire home star network with fuel blocks.Clone pilots were banned from using the new technology during the Consolidated Ministry's hesitation over how to handle the fuel switching period, though the ban was finally lifted in YC113.

After the control tower is anchored, it takes more than ten minutes for the control tower itself to bring the main functions online, such as the key force field generator. Ten kilometers of ultra-high-strength force field, this force field can accelerate the Titan that has entered it without permission in the opposite direction, from 0 speed to nearly [-] meters per second in one second... But the ejection start is not a force The correct usage of the field should be understood as a high-intensity force field that protects nearby buildings (thumbs up).

Thanks to the high degree of automation, these operations are very difficult.After the force field is indeed deployed, the three types of ship assembly arrays, equipment assembly array, UAV assembly array and ammunition assembly array will be anchored, and the construction of an excellent industrial base will be completed.

After doing all this, Oregana 0032 opened the management interface and glanced at the construction process——

The remaining fuel can support 28 days and 4 hours.

There is still plenty of time, but preparations must be made early, and ice mining and planetary development must be on the agenda.

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After finishing all this work, it was already eight o'clock in the evening when we returned to Salted Fish Steinburg.There is no sunrise or sunset here, only the clock can be relied on for daily work and rest.Some people say that time has no meaning on a spacecraft without sunrise and sunset. This is complete nonsense!You go and see how many hours you have in your production line and see how many minutes it takes the mine gun to run a process!Obviously such a meaningful thing!

Take the elevator from the port area to the bar in the middle of the iron wall. In the past few days, after "off work" every day, Oregana will come to sit here.Although there was no bartender standing behind the bar while watching the crowd laughing and wiping his glass, there was no girl waiting for someone to come and chat.