The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"Oh?"

"And then if you scan here ... and remove the noise ... you can see what it looks like."

After a series of operations by 76, a clear structure diagram appeared in front of the legion commander.The blood vessel-like lines meandered in the wreckage of the giant ship, and finally all concentrated in an area at the front of the battleship.Judging from the scan image, there is a cavity with unclear boundaries, and the density of matter gradually decreases near the cavity. The scan image looks like Mary Sue's gradient hair.

"It seems that there used to be something there?" Compared with the volume of the giant ship, the cavity is really pitifully small. Its diameter is less than 100 meters, but those complicated lines have shown how important it is.

"Yeah, obviously there was something there before, but..." 76 organized his words, "It seems to be a slime that gradually loses moisture and lacks tension in a gravity-free space..."

"...How about just saying that it's shriveled? Your analogy is too difficult to understand."

"The word 'shrunken' doesn't have that hazy effect."

Hazy...?

Oregana tried to experience that feeling according to 76's thinking, but after thinking for a long time, she couldn't figure out what she wanted to express, so she simply gave up thinking:

"In short, dig a hole and approach from here. Don't easily destroy the closed structure of that cabin. First, get as close as possible to scan. Maybe all the secrets are inside."

"clear."

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Magician-class bomber

Chapter 326 Chapter 297: Silicon base...

The most sophisticated laser drilling machine was transported here from New Eden by a badger-class industrial ship. Since the unidentified warship lacked passages for people to pass through, it was only possible to use this large-scale equipment to drill the wreckage of the warship.

The length of the drilling rig is more than 80 meters, which is as big as a frigate.The high-performance laser drill starts to work from the damaged part of the wreckage—starts to drill from the place blasted by the main gun, so there is no need to compete with the one-kilometer-thick buffer zone.Blue energy sparks continuously jumped out of the drill hole, and the cooling system worked at the same time to reduce the temperature near the drill hole to prevent the damage from expanding.

Wearing power armor, Oregana looked at the drilling rig working on the wreckage from the open-air transportation boat. It looked like a giant tower standing on the ground.Sitting on the boat, I still can’t feel it, but when I watch the drilling at a close distance in the open air, I will find that every tool is extremely huge, and I seem to be Gref who has come to the kingdom of giants.

"Drill the hole to a depth of 75%, slow down the drilling speed, and cool the wall of the hole." Every time the technical boy performs an operation, he will read it aloud to ensure that his colleagues can clearly hear "Release the probe and scan the target point for the first time .”

"Preparation for the first scan."

76 swallowed nervously, she felt the mood of the explorers a little bit.

【Have you found anything in the wreckage? ] Asked the War Scythe who was waiting on the End Yan World.

"One may be something in the control center. We are scanning it," Oregana replied. "The probe still has three kilometers to reach the scanning site."

[Before that, I have something to tell you,] Scythe of War touched the stubble on his chin, picked up a cup of kufi from the tray next to the captain's seat, and opened the tab with a 'chi' sound [5 Minutes ago, the subspace observation tower traced the ripples generated when the warship jumped. The result of the tracking was that the jump-off location was approximately in the Barnard Galaxy in the Ophiuchus constellation, and a hidden beacon was found there.The technical kid thinks that the target just made a transit in Ophiuchus, but where it got to Ophiuchus is unknown, and the current type of observation tower cannot observe a farther distance. 】

"The Barnard Galaxy in Ophiuchus?" The legion leader was taken aback, she seemed to think that she had heard the name recently, "I seem to have heard this location mark mentioned somewhere recently?"

[That’s right, it’s the target point chosen by Alternative5, because an ecological planet suitable for human survival was found there, so they plan to fly a large number of colony ships to that galaxy. 】

"Hey~" 76 shook his head, with a subtle expression on his face, "If you think about it this way, Alternative5 is really a cursed and desperate plan."

BETA's support warships are transiting in the Barnard galaxy in Ophiuchus, and there is a beacon there, which means that there is a high possibility that there is an alien base in the Barnard galaxy.

[If Alternative 5 is really implemented, I am afraid that those ships will rush into the alien's sphere of influence with the human fire, and I am afraid that they will cry out in fright. 】

In fact, the luck of human beings in this world is really not very good. They were beaten on the surface by alien invaders before leaving their home planet. The various habits shown by the alien invaders indicate that it is very likely that most of the universe is It's alien forces, and the development of human beings is already one step behind.This step will be a crucial step on the interstellar stage.

The main tone in most of the universe is cruel and cold. It is common to launch wars to plunder resources. The difference between civilizations that can exceed the speed of light and those that cannot exceed the speed of light is as big as gods and ants. It even happened that an unenlightened planet was directly blown up in order to build an interstellar highway.

"We think that it is very possible that the earth itself in this world is within the sphere of influence of aliens. We are now fighting in an enemy-occupied area. That's why we have prepared a backup." She sighed deeply. "We really don't want to see a civilization die like this."

[You're right...] Scythe of War sucked Kufei, and asked in a calm tone 【But, if we are really in enemy-occupied territory, why did it take so long for a large warship to arrive? 】

"There are only three possibilities that we can think of right now."

【Tell me? 】

"Join us as a wild cat that wandered into someone's house," she replied after thinking for a while, "ate mealworms that were fed by that family's parrot..."

[Can you make a normal analogy? 】

"It's good to understand the meaning! The owner didn't move. The first possibility is that they don't care, because he raised a parrot with a reinforced company. It doesn't matter if one dies, and then he threw a ping pong ball over. Teach the bad cat a lesson."

There are enough mines, so someone making trouble in a remote mine will not be noticed. At most, a random boat can come over to see the situation.

[Indeed, there is such a possibility. 】

"The second possibility is that the owner is a NEET. He wants to take care of it, but his ass is stuck to the bench after sitting for too long and he can't get up. He can only throw a ping-pong ball over to vent his grievances."

The interstellar empire has reached a critical juncture, turmoil is everywhere, and it is about to collapse. At this critical juncture, there is a disturbance in a remote mine. Flying a ship there is already very good for you.

[Sounds really bad...]

"As for the third type..." She paused, and continued, "That is, the owner of the house died last night, and the parrots were still alive because they had just been fed, but in fact this system has gradually begun to collapse. As for the time of 'last night' on the scale of interstellar civilization, I don't know."

【…】

Warscythe fell silent.If an interstellar civilization dies, there is always something left behind.

Damaged relics, wreckage eroded by time, these things will be gradually picked up and deciphered by the newly born civilization. They will realize that there is another civilization before them that has disappeared, so they cherish their current life even more. If they are lucky, they can still Digging up some technology—many civilizations rely on the technology unearthed from archaeology to flourish and reach the sky in one step.But apart from these harmless or beneficial dead things, some things that are obviously dead but still alive can be called disasters.

For example, autonomous machines.

If there is no self-destruction, autonomous machines may go to sleep after the master leaves (such as the remnant army), and some will continue to work for a period of time. How long this period of time depends on the technological level of the current civilization.

And the self-discipline machines that continue to work are the most troublesome things, they will always run according to the prescribed procedures.If the instructions given to them by the owners before they left were [Expand] or [Collect Resources], then they will be like a chain saw that keeps spinning, destroying everything they encounter, unless they encounter something that can break the chain. The saw picks up what it breaks, otherwise it will keep running until its own run time is up and the mechanical loss is exhausted.

However, if the technical strength exceeds a certain limit, the operating time of the autonomous machine may only be described by the three words [semi-permanent].

"First scan started."

The detection waves invisible to the naked eye passed through the last trace of the hull structure, clearly detecting the interior of the closed cabin.

"The temperature... 210 degrees Celsius, with a downward trend. It seems that the temperature inside was originally constant, but the equipment to control the temperature has failed."

The ship has been damaged, so it is not surprising that the temperature maintenance system in the cabin fails. Compared with these, Oregana cares about the things in the cabin:

"What about those things floating in the cabin? What are they?"

"It's...quartz and dimethicone."

"What?"

"Dimethicone, silicone, the one you can use to massage scars."

"No, no, no, we know what it is, but how did this thing appear here? And the distribution is too weird, right? Crystals and silicone are mixed together so irregularly!"

【That, 32, have you heard of this idea? ] The voice of the scythe of war suddenly appeared in the communication [so-called silicon-based organisms. 】

"I've heard of it. It seems to be mentioned in "Mars Odyssey"..." She still remembered that in this science fiction novel written by Stanley Weissbaum, there was a description of silicon-based organisms, but Immediately reacted, "Wait, you mean, there are silicon-based organisms behind BETA?"

[Originally, it was very likely, but now it is basically confirmed. 】

Long ago, scientists imagined organisms based on silicon as organic matter.Among the amino acids that make up carbon-based organisms, the link between the amino group and the carboxyl group is carbon, while silicon-based organisms use silicon to connect the two. Because silicon and carbon belong to the same group and have similar chemical properties, silicon-based Living things are theoretically possible.

But wherever astronomers search -- meteorites, comets, the atmospheres of giant planets, interstellar matter, the outer layers of cooling stars -- they find only oxidized silicon (silicon dioxide and silicates), not to substances like silanes and silicones that are harbingers of the biochemical presence of silicon.

But the discovery now makes people feel a little panicked.Quartz and silicone are mixed in disorder in the closed cabin of an alien spaceship, which is also a command center there. It is impossible to say that mixing these two things is a supercomputer, right?The organic matter base and possible metabolites that make up silicon-based organisms are mixed together in this way, which makes people think of the corpse oil of carbon-based organisms...

[In front of us, it is likely to be a...or a group of dead silicon-based organisms. ] The voice of the scythe of war sounds a little dull [and it is estimated that it has been dead for a long time. 】

Civilization was destroyed for some reason. The last pilot sat in the cockpit of the starship and lost his life at a certain point. The control authority of the spaceship was transferred to the hands of self-discipline AI. , it sailed aimlessly in the sea of ​​stars until it was awakened by a signal from a remote galaxy on a certain spiral arm of the Milky Way...

Oregana couldn't help but gasped, she wasn't sad about the ugly end of these silicon-based lives, but worried about the challenges she needed to face in the future.If she was in a stable environment, she would definitely choose to study the corpses of silicon-based creatures carefully, but now in her mind, the thinking of a warrior and a commander has the upper hand.

It is the self-discipline machine that sets itself to work according to the program, so it is reasonable to continue to come here.They will continue to attack, there is no doubt about it.

As for [mutual understanding] to avoid fighting?impossible.The difference in life forms will fundamentally increase the difficulty of "mutual understanding". Want to decipher the language of silicon-based life and reach a consensus with the AI ​​made by silicon-based life before the battle occurs?

Then go to sleep, there is everything in the dream.

Either way, the fighting is bound to continue.Not only that, even the dark worms have 'seen' this world, and according to their habit of longing for intelligent life, before the world coordinates do not change, the possibility of dark worm attacks will only increase with time.

"Tsk..." Oregana clicked her tongue, "Continue to send the fleet over, I'm afraid it will continue to fight. The Ark project must also be launched."

[Do you really want to take it away?I'm afraid we won't be able to find a habitable planet for a while...]

If the enemies are all of this intensity and there are a lot of them, then the goal of this battle cannot be to defeat the enemy - that is a dream - the battle will focus on protecting the evacuation of the aborigines, and the Tartarus fleet will fight the enemy in front , the other fleets of the Consolidation Department protected the Sun Ark full of aborigines to evacuate.In this way, the battle damage of the fleet of the Joint Unit can be effectively reduced. As long as the fleet and soldiers do not suffer too much loss, Beria's subsequent propaganda work will be relatively easy.

Anyway, the dark worm was killed, and the loss of the troops was very small. The expected strategic goals were all accomplished, right?

The abacus in the head of the legion was clattering, and a smile slowly appeared on his face.

[This is the subspace monitoring station. According to the latest data, Ophiuchus—the subspace pathway of the solar system began to fluctuate, and there were multiple jump reactions on the opposite side. 】

The smile fades away.jpg

You guys came so fast, damn it!

"The requisition of the space habitat station also has to take them away. If you continue to put them here, you really can only wait for death, and you will be killed by a ping-pong ball! Start the Ark project and let Kluzer immediately pretend to be a human!" "The Tin Woodman, can you hear me?"

【I'm listening. 】

"You take a team back immediately, and open up all the Doomsday Dreadnoughts that were sealed before. We need firepower, firepower, and more firepower! This time we're going to fight a big wave! By the way, 76, connect us to the orangutan Our God, we have something to ask it."

"clear."

Chapter 327 Chapter 298: Great Retreat

Six in the morning.

The winter nights were long, and it was still dark at this hour, but Igor Eldridge Malin had awakened from his sleep.As a qualified member of the Young Pioneers, he always gets up early, keeping in mind "always ready", but what wakes him up today is not the biological clock that he has been cultivating all along.

"Hurry up, pack your things, we're going to move." Father Eldridge Ivanovich Marlin urged in a loud voice. He used to be a soldier, because he lost a dog in the war with BETA. The arm was forced to retire, but the loud voice developed in the army has never been changed.

Mother Andreyevna walked back and forth in the house, packing clothes and some small daily necessities into boxes.She works in a tractor factory, and her callused hands are dexterous and powerful. She lifts two large suitcases to the door without any effort, and then helps her husband button his coat:

"Igor, hurry up and get dressed, we have to go."

"Are you going to move again?" The boy rubbed his eyes and sat up on the bed, and put the clothes on his body neatly.In this season on Russian land, if you don’t wear thick enough clothes, you may freeze into a stick in a short while—just like the Germans who lived and died decades ago.

Due to the continuous advancement of the front line, even at the age of 14, Igor has already experienced a large-scale migration.Carrying heavy luggage and sitting on a cold truck for more than ten hours, this even gave him a tough character.As is often the case with precocious children in this day and age, a difficult environment can produce a strong character, which is of great help in surviving these tragic times.

Outside the window, the car engine and horn sounded constantly, and the flickering lights illuminated the snow.Soldiers guide the people's evacuation routes on the street. The cries of children and the noise of the crowd combine to make the night that should be quiet become noisy.

In addition, there was a subtle buzzing sound echoing on the ground, but at this moment Igor didn't notice what this sound was.