The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

In the most tragic, terrifying battlefield like a meat grinder, how serious damage will a Titan ship suffer?

The Tiamat has gone through this process more than once. When the MUV world retreated from the solar system, the Tiamat's second doomsday strike severely damaged the opponent, and the bow armor was almost completely peeled off; At the time, it was continuously bombarded from the front, which damaged the doomsday weapon installed on the bow, forcing Oregana to cross the hull at that time to exert firepower as much as possible; After being bombarded by a large number of Shadow of the Void battleships, the Tiamat lost more than half of its on-board artillery, and suffered a terrible blow to the side, tearing a terrible scar over 1000 meters long on the hull.

At that time, the trauma not only destroyed the side shield generator and the anti-aircraft firepower, but also turned several light warship berths into wrecks—of course, the corridor with a large number of statues of Oregana inside It was also blown up together, but it was blown up as soon as it was blown up, so there was no loss. (convinced)

And now, the Tiamat is still lying on the berth, and a large number of damaged components have been removed—it’s hard to describe what a Titan ship under repair looks like, because her body is like a small city, standing Looking down from the channel above the berth, I feel that the large and small unfilled potholes above are like bottomless abysses.

However, judging from the size and depth, these potholes can indeed be called 'the abyss'.After all, if you see a thing of similar size when you are climbing in the wild...the foot slips and falls, and you fall to the bottom of the valley. (convinced)

"Huh..." Oregana felt the wind blowing through the passage. This several-kilometer-long passage with a transparent outer wall has a ventilation system on both sides to ensure the clean air inside, while the outside of the passage is airless. cosmic environment.Without the refraction of the air, distant objects will be as clear as they are in front of them, and the huge shape of the Titan ship can easily cause visual errors.

In the sci-fi romantic environment composed of giant ships, complex machinery, and sparks from engineering facilities, Oregana said:

"The shield system has been completely dismantled. Can the gravitational interception barrier that is being replaced really replace the shield?"

As we all know, EVE's shield technology is very old, no matter who is using them.It's a time-tested defense - in principle, the shield is essentially a thick wall of particles bound by fields so it stays around the hull like the hull itself and the armor.When the ship is impacted by the outside world, the particle wall of the shield will weaken the attack or even completely block it outside the hull.

It's like a shield against flow arrows.

However, this kind of gravitational interception barrier called by the scythe of war is something completely different.

Hearing Oregana's question, War Scythe turned around and said with a natural expression:

"Of course not."

"Then let's let it go...wait?" Just when we were going to do things as big and powerful as before, Oregana suddenly realized something was wrong. "Is it irreplaceable?"

"Of course, if you think about it, you will know?" War Scythe spread his hands, "How can a device that relies on a gravitational field to intercept attacks replace a shield?"

"emmmm..."

Seeing Oregana's bewildered expression, War Scythe decided to explain it carefully - Oregana is indeed a master of skills, but her IQ may not always be online, and now she can see the crest of Khorne on her forehead Faint imprints, which means that the brain should be useless at the moment.What's more, even if the IQ is above the line, throwing a project that she has never handled before directly in front of her, it is not easy to understand it all at once.

Take a raccoon, a programmer, who suddenly got a program in his hand without a single comment on it.Once running, the screen is full of errors.At this time, let him find the BUG, ​​no matter how powerful a programmer is, he will have to catch him blind. (nod)

"Based on the G element, the Rutherford field and the advanced application of gravitons, a gravitational field with a thickness of several meters to tens of meters is generated at the position of the original shield. Theoretically, as long as the force is large enough, live ammunition and missiles will In the gravitational field, deformation, deflection, or even crushing or detonation, the particle beam will be dispersed and the laser beam will be deflected or out of focus.” After finishing speaking, he added, “The output of Tiamat’s power furnace is strong enough. .”

Hearing this, Oregana couldn't help but frowned:

"Isn't this the design that was sealed before?" She asked, "Although the performance is very good, when faced with a strong enough gravitational attack, this layer of barrier is easy to cause the generator to overload due to gravity out of control. It will fail in a short time.”

Not only that, this defense system is not very good at defending against lasers - after all, the Titan is so big, the deflection caused by the gravitational barrier cannot deflect the laser at an acute angle, and it will still hit the body after all, but the armor And the turret armor is very resistant to lasers; however, Tiamat itself uses laser weapons, which will be deflected immediately after firing, which means that new fire control parameters need to be input to adapt to this system , one before opening and one after opening.This is bound to bring a greater burden to the shipboard computer.

But it was still within the redundant range, Oregana calculated a little, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Do you remember the reason why it was sealed at that time?" War Scythe asked.

"Remember, didn't you meet the boss of BETA back then..."

At that time, because they intercepted the low-speed transport ship of Beta, intercepted a large number of G elements, and also obtained some information about G elements from the earthlings of MUV, Tartarus naturally began to study G elements.The gravitational interception barrier was initially researched and formed after the Great Retreat, but the experience during the Great Retreat made the technicians involved in the design and development at that time unable to trust this type of defense equipment too much.

Just met the guy who used the super-heavy cannon to paste people, and then you developed a set of defense equipment that will stop when hit by the super-heavy cannon?

Will most people think about using it at this time?

Obviously not.

Moreover, the original model consumes a lot of energy, and it is considered that only super flagships can be equipped, but at that time there were not enough super flags for you to try to play, so the whole set of equipment was frozen, and it has been restarted until now.

"Since then, we haven't encountered an enemy who raises his hand and throws a super-heavy cannon." War Scythe said affirmatively, "So I think this system is completely usable, at least at this point in time."

Indeed, since then, not a single ship has been sunk by a gravitational weapon, except for one hit by a whip missile during an exercise.

But there is an obvious weakness, which always makes people feel a little uncomfortable... This is like a FLAG, isn't it the same in all kinds of movies, novels and stories?So-and-so has an invincible defense, but there is a seemingly insignificant weakness, such as the heel, and the area the size of a leaf on the back, which is definitely going to stumble in the end.

In other words, if Achilles kicked Siegfried in the back, who would die? (malicious)

Oregana murmured in a low voice:

"If you encounter something like the Cosmic Sea Fog Fleet or the Nadeshiko, it will be over, right?"

"What is the Cosmic Sea Fog Fleet? Is it the Nebula Fleet?" It is a good way to relieve the atmosphere by making irrelevant complaints about a small place. Yamat's main defense is armor, you can think of this as a large gun shield. But no matter what... it's better than the time when you were confronting the ice shell monster."

emmm... Is it a large gun shield... I think it is acceptable after thinking about it this way.And it does look a lot more reliable than Emma's shield before.

"It makes sense." Thinking of this, she nodded and said, "Then quickly install it, the Titanship can't be left idle for too long."

"It's already being installed. Judging from the current progress, I guess it will take another week." Da Jiba took a few steps, leaning his upper body out of the metal railing, "And... that ship is about to It's done."

At first, Oregana didn't understand which ship he was talking about, and this kind of statement like "that lord" who suddenly spoke could easily cause confusion.However, in the next second, Oregana understood the meaning of Dajiba, and she thought of the bronze giant ship that had been lying on the super flag manufacturing array until now.

It's as if after hearing that adult, he immediately thought of the burning red flame on his head.

"Oh?" She showed an emotional expression, with a happy look on her brows, "Is it finally almost finished? It has been dragged on for so long..."

"After all, the blueprint is incomplete, and it took a long time to make up according to the diagram of the Orobas class. The sea trial will be ready next week."

"The Tin Woodman must be very happy."

"Just take this opportunity to go to the dock to see..."

But as if she had spotted the right moment, the communicator suddenly rang. Oregana turned on the communicator casually, only to notice that it was a communication from Star City's main control room.

The main control room of Star City can be said to exist like the headquarters of Tartarus. A large amount of information flows through this central network, and there are many people who process this information.Ordinary news that everyone can deal with can be dealt with directly, and the news that is reported to Oregana is obviously news that cannot be ignored casually.

She squinted her eyes, pressed the connect button, and the correspondent on the opposite side got to the point without any politeness——

【The Koprue reconnaissance post reported that dark worms were found in the void, and a small-scale exchange of fire has already occurred. 】

"Scythe, let's go to the main control room."

"Walk."

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"Next time, put the cloning pod next to the main control room!"

"Aren't you willing to bear the 10-minute elevator ride?"

"Hurry up!"

"You are rushing to lose your head!"

When the two entered the main control room, it was already busy.The Haiwen base has sent back reliable observation information, and now the two sides are exchanging data with a huge amount of traffic.The analysts were marking the coordinates on the star map and writing comments, and an officer was giving instructions to the troops stationed at Haven Base, presumably by sending out scouts to the nearby area.

But Oregana noticed that the alert level in the command system was only alert level three—this meant that a dark swarm had been found, but the threat level was low.

"What's going on?" she asked aloud. "Where's the swarm?"

Immediately, a non-commissioned officer wearing a dark green military uniform with wings and a sword emblem walked up to Oregana, saluted and replied:

"Report, the Koprulu Outpost has detected a disturbance in the void, and the dark worm's energy response has been confirmed." He said affirmatively, "The other party once reached Koprulu's void."

Well……

Logically speaking, it shouldn't be so soon, and previous forecasts show that it will take some time.This speed is too fast, it doesn't look like a cluster of several motherships at all.

And if she gathers to fight now, she doesn't have a Titan ship to drive. While thinking about whether she should drive the Najafa class again, she strides to the console:

"When?"

The sergeant of the Dark Angel just now followed her:

"Ten and seven minutes ago." He replied, and then turned on the projection device, "The monitoring post captured this picture—"

What appeared on the screen was the misty background of the void first. When the screen was zoomed several times, a small fleet with distorted limbs appeared in front of Oregana and War Scythe.

"Eh……?"

That was not the individual known to everyone before.The body surface of these monsters looks very smooth, showing a pale color, which looks like the tapered front half of the knight's spear.And at the back are the dark worm's iconic eyestalks and long arms and legs. Several bubble-mounted tissues emitting blue light are at the back of the 'Knight's Spear', and the arms and legs grow around those blue bubbles.

The size is marked on the system thoughtfully—the long axis of these new dark worms ranges from about 220 meters to 270 meters. They seem to start wandering around as soon as they enter the void, as if they are looking for something.

However, some people obviously don't see these monsters in the void crotch of Kopruu... as a playground.

The moment they dispersed, a series of attacks flew from afar. Dazzling and high-speed light spots passed through their formation that had just begun to be chaotic, interrupting a few of them on the spot, before the light of the explosion disappeared. Before that, a large number of shadows of the void began to emerge, and they were all reduced to ashes with scorching light beams.

"Kerrigan did what Sarnaga did." Oregana sneered. "The worm miscalculated. If you provoke her here, it is basically impossible to win."

"A small individual that I have never seen before..." War Scythe cared about other details, he played the image several times, and said, "It was directly interrupted by the missile of the Protos stick machine. It seems that the defense is very strong. Low."

"But very soon." The Sergeant of the Dark Angel added, "It seems to be a special type of subspace navigation. After this batch, there will be another batch, the number is about [-], and from the trajectory point of view, it seems that they intend to break into the real universe. But suddenly retreated halfway."

"Retreat halfway?"

"They're under attack," the sergeant replied, but with a sudden look of bewilderment on his face. "By Voidfleet—but strangely enough, these Voidships are our mining barges."

He pointed to the captured image - the Shadow of the Void battleship pointed at by the sergeant's finger was exactly the same as the Revolver.

Facing the doubts of her subordinates, Oregana showed an advantaged smile on her face:

"...This is a small agreement between us and Kerrigan, don't pay attention to it. In short, the scouts of the dark worms withdrew after they found them?"

"Yes," the sergeant replied, with an undisguised expression of relaxation on his face, "I'm relieved. After twelve hours, the state of alert should be lifted. This time, the large-scale insect swarm attack bypassed this place. Koprue will not be harmed."

"Tsk..."

However, Oregana showed a serious expression, she clicked her tongue, and shook her head heavily.

"Huh?" War Scythe gave her a strange look, "What's wrong?"

"This is not the time to breathe a sigh of relief." The Scythe of War will not take the initiative to seek war in this situation, because the size of the fleet has not recovered, and there are still a large number of super flagships still under repair, so he has the ability to avoid war Psychologically, it would be a good thing if the swarm left at this time.But Oregana held the complete opposite attitude. She said through gritted teeth, "Instead, we hope that they will enter Koprulu just like this, and then we will fight in a stance."

"Are you a battle freak?"

Facing the question of the scythe of war, Oregana replied without hesitation:

"Yeah, but that's not the question."

"Well?"

"On the other side, you have brains."

"?!"

"If you don't have a brain, you will definitely come in directly," she said affirmatively, "In the case of our side having a Sarnaga, it is very difficult for us to lose when the battlefield is Kepulu, just blow it up, three So what about the Mothership class? But they didn’t come in, they withdrew from the outer world. They sensed the danger, which means at least one of these guys has a brain. This kind of guy is the most difficult to deal with.”

War Sickle stroked the stubble on her chin, she was right, and this was exactly what she wanted to see.The swarm avoided here and went to other places, so that they could tidy up the fleet to face the next fatal confrontation.He could understand Oregana's thoughts, the dark worm with a brain was a terrible enemy, and the fact that such an enemy still existed nearby made people feel uneasy.

It’s as if you found a cockroach the size of a slipper near your house and it slipped away right in front of you.

"Then... what should we do? It's out of our control." He said, "We are not fully organized now, and the other party's intelligence is unknown. It is very dangerous to challenge rashly."

"We don't plan to start the attack right now, we have to collect intelligence first. We need to know where they have gone - even if they are outside the control range, they will not be too far outside. It will definitely be our business in the end." She Grinning, "Anyway, we have to find out where this cockroach is now."

Chapter 647 Chapter 587: Prepare for Investigation