The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"Captain... Do you think you will..."

"To shut up."

"Those who dare to board the ship like this have only the possibility..."

The leader didn't want to hear that name again, with an angry expression on his face, he walked a few steps to the gantry at the corner of the bridge and put on power armor for himself, cursing:

"I said, shut up!!"

"……Yes."

"Hold the gun! It's up to you whether you can survive!"

He put on his helmet, held a long gun, and walked with heavy steps to the bridge door-he had to fight, for the lives of himself and his companions.

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In the process of advancing from the entry point to the bridge, the enemy's counterattack became fierce from the initial confusion.

This is not surprising, it seems that some writer named Hugo or something once said that orders can only be carried out most effectively in barricades and warships, because no one can escape from these two places.

Facing the ever-approaching marines, the pirates knew that they had to fight with their backs.They fought back desperately and retreated in an orderly manner, delaying the time as much as possible.

These pirates are also wearing power armor, but they don't look uniform, and the sources are obviously diverse, which is very consistent with the fact that they don't belong to a large organization.As for weapons, they are surprisingly good——

It looks rough, but its power cannot be ignored.

The person who was looking at the other side of the passage just now held a thick weapon that could hardly be grasped.The man poked his head out and fired, and the flash condensed into a beam that pierced the darkness.In an instant, with the surroundings becoming as bright as day, the light beam opened a surprisingly large hole in the wall behind, directly piercing through the next door of the cabin to see the compartment behind...

It is slightly less powerful than the Volgo Cannon, and if it is hit directly, it will be over.And in the next moment, another big gun fired as if to show its own presence, this time it was an astonishingly powerful plasma beam, which dug out a large part of the wall that was used as a bunker, scaring Oregana who was hiding behind. He had to roll away from the spot immediately, and flashed several rapid-fire beams——failed, the light beams of small power burned a large number of speckled melt marks on the power armor.The armor withstood this round of strafing fire, and Oregana saw the opportunity and threw the smoke bomb into the center of the passage.

The high-heat electronic smog filled the channel in an instant, and the thermal imaging system and microwave detection became blind all of a sudden—Oregana took a deep breath, the crest of Khorne on her forehead lighted up slightly, and she felt the fear and tension. Her perception made her immediately know the enemy's position.She raised the grenade pistol and emptied a magazine in one go towards the end of the tunnel.

It is not a powerful explosive bomb, but a 'sticky bomb' with special functions.

After the warhead filled with special compounds explodes, a highly compressed gel will be sprayed onto the target and solidified in a short period of time to hinder the opponent's actions.It's one of the most effective weapons against nervous enemies--if the opponent is wearing armor, it will hardly take any physical damage.However, we are not responsible for the loss of dignity caused by being glued into various shapes and being stuck on the ground and unable to get up. (nod)

There was silence on the other side of the passage, and Oregana opened the communication and said:

"Billie! Tell your people to live in the left passage, we saw that they were going to retreat in that direction."

【Where can I retreat to? 】

"Probably trying to escape through the rescue capsule." Oregana gestured, and several marines went through the smoke to catch the stuck guys. "Maybe their rescue capsule is running fast. , find that compartment, and destroy them."

【learn! 】

Hearing the affirmative answer from the other side, Oregana nodded slightly.

Where should we go next?

bridge?No, it's all up to this point, the boss of the other party will not be in the bridge, and he must be planning to run away.Although after destroying the cabin containing the escape pod, it was only a matter of time before he was caught, but she wanted to settle the matter quickly.

In short, let's find out the boss of the opponent first.

And outside the two corners, the pirates who had finally retreated here were looking at the picture captured by the monitor with a look of horror——

It was a warrior wearing a brass-colored power armor, with a battle ax hanging from his back, and the conspicuous skeleton...

You can't be wrong, it's them... no, it's them...

"They are not human!!"

"Wear power armor! Take an axe!"

"It's Harlock! It must be Harlock!"

"But why did Harlock appear here! Shouldn't he be active near the solar system?!"

The pirates were all in a panic, and in the panic they called out the name that the leader didn't want to hear all the time—Harlock.

That is the most wanted criminal in the entire universe. Starting from the end of the war a hundred years ago, he drove the pirate ship Arcadia with a huge skull engraved on the prow across the universe, fighting with one crusade fleet after another. win.

They have been active for 100 years, but Harlock himself has no signs of aging at all. He is still as gloomy and terrifying as before.

That pirate ship was active around the solar system, and had more than one fierce conflict with the fleet of the Gaia Arbitration Committee, and it retreated unscathed every time, which is enough to prove its terrible combat effectiveness.And the strange thing is that the Arcadia almost never calls at the port, its whereabouts are a mystery, and the only looters are materials such as incendiary bombs, rice steel, and other items that are easy to be welcomed by pirates. Pick armed ships to start with.

For this reason, whether it is the navy, pirates, or privateers, they all hate him.

But it's useless to hate to the bone, you can't beat them, if you encounter them, you have no other choice but to evade and run away.He is ruthless and never wants to take prisoners, but he doesn't kill them all every time - he doesn't often look for survivors to sacrifice blood, as long as he hides well and won't be found, he will be let go, so there are also a lot of witnesses, which is also the reason The reason why his information is so detailed.

"Anyway, we've got to go," the leader said, pulling himself out of his fear.There are still many doubts, but there is no time to analyze them now - if you survive, you can find a tavern to drink and talk to others about this matter. "We must evacuate immediately, or find a place where more ..."

But at this moment, the proximity siren suddenly sounded violently——

"That's it!"

The man in the red-backed gold-rimmed power armor rushed over at an astonishing speed. There was no time to fire. The pirate leader raised the big gun in his hand to block, but was split in two by the roaring tomahawk.

"Damn it!" He jumped back, not daring to take his eyes off the opponent, and shouted loudly, "Go away! Go away!"

Oregana didn't care about the fleeing pirates, she felt that the person standing in front of her might be a leader or something, and she should be arrested first.

Of course, the opponent would not stand still, he threw half of his rifle at Oregana as a cover-up, and then suddenly drew out the high-vibration dagger and rushed forward.The edge of the sharp dagger became blurred. If it was hit, the power armor would not be damaged immediately, but it would still suffer some damage.

But his movements cannot be compared with Oregana's in any case. The speed of Khorne is as fast as lightning. She grabbed the leader's wrist holding the dagger, and threw him against the wall with force from her waist. A piece of the metal wall smashed into it.Under the strong impact, his consciousness suddenly flew into the distance. When the scene in front of him began to blur, he only heard a slight sound coming from his ears——

【Let's get some sleep...】

The battle continues on both ships, but the boss fight is over.

Through fighting against the opponent's soldiers, Oregana also began to understand the technical level here-roughly speaking, the power armor technology is not as good as Kepulu, but the individual weapons are better than Kepulu. Less, it belongs to the state that the spear is much stronger than the shield.It sounds like the Tyrann Empire is a combat unit, but it doesn't actually mean that, it's just easier to understand. (nod)

As for the technical level of the battleship, I am not very clear. I am fighting against a pirate ship converted from a civilian ship, and its combat effectiveness is very good.The rest of the information still needs to be collected, and now those who are stuck, those who have been knocked out, and the merchant ships rescued by him are all good channels for obtaining information.

"Very good, contact the medical team. All the prisoners are locked up for interrogation," she casually put the leader on her shoulders, and opened the communication and said, "Contact that cargo ship."

[The other party did not answer, it seems that all the communicators were turned off before. 】Liu Lizi's voice came from the communication. She has been carefully paying attention to the situation on and outside the battlefield to deal with all possible emergencies 【I guess, probably to avoid being hacked into the system.So now we can't contact them. 】

"It's okay, use a searchlight to type Morse code, they use this here."

【Yes. 】

PS3: The next few days will start to make up for the chapter Mi 0w0

PS4: Fixed

Chapter 753 Chapter 681: How many pirates do you have here?

The alarm is still ringing in the ship, the damaged cabin has been completely sealed, and the fire in the cabin caused by the failure of the energy pipeline is gradually being extinguished.On the monitoring chart, many cabins at the rear of the hull are marked in red—that is because special low-temperature inert gas was urgently poured into them in order to extinguish the fire and cool down the temperature. At this time, the cabins must be sealed and no one is allowed to enter.

Compared with battleships, this kind of damage control measures is simply rudimentary and makes people speechless.After all, the main design is a low-end cargo ship from the perspective of ease of production and cost reduction, and it was only equipped with a minimum damage control system at the beginning.

If there are a few more shots, the ship will probably have to be abandoned... and even now, although the ship has been saved, it can only be used as a large container until the repairs are completed.

Captain Callas touched the visor of his helmet, and looked at the pirate flag projected on the big ship and the flashing signal lights-the signalman deciphered that it was a clear code, which meant' our target is only pirates, please don't worry ', let out a tired breath.

He was beginning to get to the point of the matter.

"captain……"

"I saw it." Facing the slightly uneasy voice of the young subordinate, the captain showed a relaxed smile on his face, "This is a privateer that can't be wrong."

There are not many privateers these days, and countries have not issued privateer licenses after the war.

Ships with privateer licenses are not incorporated into the chain of command of the naval fleet.Instead, follow the combat policy carefully agreed upon when issuing the exemption certificate, and attack the transport ships belonging to the enemy country. In the short term, it can cut off the supply line of the military depot, but in the long run, it can increase the cost of the war, which will lead to the outbreak of war weariness in the enemy country.

The next question is the validity period of the privateer exemption certificate.In short, at that time, most people did not know how long this massive war would last. The earliest private plunder licenses were calculated on a monthly basis, but in the future, because the end of the war could not be seen, it would bring glory The frequent return of victorious privateers for annual inspections will inevitably reduce their efficiency.

Communication you say?

In the era when faster-than-light communication was not so convenient, it was equally as difficult to send back a communication from an assault ship in a covert operation.You know, at that time, the urgent mail was even transported by super-light-speed transportation boats, because the boats ran faster than conventional communications...

As a result, many countries at that time made a decision that seemed smart at the time, but it seems a bit stupid now——

At that time, the average lifespan of combat spaceships was about five to ten years, and the lifespan of combat spaceships that performed too brutal missions at the forefront was far below the average lifespan.Even with proper maintenance and extended use time, it is the general trend to fall behind the times with the advancement of technology and changes in tactical thinking.

Raiding enemy convoys without satisfactory supplies and maintenance, the lifespan of a privateer can be imagined to be short.

Thinking [Anyway, you will die if you fight, and there are not many people who can live to the end of the war], so I didn't set an upper limit for the validity period of the privateer license...

But thinking that some people might want to wait until the end of the war after getting the certificate, and then use this certificate to do some messy things, the government that issued the privateer exemption certificate set several regulations and restrictions instead of regular renewal.

In terms written in formal legal terms, simply speaking, if no looting is carried out within a certain period of time, the privateering license will be invalidated.It also includes situations in which a registered pirate ship sinks or the crew loses its life, etc., making it impossible to work.For the loss of the captain, if the captain's immediate children succeed the captain, the privateer license will still be valid.But if the pirate ship is lost, there is nothing that can be done to remedy it.

Of course, if the country thinks that you are a good captain and you can still achieve results if you continue to lead people to fight, then it is not impossible to build a new ship to complete the same procedures and continue to march towards the great voyage.

In short, it is this kind of strategy that seems to be loose without a deadline on the surface, but in fact it is urging the privateers to grab as much as possible, and if it doesn't work, it will explode.

This strategy is indeed effective. The high-intensity piracy has indeed suppressed the enemy's supply lines, but both sides also feel very troubled by the fact that the pirates are almost unscrupulous. Fighting, sometimes the navy gets in the mix pretending to be pirates, and there are even wild 'illegal' pirates who don't have licenses, and it's a mess.

This decades-long story has also become the magnificent history recorded in the current textbooks, but if you look at it from the perspective of that time, it is probably [Where did this pirate come from? !Who is hitting me and who am I hitting? 】It feels like...

It is true that during this process, the loss of the privateer was quite large. According to this situation, there should be only two or three kittens left when the war ends.Thinking that when the time comes, they can just confer titles and let them spend their old age peacefully, indulging in the magnificent old days and spending their days happily.

But... the battle that took place in the solar system battlefield, known as the "Homecoming Battle" in history, suddenly broke out under circumstances that no one expected.The main fleet of the Galactic Empire intercepted the large fleet of the colonial coalition forces in the solar system. In terms of the number of both sides, this was far beyond the usual endless guerrilla warfare.The Galactic Empire has an absolute advantage in numbers, but the colonial coalition forces also have secret weapons - four powerful weapons made with unknown technology, the 'Death Shadow' (Death Shadow) class battleship.

The information about this decisive battle has so far been fragmented and false. Even a professional war history researcher cannot determine the truth.As far as the result is concerned, the Galactic Empire won the final victory after almost shedding blood. The colonial coalition shamefully swallowed the peace brought by the failure as a vassal. This paved the way for the Galactic Empire to be fragmented, but that is another a story now.

Remember privateers?

Most of the scattered privateers did not participate in this battle, they survived the war, and their certificates did not expire...

And then... the war ended, and things like routs led to frequent pirate attacks. They began to participate in the battle to eliminate undocumented pirates. At this time, the certificates had not expired...

And then... the Galactic Empire was split, and because the countries were vigilant against each other, they couldn't spare themselves to deal with those privateers who had lived up to now, possessed a certain degree of force, and had quite amazing combat experience, and the certificates in the hands of the other party were up to now Not expired yet...

People have been active until now, and the looting has never stopped.Who do you ask?Of course, grab wild pirates.

Moreover, the spaceship, which was expected to be damaged in five to ten years, was properly maintained after the war, and the outdated equipment was constantly replaced over decades, and in the end it became something like the ship of Theseus.If all the parts on the whole ship are replaced, then the ship is a new ship?Or the original one?

But obviously, the relevant departments will not determine that the privateer has changed to a new ship based on this philosophical question... What's more, what if they left a century-old captain's chair in the bridge without changing it? (serious)

Pirates holding a privateer license are neither the military nor the police or criminal organizations, and they are not controlled by any party and maintain a strong combat effectiveness.If this kind of situation happened in the Ministry of Consolidation, it would be dealt with immediately and properly, but it doesn't work here, not because the officials are short-sighted or stupid, but for a very simple reason——

Countries did not have enough room to deal with them, just as European countries during the period of great geographical discovery were unable to deal with the pirates hidden in the various islands of the Caribbean Sea for quite a long time.

Okay... Although it is a hidden danger, they have made a lot of efforts to maintain law and order. If they insist on getting rid of it (this is extremely difficult), they will have to increase funds in the navy to curb piracy. Let's just follow the habits of the past few hundred years.At least for now, they can be restrained by those licenses that have not yet expired, and even let them do something for themselves. (cover face)

At this time, even some merchants took a fancy to the history, traditions and feelings carried by privateers, so within the scope permitted by law, they hired privateers to "grab" their own yachts as special sightseeing projects , customers only need to pay a little more to experience a real pirate attack, which is quite exciting and lovable experience for ordinary people, which can not only enhance the popularity of their own shipping company, but even promote Out of insurance... (far eye)

And the privateers also feel that life is getting harder and harder.After all, it is a gray profession born in the flames of war, and it is difficult to make a living in the age when there is no war.And those who work in this industry are all ancestral family business (even a bit of cultural heritage) because of the never-expiring license, so it is difficult to engage in other jobs-but occasionally such people appear: