The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

A shattered galaxy—a shattered galaxy indeed—is lit by the dim light of a red dwarf star with only 30 percent the mass of the Sun.There are no large planets in all the places that may be planetary orbits, and it stands to reason that there should be something here.And actually there is something...

That's a lot of debris.

More than 600 million or even more asteroids are very chaotically distributed in galaxies, revolving around the stars at a not far or near distance.The largest one is only a little over [-] kilometers in diameter, and the smallest... there is no way to figure it out.The small asteroids don't seem to be anything special, but the large ones are very interesting. They look like shells that have been peeled off from somewhere.

Oregana has seen something like this before, and the fleet of Tartarus has seen the moment when the dark worms came out of their shells. At that time, many of the fragments that fell from the planet were similar to the little aliens in front of them. Planets are similar.At that time, the 'eggshells' left after hatching were all gathered on the original planet's place, but it was different here. A large amount of gravel collided with each other over a long period of time, became finer, and then entered a planet under the action of gravity. In the subtle orbit, it finally formed what it is today.

"Boss, the information shows that this place used to be a spawning ground." Liu Lizi noticed Oregana's line of sight and reminded: "It is speculated that two mothership-class and six heavy-carrier-class hatched, and then they may be put into During the Battle of Fosno."

As mentioned before, the galaxy may have a name because it was a monumental battlefield, or a key hub.And the Vosno galaxy is such a place, it has both - in the past, it used to be one of the relay points for communication between the two refuge world biomes (of course there were no refuge worlds at the time), and the other world The biomes communicate with each other, and carefully maintain the previously fragile peaceful relationship with each other.

You must know that the communication between behemoths is like two giant ships running parallel, and they must not be too close, otherwise once they collide, they will squeeze each other and sink into the abyss.But if the distance between each other is found, then the two sides can move forward side by side.At that time, everyone did find that distance and created a prosperous civilization worthy of boasting.

But the prosperity did not last forever.

The incoming aliens destroyed all this, forcing the giants to stay away to ensure their own survival, and then gradually weakened over the long years.

The same is true for the dark worms. After there are no intelligent creatures to devour, the wisdom that cannot be passed on to the next generation will gradually die out in the erosion of time.Indeed, intelligent individuals can live longer, but they are ultimately limited by resources.It is still unknown who will win the long war of attrition.

"Can you see the remains of the ancient battlefield of Fosno in the next jump?"

"Perhaps we can see some."

This is also the first time in so many years that the fleet of a certain civilization in the Sanctuary World biome has come to such a far place.

Three hours and seven minutes later, Yukikaze arrived at the Vosno galaxy.

Almost immediately, the messenger arrived.

From the outside, this is not a gentleman - it is a mass of ever-changing shape, with a long axis of more than [-] kilometers, which looks like a huge black cloud, with a large number of tentacles curling on the surface of the meat, and the multiples are constantly breaking There is mucus all over the closed mouth.To be honest, its villainous aura is not much worse than that of the dark worm...

It was a black goat calf, but without the signature hooves of a black goat calf.The reason is also very clear - the feet in the universe are just decorations, and you know nothing about biological things. (Preparing the official face + one-armed hand)

The bleating monster floated not far from the fleet, and the communication came in.The background of the picture reminds Oregana of Char's hatching cavity, and what appears in the center of the screen is a beautiful girl with fair skin and long dark green hair, with the texture of succulent plants extending from the back, and fluorescent wings, these The wings connect directly into the wall behind.

In terms of appearance, this is a pretty cute girl, and the slightly raised hair on the side of her head forms fake cat ears, which adds to her cuteness.But being able to see this appearance always makes people feel that there is something wrong with their SAN value——

[Welcome to Fosno, Mom hopes you can reach the punctuation point No. 170. If you leave from there, it will be much easier for us to perform gravity operations to eliminate the track. 】

Her voice is quite similar to the staff of a certain silver-haired red-eyed magical girl...

"Understood, the fleet moved to the designated position, and prepared for the next round of transition as quickly as possible." Oregana nodded, and the sensor showed that there were still many such bleatings in various parts of the galaxy, which meant that Gauze Nicholas They are indeed helping to watch.She paused for a moment, then asked, "By the way...how do you call it?"

[Your Excellency the Skull Maker, you can call me 'Saya', someone once gave me this name. ] This baa baa slightly tilted its head [But it hasn't been used for many years. 】

"So, Saya. Our engines need a while to cool down, can we take a look around in the meantime?"

[Do you mean to look at the ruins? 】

"Yes."

【Please feel free to do this,” Saya said 【But there shouldn’t be much left. 】

As a hub, Fusno was fortified when the swarm attacked and resisted the attack of the swarm for more than a century.But in the end, it was abandoned after deciding to break off contact and build a shelter.The final battle was neither fierce nor cruel. The defenders remained calm, and finally withdrew the civilians from the galaxy with dignity. This century of fighting allowed them to win the right to live in peace behind another Sanctuary world. .

But now, the Fusno galaxy presented to Oregana no longer has any prosperity at all.The wreckage of the ancient battlefield - the broken corpses of ships, dark worms, space stations, colonies and various other sundries, formed large-scale rubble belts at several gravitational balance points.In the years to decades after the destruction, the energy released by the power furnaces still operating in the wreckage may still form electric surges among the ruins, continuously creating dazzling flashes like thunder, but now There was only dead silence.

The planet that existed as a colony is also gone-not only the colony is gone, but the entire planet has ceased to exist.The only thing left is the planet closest to the star, the planet that is surrounded by scorching heat all the year round and is tightly locked by gravity, and the outermost dwarf planet is still there.

[Because they were left unattended for several years after they were withdrawn, they had already implanted eggs in them when they were noticed. ] Saya explained that her huge body—or this is actually some kind of vehicle—followed the shuttle released by Yukikaze with unexpected dexterity.She said helplessly [Because there is really no other way, so we can only tear down the entire planet.The ecological planet in this zone is very troublesome in itself, and it will be corrupted if it is left alone, and it will all become the nourishment of the other party in the end. 】

There was an unconcealable distress and annoyance in her voice.

Oregana understands this.This matter is uncomfortable for anyone, because it means that ecological planets that may evolve advanced life must be destroyed if necessary.As for whether any intelligent creatures living here were wiped out because of this?

In fact, there is no such thing.

Because they were attacked intensively by the dark worms at the beginning of the war, and all the ones that were not removed have been eaten up.Therefore, some people say that this dead space once gave birth to the last batch of intelligent individuals outside the Sanctuary world group. This may actually be quite close to the truth—unless the dark worms have mastered the technology of breeding intelligent creatures.

Originally, this was only proposed as a conjecture, but the experience in Nascatron has confirmed that the Dark Worm Temiao really has this ability...

Although I don’t know if the effect of breeding civilization will be good under such fierce competition outside—it feels like playing Happy Farm, someone will pick up the cabbage you just planted and run away if you don’t pay attention; Or it simply turned into a tragic situation of beating local tyrants to share smart candy. (cover face)

But once a powerful dark worm really controls a star field and starts to raise something, the result may make everyone tangled up to 47.Although there is no evidence to prove that there is such a thing at this point in time, the mere existence of this possibility makes people panic.

Oregana put on the power armor and climbed out of the cabin, looking at the ancient wreckage with her own eyes.Huge gothic towers and rocks are stacked together, towering churches and statues are fragmented, and the magnificent and huge warship is broken from the middle. The part of the hull with the turret and ram is still left in the front, but the rear is missing. Fei, I'm afraid it has been mixed in the gravel belt - she believes that she will definitely find it if she looks slowly.

"Can we go into the wreckage?"

[I'm afraid it won't work, Your Excellency the Skullmaker.The wreckage that was not destroyed during the retreat—these are still whole, and they are all traps.There should be something like a melta bomb inside, and as long as someone wants to board the ship, or even get close, the bomb will detonate.Originally, these things had an accurate judgment system, which could tell whether it was a dark worm or a friendly army around them, but now it is estimated that it is almost broken, and of course the bomb is also. ] Saya warned that the huge body like a black cloud floated beside the shuttle, and the mouth on it somehow became a w shape [but no one can guarantee whether the bomb on the piece of wreckage you want to enter is good or bad. 】

"Ok."

Glancing at the badly worn eagle emblem, on another piece of wreckage, she saw a blue background emblem that was almost invisible, with a golden horseshoe-like U painted on it, and decorated with skulls.Obviously, this is the emblem of the Ultramarines of the Imperium of Man.These wreckages indicate that the Ultramarines once fought in the Vosno galaxy. According to records, after the battle, the troops in other refuges retreated back to their own world in an orderly manner, protecting their people for a long time.

Suddenly I was a little flustered, if one day, I had the opportunity to meet the great leader over there, would I be scolded with holy swear words... (covering face)

Originally, I wanted to name the new breed of blue pigeon that was recently discovered in a certain world the Markkula pigeon, and then call it Qingbao Tianzun pigeon...Suddenly it was time to persecute Cuckoo again. (far eye)

She withdrew her thoughts, moved her eyes away from the cannon decks, looked at Saya's w-shaped mouth—this mouth was particularly eye-catching—and said:

"Is there any good place to build a supply station?"

[No need to pick it out. 】Sha Ye shook the tentacles——from this point of view, the tentacles look a bit like the fluffy fluff on a black sheep, and it feels very good to touch.If there is a plush doll for this type of black goat cub, Oregana is actually very interested in buying one.

emmm, I want to lick black goat cubs, generally speaking, this must be a sign that the SAN value has returned to zero. (cover face)

Of course, Saya didn't know what Oregana was thinking, she said: [The gravel belt can be stuffed everywhere, these relics of the old era can cover almost everything. 】

Tartarus' industrial ships eventually set up a small outpost in the dangerous rubble belt of Vosno.

This is a small outpost with the model name 'Villainous World's Spawn'. It is an ellipsoid with a long axis of less than ten kilometers. It doesn't even have a building-level sustainable space anchor system. It looks like an egg. It gives the impression of being small and simple (as long as it is compared with other tall and majestic space buildings).But this is not cutting corners, but a wonderful design-although it is small, it has all the functions it should have. The built-in cloning cabin can create and store more than [-] conventional clones, and it also serves as subspace communication. The receiving function of the tower as well as the induced force field generator.

Thanks to its small size and light weight, it can be easily mixed into some natural celestial systems, and its concealment performance is extremely strong.This time it was thrown into the rubble belt, and the debris was mixed with the whole rubble belt to revolve around the star. It has also been dropped on the surface of satellites during exercises, or simply thrown into the atmosphere of gas giants to rely on anti-gravity The system is suspended.

But the latter is actually a stupid idea that underestimates the storm of a gaseous superstar...It is just a dream to fight against a storm of that level without anchoring and relying on the anti-gravity system. The attitude control in the atmosphere failed, and it was not recovered in the end.The company commander who made this decision undertook an additional 72 hours of voluntary labor after the exercise—mainly digging in the mining area and re-learning fluid dynamics. Waste' concept.

Saya and the 'flock' were ordered to protect this galaxy during this period of time. Of course, in order to avoid being noticed, they did not deliberately station in the galaxy, but carried out short-distance arming centered on several surrounding galaxies reconnaissance.If there are dark worms approaching the cordon, destroy or drive them away. How to do it depends on how many of them have come.This is just a precautionary measure. It was a few months ago that the dark worms visited here recently. It stands to reason that they shouldn't come back in a short time.

But if the other party comes for real, they must notify the Skull Maker that the task is terminated and withdraw immediately.

Of course, this small outpost, which is not half the size of the Hessen Peak Academy ship, cannot allow the flagship team to park here, but it still has the function of being a "berthing place". This function is generally realized as follows:

First of all, a flagship can maintain its annual cruising time in the universe by itself. This cruising time does not refer to continuous jumps, but regular voyages.Then, the improved jump engine can make the ship in place within seven light-years with one click, and it will be OK in an instant if you find the inducement and jump in.Then, the realization of this function is very easy.

That is, the flagships are scattered and hidden in the black field seven light years around the galaxy, and then the cloaking device is turned on (it is not a conventional cloaking device of a stealth action device, the effect is not as good as the stealth action, it will interfere with the jump and affect the speed of the ship).You bug jumped to the next galaxy and looked for it at least four light years away. You can see a Titan ship that is less than [-] kilometers away from a distance of several light years. It is invisible, motionless and quiet like a thing. I lose.

And once something goes wrong, just click here to induce, and the entire fleet will fly here from all corners of the map to gather here in an instant, showing what it means to be united by all.

While a great move, tactically and strategically viable, it's hard to see it as a 'berth' or anything like that.However... in extraordinary times and extraordinary methods, as long as it can be used, the only problem is that the shift system may have to continue-in order to wake up the resting clone pilots as quickly as possible, a new wake-up voice has been added to the shipboard main engine. When it's time to change shifts, a thick male voice will sound:

[Open your eyes, Universe Superman, I'm Sha Fulin. 】

Or something similar.

What wakes you up every morning?Is it an alarm clock?Is it a dream?It's not, it's just a desire to complain... (covers face)

And then, there was only one team going forward.

Three Guilty-class Black Hidden special service ships, two Tianhe-class transport ships, and two Struth-class cruisers, that's all.

A fleet is composed entirely of stealth specialized warships, taking into account various possible situations.Both marines and researchers stuffed a lot on board.

What will be encountered after that is completely a mystery - the ruins infected by the dark worm (like the Sarnaga Temple that was covered with creepers before), the strange celestial phenomena, and even a strangely developed deep Dark worms; there is a star eater; a team of infinite magic machines; half a dozen Tiyang Kai women's patriarchs; a whole row of mysterious fortresses; pulsar ghosts; Compete for spawning grounds, and carry out a cosmic-scale enclosure movement...

Although the above things are exaggerated, almost all of them may be encountered in subsequent investigations... No one knows what will happen.Faced with this situation, Oregana could only choose the safest—or the most cowardly—investigation method.That is to use the stealth fleet to approach quietly, scan the abnormal coordinates at a safe distance, and slip away as soon as something is wrong. The marines on the ship are just responding to emergencies, and do not intend to really use it anywhere.

The fighters of these anger regiments obviously understand this, so when they board the ship, their emotions are not very high, and even their speech has become civilized-usually they regard swearing as part of their work, which means that they are I got on board with a vacation mood.This is nothing to worry about, because for these fighters, thanks to the rigorous training of the Chapter Master Billie Hailing, they only need to say the word beginning with F, and they can enter the battle like self-hypnosis state.

"I'll leave this to you." Oregana said to the War Scythe when boarding the sinister-class black stealth special service ship 'Diablo', "If we need reinforcements..."

"On call." The Scythe of War put on an expression of 'I'll take care of things, you can rest assured', and said, "There are induction systems on the 'Baal' and 'Mephisto', and finally the World can lock on to— —In order to avoid some things that everyone doesn’t want to see, I will throw you into the black area beside the target area, and you will touch the rest by yourself.”

"Sounds like a lot of time."

"Just to be on the safe side," Da Jiba shrugged, "I'm afraid that you will pick up the communication as soon as you enter, shouting, 'We caught a full set of dark worms! Come and eat meat!' or something."

"Wow, we won't talk about this! But it's not a bad thing to be cautious," she put on her helmet and jumped out of the port, just floating towards the hangar door of the Diablo. "Then, see you later. "

"Well, see you around 'head'." (emphasis added)

Then, another long journey.

The Scythe of War really just randomly found a black area and threw the ship into it. When the wormhole closed behind her, Oregana realized that she was almost three light-years away from her destination.In order to avoid being discovered, Oregana first locked the jump engine on the target point, and planned to use the black bridge of the black stealth special service ship to project a Statius-class cruiser to a place more than ten AU outside the target galaxy to avoid and possible occurrences Enemy targets in the galaxy head-on.

"Search for information and send it back, that's your job." She warned, "Don't do unnecessary things."

[Yes, Legion Commander. ] The driver replied decisively [this side is ready to go. 】

"Bon Voyage."

After speaking, Captain Scalzi activated the delivery system.In a deep blue flash, the cruiser's indicator signal instantly disappeared from the screen.

Under normal circumstances, the driver will send back a message to confirm the arrival at the moment of arrival, but today the news will be late - because there is no subspace communication coverage here, and the expedition fleet does not have the energy and time to build a subspace communication tower. .Therefore, scouts need to make some preparations to communicate with the rear.

First of all, subspace buoys must be dropped, and after they all sink into the subspace, analyze the space fluctuations and the flow of psionic energy here, and then disguise the parameters according to the local environment, which can hide the location of the sending communication and the location of the recipient, even under conditions When permitted, the sending of the communication is regarded as 'did not happen', and all clues are hidden to deal with various investigation methods, all for the sake of safety.

And the receiver also has to drop the buoy, which is essential as a temporary replacement for the communication tower, but the performance of this small thing is far weaker than the communication tower-if this thing is better than the communication tower, then There's no need to spend a lot of money on towers - this will cause communication delays, packet loss and loss of clarity.

Now, the Diablo has dropped the buoy, but there has been no reply from the other side.Although it is known that the scouts need to spend a few minutes to solve various 'procedures', judging from the results, this is still an anxious thing.It's like a dentist giving you a numbing shot in your gums, and then turning around to find pliers to pull out your hopelessly carious tooth, while you're lying on a medical bed with a gag in your mouth and a smear in front of your face. A super-bright light—like the one shining on the head in the interrogation room, and the sound of clanging pliers and other metal collisions can be heard next to the ears. At this time, no matter how brave people are, they will feel uneasy in their hearts.

And when waiting for the information from the scouts, it is to magnify this anxiety, and then prolong the time.

"This is so urgent, my nerve interface started to itch." Captain Scalzi shook his head irritably, the nerve cables at the back of his neck shook slightly with his movements, "Perhaps we should have lost a little bit just now." farther away?"

"Don't panic, Captain, please calm down." Oregana was sitting on the VIP seat shaking her legs-although she was advising others to calm down, her posture itself was not very calm. "You have learned this process before, Know how long it takes to manually set up warp communications. Be patient, eh?"

That is to say, everyone understands the truth, but whether it can be done or not depends on the individual and the situation at the time.

"I...well, I see." Captain Scalzi sighed, and began to take deep breaths to relieve tension.

He had just taken a breath when the notification tone from the communication almost made Scalzi pass by in one breath.While he was coughing violently, Oregana had already picked up the communication, and asked in a slightly higher tone than usual:

"Scout, report your situation!"

[We arrived safely, boss. 】There is a different kind of excitement in his voice, the high emotion of facing challenges and opportunities at the same time is almost like a UMA hunter who suddenly found a mothman leading Zhuo when he went home and went upstairs. Bobulaka was about to go downstairs for a walk, and then the two sides stood in place and looked at each other in a dazed manner like 【Captured the space distortion point!And there is...]

There was the sound of swallowing saliva in the communication, and the content contained in this "and" shocked even the well-informed fist group scouts.After realizing that he might not be able to organize the language to describe this matter in a short time, the scouts packed and sent the data from the front line before everyone's patience and expectations reached the limit, and the image data was immediately presented on the big screen of the bridge. on the screen--

First of all, that's a vortex.

A huge, blue glowing vortex, or rather, a constantly spinning hole.The distortion of space formed strange ripples around it, and the starlight in the distance twisted in the ripples and became part of the whirling ripples.And in the very center, just like the quiet eye of the wind in the wind wall, soap-bubble-like colors flow on the surface that gives people a smooth impression-but it is obviously not a smooth surface, but a broken space in space. Hole, this is a leak point, through this hole, you can reach the opposite side.

Just like a wormhole, but the returned data shows that its internal structure and radiation data are different from natural wormholes.On the contrary, it is a bit like the channel created by the delivery system, but the degree of chaos is higher.This channel is only a stable 'existence', not a stable 'use'.

Because there was no reference object, Oregana couldn't judge the size of this 'hole' for a while, but soon Oregana found a reference object——

On the periphery of the 'hole', there is something floating beside the twisted ripples. If the whole vortex is regarded as the water surface of a teacup, then the small thing next to it is the tea stem floating on the wall of the cup.There are dozens of them, slowly rotating around the ripples.