The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"It is said that it can make the hair smooth and shiny." Recalling that time, Oregana showed a strange expression. "Is it because Alicia's tail is so beautiful?"

"But most people are lucky if they don't shed their tail after finishing the whole set."

"Normal people don't grow fluffy tails, do they?"

"That's true."

"Would you like to implement this at the Naval Academy? The snow on the Nut Fjord in the south of Niu Xing does not melt all year round. The geological activities are quite active, and there are hot springs everywhere. Therefore, we think that the floating lotus seeds should have beautiful furry tails. ..."

"Shut up! Don't hurt innocent teenagers at will!"

Just then, a slight beep sounded from the navigation system.The two immediately stopped talking, and their mentality switched back to the working state in an instant——

Driving a Titan is not just for a ride and chat, there are quite a lot of business to do right now.

Targeted testing of the Mek clan's detection and jump-like technology (because it's not a jump at all) has already begun. In order to find out the flaws in this detection and surfacing, the technical department of the integration department plans to conduct a series of experiments to find the law .For this reason, the Tiamat, which was built using a lot of subspace technology and has excellent subspace detection and data recording capabilities, got its first mission.

Accompanying her are the sixteen Nestor-class battleships of the Ghost Fox Fairy Guard. Although this type of multi-functional battleship equipped with an excellent detection system has not weak combat capabilities, it is more often used for frontal battleships. Combat, but a single ship for long-distance navigation, exploration and search and rescue missions-many elite scientific research teams entrusted with important tasks use the Akinayama class that is not transformed from the disaster class, but are equipped with improved leap Engine Nestor.

"The target area has been reached."

"The observation ships and escort ships are deployed around, don't miss them."

【learn. 】The commander replied【Start releasing the probe. 】

The multi-functional launchers under the hulls of all Nestor-class battleships expand their launch ports, and use the electromagnetic acceleration system to launch the car-sized probes.After these long-distance probes gained initial velocity, they immediately dived into the subspace to form communication nodes.Within a distance of several light years, the Technology Department has pre-arranged more than [-] subspace detection probes, which form a sparse but reliable network to detect any space signals that may be generated during the experiment.

In addition to the technical masters of Tartarus, the templars who are good at psychic detection and several technicians sent by the Dimensional Sea World Group participated in this experiment.Before that, because he was shocked by the brutality of the Mek tribe and the strange attack method of the other party, Archbishop Artanis attached great importance to this, so he specially sent his trusted adjutant Serendis and phase technicians led by Karax group to assist in data analysis.

Alarak wanted to come too, but he decided not to come when he heard that Artanis had sent his deputy. What would it be like to go there himself if Artanis only sent his deputy?It was enough for Jilana to go... But he quickly noticed that there seemed to be few technicians on his side who were good at this field, or that his technicians were only good at changing ships, and psionic experts were good at it. It is fighting and climbing the ladder to calculate people instead of research.

Forget it, let me know the result after the research is finished. (eyes glow)

After receiving the notification of arriving at the target area, these relevant technicians quickly came to the spacious bridge of the Tiamat through the ship's transportation system, and sat on the reserved seats-any ship The bridges of the Titan ship are all designed according to the size of the frontline headquarters, and can accommodate hundreds of people working at the same time, and can also be used as the main control room of the test site when needed.

Being able to work on the bridge of a Titan ship is a rare thing for ordinary technicians, but considering the significance of this experiment, no one present showed any joy about it.From skill masters to psykers to phase technicians, they all have the serious appearance of the current enemy.

There were no actual tasks to be done, but the symbolic Protos Commander Serrandis walked into the bridge with graceful steps.I have seen this giant ship before during the ship review. Although she is far smaller than the proud Spear of Adun of the Durham Protoss, considering that a Titan ship of this size can It is admirable to put into mass production and the manufacturing time is not long.

Different from its majestic appearance, the bridge layout of this ship is simple but reliable, and at the same time, it is not low in comfort—as long as you don’t look at the chair that Oregana’s army commander himself is sitting on.

She saluted the Legion Commander, then vibrated the air with psionic energy and made a voice with a unique sense of vibration:

"Greetings, Your Excellency, Legion Commander. I am here to participate in this experiment by order of Archbishop Artanis."

"Thank you very much for Durham's assistance, and send our greetings to the Archbishop."

Although this kind of polite talk has no practical meaning, it is always necessary, and both parties know this.Taking this as an opening remark, Serrandis looked at the technicians who were concentrating on the computer panel in front of them (some of them even put out the crystal, which seemed like a programmer with their own computer), and at Aole Janna lowered her voice next to her:

"My next words represent only my personal opinions." She said, "Actually, I don't really want to use the technology of the Mek clan. It's a blasphemous thing that shouldn't be touched."

This line of thinking is in line with the consistent impression given by the Protoss. In the past, the Protoss cared little about the lives of primitive civilizations, while Jim Raynor and his cheerful friends were largely top-down changed this.Both generations of leaders of Protos regarded him as a friend, and gradually changed their views on other races in the days after joining the Concord.

Then, the sense of justice and morality of the Protoss made them regard themselves as 'guardians' and 'guides' to some extent.Since other civilizations in the Consolidation Department can communicate and communicate well, and their ideals and courage are admirable, the same is true for other temporarily backward intelligent races—but someone must guide them and protect them, otherwise the cold universe will be destroyed most hope.

The Mek clan and hell this time is the most intuitive portrayal of the 'cold universe'. After seeing the report sent back by Tartarus, any Protosian feels that this is an abominable blasphemy. And the battles he participated in afterwards also proved this point.But just when Artanis assembled a fleet and planned to change Urdak's skin, the photo of Oregana driving a strange thing and holding her head had already been sent to him.

This guy is really fast... and he really deserves to be the one who dared to lead the Marine Corps' hard-boiled bug swarm and go in and out of the bug pile alone when he was fighting Charl.

I always feel that she will definitely need an Immortal Mecha one day for transportation, and she can afford it, so prepare it for her first.

The threat of the Mek tribe ended very quickly, but there was something left in the Mek tribe, and Artanis was worried about this-years of experience told him that there are many things in this universe that cannot be touched. A kind of relic, it may be some kind of creature, or it may be some kind of technology.So he sent his own team, not just for research, but also to tell himself about the anomaly when necessary.Oregana is a smart person, which can be seen from her planting a nuclear bomb in the laboratory, but no one can guarantee that smart people will not make mistakes.

In that position, Oregana must not make mistakes, so when necessary, she needs others to help her see the blind spots she can't see, and remind her before she steps into the air.

And Serendis came here to take on this important task.

Oregana can also guess the general idea, so she comforted:

"To be precise, it's not the technology of the Mek tribe. We didn't use any of their products or energy, but just borrowed ideas to conduct experiments." She said, "Our main purpose this time is to find a way to shield this detection. , not using this technique.”

"I understand."

The young protoss (although larger than all the people on the first bridge of the Hyperion put together) nodded slightly and went to her companions.

Oregana watched her leave, and turned on the communicator——

"The sensor range is set to three light-years."

"Understood, set three light years."

"The number of sensors in the area is 110 seven," a tech bully reported, "26 of them have poor signal reception, and the operation rate of the communication and monitoring network is above 99.9992%, and the error is within the allowable range."

"Ready to start." Oregana nodded, "Start."

"start up!"

Everyone who participated in the experiment started to move, and more than [-] passive probes in the subspace were activated at the same time, and the extremely large data was transmitted along the communication network to the sensor nodes released by the Nestor-level formation, and then It will be transferred to the Titan ship's sensors, run by Tiamat's powerful shipboard computer, and finally the first batch of processed data will be presented to all analysts.

Subsequently, the hangar of the Tiamat was unfolded, and a cigar-shaped object with a long axis exceeding 30 meters was released.It wobbled for a moment in the outer universe, sinking as if sinking into the Warp.This is a device manufactured according to the principle of the Mek sensor. It is a passive sensor that can be mounted outside the ship or used alone like a buoy.

After sinking into the warp, the cigar-shaped shell unfolded to reveal the antennas inside. These folded antennas, generally more than 40 meters long, protruded in all directions, making the sensor look like an oval sea urchin.After receiving the signals touched by the antenna, the specially cultivated synapses inside convert them into electrical signals that can be interpreted and uploaded.

Conventional detectors detect energy, but this detector detects 'emotion' and 'consciousness'.Therefore, everyone needs a more intuitive device, so that they can accurately find what they want. The core of this device is 76. It didn't take long for her to create this special-purpose device based on a soldier-level brain. Biological components for reception and feedback.It can respond to emotions and consciousness, but there is no such thing as consciousness itself, and it is not even an independent creature, so it will not be corrupted and mutated in a short period of time if it directly contacts the subspace.After the end, it can also use the self-destruct code placed inside the cell to destroy it at the beginning, so that it will not be lost to an unknown place due to accidents (even if the possibility is very small).

This feature couldn't have been better in this experiment.

The energy flow in the Warp is detected, interpreted, and the emotions contained in it are separated out, and thus locate the reflection of the flashing light of the consciousness group on the back of the world.Of course, it is impossible to find accurate coordinates by detecting from the subspace. The distortion and anomaly of the subspace itself will distort the path of energy and information transmission. Observing at a long distance can only confirm that there are inhabited galaxies. That's all.

But with a star map at hand, it's easy to determine which galaxy is there.

"A medium-intensity thought signal has been detected." Techmaster Clarence Blackwood announced the result of his comparison. "Coordinate comparison—it's Santorini."

"That's right."

Oregana nodded slightly.

Santorini is a transportation hub that connects the mining systems Berkele, Viajni, and Rodai.The cargo ships of these three mining galaxies arrived at Santorini using the starbridge system, and then entered the long-distance logistics system of the Consolidation Department through Santorini's star gate. The mollite has greatly supported the construction of the Ministry of Consolidation in all aspects.

Of Santorín's six planets, two are in the habitable zone, and one of them meets Concord's 'habitable' criteria.After a year and a half of application and approval, the countries agreed to allocate this planet to the Mining Association of the Ministry of Consolidation for management—this is a consortium of companies supervised by various civilizations, with the support of the Ministry of Consolidation. Leading the establishment of mining companies, it aims to increase mineral production and work efficiency while improving the satisfaction of grassroots staff.

And Santorini II was established under such circumstances, and the staff working in these three galaxies got the right to live on this planet.Unlike space explorers and those engaged in logistics, most of the people who go to space to mine are young people from families who are not rich and want to work hard.The temporary homes of these space miners are all in the dormitories provided by the space station of the mining company. When they need to rush to work, they will sleep in the towed sleeping cabin next to the industrial command ship to save time when they come and go. The work is very hard.Although the wages are definitely higher than those in their hometown, many people have earned enough money to buy a house in the prosperous city of their hometown, but they can’t go back for a few days a year, and they are separated from their partners and children by light years all the year round. Not even a world away.

But people who work near Santorini—whether they are company accountants, miners who collect moirite on the front line, or drivers who drive transport ships to transport ore back and forth—can settle on Santorini at a low price.They can get a small piece of land on this peaceful and peaceful planet, hire a construction team to build their own home, and then take their partner, children or elderly parents to live in it.There are hospitals, schools, shopping malls and other infrastructure established by the Mining Association, and various daily necessities and food are transported through logistics.

Workers are the main residents, and then infrastructure maintenance personnel, doctors, teachers, practitioners in the catering industry, practitioners in the service industry... This mining-based planet has gradually developed.But after all, the people living on this planet come from different civilizations, and it is impossible to directly tell who it belongs to, which has caused many hidden dangers and management problems.For this reason, this is a special type of colonial planet that is being researched and assessed, and no one intends to promote this model until the results come out.

It is also for this reason that there are at least six Ansador teams operating there, and the protection hub in the universe is not an ordinary outpost of a few civilian cruisers that do not have the ability to sail across galaxies, but a genuine tower. The Iron Wall of Urtaros, the garrison inside is a company of the Dark Angels, equipped with four strike cruisers.There are always people who like to do things on this remote and seemingly loosely defended planet, illegal pirate strongholds, controlled drug flow, and the spread of extremist ideas and cults, plus it does not have a clear 'sovereignty', and the galaxy The internal traffic is busy and chaotic, and it often attracts some ambitious people who seem to be able to do something here...or idiots.

The main tasks of the garrison here are to check the hidden illegal star bridge, clear the 'inns' (referring to simple illegal space residences) placed in the asteroid belt, and intercept stowaways disguised as civilian ships.If anyone is the most sensitive to subtle spatial fluctuations, it is probably the dark angels here.Anyone who dares to make trouble here will find that "angels have come to me" if they don't pay attention.

As the song says--

At the time when the sweet and slightly bitter angels come, no matter if they are serious children or careless children, let's hold hands together! (pointing to handcuffs)

Treating heartbeat (dokidoki, referring to cardiopulmonary arrest) as a gift is only here ~ secret~ (not announced after arrest)

Because of this, this experiment is best placed here for testing.There will be no big chaos, and the reaction speed of the defender can be measured at the same time.Although Oregana is pessimistic about this—the dark angels in this fortress will probably be deflated today, she doesn't think that when that incident happens later, they will be able to react immediately.

She sighed softly, leaned on the back of the chair, raised her legs, and poked Tiamat fox's face one after another with her fingers--the fox still hid when she couldn't be poked. Hide away, it's actually quite interesting to think about having a machine soul:

"It's really so easy to find..." she asked, "Santorini is more than three light years away from here, right?"

[Well, the detection distance is actually farther than expected, only detecting the 'flash' of consciousness in the subspace is definitely not able to see Santorin without psykers. 】Dark Rock’s voice sounded in the communication. He is currently reading the first-hand data directly on a Nestor-class bridge. But it can be seen from the flow of energy affected by consciousness.The core of this technology is to distinguish the conscious reaction that has not been assimilated by the subspace from the energy flow of the conventional subspace, and to be able to find the target farther away. Because the space stability of the transportation hub galaxy is lower and the activity of the subspace is higher, it is also easier to spot. 】

The gathering of a large number of psykers will make the entire planet extremely conspicuous in the subspace. Oregana once observed Aiur from the void.It feels like turning off all the lights in the office when working overtime, and then adjusting the brightness of the computer screen to the maximum, and then helping the colleague who is sleeping next to him, and opening his eyelids before he can react. He looked directly at the workplace, and the world in the eyes of his colleagues was almost the same as Al in the subspace.

The flash of a single psyker is easily noticed by warp creatures, and the warp creatures will run over like an undead who sees a light spot next to the map. In some bad situations, this will lead to parasitism Or be swallowed, and if the whole planet is full of psykers, this kind of little guy will not come-undead people will think it is an item that can be picked up when they see a flash, but see a thief. The dazzling super flash that occupies half of the screen will not pass by easily, and will only be surrounded by the side to watch from a distance. This is consistent with the characteristics of a large number of subspace creatures around Al.

And if you see a super flash, you have to look at it... Either a fool or a super boss, and the latter usually leads to the entire psionic civilization being blown away.

Planets without psykers glow dimly in the warp and are not easy to notice, but it's different if you use the Mek's observation method-they observe the light that diffuses through the flow of energy in the warp. Awareness 'signature'.Although the error is high, this observation method can greatly expand the observation distance.

"So this is the reason why the Hub was the first to be attacked?" Oregana nodded, "This detection and movement method is accomplished through this filamentary energy flow, we call it 'fiber' style."

[Then it's decided, I have no objection. 】

Dark Rock nodded. He didn't have any particular idea about the name. The name 'fiber' is very vivid and easy to remember, so that's fine.

"Where's the sensor data?" Oregana asked, "We want to start the data comparison at that moment."

What this experiment is to find is a method to deal with this kind of detection, and it is impossible to detect it just by knowing the principle.Judging from the classification, this detection method is a 'passive' observation - it does not emit anything, so the movement is very small.

It’s like Minmatar’s light radar, which is not called light radar, which relies on emitting a beam of light and then measuring the distance and other parameters (if it can accurately hit a warship with a beam of light at a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers, then directly on the laser cannon), but a multi-spectral receiving system.To put it simply, it is to use the light radar array, which is as large as a solar panel, to directly read the light in the target area, and use the spectral signals received by countless receivers on the surface of the light radar sail to carry out a system. Finally, the distance and relative position of the opponent can be obtained.

Because the two eyes of human beings are separated by a few centimeters, the pictures they see are different. After these two different pictures enter the brain, they will be transmitted and integrated by various neurons to have a three-dimensional sense and a sense of distance.The principle of Minmatar's lidar array is similar to this one, but it is more numerous and more precise. Therefore, it is correct to some extent to call the working principle of Minmatar's lidar "open your eyes wide".

Because of this, Minmatar's radar will not launch anything. Unless it is a fire control radar that combines conventional radar and sensor composites, it will hardly be found. This is the same as Caldari's Gravitational radar has the same characteristics.It's just... Caldari warships that only carry missiles don't need a complex fire control radar, because they can hit the missiles as long as they are directed at the gravitational zone generated by the enemy ship in the universe.Gravity is wonderful.

An eye staring at a flash of consciousness in the warp was hard to spot, and Oregana had no clue about it, so she had to do it the hard way.Compare the data before and after starting up, hoping to find clues.

Soon, the control data was uploaded.

Facing the massive amount of data, no one can figure out why.Even if there is a computer to compare and identify, the subspace is originally a chaos, so the various curves on the table have almost no rules at all.It is true that the two pictures show before and after booting, but it looks almost completely different.

It's like I originally planned to let everyone find faults, and after eliminating the noise, I found the difference between before and after. As a result, I got the two pictures and saw that there was nothing else except the noise-the two were flashing. In front of the TV with a snowflake screen, you come to find one to try?

"Can you see anything?"

"I don't understand it at all," a geek shook his head, with a complicated look in his eyes, "Should we narrow down the frequency band for detection? The screening of such a large frequency band...may not have a clue for a while. "

"I think all these data should be imported to start analysis, first use a computer to screen them all."

"we can only do this."

If the special characteristic data generated by the observation cannot be found at this step, basically the early warning can be regarded as non-existent.Without warning, it is impossible for bases and outposts to maintain a tense situation as if a balloon is about to explode in front of their eyes.It does mean being ready at all times, but being ready at all times is not the way to prepare.

At this time, only one person showed a thoughtful expression.This person is Ms. Presia Testarossa, a psyker cross-border engineer who has been developing magic engineering and observing the subspace all the year round.This eldest sister's sensitivity to subspace is far beyond ordinary people. She once located the dimensional cruiser in the subspace channel by herself under extreme circumstances, and then a magic cannon hammered the head of that dimensional cruiser. superior.Over the years, her performance in various technologies (such as continuous cross-border inventions, proficiency in everything from power furnaces to human cloning technology to magic devices, and her recent main project is general-purpose magic power armor in all fields) is like The kind of white-bearded scientist who talks in Hollywood movies, and it's the same now.

Her series of actions from the beginning to the present have shown one thing, that is, this guy is really the kind of seven-star scientist who will be spawned in the "Stars" event, a wild master.

"Wait for me to see..." She frowned in front of the two huge projections, and subconsciously raised the magic weapon—not to shoot, but simply to point to her sight as a reference "Um ..."

Many people's eyes followed the fancy-looking stick, and the tip of the stick drew a discontinuous curve on the chart.Someone quickly reacted and let out a short exclamation—it looked like clutter, but with the time stamp, some clues could be found.

The first clutter is when the antenna is deployed, the second clutter is when Oregana gives the order to power on, and the third clutter is two seconds later—when the system actually powers on. when.

"It's interesting..." Oregana nodded. "There was noise when I gave the order to turn it on. Does this mean that it's not because of the instrument, but because of the observer's consciousness generated in the subspace?"

[When we observed the energy flow, we also came into contact with this energy flow, and the consciousness of the observer was leaked out through the equipment—this is inevitable. 】Dark Rock also began to understand, he sneaked part of his consciousness into the subspace, conducted a simulation on the spot, and as expected observed and recorded the clutter again 【It really appeared... when simply observing an ordinary energy flow This kind of clutter will not be produced-the consciousness and consciousness will produce a slight disturbance to the subspace at the moment of contact. I think this may be used as a signal. 】

"Starting to analyze these waveforms, we hope to get an exact algorithm."

"clear."

If a definite algorithm can be found, this 'phenomenon' can be locked down.Even if it cannot be very accurate, it can still provide early warning to a certain extent. This is the same as the early earthquake prediction. It is better to make a false report than not to report it at all.However, because of its irregularity, it may take some time to find a definite algorithm.

"It's terrifying from this vantage point...it's almost unobstructed."