The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

He had been poring over the data returned by the sensor for several hours before losing contact, and basically had a good idea of ​​what he was going to face.And at this moment, his deputy stepped forward, saluted and said:

"Commander, there is a situation."

"Well?"

Before Till Vadami was ready, he suddenly got a blockbuster——

"The correspondent found out from the communication transmission that the Valiant and Prudent Fleet is likely to be on our target. But they did not inform anyone else, and Commander Luo Bratmi did not report their purpose."

Despite appearing to be a unitary armed force, the Covenant did not maintain a separate navy.Instead, its fleet is divided into several divisions, each fleet's expansion and contraction tied to the rise and fall of its superior division's prestige and influence, most notably those responsible for the patrolling of Covenant space, ship protection and The Division of Resolution, tasked with eradicating pirates, the Division of Fanatic Intercession, responsible for digging graves, and the Division of Tranquility, looking for new races to join the Covenant.

Within this broad framework, each fleet actually has an equal degree of freedom, and this is especially true for fleets under the Zealot Intercession, which tend to be smaller in size but behave largely independently of any external command Chain, unless the purpose of the mission is the same, the instructions of other commanders will be ignored.Because of religious reasons, they have a very high reputation among the Star Alliance officials, and their equipment is also first-class.The heroic and cautious fleet commanded by Ro Bratmi is a stark example.

However, Tier Vadami didn't have a very good impression of Luo Bratmi - because anyone with a little connection has heard of Bratmi's bad things. In the early years, this Sanheli He is very active in taking advantage of the weaknesses of his former colleagues and superiors to make his military rank soar.It's not honorable to play tricks instead of relying on military exploits to get yourself up the ladder.

"Rob Bratmi from the Fanatical Intercession Division?" Tier Vadami turned off the screen in front of him, controlled his emotions and asked doubtfully, "Why is he here?"

"Maybe he found something. Luo Bratmi is only interested in relics." The deputy is a young man who has never understood what it means to be unrestrained. It’s just for excavating relics, there’s really no need for such a big ship.”

Although what he said is true, Wadami occasionally feels that it is a waste to use a huge ship that can dominate the entire battlefield to unearth relics... You can't say this, once you say it, you will be arrested Hold on to the handle and say [You actually think that finding the remains of the forerunner is not important?Are you a heretic? ], if he doesn’t do it well, he will be dragged to the City of Fraternity and publicly executed.

It's not that he thinks collecting relics is not important, but that this battleship is obviously better at doing other things.But since it was arranged by the above, I can't refute it myself.

"Don't say what you shouldn't say." He urged, "Contact Luo Bratmi and ask about the battle situation."

The Zealous Intercession's fleet is largely independent of any external chain of command, but on an operation of this magnitude Bratmi is obliged to report.

"Yes, Commander."

The deputy went down, but within a few minutes, a disturbing message came——

"The Long Night did not answer, it is not in the communication network."

This is really too bad... Luo Bratmi and his fleet lost contact in the mission target area.There's a human transit hub there, or something bigger, which makes one wonder if something has happened to him.

"Some are busy, issue an order to the entire fleet, and move forward at the highest speed! We have to settle this mess."

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This is Rome in 24 BC.

The Civic Hall, Senate House, Mars Square, Pompey Theater, Maximus Circus are no longer tourist attractions to visit.

Slaves, freemen, citizens, senators, high priests, consuls, tribunes, Vestal virgins, Augustus, are not among the historical sources.

The Apennine Peninsula, the Iberian Peninsula, the Balkan Peninsula, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Syria are no longer independent countries.

Under the gaze of the Roman gods, Ennard smiled and said: "I love a peaceful and stable, warm and delicate life. If someone wants to break it, I don't mind killing those destroyers."

Chapter 1022 Chapter 61: You don't necessarily need to defeat the enemy head-on to win

The Long Night was suppressed.

After Oregana led the team into the bridge, the battle should have come to an end immediately.But things are not that simple... Instead of surrendering, the enemy dared to fight back against our army.After all, there is a difference in the number of people. How many people are on board the ship is still a mystery, but the number of "tens of thousands" seen from a certain set before must be less.

As for how much less...

Oregana guessed that the tens of thousands of people may only count the Sangheili people.In this way, the difficulty of the battle becomes extremely high, and the battle situation gradually becomes extremely chaotic.The battle between the enemy and the enemy has never stopped from the beginning to the end, and almost all the crew members have been mobilized to compete for every cabin, every hall, every passageway, the connection port and the hangar all over the hull. , despite their low morale, they rushed into the battlefield with guns under the roar of Commander Sangheili.

Fighting street fighting inside a warship is far more difficult than fighting street fighting in a city, because the technology of full-time monitoring of military targets through reconnaissance and surveillance satellites, unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and various electronic sensors and three-dimensional strike methods here For example, high-precision air strikes, etc., are all unavailable.The battle reverted to the old days, as if the two sides were fighting a Stalingrad battle with directed energy weapons without long-range heavy artillery and air support.

By the fourth hour of the battle, the casualties of the Tartarus Marine Corps had reached more than a thousand, while the number of Covenant soldiers who died and surrendered was more than forty times that number.More than 40.00% of the hull fell completely into the hands of Tartaros. Tartaros, who controlled a large number of ports and mastered the supply channel, was able to smoothly continue to throw soldiers into the meat grinder and transport the captives who surrendered. go out.But one thing is very strange is that a small group of gnolls will kill the commander leading the team before their own troops exchange fire with Tartaros, and then immediately turn their backs and declare that they want to fight for Tartaros.

This baffled several frontline squad commanders, but nonetheless made them into additional combat units in the absence of supplies, allowing them to provide fire support while someone could watch.The result is surprising. In many cases, when the wolf man on the opposite side sees the wolf man here, he immediately gives up the fight and surrenders decisively or even turns against him. Sometimes it can even drive some Guru people, but the Guru people will immediately drop their weapons and hide. .

It was a strange reaction, but the Covenant traitors still gave Tartarus an advantage in many places, even starting a stalemate.

But in the end, because of the absolute difference in numbers, Oregana gave up on cleaning up the entire battleship.Some troops realized that the Covenant's hull partitions and internal protective positions can effectively isolate individual soldiers from the detection of biosensors. In this way, if some Covenant troops insist on hiding in the ship and fighting guerrilla warfare, the task of cleaning the battleship may become difficult. It will take a long time, and he must deploy troops on the ship to prevent these diehard elements from causing damage to the key areas of the hull.In addition, she didn't know when the follow-up Covenant troops would arrive. In order to prevent the ship from being recaptured by the Covenant or being destroyed during the battle, Oregana made a decision.

[The Long Night is about to start subspace diving, and she will be properly repaired in a new dock with complete functions.However, diving in subspace without shields is extremely deadly to the crew members of the ship—you still have one hour to choose whether to surrender, surrenderers will be given preferential treatment, and wounded soldiers will be properly treated, but stubborn diehards will come later Facing a painful but swift death.This is no joke! 】

Her idea is to transport the Long Night to a space dock located in the Pirate Universe under the name of War Scythe. He will occasionally come here to study the technology that belongs to the Nibelungen in his spare time. The facilities inside are very complete. The semi-open-air active maintenance array can accommodate the largest ships.And what is the state of the long night like now?There was one huge wound and seven relatively small wounds on the hull, and the shield system was unable to protect the largest breach, which led to some serious consequences.

The Long Night without shield protection will cause structural damage when passing through the ordinary wormhole transportation system, so the only way to transport the ship in its entirety is through subspace diving.But unshielded ships stalking the warp face another challenge...the death of the crew is inevitable as unseen horrors manifest from chambers, passages, and shadows to engulf every one.

This will be very fast and unstoppable. The memories, emotions and consciousness of these souls will be integrated into the waves of the subspace like other dead, and may be born as new life in a certain world at some point in the future, but That has nothing to do with them now.

Oregana didn't know exactly what the Covenant soldiers on the ship were thinking at the moment, she just asked the marines to escort the captives to the next transport ship, and then linked the long night with the navigation system of Tiamat , After the time for the ultimatum arrived, the submerged program was started.

Unreal smoke rose from around the two warships, gorgeous and hateful light with red arcs surrounding the hull like cats licking sticks.The cracks in the world suddenly opened, the giant mouth of the void closed, and everything disappeared without a trace, leaving only a large number of fragments and wreckage from the previous battle.

In this gang-jumping battle, more than 4 enemy soldiers of different races surrendered, and the exact number of the dead has not been able to come up with an accurate figure—because after the completion of the surfacing work, the bodies of a large number of Covenant soldiers died. Afterwards, they adhered to each other, and to the structure of the hull, forming something that was connected with flesh and blood and pulsed with blood.

It is preliminarily estimated that at least 20 Covenant soldiers were buried forever in Reach and the surrounding icy universe.

"It looks really tragic..." The inspiration behind this scene from the internal surveillance system sighed, "It looks like we are villains instead, obviously they are the prisoners who invaded other civilizations and carried out genocide... "

"Fortunately, this is a battleship, not a city that is repeatedly contested." Oregana lit a wooden stick for herself with no expression on her face, sprayed out thin smoke, and then pressed her heart.

She turned off those screens, and slowly turned the wooden stick in her hand with one hand:

"If it is a city, you need to consider the safety of civilians. The enemy's civilians are also civilians. But there are no civilians on the battleship. There are only soldiers who set foot on the battlefield to fight the enemy. They have long been psychologically prepared to die in battle. .Being attacked by the energy of the subspace, the body structure changes, and the person who died within 2 minutes should be much more relaxed than the person who was pierced by the plasma rifle and fell into the mud to die slowly... Hiss!"

Behind the back, Ling opened his mouth half-opened, and opened Oregana blankly. While talking about a very serious topic, he stuffed the burning end of the wooden stick into his mouth, which made him feel so hot that he jumped. It's like a cat that gets its feet caught by a lobster when it's playing with a crayfish.

Although she said so in her mouth, she did look quite shaken.Even if there was no problem with her approach from the beginning—announced the policy of accepting surrender and giving preferential treatment to surrendering soldiers, promised to provide proper assistance to the wounded, and repeatedly persuaded her to surrender, leaving enough time for the other party to think, Wait until the time is up before starting to move.No matter from any legal point of view, her approach can be regarded as quite lenient.

And when the time is up, there is no room for maneuver.

Now she is shaken by her method of completely destroying the enemy army, and she even has to convince herself that she even smokes backwards. This is probably because the mental trauma left by the hell and the Mek clan is still there.But even if the mental trauma exists, 32 can still see the essence of the matter clearly, distinguish the difference between 'military' and 'civilian', and can make the right decision without dragging his feet, so there is no problem.

But...it always feels a little weird.

After Oregana left the bridge of Tiamat, she contacted the AI ​​system of the dock, hoping to get a large number of engineering robots to clean the interior of the battleship (in addition to the mutated corpses, the packaging bags that were previously thrown in the rail transit also became Quite a powerful thing) After that, Nyarlathotep’s voice suddenly sounded behind the spirit behind:

"That reaction is actually a good thing."

"Well?"

He turned his head and saw Nyarlathotep was pattering around on the bridge on an ostrich-like thing.

This kind of animal is a common animal on the Reach star. The locals call it a moa (MOAS), which can be domesticated and raised. The Moa burger made with the meat of this animal is very popular on the Reach star.Of course, it can also be used for riding.Just wrap your hands around your neck, put your feet in, a little trick, and play the chocobo song on any terminal, and you can shoot a bayonet from anywhere—whether it's in front of the square in Alexandria on Reach. At the gate of the base, next to the speeding Warthog motor vehicle, on the Elder Trail in Silvermoon City, or on the bridge of the Tiamat, I felt like a Warrior of Light.

Just like Nyarlathotep is doing now.

"Hey……"

"kweh!" the bird responded.

Nyarlathotep let go of the bird's neck, jumped off the big ball of hair, and threw the passing big cat onto the moa:

"We've always thought it was weird," she patted the feathers on her body, and said solemnly about a topic that was very different from the one just now, "After so many physical transformations, the mental aspect of Oregana After being strengthened, her essence is no longer human, and she is closer to subspace creatures than human beings in all aspects—except for her own shape. But even so, she still has the way of thinking of an ordinary human. Although I don’t know reason, but I think she's a pretty good trait."

"What's the reason?" Back Ling showed a puzzled expression, "We more or less divide our thinking into work thinking and life thinking, whether it is assisted by brain worms, half-spirits or external devices, but she never Nothing like this has ever been done.”

"I don't know," Nyarlathotep shook her head bluntly. She doesn't expect to find the answers to all the questions by herself, "but she maintains the view of good and evil of ordinary human beings. We all have a lot of benefits. We were worried about whether the Skullmaker would have uncontrollable changes in Hell and Mek, but at least so far, everything is satisfactory."

"I just hope that it will be safe and stable in the future." Behind Ling sighed, "It's best to develop steadily for a few years, with less accidents, and we all feel at ease."

"Trouble is usually found by yourself, just like the Tindalos dog in front of the traverser." Nyarlathotep shrugged, "But we will help as much as possible. If you have any problems, just contact me on social software." Just say it, any platform will do.”

"Ah."

Nyarlathotep rode an ostrich and went out from the bridge with the BGM playing, leaving a very reliable promise.

But for Oregana's mental health problems, probably neither the Naiyazi group nor the Brass Throne group can solve it?Behind Ling thought to herself—feeling that there is only one person who can solve the problem in this regard, and that is the reincarnation of the end, because only she has the experience of living as an ordinary person and knows how to eliminate mental trauma.

Let's get in touch later... What should I choose as a souvenir?The raw milk sugar and milk tea produced in Fomalhaut seem to be good, plus small cakes suitable for tea parties, and the eggs are Shantak eggs...

To be honest, the first thing I thought of was this restrained gift, but the way of thinking behind it is actually quite strange...

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On August 2552, 8 local time, the Gamma space station.

When Oregana brought her entourage into the conference room, she immediately noticed that the way the people next to her looked at her was completely different from the last time, and the emotions they conveyed were also completely different.

Unlike last time, which was full of doubts, vigilance, and hesitation, some people have already shown trust this time—for example, the senior general Stamfors who initially reached a consensus. When the old man saw the arrival of friendly alien friends, his eyebrows His smile was less fake and more genuinely friendly.

The source of these trust and friendship is the previous battle. More than half of the monitoring stations directly witnessed the battle between the Consolidation Department and the Long Night. In this fierce battle, the Consolidation Department lost a considerable number of warships, but That declaration was still made to the remaining crew members of the Covenant ship at the end.

To be honest, in the eyes of the UNSC commanders who have gone through a long war, that declaration seems a bit pedantic, even sneering.But most people immediately realized the amount of information behind this declaration——

There are only two kinds of people who can shout such words in the war of interstellar civilization, which is either you die or I live. They are either extremely strong or stupid.

Preferential treatment of captives pays for the resources for entertaining captives, manpower for transforming captives, and part of the psychological comfort that soldiers get from successful revenge.The first two seem to be a little difficult in the war of the same race, and there is almost no success rate in doing so in the war of the same race. The war with the Star Alliance has been fought for such a long time, and the most important thing is that humans cannot shout the slogan of preferential treatment of prisoners. The reason is that they have almost no way of actually converting any Covenant prisoners of war, and never have any Covenant soldiers who surrendered to humans.

Of course, humans usually don't deliberately capture Covenant prisoners of war, let alone keep Covenant prisoners of war for a long time-but this is only on the bright side.

However, Consolidation can do it.During the battle, a large number of Covenant soldiers suddenly turned against the water. After the declaration of persuasion was issued, even a five-figure number of Covenant soldiers obediently put down their weapons and surrendered in an organized manner.Although there was not even a single Sangheili here, this kind of large-scale surrender seemed inconceivable and incomprehensible to any commander.

Therefore, during internal discussions, someone put forward a statement that seemed to make sense at first glance.

'Look what surrendered?The bird heads, and the grunts—not even an elite.Have you watched the real-time battle screens sent over?At the very beginning, the soldiers of the Consolidation Department rushed into the cabin, killed the elites leading the team and chased the remnants. In the later stage, the Grunts and Jackals began to surrender on a large scale.Can you guys imagine what this means? '

' means what? '

'The Covenant is a union of many races, but they didn't evolve on the same planet.My point is clear enough that the races that were being used as cannon fodder were already surrendering - they lost the war and surrendered to a stronger race, like the elite, like the Brutes.Of course the Covenant wouldn't surrender to us before, and they got nothing if they surrendered to us!Needless to say the reason for surrendering to the soldiers of the Consolidation Department?That's when they realized that these aliens were stronger than their masters.The purpose of their surrender is far from just to keep themselves alive, but to allow their race to continue to exist after this war is over! '

Although most of this statement is based on speculation, there is unexpectedly a lot of support from the confessions of defectors, and it can't help but make people feel a little bit happy after hearing it.

The Ministry of Consolidation did show their strength in this battle - when the Star Alliance came up with the strongest warship so far, they passed the extremely difficult and even show-off battle The fighting style took the ship down.The impact of this move is probably not only the UNSC watching the show, but also the lower-level infantrymen of the Covenant who faced the battleship being breached, and the enemy rushed in and killed the commander casually. Perhaps the experience is more intuitive, right?

Possessing powerful strength, high technical level, and extremely violent fighting posture of the soldiers, this means that the Consolidation Department has been scorched by the flames of war more than once, but they can also shout the slogan of "preferential treatment of prisoners, surrender their guns and not kill them", which is enough to show that they have gone through bloody battles. They can still maintain their sanity after the battle, and have a high probability of having a set of moral standards similar to humans.

They are willing to help humans and see humans as allies, which is a very grateful thing.

Although not everyone thinks so, and people who hold the idea of ​​their plot are not an exception, but everyone has reached a consensus on one thing-that is, the ability of the Ministry of Consolidation is nothing more than The tip of the iceberg, they clearly have the ability to crush the Covenant on the frontal battlefield.

The intelligence they obtained from the captives greatly enriched the UNSC's understanding of the Covenant.

The Grunts and Gnolls who surrendered talked about their own things about the Star Alliance - such as the status of the Grunts in the Star Alliance, the previous rebellion of the Grunts, and the reason why the Gnolls obeyed the Star Alliance was because the Prophet paid them monetary rewards. The relationship with the ghost beast is very bad, and the hometown of the Star Alliance is a large space station called the city of fraternity. Their beliefs even include a lot of information about equipped weapons and so on.But as for the specific location, what level of defense, and how many ships the Star Alliance has, the bottom infantry can't figure it out.These guys only know some gossip.

But many people in ONI's first and third offices are quite satisfied with this, and the information they have obtained in the past ten years is not so much.These captives are quite a large intelligence sample.And victory mostly comes from intelligence.