The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

Monica thought.She looked at the alien whose mouth was constantly moving, and said to her companions in the communication——

【how do you feel? 】

[It’s hard to say... He is a prophet after all, if he wants to keep his position, then it is very likely that he will keep silent about it. 】Someone replied 【Although he is very angry now because of the collapse of his faith, but after thinking about it, he realizes that this is actually maintaining San Sim's own position in the Star Alliance, so maybe he doesn't care so much. 】

[I think we can try it, even if he keeps silent, we won't lose anything. ] Monica finally made a judgment. After the news was synchronized, Oregana, who was fighting on the front line, also issued a 'permission' instruction [The boss's approval has been issued, and they will be released next. Let go...]

But at this moment, another person stood up—that was the Sangheili warrior who had lost a hand and had been silent since just now when he was stopped from trying to release the Flood with a lightsaber.

His emotions were clearly more intense than those of the guiding prophet.It is no wonder, then, that if the leading Prophet was merely angry at the collapse of his faith, the pain and rage of the Sangheili warriors would be greater than the Prophet could have imagined.He walked to the Prophet's anti-gravity chair in two steps in three steps, his voice trembling with rage:

"I now feel that there are many questions that we should have started to ask very, very early. Lord Prophet." His thinking development is obviously much higher than that of guiding the Prophet. 'heretical' thinking among the "why every time there is a huge problem with the Covenant, just find a strong and wise Sangheili who just happens to commit a felony to be the arbiter? The pilgrimage is fake, you guys The interpretation of the Forerunner is completely different from the reality, so what else is true? Is the war on humans really just because they desecrated the holy site?"

He growled and even pushed the Seer's chair with his remaining hand, but the chair's self-deploying shield blocked his hand and the saliva that spewed from his mouth.

"Oh! How is it possible! The pilgrimage is fake, and the reason for desecrating the holy site is of course also fake! The archbishops must know everything, so why do they still want to slaughter humans? How many people have been thrown into this place over the years? A war? How many people died because of the pilgrimage! Holy! Journey!!" The Sangheili warrior roared hoarsely, it felt as if he was about to tear his own throat, "We will never question or question in our whole life , all obediently followed the instructions of the Prophet, we spent our whole life convincing ourselves to believe the truth of the Star Alliance... But these are all lies! Tell me! What are you hiding! Where are you going to take us? ! Die with you!!”

This series of questioning and face-to-face yelling made the already irritable guiding prophet even more upset. He looked at the Sangheili warrior who was at least two heads taller than himself, ignoring the unique murderous look on the battle-hardened soldier, He stretched his neck and roared back:

"You question me? How can I know!" He still felt wronged and kept in the dark. "Because I'm from San Sim, so I should know everything? You think I know this Would I have come here if I knew? Even with you, a Sangheili? To let you know so you can threaten me!?"

It was as if they regarded the 'God Envoy' and the Tartarus warriors next to them as air, and the two started arguing as if no one was there.That appearance is not so much asking for an explanation, as it is... simply venting emotions.Both were outside the center of power, both knew almost nothing, and turned on each other with perennial, interracial and social class resentments.

From Monica's point of view, it was like a drama that made people sigh, filled with unresolved heaviness, sadness and guilt.She can see many things from these two aliens, many, many things, and I am afraid that she will never forget this moment for a long time in the future.

This quarrel was doomed to be fruitless, the one-armed Sangheili warrior angrily walked towards the exit of the passage, he no longer cared about the responsibilities he shouldered—all these things were forced on the Sangheili , and now he's going to shake them all off and get back what the Sangheili once lost:

"I will start our battle and let others know that what the Prophet is whispering in our ears is an irrefutable lie!"

The leading prophet silently watched him reincarnate and leave. Suddenly, the prophet jumped up from the seat and raised the plasma pistol in his hand.A soldier swished his rifle up, but Monica pushed the muzzle down.The next moment, a burst of green plasma blasted the Sangheili in the back through only a few meters of space.He fell down immediately, fell to the ground lifeless.

For a moment, the only sound in the room was the fierce panting of the leading prophet.

"Oh..." Guilty Spark asked, bobbing up and down, "This is really surprising, could you please explain?"

The Prophet was trembling all over. He clenched his teeth tightly, but he still took a deep breath like a sneer. After a long time, he twitched and said:

"I also have me... have me... have what I want to know, and this angry idiot will reveal everything. I can't let him just rush in front of Tir Vadami and yell, that includes me in Inside, all members of the entire special fleet will die." Not knowing whether it was to explain to the evil spark, or to make an excuse to convince himself, he finally leaned on the chair dejectedly and said, "Then what I saw today will change. makes no sense..."

"I won't comment on your actions, after all, everyone has his own choice." Monica said at this time, "We don't care what you want to do—as long as you don't step into the gate where the Flood is imprisoned. "

The identity of these red-armored warriors is still a mystery. They fought against the Covenant soldiers on the belt, and their purpose seemed to be to prevent anyone from coming into contact with the Flood.Just as he was about to ask, there was a sound of footsteps in combat boots from a distance in the passage—it was obvious that reinforcements from his side were about to arrive, and it was probably the troops sent by Tier Vadami to pick him up. , so he dismissed the idea and lowered his voice:

"I will leave here with my troops," he asked nervously, looking at Guilty Spark, "I still have a lot to ask, and before that... the archbishops and the people of Sangheili must not know about this matter." ..."

"There will be opportunities in the future, and we will meet again."

These people did not give a positive answer and disappeared into the shadows.Seconds later, Artes Watumi and his men arrived.It seems that they have also experienced a hard battle. Watumi's body is full of scars, and even his mouth has lost a part, which has become a three-petal mouth.He seemed to be in pain to speak, which made his voice sound like a low growl:

"Master Prophet, we have arrived." He saw the corpses and wreckage around him, and finally fixed his eyes on the plasma pistol in the Prophet's hand, "The Creator above..."

Apparently there was a big fight here and everyone died except for the Guide Prophet - he even made a final fight with a pistol and it's surprising he survived down.

"I never thought that one day I would take this." He let the chair float in front of Watumi, unobtrusively blocking the body of the Sangheili soldier he knocked down, and his mind was running at the fastest speed Get up "We have to go back right away, the things inside... are quite dangerous. Tell Till Vadami that humans have installed bombs on the sacred ring belt, which are special bombs modified by their power furnaces and exploded in the universe Nothing yet, but if an explosion on the ring wipes everything out. We must evacuate immediately."

"why?"

How do I know why?I'm making it up now, I just want to hurry up... But it's definitely not the case.So he put on his usual posture and said in a preaching tone:

"Don't you know this, Sangheili? What they want is to investigate the ring themselves, and if it falls into our hands, those unbelievers will destroy everything! If the technicians cannot be captured, then there is no way for us to continue Continue to investigate—humans can accept the destruction of the ring, but we can't, retreat immediately."

This is not like the usual way of guiding the prophet... He usually doesn't explain at all, and if someone asks for a word, he will get angry and curse back.Watumi realized that this was abnormal, but he couldn't tell what was so strange, so he could only ask subconsciously:

"Even if the holy object falls into human hands?"

This time guiding the Prophet was the same as usual (because I really can’t make it up), he slapped the armrest of the chair and cursed:

"Do you want to ruin the pilgrimage?"

Watumi didn't ask much:

"Evacuate immediately! Protect the Prophet!" He waved his hand, "Return immediately!"

When leaving the cabin, the guiding prophet glanced back—there was only darkness there, just like his empty heart at this moment.

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Chapter 1037 Chapter 76: After the battle of Zhiyuan Star is over, let's talk about its battle situation!

At 2552:8 in the morning on August 31, 05 local time, the Holy Sigh Fleet of the Star Alliance, the Justice Vigilance Fleet, and half of the Special Justice Fleet confronted the Reach Star defense line with a force of 44 eight warships after the arrival of the Raging Redemption Fleet and Furious Retribution Fleet. A general attack was launched.

Essex Grumman, who had been prepared for a long time, asked the rest of the UNSC fleet to rely on the firepower of the fortress to maintain a defensive shooting position. (Both of them are Flying Dragons) A total of 180 iron cavalry carrier-based aircraft 'Dainsniff' were released in a wall-shaped array around the ship.

This is a special cavalry carrier-based aircraft with a long axis of 80 meters, but the width is the same as that of a conventional cavalry carrier-based aircraft. It is basically a railgun with a fader added to make it fly. The whole aircraft is seven points The sixth is the acceleration track.When the layout is completed, the long axis can reach 140 meters after the acceleration track is fully deployed. The muzzle has a cross-shaped magnetic force field stabilizer that extends around, like a crossbow arm. The projectile is seven meters long and [-] millimeters in diameter. The alloy rod-shaped projectile, under the coordination of the firepower of the mothership, can carry out precise and powerful violent bombardment of the enemy ship at a long distance. Compared with the conventional carrier-based aircraft, it is more like a mobile turret.

Afterwards, ordinary iron cavalry carrier-based aircraft were directly dropped around the Star Alliance fleet for close-range combat. At the same time, two full-stacked Pengkun-class formations that had been ambushed in advance also entered the field.In terms of the number of battleships, Tartarus and the Covenant are evenly matched, but the Covenant has more flagship warships and more fierce firepower. Therefore, at the beginning of the firefight, even if the battleship formation successfully beats the other side One was caught off guard, but it was still unable to break it.

Afterwards, the Star Alliance fleet was attacked by the Dynesniff formation, the Nymph-class formation, and the [-] Protos Void Radiance ships that followed.But even so, the Covenant's will to fight is still quite strong. After the clear prophet of the Special Justice Fleet issued the order "Fight to the end, don't retreat a single step", its ship Holy Repentance was attacked by the battle aircraft carrier Jutland. The graviton torpedo launched by the 'Mantis' iron cavalry aircraft hit, and the small-scale abnormal gravitational area caused by the activation of the graviton warhead tore apart the armor of the Holy Repentance. The bridge command platform collapsed.

This resulted in the death or injury of over 110 Covenant combatants, including the Prophet of Clarity, and the temporary interruption of the chain of command.

At 8:31 on the morning of August 08, after nearly two hours of fierce fighting, 28 four Pengkun-class battleships were destroyed, because the number of carrier-based aircraft of the Star Alliance was more than 110 times that of our side, and the cavalry carrier-based aircraft formation At the beginning of the targeted interception, the loss of more than three-quarters, the long-range launch of the energy projector of the Covenant flagship warship destroyed six void glow ships and eleven UNSC warships, and caused more than thirty The fortress guns were destroyed.

At the same time, the battle damage of the Covenant warships has reached one-third, and more than 220 warships fell into the star sea. The remaining warships were divided into two factions. One group consisted of more than 100 warships, and unswervingly accelerated towards the Reach star defense line. The rest of the warships were broken into pieces, constantly jumping around in the surrounding area, trying to find the location of the Nymph-class formation through space positioning, but were quickly chased by conventional battleships. Conduct uninterrupted high-mobility operations in divided areas.The battle began to turn into a brutal and protracted phase of attrition.

The Covenant's warp engines proved to be extremely accurate, and they were on par with Tartarus' warships for tactical warps.But in terms of tactical command, fleet coordination, and fire concentration efficiency, the combatants of the Star Alliance are far inferior to the elite soldiers of the Fist of Tartaros.The slight advantages generated by each exchange of fire gradually accumulated, a few casualties, the loss of one or two warships, and more and less fighting on local battlefields, finally formed an irresistible 'trend' like a raging wave.

The neutron blaster fired brilliant flashes of death, and the concentrated fire again and again was like a blacksmith's hammer beating an iron felt, smashing the energy shield of the Covenant ship and shooting through the hull. Appearing and disappearing in the dark void.The raging waves of energy erupted again and again on the battlefield, bringing not only death but also victory.

Commander Stamforth felt the tremor that shook the entire battleship when the magnetic accelerator was fired, and looked at the external screen at the same time.He has been used to this situation for the past 20 years, but at this moment, an inexplicable feeling arose in his heart—in the past, most of the warships that turned into fireballs were UNSC warships, but today it is finally the turn of the Covenant Alliance I have experienced this taste.

Are they also in pain or sadness?Or do they think death is a shortcut to ascension to their god?

At 8:31 noon on August 12, after seven hours of fighting, the Covenant's battle damage rate had reached 40%, the ships were almost completely destroyed, and the guerrilla warfare turned into a one-sided hunt.The interim commander of the Special Justice Fleet, the Holy Repentance, Raka Bayei assembled the remaining warships for a counterattack at the last moment, and took advantage of the time difference between the fleet transition to sink the Fist of Tartaros. Ships 'Feiyan-074', 'Feiyan-058', 'Feiyan-011', heavy interceptor cruisers 'Broad Sword-078', 'Broad Sword-873' and four Pengkun-class battleships.

He noticed the operation method of the interceptor and the frequency of the scanning probe, and then jumped to Tianyuan 003b (the gas giant planet), and used the gravitational field of the gas giant planet to avoid the stealth special service ship 'Condor-445' and ' Condor-66' conducted two rounds of combat needle scans, and when the opponent lost its target, it quickly jumped to the asteroid belt, and then took the last [-] warships into a long-distance jump and left Eridanus.

"There is a set..."

When the battleship arrived, Essex saw only the flashes left by the Covenant ships as they entered slipspace.The enemy's last operation suddenly became exciting, probably because the commander suddenly changed-as if the elementary school student who was playing against you online suddenly handed over the controller in his hand to his brother who had been out of work for two years after finishing college.Although this could not restore the final failure, it made Essex lose its intended goal of destroying the entire Star Alliance attack fleet in a wave.

[Battle Leader, do you want to chase? 】

"Forget it, this is a long-distance jump, and I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up to the city of fraternity in one go..." Her voice was mixed with annoyance and admiration, "Do you know the name of the person who acted as the conductor?"

[Possibly Tyr Vadami himself. ] Commander Stamforth answered her question in the communication [Intel from the ring belt shows that the Star Alliance ships have retreated, so it is very likely that Till Vadami has returned here and commanded the final battle .That was a very good commander, and his thinking in battle was unlike any other Covenant force. 】

Everyone knows that the technology of the Star Alliance is hundreds of years more advanced than that of the UNSC, but sometimes the tactics are too rigid. Till Vadami has no such problem and can predict his next move.Till Vadami is currently the most dangerous military asset of the Covenant. ONI and UNSC strategic artificial intelligence concluded that it is completely impossible for human beings to defeat it with traditional military force.

Stanford has already noticed during the battle that in the past, the Covenant's general command was very dull, but this time their problem was not just dull, but too many command ends and a low level of coordination. A very important factor in this victory The reason lies in the opponent's command level.If Wadami came back with the army again and commanded it himself, it might not be as easy as this time.

"So that's it, is that Wadami..." Essex sat back on the captain's seat, crossed her legs, and leaned the command stick against the armrest. "I don't know if there will be another chance next time. Such an enemy."

[Why don't you try shouting on the public screen? 】A unit commander said with a smile 【Just say, 'I would like to pay tribute to your heroic performance in battle! May you take care of yourself and see you in the next battle!' Like this? 】

"Forget it, I'm not Reinhardt, and Till Vadami is not Yang Weili." Essex smiled and shook his head. "Let the industrial ship clean up the battlefield, and the boss's side should be finished."

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Just like what Essex said, a few hours ago, Oregana's two combat teams and more than 30 Spartan fighters, more than 400 UNSC marines and hell paratroopers, twelve hell dragons , More than 80 vampires rushed into the Covenant battleship "Truth and Harmony" in batches.Although the Covenant soldiers fought hard, they were outnumbered and pierced.Among them, Quinn-B312 (Akuya the Middle) of the noble team was the first to rush into the bridge, and fought hand-to-hand with Captain Rat Rawamin, and finally won the victory with his fists over the energy sword.

That's right, she knocked Rat Rawamin over with a bloody fist, and was bounced back in the strong psychic energy fluctuations, and then Quinn, who changed numbers inexplicably, held back after hesitating for half a second. Rawamin, who wanted to get up, captured him alive.

Oregana naturally sensed the psychic fluctuations unique to the elite guards, but when she arrived, she found nothing... The Skull Maker, who was puzzled by Monk Zhang Er, decided to go to Hell Submarine after finishing the matter at hand. Go over there and ask to see exactly what happened - after all, blood fists need psionic powers to use, but until now, neither the UNSC nor the Star Alliance, or even the Flood Demon Pavilion have seen it. To even a psychic user.

This is also a point that surprised her—when most civilizations develop superluminal technology, they will naturally produce psykers if they have more contact with the subspace, more or less.But this world doesn't have any, and the subspace projections of ordinary people's consciousness are darker than those of other worlds, and I don't know why.

But put those things aside.

While capturing the Truth and Harmony, the guard officer Monica confirmed that the Prophet and Artes Watumi had safely left the ring, and the Covenant warships decisively abandoned the ring and quickly left the surrounding area.This may be because the guiding prophet gave the order, or it may be simply because Tyr Vadami is aware of the outbreak of the Reach Star War, so he urgently wants to leave here to command the battle.

What happened in the enemy's command system, Oregana and her happy partners don't know, the only thing they know is that the mission goal is perfectly achieved——

The Flood is still firmly locked in the basement, and a prophet who knows the truth about the pilgrimage is returning to the City of Fraternity.It's hard to judge what this prophet will do in the future, but Ansador has already used the method of possessing the body to arrange the operators into the city of fraternity through the captives they captured before, so they can take a good look at it.

The end of the Battle of Reach does not mean that the UNSC and the Consolidation Department have completely defeated the Star Alliance—it is just a turning point in this war. Humans who are constantly retreating finally stand firm and can withstand the oncoming tide. It is still difficult to counterattack.Due to cost considerations, Tartarus Cake generally does not intend to win this war by force with the Covenant.

The seemingly glorious high-rise of the Star Alliance has been riddled with holes for a long time, but these are covered up under its strong military strength, religion and economy, so that ordinary people cannot see that the Star Alliance itself has long been destroyed. Because of power struggles and racial conflicts, it has become shaky.What everyone has to do is just give him a slight push by using the 'momentum', just like pushing down a small domino.

Subsequent matters are left to the UNSC, and there are many things that cannot be decided by the Ministry of Consolidation instead of the UNSC.There are grievances and debts, and the debts owed must be repaid after all, but how to repay depends on the creditors-on this issue, the Ministry of Control needs to strictly abide by the bottom line, and must not do anything beyond.After seeing the performance of the Ministry of Consolidation and the structure of civilization, the UNSC will also understand how to collect this "debt" and where its own "line" is.

These are all issues that do not need to be specially emphasized, as long as the person in charge is a smart person, he will naturally understand them.

Oregana stood on the devastated hull of the Truth and Harmony and looked at the great rivers and mountains on the ring belt, throwing up and down the forerunner Tanji who had recently gotten along well, realizing that she must be busy enough after that... ...negotiations with the UNSC, distribution of loot, and technical exchanges, as well as investigations of other rings, going to the Hell Submarines stationed in the barracks to find out some issues, etc.

There are so many things to do like mountains.

"When you are free, tell us about the forerunner, Limit Spark."

"Well," the voice of the probing chicken fluctuated up and down with the toss, "I'm very happy."

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Chapter 1038 Chapter 77: The Prophet and the Deadly Lightsaber

Capital of the Covenant, City of Fraternity

This is the most sacred place in the entire "Empire" of the Star Alliance. Those true believers believe that they should visit here at least once in their life, but only a small number of people can get their wish.Home to more than 2380 million San'Sh'im and billions of other Covenant races, at its center sits the Forerunner dreadnought, embedded in the city to form a symbol of faith and peace between the San'Shium and the San'Sh'im .

From the outside, the City of Fraternity looks like a mushroom, a giant mushroom with a diameter of more than 300 kilometers. The outermost layer of the mushroom is composed of soil and rocks collected from the parent planets of all races, which symbolizes the unity of the Star Alliance. Unanimous, united as one.The stem of the mushroom is longer than the canopy, and it is very wide. This structure called the "Arm of God" is composed of hundreds of landing platforms and pointed arms. Fleets and diplomatic emissaries.Food, water, handicrafts and labor flowed into the capital, while manufactured goods, warships and officials flowed out.From the bustling and magnificent Valen Window, which is dedicated to receiving Sangheili ships, to the dark and violent Dark Harbor Passage used by potion smugglers and heretics, this is the real hub of the Covenant's commercial empire.

When Tir Vadami returned to the City of Fraternity, he was not in the slightest sense of the relief of being home.No one in the city of fraternity can relax—the Covenant suffered an unprecedented defeat on Reach, and [-]% of the battleships assembled were lost there. Everyone felt the huge loss. disturbed.

When entering the Supreme Council Hall, people's eyes pierced from all directions like knives.

In the middle is the bishop's podium. That structure protrudes directly from the blue-black metal wall at the rear of the meeting hall. The podium is surrounded by fully armed elite honor guards.Under the protection of the energy shield, the bright red and yellow armor on these honor guards exudes sparkling light—the honor guards are all Sangheili, and only Sangheili can take on this honor. Compatriot, legendary general Tir Vadami showed complicated expressions when he was escorted up by two Kirahani.

The Sangheili councilors gathered on one side of the council hall, and the prophets gathered on the other side.Both sides stood up from their respective seats, and tried their best to hope that the curses and shouts of one side would be overwhelmed by the other side.And the center of these two waves of noise is the first person responsible for this time—the famous general who assembled the fleet to prepare for a showdown with humans, but was not in the position of commander at the critical moment, Till Vadami himself.

These councilors of Sangheili and San'Shium knew what had happened, even if it was complicated and there were many unanswered questions - like where did the Long Night and the entire Valiant and Prudent Fleet go.But this didn't make them feel much hesitation.

Not to mention the defeat, the sacred relics of the forerunners and the key holy relic belt of the pilgrimage were also taken away. Someone must be responsible for such a big matter.It can be seen that Tier Vadami was not the only one responsible for the whole incident, but all the other responsible persons died in that nightmarish battle, and their souls returned to God's side and cannot be criticized , and the clear prophet who gave the attack order was of noble origin, if he were to be held accountable forcibly, then this matter would be endless.

Although Tier Vadami was also born in a famous family, he was the only one in this incident who could still be held accountable and be used as a prop to calm anger.Everyone knew this, including Tire Vadami himself.

He walked to the front of the stage amid people's reviling, and the dazzling golden armor on his body seemed to have become a mark of shame. When he knelt down, the prophet sitting in the center—the prophet of truth spoke up, and he asked:

"As a result, you not only...failed to take back our sacred objects from humans, but also left your own fleet because of it." The cloak of the Prophet of Truth perfectly set off the extremely gorgeous crown of the leader on his head— —The gilded ornate crown around it is so gorgeous "that it led to the biggest defeat in the history of the Covenant War?"

Beside him, the Prophet of Mercy grimaced: