The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"That's far from it. In previous contacts, we have found that the strength of Sparta is almost the same as that of the top marine troops on the front line of the Ministry of Consolidation, and CMC is used by regular troops-they can increase the survival of ordinary soldiers Sex and firepower, even if you don’t have any foundation, you can learn how to wear it to fight in an afternoon, but that’s all, it can’t turn a soldier into a superman, and it’s not suitable as a superman’s armor.”

"You mean, Sparda is...Superman?"

"All I need is a cloak." She said, and said to the elite guard who was showing John-117 his seven-nine-style anti-demon energy sword (castration mass-produced version of the judgment sword), "There are other things besides this. Then Tactical Sergeant Hayashiguri! Show everyone what you can do!"

"Yes! Master (master))!"

"...It sounds like we're a Jedi Knight, like that Force Goblin."

Liu Lizi turned her head and looked at Oregina in surprise:

"...Is it a goblin? That little green monster."

"Watch the game, watch the game..."

Nazai Zaoli didn't come here wearing her usual combat equipment. After receiving the invitation from the head of the legion to "demonstrate the performance of the armor", she changed into the elite guard armor of the foreign trade type.The biggest difference between this type of armor and the armor used by the hell diver is that at least [-]% of the energy source of the armor used by the hell diver is the manipulator's own psionic energy, and the power furnace only plays a supplementary role. Set Psionic Coordinator to provide targeted assistance for Bloodfist's psionic impact.

But the human beings in this world are strangely without psychic individuals... Maybe they just haven't encountered them, but up to now, there hasn't been a single one on the entire Reach Star. ) and the crew, even the Star Alliance, did not encounter a single psyker.Even in SEED, there are guys like Mu La Flag who can shine with their foreheads, and there are people in the Federation of Starship Fleet who can telepathize, but there is none here.

Quite weird to be honest.

But let’s put this matter aside for now—since the other party doesn’t have high-strength psykers, Tartarus’ high-level power armor can’t be used properly because the body transformation direction is not right, so they can only remove the core. Components—that is, the psionic system, the elite guard armor and supporting equipment replaced with conventional power were taken out.

Halsey will not let her Sparta wear this directly. According to her personality, she will definitely extract suitable technology from it and integrate it into Thor's Hammer before wearing it for Sparta.But this does not prevent Oregana from demonstrating the performance of this suit of armor in front of the UNSC.

The area of ​​the exercise is still the site where Sparta was refitted with the new Thor Hammer. On the basis of a certain colonel whose wife ran away because of "spent four months' wages to visit a kiln several light years away", an additional increase was made. Two ground-attack Banshee fighters - these were captured in the previous battle in the Vieri area. After re-soldering the joysticks, one of them belonged to the Concord and the other became the property of the UNSC, but they can be used proficiently There are not many people who control this kind of fighter jet.And those who participated in this exercise today are the soldiers of the second company of the Fist of Tartaros who have just finished the battle and have nothing to do. Prepared elite guards, but still intend to do their best to give it a try.

In the next few minutes, the senior officers watched the soldier display an extremely good and fast high-mobility combat style.

When she runs, there will be one or two extremely rapid dashes from time to time-this allows Nazaya to easily avoid the heavy machine gun fire, and she uses the plasma pistol (Dr. Hayden) during the dash. Production) rapid fire, quickly hitting the ammunition boxes of the two cannons.Then he drew out the anti-demon sword and approached the ground vertically, rushed directly through the barbed wire, and split all the things blocking the way along the way.

In front is a forest of ten-meter-high pillars. These pillars are randomly distributed, and there are dense traps on the top, bottom, and surroundings. They may be stun mines, or they may be the kind of spike traps that Stallone arranged in the forest. This is for training recruits. We learn to proceed cautiously.Today, there are also a lot of lotus mines in there, which can tear apart the armor plate of a tank as easily as peeling an orange.They are not only buried on the ground, but also on the pillars. If they enter rashly, they will be detected very easily and then——

Of course, it won't really explode, but if it is still within range when it explodes, then it will lose.

In front of everyone, Nazai Zaoli squeezed a grenade and jumped into the air. When he was about to fall, he threw it directly below him and then propped up a shield underneath—the moment the grenade exploded, the shield was like a sail. Overcoming the upward impact, she was lifted into the air, and after gaining the height, she decisively carried out two sprints, pinched the second mine at the same time, and detonated the second mine when she fell, and then used the small thruster again Explosive performed two short boost sprints...

This ghost animal's aerial maneuvering method allowed her to cross half of the pillar area in a way that ordinary people could not imagine.But at this moment, there was a screaming sound in the air - two demon fighters approached one after the other, the two rapid-fire plasma cannons on the nose of the machine quickly fired over, and the simulated light bombs with low output Go after the target in the air.Nazai Zaoli quickly turned around in the air, and drew out the double-barreled shotgun hanging from his waist.She aimed at the first one with amazing reaction speed and shot out the hook claw under the shotgun. The hook claw was firmly fixed on the winglet on the left side of the enchantress, and then the chain was tightened suddenly, and she was like swinging from Skimming over the forest of pillars, she avoided several low-power simulated light bombs along the way. When the 'swing' was upward, she released the hook lock and 'throwed' herself out, rolled twice on the sandy soil, and finally stabilized. Landing firmly at the finish line.

Nasazaguri had crossed the finish line before the Yaoji fighter turned around, and then raised his right hand to the surveillance camera next to him, indicating that he had finished.

After that things are very simple.The senior officers saw the performance with their own eyes—even if it was suspected of acting, if the performance was not good enough, it would not be possible to perform the operation of jumping in the air with grenades without relying on propellers.The two parties reached an agreement on the spot. The Consolidation Department will get the information on the modified drugs used in the third phase of Sparta, and the UNSC will get these two types of CMC power armor, supporting weapons, technical support, and a production line. And three sets of foreign trade-type elite guard power armor.

In the following time, everyone tried to ride the CMC armor one by one, and attacked the target with rifles and flamethrowers.Spartans have a soft spot for the plasma rifles of the elite guards.

Amidst the fierce firing of automatic weapons, Colonel Archibald Bronte, an ONI officer who had just finished loading two magazines, walked to a corner with a cigarette in his mouth and sat down with a thoughtful expression on his face. With a thoughtful expression, Vice Admiral Eric McDowell of the Navy next to him is also here.Lieutenant General Eric McDowell was a logistics officer, frowning at the moment, and asked after seeing his old acquaintance, Colonel Bronte, coming:

"What do you think?"

Colonel Bronte said truthfully:

"The penetrating ability of the C-14 is not as good as imagined, and its performance is slightly stronger than that of M247 and M41. It is heavier than M247 and lighter than M41." He expressed his intuitive feeling, "The overall performance is indeed heavier than ours. The machine gun is better, but in fact it is not much higher. From the perspective of various performances, it is also a [enough weapon] considering the cost...but..."

Having said this, the Colonel paused.Take a deep breath.

Lieutenant General McDowell looked at his expression and asked:

"The problem lies in the entire combat system?"

"Well, everyone is equipped with power armor, and the combat effectiveness of the troops can of course rise like flying. Not even the Covenant, they only wear full armor. Elite. With this, our soldiers can easily defeat the Covenant— —Think about it, a whole platoon of Marines, all wearing this kind of armor, they are holding the shield on their shoulders, and then they shoot sideways like this, it's like everyone is holding an M247- da da da ! Even elites can’t live for three seconds, do you understand?”

It's not about a gun, it's not about a suit of armor, it's about the whole logistics.It is unrealistic to replace all the marines of the UNSC with this kind of thing now.This can indeed lead to a rapid increase in the combat effectiveness of the entire combat force, but it is still unknown whether it is necessary.

"But..." Lieutenant General McDowell also took out a cigarette and lit it, and he took out a cable and handed it to Colonel Bronte.

Most senior officials of the UNSC will undergo additional nerve access surgery. A standard chip interface is installed behind the skull, so that the nerve electrical signals can be directly translated into electronic data in the brain, which greatly enhances the speed and reliability of data transmission.With this technology as a premise, it is possible to use wired devices to say things that are inconvenient without being eavesdropped.

Colonel Bronte took the cable and plugged it into the interface behind his head, and then his friend's voice sounded in his mind——

"This means a change in the entire combat system. Didn't we also get the equipment for the battleship? If we can beat the Covenant in the universe, why do we need a large-scale facelift? A large number of maintenance facilities are installed in each base. How long does it take for the entire army to change equipment? How troublesome is it to change all the logistics systems? Soldiers also spend a lot of time reacquainting with their new equipment. It takes so much How much work is needed so that everyone can fight with an anti-aircraft machine gun?"

His thinking is normal, especially as a logistics officer.Large-scale facelifting is impossible at this moment, and it does not mean that the quantity can be easily distributed. This involves a long process of running-in-this kind of thing that consumes a lot of manpower and material resources during wartime, It's a big challenge.

Colonel Bronte smiled and said:

"If you ask a Marine, he'll answer you [isn't that enough]?"

This is no nonsense, they even want to drive a Scorpio tank, it is best to send one to each of them.

"A marine doesn't need to think about so many things. He just needs to defeat the enemy and survive, so he will like the new armor and the new big gun." Lieutenant General McDowell looked at the man who was learning to walk in the CMC power armor Sergeant Johnson, with a wry smile on his face, "But we can't just think about that much."

"You should think more about it, my friend." Colonel Bronte leaned back on the chair, his lips trembling slightly, "The Consolidation Department will help us, which means that we have to 'reciprocate' after everything is over. As they Allies, we are not only doing business with them to engage in some economic cooperation, but also fighting with them in many places. Judging from the information they gave, the enemy they are fighting is that kind of ghost. Come on, it's not going to be a dozen or two hundred -- and it's not going to be Marines in flak armor."

"Before that, we have to deal with the war in front of us. We must go all out to..."

"No, we don't need to go all out, we have to allocate our energy to think about things after the war." Colonel Bronte shook his head seriously, "Have you read the battle report of the Reach Star campaign? The attitude of the Consolidation Department has already been shown Clearly, they will help us win the Covenant, we have already won this war! Do you understand? We have to think about things after the war is over. You have seen the Concord, especially the Oregana Legion Chief and the attitude of Archbishop Artanis, they will never do to the Covenant what the Covenant has done to us, even if we know where their colonies are by parsing the data from the Truth and Harmony."

"That's why you can't see us going to burn the planets of the Star Alliance, and you can't see the coalition fleet rushing to the capital of the Star Alliance, annihilating the defenders there, and then inserting the flag into the eye of the big ○ in the City of Fraternity Ri—neither we nor CONCOD have to do anything like that, and the war can end in a way you can't imagine."

The lieutenant general was stunned by these words, with an expression of hesitation and hesitation on his face, and then asked:

"How...how did you think of it?"

"Is that a wonderful metaphor?"

"You know what I mean."

"Then I'll tell you." Colonel Bronte took the cigarette butt away from his mouth, and exhaled a faint puff of smoke. "Did you notice the ammunition for the bolter? The one modified by the Covenant needle."

"noticed."

Not only noticed, but the thing was impressive - the lieutenant general never thought CONCORD would be able to adapt Covenant technology to their own weapons so quickly, even for such a small thing.

As an intelligence officer of ONI, Colonel Bronte saw much more than a general in charge of logistics.Due to professional reasons, he is used to analyzing the content behind the appearance——

"There are only two things that this kind of thing was created to represent. One is that they intend to use it to assassinate their own people - but the probability is not high. If they really plan to do so, they will not publicly show it to their own people. Hidden and tucked in. So it can only be the second type," Colonel Bronte gestured two fingers "They are going to use this to cause trouble within the Star Alliance. Although I don't know what they plan to do, they must have already started doing it. "

Lieutenant General McDowell showed a surprised expression.

Infiltrate the Covenant?How is this possible?

Spies can infiltrate enemy countries because as long as they hide themselves well, they will not be discovered. The premise of not being discovered is that humans and humans have human faces, so it is easy to infiltrate them, but how can you infiltrate the Star Alliance with a human face? have to go down?Before you think about using special bullets to do things, you have to deal with all these problems first, right?

"Let's not talk about how they did it," the lieutenant general asked, "What's the purpose?"

Colonel Bronte took a deep breath, and said the possibility after ruling out all the impossible:

"I don't know how they did it, but there was only one purpose—to split the Covenant from within."

"how can that be?!"

His exclamation was so loud that it seemed to leak out.

"I don't know how they did it, but they are obviously confident that they can do it." Colonel Bronte said, "Now the Consolidation Department has not continued to send in additional fleets-they have this ability, but they didn't do it. The huge There are even less than [-] large battleships, mainly fortress guns are placed everywhere. This shows that they intend to defend."

"...Defense can't win."

"But what if the attack is not launched from the battlefield? They are already attacking, and now the only thing to ensure is not to fail on the battlefield."

"It's... unbelievable."

"So I guess, maybe within a year or two, the Star Alliance will... fall into civil strife, and then disintegrate. Maybe some Star Alliance will fall to our side, and some will still be against us. In the days to come, we There is a high probability that we will no longer face the fully organized Covenant troops. At that time, the offense and defense between small-scale troops became the mainstream. Our pressure is not as great as it is now. At that time, we will slowly build a good relationship with our new friends. , and slowly study the technologies given to us by the Consolidation Department and those things of the forerunners. By then, our fleet formation and the size of the army will undergo huge changes, and we have to prepare early."

"..."

He exhaled the last puff of cigarette, threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stamped it out with his foot:

"The war of more than 20 years is coming to an end. Many people have forgotten that they don't need to fight, they don't need to worry about what life is like above their heads, and they also forget that they need to think about what to do after the war is over."

"I see... Let me tell you, you did all these analyzes by yourself?"

"confidential."

That is related to ONI.Lieutenant General McDowell understands—you can tell yourself what you can tell yourself. I am afraid that this is also deliberate. ONI already has a certain degree of information, and they hope to promote the popularity of new equipment in the UNSC. , This should be for the next plan to make plans, and this "next plan" is obviously a post-war matter.

Speaking to yourself means that you want to get your own support.They naturally have their own considerations, and it is best for them to cooperate.

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PS3:

The day before yesterday, after discussing the weird folklore about snakes in my hometown with a netizen

We made an appointment with Mr. J, a friend who studies folklore, to go back to our hometown in October to have a look

And then when talking about it with people, something doesn't feel right...

It's like the opening mode of a horror game

a chat

Occasionally mentioned a strange legend in my hometown

then ask the folklorist

folklorists have become interested

ask to go together

Down and out writer + folklorist

go whole folklore

It's the worst match... (grass)

Chapter 1043: No War in the Star Alliance

In the days that followed, batch after batch of technicians from the integration department came to the world of halo on the cutting-edge ivory tower-class scientific research ship.

This type of scientific research ship was established after a scientific research team nearly overturned while digging an ancient battlefield.At that time, when the scientific research ship commanded by Camillas Hilde Schulz (formerly the second-class Camillas) was excavating an ancient battlefield, they failed to find the machine mines that were still on standby in time. The mine was accidentally activated during the excavation process, one was intercepted by the shield, and the other hit the port side of the scientific research ship Aiyar, causing the hull to be destroyed, six people were killed and 17 people were injured.

At the time, the accident was a renewed reminder of the dangers of space exploration and caused delays of three Set off in March to equip the hull with better-performing shields and add shield capacitors.

At this time, the giba Mayo Asuka believes that simply adding shields may not be enough, just like sailing in the frozen Arctic Ocean requires a special icebreaker, and conducting investigations and research in truly dangerous areas also requires professional science and technology. Test the ship, why don't you do it all at once?Her idea has been supported by many people, and it has been two months since the blueprint was perfected.

The designed scientific research ship got the name 'ivory tower', which means a lonely, comfortable and safe small world beyond the real society, far away from the dangers of the outside world.The length of her hull is 33 meters, and it has the same sharp structure and heavy shape as the Phoenix-class dreadnought. There are five groups of large laboratories on both sides of the hull, a total of ten large-scale laboratories with a safety level of three, and two powerful flagships. The Class Graviton Power Furnace powers the ship, allowing her to maintain a powerful constant shield generator for extended periods of time.At the same time, the refrigerated hibernation chamber, life support device and material circulation equipment on it give this scientific research ship a strong endurance.Its own defense capability is a large number of near-defense guns and ten groups of heavy particle cannons (cruiser main guns) for unexpected needs. The multi-function launcher can not only launch long-distance detection probes, but also launch light missiles.

Oregana was dumbfounded when she saw this design.This is a super-flagship-level scientific research ship. There is nothing to say in terms of performance, but the scale is too big... Originally, it is not cheap for various civilizations to maintain fleets. You can use this kind of thing to fully replace the battleship-level ships you are using now. It is estimated that no one can stand the scientific research ship.

Moreover, ten large laboratories are too many, and in most cases, there are not enough researchers to make them fully operational.

The only place she can think of where this kind of ship can come in handy is the situation encountered by the Ayal before-a large ancient battlefield site needs to be excavated, and then several scientific expedition teams will take an ivory tower to go together. Safe and well equipped.So finally approved the construction of two permits.