Tomorrow's Ark, the journey of hardcore and ruthless people

Just for Theresia, a total of 20 AKM assault rifles and RPD and RPK light machine guns were sold. They are basically the same as the Soviet originals except that they are not made in Izhevsk.As well as a sufficient number of grenades, 60MM and 82MM mortars, RPG rocket launchers, SPG-9 recoilless rifles, etc...

Simply put, Atlas sold enough light weapons to Kazdel's Queen's Faction to arm most of their armed forces, and repeatedly broke through the financial deficit of Kazdel's "Tower of Babel" organization.Although most of Atlas's profits were handed over to the 113th Division and the Integration Movement, since Atlas is indeed an effective way of making money and foreign interference, the two big partners are very concerned about this The department is getting more attentive and investing more resources.

After all, the money earned in this wave far exceeds the salary that Comand will pay for a lifetime.

Now, the "Cazdale Regional Department" of Atlas, the "Cazdale Column" of the Integrative Movement and the 113th Division is about to go to the Kazdale area to send the last batch of cargo for the queen and provide personnel training and training. Higher-level services and products such as defense contracting.

The representative of the Tower of Babel next to Lucille was an unshaven, muscular man. He had been staring at the rifles like he was looking at a lover in his dream. He was quite unhappy with Commander holding the goods he had already paid for: "Manager Sir, hurry up."

"Oh, yes." Comand returned one of the 20 rifles sold to Queen Kazdel's faction to the bearded burly man opposite.The brother code-named "ACE" immediately took it over and fiddled with the assault rifle happily, admiring its processing level and surface treatment.

Commander took a last look at the two guys who were in charge of handing over the goods, and then looked at Kelsey, who had a slumped face beside him: "Ms. Kelsey, what are you thinking?"

Kelsey looked up and looked at the transport ship flying the Babel flag beside him: "In the chess game, the pieces of the black and white sides are the same - a king, a queen, two castles, two bishops , two knights, and eight soldiers.

"But now, a pawn has entered the board. I don't know what it is - is it a warrior or a knight of skill? An inspiring bishop or a castle against a storm? The Queen or the all-powerful King? Or, a new chess player disguised as a pawn?

"I don't know, maybe, this is the winner of this battle."

Commander: ...

Well, the taste is right, and it is confirmed to be the genuine riddle old lynx.Before she didn't riddle me, I was a little worried...

Shit.

Commander replied sadly: "Oh, I'm sorry, I never play chess, whether it is Western chess, Yanguo chess, or black and white Go. I have only played two backgammons. And among the things I am familiar with, compared with the chessboard The only thing that is close is the automated command system display interface.

"If someone threatens or deceives us to sit on the side of the chessboard, our usual choice is to grab the chessboard and smash it over the head, and then draw a pistol to the chessboard and shoot the opponent's head."

The threat in the words was obvious.To be fair, none of the three present here is a fuel-efficient lamp. The Tower of Babel is a dignified mercenary-medical industry complex. Anyone who can reach the middle and upper levels in it has two brushes.A few big words can't scare them away.

But something else scares them.

On the earth at the beginning of the 21st century, human beings have developed powerful long-range and air strike capabilities, and the defense capabilities of super-large ground vehicles such as land ships are not enough to resist such firepower.Although it can carry firepower equivalent to several missile battalions, the personnel and equipment of several missile battalions can be scattered and concealed in a vast area. The land-ship is just an extremely large target in front of the modern battlefield surveillance system.

On "this land", land ships can guarantee the survivability of troops in natural disasters and harsh environments, but scattered personnel and vehicles do not have this ability; natural disasters also lead to large-scale desertification of Terra, and most The terrain of the area is also quite flat, coupled with black technology materials, energy, suspension systems and origin stone power furnaces to enhance mobility;

Furthermore, Terra's military system lacks effective long-range and aerial firepower, as well as a powerful battlefield monitoring system. On the contrary, land craft and mobile cities can carry powerful protective structures and large heavy weapons systems by virtue of their huge size.For example, for a certain type of large-scale 130-ton area air defense destroyer leader, a 30-meter naval gun can fire at a rate of 130 rounds per minute, which is directly equivalent to a 152-meter cannon battalion or a [-]-meter howitzer battalion in the past.The vertical launch system and various ship electrical systems combined are equivalent to the technical equipment of half an army air defense brigade and two coastal defense missile battalions.

The ship itself is a highly integrated technical equipment. On the surface, it seems that there are only a few people in that place, but the actual firepower efficiency is very high compared with that of an army unit.On the land of Terra, the disadvantages of easily exposed targets and poor maneuverability of land-ships are relatively avoided, but the advantages of firepower and defense are multiplied, which is applicable on this land.

Therefore, on this land, the land fleet is the most intuitive manifestation of a country's industrial strength and military strength.

And behind Comand, the super land line battleship moored quietly at the berth is poking out the majestic bridge from the shelter of the port equipment.

The battleship's aluminum-silver hull and simple and concise shape, together with the tall and majestic bridge, form an unknown sense of technology and bring a strong deterrent.This is something that the huge and complicated structure and various paint colors of the land ships of the current Terra countries can hardly possess.

The towering tower standing in the middle and rear section of the ship looks like the head of a Gundam robot.There is a symmetrical radar structure at the top, and there is also an extension platform that can accommodate several people for viewing. All of this is symmetrical with the early warning radar at the top as the center. Compared with other parts of the battleship, this thing is as small as a few fingernails. ; In fact, it is nearly one story high, with 19680 radiators that can emit electromagnetic waves and 5000 radiators that do not emit electromagnetic waves arranged on the curved surface. These radiators are divided into nearly a hundred groups, and other radiators that do not emit electromagnetic waves are arranged. The radiators are paired together to form a radar system.

Compared with the large phased array radar array attached to the tower of other missile ships, the general-class battleship has a relatively low configuration in the detection system.After all, firstly, this thing is used to resist the line, and it is not appropriate to configure a bunch of expensive and exposed fragments; secondly, this kind of specialized bombardment ships will not act independently, and are always organized into the formation of the fleet battle group. .

During the construction of this land fleet, the Reunification Movement began to learn more about the terrifying power of the People's Federation.Compared with space warships that travel several kilometers at every turn, land and sea ships are indeed small gadgets.Thanks to Renlian's mature and powerful automated assembly technology (computer hardware is mainly cloning brain wetware, supplemented by contemplators), and the size of this fleet is still quite limited.Such a fleet was formed in a short period of time calculated in months.

A considerable part of the Renlian's aesthetics inherited from the human empire is vividly reflected on this absolutely behemoth-huge and majestic, and the hull is densely covered with large and small guns.However, the hull with sharp edges and rounded arcs makes it look more like a work of art, a sharp weapon with the ability to destroy heaven and earth!

Chapter 5 Dabuliu!

As a "long-lived species" that can be resurrected to gain another life after death, Kelsey's memory has lasted for thousands of years.According to the scientists on the Special Advisory Group, that group of amateur intelligence analysts and half-bucket think tanks, according to unconfirmed information, Kelsey may even be a bioengineer of a pre-civilization with a space fleet and a man-made moon. product.

Of course, the year is just an excuse to modify the strength, and the current strength is the basis for everything.A random pebble by the river has a history of millions of years, and a random hydrogen atom in anyone can be a product of the beginning of creation, and then what? 0 years old can also be a "cutting-edge new product".

Moreover, there is that cliché. Ever since the information "the old woman lived for 1 years" was revealed in the plot, it has become a problem for the Nikkei party in the boat tour plot:

Then why did her performance feel a little sorry for her awesome setting?

If you ask Kelsey this question directly, there is a high probability that you will be greeted with a riddle with a needle hidden in the yin and yang, and a small probability that you will see Kelsey's spine emerge from the body and become Mon3tr.

Before the time comes, everyone can only guess based on the small amount of information already available.

This is not difficult, as the group of friends lacks neither imagination nor experience (when fan authors choose to use tabletop game running groups as material, they often have to use logic as a weapon to fight with dice). You can come up with several decent explanations in 10 minutes:

Kai Mao Mao has been a cold-blooded, heartless, desireless observer and a show eater for most of his life. It was not until the past hundred years that he began to try to understand human beings and change human beings. Seeing is one thing and doing is another. It's another matter, so she's a little too high-minded;

The memory of the old lynx is constantly being passed on, but the consciousness and thinking are constantly being updated. Each generation has different goals. The previous experience only exists as a memory, and has no real sense for the current "Kelsey";

Even more outrageous, there are not many psychological descriptions of an old woman in Zhouzhou's copywriting, and every sentence she said to the outside world and the setting of her self-statement can be declared as a lie later.

But thinking from the standpoint of a "high-dimensional observer" known as the "player's perspective" can only be an auxiliary thinking mode for the current special advisor of the 113th division.After all, everyone is now living in the same dimension as the wives of paper wives, and the current world cannot be left by pressing the lock screen button.Here, to be killed is to die.

So everyone later put forward a new explanation: living a long time does not mean always being ahead of the times.

Relying on the development of Originium technology so far, the complexity and technological level of the industrialized Terra society are increasing exponentially.Compared with the long-lived species, mobile cities, origin stone industries, the Internet and mobile devices have sprung up and blossomed everywhere before they can react.It's as fucked up as a nap in advanced math class.

It would be too much of a joke for one person to develop an entire industrial system - since Kelsey didn't invent things like the Internet, of course she has to learn...

As Terra society began to gradually enter industrialization, the wheel of the times slowly turned to the bourgeoisie and began to challenge the feudal system. The complexity of society and the complexity of science and technology are developing exponentially.Kelsey couldn't quite get ahead of her time.In other words, she is not all-rounder, so she can only choose a more suitable identity to influence the world as much as possible.

After all, you can't force an old antique to dominate the stock market in this era where computer automatic programs buy and sell hundreds of times per second, and also lead troops to fight, save lives and heal the wounded, and then become the leader of a country.

As for her pretentiousness - of course the old woman has to be pretentious!How can you fool others into joining her career without pretending to be forceful! It would be great if the non-immortal species on "this land" can live, and all they think about all day is to make their life more comfortable!Is there something wrong?That's right.But who is too busy to take saving the world as their life goal?

Then you can only rely on pretending to fool others.

But now, Kelsey's own power is still very immature.An unfathomable existence has appeared.

Mysterious, yet powerful.

Kelsey believes that the world will be turned upside down again.Although it is not yet known whether this change will be a good thing or a bad thing, one thing is certain——

This change will be closely related to this foreign force.

So, she was walking the corridors of the strike cruiser Natural Selection, the flagship of the Atlas Kazdel Regional Division.

Living in the facilities of the 113th Division/Atlas/Integration Movement of the United Extraterrestrial Corps, there is always a subtle sense of dislocation.

Kelsey has seen the most dilapidated corners of this land, as well as the underwater cities of the Agors—there is brilliant and colorful, but not to the point where light pollution makes people uncomfortable, clean, comfortable, and beautiful environment , information windows that allow people to easily obtain information can be seen everywhere.

But it's different here.Although it is still difficult to determine who has the higher technical level between the 113th Division of the People's Federation of Extraterrestrial Corps and the Agor Undersea City, the facilities related to the 113th Division are much lower than those of the Agor people:

The walls of the corridors of the Agors automatically illuminate and adjust the brightness, and can also display information windows; the walls of the corridors of the 113th Division land ship only have white ceilings and walls, and green floors.Simple and a little rough.

The equipment that can be seen is not sophisticated at all, and the lighting lamps only provide the most basic lighting; the reception room of a large battleship is as small as a shoebox, and most of the space is occupied by a three-dimensional projection table.Back then, when they were there to welcome her aboard and stood up to salute, the hosts were standing almost against the wall, their big-brimmed hats barely touching the cabin roof.

When Kelsey boarded this land-based battleship for the first time, he was amazed by the decoration style of the ship.She really didn't expect that the People's Federation, as a force with such powerful technology, would actually make the important cabins of the battleship so...so simple.

But soon, Kelsey realized that these things only seemed to have insufficient technological content: the People's Federation Army was equipped with a huge number of electronic devices and smart terminals, from personal wearables and even implantable devices to accessing war zone data. chain battleship automation control system.There is no doubt that the People's Alliance Army has an advanced, powerful and extensive military information system, as well as correspondingly strong industrial power.

However, at this moment, she still felt a subtle difference between the "slightly rough in simplicity" decoration style and the high technology around her...

The public-issued personal terminal in her pocket suddenly vibrated.Unlike the People's Federation citizen-only terminal, which integrates functions such as identity information, bank accounts, work relationships, and medical care information, the version used by outsiders is a mobile phone and text message machine that can pay bills, and cannot access the Internet.

"Ms. Kelsey, please come to this ship's 'Fleet Combat Command Center' immediately."

**

The bridge is the cockpit of the battleship; the CIC "combat information center" is responsible for processing all battle information of the battleship. The two together control the actions and battles of the warship, basically equivalent to the brain of the battleship.The latter gathers combat information from the outside world and inside the ship, and commands all combat methods of the battleship.

But this is only the crudest classification.For example, as the flagship of the Kazdaele column, the "Natural Selection" also needs to provide relevant space and equipment for troop command.This is the "Fleet Combat Command Center", which directly commands the fleet, marines, aviation and other combat units of the entire Kazdaele column.

When Kelsey entered the Fleet Combat Command Center, the cabin of the "Natural Selection" was no longer the only one on duty during normal cruises, and it was so empty that mice could run away.

The lighting here is very dim now, basically red and yellow warm light, and harsh cool tones are very rare.The staff officers, officers, assistants, and operators of the Kazdale Column Headquarters are busy in their respective battle positions. Twelve naked-eye 3D stereoscopic projection interfaces, large and small, are displayed on the comprehensive command platform in the center of the cabin. There are also one large, two small and three physical screens that update various data in real time.

However, many of these are routine reports from various departments, which are updated synchronously with the display screens of other surrounding consoles, and are handled by the personnel of the corresponding departments.For Commander and the Patriots on the podium, the only thing that is really useful is the central display.It displayed a large-scale topographic map centered on the flagship, with various colorful military icons marked on it.

As for the military designation that is completely beyond the scope of his knowledge, Kelsey can only see it at a loss.For soldiers with relevant military education, that is the most concise description of the intricacies of the battlefield.Comand knew Kelsey's embarrassment, so he didn't talk nonsense, and immediately highlighted the two attached soldier badges on the central display screen, and the two auxiliary screens on the left and right of the main screen also showed a hollow drone shot instant screen.

"Our fleet security circle has found signs of a firefight. Ms. Kelsey, now I ask you to distinguish, which two parties are these?"

……

The sun hanging high in the sky is weak, and in the distance is a large desert and hills.The yellow sand circled and danced in the air with the strong wind, accompanied by a medium-sized reconnaissance drone.

Computers are different from people's hearts. They will never feel conflicted, nor will they be as sad as young people. They will only act faithfully according to predetermined procedures.As for the drone at an altitude of several thousand meters, the two groups of Sakaz mercenaries who were busy exchanging fire did not know its existence, let alone discover its location.However, the drone is faithfully transmitting everything on this small battlefield to the distant land ships through a high-performance photoelectric sphere system and a small radar system.Immediately, the computer in the ship cabin began to run at high speed:

Version 3.21 of the People's Alliance Military Automated Command System, the Extraterrestrial Corps, the auxiliary decision-making system is launched...

A special situation occurs.

The special appearance information obtained by the People's Federation military information system was detected, which seems to match the "plot characters".

In comparative analysis...

Special appearance target A, suspected to be the "high-dimensional intelligence" database storage model "W";

Special appearance target B, suspected "high-dimensional intelligence" database storage model "Hedley";

Special appearance target C, suspected to be the "high-dimensional intelligence" database storage model "Ines".

The possibility of three cases is above 83%.

Conclusion: All three targets are likely to have special strategic value.

Confirm that all three targets are in a dangerous environment.

Suggested action plan for intervention...

Shipborne cruise missile bombing?

Vetoed, the strategic value of "plot characters" is absolute.

Naval gun fire?

Negative, the estimated risk of accidental injury is unacceptable.

Send land units to intervene?

Confirmation, the secondary variable in the battlefield situation model, the estimated time of arrival is 27 minutes - the timeliness is extremely low and unacceptable.WARNING: Null losses are not acceptable for "plot characters", which have special strategic value.

Upgrade intervention?

Sure.

Upgrade Request: Space Marine Unit.

Response coming in...

Deploy a Space Marine Kill Team and an Auxiliary Air Assault Infantry Platoon.

At the same time, above the desert, the battle has developed to a feverish level.

Kazdel, as the main export target of Atlas's weapons some time ago, was bought by Theresia, Tracys, royal court forces, small and medium-sized families, and towns and villages.Buying arms has become a common practice for a while.

Whether it is to gain an advantage in the decisive battle to determine who can take charge of Kazdaele, to preserve their territory, interests and power, or just to protect their meager property and lives in troubled times, the Sakaz people work hard. Buying weapons.The original single-shot black powder rifles similar to the Mauser 1871 have been completely eliminated. The most inferior small arms are also the Mauser G98. The elite troops of Tresis and Theresia have installed a large number of automatic firearms.

Just like now, dozens of AKM automatic rifles and several RPD light machine guns on the opposite side were pouring out firepower crazily, making the Sakaz mercenaries who worked for the Tower of Babel look disgraced.