Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

Unless some unknown major event happened suddenly, this obviously didn't make sense.

Moreover, the sect's attack did not start suddenly. Hong had already noticed some abnormalities as early as more than a year ago.

According to observations at the time, prior to this, the religious group was indeed following the idea of ​​operating the basic market and developing productivity to win as Hong guessed—otherwise, Hong would not have started to take the initiative to try to compress the opponent's living space and strategy It's deep.

But on a certain day, suddenly, the religious order suspended almost all sustainable development in an extremely abrupt way, and began to explode the fleet with an attitude that was almost a decisive battle.

This is a method that Hong does not advocate, because although it can explode a fleet that far exceeds the normal wartime production in a short period of time, it will cause great damage to long-term productivity, and even slower and slower production may occur.

It was also from the day when she realized this, Hong knew that the opponent was bound to launch an attack in a short time—but she did not choose to follow the opponent to explode the fleet, but continued at her own pace, producing two Not wrong.

It's not that Hong's self-confidence is overwhelming and she thinks that the opponent dare not attack, but because she understands that she must not follow the rhythm of the opponent. If the opponent becomes popular, she will follow her, and if the opponent develops steadily, she will follow her development, that is, she has fallen into absolute passivity , will only be led by the nose to death.

Of course, since the other party was so desperate, Hong couldn't afford to lose face—so, she moved all the nearby fortresses and defense platforms, and formed an iron bucket around the TKK-1 galaxy as the center.

As long as we resist this wave of attacks and repel the opponent's desperate attack of sacrificing future potential, the Cat League, which still maintains a normal production order, can recover its strength much faster, and then completely interrupt the connection between the opponent's territories. Divided into two different star domains.

"It's not a decisive battle, it's better than a decisive battle."

Hong muttered to himself.

According to her instructions, two-thirds of the heavy-duty interstellar missile cluster deployed 33 kilometers away from the exit of the wormhole have started their engines and began to accelerate along the predetermined trajectory.

This is not to say that Hong intends to invest them now, but because for this kind of interstellar missile with high specific impact and low acceleration, the acceleration time is calculated in hours.

Even if they set off immediately, they will need about 2.5 hours to accelerate to the terminal speed of 70km/s, and then spend about 20 minutes to pass through the wormhole, with a total time of nearly 3 hours-according to calculations, it should be exactly It is the stage when the battle enters a white-hot state.

If the attack is successful, Hong can directly destroy the sects that have come from afar and cannot organize a missile offensive of the corresponding level.

Even if the opponent used that unknown method to defend against this attack, Hong was able to directly observe the specific performance of this unknown method, thereby reducing the uncertain factors on the battlefield, which is considered a great achievement—in any case, It is impossible for cats who have mastered more quality to lose money.

"Glory-class ships No. 1-9, lock on the target TKK-1875, and prepare to activate the attack mode. After completing three rounds of shooting on the current target, launch an attack shot on TKK-1875."

The Tukekas have no idea that the command ships they think are well hidden have actually been analyzed by the formation distribution of the Red Pass fleet and the orientation of some laser communicators—even though the latter itself does not need Aim at the command ship, but due to the high directional characteristics of laser communication, they have to transfer signals through hierarchical nodes + try to prevent warships from shielding each other's lasers to prevent the command from being affected.

Of course, the opponent also deliberately concealed it, so at first glance, the distribution of the warships of the religious order is just random, and there is no law.

However, no matter how well it is hidden, it is inevitable that some flaws will be exposed-and AI is best at following these inadvertently exposed clues and going straight up, finally revealing the entire network hidden under the curtain.

So without warning, when the two sides had just started a tentative battle at the extreme range, Hong locked on the opponent's command center.

The 9 Glory-class flagships have all entered the charging state, and the majestic energy is constantly accumulating in the supercapacitor bank, waiting for the command to launch an attack—as a giant battleship designed to "name key targets", the attack mode Their single output is enough to reach 20 times that of conventional warships, and the salvo roll call of 9 Glory-class flagships is equivalent to nearly 200 single pusher-class ships launching concentrated fire on a battleship at the same time.

The actual effect will only be strong and not weak. After all, for a single pusher class, the distance of more than [-] kilometers is basically on the edge of the limit range, and most warships are not even qualified to reach it. .

This is also an insurance set up by the opponent for the command ship. By placing it at the rear of the fleet but not at the end, it can be ensured that the opponent can neither see its identity nor be distracted by normal battles because it is too far ahead. destroy.

But for the Glorious class with a standard range of 3.5 kilometers and a critical range of nearly 4 kilometers, the distance of 2+ kilometers falls within the best range of the Glorious class.

By the time a keen wetware computer operation technician realized that something was wrong and the other nine big ships had not fired for two rounds, it was too late.

Almost at the same moment, the baffles of the nine flagships suddenly opened, and beams of light symbolizing destruction burst out from the black hole of the ship, slashing across the dark starry sky at a high speed of nearly 9 kilometers per second, and across hundreds of ships in front of them. All kinds of warships bombarded the seemingly ordinary silver-white warship deep in the fleet.

From the perspective of Tukeka on the battleship involved, it seemed like a little joke made by the gods. Not long after the war started, and before the command center even had time to play any role, destruction fell on them without warning. .

The ultra-high-energy laser strikes on the surface of the ship, tearing up the thick armor plate of its bow with a destructive attitude. In the view of the Tukekas, the survivability has been secretly enhanced to the extreme, and it can easily be used on the battlefield. The command ship that survived to the end, in front of this sudden concentrated fire, was like a mantis with its arms blocking a car, and disappeared without a trace in front of the beam of light that symbolized terror.

This is a terrifying beam.

It is also the light that symbolizes truth.

In front of them, there is no battleship that can talk and laugh freely—even if it is the Glory, the most survivable of the Glory-class, it will inevitably hurt its tendons and bones after such a sudden round of fire, let alone a ship to avoid exposure. And what about the command ship disguised as an ordinary battleship?

Under the astonished eyes of the Tukekas, their command center, the brains of their fleet, was just like this not long after the war started.

In this vast starry sky, a fleeting flash was lit.

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PS: Yesterday the author's backstage collapsed, it's not that Maomao doesn't update meow.

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Volume 210 The Road to the Cat League: Chapter [-] Chapter [-] Prediction Interface?

However, after all, the religious order is a war-crazed civilization that exterminated several races by war, and its army has sufficient combat experience. After a short period of astonishment, they immediately activated the spare command ship and quickly transferred the command power To this set of spare teams.

However, the Cat League seems to have turned on the full-view perspective. The new command ship has just been online for more than ten minutes, and it has also gone the way of its predecessors. fireworks.

If this is an ordinary civilization, the first reaction must be that there are ghosts among them, but as a cleanliness civilization that follows the will of the Supreme Voice, the religious order is very clear that there cannot be ghosts among them.

No matter how unbelievable, the facts are already in front of them.

The opponent's intelligence capabilities have far exceeded their imagination.

After repeated attempts to no avail, the religious group finally gave up and chose to allow the rear to carry out strategic command despite the delay, while the on-the-spot tactical decisions were all left to the team leader himself.

Although a mere 50-second delay is irrelevant to strategic command, and the impact of the separation of strategic and tactical command on the overall combat power is not large-but the blow to morale is undoubtedly very significant.

The command ships of one's own side were shot down one after another, one after another exploded on the line, as if they were stupid and casual officers who were saluted by their subordinates under the eyes of snipers.

But what about them?

The battle has been fought for almost an hour, but they can't even determine whether the enemy warships are really pure unmanned warships-although the warships on the front line and the detection ships in the rear have collected a lot of data, but with their fleet With local computing power, it is not a problem to build a model and command an operation. It is really overthinking to conduct such a large-scale analysis.

Therefore, due to the bandwidth limitation of interstellar communication, they can only use small water pipes to send back key data for analysis without affecting operations.

Unlike the Cat League, relying on its super local computing power and communication bandwidth, it is so rich that it sends back any data, and even has the spare power to broadcast a high-definition live broadcast of the battlefield from multiple perspectives to the public. Everyone sits in a row to watch the cult The battleship show died suddenly online.

Does this really have a very noticeable impact on the battlefield?That is definitely not the case. The work of analyzing the enemy's command ship can be done locally in the fleet, let alone broadcasting something that basically has no impact on the battlefield.

But this is the same as airdropping cakes, ice cream, and Coke to the frontline soldiers. It seems that it has no effect on the war, but if you think about it carefully, you will find the underlying logic hidden under this appearance-productivity, technology, Comprehensive leadership in concepts and other aspects.

Not long after the war started, the members of the religious order discovered that under the current situation, it was actually impossible for them to achieve the degree of "weak disadvantage" as they imagined.

Although they have imagined as much as possible how much advantage a fully unmanned fleet commanded by a weak AI can take advantage of in dispatching, and in the pre-war feasibility study, it was also combined with the fact that the cat alliance fleet just attacked TKK- The firepower data collected during Galaxy No. 3, and based on this, a more pessimistic prediction was made.

But it wasn't until the two sides really started a head-to-head exchange of fire that they realized that the combat power commanded by the AI ​​​​was far stronger than they imagined.

Before that, they thought that they had overestimated the joint combat capability of the cat alliance's fleet as much as possible, and all the preset parameters had reached the point where Tukeka can only be daunted now-but even so, their The calculations still show that, with the advantages of single-ship combat power, they still have a chance to tie with each other, at most inferior.

If they hadn't come to such a conclusion, no matter how urgent the Great Voice of the Supreme Being was, they wouldn't have chosen to attack so hastily.

After all, the backlash of the gods is a gradual process. They would rather pay hundreds of millions or even billions of people as the price for extending the deadline, and they are unwilling to fight a battle that must be lost-the former only damages the potential of the pure religious order, and the latter The latter directly let them suffer a crushing defeat, and it is clear which is more important.

Although believers are never afraid to sacrifice their lives for the supreme god, if possible, it is better for foreigners to pay the price.

Judging from the current situation, the situation is not optimistic-their heat sinks have been damaged by 40%, while the loss rate of the Cat League is only 30%. Considering that the opponent is fighting at home, there are fortresses with interstellar missiles and defenses Platforms, anyone with a discerning eye can see that they are already at a considerable disadvantage.

Do you want to retreat?

The bishops whispered a few words and made up their minds - to continue fighting.

Although they can indeed run if they want to run now, as long as they step on the accelerator along the tangential direction of the orbit, they can leave this battlefield, and then turn around along the edge of the planet's Hill sphere and walk back.

But they cannot be withdrawn.

In other words, from the day the Supreme Voice issued an oracle, indicating that it would be difficult for him to continue like this, the sect had no way out.

Why don't they understand that relying on the advantages of 14 star systems to compete with the opponent for development is the right answer?

How could the Great and High Voice not know this?

But there is no way, the laws of nature do not change according to human will, no matter how much the Voice of the Highest loves its people, it cannot change its weakened body due to lack of energy supplement.

Especially back then, in order to ensure that the fleet could smoothly rush into the star field of the Cat League, God had to use a lot of power to make the entire fleet escape into the gap between the subspace and the real universe in those ten seconds. The cracks prevented them from being taken away by a wave of nuclear air mines.

The gods have bought them as much time as possible, and every tukka knows that.

However, the reality is very cruel. As long as they cannot break through the defenses of other civilizations and obtain a large number of souls as sacrifices to the gods, the day of reckoning will eventually come.

They must win this war, at least to cripple the opponent's space fleet, so that they have the opportunity to maintain the fight against these disgusting aliens, and at the same time free up their hands to organize the landing operations against the Targa civilization , strive to win one or two more planets, and use the population on them to buy them several decades of precious development time.

This war must be won.

at all costs.

For a greater, higher victory - they must have the courage to give more.

"It's time for these ugly half-orcs to understand how the cult used to purify those dirty but powerful alien species before they stepped into the void."

Looking at the bishops who were waiting for its order at the conference table, the Grand Duke of Purity said in a sonorous voice while taking off the gemstone ring that was blooming with charming purple light.

"Let the glory of the Most High Voice purify those abominable filth."

"Yes, Grand Duke."

Everyone saluted in unison, expressing their approval of the decision.

"Contact the frontline fleet and prepare them to receive the gift of the gods."

"It's time for the newly born, ignorant false god opposite to feel the power of the true god."

It stood up, looked around, and then shouted.

"Dismiss!"

......

Soon, Hong realized something was wrong.

As if they had taken the wrong medicine suddenly, without any warning, the combat power of the sect rose a lot in a very short period of time, and for a while it was on par with the Cat League, which had a double advantage in the number of home courts.

Their firepower has not changed in any way, whether it is the rate of fire or the energy of a single shot, it is the same as before, and the defensive power of its armor is completely unchanged.

What Hong said "combat strength has increased by a large margin" is not in the form of these material and actual data changes, but a very... weird phenomenon.

"boom!"

After a fleeting flash, a large number of flying fragments exploded from the port front of a single pusher-class battleship, accompanied by a piece of cooling fin flying outward in a rotating posture.

"Battleship No. 1574, the 20th heat dissipation section has suffered serious damage, the pipeline has been closed, and the distribution of heat storage has been re-planned."

The battleship automatically dealt with the current situation, and reported all the specific data to Hong who was on the Catus. , Looking at the entire battlefield, such things are happening every minute and every second, it is really nothing unusual.

After all, the heat sink with thousands of square meters is placed outside like this, equipped with beveled armor to block the scratches, it can still survive. If you are unlucky and hit the root, it is really normal to lose a heat sink in one shot up.

The total number of large and small heat sinks on a warship is enough to exceed a hundred, not to mention the spare heat sinks folded in the armor. It can be said that the loss of heat sinks is simply a daily routine in space warfare.

But this time, Hong was keenly aware that this could no longer be described as a simple "good luck" - after a certain point in time, all of a sudden, the luck of all the opponent's battleships suddenly began to explode. In general, the bombardment spanning nearly [-] kilometers can often "lucky" hit the heat sink with a projected area that is almost only one line.

What's more, three or five shellings can "just hit" the root of a heat sink, blasting a large crater on its surface, and taking away a heat sink that is the lifeblood of a battleship.

Although the firepower of the Cat League has not been affected, they can basically fall within the range of the expected landing point, and there is no case where their attack "just happens" to go wrong, but obviously, such a high probability of "good luck" , is definitely not normal.

Something is affecting the firepower output of the cult.

At the beginning, Hong guessed whether this was due to the so-called "precognition interface" in some sci-fi games, which was full of my contemplative metaphysical equipment. After all, the expressions of these two things are really similar.

However, after careful research, Hong denied this possibility. On the one hand, she proceeded from the laws of physics and believed that such things as "prediction" cannot exist. After all, as long as every particle cannot be completely measured, Making perfect and unerring predictions about the future cannot be called "precognition."

If it is only a possible prediction based on existing intelligence, then, wouldn't it be said that the model prediction made by the supercomputing array can also be regarded as "prediction"?

This is obviously wrong.

On the other hand, even if it is assumed that Maomeng's existing theory is not perfect, and that this kind of "precognition" of my own thinking really exists in the actual universe, it will not affect Hong's judgment that the other party is not foreseeing.

After collecting a lot of data, Hong has every reason to believe that, compared to the so-called "prediction", the appearance of this phenomenon is more like... Obtaining detailed real-time information about their warships in some way.

It's as if RTS players use their strategic perspective to click on the enemy's troops to view detailed information and weaknesses, and then go to the Internet to find strategies to deal with it. Today's church fleet also makes Hong feel this wonderful feeling.

Obviously every decision made by the other party seems normal and reasonable, but combining them will appear very inexplicable-but such inexplicable decisions can unexpectedly produce very magical effects.

Hong didn't think it was the effect of some ancient civilization relic, because if it was, the opponent should have used it long ago, instead of waiting for the early stage to be beaten as a disadvantage before moving out to make up for it.

Unless this is a special relic that can only be used for a short time, but in that case, it is undoubtedly more reasonable to save it for the overloaded desperate stage after entering the optimal range.

"As expected of an old guy who has lived for at least 1000 years, he has a lot of fancy tricks."

Looking at another laser that "just happened" to hit the root of the heat sink, Hong sighed.

However, after seeing the opponent's methods, Hong not only didn't feel any nervousness, but even relaxed a lot-this kind of extremely high precision seems to be bluffing, and it can indeed greatly make up for the gap between the religious order and the cat alliance. There is a gap in combat power, but to be honest, compared to the possibilities that Hong Gang guessed when he saw them take the initiative to attack, it can only be regarded as pediatrics.

After all, no matter how sharp this method is, it is also based on the warship of the church itself, which is a kind of software enhancement.

The power of the laser should be as high as it needs to be. If the equipment is hit, it will be damaged, and if it loses the heat sink, it will be lost. The means are all useless.

"If you think about it this way, maybe the unknown method used by the religious order to avoid our nuclear air mines was also caused by that subspace creature?"

"It is indeed possible."

The subordinates agreed.

Moreover, this guess also happened to explain why the religious order never used these fancy methods in normal battles, but was only willing to use them when life and death were at stake.

Because, the energy of the subspace creature on the opposite side will not recover automatically - as it can only be obtained by devouring the consciousness of intelligent creatures, with a little bit less precious energy, the other side can't use it sparingly?