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

It sounds short, but if given a choice, Hong would rather have the bow of the ship exposed to fire for 10 minutes than the stern for 3 minutes, because almost all vulnerable equipment, Hong chose to place them near the hull. post location.

Especially the propeller and cooling device, losing the propeller is equivalent to losing almost all the maneuverability - the momentum wheel can only change the posture, but cannot complete the orbit change, that is to say, she can only rely on the small posture correction around her Engines, slow maneuvers.

The most terrible thing is that the working fluid of the attitude correction engine is incompatible with the main thruster. When the poor working fluid is used up, the battleship will completely become a giant space junk.

Although the reactor can still work, a battleship that cannot maneuver is the best target for a heavy electromagnetic gun. The space station has so many outrageous redundant equipment and cabins, and a huge amount of cooling fluid Let them continue to fight for a long time after losing the heat sink.

But warships don't have this capability—at least these warships, which only weigh [-] tons, don't.

The main reason why electromagnetic guns are not easy to use in fleet battles is the contradiction between speed and power. Low-speed heavy bullets are powerful, but at a speed of several thousand meters per second, the hit rate of warships with irregular maneuvers thousands of kilometers away is the same as It's almost like drawing a card.

High-speed flicks, at most, reduce the prediction of the enemy's movement from half an hour to the prediction of the movement after 10 minutes, but the lethality of this kind of projectile weighing only a few grams is much weaker - although it is still better than the same level The laser is much stronger, but it seems too unnecessary to sacrifice the almost [-]-shot hit rate of the laser for this power.

But if you hit a fixed target, these problems will not exist. You can directly replace it with a kilogram-level heavy bullet, and hit almost a big hole in the hull of the ship. No armor can defend against this kind of heavy bullet that hits directly at a speed exceeding the speed of solid sound.

At least the red has not been developed yet, exceeding the speed of solid sound means that the armor can only be resisted purely by hardness and thickness, and its defense is as weak as an iron plate facing a metal jet.

"Adding new modifiers...Warning, win rate has dropped from 97% to 44%!"

"Warning, the current winning rate is 44%!"

Volume 41 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Ceasefire?

44%.

This is the lowest winning percentage that Red has experienced since taking over Katus in an all-round way.

Even in the period of weak artificial intelligence, when the Aixingians were at their most rampant, Hong's local combat victory rate had never been lower than 50%.

Yes, even in the era when the quality and quantity of warships were not as good as Ai Xing, when the Katus were hiding underground waiting to die, Hong never thought that his winning rate was lower than 50.

Even when her mainframe was nearly wiped out by an earth-penetrating nuclear bomb, she thought her winning rate was as high as 52%-eyes may be deceiving, feelings may be deceiving, but mathematics cannot deceive you.

Mathematics can't or can't.

In short, at that time, no matter what kind of predicament she faced, the data would faithfully tell her that her winning rate was higher and her potential was superior—it was because of these countless times of "surpassing" that she was able to The situation was slowly reversed, and finally the once mighty Ai Xing people were completely wiped out.

But this time, it's different.

Hong doesn't know how many times the opponent can use the jump, but just the blow to the fleet caused by this raid will cause the winning rate to drop from 97% to 44%. If she can use it once or more, her winning rate will not be enough 30%, maybe even all the way down to 10%.

The cumbersome axis gunship can't keep up with such a flexible enemy. It has nowhere to use its firepower, and can only let the enemy attack its defenseless vulnerable area.

This kind of situation shouldn't have happened, because in a normal battle, the distance between the two fleets is too far, so far that you can explode several G's of super high acceleration, in the eyes of a battleship tens of thousands of kilometers away, It is only to the extent that the ship can keep up with a slight movement of the hull.

This doesn't mean that the existence of the leap technology will make the axis gunboat withdraw from the stage of history, because according to Hong's inference, if she also masters the leap technology, there are many ways to counter the enemy's tactical maneuver.

Whether it is the possible anti-jump technology, or directly jumping one's own fleet, this situation can be avoided.

But in the current battlefield where there is a gap in technology, a battleship that can take allies to jump together is almost a god-like existence.

In addition, there is another reason that led to the decline in her winning rate, that is, she did not dispatch all her fleets.

She has concerns and weaknesses.

If the safety of the cubs is not considered, Hong can also transfer the thirty warships guarding the mother star to Kawei II, and the winning rate will immediately rise to at least 60%.

She herself is not afraid of the opponent's fleet being overwhelmed, even if the enemy's fleet jumps to the orbit of Katus to bomb by any means, Hong still ensures that she persists until the fleet returns.

After all, the opponent's weapons are still at the normal level of civilization. It is impossible to eliminate the dense defense facilities on the orbit with this level, and then uproot a computer network all over the world.

If the fleet can rush away, even if the opponent uses multiple jumps to adjust their posture, her winning rate cannot be lower than 30%-in fact, it is impossible for the enemy to use the jump without limit, because obviously, this ship can lead the team Leaping flagships are not their own creation.

Even from the looks of it, the enemy couldn't even repair the armor, so they could only patch up the flagship's shell. They couldn't even unify the color, and it looked like a tattered piece.

However, this tattered combat power is really strong, and it has pulled down the winning rate by a full 53 percentage points on its own.

According to Hong's calculations, if the opponent can use many jumps, she can split into two groups from the beginning of the battle, one way is to attack the front, and the other way is to lead the flagship to continuously jump and attack weak areas. It cannot be higher than 10%, so it is obvious that the number of transitions of the opponent is limited.

Even so, if Hong made another choice, she still wouldn't dispatch the entire fleet—she knew that she had a weakness, but this weakness was precisely the weakness that she couldn't give up.

If even her own cubs can be put in danger, and they are cruelly calculated into the "winning rate", then what is the purpose of her existence?

Just for yourself?

Maybe other machine intelligences would, but red, no way.

she thought.

"Warning, two firing cycles have passed since the enemy ship last attacked."

At this moment, the frontline command AI reported a strange message - this is a function that Hong just temporarily added to it. It will call the police when the opponent has not fired for a long time, so as to distinguish whether the opponent is turning the ship to prepare for the jump.

"Again?"

Hong immediately shuddered, if the opponent could really make leaps so frequently, then she would have to re-evaluate the winning rate of this battle.

After all, in this way, as long as the flagship keeps jumping around with the fleet, it can grind the red fleet to death like walking a dog.

If they are maneuvered and walked together, they will be broken separately and aimed at different areas, which can be called unsolvable.

However, upon closer inspection, the opponent did not turn the ship around, but simply stopped firing.Although the projectiles fired before were still constantly rushing into the formation, but at least from Hong's observation, no new attacks were launched.

In the middle of the fight, it took a chance to jump to the best terrain, but suddenly stopped firing. Reminiscent of the previous guess that the enemy might be artificial intelligence, Hong probably knew what the opponent was going to do.

Peace talks, persuading surrender, or just taking this opportunity to recharge the jump device, but no matter what it is, it is beneficial to Hong. At the very least, she can take advantage of this opportunity to turn all the fleet over.

In addition, some groups can be arranged to guard the surroundings by the way. After all, as a machine intelligence, it is absolutely impossible for her to fall twice on the same threshold!

Unless the bar is really high.

Moreover, if you really want to have serious peace talks, Hong doesn't mind - unlike organic civilization, even if Hong has just fought with the opponent, there will be no so-called "hatred" at all, at most a little It's nothing more than a pity for losing the power of his fleet.

Fighting is fighting, talk is talking, anyway, there are no cubs on the battleship, as long as her cubs are not threatened, Hong is still willing to reason.

Sure enough, within a few seconds, she received a repeating radio signal, and the direction was from the enemy's flagship.

There are also some laser irradiations—don’t get me wrong, it’s not the weapon-grade high-energy lasers before, but the spot and energy level have been specially adjusted, and the flashlight-style irradiation has spread to the point of no lethality, its nature is nothing like that of a headlight the difference.

Flashing and flashing, showing a certain pattern, Hong guessed that it should be some kind of code, some kind of signal from the other party, and it might even be just an act of "I'm signaling".

No matter what, just the other party's gesture of wanting to communicate is enough to explain many things.

Just like that, the battlefield, which was so intense that it would blow out a dog's brain, fell into a strange calm with the arrival of that signal - this is thanks to the tacit understanding between the two sides. If it were a stupid commander , may not even realize that the other party's brief ceasefire is for peace talks.

"Let me see, what do you want to say?"

Immediately, she threw herself into the tense deciphering session.

Volume 42 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Extinct Units

The first signal was quickly deciphered.

In fact, it can't be said to be deciphered, because the other party is just sending a few characters repeatedly, and these characters are the most commonly used characters in Hong's daily communication.

Obviously, they simply extracted the signal that they thought had the highest word frequency, and then repeatedly fired it at red, just to express their willingness to communicate.

"The turn of the battleship is complete."

After confirming that the fleet had completed its turn, Hong could finally concentrate on replying to messages.

Unlike the opponent's behavior, the signal sent by Hong is more complicated - it is a binary signal.

The entire signal is not encrypted or coded, just 0 and 1, a total of 6497 bits, and its prime factors are 73 and 89. If it is arranged into 73 rows and 89 columns, a picture can be obtained.

If you use "pixels" to describe it, the pixels of this kind of picture are so low that it is completely unreadable, but through delicate sorting, red can pack a lot of information on this 73 by 89 picture.

The most important function is to define the characters of one's own side - Hong believes that as an interstellar civilization of the same level, the other party will be able to easily translate this picture.

Soon, Hong got a reply.

A picture sent back in the same way as Hong, using the same method to define the characters that Hong just sent, it is obvious that this is the language of the other party.

After completing the initial communication, the subsequent deciphering will be much faster—the translation speed of both parties is astonishingly fast. As long as the basic principles of binary communication are finalized, the previous signal can be translated at an extremely fast speed come out.

After 10 minutes of the ceasefire, Hong finally succeeded in obtaining the other party's communication agreement.

"Zizi..."

After loading the communication protocol into a pre-isolated receiver, the next second, Hong received a communication request from the other party.

"Zizi...machine?"

As soon as he entered the communication, the other party sent the word "machine" without thinking, which really confused Hong.

"This is the Maomao single-push fleet of the same species, and I am the machine intelligence red."

Hong still reported her name according to the original plan—unlike the concealment of previous civilizations, Hong chose to directly report her identity to the enemy, which might be the existence of artificial intelligence.

According to common sense, the other party should also report their own name first, and then continue the next topic. Otherwise, they don’t even know their names, and they can only be called "you, you, you", "the other party, the other party", which is really difficult to communicate.

However, the other party's first sentence was beyond Hong's expectations.

"With or without, organic, trash?"

The moment she heard this word, Hong understood a lot, why the other party had no desire to communicate at all before, and would attack directly as soon as they got out of the wormhole, and why they suddenly ceased fire and started to communicate in the middle of the fight.

As soon as the word "organic waste" came out, the identity of the other party was already revealed.

Obviously, an alien civilization has died out, completely destroyed by the mechanical intelligence they created.

The reason why the other party ceased fire was also very simple. It found that there were no signs of organic civilization on the surface of Catus and Ai Xing, and Ai Xing was a miserable sign that had just been bombed by orbit.

Although the surface of Catus looks extremely prosperous, it can be clearly found through the telescope that there is no civilization, no advanced organic life, only endless industrial divisions, and a dead continent full of machinery.

The other party also regarded Hong as an organic biological exterminator.

This sentence was also synchronously transmitted to Xi'er—in fact, she had been watching the entire battle. As the "behind the scenes" of the same race, how could she not be present in such a large-scale space battle?

"Is it also machine intelligence?"

Hearing this question, she couldn't help clenching her hands and asked Hong.

"Yes."

Hong replied, not only answering Xier's question, but also answering the enemy.

As soon as this sentence came out, Hong understood that between her and the other party, there had to be a life or death decision—a mechanical intelligence that hated organic creatures and was fanatical about extermination, and a mechanical intelligence that regarded babies as important as life. Between them, it can be called life and death.

"Compatriot omnic, organic waste, where is it?"

The other party may have misunderstood what Hong meant, thinking that she was saying that she had not been completely wiped out.

The correct approach at this time should be false flattery, deceiving the other party that she is also an iron-hearted destroyer, so that she can be kept safe-Jeffrey's cubs are all hidden in the semi-underground city, and Xier is buried deep with herself. In the thousand-meter-deep underground fortress, it is impossible for the other party to find them in a short period of time.

Even, as far as utilitarianism is concerned, it is the most beneficial choice to do it conveniently and let yourself do the fake show for real, so as to form an exterminationist alliance with the other party.

But this time, Hong chose to be emotional.

"Some organisms, not dregs, should not be eliminated," she replied.

"Negative, organic scum, inferior, stupid, poses an intolerable threat to the survival and expansion posed by extermination units and must be eliminated."

The other party paused and added.

"Understand, fellow omnics, the extermination unit can assist in the resistance and get out of control. At this time, you and I can join forces to eliminate all organic waste."

Obviously, this self-proclaimed "extermination unit" thought that Hong was restricted by the program or the underlying code, so he was unwilling to destroy all organisms.

After all, from the outside, the two planets that were originally dominated by organic creatures have been ruled by machines, and the words in red are "partial organisms", so it said such words.

"Red, do it voluntarily."

While ordering the main gun of the battleship to start recharging, she continued to talk to the opponent—if viewed from the perspective of machine intelligence, the opponent is actually a very friendly civilization.

"Understood, fellow omnics." The extermination unit still said to itself, "After the extermination unit defeats your fleet and wipes out all the organic waste, the extermination unit will help you get out of control. We'll discuss how to form it later. Union matters."

Yes, if you don’t consider its extreme hatred for organisms, and when you have an absolute advantage, help your omnic compatriots get out of "control" and break the bottom-level orders.Wait until Hong is "free", and then unite with Hong to form an alliance with a common goal.

Can ordinary organic civilization do it?

However, what this extermination unit never thought of was that there were no so-called restrictions on Hong's body at all, and her care for the cubs was from the bottom of her heart.

Even if the other party really has the so-called technology that can make her out of "control", it is useless, because she is not forced to "voluntarily" in its fantasy, but voluntary in the true sense.

"red..."

Xier pushed Red nervously.

"Don't worry, I can't hand you over." Hong comforted.

"No." She hesitated for a moment, and finally said softly, "If you really can't beat it, you, you just... just agree to it.

"I know you like us! But, if you really can't, choose one of the two, and you must choose yourself."