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

The only thing it needs to do is to transport the missile to a suitable place, throw it out, and then go to the next launch site, and repeat, that's all.

They call such warships "scaffolded" warships.

"However, sir, if you want to put it this way, that extermination unit's previous research on missiles was also very average." A staff officer recalled the information that a certain red had shared with them before, and reminded aloud, "According to the same group When they fought against the extermination unit for the first time, the number of missile ships of the extermination unit was also very small, and the ratio was not much different from ours.”

"Oh, really?"

Hearing this news, the commander of the fortress turned his head slightly, showing some interest.

"Yes, according to them, in that battle, the total number of missiles mobilized by the opponent was less than one-fifth of theirs."

"That's really rare." After all, this was the only large-scale battle fought by the extermination unit, even if he was in charge of commanding the fortress instead of the fleet, he had heard about it, "So, I remember that the same family at that time There are more than 20 missile ships in the whole body."

It sounds like there are only a few more missile ships than the existing human beings, but you must know that there were only about a hundred warships in total in the same race at that time.

In other words, in the fleet of the same family at that time, the ratio of missile ships to battleships was close to 1:4.

Even if because of the opponent's tactical transition, Hong lowered the proportion of missile ships when building a new fleet, reducing it to the point where there is only one missile ship for every six battleships, but compared to the ratio of 1:30 for humans It is simply an outrageously high value.

"After all, that red's combat thinking is different from ours, that alliance, and even those who extinct omnics." The chief of staff was a little helpless, "The point is, it turns out that their combat thinking is really better .”

"That is to say, after fighting that red, this extermination unit secretly learned her missile technology?"

The commander stroked his stubbled chin, looking very puzzled.

"Obviously our allies are more skilled and have more advanced tactics, but why were they taught by the opponent first?"

"Not only that, we don't even know a single piece of news from the space army, and we have to analyze it from the intelligence by ourselves."

"Uh...report sir, I know what's going on."

After attracting everyone's attention, the young staff officer who was recently sent to the rear sighed and made a V gesture, "It's from Jupiter."

In fact, he doesn't need to add, just the "V" gesture, everyone present will understand it all.

"I really have to take care of it." Recalling all the moths that have been sorted out since the start of this battle, the commander took a deep breath and suppressed his swearing, "again and again, Do you really think we've won?"

Of course, as a space force far away from the political circles, especially the members of the most free and unruly expeditionary force among them, they didn't say it clearly because they were worried about being put on small shoes by politicians-if it weren't for the fact that a small number of people in the command came from Jupiter military industry, Britain and France The soldiers of the Federation and the United States of Saturn, if naming their names might affect the emotions of these people, they would have started to complain.

Anyway, those politicians are scolded every day, and they don't care at all to this extent.

"After this battle is over, we must make a joint request to make the superiors pay attention to this issue." He pressed the table hard, "I will take the lead."

"it is good."

Several people nodded in agreement.

Although many officials, and even some non-governmental groups, at least in terms of decision-making, everyone is still very confident.

After all, among the five major political entities today, even the United States of Saturn, which has the least enlightened system and likes to mess things up the most, its decision-makers are really thinking about the future of mankind.

As for the opinions of high-level generals like them, as long as they are reasonable, even if they conflict with the mainstream opinions of the decision-makers, they will definitely be taken seriously. .

Therefore, they believe that as long as the decision-makers are made aware of it and pay attention to it, the higher-ups will definitely be able to solve this problem, at least to a considerable extent.

After all, even if you don’t explain it from the lofty perspective of “the future of mankind” and “the continuation of civilization”, from a selfish point of view, in order to ensure the stable existence of their rule, the decision-makers of various countries will definitely be outgoing.

If human civilization is wiped out by the iron heart, if they can't even save their lives, where will they rule?

Of course, the military does not have so much trust in most of the middle-level and even some high-level politicians who are not decision-makers. After all, those people only have power in their minds. As long as they can get votes and secure positions, they I don't care about long-term development.

As for being scolded?I don't care at all, and sometimes, being scolded by the people can help them win more votes.

Black and red are also red. In today's society, as long as there is traffic, you don't have to worry about doing anything.

"At that time, I will draft the document, but for now, let's fight the battle in front of us first." The political chief reminded, "If we lose, we don't have to think about the joint letter."

"really."

Everyone nodded, and continued to stare at the star map in a daze.

It's not that they are lazy, but at this moment, it happens to be the time when the headquarters is the most leisurely and has the least things to do.

If the time goes forward a little bit, they need to discuss the orbital defense with the fleet commander and arrange various defense matters. Start scheduling missile launches and get ready for battle.

Except for the few 10 minutes at this moment, they have nothing to do.

All the arrangements and plans have been prepared, and the rest have to wait for the battle to start. Naturally, the commanders who have nothing to do can only find some topics to pass the time-even if there is any emergency, it is the following The various departments were the first to report, so they couldn't be the ones sitting in front of the star map to know about it first.

"It seems a little strange."

After about 10 minutes of silence, the commander of the fortress frowned, and said a little uncertainly, "It's almost 17000 kilometers away, why haven't we lit the fire yet?"

"Indeed, according to the computer's prediction, they should start igniting and ascending to orbit after leaving the missile fleet about 300 kilometers away." The chief of staff looked down and found the plan given by the think tank, and confirmed, "But they are accompanied by the battle fleet. Nearly 4000 kilometers have passed, but there is still no ignition, according to common sense, the best time for orbit change has been far missed."

"Will it affect us?"

Although according to his experience, when such missiles and battleships appear together, if the missiles are not raised to orbit first to increase the acceleration distance, there is no additional benefit other than lowering the final penetration speed of the missiles and making them better intercept However, just to be on the safe side, he still asked in case there was something he overlooked.

"No." The chief of staff replied immediately, "at least not for the time being."

"As for the enemy, even if they remedially raise the missile to orbit now, it will reduce its final speed by about 15%, and the relative penetration success rate will be reduced by about 25%."

"What's the meaning of this..."

Looking at the three light spots on the star map representing a group of missiles and two fleets, everyone fell into deep thought.

Obviously, not to mention the two omnics with strict logic and impeccable workmanship, it is impossible for human beings, even ancient people in the 20th century, to do stupid things like "forgetting to order the missile to ascend its orbit".

Since this is the case, it can only be done on purpose—to be honest, for this kind of unreasonable and weird behavior, they are the first and only thing they can think of, nothing else.

It was the odd warship that single-handedly dominated the battle.

The extermination unit was acquired from unknown sources, and it was the flagship of an unknown civilization that could lead the entire fleet to leap.

"But the other party has just made a transition, and the next transition will have to wait at least eight hours."

"It may be that the other party has been confusing us before, making us mistakenly think that the cooling time of the leap is about ten hours." The chief of staff analyzed, "It is a very common strategic misleading, and we have discussed it before."

"It is indeed possible."

"However." He changed the subject, "Let's not talk about deliberately misleading us, it is obviously better to let the fleet rush to the battlefield as quickly as possible to attack us. Even if they suddenly jump over with missiles, the missiles themselves If the speed is too slow, it will not pose much threat to us."

"Even, not only will the penetration rate of doing this not increase, but it will be lower than the conventional penetration rate of breakthroughs at high speeds—unless they want to jump directly to our formation with missiles, such penetration The rate will indeed increase by leaps and bounds.”

Although this possibility was given, it was obvious that none of the people present felt that the other party would do such a thing to die together.

This is not about "the gap between the thinking modes of omnics and organic creatures", or the so-called "organic creatures can't afford to die", but a very simple arithmetic problem-the opponent's total number of warships exceeds 900, while one's own There are only 400 "normal warships".

In this case, they all died together, that's not called "cold and efficient omnic".

Called mentally handicapped.

If there is a choice, whether it is the crew members on the orbit who are preparing to fight to the death, or their "relatively safe" fortress commanders, they will choose to die together without hesitation-obviously, this is impossible.

If they can win the war so easily, why do they have to do their best to prepare so many "abnormal warships"?

As for what is an "abnormal warship", it is very simple, it means that human beings use all means to forcibly pull all kinds of "remnants and defeated soldiers" onto the battlefield.

Among them, including but not limited to, were pulled out of the maintenance port, many dismantled parts were not installed in time, and even the battleships of the Second Cruiser Fleet that are still flying and repairing on the battlefield; from 100 years ago, more than Retired old warships that all human beings are going to be old now; civilian spaceships that have urgently drilled a hole to install lasers and heat sinks; antique defense platforms that have been scoured from some garbage dump, and so on.

Some people even witnessed the free electron laser pulled out of the warehouse in an emergency, connected to the heat sink of the heat dissipation circuit and the reactor, welded a few pieces of armor, and then dragged to the "youth version of the axis gunboat" on the track.

It can be said that in order to defend this fortress, Mars has done everything possible.

You know, compared with the original warships, the firepower of the warships temporarily pulled onto the battlefield by these methods may not drop too much. After all, [-]% of the output of a warship is on the axis gun, but the survivability is completely different. Not one level.

Once these temporarily assembled core components are destroyed, the construction speed of new ships is bound to be greatly reduced, and there may even be a situation where "the battleship is built, and there are no weapons and engines to install" - in the long run, this behavior is undoubtedly It will sacrifice the shipbuilding speed of Mars for a long time, which is completely outweighed by the gains.

But there is no way, in order to defend the fortress, even if they know that the cup is poisonous wine, humans have to drink it.

"So, what are they trying to do?"

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PS: The starfish colossus, which was originally scheduled to go to the solar system in the near future to help humans increase mineral output, was stopped by the traffic police in the Betelgeuse star system due to serious speeding. 220 points will be deducted from the driver's license, and the vehicle will be temporarily detained by the traffic police for 100 years.

This notice is hereby taken as a warning.

Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter 110, Chapter [-], Base Six's Breakout Operation

"Sir, all missile sites are ready."

The report of the subordinates came next to his ears.

"very good!"

The commander nodded, and said loudly with great spirit.

Although he doesn't know what kind of medicine is sold in the coffins of those extinct omnics, but as a qualified space soldier, his mentality is still very stable-as the commander of this fortress, if he panics , what should the other officers and soldiers do?

What's more, no matter how bad the current situation is, it's actually not that bad.

After all, now they are going to confront the opponent's 400 warships head-on with just 900 warships - even in this predicament, they can stand here without fear, what bad news is there to be surprised at? ?

"Tell them to stand by and wait for my orders."

"Yes!"

The tactical officer who received the order saluted and conveyed the message.

Although in order to implement the regulations of "prohibiting artificial intelligence from participating in the direct control of nuclear weapons", human beings require that the communication between all interstellar ballistic missile bases and fortresses can only be communicated through the extremely old and extremely low-bandwidth methods before. However, this does not mean that all the instructions need to be given by the tactical officer individually, one by one, as just now.

After all, events such as the sudden awakening of weak artificial intelligence and iron heart hacking into the system are very difficult and the probability is extremely low, and even if they do it for some reason, human beings have the means to stop losses in time to prevent other Excessively affecting fleet operations - it can be said that human beings have to make so many preparations, just to "reduce possible risks".

However, if this affects key commands such as launch and standby, it is not a matter of "risk", but a real "serious consequence".

It is obvious which is more important.

Humans don't do things that put the cart before the horse.

"All missile bases continue to maintain liquid hydrogen tank filling, waiting for launch instructions at any time."

After operating the screen twice, the tactical officer sent out the preset command in groups.

Of course, human beings actually have strict restrictions on this kind of group message. Unlike the real-time communication mechanism, when the fortress issues such instructions, what they send is not a data stream, but a string of specially encrypted messages. encoding.

After receiving this string of codes, the base will use a separate special codebook that is only used on these key instructions to decode, thereby deciphering the instructions issued by the fortress.

The whole process is completely manually operated by humans, and the codebook used is also a complete physical book. The reception and transmission are also carried out on a long-wave radio station independent of the network. During this period, let alone the presence of artificial intelligence. Even the Internet of Things of the base itself will not be involved.

It can be said to be pure and pure 20th century nostalgia.

"received."

After confirming that all the bases had responded, the tactical officer rubbed his dry eyes from staring at the screen for a long time, and at the same time switched the operation panel to the track planning interface.

"Why didn't you light the fire?"

Looking at the light spot that was getting further and further away from the enemy battle fleet, he was puzzled.

What kind of medicine is sold in their coffins?

......

"squeak--"

At the end of the corridor full of sundries, a door made of metal was slowly pushed open a gap. Faint, but it sounded unusually harsh to the ears of the person involved.

"Lieutenant Colonel, there is no one in the passage, the camera is just powered off, there is no abnormality, it is safe."

After confirming safety with the corner viewer, the soldier gently retracted the rifle while reporting in a low voice.

"Everyone, be careful and try not to make any noise." The lieutenant colonel first nodded to indicate that he knew, and then urged in the team's voice, "Be especially careful not to let the exoskeleton and the gun hit things."

"clear."

"Okay, look at the watch."

Soon, after some rustling operation sounds, everyone adjusted their watches and synchronized the time of the entire team precisely, with an error of almost zero.

After all, although they are still able to communicate through the radio within the team, after they penetrated into the base that was almost controlled by omnics, they lost the usual signal relay from the base. Real-time communication can be maintained as it is now.

If contact is lost, these old quartz watches, which have never been in contact with the Internet at all, will be the benchmark that can ensure their simultaneous actions-and the only benchmark.

Because now they can no longer trust any equipment that has the possibility of being hacked by omnics.

Even for the Marine Corps, the most trustworthy firearms, even if it is a powered exoskeleton with layers of insurance, it is almost impossible to be hacked theoretically.

"Remember, if someone successfully breaks through, they must blow up the signal tower and communication antenna before boarding the spaceship."

He looked around at his comrades who had worked with him for so many years, pursed his lips, and turned his head forward with difficulty.

"Are... all ready?"

"Ready," someone else's firm voice sounded in the voice channel, "Sir."