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

Obviously, I don't know which battleship hit the big luck. Its laser landing point just landed on the root of the frontmost radiator plate on the port side of the enemy ship, pierced its armor, and at the same time, it was blown up at a just right angle. This cooling plate was damaged, causing the other cooling plate at the back to be pierced by the falling cooling plate, forming a beautiful situation of "brothers say let's go together".

This kind of situation is extremely rare - the front projection area of ​​the heat sink itself is extremely small, it is difficult to hit, and its root is under the cover of the front baffle, so in most of the time, the heat sink is just pierced by the laser. It's just a hole, and it's rare that a single hit reimburses a whole cooling plate.

Not to mention that they bought one and got one free this time, and they took away another main heat sink at the back by the way.

"Good job, continue to attack." The voice of the squadron commander came from the headset, "Fire the current target for another four rounds, then switch to target DW-27, lock DW-28 and DW-29. "

"Received, after four rounds of shooting, transfer to DW-27, lock DW-28 and DW-29."

The operator tapped a few times on the screen to incorporate the other two enemy ships into the locking system.

Different from the past, in the space warfare of the new era, breaking one finger is not as good as hurting ten fingers is a more widely applicable combat theory-after all, for lasers, the efficiency of pouring too much firepower on a ship is really high. is too low.

Even if the entire fleet gathers fire together and beats down the enemy ship to the point where all the heat sinks are gone, the surface equipment is completely lost, and the armor is riddled with holes, it can still maintain its output for a short period of time by discarding heat.

In contrast, the effect of spreading the firepower and rain and dew evenly, and each ship has a few rounds, is far better than staring at one ship and chasing it fiercely-in other words, for space warfare, reducing the total heat pool Most of the time, the benefits are better than the damage caused by hard battles.

This is the battleground for mathematicians and physicists to decide.

"Firing mission complete, transfer to DW-27."

After several rounds of volleys, the team abandoned No. 26, which had been drilled several holes and lost half of the cooling plate, and turned to the brand-new No. 27 and No. 28...

Looking at this battlefield that spans thousands of kilometers, such small-scale fires happen all the time.

This is the prelude to war.

For the frontline commanders, that is, the commanders of the major fleets and squadrons, they only need to think about how to command the fleet and how to achieve operational goals from a tactical perspective.

As for the headquarters in the fortress, what they do is to have an overview of the overall situation and strategically control the situation on the entire battlefield.

Therefore, compared to the vanguard fleet and the enemy's No. 2 fleet that have already entered the battle, they are more concerned about the No. 139 fleet that is behind, that is, the iron-hearted destroyer fleet that came from G[-]-[-]b .

"The enemy fleet has completed its formation contraction, and the overall shape is spherical. The distance between the furthest warships at both ends is 486 kilometers." The adjutant reported in this way, "According to observations, the current flagship of the extinct unit is still 300 kilometers away from the center of the Iron Heart Fleet. "

"How soon is it expected to arrive?"

"8 minutes."

The commander couldn't help frowning, even though he was mentally prepared, this speed still exceeded his expectations.

Originally, when he saw that the opponent's two fleets failed to arrive at the battlefield at the same time, he was quite happy in his heart - after all, in their original consideration, the enemy would choose to crush the whole family in a wave of numbers Yes, as a result, under an inexplicable operation, it was resolved into two battles in which the number of single battles was smaller than one's own. This is a great thing!

But before they were happy, the enemy told them with a leaping flagship galloping towards the Iron Heart Fleet at full power.

It's too early for you to be happy.

Once the enemy flagship activates the jump, this fleet, which would not enter the range after an hour and a half, can immediately appear on the battlefield, thus bringing the number ratio of the battlefield back again.

Even, considering the flexibility of the jump, the enemy may appear in some tricky positions that they could not reach-in short, it is definitely not good news.

"Can you judge the target area they want to jump to based on the angle of attack of the opposing fleet?"

Recalling the examples of the same clan battles he saw before, he asked.

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Soon, the expert group gave their answers.

"Are there three possible transition points..."

"But they are all in a relatively concentrated area. It seems that they want to cover the interstellar missiles launched from G2-139b-d."

Looking at the star field marked by the red dotted line on the star map, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

This is a little bit of good news. Compared with other weak links, this area poses relatively little threat to humans—in order to prepare to intercept those incoming interstellar missiles, they have mobilized part of their defenses in this direction before. Platforms and battleships can be called defensive.

Although the number is not large, at the very least, they don't have to worry about the embarrassing scene where the opponent's full manpower falls to the ground and their own defense is unguarded.

"It seems that their purpose of this leap is just to stop losses."

After thinking quickly in his mind for a moment, the commander-in-chief said so.

"This is thanks to Lieutenant Colonel Wang's timely warning. A warning signal came out, which directly disrupted the overall layout of Tiexin and the extermination unit."

"really."

So they thought.

Since the opponent's transition point was analyzed, the situation on the entire battlefield has begun to change.

Those incomprehensible operations before now basically have corresponding answers, and in terms of the overall situation, although it cannot be said that they have entered their control, at least they have escaped from the enemy's control .

In other words, under the enemy's series of operations, not only did the gap between the two sides not increase, but it decreased a lot—for the disadvantaged human beings, this is simply a good person who can help them in a timely manner.

And such a "good person", for human beings who have always been known for being ungrateful...repaying kindness, they naturally cannot remain indifferent.

As we all know, one of the ways to express "thank you" is to give gifts.It just so happens that human beings have already prepared a sufficient gift for them.

"Where are the missiles from Mars?"

Seeing the image of the enemy fleet that had already lit up the transition blue light, the commander-in-chief turned his head and asked.

"The final acceleration is in progress, and it is expected to arrive at the end of the wormhole in 40 minutes."

"Very well, everything is going according to plan."

He ordered so.

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Light, light everywhere.

The strong sunlight reflected by the giant heat sink, the plasma tail flame when the fusion engine is working, the blazing fireball when the X-band laser hits the armor - in the space without atmosphere, the flash replaces the flame and becomes the most dazzling thing on the battlefield .

Among these lights, the most eye-catching one is a blue light group that stretches for hundreds of kilometers.

"It is observed that the enemy's transition is over, and the orbital data has been uploaded."

The adjutant manipulated the screen and said so.

"Very good." The commander-in-chief also nodded, "Then, the situation has become clear."

As he said, the last known variable has also come to an end, all units on the battlefield have entered their respective positions, the trajectory has been basically determined, and it is difficult to make too many changes in the short term.

It can be considered that the previous "layout" stage has ended, and as of now, the entire star field can be divided into four main areas.

First of all, the core of this star field is naturally the No. 2 Fleet starting from the Extinction Unit, passing through the G139-4d-b-L[-] (leading to the Extinction Core) wormhole, and the No. The main battlefield composed of human fortress-fleet-defense platform network.

They are the heart of the battlefield.

For human beings, their strategic goal is to defend the Martian wormhole and wait for the reinforcements from the same race - the Alliance to arrive, while for the extermination unit - Iron Heart, their strategic goal is to break through the line of defense and eliminate the wormhole before the reinforcements arrive. human vitality.

Therefore, it can be considered that the entire battlefield revolves around this area, which is a major premise.

And outside the main battlefield, it is the second fleet brought by the temporary transition of the enemy's flagship from the Iron Heart parent star G2-139d.

According to their observations, this fleet jumped to a position about 2 kilometers away from the center of mass of G139-7500d-b, and moved along an ultra-high eccentricity orbit with a periapsis of only about 2000 kilometers.

Considering that the G2-139d-b satellite itself has a radius of about 1500 kilometers, that is to say, when the fleet is closest to the surface of the planet, it is only a mere 500 kilometers—this means that the fleet will have a considerable length. A period of time is within the range of land-based air defense facilities.

Naturally, this is also purposeful. First of all, since the orbital semi-major axis of the fortress is 10000 kilometers, and the limit range of the fleet is about 13000 kilometers, such a steep orbit can ensure that the human fleet will be able to fly most of the time. into the range.

Secondly, even if as time progresses, the enemy fleet leaves the range and enters the umbra of the planet, due to the extremely low periapsis of their orbits, a huge amount of gravitational potential energy is converted into kinetic energy, making the relative speed of the fleet reach an astonishing The ground, so that it can quickly escape from the occlusion area of ​​the stars and reappear on the battlefield.

This is another major area of ​​the battlefield.

As for the other two areas, it is much simpler. They are the shipborne missile attack group launched from the orbit of the No. 2 Fleet and the original No. 139 Fleet, and the interstellar missile attack group launched from the original human base on G[-]-[-]d-b.

In a sense, these two attack groups are also attached to the two main areas in front—the shipborne missile attack group entered the field under the cover of the No. The cover of the fleet.

Therefore, it can also be simply understood that there are two main directions of attack, and each direction has deployed a fleet and a missile attack group. Of course, this is the result of an extreme simplification, without considering the orbital difference between the two fleets , and did not consider the speed difference between the two missile attack groups, which could not reflect the priorities on the battlefield, but for ordinary people, it was barely enough.

No way, when it comes to space warfare, most people don't even know as much about it as the red cubs.

This is also normal. In terms of average education level, it is almost impossible for any contemporary civilization to be comparable to today's homology.

Although scholars have never reached a consensus conclusion on the question of what kind of civilization the homogenous body is - for example, is the behavior of red envelopes taking all decisions considered dictatorship?What kind of society is a society composed of more than 100 "national population" plus thousands of exchange scholars sent by other civilizations (alliances)?Compared with the "Datong society" of the old Catus era, is it progress or regress?Wait, wait, wait, there is no conclusion.

But only one thing is very clear - there are no manual laborers in the same race.

This is a civilization where all labor is done by machines, and all members only need to do science, art and other creative work according to their own preferences.

And this is an almost impossible goal for the current human civilization.

An office worker who needs to work more than 12 hours a day, how can he have time to learn such knowledge that is not helpful to life?

Of course, this is just a middle-aged man's daily complaints - anyway, they can't change anything, even if he is a general.

"Sir, the think tank has submitted a new battle plan." The adjutant stared at the characters on the screen, Hui reported, "There is also a note on it, saying that the plan can significantly increase our winning rate while reducing risks."

"Oh?"

Now that the battle situation has stabilized, they suddenly issued a combat order that had not been recorded before and claimed that it could "significantly" increase the winning rate. I have to say that they were a little surprised.

Not having a record means that in the previous days of preparation, no team or artificial intelligence thought it was a possibility worth planning for - which is a bit rare in space.

"What content?"

"They want to delay the arrival time of the missile, and at the same time modify the orbit of the Mars support missile, and modify the parameters to..." the adjutant said while projecting the simulated new orbit on the star map, "The modified new orbit As shown in the picture."

"Is this also called low risk?"

Looking at the simulated new orbit on the star map, everyone was a little uneasy.

"How many DVs will be sprayed out? How much will the final penetration speed be dropped?" An aide repeatedly shook his head, "Moreover, if this track is used, most of our fleets will not be able to provide fire support for it, and the benefits are not clear. , the risk is too high, I don’t think it’s feasible.”

This orbit is actually very simple to say, it is not to let the missile enter the wormhole as originally planned, but to make a change of direction to miss the wormhole, and complete another revolution on the side of Mars. Enter the wormhole when entering the veiled surface of the planet.

That is to say, in the new plan, the missile group will no longer enter the frontal battlefield along the equator of the planet, but will launch an attack directly from the other side after the enemy breaks away from the first engagement.

Obviously, from their point of view, the biggest problem with this plan is the revolution—the current Mars missile group has accelerated to a high speed of nearly 20 kilometers per second. If they miss the wormhole, they must undergo a large deceleration to stop the wormhole. Pull the velocity below Mars escape velocity.

In order to do this, the missile must sacrifice a large amount of dv to ensure that the deceleration time is controlled within a reasonable range, which will inevitably lead to a significant reduction in the final penetration speed.

In addition, there are many scattered problems, such as the "waste" of speeding up after decelerating in a circle, such as the unknown penetration probability without the cover of the fleet, and there is no missile support for the frontal battlefield. Can you resist the first wave of offensive, and so on and so on.

In short, it seems to be full of problems.

In this regard, other people also expressed their acquiescence - no matter from any point of view, this plan cannot be called "low risk high return".

"Who provided data support?"

"A plan provided by an artificial intelligence called 'Crimson' was uploaded by the Red Umbrella Company of the British and French Commonwealth. After analysis by the think tank, it was considered to be a reference for the front-line command, and finally submitted."

As soon as these two names came out, it was visible to the naked eye, and everyone began to be unsure of their own thoughts—is there really something in this plan that they didn't think of?

After all, the Red Umbrella Company is really a company with a great reputation.

As a new-generation technology company established in the "counterattack" era, after more than [-] years of development, it is already the leader in the field of artificial intelligence in the Jupiter military-industrial complex. is among the best.

There is no reason a company with such an excellent history of cooperation would submit an invalid filing at this time.

What's more, the one who proposed this plan was "Crimson" - the artificial intelligence that has been in the limelight recently and can be called the weakest artificial intelligence in the current era.

Of course, although they all carry the word "red", it obviously has nothing to do with the red of the same family. If you have to say it, it happened to be the birth of the Red Umbrella Company in the year when human beings and red established diplomatic relations. .

Maybe it’s because the name really has metaphysics. The performance of this “Crimson” has completely crushed all the artificial intelligences in today’s human civilization—in just a few years after its birth, it has already assisted humans in overcoming many technical difficulties. , At the same time, it is also one of the very few artificial intelligences that issued an early warning to humans before the war, believing that the possibility of Iron Heart launching a surprise attack during this period will increase sharply.

It's a pity that, just like the warning issued by Hong, the human society at that time only thought that this was the usual "scaremongering" of artificial intelligence, and no one took it seriously at all-but as the saying goes, a fall into a pit can make you wise, Nowadays, they should no longer take Crimson's words as deaf ears, right?

"Do they have any reference files or something on this that can explain to us why they think this is feasible?"

One person asked.

"Sir, you know, it's not the 21st century anymore, the transparency of cutting-edge artificial intelligence today... Basically, all we can do is provide parameters, and they output an answer. As for why, no one can Know."

"For the solutions proposed by these artificial intelligences, the most that think tanks can do is to verify them with other artificial intelligences, and then make a judgment based on experience and formulas. It is impossible to provide any effective reference."

The adjutant explained.

"Isn't this the same as asking us to gamble?" The deputy commander was a little annoyed, "to gamble on the probability that a black box is reliable?"

Obviously, it is because the think tank is not sure whether it is feasible, so the cake in the rear did not issue orders through orders, but provided them with "combat plans" for "reference".

"Should we adopt this plan?"

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PS: The daily declaration at the beginning of the month, July, never mess up!

PS2: I can’t post the pictures in the chapters now, it’s difficult, I can understand things clearly with a picture...I’ll come back and repost the pictures after the maintenance is over

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