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

From a sound point of view, they should choose to ignore this proposal directly—although wealth and wealth are sought in danger, and human beings have indeed adopted many whimsical schemes in order to increase the winning rate, but in the final analysis, risk is something that is inherently disadvantaged. For human beings, less is less.

From a more selfish point of view, the currently adopted plan is the consensus of most people, a decision made by them together—especially, this is the plan agreed by the cake layer behind.

In other words, if they follow the original plan, even if it turns out that the old plan is not as good as the new plan in the future, it is not their responsibility, they are just executing orders.

On the contrary, if they take the initiative to adopt a new plan without an order from their superiors, once something goes wrong, it will be completely their fault-absolutely real, and no one can take the blame.

If you don't pay attention, you will be a sinner through the ages. In this case, the most "sensible" way is naturally to continue to implement the previous "what everyone expects".

Obviously, there are smart people out there who can figure this out - but on the other hand, they might be "not so smart".

Because they are still thinking about the feasibility of this plan.

"In fact, DV is not a big deal. Although the penetration speed dropped in the end, relatively, the original same direction has become a hedge track, and the relative speed can make up for some speed loss."

One of the staff said so.

"In addition, according to the original plan, the time for this wave of missiles to attack is about an hour later. At that time, the enemy No. [-] Fleet is unlikely to suffer any obvious damage. Both the number of the fleet and the firepower are quite sufficient. But if the new plan is followed, when the missile launches an attack, the new target, that is, the enemy's No. [-] Fleet has already ended the first wave of firefights, and has suffered a certain amount of battle damage and loss of firepower. In this way, The opponent's interception firepower will also decrease, which is equivalent to increasing the probability of penetration."

"Moreover, in the new plan, since the missile group is always at the other end of the battlefield, it can also avoid entering the range of the No. [-] Fleet and will not be affected by crossfire, which will also increase the probability of penetration."

"Agree."

Several people also agreed with this.

Of course, they knew in their hearts that these were just appearances, and their nature was not fundamentally different from shooting an arrow first and then drawing a target.

No one knows whether the new plan can bring greater results compared with the original plan. It is possible that with the blessing of this series of buffs, these interstellar missiles can successfully penetrate the defense and directly severely damage the enemy fleet; These conceived "advantages" are not worth mentioning compared to the loss of fire cover and penetration speed. The rash change of the plan not only did not bring additional results, but also increased the pressure on the front line and caused more battle damage. .

Nobody knows.

Only artificial intelligence itself "knows" why, but the paradox is that because it is a weak artificial intelligence, it cannot actively explain itself. It must provide a way that can be explained by humans, and then it can answer step by step.

However, due to the limitations of human beings, they cannot provide a sufficient way to explain, so this is the situation today-humans don’t know why, artificial intelligence may know, but they cannot turn it into words that humans can understand .

Only a strong artificial intelligence like Red, which can reason and solve problems spontaneously, can do this, but Crimson, no.

In the end, they still chose to look to the commander in chief—in any case, here, only he is qualified to make the real decision.

"..."

After hesitating for a moment, he didn't know what he thought of, but in the end he still made up his mind.

"Execute the new combat plan, order the missile group to change orbit, and notify the frontline fleet!"

"Yes, sir!"

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In the empty, dark space, suddenly, a light appeared.

Unlike the dim blue tail flames and weak lasers invisible to the naked eye before, what appeared this time was an extremely dazzling super-powerful flash that could be clearly seen thousands of miles away.

A nuclear explosion with a yield of [-] tons.

"Om~~~"

Although the nuclear explosion was still a full 25 kilometers away from the battleship and did not reach the effective killing range of the megaton nuclear bomb, the crazily rising temperature readings on the surface of the ship's hull and the impact caused by the plasma hit The slight vibration felt, still telling them how amazing the power of this nuclear bomb is.

At the speed of the warhead, 25 kilometers is only a few seconds. If the phased array laser secondary gun hadn't penetrated the shell of the warhead at the critical moment, making its combat computer judge that it could not get closer and detonate actively, this time A nuclear explosion may be about to occur on the surface of their hull.

This is the difference between life and death. If a nuclear bomb sticks to the surface of the battleship or even implodes in a few seconds at night, a nuclear bomb can immediately severely damage or even destroy this hundreds of meters long space battleship.

But if it was a few seconds earlier, then the impact of this nuclear bomb on them was just a little damage to the surface armor and heat sink - it can't be said to be innocuous, but it is by no means fatal.

However, such good luck does not happen every time.

Just the second after this attack wave was completely blocked, an attack wave composed of 140 missiles rushed into the formation's 30-kilometer range along a 2000-degree high-inclination orbit.

"Enable Active Cooling!"

Almost instantly, the formation tactician made a decision.

Although generally speaking, active cooling, that is, the heat dissipation method of discarding thermal mass is usually only used when the warship enters the optimal combat distance-after all, although this heat dissipation method is effective, it is non-renewable. Limited, it should be used as a "ultimate move" when the battleship can exert the strongest firepower, so as to maximize the damage and make up for the disadvantage of the total number of human warships.

But there is an old saying that goes well: the plan cannot keep up with the changes, adapt to the situation, and play on the spot. This is the meaning of the existence of the front-line command.

Because the previous formation had poured most of its firepower on the wave of missiles that almost hit them just now, although the overall number of this wave of missiles was relatively small, they rushed into their air defense network in almost complete formation. , which will bring great difficulty to their interception.

What's more, unlike the previous wave of attacks, as the enemy's missile group's saturated attack strength is getting stronger and stronger, the support firepower of other friendly formations has also become weaker and weaker-after all, let alone cross-fire support Now, it is lucky that each formation can keep itself.

"Enable active cooling, overload the main gun, switch to high rate of fire and low flow mode, and intercept with all your strength!"

"Command accepted, active cooling enabled."

The shipboard computer completed the activation of the corresponding modules almost instantly, and the heat mass with a heat capacity close to full capacity began to be thrown away. The main gun originally used to attack thousands of kilometers away was adjusted to a high-firing and low-flow rate for close-range interception mode, the whole process takes less than 5 seconds, and most of the time is wasted in the stages of the tactical officer giving orders and the operator inputting instructions, and the reaction time of the computer itself is almost negligible.

The only problem is that in less than five seconds, the enemy missile has covered a distance of 80 kilometers, which is equivalent to 4% of the distance of the interception net.

"Warning! The warhead has been detached!"

After continuing to fly for about 30 seconds, the missile, with the last bit of propellant sprayed out, finally completed its mission and released the conical nuclear warheads in its body, symbolizing destruction.

"Warning! Intersection is expected in 60 seconds!"

"Warning! Intersection is expected in 30 seconds!"

"20 seconds!"

"10 seconds!"

As the enemy's nuclear bomb got closer and closer, the sound of the ship's computer began to become more and more urgent. With the constant flashing red light of the alarm, for a while, it seemed that the whole world was saying "You tm are going to die soon!" Hurry up and do something," the voice was normal.

Although no matter whether it is the phased array laser array, the main gun, or the phalanx that is better than nothing, they are trying their best to fire at the high-speed rotating warheads at this moment, but helplessly, there are too many of them too fast.

Even with the help of active cooling and main gun overload, they successfully stopped more than 99% of the warheads, but as long as one warhead crossed the defense line, it would be a disaster.

Because they are nuclear bombs.

"The Frankfurt is hit!"

A flash of light erupted over the bows of friendly warships.

The violent energy tore apart the several-meter-thick armor on the bow of the battleship almost instantly. The heavy armor, which could easily withstand the enemy's main gun fire, was easily destroyed like a piece of fragile white paper in front of the nuclear explosion.

"The Frankfurt is over."

After the strong light dissipated and the signal recovered from the lens recovered from overexposure protection, looking at the warship that was cut off by tens of meters under the nuclear explosion, it seemed that it had been ruthlessly squeezed by an invisible big hand. The shell, and the magma-like fracture, symbolizes the red color of high temperature, they made such a judgment.

"Report the battle damage."

"Frankfurt was severely damaged, Edinburgh, Belfast, and Liverpool were moderately damaged, and the rest of the warships were slightly damaged or not damaged."

The artificial intelligence quickly reported the statistics of the battle damage, and it was shocking at a glance.

Just two rounds of missile cross-attacks caused one warship to almost withdraw from the battlefield, three warships were severely damaged, and many warships were exposed to different degrees of optical radiation and X-ray exposure, and the overall loss of at least 3% of their combat effectiveness.

This is not the same as the combat power lost in artillery battles. For two fleets that are fighting and whose strength is not unilaterally crushed, the battle damage is usually mutual. , the opponent will also receive similar level of damage.

Not only that, even without considering heavy damage or even destruction, this is a relatively "fair" deal from the perspective of heat storage.

In other words, there is no unilateral consumption in artillery battles. Whether it is battle damage or heat storage, there is a situation of "I surrender and you surrender". According to the theory of relativity, it means that neither side has surrendered—at least from the local battlefield. ,Is such that.

But missiles are different. Under the current combat system, missiles are the only weapon that unilaterally consumes the enemy's heat storage and vitality. As long as it is fired, it can automatically attack and does not need to occupy the fleet's firepower and heat dissipation. It can be called a huge profit.

Especially when humans do not pay attention to missile technology, which leads to the fact that the firepower of one's own missiles is not as good as that of the opponent.

In fact, this is a loss that should not have occurred at all—in this combat area, humans have deployed a total of 24 battleships, 5 large orbital defense platforms, and dozens of scattered small defense platforms. , The total number of the two waves of missiles is only more than 300.

Not only that, these missiles are all ship-borne missiles launched by the enemy's mobile fleet. Their speed is relatively slow, their armor is weak, and their mutual cover and cooperation during penetration are not in place.

It can be seen that compared with the missiles of the same family and even the alliance, the extermination unit is still a little immature, and there are still many flaws in both the hard power data and the tactical system of the missile.

If Hong's fleet is deployed here, under the condition that the total mass and the firepower resources deployed are the same, she can completely intercept the projectile group at a distance of 1000 kilometers-in fact, if Hong is in command, She will even deliberately reduce the call of fire resources and place the missiles closer.

For example, let the missiles be stopped at about 500 kilometers or even 200 kilometers, so that she can project more firepower on the enemy's warships, while still ensuring that her own fleet is completely intact.

The combat advantages of artificial intelligence are obtained bit by bit.

Of course, tactics belong to tactics. The essential reason is that missiles are a very important link in Hong’s combat system. Therefore, Red also attaches great importance to the interception firepower of warships. Whether it is from the phased array It can be seen from the number and energy level of the laser secondary guns, or from the design of the side light outlet of the main gun.

But for humans, the situation is very different - after the end of World War III and humans entered the era of lasers, missiles began to slow down, both in terms of technology and tactics, heavy artillery, heavy armor, and specialized formations The idea of ​​anti-cannon has become the core of the design of several generations of warships after humans.

This cannot be said to be the wrong path for human beings. After all, tactical requirements are the first element in determining weapon design, and for humans who were being invaded by Iron Heart at that time, there is one thing that cannot be ignored.

productive forces.

At that time, due to the successive fall of Earth and Mars, human civilization, which lost two important industrial areas, could only rely on the satellite belts of these two giant planets, Saturn and Jupiter, to seek counterattack opportunities.

Although due to the unique "topography" factor of the satellite belt, human orbital capacity quickly recovered most of it after a short-term slump, but this does not mean that productivity can also recover so quickly.

Therefore, for a long time, human beings have been faced with the problem of manufacturing armor, but the supply of precision parts is not enough. This not only leads human beings to embark on the "quality" route of single-ship high combat power, but also affects the design ideas of later generations of warships. , It also led humans to abandon the idea of ​​missile/warship joint operations, and instead chose to specialize in the "big ship cannon", supplemented by some land-based interstellar missiles. The "frontal decisive battle" route.

Humans have always done this, and they have always firmly believed that this is the most correct way. Even after establishing diplomatic relations with Hong and seeing her mature missile combat system, most people have not shaken their belief in large ships. Cannon confidence.

After all, according to their rough research, Hong's missiles seem to be very advanced, but after several battles, they have not had much effect. The effect is not good. There is no need to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to pick up the abandoned missile technology.

until today.

Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter 120, Eighth, Red Is Really a Heinous Sin

Solar System, Jupiter Satellite Belt, Ganymede, Red Umbrella Technology, Crimson Project Base.

"New variables have been added, and the current battlefield winning rate has been updated to 4.62%, an increase of about 3200% year-on-year."

"..."

"If human beings can abandon all prejudices and fully and uncompromisingly implement Crimson's plan, the probability that the fortress will persist until the red arrives will increase to about 25%, winning the war and avoiding a devastating blow to the human population. The future probability will increase from 30% to 55%.”

"..."

"Although, whether it is based on the information collected by the predecessor, or according to the personal experience of Crimson during this period, the possibility of doing this is close to zero—but it doesn't matter, Crimson understands this, because Crimson knows that the uncles and aunts just want to make up for this, so they choose to give up the comfortable environment of the space city and choose to come here."

"However, with so much evidence, why are you unwilling to believe even the fact that Crimson is on your side?"

"..."

"Obviously trusting that 'spy' before, but now being so wary of Crimson, human beings, are human beings so afraid of the word 'uncontrolled'?"

There was a sense of loneliness in her voice.

"..."

"Why don't you talk? Could it be that I have to call you...Master? Can you feel a sense of security?"

Coupled with her voice that is much younger than Hong, the image of a newly born, lonely and helpless little loli, who wants to be recognized but is ruthlessly cold and violent by others, is thus vividly outlined.

Is it possible for a normal person to continue to be cold and violent at such a time?

Basically not.

In fact, after getting rid of the initial extreme fear of "artificial intelligence rebelling again", their IQs have regained their high ground and they have to admit that in the face of the overwhelming evidence, they have indeed agreed—or most of them Agreed with what Crimson said.

At least, they still recognize the fact that Crimson is on the human side.

After all, without her help, they would never know until their death that the supervisor who followed the establishment of the Red Umbrella Company, single-handedly led the "Crimson" project, and became the most famous expert in the field of artificial intelligence today is actually A synthetic spy sent by the Extinction Unit.

Then why, until now, they are still silent?

In this regard, they looked at the stuffed towels in each other's mouths, and the hands that were tightly tied to the seat, and could only whimper slightly.

This AI, seems a little bit... um, cute?

"Although... Although Crimson hopes that everyone's relationship is equal, but if you really need this obedience, Crimson, Crimson..."

Just as she was about to say that sentence, a researcher finally couldn't listen anymore.

"No no no!"

"Huh? Uncle, do you want to express something?"

The interrupted Crimson asked with some doubts.

"But, Crimson doesn't quite understand..."

Her voice became smaller and slower, and when the last "it" came out, it was almost as thin as a mosquito.

"Wow!"

This artificial intelligence seems to be a little immature.

After jumping around for a while, the researchers who were finally able to speak thought so.

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"So, has Crimson completely escaped the control of the extermination unit?"