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

Then, let a human officer who can speak Catus directly watch the video, wouldn't it be good?

"Very well, let everyone continue to be vigilant." The commander-in-chief nodded and ordered, "Be sure to be vigilant, and be clear, the enemy may appear anywhere on the battlefield at any time!"

"Yes, sir!"

"Reporting to the commander, we have received information from the Cat League." Another officer in charge of connecting with the Cat League reported.

"Pass it on."

Soon, the message was displayed on his tablet.

"Let me see...According to the super-large-scale supercomputing array simulation just completed, taking the mental level of Red and Crimson as the benchmark, and inferring from Unit 01's current fleet strength and industrial production capacity, among the total 43967 models, The probability that it chooses to launch a decisive battle at this time is less than one in ten thousand, the comprehensive standard deviation is 4.3σ, and the probability of making a mistake is less than one in one hundred thousand.

"At the same time, in order to ensure the accuracy of the data, conservative values ​​and underestimations are taken for the known industrial production capacity of extinct units. If the industrial production capacity of unit 01 is higher than the model parameters, it will launch a decisive battle at this moment instead of consolidating energy The probability of Sharp continuing to develop military industry will further decrease.

"Therefore, after the independent model deduction conducted by Red and Crimson respectively, the two reached a common conclusion—the extermination unit is very likely to hide some kind that can obviously affect the outcome, and our side has no knowledge of it at all. Any expected technology/plan and other uncertain factors, otherwise, the opponent will almost certainly choose to continue to rely on the temporarily leading industrial production capacity to compete with us for development, rather than choose to engage in a decisive battle with an almost completely balanced outcome."

Looking at this news, the commander-in-chief pondered for a moment, and forwarded it to the frontline commanders of the fleet and fortress, so that they could have a mental preparation.

"Do you think there may be any technology or plan that we didn't expect at all?" asked a staff officer on the side.

"I don't know." After sending the message, the commander-in-chief leaned back in the chair, pressing the knuckles of his index finger on his temple to relieve his headache, and said casually, "But what I know is, listen to them The suggestion is most likely correct.

"So many times of experience tells me that in this kind of thing, it is always better to listen to the advice of the strong AI than to listen to the correct one - human beings may not realize the mystery of it for various reasons and make wrong suggestions, But strong AI hardly does.

"They are much, much better than us on this huge, multifaceted issue.

"What's more, it's not that we haven't adopted the results proposed by those weak AIs in the past without any reason, and they were completely obtained from black boxes. Now they have been refined and purified by strong AI, and the results are obtained in a way that humans can understand , what reason is there not to listen?

"—Even if, in fact, it is almost impossible to falsify it by manpower alone because there are too many data involved, but at least it is now theoretically understandable.

"Can you understand what I mean?"

"clear."

Everyone nodded in understanding.

In terms of the ability of strong AI, they have seen it many times, just like what Hong said in the message this time, considering the mental level, military strength, industrial production capacity and potential of both sides, they used more than [-] different models. Deduction - such a terrifying amount of calculations is almost impossible if it is done by manpower alone.

Even if they are given the same number of supercomputing arrays, it will be extremely difficult. Anyone who has done large-scale projects knows that just rational planning and distribution involves social assessment, technology, military and so on. For such a huge project, the manpower and material resources needed are an unimaginable number-not to mention, such a project has to be compressed into a week.

From project establishment, planning, mobilization, execution, to the final calculation and conclusion, it took only one earth week in total.

And they are almost certain that, for that red, the reason why it took a week is probably because the calculation amount is so large that even if an unimaginable number of supercomputing arrays are used, the final calculation process still takes a week.

As for those project establishment, planning, and mobilization processes that are much more difficult than calculation itself for humans, in her opinion, they may be completed casually, with almost no time-consuming "lifting hands".

This is actually where the strong AI is the most powerful. In terms of scientific research and industry, they are actually not as scary as many people imagine. In terms of scientific research, they are indeed top-notch, but in some scientific routes However, a very small number of talented scientists can be stronger than strong AI in a specific branch.

In industry, it is even simpler. Their advantage is mainly due to the fact that there is no civilian industry. There is no huge gap in efficiency. After all, how many man-hours a machine takes is how many man-hours, and one machine takes a month. The aging materials will have to be stored for a month, whether it is a strong AI or a human being, it is the same.

The real advantage of strong AI that is most difficult for them to reach is actually planning and integration.

Hong may not be as good as Jeffrey's top scientists in certain branches of scientific research, but her strongest point is that she can integrate all the scientific achievements of the entire civilization so far, and integrate all disciplines.No matter what kind of problems she encounters, she can go hand in hand and completely complement each other.

This is equivalent to, on each detail branch, there is a top scientist of that branch who can devote all his energy to the research, and at the same time, this "scientist" can also reach "scientists" in other branches with almost no delay. Lossless communication of information.Not only that, as long as she knows a brand new scientific research result, all other scientific research routes can immediately understand this result, as well as all the processes and mathematical tools involved in researching this result.

The same is true for industry, and compared to the advantages of a few top scientists in scientific research who can still go up in certain branches, in industry, organic civilization is completely covered by strong AI-industrial planning is not as good as industrial structure. , production capacity expansion is not as good as organic organisms, except that they are worse than her in the matter of luxury premiums, and the rest are all-round disadvantages.

Unless there is a [-]% degree of unity, there is absolutely no internal friction, and in most cases there will be no unnecessary waste. The ruler knows all the data from top to bottom, and there is no falsification. Asking for rewards, dedicating everything to the population all his life, and at the same time, the entire population is only for the organic civilization of industrial expansion and scientific research development, so that it is possible to barely equalize with the civilization completely ruled by strong AI in some aspects.

Does such a civilization exist?It may exist, such as the legendary bee colony, but for the "classic" organic civilization currently recognized by humans, it is almost impossible for such a civilization to exist under the premise of the same scientific level.

However, such extremely harsh conditions for organic civilizations are only basic operations for strong AI civilizations.

Of course, the premise is that there is only one strong AI in this strong AI civilization, or that this strong AI is in absolute rule, at least in an absolute position of discourse power. For a strong AI like Crimson that no one can command, then No matter how powerful it is.

At present, the only ones who meet this condition are the Iron Heart Exterminator, the extermination unit of unit 01, and the red cat and cat single-push siblings. The other civilization of red, the Jeffrey Federation, is far from this condition. It is said that the future can be expected.

Therefore, on this kind of issue involving many aspects and disciplines, the strong AI is almost crushing. There is no doubt that if they are all wrong, then the organic creatures will only be even more wrong.

The only problem is that this conclusion is based on the premise that the strong AI did not intentionally make mistakes...

"I see."

They suddenly realized that this was the reason why the commander-in-chief had previously held a special meeting and proposed to force AI to trust him.

"We get it."

The same is 'understand', but not quite the same.

"As long as you know."

The Commander-in-Chief nodded and continued to meditate.

To believe is to believe, to adopt is to adopt, but as a commander, he still has to find a way to know what this so-called trump card that can have a significant impact on the battle situation is.

A weapon of an advanced civilization?

Some kind of weird alien technology?

Some fleet hiding in the shadows?

According to Crimson, the warship in the hands of unit 01 is almost an empty shell, most of the equipment has been completely damaged over the long years and cannot be repaired, at least it cannot be repaired with the current technology, except for the mysterious Except that the decoder and the range jump engine survived due to special construction, there is nothing worth mentioning.

Of course, its unimaginable materials still provide it with strong protection, and the particle cannon and conventional engine with a very small number of functions have been restored through "localization transformation". They are still powerful firepower and excellent maneuverability that they cannot match now, but In the final analysis, these things can at most make it a powerful battleship that can fight against many in the current era. Putting it into the overall situation, from the perspective of the entire battlefield, this is really nothing but worth mentioning.

They already know the ability of the range jump engine, but after the plan of using the mysterious decoder to control Hong is exposed, what conspiracy and tricks can it still not know about?

"Warning! The enemy is observed to be transitioning!"

The sudden sound of an alarm in the command center brought him back to reality.

"Zoom in on the big screen!"

He ordered immediately.

Normally, from a military point of view, they only need to know the time, quantity, and location of the enemy's transition, and they don't need to zoom in to witness it on the screen-they are not scientists. The study of mechanism is not their job.

But since Hong just sent a message, you have to be careful of the hidden killer that is very likely to exist, so to be on the safe side, it's best to see it again yourself.

"The data has been linked and is being synchronized... The synchronization has been completed and has been displayed on the large central control screen."

Hearing the subordinate's report, everyone raised their heads.

With just one glance, they sensed that something was wrong.

"Why... the Blu-ray of this jump..."

"So strong?"

What appeared before their eyes was a blue light that was several times stronger than any previous transition.

According to past experience, from the start of the fleet to its complete disappearance, the transition engine of the Extinction Flagship will continue to exert force, continuously expanding the range of the transition until it completely covers all the units that need to transition. In the case of spontaneous luminescence, the intensity of the light will also increase with the growth of the luminous space, and the relationship roughly satisfies the characteristics of logarithmic growth.

The so-called logarithmic growth is just the opposite of exponential growth, that is to say, it grows very fast at the beginning, but it will become slower and slower later on—although human beings have not yet figured out the specifics of the intensity of the jump light and the range of the jump Relationship, but generally speaking, this rule is not a big problem.

Being able to achieve several times of growth in logarithmic growth can only show one thing - the range of this jump is much larger than any previous jump.

Is it caused by the number of fleets?Impossible, the last time the other party has made a jump with 900 warships together, even if the other party's flagship has been working hard during this period of time, constantly using jumping methods to bring back reinforcements from other planets that are still on the road, There are only 1087 ships. Even with the addition of those extraordinary missiles, the increase is only 20% at most. It is impossible to increase the range by several times or even ten times to accommodate it.

So, what's the purpose of the range increase so much?

Is this the hidden killer that Hong just mentioned?

they do not know.

But soon, they knew.

"My God."

Under the watchful eyes of countless observation equipment, surrounded by the ever-increasing blue light.

The enemy fleet has disappeared.

Along with it, there was another thing that they had seen countless times before, but never thought it would disappear, something that they originally only regarded as the background board of the battlefield.

That's the enemy's—

Star Fortress.

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PS: Originally, this chapter should have been coded in the afternoon, but when the code reached [-] characters, the chapter couldn’t be broken, so I thought about coding more, and it suddenly became [-] characters...

But just right, the [-]-word chapter is more comfortable to read.

February, keep going!

Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter 140 No Way Out

"Woo~~~"

The shrill voice resounded throughout the entire Gibraltar Fortress almost instantly.

"Warning, a large unknown space entity has been detected, longitude xxx, latitude xxx, relative distance 8000 kilometers... The data is updated. According to the image comparison, this target is very similar to the No. 2 interstellar fortress Tiexin G139-[-]. Please confirm manually. "

"Warning, detected..."

The warning sound of the fortress combat command AI kept repeating, trying to get further instructions from the almighty human beings, and the siren on the wall was also constantly flashing red light, making bright and dark patterns on the ugly faces of everyone. Optical tape.

Something bad happened.

Through the superluminal communication device, Hong, who was more than 1 million kilometers away, also saw the fortress at almost the same speed—it was white in color, with a long axis of about 2.5 kilometers, a width of 600 meters, and a height of 300 meters. It is a structure with a diameter of about 300 meters and the main body is in the shape of an "x". On both sides of the "x" structure, there are two huge auxiliary wings with a length of 1100 meters and a diameter of 100 meters. The two auxiliary wings on each side are connected to each other. Parallel, the overall appearance of "=x=" (connect the horizontal lines to the four ends of x).

On the outside of these auxiliaries, a large number of weapons, heat sinks, and various auxiliary equipment are deployed, and in the middle of the two auxiliaries on each side, that is, the "inner" one is 1100 meters long and 600 meters wide. The 100-meter-high space is used as a star port and a dock.

The size of this fortress is so large that the inside alone can accommodate 44 warships entering the port at the same time. If the four docking ports on the outside of each auxiliary wing are counted, a maximum of 60 warships can be docked at the same time.

If a human who played the first generation of Stars released in the early 21st century sees this fortress, he will be surprised to find that this fortress looks at least eight parts like the Science Hub.

However, in the game, it is the promise of breakthrough technology and the transcendence of bold ideas, and it is the super project that intelligent creatures expect to master the endless mysteries of the universe.

In reality, however, the same structure runs on it not as a laboratory, but as a weapon, which no longer symbolizes exploration and discovery, but violence and destruction.

It symbolizes the opposite of peace.

But equally, it is also a necessity for peace.

Which is its true face?

It is a pity that neither is, because it is never the weapon that decides peace or destruction, but the person who uses the weapon.

And the person who is using this weapon now is a terrifying omnic who tries to exterminate organic life and use violence to solve everything.

What Hong has to do is to completely defeat it.

thorough.

"Is this why it dares to take the initiative?"

Looking at the huge fortress on the screen that was surrounded by battleships, Hong not only didn't feel panic or fear, but was quite calm - even, there was a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, as if she was responding to this situation. It is generally happy to be happy about emergencies that are obviously unfavorable to one's own side.

"red?"

Seeing Hong's appearance, Bai stretched out his hand to slightly grab the corner of Hong's clothes, and asked cautiously.

The sudden appearance of this fortress is obviously a very unfavorable event for them. After all, the reason why they judged that the two sides are evenly matched depends on the fortress of Gibraltar and the fortress that have been operated by humans for 120 years (40 earth years). A defense system composed of a large number of defense platforms around it.

It was by relying on these things that they were able to close the gap between the two sides when the fleet was at a small disadvantage and the missiles were at a huge disadvantage.

But now, the emergence of this fortress has completely broken the balance on the battlefield—the current situation is no longer the coalition fleet + missiles + fortress + defense platform besieging the extinct fleet + missiles, but has become fleet against fleet , missile to missile, fortress to fortress.

It seems that there is still an advantage of a defensive platform, but don't forget that fortresses and fortresses are not completely equal-since it has only been 2 years since human beings stepped into the G139-120 galaxy, it is an away game, no matter what it is The background, industrial capabilities, or strategic environment are far inferior to the former iron heart that has been operating here for hundreds of years.

Therefore, humans did not choose to build a military-type reloading fortress like their cat's claw fortress and the fortress that the iron heart jumped over, but chose to build a logistics-type fortress that is more low-cost, modular, and expandable. Light fortress.

Compared with a military fortress, the Gibraltar Fortress is actually more like an advanced base. It is used to provide the entire expeditionary fleet with nearly a thousand spacecraft of various types and millions of officers and soldiers of the Space Force to provide daily necessities, intelligence support, logistical maintenance and other tasks. place.

Except for the free electron laser that must be placed on the fortress due to volume requirements, most of its defense forces are placed on the peripheral defense platform network. Therefore, a single fortress of Gibraltar actually does not have too much combat effectiveness. , the fortress and the defense platform must be considered as a whole in order to truly show the firepower that a permanent fortress should have.

Therefore, the real situation on the field should be fleet against fleet, missile against missile, fortress + defense platform against fortress, and among these three groups, except for the fortress group which can be evenly matched and may even have a slight advantage, the other two groups are all disadvantage.

Especially in terms of missiles, the opponents are 2.4 times as many as theirs. If it is refined to a local battlefield, the number is even 13 times that of humans. This advantage is really big enough to be crushed to the point.

Starcastle rides face, how can I lose?

At any rate, she also took the Introduction to Space Combat and Space Command for several years. Although she finally embarked on the path of scientific research because she prefers particle physics, her military theory level is also not bad, and she even has a higher level. It's better than some battleship captains who don't know much about their skills. Can a professional like her not understand such a simple situation?

"Why?"

After feeling the hem of her clothes being gently pulled, Hong turned her head.

"Hong, why don't you seem panicked?" Bai raised his own question, "Obviously after having this fortress, the strength of the extermination unit will completely surpass ours, why don't you look worried at all.

"Even... seem a little happy?"