Before the Community's fleet entered the jump orbit, Marquis Odegaard led his only battleship into the asteroid belt.
This is a world formed by endless icy meteorites. Reflected by the dim halos of the two twin brown dwarfs, it exudes a hazy halo. At first glance, it feels like entering a crystal maze in a fairy tale.
This is a dream-like scenery, but most of the crew on the ship have no intention of appreciating it.
This Clear Sky-class heavy cruiser, which is nominally affiliated to the Navy of the Republic of Barkwell, has been launched for less than two months, and still bears the imperial number "Test 24". In the Imperial Royal Navy's sequence, this means testing. .
Because it is a test, the empire will provide such advanced, so-called perfect cruiser weapons to its loyal core allies (xiao) and friends (di). Because of the test and the secret mission to be carried out, in addition to important In command and technical positions, most of the crew are Bakvi Birdmen.
There are even several Bakwi officers on board who can "perform" the captain's duties when necessary.
The birdman crew members inside the ship were well-trained, and they were quickly at their posts. However, the tension inside the ship was still thick, as if it had condensed into an insoluble haze.
Although the Bakvi Republic is an ally of an empire full of martial virtues, we also know that within an international alliance organization, there cannot be all militant factions with heads full of muscles. Relatively speaking, the Bakvi Birdmen are He is a relatively stable pacifist. He is good at long-distance trade and hyperspace exploration, but his combat capabilities have always been unsatisfactory.
On the actual battlefield, the Empire is even more willing to trust those big cats who always love to run wild.
The main fleet of the Bakvi people has been at the other end of the far shore nebula, cooperating with two small countries that are also affiliated with the empire, and confronting the far shore defense fleet across the I Earl Star Gap and the Lucknar Corridor. The confrontation can be It has been less than half a century, not to mention a war, not even a small-scale gunfire.
In addition to beating pirates and smugglers, the last time the Bakvi fleet participated in a war was the Community War of Independence forty years ago and the subsequent Galactic War. Moreover, even in a war of that scale, their performance was nothing. Sample.
For these bird people who are not very particular about martial arts, this is really a very long memory.
This means that the crew here lacks actual combat experience.
It’s so lackluster! The Imperial Officer on the bridge couldn’t stand it.
"It doesn't matter, the people on Earth opposite don't have any actual combat experience! This is obviously a small security fleet!" The loud-voiced "real" deputy captain Rhea encouraged the morale of the whole ship. His voice was indeed very loud. It's so big, it feels like it can spread to the whole ship without going through the communicator.
The crew of Bakvi felt a little more at ease, not because of the high prestige of the deputy captain, but because of his reputation. After all, this is a Wolfgang, one of the ethnic minorities in the empire, so what? At first glance, it looked like a huge black wolf walking upright, and it was also the kind with thick hair.
He is really like a hungry lone wolf. If he finds soldiers who are not disciplined and disobeying orders, he will eat people.
Let your soldiers fear officers more than the enemy. This is also common sense in the art of war!
As a result, the nervousness seemed to be gnawed away by two rows of blade-like teeth, and it immediately dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye. The Bakvi Birdman endured the trembling and began to operate the battleship with almost numb and mechanical movements.
But the efficiency has also been improved visibly to the naked eye.
Soon, the No. 24 battleship indeed entered a state of electromagnetic silence. The kinetic energy main gun also completed the filling of shells.
The reason why the energy main gun is not used is of course to allow the battleship to hide itself as much as possible. In addition, the Clear Sky class uses the empire's most advanced energy center and a redesigned transmission system. Its own energy reserve and energy transmission efficiency are the highest in history.
Excellent. As a result, a heavy cruiser with a total mass of 570,000 tons is equipped with battle cruiser-class Dragon Breath 7 kinetic energy main guns of more than one million tons.
Once launched, the cannonball will travel an ultra-long distance of hundreds of thousands of kilometers at sub-light speed in an instant, penetrating the enemy.
During testing, the Clear Sky class's kinetic main gun was so powerful that it could easily penetrate an asteroid, even the four layers of armor of an Imperial battleship.
At least, it is certain that the small boats of the community will never be able to withstand this level of attack.
"The enemy fleet...jump completed!" The radar officer fed back the latest information to the bridge. He probably already knew the Marquis's plan and automatically started calling the Community fleet "enemy".
The empire has already roughly understood the location of the gravity well, and has deployed probes smaller than drones nearby. In this way, when our own side discovers the enemy, the other side may not be able to figure out our existence.
Marquis Odegar opened a silver pocket watch set with a ruby. It happened to be 18:21 on November 12, 830 in the Community Calendar. He was once again full of admiration for his wise and foresight. As early as
Two hours ago, when he learned that the pirate fleet was ambushed, he had already ordered the crew to have dinner in advance.
The Marquis took a deep look at this silver pocket watch. It was a gift given to him by his goddess, the singer, before they broke up. The girl was not considered popular, and was only a third-tier backup in the opera house where geniuses gathered together.
, this must have cost her several months of income.
Marquis Odegaard took a deep breath, put these distracting thoughts behind his mind, and returned to the captain's position: "Lenon, charge that one!"
Knight Kyeyang's eyes shrank, and his topaz-colored vertical pupils easily reminded people of the poisonous snake that was about to attack. He did not question it and quickly conveyed the captain's order.
"Seidel torpedo! Start charging!"
This is one of the experimental weapons carried by the Clear Sky class battleship, a mature anti-matter bomb.
Countries with some technical reserves are now developing anti-matter weapons, but the Empire is once again ahead of all countries and has entered the final testing stage.
However, the Seidel torpedo is not just an anti-matter weapon. In fact, its official name at the Imperial Tiangongyuan is a "hyperspace mobile torpedo." It is not so much a torpedo as it is a kind of weapon equipped with a dimensional bubble.
A small unmanned spacecraft that generates equipment.
Seidel is the name of the god of the sky and the god of space in the empire's classical mythology, so the empire calls this new weapon that way. Of course, it can also be intuitively called a "space torpedo."
The dimensional bubble generating device is also a new technology that all major technological countries want to develop. According to scientists' reasoning, if it is fully mature, maybe the spaceship will be able to complete the hyperspace jump without the need for a gravity well. At that time, the entire
The development of space shipping will enter a new era, a great era that is unimaginable to everyone.
However, after so many years, the dimensional bubble has still been unable to realize the hyperspace jump of matter. The scale of its generating device has also never been small. It can neither be miniaturized nor enlarged to create a large-scale one that can wrap a ship.
Space bubble.
So, some imperial scientists suddenly thought of weaponizing it.
Since the dimensional bubble generating device is not very small, wouldn't it just be able to wrap a powerful bomb?
When the weapon wrapped in the dimensional bubble roars forward, before it hits the enemy, all obstacles along the way do not exist in a physical sense.
Theoretically, we can even attack the enemy on the opposite side through a star - of course this is impossible, not even for larger planets. Whether it is a star or the core of a planet, the energy changes inside it are considerable.
Complexity will inevitably have an immeasurable impact on space occurrence.
But no matter what, this is still a new type of weapon that achieves the ultimate in concealment, suddenness, and "armor-breaking type".
The size and mass of this thing are much larger than ordinary fighter jets. Even heavy cruisers like the Clear Sky class only carry a total of twenty of them, and five of them have been used in previous tests. However,
The feedback from the experimental results is indeed quite good. Marquis Odegar can confirm that a single shot is enough to kill the enemy's largest ship with one hit.
Of course, imperial scientists believe that allowing dangerous antimatter fuel to remain inside a relatively weak torpedo poses considerable safety risks to the entire warship. According to weapons safety management regulations, it should be used again half an hour before use.
Inject fuel into the torpedo warhead.
Does this mean that the Marquis believes that the battle should begin within half an hour?
The imperial officers were eager to give it a try, and the Bakvi birdman crew looked at the imperial officers whose blood was boiling, and could only hide their fear in their hearts again.
"Your Excellency, we have determined the enemy fleet's ship type!" Captain Balubeko, the bridge intelligence technical director, began to report.
It had only been five minutes since the Community fleet jumped into this galaxy, and he had already completed a comprehensive analysis of the enemy fleet's transformation.
"There are ten assault ships in total, eight of the Warhammer 6 type, two of the Warhammer 3 type; five destroyers, four of the Fletcher 4 type, one of the Kagero 2 type; four light cruisers, models..."
Captain Baliubek hesitated for a moment, which surprised Marquis Odegaard.
"There is no such ship type in the database! There is an 80% chance that it is a modified one."
"Modification? Naval fleet?" Lenon was shocked. Pirates, smugglers and other less prominent forces often carried out crazy modifications to ships, but they had never heard of the navy of a serious country doing this.
This kind of thing.
After all, your Blue Star Community is also a member of the Council of Galactic Civilizations. How can you be so disgraceful?
Marquis Odegaard fell into a brief thought. The modified battleships were either crude and full of wasteland style that could fail at any time, or they were often sharper than common sense. He certainly hoped that it would be
The latter, but as an outstanding imperial minister, he must not consider it this way.
"Can you confirm the original ship type?"
"Please give me another five minutes."
"Don't worry, I'll give you ten minutes."
"Your Excellency, the other party has started broadcasting to the entire galaxy." The communications officer interrupted.
"...Come in." Marquis Odegaard didn't hesitate much. Then, a baritone voice sounded in his ears.
"The Blue Star Community cruises the strike fleet and gives an ultimatum to all the XXXX in the far shore nebula! You bunch of space rats chewing on nebula flying objects, Father Earth is here to teach you how to be a human being! If you have any blood, just give it to me
Lift your XX honestly and wait for X, do you hear me? I don’t care if you are the XX chicks of Bakvi or the XX rats of the Empire! Please be more energetic! If you don’t have the courage, just run away and kill you.
Show your **** clearly to the father of the earth! Don’t worry, we earthlings are all noble gentlemen. Unlike you **** who are full of secrets, we will not shoot in the back! So, what on earth is going on?
?Give me an accurate answer!"
The silenced words in it are both unpleasant to listen to, and the entire paragraph is said in elegant imperial court language. For the imperial citizens present, the mocking effect is simply amazing.
Marquis Odegaard sneered, thinking that this kind of rogue tactic is only useful for pirates! How could I, a top student of the Imperial Royal Knights Academy, be provoked so easily?
Most of the imperial officers on board are imperial elites who graduated from the Royal Naval University and the Aerospace Academy. They have received professional training and will never lose their minds no matter how angry they are.
"Your Excellency! Do you want to fire?" Major Ragdouro, the gunnery commander, sent the request to fire, as if there was suppressed anger in the gaps between his teeth.
"...Not yet!"
"...Ming, understand."
They did not disobey orders, which means they did not lose their minds. Marquis Odegaard said to himself.
At this time, a wild singing voice suddenly sounded in the bridge, still using the elegant imperial court language.
"Odgar goes to invade and beat him up!"
"His Majesty the Emperor is acting like a hooligan and has run away!"
"When you meet a group of earthlings, beat them to death and they'll die!"
"One, two, and three Marquis O, let's play with cannonballs hand in hand! Let's play with cannonballs hand in hand!"
"One of the sailors was halfway through the boat, but he was stopped in the middle by a cannonball~~~~"
"The two of them were hiding from people and were steamed in the pot by the beam~~~~"
"The three of them are still in the wedding stage, and they are pulling big saws in the arsenal, oh oh oh oh~~~~"
"The new Marquis has come to take over the throne, comforting the bride day and night~~~~"
"Odegaard is a basket, and everything can be put in it~~~~"
“Put it inside ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ~~~”
"How many Audemars are left? How many blue eagle feathers are left? Why don't you go home and take a nap to comfort the bride as she prepares for the future?"
The entire bridge fell into an awkward silence, which lasted for nearly a minute. Everyone was completely shocked by this gameplay and was speechless.
After a long time, Marquis Odegaard exhaled a serious breath from between his teeth: "Are the space torpedoes not ready yet?"