Alien Relic Hunter

Crescent Fortress, Crater 4.

The old moon in the double moon is a natural satellite captured by the gravity of Alpha Star, while the new moon is an artificial satellite built from scratch by the Alpha civilization. Although it is artificial, from the appearance of the planet, the new moon is There is not much difference between the old moon and the old moon.

The appearance of the new moon is also covered by a layer of crust composed of rock base. The average thickness of this crust is about 20,000 meters, and the surface is covered with large and small nested craters.

However, unlike the craters on the surface of the moon, which was once the Earth's satellite, all the craters on the surface of the new moon are artificial and are not created by meteorites.

Both the new moon and the old moon have powerful self-defense facilities. These facilities can not only intercept all aircraft and weapons approaching the double moon, but also destroy all meteorites flying towards the double moon... In the past tens of thousands of years, there is not a piece of diameter Meteorites exceeding one meter can fall on the surface of Double Moon. As for the craters on the surface of Double Moon observed by the Arkians, each one is actually a fully automated defense position that is carefully disguised.

Crater 4 is the largest crater on the side of the crescent moon facing Alpha. It has a diameter of 620 kilometers, which is more than twice the size of the largest crater Bailey on the moon. But in fact, Crater 4 is A fire circle is formed by 70,000 giant anti-aircraft turrets. These giant turrets, which are equivalent to thirty-story buildings, are buried in the mountains of the crater. The positions of the muzzles are hidden in the shadows cast by the mountain peaks. middle.

The enemy fleet has entered the range of anti-aircraft fire. The anti-aircraft fire saturation of Crater 4 is 19%. Do you want to activate the interception system? Selene's shadow stood behind Ke Lan and asked.

With only 19% firepower, can it be stopped? Ke Lan asked.

I need to correct that the available firepower of Crater 4 is 19%. Other defensive positions on the front of the crescent moon have all been offline... If calculated based on the overall defensive firepower, the ratio of available firepower on the front of the crescent moon is now 2.7 %.

What are the chances of a successful interception?

According to calculations, the existing firepower can eliminate 72% of the enemies, and the remaining 28% of the enemies will break through the fire blockade and enter the Crescent Fortress.

I'm just wondering why such a big fortress doesn't have any robot troops... If there were a group of autonomous combat machines, we could at least have some street fights with each other, Ke Lan complained.

There is a high probability that the program of the autonomous combat machine will be contaminated and evolve into an corrosive AI similar to the hive mastermind, and it has extremely high concealment and permeability. For the safety of the Twin Moon Fortress, the fortress master must be removed. Except for controlling AI, any equipment with AI programs is prohibited from being brought into the fortress. Selene replied.

Is it too late to rush the work now? There should be something like an assembly line and fully automated production facility inside the fortress, right?

Fully automated factories also require AI for management, so they are also banned in Crescent Fortress. Selene's answer completely erased Ke Lan's last trace of fantasy, In fact, you have obtained the rights of Crescent Fortress. All permissions, anything that is not on the list of available features, are not available in Fortress.”

Then the resources I can use now... are really pitiful... Ke Lan glanced at the list that was directly transmitted into his brain, and sighed, Let's start the fire interception first. How long is how long... If it doesn't work, you will be responsible for maintaining the charging program of the Star Destroyer Cannon later, and I will go outside to fend off those monsters. Is this okay?

After the charging process is started, the holder of the authority does not need to stay in the central control room. Selene said, But if you need to stop the charging, you must do it yourself.

No need to stop, just launch after charging. Ke Lan took a step back and walked out of the light beam, I'll leave this place to you. In addition, I have to trouble you to send me outside the fortress... As for How long I can delay it depends on my luck...

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In order to prevent rapid breakthrough by foreign enemies, there are no space channels inside the Crescent Fortress. There are only six space transmission nodes located on the shallow surface of the earth connected to Alpha Star. When Ke Lan returned to the surface, he still took the vehicle called the Shuttle - when Ke Lan arrived on the surface of the new moon, the fleet composed of hundreds of pale warships was so close that it was visible to the naked eye. distance.

The consciousness fire control system is online and the connection is complete. Selene's voice sounded in Ke Lan's earphones. The defense system operation authority has been transferred to the connector, and all weapon insurances have been unlocked.

Ke Lan only heard a soft ding sound, and two light blue, ever-changing circles suddenly appeared on his retina.

These two circles are actually the focus of his eyes. The operation method of this conscious fire control system is also very simple - Ke Lan only needs to focus his sight on the target that needs to be attacked, that is, use these two circles as a set Just hold the target and then directly give the command to fire.

This operating system is simply more convenient than clicking wherever you point. Ke Lan silently gave it a new name in his heart - Whoever stares will die.

The gradually approaching Pale Fleet has a total of 246 warships. Excluding those defectives that are less than a hundred meters in length and severely damaged in structure, there are a total of 37 warships that have reached the level of perfect simulation, including Four aircraft carrier battleships, thirteen secondary battleships, and twenty heavy cruisers - this scale is already more than three times the size of a full fleet of the Ark Air Force.

These simulated battleships basically simulate the current models of the Ark Air Force, but there is also an aircraft carrier battleship whose shape is incompatible with all the aviation battles known by Ke Lan - that's why Ke Lan classified it as one of the four ships. Among the aircraft carrier battleships, it is entirely because of its nearly two thousand meters in length... Except for the existence of the two unique gears Ark and Yagunaktor, only aircraft carrier battleships can achieve this. volume.

The shape of this battleship is very characteristic. The front part of the battleship is like a huge horizontal spindle, and the hull is connected to the middle part of the spindle - if a pair of tail fins can be added to the stern of the ship, it will look just like this. An enlarged version of a hammerhead shark. Especially at both ends of the spindle, there are two external energy shield generators that look like eyeballs.

It is the 'fortress-class' battleship of the Hive Civilization. Selene said, It is one of the main battleships of the Hive Civilization. The design drawings of this ship were later inherited by the Alpha Civilization, but the Alpha Civilization did not build this model in large quantities. battleship, but the design drawings were sealed in a certain ruins.”

It seems that this ruins has been excavated by the Undead Crew. Ke Lan said, What is the weakness of the 'Fortress-class' battleship?

The bow. Selene replied, The 'Fortress-class' battleship adopts a front-engine structure. The energy converter, main power furnace and star engine are all located at the bow. It is precisely because the bow is so important. That’s why two external energy shield generators were added for protection.”

Astral engine... This word was both unfamiliar and familiar to Ke Lan. It was unfamiliar because it was the first time he came into contact with this term, and familiar because of the information about the astral engine, that part of the memory that had just been unblocked. Inside, and extremely detailed.

The astral engine is an engine developed by the hive civilization for long-distance interstellar navigation. Unlike conventional engines that generally use jets to propel warships forward, the astral engine relies on traction rather than thrust - the astral engine can A gravitational anchor hook that is invisible to the naked eye is created directly in front of the battleship. This gravitational anchor hook can lock and connect with large-mass celestial bodies in the target direction, and use the gravity of the celestial bodies to accelerate the battleship.

Or to put it more vividly - it uses the gravity of celestial bodies as a hook to pull the battleship towards the target celestial body.

The greater the mass of the target celestial body, the faster the battleship will be.

The advantages and disadvantages of this kind of astral engine are equally obvious. The advantage is that it saves energy and is especially suitable for long-distance interstellar voyages without stable supplies. The disadvantage is that if there are no massive celestial bodies on the route or the massive celestial bodies are located at the end of the gravitational anchor hook, Beyond the long locking distance, the astral engine will completely lose its function and become a waste.

The Fortress-class battleship in front of us has obviously set the crescent moon as the anchor point of the gravitational anchor hook - fortunately, the mass of the new moon itself is not too large, otherwise, this Fortress-class ship would have already Rushed closer.

You know, under normal circumstances, astral engines generally set stars as the pulling targets of gravitational anchor hooks.

As Ke Lan's gaze moved, the two circles symbolizing focus were firmly locked on the spindle-shaped bow of the Fortress-class, and then he lightly snapped his fingers.

Fire.

A circle of bright light points suddenly rose from the peaks of Crater 4 and flew towards the Fortress Class located in the center of the fleet at an extremely fast speed. It hit the front end of the Fortress Class almost in an instant. Spindle-shaped structure.

Ke Lan also saw the battle that just happened on the deck of Yagunaktor. He knew very well that such warships or mechas simulated by mimicry methods would use their ammunition when they were not attacking. Exploding the energy capsule will not cause a fatal explosion - but the astral engine is different. The astral engine is in operation at all times. Ke Lan chose this fortress-class battleship as the primary target of attack, just to attack it. The opponent was caught off guard.

As long as this Fortress-class ship fails to shut down the star engine in advance and invalidate the structure of the engine part, then this first round of attacks will achieve huge results - the Fortress-class warship is indeed better than all the Ark civilization. Battleships must be strong, but they are also a huge security risk in this fleet.

Ke Lan made the right bet.

The fortress-level energy shield was exploded by the intensive fire in the blink of an eye. Each of those bright light spots contained thirty times the energy of the Skati's triple-mounted plasma main gun - if At its peak, the Crescent Fortress can destroy this fleet in two seconds with full firepower. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Even if only 2.7% of the artillery can fire, when the firepower is concentrated to a point, , it is more than enough to break the energy shield of a fortress-level ship.

The spindle-shaped bow of the Fortress-class battleship was instantly engulfed by the light point. Under normal circumstances, if the battleship's engine or main power furnace is destroyed, a huge explosion will occur, but this Fortress-class did not explode. , but showed signs of inward collapse!

A black hole with huge attraction appeared inside the spindle, and everything around it - including the wreckage of the Fortress and nearby friendly ships, was forcibly sucked in. In this In the center of the huge fleet, a gravitational vortex with a diameter of more than 10,000 meters appeared!

The reason why Alpha Civilization sealed the fortress-level design drawings is that, in addition to the very obvious shortcoming, the danger of the astral engine is also a very important reason - although the astral engine requires only the energy required to operate the astral engine. One thousandth or even less, but once the engine loses control, a gravitational vortex comparable to a small black hole will be generated, making it difficult for everything around it to escape.

Several secondary battleships near the Fortress Class had already been involved in this gravitational vortex. Under the huge force, first the external structures of the battleships such as armor, signal towers, and turrets were torn off, and then, It is the main body of the battleship... twisted, deformed, and then disintegrated... The huge fleet that was so majestic a second ago has turned into space junk all over the sky this second.

And it’s the kind of space junk that’s thrown into the toilet…

The collapse of the star engine destroyed nearly 40% of the fleet in one breath, but the remaining 60% of the fleet gathered together and adjusted all the energy shields to the same frequency - the combined shields of dozens of warships When they came together, a super shield was formed, which gradually advanced against the firepower of Crescent Fortress.

This fortress-class ship equipped with a star engine is already the biggest flaw on the opposite side, but this flaw is not fatal.

The anti-aircraft turret in Crater No. 4 fired continuously, causing the opponent's joint shield to collapse, but it was never able to penetrate the shield.

Tsk... You actually know how to adapt to the situation... This is a bit troublesome. Ke Lan observed for about half a minute and discovered the problem - these mimic warships actually temporarily changed the internal structure, adding armor, weapons, etc. All temporarily useless equipment was replaced with energy shield generators.

This is not so much a battleship as a bunch of moving energy shield generators.

With the current offensive and defensive rhythm, unless all the energy of the enemy fleet can be exhausted, this joint shield will never be broken.

[P.S. Thank you for the 233 starting coins rewarded by the author; thank you for the 100 starting coins rewarded by the mourning officer. 】