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

The distance between the orbits of the two stars is only more than 30 kilometers. With the DV reserve of more than 20 kilometers per second for the single-push man and queen bee, it is completely possible to abandon the slow Hohmann transfer orbit and return to the hyperbolic orbit with full thrust directly. Catus.

"According to the information provided by Fasati, this should be..." While controlling the fleet, she quickly compared the size of the wormhole, "The opponent's first wormhole?"

This is good news, because except for her kind of alternative, normal civilizations are generally in the early space age when they open the first wormhole. Most of them have not even pointed out the technology of fusion reactors, and they are still using chemical engines. Explore space.

The main reason why the wormholes of the same species opened so late is that in the past few hundred years, Hong was not really conscious. There has always been no population.

But since her awakening, it took only 20 years to open two wormholes. According to her guess, such a high frequency of wormhole refreshes may be some kind of corrective measure to prevent her from relying on low population High production capacity crushes other newly ascended civilizations.

To put it bluntly, it is "balance".

"It feels like a game."

Hong couldn't help thinking so.

This kind of wormhole with civilization as the core, which starts to refresh after they enter space, is probably not formed naturally—maybe this is just a game between high-level civilizations, maybe this is some kind of selection for low-level civilizations, maybe it It's really just some weird natural phenomenon.

But since you can't resist, you can only accept it. It is impossible for Hong to give up development and let others slaughter him because of the existence of a "behind the scenes".

Hard work may only have a [-]% chance of being able to compete with the black hands behind the scenes, but if you don't try, even this [-]% possibility will not exist.

Even if it is a little white mouse, she has to be the strongest one—otherwise, how can she protect her cubs?

"Unknown civilization fleet projection detected!"

The fleet was barely halfway there when a disturbing message came back from the ground monitoring station on Kavez.

The so-called projection refers to the distorted picture that first appears on the edge of the wormhole when the spacecraft approaches the exit, like noodles sticking to the wormhole.

This means that the opponent's spacecraft has crossed the long wormhole and is about to reach the exit.

Judging from this speed, the other party is not a conventional civilization, at least not the early space civilization as expected - a civilization that still uses chemical engines and uses a [-]-ton rocket to send a [-]-ton payload into orbit cannot achieve this reaction speed.

What's more, judging from the projection, the one sent by the other party is not a small guy, at least it is a serious spaceship of about [-] tons.

"Confirmed as warships of unknown civilization, the number is 4, 9, 13...167!"

The opponent did not choose to let the fleet go through the wormhole together, but chose to launch a group consisting of 3 to 5 warships each time. Once the traversal is completed, the new group will quickly maneuver around the wormhole, which is the same as the previous one. The other groups in the same position keep a distance that is neither too far nor too close.

This distance will neither be so close that a nuclear bomb blinds the two teams, nor is it so far that they cannot support each other - Hong is very sure of this, because this is when she is in command of the fleet. distance between groups.

Obviously, in the face of an unfamiliar civilization that has never dealt with before, more than 100 warships, large and small, directly jumped over the face, and quickly formed a standard battle formation after passing through the hole. What they want to do is already abnormal Clear.

"Warning! The Kawei II orbiting scientific research satellite has lost connection!"

Almost the second after Hong observed that the bow baffle of the enemy ship opened, a passing satellite that was only more than 7000 kilometers away from the enemy fleet disconnected from Hong.

This is a signal.

A signal for war.

"Mark as hostile fleet!" In an instant, in Hong's memory, the marks of these warships turned into bright red hostile.

"One super large ship, 1 large ships, and 56 small ships. The current relative speed is 110 kilometers per second."

Judging by their size, the mass of the opponent's large ships should be around 300 tons, and the mass of small ships should be around [-] tons—yes, although they are called small ships by Hong, they are only relative to the opponent's large ships. It is smaller, and it is still a large warship with a long axis of about [-] meters.

Judging from the long-range attack on the satellite just now, the opponent's large ship is almost the same as the red cat-mao single pusher in terms of firepower and size. Based on this level of technology, the opponent's three to four small ships can roughly be equivalent. In a single pusher class.

As far as the conventional fleet is concerned, although Hong's 116 warships are inferior in number, because she uses a formation of pure battleships plus arsenal ships, her firepower output is actually more than that of the opponent's formation of 166 ships.

In addition, Red has a combination of "shore-based firepower" consisting of armed space stations and orbital defense platforms locally, as well as a large number of interstellar missile support on the way. Red's winning rate in this battle is at least 95%.

However, the last super-large ship that appeared on the other side brought additional variables to this battle.

"flagship......"

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Volume 37 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Regular Engagement

Among the regular fleets that were uniform and almost identical in appearance, the presence of a strange-looking super-large warship that even had patches on its armor was like standing out from the crowd, attracting Hong's attention.

The big gap between the two cannot be explained by the different design styles, it is more like the product of two different civilizations.

"Allied forces?"

"Or, a relic of ancient civilization?"

Hong guessed so.

Generally speaking, it is unlikely that the coalition forces of the two races will only have one flagship, and let the other side provide all the conventional fleet escorts. In addition to the flagship's weird design and dilapidated shell, Hong is more inclined to another possibility.

This is not good news. Forcibly stuffing a completely different alien warship into the fleet can only show that this warship is very powerful. It is so powerful that the opponent would rather send it on the field under the huge pressure of command, dispatch and logistics. .

"Kavier orbital space station, under attack."

"The Kawei II 16 defense platform is under attack."

"Kavy II..."

Soon, it was as if a mad dog had come out of the cage, and a large-scale demolition of Hong's orbital facilities began. Obviously, the other party also discovered that Hong's main fleet was on the way. less disadvantaged environment.

In addition, Hong also observed that a small number of interstellar missile swarms have passed through the wormhole and are on standby on the safe orbit they opened up-for defense, this is a very big unfavorable factor for wormhole operations.

With the connection of wormholes, the mother star behind the other side can continuously provide supplies and missile support to the front line. Logistical disadvantage.

Even so, Red still has an advantage. The reason is simple. Large-scale orbital facilities and defense platform networks cannot be deployed to the front line in a short period of time—otherwise, they would not be called orbital facilities.

For space objects, the biggest difference between spacecraft and orbital facilities is the difference in mobility.

By sacrificing mobility, the space station has gained thicker armor, larger guns, and a high rate of fire far exceeding that of ship-borne weapons-the space station has a big business, and it can directly discard thermal mass and heat dissipation when fighting, not like a battleship Those who pick and search like that can only be willing to abandon heat at the most critical time.

In addition, these space stations still have a huge size as a buffer. Even though the surface of the space station has been riddled with holes by laser beams and electromagnetic shells, they are still firmly on their own orbits, constantly outputting tons of bombs to the enemy ships. firepower.

The results they obtained exceeded Hong's expectations. Without the cover of the fleet, the defense network persisted for fifteen hours, damaging dozens of enemy ships, causing the opponent to completely lose combat capabilities, and pushing the opponent to a high altitude. orbit, and successfully defended the orbital skyhook and shipyard of Kavez.

Originally, she was already mentally prepared to lose the shipyard.

However, from now on, they will no longer fight alone - the first to arrive is the ultra-long-range sniper of the experimental flagship No. [-] ship spanning [-] kilometers.

"Enemy small ship No. 46, effectively penetrated!"

A small ship that hadn't had time to turn to the head to face the enemy was hit. A huge amount of X-rays hit its starboard side at the speed of light. It heated, expanded, and exploded. A big hole was torn open in the originally smooth white shell. , exposing the structure that has been baked inside.

The continuous deceleration and shaking still affected the accuracy of this shooting, causing the laser to miss the combined heat dissipation module in the middle of the enemy ship by a few meters—but it didn’t matter, once it missed, it would be another shot.

Ten seconds later, the second laser shot successfully shattered the heat sink on the starboard side, and seemed to have damaged part of the opponent's attitude adjustment engine, making the battleship's maneuvering suddenly a little weak.

After obtaining the results of the battle, Hong immediately turned to fire, letting the flagship take advantage of the range advantage to strike as much as possible against those warships that had not had time to face the enemy head-on—after all, after the turn was completed, the super-inclined bow armor and thick baffles could I don't want it to be so easy to fight now, taking advantage of being able to damage one ship now.

But something that puzzled Hong happened. All the experimental flagships at the end of the formation were able to fire, but the enemy's flagship at the center of the fleet was still silent, without firing a single shot.

"Why isn't the opponent's flagship firing?"

Logically speaking, this should not have happened. According to the data obtained from the exchange of fire between the space station and the enemy fleet, although the opponent's laser level is a little worse than that of Hong, the flagship is slightly larger than Hong's flagship.

Even if the opponent's flagship idea is worse than hers, it's impossible to not fire at 1 kilometers just by simply using old technology to pile up the length.

In addition, in the previous attack on the orbital facilities of Kawei II, the flagship just stayed on the high-level orbit from a distance and looked at it coldly, and never attacked even once-could it be that the main gun of this battleship was broken?

"It's impossible to expect to use secondary battery and anti-aircraft equipment to output?"

Obviously, no, because although the design of this ship is very strange, and the shell is also strangely shaped, it can still be judged that it is a battleship with axis gun as the core output.It is hard to judge the level of the folding heat sink and the integrated armored heat dissipation grill, but it is definitely not much higher, indicating that its energy level is also on the same level as the red.

To put it simply, it must be a product of the same era of physics, and there will be no weird weapons, such as gravity, wave guns and so on.

Everyone uses nuclear fusion reactors, and the power generated is about the same. What tricks can they do?

"It has entered the range of the single pusher main gun!"

Although the bottom of the red heart is full of question marks, the movements of her hands have no intention of slowing down at all—since the opponent is hiding, she will directly greet her with laser missiles, and when the regular fleets are fighting, she will naturally I know what the other party is selling.

As predicted, shortly after the single pusher fired, the enemy's first round of artillery fire also arrived. Although the opponent's laser technology was inferior to Hong's, on the contrary, the opponent's electromagnetic gun technology was stronger than Red is even more advanced.

The same projectile weighing several grams, the opponent's firing speed is much faster than Hong's experimental production, not to mention, the firing rate is also faster than expected, at least five to six rounds per minute.

Although the red bow also adopts the oblique armor with a large inclination angle, it will still be torn off by these small things when it hits. Sexual protection, in order to avoid being hit by a bullet into the structural layer.

In order to avoid being hit by these hard-to-find little guys, Hong began to order the fleet to enter disorderly maneuvers—a distance of nearly [-] kilometers, even a shell of tens of kilometers per second would take several minutes to fly.

This means that as long as the battleship performs slight irregular acceleration and deceleration and lateral maneuvers, these shells can immediately miss their targets. This is why Hong did not choose to equip electromagnetic guns as anti-ship firepower. It's too hard to hit.

On the contrary, when the opponent's electromagnetic gun fires, it will try to predict Hong's next maneuver as much as possible, and try to focus on a battleship as much as possible, completely covering all possible maneuver routes.

For those artillery shells that are about to hit, Hong will try her best to intercept them with anti-missile lasers—but the effect is minimal. After all, she never expected that there would be someone equipped with an electromagnetic gun, a thankless weapon, and the detection range of the equipped radar. And the accuracy is relatively poor, it is difficult to detect a tiny object of tens of kilometers per second.

Despite this, it turns out that the red who took the pure laser route is still stronger than the enemy who takes the laser/electromagnetic gun hybrid route. The high-power X-band free electron laser is effectively striking the enemy's vital forces.

The balance of victory is tilting in favor of the same race.

Volume 38 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Particle Beam Strikes

Finally, when it was about [-] kilometers away, the opponent's flagship made a move.

With the help of high-definition binoculars, Hong could clearly see that the dilapidated flagship began to slowly adjust its posture, and the slender bow was aimed at a single pusher at the forefront of the formation.

It is aiming.

"Set fire!"

A dozen battleships approaching from an angle immediately gave up their previous targets, and began to move their hulls under the control of momentum wheels and attitude engines, preparing to focus fire on this weird flagship.

However, it was obvious that the opponent made a quick move.

Almost at the next second after the hull stabilized, the thick shaft gun baffle suddenly opened, exposing the heavily protected accelerator terminal at the back, and then closed extremely quickly to block the upcoming laser strike.

Aiming, probing, firing, shrinking the head, all in one go.

Its speed is far faster than the bow baffles equipped on other warships by the opponent, which further confirms the speculation that this flagship is a product of other civilizations - but now Hong doesn't care about this anymore.

Almost at the moment when the baffle was opened, a bright light appeared on the bow of the targeted single pusher class ship.

As if hitting something, the sensor on the bow first felt violent shaking and vibration, and then heated up and expanded extremely rapidly.

This is also different from the kind of heating that is hit by a laser beam. Although when a laser beam hits, the macroscopic performance is the same as rapid heating and explosion, but from a microscopic point of view, the outer layer is always the first to be damaged by heating. armor, and then get deeper and deeper over time.

Although weapon-grade lasers use pulsed lasers, so that the damage effect looks like cannonballs, it is essentially a "slow" process.

Although this speed is too fast for humans to distinguish clearly, it can still be easily captured by ultra-high-frame cameras.

However, this battleship is different.

If it is said that a laser is like making a hole, first use explosives to blast the surface layer, then put another one in the blasted pit, then deep-fry it, and then put it in...and so on.

Then, this attack is like first drilling a pipe with a drill bit, and then stuffing a whole strip of explosives into it at once.

It is heating up in all aspects from the inside out.

The rapid heating and expansion, from the perspective of macro performance, is a violent explosion.

"boom!"

Along with the violent vibration, some electronic equipment around the hit area also lost connection.

Not physically destroyed in this attack.Hong was quite sure that they were not affected by the explosion, even with the naked eye, they were all intact.

But they were still damaged, and she knew why.

Because at this moment, she finally knew why the enemy's flagship did not open fire until this moment.

"Particle Beam Weapon!"

Hong, who was far away in light seconds, immediately made a judgment.

"All nearby warships, focus on the enemy's flagship!"

After this shot, the threat level of this dilapidated flagship immediately rose to an unprecedented height, and it was particularly dazzling in the conventional fleet that was beaten up by the opponent.

As a particle beam weapon that tends to damage kinetic energy, its damage is much higher than that of lasers of the same energy level. In other words, whether it is a particle beam or an electromagnetic gun, its energy utilization rate is higher than that of a laser.

The reason why Hong didn't use the electromagnetic gun was because of the biggest advantage of the laser, which is its ability to strike at the speed of light.

Although there are "natural" wormholes with super-light speed for maneuvering between planetary systems, for now, the battlefield still stays at sub-light speed, and light-speed strike weapons are still the fastest weapons.

Unpredictable and unstoppable, the moment you find out that the opponent is firing is the moment you are hit.

Or, she can use shorter sentences to express.