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

Within the cone of light is destiny.

However, the reason for not using particle beam weapons was much simpler - she couldn't build them.

In other words, she couldn't make a particle beam weapon that was good enough for actual combat.

After leaving the accelerator, the particles moving near the speed of light can still gather into a ball at first, but before flying too far, they will start to lose their restraint and disperse into a ball, and the more they expand, the more they spread and the more they spread.

After thousands of kilometers away, they are scattered like shotguns, without any power at all.

"How do they solve the particle beam diffusion problem?"

While controlling the fleet, Hong poured firepower on the flagship frantically, but at the same time, her heart was itchy like a cat scratching.

Although the [-]-kilometer range is a bit worse than the [-]-kilometer free electron laser currently used by Hong, but just being able to board the ship is already beyond Hong's current technological level.

Be sure to research it!

Although the particle beam weapon can't hit far, its output ability is far better than that of the red laser weapon if it is bombarded within the range-just looking at the flagship that is currently killing special kills on the battlefield is enough to understand the particle beam weapon. is strong.

"Interplanetary missile support is arriving soon."

An hour and a half after the battle started, the interstellar missile launched from Katus, one light second away, finally arrived.

After an acceleration process of more than 30 kilometers, these missiles have reached a relative speed of more than [-] kilometers per second, which is comparable to some slower electromagnetic shells.

Inside each interstellar missile weighing a thousand tons, there are thirty megaton-class nuclear warheads ready to go, ready to use their infinite light and heat to grill the flagship in a 360-degree manner.

"All anti-ship missiles, all bombs fired!"

After receiving the order, the arsenal ships that had been waiting for a long time opened their ejection bays one after another, revealing the anti-ship missiles that had been waiting for a long time inside—because the ship-borne missiles were relatively small, only about 1 tons, and even though Hong deliberately Leave them behind the fleet, separated from the enemy's main force by more than [-] kilometers, but compared with interstellar missiles with light-second acceleration distances, their terminal speeds are still much worse.

Therefore, in order to achieve synchronization with the ultra-high-speed interstellar missile group, they must be launched first, which is why Hong has not launched a large-scale missile attack.

"All battleships, prepare to jettison thermal mass."

With the charge of the missile group, the battleships also switched to the battle mode at the same time, sacrificing mass and shedding heat, in exchange for the ability to no longer completely rely on heat sinks for heat dissipation in a short period of time.

This means that for a short period of time, the cooldown of battleships increases to an exaggerated level.

And fast cooling, for laser ships, means a higher rate of fire, nearly doubling their firepower density.

At this time, the enemy army was caught in a difficult problem - on one side were battleships firing fiercely and crazily, and on the other side were nuclear bombs that were accelerating and would arrive in ten minutes.

hit who?

If you choose to ignore the battleships and concentrate on intercepting nuclear bombs, the firepower on the front line will drop to an embarrassing level. If you choose to shoot at the red battleships, you will lose the air defense of the main guns, and the secondary battery alone will not be able to intercept the densely packed tens of thousands of bombs. Counted missile groups.

What's more, there are cold shots from space stations and defense platforms in low orbit from time to time, forcing them to constantly maneuver to avoid those high-speed flying projectiles.

At least in Hong's view, she has already won this battle.

If you don't move, you will be dead, and if you move, you will be thunderous.

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PS1: Ask for collection and ticket QAQ

PS2: Thanks to the uncle who can't lift the salty fish.

PS3: It's a little uncomfortable, take a rest first, get up in the middle of the night and code the next chapter

Volume 39 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Unimagined Tactics

But facing this situation, the enemy made an unexpected move that Hong had never imagined.

"Observed the ignition of the enemy's main thruster!"

Two-thirds of the enemy ships started their main engines, and their tails began to spray. In order to gain enough speed in a short period of time, so much wasteful working fluid was mixed in the engines, and the loss of specific impulse was exchanged for a short period of time. Greater thrust over time.

When Hong's fleet arrived, the two sides did not reach a converging orbit, which led to the fact that relative to Hong, the enemy was right in front of her, and the altitude of the orbit was far lower than her.

Therefore, in order to ensure that the bow shaft gun is aimed at her, the enemy has to choose to fly the butt forward, but because the particle cannon fires much stronger at close range, the opponent has to turn on the bow reverse thrust engines, to make sure they are up to speed.

Yes, contrary to most people's intuition, what the enemy fleet in front wants to shorten the distance between the two armies is not to slow down, but to speed up.

Not only that, as they continue to accelerate, their own orbital speed will decrease instead.

This is because with the continuous consumption of DV, their orbits are gradually rising towards the height of Hong, and the speed of the higher orbits will be much lower than that of the lower orbits - a clear example is the First Universe speed.

The first cosmic speed is the orbiting speed of the spacecraft when it is running close to the surface of the planet. It can be understood that the orbital height is close to 0. In order to maintain this orbit, the spacecraft must reach a high speed of 10.8 kilometers per second to ensure that it does not fall. Or climb to a higher orbit.

But it is also orbiting. When the altitude rises to the synchronous orbit at a height of 52600 kilometers from the surface, the orbital speed is only 1.9 kilometers per second.

To put it bluntly, if the enemy takes deceleration measures at this time, it will only make the distance between the two sides farther and farther.

It can't be said that it is completely farther and farther, because the low-orbit orbit is fast and the orbital period is short. If you let it go completely, it will take about tens of hours to a few days, which mainly depends on how low the other party lowers the orbit. The enemy will circle around and fly over from behind Hong's butt.

But neither side will choose to do this. The red on the defensive side does not want the opponent to leave the battlefield to bomb the planet and demolish the space station at will, and the unknown civilization on the offensive side does not want to re-close the distance with casualties.

What's more, if Hong rushed directly into the wormhole to demolish the house, and when they climbed back to the orbital height of the wormhole, the flowers and vegetables would be cold, and the battle would be bloody.

But these are all just Hong's best guesses based on the available information, so Hong is a little puzzled by the strange deceleration maneuvers adopted by the enemy.

"Why pull it away?"

After finally rushing into the middle distance, the flagship's particle cannon was able to fire, and the hit rate of the conventional fleet's electromagnetic guns was also greatly improved. It can be said that the current distance is the most ferocious distance of the enemy's firepower.

Wearing a red long-range laser weapon, why did you suddenly give up after paying such a high price?

"Escape... Negative, the wormhole is in a high orbit, and lowering the orbit will not help. I have enough time to stop them at the entrance of the wormhole."

Normally speaking, my team is short-handed with charges and shotguns, and the opponent is with sniper and semi-automatic rifles. After finally being dragged into street fighting, when it is time to use the power of charges and shotguns, I take the initiative to retreat 300 meters and return to the plains. Go ahead and continue to snipe.

But no one who has played the game can make such a command.

However, this is a normal situation. It can also be seen from previous battles that the enemy's command experience is very rich, and it is even possible that artificial intelligence is conducting the command.

After all, no matter how efficient the command system is, it can't take care of hundreds of warships in every aspect. Only a computer can issue precise instructions to each unit to complete the incomparable coordination on a macro level.

So, what is the most abnormal thing in the enemy's fleet?

"Are they turning?"

Another more confusing operation appeared. Hong observed that these decelerating enemy ships began to use their own attitude correction engines, and quickly changed their attitudes regardless of the cost.

From a macro point of view, the enemy army began to divide into two groups, and continued to raise the orbit along the way, facing the guns with the red fleet, while the other fleet led by the flagship was slowing down rapidly, and at the same time turned the hull to the surface?

Due to the huge size of the warship, even though the opponent had used all the attitude correction engines and momentum wheels, the entire steering process was still not fast. It took a full 5 minutes to successfully point the bow of the ship to the barren surface of Kawei II.

During this period, their main guns were unable to fire, and the exposed sides were fired by red salvos for several rounds, easily breaking countless heat sinks. The results achieved in these 5 minutes even surpassed those in the head-on confrontation The results of the 10-minute battle—after all, the side of the axis gunship is still too fragile.

If it were placed in a normal battle, this behavior of turning the head of the fleet to "bomb the surface" during a decisive battle could be regarded as textbook-like stupidity, but at this moment, Hong didn't feel happy in his heart at all.

Because she had guessed the enemy's purpose.

Eliminate all impossibilities, and whatever remains, however implausible, must be the truth.

"All fleet, attitude correction, turn the hull to XXX!"

After completing a round of salvo and confirming that it was impossible for the enemy to feint and then turn back, Hong immediately gave the order to turn. Just like the enemy's confusing operation, she ordered the fleet to turn to an empty star field.

But the steering ability of the single pusher class is really poor-they can easily place the light spot on the enemy ship tens of thousands of kilometers away, and even hit a certain heat sink accurately, but they can't move like the enemy ship. The ship completes a quick turn around like that.

After all, in Hong's combat theory, the fleet should not have the need to change direction quickly. The axle gun ship only needs to face the enemy ship head-on, and constantly fine-tune the shooting.

It is impossible for her to spend a lot of mass and install too many attitude correction engines, as well as its more space-consuming servo units and engine fuel for a need that is not needed-obviously, this idea is no problem in normal design, but In the face of this special enemy, it played a bad role.

Because, someone can cheat.

As if a signal had been received, the moment the enemy army was about to complete its turn, the hull of the dilapidated flagship began to emit blue light.

"No, no, it's not the hull that's glowing."

With the help of high-definition telescope observations, Hong can clearly capture every move of the flagship. As she said, it is not the hull of the ship that is shining, nor is there any device that is shining.

It's that piece of starry sky, that piece of space that is shining, and it is spreading.

Is spreading.

In just a few seconds, the light that originally existed only around the flagship expanded enough to cover the entire fleet. Along with it, there was also a weak gravitational force that even the ship's sensors could capture.

Although it is extremely weak, compared to the negligible mass of the opponent's warship, it can already be said to be a huge and unimaginable gravitational force-this shows that this strange phenomenon must involve gravitational force. If Hong can study it carefully, even It is possible to get a little insight into the mysteries of gravity.

But at this moment, she didn't have the energy to pay attention to this, because the next moment the blue light covered the last enemy ship.

Right in front of everyone's eyes.

Enemy, disappeared.

Volume 40 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Leap!

More than 80 huge interstellar warships shrouded hundreds of kilometers of dazzling blue light, all of which disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Even the free-flying debris next to it was not spared, as if there had never been a space fleet there, it was clean.

Although she had predicted what would happen in advance, when she really saw this scene, Hong couldn't help being shocked in her heart.

jump.

Or group transition.

"Enemy fleet, position XXX, distance [-] kilometers!"

He didn't make Hong wait for a long time. In fact, it only took about nine seconds from the enemy's disappearance to reappearance.

In three seconds, they maneuvered from a position six thousand kilometers in front of Hong to a position three thousand kilometers behind the fleet's left.

Although I don't know why, this leap did not exceed the speed of light, but just being able to leap, it shows that behind this flagship of an unknown civilization, there is technology beyond Hong's imagination.

If she could capture this flagship, no, even just studying the fragments of the jump device, it would allow her to improve her understanding of space for more than a hundred years—even in a real sense, she could see the dawn of faster-than-light technology.

The premise is that she wins the war first.

The dazzling blue light dissipated, and a fleet ready to go appeared behind Hong—even though Hong had ordered to turn in advance, it was still much worse than the enemy who specially enhanced the ability to turn.

This is the reason why they turned in front of the battle. They were facing the red sideways before, and they had no power to fight back and ate a volley for a full 5 minutes, just for this moment.

Now, the position where their main guns are aimed at is the most vulnerable place of a battleship.

propeller.

"The fleet is under attack!"

The command AI at the front line was blinded in an instant—for a weak AI that relies solely on programs to execute orders, it is completely unable to handle this kind of situation that has never been encountered before.

The fleet tracked in front suddenly disappeared, and the enemy suddenly appeared in the rear. Normal people would think that the enemy had jumped to the rear, but for it, it would only think that a new fleet appeared in the rear, and what method did the fleet in front use to shield it? own signal.

If Red didn't tell it to compare the information of the two fleets, then it would never find out that the fleet in the rear is the same fleet that just disappeared.

Then, according to the preset risk response measures, it will command some of the warships to stay on alert, some of the warships will continue to fire beyond the small fleet that stays in high orbit, and the remaining part will turn in place to meet the enemies behind.

That's the limitation of NAIs -- they can't handle things they haven't seen before.

Like Hong, this problem will not occur. She will directly order all the warships to turn around and face the enemy's main fleet, let the missile cluster deal with the branch fleet, and then control some of the missiles with more remaining fuel to slow down, drop into low orbit and circle back. attack the enemy.

"Priority is given to the use of interstellar missiles. The first to sixth clusters of shipborne missiles continue to attack, and the seventh to No.18 clusters decelerate and descend into low orbit."

Hong no longer cares about the branch fleet that stays in high orbit. The original purpose of this batch of missile salvos was to break through the air defense network of the entire enemy fleet at once, but now, the main fleet has been jumped by the enemy flagship. After leaving, it is impossible for the remaining forty or so warships to withstand this wave of attacks.

The speed of the heavy interstellar missiles is too fast, and it has entered the terminal stage. It is impossible to have enough time and fuel to slow down. Therefore, Red directly let them all rush into the enemy's line, destroy all the missile heads of his own, and strive for a one-time reimbursement. The entire branch fleet turned the battlefield back into a one-on-one confrontation with guns.

As for the slower ship-borne missiles, Hong can also make use of them - after falling into low orbit, their orbital period will be shortened rapidly, so low that they can circle Kawei in just over an hour.

In this way, after about two hours, the missiles that have descended into extremely low orbits will catch up with the enemy's main fleet and launch an assault from the enemy's belly-although the speed of missiles in this orbit is definitely much lower than expected, it is impossible to It smashed through the enemy's air defense like before, but no matter how slow it was, it was still thousands of missiles.

Hope they like this gift.

Red Heart thought.

However, before that, Hong had to face a serious fact.

There are still two hours before the missile arrives, but the enemy's artillery fire has already arrived.

"The No. [-] nozzle of the flagship main thruster has been destroyed!"

The flagship, which was originally at the end of the formation and in the safest position, suddenly became the target of public criticism—according to Hong's estimate, at least a dozen warships fired salvos at the stern of the flagship in just such an instant.

What's more terrible is that Hong at this moment can't fight back.

Although there are many laser cannon ports designed for the single pusher, most of them exist as redundancy for the main cannon. That is to say, they are also designed facing forward. It can still provide some firepower, so it won't misfire instantly.

The nature of the linear accelerator determines that only when the muzzle is opened at both ends can it have the efficiency in the design, and every little bit of deflection will cause a huge amount of waste due to synchrotron radiation.

The laser muzzle at the rearmost angle needs to wait for the warship to deflect another 3 degrees before firing. With the turning efficiency of a single pusher, it takes at least [-] minutes.