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

The small cabin was full of low air pressure, and the team members who had just escaped from birth sat slumped on their seats, no one spoke or made a sound.

There was a deathly silence in the entire cabin, except for the faint roar of the engine running, there was nothing else.

"Rover 486, we have just observed a violent explosion on the surface of the planet. The location is the original No. [-] missile base. Repeat..."

The eager voice of the fortress liaison officer came from the driver's headset—it could be heard that after receiving their information, the headquarters obviously became anxious.

In other words, if you are not in a hurry, then there is really a ghost.

After all, the strength of human beings in the frontal battlefield is very inferior. Even relying on the emergency arrangements in the past few days and various bold plans to take the lead, the overall winning rate in the computer simulation is less than 1%. If it encounters an interstellar missile at a critical moment, or a surprise attack by its own interstellar missile, human beings may really knock out GG here.

Although the support from the same clan and the alliance is already on the way and will arrive in a few days, as soldiers, they know one thing very well-only if they hold the first wave of offensive by themselves, can they wait for the support of their allies.

This is not a problem that if the defense line is defeated, the reinforcement fleet will not arrive in time, but a more direct, or more cold-blooded problem.

That is, if humans are defeated, the reinforcement fleet.

Will never come back.

It can be said that today's human civilization has reached a critical moment of life and death. On one side is a cliff that is bottomless, and if you fall, you will be crushed to pieces; on the other side, it is a cliff that is deeper and more desperate.

And they, the Fortress of Gibraltar, are the only precarious wire rope that can prevent them from falling into the abyss.

"Roamer 486 received."

In the end, it was the lieutenant colonel who sighed and broke the silent cabin—as the highest-ranking officer present, he had to report the situation to his superior in time.

No matter how sad and sad you are in your heart, it is the same.

"Yes, sir, this is James he..."

He briefly explained to the fortress what that man had done.

After all, in the most critical first wave of reports, the lieutenant colonel simply said that they broke through "by some means"-everything has priorities. Compared with James' sacrifice, the missile base was out of control, the enemy omnic The news of the invasion is what they should focus on reporting.

Therefore, before this, the fortress did not know how many stories were hidden behind the simple sentence of "breakout".

How could it be so easy to escape from a military base controlled by omnics?

"We will not forget those who gave their lives for civilization."

But fortunately, they escaped with James' legacy - at least, what he did will not be buried forever under the gray and dry earth of the satellite.

"May the glory of mankind live forever."

They whispered the famous line inscribed in every space force base.

Communications from the fort ended.

Perhaps it was because the sentence at the end aroused the fighting spirit in their hearts. The lieutenant colonel noticed that after the communication ended, the team members did not return to the previous dead atmosphere, but began to talk in a low voice.

Although judging from the way they racked their brains to find a topic, they didn't get over James' sacrifice-of course they did, but at least it was a good start.

After all, as soldiers fighting on the front line against alien civilizations, they cannot let go of their emotions.

They also need...

"Sir!"

The sudden voice interrupted the lieutenant colonel's thinking.

He quickly raised his head and looked out along the soldier's arm.

In the ink-like pitch-black universe outside the window, several blue-white rays of light are shining brightly together with the stars in the background.

He knew what it was, and they all knew what it was—to the Space Force, the blue-white light meant nothing more than clear.

Missile, launched.

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"The enemy interstellar missile has entered orbit, the current orbital altitude is 200 kilometers, and it is expected to enter our range in 35 minutes!"

"The hostile ship's missile is ignited! It is expected to enter our range in 55 minutes!"

As if they had made an appointment in advance, these two pieces of information appeared in front of everyone in the headquarters almost at the same time.

Now, the mystery that has troubled them for a long time has finally been solved-the reason why the opponent did not ignite immediately after releasing the anti-ship missile so as to follow its main fleet into the field is already obvious.

Similar to their previous guess, they were indeed waiting for an opportunity, but what they didn't guess was that this opportunity did not come from the flagship of the extermination unit, but from behind them.

From the interstellar missile base they had placed high hopes on.

"Analyze the orbit and plan the best anti-missile route!"

"The third and fourth anti-missile squadrons, adjust the bow orientation to XXX-XXX, ready to intercept!"

"Attention all, the fifth to tenth interstellar missile bases on the surface of the satellite have been controlled by the enemy. All interstellar missiles launched from the above bases are hostile targets and can be fired freely. Repeat..."

For a while, the entire headquarters was extremely busy. After all, the "betrayal" of the six missile bases had too great an impact.

This is not only due to the loss of a large number of interstellar missiles that could have been used to support the frontal battlefield, but also a more deadly problem.

Their rear is no longer safe.

They must come up with an optimal way to stop losses in just a few 10 minutes, and make corresponding adjustments to the defense network and fleet.

This will be an extremely difficult battle.

Although with the help of think tanks and supercomputers, they have already planned in advance for most of the "possible" situations in just a dozen hours, and have carried out emergency vision for all the more dangerous situations.

But helplessly, a mere ten hours is too short for an interstellar war, too short.

Among all the plans they got, only one draft proposed by artificial intelligence took into account the loss of control of the missile base, and due to time constraints, the rear did not have time to conduct detailed deduction and feasibility assessment of this draft.

Therefore, the existence of this draft is useless except to prove that "human thinking is not as detailed as artificial intelligence".

This cannot be blamed on them. After all, at such a critical juncture of life and death, the think tank must give priority to deduction and preparation for "more likely and more reasonable" situations.

There is no way to choose the lesser of two evils.

No one chooses to act with hindsight at a time like this—at least not in the military.

"What's the situation with bases one to four? Can you ensure that they are not hacked by omnics?"

The general pulled the liaison officer over and asked.

"Natural infantrymen have already entered these four bases. Everything inside is normal. There is no hacking situation reported by Lieutenant Colonel Wang Fugui. In addition, the technical officer is confirming the central control computer of the base...Oh, there is news."

The liaison officer clicked on the message and quickly confirmed the message inside.

"No problem, everything is fine."

"Let them keep an eye on it in person, don't break the data link with the fortress during the whole process, and don't give Tie Xin any chance."

The commander on the side ordered.

"But sir, the artificial intelligence control bill..."

"Never mind! There's no time to deal with those shitty control laws at this time!" He waved his hand, "I'll take the responsibility, you just pass on the orders!"

"Yes, sir!"

The liaison officer who received the order immediately began to issue instructions to various departments.

"If the data link is not allowed to monitor the whole process, and the artificial intelligence is not allowed to intervene in the protection, we don't have to think about going back to discuss who is responsible..."

The commander thought silently in his heart.

What's more, facts have proved that with their current technological level, it is completely impossible to completely get rid of the influence of artificial intelligence and rely on purely human-written code and firewalls to block a truly strong artificial intelligence. .

After all, there is the real home of artificial intelligence.

Humans are inherently deficient in this respect.

Of course, this is just hindsight. After all, if you wait until something has happened before you think about the decision beforehand, you will naturally find thousands of problems.

Just like in the interstellar market, if a stock is reviewed after the event, you can see a thousand rising signals before it rises, and you can also see a thousand falling points before it falls, but these are all important for buying stocks. Not the slightest help.

What they should really do is to solve the problem in its infancy before everything happens.

Unfortunately, no one in human civilization - no one, can do this, so naturally, they have to pay for it.

However, this price is very likely to be too heavy to accept.

"It is observed that the Iron Heart Fleet is accelerating!"

Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter 120 [-] Behind us is the solar system!

The adjutant's report brought him back to reality.

"Show new predicted orbits."

While rubbing his temples, so as to forget these distracting thoughts in his head, he ordered.

The subordinate who received the order nodded, quickly tapped the screen a few times, and updated the new predicted path deduced by the computer to the large screen of the headquarters.

However, unlike the previously shown orbits, the new predicted path is not a precise orbit, but an eggplant-like "area" outlined by a red dotted line.

This represents the possible location of the enemy fleet within a certain period of time in the future.

The reason for this is very simple - before starting to maneuver, the enemy's warship is not disturbed by other external forces, and its orbital parameters are almost unchanged, so the computer can easily calculate its subsequent orbit based on its current orbital parameters.

But after the target starts to actively maneuver, this method will not work.

For a unit that is constantly accelerating, it is impossible for them to use the current orbit data to calculate the future orbit, and it is impossible to simply apply the uniform acceleration formula.

After all, if the enemy stops accelerating halfway, or even starts to slow down, it is very likely that the combat plan originally arranged according to the uniform acceleration trajectory will be flawed, and even disrupt the entire battlefield layout-this is not a very good future.

Therefore, the combat computer will only filter out the enemy's two extreme situations of "accelerating with maximum power from now on" and "decelerating with maximum power from now on", and then mark all the areas in between as "possible areas" .

Of course, they will also mark some relatively more likely routes for reference based on some previously preset conditions, but in the final analysis, these are just "speculations" rather than definitive answers.

In this regard, humans are at an inherent disadvantage.

Strong artificial intelligences can dynamically adjust their combat deployments based on real-time data, but humans cannot do this. They can only choose to issue a few pre-determined combat plans first, and then make corresponding adjustments at regular intervals. The plan is revised to be as close as possible to the current real-time battlefield.

After all, humans cannot have millisecond "discussions" like computers can.

"Why the sudden acceleration at this time?"

He was puzzled.

In other words, since the enemy's fleet was dispatched, the opponent's actions have been beyond their expectations.

Whether it is a large number of newly built missile ships that were not included in the original intelligence, missiles that were not ignited at the best ignition position, or the fleet that is now inexplicably starting to accelerate-these are things that were not expected before.

This is very rare.

You must know that, unlike the wars fought on complex planetary surfaces in the old days, space wars have become monotonous at the tactical level, despite great improvements in technology and scale.

In other words, it is simple and rude.

After all, in space, where the intelligence of both parties is almost two-way transparent, it is really difficult to have any tactics at all—especially when both sides have supercomputers to conduct deduction, there will be a large number of "unexpected wars" at one time. situation", which is indeed a rare occurrence.

"and many more."

His gaze stayed on a piece of data next to the predicted track.

"Acceleration...0.83m/s?"

"so tall?"

Someone couldn't help but make a sound in surprise.

For various reasons, after the predicted orbit was updated, everyone in the headquarters did not immediately notice this abnormal data.

After all, under normal circumstances, they don't need to pay attention to the acceleration of the enemy. What they need is how long the enemy will appear, at what position, what orbit, and what attitude. These are the things that have a direct impact on combat deployment parameter.

As for data such as relative speed and acceleration, that is what the crew of the warship needs to pay attention to when it comes to the real battle—as commanders, they have to consider more of the overall situation and macroscopic things.

But this is the "general case".

Naturally, there are two general situations.

"55 times the economic speed." A staff officer calculated in his mind, "According to the previous forecast, it is at least 100 to 150 times the propellant consumption. Is it not intended to save propellant at all?"

"This is the enemy's home field, and there is a steady stream of logistics support. In theory, there is really no need to save DV too much." The deputy commander pondered, "But if there are supplies, that must be after the battle is over, at least during the battle. For a period of time, the propellant is used a little less."

"Especially if the opponent is still an omnic that is extremely strong in fine manipulation, there is no reason why he would choose to spend so much when he is close to the battlefield..."

Although the tone is questioning, in fact, after thinking of the enemy's deliberate delay of ignition to prevent the carrier-based missiles from accelerating at the best launch position, they have already felt the clue that can connect the front and rear .

"If the enemy fleet maintains this acceleration, how long will it take to enter the range of our outermost warship?"

The commander-in-chief suddenly spoke.