The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1835. War preparation (Part 1)

"Okay, start a war." Huang Yehao said, "But the question is, where is this Xilu Empire? How many planets does it occupy? What is its military strength? We don't know these, and we can't do anything."

Shepard said: "It is not to the extent of launching a war. We can use our actions to force the Xilu Empire to submit, and then provide due help during our subsequent exploration. However, if the other party has With quite strong military strength, I’m afraid we also need to reconsider our next strategy.”

The 'engineer' Hasek next to him made a whistle-like sound, and then typed a line of text in the input device: The opponent's military strength is not strong. Because the intuitive manifestation of military strength is the use of energy and the energy level of weapons. The current model of frigate does not have a high energy level. The energy output efficiency of the bioenergy reactor they use is not even as good as that of a nuclear fusion reactor, and is even more incomparable to the antimatter reactor on our battleships.

"If that's the case, I think we can fight." Huang Yehao nodded.

Shepard said: "But our current mobility is still very problematic. Even if the Eternal uses Forerunner technology, the hyperspace engine can be used in complex spaces such as the unknown star field, but the distance of each jump cannot be too long. So, the best way is to lure them out.”

"Do you have any plans?" Lieutenant General He Ru asked.

"Just use that Mangjia-Mangjia!" Shepard said in a deep voice: "Since the Xilu Empire is very nervous about this thing, then we will use their communication frequency band to send the news that Mangjia-Mangjia was discovered here. Use wide area communication to transmit, I believe they should be able to receive it."

She turned to 'Engineer' Hasek and asked, "Can we simulate the Xilu people's communication frequency band?"

Hasek’s typed answer: It can be simulated, but accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Our understanding of the Xilu people is very rudimentary.

"How about this!" Huang Yehao clapped his hands and said, "We don't want to send anything else, just repeatedly send the word Mangjia-Mangjia!"

Shepard's eyes lit up, he nodded approvingly and said, "Good attention! That's it!"

Hasek just did what he said, he turned around and floated to the other side of the table, wiped out his portion of the chocolate cake like a whirlwind of debris, and then went to the direction of the hill-like pile of debris.

They had already sorted out some usable parts, so Hasek started his assembly.

Once again, everyone saw the super genius performance of the 'engineer' in the mechanical field. Only three 'engineers' were seen floating in front of the debris pile, with four tentacles dancing rapidly, picking up the parts one by one with amazing accuracy and strength, and then assembling them.

The most amazing thing was that when Hasek was assembling a host, he only saw him placing a tentacle directly on the host, and then countless cilia protruded from the tentacle and penetrated deep into the host. After that, the outline of the host machine became smaller at a speed visible to the naked eye. In fact, the parts inside were arranged and installed in a better way. In just ten seconds, Hasek withdrew his tentacles, and the host had already Completely assembled!

In just a few minutes, three 'engineers' used these parts to assemble a Xilu communication center!

“From the first time I met ‘The Engineer’ two years ago, I felt that sooner or later we would be out of a job.” Cummings lamented.

He is from Semels, and what Semels people are best at is processing and manufacturing. Seeing the level of an 'engineer', he is naturally extremely shocked.

The 'engineers' have connected the communication device to the energy system, and then began to repeatedly send the word 'mangga-mangga' in the wide area communication.

Sure enough, after more than an hour, the Eternal's powerful signal receiving system received a public frequency communication. The content of the communication was to inquire about the current location and the degree of infection of Manga-Mangga.

But the 'engineer' did not answer directly, but continued to send "mangga-mangga" over and over again.

"We should prepare for battle immediately!" Shepard said solemnly.

Lieutenant General He Ru nodded and issued an order loudly: "The entire ship will immediately enter the first level of combat preparation! The escort battleship will take off immediately!"

The entire Eternal super aircraft carrier immediately came into operation. The spaceport hatch below the battleship opened. One after another, the 575-meter-long Steadfast-class cruisers fell vertically. Then they started their engines and came around the Eternal to enter the escort formation.

A total of 5 Steadfast class cruisers came out of the spaceport, in addition to 4 Double Blade class electronic warfare light cruisers. And Shepard immediately left the bridge, returned to his frigate Normandy, set off from the space port, and joined the combat formation.

The Steadfast-class cruiser and the Double-Blade electronic warfare light cruiser were actually developed to support the Infinity-class super aircraft carrier.

Because the space port in the Endless-class super aircraft carrier can accommodate 10 battleships of about 500 meters in length, but there are strict requirements on the size of these battleships. Because the space is compact, long battleships must be installed in it. Otherwise, a slightly wider warship will occupy the berths of two or even three warships, which will actually reduce combat effectiveness.

In fact, the current Revenge-class destroyers and Apocalypse-class light cruisers in the Navy of the Principality of Dawn. These two warships produced in the "Homeland" technology tree are basically long strips. However, after all, these two types of warships have lagged behind the times and have been The second line below was used as a local defense fleet and escort fleet. And then using it to equip the latest endless-class super aircraft carrier is completely nonsense.

Therefore, Tang Xiao instructed the Trade Alliance to immediately start developing and building the Steadfast-class cruiser and the Double-Edge class electronic warfare light cruiser based on the technical experience accumulated in the previous development of the Endless-class super aircraft carrier.

Among them, the Steadfast-class cruiser is 575 meters long, 124 meters wide, 112 meters high, and has a mass of 1.1 million tons. In the UNSC Navy database, it is classified as a heavy frigate, but in the Navy classification of the Principality of Dawn, it is classified as a cruiser.

The biggest feature of the Steadfast class is that a half-axis-based cannon is installed in the front. This cannon does not use the original cannon in the database, but is installed with the latest super-material electromagnetic gun from the Principality of Dawn. This super-matter electromagnetic gun was originally used on the Cole-class battlecruiser. After a series of technological developments, it can now be miniaturized and transplanted from the 1,100-meter-long Cole-class to the 575-meter-long Steadfast class. Come.

This super-matter electromagnetic gun has a standard diameter of 30 meters. If the electromagnetic acceleration track is expanded, it can launch metal projectiles with a maximum diameter of 50 meters. The overall launch system is 220 meters long, basically occupying half of the Steadfast-class frigate, and is extremely powerful.

In addition, there are 5 medium-sized turbolaser cannons, 6 electromagnetic rapid-fire point defense turrets, 6 laser point defense turrets, 2 groups of 30-unit missile launch arrays, and 1 nuclear bomb launcher for orbital bombing.

This is a very typical gunboat, and its firepower is very fierce.

The Steadfast-class cruiser is not just for equipping the Infinity-class super aircraft carrier, it is also a very excellent cruiser.

While Tyran Heavy Industry's Minotaur-class heavy cruiser, which is somewhat difficult to deal with due to technical difficulties, has not yet been fully commissioned, the Steadfast-class cruiser will provide sufficient backbone firepower for the Dawn Principality fleet.