too late, organism

So much so that in the docks of the logistics base, there are often two side-by-side docks. The two armored plates look like candles after being burned, as if they were eaten by something and then spit out. A battleship with missing armor plates emitting sparks.

One is being ruthlessly dismantled by those ruthless maintenance personnel as if they were fish on the chopping board, bit by bit, the usable parts of the battleship, from the armor plate to the turret, from the optical viewfinder to the fire control radar, this ship The disassembled part of the battleship was immediately assembled on another battleship next to it that was in slightly better condition.

Often, the captains of warships judged to be worthless for maintenance would refuse to dismantle their precious warships to repair another warship.

Therefore, when the maintenance personnel quickly disassembled the equipment from the battleship, military police would drag the emotional captain and other naval officers away from the dock site to prevent them from affecting the construction.

Even though the captains, who were almost pie-carried from the dock, shouted that the maintenance crews were committing a crime and threatened to shoot them, the maintenance center continued their work without mercy.

The naval officers and sailors on these dismantled warships would not just sit idly in the rear base, drinking beer and eating nuts, waiting for the end of the battle. They were also supplemented to the vacancies that appeared in the battle on those warships of the same type. middle.

And as the battle continued, in the maintenance center, some technical equipment began to appear rich.

For example, a large number of various types of electromagnetic guns and gamma laser launchers equipped on cruisers and destroyers. After these light ships are attacked, it is difficult to survive until they can return on their own. The intact wreck was towed back to the repair center.

Due to the good survivability brought by the excellent energy shields of battleships and Titans, these weapons that exist as secondary guns on battleships and above are more difficult to destroy than those light battleships.

As a result, these small and medium-sized naval guns have accumulated a lot in the warehouse during maintenance again and again.

However, those smaller point defense turrets that would immediately turn into a puddle of molten mixture as soon as they were sprayed by the void demon's bile almost before the emergency refill of the energy shield was completed, have been out of stock in the repair center.

So the maintenance soldiers who got inspiration from Shinra's war BOSS-class battleship weapon pod quickly used these equipment and those relatively intact hull wrecks to create a stuff full of battlefield emergency style.

A "space armored train" that is towed by a tugboat and is equipped with a large number of guns accumulated in the repair center and the relatively complete wreckage of the hull.

A tugboat used to recover warship wrecks can usually tow four to five "carriages" composed of these ship wrecks, and these cars are equipped with a large electromagnetic gun according to the integrity of the hull. Armament ranging from a turret to three small gamma laser emitters.

Because these "armored trains" belong to waste utilization, they usually do not take the crew of organisms. They will only be input by the maintenance engineers with the "intelligent combat AI" provided by the Holy Roman Empire, and then dragged by tugboats to the designated area as a temporary fixed firepower point. , continue to output firepower to the void demon.

Resupply until they are destroyed by void demons, or run out of ammo and taken away by tugboats.

However, only a very small number of "armored trains" have the opportunity to return to the rear to resupply ammunition. Due to the lack of effective energy shields and the instability of the structure, these fixed firepower points temporarily transformed from war-damaged spaceships are usually used in battle. It was destroyed within the first three hours thereafter.

However, the appearance of these "armored trains" has also greatly slowed down the pressure on the remaining warships of the Iron Alliance. After all, although these "armored trains" are temporarily modified things, their weapons are not temporary "anti-void demon bamboos" Comedy weapons like guns.

Leaving these firepower points alone can also cause considerable damage to the void demon.

And to attack these things that seem to be shoddy, will disperse the firepower they use to attack those serious warships and space firepower platforms.

At this time, the void demon's method of spitting bile as an attack method exposed the limitations of these space bugs.

Because of the contact area, no matter how much bile is sprayed on an Iron Alliance battleship at the same time, the damage that these viscous corrosive liquids can cause has an upper limit.

It's not like those flashlights in the human empire, which can perform inhumane unlimited superposition on a unit area.

So after these "armored trains" dispersed the firepower of the Void Demon, the battle damage rate of the Iron Alliance warships also began to decline to a certain extent.

After discovering this, the front-line command immediately asked the maintenance center in the rear, or even the shipyard close enough to the Constantinople fortress group, to immediately provide more such "armored trains" to the front line.

At the same time, those destroyed armored trains were also dragged back by tugboats for remodeling after the battle damage.

After all, after the Void Demon's bile is sprayed on the battleship, it usually corrodes the relatively fragile positions other than the armor, such as the seam between the turret and the armor plate, the sighting device, and the maintenance hatch, which triggers the energy line. Short circuit to deal damage to the battleship.

So as long as it wasn't hit by those bugs that were set on fire by the void demons, drenched in bile, or thrown by those carrier-level void demons, they almost caught up with the power of hydrogen bombs after self-detonation.

Most of the equipment in the wreckage of the battleship belongs to the range that can be used after repairing, but it will make the maintenance personnel who have been driven crazy by the pile of maintenance tasks feel fragrant, and can't wait to stuff the maintenance tools into the order. In the eyes of the commanding frontline commander, let him repair these "sticky, even Wallace's toilets are cleaner than this" warship wrecks.

Just when the Void Demon focused his attention on the Iron Alliance, after the attack failed, he continued to deploy warships from other areas to maintain the offensive against the new Constantinople fortress group.

Those sea stars, like candles in the wind, almost completed their doomsday weapon in desperation, the Xinghai Dominator-class master ship—the second ship Xinghai Zhiyao.

After being at a disadvantage in the battle with the Iron Alliance fleet, the Star Sea Empire began the design of this class of giant battleship.

This unprecedented giant battleship not only makes the current titan ships, which are the core of the fleet, look like dwarfs standing beside them, but it also has the firepower almost equal to that of a fleet. The ability to build battleships and all classes of warships below battleships within the hull.

This epoch-making battleship will serve as the absolute core of the fleet, strengthening the fleet it belongs to to a frightening level.

It's just that in the invasion of the Void Demon, the Star Sea Empire not only lost a large number of colonized planets and most of the population, but also lost the Star Sea Master's No.

Only the No. [-] ship Xinghai Zhiyao located in the Naval Experimental Shipyard was transferred, and construction continued after arriving at the front-line shipyard.

And after the Void Demon temporarily slowed down the pace of exterminating the Star Sea Empire because of its invasion of the Iron Alliance.

The Star Sea Empire gathered its last industrial power and devoted itself to the construction of the Star Sea Dominator-class master ship.

After the Battle of the New Constantinople Fortress broke out, the construction progress of the Star Sea Empire's ultimate killer was also stuck at 99.99%, and it was still impossible to complete the last step so that the warship that condensed the Star Sea Empire's will to revenge could move.

After losing most of its scientific research capabilities, even if the construction of the hardware part of the ship is completed, the software to drive this giant ship has exceeded the limit of the current Star Sea Empire's technical capabilities.

Seeing this huge ship parked in the dock and still unable to start, the remaining high-level executives of the Star Sea Empire made a decision.

Chapter 291 276 Bugs and Fire (5)

In the history of the Star Sea Empire, there was once an AI rebellion, and that rebellion almost destroyed the Star Sea Empire, which had just stepped into the space age, under the war machine made by itself.

After paying a terrible price, the Star Sea Empire finally suppressed those rebellious AIs.

Even the AI ​​​​that I wrote would rebel and try to replace myself, which completely frightened these large starfish, so that in the following years, the Star Sea Empire strictly controlled the development of AI technology, and since the military government came to power after the war, it began to Face this icy universe with hostility.

The consequence of this matter is that due to the lack of AI assistance, the Star Sea Empire must use a lot of manpower in many cases to make up for the loss caused by the lack of highly intelligent AI.

As a result, when facing the Iron Alliance in the future, the warships of the Star Sea Empire will always appear more sluggish than the warships of the Iron Alliance.

After discovering this, it is not that the Star Sea Empire did not make adjustments, but this gap cannot be made up overnight, especially because of the Star Sea Empire's distrust of AI that has been written into its DNA, making Star Sea The empire is ready to choose another solution to this problem.

That is the biological brains of the Navy officers and soldiers of the Star Sea Empire that have been "preloaded" with programs.

In fact, just after the Star Sea Empire stepped into the space age, the Star Sea Empire, which was almost driven to the brink of extinction by the rebel AI in the war to extinguish the rebel AI, understood one thing. As a biological body, there is a limit. By modifying the genes, one can understand the limits of the body more and more.

Compared with the rebel AI troops who were able to leave the production line and start killing in [-] hours, these starfish who once wiped out the terrestrial civilization on their home planet by virtue of their numerical superiority suffered a painful blow for the first time in their field of expertise.

I was able to become an adult at the age of three, and forcibly wiped out the meat bomb offensive of the terrestrial civilization of the home planet. In the end, I was defeated by the bloodless and tearless rebel AI. If you dare to die, he dares to bury you. Right in front of the blow of adding a few zeros after your number.

After learning from the pain, if you can't beat your opponent, then join their strategy.

After these big stars were beaten by the rebel AI until they became suspicious of stars, these big stars immediately made a decision, we will not be stars anymore!

These starfish took their brains and thinking-assisting ganglia out of their bodies, and put them into their mechanical bodies.

With these steel starfish, the Star Sea Empire finally got rid of the terrible disaster that almost destroyed them when the Star Sea Empire just stepped into the starry sky.

But... just when these starfishes began to rebuild the old mountains and rivers from the wasteland after the war, it seemed like a joke of fate.

These steel starfish who pulled the Star Sea Empire out of the abyss in the war against the AI ​​rebellion almost kicked the Star Sea Empire back into the abyss.

I don't know whether it was the postoperative brain infection caused by the simplification of the process during the war, or the errors in the program coding, which made these steel starfish, which were supposed to be disarmed and returned to the fields after the war, as the new evolution direction of the starfish, in a short period of time. Within two years, he suffered from a terminal illness called "Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome", commonly known as "Cyber ​​Psychosis".

Iron starfish suffering from this disease will fall into a state of frenzy due to endless visions in their minds. They sometimes think that they are still in the war against the rebel AI and are surrounded by the rebel AI. In the entire position, only myself is still standing firm, attacking all targets they consider threatening without distinction.

This sudden disaster completely hit the Star Sea Empire, those schools that advocated "flesh and weak, mechanical ascension", especially when they were regarded as the greatest war hero of the empire in the war against the AI ​​rebellion, they personally led the commando from The general who took the airdrop pod in space orbit and suffered more than [-]% of the casualties in the airborne, destroyed the core processor of the rebellion AI, and his most elite orbital commando of the Star Sea Empire, also suffered from cognitive dysfunction syndrome almost at the same time .

So it took another ten years before the Star Sea Empire completely wiped out the last steel starfish who made great contributions in suppressing the rebellious AI war.

And since then, although the Star Sea Empire is still working on the brain-computer interface that replaces the flesh and blood body with a mechanical body, these technologies that are judged to be unreliable have also been locked in the small black box of the laboratory. Like AI technology, which is also judged to be unreliable, it can only continue to lie in the archives after small-scale technical verification.

But now, when the Star Sea Empire is like a candle in the wind, and may disappear in the Milky Way at any time, those ancient dogmas will be left behind by the desperate Star Sea Empire executives.

As the high-level members of the Star Sea Empire reached a consensus, a group of the most outstanding soldiers in the remaining navy of the Star Sea Empire voluntarily gave up everything and lay down on the operating table to become the host of the Star Sea Glory in order to save the empire that was only one step away from destruction. .

Then as the giant ship's reactors ignited, the engines spewed fiery flames.

The Star Sea Empire gathered all the remaining fleets and blew the horn of counterattack to the Void Demon.

After possessing the huge Star Sea Glory, the first battle of the Star Sea Empire's counterattack easily destroyed the Void Demon's garrison fleet stationed in the Elmen galaxy.

When the fleet of light battleships was parked in the dock of the Glory of the Star Sea like a carrier-based aircraft, those heavy battleships broke into the galaxy together with the Glory of the Star Sea.

This vengeful fleet used heavy artillery enough to fight back and forth with the Iron Alliance at ultra-long distances, and first severely damaged the Void Demon fleet that had drawn most of its strength due to the ongoing Battle of New Constantinople.

Then when the remaining Void Demon fleet approached the Star Sea Empire fleet with dense firepower, preparing to fight to the death with overwhelming carrier-based aircraft stages and corrosive bile, those loaded in Star Sea Glory The light battleship in the No. [-] dock was also released like a carrier-based aircraft.

While intercepting those carrier-based aircraft-level void demons, these light warships, which were repeatedly educated by the old captains of the Iron Alliance, also launched an assault on the fleet of void demons.

Finally, when the last warrior-level void demon was attacked by the plasma torpedo net launched by the Star Sea Empire frigate and the purgatory ray attack by the Star Sea Glory, it turned into dust among the stars.

The army troops following the fleet are also preparing to attack the industrial planet occupied by void demons.

When the Army Landing Fleet and the Navy Fleet arrived at Planet [-] of the Aimen Galaxy, the industrial planet that once provided [-]% of the light naval guns for the Navy of the Star Sea Empire, they were preparing to take back this planet to strengthen the Star Sea Empire. industrial capacity.

But when they arrived at Planet Aimen [-], they discovered that billions of stars were once inhabited, and there was a city stretching for hundreds of nautical miles on the seabed, occupying almost all the seabeds on the planet.

All the traces that can prove that the Star Sea Empire once existed on this planet have now disappeared, leaving only the green creeper covering the entire surface, and those sleeping monsters on the seabed, who do not know Whether it is a Void Demon building or simply a specialized Void Demon soaked in sea water, those huge blood vessels like petrified pipes are beating regularly.

Even the sea water on the planet is no longer the blue color it used to be, but a dark green color that reminds people of wound suppuration and infection.

And a large number of small void demons are running on this disgusting corrupt planet.

The commander of the Star Sea Empire, who does not believe that the efforts of several generations have come to naught, sent a commando team to the planet to investigate the locations that used to be the industrial areas of the Star Sea Empire, hoping that these warriors can bomb the fleet's orbit, And provide guidance to the ground troops who landed later.

However, when these brave commandos reached the surface of the planet through the orbital drop pod and large shuttle, what awaited these warriors was a literal hell.

Because when observing from space, the fleet of the Star Sea Empire found that the places that used to be the industrial and urban divisions of the Star Sea Empire not only had a large number of biological reactions, but also directly broke through the water surface and could be directly observed from orbit. The several camouflaged airdrop pods dropped by the air were torn to pieces by the bile spit out by the huge void demons and the void demons flying in the atmosphere before they reached the surface.

Therefore, the fleet of the Star Sea Empire had to choose a landing point a little distance from those industrial areas, so that these warriors who dared to face the corrupted planet would not be boxed before they landed.

But successfully landing on the surface of the planet is just the beginning of this nightmare. From the moment they land, from microorganisms to large void demons, it seems that the entire planet is targeting them.

Every step forward faces threats ranging from microbial contamination of filters to attacks of giant tentacles lying beneath the ocean floor capable of destroying heavy shuttles with a single blow.

After paying a huge price, when these commandos arrived at the industrial area that was once the pride of the planet, they found that there was no longer any industrial area there.

The industrial area built by the Star Sea Empire with several generations of talents has been destroyed and eaten by those indescribable huge creatures with huge tentacles that gave the star a sense of fear from the depths of DNA. do.

And after seeing these nameless giants, the journey of these brave starfish has come to an end.

These void demons that grow in sea water, even if they are specialized creatures, obviously cannot use photosynthesis to grow to their current huge size.

So as these giants took a deep breath in the sea water, they found out after going through hardships and obstacles that the industrial area that once supported the upper part of the empire's industry had already become the ancient commandos, and they also fought with those who were killed These behemoths were sucked into the esophagus of the void demon together with the microorganisms that fed on it.

After discovering that it was impossible to restore the industrial strength of the Empire by retaking the occupied corrupted planets, the Grand Fleet of the Star Sea Empire embarked on another mission.

Open up a line of communication leading to another star area of ​​the empire that is still holding on, and re-link the empire into a whole.

And the behavior of the Star Sea Empire, which was preparing to open up the line of communication, immediately stimulated the Void Demon Fleet, which was in the battle of the new Constantinople.

After several rounds of exchanges, both the Iron Alliance and the Void Demon fell into exhaustion.

Relying on the support of the fortress group and the advantage of being able to retreat and rest at any time, the Iron Alliance's fleet barely resisted the continuous advantages of the void demons. The loss has reached a frightening level.

And the loss of those flying wings was even after several rounds of exchanges. Even though the pilots were equipped with drones to assist combat before the war, these flying wings that filled the air defense gap were still exhausted to the point of extinction. the point.

The current air defense of fleets and fortresses is almost entirely supported by the container point defense systems that are temporarily dragged up, as well as the point defense systems equipped on heavy warships and fortresses.

And the Void Demons, who can't give full play to their absolute superiority in numbers, are also very uncomfortable to fight. The troops who are put into the front line not only cannot gain an advantage when facing those annoying little bone-crushing gadgets, but also are repeatedly disrupted due to sneak attacks and other reasons. .

In particular, the impact of some metal objects in the sound of "Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang Dang! Dang! Dang Dang! Dang!" made these Void Demons disgusting to the extreme.

Although the flesh and blood of those unlucky eggs that were crushed can still be converted into carrier-based aircraft by the worm mother after being recovered, and continue to fight.

However, most of those who were unable to dodge and were killed were worm mothers or warriors. This kind of big thing needs to complete the basic development on the corrupted planet before ascending into space to evolve into adults.

These oversized worms are not something that a worm mother can regenerate on the battlefield. This is a behemoth that can only be generated by an entire planet that has completed the biosphere reset after corruption.

Once too much of this backbone force is lost, it is almost impossible for the void demon to take down this fortress group.

After all, the anti-aircraft fire nets formed by the Titan ships and battleships backed by the fortress groups are not something that these life-and-death gadgets can withstand with the head iron, and it is not necessary to rely on the warrior class and the swarm class to destroy those defensive devices first. , to open a gap in the anti-aircraft firepower network.

No matter how many carrier-based aircraft stages there are, they cannot contribute to this fortress.

Chapter 292 277 Insects and Fire (End)

Before the new Constantinople fortress complex, the Iron Alliance has nowhere to retreat.

The prosperous hinterland where the fortress group continued to provide supplies and equipment to the front line was not only a strong support for the new Constantinople fortress group, but also a shackle that prevented them from taking a step back.

The Void Demon suffered heavy losses because the sinking cost was too high and too much biomass was lost in this galaxy. If this galaxy is not taken down and the biomass is recycled to build a large Void Demon, then Even for a void demon who doesn't care about battle damage, it is a heavy loss.

Voidfiends don't care about battle damage, but voidfiends care about biomass loss.

Most of the biomass of this snowball-accumulating fleet comes from the starfish and wild animals on the corrupted planets. After the biomass on the corrupted planets is completely transformed, they must rely on photosynthesis and filter feeding. It is not an easy task for the associated algae to accumulate such a huge amount of biomass.

After both sides are unwilling and unable to retreat, all that remains is to see who has richer background, stronger will, can bear losses better and has better luck.

Obviously, in this battle, Lady Luck is on the side of the Iron Alliance.

As the Star Sea Empire gathered its last strength and started the task of opening up the lines of communication and reconnecting the torn empire, the Void Demon had to send a reserve team from the front line back to block the door.

After the Void Demon's reserve troops began to withdraw, the PDF-class stealth frigate, which had been crouching behind the Void Demon and observing secretly, immediately sent back the news that the Void Demon's troops had begun to withdraw.

After receiving this message, the frontline commander immediately sent this message to the fleet and fortress defenders who were still fighting despite being exhausted, and their morale was boosted for a while.