People's Federation will live forever

"The League of Nations Space Force has a total of 500 armored destroyers. We have a numerical advantage. Pass my order to the entire fleet, defense bases, and military satellites to prepare for air combat. First, let them see our attitude and our determination to fight. "

After all, there are so many of us, maybe they would be willing to sit down and have a good talk?

Chapter 250: Clean Sky

"Here, pay tribute to the unknown visitors, we are curious if you can understand our language, but this is a friendly greeting, we are not hostile to you, just want to know why you are here... "

The clustered radio signals were focused and sent to deep space, and all the scientific research personnel in the huge steel-framed space station system at the League of Nations Cosmic Army Base had gathered together nervously.First of all, let’s make it clear that although it is the United States that built and led the League of Nations Space Force project, it is true that the scientific institutions in the non-military field are real League of Nations organizations, and a large number of third-party scientists have joined them, because the human "choice" project has a major The task is to find the answer from among the stars—beta comes from the universe, and the possibility of the arrival of other species can never be ruled out, which may bring huge changes to human beings.

But it seems that their decades of research are just defrauding funds, and it is only now that these people have no use for them.A large number of people in linguistics, cryptography, astrophysics, and sociology were concentrated here. At the moment, following the order of the General Command of the Space Force, they huddled together and discussed countermeasures against the data sheets of astronomical observations.

There are countless possibilities, but none of them are certain.Discussions among scientists were in full swing, and representatives of the officer corps of the Space Force were also anxious like ants on a hot pot. Now no one cares about what happens on the ground.

"This is our analysis of the spectrum. The object has obvious signs of propulsion and background radiation. The comparison table is consistent with stars. We speculate that their navigation technology is based on controlled nuclear fusion."

"The latest calculated speed is 147KM/S, which has reached the fourth cosmic speed, and is still improving! This kind of thrust... NASA's previous Orion project may have this possibility, but at present we do not have any relevant technology to In imitation, the nuclear rockets planned to equip the escape ships will not reach..."

"The only thing we can be sure of is that the other party is not a beta, but a creation of technological civilization similar to ours. Thank God, I think we have the opportunity to communicate..."

Excited and terrified, the scientists kept arguing about how to write a message to this caller. Everyone agreed that the best kindness should be shown to get a good start, but how to make a good start. Maybe the civilization whose thinking and culture are different from the people on Earth feels goodwill?

"What you are arguing about is meaningless. This is not a scientific issue right now, but a political and military issue!"

The army representative was about to collapse. He slammed the magnetic table holding the files, making the group of scientists turn their attention back: "Haven't you guys considered that these spaceships that popped up all of a sudden are probably the people's union?" Are those rumors, the rumors that the leaders of the People's Federation are aliens, haven't they been confirmed now!"

Look, the magnificent spacecraft, the shining plasma tail flames, the aesthetics and expressiveness of these ships are so close to human beings, it is hard to believe that they are from alien officers.How could it be such a coincidence, how could it be such a coincidence?

"I'm sorry, sir, science must pay attention to evidence, we don't rule out the possibility you consider, but the reality is that we don't know anything about it."

The scientists from South America said embarrassingly, they didn't know how to explain it to the officer, but after thinking about it, some people still decided to tell the truth generously——

"Mr. Soldier, if your fears are true that these ships belong to the SUPP that you are attacking, then it doesn't make much sense."

As the scientist said, the soldier frowned: "What does that mean?"

"It means, it's over! You'd better throw everyone out of the armored destroyer, raise your hands to surrender to the other party, and pray that the other party is in a good mood. And immediately let your army on the ground cease fire. Lian knelt down and begged for mercy, crying and admitting his mistake!"

A young scientist yelled disapprovingly that in today's situation they are no longer afraid of these powerful people and are starting to tell the truth.

"Don't you understand? I mean, don't show any force confrontation. It must be a stupid move to block the car with arms! You ask me why? Ha, when the Indian canoes faced the Spanish galleons, the result How? The gap in basic science cannot be bridged no matter what!"

Scientists are rational, and reason is the most important weapon for human beings to survive, but if reason is such a common thing, we will not praise it.

The military doesn't get the intelligence and support they need from the scientists, but some things aren't scientific, or even military, it's political, and political quirks dictate one thing --

"The United States Space Force fleet is fully assembled, facing the visitors and forming a formation!"

It's not about fighting, but it's an extremely important gesture.This is a multi-faceted consideration. In the best case, the large horizontal fleet can quickly transform into a welcoming array, and at the same time let history remember that "in the three types of human contact, the United States, as the representative of human beings, is neither humble nor overbearing and polite."

But if it is the worst, then only the determination to fight at all can stop the enemy.

"Those who believe in failure from the beginning will never win!" Said the admiral of the space fleet.

In the space station, seeing the scene of the vast space army armored destroyers breaking away from the docking point of the space station one by one under the command, using high-pressure gas to adjust their posture, and then igniting the chemical rocket engine to sail to the far-earth orbit, the scientists felt hopeless. .

The young scientist pressed his painful brain with both hands: "Didn't the Indians lack courage?"

This war has nothing to do with the Indians, and the two sides are not natives and Spaniards - the transmission of 0.5 astronomical units of electromagnetic waves also takes 4 minutes, so Colonel Jenot has been delayed in receiving information from the League of Nations, and before caring about the information, We have to calculate the distance.

With the best commanders, the teleportation went smoothly. The fleet successfully appeared at a distance of 0.5 astronomical units from the earth, that is, 7500 million kilometers away. The fleet is currently accelerating to 147 kilometers per second. This speed is not surprising, but The reason why people on earth are not panicked is also because it takes 141 hours, almost 6 days, to reach the earth.

"How can we make the leaders wait for us for 6 days?"

Colonel Gernot sat upright on the seat, holding the scepter in both hands and meditating.The navigator Latolova was soaked in the buffer solution, and the fingertips of both hands kept jumping over the hologram icons. The excitement of returning to her hometown was suppressed, and she asked the captain cautiously:

"Captain, are you responding to the enemy's message?"

"Since they want to know our purpose, we have nothing to hide."

Janot closed his eyes, and recorded his speech in the communication with the electronic brain——

"Please note that this is the Armed Forces of the United Human Powers Council. We are responding to your inquiries according to the principles of engagement—we are here to eliminate you."

This short message was delivered from the Supreme Authority to the Frost-class electronic ship. The electronic ship equipped with a super-powerful transmitter is like a flashlight, so that the entire earth is within its signal range.This news is sent through a public channel, what kind of effect will it cause among the people on earth?No, the colonel didn't care, he had no interest in negotiating with the enemy of any kind.

"From the moment they fired at the People's Federation, they were enemies, anti-racial criminals who violated the righteousness of mankind. The moment they rejected the leader's goodwill, their fate was already doomed."

The colonel opened his eyes, and Ratolova on the side wanted to remind the captain that he seemed to have misunderstood just now, such as the alias of the People's Federation on Earth, "Human United Front" and so on, but these are meaningless now, because an order came—

"The leader has high hopes for us! Inform the fleet, we don't have time to take a slow flight at sub-light speed, prepare for mass effect flight!"

As soon as this sentence came out, the atmosphere in the cabin changed.

"Of order, sir, confirming the navigation coordinates!"

"The reactor energy supply has reached the expected value, switch the power circuit to Line [-], and import the mass effect core!"

"The fusion pulse detonation engine is suspended for acceleration, and the entire ship is urgently cooled!"

In the deep space, all the spaceships of the People's Union turned off their engines, and the eye-catching infrared radiation disappeared. If the temperature of the hull itself was not still high, the earth people would almost lose their observation.

Space is icy, but there is no heat-conducting medium in space, and the loss of heat is very slow and difficult.A huge existence like a spaceship requires a surge of energy between movement and stillness. As a result, the crew of a spaceship like the Dusk-class must concentrate in a few safe areas with cooling, because the temperature of other cabins may have already Reached two or three Baidu.

Even if the power transmission pipeline is made of ultra-low resistance material of pure silver grade, UHV power transmission can still raise the temperature of the partition wall where the pipeline is buried to three or four hundred degrees, and the reactor in the engine part can even melt the iron. The hardest hit area of ​​magnetic isolation - this is the price of deep space travel!Do you know why the MUV natives can deploy 500+ "spaceships" in low-earth orbit, but they can't leave the earth's gravity circle?

"The cooling tank was thrown out, and the liquid nitrogen discharge outlet was opened."

In the case of being so close to the sun, it is impossible to adopt a heat dissipation grill, and the radiation release method is too slow, so the partition door in the belly of the battleship is opened, and "fireballs" are spit out. These efficient heat dissipation tanks and After the warm exchange in the ship, it almost exploded. One after another, they fell into the deep space like setting off fireworks. At the same time, the grille around the engine part at the tail of the battleship opened, and the high-temperature nitrogen jetted out to create a conspicuous air curtain behind the spaceship. There is no more efficient method than dielectric heat dissipation. Although the Ministry of Industry and Research has proposed the idea of ​​liquid metal lithium ion heat dissipation, the ghost knows when it will be successful.

"The temperature of the ship has reached a safe value, and the mass effect flight can be started."

"The hull is completely sealed and enters protection mode."

On the captain's seat, Colonel Janot released the restriction with his authority, and issued an order:

"Activate the engine, Supreme Authority, listen to my password, and prepare to enter the speed of light flight!"

Located in the center of the hull, the No. [-] element engine, which is arranged in the compartment of the fusion engine, is connected to the power supply - in addition to the circumsolar accelerator, what the People's Federation has been preparing for such a long time in the past is this "Second Physics Miracle", People's Federation's "Second Superlight Speed" means.When the surging negative current was injected into this spherical facility, the engine room seemed to lose its sense of reality in an instant, the light of the lights seemed to become a certain substance, and those thick isolation walls felt that they had lost their quality.

This is an illusion, but it is not an illusion, because when this phenomenon spreads to the entire spaceship, it is completely opposite to feeding a positive current around the hull to create a gravity shield that can withstand light levels. A "space bubble" of the same size was formed, which interrupted the space-time continuity between the hull and the real universe, as if two completely different spaces had been created to reduce the quality of the observation of the battleship to—

0?No, it cannot be measured, because the continuity is broken and there is no quality.The negation of superluminal speed by the theory of relativity—“the greater the speed, the greater the mass, and the light speed has infinite mass”, the light speed barrier is bypassed, and the time dilation effect brought by the speed is also bypassed.

The purpose of heat dissipation is to provide a safe space. At this time, the warship that enters the acceleration will continue to speed up. Now the speed is really just a number rather than a physical quantity for the spaceship. Moreover, from the eyes of the people on earth, all these aircraft appear blue. Shift phenomenon, and then soon...

Disappeared.

Of course it disappears. When an object exceeds the speed of light, how can the light be reflected into your eyes even if it cannot keep up?Only the crew of the battleship in the mass effect field feel that they are still in a normal environment, but they also lose all observations outside the battleship, and only rely on the previous calculations to be completely handed over to the photonic computer.

Light needs to travel a distance of 4 minutes, and the spaceship, which is slightly greater than twice the speed of light, arrived in 50 minutes and [-] seconds. At this time, the information just released by Jenot has just reached the hands of the people on earth.

"We are here to destroy you!"

As soon as this piece of information was conveyed to the Space Force Command, a flash of light burst out right in front of the armored destroyer fleet.People who were still puzzled by the disappearance of the unknown spaceships suddenly found in astonishment that those spaceships had arrived in front of them, less than [-] kilometers away, and they were almost close to their faces.

"God, they are the battleships of the People's Federation!"

Although it is said that it is the Human United Powers Council rather than the Human United Front that I am more familiar with, but now a fool can know that the two must be one, and there must be something that they don’t understand, but can they still explain it now? ?They are moving forward and are approaching themselves quickly!Five thousand kilometers, four thousand kilometers, then three thousand kilometers!

"Level [-]...ready for battle!"

The difficult decision came from the mouth of Admiral Mi Cosmos Army. In the armored destroyer that launched a huge horizontal formation so that all firepower could be directed at the enemy in a straight line, the Cosmic Army soldiers whose scalps were numb and whose hands and feet were cold were also shocked by this ruthless announcement. They looked at the optical display in horror, those huge warships "sliding" to open the hidden compartments of various parts of the hull, and raised the turrets that were obviously weapons.

They came to war, they didn't intend to negotiate, they didn't even give us time to think... no, they were the enemy, we just got lucky!

"Fleet, no rules of engagement, fire freely!"

"Shoot, shoot them all!"

"God bless the United States, God bless the earth, we shall not fail!"

The people whose nerves were strained to the limit shouted hoarsely, this is the last courage to suppress the fear in their hearts, and at the same time strengthen their beliefs and tell themselves-even though they know intellectually that this is ridiculous.

"The enemy is only in single digits, and we have a numerical advantage!"

The magazine on the back of the armored destroyer can not only be equipped with unpowered free-falling bombs, but when the twilight fleet arrives, the space force will start an emergency plan, and all the ships on standby will be replaced with weapons. The high-power radar in the illegal space building also pointed at the People's Federation Fleet, intending to scan and record the fleet's information into the space military's fire control.

The opponent is flying in a straight line, and has no intention of changing the path at all, so... let's fire!

Heavy missiles sprang out of the magazines, lighting up chemical rockets and leaving toxic smoke trails after the oxidant burned in the vacuum. Five hundred destroyers launched five thousand ballistic missiles. From the perspective of the United Ships— ——The densely packed small dots coming from the earth, the orbits drawn by their flying trajectories are inexplicably per second, as if the earth has grown white hair.

"Good way."

Intercontinental missiles are much easier to use in a vacuum than inside a planet. There is no resistance, unlimited acceleration, and sufficient fuel allows the missiles to perform the necessary maneuvers when striking distant targets. It only takes 3000 short hours to reach the twilight fleet 5 kilometers away. Minutes, but the opponent's speed makes this number only need one minute and 30 seconds!

On the Supreme Authority, Colonel Gernot suddenly sighed with emotion. Lieutenant Colonel Ratolova and others who had been engrossed in waiting for the order almost lost control: "Is this the earth? It's so beautiful."

What a blue and beautiful planet. It is rumored that the Sira people descended from another earth to Sira 5000 years ago. So this can also be said to be the hometown of yourself and others?Although it is the first time to come, there is an indescribable tranquility and warmth in my heart.

"The leader once said: Life is the miracle of the universe, and any planet that gives birth to life is a great mother."

The colonel said so, who knows if Li Zhi said it, but he has inexplicably added a lot of "famous words" recently.Colonel Jenot, who finished his emotion, corrected his color: "The earth suffers as much as Sira. Our battle must be clean and concise, so as not to let it suffer more harm from humans."

"That's right, Captain." Latolova was almost impatient, "The enemy fired missiles at us, how should we fight back?"

"There is no such thing as how to say, there is no limit to this battle." Colonel Gernot gripped the scepter tightly, "If you can still remember the scriptures, then this is an actual combat assessment for all of you."

"So, let me see the strength of our fleet soldiers!"

Intercontinental missiles are still flying according to radar lock-in guidance, but the only prerequisite for them to succeed is that we can ignore such foolishness, but as an unarmed Frost-class electronic support ship running to the front line together, is it so inconvenient?

The cylindrical spaceship is aimed at the entire earth's orbit, and the huge transmitting array antenna is not a weapon, but it is also ready to go like a cannon.As the invisible torrent of electromagnetic waves passes through the boundless deep space, it is like a flood submerging a small stream irradiated by the other side. The water is so powerful that it engulfs the entire space army fleet!

In an instant, the missile's guidance signal disappeared, and the out-of-control missile could only continue to rush forward according to the recorded final instructions, and turned to track the infrared signal of the United Fleet.Not only that, the pilots of the armored destroyers in the original array were horrified to find out.

"The radio is down!"

There was only whistling white noise on the radio station that received the message from the command headquarters, and even the friendly troops who were close at hand could not transmit the slightest news, as if they were alone in the deep sky, and great fear erupted in their minds. Not that they are timid.

Instead, they have lost contact and scheduling. Ships in such a high-density array cannot maneuver at will, otherwise they are likely to be hit by friendly forces and turned into space junk together!

And there is no radio, even if I want to surrender, I can't make a sound...

"Enemy communications have been suppressed."

On the Frost-class electronic support ship "Fountain of Sighs", the young captain looked indifferently at the analysis results of the supercomputer.As the most advanced electronic warfare ship in the world, in addition to jamming the radio communication of the entire orbit, the ship's spectral radar also simultaneously tracked the enemy's entire army—five hundred warships and the thousands of missiles they launched to the signal Integrate the center and send to the entire fleet.

It was so simple that the young lieutenant colonel was a little expressionless, and no one would have any expectations for the determined result.The People's Federation has eight Twilight-class ships but only one Frost-class with a large photonic computer and a microwave array that relies on fusion reactor functions. The reason for this is precisely because of its technological content-the Frost-class was originally designed for space Electronic warfare, when it is running at full power, can fully monitor all movements within 30 kilometers, and the photonic computer can track every car running on the street on half a sphere when it shines on the planet.

It is like a hundred-eyed giant in mythology, everything is clearly visible in its eyes.And it has now reached the earth, and all the efforts of the enemy have been turned into information and passed on to the combat ships before its eyes.

"This is the 'Stunning Waves Sunset', starting to carry out regional air defense operations."

The Leiyun-class frigate, shaped like a ray and irregular polyhedron, moved forward for a hundred kilometers. The guided fire control from the Fountain of Sighs has been connected to the ship's computer. Therefore, on the 170-meter-long body of the Leiyun-class A cylindrical laser launcher, a Vulcan cannon, a metal storm launcher, a honeycomb missile silo, and a rail rapid-fire gun at the bow of the ship were raised.

There was no sound in the vacuum, and all the weapons on the two Thunderclouds were fully fired!From the four honeycomb missile silos on both sides, small missiles fly out like fireworks, overwhelming the sky and covering the sky, and the tail flames against the Thundercloud class look like angels spreading their wings.The focused laser emitters installed at each edge point on the frigate have already emitted high-energy infrared spectrum light, melting the shell of the missile, destroying the core components, and even blowing up the engine.A missile that loses power will not explode, but the steam generated by the vaporization of the casing will cause lateral pressure on the warhead, causing it to deviate from the trajectory.

All the missiles were locked by the electronic boat. All Colonel Nankitazawa had to do was to give the weapons officer an order of "you can figure it out", and then took out a pack of refrigerated soda from the driver's seat, biting the straw and gurgling.The Thundercloud class constantly spins and rolls in a vacuum, and dances ballet in space relying on the steering engines on all sides of the hull. This is the advantage of a small boat.In the command room, Nanbeizawa and the crew fixed themselves on the seats and followed the ship's roll and rotation. Their heads seemed to be equipped with gyroscopes, and they didn't feel dizzy at all.

"That's it, that's it? What about your abilities, Earthlings?"

The flashes detonated by the point-to-point honeycomb missiles are about to illuminate this dark universe. The mass fragments of the intercontinental missiles turned into high-speed space junk and smashed into the ships, but the flexible Thundercloud-class engines made the trajectories of both sides deviate. One hundred and eight thousand miles.In response, the metal storm launcher on the Thundercloud's back ignited, and the "space garbage rain" that had caused the Space Force to suffer so much this time rushed towards the enemy with a hundred times the number and coverage!

However, in terms of speed, this wave of metal storm is far behind the bright light that shines from behind the Thundercloud——

"Hammer of Dawn, medium power, launch!"

The light of death gushed out from the upper deck of the Dusk-class, spanning a distance of [-] kilometers in an instant, passing through the rain of missiles, crossing the Thundercloud-class and passing through the middle of the Space Force fleet.

Swipe across, lightly across a distance of a thousand kilometers, lightly stroke from the vanguard of the armored destroyer all the way to the space army base, as easy and leisurely as you stroke the paper with a pen.

Then there is the fire that burns all the way!

Where the light beam passed, the armored destroyer disintegrated suddenly, and a dozen ships in a straight line exploded in an instant, without any extra movement.And the illegal scaffolding building that was particularly eye-catching to the People's Federation—the connection of the space station burned molten iron, and ignited the remaining air in the cabin to emit fire.A salvo of 24 Hammers of Dawn from four Twilight-class ships shone into the atmosphere. The high temperature almost ignited the clouds, and a large area of ​​the sky turned red in an instant. People from the Pacific Ocean to the skies of Peru in South America saw this on Earth. spectacle.

"The sky is burning..."

But it hasn't burned to our satisfaction yet!

"Help, help! The structural damage of the space station is disintegrating. We are about to separate from the energy module and the ecological module. Without them, we will suffocate and freeze to death!"

The station crew’s cry for help will not be heard by anyone, because the electromagnetic communication has been covered. In the middle of this large-scale space station structure is actually a "huge" orbital dock, which is a core of the League of Nations "choice" plan ——The fugitive spacecraft carrying human seeds, the doomsday ark that uses the core of the zero element to fly long distances, which was finally found out by the people on earth.

These two ships have not been built yet, and the traces of construction have only been suspended recently. According to the plan, when the earth will fall into the mouth of beta, the best of mankind will board the ark-they are the last hope of mankind.

And this hope,

It was torn in half by two parallel beams.

"No—our effort!"

The scientist cried and was dragged and stuffed into the reentry capsule by the staff. At the end, the staff locked the cabin door, smiled and waved to the scientists in the cabin: "You are the best of mankind, you must live."