Chapter 668 Victory of Entropy Increase
As Major Jason Cole's retinal projection exploded twelve scarlet triangles, the Hound Four reconnaissance ship jumped on the edge of the Stonehenge defense zone.
He smelled the familiar smell of metal ionization—ever the unknown electronic warship on Atlas opposite appeared, the air inside the ship carried this breath of ozone and blood.
He vowed that these enemy electronic combat ships were at least at the level of cruisers, and for common small reconnaissance ships, electronic combat cruisers were obviously completely irresistible, let alone 12 ships.
"What kind of world is this? The rebels' technical weapons have begun to lead us!"
Major Jason Cole beat his thigh hard. Once upon a time, when he was on a mission, facing those defunct rebels, he dared to let the small reconnaissance ship "Hunter 4" go up close to teasing the other party. If the opportunity is right, he is very happy to release not many ship-based HCPs to completely annihilate the other party.
But now, this situation only exists in past memories.
"Fuck, the opponent's electronic attack is coming, so fast!" The communication officer on the other side of the bridge suddenly exclaimed. On the small reconnaissance ship with few seats, the communication officers often serve as electronic warfare officers.
Hearing this, Major Jason Cole's brow frowned even deeper.
It is obvious that the level of electronic warfare, personnel training level and proficiency of equipment, of the opponent's opponent are rapidly increasing with the confrontation these days.
When the joint fleet of Atlas and the Revival Alliance began to siege the Stonehenge defense zone, the reconnaissance fleets and electronic warfare squads sent by both sides could fight back and forth, and in many cases even units on the federal navy could gain the upper hand.
But as time went by, the intensity of the battle quickly increased. Gradually, Jason Cole and his colleagues found that they could no longer gain the upper hand in such a small battle. At the same time, they would also fall into a passive situation due to some minor mistakes, carelessness, underestimation of the enemy, etc.
This is why the reconnaissance team where the "Hunter 4" is located was the only one ship that appeared when performing this periphery reconnaissance mission - other friendly forces in the same team have been sunk in several previous confrontations or have lost the ability to dispatch again in a short period of time.
"Captain, should we retreat first?"
Adrian's voice sounded in Jason Cole's ear, and the latter nodded without hesitation.
"Of course you have to withdraw, otherwise you will still stay here and wait for death?! Pass my order to release the MK-32 smart foil! The maximum power of the electronic warfare unit performs full-band blocking interference!"
Cole said, giving instructions to the helmsman to perform emergency evasion.
At the same time, outside the narrow porthole of the reconnaissance ship, three hundred pods exploded at the same time, and the silver nano-intelligent foil cloud condensed into a thorny maze in the vacuum, and the helmsman of the "Hound 4" also planned to take advantage of this fleeting opportunity to control the ship to "turn over" and then run away immediately.
But both him and Captain Cole underestimated the reaction speed of the Atlas electronic warfare cruiser.
Several complex sets of "antennas" suddenly popped out at the front end of the two battleships, and a hexagonal lattice lit up. The high-frequency microwave beam splits the fog like an invisible sword, and the dense foil network was melted like a spider web in a flash.
"Damn it, it's getting faster and faster. The helmsman! Speed up, the cover of the foil cloud is about to disappear!"
"Warning! The quantum encryption channel is broken!"
Fortunately, misfortune never comes alone. The ship-based control personality also issued a warning at this time, and her virtual image also turned into a dark red color, which means that a large amount of computing power is used to fight the attacks of electronic warfare viruses.
"I'm here to help, prepare for electronic brain access!"
Adrian Crowe said loudly, pulling a connecting cable from the back of the seat and inserting it into the back of his head. His pupils were also scattered in the data torrent. "The access has been completed and we have begun to assist in the ship-based control personality. The bad navigation system is being downgraded!"
On the other hand, Major Cole suddenly felt a needle-like burning pain from the nerve interface on the back of his neck, and a dazzling warning popped up on the helmet in the cabin: [Topological quantum virus invasion was detected].
The holographic star map on the bridge began to twist, and Atlas' attack code eroded the system like black mist ejected by cuttlefish - these electronic demons optimized by pioneer algorithms, with the assistance of Saleh, are gnawing on the central processor of the Hound Seven along the optical fiber.
“Switch to full manual.”
Adrian's roar came to an abrupt end. Cole turned his head suddenly and saw that the young man's eyes turned white and blue smoke came out of the cabin. The electronic warfare virus completely broke through the firewall and infected the vital sign maintenance system
Although it was covered in the cabin at this moment, Cole still had the illusion of burnt barbecue mixed with ionizing dust rushing into his nose.
Before he could see the scene of his adjutant, he saw a more desperate scene through the porthole - twelve purple charged particle beams, accurately hitting all the key compartments of "Hunter 4".
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When Major General Griezmann stepped into the flagship bridge, the entire bridge was alarmed, and the busy people also showed a state of panic.
"Everyone calm down and follow the preset instructions!"
Griezmann's calm voice sounded, trying to appease everyone on the bridge, but when he saw the information on the holographic projection platform himself, he was also stunned.
His fingertips streaked across a virtual screen popping up beside him, and the picture on the holographic projection platform also changed. The ice crystals with an eight-kilometer diameter dragged out an emerald tail in the background of deep space - that was the color of Cherkov's radiation, which also meant that the speed of these ice crystals had approached the speed of sublight.
This scene made Griezmann think of the light blade waving by the angel in the Sanctuary of Mercaba.
"Thermal radiation map is abnormal!"
Chief Staff Officer Anna Witlock casts data streams onto the bridge secondary screen:
"The surface of the ice crystal is covered with a fractal heat dissipation structure, and the frictional heat energy is introduced into the internal condensation chamber through nanocarbon tubes. They are using our Dyson ball technology to deal with us!"
The "Dyson Ball Technology" mentioned by this staff officer is also one of the key research projects of the Federal Academy of Sciences. Some of the derived technologies were later tried to be used on the unmanned fleet, trying to make the unmanned fleet gain stronger combat performance after breaking away from the shackles of humanity.
Since it is related to the unmanned fleet, Dr. Mephisto can obviously also get to know these technologies. In fact, this federal leader in the field of artificial intelligence is not just about specializing in artificial intelligence.
After being tricked into Atlas, the doctor finally brought some related technologies over, and in his words, these were considered "Lilith's dowry."
Although the statement of "dowry" is a bit strange, and it is difficult for Amber to tighten the relationship between him and Lilith in Mephisto's eyes, it does not affect his acceptance of all these techniques.
On the bridge, Griezmann stared at the beating impact countdown and suddenly noticed the orbital parameters of an ice crystal - its incident angle was exactly the same as the tactics used by Marshal Trafalgar to annihilate the rebel fleet thirty-five years ago. It’s just that the Federation thirty-five years ago did not have the technology to accelerate ice crystals to the sub-light speed.
The chill climbed along the spine, and Griezmann immediately realized that this was not a coincidence, but a psychological purgatory carefully designed by his old comrade Guterres.
"Activate all defense chains of Stonehenge!"
Griezmann's fist hit the podium with a thunderous and nervous yelling, "Switch all shelling clusters to"
Before he could finish speaking, the ship-based control personality suddenly froze in place, and then made a dying buzz. Everyone on the bridge immediately realized that they were under electronic warfare attack.
"Distribute computing power to intercept electronic warfare viruses, authorize ship-based control personality to access the main system of the "Stonehenge" defense zone to allocate computing power!"
Griezmann's reaction was quite fast now and he immediately responded, but at this moment, how much effect can a simple response play?
No one knows.
The image of the ice crystal group attacking at high speed splits into countless ghosts on the sensor. The relativity effect turns the ballistic prediction into a chaos game. Coupled with the infection of the electronic warfare virus, the defense system of "Stonehenge" is completely unable to capture the exact target.
Griezmann watched the calibration parameters of the shelling cluster beating wildly, and suddenly realized that the destroyed reconnaissance ships not only lost their eyes, but also made the enemy take the opportunity to implant logic bombs in the tactical network of the fleet and the defense zone - after all, no one would have thought that the sunken friendly ships would become the enemy's attack springboard at the last moment.
At this moment, the fire control radar of the defense system was wasting 80% of its computing power on the attack phantom, just like a medieval knight charging towards the illusion in the mirror.
Looking at the core area of the Stonehenge defense zone, a large number of federal warships gathered together and the huge permanent fortress due to his order to "retract defense", Griezmann only had a thought flashed through his mind.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
"It's over, it's all over."
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The dust clouds inside the "Stonehenge" defense zone suddenly boiled, like a vortex of star sea stirred by an invisible hand.
Federal Navy Captain Charles Harper suddenly raised his head in the engine compartment of the Grizzly Heavy Cruiser, and his protective helmet hit the deuterium fuel tube and made a dull response. He had just repaired the failure of the superconducting battery pack, and his gloves were stained with a light blue powder crystallized by coolant.
This heavy cruiser is now anchoring in the "Minerva" permanent fortress at the core of the defense zone, with many warships. The previous order from the fleet's supreme commander allowed them to return to the fortress for preparation.
The screaming alarm of the gravitational wave radar resounded throughout the cabin. Charles felt a terrible force coming towards his position. He immediately ran to the nearest porthole and looked out, and at the same time, the full inspection radio also rang.
"Fifteen unknown objects break through the Ort Cloud defense line! Speed is 0.12c!"
Captain Williams' roar was filled with the noise of electric current.
"The whole ship is accurate in impact resistance."
The next moment, the universe tore apart in front of Captain Charles's eyes.
The moment the first sub-light speed ice crystal brushed through the MK-7 armored platform of the "Minerva" permanent fortress, Charles' retina was imprinted with a hellish scene:
The surface tungsten carbide coating on the surface of the ice core with a diameter of nine kilometers rubbed against the thin stardust, instantly igniting a dark blue light arc that spanned tens of thousands of kilometers, like a thunder gun thrown by the gods.
The moment the honeycomb-shaped titanium alloy skeleton of the fortress was penetrated, the 300,000 tons of composite armor on the impacted surface burst out like a fragile eggshell, and the splashing metal fragments vaporized into silver smoke in the plasma tail.
"Welgium 3 thruster is overloading! Loss pipe team is being deployed."
The alarm of the ship-based control personality also sounded, and Charles was thrown towards the bulkhead by centrifugal force. At this moment, he saw through the newly fastened cabin mask that the constraint magnetic field of the fusion reactor was twisting - the ionizing cloud generated by the ice crystals was quickly entangled with all the warships around him.
The next moment, the Grizzly Bear rolled like dead leaves in the wind, and countless warning pop-ups exploded on the helmet panel.
He grabbed the bulkhead handle tightly and watched the heavy cruiser of the Grizzly Heavy Cruiser perform a dance of death in the helmet monitor. In this case, the twelve-unit heavy particle cannon still spewed out a blue and white beam. The jet of heavy metal particles that were enough to melt through the asteroid was strangely refracted when it hit the ice crystal coating, turning into iron rain to tear the side of the nearby friend ship Black Pearl into burning debris.
"Gods"
Charles' groans drowned in the scratches of the outer armor plates of the heavy cruiser. A piece of titanium alloy wreckage from the 'Anvil-7' defense node brushed through the porthole and plowed a spider-web-like crack on the bulletproof glass.
At this moment, a hatch door behind him also rose. As a figure stumbled in, the scream of adjutant Jackson suddenly rang in the communication channel: "Captain! The coolant pipe of Turret No. 3"
"Boom!"
Explosion and pressure relief occurred in an instant.
When Charles turned his head, he happened to witness the horror scene of the human body boiling in a vacuum. Jackson and the members of the four damaging tube team paid the price for their daily habit of not closing the cabin in time.
Their body fluids were instantly drained by the broken pipes. In the future, the protective suit that had been put on the helmet and completed the seal expanded into a pale cocoon under negative pressure, and the uncoagulated blood condensed into agate beads in zero gravity.
The only 'good habit' - the tied safety ropes dragged them firmly at the break formed after the explosion, allowing Charles to see this scene.
The background of all this is the high-energy laser array outside the ship's breakout, and a large number of air defense weapons from nearby friendly forces are futilely cutting the water molecules clouds formed by the evaporation of ice crystals. Thousands of high-energy beams scattered into the sky of phosphorus fire in the ionized dust.
Immediately afterwards, the "star-breaking chain reaction" that everyone feared the most began.
The ice core with an eight-kilometer diameter is supported by 0.12 times the speed of light, its kinetic energy is equivalent to 3 billion tons of TNT equivalent - this cosmic-scale punch not only tear the target apart, but also creates ripples of death in the gravel belt.
And there are fifteen such "heavy punches".
(This chapter ends)