Chapter 342 The Navy has a new battleship, and the Army has a new one
For the federal and imperial troops who were fighting fiercely on the Para IV, as well as the civilians who were separated from normal life because of this war and were in constant panic. For me, the appearance of Atlas is like lighting up a beacon in this chaos.
Especially after Atlas really played with ‘projector lights’ in the sky, it attracted the attention of everyone near the airdrop area.
In the memories of the civilians of the Para IV Empire, they used to see the huge star dragon emblem projected in the sky during festival celebrations, or the dragon animation soaring in the sea of clouds.
Over time, after getting used to this kind of spectacular 'performance', it is actually difficult for atmospheric projection to arouse their enthusiasm.
But today, when they saw the huge red cross in the sky and the Atlas LOGO that had appeared many times these days, these people found that their hearts were unusually excited.
Although most people may have never heard of the company Atlas before, something called ‘hope’ was born in their hearts at this moment.
And this is also due to the previous statements and corporate videos released by Atlas.
Although most of the communication networks on Para 4 have been interrupted and communications are basically in chaos, there are still some public regional network frequency bands that can be used.
Although these things like local networks are usually inconspicuous, at this time they have become a way for refugees in the area to find organizations to gather together, or to inform everyone of the warring areas so that everyone can avoid them.
Some time ago, these local network frequency bands, which are theoretically isolated from networks outside the planet, began to spread these two pieces of content inexplicably.
No one knows how these two high-definition videos spread into the local network, but this does not prevent them from spreading like viruses among refugees.
Sometimes, the power of word of mouth cannot be underestimated.
When many people forage for food near warring cities, the first thing they say when meeting other refugees is: "Hey! Have you seen the video on the local network?"
"What video?"
"It's just that 'Atlas' promotional video!"
"Oh oh oh, I watched it! Sigh. It's probably just for show. I don't know if they will come to our place. ”
This last sentence is also a common thought in the minds of these refugees who have watched the promotional video.
But now, when this LOGO appeared in the sky along with the red cross, the refugees of Para 4 finally realized that the company in the promotional video was really coming.
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"Holy shit, look! Another thing has been smashed down!"
"Hey, it looks like an egg was laid."
Most of a building near a certain airdrop area collapsed. In the small town, people gathered in the open area on the edge of the town, watching another series of 'shooting stars' fall from the huge red cross in the sky.
In addition to them, the two armies fighting near the airdrop zone are also conducting strict air surveillance at this time.
Although the commanders of both sides have restrained their troops, at this juncture, their frontline troops are still very nervous. Whether it is the air defense unit or the HCP, they have locked onto these falling unknown objects at this moment. If there is any abnormal situation, no one can say whether someone will open fire rashly.
Fortunately, Atlas has no plans to do any work for the time being, and these fallen 'hives' have landed along the established routes.
When they are hundreds of meters above the ground, the reverse thrust engines with the heat-insulating cover removed from the bottom of these black hexadecahedrons begin to operate, and the attitude control nozzles on other surfaces are also synchronized. Activated, these black hexadecahedrons landed smoothly on the ground while constantly decelerating.
"The 'Salamander' squadron called the 'Mother Ship', the 'Hive' has landed. Repeat, the 'Hive' has landed."
The HCP squadron near the airdrop area also quickly arrived at these The landing point of the 'Hive' was also reported to the fleet in orbit simultaneously after confirming that the 'new toys' were in normal condition.
Soon, an activation command from the fleet was sent to these autonomous unmanned mechanical control terminals code-named 'Hive'.
And these hexadecahedrons that fell on the ground also 'came alive'. When the outer surface armor plates were unfolded, they revealed the autonomous unmanned machinery that was 'wrapped' layer by layer in a special configuration. .
Starting from the outermost unmanned machine, the green lights symbolizing 'power on' lit up one by one. These things that were originally like square boxes unfolded their curled-up mechanical legs and turned into a The spider robots then crawled to the ground.
These spider-shaped robots, which are one meter in diameter and can reach a maximum length of 3 meters after extending their mechanical legs, are the new toys of the Atlas ground forces.
As the basic component of the unmanned combat system called 'Hive', these small robots codenamed 'Worker Bees' are also the first unmanned units in this system to appear in the theater.
In addition to the mechanical legs and auxiliary wheels used for walking, they also have four mechanical arms that can be replaced with components. They can also serve as temporary movers after the load-bearing module is installed.
After the initial construction tasks are completed, some worker bees will continue to be responsible for the daily maintenance and expansion tasks of the base.
Other worker bees will mount additional armor plates and sensor units on their own after the subsequent equipment boxes land.
And replace the tools on the robotic arm with weapons such as electromagnetic rifles and small charged particle cannons, transforming the 'worker bees' into 'soldier bees', becoming auxiliary combat and reconnaissance units for ground forces.< br>
According to the current setting of the 'Hive' unmanned combat system, a group of 'Hive' is generally composed of twenty autonomous unmanned mechanical control terminals - those hexadecahedrons.
In addition to the core terminal components, each control terminal can also load 50 worker bees in a special 'package mode' as the most basic working unit.
When these 'hives' are landed, preliminary construction work will begin according to scheduled tasks, just like now.
While the HCP squadron in each airdrop area was responsible for guarding, these worker bees began to quickly gather the core control components scattered around, and with the help of cutting guns, welding guns and other tools on the robotic arms, they used ten The remaining frames and armor plates of the hexahedron protect these cores.
Immediately afterwards, some worker bees neatly dismantled a pile of material boxes that were thrown down at the same time, and began to build the basic camp using the infrastructure materials and material box bodies loaded inside.
The other group of worker bees gathered around several airdrop material boxes containing 'worker bee-specific tool boxes', replaced the tools on their robotic arms, and then began to carry out large-scale landing sites in the airdrop area. The development.
Behind the efficient collaboration ability of the worker bees is a set of 'queen bee' controls developed by Lilith based on the cluster-thinking-like ability of her 'clone'.
This set of 'Queen Bee' controls allows all unmanned units under the 'Hive' system to act as one under the control of each group of hive cores. In theory, these hive cores In fact, it is a 'lite' version of Lilith's clone.
This also means that this strong artificial intelligence can access these hive cores at any time and directly control the unmanned units under the core
(End of this chapter)
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