Chapter 534 TF3, Prepare to Attack
When the entire bridge fell into darkness, with only a few independently powered emergency lights still emitting a faint light, the captain of the reconnaissance ship knew that something was wrong. .
From the time he became a cadet at the naval academy, to being assigned to the garrison fleet and starting official service, to this moment, he has never heard of, let alone encountered, the entire bridge. A sudden power outage.
Of course, if the fusion furnace and superconducting battery stack are blown up on the ship, a similar scene will indeed occur, but most people will not encounter that kind of scene while alive.
Under normal circumstances, for the bridge of a battleship to be so completely powered off, the only possibility is that both the main fusion reactor and the backup energy source fail at the same time.
From the perspective of the captain of the reconnaissance ship, if he really encounters this situation now, it is very likely that there is not only a problem with the bridge, but also 80% of the entire battleship has been cut off from energy like the bridge.
But until just now, this ship has not been attacked, so it is impossible that the attack caused damage to the ship and eventually evolved into this situation
This reconnaissance ship The captain angrily hammered the armrest of the captain's seat, and then shouted angrily:
"Fuck! We have been hacked!"
The experiences of other people on the bridge They were not as rich as the captain, and their brains were not as fast as his, so they fell into a daze after the entire bridge was powered off. It was not until they heard the captain's roar that they came back to their senses.
But before the officers and staff on duty could say anything, they heard the captain continue to yell:
"Talia? Thalia?!!"
This is this ship The name of the surveillance ship's onboard control personality, but no matter how the captain called, this shipboard control personality that disappeared just after the power outage still did not appear.
By this time, even the dullest crew members can realize what happened.
Although the shipboard control personality looks like a cute 'virtual beauty' on weekdays, she is actually responsible for maintaining and coordinating the operation of various subsystems of the entire ship. A large number of automated equipment are also operated under her supervision. .
Even when a ship enters the dock for maintenance and all subsystems on the ship are offline, the shipboard control personality will never go offline. Instead, it will help guide the maintenance work.
On some ships that have been in service for a long time, the shipboard control personality may be restarted only a few times during the "clear memory" period for decades, and it will remain the same for the rest of the time. Keep running, at most it will sleep for a while.
The reconnaissance ship that everyone is currently on is still on a combat mission, and the shipboard control personality is even less likely to be offline under such circumstances.
So there is only one answer left, and that is that the reconnaissance ship was attacked by an unprecedented electronic warfare virus. This electronic warfare virus even prevented the shipboard controller from taking any countermeasures. Forced offline
Although he realized that there was a big problem with his ship, the captain of the reconnaissance ship decided to struggle again.
"Can you send an emergency signal to the outside world?"
"No." The officer on duty shook his head after hearing this, "Except for the life support unit inside the ship, all other subsystems are offline. We even have the workbench The screen can’t be opened!”
“He left us a life-support unit? Isn’t this a good person?”
The captain of the reconnaissance ship said with a complicated expression, and then He looked at the crew members who were tinkering in and out at the hatch.
“How is it? Can the hatch be opened?”
"Report Captain! All the hatches leading to the outside world on the bridge have been opened, but the heavy isolation door in the external passage has been lowered. After this thing is locked, it cannot be destroyed by manpower alone.
If we have heavy engineering equipment, we can think of a way, but the problem is that this is the bridge, not the Gnaku."
For this answer, the captain was not too surprised, but he thought, 'Sure enough, that's the case. '.
Since this mysterious electronic warfare virus can silently infect the entire warship and force the shipboard control personality to offline, it is natural to close these fire-proof and explosion-proof heavy-duty isolation doors in the passages inside the ship. It's also 'reasonable'.
But for the crew of this reconnaissance ship, they are also completely isolated in each cabin. Even the most basic intra-ship communication is not possible, so they do not know the current situation of other cabins. .
"Emergency escape unit?"
"Access is denied and cannot be restarted!"
"Can the backup operating system be enabled?"
"There is no energy supply and cannot be enabled! ”
“Can the maintenance channel be entered? ”
"It's okay for maintenance robots, but it's hard for humans." "Violent breaking in?"
"Those HCPs in Gnaku may try this method, but our bridge is still Forget it, there aren’t even a few decent weapons.”
After trying every conceivable method on the bridge with the crew, but to no avail, the captain of the reconnaissance ship finally gave up. We tried this and asked everyone to sit down and rest to save oxygen and energy.
He knew that the group of people on the bridge would have to pray for God's blessing if they wanted to save themselves, so he simply waited for other cabins to find a solution, or waited for the garrison fleet to send people to rescue after discovering the abnormality. Relatively safe.
Of course, the premise is that the garrison fleet can still find the time to come to this piece of rubble to 'recover the ship'.——
On the other side, Kimmel, who is on the flagship of the garrison fleet, is actually nervous from time to time. Check an encrypted communication channel for new messages.
This encrypted channel is the independent communication channel between the reconnaissance ship and the flagship. If the other party wants to issue an early warning or other information, it will be transmitted through this encrypted channel.
In addition to actively issuing early warnings, the reconnaissance ship will always be in a state of 'passively receiving' information, so in theory it is the safest situation to have no messages in this encrypted channel.
But for some reason, looking at the empty encrypted channel, the commander of the garrison fleet, Rear Admiral Kimmel, felt a little uneasy.
"Am I too nervous? This is not the first actual combat, so why are you starting to think wildly?"
Major General Kimmel shook his head, quickly threw this thought out of his mind, and then Focus on the current command.
After calming down, he asked: "How far are we from the enemy in the V6 area now?"
"280,000 kilometers general! According to the current relative speed, it is estimated that seventeen The composite picture will be available in minutes, and we will be within contact range in thirty-five minutes!" the intelligence officer replied.
"Very good, continue to monitor the enemy. How is the monitoring situation in the G9 area?"
Although he knew that the G9 area was being watched by his secretly deployed reconnaissance ships, Kimmel couldn't help but ask, as if he wanted to hear the 'double insurance' answer he wanted to hear.
And the intelligence officer's answer did not disappoint him.
“The second drive escort detachment on the flank conducted a round of reconnaissance 15 minutes ago, but more than 80% of the units in this round of reconnaissance did not return radar echoes like before.”< br>
After the intelligence officer looked at the information in the terminal in his hand, he continued to say:
"The second drive escort detachment believed that the opponent's bait may have reached the limit of its operating time, so Lu It started to fail one after another, and the number scanned in the previous few times was getting smaller and smaller every time."
"Understood, send a letter to the second escort detachment, don't let down your guard!"
"Yes! General."
The intelligence officer quickly followed the instructions to pass the order, and Kimmel also He comforted himself in his mind:
"It's okay, the hidden whistle did not issue any warning, and these unknown targets did show the operating characteristics of long-distance decoys, indicating that the G9 area is the direction of a feint attack to lure the enemy.
You have to stand firm, Kimmel!”
——
“Report, each ship in the fleet has turned on radar wave cancellation in sequence according to the previous deployment, and has completed the activation of optical camouflage. It is speculated that during the enemy’s next round of long-range radar scanning, we will It will disappear from the opponent's radar control screen!"
"Report, the observation team reported receiving a light signal from the gravel area. The source of the signal is the 'polarized light signal', and the signal content is: 'Dark whistle is pulled out, You can take action! '"
"Report."
Randall's expression after hearing a series of reports from various battle positions on the bridge, especially the report that the Polarized Light unplugged the opponent's hidden whistle. Also relaxed a little bit.
To be honest, it was not until the Polarized Light signaled just now that Randall, who was inexperienced in fleet battles, realized that the other party might have deployed hidden sentries in this natural 'shielding zone', and he had actually forgotten about this before.
Fortunately, the 'Polarized Light' he sent over successfully killed the opponent's hidden sentry, otherwise the third task force's desire to launch a surprise attack from the 'detection blind spot' on the flank of the garrison fleet would have been in vain
"Navigator, how long do we have to enter attack range?"
"Sir, judging from the current relative speed to the target fleet's track point, we will enter attack range in seventeen minutes! "
Randall nodded after hearing this: "Go ahead and inform the entire fleet to maintain the current formation and relative speed and prepare to enter the battle! After each ship enters the attack range, it immediately begins to slow down and remove the optical camouflage. Attack.
Try to maximize the effect of this 'flank strike' before the opponent's fleet reacts! ”
(End of this chapter)