Chapter 555 Fierce Battle and Damage Control
As the first super flagship of the Atlas Group, the crew of the 'Infinity' are all elites drawn from the combat fleet, or are extremely loyal to the group. High veteran.
In the eyes of these crew members, it is an honor to be selected as a crew member of this super flagship.
As a symbol of 'absolute force' on the battlefield, from the first day on board, the crew members have always believed that the 'Infinity' should be like a sharp knife under any circumstances, rushing towards the enemy. The front of the battle line.
So at the critical moment of the previous attack on the Rubian system garrison fleet, after Randall flew the 'Z flag' and ordered a flagship assault, the crew of the 'Infinity' did not have the slightest fear or hesitation, but instead seemed like It feels like I have been waiting for this order for a long time.
The final result was just as they expected. 'Infinity' was like a giant rushing into a kindergarten, sweeping away the surrounding enemy warships, completely tearing apart the front line of the Lubion system's defense fleet, and establishing victory
< br>This also brought the pride and self-confidence in the hearts of the crew of the 'Infinity' to a new peak after this war, whether they were crew members, HCPs, or pilots and pilots of the heavy armored combat craft squadron.
When faced with the current encounter with a more powerful enemy, and after hearing Captain Randall once again issue the order to 'fight to the death without retreating', everyone accepted this extremely calmly and calmly. order, because they all believed that this super flagship would once again lead them to victory.
“This is the ship-wide broadcast. The ship is about to carry out continuous emergency maneuvers. All front-line personnel are requested to maintain their combat positions. The second-line backup personnel immediately complete their own immobilization and activate the anti-load function of the cabin service according to the order!”< br>
“This is the ship-wide broadcast”
Three consecutive ship-wide broadcasts caused everyone to stop what they were doing and immediately check their fixed measures.
After confirming that the seat belts on their seats were fixed correctly, the crew members who were already in the fighting position continued to devote themselves to the work at hand, while the second-line backup personnel or maintenance team members in other positions quickly He fixed the tools in his hands and the gadgets around him, then fastened his own safety rope and firmly held onto the nearest handrail.
After doing all this, everyone also activated the 'pharmacological anti-loading mode' that they took in the cabin. The minimally invasive injection system in the limbs and heart and lungs will soon use drugs to increase the body's anti-loading ability. Give the first wave of injections.
This agent can greatly improve human beings' tolerance to G forces in all directions. This kind of tolerance is not only needed by HCP pilots and heavy armored combat boat pilots, but also by battleship crews. ability.
Because when a large warship makes some emergency maneuvers with the whole-body attitude nozzles activated, the pressure on the crew is also great.
Especially for a super flagship with a long hull like the Infinity, it is very common for the crew members at the bow and stern to have "red vision" when making large axial adjustments.
As the three ship-wide broadcasts ended, the 'Infinity' jumped out from the 'light ball' like a giant whale. Under the action of vector propulsion, it directly penetrated the third task force and the among the Federation fleet.
At this time, the straight-line distance between the two fleets is 8,000 kilometers, and it is still shrinking. When the distance between the two fleets reaches 4,000 kilometers, it is also the closest distance to the federal fleet for this high-speed raid.
When the 'Infinity' penetrated the ray axis of the Federation fleet like a madman, it happened to be the moment when the fleet launched its salvo. A gorgeous light rain suddenly appeared between the two fleets, and This super flagship swayed quickly from the ray axis, and not surprisingly, it blocked many attacks from the warships behind it.
The 'traverse' route chosen by Randall is very particular. This route basically covers a group of light cruisers, expels such ships that are extremely vulnerable to fleet fire, and also makes The attacks originally directed at these warships were taken down by the Infinity.
After supplying nearly half of the ship's energy to the deflection field, the 'Infinity' actually entered the 'fortress mode' conceived by the design team.
The large number of deflection force field generators arranged at the front end of the battleship, with the supply of excess energy, also increased their respective force field generation areas, making the 'Infinity' like a big sister holding an umbrella. A huge deflection force field was propped up.
The Federation battleship on the opposite side just watched this super flagship use vector control to scurry around in front of the fleet to attract firepower - this was indeed effective, because after the appearance of the 'Infinity', the Federation The shipboard control personality of fleet battleships sets them as 'high-risk targets'.
In the conventional ship-based control personality combat logic, this kind of 'high-risk target' needs to be solved with concentrated fire first, so in the second round of salvo, a large number of attacks from the federal fleet were chasing The Infinity attacked, but due to the latter's coquettish maneuvering, the effect of this round of concentrated fire was not very good, and it even failed to overload the giant ship's deflection field.
If the design team of Infinity and Saleh saw this scene, apart from feeling that it confirmed that their design ideas were correct, there would not be much fluctuation.
After all, in the 'fortress mode' they conceived, whether it is the 'Infinity' or her sister ship 'Dawn' - that is, the entire Infinity-class super flagship, its defense ceiling is ridiculously high.
If half of the energy supply of the whole ship is used to generate the deflection field array, and forced cooling is carried out without restrictions, this giant ship will have to withstand at least one salvo of the entire fleet.
Although the 'Infinity' is now facing two federal fleets, the other parties have not focused their fire, so even if she uses herself as a shield to block the front of the fleet to attract firepower, she is not at all panicked.
What's more, under Randall's order, this giant ship is still jumping up and down to perform evasive maneuvers. Once it finds that the warship in that area may not be able to hold on, it will immediately rush over and use My own ship blocks all the opponent's ray axes——
"Is this fucking 'Iron Bastard' jumping up and down specifically to disgust us?!"
Stoner, on the flagship of the Eighteenth Fleet, looked at the giant ship marked as a 'high-risk target' in the panoramic porthole with a purple frame, and couldn't help but curse.
At this time, Stoner and Benelli finally figured out the true size of the Atlas fleet opposite.
Although it is difficult for them to believe and accept this fact, they have to admit that the enemy in front of them cannot even reach half of the full fleet.
After the opponent’s commander had ‘exhausted all his tricks’, he indeed succeeded in getting the two of them to use the enemy’s weapon and not dare to act rashly.
But it’s too late to know this now.
After all, both fleets are currently in a state of high-speed raiding. Not to mention forced deceleration, they need to turn their axis and use the main propulsion array to decelerate, completely exposing the sides of the fleet.
Even the plasma torpedoes and heavy anti-ship missile clusters that had caught up from behind made them dare not even think about slowing down.
Originally, the battleships at the rear of the current formation may not be saved. Do you want to send away all the battleships by executing the fleet-wide deceleration?
So the two federal fleet commanders could only find a way to maximize the damage caused by the fleet's shooting during the short 'attack window period' during the high-speed raid.
“Pass my order, all warships ignore the opponent’s flagship, and the attack targets will be the conventional warships of the opponent’s fleet first!”
Benelli and Stoner immediately issued two similar instructions. The shipboard control personalities of the 17th and 18th fleet battleships also immediately adjusted their attack priorities and directly removed the 'Infinity' from the lock list. Focus on attacking the Third Task Force behind it.
This approach also achieved immediate results, because no matter how large the deflection field 'Infinity' can support, the area it covers is limited, and it is impossible to protect the entire Third Task Force behind it. .
So when the federal fleet began to ignore this super flagship and concentrated on attacking other battleships behind it, the battleships on Atlas's side immediately suffered losses.
As a supplement The heavy cruiser 'Solar Reward', which joined the Third Task Force and carried a large number of Renaissance Alliance trainees, was grazed by several battleship-level heavy particle cannons after the deflection force field was overloaded.
Fortunately, the 'Solar Reward' was not hit by a plasma torpedo or a heavy anti-ship missile. This type of weapon added strong oxidizer and metallic hydrogen charges, so the secondary damage it received was not too great. .
But unfortunately, being hit by a direct attack like the heavy particle cannon didn't make him any better.
At close to one percent of the speed of light, each gram of heavy metal particles carries 150,000 megajoules of kinetic energy, so without a deflection force field to scatter it away, it is hit by the heavy metal particle jet. The outer armor plate is also a very scary thing.
Although it was only a 'graze', a horrific wound was torn open on the port side of the heavy cruiser 'Solar Reward', with a large amount of wreckage, debris, debris inside the ship, and the unlucky ship The members were ejected from the gap to the rear like a trash bag shattering.
If Lilith hadn’t upgraded her ‘50-year veteran’ class shipboard control personality, she would have passed the ‘override control’ authority at the moment of the hit, allowing the attitude of the ship in another direction to control the nozzle. Work, this heavy cruiser is likely to be unbalanced by this attack, and even collide with other warships in the current dense formation of the fleet.
After discovering that the 'Sun Reward' had been severely damaged, another nearby heavy cruiser in better condition immediately stepped forward and hid the 'Sun Reward' behind it, leaving the heavy cruiser The damage control personnel on board have time to deal with the warship urgently.
This is also a common practice in fleet battles. After all, a warship that can perform emergency treatment after damage and return to battle will play a greater role than a warship that sinks due to severe damage.
< br>When the 'Solar Reward' got a temporary respite, the damage control personnel who had been on standby at various places along the central axis of the battleship immediately rushed to the ship-controlled personality with the 'worker bees' attached to their team. Marked damaged areas. In addition to the Marines on the ship, these damage control personnel are the only crew members who need to wear combat exoskeletons.
Because in the damaged area of the battleship, these combat exoskeletons with armor plates and additional auxiliary power are more durable than indoor suits. Even hard-shell indoor suits .
There will no longer be a situation where a team of damage control personnel enters the damaged area and is destroyed by flying metal fragments.
This kind of experience has been gained by the human navy in actual combat with their lives after entering space, so no one will think that these experiences are useless, even the Roma who serve on human battleships. No exceptions.
For example, Hurn Bloodhoof, the damage control commander on board the Sun Reward, this strong tauren regards these experiences as his guide.
After the 'Solar Reward' stabilized its posture, he first confirmed whether the damage control team and the 'worker bees' were damaged by asking the shipboard controller's personality, and confirmed the damage to the ship.
Then he immediately ordered all the control teams to dispatch according to the guidance of the shipboard control personality 'Fanny'. At the same time, he also took the direct control team around him and rushed towards the B2 area on the port side which was the most severely damaged. .
In combat, it is actually difficult to tell that Hearn Bloodhoof, wearing a combat exoskeleton with yellow and black diagonal stripes, is a tauren.
Unlike the Marines on the ground, since the exoskeleton often needs to be in a fully enclosed state during operations inside the ship, the two horns on the heads of these 'minotaurs' among the Roma are actually very obstructive.
At the beginning, Eugene Koch, who was responsible for coordinating the design of the exoskeleton, and his team, wanted to wrap the pair of horns together with composite materials.
But this gives rise to two thorny problems:
First, the horns on each tauren's head are different, so the horn wrapping component must be tailor-made. , cannot be mass produced.
Secondly, although these Minotaurs among the Roma people stop developing their body bones when they reach adulthood, the damn thing is that the horns on their heads do not stop developing - this is why the Minotaur clan The tradition of 'daily horn clashing' has always been retained, firstly to make the pair of horns stronger, and secondly to polish the pair of horns during the collision
So no matter how you look at it, everyone in the Tauren clan is not suitable for working in the ship.
But the problem is that these tauren are extremely proud of joining the Atlas Group, just as they are proud of their pair of horns.
So no matter how the Atlas Human Resources Department communicates, they hope to let some tauren serve on the battleship.
In the words of a respected tauren senior: "We would rather lower our salary, but we cannot lag behind other clans!"
As for the final solution, Amber After watching it, everyone was surprised by the determination of these tauren.
Those tauren who completed the selection and were assigned to the battleships all chose to undergo 'bone marrow resection surgery' to remove their once'pride'
and then replaced it with a pair of can Removable, customizable lightweight alloy horns.
Normally, they carry this pair of 'art objects' turned out with CNC machine tools. When they are ready for war, they will remove the pair of alloy horns and store them away.
Not only did these tauren who had their horns replaced not feel sad because their 'original pride' was removed, but they became popular in the clan because they had shiny horns on their heads.
By the way, after the Tauren clan first proposed this solution, many other horned Roma clans followed suit and adopted the same method to allow their own clansmen to board the ship.
When Hearn Bloodhoof, who had removed the horns, led his direct damage control team to the B2 area on the port side, the first thing that caught his eye was the gap that was as huge as a 'canopy'.
Everyone could even see the blue-white, red-red, and deep-purple light beams flashing in the outer universe, as well as the silver-white arcs produced when surrounding warships were hit, and when anti-ship missiles were intercepted The resulting explosion.
From a more intuitive perspective at this moment, the port side of the 'Solar Reward' was not torn open by the heavy metal particle jet, but a large number of external armor plates were directly blown away. This situation is also Far more troublesome than the former.
"Boss, what should I do? The gap seems to be a bit too big and the standard titanium alloy plate may not be able to seal it!"
After hearing the inquiries from other members of the team, Hearn Bloodhoof He also turned on the electromagnetic adsorption device on the feet of the combat exoskeleton, and then stood still near the gap to check the battleship's injuries.
But after a moment, his bull's-eyes wrinkled up, because the current situation was far more troublesome than what he had been trained to do.
But as the battleship's damage control commander, all he can do is try his best to save the damaged heavy cruiser.
"No matter how big the gap is, we must find a way to seal it! If the standard size plate cannot be blocked, just use a few more pieces and weld them together to block it!"
Hearn Bloodhoof made a quick decision , and then ordered:
"Class 1, take your 'worker bees' to the nearest loss control consumables warehouse, and first get all the titanium alloy plates that can still be used!
Class 2, stay where you are and wait for the plates to be in place to start the sealing operation!
Class 3, prepare to jump to the opposite cabin with me! "
After saying this, Hern Bloodhoof connected to the shipboard control personality again, and then said in a relatively gentle tone:
"Miss Fannie, can I trouble you? Shall we mobilize some more worker bees to help us? The damage in area B2 may not be stopped by our damage control team alone! "
"The request has been received and the nearest "worker bee" is being dispatched. Captain Hearn, do you need to let the "worker bee" approach from outside the ship? ”
"Of course that's the best, Miss Fannie! Thank you for your support."
Before Hearne Bloodhoof finished speaking, he heard a member of the damage control team shouting in a horrified tone. Said:
“Oh my god, look!”
Everyone looked in the direction of the damage control officer’s finger, and saw this one being sailed out of the ‘Sun Reward’. The skylight', because of the movement of the ship's posture, could just make it possible to see the federal fleet passing by at high speed like stars in the distance.
At this moment, everyone saw a grand round of 'space fireworks' starting from behind the Federation fleet formation, blue and white high-temperature plasma fireballs in the cold space. Exploding and expanding, these dense fireballs were even spreading into the fleet formation.
Hearn Bloodhoof is a veteran who has experienced the "Pyra IV Orbital Battle". Although the "Infinity" entered the scene later, he also knows the strategy of Atlas's combat fleet to use plasma torpedoes to bypass the enemy. The enemy was seriously injured
It was exactly the same as the scene in front of him.
"It seems that our fleet's tactics are working! Strong men, let us go all out! Victory is ahead!"
"Yes! Sir!"×N< br>
While the surviving warships of the Third Task Force began to save themselves, on the bridge of the 'Infinity', Randall finally heard the news he had been waiting for for a long time.
"Report! The authorized space fluctuation signature has been detected! It is the jump signal of the second and third unmanned fleets!"
(End of this chapter)