Chapter 1085: Find another way
The cruiser is the entry-level model in the battleship sequence. The largest numbers in the army are destroyers, frigates and gunboats. When the guns of the two fleets are bombarding each other, there is no cruiser in the battle line. share.
The light cruiser is further lightweight on the basis of the cruiser, and has enhanced speed and maneuverability. It is essentially a reconnaissance unit, roughly similar to the armored vehicles in the army.
Even if the Swan is strengthened regardless of cost, it is impossible to fight against three active warships of the regular army. If there is only one destroyer, there is no way to think of it, but adding two frigates is really impossible.
What's more, this cleaning team composed of three warships is obviously on the same side as the pirates.
They turned a blind eye to the pirates who also came within bombarding distance, and chased the Swan. The pirates also aimed at the Swan and bombarded them. Damn it, if there was no PY transaction, Alyssa would have taken the captain's seat directly!
Damn it, damn it, I still have to find a way.
Alyssa immediately turned on the smoke generator, and dragged out a long and huge smoke dragon from behind the smoke wall that threw the smoke screen, further disrupting the aiming of the Star Cluster Alliance warships.
As for the pirates, let them fight. Anyway, it is unlikely to hit the Swan, which is maneuvering at a large angle.
At this time, the bridge door was opened, and Emma and Sun Lin floated in.
"What happened?"
One of them was originally a senior researcher of the Molybdenum Group, and the other was originally a security captain. Neither of them knew how to drive a battleship, and they usually hid in their respective rooms.
Normally, when encountering pirates, they can be solved by hitting them three times, five by five, and dividing by two. Either the pirates retreated in spite of the difficulties, or they were blown to pieces by the Swan. This time, the large-angle maneuver made the two of them aware of the strangeness, so they ran to the bridge to ask.
"The Alliance of Stars is here again."
Alyssa adjusted the seat belt that tied her to the seat, and kept typing on the keyboard with one hand.
"You guys find a place to sit down and fasten your seat belts."
The Swan still needs to maneuver at a larger angle, so it would be better for them to sit down and wait if they want to go back.
When the two heard that it was the Allied Forces of the Stars, they also realized that something was not good, so they quickly sat down and tightened their seat belts.
"Go into overdrive and see if you can get rid of them."
The biggest feature of the light cruiser is that it has the highest speed and maneuverability among all warships. Li Chengqi once said that the feeling of driving a light cruiser is not as heavy as imagined, and it is like flying a bomber rather than flying a civil aviation.
In fact, it's okay to think of the Swan as an enlarged version of a shuttle. Its maneuverability is much faster than a battleship that takes several minutes to turn around.
The large engine arranged in a V-shape burst out with brilliant engine light and was in an overload working state, but it also gave the Swan a huge amount of propulsion.
The forward gear on a battleship is generally one-quarter ship speed is departure speed, one-half is normal sailing, three-quarters is full speed, and the highest gear is overspeed, which is the so-called forward four.
The three-quarter gear is generally the combat cruising speed. The battleship will not maintain this speed for too long. Over time, the damage to the engine will be serious. It usually sails at one-half ship speed.
Speeding forward is only used when life is at stake.
By the way, the civilian ship was not speeding.
Vibrations can be clearly felt in the bridge. The engine's overspeed operation is an abnormal acceleration mode, which increases the engine's power to the limit.
The temperature of the reactor is rising rapidly, and the energy in the magic storage pool is also declining rapidly.
The starlight gradually began to shift, and the beam cannon originally aimed at the Swan also deflected to Grandma's house under the sudden acceleration. With the smoke screen blocking it, it was safe for the time being.
After all, even if the Constellation Alliance were to sail at super speed, they would never be able to catch up with the Swan in terms of speed.
But that's just for now.
The monitor on the side of Alyssa's captain's seat beeped an alarm, and then Fang Lanyin in the engine room sent a communication:
"The reactor has twenty seconds to reach its overload limit."
The battleship's reactor is still very safe and will not explode even if it exceeds the overload limit. However, if it exceeds the limit, it may melt down at any time. The modification of the Swan does not include the main body. The structure, reactor and engine included in the main body are all original products from the Kingdom of Storms.
The current working state is equivalent to overclocking. The effect of overclocking and how long it can be overclocked depend on the quality of the engine. Even products coming off the assembly line are somewhat different.
Alyssa didn't dare to bet on how long the engine could last in this working condition. If it exceeded the limit and melted down, the Swan without the reactor would be a can floating in the void.
She stared at the countdown and gave the order at the last five seconds:
"Half ship speed!"
Carlos immediately pulled the push rod back, but there was no air resistance in the void. Even if the engine power was reduced, the Swan would not slow down immediately.
The distance is enough now.
"Prepare for pulse flight!"
The Swan's engine light began to flicker, and after three seconds it started pulse flight, disappearing from the star field in a whoosh.
Use super-speed sailing to distance the opponent before they can react, and then use pulse flight to further distance them.
This operation is correct, but if you can pulse fly, others can too.
What is needed now is a time difference.
Alyssa immediately connected to the communication in the engine room:
"Allocate the power of the reactor to the jump mechanism. After ten seconds the pulse flight ends, we will start the jump immediately."
Starting the jump immediately after pulse flight will put a lot of pressure on the engine and energy supply lines, which is equivalent to using too much electricity in an instant and easily tripping.
Normally it would take a few seconds, but now I can't squeeze out a few seconds of gap.
Fang Lanyin immediately started working on her side. On Alyssa's monitor, she could see that energy was quickly directed into the jump mechanism. Just when the pulse flight ended ten seconds later, the jump was fully charged.
She didn't even have time to see if the Allied Forces of the Stars were chasing after her, she immediately pressed the button.
The picture of the Swan was distorted, completely disappearing from the star field, and the bridge was shrouded in a white light.
After about ten seconds, the white light disappeared, and the Swan appeared in another star field.
Emma and Sun Lin looked at this scene and breathed a long sigh of relief. They thought they had escaped, but Alyssa knew that it was too early to say it was safe.
Sure enough, Anyun reported the next moment:
"Confirm the jump signal, the Star Cluster Alliance warship will be chasing you soon."
The process of jumping is to first send a signal at the jump site to confirm that the jump site meets the jump conditions, and then jump. Therefore, before the warships of the Constellation Alliance arrive, An Yun, as a psyker, can use the instruments on the Swan to amplify Discover your abilities in advance.
The Swan can jump again, but the opponent can also track the jump signal and continue chasing.
As a light cruiser, the Swan's energy reserves and reactor output are absolutely inferior to destroyers and frigates. If you continue to chase each other, you will fall into a war of attrition, which is very detrimental to the Swan.
But now there is no time for gravity navigation to erase the jump signal, which means that they may be overtaken wherever they go.
Going to the inhabited star system of the Spinning Water Federation can stop the Allied Forces of the Stars. After all, this is the territory of the Spinning Water Federation, and they don't dare to make trouble in public.
The problem is that the nearest inhabited Water Federation galaxy cannot be reached in a short time, and the Swan cannot reach it even if it runs out of energy.
This requires finding other ways.
(End of chapter)