Chapter 1,226 War
This is a colonial planet located on the edge of the Milky Way, orbiting a young and enthusiastic star. In this galaxy far away from the capital, there are very few such colonial planets, and the nearest colony is dozens of light years away. ——The high temperature and remote location are destined to not be a place suitable for enjoyment and living. The meaning of its existence is to serve as the centerpiece of the local space defense system. It is one of the countless military strongholds built by the Merova people in this universe. It is unknown today, but it was also glorious and prominent thousands of years ago. The Merova people defeated the last resistance force in this universe here. The intelligent species that once ruled this universe was only one step away from realizing the void realm outside their universe. Their progress was stopped by the massive invasion of the Merova people. Their last fleet was in this remote star system. Completely destroyed, today, a small part of those remnants are still patrolling the gravitational boundary of the star, waiting to be captured by the star during the long journey, or simply drifting into the endless darkness of space.
But no one cares about these wreckage, just like no one cares about the whereabouts of the former master of this universe. For this remote military stronghold, today is a day as usual, and no one will worry about things that have nothing to do with them. Its armed satellites are surging with power, and the planetary defense forts in orbit are filled with psionic energy. The huge general-class aircraft carrier has just set off from the star port at the gravitational balance point to conduct a weekly deep space inspection. Merova soldiers Holding their weapons tightly, waiting for this boring day to end quickly in the space orbital station and the military base on the surface, they are full of arrogance and confidence in their hearts. He firmly believes that he has reached the pinnacle of civilizational evolution, after the empire that was once too powerful to be described collapsed. They think that they have taken their place and become the new highest point of the mortal race - no, they think that they have surpassed this highest point and become gods. When they look down at the earth and into space, this idea becomes even stronger in their hearts. With this confidence in mind, the commander of the high-altitude orbiting observatory decided to conduct another scan of deep space.
In fact, there is nothing worth scanning. Our enemies do not exist in this universe... or even in all universes - Officer Merova smiled with satisfaction. He firmly believes in this. The second scan is just to show the power of God. When the Merova people's scanning signal sweeps across space, every channel will send back the sound of roaring mountains and tsunamis. Those who are dozens or hundreds of light years away The lower races outside the world regard the patrol signals received by the Merova Empire every day as patrols from the gods. Their response to these signals is one of the only daily entertainment items on this boring high-altitude orbital station. Officer Merova looked at the radar terminal in front of him. Wait for the soldier next to you to complete the scan station's follow-up operations.
However, there was silence. When the scanning device was activated, no response was returned, not even any information about space entities. The powerful radar station seemed to throw all its energy into the endless void. There was only a gray haze on the terminal in front of me, and a creaking noise echoed in the observation room.
"What's going on? The radar is not activated?" Officer Merova frowned dissatisfied and looked at his soldier. This soldier was not smart, and could even be said to be stupid. He made almost as many mistakes as he had in service, even though they were minor infractions. But it was enough for the commander to accumulate enough dissatisfaction. But this soldier is a pure-blood Merova, a descendant of the pioneer army that led the rise of the race in the past. His bloodline has allowed this soldier to receive preferential treatment as a footman in the office of the orbital station. Thinking of this, the commander decided to His tone was slower: He believed that the pure-blooded Merova people had nobler elements in their bones: for example, he, but in this soldier, this noble racial advantage has not been fully reflected for the time being, "Try Now put the multiplication module into forwarding mode."
"Yes... oh no, sir," the soldier's forehead was sweating a little. He quickly switched all the channels, his tone full of confusion, "It's not a problem with the multiplication module, the radar station is also working normally... Sir, we seem to We are in trouble, all channels are jammed... I have never seen this kind of interference, not even in military schools... Our scanning signals seem to be lost. After they leave the star system, they all fall into a blank area. Any feedback signal appears, and the non-delay detection equipment is alarming because it thinks we are sending in a direction that does not exist..."
"Nothing can interfere with the empire's radar station." The commander impatiently waved the soldiers away from the console, and turned around himself. "You must have mistaken the early warning threshold and fell into the white zone? This interference method is not possible at all. live……"
In the middle of what he said, the commander suddenly paused. Some vague memories emerged from his heart. He remembered that this method of interference did not really exist. Yes, there was once a civilization that had mastered this technology and could make anyone The technology of information disappearing out of thin air. Jammers manufactured using this technology will cause the information sent by any conventional radar to be deleted midway. In the eyes of the radar operator, it will be as if the signal sent by itself has fallen into a blank area. , just like the scene in front of you.
Officer Merova shook his head vigorously to throw these unpleasant memories out of his mind: This is a groundless worry, they no longer exist, along with their incredible technology. Now all the remaining taboo knowledge is in the hands of the Merova people. If this interference method really reappears, it will only appear in their own equipment list - could it be that the Holy Empire Military has finally cracked another one? Group blueprint, is a superior department using this method to joke with its subordinates?
This was a ridiculous assumption, but the officer decided to believe his guess. He left the console with a smile and reached out to pat his soldiers: "Don't worry, everything is normal. You should learn to become a truly qualified and noble god. …”
He was only halfway through his words. Before he could slap his hand down, the entire orbital station began to shake violently. The sudden shaking shook everything around him. Debris was scattered everywhere. The soldier fell awkwardly and exclaimed: "Sir! The orbital station is going to crash!"
"Idiot! You are a soldier! Go and check the power unit immediately. One of the units may have exploded!" The officer managed to regain his balance while swaying. Immediately slapped the soldier who was confused at the critical moment to wake up, "I heard an explosion coming from the lower area..."
"Warning. The shield of the orbital station was penetrated, the third to seventh sections of the lower level were hit, and the entire second structural group was lost... The artificial gravity of the orbital station was chaotic, the material leakage index exceeded 30%, and the psionic energy reactor Not enough effort..."
A low explosion sounded from a closer area, and the officer found that the direction of gravity in the room was tilting - making it more difficult for him to stand up straight. The violent shaking had turned into a crazy shaking, as if it were a huge space entity as big as this town. Being grasped by a pair of giant hands. Violent vibration. He felt breathless and realized it was because the air pressure in the room was falling. Material leaked. A hole must have been opened in the orbital station that far exceeded the processing limit of the repair device. Soon the air pressure here will drop to the critical value, but maybe I will not die of suffocation. Yes, Merova people is powerful. Countless enhancements over thousands of years have allowed the current generation of Merovans to survive in the cosmic environment for almost a long time, but the officer still felt a huge fear welling up in his heart. He was sure that the orbital station had encountered a powerful force. Attack, and this attack is more dangerous than the strongest counterattack he encountered when he led his army to annihilate the original intelligent race in the universe: until now, the tactical system has not been able to report where the attack came from!
"Sir! Distress signal! Other orbital stations have sent distress signals! All orbital stations are being bombed, and we have lost half of the stations... Sir! The general-class aircraft carrier and frigate formation parked in the star port were attacked by something. The warship suffered heavy losses!"
The panicked voices of soldiers came from not far away. The officer barely stood up in the tilted and changing gravity environment - maybe not standing very straight - he tried hard to ignore the discomfort caused by being unable to breathe. Merely suffocating could not kill the immortal Melova, he He told himself this and calmed down a little. Then he saw the current status of the orbital station displayed on the holographic projection. He suddenly took a breath of air.
The orbital station is a frame structure connected by multiple crosses, and now the central position of this structure has completely disappeared. Something hit here without the early warning system reacting at all, and directly penetrated the site's psionic energy shield, leaving a terrifying hole through which the brilliance of the other star could be seen. The huge broken metal beams twisted out from around the hole. The material leaking out of the orbital station was like blood and visceral fragments spewing out in the hurricane caused by the pressure of 1.2 atmospheres, swirling out of the huge hole. Splash out. Continuous explosions are spreading across all structures of the orbital station, and the flickering fire in the distance tells the officers that the entire planet's defense circle is under attack... no, even the entire star system's defense circle!
"Requesting support, we are under attack!" The soldiers were calling every emergency channel according to the response methods taught in the school manual. The violent explosions became louder and louder, and the sound of the creaky white sound came from the speaker system in the observation room. Noisy, the officer kicked away the almost useless soldier: "Idiot! Our communication system is finished! Go and get the general aircraft carrier that has left the star port back to the city immediately. With their combined shields, you can still Resist for a while! Go and run away, you idiot!"
The soldier stumbled out of the observation room, and the officer supported the swaying equipment platform back to his seat: there won't be an explosion here yet. He knows that this observation room is protected by a multi-layered joint shield and charged armor at the top of the orbital station. It has an independent energy system. Even if the orbital station is broken down now, it can still support it for a while. But he is also sure that this period of time will not be very long - maybe fifteen minutes is the limit?
"Early warning host, call up the surveillance footage of the impact point closest to me before the attack."
"Yes, the great god is retrieving surveillance data...the data has started to play."
The officer felt that certain words from the early warning host gave him some comfort. Before the orbital station exploded, he wanted to see what destroyed the shield and core area. The brief video lasted less than three seconds. He saw the dark background of space, the pale gold and silver-white armor layers of the orbital station, and then the explosion... He replayed the moment over and over again, and finally even endured it I played them slowly frame by frame, the communication system in my ear was calling, and someone kept frantically reporting on the emergency channel that something else had been destroyed, and that the general aircraft carrier had returned to the star circle. Now they are being blown to pieces one by one by torrents of psionic energy from deep space and invisible jump warheads, like swatting flies. The officer felt that those things were far away from him. Nothing mattered, all his attention was focused on the surveillance pictures that were displayed frame by frame in front of him, the dark space, the pale gold and silver-white armor layers, and a conical shape that suddenly appeared in front of him. Huge shadows in the picture.
The shadow was a little unfamiliar, but the words on it finally brought back memories of this Merova officer.
"x-3, Gravedigger... x-3, Gravedigger... they are back..."
The officer looked up blankly. I found that the outside had calmed down at some point. All the explosions and shouts on the emergency channel had stopped. The orbiting station was slowly falling towards the gravity of the planet. The planet was not what I recognized. Its surface was covered with lava. The ravines and the dark red luster, everything has been burned away, and countless wrecks similar to his own orbital station are slowly falling into the melting earth. The sudden attack and the downtime of all communication channels turned the defense facilities on the planet into metal slag without even opening fire. The space was littered with debris, and no living sounds could be heard in the gravity circle.
Except for my own heartbeat.
The station was spared the second X-3 Gravedigger, but the officers didn't think it was some kind of mistake - "they" never made mistakes, "they" were more precise than anything else, extermination orders were given. Death was accurate for every population, so he knew that he and the slowly falling orbital station were deliberately left behind, so he tried to call the host: "AI, are there any escape hatches?"
"Yes, great god. There are several escape cabins available. One, AI recommends that you evacuate immediately."
Yes. In the entire stellar circle, the number of remaining lives is one, and the number of escape cabins is also one. "They" are as accurate as before.
Officer Merova raised his head and looked at the dark projection table.
"Activate the escape pod for me, I...I don't want to die..."
Officer Merova raised his head and stared here - his expression was frozen on this picture, and then he left the battlefield in the escape capsule. We did not intercept him in any way, and even opened the gravity blockade area specifically.
This is an espionage picture returned by a sentinel probe that sneaked into the orbital station. The Merova people have been at peace for too long. They may have been excellent warriors, and they may still have a fierce reputation, but their grassroots troops are deep down. Inevitably, there was slack. They did not expect that the Sentinel Probe would so easily enter the defense command post of a military planet. The defense level here was simply not comparable to that of the Kingdom of God. This made the excited Pandora and Viska a little disappointed. : The battle was over before they even had time to rush out themselves.
"Nice sideshow," Sandora put down the black tea gracefully, still focusing on the video screen. She regarded the Merova officer's entire performance as an entertainment program. Princess Warsong also had a bit of a bad taste. , "Now that we have destroyed all military strongholds in this universe with alert levels below Level III, the Imperial Army has found a foothold in the marginal zone."
"The next battle is the real show," Lin Xue looked at the flickering star map in front of her. I'm sure she couldn't understand it at all, but it was just like when she was making predictions by drawing two tarot cards or holding a big glass ball. It was like reciting the Great Compassion Mantra, which was the style of a young lady. She felt that as a general of an army, if she didn’t have a strategic map in front of her eyes when speaking, she would be sorry for the military emblem on her chest - although she didn’t even like to wear military uniforms. , "Soon the Merova people will know what is happening in these places, and they will organize regular armies that can really fight to fight against them. What we have destroyed now are just old soldiers and young soldiers who have neglected to train and live well in their old age. "
"It doesn't matter, we have accurately calculated the enemies we will face," Sandora looked at the clock beside her, "When will my meal be ready?"
I looked at her silently: "... Do you really want to eat twelve meals a day? You just... half an hour ago..."
"Arjun, you have to know that after this meal, I won't be able to eat for nearly a month." Sandora's expression was very solemn, as if what she was talking about was as important as world peace. , "I promise, I will transform after eating this meal..."
I:"……"
According to the pre-agreed tactics, the imperial army first launched a surprise attack on the edge of the main world of Merova, destroying a large number of enemy military targets at the same time, first causing huge chaos to the Merova people, and then the imperial fleet took advantage of the opportunity. The enemy was in chaos, built a fortress on the main material plane, and carried out subsequent military operations. The current first phase of the operation is going very smoothly. The military node star system uploaded by the spy footage was destroyed by the Royal Fleet's personal attack. However, this kind of sudden attack can only go so smoothly the first time. Next, Melova People need to be more vigilant.
After several consecutive stealth jumps, the fleet arrived at the newly destroyed Merova military node. The structure of this star system still remained intact, but the original Merova facilities above had been turned into ruins. We did not use large weapons that could destroy the structure of the star system in order to retain such a natural bridgehead. This star system with many planets can allow our mothership to deploy and enter the violent process faster, and the Merova people also They would not have thought that the Imperial Army would suddenly turn back to a ruins that had been destroyed to build a base. They would probably be busy in the space where the Imperial Army launched their attack for a while: this time is enough to fill half of the basketball court we brought. Pao Kejin is building a house.
The war has already begun. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)