An Unscientific Mechanic

"This is YAMATO TFS, 800, Kato, verifying the task with the fleet air control. This air force will carry out the fleet air security mission with the Montana Air Force Montana TFS. The execution time is tentatively scheduled from 1400 to 1700 today. Lift-off time , 1340 today, handover time 1355 today."

"This is Montana TFS, 200, Donald, verifying mission with Fleet Air Control..."

"This is Shandong, Fleet Air Control, the mission has been confirmed, the take-off permission has been issued, and the take-off procedure will start in 35 seconds. The timing of take-off is left to the individual pilots to decide."

"Understood, Yamato aviation control, open the aviation deck armor, activate the tail catapult, and the aviation team prepares for the attack." The captain of the Yamato aviation team put on his helmet mask, started the engine of the Type 99 space carrier aircraft, and slowly moved towards the The catapult glides.

"This is the Cosmic Zero team, Yamamoto, the Zero team is ready for take-off." Rei Yamamoto and the other three Cosmic Zeros were transported outside the ship, the parking platform slowly rose, and the four Cosmic Zeros were sent to the upper part of the stern on the catapult.

The countdown is gradually reset to zero, and the indicator light in front of the catapult turns green instantly.

"Yamamoto, 880, take off."

"Inoue, 881, take off."

"Kato, 800 is taking off."

The Yamato, hovering 3 meters above the ground, and the Montana, which was patrolling 2,000 meters above, released their carrier-based aircraft. The two ships released their carrier-based aircraft at an average frequency of 8 sorties every 20 seconds, less than five In a few minutes, a total of 180 fighter jets took off.

After confirming the handover of air supremacy with the previous Shandong Kirov Air Force, the carrier-based aircraft of Shandong and Kirov began to return.

"The gravitational wave response was detected in the satellite orbit. The number is 44. It is the Milas fleet. The optical sensor has captured the target. The enemy ship is releasing carrier aircraft. It seems that fourteen are aircraft carriers?"

In the satellite orbit, three Gorbadis-class combat aircraft carriers, eleven Gai Peilong-class aircraft carriers, and thirty Storia-class heavy cruisers slowly launched their battle formations. Then the dive fighters, dive bombers and fighter bombers on the carrier began to take off.

"The first attack team took off, ready to start the bombing operation, the cruiser group, prepare for the orbital bombing." Neredia issued a battle order.

Farther afield, Bagg and his Seventh Mobile Fleet stood by on the jump drive's shortest jump distance.

"The total number is about 600... This will be a long three hours..." Kato raised his head, and through Encolados's thin to almost non-existent atmosphere, Kato was able to see the take-off of Cylas Air force.

"However, we can win." Rei Yamamoto was also looking up at the enemy plane at this time.

"This is the Fleet Combat Command Center, and the Air Force responds with the D-5 plan. Now, the fleet air defense battle begins. All ships, launch long-range anti-air missiles!"

"800 understand, the whole team, implement the D-5 plan."

"200 understand, each unit implements the D-5 plan."

All the carrier-based aircraft spread out, taking the squadron as the scale, wandering according to the predetermined route at a distance of 40 kilometers above the level of the fleet and 10 kilometers away, leaving the space directly above the wave fleet.

The four wave agency ships that have been performing fleet escort missions, Shandong, Montana, Conqueror, and Kirov, set up a circular formation, and the side of the hull, which is the position with the strongest anti-air firepower, is aligned. The Milas fleet.

Afterwards, the long-range anti-aircraft missiles of each ship began to launch, and large-scale anti-aircraft missiles were launched from the VLS, pulling gray smoke, and rushing towards the Cylas fleet.

"The first attack team has taken off."

"The attack begins!"

"The Tyranid ship fired a torpedo."

"The interception system automatically intercepts."

"Understood, interception begins."

Nearly 500 Milas fighters of various types swooped down in units of five aircraft squads after hearing the order.

"The fighter battalion attacks the enemy's fighter force, and the bomber fleet bombs the enemy ships in squadrons."

"What about us?" asked the captain of the fighter-bomber brigade. The new DWG262 fighter jet was classified as a fighter-bomber because of its powerful missile loading capability.

Different from the original dedicated models for Cylas fighters and bombers, this thing is a general-purpose model. Pure air combat equipment, air combat performance is stronger than DDG110 interceptors and DWG109 fighters, pure bombing equipment, stronger than DM887, but weaker than the extremely specialized FWG97 torpedo aircraft.

After all, that torpedo is heavier than a fully loaded DWG262...

"Assist the fighter force after blowing up the ship."

"learn."

"All planes, go straight up! Prepare to engage the enemy." Kato continued to give instructions according to the standard corresponding mode D-5.

All the fighter units of the Ground Federation began to climb vertically, facing the Milas carrier-based aircraft unit head-on.

"Captain, the Tyrannian torpedoes are approaching." The deputy captain of the first attack team of the Milas carrier-based aircraft reminded the captain.

"Spread out, the Tyranids will use torpedoes to defend against the air."

The Milas carrier-based aircraft force dispersed and began to evade long-range anti-aircraft missiles.

But... the anti-aircraft missile still flew to the predetermined airspace according to the instructions of the fire control radar.

Then, a shrapnel warhead was detonated a hundred meters in front of the Mirlas fleet. A large number of 60mm special steel balls were poured on the Milas aircraft fleet at a speed more than four times the speed of sound and at a density denser than that of heavy rain.

"Self-explosion?" The next moment, the steel ball broke through the cockpit glass of the DAW109 and shattered the driver's body.

A dense rain of steel balls swept across the Miras fleet, and nearly a hundred fighters were blown up by steel balls.

Fortunately, they dispersed in advance, otherwise at least half of the fighters would have been knocked down by this wave of blows.

"Should I be thankful that the fighter AI is not afraid?" The captain of the first = wave attack team in Milas had a drop of cold sweat on his forehead. "Fighter team, start fighting with all planes, don't let the opponent launch a second time."

"Dive bomber squadron, four squadrons attacking the catapults and radars of the four ships, making them lose their eyes and ears!"

At the extreme aiming distance, the DM887 fleet dropped three medium-sized anti-ship missiles and six small rocket-bombs hung under the wings, and the missile group pulled the white eyes almost vertically from high altitude. After dropping the bomb, the DM887 fleet pulled up the nose, turned 180 degrees, retreated and returned.

"Anti-air artillery, anti-air combat!"

The red laser beams like rain are splashed like missile groups from the four wave mechanism carrying ships. The anti-air laser intercepted most of the missiles, but a small number still hit the shield.

The few successful missiles destroyed a stern catapult of the Kirov, four anti-aircraft guns of the Shandong and the second main turret of the Conqueror.

"The attack is effective, the fighter-bomber group, drop bombs." Nearly 100 DWG262s took over the attack positions of the DM887 dive bombers. A total of 6 medium-sized anti-ship missiles were ejected from the cabin, and then the nose was pulled up, and the fighter jets looking for the ground contact began to hunt.

"It will indeed be a long day...Captain Kato." Rei Yamamoto swung the wings and led her subordinates to meet the Milas fighter. "Missile launch."

Almost all ground-linked fighters fired two air-to-air missiles for the first attack.

"It's probably like this. Start the construction of the third wave cannon room. After the completion of the first stage, start the project of the first and second wave cannon rooms at the same time. Please." The officer nods.

"Understood, leave it to us." The navigator of the Richelieu raised the brim of his hat, showing a handsome smile of fifteen plus marks.

After nearly thirty minutes...

"Here is the first attack team. The missiles are exhausted and the fuel is approaching the cordon. They request to return."

"This is Miranda, I understand. It is allowed to return and land on the first deck of each ship. The second wave of attack teams is ready to dispatch."

"Retreat?" Kato panted heavily, watching the Cylas machine drop a piece of flame bombs and then turned away. "This is 800, Kato, the Yamato Air Force requests to return."

"This is the Montana Air Force, ditto."

"Allowed to return, Roma, Bismarck, the air team took off, and started the sentry mission."

"This is the Roma, understand."

"This is the Bismarck, I understand."

"Looks like it's going to be another long day..."

In the evening, Ian returned to the officer's lounge, lying on the bed, thinking (not) going to the pastoral civilization circle with a whoosh.

Today is the opening ceremony of the so-called Starship Road.

First of all, the great general of the empire went up and said a few words, really only a few words.

It was announced that the 312th Starship Road Contest starts now.

Gone.

Then, there was a five-hour super-grand ship review ceremony. After the review of the empire’s fleet, it was the empire’s aerospace force. After the cosmic army, it was the review of the academy ships of hundreds of thousands of schools, large and small, in the empire. Mode.

At this time, everyone in the cultural circle of the Ministry of Integration understands what it means to "don't have any subjective attitude about historical common sense" to watch.

For example, an academy ship in the shape of an 80-kilometer-long Nimitz aircraft carrier. For example, the name is Mosquito, and the appearance is also the same as that of the Earth Mosquito-class missile boat, but it is a 60-kilometer-long academy ship. For example, it is more than 120 kilometers long. It looks like a typhoon-class giant submarine-type academy ship called the Borei-class here, and there is a 70-kilometer-long ballistic missile deck in front of the cargo bridge. A ten-kilometer-wide, independent college building complex with a lot of greenery, and even in the ecological circle of this thing, there are mountains whose tops are about to break through the constraints of the environment, and the altitude is close to ten kilometers.

No...this thing doesn't talk about sea level...she should talk about deck level? A pull?

In addition, Ian even saw the World War II version of the Yamato, which is only two kilometers long, and the seven-kilometer three-deck version of Chicheng...

In short, when twentieth-century ships of various scales, relying on powerful power furnaces and excellent performance engines that are a bit black technology for the Consolidation Department, form a fleet in the universe to conduct a ship review. All the gentlemen of the integration departments of various time-space-earths felt the sound of their SAN value dropping.

For example... Picard asked the biochemical robot crew member DETA next to him with a quick-acting heart-saving pill, why did the Chicheng look so big?

DETA just said mechanically, this is only because the Chicheng is really three times bigger than Yamato...

DETA doesn't quite understand the spiritual pollution of this kind of anti-common sense to human beings.

Ian, who was a military fan in his previous life, silently took a few quick-acting heart-relief pills from Picard and swallowed them like jelly beans. Even if he had seen the 7.9-kilometer Ruihe and the more than 100-kilometer Qi The Earl of Berlin, it is a bit unbearable to prepare psychologically in advance.

At any rate, they resisted the ship parade, and the Starship Road Contest officially started.

However, it is said that it is the Starship Road Competition, but in fact there are also juvenile and children's groups.

Both groups of races are races such as battle lanes held on various academy ships and oceans of planets.

"Next, let's invite our previous and previous championship teams to have a warm-up exhibition match on Starship Road!"

From the vicinity of Graf Zeppelin and Hornet, twelve space battleships flew to the tank area.

"The last championship college, Hessen Peak College is a large comprehensive college with a history of 351 years, extending the Prussian culture excavated from the lost history, serious and old-fashioned, calm and professional." Host After the introduction, Hessen Peak's battleship fired flame bombs in three directions, and then fired the main gun at an elevation angle of 35 degrees to the front and the top.

"Next to them is the exhibition fleet of Sanders College, whose name is inherited from the old Saunders University. They advocate firepower superiority, and they must maintain a firepower ratio of ten to one at all times. Senior firepower fears College."

The front turrets of the twelve high-speed heavy cruisers of Sanders College pointed at a 45-degree elevation angle and fired salvo.

Obviously, the firepower density is much higher than that of Hessen Peak.

After the fleets of both sides and the asteroid as the terrain are in place, the referee ship fires as a sign of the beginning of the battle.

Both sides lit up their engines and started an exhibition match as the opening ceremony.

"According to what we have learned these days, it seems that no civilization in the Consolidation Department will hold this kind of competition." At this time, the general of the empire was sitting side by side with Ian, with a small table between the two seats. The general was drinking tea from a teacup, while Ian was drinking iced cola from a thermos.

"Because everyone's life is hard..." Ian tightened the lid of the vacuum flask. "Each civilization once encountered a threat that was enough to threaten the entire civilization circle. There were even two, but not three civilization circles. So far, there have been threats that have been put on the bright side, and it is very troublesome to deal with. There are no rich resources to hold This kind of game."

"Are you facing a war?"

"The war has been going on. As you and I speak, the civilizations that have established contact with the Concord but have not joined, Melas and the Earth Federation are engaged in local wars. The civilization that the Concord belongs to, the Galactic Republic, is currently building a space domain Across the defense lines of more than a dozen star systems, the raiding scouting fleet is engaged in encounters with threats from outside the galaxy all the time. The civilization of the Consolidation Department, the new unified government, is fully gathering its forces to deal with the attack of the former overlord of this galaxy. counterattack."

"If we join CONCORD, will we face the duty of participating in the war?"

"Threats have always existed, and we have now confirmed at least three species with cross-world capabilities and extremely strong combat effectiveness. God knows when they will threaten your carefree civilization."

"Threat..." The general frowned. "You mean, even if we do nothing but entertain ourselves in our own star system, they will come?"

"Strictly speaking, it's eating." Ian corrected a little. "The above three species all have the characteristics of sailing across the world, traveling faster than the speed of light, devouring civilization, infecting creatures, and assimilating technology. Civilization is their nourishment."

"You said, all those?"

"The first type, Starkiller, should be a runaway silicon-based creature that devours all matter it encounters. Legend has it that a legion encountered an unprecedentedly powerful Starkiller, which devoured matter in the entire universe, and then I was anchored at the center of the universe by my own mass and couldn't move. The final form was a giant sphere with a diameter of nearly 10,000 light-years. Because of the influence of that thing, the physical constants of that universe could not be measured. After all... so big The mass, which has not yet collapsed into a black hole, is already counterintuitive.

The only good news is that Starkiller activity is much less active these days, and there hasn't been a massive invasion of another world in a while.

The second type is an unnamed insect swarm that was discovered not long ago. Its origin is unknown, and its attack methods are various. There is no systematic research result yet. Now the hunting forces of the Ministry of Consolidation are searching for their traces.

The third type, the Flood, suddenly appeared on the battlefield when the Consolidation Department and Milas were fighting against the swarm. It is a world-destroying biological weapon of a civilization in another world. Now we are investigating the situation in that world. "

"What a disgusting thing..." the general looked down at the information. "Why do you list this kind of thing as a threat?"

"Are there any cockroaches here?"

"cockroach?"

"A creature on my side of the earth is famous for its large number and indestructibility. There is a saying in our place to describe it. When you see one cockroach, there are ten where you can't see it Cockroaches are watching you. When you kill a cockroach with a slipper, you think it is dead, and it is indeed dead, and then dozens of small cockroaches come out of its stomach. You think it is dead, but it is not dead. When you turned back to get a tissue to clean it up, it had already disappeared. Also, you thought it was dead, but in fact it was dead, but it was eaten by its own kind while you were taking the tissue, but you thought it was not dead.

Can you understand the spirit? "

"...I suddenly felt that this kind of cockroach was more terrifying than those three. But I realized it."