Chapter 376: Fleet Assembled
In order to get a general picture of the situation, Qiao Lu once again approached the Templars whom he had rescued from prison and asked them what their Supreme Council was saying.
One of the two High Templars who were rescued, Alonso replied:
"The Supreme Council has promised to send troops, and I have repeatedly stressed the need to send a strong fleet, and I am sure they will not let you down."
Qiao Lu nodded and said, "Tadarin is our common enemy, but if you alone are enough to deal with it, then it would be even better. ”
Although Jolu was still very skeptical that things could go so smoothly, since Alonso, a high-ranking Templar, believed in the Council so much, there was not much to say about Jollot.
A few days later, two starships folded over the orbit of Byscher, but this was not the Templar fleet that Alonso had mentioned, but two other ships from the Wandering Earth, the Expedition and the Buranliard.
Needless to say, the 10,000-year-old Blizzard has shone on the Overwatch plane, and the captain Levsenko has also fought side by side with Qiao Lu for a while.
What caught Qiao Lu's eye was the Expedition, the first destroyer on the Wandering Earth, and as the name suggests, this starship was built entirely for space expeditions.
Although it is nominally a destroyer, since the standard of battleships on the Wandering Earth is based on the Ark, this also results in the scale of the Expedition being not inferior to the Hyperion, let alone weaker than the Minotaur class battlecruisers of the Tyranid Empire.
Unlike the Ark and the 10,000-year-old Blizzard, which are good at space fleet operations, the design of the Expedition is more inclined to ground-orbital bombardment to provide space fire support for ground forces.
The Expedition's conventional weapons on the ground not only include electromagnetic coil cannons, pulse laser cannons, missile launchers, etc., but also a number of new ball lightning cannons, which can create a medium-sized ball lightning storm even without the support of a weather controller.
It can be said that it is a strategic bomber among starships, and in comparison, in dealing with space fleet operations, the expedition is not as powerful as the Ark and the 10,000-year-old blizzard.
The Expedition has only a small number of plasma cannon arrays in anti-aircraft firepower, as well as kinetic energy close defense guns used to intercept missiles or fighters, and the main guns are not as powerful as the 10,000-year-old Blizzard when the fleet fights, so the 10,000-year-old Blizzard is often needed to escort in space, which is also the main task of the frigate.
However, on the other hand, the Expeditionary is far superior to the 10,000-year-old Wind and Snow in terms of shipboard capacity, with a crew of more than 20,000 people, and it can carry out landing operations with a division of expeditionary force troops at any time. Coupled with the Expedition's powerful ground firepower, it can often hit the enemy by surprise.
The Tyranid Empire troops in front of the temple of Sarnagar on the planet Ciel were planted under the raid of the Expedition, and before they could resist, they were all annihilated by the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force.
The main division of duties of the current fleet is to provide ground fire support from the Expedition, the Eternal Wind and Snow to escort it, and the Ark to take the initiative to annihilate the enemy fleet.
Although there are only three starships, the space fleet on the Wandering Earth has begun to take shape, which is undoubtedly a good start.
After the arrival of the two warships, the captain of the 10,000-year-old Blizzard, Levsenko, and a middle-aged man with a calm appearance came to report to the headquarters.
The man in military uniform stepped forward and saluted Qiao Lu and said, "Captain of the Expedition, Gao Yun, report for duty!" ”
"Hello." Qiao Lu shook Gao Yun's hand and said, "Thanks to your efforts, we are now one step closer to our goal. ”
The third Keystone Fragment obtained from the Temple of Sarnagar has been transferred from the Expedition to the Ark, and now the task of collecting the Keystone Fragment is more than half complete.
Gao Yun said modestly: "It is all because of the foresight of Director Qiao Lu, with the reputation of the rangers, we were able to establish a rebel army in a remote colony, and get the information from it that the Tyranid Empire secretly excavated temples on nearby planets, so that we had this windfall." ”
Qiao Lu didn't expect this to happen, there was no such paragraph in the original plot of Wings of Freedom, and it seems that it was also affected by the butterfly effect.
In any case, it was great news that the third Keystone Fragment was obtained without much effort, and the Expedition and the Ten Thousand Years Blizzard, which had gone their separate ways, were undoubtedly a great achievement.
Now that the Hyperion had gone to fetch the fourth Keystone fragment, Jolu only needed to focus on his current strategy for the Sarnagar World Ship. Coupled with the two starships Expedition and the 10,000-year-old Blizzard, it is undoubtedly a tiger with wings.
The fleet of the Wandering Earth has been assembled, and now it depends on what kind of troops the Templars will send over.
Shortly after the Expedition and the 10,000-Year Blizzard arrived, a glorious Astral Carrier turned over the planet Bysher, followed by two others, as well as two Void Glow ships and a swarm of Fold Prisms.
Unlike the rugged steel bones of human warships, full of complex technical temperament and violent aesthetics of industrial feeling, the Star Spirit Aircraft Carrier has a delicate and beautiful shape, a rounded and smooth hull, and no actual weapons on the outside, more like a work of art to be admired than a war machine used to cause killing.
This is also the consistent style of the Star Spirit Machinery, obviously it looks like a structure that violates human mechanics, but it inexplicably has quite good structural strength, coupled with the Star Spirit's powerful energy shield technology, in fact, these Star Spirit aircraft carriers are far stronger than human imagination.
As for the weapons that don't have any actual appearance from the outside, it's because the aircraft carrier uses almost all of the hull space for loading and maintaining unmanned interceptor aircraft groups, and these steel torrents that can swarm out like locusts at any time are the most powerful weapons of the Star Spirit Aircraft Carrier, and the other weapons are just a snake to add.
Three massive Astral Carriers have landed on the planet Bysher, and it appears that this is the capital ship sent by the Templars to annihilate Tadarin.
But the question is, despite the superior combat capabilities of the Star Spirit Aircraft Carrier, is it a bit taken for granted that just three aircraft carriers are like destroying Naion's lair?
Not to mention that this group of Tadarin occupies an abandoned Sarnagar World Ship, if Qiao Lu is not mistaken, Naion even has something like the Madonna, which is the absolute main force of the Star Spirit Fleet, not something that can be defeated by relying on three aircraft carriers.
It seems that the Templar Supreme Council has always been so pedantic that it has not recognized the real threat of Tadarin.
If there is no fleet on the Wandering Earth, it will be a great loss for these Templars to go to Tadarin alone!