089 Kitty catches old chickens
The Dark Star Domain and the Silent Star Domain are not adjacent to each other, and there is still a long unknown space in between, but this is just the habitual cognition of various governments, in fact, in order to cope with the blows of the Unification Department and the Imperial Navy, the Blood Raiders have explored several key directions since the moment they gained a foothold in the Dark Star Field, and successfully established several secret passages, one of which leads to the Silent Star Field.
Kerry and his detachment had set out from the Dark Star Domain base eight days earlier, and had received only one order, to capture Aite alive. Flood. The order was given directly by Salikusa, and nothing was said about it, only a brief information about the target person.
For the first time in nearly fifty years, Kerry spoke directly to the demigod-like Salikusa, and he was so excited that he couldn't stretch his tongue straight, and he didn't even think to ask why. In fact, even if you are not excited, you will not ask why, this is the guidance of the gods, just follow it, where is so much nonsense.
It only took four days for the fleet to arrive at the designated system, and without even blinking an eyelid, they immediately began to check the status of the ship, and then immediately engaged in reconnaissance activities. This kind of work is too familiar to the Bloodbathers to be carefully arranged.
The battleships of the Bloody Raiders are very distinctive, there are basically no large ones, and the cruisers are considered the absolute main force, usually with destroyers and frigates. Don't look at the small scale, but it is better to be flexible and mobile, especially suitable for small-scale raids, and you can leave with one blow when you see the target, and you will never be entangled.
This is not that the bloodfighters are born thieves, but that they have to deal with it after a long confrontation with the governments of the three countries. Even with a few bases, they are not as good as any other country in terms of production capacity, not even large companies. Play the drama of the capital ship against the bombardment, don't wait for others to destroy it, the huge loss can shake the foundation.
In addition to its small size, the Bloodraider fleet also pays special attention to the research and use of covert operation techniques, and each detachment on a mission will have several warships equipped with such equipment.
Although stealth equipment will take up a lot of power and brain bandwidth of the ship, and also seriously weaken the energy shield and armor protection of the ship, some gains outweigh the losses in battle, but if it can be combined with the corresponding tactics, it will also achieve a surprise effect.
The Bloody Raiders have studied this area very well, and have developed a new type of warship and special supporting tactics, which have been tried and tested in many volleys and ambushes.
This type of warship is called a stealth bomber within the Blood Raiders Alliance, and its tactics are not fixed, but the central idea is one, to destroy the target in the shortest time in the most unnoticeable way and at the most unexpected time.
Sandra's squadron has six stealth bombers, all of which are of the destroyer class, and have been modified to remove most of the armor and shield devices, and use all the freed space, power, and brain bandwidth to equip stealth action devices and heavy space torpedoes.
This kind of weapon is much more powerful than space missiles, but the flight speed is relatively slow, the size is huge, and it occupies a lot of power and bandwidth, and usually no small and medium-sized warships are equipped with this kind of weapon, and battleships are more used for long-range strikes against fixed targets.
But the Bloody Raiders took a different approach, effectively combining the stealth action system and the heavy space torpedo, giving full play to their respective strengths, and replacing defense with offense. This kind of non-lethal play that completely abandons defense, either you die or I die, there is no third way to choose, from this point of view, they do have the potential to be crazy.
At this time, the six stealth bombers were hiding on both sides of the stargate and waiting for the target to enter the firing range, not to mention a mining barge, even if a battleship came, it could hit an astonishing amount of damage in a very short time, and then regardless of the opponent's damage, quickly moved away from the battlefield, and disappeared on the opponent's detector with stealth action equipment.
If necessary, they will again collectively jump very close to the target, and suddenly appear in another wave of torpedo attacks. As long as the target has no reinforcements, it will not be able to withstand the second wave after the first wave of attacks.
This is also a tactical arrangement made by Kerry after a few days of reconnaissance, originally planned to forcibly destroy the barge piloted by the target in the adjacent galaxy, even if it would attract the warship in the space station to attack.
But with the blessing of the gods, this mining barge actually swaggered out of the Star Gate, so what are you waiting for, hurry up. Leaving the four warships to guard the other two stargates, Kerry began scanning with the four capital ships.
What should the other party do if they find a scanning probe? It's not happy to find out, she just wants to scare people in this way. As long as the target barge wants to run into the system where the space station is located, the mission is complete. Usually this is the choice of most pilots, who instinctively seek refuge when they see a threat.
As for the strangely shaped little spaceship that came with the barge, Kerry really didn't take it to heart. No matter how powerful it is, how powerful can it be? In the class of destroyers and frigates, they do not scare anyone and any warship, let alone many-to-one. If this can still make it turn the tables, there is no need to wait for the gods to surrender, and he will not have the face to live anymore.
The fact proved that his tactical arrangement was very effective, and the barge was the first to rush out of its hiding place and enter the leap state, although it didn't know its jump coordinates, the general direction was fine, and it was rushing to set up the star gate.
"Damn! When you are dying, you still play tricks with me, scatter them, and find it out in groups of two! Don't bother with that little guy, pay attention to the ambush fleet, don't act lightly on the inside, if the small spaceship wants to pass through the stargate, let it in, it's a dead end over there! ”
Before the smug smile could fully bloom, Kerry began to grit his teeth and scold. Judging from the trajectory of the small spaceship, it should be in the forward stargate position, so the whereabouts of the mining barge will have to be questioned.
One is false and one is real, Kerry immediately has the answer in his heart, the other party seems to have realized that he does not plan to be caught, but also to play some tricks. It doesn't matter, the other two stargates in this system have been blocked by their own warships, and the clumsy mining barges can't enter smoothly at all.
Only the stargate leading to the Moonlight Space Station galaxy is ostensibly safe, and the current tactic is to encircle and intercept, putting extreme pressure on the target and forcing it to drill into the trap.
This trick worked again, although the small spaceship did not rush into the stargate, but jumped away again, and it would be difficult to sweep for a while and a half, but the mining barge whose signal radius was about to catch up with the battleship could not dodge, and was soon discovered by the probe, and it was out of the jump state in the space located at about 10AU of the stargate.
"What's that signal?" As the commander of this operation, Kerry is still very careful and does not want to ignore any information on the battlefield. When the combat probe was launched to scan the target spacecraft, there were several signals in the galaxy that were not man-made objects, and it was too late to scan and probe, and the mining barge at this time jumped with one of the gravitational wave signals as the target.
“…… It's not clear, its signal is very unstable, and it has to be scanned multiple times by a concentrated probe to make out it. The answer was immediately given by a companion on another battleship, who was in charge of the scanning.
"Sweep it out now, don't leave it any more chance to escape!" Kerry was a little dissatisfied, these companions were old people who had followed him for many years, and they should not make such a low-level mistake, let alone let their guard down because the other party was a mining barge that had no ability to fight back.
This is not the dark star field of my hometown, even if there is no base and patrol fleet of the Integration Department, ships from other forces may suddenly appear, and every minute of delay will be more dangerous.
Had it not been too troublesome to sweep the signal out, the barge would have been caught by the interceptor that was following it. It's good now, I can only watch, just because there are no specific gravitational signal parameters, my own battleship can't jump over.
"Where did it go? Are there any other signals? Before his companion could sweep out the gravitational signal, the signal of the mining barge suddenly disappeared, and no matter how much the probe was scanned, no trace could be found.