Chapter 398: The Ponderer and the Black Bee
Separate from the three combined fleets, the Electrostar Fleet is the Electro Star Fleet. In the stage of the sneak attack on Changge and Gaia, the entertainer did not disperse his forces to fight on three fronts, but only confronted the electronic star, which made the electronic star now have the strongest strength, but this is not only because of the large number of ships kept by the electronic star, but more importantly, the electronic star, which has the reputation of "the first combat power in the universe", as a silicon-based life form, the entire mechanical planet composed of metal is a huge production machine, which can produce an amazing number of armed warships explosively, and its production efficiency, No civilization in the United Nations can match it.
So that's why entertainers in the early stages of the prelude war were just confronting the Electron, rather than attacking them directly - reducing the number of Electronstar ships was a fool's errand in the face of terrifyingly powerful productivity.
Prior to the War, according to the Noble Society's Cornerstone Law, based on the terms of peaceful coexistence, the Electrostar only had a thousand ships.
After the outbreak of the war, that number quickly jumped to more than two thousand, and the numbers are still skyrocketing.
You must know that the electronic star is made of the main battleship and the decisive battleship, even if it is a third-level civilization with the great technology of the Dyson sphere, it will take more than a year to reach such a number, and the electronic star can expand to such a point in just fifteen days, for entertainers, the electronic star represented by Zen Machine 42 is the biggest threat today.
As a result, the entertainers arranged for the second-largest Dionysian fleet to contain the electron star.
Bacchus is a long-hulled strategic flagship, it has excellent combat power, the super caliber extreme beam "Bacchus Cannon" is the strongest of energy weapons, and the Bacchus is equipped with a special ripple amplifier, which can significantly increase the strength of the ripple shield of all mercury boats within three light seconds. It can be said that it is a super flagship that is not only very capable of fighting itself, but also comprehensively strengthens the fleet.
The Dionysian Fleet led by the Dionysian is composed of more than 600 mercury boats, second only to the "Grand Circus" Fleet that is jointly fighting with the first, but in terms of combat power, due to the amplification effect of Dionysus, this Dionysian Fleet is not much inferior.
This fleet of entertainers is facing the Electrostar Fleet, which is composed of 1,200 ships led by the flagship of the "Ponderers".
The Ponder's hull resembles a giant killing machine—rugged, muscular, imbued with the insane beauty of black industry. This is the consistent style of the electronic star, and the electronic star does not need to be aesthetic.
The Ponder, also known as "Zen Machine 13", is a war-specific AI separated from the will of the electronic star. All of its thinking power and computing resources are geared toward warfare, especially for space warfare. The contemplative is not only born for war, but also for war.
Because of his deep connection to the electronic masterminds of all the ships involved, the Thinker's art of command is the same as that of an entertainer—he can extend his conscious tentacles into each battleship, and he can also think strategically from the macro picture.
From a macro point of view, the space battle that the Dionysian Fleet of entertainers and the Ponderor Fleet of Electronic Stars are about to embark on, just like two veteran chess players, using space as a chessboard and ships as chess pieces, to conduct an astonishing chess game.
The Ponderer's main pawn, the Electrostar's main battleship, is the same as the Ponder, imbued with the brutal beauty of the black industry. Due to its peculiar shape, which bears some resemblance to the "bees" of many carbon-based ecosystems, the unmemorable number has been replaced by the "black bee" that many civilizations call directly.
As a main-class battleship, the strength of the Black Bee is slightly weaker than that of the entertainer's main-class "Mercury Boat" (setting update: The "Mercury Boat" without a ship name is a main-class battleship, and the "Mercury Boat" with a name is a decisive battleship.) This rule also applies to fleets of other civilizations. The main force class is still the main force of each fleet, and the decisive battle class can be regarded as a prominent military general with a name and surname on the battlefield). Therefore, although the ponderers of the 1,200 ships have a numerical advantage, the entertainers of the 600 ships, although they have never fought with the electronic star fleet, are still confident in containing the electronic star with the "first combat power in the universe".
The special ability of the flagship Bacchus to amplify the ripple shield of other mercury boats, the closer the distance, the better, and within a light second, this enhancement can reach its peak, so the entertainer unites the six hundred ships around the Bacchus within a light second, waiting for the Ponder fleet in a relatively dense way.
The 1,200 Black Bee ships led by the Ponderor divided into four formations and jumped in five minutes, and after a short period of weakness, they just entered the battlefield of this space war.
The entertainer's will is holding his breath - you can finally feel for yourself what it means to be "the first combat force in the universe".
As a mechanical civilization with a single intelligent AI, almost all individuals of the Electrostar have no personality. The slightly different functional clones are only separated from the electronic star master AI. For example, the elegant and wise "Zen Machine No. 42", who is in charge of external image and communication, and the deep thinker who specializes in conducting space wars. In addition to these functional clones, the electronic stars are as small as mechanical bacteria and as large as space warships, all of which are the same, only the models are different.
Therefore, every black bee is almost identical, and the one that plays the role of a decisive starship is nothing more than an enhanced version of the black bee, and the names are all "big black bees" with no personality at all.
So, after the firefight with the Electrostar fleet, the entertainer's neurons transmitted a completely different feeling from the conflict with the other fleets.
The black bees are like identical mirrors or shadows, arranged in a terrifying formation (most silicon-based civilization fleets don't randomly distribute ships unless necessary). It's not so much like a war of ships as it is like fighting against a cohesive whole.
With all the ships on both sides within maximum range, the battle heated up in a blistering fashion. Every battleship is aimed at the enemy, and every battleship is also being targeted by enemy ships.
This is where the advantages offered by the flagship Bacchus come to the fore.
Although the Ponderer strictly followed the strategy of fighting more and less under the situation of superior forces, and used it to the extreme, all the ripple shields of the mercury boats strengthened by the Dionysian ripple amplifier were obviously stronger than the electromagnetic shields of the black bees, and the ripple shields of the mercury boats were extremely strong under the fire of 2-3 black bees, and after the electromagnetic shields of the black bees had been broken, the mercury boats were still well protected.
In the absence of instant repair features on both sides, the timing of the ship's damage is one of the most important factors in determining the outcome of the battle. From this point of view, the contemplative hastened the war somewhat recklessly, but gave birth to the advantage of the entertainer in advance.
Most of the Black Bee's hulls have been damaged, but the total amount of corrugated shields in the Entertainer fleet is still 30%!
This kind of superiority, in any space war, means inevitable victory.