Chapter 12: Leaving the Nest
Except for Matthew, Pan Wen did not recruit other technicians. This position is a bit ...... Too scarce.
The battleship technician license necessary for the technician chief is the same as the technician license owned by ordinary technicians, and there are very few battleship technicians even at the elite level, and it may take a while for some potential technicians to change careers.
The Battleship Technician license is quite powerful, but the main license of the Expert Elite level only provides 9% damage, which does not seem to have a decisive impact on the battle.
The only thing left is to prepare supplies, which should be the easiest in order to accommodate the players, but the NPCs' personalities and wisdom make it a little problematic.
The Cam X-VI frigate, named the Hammer, was missing something that even older ships wouldn't notice - basic machinery and water.
Like civilian vessels, the hangars of combat ships also require a variety of mobile or stationary lifting machinery, and combat ships also need to be equipped with a certain number of space engineering robots to cope with urgent external repairs.
As for water, it is an important supply material in the space environment, but there is not a drop of water in the entire water circulation system on the Heavy Hammer, and Pan Wen has to pay an extra 400 Star Coins to fill this item!
One cubic meter of water and one star coin, not to negotiate the price, is so expensive!
After a trip to repair, buy a ship, recruit personnel, replenish, refit, replenish machinery, etc., Pan Wen's pocket, which could be called a large amount of money, shrank rapidly, and when it came to the day of departure, there were only 4,600 star coins left, which was probably only enough to buy a second-hand frigate's shell.
Galactic Age 631 years 225 days, 15:20.
"The hatches are closed." Su Qingzheng, the sister-in-law navigator, reported the departure progress in a crisp voice, "The system has been tested, and the whole system is normal." ”
The co-navigator waited for her to complete the inspection and pressed the ship-wide notification button: "Gravity Control Warning!" After 30 seconds, the port gravity simulation is lifted. ”
Su Qing: "Decompression in the cabin, please keep everyone calm." ”
Reducing the overall air pressure when going out is the only way to save gas losses, especially when opening and closing a bulky space such as a hangar, which often does not have enough time to evacuate the hangar air to a vacuum. Of course, for the sake of the health of the crew, the conventional departure decompression only reduces the air pressure to 80 kilopascals, which is roughly equivalent to the altitude of 2,000 meters above sea level in the earth's environment, and it is easy for humans living in space to cope with this level of air pressure.
"Gravity Control Warning! After 20 seconds, the port gravity simulation is lifted. ”
Listening to the announcements in the control room, Pan Wen subconsciously looked at his feet and confirmed that the magnetic ring on his shoes was still there.
"The gravity simulation of the port is about to be lifted, and 10... 9… 8…… 3… 2… 1. Done! ”
The moment it was done, the hips were gone, but fortunately, the personal magnetic system sandwiched in the clothes worked, and no one was floating around in the control room.
"The dock depressurization is complete, and the hatch is being opened."
It was a little quieter here, because the dock was used for maintenance and storage, and the mechanical body was too large, and the various mechanical movements were much slower than those of a normal docked port.
"The dockyard is open."
"Mechanical fixed arm unlocked, done."
"Leaving the dock in progress."
"Disengagement is complete, ready gravity to take over."
"The ship's gravity equipment is being activated."
"Startup complete, microgravity environment confirmed to be on."
The microgravity environment of the ship, whether it is a civilian ship or a military type, depends on its own size, and only the military type is introduced here. In order to strengthen the combat requirements, the military type cannot use rotation to simulate gravity by centrifugal force, and must use additional equipment to make them simulate gravity The tonnage required is higher, and there is no gravity simulation for those below 30,000 tons. At the level of frigates, the 180,000-ton Wright AD03B, that is, the Kuroshio, can simulate a gravity of about 0.3G, while a 400,000-ton guy like the Cam X-VI can simulate a gravity environment of about 0.4G.
Gravity and ship acceleration are supposed to be conflicting topics, but in the Second World they are deliberately ignored, so most of the remaining advantages of a stronger gravity environment will not be explained for the time being.
"Switched to automatic navigation, it is expected to meet the Kuroshio within 10 minutes."
At this point, the departure process is over.
There are many similar scenes in Pan Wen's memory, but now it is the first time he has experienced it, exhale, cancel all the fragmentary panels of the captain's command platform, and switch to a large exterior projection.
Segois, a completely metalized mobile star with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers belonging to pirates, has a bunch of waveplate candy-like stuff inserted on it, which looks a bit like an ancient mine. Each corrugated candy is an entire port area, containing dozens of docks and hundreds of docking interfaces on the periphery.
Now there are at least hundreds of ships of all kinds in the exterior projection are carrying out port and departure actions, about half of the civilian ships that use rotational centrifugal force to simulate gravity, and the remaining half are all kinds of square round stick ships, but they are not all real warships, most of them are armed merchant ships that have been modified with capacity by various retired ships, and the difference between them and war ships is not small.
After spending a few minutes watching the gray-painted ship move around the harbor, the screen began to show snowflakes, which seemed to be something unusual with this technology.
"The impact of the ion storm is increasing, the optical assistance system is activated, and the sensitivity of the sensing system is reduced to 10% after ten seconds, according to the Segeis Safety Manual."
…… Well,The previous pictures are not optical pictures,In this realistic world,But no one dares to put a glass cover in the control room on the outside,Since it's not directly facing,Usually use accuracy、Detection distance is farther electrical sensing。
After the system switch is completed,The snowflake spots on the screen disappeared,It's just that the picture that was very clear just now has shrunk a lot,Only more than 100 kilometers away from the boat,It's the size of a sesame seed,After zooming in again, it is obvious that the resolution is insufficient。
The reason why Segeis can survive between the territories of several countries is the result of the protection of this ion storm area outside, which can almost only use optical sensing, even if there is a weapon with a range of 1 million kilometers, at most 20,000 kilometers of accuracy will be problematic. Even more so in the Plasma Storm Zone, any damaged ship's internal electronic systems will be severely damaged, and Pan Van had turned off most of the systems when he returned to port before being towed back by the pilot ship.
"The Kuroshio signal has been detected, and the motion track is in sync."
"Smack." Pan Wen clapped his hands, "Okay, everyone will be on duty according to the schedule, starting from a group, and the others can go to rest." ”
The speed of the magnetic storm area outside Segeis should not be too fast, and it will take more than ten hours to wear out, and it is a waste of energy to leave the crew at their posts.
Pan Wen is worried about the player's situation, and he will not spend it idle.
First, the first mate Dorotai was driven to rest, and he gathered the tactical team in the cafeteria to discuss the next goal while eating.
It is said to be a canteen, but the canteen of the Heavy Hammer is more high-end and atmospheric than the Kuroshio. Not all heavy frigates are necessarily better than the interior of medium-sized ships, just because the Heavy Hammer is a product of Titan Heavy Industries, and the size of the module in the modular standard is destined to be more atmospheric than the canteen of ordinary frigates in terms of space occupation.
The third floor, with a total volume of 1,200 cubic meters of two-level frozen food storage (-190 degrees Celsius permanent freezing and -18 degrees Celsius freezing), two 1,000 square meters of large dining area and a 600 square meters of tavern, can accommodate up to 420 people at the same time, 30% more than the maximum number of people on board.
Pan Wen is now in the tavern, and the six people, four men and two women at the same table with him, Pan Wen, who is not good at looking through the crew information in front of others, will temporarily use the team leader and team members ABCDE to mark, as long as the name is not mentioned in the conversation.
After the automatic maglev robot brought the drinks and food ordered by several people to the table, Pan Wen began to get down to business.
"My next goal is to make a vote in the Islamic Empire, and the target may already be equipped with patrol ships, or it may only be gunboats."
At this point, several people in the tactical squad looked much more relaxed, and the two women smiled, obviously everyone was a little too cautious about Pan Wen using two frigates to attack such a weak target, one heavy and one medium, and still find someone to discuss.
The group of s.r.i.e. is all elite-level NPCs, and their thinking logic Pan Wen understands it very well, and continues to say his own:
"I know that some of you are more well-informed, you must know that I only left the Kuroshio to escape back to Segois not long ago, when the Isis Empire had not yet opened the patrol ship market, and the ships they used were only small guys with a tonnage of less than three hundred tons, so I hope you can treat your target as a powerful enemy."
His words immediately made the men of the tactical squad frown.
Pan Wen is indeed a small pirate in Segeis, but the big guys have already signed contracts, so naturally someone will find out about his leader, a medium-sized frigate, two patrol ships, and a bunch of messy things, and it is only something that beats him that is less than 400 tons of tonnage?
What is the concept of 300 tons? That tonnage is simply a fighter!
They are too small, too light, and not stable enough to give full play to the highest firing accuracy of the weapon, and the distance in the mission is greatly shortened, and the reason why the frigates continue to use this ancient name is precisely because they have a strong interception ability, even the cruisers of a higher level, in terms of combat aircraft, there is no substantial increase in the range of rejection, only the number of secondary guns has increased.
To be able to destroy Pan Wen's fleet under such a difference in strength can be imagined what a crazy number!
"Boss, is it a drone unit?" The tactical team leader asked questions as a representative.
Pan Wen hesitated for a moment, but nodded: "It can be used as a drone, but it is a drone with top-level AI." ”
The player's will to fight is formed by throwing aside the shackles of life, and in the "reality" of NPCs, it is true that only drones can have that kind of momentum.
The tactical team leader was still frowning, and the team member A next to him leaned over and reminded him carefully: "The main gun of Wright AD03B." ”
As a tactical team, of course, you have to figure out the performance and combat capabilities of your own friendly ships, and you can't just take care of the work at hand like a technician.
The team leader's eyes lit up: "Yes! Boss, you have frigates in your hands, we have the advantage of information warfare, and with the main guns of the Kuroshio, we can make sure that there is enough loot for recovery! ”