"Rousseau, shall we go for a drink after the combat duty is over? There is a very good tavern in the Ancam district, good things but quieter. ”

"Let's talk about it then, I plan to accompany my daughter after the end of my shift."

In a spacious and bright CIC, two CIC members who are not very far apart are chatting with each other.

As the naval gun control officer and target identification officer, the two men did not have any tasks in the CIC or the early warning system of the entire ship.

And although there are still members of the CIC who need to be on high alert, the vast majority of the operations in the early warning mission are actually contracted by the shipboard AI.

It is precisely because of this that in normal circumstances, except for the tactical information and combat system coordination officer, who needs to be more focused, other positions will be relatively scattered. And this trend seems to be getting more and more serious today when advanced AI is in full swing.

"There are twelve hours left until the end of the ship's combat duty, and the current time in New Texas City is 13:21."

The reliable Miss AI makes the usual broadcast in her sweet voice while playing a beautiful piece of music. In the soft music, the mood of the members who were on combat duty became somewhat soothed.

A large light screen in front of the CIC members shows the beautiful images captured by the optical cameras on the exterior of the battleship.

A formation of battleships consisting of an orbital bomber and three battleships "slowly" sailed out of the back of the planet, and under this perspective, the halo of light at the edge of the planet formed by the stellar light continued to expand. And this human colonization planet has also left the sight of the optical camera, allowing the star that brought the galaxy to life in front of people's eyes.

Suddenly, CIC and everyone who opened the optical screen and wanted to see the scenery were crying wolf.

"Texas! Please adjust the filter level to two! ”

A CIC member covered his eyes and shouted loudly to the trusty AI lady.

"Understood."

The amiable female voice sounded again. It was accompanied by a refresh of the picture, and then the stellar light in the picture was not so dazzling.

"I wonder if the hell that bastard turned the filter level to one. Then it won't be Aruba's business. The target identification officer, who was sitting to Rousseau's left, rubbed his eyes and said to his companion.

The naval gun controller of the Texas shrugged: "Probably our dear TAO did it, when the combat duty is over, I must let us go for a drink, I heard that his son was born a month ago, alas, he is still like this." ”

As an elder, Rousseau hugged his arms and said with a look of hatred.

As modern people whose bodies have been optimized many times, their physical fitness is more than that of people in any period of ancient times in all aspects, so although such a strong light makes their eyes appear temporarily uncomfortable, it still does not cause any permanent or relatively large damage to their eyes.

After all, no equipment is designed on the warship to cause non-combat attrition, and the ship's AI will continue to monitor the status and equipment of the ship in real time.

"It's not enough for him to invite us to drink." Another electronic warfare coordinator grinned and leaned up and patted Rousseau and the two of them on the shoulder: "After all, we will participate in his son's full moon wine after we go down." So after eating, he would deny us and say that he had already invited us to drink. ”

"That's right, then let him get rid of our share of the money" But before the last word "yes" from the target identification officer next to Rousseau, the shipboard AI issued a red alert representing the highest security level.

The target recognition officer, who was still giggling, suddenly threw his body back and started the target recognition program in the fastest way. A barrage of data and information quickly flowed through the augmented reality glasses.

At the same time, the prompt sound of the shipborne AI Texas sounded almost synchronously: "A space reaction and an intra-space mass reaction were detected." ”

The short sound prompt was just a hint, but a large number of sensors on the battleship and various detectors arranged by humans in normal space, subspace, subspace and hyperspace fed back information to the main brain of the battleship and the fleet command at the same time, and a large amount of information was processed and accepted, and the CIC members on the battleship re-entered the combat state in an instant.

"Target identification is underway, and various departments report data."

"The battlefield data is well linked. The P-5 detection station sends us data, damn what these things are, how can they be so fast, is the Galaxy interception system useless! ”

The tactical information coordinator did not slow down the work in his hand, and his mouth burst into a foul mouth. Thousands of manned and unmanned checkpoints and probes in nearby starfields have detected a large number of unidentified objects approaching the Milky Way but have not been able to locate the exact location, and these and many more are now providing data and information support to the various garrisons in the border galaxy.

"The second, third, and fourth guard groups are being undocked, and the 2nd Fighter Wing of the New Texas Star Ring has jumped outside 3AU of our fleet. We are always ready to support. The formation officer spoke out loud about the friendly forces, but in fact he was now processing a large amount of information about the coordination of the formation and feeding it back to other relevant colleagues.

"The first wave of jump missiles launched!" The Over-the-horizon Intelligence Coordinator spoke out loud at the same time. A screen of light appeared in front of the eyes of all the members of the ship, showing a simulated screen.

After detecting that the unidentified object began to enter the galaxy and did not respond to three consecutive calls, the first jump missiles of the galactic garrison disappeared in the light of the leap and swooped down on the unidentified target.

Everyone held their breath and wanted to know that this wave of jump missiles would bring them exact and concrete news.

But just three seconds later. The jump missile swarm shows no targets

"The captain is here."

The Texas voice came to people's ears slightly.

The captain and tactical operations officer came out from behind the doors of the two elevators and walked to their respective positions.

"Anti-ship combat readiness." The first thing the captain said when he entered the CIC was this: "I have a bad premonition. ”

To be honest, as the captain, he wasn't very worried about the attack of the Confederacy's ordinary warships, but in view of the various "unreasonable" things that had appeared in the recent Great Expedition and the Solar System Campaign, he thought it might be better to be more cautious.

The massive battleships began to change formations, and they basically covered the orbital bombers with their main armor belts. (To be continued.) )