Chapter 516: First Encounter with HALO
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At the moment, the biggest "fish" left here by the Star Alliance fleet here are two CAS-class combat aircraft carriers and three CCS-class large cruisers. All of these ships are on recovery missions in the atmosphere. The others are either small ships, and Shen Chao is too lazy to grab them. Either they were damaged in the battle just now, and they are trying to repair and restore their combat effectiveness, so they are not worth grabbing.
After the shuttle drove to the top of one of the CAS combat aircraft carriers, which was 5 kilometers long, Shen Chao took the lead and jumped on it to start work. The CAS battle carrier has always been the capital ship of the Star Alliance, not only has a huge interior space that can carry a large number of weapons and infantry, but also has 2 powerful plasma main guns and a large number of melee defense guns all over the hull.
But fortunately, the place where they landed now is a blind spot for sensors, and at the same time, it is not within the range of any secondary artillery, so there is no need to worry about being detected or attacked. There is also a closed emergency exit nearby that leads directly to the interior of the combat carrier.
The reason why Shen Chao knew the location of this emergency exit was because they had finally found some such useful information among the large number of Star Covenant prisoners of war they had captured. After arriving here, Shen Chao opened a space-time door and threw two blue glow sticks over.
Soon two Atlas mechs holding a specially made runaway door stabilizer passed through this space-time gate, and these two mechs were also specially modified. Large magnetic boots were attached to their feet, allowing them to be securely attached to the hull of the battleship.
Here, the two Atlas mechs quickly set up the space-time gate to stabilize the space-time gate, which is about 5 meters in diameter. After this, Shen Chao left a small team of expedition members here to guard, and he rushed to the next Star Covenant battleship.
On several other Covenant ships that he planned to capture. He repeated his old tricks, setting up space-time gates in hidden parts, leaving a team of people to guard and prepare for the capture of the ship behind. It wasn't until the last CCS-class large cruiser was landed by him and the space-time gate was installed that he issued a signal for action.
At this time, the entrances to these ships have been opened or blown apart by the team members. But since it is still busy receiving ground forces in the atmosphere. Therefore, the command of these Covenant warships did not find that their defenses had been broken through from the periphery.
With Shen Chao's action order, tens of thousands of spherical planes came out of the space-time gate, and rushed into these Star Alliance warships according to the preset program and the leadership of the manned guide plane.
Meanwhile, in outer space, the Pegasus led 4 cruisers to begin an attack on other Covenant ships. Since the previous battle was over, these Covenant ships were now scattered, so they could not immediately form a joint force to resist their enemies.
With the Pegasos as the vanguard of the attack, the first to fire the cannons. Under a saturation blow from its six main guns, a previously battered CAS battle carrier repairing the outer deck was broken through its shields, and then hit a critical part by a main gun shell fired from the Sea.
Due to a large hole in a significant part of the hull, causing a massive line failure, the wounded combat carrier was blown into a pile of fragments by the explosion of its own overloaded jump core. After winning this "good start", the Pegasus continued to lead the fleet to pursue the other Covenant ships, using its range advantage to destroy the opponent before they could open fire. Although the other warships of the Star Covenant were quickly assembled from all over the place, they had no choice but not enough range. Can only be kite by the space-time fleet from afar.
And on those big ships that were targeted by Shen Chao, the battle situation was even more intense. As the first drones cleared the small passages and some internal spaces inside the battleship, the space-time gate was moved from the outside of the ship to the engine room inside.
After erecting the space-time gate inside the ship, nearly a million mechanics began to board the ship to replicate their previous successful ship-grabbing experience on a supercarrier. With the influx of mechanical armies of drones, the ships quickly fell into disarray and were unable to join the battle against the space-time fleet.
Such a battle took some time in space and inside the ship's hull, although the Covenant did not expect to be attacked by surprise after winning the fleet battle. But. Their ship defense and fleet combat capabilities are still passable.
After being attacked, it took Xingmeng half an hour to realize that it was impossible for him to defeat these enemies who were far superior in range and speed, and the ships that could run fled one after another, and in the end, the Star Alliance lost 9 warships in the battle of the space-time fleet.
As for the 5 battleships that were attacked. With the exception of the captain of one CCS-class cruiser, who was unwilling to be captured and crashed his battleship to the ground, the other four ships were all successfully attacked to the bridge and took over. Except for the loss of thousands of high-level fighters, there were no casualties in this operation, which is negligible compared to its gains.
After most of the remnants of the enemy were cleared, Shen Chao hurriedly sent the four newly captured warships to other planes to continue to clean up the entire ship. These captured Covenant ships were their most important gain to date. As for the rescue operation on the surface of Zhiyuan, he didn't care too much.
After the battle, he spent several hours observing the rescue operations on the surface, and several cruisers that had participated in the previous battle were busy rescuing people on the surface of the Reach. A large number of unmanned shuttles use UNSC's communications signals to locate and rush to the survivors on the ground.
After finding someone, if there are few people, use a shuttle to transport them back, and if there are many people, call a battleship to come and pick them up. Unlike the UNSC warships, which have a low carrying capacity, the main ships of the expedition have no capacity limits, and each ship has space-time gates to other planes, which makes it impossible for them to receive personnel.
Their reception capacity is limited only by the size of their hatch and the space-time door they carry. Regardless of whether they are dead or alive, as long as they are people, the warship responsible for the rescue will receive them, and immediately force them to reach the refugee camp on plane 046 through the space-time gate on the ship.
There, the refugees receive unified screening, assistance, and medical care, and if nothing else, most of them end up leaving the camp and being sent to other planes to become new immigrants under the Temporal Council.
It was already difficult for Shen Chao to watch such a thing, after all, every large-scale migration usually meant that there would be many people who would annoy him with all kinds of texts and questions. After a few hours. After the signal from the tracker he left aboard the Autumnwind once again, he finally had a reason to get out of this tedious rescue operation.
The tracker he left on the Autumnwind is a small tracker that operates according to the theory of quantum entanglement, and can theoretically send messages back from anywhere in the universe. However, there are exceptions, such as when the target enters faster-than-light flight mode, and the tracker will not emit a signal.
Now, the tracker's signal is sounding again, meaning that the Autumnwind Dun has finally ended its fault jump trip. If a qiē is still as in the plot, then it means that it has reached the periphery of the No. 04 ring.
After saying hello to Damien, who had already returned to Shanghai, and letting the other party take charge of the arrangements for Zhiyuanxing, he himself took the Pegasus to find the Autumn Wind Dun. Although Zhiyuanxing's rescue operation had only started for a long time, and the Star Alliance would call at any time, Shen Chao was not worried about the safety of the people he left behind.
After all, every ship that goes on a rescue mission has a time and space door, and if you can't beat it, you can run away at any time. As for how many people can be rescued from Zhiyuan Star in the end, no one can guarantee it, but Shen Chao doesn't particularly care about this. Although the population resources of the Aura Plane may seem tempting, the most worthy of the expedition are the relics left by the ancient races.
After determining the latest coordinates of the Autumn Wind Dun, Pegasus quickly set a new jump destination, and after a short period of preparation, they began the jump, and in a flash of white light, Pegasus traveled thousands of light years to the star system where the Autumn Wind Dunn was located.
A few minutes ago, the Autumn Wind had just passed through the fault space passage just like in the same episode. One jumps out of the fault space. Their sensors led to the discovery of HALO, a mysterious man-made ring structure with a diameter of more than 10,000 kilometers. The diameter of this ring is so huge. It is almost possible to lasso the Earth with its hollow part.
Like the Earth, this ring seems to be alive and well, and there is even a whole habitable world inside the belt! Mountains, rivers, plains, forests, deserts, seas...... There seems to be a similar man-made environment on Earth here.
While the crew of the Autumnwind was almost as surprised as the Covenant forces to find such a magical ring here, their hostile relationship denied anyone on the scene time to appreciate the engineering marvel left behind by the Precursors.
Within minutes of arriving in the system, the Autumnwind was besieged by the Covenant fleet, which had arrived one step ahead of schedule. Due to the heavy armor and the careful maneuvering of the entire ship by an advanced AI like Cortana, their ship was not destroyed by the Covenant in the first place.
But if this trend continues. They will soon be beaten into a pile of cosmic garbage by the Covenant fleet surrounded by them. Due to the urgency of the scene, Captain Keith had to break his previous plan.
On the one hand, he considered breaking his battleship to the mysterious belt, and on the other hand, he also ordered all the hibernation chambers to be opened immediately. Let the Spartan warriors inside participate in the ground battle in the ring belt behind.
If they want to survive after crash-landing onto the ring. It is necessary to rely on these Spartan warriors, known as the "nemesis of the Star Alliance". The Master Chief and several other Spartan warriors on board woke up from their hibernation barns. (The novel "Time Traveler's Expedition" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)
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