After doing this, they began to wait patiently, and they waited for 4 days to wait for their "guest", an unidentified warship that had just flown faster than light and jumped into the detection zone they had left behind.

One of the earlier detectors had discovered the signal at the heart of its mass effect. Then the heat signature under the armored version was observed.

Both signals were strong, and the unidentified battleship had apparently just completed a faster-than-light flight. The acting deputy captain, who was on duty in command, immediately sounded the combat readiness alarm. All on board the battleship went into their respective combat posts.

Shen Chao also learned the general situation through the ship's broadcast, left the No. 4 deck where he was resting, and returned to CIC to take over the command.

Shen Chao had previously told his newly appointed deputy captain that he would notify him immediately if there was an unknown warship. That's why his co-captain didn't immediately order the Mass Effect Core to restart and take off to prepare for battle.

If that happens, the other party will definitely notice that there is a powerful heavy cruiser here, and Shen Chao's plan may also be disrupted.

Back to the present, when Shen Chao returned to CIC, the navigation group had completed the first detection of the unidentified warship under the command of the acting deputy captain.

The probes they had sent out carefully observed the Collector battleship, took many long-range photographs, and calculated the size of the other party's mass effect core using these photos and observations.

This is a very important step in space warfare in the Mass Effect world, because the observation technology for Element Zero is extremely advanced, so the warships in the Mass Effect world are very far from each other.

Usually before the exchange of fire, the warships of both sides have already discovered the enemy's inventory, and due to the distance, it is difficult for both sides to observe and calculate the level of the opponent's warships in time through optical instruments.

It is not easy to see the shape and volume of the opposing ship through optical instruments at a distance of tens or millions of kilometers, and the gravitational wave measurement technology here does not have such a long detection distance.

Therefore, in order to know the type of enemy warship before the official engagement, and arrange tactics according to local conditions, each battleship has special equipment responsible for detecting the strength of the mass effect field inside the opponent's battleship.

Through the observation of these instruments, the navigation team can use software and its own experience to estimate the size of the mass effect core of the opposing ship. These basic numbers of output power are jù.

By comparing these numbers to the number of heat signatures, they can deduce whether their opponent is a frigate or a cruiser, or the most powerful dreadnought......

After returning to CIC, Dai Mien understood that he gave him a briefing, and reported in detail to Shen Chao the information he had just received and the orders he had given.

His briefing was brief but very effective. It greatly corroborates the descriptions of the chiefs in his own file. A very good co-captain indeed.

"Okay, I see. After listening to his report, Shen Chao instructed him that he could remove the warning. Through the briefing of the deputy captain of Guò, he learned that only one unidentified ship had been observed. So it must not be the time he was looking forward to.

"Sir, the other party is a cruiser of unknown origin. Should we send a telegram asking where the other person came from? As soon as Shen Chao returned to the command platform, a second lieutenant of a communications group asked.

"No, keep the communication silent and keep observing. Shen Chao directly vetoed the request, although this is a standard agreement. The first thing they do when they encounter an unknown ship is to generate electricity and communicate, but they can't do that now. That would leak their save.

"Sir, we should immediately warm up the Mass Effect core and prepare for battle. "Demien was on the side, and when the captain was in command, his duty was to propose the building.

In his opinion, it is nothing to keep communication silent when encountering unknown ships, this is the standard operating procedure, but he has already experienced the consequences of rigidly copying the standard process. So he completely agreed with Shen Chao's order.

But according to the rigorous idea of space warfare, they must first assume that the other party is an enemy ship, and then prepare for battle. And Shen Chao doesn't seem to have this plan.

"No, that would expose our existence, our task at this stage is to observe. Not a fight. Shen Chao said while opening the hologram of CIC.

He did not explain the specific reasons for not carrying out combat preparations. But Damien quickly understood what he meant. Their battleship is now on a planet filled with cryogenic gases.

The atmosphere itself provides good cover here. Add to this the armor on their hulls with an average thickness of 6 meters and the hull with an average thickness of 2 meters, and they emit a detectable signal of almost 0.

In this case, as long as the mass effect core of their battleship is not opened, the opponent who is hundreds of thousands of kilometers away will not be able to detect their existence at all.

If it lifts off at this point. They will naturally take the initiative, if the other party is indeed the collector battleship that Shen Chao guessed. They even have a good chance of taking out each other outright.

However, if he did that, it would actually be worth the loss for Shen Chao, because the important purpose of his visit this time was to save Normandy and divert the attention of the reapers.

If his warship directly kills the Collector's ship at this time, it will actually have the opposite effect on this target. Instead, let the Reaper focus on him.

Thinking of this, Shen Chao called up a photo that had just been taken on the hologram of the CIC, which was taken by one of the detectors.

At the time the photo was taken, the nearest probe was 70,000 kilometers away from the observation target, so the image was not very clear, and even after graphic correction, it was still a little blurry.

However, Shen Chao recognized the shape of this battleship at a glance, there was no way, its body shape and shape were too special, and anyone who had seen it once would not forget it.

With a cruiser-class Mass Effect core over 2 kilometers in length, a complex propulsion system, and a shell that strangely looks like asteroid fragments, there's only one such ship in the galaxy.

"This is the battleship of the Collector. Shen Chao announced after seeing the picture. The navigation group, not far from him, was still trying to compare the image data from the database.

"Collectors, but aren't they legends?" Hearing this, Damien wondered, having spent some time at Omega and had heard some mercenaries boast about the legends of the Collector, but he didn't believe them.

"No, they're not legends, they're the only race that can safely pass through the Omega 4 repeater. Shen Chao said in a very affirmative tone, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

"So, is this our job, Survey Collectors?" Damien asked uncertainly, Shen Chao hadn't talked to him about their real mission since he recruited him.

From what he had learned in the past few days, the other Star Alliance crew members didn't know what they were doing, only the very dull "marines" of the entire company and the few people who were not part of the Star Alliance seemed to know something inside.

But these people didn't tell him any valuable information, and he didn't even know where Shen Chao had gotten out so many elite marines until now.

From his observations, these marines of unknown origin were pure soldiers, absolutely highly trained, and many of their movements and habits were obviously cultivated through a long military career.

Judging from the wounds and mental state on their bodies, they have all been tested by war for a long time. According to his experience during the training of the soldiers, each of these Marines can meet the standard line of Starlink N7.

This observation made him very unable to understand Shen Chao's background, because warriors of this level are very rare, and they can usually only be seen so much on some large military space stations.

"Not exactly, someone else is in charge of the investigation and collectors, and our job now is just to observe" Shen Chao still didn't reveal the real purpose ......of their visit, and his deputy captain was still in the middle of their investigation. You can't tell him the answer to the mystery directly.

After another half an hour of observation, the Collector warship had already placed hundreds of probes on a nearby possible shipping route, and then activated the FTL again, jumping out of the system.

It seems that the tactical arrangement of the collectors is no different from theirs, they all lay detection nets, and then wait for the prey to enter the net on their own, and finally catch them all.

The only difference is that their prey is different, the Collector's prey is the Normandy, and their prey is the Collector Destroyer, which thinks it has everything in its grasp.

"Deputy Chief, now I'll leave it to you to command, and when our hemisphere reaches the back of the probe, let the turbine crew warm up the mass effect core and slowly leave the planet......"

After confirming that the Collector Destroyer had temporarily left the system, Shen Chao gave a few orders, and then delegated command to his co-captain again, and then went back to the cabin to rest.

He gave two orders, the first was to leave the planet quietly and not be discovered by the probes left behind by the collectors. The second is to hide in the detection blind spot and be ready for combat.

This is not very difficult to execute, the detectors set up by the collectors are on the guessing channel, as long as the planet they are on turns to the back of that channel, they are equivalent to entering the detection blind zone, and then they can naturally leave quietly.

But the order to prepare for war made the others very confused, who were they going to fight? The Collector Battleship that Shen Chao said was obviously trying to ambush someone here.

According to the Citadel Convention and several other interstellar laws, what they should have done at this time was to report to the council and warn the passing merchant ships of the danger, but Shen Chao told them to prepare for war without anyone notifying them? It's not logical at all.

The Starlink crew at CIC was confused, and so was Damien, even more confused. What does this mean, that they are going to work with the Collectors to ambush others? Or is the collector the target?

Confused, he still carried out Shen Chao's order, and commanded the battleship to leave the icy planet after the Budapest entered the detection blind spot.

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