Chapter 425: A Confusing Call

However, because the Qingdao received an order before its departure clearly requested that he should not try to make contact with the target after discovering the target first, he was so excited that he could immediately connect to the special line to the bridge of the Budapest, and reported the good news to Shen Chao, who was bored and waiting for the results, and asked whether he should contact them on behalf of the fleet.

After thinking about it for a while, Shen Chao decided not to let the Qingdao make the first contact on his behalf for the time being. Because they can't be sure where the "plot" is going for the fugitive fleet at this time? The time span of the four seasons of the BSG series is not small, and the civilian fleet is often thrown down so that their guardians can concentrate on the battle.

For fugitive fleets of different periods, their regular methods of contact will also have different effects. The best thing to do is to wait for the Galactica to return to the civilian fleet before contacting them, otherwise if the civilian fleet is frightened, they will probably think they have encountered the Therons as in the plot, and jump to some other distant coordinates agreed with Galactica.

If that happens, God knows how long it will take the expedition to see this fleet again, after all, this plane, whether it is a human fugitive fleet or a Theron ship, has long legs, and it is very easy and enjoyable to run hundreds of light-years with a single jump.

The expedition's warships were snails in comparison, and it would take a whole day to make a few trips back and forth in several neighboring star systems without a Mass Effect repeater. Although the firepower of the battleship is very good, it will not be able to catch up with them in any way.

Based on these considerations, Shen Chao asked the Qingdao to stand by. He passed through the doors of time and space, arrived at other ships that were still searching in other galaxies, and sent the battleships to the outer part of the galaxy where the Qingdao was located one by one.

It took almost half an hour for the 11 ships he had selected to be delivered and lined up in a three-dimensional left-hand echelon, while the others were assigned new missions. Several ships received orders to return to Earth in this plane. Two more rushed back to the wreckage of the previous ship. The excavations there are not yet over.

After doing this, Shen Chao spent a little more time adjusting the position of each battleship in the formation, and did not stop until the average distance between each battleship was reduced to 1,000 kilometers. By the standard standards of fleet warfare in the Mass Effect plane, he had arranged a relatively dense formation that was conducive to defense.

The reason why Shen Chao adjusted the formation of the fleet in this way is because this will be the first contact between the two sides, and God knows how different the actual situation of the other party is from the table xiàn in the BSG series of plots. What kind of warship is the Galactica?

The information officially given by the BSG series is very confusing, according to the number given by the episode. The Galactica was supposed to be a large warship more than 1,800 meters long. And in other settings. The Galactica is more than 4,000 meters long. Not at all a ship of the same class. If the first contact doesn't go well, they will most likely need to be prepared for battle to keep their side safe.

Four hours later, the expedition's fleet remained in place. But the airspace near the civilian fleet was already hovering with 3 squadrons of stealth space fighters and 20 stealth shuttles full of marines they were escorting.

If the Galactica doesn't show up for a few more hours. Or the two parties cannot make a normal call after it appears. The team hidden in the airspace will force a landing on at least one civilian ship and bring it back as trophies. After all, Shen Chao didn't want to return to the earth in vain after wasting so much manpower and material resources. Waiting for the arrival of the fugitive fleet.

In this way, time passed minute by minute, and the officers and men on each battleship were nervously or calmly waiting for orders. Unlike the members of the expedition, not every member of the Space-Time Fleet has experience in performing missions on an extraterrestrial plane. Half of them have only participated in simulated battles and military exercises.

Therefore, although they as a whole have the ability to participate in dimensional exploration operations, as individuals they generally do not have the ability to cope with complex and changing environments. This is also an important reason why the expedition team did not recruit people from here in large numbers to expand the expedition team as much as the training of special forces.

Departure, the system where the expedition fleet is located. In another galaxy 180 light-years away from them. The Galactica and the Pergassos strike against the Thoron Reborn Ship has reached its most critical moment.

One of the two Theron battle fortresses that had previously guarded the Reborn Ship had already been killed by them, but the other two ships from the nearby starfields had rushed back to support at this time. In the battle just now, both the Galactica and the Pegasus took some damage.

As the two Thoron Battle Fortresses that had arrived to support joined the battle, the pressure they had just relieved suddenly increased. This made the commanders of both warships realize that they could not stay here for much longer, and that they had to let the air force do everything they could to kill the reborn ship, otherwise the mission would fall short when more support from the Theron arrived.

Under such pressure, their respective air fleets banded together to organize a final onslaught, and finally, despite the heavy losses of both air groups, they broke through the defenses of the Theron group and blew their strangely shaped reborn ship into a mass of space junk.

After that, the two battleships did not have time to count the losses of each division, immediately recycled their respective air fleets, and each of them left the system with a quick jump on several new craters in the outer armor plates. After two misleading jumps to confirm that there were no Theron units tracking, they all jumped back to the system where the civilian fleet was located.

When they returned, they first sent a telegram to confirm the status of the civilian fleet, and as always, the civilian fleet sent a signal that it was safe and sound. Just as the captains of both sides breathed a sigh of relief and were about to pick up the intercom to say something to each other, the radar departments of the two warships sounded the alarm almost at the same time.

"The radar has detected multiple targets, bearing 324.252.114 and ...... distance," the head of the radar department of the Galactica was the first to warn, but his colleagues on the Pegasos rushed ahead of him to give a more complete description of the target.

"We have 3, etc are 4 goals. The number jù library does not react. Unable to identify the target...... "This was the debriefing on the Pegasos.

"Damn, what kind of ship the hell is Theron, Theron's or ours" Admiral Kane strode to the radar station with a big stride to see the original number for himself.

"I don't know, it's big anyway, gravitational sondes show that the smallest of them is more than 1.5 million tons......" was the answer of the radar chief of the Galactica when answering a similar question.

It was clear that both the Pegasos and the Galactica had spotted the fleets of expeditions observing them from afar, but neither of them could make a correct estimate of the size of the fleet and the size of the ships.

This was also expected by Shen Chao at first. After all, most of the service warships of the space-time fleet have made special upgrades to enhance the stealth ability in space warfare, and the mass effect core of the mass effect battleship will produce a gravitational interference effect on the periphery when it is running, which will greatly change the readings of the gravitational detection equipment. In this way, the opponent will only detect a few warships that have not yet had time to be fully refitted and draw wrong conclusions.

This is also one of the important reasons why Shen Chao is willing to wait here for them to come back, if he chose to contact the civilian fleet directly in the past few hours and scare them away, then when the Galactica returns and finds that the civilian fleet is gone, and his unidentified fleet happens to be in this galaxy, it is very likely that he will treat them as Theron and fight directly.

Shen Chao didn't think that he had come to this plane to fight, whether it was the human fleet or the Theron fleet, he had no interest in eliminating it, and he would avoid using violence as much as possible when he first came into contact, so things had progressed to this point.

However, even after predicting most of the other party's reactions, Shen Chao was still slightly shocked by the scene in front of him. Just as the commanders of the two warships on the opposite side did not expect to find an unknown fleet after their triumphant return, Shen Chao did not expect that what he was waiting for here to end up encountering was actually a fugitive fleet that was still in its heyday.

Of course, it is not accurate to say that it was in its heyday, after all, the captains of the two warships were fighting among themselves. According to the plot direction of BSG, one of them will die unexpectedly soon. But at this time, the human fugitive fleet was undoubtedly in the best period of their original plot. With two combat carriers to protect them, they are much better than the scattered and miserable ones they were when they arrived on Earth.

The Calatigar and Pegasus are actually there! This broke Shen Chao's best expectations, he thought that the plot had been carried out to the final season of the BSG series, and the Pegasus had already been played by Adama's cheating son. Fortunately, most of his other speculations were confirmed.

For example, based on the number of equipment detections of the Budapest, the Shipboard VI determined that the two newest ships, the Galactica and the Pegasos, were both within two kilometers in length and matched the number of images they had previously entered.

This information gave Shen Chao a lot of confidence in what he was going to do next, but at this time, the two captains on the other side were not in such a good mood as him. Because they had already mistaken the ships in the expedition's fleet for some new type of Theron ships, they were preparing for battle and coordinating their tactics against the enemy.

But just as they were mobilizing their crew, who had just emerged from their state of euphoria, a short message from the Budapest reached Cambridge on both sides. The message was simple and deceptive, but Shen Chao knew that it would definitely allow them to stay and talk to him, instead of jumping away.

The content of the telegram reads: "To the intruders, you have entered the controlled area of the Earth Federation, please do your best to indicate your identity and intentions, otherwise we will use lethal force against you." (To be continued......)

PS: First of all, thank you for the tickets of "Solen" and the generous tip of "Shenzhou Kirin". Your support has given me a rare and enjoyable Monday, and I will repay you with more than one yard...... Okay, without further ado, I'll continue to codeword.