Chapter 513: The Meeting Point of Fate
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This is Hargreeff's makeshift studio on the Pegasos, and the armor he sees on the workbench has been ripped from dead warriors, with the aim of using guò technology research to counter the UNSC's production and scientific research capabilities in armor technology.
According to the current observation of the expedition team, there are obvious structural problems in the industrial chain of UNSC, and the most important problem is the poor industrial linkage. Although UNSC has opened some seemingly high-level technology trees, it is always difficult to form large-scale production capacity and technological breakthroughs due to the lack of vertical support in the industrial chain.
These problems can be found in the military armor they produce, among which the exoskeleton armor of ODST obviously has the problem of energy storage and low output. As an exoskeleton, ODST's armor only provides twice the amount of power and 50% movement speed of a normal warrior.
Even with such a small output, without a shield to snatch power, this exoskeleton can only run at high intensity for 2 to 3 days and the battery must be replaced. Although it is much more durable than the exoskeleton of the main plane, as an interstellar civilization, this battery is completely substandard.
Although the armor of the Spartan warriors solved the problem of too little power supply and output, it went to the other extreme. The operation and transmission system of their armor are too sensitive
, the operator needs to do the corresponding internal organ strengthening transformation and long-term practice to achieve normal operation.
This demotes the entire piece of armor from a combat tool to a "work of art"! While it seems that the Spartan warriors wearing the Mjolnir armor have significantly improved their combat effectiveness, they have sacrificed the battlefield maintainability of the entire armor.
Although a Spartan warrior looks imposing in such armor, he is essentially reduced to a medieval knight, and needs a large number of servants to follow him with a suit of equipment and a BMW under his crotch, only in this way can the "knight" exert its maximum combat effectiveness.
Noble 6 is equipped with the Thor's Hammer Armor, which is not a Phase 2 Warrior. It is a modified version of SPI armor, but its armor is in the same vein. Hargrave examined the broken parts of his armor, and it was clear that the drivetrain underneath some of the bad-sighted parts of the armor had been destroyed.
Since the armor of the Noble 6 is a special product of the UNSC's military department, there are absolutely no parts in the expedition's inventory that can be directly replaced. However, after some inspection, Hargrave didn't think that this kind of damage was a big deal.
The engineers out there can't fix it because of the limitations of technology and tools. But Hargrave doesn't have such limitations, he has the core technology in various expeditions, and repairing a complex exoskeleton is only a question of whether he wants to or not, and there is no question of whether he can repair it.
"Do you know who designed your armor?" Is it Halsey? Hargrave asked, examining it.
"No, I don't think Dr. Halsey was involved in this. However, I am only a soldier. The information ...... "Noble6 really doesn't know who designed the armor on his body. However, he knew that he was not the same as the Spartan warrior of Phase 2, and the armor on his body was probably not the work of Dr. Halsey.
"Very well, if she had designed this garbage, then I would have been very disappointed. The quality of the Thor hammer she designed is quite impressive! Hargrave said, gesturing to a set of tattered and strict Mjolnir armor on his workbench.
Although it sounds like a mockery. But in fact, this is already the highest rating Hargrave can give to any armor tech peer. In the eyes of his super genius, most of the so-called geniuses are no different from intellectual retardation, and if anyone's work can be recognized as "okay" by him, it is already a very remarkable achievement.
Hargrave's "high evaluation" of Dr. Halsey, whom he has never met, is also based on the fact that he has checked the other two sets of Thor's hammer armor before, and in his opinion, if the armor on Noble6's current body is from Halsey's handwriting, then the opponent's shooting level has definitely dropped significantly, so there is such a question.
"Would you like to upgrade your armor?" For example, upgrade to the level of Thor 5 or 6 generations! Hargrave asked directly after the inspection. In his opinion, not only repairing the armor of the Noble 6 is not a problem. And it's not too difficult to make some upgrades to bring it up to the level of the Mjolnir armor that the Spartan 2 warriors equipped.
Now Noble6 is still a supernumerary. Naturally, he couldn't be given a nano suit, but directly repairing this set of armor that in his opinion had a strict design flaw was undoubtedly a pit man, so he raised it and upgraded it directly.
Anyway, the technical level of Thor's hammer armor is not high in his opinion, except for the advanced AI that can't be carried casually, the other parts are outdated technology in his opinion, and he can make this set of armor in his hand to the level of Thor's hammer if he does it casually.
Noble 6 hesitated. But in the end, he agreed to Hargrave's modification. After taking off his armor and giving it to Hargrave to rebuild, he was taken to his guest room to recuperate, and Hargrave told him that it would take him a few hours to modify his full-body armor.
The rooms assigned to Noble 6 are not very large, but they are very, very well decorated. Here, a tired Noble6 took a shower. After changing out of his stinky clothes, he finally lay down on the soft big bed in the guest room and fell into a daze.
He still felt a little incredulous about what was going on at his moment, and he didn't know if he was lucky or unlucky. Although he avoided the fate of dying in battle on Zhiyuan, where is the road ahead of him? Will he be able to use the power of this organization to save the UNSC from defeat?
Like countless people who were new to the expedition, he was so anxious about his future that he couldn't stop thinking about these questions. However, because he was so tired these days, he fell asleep not long after lying down.
In Hargrave's workshop, a whole host of mechanics and engineers are busy, disassembling and reworking Noble 6's armor at Hargrave's request. Some people are responsible for making and replacing armor with better armor. Some are responsible for strengthening the transmission structure.
All of these less important parts were left to the mechanics or engineers, and Hargrave himself was installing new equipment and modifying the armor operating system for the skeleton of the armor. The Mjolnir armor does have many advantages over the armor on the Noble 6, the most important of which is that it is equipped with a nanomachine self-repair system that Hargrave considers to be very primitive.
This repair system is not very efficient, but it can self-maintain small defects in the armor, effectively enhancing the maintainability and battlefield survivability of the Thor's hammer armor. And what he's doing now is adding the same system to Noble 6's armor.
Since the expedition mastered significantly higher nanomechanical technology than the UNSC, the cost of such a modification was low. The speed was also fast, it only took ten minutes for Hargrave to get his own part done, and the other departments also completed the transformation of the other parts within an hour, and the only thing left was for the Noble 6 to try it on.
And at about the same time, in the UNSC fleet group assembled in the nearby galaxy, the Autumn Wind Atsun was also making final pre-battle preparations. The AI Cortana delivered to them has been installed and is inspecting every corner of the ship one by one.
Among the several Spartan fighters on the ship, except for Carter, the leader of Noble's team, who was still being treated by doctors in the infirmary, the others were already lying in hibernation in the hibernation chamber, just like the master chief.
Since most of the large fleet of UNSC has already arrived. The fleet commander was already urging all the captains of the battleships that had been assembled to report on their readiness. Once all the ships have arrived and are ready, they are ready to rush back to the Reach and Covenant fleets for a fire battle on an unprecedented scale.
Originally, the captain of the Autumn Wind was ready to report that he had prepared, not only his crew had reported that the various departments had been prepared, but also Cortana, who had just been loaded on the upper control platform not long ago, also reported that the whole ship was in good condition, but it was in this situation that Cortana prevented him from sending a message that he was ready.
"We have a problem. Captain. There is a batch of unregistered arms in the hold! After inspecting the various departments of the ship in detail, Cortana finally discovered the anomalies set by Shen Chao before the war.
"I know, Cortana! This may be new to you. But in reality, mistakes in the allocation of combat materiel are quite common. Captain Case knew about the unregistered munitions Cortana was talking about, but he thought that Cortana was "unfamiliar" and didn't understand the unspoken rules of the Navy.
"No, that's not what I meant, there's a strange signal coming out of those shipments. It's like someone specifically wanted me to notice. Cortana realizes that Captain Keith has misunderstood, she is not the kind of good baby type of AI, although she does not know much about the UNSC Navy's material distribution problems and various unspoken rules, but she is not going to make a fuss because of the slightest registration error.
At Cortana's explanation and request, Captain Keith eventually had to postpone reporting to fleet command. Take a team of Marines to inspect the unopened munitions. Since the Autumnwind had not encountered a ground combat mission before, these new weapons have not yet been unboxed.
Of course, these are not the only problems, the real obstacle that prevents the ship's marines and ODST from priing open these boxes is that the weapons cases are double-layered, the outer layer is just packaging, and the inner layer of boxes is explosion-proof cases and are protected by combination locks. And none of them, including Captain Keith, the cargo receiver, had the code for these combination locks!
Of course, this kind of minor problem was not a problem at all in Cortana's opinion, and with the help of Captain Case, she was able to access the combination locks with some of the interfaces of the detection equipment, and quickly decipher the codes of the locks one by one. (My novel "The Expedition of Time Travelers" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lucky draw 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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