In such a situation, as long as they can quickly cripple the Jace fleet that jumped first, they can win the initiative of the whole battle, and in the end, even if they can't force the Jace dreadnought with thick skin as a city wall, they can delay a very considerable amount of time, enough to carry the reaper wreckage away. ≦，↑.23※x.netbsp; "Stabilize your position, all ready to meet the enemy......" Sister Xue ordered at the last moment before the battle before the two sides entered the range of each other. It was just strange to her that the Jace Dreadnought in the distance behind the Jace fleet and the fleet around it didn't seem to be in league with them.

The front was about to fight, and the Jaces behind had no intention of approaching to join the battle, but just watched from a distance as the Budapest and the Jace fleet that arrived first entered each other's offensive positions.

"Fire ......" Sister Xue didn't have time to guess what the Jace fleet in the distance was thinking, and gave the order to fire after entering the best range. The main gun of the Budapest immediately spoke, and with one blow, it hit a Jace cruiser hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, paralyzing the opponent in place.

Naturally, the other Jace battleships in the vicinity did not sit idly by, and immediately shot a dense barrage of bullets, covering the direction of the Budapest. The battle begins! Although the ship's firepower has not increased significantly, the Budapest has a kinetic barrier comparable to that of a class warship like the Overlord and the Destiny.

With such protection, even if multiple warships of the same class set fire to it, the Budapest could still withstand it. This was the case now, with several Jace cruisers on the opposite side rushing in their direction in an offensive formation. The barrage of bullets smashed on the kinetic barrier of the Budapest one by one.

It was clear that these nearby Jace ships wanted to break through the Budapest's defenses and sink it in one fell swoop. Or push it back and get the Budapest out of the way to the Reaper's wreckage. Sister Xue naturally wouldn't allow such a situation to happen, but she was still waiting to use this Reaper iff to attack their minion collectors' bases.

"The kinetic energy barrier is down 15%, corrected, it's down 18%......" Different combat departments constantly sent the latest situation to the hologram in front of Sister Xue's eyes, which looked dazzling.

The Budapest's shield was shrinking under the blow of the enemy's barrage, but it was not in danger of being broken for the time being. Under the intensive attack of the enemy, the main guns of the Budapest became difficult to aim at the enemy battleship. The hit rate starts to plummet down.

And at the same time. In the distance, inside the Jace Dreadnought on the outskirts of the battlefield, a silent argument was going on. A large number of Jace's intelligence units sit in the dreadnought's central server discussing how to deal with the tricky situation at hand.

Unlike most organic intelligences and even many AIs, Jace's intelligence is made up of individuals called intelligence units. These smart units are essentially small software packages, each of which is responsible for responding to different external situations.

When these intelligent units are in an independent state. Only very low intelligence. But when multiple intelligent units are connected in parallel, they interact with information and work together on the same task. They will show a higher level of intelligence.

When a large number of smart units are brought together. They manifest themselves as intelligence beyond any single organic intelligence. A common Jace individual (the Jace of a mechanical body) usually has dozens of intelligence units within its intelligence core.

Such Jaces possess only basic cognitive abilities, they can understand basic instructions, and work with other Jaces. The ability to collaborate and communicate in complex ways often requires hundreds or even thousands of Jasce Smart Units to be connected in parallel.

Right now. There are nearly a million Jace Intelligence Units in the Jace Dreadnought's large main server that are communicating intensively, and an astronomical number of jù are generated in the exchange every second, and their discussion flow roughly translates like this.

rc1576158: We should stop "heretics" (Jace's name for his own internal intelligence units that have defected to the Reaper) from fighting unidentified individuals......

ad5781621: Objection, we don't know the identity and purpose of the other party, they may also be the servants of the "Ancient Machine" (Jace's name for the Reaper).

rc1576158: Ancient machine qì will not let its servants kill each other, at least not now!

VR1425: Update, the other party has been identified, they are SSC-Budapest and SSV-Normandy, and the commanders are Major Shen and Commander Shepard, they are both Castle Ghosts! … Correction, the USS Budapest is no longer part of the Star Federation, and the captain has been stripped of his ghost status......

DC6625178: They are all involved in the destruction of the Overlord, they have experience fighting "heretics" and can try to communicate with them.

AD5781621: Objection, the reason for their presence here is unknown, and it is unlikely that they believe the evidence we provide......

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In the few minutes of engagement, discussions like this were refreshed tens of thousands of pages on the server, and the Jaces on the dreadnought were always suspicious of the Budapest on the other side.

They were actually hunting down the "heretics" of rebellion within their own race! Because the heretics are working with the Reapers, trying to replace the core algorithm when a large number of Jace's software is updated, so that the entire race of Jace will become loyal servants of the Reaper.

While Jace's race doesn't really care about the "free will" of what organic intelligent life calls individual, they still care a lot about the direction of their own collective intelligence. The act of "heresy" did not have the permission of most Jace, and also violated Jace's rules.

At first, Jace didn't try to turn against the Heretics, but as the situation in the outside world became more and more tense, it became clear that the Heretics' actions annoyed the major races of the Citadel. After a battle with the Citadel fleet by the Heretics, Jace as a whole finally decided to break with the Heretics and began a hunt for the "former people" after the "Heretics' latest acts of sabotage".

When the Jaces on the dreadnought were undecided, not knowing whether to go over to help or what to do, the Budapest did not stop its own killing, although its own kinetic barrier was greatly damaged, but it successfully dragged down the small fleet of "heretics".

"The kinetic barrier is 6o%, we should activate the emergency shield immediately......" After the shield was knocked out by a third, Vincent offered his opinion, still afraid that something would go wrong with the Budapest.

"No, if you shorten the battle distance, the enemy will be overwhelmed!" Sister Xue did not agree with Vincent's opinion, but let the Budapest get closer to the enemy's barrage to shorten the engagement distance between the two sides, so as to reduce the impact of the opponent's artillery fire on her own aiming accuracy.

The Budapest looked like a strong man surrounded by a group of children, easy to deal with a single enemy, but difficult to get out of. Sister Xue's plan was to get the Budapest close enough to compensate for the shaking of her own side when it was hit by enemy fire.

As for why she didn't let the emergency shield activate, it was because she still hadn't let her guard down on the Jace Dreadnought watching from afar. Deliberately not replenishing the shield immediately is showing weakness to the other party, in order to induce the other party's true purpose, to find out whether they are in league with these Jaces they are fighting, or something else.

Under her inducement, although the Jace intelligent units in the dreadnoughts in the distance still did not make a decision, the Jace fleet that was fighting with them in the distance thought that they had a chance to win, and they moved closer to concentrate their firepower.

Unfortunately, their judgment was wrong, and after approaching, the Budapest first fired a few more shots to paralyze several nearby Jace ships, and then used the rogue "ramming" tactics of space warfare when the shield was still halfway left.

Of course, since the opposing side were all Mass Effect ships with their own kinetic barriers, they only used one ramming, and immediately refilled their shields after that, and continued to destroy the remnants of the enemy with their naval guns.

It was also at this time, seeing that the Budapest was about to be victorious, and Jace, who was on the dreadnought in the distance, finally came to a consensus, and they decided to start a call with the Budapest and make it clear that they were not enemies, although the same message was already evident in the battle situation at this point.

If they were in the same league as the previous Jace "heretical" fleet, they would never sit idly by and watch them be wiped out one by one by the Budapest. After the few remaining "heretical" battleships jumped and fled, the Budapest finally received a communication request from the Jace Dreadnought.

Around the same time, Shen finally managed to restart the Reaper's Wreath's Mass Effect Core. After the Mass Effect Field was opened, Shen quickly sent the massive wreckage back into space on the Legendary Plane.

There, scientists will conduct a thorough examination of the wreckage, and eventually several large transport ships will tow the wreckage back to the Great Lakes region of the Earth for testing and dismantling. In the same area, the Galactica is also undergoing dismantling work.

The legendary battleship of the BSG plane was carefully dismantled due to its age. The hull and most of the cabins inside the ship will be preserved and turned into a museum, and other precision instruments, including jump engines and thrusters, will be sent to various research sites for detailed technical analysis.

And when Shen sent the wreckage away and returned to the Budapest, he was now in contact with the Jace Dreadnought fleet in the distance. Of course, since they had just fought the "heretic" fleet, the two sides were still very careful when communicating with each other. Jace was afraid that the humans on the Budapest's side would misunderstand his intentions, while Sister Xue was indeed suspicious of the purpose of the Jace Dreadnought fleet on the other side. (To be continued!)

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