Of course, they still have some final preparations to do before going to the Halo Plane. Some of the key team members were still on mission in the Alternate Plane at this time, and the scale of the operation required the direct involvement of all the key members of the expedition, so they had to wait.

According to Shen Chao's plan, half of the entire expedition team members are expected to participate in this mission. In other words, there will be close to 500 members from 4 brigades. Including Hargrave, who had not been on a field assignment before, had to get involved.

The danger of the Aura Plane was the highest of any plane they had ever visited, and the opportunities were unprecedented. As the first scientist within the expedition, Hargrave will accompany them throughout their important operations in the Halo plane with his core scientific team.

Although the scientific research team he brought has gone through many rounds of streamlining, the number of people still exceeds 200. Among them are biologists, weapons specialists, theoretical physicists, AI developers...... Basically covers all the uncharted areas of the anomalies they may encounter in the Halo Plane.

In addition to the unprecedented number of team members participating in the operation, there are also a lot of experimental equipment to be put into actual combat in this operation. From individual weapons and vehicles, to a batch of their newly converted warships, they will be put into actual combat for the first time.

The modification of the Pegasus from the 035 plane has been basically completed, and the Pegasos, which is equipped with extra-thick layers of additional armor and a whole bunch of new weapon systems, already has the same level of firepower and protection as the "Reaper Killer".

In the same batch of modifications, there were also 4 Theron Battle Fortresses, although they also added a lot of outer armor and Element Zero cores, but these four giant ships still failed to reach the Cheng Dù of the modified Pegasus in terms of defensive strength due to their own structural strength.

Despite this, these remodeled giants have become the new generation of capital ships of the space-time fleet. Of these, the Pegasos received the largest modification of its entire hull

Most of the unarmored parts of the interior were converted into gun mounts.

Most of the space inside the entire hull was used to house the new 6 Super Main Guns, so that the interior crew of such a huge ship was only twice as large as the Budapest! And the size of the Pegasos's hull can easily fit 10 Budapest! The entire ship was jokingly called the converted Pegasus a "battery" by the engineers in charge of the refit!

This kind of comment is faithful to the actual situation in a great way. In order to maximize the strength of primary and secondary firepower and restraint against all types of enemies. The Pegasus is equipped with three main weapons with different firing principles.

In other words, the 6 front-mounted main guns belong to 3 different technical systems, which makes the difficulty of firepower coordination and equipment maintenance skyrocket. Two of the main guns mounted at the bottom are the Mass Effect Acceleration Main Guns of the Starlink Dreadnought.

This main gun fires a spherical superalloy solid projectile with a mass of 36KG, and the maximum discharge speed of the projectile is equivalent to that of the main gun of the Budapest, which is about 90% of the speed of light, due to the larger mass of the projectile. The maximum kinetic energy carried by its projectile is about 3 times that of the main gun of the Budapest.

The full force of each main cannon is close to the energy generated by the explosion of 400 million tons of TNT, which is equivalent to 8 times the maximum yield nuclear weapon in human history in the main plane, and almost equal to the entire energy released by a magnitude 9 earthquake!

And several main guns installed in the middle and above the hull were more technical. The two main cannons installed in the middle hull are high-energy particle beam cannons developed by the best scientists and engineers in the Mass Effect Plane and the All-God Castle space.

This cannon is not yet widespread in the Mass Effect plane, and is currently only equipped with a small number of new Reaper Killers. Shen Chao also took a lot of effort to get these two valuable strategic weapons dedicated to the reaper.

However, since the Particle Beam Cannon is not a particularly mature new weapon, these two Particle Beam Cannon are much more difficult to maintain than the two Mass Effect Booster Guns below, both in terms of space and maintenance.

Of course, since these two particle beam cannons have the splash damage of kinetic weapons and the high penetration characteristics of energy weapons, they can be regarded as combining all the advantages of kinetic weapons and energy weapons. Therefore, it takes up a lot of space, and it is worth the trouble to maintain.

The two main guns mounted on the top of the Pegasus are higher than those below. Those were two large-caliber Sénix guns. It's completely reaper technology that the Citadel race has reverse-engineered to copycat it for. The main gun fires neither high-kinetic projectiles nor high-energy particle beams.

By analogy, the medium of the Cynicus gun is somewhere in between. It emits a jet of high-temperature metal. In terms of firing principle, it is very similar to the Mass Effect Booster Main Cannon. Both are emitted from the physical metal through electromagnetic acceleration and mass effect acceleration techniques.

Unlike the regular Mass Effect Booster Cannon, the metal fired from the Cynicus Cannon is heated in the barrel to a high-temperature liquid bound by a magnetic field before being fired. Then it was fired straight out by the acceleration coil inside the barrel.

In this way, the firepower of the battleship has a strong continuity, and the probability of hitting distant targets is greatly increased, and at the same time. If the opponent does not have extremely strong shield protection, such a high-speed metal jet can easily cut any heavily armored battleship in half. It's as easy as a hot knife slicing butter.

With such a powerful primary weapon, they did not forget to comprehensively strengthen the secondary armament of the Pegasos's air defense. The dozens of electromagnetic acceleration secondary guns originally equipped with the Pegasos have long been dismantled and disposed of as scrap metal, and the newly installed ones are the latest large secondary guns.

As with the main weapon, in order to pursue maximum restraint against the enemy, the type of secondary gun is not single. Of course, since it is mainly used for air defense. So they also don't need three weapon modes to restrain the enemy.

The 64 secondary turrets of the newly installed Upper Pegasos were divided into two classes, one was a heavy turret, which was mounted up and down the central axis of the hull to protect the fragile keel under the armor. Due to the heavy responsibility of this heavy turret, the Séniks secondary gun, which costs two batteries at the highest cost.

These dozen or so Cynicus secondary guns have both a high rate of fire and a destructive killing ability. It is impossible to hold any frigate with a length of less than 200 meters, and a vehicle of one level or less will not be able to withstand its blow and remain intact. The smaller ship was immediately wiped out after a single shot.

In the other heavily armored parts of the hull, a number of quadruple laser array turrets are installed. With its long range, high rate of fire, and high accuracy, this turret is limited in lethality but is powerful enough to stop and destroy any incoming aircraft and missiles.

With such a powerful weapon system, the new Pegasos naturally needs an extremely powerful "heart" to provide the energy needed by the large energy consumers throughout the hull. And this is also difficult for expeditions with large technical reserves.

Pegasos' new power core is a massive, high-purity zero-element core that is nearly 20 times the size of the Budapest's mass effect core. The Activation and Pressurization structure is also completely different from the Budapest's core, and if you remove its altered appearance and upgraded pressurized structure, you'll find that it's actually a Overlord Reaper's Mass Effect Core.

As for where did the expedition get the Reaper Mass Effect core? Naturally, it was the remains of the ancient reaper that had been dragged back earlier. The Reaper had died tens of thousands of years ago, but its Mass Effect core was as intact as new.

In line with the principle of making the most of a qiē high-tech achievement, this Reaper Mass Effect core was eventually installed on the Pegasos. Of course, it wasn't the only source of power for the Pegasos, and in fact, it wasn't even the main source of power for the converted Pegasos.

In fact, although this zero-element core has a theoretical total energy level of a small mass star, and the efficiency of energy output is very exaggerated, it can only be barely regarded as one of the ship's backup power sources.

The main power source of the modified Pegasos is more than forty large nuclear fusion reactors on the second ring mountain on the space station Zero! The energy generated by those reactors is connected to the Pegasos' Zero Core and various primary and secondary weapon systems through hundreds of large cables and a large flat space-time gate with a diameter of nearly 50 meters.

The end result of so many external power supplies is that the Pegasos has a super shield that is almost impossible to breach, not only with a very high maximum shield value, but also faster than the Budapest.

Of course, the converted Pegasus is only a ship, no matter how powerful, and they will face many types of dangers in the Halo plane. There are fierce planetary battles on the ground, and large fleets in the starry sky.

In addition to these visible dangers, there are also some ruined ancient weapons and relics scattered throughout the galaxy. And these ancient ruins are their main target, and the ruins of both the Precursors and the ancient humans are full of technologies that promise to greatly enhance their war potential.

The main goal of the expedition is to gather as much technical equipment as possible to strengthen themselves as the plot progresses, and in case of critical or favorable situations, they will also consider forming a short-term alliance with the UNSC against the powerful Star Alliance.

Of course, such a decision can only be made by Shen Chao, and it must be done after confirming the situation on the spot. Their previous exploration team had only made very cursory explorations of Earth in the Halo Plane and some nearby galaxies.

So far, they have only had a preliminary understanding of the UNSC, and in general, the UNSC is even more corrupt and incompetent than they initially expected, although it is fighting an interstellar war with the Star Alliance to determine the survival of the human race, but this organization does not seem to have the dominant position in human society, and even if the war situation is urgent, it still cannot gain the support of all mankind. (To be continued......)

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