Chapter 432: Hard Contact
A day later, the chaos that had occurred on the Kaship the previous day was finally quelled, and the No. 1 Theron who had been handed over to the Ka Ship refused to admit that he was a Theron at first, and it was only after the doctor sent by Shen Chao to the Ka Ship to dissect his companion's body in detail and open the autopsy report that he finally admitted that he was a Theron man. and asked for an interview with Shen Chao.
The people of the Galactica only now realized how stupid their reaction was yesterday, when they almost exchanged fire between a few Theron and their "fellow Earthns." and sent a telegram to ask Shen Chao if he wanted to meet this Theron man.
Shen Chao wanted to laugh very much after seeing the message sent by the other party, these guys' thinking is really peculiar, and they are about to catch up with the brain-dead generation he has seen in a certain country of hope. This style of knowing that you have made a mistake but still not apologizing is really in the same vein.
Soon he replied to the other party: "No." The reply was unexpected by everyone, especially the Theron No. 1 who had asked for a conversation. In his opinion, Shen Chao, as a representative of the Earth Government, could not refuse his request to talk no matter what he thought in his heart.
After all, he knew very well that the Theron had never been in contact with this so-called Earth Federation before. Even if it is just out of curiosity, as a representative of the government, the other party should not refuse his request to talk.
It has to be said that as the first model of the Theron born after the First Theron War, this No. 1 still has no problems in terms of logic. At least it was a lot better than the circle of humans around him who were guarding him.
But what he and the humans in the fugitive fleet didn't know was that this Earth Federation was just a concept that Shen Chao had made up in order to investigate the characteristics of their two races. He didn't have to interrupt his plans for such a concept.
At this time. The few warships he had sent a day earlier had already made the discoveries she was expecting. In a galaxy less than a dozen light-years away, a Theron battle fortress was conducting a search operation. It looks like they're searching for traces of the fugitive fleet.
With the help of the ship's stealth system, the battleship sent by Shen Chao was not discovered by the other party, and was adjusting its course to track the other party. After receiving the information, Shen Chao handed over the task of dealing with the fugitive fleet to Roy, and he led a commando team through a series of space-time gates to the warship that was monitoring the Therons.
The Hummingbird frigate, which tracked and monitored the Theron Battle Fortress, was originally a warship that was expected to be equipped with the Star Alliance, but if it weren't for the fact that the construction was about to be completed, just in time for the galactic preparations, this frigate would have been commissioned and patrolled with other warships to patrol the major human colonies.
However, due to Shen Chao's turmoil, the entire galaxy of the ME plane is now preparing to welcome the return of the Reaper. In this context. Light warships like the Hummingbird instantly became unpopular. Many of them were unarmed. It was converted into a civilian high-speed cargo ship and put it into the civilian sector.
Most of these frigates that were converted into civilian ships were sold to ordinary merchants and industrial enterprises, and some fell into the hands of interstellar pirates, and eventually, some of them were purchased by Shen Chaotong's shadow broker and transported back to the main plane for transformation. The Starlink frigates in the space-time fleet basically came about like this.
After being purchased by the expedition, the Hummingbird was mainly upgraded in stealth and detection capabilities. Compared to other frigates in the fleet. Its firepower is weaker. The armor is also not thick. But if you only talk about the stealth effect. The Hummingbird and now the Budapest are of the same class.
After leading people to the bridge of the Hummingbird, Shen Chao first studied the situation at the scene, and then quickly decided to organize a storming force. Strive to take down the lone Theron warship in an hour.
It wasn't a decision he made with a pat on the head. In fact, he has been planning such an operation since his return to the Budapest yesterday. It remains to be seen whether the humans of the fugitive fleet are worth his efforts to save, but he must take revenge on the Theron people who have bad intentions when they meet them.
It has to be said that the Theron people hiding in the immigrant fleet made a very bad first impression on him. Although their attack was unsuccessful and the members of the expedition were unharmed, Shen Chao was still enraged by their brainless behavior.
Before he boarded the ship, he originally wanted to find an opportunity to have private contact with these lurking Therons, but the indiscriminate terrorist attacks of these Theron people made Shen Chao feel quite bad for them.
Combined with his eagerness to get the Jump Engine as soon as possible, Shen Chao finally decided to carry out a retaliatory operation against the Theron people, grab a ship and the jump engine inside, and then go back to the negotiating table to decide what to do with the Theron people.
After confirming the status of the target, he returned to the Zero space station to begin the specific personnel arrangements, first, he recalled the marines on the various warships in the fleet through the Guò space-time gate and reorganized them on the Zero space station.
This step didn't take long, as each ship he sent out had a space-time gate, and as long as he had a pass in hand, personnel could travel freely between the battleship and Space Station Zero.
After recalling the strength of an entire reinforced regiment in the fleet, Shen Chao gathered the commanders of the various detachments and told the assault plan he had formulated in a large conference room near the airport.
Since the battle fortress of the Theron people is a large warship, and the internal space is comparable to that of a small city, many details of the plan can only be dealt with by the commanders of each squad after the landing, and due to the risk of being interfered with or even controlled, this operation will not carry any auxiliary intelligent machinery.
This has a great impact on the Marine Corps, because they often use security aircraft as important combat support tasks such as pathfinding, searching, and transporting ammunition in their regular training, and now they have to take on all the work in battle.
In contrast, the expedition team members around Shen Chao did not have this problem, but because their numbers were too small to search for the Theron Battle Fortress after they were dispersed, they could not undertake this task independently.
After confirming the rules of the firefight, Shen Chao took some time to show everyone the general internal structure diagram of the Lower Theron Battle Fortress, most of the details in these drawings were from the Pegasus, they had successfully attacked some lone Theron Battle Fortresses before, and had the experience of boarding ships, so these structural drawings they gave were the most valuable for reference.
On the basis of these drawings, they arranged in detail the steps of the operation and the deck level and specific areas that each team would be responsible for after boarding. After carefully confirming that everyone was clear about their responsibilities, Shen Chao announced the dismissal of the meeting.
Two hours later, at the not-so-spacious exit hatch of the Hummingbird, several specially modified shuttles flew out with two expedition squads, and they formed a loose V-shape, and it took only a few minutes to reach the absolute alert circle of the Theron Battle Fortress.
But just as the human warships couldn't detect them before, the Theron warships couldn't detect them when they were already close at hand. Several shuttles in optical camouflage formed at a very low relative speed as they approached an open airport on the battle fortress.
They landed at the airport fairly smoothly without alarming any warning devices...... Unable to expect anything to be silently aboard the warship, the Theron people's defenses at the airport were very weak, and there were only two small patrols of Theron warriors patrolling the airport at a leisurely pace.
In order not to startle the snakes, Shen Chao did not choose to alarm the two patrols after landing, he led a small team of members to avoid the enemy and sneaked directly towards the engine room, while the other team went straight to the bridge on the upper deck.
Fifteen minutes later, the two teams arrived at their intended positions without alerting any of the Theron on board. After making sure that everyone was in place, Shen Chao turned on the mobile communication channel and shouted softly: "Start the first stage of the mission." After giving this order, he ran out from behind the wall and smashed the two patrolling Therlons into scrap metal with his bare hands.
After receiving the order, the team members around him also undisguised themselves and wiped out all the Theron people in the engine room. A minute later, there was good news from the bridge that another team had managed to capture the bridge and capture several of the humanoid Therons inside.
Since the Theron are a mechanical race, their individuals have the ability to connect with each other, and their warships have a large number of networked devices that gather the wisdom of all the Theron people on the ship, so it is inevitable that the other Therons on the ship will be alarmed when the mission progresses.
The alarm sounded for the enemy attack, and the Theron people on all decks and cabins put down their work, and a large number of Theron warriors who were on standby were urgently activated, ready to organize to deal with the uninvited guests on the ship.
Considering the huge number difference between the two sides, they were very likely to threaten the two teams guarding the engine room and the bridge respectively, but Shen Chao had already considered this problem before coming, and at the same time as the alarm sounded, he said calmly in the action channel: "Start the second phase of the mission."
After saying that, he opened a space-time door with a diameter of about 5 meters on the spot and threw a red glow stick inside. At the same time, the other team members on both sides also seemed to have discussed it, and escaped from the area where the glowstick was still guarded.
Soon, two manned giant mechs walked out of this space-time door carrying a giant equipment the size of a truck. At Shen Chao's suggestion, they put the equipment they were transporting on the open space. Then the two people who operated the giant god mecha also quickly jumped out of the driver's seat and ran to the nearby guard. (To be continued......)
PS: First of all, thank you for the "Ice. Turning snow" and "8051", which voted today. In this annual single dog holy war day, although I spent most of the day playing the game, I still took out the timecode update, well, it seems that there is nothing else to say, everyone will see you tomorrow