Chapter 18: Worm Star
"I hope they have a qiēshun lì!" Captain Márquez muttered under his breath as he watched the Attack pass through the light orbit.
The catapult track used by the USS Attack Independent is standard for the USS Faith spaceship, and can be used by both the attached small warship and the mecha board 6 ship.
As a space-level battleship, the Faith's artillery attack control range has reached more than 5oo light seconds, and the detection range of the main optical brain radar is even about ten times the range of the main gun.
When the Faith encounters an enemy in space, if its attached small warships and soldier mechs take off slowly, the daylily will be cold. Therefore, they must rely on light catapults to send battleships and mechs to the front line.
As for the return trip after the battle, the small battleship can fly back autonomously with light with the addition of a powerful power furnace. The soldiers, on the other hand, need to go back to a specific mecha to board the 6 ships first, and if they fly back on their own, it will take at least a few sidereal days.
Qin Lun's judgment of Captain Marquez was very accurate, this captain with air combat experience was not the first time he had cooperated with the Apostle, and when he was young, he had also encountered an Advent Apostle once. Since their arrival, Márquez has been observing the apostles' appearances, measuring the level of cooperation between the two sides.
Márquez has a very clear understanding of the apostles, unlike Dongyue, Vera and others who just worship blindly. He knew that with each apostle's coming, the enemy and the enemy would receive more or less support.
Of course, Márquez did not understand this fact when he first met the apostles. Now, though, he's thinking about it. The Guise are not the center of the universe, and the apostles or the stars do not take special care of the Guise.
As one of the apostles said to Márquez before, the apostles were concerned only with their own mission. The Apostles of the different factions are either allies, competitors, or mortal enemies, and they are always bound by their own mission anyway.
Therefore, as the native of this world, Márquez does not need to pay attention to the enemy apostles at all, only needs to cooperate with his own apostles.
Most of the time, the apostles had a mission to help their own indigenous peoples, who were more steadfast than the racists, regardless of their loyalty, except for their fighting abilities.
After Qin Lun and the others arrived, Marquez observed for a few days before meeting with them, just hoping to know what the overall strength of this group of apostles had reached. The Faith will definitely arm itself with this kind of free starry support, but how much resources and attention it will have to pay depends on how much strength the apostle himself has.
Robin and Qin Lun, out of the relationship of the exercise, thought that Captain Marquez would think that his group of people were not good, but in fact, it was just a misunderstanding. The Captain of the Faith had a vicious gaze, not only feeling the excellence of the patrol team, but also quite grasping the psychology of everyone.
The apostles vaguely felt constrained for a certain period of time, and to put it bluntly, Captain Márquez, who had not come forward much, took control of the situation, leaving them without the arbitrariness of the previous mission world.
However, the captain of the Faith was still very willing to devote himself after realizing the strength of his apostle, and he was full of courage in this regard.
Robin and Qin Lun's original worries were just groundless, and when Robin first proposed to equip the Jannamer biological battleship, Captain Márquez had already acquiesced in his heart. He dragged off for a few days to reply to Robin, hoping that the apostle would value his own investment in resources.
Unbeknownst to the Patrol Team, the USS Attack Independence that Marquez had prepared for them had kept the entire crew of the Faith busy for five sidereal days. Not only was a small warship of the latest type drawn, but all of the Angel clones in stock on the Faith, as well as Jannamer's biological tissue samples, were consumed.
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"Sherlock, what is this?" In the Attack, which had already set sail, Bobby excitedly fumbled around the battleship, for a child whose mental age was only a little over ten years old, the allure of such a thing as a space battleship was completely irresistible.
"Don't touch it...... That's the fire button, ah, that can't be touched, it's the cabin guard light cannon! Ahh Who's going to help me tow this stinky boy away! ”
Looking at the armory, which had been blasted out of a large hole by the light cannon, Sherlock chased Bobby a little frantically, but compared to the apostle's body, he was more like he was scratching Bobby.
When the two first came into contact, they still had a tacit understanding of the same smell. It was only after a while that Sherlock realized that he had made a mistake. Poppy, the anemo elemental, is a mechanical idiot at all, but he seems to be extremely fanatical about anything on the Attack, and it turns out that the air elemental is insulated from machinery, and most of the things he touches will not be good.
"Giggles!" Looking at the two teenagers of the same age, the surrounding group of Guise girls who followed the Attack couldn't help but let out a burst of exquisite laughter, diluting the melancholy mood of leaving the Faith and attacking alone.
"Fortunately, the soldier you gave is a full-creature mecha, if you are given a BBc (metal mecha), it will not be a minute for you to disassemble it into scrap metal!" Sherlock panted and clasped his knees and looked at Bobbi viciously, "Don't touch anything in the armory again!" ”
After boarding the Attack, the Apostles finally showed that Captain Márquez was still generous. The Attack is more than 500 meters long, shaped like a roller, with Jannamer's biological armor attached to its surface, and its core uses cloned samples of Robin, Bobby, and Sava to be affected by the replacement ability of the three, and has the offensive and defensive and auxiliary abilities of some apostles.
The Attack has a powerful Char-class particle railgun that can destroy the outer tissues of Jannamer's mature body with a single shot. If it is used to bombard planets, it is no less powerful than a small meteorite with a diameter of more than one kilometer.
According to Sherlock, this main gun was dismantled from a Char-class main space battleship, and it can be regarded as a small ship carrying a cannon. This different design would have been impossible to achieve, because the Attack's gun mount was finally installed using Jannamer's biological tissue, but this main cannon could only be controlled by the Apostle with mental power.
In terms of the staffing of the battleship, the Guise beauties who were originally responsible for taking care of the apostles were all on the ship, and there were also ordnance officers who specially created special equipment for the apostles, so that they could repair the weapons and equipment of the soldiers and mechs at any time.
Although the Apostles have their own independent warship, it is still the crew of the Faith who is in charge of controlling it, and they are the beautiful lieutenant of Captain Marquez, Dongyue.
In addition to this group of men, Márquez provided the Attack with auxiliary soldier mechs and Guise pilots at Robin's request. This is because the apostles showed up during this training that it would be a waste of combat efficiency to let a few of them fight in the air alone.
It was difficult for the apostles to learn the tactics of air combat of the Guise in a short period of time. If, during the battle, three or four Guise pilots were piloted and accompanied by an apostle, the combat efficiency of the entire group would be increased several times over.
Seeing the results of this simulation training, Marquez did not hesitate to equip each apostle with four subordinate flight officers to form a crew of ten five-people. Of course, among the ten five-man crews, Robin, Bobby, and Sava were only reserve members, and unless they needed it, they would have a greater role in staying on the Attack.
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At this time, on an asteroid that is about a dozen light-years away from Attack, there are also unknown changes.
When viewed from outer space, the planet's entire atmosphere is purplish-red, and the surface is covered with dark brown mossy vegetation. The planet's climate looks humid and hot, and the moisture on the surface of the vegetation seeps into a trace of plant sap, and the whole is filled with a thick purple mist, much like a highly toxic miasma.
Of course, there are parts of the planet that are not all this kind of moss clinging to the ground, but also a transparent bramble that resembles a crystal, and a huge plant that towers into the sky and is shaped like a mushroom umbrella.
These mushroom umbrellas tend to grow near water sources, mostly up to a kilometer in height, and can cover a radius of several square kilometers of the earth's surface. Strangely, the plant's mushroom umbrella is covered with holes, densely packed like a nest of a group of gophers.
In the vicinity of these holes, there are often various strangely shaped biological spores. This thing does not seem to be a plant, and many times the surface will gently wriggle like a placenta, and some blister-like material will emerge.
There are quite a few large winged insects flying in circles near these spores, which seem to protect the safety of these spores from being harassed and attacked by planetary beasts.
The spores are large and small, the big ones are no less than hundreds of high-rise buildings, and the small ones are the size of small cars. When they mature, they open like flower buds, revealing the wet newborn organisms inside. Most of these creatures resemble various reptiles, with hard carapaces and chelicerae on the outside, and some even have crystalline insect wings.
If Qin Lun and the others were also here, they would be able to see the big spider they encountered during the exercise, the black crab, from the insects all over the mountains. These creatures are apparently the Gigus Zerg mentioned by Captain Marquez.
"Gollum!" A faint wave spread, and a group of flying insects patrolling the spores seemed to be frightened and moved away from the group of spores beneath their feet.
"Smack!" Before a spore could fully open, an arm full of scales broke through the wall and squeezed out of the spores. As it moved, more than a dozen spores in the vicinity also changed at the same time, cracking open one after another, revealing the creatures inside.
Although these creatures also have insect characteristics such as carapace and antennae on their bodies, the strange thing is that they are all "humanoid", and after they come out, they immediately look around vigilantly, and obviously have extremely high intelligence.
"Dear Apostle of the Starry Sky, welcome to the Gigus Zerg!" Just as these insects looked around, an old thought suddenly sounded in their minds.
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