442 Return and roadblocks
Just when the Federation is frantically increasing the production capacity of warships.
Baltene, the scorpion pirate group's raiding operation, is also in its final stage.
After all, the opening of wormholes only lasts for a year at a time.
Combined with the two months spent in the passage when returning and returning, the entire raid actually lasted only ten months.
Once you haven't returned to the wormhole after this time, you can only stay here and wait for the time when the Interstellar Pirate Federation opens the wormhole to this galaxy again.
If you're lucky, it could be a year.
If you're unlucky, you may not be able to wait for hundreds of years.
Of course, whether there is a wormhole or not does not have much impact on the scorpion pirate group.
In general, they are all warships equipped with hyperspace engines, and even if they don't have wormholes, they can still sail through hyperspace and return to the Sid system on their own.
It's just that there's no need to expose hyperspace technology in order to spend a little longer.
It's not that I'm afraid of anything, but it will always cause some unnecessary trouble.
Especially the guy in Kitamura, in case he uses this to make a fuss, saying that the scorpion pirate group is from an alien galaxy, and it is not a local civilization of Sid.
That would add a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Although it was intended to be so, but...
Liu Tao encountered new troubles at the moment.
At the mouth of the passage of the artificial wormhole, two Slayer warships and two thousand Annihilator autonomic weapons have been deployed here at this moment.
If you want to force your way into the passage, I'm afraid that the entire fleet will lose more than ninety percent.
"How long is it until the tipping point where you can enter the wormhole at the latest?"
"68 hours, Commander, if we miss it, we will have to return to Sid via hyperspace voyage."
"68 hours... It's a bit of a hassle!
”
Looking at the 2002 targets displayed on the deep space radar, Liu Tao also frowned.
"Commander, or let the transport fleet protect our perimeter, and then rush in one go!"
"In this way, the losses of the battle fleet can be minimized, and as for how much the transport fleet and the people above it lose, it doesn't really matter!"
On the side, the deputy made a suggestion.
But in exchange for Liu Tao's fierce gaze.
"Bastards, we're pirates, how can we be pirates who have snatched something and thrown it away?"
"Captain, you're too into the play..."
"What did you say?"
"No, no, I didn't say anything!"
glared at his deputy again, but soon Liu Tao also sighed slightly in his heart.
Is it really necessary to expose hyperspace technology?
But once exposed, that guy from Kitamura will definitely do something, the worst outcome.
The Scorpion Pirates may be ushering...
A combined attack by all pirate civilizations across the galaxy.
I'm afraid, but I'm not afraid, using hyperspace technology, as well as space technology, even if there are only 1,300 warships, it is enough to rely on guerrilla warfare to wipe them all out little by little.
It's just, take out all civilizations, and then take down an entire galaxy, is this what you should do?
We are the future pirate king Liu Tao, not Jiang Xingchen!
What should be insisted on, must be persistent!
"How many light-speed shock ships do we have on board?"
"A hundred."
"Cold fusion bombs, are they all installed?"
"It's already implemented, wait, Captain, are you going to use it..."
"yes, is there a problem?"
"Yes, Commander, this is our killer weapon, and it's a one-off time."
The deputy hurriedly persuaded.
You know, they still have to stay in the Jadeite galaxy group for decades, if the killer weapon is used all at once, then once they encounter danger later, what will they use?
"Cold nuclear fusion bombs are just that, even if they are of the latest generation, and they are extremely large, but a single shot is a range of tens of thousands of kilometers, which is far from a killer feature."
"Speaking of which, it's not to blame Jiang Xingchen for that guy, I told him before I left, give me a few gravity bombs, but this guy just doesn't agree."
"Otherwise, how can it be so troublesome, just throw a gravity bomb over, and everything will be over."
"As for the light-speed shock ship carrying a cold nuclear fusion bomb, it doesn't matter if it encounters a civilization below the fifth order, even if it doesn't have this, and for a civilization above the fifth order, this thing has no effect."
"But at the moment, don't you think it's right to use it against these guys?"
Hearing this, the deputy was slightly stunned.
It seems that this is the case...
What's wrong?
Although the cold nuclear fusion bomb has a large killing range, it has no effect at all on civilizations above the fifth order and with space shields.
That is reserved to deal with civilizations below the fifth order?
The question is, is it possible for those third- and fourth-order civilization warships to force the 1,300 warships of the Scorpion Pirate Regiment to use this thing?
Impossible!
On the contrary, these unmanned self-discipline weapons...
Although it has a strong attack, it is too small to be installed, so it is not equipped with no shield.
A good target indeed.
"That's what we're doing..."
------
Ten minutes later.
Twenty Pangu-class battleships appeared twenty light-seconds away from the entrance of the passage.
This is the maximum range of the spherical autonomous weapon calculated after several battles with the mechanical civilization in the past six months.
At this distance, it is very safe.
Twenty battleships did not move immediately, but just stayed there.
But neither the Slayer battleship nor the Annihilator autonomic weapon on the other side reacted.
It's like you don't see it.
Good guy, are you going to defend the passage to the death, cut off your own retreat, and then transfer warships from other places to encircle and suppress it?
Seeing this scene, Liu Tao was also thinking about the other party's intentions in his heart.
Originally, according to Liu Tao's idea, he would use twenty warships as bait first, and if the other party left the passage to encircle and suppress, then his fleet would directly sail through hyperspace to the passage and then rush in.
After all, although I don't feel sorry for using these 100 light-speed shock ships, I don't need to waste them if I can't use them, right?
It's just that, now it seems that it still doesn't work after all.
This other party is clear and will not move.
In that case...
"Don't wait, let's get moving!"
"Yes, Captain!"
In the next moment, among the twenty Pangu-class battleships, five light-speed shock ships with a length of 100 meters were released within each of them.
Lock on to your target, then accelerate, accelerate, accelerate!
Perhaps, the acceleration efficiency of light-speed shock ships is weaker than that of mechanical civilizations.
But the speed...
But it is not comparable to mechanical civilization.
After all, mechanical civilizations don't have the technology to combat the time effect, so they can only accelerate to 18% of the speed of light at most.
And what about the Federation's light-speed shock ships?
It can accelerate to 0.99 times the speed of light.
On the other side, after discovering that the intruders had released a hundred small ships, the three Slayer warships were also scanned.
A series of conclusions were quickly drawn.
[According to the analysis, the probability of a one-time suicide collision ship, 97%]
[Recommended way to deal with it, avoid its collision route, there is no need to meet it]
【Start Calculating Circumvention Schemes】
[Calculation is complete, start to circumvent]
In the next second, in the array, a Slayer battleship and some of the Annihilator autonomic weapons began to move.
From the path of these hundred light-speed shock ships, it was avoided.
A few minutes later, the shock ship, which had accelerated to 0.48 times the speed of light, rushed headlong into the array of mechanical civilizations.
Immediately...
A hundred dazzling white rays lit up instantly.
Swallow all three of its Slayer ships, as well as all of the Annihilator's Autonomic weapons.
Furious energy, wreaking havoc on everything.
It doesn't begin to dissipate until two minutes later.
"Regiment commander, all spherical autonomous weapons have been confirmed to have been destroyed."
"But those three battleships are intact!"
On the bridge, the radar officer is making a report.
"As expected, after all, the shields of those three warships are also very powerful!"
"Order all warships to activate the hyperspace engines at once."
"Without those spherical autonomous weapons, these three battleships would be toothless tigers."
"Kill them, and then grab a wave of valuable parts from their ships for our last plunder before we return!"
In the next moment, one by one, the hyperspace windows had been opened.