Chapter Seventy-Three: The End of the Operation
Agrea, a week later.
With the last transport ship aboard the capital ship, Agrea's evacuation finally came to an imperfect end.
In the end, far fewer people were evacuated than expected, a significant number of refugees died under the butcher's knives of the swarm, and the only good news was that the Rangers escorting Ariel Hansen managed to make it out of the encirclement and withdraw to Port Charles before the evacuation deadline arrived.
Although I don't know how Renault made a deal with the female doctor, at least it seems that the female doctor gave the money according to the predetermined asking price, although because the refugees did not send them away, the money given should not be as much as the reservation.
Behemoth returned to the system where the Pride of Ortaris was located to recuperate, while the two capital ships broke through the blockade of the swarm and returned to the Port of the Dead with a twist drive.
With the evacuation of Agria with the two capital ships and their troops, the agricultural migrant star was completely overrun by the swarm. The Leviathan, which had fought fiercely with the two capital ships, also jumped out of Agria's system.
The Port of the Dead.
After slaughtering Renault fiercely, Yang Yi also turned off the communication directly and stopped saying anything to Renault.
However, A1 must go into the dock to overhaul it, and this time Agrea's mission was indeed beaten badly by the Leviathan, and Hydra still hid outside and never entered the battle, so he temporarily moved to live on Hydra. The soldiers on the A1 ship were picked up by Black Rose, who happened to add some guards to their side.
Hyperion was also miserable and was also sent to the dock for overhaul. But it was clear that Renault had no other ships to use, and had to find a hotel to stay in the Port of the Dead, and as for the good brothers on board, they had to settle it themselves, and Renault did not fail to pay them anyway.
In addition to the money given by Renault, he naturally has a lot left, and Renault also paid the remaining year's salary according to the contract, so he has a lot of money at present, so he has to start finding more things for A1 that can be used to improve combat effectiveness.
At present, what he urgently needs is something that can deal with a large number of enemy air force units, but although the heavy platoon artillery has strong firepower, the rate of fire is slow, and it is not easy to hit targets such as Phoenix fighters and alien insects and dragons that are maneuvering at high speed; Although the missile launcher can achieve semi-active guidance, the ammunition consumption is too large and the price is too expensive. Every air-to-air missile fired is a significant credit.
The same problem was with the H.A.L.O missile launcher installed on the Hydra earlier. If you want to say that the imperial military has no problem installing this kind of weapon, at least the emperor is most willing to throw money at the army, and people have a lot of money to afford to use it, but a "small" mercenary like him, it is okay to use it in small amounts, but it is still too expensive to use as the main equipment.
The Yamato cannon is mainly used to fight large single units. The power of this thing is indeed very great, especially since the A1 is equipped with an enhanced version, I don't know if it's 1.5 or 2.0, but it's definitely much stronger than the standard Yamato cannon of the general Minotaur level. But it's still not enough to take out the Swarm Leviathan or Behemoth with a single shot, and it's clear that the other side won't give her a second chance to fire or hit.
But no matter how powerful the weapon is, it is not something that a battleship can carry. For example, the Draken laser cannon, this weapon is quite powerful, and the aircraft carrier of the Star Spirit may not be able to last long in front of this weapon, but it is estimated that no one can carry this thing except for the pride of Otalis.
After thinking about it, Yang Yi decided to start from other aspects. It is no longer from the weapon, but from the auxiliary equipment.
For example, in this operation of Agria, due to the barrier of communication with the ground, they were almost unable to obtain any accurate battle reports, and they were blind to the battle situation on the ground.
ATVX provided a solution: there were two options, one of which was to enhance the ship's communications. Isn't the communication capability of the A1 incapable of supplying both ground forces and air combat? It will be equipped with a variety of equipment to enhance her communication capacity, so that it can communicate with both air and ground forces to liaise and coordinate. This is a lot of money, because it is a modification that touches the ship's overall ship electrical system.
There is also a plan, since the temporary communication station itself is relatively fragile and can be easily destroyed by the enemy's air force, then replace it with a non-vulnerable one. Since the fleet cannot ensure the safety of the communication station in the fierce and dangerous battlefield environment, let the communication station have sufficient self-protection capabilities. ATVX and Great Sky have jointly launched the Unmanned Space Station Production Module, which allows warships to use resources to produce, assemble and operate an unmanned space station in the field, responsible for communications, command, early warning and many other important duties. What's more, the unmanned space station in a standard state is equipped with a certain amount of armament, including a certain laser battery and a fixed-point defense system.
Of course, in order to adapt to the ever-changing battlefield environment, ATVX has also launched a modification service "intimately". According to the different needs of customers, ATVX can modify the production module, so that the produced unmanned space station has a variety of capabilities to meet different battlefield needs, such as the demand for excessive communication capacity due to the huge ground forces, ATVX can add additional communication modules for the unmanned space station; Or if the customer needs additional early warning services in case of a possible surprise attack, ATVX can install an additional early warning module to bring the space station's detection capabilities to a new level.
This is actually a completely new technology. The technology has been applied on a small scale in the Imperial Army and has begun to be put into trial operation in the market. But in fact, it's not too ideal, after all, generally speaking, small mercenaries don't need this kind of thing, although middle-level mercenaries have ships, but under normal circumstances, temporary communication stations are enough, and large mercenary groups will withdraw directly when they encounter the idea of piercing their hands, and they can't use this thing, as for their nest, they already have their own complete space station, and they don't need this kind of thing. It's the same with pirates, and those local fleets are not needed.
As a result, after the launch of this thing, there were very few people who really wanted to do it, and in the end, ATVX had no choice but to focus on cooperation with the military. But it's always on the market, but it's just that no one buys it.
After Yang Yi put forward his request today, the sales staff of ATVX suddenly thought of this high-end module that had been neglected, and quickly recommended it to Yang Yi.
The price of this thing is indeed very expensive, and the salesperson promised him that as long as he is willing to buy it, he will be promoted to a VIP customer of ATVX - as for the biggest benefit of VIP customer status for Yang Yi, one is that he can enjoy some discounts when buying things.
And the other is that he can take over their commission from the ATVX office......