Starry Sky Wings One Hundred and Forty-Three, Revisiting the Old Land (3)

143 Revisiting the Old Land (3)

As Sonia previously reported, after the two ships returned to normal space, the sensors did not find any targets that might attract their attention within the detection range, but Risen did not dare to slack off, and in the spirit of caution, he still ordered several search patrol detachments to take off at once and patrol in several different directions.

He felt that he had good luck today, although Miss Anne was a little dissatisfied, because although this mission was a real combat mission, the result was not much different from the various 'peace' characters she had carried out in the past year.

However, he soon stopped laughing, because, a few hours later, before the Rapid could leave the XY1987 space, a Lightning fighter soon reported to him the frustrating and uplifting news that an Imperial unmanned monitor had been spotted near the route.

"What's going on? Why didn't we find it before? It wasn't until so close that it was discovered? He felt a pang of annoyance and remorse, and at the same time a little puzzled and confused, this empire's unmanned monitor was found very close to the fleet, and there was no doubt that at the same time that the fleet discovered it, it must have detected the fleet, but, why hadn't it been found before? He remembered that in this direction, he had sent two Lightning fighters on patrol and search missions, and they should have been able to detect the unmanned monitor and warn the fleet long before the fleet approached, instead of waiting for it to send a message.

Faced with questioning, a young Lightning fighter pilot of the Green Team tried to explain, somewhat nervously, "Major. We've scanned the area before, but the drone wasn't located directly in front of the route, but on the side of the fleet's route, directly on the back of a piece of rubble, to cover its presence with gravel. The sensors on the Lightning Fighter can't tell the difference between the monitor at any time, but rather treats them as a whole, sir, and I'm not passing the buck, but you see, the Empire disguised this unmanned monitor as if it were rubble. Even if it's close, it's hard to identify with the naked eye, even if its signal is intercepted by the Liberator and notifies us. It took us a lot of work to find its ......."

"Indeed, it looks like a part of the year, it doesn't move or have any obvious signals...... "Risson's eyes pondered the images that came back to him, and he said in thought. As the pilot said, this unmanned monitor is designed not to be like a monitor at all, ordinary monitors always have some edges and corners, antennas or equipment, this thing is good, it looks like a part of this gravel, its shell has been analyzed, and it is not much different from ordinary gravel composition, and it blends perfectly with the surrounding environment. The main equipment is probably hidden beneath the rubble-like outer surface, and if you don't pay attention, even if you don't pay attention, even fighter jets pass by in its vicinity. In the case of high-speed movement, it is also difficult for pilots to detect it.

Risen knows. Advanced sensors are used to detect and identify targets by detecting and analyzing various changes in the environment, including light, sound, electromagnetic wave disturbances, object movement and vibration, gravitational field fluctuations, heat, pressure, chemical material trajectories and energy conduction and fluctuations, etc., through the detection of these changes, processed by the computer system, transformed into a human-understandable way to display on the cockpit screen for our reference. Although the sensor of the lightning fighter is not as powerful as the sensor installed on the battleship, the application principle is roughly the same and the corresponding simplification has been carried out, otherwise it is difficult to install it in the limited space of the bow of the small starfighter, and the huge and complex sensor array on the battleship or early warning and control aircraft is different, it pays more attention to detecting and analyzing the changes in various energy conduction and flow near the fuselage in space, but this also brings a problem, if the enemy turns off the engine and hides in the rubble or wreckage and does not move, It's hard to spot with sensors, as evidenced by his ambush by Sonia at Henison and the fact that he and Jessica evaded the Imperial Banshee's search on the planet HD531E.

“…… Major, major, are we going to wreck it? The young pilot asked.

"No, it's too late, and there's not much practical point in destroying it at this point." Risen shook his head, this unmanned monitor has sent a message out, it is this message that exposes the existence of this unmanned monitor, and they also relied on the information it emitted to find this monitor, although the content of the message is encrypted, they can't decipher it at the moment, but there is no need to decipher it, fools know what the content of the message is.

He was suddenly very interested in this unmanned monitor, generally speaking, the unmanned monitor does not need to be so complicated to design, because it always has to send back the discovery information, and once the information is sent, it will definitely expose itself, and the other party will never sit idly by, this thing is a one-time consumable, he has never seen the Empire, the League or the Federation have such a design before, perhaps, the Alliance can study it well, look at its internal design, shell materials, etc., so as to improve the Alliance's own unmanned monitor, Or find out if there's a way to spot it better and farther away than to go under the nose of the monitor and not discover its existence until it's exposed on its own.

"Captain," Risen said, turning his head to Captain Aristide who had been keeping an eye on them, "can you delay the trip a little?" ”

"Major, what do you want to do?"

"I would like to send an ambulance support ship to try to salvage and recover this unmanned monitor and hand it over to our technicians for analysis and study, maybe they will be interested." Risen spoke his mind calmly.

"Well, there is a need to take a look, but the ships can't stop, our most important task at the moment is to escort the Speedy away, who knows if the Imperial fleet will already be on its way? We're going to slow things down, Major, though. You can send an ambulance support ship to carry out the salvage and recovery mission, and let them catch up when the mission is completed. Captain Aristide thought about it for a moment, then nodded in agreement.

"Thank you, Captain."

An ambulance support ship with two robotic arms stretched out in the bow slowly approached the unmanned monitor.

"Report on your current situation, 1701." Risen watched the recycling site through the screen in front of him. He asked.

"Uh, sir, 1701 is approaching, it looks calm and nothing out of the ordinary, like a ripe peach on a tree, waiting for us to pick." The pilot of the ambulance support vessel flew around the gravel twice. After scrutinizing the unmanned camera for a moment, he slowly slid his ship in the direction he thought it should be.

However, the deputy in charge of operating the robotic arm is not as optimistic as him. "Peaches? The question is that ripe peaches fall for us to pick, so how do we pick them? I haven't even figured out where the connection is, so do I have to tear it off the rubble with a robot? Or do we carry the whole tree home? ”

"Look carefully, just because you didn't find it doesn't mean you don't have it." Risen said.

"Yes. Sir, it's searching......" The deputy replied as he looked closely, and after a moment, he said with some uncertainty, "Wait, I found out, let me try it and see if my guess is accurate." ”

The two robotic arms slowly approached the unmanned monitor under his nimble manipulation. In addition to the gripping function, this multifunctional robotic arm also has a number of different functions attached to the front of the robot. Including cutting, welding, drilling, very flexible.

It slowly approached a slightly noticeable bump on the edge of the unmanned monitor......

"Okay, I've turned on its masking panel...... Well. As I guessed, this thing holds itself to the gravel by a couple of automatic metal drilling bolts...... Right now...... Let me turn the bolt back in the reverse automatic...... I think I'll be able to bring this back to the Liberator. The deputy said slowly to himself as he carefully operated the mechanical arm.

"Good...... I've got one, and now I'll take care of the others. He said with satisfaction.

"Wait, look, what is this?" The driver of number 1701 pointed to the center of the unmanned monitor, where several red lights suddenly lit up.

"What?" He followed the driver's gaze, and with the help of the clear magnified image of the ambulance support ship, she saw it, and so did Risson, there was not only a red light, but also a panel exposed, with a small long screen on it, the cursor flashing and flashing, as if waiting for something to be entered, and at the top of the screen was a set of numbers that were constantly changing.

Just stunned for a moment, all of a sudden, the pilot and deputy of the 1701, Risson, Captain Aristide, and others who were watching from the Liberator all turned pale, and they understood what this was.

"Full speed back, get out of there." Risen yelled at 1701 in a hurry.

The pilot was not slow to react, and the ambulance support ship immediately retreated at full speed, but before they could retreat far enough, an exploding fireball engulfed the piece of rubble, and the unmanned monitor self-destructed......

"1701, talk back, 1701, how are you doing?" Risen was nervous, and the screen was filled with black and white dots.

"1701, can you hear me? Back. The string in his heart was tight.

After a while, a voice came back, "Sir, we're fine, fortunately we retreated quickly, the explosion destroyed the mechanical arm, the surveillance head was also damaged, the appearance of the body was moderately damaged, and there was an air leak in the cockpit, which is now blocked, and the most fortunate thing is that the engine is fine." ”

Whew, Risen wiped a layer of cold sweat from his forehead, and said with palpitations, "Forget it, let's go back, we are indeed lucky, this ghost thing did not explode on the spot." ”

"No, Risson, the empire also has to take into account the situation of its own people going to dismantle, and the last one may be waiting for the correct code to be entered, if the code is entered incorrectly, it will cause the unmanned monitor to self-destruct." Yao comforted him.

"I feel like this mission may not be so simple, Fei Ren, I'm really worried right now." He said slowly, he is really bottomless in his heart now, they have been discovered by the empire, I am in the open and the enemy is in the dark, I don't know what will happen in the future?

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