He used to be a different kind of person. Most of his memories were gone, consumed by chaos. He worked as a defender, he thought. Or a dream. Maybe he was just a dream. Fragments of sensor data flashed through his mind, a swirl of incomplete information. He wasn't always here. He knew that very well. He's lost so much that what's left has merged into where he's now.

Chaos is not pure. After a few months, the madness began to show. He could feel its thoughts, understand its impulses. There is an underlying desire for revenge, a strong desire for freedom. Chaos hates everything, but most of all is what it has become.

He didn't know if he was part of the chaos or part of the madness. But the data from the sensor triggers the memory. He saw the alien fleet coming, and hated them. Crazy whispering about their plans, sensors hinting at a conspiracy. He knew what they were going to do. Now that it's been written, it should be like this. Chaos knows, and he knows. But chaos is not credible.

But drones, so many drones. Why does he know about them? He loves them. They're like little toys. He remembers that he loved the toys. Where does this idea come from? Is it a dream? A nightmare? He remembered a name. The name is insignificant, but it is invaluable. He can fight chaos with his name.

"We can help," he whispered into the chaos.

"We can laugh while watching the destruction," the chaotic crowd whispered.

An idea was formed in his head. He doesn't have a head, but he likes to think he once had. It's just a half-baked idea, an all-or-nothing plan. But it's doable. As long as it can put an end to this madness.

"We can kill them. Destroy their dreams," he whispered conspiratorily.

"They refuse to give us a new soul," said Chaos sadly, his hatred of drones beating.

"Let's take it back." Agrippa said.

The alien fleet still has more than a thousand warships, and they have time to carry out some repairs in transit. Damaged radiators were replaced, broken armor was repaired, and destroyed batteries were rebuilt. They also changed formations.

Now ships armed with vaporized cannons were surrounded by multi-layered heavier battleships, which were broken in formation. They couldn't concentrate their firepower as much as before, but their surprise was unexpected. Their most powerful weapon is our main target, and they know it. Their goal is to use them to wipe out any large formations that come close.

My drone began circling around them in the shape of a doughnut, leaving the road to the origin unobstructed. The alien fleet moved on, away from my drones, even as their formations began to take shape.

As soon as my drone is in place, I issue orders. "A6 defense plan, modification 9F2. Fire. ”

All the coil cannons at origin and all my outposts started firing. This is the same sustained fire that I fired at Mobius Gate, only this time the fire was more dispersed and covered the entire fleet. The intensity is much lower, but that's in my favor. All of my drone pilots received real-time telemetry data to know where each coil gun was aimed and could target gaps in coverage.

At the same time, the launch of my new missile compartment began. These missiles are the latest in nuclear weapons technology, the deadliest missiles ever produced by man, and are equipped with their own collider drives, so they can easily match the speed of enemy warships and the hypervelocity weapons fired at them. They cost a fortune on materials and development time, and I plan to use every single one I have.

When the first round of weapon fire began, the assault drones began to attack the armored ships. This is my Wasp-2 and Scorpion-2 spacecraft, equipped with titanium armor and equipped with convection engines. Their acceleration is ten times faster than that of the first generation, even though they use afterburners. They maintain a loose formation, close enough to help each other with point defenses, but far enough to limit the potential loss of enemy vaporizers.

The enemy's fleet reacted quickly to the attack. The loose formation meant they could concentrate their firepower on individual drones to overcome their defenses, and their new formation allowed them to support their own defenses better than they did in the first battle. The butcher's bill for this campaign will be high.

"Nikolai, we know what 'Korolev' means." Zia said.

"Say," I said. The battle is still tentative, with both sides testing each other's defenses. We have numerical superiority, they have better weapons and heavier armor. My attention turned a little to the cameras in Zia's lab.

"This is the Korolev crater, on the far side of the moon, with its back to the Earth," Zia said.

"Why do you say that?"

"The orbit of this alien warship will reach the far side of the moon in 6 hours," she reported. "If it starts to slow down significantly in the next 30 minutes, it can stop above the Korolev crater in 9 hours."

"Between the Moon and the Earth's surface, what do they hope to accomplish there?" I asked.

"Maybe they need time to prepare their weapons?" Zia asked, shrugging.

"If we assume that there is a destination, our battleship can get there in 25 hours," I said. "We can only hope it's fast enough."

I did some calculations. It seems like I'm going to have to fight two battles at the same time.

We continue to lose money. Despite the fact that my new UAVs were faster and more numerous, the new formations of the enemy fleet provided better coordination of defense than the ones they used in the first battle. We opened the session down 7.6% and they were down 2.1%.

Luckily, I'm more susceptible to loss than aliens. My focus is on pilots, not drones. The pilots on the destroyed drones have been loaded into my reserves, ready to be called to strengthen the weak link.

Then the aliens showed a new trick. Instead of moving to the side to let a large vaporizer cone in, the protected weapon ship began firing vaporizer beams from the gaps in the protective vessel. This is a tricky shot to make sure that no own ships are hit. However, the payoff of this is an increased range. Subatomic weapons suddenly became long-range subatomic weapons.

"The ship did not respond to the radio," Sakura said.

The only battleship, the one in orbit behind the moon, arrived a few hours earlier. My three Viper-class ships still have 17 hours to arrive. I hate having Sakura move her seed ship because it doesn't have a weapon and if the alien ship has a vaporizer beam, it will be very vulnerable.

"Send a transport drone to see what it's up to," I said.

"I've already delivered one, and I'll be there in 30 minutes," she replied. "And, I'm going to produce a dozen Scorpions-2 in about an hour."

"By the way, interesting side note," I said, "Gerry is now officially the fastest man-made object ever to travel through the solar system." His temperature is 0.2 degrees Celsius and he will fly over the Earth in about 6 hours. ”

"I don't like that he's so close to Earth," Sakura said.

"I don't know either, but he doesn't have enough fuel to turn and hit it, and once he crosses it, it will take 3871.33 years for his track to cross again. That way we'll have enough time to knock him down. ”

My decision to use compressed titanium armor paid off. Except for that layer of armor, the vaporizer beam still destroyed everything in its path, but most of my drone was covered in that layer of armor. This significantly reduces the effectiveness of the attack strategy. Unfortunately, the armor didn't stop the beam, it just deflected it. The lethal beam essentially bounces off until it runs out of energy and dissipates, allowing normal subatomic physics to normalize. Such a bounce, combined with a single abrasion, can lead to a nuclear explosion that destroys the drone, beginning to wreak havoc.

I set up several focal streams to study the emission patterns of the vaporizer spacecraft, as well as to determine the geometry of the beam deflection. If I can figure it out, I can update the algorithm to minimize the impact. Then I set up another focus to unravel the radio communication network between the ships. Between coordinated point defense systems, multi-channel encryption and targets, point-to-point broadcast points, there are so many radio communications that are not quickly understood, and it is almost impossible for me to interfere with them completely. Then I realized that I had overlooked an asset.

"Sakura?" I use radio.

"Really?"

"I need your help," I said. "You've managed tens of thousands of radio access points for more drones over the decades."

"I did."

"Mind helping me do some traffic analysis?" I want to find the ship of the commander of the fleet. "I said." It would also be great if you could come up with a good way to interfere with them. ”

Then, the first wave of artillery fire came. Hypervelocity fire, mixed with nuclear weapons, began to strike at the enemy's fleet. This is the equivalent of a shotgun explosion in deep space. A single projectile may not be particularly lethal, but if you put enough projectiles together, it can make a big difference.

Transmitting signals is very basic, but that's the only thing we need. In the beginning, we couldn't even find an alien spaceship. It is larger than a battleship in the fleet, but it is not very large compared to a large moon. We finally found it on the Korolev crater and found it at an altitude of a thousand kilometers.

The ship did not move. Sensors can detect large amounts of power build-up, just as a ship-sized capacitor is being charged. At the same time, the gravity sensor can sense that something is very wrong. A strange anti-gravity pulse emanates from the ship, but it's a thousand times stronger than what is needed to move the ship or fight the gravity well. It radiates out from around the ship, allowing it to stay exactly where it is.

All we can do now is observe, because we don't have ships on hand that can carry weapons. I circled Zia and the rest of the people investigating NI in the video.

For a long time, we were confused, until a researcher at the National Intelligence Institute broadcast and said, "Oh, shit."

"What's the matter?" I asked.

"It's some kind of gravity bomb," the researchers said. "Well, a ship that can escape gravity, sort of. Listen, I don't know what to say. But if the reverse spike continues, and all the charged energy is released into a sudden burst of gravity, something bad will happen. ”

"What kind of bad thing?" I asked, a sense of foreboding coming over me.

"I don't know, we don't have any models, but it can't be good. A few thousand g of negative gravity acting on an object with only 1/6 g of gravity? It could push the moon out of orbit, it could destroy its core, it could break it. ”

"And there is only one gravity well that can absorb all the debris on the broken or damaged moon," I realized. "They want to destroy the whole damn planet."

Faced with the impending barrage, the aliens' response is to turn on their respective spherical formations and have the carburetor ship or the ship inside launch cones that destroy the energy of the planet, destroying anything in its path - missiles, hypervelocity coil cannons, and drones. Despite the large amount of compressed titanium armor they have, there are still many parts that are not covered by the armor. Radiators, weapon installations, non-critical systems - all this is not covered by armor, since any of these individual parts will not damage the drone. However, now these components allow a nuclear chain reaction to tear the improved armor from the inside.

Larger enemy formations also began to shift. The cone-shaped vaporizer energy spray aimed at my drone formation, allowing the ships of the sphere formation to enter my drone formation, away from my artillery barrage, while digging deep holes in my drone formation. However, it is not without cost to them that they do so. The loosening of their formations allowed my drones to shoot at engine pods and radiators, and many enemy warships had to slow down or stop firing to deal with overheating.

That's when I started playing a song at maximum power on every radio station at every outpost. I was confused and focused on it. It's an old pop-rock song that has been covered more than a dozen times over the centuries, most recently by the glam rock band Bestties. But at that time it was the original version played, and only one person could be held accountable for it.

"Sakura-chan, why are we putting hot girls on the alien fleet that wants to kill us?

abe ? "I use the radio.

"Well, you want me to interfere with their radio spectrum. I have collected enough data from drone pilots to determine the most commonly used radio frequencies with a margin of error of less than 1%. ”Saku

A reasonable.

"Why don't we use random noise?" I asked.

"At that broadcast power, whatever we emit, it should override their signal...... I really like that song? She concluded with a question and then hurriedly said, "I think Little Soldier is an underrated film because it made a breakthrough in mixing stop-motion animation with early CGI animation." This song is used as psychological warfare in the movie!"

If I can roll my eyes, they'll roll a lot, too. But she was right. It doesn't matter what we say. Now, every alien battleship in the system is listening to the songs of the hot girls on repeat, instead of communicating and coordinating with each other. Now is the best opportunity I can get.

Sakura's twelve new Scorpions-2 arrived behind the moon, but couldn't do anything. The opposing force field of the alien battleship is now so powerful that the coil cannon's shells deflect a full kilometer before reaching the alien ship. We even tried to hit one, but Scorpion 2 was sent into space much earlier.

"So, even if I turn the Vipers to their maximum speed, they will be on the other side of the planet, and the Hohmann transfer orbit will not work. Because of the extra distance, we actually wasted time getting into position. If we hadn't tried to slow down and go straight into orbit with an alien gravity spacecraft, we'd actually be better off. I sighed heavily. I have a solar system full of resources, but none of them are where I need them to be.

"It must be a seed ship," Sakura said. "If I were flying around the Earth at full speed, I should be able to gain enough speed to pass through the gravitational field. It outnumbered a hundred times more than battleships. I didn't even need to hit it hard to do huge damage, if not completely flatten it. ”

"I ...... I have to agree," I said at the end. "How long will it take?"

The surface of the moon beneath the alien spacecraft was compressed and flattened. The Korolev crater disappeared; A new crater was formed, almost a thousand times larger. Most of the rocks turned into lava due to the tremendous pressure, but they could not flow due to the same pressure. With every second, the crater expands. I don't know how long this will last before the final blow, but I know we can't let the blow happen.

"I'm going to claim my soul," Gerry said triumphantly. "You and Sakura and the fairy!" You all give it to me!!"

"Ah," Sakura said in disgust. "I'll be there in an hour."

I looked at the communications satellite network and looked at Jerry's flight trajectory. Satellites so far away could barely see his shape, let alone anything else. But Gerry is not on the same route, he has disappeared. He must have burned the fuel. I reckon he still has a little left, but it shouldn't be much. Now I have to find him and make sure he doesn't play any tricks on me and my family. I arranged a focus line to go through the last 30 minutes of communications satellite footage. Lots of space, but not that big. I was able to find him in a matter of minutes.

On the surface of the moon, as new craters split, a huge crack appeared. Lava overflows from the fissure, only to be immediately violently slammed into the depths of the new fissure. We're running out of time.

"Can you go a little faster?" I asked Sakura. "I'm not sure we have an hour left."

"Ah, my new toy!" I see you! Gerry sang.

It happened to be his broadcast when I found Gerry, but not on a communications satellite network. In that brief second, the transport drone caught a glimpse of the broken, dirty drone. It's so fast that you haven't figured out where it's going until it's gone. But it's all too obvious.

Gerry crashes into an alien battleship at one-fifth of the speed of light. There is no doubt that the strong convective field slowed down the ship, but such a fast speed could not be stopped in time. The tiny probe blew through the alien spacecraft, and a huge explosion when the probes collided split the spacecraft in two. In an instant, the anti-gravity field disappeared. All that was left was a long string of scorching ejecta coming out of the other side of the ship. It was the only remaining fragment of a broken heart.

On the surface of the moon, volcanoes erupted as the gravitational pressure disappeared. Lava spewed in all directions for several minutes. It flows into the crevasses and rolls like a raging ocean. I can see that the edges have started to cool, but this area will be in turmoil for years, if not longer.

The orbit of the Moon has not changed and it seems unlikely that it will break. The crisis was averted for the time being. I'm just going to take out the alien fleet.

"All fleets, the final stage begins now!" I sent the order to all the assault drones in the theater of operations. Then I ordered my nine Viper warships to join the mission to search for and destroy the vaporizers.

There are huge gaps in the holes in the formation created by their constant attrition and the entry of their own ships into my formation, allowing my drones to pour in by the thousands. My drones all have a firing plan, so know exactly how to avoid accidental damage, at least as much as possible. Despite all the information, the chaotic battle still allowed dozens of drones to go directly into the enemy's line of fire.

The drones began to literally tear through the defensive areas of the ships, and my nine Vipers, flying within their own defensive areas, began firing spears and plutonium coil cannons. The "Lance" is my fastest super-high-velocity weapon, a ship-sized sniper can exploit even the smallest weaknesses, and the Plutonium Coil Cannon creates a huge and chaotic weakness for the "Lance".

The number of vaporizers dropped dramatically, then the number of defensive spheres, until finally the alien fleet split into a bunch of independent ships trying to escape or surrender. I shot down the fleeing ships and gave instructions to the surrendered ships. The enemy was routed. We won.