Chapter 67 Strong and Weak
The characteristic of the Sith people is that they would rather die than surrender, so Ling has no intention of actually persuading the other party to surrender. However, this is considered a standard procedure. No matter whether the other party will surrender or not, he must at least shout first.
Of course, the result was no different from what was expected. The group of Sith people on the opposite side launched an attack without hesitation.
The first one to rush up was a seemingly tall Sith battleship soldier, but the opponent's equipment showed that this guy was a technical soldier rather than a marine. During the break in the battle, the Pilgrim leader and the eight companions who had contact with the Sith people had given us a simple science popularization, so we knew very well that the equipment of the Sith people in front of us belonged to the battleship soldiers.
The so-called battleship soldiers are combatants who serve on battleships, but surprisingly, this sequence does not include marines. In other words, the marines on the Sith battleships are not battleship soldiers, and the real battleship soldiers are basically technical soldiers in addition to officers. They are not soldiers used for direct contact warfare from any angle, so in None of them have received any intensive training in terms of personal fighting ability, and at most they have only completed basic training. In addition, the power armor of battleships is also very different from the power armor of marines.
The first thing that needs to be determined is that the power armor of the battleships is not actually worse than the power armor of the Marines. On the contrary, their power armor is actually better than that of the Marines. The main reason for this is money.
That's right. The reason why the battleship's power armor is better is due to financial considerations.
Compared with the Marine Corps, which directly participated in the battle and was destined to suffer heavy casualties, the casualty ratio of the battleship soldiers was actually not particularly high. Although the proportion of battleship losses in each space battle is large, the actual casualty rate on battleships is not high. After all, this is the space age, and all kinds of protective measures are very advanced. Therefore, unless they are directly hit and killed by enemy artillery fire during the battle, few people will die from the disintegration of the battleship.
This determines that the battleship soldiers will be quickly rescued by one's own dedicated rescue ship after the battleship is sunk. It is rare that a ship sinks and all the people on board are buried with it. Of course, there is an exception to the situation where the power core is hit and explodes. In that case, there will definitely be no survivors. But in most cases the number of survivors is actually quite large. After a ship is sunk, it is a common figure that more than 80% of the battleship soldiers on the battleship survive. Even if one's own side is defeated and cannot rescue those who floated out of the battleship in time, the enemy will gather the prisoners of war. So generally there really won’t be too high a casualty ratio.
However, unlike the battleships, the battles of the marines are head-on conflicts. The duel between battleships is over as long as they knock over the opponent's battleship, but the marines must directly kill or at least seriously injure the opponent and lose their combat effectiveness before the battle is over. Therefore, the casualty ratio of the marines has always been that of fleets of all races. The highest among them.
Because of the high casualty rate of the Marine Corps, the Marine Corps' power armor not only has a very high damage rate, but also cannot be recovered in most cases. This situation determines that the Marine Corps' power armor is consumed very quickly. If the price of Marine Corps equipment is too high, then the pressure on military spending will be very high. On the contrary, because the battleship's power armor seldom needs maintenance and replacement after being equipped once, it will not cause too much financial pressure, and the military is willing to spend more for it.
In addition to the issue of equipment obsolescence and update speed. There is also the issue of the value of personnel.
Just like the military on Earth. Battleship soldiers are a technical branch with long training time, high expenditures and very high remuneration. Similar to pilots on Earth. The training time of the Marine Corps is very short and does not cost much. The pay is also low, similar to ordinary army soldiers on earth.
Based on the above situation, it is easy to draw conclusions. The training price of battleship soldiers is very high, and the death of one is a huge loss to the army. Hence the need for better protection. On the contrary, the training cost of the Marines is relatively much lower, and it is replenished very quickly. After death, the pension does not require much, so there is no need to pay special attention to it.
Based on this theory, the power armor of battleships must be significantly better than the power armor of marines. Of course, this so-called good does not mean that the battleship's power armor is more effective than the marine's power armor. This so-called good is actually reflected in other aspects.
First of all, the battleship's power armor is stronger in terms of life support. In addition to the basic sealing system, the battleship's power armor also has a very strong life support system. When the battleship's power armor is damaged, this set of power armor can still ensure that the person wearing it will not die in a short time in space. In contrast, the Marine Corps' power armor is not good. As long as it is penetrated, it will immediately lose its life support capabilities in the space environment.
The second is the automation system. The Marines' power armor is a combat tool just like their guns, so it doesn't require any intelligence, as long as it can be operated easily. However, the battleship soldiers are not. Because the capabilities of battleship soldiers are mainly focused on technology, it is impossible for battleship soldiers to have the combat capabilities of marines even if they wear power armor. Therefore, the battleship soldiers' power armor will be pre-installed with combat auxiliary programs and automatic return home. program. To put it simply, in the event of a battle, this program can correct the user's action errors, conduct autonomous defensive combat, and also provide various escape suggestions. And once the user is unable to maintain consciousness due to injury or any other reason, the power armor will automatically enter escape mode.
Yes, it's escape mode. The powered armor of battleship soldiers will not take them to fight, because battleship soldiers can only exert their maximum combat effectiveness on their own battleships. However, battleship soldiers without battleships are just a bunch of weak chickens, so it is the best choice to evacuate the battlefield quickly and not increase the burden on the people on the front line.
Based on this theory, all battleship soldiers' powered armor does not have forced combat settings. For battleship soldiers, evacuating the battlefield after one's own battleship loses its combat effectiveness is not considered an escape. On the contrary, it is saving one's life and returning to the rear to join a new battleship. Only in this way can they maximize their combat effectiveness.
It can be seen from these settings that the battleship's powered armor is not prepared for combat at all. Although the guy rushing up in front of him was wearing power armor, his combat power was one-third that of a Marine. After all, its power armor doesn't have a few weapons at all, but its defense is pretty good. But no matter how good a human shield is, if it has no output at all, what's the use of having a high defense?
Seeing the roaring battleship soldier rushing up, Ling calmly raised his left hand and pinched the opponent's neck. It didn't feel like Ling was reaching out to attack, but rather like the other party actively stuffing his neck into the palm of Ling's hand that had been raised in advance.
After squeezing the guy's neck, Ling didn't show mercy. He pushed upward slightly with his thumb, and with a click, the guy's head immediately turned in an abnormal direction, and then Ling let go and took a step back. The guy's body hit the ground with a thud like a stone and completely stopped moving.
The other battleship soldiers next to them were stunned for a moment, and then someone reacted and took out the main weapon hanging next to the jet pack on their back.
The powered armor of battleships all has propellers. After all, if a battleship sinks in space, it will be difficult for people without its own power to escape. Not to mention the consequences of floating randomly in the universe, if it accidentally floats in front of one's own artillery fire, or accidentally floats near the tail nozzle of another battleship, it will be extremely dangerous. Of course, there is also the possibility of being hit by artillery fire from the opposite side. Although the enemy generally does not specifically use artillery fire to attack those warships who abandon the ship, the other party also does not take the initiative to avoid these people. So it is possible to be accidentally rubbed. As for the firepower between warships, even if they are passed by at close range, the powered armor on their bodies will definitely be destroyed, so power is necessary.
However, the technology of the Sith Empire could only stop there. The propeller on their battleship's power armor is a special device that relies on liquid oxygen and electric current accelerators. This device releases oxygen from a liquid oxygen cylinder in a backpack. It is then accelerated and ejected using electromagnetic effects, acting as a thruster to produce an acceleration effect.
This injection method is actually similar to the design of the thruster backpack on the spacesuit used by humans when they first entered the universe in the early 20th century. However, the thruster backpack at that time relied on the pressure in the high-pressure gas bottle to automatically eject. Electricity performs secondary acceleration. Therefore, it is consumed very quickly and usually cannot support a flight for a long time. But the Sith Empire's jetpack is much more advanced. The use time is very long, and the oxygen in the cylinder is not entirely used as jet propellant. The oxygen in this cylinder is also used to provide breathing for the battleship soldiers in the power armor. Unlike the air-filled oxygen bottles used by diving clubs, the Sith Empire's battleship powered armor uses pure oxygen.
When people breathe, they actually consume only the oxygen in the air, and other gases will not be consumed. There will be more carbon dioxide in it, so if it is filled with a normal proportion of air, most of the space in the cylinder will be occupied by useless gas. After all, the oxygen content in the air is less than 21%, and the rest is It is a gas that humans do not need. But people cannot breathe pure oxygen directly, otherwise they will suffer from oxygen poisoning. Therefore, the method used by this equipment is to continuously circulate the gas exhaled by the user, extract the excess carbon dioxide, and then send it to the injection port, where it is used as a jet propellant. During this process, the system will automatically extract pure oxygen from the oxygen bottle and add it to the circulating gas, so that the oxygen content in the gas received by the user's respiratory tract is always maintained at a basically stable standard.
The biggest advantage of this method of circulating gas is that an oxygen bottle of the same volume can hold nearly 4 times more oxygen, and the excess oxygen can also be used as propellant, allowing battleships to fly directly to nearby rescue ships or Any nearby ships on our side have hope of self-rescue anyway.
Of course. This injection system is quite large because it carries oxygen bottles. Those power armors carrying this thing on their backs are almost catching up to the backpacks we have on the backs of our power armors. But you must know that the thing behind our power armor is not just a propeller. The thing behind our power armor is not only a plasma thruster, but also a weapon backpack, which contains a universal folding weapon module and a small backup energy device. The function is much more complicated than this. It's only about the same size as their backpacks. As a result, these guys' backpacks are so big just for the thrusters.
The weapons these guys hang on the sides of their weapons backpacks are also a pretty weird device. This equipment mounted on the side of the backpack is not a rifle, but a shotgun. Yes, it's a shotgun.
What are the characteristics of a shotgun?
It has short range, wide strike area, and powerful power at medium and short range.
These capabilities may seem useless, at least not to people in space. However, in fact, this is the best weapon for battleship soldiers. why? the reason is simple. Battleship soldiers have not received good combat training, so their hit rate when using rifles is generally much lower than that of Marines. then what should we do? Very simple. Aren't you having trouble aiming? Just use shotgun. One shot sprays out a large area. It's not easy to miss, right? Moreover, the power of shotguns is well known. If you are attacked at very close range, holding a shotgun is definitely more intimidating than holding a rifle, because the enemy knows that he will die if you hit him, but he may not necessarily kill you if he hits you.
Of course, the shotgun’s slow rate of fire and short attack range is also a problem. But that's not a problem.
Battleship soldiers do not need to charge, but need to use guns to indicate that the battleship is finished, or that they are resisting the invasion of enemy marines inside the battleship. If the battleship is destroyed, all they have to do is run away or fight defensively. In this case, the rate of fire and the range of fire are actually of little significance. As long as it can deter the enemy and hinder the pursuit of the opponent, the range and rate of fire of the shotgun are not a problem in this case. As for the enemy's invasion of one's own warships, it is even simpler. Except for special areas such as the flight deck, most places inside the battleship are narrow passages. The firefight distance is not too far, so the range advantage is completely meaningless. As for the slow rate of fire... In fact, the advantage in fire coverage is enough to make up for the problem of rate of fire.
In short, it is actually the consensus of the universe age to equip battleship soldiers with shotguns. The creators' battleship soldiers are actually equipped with weapons similar to shotguns. Of course, the creators have relatively high technological capabilities, so they are not using ordinary shotguns, but multi-functional electromagnetic rifles. In addition to the main ammunition firing port, this weapon also has a lower-hanging firing port, which can be regarded as a super-large-caliber shotgun, and can also fire a variety of large-caliber ammunition such as special grenades. As for the pilgrims, it's even more exaggerated. Basically all of them will have a shotgun-like area-effect weapon, since the Pilgrims are notoriously protective of their own personnel.
After these guys took out their weapons, they aimed at Ling, but Ling didn't move, but looked at these guys coldly. "It seems that you don't plan to live anymore. Then there is nothing we can do." (To be continued ~^~)