Chapter 272 The Rise of the Primarch: The Executor

The shining light of the subspace is dancing outside the bridge window. The shining and unpredictable space exists outside the ship. It is like a rushing sea wave flowing from both sides. Countless lines and energy waves converge into one A passage, a star gate that allows ships to travel from one end of the galaxy to the other.

Vito stood behind the hanging window of the bridge and looked at the subspace passage outside. The shining blue light shone on his face and also illuminated his gray and black straight navy uniform. On his arms were symbols symbolizing the Federation Navy. The soaring eagle holds a planet under its feet, and a ring of anchors surrounds the planet's ring. A military rank badge composed of five gold stars is matched on Vito's shoulders.

Vito's straight lapels surrounded Vito's neck. He was standing by the hanging window with his hands behind his back. A small human figure suddenly appeared on a console next to him. She had her hands behind her back and was wearing a tight-fitting black and gray tights. Her short hair, which is as close to her body as skin and made of gloss, makes her look young but very capable.

"Sir, we are about to arrive at Nocent." She said. Vito turned his head in front of the window and looked at her and nodded slightly. He then looked at the subspace passage outside the window again, but he did not remain silent.

"Helen, how is the situation in the outer ring assault?" Vito continued to hold his hands behind his back, the blue space tunnel light was projected on his face, and the shining light slid from both sides of his body to the inside of the bridge behind him.

"The situation is going well, sir. The Sixth Fleet, the Seventh Fleet, and the Tenth Fleet reported that they have broken through the western defense line of the Trade Federation. The Marine Corps has captured the Valorian Star. General Speke and Colonel Prok are organizing a follow-up attack. They guarantee that they can capture the Ildak Ring Corridor within a month.”

Helen said and waved her hand, and a holographic star map randomly appeared in front of her. On it were countless advancing light points. They were like daggers piercing the heart of the outer ring intensively. The tip of the blade was gradually penetrating deeper. , drain the giant's blood until it dies of complete blood loss.

Vito glanced at the star map out of the corner of his eye, and nodded with satisfaction, "Where's Yulayang's side? I remember saying at the last briefing that it was difficult to fight like that."

"This was the case last time, but Captain Kate seems to have found some way to break through the automated defense line of the Yurayan Alliance. The artificial intelligence on Captain Kate's flagship reported to me that their fleet has arrived at the Yurayang Alliance. The attack will begin as soon as possible."

Vito nodded slightly, and he moved closer to the hanging window. He almost walked in front of the glass window cut out of the steel beams. Vito's fingers were gently pressed against the window, as if he wanted to touch the light wall of the subspace. Same.

"Tell Kate that the combat robot factory must be completely destroyed. If FAN's information is correct, a large part of the factory is in underground permanent fortifications. Tell her to send the Marine Battalion down to completely destroy everything in the factory. I don't want to I saw a robot coming out of nowhere."

Helen turned to Vito. A series of data flashed across her eyes. The command was transmitted quickly. The quantum entanglement communication array equipped with the Archon allowed the command information to be transmitted to the other corner of the galaxy in an instant. Helen's eyes flashed briefly. It turned green in an instant, and she raised her head and looked at Vito's side face.

"Sir, Captain Kate's artificial intelligence adjutant asked if the star destroyer weapon can be used to destroy the star itself." "No, tell her no." Vito immediately said sideways, pointing in the direction of Helen and giving the order with certainty.

"Tell her that the factory must be destroyed, but Geonosis itself cannot be destroyed. After ordering the follow-up fleet to repair the planet's star port and ground facilities, all reinforcements transferred from the Federation need to be supplied through Geonosis, Only in this way can we join the outer ring battle, which is our key logistics hub, and we will also need a base to station in the outer ring in the future. "

Helen nodded slightly, her eyes flickered again, and the light disappeared after a brief moment. She also raised her eyes and looked at Vito, "The order has been issued, sir."

Vito also nodded, and walked back inside from the hanging window of the bridge with his hands behind his back. He walked along the central walkway of the command deck of the huge bridge and came to the huge holographic imaging instrument at the back.

He walked through countless naval members busy on both sides. Countless operating platforms, terminal instruments and control areas were neatly arranged on both sides. This is the brain and nerve center of the entire Executor. All parts are With the assistance of various officers and intelligent programs, it was carried out in an orderly manner, and the neural network was woven into a truly efficient brain.

When Vito walked to the holographic projection table, Helen also flashed over. The little lady with extraordinary artificial intelligence appeared on the table. As she gently raised her hand, countless holographic icons and data floated up. The huge but But everything in order gathered in front of Vito's eyes, as neat and clear as everything here.

Vito stood at the table with his hands behind his back and reviewed the information on it. It was the battlefield situation compiled from various galaxy battlefields during this period after he left the Harvest Star Command. There were countless briefings, information and requests for instructions. of arranged.

It’s hard to believe that Vito has to deal with such huge, complex and confusing information, but it’s not as difficult as he imagined. After all, Helen is there to help him handle it all. Most non-important information, such as logistical and administrative issues, will be handled by Helen. It is automatically processed after analysis, so Vito does not need to deal with so many things.

But even so, before Vito's eyes, there is so much military information like stars. Since the beginning of the peripheral offensive, the respective military information has been like pieces of paper. Helen may be able to handle most of the logistics, dispatch and administrative issues, but these are really The war decision needs to be made by Vito himself.

"On the other side of the Earth, is there any result about the increase in military spending?" Vito's fingers slid across the holographic interface, and data files were opened and then opened in front of him. His eyes quickly reviewed the contents, and his brain Working with amazing efficiency.

Helen also put her hands behind her back. She looked at a lot of information above her head, "The parliament is still quarreling. Colonel Amira said that the parliament is now." Helen stopped abruptly in the middle of her sentence. Vito noticed this strangeness and immediately asked Helen looked in the direction she was looking at.

At the entrance of the bridge, Kenobi, the old bastard was walking in, but as soon as he walked in, he was stopped by two tall battle robot military police. There were no bionic faces on their diamond-shaped heads, only a small flashing indicator. lights, but they can apparently see the person in front of them even without eyes.

The military police robot stepped forward to block him. The machine's arm pressed the ion pistol on its waist according to the program. "You are not authorized to enter, please leave immediately."

It was obvious that Kenobi had no intention of leaving. His eyes seemed to know that Vito was there, and he looked over very directly, and the meaning couldn't be more obvious. Vito sighed helplessly and rubbed his forehead, while Helen stood aside. He looked at Xiang Vito with a puzzled expression rarely seen on artificial intelligence.

"Your friend, should I allow him to board the bridge?" Helen asked. Of course she had to ask herself, after all, she was the one who brought that guy on board and told the officer on duty and Helen that he was her friend. If necessary, He could wander around the ship and take a look, just to pass the time.

But Vito didn't expect him to wander here. Vito sighed helplessly, and nodded to Helen, "Grant him permission, he's here anyway." "Yes, sir."

As always, Vito's order was executed within a few seconds in the artificial intelligence network. The indicator lights of the military police robots flashed and then moved to both sides. Kenobi looked at them and smiled before walking in. Bridge.

His eyes looked at the busy but orderly bridge of the Executor. Vito looked at the helpless hands of Kenobi approaching and sighed, "What are you doing here at my bridge? These dozens of kilometers Have you finished shopping the long flagship?”

"Compared to other parts, I want to see its brain. I think this is the most important part of a ship." Kenobi said and came to the table. He smiled and nodded to Helen.

He looked at Helen kindly, and Helen responded to him with the same kind smile, although that was most likely an automatic feedback from the etiquette process. Why? Because Helen usually didn't bother to smile at Vito and mostly talked to herself expressionlessly, so yes, that was definitely automatic feedback.

Kenobi may or may not know, but he still acted politely, "Hello, I believe you are Helen, right? Vito told me many things about you."

"Hello, Mr. Kenobi, the chief has also told me a lot about you. I believe you are old friends." Helen said while Kenobi looked at Vito with a smile and glanced slightly, " Did he tell you how old we are?"

"Sir." "A very old friend, an old bastard." Vito interrupted Helen. He crossed his arms and looked at Kenobi at the table. The latter also touched the edge of the holographic table and looked around. On the bridge, his eyes gradually narrowed as he observed.

"There are a lot of artificial intelligence and robots here, Vito. There are as many robots on your ship as there are people." Kenobi said, and Vito shrugged helplessly.

"After the Eldar War, the entire Federation was in dire straits. We lost a lot of population and labor force during the war, but society will not stop functioning because of this. So yes, robots and artificial intelligence have replaced those jobs. In fact, they do The ones are not bad, they are very efficient under Helen’s control.”

As Vito said, Kenobi personally witnessed the efficient scene. In the bridge control area on the side, a robot very efficiently helped a human crew member complete the data loading, and it took almost only one day. It's done in an instant, just insert the mechanical finger into the card slot, and then the complex data is logged in and calculated.

This obviously saves a lot of trouble for the human crew, but he obviously doesn't appreciate it. In other words, why does a machine need so many complicated emotions? So he just waved his hand and told the robot to leave. Faced with the arrogant attitude, the machine didn't complain at all and just left silently.

"Do you like these robots? Vito, and artificial intelligence." Kenobi's eyes were still scanning the surroundings, but he still asked his own question.

Vito looked at Helen beside him and smiled. He shrugged, "I quite like Helen, but the others are not habits, but now we do need them."

"Sir, I told you, please don't flirt with me. It's meaningless. My program has no relevant part to respond to you." As expected, Helen's expression immediately dropped when she faced Vito, and she was expressionless. He said in a cold tone.

Vito smiled and waved his hand. He reached out to touch Helen's head, but as expected, the body made of light was instantly penetrated. Helen's upper body penetrated the back of Vito's hand and floated on the surface of his hand, looking at him expressionlessly.

"Sir, it's also meaningless for you to do this." "Don't be so boring, Helen. We can find you a bionic robot body. I heard that the appearance can be customized before! How about I customize one for you?" "Sir, please allow me to refuse. This will delay a lot of my work."

Kenobi narrowed his eyes at Helen and glanced at Vito again. He was thinking about a question in his heart. Is artificial intelligence really just a simple machine? If Helen can already flirt with Vito, will the robot that was treated roughly just now also hold a grudge like humans?

"What are you looking at? Stop staring at my girl. Go find one yourself." Vito raised his head and shouted decisively. Kenobi was amused by his sudden move. He shook his head and walked to the other side of the holographic desktop.

"I'm looking at your bridge. I have to say that your ship is very monotonous from beginning to end, lacking decoration and artistic embellishment." Kenobi said, looking at the various data floating in the air.

"I call this pragmatic aesthetics. I'm sorry that my fleet is in this style. I don't have the elegance to mess with your Gothic decoration fetish. I would rather use the money to buy two more shells." Vito refuted Kenobi directly, and his tone was quite sarcastic. Kenobi didn't get angry after hearing it. He just smiled and slid his hand to look at the star map in front of him.

"I think you were talking about something before I came in just now. Don't let me interrupt you." Kenobi said very naturally, as if he was the captain of this ship, which made Vito raise his eyebrows and look at him in confusion.

"You really don't consider yourself an outsider. What secrets are being told to you? If you want to hear it, go to the army first. I can grant you a special approval to go to the logistics department of the Executor to clean toilets or something." Vito continued to wear his teasing smile. He didn't look like a marshal leading the largest armed force in the galaxy.

"I'd rather be your superior, Vito, like your immediate boss?" Kenobi said with a smile, while Vito rolled his eyes disdainfully and pointed a hand at his head like a pistol.

"To be your subordinate? I, Vito Constantine, would never help you fight even if I shot myself in the head and jumped off this bridge!"

Kenobi touched his chin and smiled. He sighed softly from his mouth, "There is a long time to come, old friend, everything is possible."

"You two, if the quarrel of your old friends is over, I have to interrupt you. We are here." Helen said and turned to look at the window of the bridge. As Helen looked, the subspace channel suddenly reached the end, and the starry sky suddenly appeared in the channel. Then, in an instant, the warship jumped out of the subspace with a sense of impact.

The Executor suddenly appeared from the starry sky. It suddenly flashed out of the subspace channel, as if it was pulled out from the small gap cut after folding in the background of the Milky Way. As the Executor completed the jump, the other two warships behind it also jumped and appeared behind it.

"The Oak and Iron Cross also jumped out. They are finished, sir, waiting for your order." Helen looked at Vito and said expressionlessly. Vito leaned sideways with one hand on the table. He stared at the huge planet floating in the starry sky outside the window. The planet was completely a snowball. Apart from the pale color on the surface, only some gray mountains could be seen.

"Can you contact the federal forces on this planet? Any part will do." Vito asked while looking at the surface of the planet, and his question was answered immediately, at a very fast speed.

"No, all channels are disconnected." "What about the intelligent network of this planet? Is it disconnected too?" "I said, sir, all are disconnected."

Vito frowned as he looked at the planet. After a moment of silence, he turned his head to look at the holographic projection screen. He swept away all the information windows in front of him and stood up with his chin in his hand. "This planet, Noson, is there anything worth noting?"

Helen also turned around and swiped her finger in front of her. The digital sphere of Noson was instantly projected in front of her, and a lot of information content appeared next to the rotating pale planet.

"Overall, there is nothing worth mentioning. Noson has always been a very inconspicuous planet in the Federation. It was not until a century ago that it was developed for mining. There are only some scattered loose settlements on the planet, and most of the population are miners. The industrial structure is very simple."

Helen summarized all the content worth mentioning for Vito and Kenobi. Indeed, there is nothing noteworthy about this planet. It is the most inconspicuous and least important place in the Federation colony.

"Can you scan the location where the enemy ship crashed?" Vito held his chin and looked at the planet. His eyes were fixed on the snow-white planet, trying to find something. Helen waved her finger and the size of the planet rapidly enlarged, and then quickly enlarged and locked onto the location where the battleship crashed.

It was an ultra-high-definition scan, with a high definition that could clearly see every piece of wreckage of the shattered battleship scattered on the ice field, as well as the numbers on each piece of wreckage. The main body of the battleship crashed into a mountain range, and its surface was almost completely covered with snow, with only a few steel wreckages still exposed.

"According to the scan results, the battleship has been completely damaged, but there is something strange." Helen said with a slight tilt of her head. Her strange look was a bit cute. Vito wanted to talk to her about this now, but he knew Now is not the time.

"What's weird?" Vito asked, turning his head. Helen looked at the wreckage of the battleship and held her chin up, thinking about something with a thoughtful expression.

"I scanned the battleship and found some abnormal energy spectra on it, which are not within the scope of any federal data. I can't tell what that thing is, but its power is very strong." Helen said, pointing to the wreckage, a ball of red A halo of light appeared on the wreckage, and the flashing light made Kenobi prop his support on the table. He leaned closer to the wreckage and frowned, looking at it. Then he suddenly stood up and approached Vito and whispered.

He came close to Vito, folded his arms and looked at Vito from the corner of his eye, "I think that's the stone tablet, it's inside." "Then it looks like we know where to look for the broken stone."

Vito said and looked at Helen, "At the same time, the commandos, let them prepare to go down with us." Before Vito finished speaking, Kenobi grabbed his arm. Vito looked at him, and the latter shook his head silently. .

"We need reliable people. Mortals are unreliable at the moment." Kenobi whispered, looking at the sailors beside him. Vito also took a look and shrugged.

"There are also commandos of combat robots. Their firepower and technology are equivalent to a reinforced platoon." Vito said. Kenobi shook his head again. He looked at the robots walking by and frowned, his eyes Move with the passing robot until he is out of sight.

"No, I don't believe in these things that only have programs in their heads. This time you and I will go down." "Are you praising yourself for being reliable? Are you trying to save face?" "No, I think we two are very reliable. Spectrum, so yes, if you think it's shameless, what about your face?"

Vito and the guy next to him looked at each other up close and laughed. He patted him on the shoulder and turned to look at Helen. The artificial intelligence lady was also waiting for orders with her hands behind her back.

"Kenobi and I are going down. I don't know how long it will take to come back, but if I contact you and ask you to bomb somewhere, don't ask questions and execute it immediately. Can you do it?"

After Vito's words came out, Helen remained silent. Her shimmering eyes looked at Vito's silence for a few seconds. Vito smiled and leaned on the table, leaning sideways in front of Helen, "Don't worry, little girl. I'll be fine."

"I'm not worried about you, sir, I'm worried about the operation of the weapon system." Helen said expressionlessly, while Vito chuckled and patted the table gently before standing up. He patted his own Pantleg looked out the window at the starry sky, squinting slightly at the planet's atmosphere.

"Except for the friendly targets that I directly contacted you to indicate, anything launched from Northen will be destroyed. Even a piece of space junk will be blown to pieces by me. Nothing will be allowed to leave this broken ice ball. Do you understand?" "Understood, sir."

Vito looked at Helen and smiled one last time, then patted Kenobi on the shoulder and walked towards the bridge door. Kenobi also nodded politely to Helen and followed Vito.

Helen watched the two people walking towards the bridge exit in silence. Miss Artificial Intelligence turned to look at the huge snow sphere. Her expression showed a complex expression that was difficult to see from the face of Artificial Intelligence.

She heard a sound, a sound that was impossible for humans to hear and could only be heard in the data network of artificial intelligence. When she connected to the intelligent system of the planet, the sound appeared, a chaotic data flow. The violent sound, distorted, and hoarse mechanical electronic sound seemed to be some kind of special interference noise.

As soon as it appeared, it was ready to attack Helen and invade her system, but it was also instantly isolated in the subsystem by Helen, who was an excellent artificial intelligence.

Helen opened her palms and frowned at the red halo in front of her eyes, "Who are you?"