Chapter 108 Focusing Rainbow
As a die-hard fan of "Starry Sky OL", he is also a researcher who plays games with a magnifying glass like Leeuwenhoek.
Amber knows all the major events, legendary figures, and celebrity equipment in the game.
What's more, the Fortress of Sorrow is a first-generation artificial celestial fortress that is still extremely rare at this point in time.
When the players in the game are active, it is the trophy of the first place in the guild war every season.
And the 'Pink Furry Rabbit' guild where Amber is located, in the season when he served as the commander of the main fleet, directly killed other player guilds and won the title of 'the strongest guild' in that season.
The guild celebration that year was also held in the celestial fortress they obtained - 'Pink Furry Rabbit House'.
So if he were asked to go to the bridge of the Fate and introduce it to the three commanders of the Federation Fleet, he would only tell them one thing:
"You can't fight, run away quickly."
This is not what he said casually. Even without the 8th and 12th Expeditionary Strike Groups, a single celestial fortress is enough to defeat the Federation Combined Fleet.
From the name of the plan "Wall of Sighs", we know that the original intention of the Empire to build an artificial celestial fortress is to form a strategic-level defense line that can be maneuvered, adjusted at any time, and cannot be conquered by conventional fleets.
Therefore, in terms of attack, defense, assistance, and maneuverability, the Empire has tried its best to pull it to the fullest.
Take the "Fortress of Sorrow" that appeared in the Robert Galaxy at this moment as an example.
Its "Western Hemisphere" used to meet the enemy is equipped with 400 battleship-level heavy particle cannons arranged in concentric circles as secondary weapons.
In addition, there are a large number of conventional charged particle cannons, high-energy laser cannons, electromagnetic reconnection cannons and multi-functional missile silos as a supplement to the rich firepower strike capability.
The main weapon of the Fortress of Sorrow, the Focusing Iris, is a heavy particle cannon with an acceleration track of 100 kilometers and a diameter of 10 kilometers.
It is not appropriate to describe the Focusing Iris, the most powerful weapon built by mankind so far, as "a cannon" or "a cannon".
Moreover, the working mode of the Focusing Iris is different from the pulse-type heavy particle cannons on other warships.
It is an irradiation heavy particle cannon, and it can also use a diffusion irradiation attack mode.
The Focusing Iris, which is directly powered by 300 large fusion reactors, can sweep out a torrent of heavy metal particles far exceeding the diameter of the Fortress of Sorrow itself in the diffusion irradiation mode.
Therefore, most players, including Amber, generally do not call this big guy "a cannon".
Instead, they use a more appropriate name - flashlight.
In addition to this strongest spear currently mastered by mankind, the defense, auxiliary and mobility capabilities of the Empire's artificial celestial fortress are also powerful.
Unfortunately, Amber was not on the bridge at this time and could not tell the three commanders.
Guterres and Griezmann did not know much about the specific information of the Celestial Fortress.
Although they could judge that this was definitely a strategic weapon of the Empire, they had no idea about the various strengths of this Celestial Fortress.
Guterres even felt that his urgent order to the Central Fleet to enter a defensive state and readjust the formation was a bit conservative.
If it were a more radical federal commander, he might have asked the entire fleet to start a concentrated fire attack directly.
But what happened next told Guterres that he might not be conservative enough.
In the center of the Imperial Fleet formation, the Fortress of Sorrow, the combat command center.
Duke Duke, one of the right-hand men of the Regent of the Star Dragon Empire, known as the "Imperial Iron Wall", was sitting in the command seat at this moment.
In front of him on the right, Marquis Ascania and Count Karl, who arrived at the fortress on a transport ship, were standing upright and saluting him.
"Hello, Duke! Your presence at the front will bring our army's morale to its peak."
Marquis Ascania spoke humbly and respectfully.
The other party is one of the five great dukes of the empire, and also the regent's 'closest ally'.
Faced with such a person, the Marquis of Ascania naturally did not dare to lose his manners.
"Hehe. My arrival is nothing. In the eyes of the grassroots soldiers, the so-called dukes, marquises, and earls are all great nobles, just different titles."
Duke Duke, who was leaning on the command seat, smiled and patted the armrest on the right side of the command seat.
"The one that can inject them with a shot of adrenaline and bring them real victory is the Sorrow Fortress where we are located."
"Yes, sir!"
"Hahaha, don't be so serious."
As Duke Duke tapped the dragon claw decoration on the left armrest, two temporary chairs rose on both sides of the command seat.
"Sit down, I guess you haven't seen the scene of the Focusing Iris firing? Today we can enjoy it together."
Marquis of Ascania and Count Karl did not dare to neglect, and soon sat upright on the chairs.
They really had not seen the scene of the Focusing Iris firing.
So far, it is said that the Empire has irradiated the Focusing Iris more than 10 times.
Each celestial fortress has been irradiated at least twice, the first time was an experimental half-power irradiation, and the second time was a full-power irradiation demonstration during the celestial fortress acceptance.
These more than 10 irradiations were all carried out in the most heavily guarded experimental galaxy in the Empire. In addition to the Imperial family, the only ones who could participate in the observation ceremony were the five Imperial dukes who were now the commanders of the five celestial fortresses.
"You are lucky. Today is the first time that the celestial fortress has been put into actual combat. Previously, it was used to attack asteroids to bring simulated battles."
While Duke was speaking, the other people in the combat command center were like an efficient gear set, running at high speed for the first actual combat shooting of the Sorrow Fortress.
"The fusion reactor group is working normally, and the parameters of the subsystems of the main weapon unit are normal. The ups and downs meet the irradiation conditions!"
"Superconducting battery stacks 1 to 180 are working normally, and the energy storage and discharge tests have been completed."
"Attention all units, the fortress will enter the orange state from now on, and the Focusing Rainbow will be irradiated soon, repeat."
If the battleship-level heavy particle cannon uses metal bismuth in grams and kilograms as "ammunition".
Then the mass of this piece of metal bismuth placed at the deepest part of the Focusing Rainbow acceleration track at this moment needs to be in tons.
Before the fortress jumped to this universe, the various subsystems of the main weapon unit had actually made preparations for irradiation in advance.
So it didn't take much time for the combat command center to receive the "system all green" notification.
After confirming that the Focusing Iris was ready for irradiation at any time, the commander turned around and saluted Duke Duke at the command seat.
"My Lord Duke, the Focusing Iris is ready and waiting for your order!"
"Start irradiation."
"Yes, my Lord!"
After receiving Duke Duke's order, the Focusing Iris immediately entered the irradiation program.
"The fortress cooling unit is turned on!"
"The fortress attitude control unit is ready for attitude stabilization."
"The reactor group's rated power is 82.7%! Focusing Iris, target the enemy's central fleet area, diffuse irradiation mode! Irradiation time 15 seconds!"
Taking the wine glass from the attendant, Duke Duke invited Ascania and Carl to raise their glasses together.
"Gentlemen, may the glory of the empire shine on every corner of this galaxy!"
"The radiance begins!"
At the end of the 10-kilometer-diameter Focusing Rainbow acceleration track on the Sorrowful Fortress, a space distortion suddenly occurred.
Then, a ray of light comparable to that of a star gushed out from the acceleration track.
It looked like a river in the sky.
There will be another chapter later~