Chapter 120 How Many Steps Are Needed to Drive the Frigate Out of the Port?

"Welcome aboard, Captain~"

Lilith's virtual image appeared on the holographic projection platform of the bridge.

This time, her image was not the JK suit she had before, but a ship pilot costume that looked more sci-fi.

Of course, in Amber's view, this costume was essentially a piece of leather pants, but with a lot of meaningless decorations added on it, which looked very high-tech.

The shipboard control personality of this Imperial Confession-class frigate was raided by Lilith while in hibernation, and it was formatted to a byte.

As for this self-control personality that appeared on the bridge and was respectful to Amber, the people on the bridge were no longer surprised.

After all, in their view, compared with other things that Warrant Officer Amber did, hacking a shipboard control personality and replacing it was already a move that was not very eye-catching.

"Leah."

Amber, sitting in the captain's seat, looked at Lilith's virtual image. To be on the safe side, he gave Lilith a temporary alias as a disguise.

"What's the temperature of the reactor?"

"130 million Kelvin, it is estimated that it will take another 15 minutes to reach the ship's operating temperature."

"15 minutes" Amber tapped a few times on the armrest on the right side of the captain's seat. It looks like a decorative sculpture, but it is actually a touch panel.

After mastering the corresponding methods, the imperial captains can perform many quick operations here.

In other words, only an "admiral" like Amber who has seen countless ships can adapt to the somewhat perverted design of the Empire.

If it were a traditional federal captain, it would be difficult to operate it for a while.

Under Amber's operation, a thumbnail of Lansford Port and the surrounding airspace was projected.

Through the interconnection of the ship and the military port network in the moored state, plus the authority of Major Randall, Amber can view the port entry situation in real time on the ship.

At this time, the small-scale imperial fleet that had just appeared had completed the deceleration and started the port entry procedure after the port entry request was approved.

1 cruiser, 2 destroyers and 2 frigates.

In terms of scale, it is actually not enough to be called a fleet or a squadron.

Amber estimated that these ships should be the surviving ships of the Empire's remaining fleet that had just fought with the Federation fleet in orbit.

Now seeing that the Federation's escort detachment had slipped away, she followed it back.

According to the system's estimate, the first ship will also complete the port entry procedure in 15 minutes.

If these warships find that something is wrong with the port and intercept the frigate where Amber is, then she and others will be in trouble.

"It's too late, start the emergency start-up procedure for the ship."

Amber finally made a decision, and then skillfully called up the monitoring window of the operation of each subsystem of this Confession-class frigate.

"Yes, Captain, start injecting plasma beams into the fusion furnace."

At this stage, the degree of automation on ships with controlled personalities is actually relatively high.

Taking this Confession-class frigate as an example, in theory, only the captain, helmsman, radar and navigation operators are needed to start the ship.

Add a gunner, and you can carry out the most basic combat.

If the control authority of the shipboard control personality is set to the highest, then only one person needs to be left on the bridge to allow the frigate to orbit and wait in the planetary orbit.

This is also a common method used by some small player guilds in the previous life.

These small groups with not very strong member numbers and guild strength are often a dozen members plus a small frigate or destroyer.

In addition to controlling the operation of ships on weekdays, players also have to transform into marines when there are ground combat missions.

In this case, the vice president is usually asked to stay on the ship and let the ship maneuver and wait in orbit with the shipboard control personality.

The president takes others to land on the surface of the planet to fight.

Sometimes, some vice presidents with strong skills and courage will control the warship to lower the orbit to the extreme position, and then launch a few missiles or plasma torpedoes to the ground to carry out "homemade low-Earth orbit support".

"The plasma beam is being injected, the magnetic field confinement is stable, and the temperature rise rate of the fusion furnace has not exceeded the red line"

Lilith's words brought back Amber's thoughts that flew to the horizon.

As the fusion furnace startup progress bar on the monitoring data reached the end, Lilith also spoke synchronously:

"Captain, the fusion furnace has entered the fusion state and has completed the startup!"

"Very good, cut off the energy circuit of the superconducting battery stack, and from now on, the host will supply power to each system, all systems are online, and the plasma propulsion array will be started."

As if she suddenly thought of something, Amber hurriedly added:

"I almost forgot! Disconnect the connection with the berth!"

Amber patted her head. She hadn't driven a ship for a while, and some procedures were already unfamiliar.

As the fixed limiters between the berth and the frigate, as well as various cables were disconnected one by one, the Imperial frigate was completely disconnected from the berth.

With the help of the adaptive attitude maintenance system, the attitude nozzles on various parts of the ship's body were spraying small blue lights, stabilizing the ship's attitude while preventing it from colliding with the fixed devices on both sides of the berth.

The current navigation mode of the ship is the "port navigation mode". In this mode, the plasma propulsion array at the stern is only in a preheating state and does not generate thrust.

Movement within the port mainly depends on the attitude control nozzles in various parts of the ship.

Amber looked at the helmsman's seat on the bridge. Major Randall was wearing an auxiliary integrated head-mounted display and nervously setting it on the control panel.

"Major Randall, you can start to withdraw from the berth."

"Got it, sit tight, I haven't driven a ship for almost ten years, and the key is that this is an imperial warship."

The major's voice was a little trembling. At this moment, his perspective was a "third-person" picture synthesized by external sensors.

In the center of the picture was the Confession-class frigate, and as his head turned, the perspective would also turn to the corresponding direction so that he could observe the situation around the ship.

Of course, this kind of integrated head-mounted display is actually only used when entering and leaving the port, when the space is relatively small.

After entering the outer space, the helmsman usually drives directly according to the ship parameters.

Randall turned the gear on the right-hand car clock back from "stop" to "slow retreat".

Although it is still the same as the traditional navy, the ship retains a device called "car clock".

But in fact, the function of this thing has long changed from "giving instructions to the engine room" to directly controlling the power of the main propulsion array and the bow attitude control nozzle.

Fully automatic, easy to drive and use.

Everyone in the bridge only felt that the ship shook, and the scene in the panoramic porthole began to retreat forward.

Randall kept turning his head to look at the situation around the ship. When nearly three-quarters of the ship had left the berth, he directly turned the direction and began to retreat to the right rear.

Seeing this scene, Amber's heart was suddenly suspended.

In normal times, this is definitely an illegal operation.

Because under normal circumstances, it is required to adjust the direction after the ship completely leaves the berth.

However, in this emergency situation, it is impossible to fully comply with the rules and regulations for safe driving.

But Amber actually doesn't care whether it is illegal or not, but cares about Randall's skills, whether he can complete such an operation.

I don't know whether the major's driving skills have not been completely lost, or he is lucky, the bow almost retreated by rubbing the left side of the berth.

Amber, sitting in the captain's seat, breathed a sigh of relief. If there was really no one else who could drive the ship, he would not have let Randall, who had not touched a ship for ten years, be the helmsman.

"The berth has been withdrawn and the direction has been adjusted. The parameters of each unit and subsystem of the ship meet the requirements for leaving the port."

"The port control personality has approved the application for leaving the port, and the No. 04 exit channel has been opened."

Lilith's voice sounded in the bridge, and on the holographic projection panel in front of Amber, all the values ​​of the ship turned green.

Suppressing the excitement in her heart, Amber calmly said:

"Major, maintain the port navigation mode and advance at a slow speed."