Chapter 132 Embracing the Sun
The anti-ship assault pod is considered by many players to be the most manly vehicle, along with the airdrop pod.
This seemingly simple and crude method of forcibly delivering marines to the target ship is actually not that simple.
It is also extremely versatile. In addition to being used on target ships, it also has a very good effect of delivering troops to facilities such as spaceports, asteroid bases, and battle fortresses.
The AT22 hot-melt cutting assault pod that Amber and his crew used on this ship was "scooped" from the private ship storage port of Alanita together with this long-retired Imperial frigate.
It is also equipment that has been retired from the Imperial battle sequence, but is now widely used by noble private soldiers, PMCs, and pirates.
According to the results of Alanita's query in the storage port database, this repentance-class frigate and these four AT22 assault pods were all used by business partners to pay off debts in the past.
This assault pod, which uses a double hot-melt cutter at the front end to cut the hull armor plate to complete the boarding, can carry 9 marines equipped with exoskeletons at a time.
Amber now has only 16 people who can complete infantry combat subjects, including the communications soldiers and electronic warfare technicians, so Amber finally took away only two assault cabins.
Although Amber didn't know what kind of business partners would use frigates and assault cabins to pay off debts, anyway, finding these things still helped a lot in today's operations.
Through Isabel's "face fruit", Amber shamelessly borrowed frigates and two assault cabins from the female elf, and also found a space dock that could prepare imperial ships in the industry under the Yuge family.
Of course, Isabel's face fruit alone could not get so many "sponsors".
The most important thing is that Amber proposed to use this action to show Alanita the comprehensive strength of the team, which can be regarded as a "corporate culture display" before attracting investment.
If the investors are finally impressed, everything will be fine.
But if the investors are not satisfied, or they cannot be interested, Amber will have to find other ways to repay the cost of this operation.
"Mr. Amber, to be honest, I'm quite curious about how you will repay me if you can't impress me as an investor?"
Thinking of the meaningful words that Alanita said before departure, Amber opened the team communication channel:
"Everyone, tighten your springs! Especially the marines! If anyone dares to let me down, you know the consequences."
While Amber was speaking, the hot melt cutters at the front of the two assault cabins began to emit red light, indicating that they had entered the final stage of the breakthrough.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
As Amber was fixed on the top of the yacht, he felt two shakings from the bottom of his feet, and two loud noises that sounded like underwater after being transmitted through solid objects.
The two assault cabins crashed into the passage in the middle of the yacht and the crew cabin in the back half respectively.
For the hot melt cutters used to deal with the laminated armor plates of warships, this kind of private yacht, which is mainly comfortable and luxurious, has a strong external armor, but it is still a little bit lacking.
The Trident Marines who were gathering in the crew cabin were thrown all over the sky by the huge kinetic energy caused by the impact of the assault cabin.
Before the mercenaries could react to the impact, the small hatch in a circle at the front of the assault cabin was bounced open.
Then, a round of shrapnel shot out like firecrackers.
Not only did it instantly turn the crew cabin into a sieve, but it also directly eliminated nearly 70% of the Trident mercenaries.
The mercenaries who were lucky enough to survive and not be beaten into rags saw that the front of the assault cabin was finally completely opened.
Then two strong men wearing exoskeletons and holding large shields rushed out.
Since this operation was just a simple boarding rather than seizing the ship, there was no need to consider the damage to the ship in the battle.
Therefore, the marines who participated in the boarding all changed to standard long-range weapons.
These marines, who hid most of their bodies behind the shield-bearing macho, kept firing, and it didn't take long for them to knock down all the Trident mercenaries hired by Baron Adam at a high price.
The one-sided situation was not caused by the difference in combat capabilities between the two sides.
To be fair, the Trident mercenaries were also a group of characters who lived on the edge of a knife.
And like most mercenaries in this world, most of them had military service experience.
If they really wanted to fight a fair fight, these "former mobile infantry" under Amber would not have much advantage.
However, due to the suddenness of this ambush and Amber's decision to use the crew cabin as one of the boarding points, these mercenaries were blown to pieces by the anti-personnel grenades of the assault cabin before they even had time to find cover.
Soon, the marines completed the suppression of the crew cabin. When they remembered Amber's teachings and shot at the mercenaries on the ground who could not tell whether they were wounded or dead,
The other team of marines that hit the middle channel of the yacht also received the message "The middle channel has been suppressed!" on the communication channel.
The two teams immediately rushed to the bridge according to the battle plan.
One of the teams also checked Baron Adam's master bedroom on the way. After finding no trace of the target, they also confirmed that the fat man had escaped to the bridge.
The next battle needs no further explanation.
Even with weapons in hand, the sailors on the bridge wearing only spacesuits were unable to withstand the attack of the Marines.
When the Marine responsible for capturing the target saw Adam's huge figure, he immediately raised his right hand and fired a net bomb from the multi-function launcher mounted under his arm.
The carbon fiber cable net bomb with electric shock effect immediately knocked down Baron Adam and tightened it to complete the package.
"Team Megalodon reports that the package has been obtained!"
After hearing the news from the communication channel, Amber in the fanatic cockpit was relieved.
"Copy that, hurry up and clean the battlefield and prepare to evacuate."
"Remember to take away the core of the shipboard control personality on the bridge. This thing is always valuable."
"By the way, there are also those decorations in the master bedroom, right, right, the one on your right, take them together!"
With the help of the lenses on the Marines' tactical visors, Amber skillfully guided them to quickly search the yacht.
Just as everyone was preparing to retreat, a Marine reported on the communication channel:
"Call the ghost, there are still some survivors on the cruise ship, what should we do?"
The communication channel went silent, and it took a while before Amber's reply came.
"Leave no one behind. Be smart and give them a good time."
"Warning, temperature too high"
When Baron Adam regained consciousness due to the alarm in his spacesuit, he found that he was tightly held in the hands of an HCP.
At this time, the HCP was standing on the outer armor of a frigate.
In front of his eyes was a huge 'fireball' that almost completely occupied his field of vision - it was the sun of the Haven galaxy.
Although the helmet of the space suit detected excessive light intensity, it dimmed the helmet mask of the space suit to reduce the amount of light.
But Baron Adam was still blinded by the dazzling sunlight.
He judged that his current location should be relatively close to the star.
Because under direct light radiation, even if the thermostatic system of the space suit was operating at full strength, Baron Adam felt that the temperature had been rising, so much so that the space suit issued a warning of excessive temperature.
Looking up at the silver-white steel giant in front of him, he recognized the HCP's appearance as an Imperial Zealot.
"So you, this bunch of imperial bastards, are going to kill me in the end? Why can't you just do it earlier? Why don't you pretend to give me a noble title and a private yacht?"
empire? You may have made a mistake."
The voice coming through the contact communication sounded familiar to Adam.
Before he could recall it in his mind, he saw the fanatic opening the cockpit door on the chest.
"Commander Adam is really a noble man who forgets things."
The huge mechanical arm lifted Adam to the cabin door. The pilot inside clicked on the helmet, and then the originally opaque helmet mask revealed the face inside.
"Amber hum, you guy didn't disappear with Robert No. 4."
At this time, Adam was extremely regretful. He regretted that he had not been on Robert No. 4, so he listened to Tail Needle's advice and killed this little pawn who was causing trouble, which led to things developing to this point.
"I'm deeply sorry for your disappointment~" The mockery in Amber's words almost overflowed.
"From the tone of your voice, it seems that you also killed the tail needle?"
"of course."
"Oh, I really didn't expect that the final outcome would be like this. I accept that I fell into your hands, and I won't beg for mercy or beg you to let me go. I know that is impossible."
Adam sighed, and the expression on his face became calmer at this time.
"Give me a good time."
"Hahaha, give you a pleasure? Then you may be overthinking it. If I wanted to give you a pleasure, I wouldn't have brought you here in such a big way."
Amber turned Adam to face the sun. This star that was constantly emitting light radiation had already made the newly minted Baron feel sweat on his forehead - this was a sign that the constant temperature system had reached its limit.
"I thought about it for a long time and decided to give you a very romantic death."
Amber closed the cockpit, reactivated the control system, and assumed a throwing posture.
"Go embrace the sun, Commander Adam."
"No, no, no! You can't be so cruel!"
Commander Adam immediately became hysterical as he thought about what was about to happen.
"No! Amber! Please, give me a good time!"
"Bye~"
The energy released by the subcritical reactor is converted into electromagnetic force through the heat and electricity exchange device, and finally drives the electromagnetic muscle bundle to drive the mechanical arm to throw it out.
HCP's arm strength is very strong, so even throwing stones is extremely lethal.
The communication module on the spacesuit worn by Adam has been removed by Amber.
After being thrown into the sun, he will be the loneliest man in the universe.
Then at higher and higher temperatures, watching the space suit's oxygen storage become lower and lower, and finally suffocating with despair.
"Hey, even an artificial intelligence is scary to me. How perverted Master do you have to be to come up with such a way to torture people?"
However, Amber did not answer Lilith's words. He looked at Adam who was struggling like a bastard in the distance and said to himself:
"Lieutenant Colonel, I have fulfilled your request."
Federation, Capital Galaxy, Artificial Intelligence Research Center.
Sitting in the office, Dr. Mephisto looked a little dull and unbelievable.
On the virtual screen in front of him, the news about the Robert Galaxy Battle has occupied the front page headlines of major media.
"It has just been confirmed that under the attack of the Federation Navy Fleet, the earth-like planet Robert IV in the Robert Galaxy in the border area has disintegrated. This attack wiped out a large number of Star Dragon Empire invaders on the planet in one fell swoop."
"The Imperial Army's invasion was frustrated and suffered heavy losses!"
"The Federation Army's heroic arms are broken, which is a moving poem!"
"In the picture, you can see that a large number of citizens have gathered in the Freedom Square of the capital. They came spontaneously with flowers in their hands to commemorate the Federation soldiers who bravely fought against the enemy on the Robert IV planet and finally died."
"Dong Dong Dong"
A knock on the door drew Dr. Mephisto's attention back.
He looked up at the door of the office and saw Defense Minister Miller standing there.
"Doctor, can I come in?"
"Miller. You dare to come here on your own initiative!"
Dr. Mephisto, who is usually gentle and full of academic research, is like an angry old lion at this time.
He stood up suddenly, and then walked towards Miller quickly with a cane.
"Why attack Robert IV! Do you know?"
"Of course I know."
Miller calmly interrupted Mephisto's words. As the Minister of Defense and fighting in the political arena for many years, he is a scholar who belongs to the "cream boy" in the eyes of iron-blooded soldiers like Marshal Trafalgar.
But for ordinary people, he has a temperament of being intimidating without anger.
In this regard, Minister Miller can easily suppress Mephisto, who stays in the institute every day and lacks social interaction.
"If I hadn't helped you cover up the little tricks you did on Robert IV, do you think you can stay in the institute every day with your wooden head?"
"You"
Just as Dr. Mephisto was about to speak, he was interrupted by Minister Miller again.
"Although the Creator Project has been cancelled, its interim result, Project 02, which is what you call Lilith, still has extremely high research value.
That's why I will help you cover up the fact that you didn't destroy Lilith.
Because I also think it's a pity to destroy it directly. I can consider continuing the research in the future."
Minister Miller walked to a chair in the office and sat down, and continued:
"But this does not mean that I am willing to see the risk of it falling into the hands of the enemy.
That's why I asked Marshal Trafalgar to choose to attack Robert IV, otherwise, with the style of this old friend, he would definitely choose to attack the star to create a black hole."
Minister Miller's words were transmitted word by word to Dr. Mephisto's ears, and also calmed him down.
Reason told him that there was nothing wrong with the decision of the Minister of Defense.
As the creator of Lilith, Dr. Mephisto naturally knew what the consequences would be if Lilith fell into the hands of the Star Dragon Empire.
The doctor, who was clear-minded, exhaled a breath of turbid air, and the whole person was visibly weak.
"You came to see me today, it shouldn't be just to talk about this."
"Doctor, you are still as sharp as ever." Minister Miller smiled,
"Actually, I came here today mainly to confirm whether the 'autonomous combat fleet led by shipborne control personality' - the so-called 'unmanned fleet' can be considered for actual combat testing?"