Chapter 427: Pick, You Can Pick

After discovering the Forerunner's 'large mining and refining core' from the asteroid that served as the base, Amber assigned part of the authority to the miner leader George after completing the 'binding' of the core.

After all, Amber couldn't stay in the asteroid base every day to operate the advanced creation left by the Forerunners for mining operations, so George, who was responsible for coordinating the asteroid mining work, became the best choice.

After so long, George's proficiency in operating the 'large mining and refining core' has also changed from being awkward and cautious at the beginning to the level of 'one-handed steering' like an old driver.

It was at this time that Amber discovered that the miner rescued from the pirates had a creativity beyond his imagination and completely broke the stereotype of many people about miners.

After mastering the Forerunner creation, George found a way to separate the control core through his own exploration, and finally set up a core control room in the asteroid base.

The refining components of the 'large mining and refining core' were placed in the ore refining workshop.

As for the most important mining component, thanks to the combination mode with extremely high degree of freedom of the forerunner creation, George reorganized it into a "decomposition ray generator" that can move with the mining fleet.

The basic working process is that the decomposition ray first decomposes the huge asteroid into small pieces, and then the mining fleet like a school of fish will be divided into groups to surround it for mining.

George controls the decomposition component and stands by near the mining area. Occasionally, when encountering some asteroid fragments that are difficult to mine, he will respond to the call of the mining ship and fire another shot at the target.

Over time, George has gradually gained some experience in the use of decomposition rays, but basically it is for mineral mining.

It is the first time to use decomposition rays against a large fleet attacking an asteroid base like now.

In other words, it is the first time to use decomposition rays to attack.

Before this, due to its remote location, the A. Bawa. Ku asteroid base has never been discovered by others.

The mining fleet encountered pirates a few times, but because of the existence of the escort fleet, there was no danger, and the decomposition ray had never been "weaponized".

But today, the "weaponization" of the decomposition ray has become one of the key points of this battle. Even though George is already very familiar with the control of this thing, he can't help but feel a little nervous.

"Target setting. Add decomposition target custom mode. Add new type: ship."

George fiddled nervously on the virtual screen, and uploaded the enemy fleet feature data just sent from the command room to the database of the "large-scale mining and refining core".

Since the "large-scale mining and refining core" does not have the traditional attack capability, if you want to use the decomposition ray to attack, you must enter the target's feature information in advance and set it as the "mining target" so that it can pass the verification before the decomposition ray is launched.

The forerunner's creation can be said to be very friendly in terms of "user experience". It can not only directly recognize human language, but also directly receive various information and data transmitted by humans, and use them after simple compatibility.

This is also the reason why George can easily control the "large-scale mining and refining core" even though he does not know the language of the forerunners.

While he was setting it up, the decomposition ray launch channel, which was temporarily built under the guidance of Saleh, was also completely opened.

After adding the energy control technology provided by Saleh, the decomposition ray released through the launch channel can reach an attack distance of about 10,000 kilometers.

Therefore, in the combat plan, the counterattack launch node of Atlas is exactly after the joint fleet advances 10,000 kilometers.

"This is the core command room. The enemy fleet is currently 15,000 kilometers away, with a relative speed of 80 kilometers per second. It is expected to enter the 10,000-kilometer attack zone in 1 minute!"

"Received, the decomposition ray has completed the pre-launch preparations and can attack according to the predetermined plan!"

"The core command room received it. After the enemy enters the attack range, it is free to fire."

After receiving George's response, Guterres glanced at the time and then issued the order for the "outer fleet to enter the jump".

The three unmanned fleets that had been on standby in deep space for a long time did not hesitate at all after receiving the order, and soon entered the hyperspace in the form of "fleet attack jump".

One minute passed quickly, and when the joint fleet crossed the 10,000-kilometer red line, they took the lead in attacking A·Bava·Ku.

The main guns of more than 1,800 warships fired at the same time, making the entire universe light up briefly. Then, the arc that suddenly lit up outside the asteroid base directly lit up the universe.

Since the asteroid itself cannot withstand the shooting of heavy particle cannons, even if the internal structure is reinforced and the external armor plate is added, A·Bava·Ku focuses on the construction of deflection force fields in terms of defense.

The energy management technology of the pioneers has increased the output efficiency of the 200 fusion furnaces built into the asteroid base by at least 60%, which also provides sufficient energy supply for the large number of deflection force field generators deployed in this asteroid base.

In addition, although the Combined Fleet has a large number of ships, the number of battleships, which are the main output force, is not large, far lower than the proportion of battleships in the regular army fleet.

So the first round of salvos was not unexpectedly blocked by this huge deflection field.

When the shining arc disappeared and the intact A. Bawa Ku reappeared on the main screen of the bridge, the commander of the joint fleet, Megan, took a breath of cold air.

"What level of deflection field is this? Can it withstand such a salvo?"

He stared at the potato-like asteroid base on the screen with wide eyes, and quickly came to his senses and issued a new order.

"All fleets, start to slow down, and continue to fire at the target with all guns!"

Sensing the gaze of the adjutant beside him, Megan continued without looking back:

"Even if the power supply of this level of deflection field can keep up, the deflection field generator is still limited. Even if our salvo cannot break the defense, it is still a huge pressure for these generators. As long as it comes a few more times, these generators will definitely be overloaded."

To be fair, Megan's judgment was not wrong, and he even overestimated the deflection field array of A. Bawa Ku.

In fact, after the first round of salvos from the coalition fleet, the deflection force field of the fortress had reached the edge of overload. More than 30% of the generators in the entire array of deflection force field generators were directly overloaded and burned under the attack just now.

This means that even if the deflection force field can be supported again, its strength is not as high as before. If the coalition fleet launches another round of salvos, the entire force field may not be able to absorb all the attacks and will collapse directly.

Fortunately, George has also completed the final preparations at this time. When the decomposition ray generator locked the coalition fleet that entered the attack range, he launched the attack without hesitation.

"Decomposition ray generator, full power irradiation begins!"

The entire asteroid fortress shook slightly at this moment, and the attitude control nozzles arranged in various parts of the fortress kept flashing to stabilize the attitude of this "big potato".

And a majestic energy was released at this moment, and turned into a green ray under the control of a special energy field and swept towards the position of the coalition fleet.

Unlike the short pulsed irradiation of heavy particle cannons, or the irradiation of high-energy lasers and charged particle cannons for several seconds, the decomposition ray shot straight into the right side of the fleet's formation in a visible form, and swept from right to left like a whip during the posture adjustment of the asteroid base.

Although the irradiation area of ​​the decomposition ray was not large, this green ray directly produced a kind of "splitting" effect after entering the formation range of the joint fleet and hitting the target, directly affecting the surrounding ships.

The decomposition ray used to mine the asteroid rock wall was also very effective when facing the laminated armor plates. After being swept by the decomposition ray, these laminated armor plates and the deeper titanium alloy frame structure collapsed.

This directly caused many warships that were decelerating to twist and bend uncontrollably under their own force.

The decompression caused by the gaps swept out not only scattered dense fragments and crew members into outer space like garbage, but also caused the posture of the entire ship to be completely unbalanced.

When the one-minute exposure time ended, the formation of the Combined Fleet was visibly cut into two parts as if it had been cut by a big knife.