Chapter 478 Planetary Landing Fortress?

"Planetary landing ship? Do you Jerram people still have this thing?" Amber asked curiously, "I thought that when you 'cleaned up' other intelligent creatures, your feet never touched the ground."

"Occasionally, we still need to fight on the ground, especially when we encounter cave-dwelling civilizations on planets, or civilizations that hide in underground refuge cities. And if we don't want to directly destroy the planet, ground or even underground combat will be inevitable."

"Hey, it seems that you Jerram people have seen a lot of intelligent creatures of different shapes~"

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There was something strange in Saleh's expression. She always felt that this conversation was a bit awkward - a member of the race on the Jerram people's "cleaning list" was seriously discussing with her whether he needed to land during the "cleaning" process.

At the same time, Amber stopped joking and asked seriously: "Can you tell me more about this planetary landing ship?"

Saleh nodded, and then described this Jerram vehicle to Amber.

According to her, the function of this kind of planetary landing ship is to drop a large number of ground troops on the surface of the planet at one time. For this purpose, the Jerram people have also made different model designs based on the scale and needs of the combat mission.

The smallest and most common one is a planetary landing ship called the 'Purple Star' by the Jerram people. It can carry 6,000 fully armed Jerram soldiers at one time, as well as the required combat equipment and supplies.

Of course, depending on the actual situation, the number of soldiers carried can also be reduced to load some combat biological weapons or large combat vehicles.

Since the technical level of the Forerunners is, in most cases, a level higher than that of the civilizations they destroyed, even the most basic Jerram soldiers, who are the least important in the battle sequence, have extremely strong individual combat effectiveness. .

According to Amber's speculation, it is almost an 'enhanced version' of the Immortal Legion, with higher defense, stronger firepower, more compact size, and more importantly, each city has psychic powers.

If we start from actual combat and include the Forerunners' technical weapons, combat biological weapons, and combat support units, based on the current level of human civilization, the defense force of an entire planet can be handled by just putting down a boatload of people.

This also leads to the fact that the Forerunners often do not need to deploy a large number of troops, and can complete the "cleaning" of an entire planet with only a fleet and a small number of ground units.

In addition to the most common 'Purple Star', the Jerram people's planetary landing ships also include the 'Big Cup' and the 'Super Big Cup'. Both of these planetary landing ships can launch tens of thousands of missiles at a time. of troops.

Obviously, Amber is more interested in the latter two than the Purple Star, which can carry 6,000 people.

After all, Atlas's combat troops are not yet capable of 'one for a hundred' like the Forerunners, so the number of troops deployed is also required. At least 10-12 brigade-level units must be deployed at one go - that is, Only a force approximately the size of a group army can stand firm and carry out subsequent combat missions.

"More than 80,000 troops were deployed at one go, including a large number of combat vehicles, equipment, and supplies." Saleh frowned as he listened to Amber's request.

Amber: "In addition to these requirements, protection must also be in place, because there may be situations where it is necessary to withstand ground anti-aircraft fire and force a landing."

"To be honest, it is basically difficult for us Jeram people to encounter situations where we need to deploy such a large-scale force. If such a large-scale force is needed to solve the problem, we will generally choose a more efficient method."

"What method?"

"Exploding stars."

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Seeing the troubled expression on Amber's face, Saleh gave a rare smile, and then said: "If it is not required to take off again, as long as it can land smoothly, it is still possible."

As he spoke, Saleh opened the interface of the design software and shared it remotely with Amber. Since she had been helping with the design and construction of the 'Infinity' and subsequent battleships at the shipyard during this period, she had already Humans are extremely proficient in using design software.

"I do not recommend carrying 80,000 people on a ship. Whether it is design or actual combat, the risks in all aspects are too great. To use an old saying among you humans, 'Don't put your eggs in one basket.'

So I suggest setting the standard carrying capacity at 10,000-20,000 people. When Amber needs to deploy what you call a 'group army' size of troops at one time, you can use 6-10 such vehicles to transport personnel, Put the equipment down.

Moreover, if multiple vehicles land simultaneously, by adjusting the landing position of each vehicle, a large "safe zone" can be controlled at the first time, laying the foundation for subsequent operations or support troop delivery. "

"Control a large 'safe zone' at the first time?" Amber asked curiously. He did not expect that the deacon of the Forerunner's think tank was also 'quite experienced' in this regard.

Saleh nodded: "Yes, I actually planned to find an opportunity to talk to Amber before. Since we have talked about it today, I will just say it directly. Judging from Amber's current needs, I don’t think there is any need to develop a ‘beggar’s version’ of planetary landing ship. It would be better to just make it into a planetary landing fortress.”

"What the hell? Fortress?" Amber's eyes widened.

"Yes, make the main propulsion array and jump engine disposable. After following the fleet to the orbit of the target planet, these additional components can be discarded, and then rely on the highly redundant defense to forcefully break through the atmosphere and land smoothly with the help of gravity control technology.

After landing, it will directly serve as the front-line base or front-line fortress of the troops on board, using the fixed weapons on the fortress to provide long-range firepower support to the troops within a certain range. At the same time, the battleship-level fusion furnace previously used to power the main propulsion array is also sufficient to power all the facilities in the fortress, including the deflection field generator."

Salih spoke of her ideas eloquently, and the design in her hand was just completed at the same time.

From the draft design she made, this "planetary landing fortress" that abandoned most of the equipment required by the ship was like a huge "door panel". In the navigation state, the main propulsion array was simply and roughly installed at the rear, and the jump engine was directly half-buried in the upper deck after a shell.

After discarding these "navigation components", this "planetary landing fortress" completely became a large door panel.

Saleh designed the bottom deck to be very thick, because it is the largest "confrontation surface" during the landing process. However, according to her, combined with the plasma layer wrapped around the "fortress" when breaking through the atmosphere, conventional anti-aircraft firepower is actually difficult to pose a threat.

Moreover, before the official landing, the combat fleet will also conduct multiple rounds of orbital strikes around the landing site as "fire preparation", so there is actually no need to worry about anti-aircraft firepower.

After listening to Saleh's description, Amber stared at the draft design that the other party had just made on the spot for a long time, and finally spoke.

"I, Amber, have invested in this project."