Chapter 534 TF3, Prepare to Attack

When the entire bridge fell into darkness, with only a few independently powered emergency lights still emitting faint light, the captain of the scout ship knew that something was wrong.

From the time he became a cadet at the Naval Academy, to being assigned to the garrison fleet and starting official service, to this moment, he had never heard of, let alone encountered, a sudden power outage on the entire bridge.

Of course, if the ship is destroyed by the fusion furnace and superconducting battery stack, a similar scene will indeed occur, but most people will not encounter that kind of scene while alive.

Under normal circumstances, for the bridge of a battleship to be so completely powered off, the only possibility is that both the main fusion reactor and the backup energy source fail at the same time.

From the perspective of the captain of the reconnaissance ship, if he really encounters this situation now, it is very likely that there is not only a problem with the bridge, but also 80% of the entire battleship has been cut off from energy like the bridge.

But until just now, the ship has not been attacked, so it cannot be that the attack caused damage to the ship and eventually evolved into the current situation.

The captain of this reconnaissance ship angrily hammered the armrest of the captain's seat, and then yelled angrily:

"Fuck! We've been hacked!"

The other people on the bridge did not have as much experience as the captain, nor did they think as fast as him, so they fell into a daze after the entire bridge was powered off. It was not until they heard the captain's roar that they came back to their senses. Come.

But before the officers and staff on duty could say anything, they heard the captain continuing to yell:

"Thalia? Thalia?!!"

This is the name of the onboard control personality of this reconnaissance ship, but no matter how the captain calls, this shipboard control personality that disappeared just after the power outage has not yet appeared.

By this time, even the dullest crew member could realize what was happening.

Although the shipboard control personality usually looks like a cute 'virtual beauty', she is actually responsible for maintaining and coordinating the operation of various subsystems of the entire ship. A large number of automated equipment also operate under her supervision.

Even when a ship enters the dock for maintenance and all subsystems on the ship are offline, the shipboard control personality will never go offline. Instead, it will help guide the maintenance work.

On some ships that have been in service for a long time, the shipboard control personality may only be restarted a few times during "clearing memory" for decades, and it will remain running the rest of the time. Mostly just sleep for a while.

The reconnaissance ship that everyone is currently on is still on combat missions, and the shipboard control personality is even less likely to be offline under such circumstances.

So there is only one answer left, and that is that the reconnaissance ship was attacked by an unprecedented electronic warfare virus. This electronic warfare virus even forced the shipboard controller to go offline before he could take any countermeasures.

Although he realized that there was a big problem with his ship, the captain of the reconnaissance ship decided to struggle again.

"Can you send an emergency signal to the outside world?"

"No." The officer on duty shook his head after hearing this, "Except for the life support unit inside the ship, all other subsystems are offline. We can't even open the screen on the workbench!"

"You left us a life-support unit? Hey, is this guy so kind?"

The captain of the reconnaissance ship said with a complicated expression, and then looked at the several crew members who were tinkering in and out of the hatch.

"How is it? Can the hatch be opened?"

"Report Captain! All the hatches leading to the outside world on the bridge have been opened, but the heavy isolation door in the external passage has been lowered. After this thing is locked, it cannot be destroyed by manpower alone.

If we have heavy engineering equipment, we can think of a solution, but the problem is that this is the bridge, not the Gnaku."

The captain was not too surprised by this answer, he just thought, 'Sure enough, it is so'.

Since this mysterious electronic warfare virus can silently infect the entire warship and force the shipboard control personality to offline, it is naturally "reasonable" to close these fire-proof and explosion-proof heavy-duty isolation doors in the ship's internal passages.

But for the crew of this reconnaissance ship, they are also completely isolated in various cabins. Even the most basic intra-ship communication is not possible, so they do not know the current status of other cabins.

"Emergency escape unit?"

"Access denied, cannot restart!"

"Can the backup operating system be enabled?"

"No energy supply, cannot be activated!"

"Can the maintenance channel be entered?"

"It's okay to repair robots, but it's difficult for humans."

"Violent break-in?"

"The HCPs in Gnaku might be able to try this method, but let's forget about it on our bridge. We don't even have a few decent weapons."

After trying every conceivable method on the bridge with the crew, but to no avail, the captain of the reconnaissance ship finally gave up trying and asked everyone to sit down and rest to save oxygen and physical energy.

He knew that the group of people on the bridge would have to pray for God's blessing if they wanted to save themselves, so it would be safer to simply wait for other cabins to find a solution, or wait for the garrison fleet to find an abnormality and send someone to rescue them.

Of course, the premise is that the garrison fleet can still find the time to bring this piece of rubble to 'salt the ship'.——

On the other side, Kimmel on the flagship of the garrison fleet was actually nervously checking an encrypted communication channel for new information from time to time.

This encrypted channel is the independent communication channel between the reconnaissance ship and the flagship. If the other party wants to issue an early warning or other information, it will be transmitted through this encrypted channel.

Moreover, in addition to actively issuing early warnings, the reconnaissance ship will always be in a state of 'passively receiving' information, so in theory it is the safest situation to have no messages in this encrypted channel.

But for some reason, looking at the empty encrypted channel, the commander of the garrison fleet, Rear Admiral Kimmel, felt a little uneasy.

"Am I too nervous? It's not your first time in actual combat, so why are you thinking so much?"

Major General Kimmel shook his head, quickly throwing this thought out of his mind, and then focused his energy on the current command.

After calming down, he asked: "How far are we from the enemies in the V6 area now?"

"280,000 kilometers general! According to the current relative speed, it is estimated that the composite picture will be available in seventeen minutes and the enemy will be within contact range in thirty-five minutes!" the intelligence officer replied.

"Very good, continue to monitor the enemy. How is the monitoring situation in the G9 area?"

Although he knew that the G9 area was being watched by his secretly deployed reconnaissance ship, Kimmel couldn't help but ask, as if he wanted to hear the 'double insurance' answer he wanted to hear.

And the intelligence officer's answer did not disappoint him.

"The second drive escort detachment on the flank conducted a round of reconnaissance 15 minutes ago, but more than 80% of the units in this round of reconnaissance did not return radar echoes like before."

After the intelligence officer looked at the information in the terminal, he continued:

"The second drive escort detachment thought that the opponent's bait might have reached the limit of its operating time, so it began to fail one after another. The number scanned in the previous few times was also less and less."

"Understood, send a letter to the second escort detachment, don't let down your guard!"

"Yes! General."

The intelligence officer quickly followed the instructions to deliver the order, and Kimmel comforted himself in his mind:

"It's okay, the secret sentry did not issue any warning, and these unknown targets did show the operating characteristics of long-distance decoys, indicating that the G9 area is the direction of feigning attacks to lure the enemy.

You gotta hold on to your guns, Kimmel! "

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"Reporting that each ship in the fleet has turned on radar wave cancellation in sequence according to the previous deployment, and has completed the activation of optical camouflage. It is speculated that in the enemy's next round of long-range radar scanning, we will remove the enemy's radar control screen from disappear!"

"Report, the observation team reported that it received a light signal from the gravel area. The source of the signal is the 'polarized light signal'. The content of the signal is: 'The secret whistle is pulled out, you can take action!'"

"Report."

After hearing a series of reports from various battle positions on the bridge, especially the report that the Polarized Light had unplugged the opponent's hidden whistle, Randall's expression also relaxed a little.

To be honest, it was not until the Polarized Light sent out a signal that Randall, who was inexperienced in fleet battles, realized that the other party might have deployed hidden sentries in this natural 'shielding zone', and he had actually forgotten about this before.

Fortunately, the "Polarized Light" he sent over successfully killed the opponent's hidden sentry, otherwise the third task force's desire to launch a surprise attack from the "detection blind spot" on the flank of the garrison fleet would have been in vain.

"Captain, how long do we have until we are within attack range?"

"Sir, judging from the current relative speed to the target fleet's track point, we will be within attack range in seventeen minutes!"

Randall nodded after hearing this: "Go ahead and inform the entire fleet to maintain the current formation and relative speed and prepare to enter the battle! After each ship enters the attack range, it immediately begins to slow down, removes the optical camouflage and begins to attack.

Try to maximize the effect of this 'flank strike' before the opponent's fleet reacts! "