Chapter 612: Destroying the Enemy without Injury

ME-13 star zone, Shasta Galaxy, the Renaissance Alliance Fleet and the Shasta Galaxy Independent Fleet confront each other in the universe.

From a God's perspective, the size of the fleets facing each other is not much different.

The Renaissance Alliance is mainly composed of the former Rubion Galaxy Garrison Fleet, plus some of the remaining warships of the five federal navy fleets purchased from the Atlas Group, which together are close to the size of two full fleets.

The Shasta Galaxy Independent Fleet, because it is directly derived from the former garrison fleet through "peaceful evolution", has a relatively complete organization and is also the size of two full fleets.

Unlike other galaxies, these garrison fleets were not seized by different forces during the galaxy civil strife and were buried in the meaningless internal power struggle.

This is why Nagran, the former commander of the Shasta Galaxy Garrison Fleet, the current leader of the Shasta Galaxy Independent Alliance and commander of the Independent Fleet, and the self-proclaimed "Admiral", was able to put forward higher "interest demands" for the cooperation proposed by the Renaissance Alliance at the negotiation table, and after the collapse of the first round of talks, he had the confidence to lead the fleet to confront the Renaissance Alliance.

The fleets of both sides are similar in ship configuration. The only advantage of the Renaissance Alliance may be that the ships seized from the Federal Navy have undergone the latest software and hardware upgrades, and the ship condition is also better.

But in the eyes of Nagran's "Admiral", these factors cannot determine the outcome of a fleet battle.

Through his own information channels, Nagran knows that the fleet combat personnel of the Renaissance Alliance actually have very complicated sources - some are trained by themselves, some are hired through Atlas, and some are surrendered Federal Navy.

But more of them are actually some recruits with little combat experience. It may be questionable how much strength these people can bring to the two fleets on the opposite side.

At least Nagran has noticed that the coordination between the two fleets is not very good by observing the tactical maneuvers and formation changes of the Renaissance Alliance Fleet. In some complex situations, warships even fell behind.

"Just based on the quality of the personnel, we don't need to fight seriously. If we force them to do a few more tactical maneuvers, their formation may be directly dispersed. Hahahaha~"

The adjutant next to Nagran sneered and mocked.

"We are the tallest among the short ones, but we still can't take it lightly."

Nagran stopped his adjutant's mockery. He actually knew in his heart that the training level of the garrison fleet was actually not comparable to that of the regular army of the Federation Navy, but anyway, the fleet has been running-in for so long, so there will be no big problems in basic coordination.

Unlike the other side, it was simply a fleet that was temporarily assembled from various corners.

"If the remaining local fleets in other galaxies of the Federation are also of this level, I don't think I have no chance to get a piece of meat in this chaos?"

This idea that suddenly popped up in his mind made Nagrand's "Admiral" a lot more energetic, and many things that he didn't dare to think about before, he couldn't help but start to imagine.

But at this moment, the intelligence officer on the bridge floated to his side.

"General, we found an unidentified ship in a space 350,000 kilometers away."

"350,000 kilometers away? It's almost close to our outer warning circle." Nagran frowned, "Why did you find it now?"

"Report to the general. Um. Our outer reconnaissance force is not enough, and most of the ships have been called back to join the confrontation, so the 300,000-kilometer warning circle information is not updated in time, and"

Nagran: "And what? Don't be fussy!"

"And it's not a target discovered by the reconnaissance ship, but we first discovered the characteristics of the gravitational wave radar. The radar operator reported that it seems that the opponent's long-distance detection unit has been locking us, but it is the first time he has seen it locked at such a long distance."

"Long-distance detection unit? Locked?"

Nagran suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart. He looked at the star map above the holographic projection platform in the center of the bridge, where the approximate location of the unknown unit had been updated.

But the distance of more than 300,000 kilometers made the former garrison fleet commander really unable to think of what the opponent could do at this distance.

After all, in all the fleet battles of mankind before, this distance was at most the contact between the outer guard forces of both sides, and it was still a long way from the real main fleet to launch an attack.

"Keep monitoring these three unknown units, and report immediately if there is any abnormality! At the same time, let the electronic countermeasure team try to break away from the other party's lock."

Nagrand couldn't think of any other solution for a while, so he could only use conventional ideas to arrange it for the time being, and at the same time, his eyes were fixed on the Renaissance Alliance fleet in front of him, which had entered a distance of 100,000 kilometers.

"I want to see what the hell you are trying to do!"

This idea just appeared in Nagrand's mind, and before he could think about what to do specifically, the shipboard control personality of the battleship under his feet suddenly appeared in the air and issued a warning in an extremely anxious voice.

"Warning! High-energy reaction detected!"

When the first blue-purple beam touched the battleship, everything seemed to happen in the blink of an eye.

As the flagship of Nagrand, the Kraken-class battleship named ‘Nagrand Admiral’ is slightly inferior to the Federation’s latest improved model, the Kraken-class, in various configurations, but it is still a proper battleship anyway.

It's just that the deflection force field, which is the main protective measure, was not activated when attacked by high-energy lasers, or even if it was activated, it would not have much effect.

After all, the main function of the deflection force field is to defend against charged particles, and it is obviously useless against pure high-energy lasers.

Therefore, the high-energy lasers emitted by the three Star-class battlecruisers directly hit the metal shell. The temperature at the contact point suddenly soared to tens of thousands of degrees Celsius, and the metal surface vaporized instantly.

The working fluid cooling water under the blackbody coating had no time to transmit any heat in this case, and even directly caused a strong steam explosion, causing the surface materials of the ship to continuously evaporate and peel off.

As the surface material evaporates, the laser beam further penetrates into the underlying structure. In addition, the distance between the emission point and the contact point is too far. Even if the three Star Glory-class battle cruisers have enabled the so-called 'local space curvature' Stable' pioneer black technology to anchor itself, still allows the three high-energy laser beams to move away from the initial contact point uncontrollably.

The high-energy laser delivers a large amount of heat in a very short time, causing the internal material to quickly heat up above the melting point. Metal and other solid materials begin to melt, forming a gradually expanding molten pool.

The highly focused nature of the laser beam allows this process to occur in a very small area, resulting in rapid damage to localized areas.

Molten metal flows along the cracks, extending the damage and spreading heat to a wider area, causing damage to adjacent structures as well.

Some flammable or explosive substances caused secondary explosions due to overheating, exacerbating the degree of destruction. Each explosion was like a silent roar in the silent space, and the firelight reflected the chaos and despair inside the battleship.

Since the three high-energy laser beams completely penetrated the hull, they also cut off the titanium alloy frame inside the hull. The stability of the Admiral Nagrand's hull was seriously affected, and large-scale damage began to occur. Deformation and breakage.

It's just that this unlucky ship, or the first battleship in human history that was sunk at a distance of one light second, did not wait until the moment it disintegrated.

"Hit! The characteristics of a large-scale high-temperature plasma fireball were detected, and the target superconducting battery stack was suspected to have been detonated! Damage confirmation is awaiting!"

The excited voice of the tactical information coordination officer sounded on the bridge of the 'Starlight Class Experimental Ship No. 1' where Amber and Guterres were located.

Although the final damage effect has not yet been confirmed, in actual combat, it hit the target across a distance of 1 light second and caused objective damage, which has met everyone's expectations for this battle.

"Continue to monitor the target, and the main weapon unit is under emergency cooling, allowing the damage control team to inspect each module and prepare for the next round of attack!"

Guterres responded calmly. Although he was equally excited, he suppressed it.

On the outside of the three Star-class battlecruisers, immediately after the irradiation ended, three pairs of large-area heat radiation panels were deployed and began to dissipate excess heat.

But for the heat generated by the 'Spectrum Destroyer' during the irradiation process, the heat that the heat sink can dissipate is just a drop in the bucket, so this set of conventional heat dissipation units works more for other systems on the battleship.

What is actually used to dissipate heat for the 'Spectrum Destroyer' is the 'Zero Point Energy Cooling System' that Saleh pulled out of the Forerunner's technology library - as the name suggests, it extracts cold energy from the vacuum zero point energy to provide high power. Lasers provide continuous and efficient cooling

Therefore, the 'Star Glory' class battlecruiser is not only the first battleship owned by mankind that can strike at a distance of 1 light second, it is also the battleship that uses the largest number of Forerunner technologies in the history of mankind.

Amber must admit that although many technologies of the Forerunner civilization are simply difficult for humans to understand, they may even think it is a fantasy.

But when Saleh took the scientific research team assigned to her and actually reproduced these technologies, the technical level of Atlas - especially the military technology that was the focus of development, had shown a significant improvement. leap.

Many subsystems related to Forerunner technology on the 'Starlight-class' battlecruiser can not only be used on mass-produced ships of the same class in the future, but can also radiate and affect all future ships of Atlas, and can even make Some old warships 'brought back to glory'.

"The damage control team reported that the weapon unit inspection has been completed and no abnormalities have been found yet!"

"The weapons team reported that the rapid cooling work of the 'Spectral Destroyer' has been completed and it can carry out a secondary attack!"

"The observation team reported that the flagship of the target fleet was sunk in the first round of strikes!"

A series of reports were sounded on the bridge one after another. Amber saw Guterres in charge. Every time he heard a piece of news, his fists tightened and the excitement on his face became heavier. point.

Soon, after signaling to Amber, the old navy man, like a big child who got a new toy, almost couldn't wait to give the order to 'continue the attack'.

The dazzling light appeared again at the front ends of the three 'Star Glory' class battlecruisers, followed by three 'Lances of Light' stabbing in the direction of Shasta's independent fleet.

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At this time, the Shasta Independent Fleet could be said to have fallen into chaos in an instant.

No one expected that the flagship that had just been issuing orders to the fleet would disappear in a blink of an eye.

The surrounding warships didn't even know what was happening. The members on the bridge also received the warning about the "high-energy reaction" from the shipboard control personality, and then the next second the position of the fleet flagship turned into a huge blue-white fireball.

"Where did the attack come from? Did the opposing fleet open fire?"

"No, no, the attack seems to come from 300,000 kilometers away? Ultra-long-range sniping?!"

"A distance of 1 light second? What are you kidding?"

"Boom!"

The three high-energy laser beams that suddenly appeared pierced through the second warship that was hit, and soon it also disintegrated and exploded under the irradiation of high-energy lasers like the fleet flagship just now.

Then, the third and fourth rounds of attacks

Irradiation, cooling, module inspection, target locking, irradiation, repeated cycles.

It seems that they have noticed that the current attack power of the "Spectrum Destroyer" is a bit excessive, so under the order of Guterres, starting from the third round of irradiation, the three "Starlight-class" battlecruisers no longer fired salvos, but marked their targets and started free attacks.

For the Shasta Independent Fleet, which was being attacked, it was definitely a period of torture. Although there were only three high-energy lasers irradiated from 1 light second away, all the attacks so far had successfully hit the target.

As long as the warship was hit by these three blue-purple high-energy lasers, it would at least be penetrated, not to mention the 3-second irradiation time, which was enough for these deadly lasers to cut the hull and cause greater damage.

For the Renaissance Alliance Fleet opposite the Shasta Independent Fleet, they were also shocked at this time.

Franklin and the fleet commander, who were personally in charge of the flagship, had long known that Atlas would send ships for support, but after receiving the report that only three warships appeared and were still 300,000 kilometers away, the two did not figure out what Atlas was up to for a while.

Until the high-energy laser that spanned 1 light second lit up in the cold universe.

Until the flagship of the enemy fleet was instantly beaten into a ball of fire.

Franklin realized that sometimes the gap can be so big that it cannot be described in conventional ways.

When most armed forces in the Federation were still complacent about forming one or two fleets, Atlas was already studying how to "annihilate the enemy without injury" at a distance of 1 light second

Thinking of this, Franklin sighed slightly: "There are only three ships."