Chapter 634: Perform the Whole Show
Aquila Nebula, the ‘Pillar of All Life’ area.
Outside the magnificent dust cloud, a series of space fluctuations appeared without warning, and a series of steel giant ships suddenly appeared in this universe in the white flashes formed by the space fluctuations.
As the huge fleet completed the overall jump, the fleet quickly and uniformly lit up the main propulsion array for more than ten seconds. After gaining a certain speed, it immediately turned on the optical stealth and merged into the cold cosmic background.
From the flash formed by the space fluctuation, it took only 30 seconds for this huge fleet to disappear from the outer universe of the ‘Pillar of All Life’ again.
And on the Infinite-class super flagship No. 3 ship, the ‘Eternal’, which had entered the ‘covert action’ mode and was leading this assault fleet to quietly move towards a certain coordinate, Amber was sitting in the captain's seat, listening to the information reported by the shipboard control personality.
"The blackbody coating has been activated, the cooling water has started to work, and the surface temperature of the ship is decreasing, approaching the background temperature of the universe."
"The passive radar warning device has not detected any radar waves until now, and the possibility of the fleet being detected by ultra-long-range long-wave radar continues to decrease."
The most dangerous and most easily detected moment for the entire fleet is the less than 30 seconds before the collective escape from the jump and enter the 'stealth mode'. During this time, infrared detection equipment and radar can detect this fleet.
However, until the entire fleet re-entered the 'stealth action' mode, no characteristics of any detection means were found - although infrared and ultraviolet optical detection are indeed undetectable, after the fleet turns on the blackbody coating and reduces the surface temperature, radar assistance is still needed to continue tracking the target. So the newly appointed shipboard control personality on the 'Eternal' also quickly made a judgment.
"Commander, according to the current information, our jump behavior has not been detected by the enemy. Will we sail silently according to the planned plan?"
After hearing the inquiry from the shipboard control personality, Amber thought for a moment and said:
"The entire fleet enters the second-level combat readiness state. All personnel change their cabin clothes. Non-main cabins should be emptied of oxygen first. The main superconducting battery stack should be charged. HCP and heavy armored combat boat personnel should be in place."
For Amber's orders, the shipboard control personality naturally obeyed unconditionally, so she soon began to issue instructions to the entire fleet through the tactical network.
This skipped the tactical adjutant and the communication officer and simplified it to "fleet command → command ship (flagship) shipboard control personality → fleet". It is a great test of the supreme commander's ability. It is also a command mode that puts the entire fleet in the hands of one fleet commander. It is also an experiment currently being carried out by the Atlas combat fleet on the Endless-class ship No. 3.
However, this experiment has just been halfway through, and the No. 3 ship "Eternity" was urgently equipped with a group of newly launched warships and participated in this secret combat operation.
Although the shipboard control personality will unconditionally obey Amber's orders, the other officers on the bridge will still be more or less puzzled by Amber's orders after hearing the previous information.
Especially Ramos, who has just been promoted to fleet tactical adjutant, the commander of the special strike formation, has performed well in several previous missions, so this time he was also urgently promoted to fleet tactical adjutant to follow Amber.
It's not that Amber doesn't want to bring other more experienced people, but Cliffs, Randall and Guterres are now commanding the fleet to confront the federal fleet at the edge of the federal control area.
Although the offensive posture there is just a cover and a tactical deception, it is the entire family of the Atlas combat fleet anyway, so Amber can only leave these three most experienced fleet commanders there.
If the federal fleet can't think of it and takes the initiative to launch an attack, they can stabilize their position and take the opportunity to counterattack. However, when it comes to the secret fleet led by Amber, the senior officers can only promote a group of newcomers on the front line.
Fortunately, Guterres was not idle after coming to the Atlas Group. He completed the revision and improvement of the combat fleet training outline very early, and at the same time, he paid close attention to the training and assessment of senior officers in the fleet. Therefore, the ability of these officers is not a big problem. The main problem is the lack of experience.
Just like Ramos beside Amber, he asked Amber his questions with some doubts. This is also the order Amber gave to all newly promoted officers-ask any questions before entering the battle, and follow the command after entering the battle~
"Boss, haven't we been discovered? Why did we enter the combat readiness state in advance? Did you notice something wrong?"
"Your first sentence is wrong," Amber shook his head, "We are not sure that we have not been discovered. If it is infrared, ultraviolet and other optical detection equipment, it is completely possible to discover our fleet without alerting us."
"But if the other party does not conduct continuous radar tracking, won't the target be lost after the fleet enters the 'covert action' state?" Ramos was still a little confused.
"No, this is purely a matter of experience. You guys should listen to this~"
Amber raised her hand and called over several tactical staff officers, intelligence officers, gunnery officers, etc. on the bridge.
"When you encounter similar situations in the future, you must try to put yourself into the perspective of the opponent's commander. Now think about it, if you are the commander guarding here, and suddenly receive a report that an unknown fleet has been discovered, Moreover, the other party quickly entered a state of covert action. Do you think you still need to continue to follow it?
This fleet suddenly appeared in this top-secret area. Do you think their target could be anywhere else besides the secret location you guard? "
Hearing this, the young officers almost simultaneously made expressions of "sudden realization" and "that's it", and Ramos started directly:
"So, Boss, are you giving the command based on the situation of 'assuming that the other party has discovered us'?"
Amber nodded: "Yes, hypothetical principle. Before you can obtain more clear information, there is nothing wrong with remaining cautious and being lenient with the enemy."
"Then do you think the Federation will guess our operation and deploy heavy troops here in advance to catch turtles in a urn?"
"First of all, please shut up your 'crow's mouth'. Don't think that because the previous fleet codename was 'Red Hand', you can speak unscrupulously. You must maintain awe of 'metaphysics'."
Amber's words made the young officers around him laugh. Only Ramos subconsciously raised his hand to scratch his head in embarrassment, and then put it down after realizing that he had put on the cabin suit.
"Secondly, regarding this question, my answer is - I don't know either."
Amber shrugged helplessly, not because he didn't want to say it, but because he really couldn't guess what Marshal Trafalgar would choose when faced with Atlas's strategic fraud.
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To be honest, Amber felt that she had really gone to the extreme in order to complete this strategic fraud, and all the arrangements were down to the smallest detail.
Since we don’t know how well the Federation knows about the hull numbers of the Atlas combat fleet, all the fleets that have appeared publicly and participated in the battle before, including the two super flagships as ‘emblems’, have all remained. On the other side of the confrontation line, it looked like "the main force was deployed in full force".
Cliffs, Randall, Guterres and others also stayed there to command the fleet, giving the fleet a "sophisticated" tactical style.
At the same time, Murat's plane was painted exactly the same as Amber, and when he needed to go out, he would try his best to imitate Amber's characteristics in his driving habits.
This is not a difficult problem for the HCP unit commander. After all, Murat, Louis and other ACEs are usually trained in simulated battles with Amber afterimages with a simulation degree of 90%. '.
On the other hand, 65% of the warships participating in the attack on the proton annihilation bomb assembly center were newly launched, and the rest were all warships whose hull numbers had not yet been exposed, which also means that this is a force that has broken away from the Federation. 'Stealth Fleet' controlled by intelligence.
The biggest shortcoming of this fleet is naturally its insufficient training and lack of actual combat experience.
However, the 'new command model' centered on fleet command and flagship shipboard control personality can make up for this in a sense - anyway, the main instructions are issued by Amber through the shipboard control personality of the 'Eternal' When it comes to the entire fleet, all ships in the fleet just need to execute the orders unconditionally. At this point, they have no problem.
Therefore, it can be said that Atlas has made this operation as perfect as possible, and in the few brief communications received quickly after the fleet left the jump, it was also confirmed that a large number of federal navy appeared on the other side of the confrontation line fleet.
It can be said that the opponent was eager to try, and even forced the six "Spectral Destroyer" battlecruisers originally intended to be used as secret weapons to conduct five consecutive rounds of light-second level sniping, and sank the flagship of a federal fleet.
Seeing this news, Amber couldn't help but feel lucky.
"Brother, I've already acted to this extent. This marshal can't resist taking the bait, can he?"