Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 252 The Predicament of the Second Step
What does space age warfare look like?
In the ancient earth era, many sci-fi works like to describe life driving various space warships, and then shooting various beams of light in space.

However, among these many science fiction works, most of them ignore the changes in technology.In the eyes of science fiction writers in the ancient earth era, they often habitually think that space is just the expansion of the ocean, and space battleships are just the expansion of ocean battleships. Therefore, in this vast space, there are battles of naval warfare .

Therefore, wooden warships with dark matter engines criss-crossing in space rely on solid neutron star material collision angles to collide with each other. Soldiers holding machetes made of neutron star material rely on gang-jumping tactics to kill seven In and seven out, the Space Age uses the tactics of the Sail Age, the black hole weapon is like a big bomb, and the dimensional laws can be modified at will...

But unfortunately, this situation does not exist in the physical universe.

Even if the footsteps of interstellar humans expand to the entire Milky Way, interstellar humans will still not know the "mathematical modification" and "law weapons" in the science fiction works of the ancient earth era, just like human beings will not create omnipotent weapons even in the 22nd world. The wishing doraemon came out the same.

In this extremely rigorous, sometimes boring physical universe, countless fantasies have been extinguished, but at the same time, the tactics of interstellar humans are far beyond the understanding and imagination of humans in the ancient Earth era.

With the improvement of science and technology, human beings don't wear thicker and sharper armors and sharper swords to fight, but instead wear light military uniforms, because no matter how thick the armor is, it can be defeated by guns and bullets several kilometers away. Also pointless.

The countries in the Middle East believed that they had countless cannons and tanks. Relying on the experience of World War II, they believed that firepower was everything. However, the effortless information-based battles of the United States easily achieved a battle loss ratio of 50:200000.

Technology, its changes are always beyond the understanding and imagination of the ancients.

……

In space, in the fluctuations caused by spiritual jumps.A huge spaceship appeared in space.

"General Thiloan, the army has assembled."

The information from afar was received by the processor in his brain, and the middle-aged man called General Tiloan didn't say much, but signaled that he was ready to fight.

However, he obviously only has one spaceship, what kind of battle is he commanding?

Yes, he only has one spaceship...a ​​flagship spaceship with no weapon system at all. This huge flagship spaceship has no combat capabilities and only has a large number of command systems.

Because at a distance of 100 billion kilometers away from him, in the vast space, a group of more than [-] billion drones arranged neatly floated quietly, like a dead army, waiting for orders.

With the formation of AI technology, the thinking of relying on humans to drive warships is already silly.

Human beings need food, clothing and daily life, and need to plan many redundant areas on the battleship as living quarters; but AI does not need it, AI only needs energy supply, and a loyal AI will execute all orders without hesitation.Spaceships with greatly compressed space can therefore be loaded with more efficient weapons and become high-speed, deadly, and cheap killers.

Only the continuous production of factories is needed, and the army can be continuously formed. How can a flesh and blood body compete with steel in quantity?A swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles counted by billions is meaningless to interstellar civilization, even if this number is multiplied by [-] million times, it is also meaningless.

On this basis, the old soldier profession has almost disappeared, and there are only generals who manage drones and commanders who manage generals in the army.

Therefore, a long time ago, space combat has changed from a life-and-death struggle between humans to a calm numerical calculation, which is somewhat closer to playing strategic games in the ancient earth era.

"A-1 Group...C-6 Group..."

In the flagship with only dozens of people, the general calmly issued orders, and any order would directly affect the fate of more than ten billion drones.

Any of those drones equipped with celestial weapons can easily destroy an asteroid, and some are even equipped with star-destroying weapons.Although it can only be used once, there is no need to think about reusing this cheap machine, and it will be destroyed if it is destroyed.

These drones are like hundreds of billions of ammunition with amazing power, what is needed now is to tilt these ammunition out.

According to the detection, after about 17 galaxy hours, the target will enter the huge army composed of drones.

Taking advantage of this interval, Tiloan even took the time to connect to the private channel and exchange command experience with his companions.

"General Thiloan, do you think this test will be successful?"

Beside him, a young reserve general asked, his body exuded flickering mental fluctuations, and he seemed a little curious.

Tiloan glanced at the young reserve general beside him. He thought for a moment, frowned, and then shook his head.

"To be honest, I'm not too optimistic."

Obviously, this answer was completely beyond the expectations of the young reserve general. In his opinion, this long-established general should be bolder and more radical. How could he be so pessimistic?
he asked in surprise.

"why?"

Tiloan did not directly answer the question of the young reserve general, but asked rhetorically.

"Rookie, why do you think you can win?"

"We have the most advanced weapons, the most advanced drones... If our power is really poured out, it can completely destroy a star."

The young reserve general couldn't help but straighten up, and replied proudly.

Indeed, in this era, no human country can resist the technology of the Second Republic. The Second Republic is expanding wildly at this moment. In the eyes of many people, the day when humans in the Milky Way are unified again is not far away.

The general was noncommittal and asked again.

"What about the opponent? What do you know about your opponent?"

opponent?

The young reserve general was at a loss for words for a moment. He knew the composition of his army well and knew the advantages and disadvantages of those unmanned machines, but the opponent?How could he know something that even the academic conference didn't know.

Looking at the reserve general in front of him, Tiloan sighed, and instead of communicating with his mind wave, he said softly.

"This is what worries me. We don't know the target's intelligence, and we attack rashly with confidence. Even if we can really test the target's fighting style and behavior, it's just a lucky victory."

Unlike other rather optimistic colleagues, Tiloan, who has been neutral in various space battles all year round, feels uneasy.

This uneasiness is both because of his psychic sense of danger, and also because of his experience.

Just as he was talking, the AI ​​had already sent a message.

"coming."

Tiloan's eyes narrowed habitually, watching the information coming from ahead.

……

In the front, there are some drones equipped with subspace communication capabilities. They have no combat capabilities and are easily destroyed when dealing with human fleets. They have basically no actual combat value.

It was originally used to explore space, but considering that the target would not know the role of these drones, some remote eyes were called.These subspace communication drones will directly transmit information to the flagship 100 billion kilometers away through the super-light speed capability of the subspace, as an impromptu command.

In the information sent back by the subspace communication drone, Tiloan was able to see the huge giant snake that was regarded as an extreme sample by the academic conference and caused heated discussions in the human world.

Just like the rumors, it was an unbelievably huge monster. Even with a prosthetic eye equipped with super powers, it was almost impossible to capture the shape of this huge monster. All I could see was a huge light coming.

Almost nothing can catch up with it, not even drones known for their high speed, but as long as they lie in ambush where it passes in advance, it will be fine.

The first wave of drones has already greeted them.

The weapons carried by these drones are not very powerful, and can only penetrate some small celestial bodies. In Tiloan's view, it is impossible to penetrate the scales that can resist stellar matter.However, neither Tiloan nor the Academic Council had counted on this. After all, Tiloan's mission was to test, not to execute the mission of killing.

The first round of the weapon hit the target successfully, at least according to the feedback, but it didn't seem to be effective.

"Testing... small plasma... didn't work..."

On the side, the spaceship AI is silently doing statistical work.

Almost immediately after, the second round of drones rushed up, followed by the third, fourth, and fifth rounds...

In the continuous impact of weapons, the huge light had no intention of stopping, but in just a few rounds, the light had already flown over tens of millions of kilometers.

Tiloan's face remained unchanged.

He is very clear about the high-speed characteristics of the target. All drones are distributed according to the speed of the target. Within the range of 14 billion kilometers, there are rows of drones all over the place.The underestimation of the target is more suitable for this test task.

"test……"

The spaceship AI is constantly counting the results.

In round after round of tests, under dozens of rounds of weapon impact, the target seemed to have no effect, Tiloan frowned slightly.

Although the target has no reaction, it is indeed very suitable for testing the effect of weapons, but more importantly, the target's attack method. If you don't know the target's attack method, it is impossible to talk about the real battle.

"Planetary level weapon preparation."

Tiloan made some adjustments. It is expected that the previous weapons will not be effective, but the real focus is on the Star Destroyer weapons. Facing weapons that can destroy planets, can the target continue to turn a blind eye?

Finally, in the face of the oncoming Star Destroyer weapon, the huge light seemed to move, and in an instant, a change occurred...

"puff!"

Suddenly, the distant message in front of him disappeared instantly.

"what happened?"

The on-site information could no longer be seen, and the spacecraft AI automatically tried to reconnect through the subspace communication, but the subspace communication drone did not respond.It wasn't a drone that lost its response, it seemed that in an instant, more than hundreds of millions of drones scattered all over the place lost their response.

Not only that, even when trying to contact other weapon testing drones, there was no response, as if the flagship spacecraft had lost contact with the outside world in the vast space.

"Tilloan, we have detected an anomaly...how is the situation ahead..."

Suddenly, a rush of subspace information came. In the image, the commander of the No. 20 Division [-] fleet looked anxious.

Not a glitch?

An inexplicable uneasiness emerged in Tiloan's heart.

"Jump away immediately!"

Without even considering the plan to call the drone group in front again, Tiloan directly ordered the spaceship to jump into subspace.

The spaceship AI carried out Tiloan's order, and after ten seconds, the huge flagship spaceship disappeared in place.

……

A few galactic hours later, at the original drone cluster, a strange space-time fluctuation formed, and a fully armed spaceship appeared.

Tiloan looked at the vast space in front of him, silent.

"how so……"

Beside him, the young reserve general was dumbfounded.

I saw that in the dark and dead space, countless drone fragments were suspended in this 14 billion-kilometer space, like relics left after a war.

What happened here a few galaxies ago?No one knows, even Tiloan, who has experienced all this, can't explain it, as if it was really just a moment, and more than tens of trillions of drones were turned into pieces.

"We... we test again."

The reserve general gritted his teeth, but Tiloan shook his head as he looked at the huge space machine graveyard in front of him.

"It's useless, I think, I'm afraid it will be the same no matter how many times I repeat it."

As Tiloan said, the next few tests also ended in strange failures, all of which disintegrated into pieces in an instant, and no one knew why.

And this situation was quickly known by the academic conferences in the ring world.

Faced with this result, the president of the 7th Ring World Society gritted his teeth and looked at it for a long time.

What kind of ability does that giant snake in space have?How does it behave?Until now, it is still a mystery to the Second Republic, no one knows.

The second step is still in a predicament.

(End of this chapter)