From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 533 'Physical' Virus Attack

"Team location confirmed."

"Memphis, has crossed the 'Charlie Line', and there is no deviation from the track."

"Andes, has crossed the 'Charlie Line', the trajectory deviation will be corrected in 12 seconds"

"Grace, we have crossed the 'Charlie Line' and there is no deviation from the trajectory."

After receiving the position report from the rest of the team, Baninger controlled the heavy combat element to step on a piece of gravel, corrected his trajectory, and then spoke:
"Received. Keep up the pace. We will cross the 'red line' in 120 seconds and contact the target in 180 seconds."

"Received!"×3
The Immortal Legion's internal communications were developed based on the hive mind, and humans currently have no means to effectively detect such communications. So although the dispatched Banninger Tactical Team and the Polarized Light temporarily lost contact and maintained radio silence, the tactical team can still continue to communicate internally.

When the Polarized Light collided with the sneaky reconnaissance ship almost at zero distance in the gravel belt, both Tom and Banninger realized that they had to prevent the other side from issuing a warning to the garrison fleet.

But after careful planning, everyone found that the task of "preventing the other party from issuing a warning" was more troublesome than they had imagined.

First, just sink the opponent directly. This option is PASSED at the beginning.

Not to mention whether the movement after sinking the opponent would be discovered by the enemy, thus making them alert in advance, just the firepower coverage launched on the gravel belt by the garrison fleet after discovering that the reconnaissance ship they deployed was gone would be more than the Polarized Light could withstand.

Even if Banninger and his team have a way to quietly paralyze the enemy's ships, there is no guarantee that this reconnaissance ship has any backup emergency communication methods or ways to send out emergency signals?
Tom and Baninger didn't dare to gamble.

Therefore, the final idea returned to the category of "soft kill", and injecting electronic warfare viruses to paralyze the reconnaissance ship without alerting the garrison fleet has become one of the most reliable methods at present.

According to the general rules of the human navy in deploying "secretaries", these secret sentries deployed in dangerous areas will remain silent throughout the entire process except for the moment of issuing a warning, and will not actively contact other ships.

Therefore, after the electronic warfare virus paralyzed the ship, even if the reconnaissance ship had not sent any message to the garrison fleet, the other side would probably not be suspicious, and might even think that everything was normal.
However, everything in the world has two sides. Although the silent state of this reconnaissance ship gave Polaris the opportunity to take action, this kind of "silence" that completely enclosed itself also made Polaris seem unable to take action?
Military electronic warfare viruses are indeed powerful in invading systems, but the prerequisite is that they can be successfully injected. After all, no matter what virus it is, it cannot appear in the opponent's system out of thin air.

But this reconnaissance ship is like a completely closed sandbox, making it impossible for the Polarized Light to find any place to start.

Just when everyone was at a loss, Tom suddenly remembered a secret mission that Polaroid had carried out with Amber. In that mission, in order not to alert the enemy, Polaroid threw Amber out from a very long distance and finally successfully completed the infiltration.
Thinking of this, Tom couldn't help but look at Banninger on the screen.

"Captain Tom, what's the problem?"

"Captain, if you don't have as many restrictions as humans, then do you have more freedom than humans in extravehicular activities?"

"You are right. So what are you going to do, Captain?"

After recalling the discussion of the tactical scenes before the attack, Baninger, who was "wandering" in space, had to sigh that Tom's thinking was still very unique.

And he had to admit that this tough job of crossing a rubble belt without power was indeed more suitable for the Immortal Legion to do.

Any normal human being would not do such a thing.

Of course, Amber and other psychics are not considered normal humans.
Since the target reconnaissance ship was renovated with the assistance of Atlas during the "honeymoon period", Tom, who learned a lot about reconnaissance ships after being incorporated into the combat fleet, quickly found the Achilles' heel of this reconnaissance ship.

In order to facilitate quick maintenance in the dock and on the battlefield, there are many special maintenance windows on the outside of both Federation and Star Dragon Empire ships.

Some are physical inspection channels that can be opened to allow maintenance robots to enter, while others are "virtual" inspection channels that allow maintenance personnel to quickly check the status of various modules of the ship from the outside.

Although the latter also has protective measures, they are not as strict. Its most effective means of protection is to set it to only accept signals within a few meters, which directly eliminates 99% of long-range attacks.

As for invading within a few meters of the ship and launching an attack on the inspection port, this is basically something that will not happen in the eyes of ship designers.

After all, in normal combat, no matter what kind of ship it is, it will not allow the opponent to invade within a few meters of itself.

What's more, you have already invaded within a few meters, but instead of directly attacking the ship physically, you are invading it with an electronic warfare virus? Is this something wrong with your brain?
Therefore, no matter what kind of ship it is, no improvement has been made to the "virtual" maintenance channel. After all, in an emergency rest state, these "access points" all over the ship can indeed greatly improve the work efficiency of maintenance personnel.
But this also gave Polaris an opportunity.

"Everyone, pay attention. There are 30 seconds left before you cross the red line. Deploy camouflage!"

"Received!"×3
As Baninger's order was issued, the other members of the tactical team took advantage of the moment when they passed by a piece of rubble to activate the "camouflage" attached to the outside of the heavy combat body.

With the rapid inflation of the compressed gas cylinders, when the four people appeared from behind the rubble again, they had curled up into a ball and surrounded by the inflatable camouflage on the outside, no different from other small rubbles in the rubble belt.

This camouflage kit, which was removed from several camouflage satellites, was originally designed to allow the Immortals to try to conduct camouflage training to infiltrate important targets. However, they did not expect that they would be fast-forwarded to actual combat before they had time to conduct the training.

But with the right time, right place and right people, the effect of this camouflage and infiltration tactic was better than everyone expected.

In order to maintain concealment, the reconnaissance ship temporarily shut down all active detection equipment except for the combat probes, trying to reduce its presence as much as possible. It still relies on a set of omnidirectional optical and infrared warning equipment to monitor the surroundings.

While Baninger and his four companions were camouflaging themselves, a group of debris floating from other directions also rushed towards the reconnaissance ship, so Baninger and his companions also blended in with them, preparing to take the opportunity to cross this last section of distance.

On the reconnaissance ship, the air surveillance team quickly discovered the existence of this group of rubble. While quickly marking it, he also reported:

"Captain, a group of rubble has been detected, and its trajectory will intersect with our ship's position."

"What's the relative speed?"

"264-412 meters per second." "Will the impact cause damage to our ship?" asked the captain of the reconnaissance ship.

Since the reconnaissance ship has already spread out a large number of combat probes and connected them with carbon nanotubes, if the current position of the ship is changed rashly, it will inevitably affect these combat probes and interrupt the target tracking of unidentified units in the G9 area.

Therefore, unless the debris would cause damage to the hull, the captain of the reconnaissance ship did not want to make any rash position adjustments.

"Based on the calculated kinetic energy, it does not exceed the defense threshold of the ship's outer armor!"

"Then prepare to be hit. The attitude control system activates the 'adaptive mode' to offset the position deviation caused by the impact of the gravel to the greatest extent! Unlock the 'compressed air attitude air component' of each combat probe to stabilize the position immediately after the impact!"

"Yes! Captain!"

Soon, the reconnaissance ship issued a broadcast saying "Everyone prepare for impact", and everyone grabbed the safety gear at hand or secured themselves to prevent themselves from being thrown away when a collision occurred.

Dozens of seconds later, a series of debris floated past the location of the reconnaissance ship, many of which hit the hull, causing the external armor plates to make a "bang bang" sound.

At the same time as the collision occurred, the attitude control systems in various parts of the reconnaissance ship were constantly operating to minimize the displacement impact caused by the collision, and the limited capacity of compressed air carried by those combat probes also began to operate to try to stabilize the attitude.

Before long, this series of rubble passed the location of the reconnaissance ship, and the rubble belt returned to calm.

However, no one noticed that four pieces of debris with unique shapes left some small gifts for the reconnaissance ship after hitting the hull.
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"All equipment is online. It is expected to break through the other party's maintenance firewall in 30 seconds. It is estimated that it will take at least 10 minutes for the other party to discover the abnormality. The execution of the plan will not be affected for the time being."

After everyone on the team completed the 'physical' intrusion of the assigned inspection port, Baninger immediately focused on the progress of the four external intrusion devices.

After the four members of the tactical team disguised themselves as rubble and "crashed" near the inspection port, they left behind a set of external devices attached to the opponent's armor plate, and these devices immediately began to invade the inspection port after they came online.

For Atlas, which has Lilith conducting hacking and electronic warfare virus research and development around the clock, conventional network protection measures are basically difficult to defend against.

Not to mention that these external intrusion devices are physically connected to the inspection ports through a large number of carbon nanotubes thinner than a hair.
Therefore, before the onboard control personality of this reconnaissance ship could react, the four groups of electronic warfare viruses that launched the attack at the same time quietly broke through the battleship's firewall and quickly began to "self-replicate" and gradually infect other systems within the ship.

Although a large number of compartments will be separated by airtight doors when the warship is in combat, the various systems are still connected through a standard bus.

Although according to the naval ship information security regulations, there will still be internal firewalls to isolate the system, but facing the electronic warfare virus "refined" by Lilith, as long as there is any information interaction between devices and devices, and systems and systems, it will not be immune.

"Captain, have we completed our mission?"

"Yes, the electronic warfare virus has already spread inside the target system. Judging from the current progress, it won't be long before all subsystems are out of the opponent's control."

"So what should we do with the four of us?"

Memphis, who asked this question, was still in camouflage at this moment, floating in the space like a piece of gravel, but from the predicted path he saw, it wouldn't be long before he would float out of this gravel area.

In order to avoid detection, the four heavy combat bodies did not carry any power components, and they used the initial speed obtained when they separated from the Polarized Light from beginning to end.

Therefore, there is basically no need to consider going back at this time. This is also the reason why Tom finally agreed to this plan. Only these "digital lives" of the Immortal Legion can do this without any burden.

If Tom sent real people to carry out such a mission, they would be labeled as "anti-human" at any level.

"Execute the destruction command and detach from the combat bodies. It's a pity, but these four heavy combat bodies can't be recovered."

After all, Baninger had followed Atlas all the way back when the company was penniless, so even with Atlas' current production capacity, these heavy combat bodies were produced in batches, and he subconsciously still felt a little distressed.

The other members of the tactical team did not hesitate after hearing Baninger's order and immediately executed a timed destruction command.

When the timer ends, the battle body will begin to melt from the inside out, eventually becoming a pile of completely unrecognizable scrap metal.

Shortly after the tactical team broke away, the people on the reconnaissance ship also made a discovery.

However, it was not that they discovered that the reconnaissance ship was infected with an electronic warfare virus, but that they discovered that new situations had occurred in the unidentified target group in the G9 area that they had been monitoring.

"Report! The unknown unit in the G9 area is gradually leaving the influence range of the 'Big Rubion'. The optical and infrared sensors have captured the target, and the shipboard control personality is identifying some of the target's characteristics!"

"Report! Feature identification completed. The database has matched the features of the Hydra-class heavy cruiser and the Griffin-class light cruiser!
No matching features were found in the database for the other two types of targets, but the shipborne control personality speculated that they were battleship and heavy cruiser level targets!

In addition, we detected a super large independent target, number 1, which was judged to be the 'Infinity' that appeared earlier!"

After hearing the report from the air surveillance team, the captain of the reconnaissance ship immediately concluded that the group of unidentified units in the G9 area was Atlas's combat fleet, and the main force of the garrison fleet was currently guarding against what was most likely a bait released by the opponent!

"Quick! Send out a warning! At the same time, our ship is preparing to evacuate this rubble area!"

Without any hesitation, the captain of the reconnaissance ship immediately issued an order to issue a warning and evacuate.

"Yes, Captain! Waiting, communication unit failure? Forced offline?!"

The next moment, all the lights on the bridge dimmed.

(End of this chapter)