From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 654 Who can’t fly away even with wings?
Alpha Serpens, also known as the Eye of Serpens, is a third-magnitude bright star. This giant gas planet with a mass 13 times that of Jupiter is already the brightest planet observable by humans in the entire constellation Serpens.

After the early human space voyages and the wars of unification and division, the Serpens area, including the Pillars of Life, eventually became a federal territory.

However, due to the lack of resources and suitable planets for colonization, as well as the impact of the dust cloud of the Pillar of Creation on space navigation, the entire Serpens constellation has not been developed too much. In addition to using the Pillar of Creation to hide the proton annihilation bomb assembly center, the Federation has only built semi-automated mining plants in a few areas.

Alpha Serpens has not been visited by humans for more than ten years. Although the Federation has built some gas collection and processing stations in orbit, the cargo fleet responsible for transportation only makes a round trip every 15 years, and maintains these collection and processing stations while transporting resources.

But today, this lonely gas planet has become unusually lively.

In the dark space of the universe, waves of ripples appear quietly as if out of nothing, like the brushstrokes of the mysterious painter of the universe gently splashing on the black canvas.

After a series of hard battles, the Atlas special operations fleet finally broke into this space without any warning through the "celestial navigation" mode of the jump engine.

However, in the end, only more than half of the warships successfully escaped from the jump and arrived in this area of ​​the universe.

Looking at the command interface, which showed the remaining 55% of the fleet, and then looking at the damaged battleships and the few remaining other warships in the detailed list, Amber also let out a long sigh.

Although Amber was prepared to continue to suffer heavy losses in subsequent battles after Atlas confronted five federal fleets last time, his mood was still very complicated when this incident actually happened.

But he did not have time to think so much at this moment, instead he drove the 'ATLAS' out of the temporary warship and headed towards the 'Eternity'.

The other warships also quickly confirmed the status of the HCPs and heavy armored combat boats that had just been temporarily loaded. After the shipboard control personalities quickly handled it like a "meeting", most of the HCPs and combat boats continued to maintain the current loading status.

Only a small number of warships with overload will eject the extra HCPs and combat boats, and then let them go to the nearest warships with excess load.

Although doing so would disrupt the organization of many carrier-based squadrons, the advantage is that it would not take too much time to reorganize.

After all, the danger is not over yet.

Amber and everyone in the fleet knew that the Federal Fleet would never give up just like that.

Fortunately, even though both sides spent the same amount of time on the jump, the time required for the Federal Fleet to readjust its course and re-accelerate would not be much less. During this time, the Atlas Fleet also began to enter the planetary orbit and accelerate. At the same time, each ship quickly carried out self-inspection and emergency damage control.

Amber naturally didn't want to fight with Trafalgar anymore. After all, the main combat objective of the Atlas Special Operations Fleet had been achieved, and everything that needed to be dismantled had been dismantled. There was no need to continue fighting with the Federal Fleet.

So he planned to try to take advantage of this time difference, let the fleet use Alpha Serpens to accelerate, and slip away after the jump engine completed the coordinate analysis.

However, he still underestimated Marshal Trafalgar's determination to annihilate this isolated army at this moment, as well as the strength displayed by the main fleet of the Federation at this moment.

The Atlas fleet had just entered orbit when three Federation Navy fleets caught up.

"Warning, unauthorized space fluctuations detected!"

"Warning, the abnormal mass of the target space has been detected to be increasing rapidly, and it has been determined that a large-scale fleet has disengaged from the jump." The alarm sounded without warning on the bridge of the 'Eternity'. The federal warships quickly appeared on the radar monitoring screen of the Atlas fleet's flagship "Eternity" like marine predators emerging from the deep sea. There were hundreds of densely packed signals.

Under the guidance of experienced fleet navigators, their bows were all facing the Atlas fleet after they left the jump, and the various weapon groups that had been stored during the jump were also reactivated. From a distance, it looked as if an invisible giant hand had suddenly pulled the entire federal fleet out of the void.

Fortunately, the two sides are now 3 kilometers apart. At this distance, coupled with the gravitational interference of the giant gas planet next to them, the attack effect of the heavy particle cannon is not very good, so Amber and the others don't have to worry about being destroyed by the opponent's main gun salvo for the time being.

As for the attacks of high-energy lasers and charged particle cannons, the Atlas fleet fired all of its remaining scattered gel bombs without reservation.

Marshal Trafalgar and Admiral Carroll almost watched the Atlas fleet slip away to the back of Alpha Serpens. The huge gas planet now became a natural shelter, providing the Atlas fleet with a brief respite.

"Chase them. They have already reorganized their formation. It seems they want to take advantage of the time difference to escape by warping."

Marshal Trafalgar had a gloomy face at the moment, and the "rage hidden under the cold" emanating from him made Admiral Carol dare not interrupt at all, and he could only carry out the orders of the old marshal without hesitation.

"But I won't let them succeed so easily. The entire fleet will pursue them at maximum speed. Humph. Do you think we can't use the planet's gravity to speed up?"

Trafalgar snorted coldly, and the entire fleet accelerated rapidly under his command. As Alpha Serpens was a celestial body within the Federation's territory, the Federation Navy Fleet naturally had access to more complete astronomical data, and the orbit adopted by the entire fleet was much better than the one used by the Atlas Fleet in a hurry.

Soon, on the bridge of the Eternal, the ship controller Gatheris also quickly issued a warning that the "closeness rate between the two sides is too high."

Amber: "So the Federation fleet will be in attack position before we enter the jump?"

"Yes, Your Excellency the Commander."

Ceris nodded, and the tactical situation animation beside her also showed the result of her calculation - before entering the jump, more than 95% of the Atlas fleet's ships might be destroyed, and only the "Eternity" and a few tough battleships could escape.

It was at this time that a message from Marshal Trafalgar appeared on the public channel. After confirming that there was no electronic warfare virus hidden in the message, Amber also opened the message.

"Mr. Amber, the supreme leader of Atlas, I believe you already know the result of this battle. You and your fleet are doomed to fail. In order to avoid more unnecessary casualties and out of humanitarian considerations, I hope you will order the fleet to shut down its engines."

It is obvious that this message from Trafalgar was intended not only to persuade the enemy to surrender, but also to "tune up the mentality".

This is not uncommon in the history of human warfare. As space fleet warfare becomes more mature, the commanders of both sides swear at each other in public channels, and at the same time insert electronic warfare viruses in the information, which is no longer routine.
"Can't fly even with wings?"

Amber looked at the almost 'touchable' Alpha Serpens outside the panoramic window of the bridge, and a cruel smile slowly emerged on her face.

"It's hard to say who is the one who can't fly even if he has wings~"

(End of this chapter)