The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 292 The war is coming
The scene was quite embarrassing - there were no weapons installed on the reconnaissance starship, and judging from the appearance of the opponent's spacecraft, there seemed to be no weapons either. This resulted in both sides staring at each other for a while.

It seems that during the time when airplanes were first invented by human civilization, the reconnaissance planes of both sides had no means of threatening each other, and there was nothing they could do when they met in the air. The pilots of both sides could only symbolically pull out their guns and fire two shots at each other.

After a moment, Lin Yi was the first to react. To the side of the reconnaissance star, the armor structure at the mouth of the vertical launch unit opened. The two detectors suddenly popped out under the acceleration of the built-in electromagnetic acceleration orbit, and then disappeared into the darkness.

Immediately, the nozzles all over the body of the reconnaissance star began to operate, turning around and running the hyperspace engine at the same time, quickly crossing the channel, entering the star system on the other side, and evacuating backwards at full speed.

At the same time, a large number of reconnaissance stars retreated one after another, leaving more detector structures behind to stand guard along the road, ready to monitor the enemy's next moves, leaving the initiative on the battlefield in their own hands.

Shortly after the enemy reconnaissance spacecraft appeared, the detector left in the star system observed that more Ezki-style spacecraft slowly sailed into the star system.

These spacecraft are one size larger than the escort ships in the exploration fleet. The hulls obviously have weapons structures. Judging from the appearance, they should still be mainly directed energy weapons, with a small amount of kinetic energy weapons and some vertical launch units.

It's just that the opponent's bow no longer has a huge spherical focusing structure turret, but a special structure - this is probably the enemy's battleship. The main weapons are arranged along the central axis, which can accommodate more powerful weapons structures.

The opponent seemed to have not discovered the hidden detector structure, and slowly dragged the blazing plasma tail flame past, allowing Lin Yi to see the details of the opponent's ship as clearly as possible.

Different from the previous escort ships, the outer hulls of these capital ships seem to be covered with an additional layer of structure similar to additional armor, and there is a certain gap between the main parts of the hull and not directly attached to it.

This seems to be a technology that has been used by humans in later generations. It is called the "Whipple Shield". That is, a thin layer structure is installed in the air at a distance in front of the main defense structure. If an object hits this thin layer structure, It will vaporize first and will not cause damage to the main structure behind.

In later generations, this technology was used on space stations to defend against the impact of space debris. Now, these capital ships install this structure, perhaps for a similar purpose, Lin Yi didn't know.

After discovering traces of the enemy fleet, in the Centauri three-star system, in the orbit of Tethys, the main star cluster parked near the Skyhook Space Station began to take action, gradually gathering into a group and sailing forward.

When dividing the fleet, Lin Yi still uses the classification units of later generations as the standard, with the genus level as the smallest fleet unit, and above it are the family level and the super family level. At present, the Centauri Three Stars are mainly preparing to meet the enemy with two super-class fleets.

Judging from the star map, there are two main waterways to the territory of the original Ezki civilization. Therefore, among the fleets preparing to face the enemy this time, the Pterodactyl Limulus Fleet set out from the left, while the Crab Fleet Then go to the right.

These two super-class fleets, named after the large predatory horseshoe crabs, are currently the two with the largest number of warships and the strongest overall strength. Each fleet has five family-class fleets, and each family-class fleet has The number is about two hundred, and the entire super-class fleet can reach a thousand.

Among them, most or almost all are main stars. Each super-class fleet has only one or two subordinate fleets composed of escort stars, responsible for some special tasks. The opponent's currently exposed fleet includes hundreds of capital ships, but it is still unknown how many fleets there will be in the future. Moreover, considering that the opponent has more advanced technology after all, Lin Yi does not dare to underestimate the enemy at all.

Along the way, there were detectors arranged by the reconnaissance star in advance, and the initiative was temporarily in Lin Yi's hands. The division-level fleets under the two super division-level fleets also dispersed, preparing to engage the enemy.

The enemy reconnaissance ship did not retreat, but continued to move forward. Therefore, Lin Yi also responded. Two escort fleets composed of star-class fleets - the Staphylococcus striata fleet and the Salvia miltiorrhiza fleet came forward one after another. They were dispersed into various star systems in groups of two.

The task of escorting planets is to compete for planetary orbits, etc., and they are closer to the planet. This is similar to the fact that horseshoe crabs and their close relatives, salt horseshoe crabs, enter fresh water and are closer to land. Therefore, these few escort planets are composed of a genus-class fleet. Named after these two.

For things like searching for and attacking enemy reconnaissance ships, the faster escort star has certain advantages. This is also the reason why Lin Yi compiled a small number of escort star flies for the two fleets with the main star flies as the main force.

The first group of escorting Xinghao soon encountered the enemy's reconnaissance ship. Although he knew that it was impossible to communicate with the other party, Lin Yi finally sent an inquiry signal just in case. As expected, the other party had no reaction at all and just quickly tried to retreat.

After many calls to no avail, the central axis electromagnetic railgun installed on the escort star finally opened fire. Due to the upgrade of energy, projectiles with a muzzle velocity greater than that of the space creature's main weapon roared out and flew straight towards the reconnaissance ship.

Almost instantly, the projectile tore through the reconnaissance ship's not-thick shell. The powerful kinetic energy immediately caused the enemy ship's hull to burst open, turning into countless fragments and space debris flying away.

The moment the bullet came out of the barrel, Lin Yi knew that there was no possibility of turning back now. He and the other party were completely locked in a fight to the death, and there was basically no possibility of reconciliation. This result may have been destined for a long time, but now, it is the real and certain fact.

After the enemy reconnaissance ship was destroyed, the remaining reconnaissance ships that followed also temporarily stopped moving forward. In the detector's field of view, they retreated backwards, seemingly preparing to join the main fleet.

According to the information returned by the detector, the enemy's main fleet has begun to move in this direction. There is no way that the few escort stars can be the opponent of the enemy's main fleet. Lin Yi immediately controlled the two subordinate fleets to evacuate. , and behind, the main forces of the two super-class fleets pressed forward, preparing to engage the enemy.

The prelude to the war has begun, and this will be the first official battle Lin Yi faces since entering the space age. But the enemy exists in an unprecedented form.

Moreover, the existence of both parties also means that this battle will be different from the wars of later generations of mankind, but just like the nest wars on the earth back then. There is no possibility of reconciliation between the two sides.

(End of this chapter)