The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 293 The real space battle
Shortly after the enemy reconnaissance ship was destroyed by the escort star, the main fleets of both sides finally encountered each other in the same star system, and the battle between civilizations officially began.

The first to engage the enemy was a division-level fleet under the Crab-body Limulus Super Division Fleet - the Mixed Sea Limulus Division Fleet. What they encountered with this Ke-class fleet was the former Ezki fleet, which was smaller than Lin Yi's and had about a hundred battleships.

The ultimate range of the main weapons of both sides' battleships is about one light second. Of course, at this extreme range, the aiming deviation will be very large. Coupled with the enemy's probability cloud maneuver, even if it is a directed energy weapon, the accuracy will be quite impressive. .

Therefore, before fully entering the effective range, the vertical launch unit on the side of the main starship is opened, and a large number of disposable active radar detectors are separated from the ship body. The chemical thrusters burn the propulsion medium in a short period of time, erupting with powerful thrust and accelerating the body. Reaching a speed slightly faster than Xing Hao's body, he accelerated forward.

At this time, the two sides were almost within fighting distance. Under Lin Yi's control, the main star cluster took the lead in firing. The continuous energy from the nuclear fusion reactor is injected into the dense laser structure, and then merges into the focusing structure on the central axis, turning into a highly concentrated X-ray laser beam.

The water-foot-shaped heat sinks suddenly emitted dazzling heat radiation signals, and immediately, clusters of plasma sparks bloomed on the surface of some enemy ships. But although the damage effect seems to be not weak, the actual damage effect is not as powerful as imagined, severely damaging the opponent or even directly destroying the opponent.

Some closer detector structures could vaguely see that less than a second after the laser beam of the main star was launched, a dazzling high-temperature plasma bloomed from the Whipple shield-like structure on the enemy ship, and then , a hole appeared on the surface of the Whipple-like shield structure.

Under the instantaneous heating of the laser, that layer of structure is instantly vaporized, just like explosives exploding close to its surface. However, because there is a gap between this layer of structure and the main body below, the shock wave in the shell cannot continue to be transmitted in the vacuum interlayer. .

The high-temperature plasma that diffused and impacted inward basically all acted on the vacuum gap. The main armor layer below still did not suffer any damage. It only further expanded the damage area on the surface of the Whipple shield structure.

This layer of improved Whipple shield is like the grille armor or gap armor on a tank used to defend against armor-piercing projectiles. By detonating in advance, the main means of damage are wasted by a layer of gaps.

While thinking, the enemy fleet also responded quickly. Similarly, the radiator suddenly emitted a dazzling infrared heat radiation signal, and some of the main stars selected as targets also saw the blue-purple death light.

But the next second, the main body surface of Xing Hao suddenly glowed with a special dazzling luster. The most brilliant color bloomed with the steaming plasma cluster at the place illuminated by the enemy's laser. The lower part was still intact.

With the joint efforts of many parties, the scale layer inspired by the feather scale structure of the native creatures of Dikla has been successfully used on the surface of the exoskeleton of the main planet, and also serves as an additional armor.

This structure similar to explosive reactive armor and the Whipple-shield-like gap armor used by the opponent also show in a sense that mechanical technology and biotechnology have the same goal. Of course, there are differences - Lin Yi's scale layer structure is more effective, while the other party's gap layer is simpler and easier to process.

But anyway. The unique solutions of both sides have allowed the battleships to be able to withstand a few more attacks instead of being more offensive than defensive, and being able to severely damage or even destroy each other in one attack without any maneuvers. At this time, after the first round of shooting, both sides started the probability cloud maneuver in unison, with the nozzles all over the ship's body moving and moving irregularly in an area, hoping to interfere with the opponent's aiming.

The basic tactical masters of both sides came from the same school, so even though they were separated by an astonishing distance of light seconds, their responses were surprisingly consistent. For a time, the originally well-arranged light signals and infrared signals became extremely chaotic, almost mixed together.

However, the only difference is that in the tactics of the original Ezki civilization, two warships performing probabilistic cloud maneuvers need to maintain a certain distance between them to avoid catastrophic consequences caused by too close distance and mutual gravitational interference.

But now, in the cluster of stars, the probability clouds of every two neighboring main stars are almost mixed together. The two sides even occasionally and dangerously pass each other at the minimum distance where the gravitational force will cause fatal interference to each other, making people feel as if Tragedy will happen in the next second.

In fact, under the overall coordination and micro-control of the super-individual consciousness of the hive mind of the hive, such a situation is impossible to happen. As for the significance of such a dangerous operation, it can be said to be obvious - the probability clouds of two adjacent stars partially overlap. In one place, a single larger probability cloud is formed, further increasing the difficulty of the opponent's targeting.

The opponent's probability cloud is also so confusing - this may also prove that the enemy is indeed taken over by AI or a similar form of existence, otherwise it would be impossible to be so confident in carrying out such a dangerous maneuver.

There is no medium for sound transmission in space, and there is no atmosphere that can allow laser light to show its light path due to the Tyndall effect. Real space battles are far less spectacular than those shown in later film and television works.

In other words, war has been like this since ancient times. There is no magnificent epic, only cold cruelty and deathly silence. Except for the light of stars in the distance, the dazzling thermal radiation emitted by the radiator and the plasma clusters that bloomed from time to time on the surface of the ship became the only embellishments in the cold and dead void.

But behind every blooming plasma cluster, there was another damage to a main starship or an Ezki battleship, adding a scar on the surface of the Whipple-like shield gap armor or scale reactive armor layer.

Although the probability of being hit by the enemy has been reduced as much as possible, the huge base number and the extremely compressed launch gap mean that the warships of both sides still hit each other a lot, but not every shot can cause good damage.

But there are also some larger and more brilliant plasma clusters that bloom occasionally. These are the damage caused by weapons-grade high-energy laser beams hitting the hull that no longer has protection after the Whipple shield-like gap armor and scale-layer reactive armor are consumed. It can severely damage or even destroy the opponent in an instant.

Such battles can last for days or even months. However, as the battle situation changes and the distance between the two sides gradually approaches, the situation will soon become different.

(End of this chapter)