From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 312: Fierce Battle "One Step Away"

Inside the large equipment hangar of the New Era aircraft carrier;

"Squad Three, Squad Four! Hangar One is short of manpower, hurry over and help!"

"Free personnel should go over there too. Damn, those Jiralhanae down there seem to be going crazy."

The logistics personnel, wearing engineering machinery skeletons and gray and yellow protective clothing, were seen busy handling various affairs.

Moreover, in the maintenance area, one can see some logistics personnel repairing a large number of blood-stained McP power armors, as well as the ODST's individual weapons and equipment.

Combined with the words of the logistics personnel, it is not difficult to guess that the battle for the planet's surface is extremely fierce below the low-Earth orbit where the New Era aircraft carrier is located.

After all, the MacP power armor is the iconic equipment of the AECS elite, and the ODST is also one of the elite of Atlas.

However, when even these two units with veteran soldiers began to suffer numerous casualties, it meant that the combined fleet of Atlas and the Elite was blocked in the current galaxy.

Of course, the clone soldiers who are responsible for serving as the main force on the front battlefield will most likely be directly discarded into the recycling cabin after their weapons and equipment are damaged.

Because the clones are still using traditional mechanical skeletons and AMWS gun systems, the option of reproducing using scrap materials is more cost-effective compared to the cost of repair, recycling, and remanufacturing.

now.

The Thunder Warrior, who relied on logistics personnel and robotic arms to put on the titanium tank armor and took the customized bolt-bolting firearm, also stood in the right corner of the equipment warehouse.

These thirty giants, who were originally Astartes, were taller and stronger than the Flame Lizards.

Their power armor is painted in black and gold, and their helmets and shoulder armor are even decorated with white tassels and oriental dragon claws.

Overall, these thirty Thunder Warriors seem to be similar to the "Imperial Guards".

They have no self-awareness and need to rely on their own spiritual energy to drive them. After they are dressed and equipped, they quietly wait for their "masters".
That is Sui Yang, who also completed the donning of power armor.

As Sui Yang is over five meters tall, more than ten logistics personnel and more robotic arms are needed to assist in the operation.

Fortunately, Atlas paid attention to efficiency and completed the maintenance quickly.

Boom, boom.

At this time, Sui Yang stepped off the platform, took the Emperor's Sword and Emperor's Claw handed to him by the mechanical arm, and hung them around his waist and put them on his left hand.

Then, Sui Yang led thirty Thunder Warriors through the equipment warehouse and headed towards the nearest airdrop dock.

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The originally noisy equipment warehouse fell into a brief silence because of Sui Yang and other "people".

Mainly because Sui Yang at this stage, after wearing the exclusive power armor painted in black and gold, is 5.4 meters tall and has a very visual impact.

Even the engineering mechas driven by the logistics personnel seemed "fragile" in front of Sui Yang.

Of course, more importantly, Sui Yang hasn't "exercised his shins" for a long time.

The last time their boss was on the battlefield was when they were heading to Universe 07, and he led the company's elite troops to join forces with the elves and dwarves to encircle and suppress Moido.

In other words, their boss seemed to quickly fade out of the front-line battle after that incident.

However, that was what Sui Yang wanted to give the Primarchs and more newcomers a chance. Besides, he was the "boss" of a multi-universe enterprise and there was no need for him to do everything himself.

However, the current battle situation made Sui Yang want to reduce his own losses, so he chose to take the initiative.

After a brief moment of shock, the employees in the equipment warehouse turned their attention back to the work at hand, and the equipment warehouse became noisy again.

The episode was fleeting.

Sui Yang and thirty Thunder Warriors came to the airdrop dock, and boarded the airdrop cabin specially used for Astartes one by one.

However, because Sui Yang's physique was too large, he could only ride in an airdrop cabin alone.

Beep—beep—!
Soon, the airdrop dock began flashing yellow warning lights and emitting harsh warning sounds.

The ground staff responsible for maintaining the area all held on to nearby railings and handles to avoid unnecessary safety accidents.

Even though the ground crew were wearing fully enclosed protective clothing and were tied with safety ropes.

Then, the warning sound gradually became weaker and weaker until it completely "disappeared".

This indicates that the drop dock has completed the pressurization step.

Then, the gate under the airdrop dock opened.
Swish—swish——!
The six airdrop capsules sped along the track together, quickly ejected from the airdrop dock and gate, and arrived in outer space filled with radiation and low pressure.

Sitting in the center of the airdrop bay, Sui Yang could directly see through the highly airtight and heat-insulated observation window that Atlas and the elite fleet were engaging in a bombardment with the Covenant ships, which were nearly ten times their number and totaled over two thousand.

The most important thing is that in order to deal with the beam matrix of the Sojourner-class, the Covenant ships maintain a gap of at least two hundred kilometers, or even more, between each other to avoid being "swept away by one shot".

In addition, due to the characteristics of space naval warfare, the ships of both sides are in an "all-round" three-dimensional position, which requires the Navigator-class to spend extra time to lock and release the beam.

And at Sui Yang's "feet" is a habitable planet on the sunward side with a blue atmosphere.

This galaxy is actually the Covenant Empire's shipbuilding base and one of its natural mines, which has increased its sea and ground defense capabilities exponentially.

If this galaxy is captured, the Prophet and the Jiralhanae's control over the Covenant Empire will be weakened to the lowest point.

The Star Alliance is only one step away from complete disintegration.

However, there are 400 million Covenant troops deployed on the third orbital planet, which is also the capital planet of the galaxy.

More than half of them are ghost-faced beasts with an average height of 2.8 meters.

After all, as the Covenant Empire's front lines continue to shrink, they can gradually concentrate their forces to fight against the human elite alliance, whose battleship technology and individual soldier strength are stronger than theirs.

On the ground battlefield, although the adult Astartes are in an absolute position to crush any Covenant race, they cannot withstand the offensive of the "true human wave tactics".

Under normal circumstances, a six-man squad of Astartes would have two to four AECS combat platoons to cooperate in combat, or nearly two hundred clone soldiers to support.

Sometimes, an armored battalion equipped with updated Titan and Killer main battle tanks will also cover multiple Astartes squads.

But in the final analysis, the company fleet led by Sui Yang himself consisted of more than 700 adult Astartes.

Even though these 20 adult "giants" in their 2s were the elite selected from the original trainee groups such as the Ultramarines and Dark Angels, they were still unable to defeat nearly million Jiralhanae.
Even most of the Jiralhanae that have individual energy shields are still a bit "stretched".

Moreover, the company's fleet of one hundred ships only carried a total of about two million ground troops.

As for the elite fleet which also has a hundred ships, it has six million ground troops, and elites account for one third of them.

It was the disparity in numbers, coupled with the thwarting of the Astartes' raid and the need to seize key Covenant facilities such as shipyards,

Arsenals, equipment and fuel storage depots, etc., so the orbital bombardment arrangements were temporarily suspended.

Therefore, Sui Yang was ready to assist the frontline troops to defeat the various defense lines of the Star Alliance ground forces.
Especially the psychological defense.

Boom. Boom——!
After a while, the airdrop chamber began to shake violently, and the observation window was filled with flames generated by friction.

This means that he and thirty Thunder Warriors are about to enter the black barrier zone when breaking through the atmosphere.
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The sunny side of the earth at this moment.

In the city east of the Covenant Shipyard;
Clang clang clang——!
Whoosh—whoosh——!
All kinds of gunfire and artillery fire echoed inside and outside the city.

The architectural style of the Covenant is mainly elliptical and cylindrical, and the walls are painted silver and purple, but the overall layout is similar to that of human cities.

Plasma bombs and fuel cannons flashing blue, green and other lights are interspersed between the streets and alleys.

Purple-painted fighters and transport planes representing the Covenant, and black-painted air units representing the human elite alliance, engaged in a fierce battle over the city.

However, the air units of the Human Elite Alliance were suppressing the Covenant's fighters and transport planes throughout the entire process.

Although the current progress has not yet been able to completely control the low-Earth orbit, the various carrier-based aircraft formations of the human elite have already passed through the chaotic naval battle zone and entered the atmosphere to provide fire support for their own personnel.

Moreover, after absorbing the confidential research and development projects of UNSC and ONI, as well as some of the Forerunner's technology, Atlas's carrier-based aircraft were completely refurbished in just two years.

For example, the White-legged Falcon, the Auklet Assault Boat and the Phantom Fighter have undergone qualitative changes in their agility, speed and range.

After all, the engine and micro-nuclear fusion engine that serve as the heart are no longer the "antique" goods of several years ago.

The machine guns of the new mass-produced models have also been replaced with the more lethal hard-light series.

As for air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles, they still retain the metal hydrogen and plasma types.

However, the weapons research and development center under the Ministry of Science and Technology has commissioned the Accra Park to manufacture a large number of "antimatter missiles" carrying positive and negative matter, and delivered them to a small number of carrier-based aircraft units.

If the actual combat data of the antimatter missile is ideal, it will not take long for Atlas to start mass production.

You should know that in the annihilation reaction when matter and antimatter meet, their mass will be converted into pure energy, and the mass-energy conversion rate reaches an extreme 100%, which is much higher than nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.

The energy released when 1 gram of matter annihilates 1 gram of antimatter is equivalent to 4.28 tons of TNT, which is three times that of the Little Boy atomic bomb.

And antimatter missiles are truly natural and pollution-free.

Therefore, from the moment the carrier-based aircraft formation is officially equipped with antimatter missiles, the meaning of Atlas' "tactical weapon" will also change accordingly.

In addition, Atlas also served with an interceptor named "Long Sword".

This type of interceptor is 65 meters long, 75 meters wide, and about 13 meters high, and uses battleship-grade alloy armor.

It is equipped with a 110mm three-barrel rotating hard-light machine gun, a 120mm plasma cannon on the belly of the fuselage, and two 65mm Gauss cannons on both sides of the wings.

Not to mention its "bomb truck"-like payload, and its agility and speed only matched by the Phantom, making the Longsword interceptor capable of performing a variety of missions.

such as now
Whoosh—whoosh—! !

Several air-to-ground metal hydrogen missiles launched by the Changjian whizzed through the sky and hit the fortifications set up at the west end of the city one after another.

Boom—boom—!
After the metallic hydrogen exploded, a deafening noise accompanied by a shock wave swept through the streets and alleys.

call--!
The air was flowing violently, and smoke, dust and debris were sprayed in all directions.

Ding, ding!

The fragments hit the titanium armor with a crisp sound.

Boom. Boom.
Six extreme warriors painted in blue and gold were seen walking quickly through the alley and arriving at the fortifications that had just been illuminated by the "miniature sun".

At the same time, two twin-barreled Titan main battle tanks, both with magnetic levitation chassis, and four Cyclops mechs, coordinated by more than two hundred fully armed clone soldiers, followed the Extreme Warriors here from the main road, bypassing the columnar building.

The area bombed by the metallic hydrogen missile has a large amount of crystalline material on its surface.

The huge fortress-like fortifications also directly "vaporized" and "evaporated" in large areas, and the remaining parts of the fortifications were also covered with molten metal.

And the straight-line distance from here to the Covenant Shipyard is only about twelve kilometers.

but--

"Hoo! We can't give in!"

"Ham these monkeys to death!!"

"For my God, for the glory!!"

There are still tens of thousands of ghost-faced beasts entrenched here.

They were armed with various plasma and live ammunition weapons, as well as exaggerated and rough hammers and spears. They either roared out of the air-raid shelters of the fortifications, or rushed here from other areas to provide assistance.

In addition, there are tens of thousands of weaker species such as gnolls, grunts, soldier bees, and heavy armored infantry like hunters.

There is no need to mention the Jackals and Hunters, and since the elites left the Covenant, the Gollums have seized the opportunity to flee everywhere, wanting to join the elites whom they regard as "saviors."

However, only a few Gollums managed to escape, and the vast majority continued to be enslaved and forced to fight against the combined forces of humans and elites.

The soldier bees are a race with greater population size and reproductive capacity than the Gollums.

They are a species of insects that have intelligence and the ability to fly.

The growth cycle needs to go through egg → larva → pupa → adult form, and it is a group of hive society that is subject to the will of the queen.

Of course, they are just regarded as "flying cannon fodder" by the Covenant, using lightweight individual weapons and equipment to fill the line and harass the enemy.

As for the various beetle and insect-looking armored units of the Covenant, they were also gathering like a purple torrent.

Faced with a force of this size, it was naturally impossible for the Extreme Marines, who were the first to arrive outside the range of the exchange of fire, to engage in direct confrontation with them.

Whoosh—whoosh——!!

Boom. Boom——! !

Therefore, a carrier-based aircraft squadron that received the news in advance immediately launched another round of air-to-ground missiles at the Covenant's ground forces.

However, the TNT equivalent is far less than that of the Longsword. After all, the carrier-based aircraft squadron needs to consider the safe distance.

There were flashes of light, small mushroom clouds and shock waves spread across the positions of the Covenant ground forces.

Clang clang clang!
Only then did the Ultramarines officially launch an offensive against the Covenant positions shrouded in thick smoke.

(End of this chapter)