From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 324: Central Experiment Assault
"Huh!"

After hearing Soap's words, uniform battle cries from various units resounded on the communication channel.

David, who was already somewhat emotional, was naturally among them.

18: 00.

Just as Soap issued the pre-war declaration, the time for the plan to be officially launched arrived.

Then, the pilot in charge of driving the Luna II transport boat reminded Xiaoqiang, David and others through the in-cabin broadcast:

"Everyone, we will arrive at Skynet's headquarters in the former northern United States in 20 minutes. Please be prepared."

The words fell.

Everyone felt the fuselage shaking, which indicated that the Luna II transport craft was retracting its landing gear and heading towards a low-Earth orbit a hundred kilometers above the ground.

David turned his head and looked outside through the sealed porthole.

He then saw hundreds of Pelicans, Silver Gulls and Luna transport boats leaving the vertical take-off and landing apron one after another.

At the same time, there are more than a dozen aerial gunboats such as the Vulture and Swift Shadow, as well as attack aircraft such as the Ghost, Longsword and Dagger, to provide escort.

Although Soap can dispatch "only" 10,000 armed units, what Atlas lacks the least at this stage is various vehicles.

The company can achieve mass production of vehicles such as transport boats and attack aircraft in the shortest possible time as long as there is a need.

For example, after obtaining the UNSC's Dagger fighter blueprints and then improving and perfecting them through the Scientific Research Department, the Accra Park has achieved mass production.

It is true that vehicles such as fighter jets are expensive, but the most valuable person is still the pilot.

Fortunately, Atlas has been focusing on the research and development of artificial intelligence in recent years, and has applied stupid AI to every corner of the company.

Therefore, with the assistance of stupid AI, the time, money and other costs of Atlas training pilots have been greatly reduced.

Even the crew members responsible for operating space vessels such as frigates and destroyers are assisted by stupid AI.

This means that the total number of pilots, gunners and other related personnel involved in the mission to destroy Skynet has exceeded 3,000.

The total number of employees and soldiers at the entire "Terminator" front-line base reached over 60,000.

The armed units responsible for the attack were “only” over 10,000 in number.

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Looking at the scenes outside the porthole, David could not hide his excitement.

This was the first time he participated in a real battle since joining the company.

When I was still in Night City, I dreamed of making a name for myself and becoming a living legend.

Thinking about it now, he was really too naive at that time.

Is there anything more worthy of "showing off" than fighting together with comrades and colleagues to liberate our persecuted fellow human beings?
Moreover, with this goal, David always feels that his life is meaningful.

At least it is much more fulfilling than the previous ideals of making a lot of money, gaining a higher status, and climbing to the top of Night City.

soon.

The Luna II carrying them arrived in a low orbit about 100 kilometers above the earth and accelerated northward.

During this time, David used the slightly reduced radar presented by his electronic eyes to see more than four hundred vehicles of various types beginning to disperse and sprint to different areas.

Before long, the Luna II transport they were on formed a formation with four other Luna IIs, more than twenty Pelicans, two Vultures and one Swift Shadow.

Also.

When David felt that they were beginning to lower their altitude and preparing to re-enter the atmosphere, sporadic "meteor showers" suddenly appeared not far ahead.

?

David was stunned at first.

But he immediately realized that this was the flame produced by the individual airdrop pods of ODST and SAT (Sangheili Commando), as well as the medium-sized airdrop pods carrying Tyrants or Cyclopses, when they broke through the atmosphere.

Although the total number of ODSTs and SATs carried by the four Paris-class ships is only more than 500, and their presence may not be as great as the smaller advance teams, their ability to open up the situation and seize the initiative is second only to the Astartes.

Moreover, the mission brief also clearly mentioned that the responsibility of leading the main force to gain a foothold first will be carried out by the Orbital Commando.

So David stopped looking out the window and closed his eyes like Lucy, waiting for the battle that would come soon.

at the same time.

The surface is already dark and starlit.

Looking down from above, the city and nearby villages and towns have all turned into ruins, with almost no green forests to be seen.

There are only a few weeds, "tenaciously" living in this arid land.

However, in the ruined city, there were bright lights and the sound of engines roaring, and it did not seem lifeless at all.

I saw countless "people" holding revolving machine guns wandering in the messy streets.

And "they" seem to be performing guard duties, either patrolling or standing guard, to ensure that large construction machines can work unimpeded.

As for the construction machines which are much larger than bulldozers and excavators, they are digging deep pits far away from the city center.

In addition, there are many unmanned trucks coming to the edge of the deep pit that has been excavated.

When the truck stopped and the rear cargo bed was raised, a large number of human corpses were dumped into the deep pit.

There was no clothing covering their private parts, and some of the corpses were missing skin, limbs, and eyes. This showed that these humans must have been subjected to inhumane experiments and torture during their lifetime.

Some of the corpses whose faces were preserved even revealed expressions of anger and unwillingness.

After the truck finished dumping and moved away from the edge of the pit, an unmanned bulldozer began to bury the piled up corpses.

And those guys in charge of patrolling and guarding are not human at all, but T-600 Terminators with metal skeletons.

Although most T-600s still use old-fashioned rotary machine guns and carry large ammunition boxes on their backs, one-third of them have begun to be equipped with "rifles" that look more advanced in appearance.

The plasma rifle.

Because this is the center of Skynet, the T-600 that serves as the "security" here will naturally be the first to be equipped with new weapons.

If you look towards the core of the city, you can see a giant pyramid-like building.

The top of the pyramid is at least five hundred meters high.

A large number of searchlights and lighting equipment make the core area of ​​the city as bright as day.

The usual methods of smearing and sneaking, and advancing slowly behind cover, simply won't work here.

Moreover, the pyramid is surrounded by high walls, and there are turret-type hunters every thirty meters to deal with any enemy who dares to break in.

Even if the Terminators and Hunters are from the same camp, they will be subjected to merciless bombardment from the turrets if they do not have Skynet's approval.

This directly prevents the human resistance from using reprogrammed Terminators and Hunters to infiltrate Skynet's central building.

At this stage, Skynet's overall strength almost completely crushes the human resistance.

But the situation changed as John Connor provided more and more techniques on how to fight against Terminators and Hunters, as well as various cutting-edge weapons obtained by the Resistance through Skynet.

By the time humans launched a full-scale counterattack, Skynet's rigid mechanical army could no longer pose a major threat to humans.

Therefore, Skynet's defeat is inevitable. As long as humans are still alive, even without a "cheating" savior like John Connor, humans will still seize the opportunity and fight back.

But at this moment, the Skynet Center has not yet fallen into decline.

Therefore, the defense force is not as "fragile" and few as in the "Terminator" series of movies.

Putting aside the defense facilities inside and outside the pyramid building, there are 600 T-800s and mass-produced T-s wandering around the ruined city.

Together with various non-human models of hunters, the size of the mechanical army gathered here exceeds 100,000.

If the human resistance army chooses the current time point to launch a violent attack, then no matter how many people come, they will be committing suicide.

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suddenly.

The turret-type hunter responsible for guarding the Skynet center seemed to have sensed something and quickly deployed the missile launch bay on its back.

Whoosh—whoosh—!!

But before the turret-type Terminator could launch an interceptor missile in cooperation with the fixed air defense facilities.

A large number of plasma artillery groups have dropped from the sky, instantly destroying one-third of the air defense forces near the Skynet center.

Ri~咻——! !

At this time, another blue light trajectory representing the electromagnetic main gun cut through the night sky and hit the nuclear fusion power plant here.

Boom—boom—!!!

The violent explosion directly illuminated the entire ruined city.

The glare is fleeting.

Fortunately, the explosion of a nuclear fusion power plant is not as devastating as a hydrogen bomb, otherwise Atlas's "plunder" operation would have been very successful.
No, it should be that Atlas's "commercial war" method has not yet been implemented, but Skynet's important assets have been physically wiped out.

However, the earthquake caused by the electromagnetic main gun and the shock wave mixed with rubble and steel bars began to sweep away everything.

Numerous T-600s, T-800s and various types of hunters were unable to fight against the aftermath.

The airdrop pods carrying ODST, SAT, Tyrant and Cyclops also merged into the darkness like shooting stars and continued to advance rapidly towards the surface.

but.

Swish—shua—! !

Hundreds of interceptor missiles rose up quickly, and after reaching a certain height, they accelerated several times.

It's true that the nuclear fusion power plant was destroyed, and it's also true that Skynet's defenses suffered heavy damage after being bombarded by the Paris-class missiles.

But there is still a backup energy supply here.

So at the moment when the aftermath dissipated, the remaining turret-type hunters and air defense facilities once again locked onto the airdrop bay and prepared to intercept with missiles without any hesitation.

On the other hand, the moment ODST and SAT realized they were being targeted, they released small decoy aircraft that were a hundred times larger than their own.

Boom.Boom!

A "fireworks show" suddenly took place in the sky, indicating that the interceptor missile had successfully completed its mission and hit the target.

But unfortunately, the airdrop capsule broke out of the explosion range and rushed towards the ground at a faster speed.

There are not many interceptor missiles, but there are thousands of small decoy aircraft. How can Skynet intercept them?

Then, the airdrop pods fell one after another on the eastern edge of the pyramid building.

Bang~bang!
"ODST! Clear out the mechanical lump in the north!"

"Elites are responsible for the south! Biological weapons and mechas provide support!"

"The main force will arrive in two minutes. I don't want them to say that our clearing service is poor!"

"Huh!"

"Ow~!"

As the airdrop pods popped open one after another, the roar of the team leader and the battle cries of the ODST and SAT rang out on the communication channel of the Orbital Commando.

despair! Ta-ta!

call out! Phew!

In just a moment, the red light ballistics representing hard light technology and the blue light artillery of the plasma rifle began to flash in the landing area of ​​the airdrop warehouse.

After setting foot on the ground, more than a hundred elite veterans of ODST and SAT began to suppress the remaining T-600, T-800 and Hunter.

Four heavily armored Tyrants armed with rotating Gauss machine guns and small-caliber plasma cannons, together with a Cyclops mech, were at the forefront of the formation.

The Terminators and Hunters around can easily slaughter the human resistance forces who are still using live ammunition.

However, facing the combat maniacs, the orbital commandos composed of combat races, and hard light, Gauss and plasma guns and artillery
The mechanical army, which had already been bombarded by orbital bombardment, was unable to stop their progress.

After a while.

The scope of the landing zone was expanded more than six times by a hundred orbital commandos.

That is to say, the Terminators and Hunters have no fear, otherwise, facing the crazy ODSTs and the elite veterans who are comparable to super soldiers, roaring from time to time and wielding double-edged energy swords, their morale should have collapsed long ago.

But mechanical armies are not completely useless.

They are not afraid of death at all, so after gradually adapting to the combat rhythm of ODST and elite veterans, they began to counterattack.

Buzz~Buzz.Bang!
At this time, the energy shields on the left arms of several ODSTs overloaded and failed, and their bodies were directly exposed to the sweeping fire of the rotary machine gun.

Fortunately, the titanium alloy armor helped most ODSTs block fatal attacks and allowed them to find cover and hide in time.

But there were also unlucky ODSTs whose helmet screens were shot directly through.

Even though they were all injected with Inquis serum and had healing abilities far beyond those of ordinary people, they were unable to withstand the severe damage to their brains and fell to the ground and died one after another.

The elite veterans also suffered a comprehensive attack from the more advanced T-800.

The power of Skynet's latest mass-produced plasma rifle is no less than the standard weapons they are used to. The energy shield was shattered after a short while.

Therefore, elite veterans also began to suffer casualties.

Only the Heavy Armored Tyrant and the Cyclops are still holding on.

However, as tanks, aerial vehicles and more hunters arrived at the scene and joined the battle, the pressure on the assault troops increased dramatically.

However, they have already completed all combat objectives.

That is, to carve out a landing zone and attract the attention of Skynet's mechanical army, creating a "green" landing environment for subsequent troops.

As the pressure on the assault troops increased, the Ghost, Dagger and Longsword formations began to "unscrupulously" bombard the mechanical army.

Aerial gunboats such as the Vulture and Swift Shadow launched artillery attacks from a safe distance away from the assault troops.

Afterwards, the Luna II transport boat and the Pelican also arrived in the nearby airspace, preparing to land in the landing zone.

(End of this chapter)