Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 474 06.0473: "Textbook-like crystallization of experience"

Five Terra days later.

The E-96 Epic followed the mapped interception route and arrived at the envisioned location as scheduled.

At this time, the cargo fleet had left the AP36 area and arrived at the AQ63 area.

Here is an area with numerous but relatively scattered gas clouds.

If you look closely, you can find many plasma balls floating in the void. Apparently, ionization storms frequently occur here.

Ionized storms are also a type of natural phenomenon in the void.

When this phenomenon occurs, strong ionizing radiation will have a strong impact on the hull and electronic equipment within the range; the aftermath will have a catastrophic interference with communications. According to a communications officer, it is as terrifying as the howling of a siren in one's ear.

But it is not completely harmful. The ions it produces can contribute to the formation of ionized atmospheres on some lifeless planets.

There is a small probability that a stable atmosphere will form on the planet, and this may be the beginning of life.

The Empire has many new colonies where the environment is transformed within the newly stable atmosphere, domesticating it into a habitable world suitable for humans.

"Louise, have you found any traces of the enemy?"

"Our ship 64 has detected a blue light projection."

"Captain, we have received a shortwave transmission from the pilot. An enemy merchant fleet has been spotted in the direction 61-70 of the mother ship."

On board Skyhawk 1.

"Oh! Oh! Oh! Little Fasha, look! There are so many cargo ships! Wow!"

"Get out of the way, it's so crowded, tsk."

Veronica leaned over to the side of the cockpit. The sudden appearance of the hanging clock ball squeezed Fasha, who was using the Thinker Array to record numbers, so he had to frown and reluctantly lean his body to continue sending the message.

The bridge of the Epic.

"We received observation data from Tianying-31, and the targets are all merchant cargo ships, in total.

However, the four Merchant-class ships at the four corners of the fleet have been equipped with magnetic rail weapons for defense, and the gravity hooks on both sides carry two destroyers. "

"That is to say, this trade fleet has four armed merchant ships and eight destroyers. Hmm..."

Horatio thought.

How the battle plan is arranged now will determine the direction of this battle.

He called his first officer and the chief of operations.

"Archie, Louise, this is a hologram of the battle situation drawn based on the current intelligence information. The enemy is advancing in a square formation. Including the Epic, we have six attack ships gathering and they are all available."

"Is there an enemy patrol fleet nearby?"

"Harvey has not detected any active radar wave scanning signals other than armed merchant ships."

"Then I suggest that our six attack ships adopt bold and radical tactics. For example, kill the sheepdogs escorting the flock first." Collingwood pointed at the armed merchant ship and said:
"When the sheepdogs are unaware, bite off their necks. Then, the sheep will be at our mercy. We can destroy them boldly and quickly. However, to avoid accidents, we should first... then..." "Your combat ideas have improved a lot and become bolder and more radical, Archie." Horatio teased with a satisfied smile.

Collingwood's tactical idea was consistent with his, but he asked the first and second mates to come over to see whether the two had accumulated any experience and grown in recent operations.

From the current perspective, Collingwood has changed his overly reserved character when he first took office as a lieutenant. His operational thinking has become bolder and more radical while retaining prudent decision-making ideas.

"If we want to kill the 'sheepdog' guarding the flock first, then our six attack ships should attack synchronously.

Otherwise, once a companion is hit alone first, the other armed cargo ships will immediately become alert and release the destroyers on the gravity grappling hooks to fight back against us.

The problem now is how we can communicate with other attack ships and achieve a synchronized attack in order to avoid being detected by the enemy armed cargo ships."

"That's a good question, Louise," Horatio said.

Although this problem is not difficult for him who has the blessing of the Hand of Command and the Void Sandbox skills.

However, the Imperial Navy could not rely on him alone to carry out the attack ship's mission of disrupting commerce.

As an experimental force, he has the obligation to leave a textbook-like experience template for future generations. Otherwise, when the students of the Naval Academy ask him as an instructor, "Sir, how did you achieve coordinated operations without radio communication?", he will probably only be able to give other answers.

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Such a unique advantage that cannot be replicated has no teaching significance.

"I think we should communicate by releasing all the Fury interceptors to send out dim light signals to nearby attack ships.

Just like a beacon tower, one by one, they passed on the task of attacking the leading ship to the other attack ships surrounding the merchant fleet." Collingwood said.

Suddenly, Louise had an idea.

"Can we have the Fury interceptors carry the storage plates on their training missiles and then launch them at other attack ships?"

Just as Louise proposed this idea, Hatch No. 3 leading to the command bridge opened with a hissing sound of pressure relief, and Father Lati walked over with the Axe of Mecha, smiling and twisting his plump and round waist and hips.

"There's no need to go to all this trouble."

"Does Father Ratti have a better way?"

"There are Tech-Priests on every battleship, and if you transmit a copy of the battle planning hologram via encrypted wire to the Cogitator array on the Fury interceptor.

As long as they are within 500 meters of the attack ship, the Tech-Priest can use the source power circuit to unidirectionally retrieve the data on the Fury Interceptor's Cogitator array, and then transmit it to the combat holographic sand table on the command bridge through their own dendritic wires to update the battlefield environment data, so that the captain and officers can see the commander's holographic tactical animation. "

"That is to say, when inputting, we use wired encrypted transmission to prevent theft or interception, and when reading, we use the unique source power circuit technology of the Mechanicus to extract the data link from the Thinker of the fighter plane in a one-way manner." Horatio explained the principle of his conjecture.

"You are right, Captain. This is the method that can improve communication efficiency most while ensuring confidentiality. I call it the 'messenger' mode.

The only thing you need to pay attention to is not to let the 'messenger' be intercepted by the enemy. Of course, usually if it is intercepted, it will only blow up the information carrier and will not let the data leak out. "

"Father Lati is absolutely right. Without further ado, we should immediately have Skyhawk III and Skyhawk IV take off with the data and drop the "handwritten instructions" to other attack ships to verify the feasibility and efficiency of this communication method."

"Yes! Captain."

(End of this chapter)