This is a colonial planet located on the edge of the Milky Way, revolving around a young and enthusiastic star. In this galaxy far away from the capital, there are very few such colonial planets, and the nearest colony point is tens of light years away. ——The high temperature and the remoteness of the landmark doomed this place to be not a place suitable for pleasure and habitation. Its meaning of existence is to serve as the center of the local space defense system. It is one of the countless military strongholds built by the Melovas in this universe. It is unknown now, but it was also brilliant and prominent thousands of years ago. The Melovas defeated the last resistance force in this universe here. The intelligent species that once ruled this universe were only one step away from realizing the void realm beyond their universe, and their progress was stopped by the massive invasion of the Melova, their last fleet in this remote star system Today, a small part of those wreckages are still lingering on the gravitational boundary of the star, waiting to be captured by the star during the long journey, or just drifting into the endless darkness of space.
But no one cares about these wreckages, just like no one cares about the whereabouts of the former owner of this universe. For this remote military stronghold, today is a normal day, and no one will worry about things that have nothing to do with them. Its armed satellites are powerful, and the planetary defense turrets in orbit are filled with psionic energy. The huge general-class aircraft carrier is just about to depart from the star port at the gravitational balance point to conduct a weekly deep space inspection. Melova soldiers Holding their weapons tightly, they waited for this boring day to end quickly in the space orbital station and the military base on the surface. They were full of arrogance and confidence in their hearts, firmly believing that they had reached the pinnacle of civilization evolution. After Yanbiao's empire once collapsed, they thought they had replaced it and became the new apex of the mortal race—no, they thought they had crossed this apex and turned into gods. When looking down at the earth and looking into the space, this thought in their hearts became more firm. With this confidence in mind, the commander of the high-level orbiting observatory decided to conduct another scan of deep space.
In fact, there is nothing worth scanning, this universe...even all universes do not have our enemies—Melova officer smiled with satisfaction, he firmly believed this, the second scan was just to show the power of God, when Melova The scanning signals of the Va people swept across the space, and from every channel, the roaring and tsunami Long Live would be sent back. Those inferior races who are tens of hundreds of light-years away regard the daily inspection signals of the Melova Empire as The patrolling of the gods, their response to these signals was one of the only daily entertainments on this dreary high orbital station. Officer Melova looked at the radar terminal in front of him, waiting for the soldiers beside him to complete the follow-up operations of the scanning station.
However, there was silence. When the scanning device was activated, it did not send back any response, not even any information about space entities. The powerful radar station seemed to throw all its energy into the endless void, and the terminal in front of it was only gray. Fog, a creaking and disturbing sound echoed in the observation room.
"What's going on? The radar didn't start?" Officer Melova frowned dissatisfiedly, and looked at his soldier. This soldier was not smart, and he could even be said to be stupid. The number of times he made mistakes was almost equal to the number of days he had served. , even though those were minor problems, they were enough for the commander to accumulate enough dissatisfaction. But this soldier is a pure-blooded Melova, a descendant of the vanguard army that led the rise of the race in the past, and his blood lineage allowed this soldier to receive preferential treatment as a servant in the office of the orbital station. Thinking of this, the commander decided to send His tone slowed down a bit: he believed that the pure-blooded Merova people had a more noble factor in their bones: for example, in this soldier, the racial advantage of being born noble has not been fully reflected yet, "Try Then put the multiplier module into forward mode."
"Yes... oh no, sir," the soldier blushed a little, he switched all the channels quickly, his tone full of confusion, "it's not a problem with the multiplier module, the radar station is also working normally... sir, we seem to have encountered Trouble, all channels are jammed... I've never seen this kind of jamming, neither at military schools... Our scans seem to be lost, they all fall into a blank space after leaving the star system, no feedback signal Appearing, the no-delay detection device is alarming because it thinks we're sending in a direction that doesn't exist...”
"Nothing can interfere with the radar station of the empire." The commander waved the soldiers away impatiently, and he turned around himself. "You must have mistaken the warning threshold and fell into the white zone? This interference method is not at all live… "
Halfway through the commander's words, he suddenly paused, and some vague memories emerged from the bottom of his heart. He remembered that this kind of interference method does not really exist. Yes, there was once a civilization that mastered this technology, which can make any The technology of information disappearing out of thin air, and the jammers made with this technology will cause the information sent by any conventional radar to be deleted midway, and in the eyes of the radar operator, it seems that the signal sent by himself has fallen into a blank area. , just like the scene in front of you.
Officer Melova shook his head vigorously, throwing these unpleasant memories out of his mind: This is unfounded worry, they no longer exist, together with their incredible technologies. Now the remaining taboo knowledge is all in the hands of the Merova people. If this kind of interference method is really reproduced, it can only appear in your own equipment list-could it be that the Holy Empire finally cracked another set of Blueprint, a certain department at the higher level is joking with its subordinates in this way
This is an absurd assumption, but the officer decided to believe his guess. He left the console with a smile, and reached out to pat his soldiers: "Don't worry, everything is normal. You should learn to make yourself a truly qualified and noble descendant of the gods." …”
He was only halfway through his words, and before he could clap his hands, the entire orbital station shook violently. The sudden shaking caused everything around him to shake, debris scattered all over the ground, and the soldier fell awkwardly, exclaiming: "Sir! The orbital station is going to crash!"
"Idiot! You are a soldier! Go check the power unit immediately, one of the units may have exploded!" The officer managed to stand still while staggering, and immediately slapped the soldier who was out of shape at the critical moment to wake up, "I Heard an explosion from the lower area..."
"Warning, the shield of the orbital station has been penetrated, the third to seventh sections of the lower layer have been hit, and the second structural group has been lost as a whole... The artificial gravity of the orbital station is in chaos, the material leakage index exceeds 30%, and the nether energy reactor contributes insufficient… "
A low-pitched explosion came from a closer area, and the officer found that the direction of gravity in the room was tilting—this made it even more difficult for him to stand up straight, and the violent shaking had turned into frantic shaking, as if the huge space entity like this town was about to Grabbed by a pair of giant hands, it seemed to vibrate violently. He was having trouble breathing and realized it was because the air pressure in the room was dropping. The material leaked, the orbital station must have been opened a big hole that far exceeds the processing limit of the repair device, and the air pressure here will soon drop to a critical value, but maybe I will not die of suffocation, yes, the Melovas It is powerful. Countless reinforcements over thousands of years have allowed the current generation of Melovas to survive in the cosmic environment for a long time, but the officer still felt a great fear welling up in his heart. He was sure that the orbital station encountered He launched a powerful attack, and this attack was even more dangerous than the strongest counterattack he encountered when he led the army to wipe out the original intelligent race in this universe: until now, the tactical system has not been able to report where the attack came from!
"Sir! Distress signal! Other orbital stations have sent distress signals! All orbital stations are being bombed, and we have lost half of the stations... Sir! The general-class aircraft carrier and frigate formation moored at Starport was attacked by something, warship lost heavily!"
The sound of panicked soldiers came from not far away. The officer barely stood up in the tilted and fluctuating gravity environment—maybe he was not standing very straight—he tried to ignore the discomfort caused by not being able to breathe, just suffocation could not Kill the immortal Merova, he told himself, and calmed down a bit, then he saw the current status of the orbital station displayed on the holographic projection, and suddenly took a breath of air.
The orbital station is a frame structure connected by multiple crosses, and now the central position of this structure has completely disappeared. Something hit here before the early warning system could react at all, and directly penetrated the psionic shield of the station , leaving a terrifying void through which the brilliance of the star on the other side can be seen. The broken metal beam twisted and protruded from the surroundings of the cavity, and the material leaked from the orbital station was sprayed out of the huge hole like blood and internal organs in the hurricane caused by the pressure of 1.2 atmospheres. splash out. Continuous explosions are spreading across all structures of the orbital station, and the flickering flames in the distance tell the officers that the defense circle of the entire planet is under attack... no, even the defense circle of the entire star system!
"Request for support, we are under attack!" The soldiers were calling every emergency channel according to the coping methods taught in the school manual. The sound of violent explosions became louder and louder. Noisy, the officer kicked away the almost useless soldier: "Idiot! Our communication system is over! You f*ck go and get the general aircraft carrier that has left the star port back to the city, relying on their joint shields can still Resist for a while! Go, run, you idiot!"
The soldier stumbled out of the observation room, and the officer returned to his seat with the rickety equipment platform: this place will not explode for the time being, and he knows that this observation room is protected by the multi-layer joint shield and powered armor on the top of the orbital station. And it has an independent energy system, even if the orbital station is broken down, it can still support it for a while. But he's also sure it won't be long—maybe fifteen minutes is the limit
"Early warning host, call me the monitoring screen closest to the impact point before the attack."
"Yes, the great god is calling for monitoring data... The data is starting to play."
The officer felt that certain words from the early warning host gave him a little comfort. Before the orbital station exploded, he wanted to see what destroyed the shield and the core area. The short video was only less than three seconds long. He saw the dark space background, the light gold and silver and white armor layers of the orbital station, and then the explosion... He replayed the momentary picture over and over again, and in the end he was even patient. They are slowed down frame by frame, the communication system in the ear is calling, and people are constantly reporting frantically on the emergency channel that something has been destroyed. The general aircraft carrier has returned to the star circle, and now they are being destroyed one by one. The torrent of psionic energy in the deep space and the invisible jump warhead were blown to pieces, like swatting flies. The officer felt that those things were already far away from him, and nothing was important. All his attention was focused on the surveillance screen that was full of frames in front of him. The pitch-black space, the light gold and silver and white armor layers , and a large conical shadow suddenly appearing in the frame.
The shadow was a little strange, but the words on it finally brought back memories of the Melova officer.
"X-3, gravedigger... X-3, gravedigger...they're back..."
The officer raised his head in a daze, and found that the outside had calmed down at some point, all the explosions and shouts on the emergency channel had stopped, and the orbital station was slowly falling towards the gravity of the planet. The planet was not what he knew, it was The surface is covered with lava gullies and dark red luster, everything has been burned to nothingness, countless wreckages like his own orbital station are slowly falling towards the melting earth, the sudden attack and all communication channels The downtime caused the defense facilities on the planet to turn into metal slag without firing at all. The space was full of wreckage, and no living voice could be heard in the gravity circle.
Except for your own heartbeat.
The space station was not attacked by a second X-3 gravedigger, but the officer didn't think it was some kind of blunder - "they" never blundered, "they" were more accurate than anything, death was accurate to the point of extermination Every population, so he knew that he and the slowly falling orbital station were deliberately left behind, so he tried to call the host: "AI, is there an escape pod?"
"Yes, great god, there are several... escape pods available, and the AI recommends that you evacuate immediately."
Yes, in the entire star circle, the number of remaining lives is one, and the number of escape cabins is also one. "They" are as accurate as they were back then.
Officer Melova raised his head and looked at the already pitch-black projection platform.
"Activate the escape pod for me, I... I don't want to die..."
Officer Melova raised his head and stared at this side—his expression was fixed on this picture, and then he left the battlefield in an escape pod. We did not intercept him in any way, and even opened the gravitational blockade area.
This is the intelligence picture sent back by a sentinel probe that sneaked into the orbital station. The Merova people have been peaceful for too long. They may have been excellent fighters, and they may still have a fierce reputation, but their grassroots troops are deeply rooted. Inevitably there was a slack. I didn’t expect that the sentinel probe would enter the defense command post of a military planet so easily. The defense level here is not comparable to that of the kingdom of God. This disappointed the enthusiastic Pandora and Viska. : Before they even had time to rush out in person, the battle was over.
"Nice sideshow," Sandora put down the black tea gracefully, her eyes still on the video screen. She regarded the entire performance of the Melova officer as an entertainment show, and the Princess of War Song was also a little bit of a bad taste. , "Now we have destroyed all military strongholds in this universe with alert levels below level III, and the Imperial Army has found a foothold in the marginal zone."
"The next battle is the real thing," Lin Xue looked at the flickering star map in front of her. I'm sure she couldn't understand it at all, but it was like drawing two tarot cards or holding a big glass ball when prophesying Like reciting the Great Compassion Mantra, this belongs to the style of the young lady's dress. She feels that as a general of the army, if she doesn't put a strategic map in front of her eyes when she speaks, she will be sorry for the military emblem on her chest—even though she doesn't even like to wear military uniforms. "Soon the Melova people will know what happened in these places, and they will organize a regular army that can really fight to meet them. What we destroy now are only old soldiers and young soldiers who have neglected training to support their lives."
"It doesn't matter, we have accurately calculated the enemies we will face," Sandora looked at the clock beside her, "When will my meal be ready?"
I looked at her silently: "...do you really want to eat twelve meals a day? Half an hour ago you just..."
"Ah Jun, you know, after this meal, I won't be able to eat for nearly a month," Sandora's expression was very serious, as if what she was talking about was as important as world peace , "I promise, after eating this meal, I will transform..."
I:"… "
According to the pre-agreed tactics, the imperial army first launched a surprise attack on the main world edge of Melova, destroying a large number of enemy military targets at the same time, first causing huge chaos to the Melova people, and then the imperial fleet took advantage of The enemy is in chaos, building fortresses on the main material plane, and launching follow-up military operations. At present, the first phase of the operation is very smooth. The military node star system uploaded from the spy screen was destroyed under the personal attack of the Royal Fleet, but this kind of sudden attack can only be so smooth for the first time. Next, Melova People should be more vigilant.
After several consecutive hidden jumps, the fleet arrived at the just-destroyed Melova military node. The structure of the star system remained intact, but the original Melova facility above had been turned into ruins. We did not use large-scale weapons that can destroy the structure of the star system in order to retain such a natural bridgehead. This star system with many planets can allow our mothership to expand and enter the violent process faster, and the Melovas also I would never have thought that the Imperial Army would suddenly turn back to a destroyed ruin to establish a base. Most of them would scramble for a while in the space where the Imperial Army launched an attack: this time is enough for the half of the basketball court we brought. Pao Kejin built a house.
The war has already begun. RS