Just like every civilization with the ability to fight across the world does, the Fallen Apostles have deployed a large number of defense systems in each of their border worlds. In addition to the interference stations and disruptors floating in the void, these defense systems are "Access Lock" facility combined with World Barrier.
We all know the process of "jumping" into a world in the void. If the world is regarded as a database packaged with a specific encoding method, then the Void Fleet is a set of additional data with a special encoding method and response frequency. This extra data must be tuned and translated, changing its "frequency" to contact the world, changing its "code" to achieve mutual interpretation with the world, and then it can enter a material universe.
And the defense devices set up on the world barrier usually start from this aspect: they hide the real "frequency" of the world barrier, release constantly turbulent messy information, change the various law constants displayed in this universe, and through deception, encryption, and twisting As well as refusing to respond and other methods to prevent foreign objects from entering the world, the battle of the Imperial Fleet on the world barrier of the Fallen Apostles is more like a decoding battle of computing speed and scanning accuracy. The contention is hidden in the confrontation at the data level. As the most powerful mainframe in the army, Bubble personally participated in this battle. She mounted herself on the shipboard mainframe of the Imperial Admiral, as a super The high-speed calculator worked hard for nearly half an hour, and finally successfully broke through the "firewall" set by the enemy on the world barrier. When the world barrier was breached, she said something, which made me particularly touched:
"My child's father, the world is boundless now..."
Do you know how much I wanted to rush into the computer room and drag that little guy out to hang him and beat him!
Although the process of breaking through the world barrier is indeed decoding, although the world is indeed equivalent to having no password after cracking those jammers, although... anyway, can't the girl put it in a more normal way!
"The Sixth and Seventh Fleets have already entered the material plane. There are indeed many space mines there, but most of them have been successfully cleared. The minefields have only caused slight damage to the fleet," Sivis and the frontline troops maintained a direct mental connection. Commander Storm's powerful field data analysis capabilities allow her to scan and monitor the entire theater alone, "The enemy has set up layers of defenses there, and their sovereign hub for controlling the universe is well protected. We must find a way to get that thing Destroy it, otherwise the control of this world will always be in their hands."
Sandora glanced at the tactical analyzer, her voice was very quiet: "Fourth Fleet, deploy disruptors and interference devices on the world barrier, and First Fleet, temporarily stay outside to prevent the enemy from counterattacking. The Royal Fleet is ready to sink." '."
Sivis was a little surprised immediately: "Your Majesty, the war zone in the material world has not been completely suppressed."
"So let's go down and suppress it," Sandora shrugged, "The Royal Fleet is not here for the show. Prepare to 'sink'."
The female adjutant had no further objections, and the void engine of the Royal Fleet started up again, and began to modify its information characteristics to get closer to the material universe ruled by the fallen apostles, and Bubbles began to report the progress of the "sinking": "Attention, this ship is about to contact The world barrier, the offset of the target information is 15%... 10%... 5%... The rules are rewritten, sinking to the material universe, detecting space turmoil, and all staff are ready to resist the impact... "
Before the sound of the broadcast fell, a violent shock had already spread in the command hall, shaking the mountains in an instant, turning the world upside down, and Qianqian, who was dozing off on the seat, rolled to my feet on the spot. Qianqian pulled it up while listening to Bubble's voice and continued the broadcast: "No need to prepare, I seem to be late."
Me: "... It's okay for you to top the position of the shipboard host, but can you return the broadcasting right to the system properly?"
Bubble's voice was serious: "This is to improve compatibility and system stability—switching to an external monitor."
The giant holographic projection in the command hall immediately changed the screen, from the complex diagrams and abstract diagrams in the previous state of void navigation to an intuitive view of the space where the fleet is located. More than ten intuitive views show us the appearance of this universe:
The space is dim, and there are almost no stars twinkling, and there are no bright clouds or other striking celestial structures. The entire universe is shrouded in a very, very dim light yellow background, which is monotonous and desolate.
"The rules of this world are not so 'friendly', the stability of matter is poor, the gravitational force is almost all dissipated to other dimensions, it is difficult for large celestial bodies to gather together, the number of matter clusters in space is pitifully rare, and elementary particles are distributed throughout the universe in a discrete state. Universe," Sandora quickly glanced at the scanning report in front of her, "the background tone in space is the 'color' of this world, it is like a uniform and loose dough with almost no structure. A chaotic world lacking celestial bodies … can’t be born with life, there will be no evolution from birth to death, and it belongs to the “sick fetus” in the world, which is generally relatively rare, but it seems to be the norm in the abyss area.”
"Only a 'sick child' universe that lacks evolutionary motivation can live long enough in the abyss," I nodded. "The structure of the normal world is complicated, and it has been polluted by the abyss to death. In this ghost place, things with simple structures to survive."
At this time, a sudden flash of light on the external surveillance view interrupted my conversation with Sandora: it was the attack of the fallen apostles.
We are still on the battlefield. This is not a good place to lament the law of "people are stupid and live long" in the abyss area. Sandora immediately connected the small holographic device in front of her with the tactical analysis switchboard of the battleship, and quickly ordered: "All mothers Ship-level units began to counterattack. Seventh Fleet, save your strength and leave your glowing circles to the enemy motherships."
I looked at the pictures sent back from the external monitor. Of course there is no enemy within the line of sight: the nearest enemy fleet is twelve light-years away, and now the two sides are throwing fire at each other through the hyperspace system. At present, the artillery fire outside is very fierce. It is not obvious that the imperial fleet is in the most heavily protected central area, but the artillery fire on the edge of the joint shield is so dense that it can be described as a rainstorm. The space on one side of the Imperial Fleet continuously opened a large space crack, and the distorted hyperspace firepower points like corrugated glass were arranged in a matrix only a few kilometers away from the joint shield. The long axis has exceeded tens of thousands of kilometers. The torrent of nether energy poured out of it, splashing on the joint shield of the fleet, causing fierce ripples.
Obviously, that area was "focused on" by the fallen apostles.
Fortunately, with Xiaoxue's instructions in advance, we put a large number of fortress ships in the most severely attacked area, and the "Judgment Throne" of the Seventh Fleet also greatly strengthened the defensive power of the flanks. Most of the spaceships of the Seventh Fleet are still antiques from the old empire era. They are the old heritage that was recaptured from the Melova people. Alleria worked overtime to repair these spaceships, coupled with the durability of the empire's equipment itself, these antiques still maintain the combat effectiveness of the year. A large group of spaceships from the last era, coupled with a small number of new warships that have just been trial-produced recently, the Seventh Fleet that has just resumed its organization is tantamount to accepting the actual combat test of high-intensity warfare for the first time. Looking at this fleet so far The performance of the Judgment Throne is not bad: the Judgment Throne has withstood the most dangerous main gun fire on the flanks. These sloping weird cubes did not use their own less powerful weapon systems, but focused on strengthening their defenses. They constantly switched their shells flexibly Mode: Total Absorption - Total Reflection, each cycle means another enemy ship is heavily damaged by their own firepower.
And those magnificent and dangerous glow rings temporarily preserve their strength in the inner area of the United Fleet. They are destroyer warships similar to aircraft carrier killers, and they have the ability to kill targets without shields in one blow. It is useless when the opponent has a shield, but when the two sides of the battle are dragged to the late stage and the shields are almost consumed, the glow ring will exert its terrifying power-this is a battleship with a considerable advantage in the late stage. So they are all waiting quietly under Sandora's order now.
The spy probe has arrived at the end of the universe in a short period of time. Except for some interference areas, the scanned map of this world has been clearly presented in front of us. At the same time, it also shows the approximate distribution of the fallen apostles. According to the information sent back by the spy probe According to the intelligence, the enemies in this world have the size of about three reorganized legions—unexpectedly small, almost half the number of the Imperial Army, which makes it hard to believe that they are all the garrisons set up here by the Fallen Apostles, which makes people who have been there all along We, who are at a numerical disadvantage, feel that the happiness came too suddenly. I know that a large part of this is because the Protoss restrained the enemy's military force on the other side, and the other part is because of the fallen apostle's attack a few days ago. Internal turmoil, but the rest... Is there really no other reason
The result is probably that fate can’t see our smooth rhythm. Just when I was thinking about how to quickly take down this universe with the advantage of numbers this time, the early warning radar suddenly started to alarm: “Warning, high-level information sources have been detected pointing to The current universe...confirms the imminent arrival of enemy forces, the number of which is unknown."
Sure enough, such things as bottom force are like forehead wrinkles, and there will still be a squeeze - even if the Protoss restrains most of the fallen apostles' army, they can still squeeze out the fleet to fight back against the imperial army on this front.
At the same time as the early warning radar alarmed, the Fourth Fleet, which was deploying various disturbances on the world barrier, also sent a report: "Your Majesty! The enemy's reinforcements are jumping towards this world! They used the gate of the world, and the effect of the void disruptor is limited. !"
The "sovereignty" of this universe is still in the hands of the fallen apostles, which means that the enemy can directly send troops to this universe through the gate of the world. The door is the transmission of "world→world". Although the disruptor also has an interference effect on this transmission, its effect will be greatly reduced.
But since we have not been able to destroy the sovereign hub of this world, the "world → world" transmission of the fallen apostles will not stop, and all the Fourth Fleet can do is to continue to deploy void disruptors: although it cannot completely stop the "world" of the world. The door, at least has a disturbing effect, doesn't it
"As long as it is effective," I replied quickly, "keep working on your work, and delay it for a while if you can - let us solve the matter of the sovereign hub."
"We must find a way to establish a stable stronghold," I looked up at Sandora, "only in this way can we pull our celestial system fleet over. In addition, we must cut off the control of the fallen apostles on this world, otherwise they will still be able to attack from within." Lu squeezed out his troops to send them here."
Sandora nodded: "Well, the second point is more important. We must first find a way to get rid of their sovereign hub. As long as it is flattened there, the fallen apostles' sovereignty over this universe will end."
Bubble's voice resounded through the command hall through the shipboard radio: "This sovereign hub of the universe is located 12,000 light-years away. It is a well-defended artificial galaxy. Seventy percent of the enemy's fleet is gathered there, but we If you have a numerical advantage, you can consider a strong attack."
Sandora nodded: "Then attack by force... The Sovereign Hub itself has combat power. It may be difficult to attack by force, but it is better than letting the enemy's reinforcements rush in continuously."
The United Fleet immediately locked the direction of the Sovereign Hub, and began to impact the distance of 12,000 light years.
The so-called "sovereign hub" is actually not a new thing, but we rarely need to mention this concept before. The Sovereign Hub is not a single facility, nor is it a building as it sounds, it is a systematic large-scale equipment, a system used to ensure the regulation of the entire universe.
We have said before how to determine the management rights of a universe: absolute traffic control, the oath of obedience of all civilized civilizations in the world, military transfer rights, etc., and the Sovereign Hub is what is used to ensure these rights.
First of all, the sovereign hub includes a frequency modulation center that encrypts the world barrier, which is used to control the void disruptors on the world barrier and near the world, and control the access to the entire world. However, as the world barrier is breached, this part of the fallen apostle's sovereignty The components have failed; secondly, the Sovereignty Hub also includes a "broadcasting" system, which will broadcast cyclically in the cosmic background radiation and all high-energy frequency bands, announcing the sovereignty of the sovereign owner over this universe. If other civilizations in the universe develop to a certain extent They will receive these broadcasts, and they must obey the rules set by the sovereign owner, but I don’t know if there are any “leaders” in the territory of the Fallen Apostles. I think there is no other race in the world of the Abyss except the Fallen Apostles themselves. In addition, this universe does not have a livable environment at all, so the sovereign hub here must not have a "broadcast" system; finally, the sovereign hub usually includes transmission channels such as world gates. The direct rule of the world: sending troops, managers going back and forth, material transfers, these things are naturally much more convenient to complete through the world gate than to sail in the void.
Generally speaking, sovereign hubs have these three functions. In addition, of course they also have strong defensive capabilities. There will be military bases around them, which themselves are equivalent to a fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Every world in the empire has For such a sovereign hub, let me give you the easiest example to understand: the sovereign hub of the shadow space is the combination of the Shadow City and the parent planet Gaia. Stuffed with imperial soldiers - as long as this union exists, the management of Shadow City will always be in the hands of the empire.
The border world of the Fallen Apostle also has a sovereign hub, and it is still trying to repair the broken world barrier and send a steady stream of reinforcements. If it does not destroy that thing, the next battle will become extremely unfavorable In the war of attrition, the imperial army's surprise advantage will be gone.
We have also attacked the border world of the Fallen Apostles before, but the sovereign hub we encountered at that time was not as difficult to deal with as it is now: the enemy knows the situation in front of us is critical. The world is broken, and it is difficult for them to fill this loophole in time. The imperial army will flood into the abyss along this gap, and it will inevitably be overwhelming—so the enemy has concentrated all the useful fleets near the Sovereign Hub. Small man-made galaxies are packed.
The Sovereign Hub is more than 10,000 light-years away from our "landing" point, and the Imperial Fleet successfully skipped most of the distance through the hyperspace transition. Snow is here, and these traps have been bypassed safely. Finally, we had to stop at a distance of 1.27 million kilometers from the Sovereign Hub: the enemy took the space of 1.27 million kilometers around the Sovereign Hub. The whole thing has been replaced, the space coordinates here are all wrong signals, and the leap engine jumping with the goal of the sovereign hub may be thrown to the frontier of the universe.
"Damn it... I'm about to suffer from intensive phobia when I look at the old lady in Daradu..." Bingtis looked at the holographic projection in front of him, and immediately cursed, "They surrounded this place like a ball of wool."
"There is the Sovereign Hub," Sandora pointed at the holographic projection, "The gate of the world should be hidden by its force field, but it can be scanned that a gap across the void is opening nearby. Waiting for time, they will definitely have a lot of reinforcements this time."
I looked at the location indicated by Sandora, kept zooming in and out, and finally saw a dim binary star system.
Those are two black-red man-made celestial bodies, almost identical in size and appearance. Each of them is twice the size of the Earth. The surface is covered with crimson veins like blood vessels. Due to strong interference and limited scanning accuracy, it is impossible to determine this. There are some things on the two planets, but it is certain that the management center of this universe is all concentrated on it, including the controller of the gate of the world.
As long as this binary star system is destroyed, the reinforcements of the Fallen Apostles will be cut off, and the celestial system fleet will be able to deploy safely in this world.
But before that, we need to get rid of the astonishing number of space fortresses around Gemini, as well as the defense forces that can make Icetis suffer from mass phobia. RS