A spaceship with a body length of less than 500 meters - if this thing is thrown on the earth, it is of course considered an unattainable alien technology. The largest spacecraft built by humans is still at the level of an iron can orbiting the earth. But placed in the vast and unpredictable cosmic space, placed in the galaxy-level civilization surrounded by surroundings, if such a spaceship appeared alone, it would be no different from a sampan.
You must know that due to the particularity of the space environment, spacecraft that perform long-term missions in the universe must be equipped with an ecological self-circulation system. The environment of a planet is also a troublesome job. Since the spaceship docked in front of me has the ability to navigate deep space, it must be equipped with similar devices. A set of stuff stuffed in...
In addition, it feels really great to lead hundreds of people who are mighty and mighty to spy on others in a stealth situation.
Of course, the people who landed on the takeoff and landing platform could not know that there were hundreds of pairs of eyes staring at their wrecked ship and commenting on it, and it was even more impossible to notice that there was a ship dozens of times more powerful than themselves parked on the berth next to them. The advanced spaceships are scanning up and down towards themselves, and they have now started their own actions.
After the spacecraft came to a complete stop, a cabin door more than ten meters wide was opened from the side of its middle section. A dirty loading and unloading passage protruded from the door and slowly extended to the platform. When it was running halfway, it was obviously stuck. After a while, we broke into cold sweat and saw two strong bull-like men in space combat uniforms appearing from above the passage, and with two big hammers, they smashed the connection between the latter and the hull twice before breaking the passage. Let it go completely.
"Suddenly I feel like going up to help them..."
The dull hair on Artoria's head turned around, and said rather entangled.
And at this time, a few crawler vehicles that seemed to be used for engineering came down from the transmission channel of the spaceship. After seeing that dilapidated spaceship for so long, these brand new space engineering vehicles are really impressive. Bright.
"What are they doing here? Exploration team?" My sister said in confusion, watching those people park the engineering vehicle at the junction of the takeoff and landing platform and the assembly platform, and then began to assemble some strange mechanical equipment on the spot. It looks like it's detecting something.
At this time, Viska finally remembered to transfer the communication signal he had intercepted to the public channel, and suddenly, the voices of those people talking in our minds rang out.
"... (previously omitted) finally found it, this asteroid belt is really desolate."
It was a rough male voice. Viska marked that the source of the voice was one of the two strong men who just smashed the loading and unloading passage with a sledgehammer. As the voice fell, the other man replied: "If it is not desolate, we can I can't grab it, the eldest sister is really good, the news is so well-informed, maybe we can make a lot of money now, haha..."
"But to be honest, this is the first time I've seen this kind of base, and I don't know what kind of force established it. It looks really advanced."
"Don't think about it, it must be people from the consortium. They have long wanted to take advantage of this melee cycle to expand their territory. It seems that a new unlucky guy has come to this universe, and it happened to be picked up by the consortium—hey engineering car Hurry up, although the eldest sister said that this place has been abandoned, but if another privateer group comes over, we will be in big trouble, and maybe the angels also know about this place, we can't do anything with the power of the administrative star "
"Hurry up too," another person jumped down the loading and unloading channel at this time, commanding a team of engineering robots that had just disembarked from the spaceship, "First remove the rare-looking things and send them to the ship, that shiny golden one Don't move the building, let the 'doctor' go in and have a look, maybe there are some treasures inside, such an advanced base, the things dismantled inside will definitely sell for a high price on the black market."
"Don't even think about hiding a navigator last time. The guy who stole a navigator last time is still being whipped at the mine. If you feel that comfortable, try this time. It can be divided into three times, but whoever wants to hide it privately and is seen by our people on the black market will throw it on the red stone star to mine for ten years."
After listening for a long time, I finally understood the identity of this group of people.
Pirates... no, not even as good as pirates, I'm afraid they don't even count as road robbers. They call themselves privateers, but in fact... they should be similar to carrion vultures, right
Scattered and unorganized armed forces, weak but extremely cunning, rely on picking up battlefield relics in this chaotic world, collecting mysterious technologies and selling them on the black market to make a fortune, and occasionally they may even do some daring deeds, such as smuggling , intelligence brokers, or following an army and waiting to salvage the wreckage—that's the best they can do.
This is the privateer group, or to be more frank, the scrap collector.
It seems not surprising that similar small gangs appear in this messy world. There are opportunities to generate battlefield garbage at any time, wreckage of warships, abandoned bases, space stations, and various battlefield remnants. And many of the salvaged things are worth a good price on the black market—don’t think that no one wants the wreckage. In this world where new races enter by mistake at any time, technology is showing a trend of blooming everywhere, because there is almost no R&D In the environment of new technologies, obtaining other people's ready-made technologies to transform their own army has become a good way for many forces to strengthen themselves. Although there are conflicts in the technologies of different systems, there are "talents" who can integrate different technologies in this world. The modified and strange assembled spaceships here and there are examples.
From this point of view, the abandoned bases left by the Protos advance team have become their treasures. That is an absolute new technology.
I'm afraid even the "national government" here usually buys battlefield relics from such people, right
Because I have been in contact with the official big forces like the Gotak Kingdom Army before, I have never heard of such a small gang. Now that I see them, I don’t know what level such a configuration is in their "peers", but I want to come The largest "private group" is nothing more than a larger waste recycling worker. They salvage scraps from the battlefield and sell them on the black market. Their income may be higher than that of ordinary people, but it is definitely not as profitable and risky as competing for territory on the frontal battlefield. But it's not a lot, not to mention, just this base that has just been abandoned for more than ten hours, and the guys in front of them who drive garbage boats to pick up treasures dare to get their hands on it, how much risk do they have to take
Whether it is the forces to which the base belongs, or the army that attacked here, or other "government forces" who want to take advantage of the fire (you can hear from the words of the big Han Jia just now, even government forces with "sovereignty" will occasionally Put down your airs and salvage the wreck yourself), whoever comes over will definitely be able to kill that broken spaceship that looks like a wreck, they are all a bunch of guys living at the bottom.
Of course, there is no doubt that if they are given enough weapons and equipment, these junk workers who seem to be only doing small things are willing to turn into interstellar pirates licking blood on the tip of their knives at any time. , children are born with a three-sided army thorn in their mouths-you think he is more NB
It wasn't the enemy soldiers who attacked the base, nor the regular army who knew the situation. This group of privateers immediately made us lose interest. Viska began to calculate whether to kill them all. Of course, this reckless suggestion was rejected by me and my sister. The adults vetoed the union.
"There is nothing in front of the boss"
At this moment, another voice sounded on the public monitoring channel, a tall construction robot walked over from the storage area, holding a somewhat familiar bucket-shaped machine in his arms... Well, it was the probe just now, because Sprayed Viska's face black, and finally let the little girl kick over several kilometers and smashed directly into a warehouse in the storage area. Now it seems that this is the only harvest of this construction robot, and in this project The two unlucky guys following behind the robot were even more empty-handed.
"Just this thing?" The burly man known as the boss wore a space mask on his head, and his expression couldn't be seen clearly, but his voice sounded absolutely angry, "What is this? It looks like an unassembled engine Yes, the three of you have tossed about until now to find such a thing?"
"It's all been emptied," the voice of the robot driver sounded particularly aggrieved, "We have turned over several warehouses, and there is nothing but walls and lighting facilities, and embedded devices are deducted everywhere on the walls. In the groove left after that, there is not even a single screw left on the ground..."
It's a trough, so you can live like this, the commanders of the Protos advance team are really fine, they were all forced out during the reconstruction of Kepulu, right
"Er Di Niang, isn't that too good at it?" Just like my complaint, the strong man who seems to be the little boss can't help but smack his lips at this time, "Why do you feel more frugal than us?"
"The boss didn't find it here either"
At this time, several other robotic squads also came back with nothing. These mecha-like engineering robots, who looked like they had taken off their armor plates and only left their skeletons, were obviously designed for such "exploration work". Design, the size is not tall, but it has a mechanical arm that is almost the same as the entire height, but it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and no matter how professional a waste picker is, it is impossible to find treasures in the abandoned base after the geese have plucked hairs. Twelve robots , except for two of them holding two or three unknown mechanical components in their arms, the others are empty-handed.
Coming back so soon, I must have exited directly after seeing the empty shells of the buildings that have been unscrewed and removed.
"Nothing?" Another big man who was directing the engineering vehicle to transport things to the base suddenly realized that he might not have to work, and immediately shouted loudly, "Then we came today for nothing?"
"No, Ham, just go back like this, the eldest sister dares to shoot us brothers directly," the big man in charge of the robot waved his hand, as if he had made up his mind, "Let the battle mech come down and use the laser cannon, and the bomber will also kill these The building was shattered, and there must be something like a building energy group inside that cannot be dismantled. Although no one wants it on the black market, it is good to have more things in your hand and take it back. If you go back, you will say that this is all new technology. My brothers and idiots didn't see any value, so we took them back together... Yes, that's it, that so-and-so over there, you hurry up and invite the 'doctor' down, if you want to go back without being whipped, you can only count on the one and only A wise man...”
However, before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by a voice that suddenly sounded on the radio: "Hey, let me say, if we can reach this level, we have to do it."
"Who? Who used this frequency indiscriminately?"
No one answered, just a din of communication.
"Baker who are you talking to?"
I just frightened the other party, and I was immediately struck by his name, Baker? There is also a brother named Ham over there... These two buddies are here to liven up the atmosphere, right
"Damn, maybe I heard it wrong. Just now I heard someone talking to me on the radio, and it was still using the frequency used by the eldest sister..."
"Bullshit," the big man No. 2, who was previously called Ham, waved his hand, "Why is Big Sister looking for you at this time... Wow"
"What's wrong... Hey" Beck was about to turn around to see what was going on with his brother, when he saw a giant cow-like man in a space combat suit flying towards him sideways. He didn't even have time to react, Beckham The two brothers rolled into a ball.
"What's the matter? What kind of kung fu do you practice, Ham?"
"Yes... this base is weird. Just now I saw a translucent little girl appear in front of me, and then she flew over by herself."
Friendly reminder, Viska will throw away all non-friendly targets standing in front of her and taller than her. Of course, if her sister is present, the two little guys will throw you out in the opposite direction.
Uncle B was very impressed.
"The shrinking formation engineering vehicle comes back and the battle mecha is in place quickly, this place is weird"
The big man named Baker was terribly stimulated by two supernatural events one after another, and immediately announced loudly that he had entered the defensive formation. Although the privateers who were trying to pry some cables from the steel beams of the base did not Knowing what happened, they immediately responded to the order and gathered together. A few engineering vehicles, a dozen engineering robots, and a dozen miscellaneous soldiers wearing space combat uniforms and holding standard firearms immediately formed a circle and formed a A "line of defense" full of loopholes.
At the beginning, we wanted to get rid of these guys quickly, but now, everyone, including Viska, seems to have been inspired by some kind of bad taste, and we plan to make a fuss about this group of privateers who are about to blow up the base. Seeing them form a circle suspiciously, a few empire leaders and a group of unscrupulous heroes immediately surrounded them with sneering smiles.
"Brother, why do I feel a little cold..."
The strong man named Ham seems to be the younger brother of the pair of brothers. Although he is as strong as a cow, he is unexpectedly not very courageous. Well, it may be that the amazing over-the-shoulder fall of Viska just now is too supernatural. , his voice sounded a little trembling.
"Don't scare yourself, it may be the overpressure generated during the jump just now, we are all hallucinating, everyone get closer, don't move...Damn, I knew that the broken jump engine should be overhauled... Hey, the battle mech is down, the gang The little bastard has been dawdling for a long time, but it can be counted."
The one who jumped down from the loading and unloading channel of the spaceship was the battle mech that the other party was talking about. How should I put it, Wutai is a bit like a Gundam thing, which made me embarrassed on the spot.
... There are actually three reds in the world.
"Mecha, back then I dreamed of driving a Gundam," I couldn't help shrugging when I saw the five iron giants that were nearly 20 meters tall jumping off the spaceship and running towards this side. Shrugged, "But now the dream is shattered."
Although it looks mighty, the actual combat effectiveness of this thing in civilizations above the star level is actually very mediocre. The most important thing for a warship capable of deep space combat is energy. At the same level of technology, the main reaction of this type of warship The volume of the furnace is often hundreds of times the overall volume of the combat mecha, and the standard output is thousands or even tens of thousands of times that of the latter. It is impossible to gain an advantage in the formation of battleships.
The reason is very simple. If a single-soldier robot can use a proton rifle, why doesn't the battleship opposite it install two thousand proton cannons? Soldiers are all armored, so it's impossible for the troop carrier to be made of wood, right? A balanced technology, but all arms have to evolve simultaneously. No matter how agile the Gundam is, it cannot avoid the more agile turret—because the angular momentum acceleration technology (the key technology for the turret to run without inertia) is far more powerful than the reaction braking technology ( The main means for the battle mech to change its posture in the universe) is much easier to develop.
However, the above situations only apply to civilizations outside the specifications of the Xiling people. Fighter mechs still have a large market in "lower civilizations". However, their advantages are very large. Their armor can just hold most of the weapons in the atmosphere, and their variable movement methods also make it difficult for most ground artillery to capture their fatal points, and their firepower far surpasses any kind of ground troops— Once again, Xiling's gang was excluded.
These privateers can even afford battle mechs. It seems that they are not as poor as we thought at first.
The battle mechs newly added to the defense circle don't know what happened. The huge laser rifles in their hands can only point around aimlessly. Humans are really a very magical species. The special sense of the senses confuses Sandora, and now, the sixth sense of these privateers makes them tremble.
Then, as if to die, a certain unlucky battle mech took a few steps to the side, crossed a distance of more than ten meters in an instant, and stood in front of Viska. V