Chapter 308 Taunting Is Necessary Before Starting a War
Before the Community's fleet entered the jump orbit, Marquis Odegaard led his only warship into the asteroid belt.
This is a world formed by endless icy meteorites, exuding a hazy halo reflected by the dim halos of the two twin brown dwarfs. At first glance, it looks like you are entering a crystal maze in a fairy tale.
This is a dream-like scenery, but most of the crew on the ship have no intention of appreciating it.
This Clear Sky-class heavy cruiser, which is nominally affiliated with the Navy of the Republic of Barkvi, has been launched for less than two months, and still uses the imperial number of "Trial 24". In the Imperial Royal Navy sequence, this means testing.
Because it is a test, the empire will provide such advanced, so-called perfect cruiser weapons to its loyal core allies (xiao) and friends (di). Because of the test and the secret missions to be performed, most of the crew members are Bakvi Birds except for important command and technical positions.
There are even a few Bakvi officers on board who can "perform" the captain's duties when necessary.
The birdman crew members in the ship were well-trained, and they were quickly in their places. However, the tension inside the ship was still strong, as if it had condensed into an insoluble haze.
Although the Bacwe Republic is an ally of an empire full of martial virtues, we also know that an international alliance cannot be filled with militant factions whose heads are full of muscles. Relatively speaking, the Bakvi birdmen are relatively stable pacifists. They are good at long-distance trade and hyperspace exploration, but their combat capabilities have always been unsatisfactory.
On the actual battlefield, the Empire is even more willing to trust those big cats who always love to run wild.
The main fleet of the Bakvi people has been at the other end of the far shore nebula, cooperating with two small countries that are also affiliated with the empire, and confronting the far shore defense fleet across the I Earl Star Gap and the Lucknar Corridor. But the confrontation lasted for less than half a century, and there was not even a small-scale gunfire, let alone a war.
In addition to beating pirates and smugglers, the last time the Bakvi fleet participated in a war was the Community War of Independence forty years ago and the subsequent Galactic War. Moreover, even in a war of that scale, their performance was mediocre.
For these bird people who are not very particular about martial arts, this is really a very long memory.
This means that the crew here lacks actual combat experience.
It’s so lackluster! The Imperial officers on the bridge couldn't stand it.
"It doesn't matter, the people on Earth opposite don't have any actual combat experience! This is obviously a small security fleet!" The loud-voiced "real" deputy captain Rhea encouraged the morale of the whole ship. His voice was really loud, and it felt like it could be heard throughout the ship without going through the communicator.
The crew of Bakvi felt a little more at ease, not because of the high prestige of the deputy captain, but because of his vicious reputation. After all, this is a Wolfgang man, one of the ethnic minorities in the empire. At first glance, he looks like a huge black wolf walking upright, and it is also a hairy one.
He is really like a hungry lone wolf. If he finds soldiers who are not disciplined and disobeying orders, he will eat people.
Let your soldiers fear officers more than the enemy. This is also common sense in the art of war!
As a result, the nervousness seemed to be gnawed away by two rows of blade-like teeth, and it immediately dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye. The Bakvi birdman endured the trembling and began to operate the battleship with an almost numb and mechanical movement, but the efficiency was also increased at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Soon, battleship No. 24 indeed entered a state of electromagnetic silence. The kinetic main gun has also completed shell filling.
The reason why the energy main gun is not used is of course to allow the battleship to hide itself as much as possible. In addition, the Clear Sky class uses the empire's most advanced energy center and a redesigned transmission system. Its own energy reserve and energy transmission efficiency are the best in history. As a result, a heavy cruiser with a total mass of 570,000 tons is equipped with battle cruiser-class Dragon Breath 7 kinetic energy main guns of more than one million tons.
Once launched, the cannonball will travel an ultra-long distance of hundreds of thousands of kilometers at sub-light speed in an instant, penetrating the enemy.
During the test, the Clear Sky class's kinetic main gun was so powerful that it could easily penetrate an asteroid, even the four layers of armor of an Imperial battleship.
At least, it is certain that the small boats of the community will never be able to withstand this level of attack.
"The enemy fleet...jump completed!" The radar officer fed back the latest information to the bridge. He probably already knew the Marquis's plan and automatically started calling the Community fleet "the enemy".
The Empire had already roughly understood the location of the gravity well, and had deployed a probe smaller than a drone nearby. In this way, when one's own side discovers the enemy's, the other side may not be aware of one's own existence.
Marquis Odegar opened a silver pocket watch set with a ruby. It happened to be 18:21 on November 12, 830 in the Community Calendar. He was once again full of admiration for his wisdom and foresight. As early as two hours ago, when he learned that the pirate fleet was ambushed, he had already ordered the crew to have dinner in advance.
The Marquis took a deep look at the silver pocket watch, which was a gift given to him by his goddess, the singer, before they broke up. That girl was not considered popular, she was only a third-tier backup in an opera house where all the talents gathered together. This must have cost her several months of income.
Marquis Odegaard took a deep breath, put these distracting thoughts behind his mind, and returned to the captain's position: "Lenon, charge that one!"
Kyeyang Kong Knight's eyes shrank, and the yellow jade vertical pupils easily reminded people of the poisonous snake that was about to attack. He quickly conveyed the captain's order without questioning it.
"Seidel torpedo! Start charging!"
This is one of the experimental weapons carried by the Clear Sky class battleship, a mature anti-matter bomb.
Countries with some technical reserves are now developing anti-matter weapons, but the Empire is once again ahead of all countries and has entered the final testing stage.
However, the Seidel torpedo is not just an anti-matter weapon. In fact, its official name at the Imperial Tiangongyuan is "hyperspace mobile torpedo". It's not so much a torpedo as it is a small unmanned spacecraft equipped with a dimensional bubble generating device.
Seidel is the name of the god of the sky and the god of space in the classical mythology of the empire, so the imperial military called this new weapon that way. Of course, it can also be called a "space torpedo" intuitively.
Dimensional bubble generating device is a new technology that all major technological countries want to develop. According to scientists' reasoning, if it is fully mature, the spaceship may not need a gravity well to complete the hyperspace jump. At that time, the development of shipping in the entire universe will enter a new era, a great era that everyone can hardly imagine.
But after so many years, the dimensional bubble has still been unable to achieve a hyperspace jump of matter. The scale of its generating device has never been small. It can neither be miniaturized nor enlarged to create a large space bubble that can wrap the ship.
So, some imperial scientists suddenly thought of weaponizing it.
Since the dimensional bubble generating device is not very small, wouldn't it just be able to wrap a powerful bomb?
When the weapon wrapped in the dimensional bubble roars forward, before it hits the enemy, all obstacles along the way do not exist in a physical sense.
Theoretically, one's side can even attack the enemy on the opposite side through a star - of course this is impossible, not even for larger planets. Whether it is a star or the core of a planet, the internal energy changes are quite complex and will inevitably have an immeasurable impact on space events.
But no matter what, this is still a new weapon that achieves the ultimate in concealment, suddenness, and "armor-breaking type".
The size and mass of this thing are much larger than ordinary fighter jets. Even heavy cruisers like the Clear Sky class only carry a total of twenty of them, and five of them have been used in previous tests. However, the feedback from the experimental results was indeed quite good. Marquis Odegar can be sure that a single shot is enough to kill the enemy's largest ship in one blow.
Of course, imperial scientists believe that allowing dangerous antimatter fuel to remain inside the relatively weak torpedo poses considerable safety risks to the entire battleship. According to weapons safety management regulations, fuel should be injected into the torpedo warhead half an hour before use.
Does this mean that the Marquis believes that the battle should begin within half an hour?
The Imperial officers were eager to try, and the Bakvi Birdman crew looked at the Imperial officers whose blood was boiling, and could only hide their fear in their hearts again.
"Your Excellency, we have been able to determine the enemy fleet's ship type!" Captain Balubeko, director of bridge intelligence technology, began to report.
It had only been five minutes since the Community fleet jumped into this galaxy, and he had already completed a comprehensive analysis of the enemy fleet's transformation.
"There are ten assault ships in total, eight of the Warhammer 6 type, two of the Warhammer 3 type; five destroyers, four of the Fletcher 4 type, one of the Kagero 2 type; four light cruisers, models..."
Captain Baliubek hesitated for a moment, which surprised Marquis Odegaard.
"There is no such ship type in the database! There is an 80% chance that it is modified."
"Modification? Naval fleet?" Lenon was shocked. Pirates, smugglers, and other less prominent forces often make crazy modifications to ships, but I have never heard of the navy of a serious country doing such a thing.
After all, your Blue Star Community is also a member of the Council of Galactic Civilizations. How can you be so disgraceful?
Marquis Odegaard fell into deep thought for a short time. The modified warships are either crudely made and full of wasteland style that may fail at any time, or they are often sharper than common sense imagines. Of course he hoped it would be the former, but as an excellent imperial military noble, he could never consider it that way.
"Can you confirm the original ship type?"
"Please give me another five minutes."
"Don't worry, I'll give you ten minutes."
"Your Excellency, the other party has started broadcasting to the entire galaxy." The communications officer interrupted.
"...Come in." Marquis Odegaard didn't hesitate much. Then, a baritone voice sounded in his ears.
"The Blue Star Community patrolling strike fleet gives an ultimatum to all the XXXX in the Far Shore Nebula! You bunch of space rats chewing on nebula flying objects, Father Earth is here to teach you how to be a human being! If you have any blood, just give it to me Lift your XX honestly and wait for X, do you hear me? I don’t care if you are the XX chicks of Bakvi or the XX rats of the Empire! Please be more energetic! If you don’t have the courage, just run away and kill you. Show your **** clearly to Dad Earth! Don’t worry, we Earthlings are all noble gentlemen. Unlike you **** who are full of sinister thoughts, we won’t shoot in the back! So, what’s going on? ? Give me an accurate answer!"
The silenced words in it are both unpleasant to listen to, and the entire paragraph is spoken in elegant imperial court language. For the citizens of the empire present, the taunting effect was simply amazing.
Marquis Odegaard sneered, thinking that this kind of rogue tactic would only be useful to pirates! How could I, a top student of the Imperial Royal Knights Academy, be provoked so easily?
Most of the imperial officers on board are imperial elites who graduated from the Royal Naval University and the Aerospace Academy. They have received professional training and will never lose their minds no matter how angry they are.
"Your Excellency! Do you want to fire?" Major Ragdouro, the gunnery chief, sent a request to fire, as if there was suppressed anger in the gaps between his teeth.
"...Not yet!"
"...Ming, I understand."
They did not disobey orders, which means they did not lose their minds. Marquis Odegaard said to himself.
At this time, a wild singing voice suddenly sounded in the bridge, still using the elegant imperial court language.
"Odegaard is going to invade, let's beat him!"
"His Majesty the Emperor is acting like a hooligan and has run away!"
"When you meet a group of Earthlings, beat them to death and they'll die!"
"One, two, and three Marquis O, let's play with cannonballs hand in hand! Let's play with cannonballs hand in hand!"
"A boat was sailing halfway, but was stopped in the middle by a cannonball~~~~"
"The two of them were hiding from people and were steamed in the pot by the beam~~~~"
"The three of them are still in the wedding stage, working with big saws in the arsenal, oh oh oh oh~~~~"
"The new Marquis has come to take over the throne, comforting the bride day and night~~~~"
"Odegaard is a basket, and everything is put in it~~~~"
“Put it inside ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ~~~”
"How many Audemars are left? How many blue eagle feathers are left? Why don't you go home and take a nap to comfort the bride as she prepares for the future?"
The entire bridge fell into an awkward silence, which lasted for nearly a minute. Everyone was completely shocked and speechless by this gameplay.
After a long time, Marquis Odegaard exhaled a solemn breath from between his teeth: "Are the space torpedoes not ready yet?"