From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars

As a die-hard fan of "Starry Sky OL", I am also a researcher who, like Leeuwenhoek, plays games with a magnifying glass.

Amber knows everything about the major events, legendary characters, and star equipment in the game.

What's more, the Fortress of Sorrow, a first-generation man-made celestial fortress that is extremely rare at this point in time.

In the era when players are active in the game, it is the trophy for the first place in the guild battle every season.

The 'Pink Furry Rabbit' guild that Amber belongs to, in the season when he was the main fleet commander, directly defeated other player guilds and won the title of 'Strongest Guild' that season.

The guild's celebration that year was also held in the celestial fortress they obtained - the 'Pink Rabbit House'.

So if he were asked to go to the bridge of the Destiny and be introduced to the three Federation fleet commanders, he would only tell them one thing:

"If you can't fight, run away."

This is not nonsense. Even without the 8th and 12th Expeditionary Strike Groups, a single celestial fortress is enough to defeat the Federation Combined Fleet.

From the name of the "Wall of Sighs" plan, we know that the original intention of the empire to build an artificial celestial fortress was to form a strategic defense line that could be maneuvered, adjusted at any time, and that could not be captured by conventional fleets.

Therefore, in terms of attack, defense, assistance, and mobility, the empire is doing its best to maximize its capabilities.

Take the 'Fortress of Sorrow' that appears in Robert's galaxy at this moment as an example.

The 'Western Hemisphere' used to face the enemy is equipped with 400 battleship-level heavy particle cannons arranged in concentric circles as secondary weapons.

In addition, there are a large number of conventional charged particle cannons, high-energy laser cannons, electromagnetic reconnection cannons and multi-functional missile silos, as supplements to the rich firepower strike capabilities.

The main weapon of the Fortress of Sorrow, the 'Focusing Rainbow', is a heavy particle cannon with an accelerating orbit up to 100 kilometers long and a diameter of 10 kilometers.

It is still inappropriate to use 'a gun' or 'cannon' to describe the Focusing Iris, the most powerful weapon built by mankind so far.

Moreover, the working method of Focusing Iris is also different from the pulse mode of heavy particle cannons on other battleships.

It is an irradiation heavy particle cannon and can also use a diffuse irradiation attack mode.

The Focusing Rainbow, directly powered by 300 large-scale fusion reactors, can sweep out a torrent of heavy metal particles that far exceeds the diameter of the Fortress of Sorrow itself in diffuse irradiation mode.

Therefore, most players, including Amber, generally do not use "cannon" to refer to this big guy.

Instead, a more appropriate name was used - flashlight.

In addition to the most powerful spear currently possessed by mankind, the defense, auxiliary and mobility capabilities of the Empire's man-made celestial fortress are also equally powerful.

Unfortunately, Amber was not on the bridge at this time and could not tell the three commanders.

Guterres and Griezmann do not know the specific information about Celestial Fortress.

Although they could tell that this was definitely a strategic weapon of the empire, they had no idea of ​​the various strengths of this celestial fortress.

Guterres even felt that his emergency order to the Central Fleet to enter a defensive state and readjust its formation was a bit conservative.

If there were a more aggressive federal commander, he might ask the entire fleet to start a concentrated fire attack.

But what happened next told Guterres that he might not be conservative enough.

In the center of the imperial fleet formation, the Fortress of Sorrow, the combat command center.

One of the right-hand men of the Regent of the Star Dragon Empire, Duke Duke, known as the ‘Iron Wall of the Empire’, is currently sitting in the command seat.

In front of him on the right, the Marquis of Ascania and Count Karl, who had arrived inside the fortress on a transport ship, were standing upright and saluting him.

"Salute to you, Your Majesty the Duke! Your presence on the front line will bring the morale of our army to its peak."

The Marquis of Ascania spoke humbly and looked respectful.

The other party is one of the five great dukes in the empire, and is also the regent's 'closest ally'.

Faced with such a person, Marquis Ascania naturally did not dare to lose his etiquette.

"Haha. My arrival is nothing. To the soldiers at the grassroots level, the so-called dukes, marquises, and earls are all great nobles. They are just called by different names."

Duke Duke, who was leaning on the command seat, smiled, and then patted the armrest on the right side of the command seat.

"What can give them a shot in the arm, and at the same time bring them real victory, is the fortress of pathos in which we are standing."

"Yes, sir!"

"Hahaha, don't be so serious."

As Duke Duke clicked on the dragon claw decoration on the left armrest, two temporary seats were raised on both sides of the command seat.

"Sit down, I guess you have never seen the scene of Focusing Iris firing, right? Today is a good time to enjoy it together."

The Marquis of Ascania and Count Karl did not dare to neglect and quickly sat on the chairs.

It is true that they have never seen the Focusing Iris fire.

So far, it is said that the Empire has conducted more than 10 focusing rainbow irradiations in total.

Each celestial fortress was irradiated at least twice. The first time was an experimental half-power irradiation, and the second time was a full-power irradiation demonstration during the acceptance of the celestial fortress.

These more than 10 irradiations were all conducted in the empire's most heavily guarded experimental galaxy. In addition to the imperial royal family, the only people who could participate in the observation ceremony were the five imperial dukes who are now commanders of the five celestial fortresses.

"You are lucky. Today is the first time that the Celestial Fortress has been put into actual combat. Before, it was used to attack asteroids and bring about simulated battles."

While Duke Duke was speaking, other people in the combat command center were like an efficient gear set, running at high speed for the first actual combat shooting of the Fortress of Sorrow.

"The fusion reactor group is working normally, the parameters of each subsystem of the main weapon unit are normal, and the fluctuations meet the irradiation conditions!"

"Superconducting battery stacks 1 to 180 are working normally, and the energy storage and discharge tests have been completed."

"Attention all units, the fortress will enter the orange state from now on, and the focusing rainbow will be illuminated. Repeat."

If we talk about battleship-level heavy particle cannons, they use the metal bismuth in units of grams and kilograms as ‘ammunition’.

Then the mass of the piece of metal bismuth placed at the deepest point of the Focusing Rainbow's acceleration orbit needs to be measured in tons.

Before the fortress jumped to this universe, various subsystems of the main weapon unit were actually prepared for irradiation in advance.

So it didn't take long for the combat command center to receive the "system is fully green" notification.

After confirming that the Focusing Iris was ready for irradiation at any time, the commander turned and saluted Duke Duke on the command seat.

"Your Majesty the Duke, the Focusing Iris is ready and waiting for your orders!"

"Start irradiation."

"Yes, sir!"

After receiving Duke Duke's order, Focusing Iris immediately entered into the irradiation process.

"The fortress cooling unit is on!"

"Fortress Attitude Control Unit prepares for attitude stabilization."

"The reactor group's approved power is 82.7%! Focused rainbow, target the enemy's central fleet area, diffuse irradiation mode! The irradiation time is 15 seconds!"

After receiving the wine glass from the attendant, Duke Duke invited Ascania and Karl to raise the wine glass together.

"Gentlemen, may the glory of the empire shine on every corner of this galaxy!"

"Irradiation begins!"

On the Fortress of Sorrow, at the end of the accelerating track of the Focusing Rainbow with a diameter of 10 kilometers, a burst of space distortion suddenly appeared.

Immediately afterwards, a radiance comparable to that of a star burst out from the accelerating orbit.

It looks like a river in the sky.

There will be another chapter later~