I Am the Swarm

In a space battle tens of thousands of kilometers apart, even a warship with a body length of one thousand meters, at this distance, it is extremely difficult to hit accurately.

The distance between the two fleets is less than 60,000 kilometers at this time. Although the flight time of the Taigu-class electromagnetic gun shells has been reduced to 12 minutes, it is still an extremely exaggerated time.

Twelve minutes at the speed of a Riken warship is enough to fly thousands of kilometers away, which is equivalent to shooting a cheetah running at full speed with a sniper rifle tens of thousands of meters away. The difficulty can be imagined.

But at this distance, the energy weapons of the Rickens only need about one minute to fly.

A thick red energy beam streaked across the sky. There were more than 800 warships, each with 12 main guns. The energy beams fired in this salvo were close to ten thousand. It is much more than a volley of 5,000 Taikoo-level projectiles with a round of 8,000 projectiles, and the energy beams are colored, and the momentum is much more powerful than electromagnetic projectiles with no sound and light effects.

One minute is enough for the Archaic class to fly hundreds of kilometers, and the first round of bombardment by all the Rickens did not achieve any results.

But this is just a test firing to collect relevant data. Soon, relevant data such as Taikoo's speed, direction of travel, and advance have been calculated. After the angle correction of the main gun, the second round of shelling is fired immediately.

A minute later, the energy beam passed through more than ten kilometers in front of the swarm troop.

On the premise that they did not acquire the combat units related to the swarm, the Rickens developed an instrument for monitoring the energy accumulation of the swarm's electromagnetic gun based on theory alone. The swarm has seized so many battleships and equipment of the Riken tribe, and has a more powerful scientific research team. Naturally, they also have biological organs for monitoring the energy weapons of the Riken tribe.

There are many kinds of these organs, and they are integrated on the body of the Primordial Class, and when the muzzle of the Riken warship turns, the relevant data is transmitted to the biological intelligence brain, and then their ballistics are calculated.

Because the swarm captured many Riken warships and had the relevant parameters of the warship weapons, the calculated data was quite accurate.

When the Riken battleship fired, the organ components in charge of detection immediately called the police, and under the command of the blade, the Taikoo-class cluster immediately slowed down slightly, allowing this round of shelling to pass.

But these are all within the calculations of the Rickens. Their battleship main guns recharge very quickly. After a few minutes, the third round of shelling with angle correction is fired at the swarm troops.

At this time, the speed of the Taikoo cluster had not yet been raised again. Although the blades ordered to suspend the charging of the electromagnetic gun and use all the energy for the engine output, they still could not completely avoid the third round of bombardment by the Riken tribe.

Although the power of the energy weapons of the Rickon clan has weakened a lot after flying such a long distance, and the Taikoo class has a good resistance to this kind of energy attack.

But this is only in the case of one-on-one or small-scale battles. In group battles, that point of resistance can play an extremely limited role.

In the lower left corner of the swarm troops, more than thirty Primordial-class ones were directly blasted by the dense energy beam, and the adults and larvae inside were also partially paralyzed by the explosion. .

After multiple rounds of shelling, the relevant data on the swarm's side has also been integrated. Soon, the shelling of the swarm followed suit.

This time the shots did not shoot in the same direction as before, but locked an area at an angle.

The Ricken fleet didn't notice the difference in this round of shelling at first, but when they found out, it was too late. Although they tried their best to dodge, a small number of warships located below the side of the fleet were baptized by projectiles.

Three warships were directly blown up, and although the condition of several others was slightly better, they were also seriously damaged. The internal system structure was destroyed, and the navigation speed dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As a last resort, they could only use the cover of the fleet to withdraw from the battle ahead of schedule.

This round of shelling was very eye-catching, and Khamis, the commander of the First Fleet of the Ricken tribe, was beaten a little dazed.

You must know that the advance amount of twelve minutes and the advance amount of one minute are not at the same level in terms of calculation difficulty. And the bug swarm was able to hit the Riken fleet with the relevant data obtained through several rounds of bombardment. Although there were elements of their own negligence, it was still a bit inconceivable.

This made Khamis understand that their previous speculation about the backwardness of the swarm supercomputing technology had been overturned, and they had paid the price for it.

If Arser of the Third Fleet was here at this time, he might not care about these at all, and still implement the previously formulated combat plan.

But Khamis is cautious by nature, and one aspect of the swarm exceeded expectations, indicating that their other speculations may also be incorrect. He believes that all battle plans need to be reconsidered.

After transmitting the message back to combat command, Khamis ordered the fleet to retreat temporarily.

But now it is a war, and the Ricken tribe's technological level does not have an absolute advantage, so there is no possibility of unilaterally withdrawing at will.

Seeing the Riken warships gradually moving away, their intentions were immediately noticed by Sarah and other intelligent bodies. Although the distance increases, the amount of calculations doubles, but the Rickens still have a few oil tankers.

The Taikoo-class cluster ignored the intact battleships, but stared at the previously damaged battleships and fired fiercely. Although they had run ahead of time before, they did not run very far because their speed slowed down.

And because the speed slowed down, they could no longer make fancy evasive actions, and their retreat direction was basically locked in a small area, making it easier to calculate their advance.

Facing the bombardment of the swarm, Khamis didn't want to give up on them at first, but after calculations by the ship's artificial intelligence, if he wanted to save those warships, he had to block the entire fleet behind them and take the swarm's round. shelling.

Although these damaged warships can be rescued by then, the entire fleet will suffer greater damage and there will be more wounded. If this loops for two rounds, the entire fleet will have to be accounted for here.

After thinking for 0.1 second, Khamis gave up on them decisively, and ordered the rest of the battleships to move forward at full speed and leave the battlefield as quickly as possible.

Several damaged battleships received the decision of the regiment leader, and there was no time to complain, and all members evacuated urgently. A large number of escape pods were shot from the battleship.

Unlike the neighboring galaxy, this is the mother galaxy of the Rickon family. If these escape pods were not directly hit by the electromagnetic gun, the chances of escaping are still very high.

The battleship continued to advance under the control of artificial intelligence, trying its best to do evasive actions, but the coverage area of ​​8,000 projectiles had covered all their evasion routes.

More than ten minutes later, the shells landed, carrying incomparable kinetic energy, and hit the battleship. The armor of the battleship was squeezed to the limit and then tore, and then more shells arrived, blowing it up.