I Am the Swarm

For so many years, the Rickon tribe has been researching the method of restraint against the electromagnetic guns of the swarm.

They have an advanced spaceship of an unknown civilization, from which many things have been deduced backwards, and many basic theories have also been perfected from a high-level view.

Therefore, since the defeat of the expedition team, in the past few decades, they have indeed done something.

Because most of them are experimental products, they have not yet reached the level of being installed in regular troops.

But this time when Lazer was being rebuilt, the Riken tribe added a new defensive facility.

Around the land-based cannon, there are some buildings that are not inferior to them. These buildings are semicircular, like bowls buckled in the ground.

On the top of the semicircle, some strange structures composed of special metals and transparent lenses are displayed on it. The whole building does not seem to have a familiar cannon barrel, and I don't know what it is for.

The dense electromagnetic projectiles of the insect swarm attacked like a bamboo, like an indestructible sword, and the Riken warships hurriedly avoided them, not daring to stand in front of them.

But when they pass through the low-earth orbit of Lazer Star, they are only more than a thousand kilometers away from the ground target.

Suddenly, some thin red light beams were emitted from the strange structures at the top of those special semicircular buildings.

The distance of more than a thousand kilometers is within a blink of an eye for a fast electromagnetic projectile. But these red beams are faster.

At first glance, they look like explosive energy beams that are several times thinner, but in fact, no matter their principle or appearance, they are completely different except for the color.

First, the blaster beam is a compressed mass of energy. By controlling the stability of the energy aggregate, it can achieve its two states, the stable penetrating type and the restless explosive type.

But no matter what they are, their external manifestations are energy beams ranging in length from tens of centimeters to several meters.

And these slender light beams, or light rays, are more suitable. Unlike the blast energy beams, they are really a thin line. After being emitted, a thin line about thousands of kilometers long!

In order to ensure the lethality, this thin line needs continuous energy supply, so despite its thinness, in fact, the energy consumed per unit time is astonishingly huge.

The energy consumed by each semicircular building is comparable to ten land-based cannons.

A hundred meters below the ground of these buildings, there are specialized nuclear power plants to supply them with energy.

Even so, their ultimate damage range is less than two thousand kilometers.

With high energy consumption and small attack range, the Riken tribe will not let a weapon full of shortcomings go to the battlefield, so it must have its own advantages.

That is, it is a real light weapon, so its attack speed is approximately equal to that of a light beam. Within its effective killing radius, its attack can be said to be instantaneous, and there is basically no possibility of dodging.

For an electromagnetic gun fired at a super long distance, the flight time of the projectile exceeds half an hour. During such a long time, its trajectory has already been calculated clearly.

When they entered the attack range of the laser defense array, with the help of a large supercomputer, red light "shine" on them instantly.

The electromagnetic projectile itself is just an aggregate of some metal elements, not a high-end material. Under the huge energy output, it is heated to the boiling point by the red line in less than a second.

The irradiated part of the front end of the projectile reflected golden light, and then turned into a liquid splash in the light. As the melted part of the projectile increased, it was unable to maintain the stability of its own structure and the original orbit during high-speed flight.

After the projectile was burnt and penetrated by the light, it split into several parts, and the speed has also dropped. Although it still has a certain degree of lethality, it is difficult to break through the external defense of the steel creation.

A few minutes later, the interception report was counted. In the first round of tens of thousands of electromagnetic shells, the interception success rate was over 70%. The reason why the interception rate is only 70% is because the number of laser defense arrays is insufficient. If the number is sufficient, it may be difficult for electromagnetic projectiles to penetrate this layer of light defense.

"The effect is good. I should have built more of these things if I knew it earlier." Arser, the commander of the Third Fleet, said with some regret when he saw the result.

"After all, it is an experimental product that has not undergone actual combat, and it is troublesome to build, and the materials required are still very complicated. It is the result of hard work to achieve the current scale." Novaru is also a little regretful.

"Unfortunately, this thing takes up too much space and consumes too much energy. Currently it can only be used as a ground defense facility. If we can move it to a battleship, we will gain the initiative in battle." Khamis saw farther.

"Yeah, I have to urge those guys from the Academy of Sciences to give priority to upgrading this laser defense matrix. As long as it cooperates with the close-in defense gun, we might be able to fight back to the T85 galaxy."

In the current battle between the Riken tribe and the swarm, the Riken warships did not reach the range of their main guns at long distances, so they could only bear the bombardment of the swarm artillery unilaterally.

In the middle distance, the Rikens entered the range of their own main guns. At this distance, the main guns of the two sides faced each other. On the premise of the same number, the Rikens, who had a faster rate of fire and faster shell flying speed, had an absolute advantage.

But at close range, it is very difficult for the Riken battleship to withstand the fearless charge of the insect swarm adults and larvae. Once these guys break into the cabin, the battleship has basically no chance of surviving.

Therefore, in the far, middle and near positions, the Liken tribe currently only has an advantage in one position. But if the laser defense array can settle on the battleship, they will ignore the long-distance bombardment of the electromagnetic gun. At short range, the laser defense array and close-in defense guns, coupled with the cooperation of fighter formations, can also effectively resist the surprise attacks of adults and larvae.

As long as they can be blocked from approaching, the secondary guns of the battleship can play a role, and the firepower of the secondary guns is still extremely lethal to these small and medium-sized combat units.

Under a series of chain reactions, the Rickens seem to be able to gain an advantage at close range.

In this case, the Rickon tribe will have an overall advantage in the three distance positions. According to this assumption, maybe they can really counterattack in an all-round way and fight back to the T85 galaxy.

War is the resources and logistics for fighting. It is impossible for the swarm to give up attacking because its own attack is intercepted. What's more, the energy consumed by this laser defense formation is extremely astonishing.

Moreover, the fact that they were unable to completely intercept all the projectiles due to insufficient numbers has also been known by the swarm through normal means.

The dense electromagnetic guns did not stop, and continued to fire the second and third rounds. For this kind of consumption behavior before the war, the Riken tribe, who are backed by the resources of the entire galaxy, are naturally happy to see it.

But after all, they didn't intercept all the attacks perfectly, and 30% of the projectiles that slipped through the net still caused a lot of damage to the defense facilities on Lazer.

Although the laser defense formations were not destroyed because they prioritized destroying the projectiles fired at them, and still maintained their full combat power, the damage to other land cannons still gave the Riken a bit of a toothache.

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