Voyage of the Stars

In this situation where the artificial intelligence consciousness body does not land, the three fleets' approach is to pull apart and not engage in combat anyway.

The process of chasing lasts a long time, especially at lower levels of civilization.

A U-turn, acceleration and deceleration would take more than half an hour, so the fleets of both sides spent several days in the back and forth.

At this moment, the large fleet of artificial intelligence consciousness turned around and chased the first fleet where Yue Yuan was located, but as before, there was no major conflict. When it was closest, it was only thirty-four light seconds. Therefore, the only way to engage in combat is to shoot laser energy cannons from a distance.

The electromagnetic railgun and positron cannon are even more useless. The former is because the distance is too far and it is impossible to hit. The latter is because of the existence of a magnetic field shield. If it hits, it will be deflected by the magnetic field.

This situation lasted for six days. Finally, the artificial intelligence fleet finally became impatient and began to repeat its old tricks. It handed over its own fleet to the AI ​​written by it to control, there were about 10,000 warships.

However, the artificial intelligence consciousness also seems to know that the combat effectiveness of this kind of fleet controlled by ordinary AI is not high, so this separated squadron is not rushing to any of the first, second, and third fleets, but at The starry sky turned a corner and headed towards the second planet of the red dwarf star.

The remaining large forces continued to fight against the three coalition fleets.

Seeing the actions of the artificial intelligence consciousness, Yue Yuan couldn't help but nodded and murmured: "Not bad, this artificial intelligence doesn't look too stupid. He knew that the separated fleet was not effective in combat, so he sent them to carry out the landing operation. .”

Although the voice was small, it was heard by the first mate on the side, so the first mate said: "Shuai Yue, it seems that the fuel of the artificial intelligence fleet will not last long, otherwise it will not separate the squadron to the second planet. We Do you want to go over and prevent it from carrying out landing operations?"

"No, it's impossible for the Second Planet to really defend against its attack. And haven't you discovered that the squadron did not all swarm into the Second Planet's low-Earth orbit, but was divided into three Echelon, it seems that the echelon on the innermost track is required to land.

Our second planetary defense line was originally designed to consume them. It is now divided into squadrons for landing. It is not a bad thing. As long as the anti-cannons on the second planet can consume thousands of artificial intelligence warships, our chances of winning will be better. Big. "

"Then we just watch like this?" The first officer was a little anxious. He felt that if he went to a fleet to interfere with the artificial intelligence's landing combat echelon, he would definitely achieve great results.

"Of course not, aren't we fighting with the artificial intelligence fleet?" Yue Yuan said with a smile: "And it's not us who are anxious. After a while, the artificial intelligence fleet will find that this planet is more difficult to chew, and resource extraction and fuel supply are not If it can be done temporarily, then it will be urgent.”

Of course, Yue Yuan didn't know how much fuel the artificial intelligence fleet had left, but it was definitely not as much as the coalition fleet. Moreover, the two fleets were now chasing each other in space, and they could be said to be constantly accelerating, decelerating, and turning.

This kind of maneuver is not like a voyage across star systems. To put it simply, a voyage across star systems generally only requires one acceleration and one deceleration, plus some steering maneuvers. The main resource consumption is actually in various repairs and life support. However, the engine needs to be working all the time during combat, which consumes much more fuel than a long-distance voyage.

A battleship is not a planet. Even if it uses heavy nuclear fusion burning stones, the stones in the warehouse are limited. The reason is that the more fuel it contains, the heavier the battleship will be, making it harder to push it up.

Moreover, there is another point. The fuel of the second-level civilization battleship may only be heavy nuclear fusion fuel, and cold nuclear fusion fuel. That is the real big consumable, and this thing is not a natural substance like heavy nuclear fusion fuel. It requires industrial manufacturing.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the first fuel to be consumed is always the cold fusion fuel.

Once a warship runs out of cold fusion fuel, its acceleration, deceleration, speed changes, and other actions will become very slow, and it can be said to be a living target.

Time passed day by day, and while the coalition fleet and the artificial intelligence fleet were still fighting in space, the artificial intelligence squadron finally arrived in the orbit of the second planet.

Based on the demand for resources, as soon as this fleet controlled by the AI ​​program arrived in the planet's orbit, it assessed the planet according to its programmed procedures, and then began the landing operation.

Of the 10,000 warships, there are probably more than 4,000 warships in low-Earth orbit, and other warships are conducting simultaneous patrols in farther orbits.

Then, these more than 4,000 warships began to make their next move.

It's not realistic for warships to land directly.

Because the artificial intelligence battleship is originally a battleship of the Nair civilization, it is also a lake-class battleship. The length of the entire battleship reaches 3 kilometers, and the width and height are about 1 to 2 kilometers. Such a huge battleship can easily fall into the gravity of the planet when it directly lands on the planet. well, resulting in various accidents.

For example, the structure may break or deform due to the complex gravitational environment.

Of course, if you insist on landing, it is not impossible, but the battleship needs a more powerful structure, such as the human battleship and the new battleship built by the Nair people after they obtained the human No. 1 alloy material. These spaceships can all be used on planets with not too outrageous gravity. Log in directly.

But the artificial intelligence fleet cannot do this, because their fleet is an old warship from the Nel civilization, and its material technology is already at its limit to support such a huge warship structure.

In addition, the environment of this binary star system is harsh, and the strength of the space magnetic field is not comparable to that of the general space environment. In such an environment, it would be even more difficult for an artificial intelligence spacecraft to directly land a warship.

Obviously the artificial intelligence consciousness has calculated these parameters, so its squadron did not land directly after arriving in low-Earth orbit. Instead, the battleship hatch was opened, and then some secondary battleships were sent to land with various types of spacecraft.

It was also at this time that the coalition headquarters discovered that the more than 4,000 warships were not real combat warships, but small spacecraft and secondary warships with many other functions stuffed in their bellies.

Think about it, although the artificial intelligence consciousness is artificial intelligence, it cannot violate the laws of physics and directly use magic to absorb planet resources, right? Therefore, its mining method still relies on the original mining technology of Nel civilization.

Of course, its efficiency is much higher than that of Nel civilization.

At this moment, more than 4,000 warships opened their belly doors like babies, and then released one secondary warship after another, as well as various landing craft.

The Lake-class battleship is very large. Without the need for life-support equipment and resources, the space that can be utilized is even greater. Therefore, more than 4,000 Lake-class battleships, which are used as semi-transport ships, have just opened their belly hatches. , there are tens of thousands of various landing spacecraft in low-Earth orbit.

Each one of them shimmered with silver light. After slightly adjusting their attitude in the low-Earth orbit, they began to lower their orbits, drawing beautiful arcs in space and falling towards the ground.

At the same time, the more than 4,000 warships that had released all kinds of landing spaceships in their bellies also adjusted their posture in low-Earth orbit, and then began to use their main guns to conduct orbital bombardment against the ground.

The second planet of this red dwarf star has a much smaller mass than the earth, and its synchronous orbit is only about 15,000 kilometers high. At this height, the main gun of the Lake-class battleship can directly bombard the ground.

Of course, base guns on the ground can also hit warships in orbit.

So when these more than 4,000 warships began to release landing ships, the battle between the ground and the sky began.

Electromagnetic railguns were shot out from the triple main guns of the Lake-class battleship, and then fell toward the earth like rain under the influence of the planet's gravity and the initial velocity of its own railgun.

The other two cannons of the triple main gun also roared at the ground at this time. The laser energy cannon was like a flashlight in the dark night, shining down from the orbit. The positron beam emitted by the positron cannon was not willing to be left alone and joined the attack on the ground. Target row.

Naturally, the various base guns on the ground were not to be outdone. Under the guidance of detection radars and fire control radars, they launched the same attack on targets in orbit.

Positron cannons, laser energy weapons, and electromagnetic railgun shells with rocket-assisted propulsion systems attached. The latter interspersed among the interlaced beams of light of the former, rushed directly into the sky, and ran towards the target.

The targets of electromagnetic railguns are large targets, while the focus of laser energy weapons and positron cannons is the landing spaceships.

Because those landing spacecraft do not have magnetic shields, it would be very suitable to let the positron cannon target them.

Looking at the situation of this battle, the judgment of the battle AI set by humans is pretty good. At least it knows how to treat enemies differently.

Yes, the entire planetary ground defense system does not involve intelligent life, so this landing operation and defense battle are essentially a battle between the AIs of both sides.

One is a combat AI program written by an artificial intelligence consciousness, and the other is a human combat AI program. So this is not so much an offensive and defensive battle between the two sides, but a contest between computer computing power and intelligent judgment.

If an artificial intelligence consciousness can copy itself, then human combat AI will definitely not be as smart as it, but the same cannot be said for the combat AI program written by it.

For a moment, the weapons of both sides intersected in the dark sky, which could be described as beams of light. If someone could set up a God's-eye view camera in space, the way the two sides are fighting with the flying beams of light would really look a bit like Star Wars.