Chapter 528 Fearless Commander Level

But...why are they not unlocked? Or different than imagined.

Of course, the unlocking of the Arbiter, aircraft carrier, and storm warship requires the "Arbitration Temple" and "Fleet Beacon" and other front buildings, but why are the prophets, pirate ships, and void glow ships still locked?

He moved the cursor to the icon of the void glow ship, and the annotation read, "Dark Temple" is needed.

"Dark Temple"... Unlock the "Dark Temple" of Hidden Blade?

When did the "Star Gate" get involved with the "Dark Temple"?

After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized that according to the composition of the protoss, the Prophet, the pirate ship, and the void glow ship belonged to the air force unit of the dark templar branch. If the "Dark Temple" is not unlocked, naturally there is no individual Dark Templar. Without individual Dark Templar, air units such as prophets and pirate ships cannot be piloted, so they are in a locked state.

He found that he had admired the logical thinking of "Master System" to the point of throwing himself into the ground.

As the saying goes, people have to bow their heads under the eaves. The system says it is doing the right thing. Captain Tang has no choice but to pinch his nose and admit it. But on second thought, even if only the Phoenix and the reconnaissance plane are unlocked, for him It was also a big surprise.

He hadn't had any hope of unlocking the "star gate" at first, but unlocking it ahead of schedule is naturally a surprise. The addition of the Phoenix and the reconnaissance plane can be said to be a timely help, which will bring an unimaginable improvement to the air force's combat effectiveness.

Phoenix: The Phoenix is ​​an agile and extremely lethal spacecraft. After its appearance, it quickly replaced the old-fashioned reconnaissance aircraft and pirate ships in the protoss air force. Phoenixes often patrol the outer fringes of protoss territory, sweeping away alien threats from deep space. The Phoenix's twin ion cannons are great for hitting air targets, and can also be used to straf small units on the ground.

When encountering more dangerous enemies. The Phoenix will use its inertial thrust to overload the warp's warp field, releasing a brief gravitational beam. Beams immobilize enemies for seconds, giving them valuable time to turn the tide of battle.

Phoenix has four major components:

1. Graviton beam: The pilot of the Phoenix fighter can use the inertial device on the aircraft to guide the space force field, so that it can wrap around the fighter to form an anti-gravity jet. That is the graviton beam. The Graviton Beam can almost completely offset the target's weight, but the Phoenix cannot move while it is active. Originally intended as a last resort, the Graviton Beam was not widely known for its use until a Protoss fleet adopted it as a highly effective control weapon.

2. Ion Cannon: This is the main weapon of the Phoenix Fighter.

It emits energy beams containing negative ions. This cannon is designed to allow the Phoenix to fire while moving. However, due to the short wavelength of the beam, the effective range is limited, and the damage to heavy armored targets is also quite limited. The effective range issue of the Ion Cannon didn't improve until the Protoss replaced the old focusing lenses with advanced Negative Ion Pulse Crystals.

Three, Energy Web: This thin layer of grid looks like an advanced circuit board. It is woven of light-responsive fibers that can absorb, channel, and transfer any type of energy, including psychic input from the pilot. The main function of the energy web is to help maintain the space force field covering the Phoenix fighter, and to improve the stability and maneuverability of steering, roll, and sideways movement when the fighter is flying at high speed.

4. Inertial drive: The Phoenix fighter is equipped with a small inertial drive, which can project a powerful space force field around the body, allowing the Phoenix fighter to move quickly in outer space and the atmosphere. In addition, there are two high-energy plasma thrusters as an auxiliary inertial drive. Let the Phoenix fighter become a superior interceptor.

The cost of Phoenix is ​​450 crystals and 300 gas, and it occupies 2 people, which is 3 times that in the game. The body length should be between 30-40 meters, almost the size of 2 Viking fighters.

In terms of skills, in addition to the active skill of a "gravitational beam" to limit the target's mobility, the passive skill also has an "anion pulse crystal", which requires additional upgrades in the "fleet beacon".

Reconnaissance aircraft: also known as reconnaissance aircraft, there are many common names in the StarCraft 1 era. Such as small pointed planes, turnip machines... The protoss use this single-pilot space vehicle as an exploration tool and a small fighter, but when dealing with other races that are technologically backward. They are a formidable fighting force in their own right.

In the battle mode of the StarCraft 1 era, few people chose to produce reconnaissance aircraft. Because its cost performance is really poor and the price is high. Although it has excellent air combat power, it is obviously not as good as the splash attack of the pirate ship. The fleet has a pivotal position, a large amount of equipment is used by the Vannetyr tribe and the Orega tribe. At first, it was used by the Supreme Council as a weather plane, and later it was changed to fight against Zerg and Tyrannian air power. I think Artanis was a pilot of a reconnaissance plane.

The reconnaissance aircraft generally has 3 major components:

1. Weapon system: The reconnaissance plane carries two different weapons. It uses two photon shock guns to deal with small targets, which can shoot targets at a very high frequency. It also has an anti-air missile system that can launch anti-matter to deal with large and medium-sized targets. Missiles, maximum damage to thick armored units.

2. Bee sensor: The reconnaissance plane is equipped with an advanced bee sensor. This kind of polarization directional device designed according to the structure of the bee's eyes can detect the most subtle polarized light in the universe, and the location of the reconnaissance plane can be determined by a large number of micro-processing units. Surrounding large-scale areas are monitored, generally as the vanguard of the Protoss fleet, patrolling, reconnaissance of suspicious areas, or appearing in the battle/defense zone for the purpose of spying on the enemy and assisting in operations.

3. Gravity thruster: As a reconnaissance aircraft, the requirement for speed is much higher than that of other flying units. In the process from weather aircraft to combat reconnaissance aircraft, the Protoss has modified its power system, which can distort the gravitational field around the fighter plane. The advanced propulsion system endows the reconnaissance aircraft with flexible steering and instant acceleration capabilities, ensuring that it can quickly evacuate the battlefield under adverse circumstances.

The cost of the reconnaissance plane is 900 crystals and 450 gas, and it occupies a population of 3. Although it is also 3 times the resource consumption, the population occupation is higher than that of the Phoenix. But spotters do much more damage to large air units than the latter.

As for skills, the two items of "Bee Sensor" and "Gravity Thruster" need to be upgraded in "Fleet Navigation Mark".

Phoenix + reconnaissance aircraft, although the combat effectiveness is reduced when the "fleet navigation mark" is not unlocked, but with biological motherships like Bechymos, the former can be used as an interceptor. The latter can cooperate with the Corruptor, which can restrain the heavy armor unit to the greatest extent.

Protoss technology is naturally far from being comparable to humans. To put it bluntly, whether it is a phoenix or a reconnaissance aircraft, its overall combat effectiveness can surpass that of a Viking fighter. At the moment when Viking fighters and dragons can cause decent damage to conventional warships of human sovereign states, no matter how you look at them, these two units have a feeling of overkill.

Tang Fang felt that it would be better to use this kind of thing on the "Anubis" legion. He still had a bitter heart about being cornered by the black 3 last time. Thinking about how to do it with Yinhei 7, it is best to kill the Hades-class aircraft carrier in one go.

"Commander, the scattered data from the quantum core has been sorted out."

"speak."

"..."

Through Emma's narration, he finally had a certain level of understanding of this giant ship.

""------The name of this warship, if translated into human language by force, should be "Fearless Commander-class fortress ship."

The Dreadnought Commander-class fortress ship... You can feel its extraordinaryness just from its name.

In the past, only 1-3 people were needed to complete the operation of small and medium-sized Ypsilon battleships. The human-computer interaction platform is a quantum computer in the form of a psychic flame, which can provide a fiber loop for 1-2 people at most. In layman's terms, it is the data interface.

But the huge ship in front of him is different, it needs a team to control, and at the same time it is the command center of a fleet. To undertake multiple tasks such as battle command, intelligence analysis, and strategic planning, the psychic flame is obviously not competent. Therefore, in order to meet the needs of combat, the Yipsi dragon added an additional auxiliary module to the large-scale quantum flame central processor, using dark matter and dark matter. The interplay of energies develops an interactive device terminating in the Ypsilon rune. That is, the huge "water polo" in the center of the bridge.

Without the need for brain wave measurement equipment with a complex structure and high error rate, the thoughts of all the Ipsi dragons on the bridge can be gathered and projected to the corresponding hull modules. Maneuver the battleship like your own body.

Of course, this battleship is too big. Restricted by the laws of physics, it is naturally not as flexible as a small aircraft.

In addition, "Water Polo" can also build a mind network, which can also be said to be a spiritual network, for the Ipsilon people belonging to the fleet to communicate with each other, completely abandoning the high delay of language communication, and it is very easy to cause misunderstandings and cause misunderstandings. The communication method of wrong judgment is especially important in the intricate and ever-changing battlefield.

Just like Tang Fang didn't do anything just now, but activated the core core of the battleship that has been silent for many years, thanks to the stability in the "Water Polo", the dark energy that has not dissipated for thousands of years and the Ipsi Dragon Talisman on his forehead. The dark matter force field generated by Wen awakens the internal large-scale quantum flame central processor.

After that, Emma introduced to him why this ship was called a fortress ship.

According to her explanation, generally speaking, it is a complex of aircraft carrier + main battleship + super weapon.

The weapon system of the Dreadnought Commander-class fortress ship is composed of multiple modules. The first is the aircraft carrier combat platform, carrying thousands of manned or unmanned combat/auxiliary aircraft, including the previously seen manta ray battleship, electric Eel Fighter etc.

Secondly, the ship is equipped with 28 super-heavy condensing light cannons, which can lock 28 large ships with powerful shields at a time. The condensing light cannon can condense a large area of ​​the target shield to close to absolute zero within an extreme time, causing structural changes in the shield particles, such as colloidal form distribution, composed of fermions such as protons and electrons. , will become as brittle as glass, and then be sent to the west by the 36 hybrid particle cannons of the battleship.

Finally...the above are the secondary naval guns installed on the two wings of the ship. The real main gun of the Dreadnought Commander-class fortress, which can also be called a super weapon, is a creepy big guy with a single name. If it is translated into an adult A class of languages, similar to "annihilation", or "apocalypse".

This gun is very special. It is different from conventional naval guns. It is not a kinetic energy weapon, nor is it a conventional thermal energy, explosive energy, or electromagnetic energy attack. It is a graviton weapon. By creating a gravitational field with huge energy and radiating gravitational waves in a specific direction, everything on the track of the gravitational wave, even including space-time, will vibrate and distort. So as to achieve the result of smashing the target.

According to Emma's estimation, if the Dreadnought Commander-class fortress ship is fired over the Star Alliance capital "Heisenberg", almost everyone on the entire planet will die. It is definitely a super killer.

This does not mean that the "Apocalypse" cannon cannot be resisted. Like the universal mode of the "Aurora" shield, the graviton layer can offset a certain degree of gravitational waves. Of course, like the main gun of the Dreadnought Commander-class fortress, dozens of "Auroras" stacked together may not be able to resist it. After all, the name of "Aurora" is a universal position generating device, which is an assembly line product. It can't be compared with the main gun of the fortress at all.

After knowing these circumstances, the first thought that popped into his mind was whether this thing can still be used, if it can be used, or it can be repaired and brought back to the human world. Call a cool.

Emma used a very human word: "daydreaming".

The main gun of the Dreadnought Commander-class fortress was overloaded in the "Lost Battle", causing extensive damage to the main system, and the damage to the stern power system was more complete. directly separated from the hull.

Tang Fang said: "I knew it would be like this. It's a pity, what a battleship. It can't be repaired..."

Emma said immediately: "If you insist on repairing, it's still possible..."

"What did you say! Can it be fixed?"

"Yes, warships of this level are integrated with a fully automatic maintenance system. Because the aircraft carrier platform is not damaged, the maintenance robots in the hangar can carry out maintenance work on the warship by itself, and the wreckage of the surrounding warships provides the maintenance work. With convenient conditions, materials can be obtained locally. It’s just...it will take a long time, maybe a few months. Maybe a year...Of course, there may be some small flaws. After all, relying on drones, my ability is limited and powerless Help."

"Only a few months? One year is not too long! To repair such a big guy, it takes a little time, and a little flaw is acceptable. This is a purebred Epsilon spaceship, and it is still a fortress level The battleship is a priceless treasure."

He suddenly remembered Emma's phrase "daydreaming" just now, thinking that "she" had a problem with the language program, used the wrong allusion, and asked, "Since I can repair it, why do I say I'm daydreaming"?"

"Commander, your idea at the time was to use the main guns of the Dreadnought Commander-class fortress to obliterate the hostile forces."

"Yes, is there a mistake?"

"Although the battleship can be repaired, the main gun cannot be put into use."

"Why?" Tang Fang frowned and asked, "Is it a missing part? Or the little flaw you just mentioned?"

"As long as there is enough energy supply, spare parts are not difficult, because the fully automatic maintenance system of warships includes three unmanned engineering operation ships integrating mineral collection, refining, casting, and assembly. The auxiliary equipment of the prime reactor converts the zero element resources into the required materials, and then repairs the hull. You only need to open the core database of the central processor, and give the unmanned engineering operation ship access to the structural design diagram of the battleship power system and other related information. Data authority, they will cooperate with the maintenance robot in the ship to repair the damaged modules by themselves. As for minor defects, at most it will cause the main gun to fire less frequently, and its power will be weakened, etc., and will not affect the operation of the main gun.”

Tang Fang suppressed the anger in his heart and said, "You know, I never like to listen to your long-winded speeches, just to get to the point!"

"'Apocalypse'...needs a lot of zero isotopes...you don't have that."

She answered so simply this time that Captain Tang seemed to be stuck in his throat by a fishbone, unable to utter a single word.

When he encountered Lord Lancelot's guard fleet in Rector before, he thought it was a money-burning fleet. Now, he feels that Lancelot's people are a bunch of beggars. element, but the zero element isotope.

How difficult it is to prepare this zero-element isotope, he who has obtained all the technical processes of the Namistar Refining Plant knows better than anyone else that the zero-element fluid with a purity of nearly 100% can be converted into this isotope at a ratio of 1,000,000:1, that is, It is said that 1 ton of refined zero element can only get 1 gram of zero element isotope. This situation is unimaginable, but it actually exists. Otherwise, the Epsilon people would not use the entire Nami Star as a refining factory, let alone build " Gamma-3" huge Dyson sphere, mainly used to prepare zero element isotope.

It is conceivable that using zero element isotopes as the ammunition for the main gun "Apocalypse" is such a prodigal and extravagant act of burning money.

Seeing his silence for a long time, Emma thought her answer was too concise, and Captain Tang couldn't understand it for a while, so she explained it again in depth and detail starting from the attack principle of the battleship's main gun.

The Dreadnought Commander-class fortress ship is over 5 kilometers long, even longer than the Protoss Notre Dame ship... Of course, the Notre Dame ship is approximately round, and there is not much difference between the two in terms of volume.

As warships of the same level, the difference in technological level between the two is actually not that big. Don't look at the fact that the Notre Dame can create small black holes and star-breaking cannons. The "Fearless Commander" can only release gravity cannons. The control accuracy is better than that of Protoss. (to be continued)