2602. New power
After Phoenix fighter, Protoss also showed off their most powerful warship currently - Protoss Carrier.
This kind of warship is 1370 meters long and 533 meters high. Its main combat force is Swarm Drones of Protoss. The number of Swarm Droness that each aircraft carrier can carry is 500 to 800. In addition, a purification energy cannon is installed directly in front of the aircraft carrier. However, this energy cannon has a very short range and is generally only used to Orbital Bombardment the planet. It does not have the firepower output capability during fleet battles.
Moreover, the Swarm Drones carried on the Protoss aircraft carrier is the official model, with the length expanded to 5.9 meters. Its maneuverability and firepower are greatly enhanced, which is a qualitative leap from the Swarm II Drones used on the Consul-class aircraft carrier.
Therefore, although the number of UAVs carried is only 500~800, in fact, the firepower of Protoss Carrier can even exceed the Consul-class aircraft carrier with a length of more than 3,000 meters.
Protoss Carrier can only be controlled by the best High Templar, and only one High Templar is needed on each aircraft carrier to complete the control work. Including the actions of warships and drone operations.
There is also a huge hangar inside the aircraft carrier. If the number of drones carried is reduced, the aircraft carrier can also carry Phoenix fighter, transport aircraft and other spacecraft.
By the way, Phoenix fighter is 22.5 meters in length and has a wingspan of 18.7 meters. It is a heavy-duty air superiority fighter.
In addition, there is an automated production line inside the aircraft carrier, which can assemble more drones at an extremely fast speed. Therefore, many times, the Protoss aircraft carrier will first enter the battlefield carrying Phoenix fighter, and then quickly add more drones to join the battle after releasing the fighter formation.
However, there is not only one person on the Protoss aircraft carrier. Some Phase Engineer are also needed on the aircraft carrier to maintain the warship. In addition, the control of the built-in production line, the control of the purification energy cannon, etc. also require human operation. In view of the scarcity of Protoss, they handed over this part of the work to Geth Purifiers.
The energy of Protoss Carrier is provided by a huge Kyber Crystal cluster. Kyber Crystal has been proven by Protoss to be a perfect replacement for Kylin Crystal, and has now become the core substance of Protoss's entire civilization.
Fortunately, Kingdom of Dawn has controlled a large number of production areas of Kyber Crystal. Christophsis, Dantooine, and Ilum are all working for The arsenal of Kingdom of Dawn provides Kyber Crystal, including Lothal Planet, who is currently rebelling, and the existence of Kyber Crystal has also been confirmed in its underground rock formations.
Therefore, Kyber Crystal has also become an important means for Tang Xiao to jam Protoss's neck.
At present, Protoss's technology research and development and utilization of Kyber Crystal has been far behind other races in the galaxy, including Galactic Empire's utilization of Kyber Crystal, which is only at the beginner level in front of Protoss.
The biggest difference is that Protoss can use Kyber Crystal to power the battleship, but Galactic Empire can only use Kyber Crystal as a weapon to destroy the dwarf star. As engine power, it needs to provide output peacefully and stably, and the technical content is of course far higher than simply bursting out energy and shooting it out.
Tang Xiao and Protoss, the current archbishops Zerakas, and Twilight Council held talks for two days.
According to the results of the talks, Protoss plans to send 8 of the 10 aircraft carriers to participate in the war, plus 300 Phoenix fighter, 2,000 Zealot warrior, and 100 single-person armored vehicles such as Dragoon and Immortal. As for Dark Templar, they have been working on the Intelligence Department door of Kingdom of Dawn for a long time and are not included in this separate discussion.
At the same time, Protoss will also provide 5,000 Sentinel drones to assist in operations, as well as 10,000 observer stealth reconnaissance aircraft and 10,000 unmanned transport aircraft.
In addition to Protoss, Geth Purifiers will also participate in the battle. They will dispatch an automated fleet consisting of 50 800-meter class dreadnoughts, 400 300-meter class cruisers and 400 80-meter class frigates.
The battleship design of Geth Purifiers was modified from Protoss's Phase Engineer based on the characteristics of Purifiers. Its combat effectiveness far exceeds those battleships produced by Geth itself.
In addition to the fleet, Geth Purifiers will also dispatch 10 million combat units. It includes many combat arms, from ordinary Geth Purifiers individuals to Geth Zealot, Geth Colossus, Geth elite and other units. These units are also built by combining the characteristics of Geth and Purifiers. Their form is already a comprehensive form between Purifiers and Geth.
With the addition of Protoss and Geth Purifiers, it is equivalent to Kingdom of Dawn adding a main fleet out of thin air!
In addition to this, Tang Xiao and Protoss have reached a number of further agreements. Mainly focused on three aspects - the first is to help Protoss expand production and expand more raw material production areas. Help Protoss build a Neutron Star Matter Unloader, and then further build Black Hole Matter Unloader.
The second is to agree with Protoss to choose an uninhabited planet in Developer Sector of Unknown Regions. Drai II will gradually evolve into the location of Protoss Council and the altar, and will no longer function as a population settlement. After the planet is selected, Geth Purifiers will give priority to carry out preliminary construction.
Third, Kingdom of Dawn needs to assist Protoss in completing the research, development and construction of Warp Gate technology. Warp Gate of Protoss is similar to Phase Gate of Vasari, but more advanced. Because as long as Warp Gate of Protoss is completed, the end point of its jump can be any Kyber Crystal! As long as this Kyber Crystal is of sufficient size.
However, the development and construction of Warp Gate not only requires a huge amount of Kyber Crystal, but also requires a large amount of manpower and material resources, including various resources. At present, Protoss cannot afford such resource consumption.
Regarding these three cooperation agreements, Tang Xiao agreed very readily. Because on the surface it seems that Kingdom of Dawn is paying unilaterally, but in fact if you look at it from a deeper perspective, it is actually further binding Protoss to Kingdom of Dawn.
In fact, if you look at it from a deeper perspective, this actually further binds Protoss to Kingdom of Dawn.
Because there is another article in the agreement - Kingdom of Dawn will send a governor to Drai II to join Twilight Council and become a member of the decision-making team of Protoss. And the principal of Twilight Covenant, Temperance, will also become a member of Twilight Council.
In this way, at least Kingdom of Dawn can put forward his own opinions on Protoss's decision-making.
If things go on like this, no matter how arrogant Protoss is or how much he refuses to admit it, it is already certain that they are one of the subordinate races of Fourth Civilization.
General Grievous's treatment and rebirth would still take three months. Tang Xiao did not continue to wait. Instead, after completing the negotiations with Protoss, he immediately set off to return to Dawn Star Planet.
Because in addition to Protoss who is about to join the war, there is another core race that has also completed preparations for the war!
Vasari.
Tang Xiao rushed non-stop to Planet Kaal - Vasari's current home planet.
After the shuttle left the hyperspace channel, it immediately seemed to have entered a space city! No, the space city is beyond description. What is displayed in front of Tang Xiao is clearly a cluster of space cities!!
An extremely large number of orbital buildings are built around Planet Kaal. Although Star Ring is not directly built on Planet Kaal, the scale of the various orbital buildings that rotate around the planet has long exceeded Star Ring!
And unlike the sacred, solemn, and elegant Protoss, the architectural style of Vasari, although it likes hollow structures like Protoss, goes to the other extreme.
The architectural style of Vasari is mainly black, and both their buildings and battleships are equipped with a large number of terrifying spikes. The tips of the spikes are bleeding red, like blood-stained barbs!
The spaceship flew past the countless orbital buildings, and those terrifying buildings made people shudder.
Not only that, it's no wonder Vasari didn't deal with Protoss the first time they met. Because their race is really the complete opposite of Protoss in all aspects.
Protoss has a small population and respects the laws of nature. Their development is also moving forward steadily and they are never eager for quick success. They formed a very harmonious symbiotic relationship with Geth Purifiers and Twilight Covenant. From the perspective of Kingdom of Dawn, you can accuse Protoss of being aloof and arrogant (jiao), but you can never make any comments about them themselves.
But Vasari only pays attention to efficiency and unscrupulous means. What is environmentally friendly? What human nature? What is natural? What harmony? Doesn't exist! There is always only fear and force!
There are also only a small number of personnel and Cryo-embryo in the mothership, but Vasari has never worried about the population issue.
After Vasari was awakened, they immediately began to adjust their genes to increase the number of offspring and increase their growth rate.
Vasari has a very complete understanding of their own genetic map. Although they do not have an almost perfect body like Protoss, they can modify their genes to adapt to any environment.
For example, a breeding population that expands the population's reproduction speed, a land warfare population that is adapted to land combat, an engineer population that is suitable for engineering construction, etc. These are all modified at the genetic level, followed by targeted reproduction and training, and then rapid growth and education are completed, and they enter the pre-set positions.
At the same time, although Vasari is also using a large number of robots, they use robots directly as tools, and there is never the confusion like Protoss about whether they regard Geth as an intelligent creature.
Not only robots, Vasari also enslaved other races in large numbers, starting with the aborigines of Planet Kaal.
Like Lothal Planet, the indigenous people on Planet Kaal once fiercely resisted the immigrants from Vasari, but Vasari refused to reason with them at all and enslaved almost all the indigenous people into slaves in just one year.
Those indigenous people were brainwashed and physically modified. Like the methods commonly used by Vasari, some aboriginal people were transformed to reproduce continuously, and some aboriginal people were transformed into specific forms that could meet various positions.
Vasari never discusses human rights or freedoms with them.
Compared to the Givin, who in Lothal Planet was working on an elected governor at one moment, and wooing local wealthy families at the next, Vasari acted extremely quickly, extremely cruelly, and extremely cold-blooded. They eliminated all the indigenous people in Planet Kaal within a year, without riots, uprisings, or betrayals.
There are only mountains of blood and corpses of the rebels, and the tears and sweat of the slaves.
At the same time, Vasari also applied for an unmanned planet in Developer Sector. But their development of this uninhabited planet was also very violent, and they began to prepare to build this planet into a super-densely populated hive.
Not only that, after learning about the situation on the planet Talis, the Vasari people also expressed interest in this planet. They proposed that they had the ability to clear out the billions of rak ghouls in the underground city of Talis planet, and then the vast underground city could be used to build another hive.
Vasari's hive city is mainly used to cultivate a large number of warriors, workers of his own race, and slaves of subordinate races.
However, now Taris has been surrounded by the Galactic Empire, so Tang Xiao has not agreed to their request for the time being.
At present, the total population of Vasari has reached 100 million people! There are approximately 500 million slaves of subordinate races. There are countless types of engineering robots of various types.
Their extremely rough and efficient development indeed demonstrated the strength of a super the Empire that once dominated the entire galaxy. With such cold-bloodedness, cruelty and efficiency, Vasari is synonymous with terror even within Fourth Civilization.
If it weren't for Kingdom of Dawn's strong pressure, Vasari would have launched a war of aggression against the surrounding areas - yes, even if the surrounding galaxies are their own, they are still trying to invade and expand.
Vasari also has a very clear positioning of itself - they surrender to Fourth Civilization, but the only person they surrender to is Tang Xiao. Because the darkness and power of Tang Xiao met all their requirements for a tyrant. Therefore, Vasari is willing to fight to conquer this galaxy and even the entire universe under the command of Tang Xiao.
And they themselves are Tang Xiao's biggest help.
As for other races? You are just slaves, you are not worthy of fighting side by side with the noble and powerful Tang Xiao and Vasari.
Tang Xiao was trapped in Mortis before, and later went into seclusion for a long time because he wanted to control the body of his "son". Vasari has become a little unstable. According to reports, they have begun to assemble a mysterious and powerful fleet in Kall system.
There is no doubt that once Tang Xiao is confirmed to be dead, Vasari will immediately embark on his own road of conquest——
In their own way!