Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 149

The opening battle

1,319 words4 min read0 views5h ago
Next

Stars is not a particularly core member, and she does not fully know the history of the organization Astrologers' Association.

In order to find out the strength of the Astrologers' Association, Isa appropriated the giant Cerebrate's time for one minute to scan the area of the association in Stars's mind. The final conclusion was similar to what she had guessed, ants.

If the threat level is too low, there is no need to disturb Overmind. She is Overmind's assistant and should handle these minor problems alone.

First, Isha replaced the information bug in Stars's mind with a puppet bug. Once Stars made any improper move, the puppet bug would control his consciousness, and then the information was passed to Isha, who decided what to do with Stars.

Then she asked Overlord from outer space to prepare two iron-core meteorites and arrange them in orbit. The landing point of each meteorite was the Gale Valley.

According to calculations, the damage caused by the meteorite impact is equivalent to a hydrogen bomb with an equivalent of 50 million tons. It can not only level the Windy Valley, but also destroy the huge high-tech research facilities underground.

The reason why we did not do this right away was because we considered that Overmind might be testing Chloe and intended to train her to become a core node.

Isa also wanted to see what Chloe could do. In order to make the comparison of strength even, Isa ordered Hatchery to hatch twenty thousand Zergling and Needle Crawler, and two thousand fire Roach to support her.

Incubating this Swarm unit consumes only a fraction of the energy for the current Hatchery. The main purpose is to balance the strength of both sides.

After doing so much, Isa still feels that it is not safe enough. Fortunately, she has evolved into level four Hatchery, and most of the technologies have been unlocked.

The giant hatchery in the universe also has some organs that can work. Isa plans to hatch some Swarm fleets, so that if Astrologers' Association has other support, she will be able to deal with it.

In Tabi Star, the war was about to break out. A thousand light-years away, a war was taking place in a galaxy that had long been occupied by Swarm.

After tens of thousands of the Antill Empire battleships jumped out of hyperspace, they were surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Swarm fleets.

The first thing that hurt the Imperial warship was the endless acid spore minefield. If the Imperial warship wasn't always thick and strong, the light minefield could cause considerable damage to it.

In order to quickly clear the way, the Imperial warships that had just jumped out of hyperspace were a thousand large assault ships with very strong shields and armor.

After paying a certain amount of losses, the assault ship quickly inserted into the middle of the Swarm fleet, and then opened the internal hatch. The honeycomb-like missile mouth was exposed. Within a few seconds, the assault ship emptied all tens of thousands of missiles.

In an instant, these missiles caused a large amount of damage to the insect fleet. Their flesh and blood were swallowed up by the flames of the explosion, and the high temperature roasted each insect.

In the dark universe, various types of missiles released brilliant fireworks.

After the Swarm fleet realized the threat, they immediately launched a focused siege on the assault ships. Various highly corrosive acids and spore bombs almost submerged the entire assault fleet.

In an instant, the losses of the assault ships began to increase. In order to prevent the assault ships from rushing into Swarm, some Swarm warships with huge fangs rammed them with their bodies.

The logic of this Swarm battleship is very simple. Strengthen the speed, armor and ramming tusks, and use the most direct collision to destroy enemy ships.

The assault ship was hit, and the whole ship could hear the clicking sounds of being pierced by fangs and the metal breaking. Antilians was originally heroic, and now he is not to be outdone.

Amidst this dull sound, the crew opened the hatch facing the Swarm fang battleship and fired all the missiles inside towards this huge flesh and blood monster.

The reason for the development of such a bloody and violent battle mode, including close collisions, is also very simple: the sublight speed engine is not powerful enough.

On a cosmic scale, large battleships put a lot of pressure on their engines due to their mass, and it is difficult for the battleship to reach high speeds in a short period of time. However, various weapons do not have this concern.

You are still accelerating and trying to move, and other people's fire control systems have already fired several rounds of barrages at you. Anyway, the universe is a vacuum, and there is no interference with live ammunition weapons and energy weapons.

So instead of investing resources in engines, invest in firepower, shields and damage control.

This results in a battle between space fleets at sub-light speed, which is very similar to the era of dreadnoughts on the ocean, with large ships and huge cannons bombarding them.

No matter how thick the tusk battleship's armor is, it can't withstand such a dense barrage at such a close range. These missiles themselves have small fusion warheads.

If it wasn't directly bombarded, the Tusk warship could still withstand a few hits because of its carapace structure except for its brains and muscles, but it could only be blown into pieces at such a close range.

A close-range explosion will also take away the assault ship itself, but so what, this kind of death can also take away the enemy. From the perspective of Antilians's culture, it is a kind of beauty.

While the heroic assault ship caused losses to the Swarm fleet, it also opened the way for the subsequent Antill fleet, so that this huge fleet would not be blocked at the hyperspace entrance.

Immediately behind the assault ships are the battleships. These battleships are steel monsters that are larger, have thicker armor, and have stronger firepower.

In addition to the dense firepower network around it, its most powerful weapon is the Gigabit electromagnetic gun on the bow, which can be said to maximize the power of kinetic energy weapons.

The shells fired by this kinetic energy weapon instantly killed a large number of Zerg battleships. The Swarm battleships hit by the shells were not only killed, but almost smashed, like tomatoes smashed by bullets.

Except for the Swarm Leviathan battleship, which is huge and can withstand greater damage, the others are all one-hit kills.

There are only two thousand such battleships, but this salvo caused at least four thousand casualties to the Swarm fleet, because the Swarm fleet was too dense, and sometimes one shot could penetrate two or three.

Antilians's morale was instantly shaken, because the psychological pressure caused by the overwhelming numerical superiority of the Swarm fleet was swept away.

The Swarm fleet has quantity, they have quality.

Suddenly, shells with similar power to the Giga-class electromagnetic gun were instantly fired into the Antill battleship group. A large number of battleship shield generators were instantly overloaded, and some shields collapsed directly, and the battleship exploded into a ball of sparks.

Looking along the source of the shells, hundreds of new Swarm battleships came into view among the huge Swarm fleet.

Those are specialized Swarm Leviathan battleships. Each one has four gigabit electromagnetic guns with the flesh-and-blood style of Swarm. The shells just fired were fired by them.

Seeing this scene, Antilians cursed. In their opinion, Swarm had evolved again, learned their technology, and started to fight against them.

This is an arrogant idea. Most civilizations have this common problem. They think that others have something similar to themselves later, so they are learning from themselves and stealing from themselves.

In fact, only civilizations with very high technical levels can learn a technology by looking at it. For example, in Earth, everyone knows the theory of fusion weapons, but now only the permanent members have it.

Swarm is just recalling the techniques collected before.

End of Chapter
Prev
NovelSummaries
Next

Comments