h1 galaxy, h1-2 planet.
Its land is still desolate and dead, as if no one has set foot there since the beginning of the universe until now. But its orbit, starting from 900 kilometers above the earth's surface and ending at 1,600 kilometers, a full 700 kilometers of low orbit, is filled with densely packed technological creations, so many that they can't even be counted.
Tens of thousands of roller-shaped residential bases, almost tens of millions of factories and functional bases of various types, large and small, and numerous shuttle ships, satellites, etc., almost completely fill this space.
But everything was always in order, and there was never any unexpected collision. Because the orbits of all these aircraft are controlled by the super artificial intelligence "Xiao Xi".
If the aircraft here are already dense enough, then the density of man-made aircraft in medium and high orbits above 1,600 kilometers is even higher.
Because, below 1,600 kilometers, there are only residential areas and industrial areas of planet H1-2, which belong to the rear area. Above the 1,600-kilometer track is the military defense zone.
Here, there are huge spaceship docks, military bases that are as huge as monsters, many powerful combat spacecrafts shuttling back and forth, and countless automated weapons.
Further out, there are even more automated weapons. There are hundreds of millions of small laser turrets alone. They are roughly evenly distributed in the outermost space, only a few kilometers apart from each other.
They are like a big net, completely wrapping the entire h1-2 planet. The mission is to guard against small targets such as electromagnetic gun projectiles, anti-matter projectiles, and micro-missiles flying from any direction within the own defense zone.
They will use the heating and plasma jet effects caused by laser burning to destroy or deflect the forward trajectory of small targets, causing them to lose or weaken their lethality.
But their functions are limited to automatically aiming and emitting lasers. They also need detectors that are precise enough and sensitive enough to be effective. Therefore, in order to support this defense network, people had to install tens of millions of high-precision reconnaissance satellites around the planet to capture any small targets that dared to come to the planet.
In addition, a specialized defense system is also required for large targets, such as medium and large interstellar missiles and grenades. There are also many used for offensive purposes, such as landmines and missile launch bases.
These countless facilities are scattered on the outermost orbit, integrated with the automatic defense system further away, and the combat spacecraft belonging to human civilization, etc., and together they form a defense line against the storm civilization.
This is an extremely complex system. It is even so complex that if it cannot maintain good operation, it will immediately have a counterproductive effect and even cause harm to human beings themselves.
For example, if a slight error in orbit calculation causes one's own spacecraft to collide with an interstellar mine deployed by one's own and detonate, it will immediately cause hundreds or thousands of casualties. Or the fort collided with the base, the rear attack caused by a program error hit the front facilities, etc. There were countless possible situations.
In order to maintain the good operation of a system, the human world specially mobilized hundreds of thousands of experts from various disciplines to form a special maintenance team, and trained it for more than twenty years. In addition, even a considerable part of the super artificial intelligence Xiaoxi's computing power has been transferred to this system.
At this moment, the time has come to test whether this system is reliable enough and powerful enough.
As early as when it was still millions of kilometers away from the H1-2 planet, the Storm Civilization fleet had already started to change its formation in advance, transforming from a complete defensive formation to an offensive formation. The distance between them began to widen, the early warning spacecraft took on the task of building an intelligence network, and many reconnaissance satellites began to spread in all directions.
They began to actively annihilate the automated weapons that existed around their own side in order to reduce the pressure on the spacecraft responsible for the offensive mission. With good protection and visibility, these combat spacecraft can finally begin to exert their power.
At this moment, an unknown number of billions of electromagnetic gun pellets and micro-missiles left the launcher and began to fly towards the planet. With their high speed, distances of millions of kilometers can be covered in only about a minute. During this process, automatic defense weapons spread throughout the galaxy eliminated some of them, but a considerable number still advanced to the planet.
The human combat spacecraft, which was on full alert, ignored the other cannonballs except for shooting down the ones that happened to be aimed at them. So they came to the target almost unimpeded.
At this moment, the planetary defense network that mankind has worked so hard to build and spent countless manpower and material resources finally began to exert its power. Countless lasers and low-power vacuum cannons began to activate under Xiao Xi's operation, and they accurately aimed at each projectile.
The solid projectile flew to nowhere after being deflected, while the projectile filled with antimatter exploded in space, like a small sun that instantly ignited.
On the side facing away from the star H1, the sky that should have been dark completely turned into daylight at this moment.
The sky was bright, with dazzling light from any direction, as if the entire sky was burning.
During this process, I don’t know how many nodes of the planet’s defense system were knocked out—after all, the interception rate cannot be 100%, and there will always be fish that slip through the net. Injuries are inevitable.
As a result, theoretical holes appeared in certain areas. Of course, this is only theoretical, and it has not actually happened.
Because there is a lot of redundancy in the layout of these nodes. Their performance is enough for them to undertake all defense tasks within a radius of fifty kilometers, but in actual arrangement, the distance between them is only less than three kilometers.
Redundant backup up to more than 200 times.
Moreover, once a node is lost, new node defense weapons will be released immediately from nearby military bases and quickly replenished to the entire system, always maintaining a high degree of redundancy.
Similarly, there are also some plasmatized projectile debris that were not successfully deflected, but directly penetrated the defense network and reached the planet's surface. But that doesn't matter either.
Because the surface of the entire planet is almost empty, all man-made structures are at least ten kilometers underground.
Thick rock formations can provide adequate defense against these "stray bullets".
But this first wave is just the appetizer. Everyone on both sides knew that this was unlikely to have any impact.
The subsequent second wave, third wave, and fourth wave of attacks followed, and the offensive methods began to diversify. Some large tactical weapons were also put into the battlefield.
Vacuum cannons roared in space, and lasers crisscrossed the starry sky, cutting through all tangible and intangible existences on the forward track. The electromagnetic gun projectiles are like heavy rain, and the micro-missiles with terminal guidance capabilities are desperately attacking all set targets while trying their best to hide themselves.
Among them are stealth micro-missiles specially designed for planetary conquest. They are like ghosts, and they can even greatly sacrifice other abilities for their own concealment performance. This greatly weakens their power despite their high stealth performance and extremely high speed. But that doesn't matter.
Because their attack targets are enemy logistics facilities under the planet's defense network, such as shipyards and bases. Even further inside, the roller-shaped residential bases, passenger spaceships, light industrial factories, grain and livestock bases, etc. that are under the strictest protection are also their targets.
Attacking the enemy's rear can greatly undermine the enemy's morale. This principle is true whether in ancient times or in the era of interstellar wars.
The area around the h1-2 planet is one of the areas with the highest density of automatic defense weapons in the entire h1 galaxy. Correspondingly, the protective ability is also the most powerful.
At this moment, the automated defense weapons belonging to the human side are desperately fighting back. Missiles, projectiles, vacuum cannons of various models and performances swept towards the Storm Fleet like a violent storm.
They are constantly being destroyed and constantly being replenished. They are cheap and easy to manufacture. Even if one missile can only blow up a layer of paint on an enemy spacecraft, it is still profitable.
These automatic defense weapons undoubtedly put great pressure on the Storm Fleet. Because there are too many of them, too many, too many.
General Qin Hu, who always stayed behind the Storm Fleet, only made a simple assessment and concluded that if it were his own fleet to face such a high-density automatic defense system of the galaxy, it would probably not take three days for the entire fleet to be destroyed. The fleet will be wiped out. But the Storm Fleet was only slightly struggling, and all offensive and defensive arrangements were still in order.
He was closely observing the battlefield situation.
At this moment, it is not the best time for the human fleet to join the battle. Because the Storm Fleet is not close enough to the h1-2 planet.
General Qin Hu always remembered a principle confirmed at the highest-level military meeting, that is, the human space force fleet has one and only one goal, to assist the defense of the H1-2 planet, not to attack.
Because the number of our own warships is too small, it is easy to be consumed by the enemy if we attack rashly.
And as long as we can defend this planet, then, under the consumption of endless automatic defense weapons, the enemy will be worn to death and will collapse without a fight!
For the human side, defense is the best offense!
Time passed quietly. Now, the Storm Fleet is less than one million kilometers away from this planet. General Qin Hu slowly issued the order.
"attack!"
