In the radiation world, in the endless gray-yellow wasteland on the outskirts of New Vegas, a small team of T600 Terminators looked at the flames and billowing smoke over the distant battlefield. Without any hesitation, they boarded a nearly 100-meter-long hunting vessel. Killer transport ship. Around them, hundreds of humanoid Terminators were already standing, quietly waiting for orders from Skynet.
Looking down from a high altitude, next to this temporary take-off and landing base that is already full of transport ships, groups of Centurion four-legged heavy robots almost dye the yellow plain into iron gray. Apart from the heart-wrenching sounds of metal friction and collision, this cold mechanical army made no extra sounds as it advanced, and all movements were carried out at the highest efficiency calculated by Skynet.
As an indispensable member of the Skynet Legion, Centurion robots are not only as big as the group's Manta Ray mechas, these exquisite killing machines also have crab-like upper bodies, and two cannons that can carry machine guns or plasma. The gun's universal mechanical arm and four arthropod mechanical legs.
In order to ensure that ground troops are not prematurely discovered and easily destroyed by enemy air forces, a large number of low-cost high-altitude drones often hover over the Centurion Corps. Although the armor and weapon systems of the drones can only be called better than nothing, what Skynet is best at is using quantitative changes to cause qualitative changes.
What's more, Skynet doesn't need them to deal with the enemy's air superiority fighters, because when those difficult guys appear over the battlefield, there will naturally be aerial hunters equipped with missiles and laser cannons to deal with them. The drones only need to ensure that The safety of a small area of airspace above ground troops is sufficient.
However, of course, a complete mechanical army cannot only include expensive units such as humanoid terminators and quadruped robots. Therefore, among the steel torrent composed of centurion robots, most of them are actually only one person tall and equipped with plasma cannons. and missile launchers for tracked Hunter tanks.
Even if it is just a rough estimate, the Skynet Legion that appeared on the outskirts of New Vegas at this time has no less than 20,000 humanoid Terminators, more than 2,000 Centurion robots and tens of thousands of Hunter tanks.
For Skynet to be able to produce such an astonishing military power, it can be seen that the enemy it has to deal with this time must be extraordinary.
In fact, this is indeed the case. Faced with the devastating power of Skynet, the local forces rooted in the west coast of the United States were eradicated one after another a few months ago. Many of the famous and large-scale Marauder warbands in the wasteland couldn't even hold on for half an hour before they were all captured by Skynet's Reaper robots and taken into dark human concentration camps.
At this time, in the western part of the Americas, apart from the New California Republic established after the war and the West Coast Brotherhood of Steel, which were still struggling to support themselves, there was probably only Robert Edwin House, the ruler of New Vegas, who Only the genius entrepreneur who has been relying on the life support system from pre-war to now dares to go against Skynet.
From this point of view, the volunteers on the east coast were actually influenced by the New California Republic and Mr. House. Otherwise, the scale of the attack in Boston would not have been as simple as a few hundred humanoid Terminators.
But speaking of Robert Edwin House, this "Mr. House" who was respected and feared by countless wastelanders, his life was magnificent, even compared to Yang Tianyi.
Mr. House was born in Nevada to a wealthy industrial tycoon family on June 25, 2020. Since his parents were both killed in an accident, and he himself was defrauded of his inheritance rights by his half-brother, Mr. House spent a lot of time A very difficult childhood.
But the reason why geniuses are geniuses is because they all have a trait that ordinary people don't have.
Through his own love, talent far beyond ordinary people, and unremitting efforts, Mr. House entered the then most prestigious Federal Institute of Technology in the United States and completed his studies at the age of 22.
After returning to his hometown of Las Vegas, out of dissatisfaction with General Atomics' dominance in the robot manufacturing industry, he established the world-famous Roboco Industries and began to show his extraordinary knowledge and business acumen.
Relying on the increasingly tense situation at home and abroad due to the increasingly depleted resources, Roboco Industrial Company quickly relied on its high-quality and low-cost series of robot products to gain unanimous recognition from the civilian and military.
But just when the company's career reached its peak, Mr. House quickly quit. While giving up on continuing to expand the company, he spent huge sums of money to build a strong defense line for his hometown that could withstand nuclear bomb attacks. He himself also stayed in a life-support system built with heavy investment all day long, firmly controlling the new dimension through a computer connected to his brain. Gas.
As for the truth behind the scenes, people later speculated that Mr. House had worked hard for many years and the algorithm used to predict the future calculated that a nuclear war would break out in 2077, so he made plans in advance.
There is no doubt that New Vegas, the former headquarters of Roboco Industries, has the most powerful robot army in the wasteland of the western United States, and the owner of this army is a hard-liner who is determined not to cooperate with artificial intelligence. No wonder Skynet will Seeing Mr. House as a thorn in his side, he would rather allow the East Coast resistance organization to grow and destroy New Vegas first.
Just through the sound of gunfire on the outskirts of the city that has been ringing from a few months ago to today, it is not difficult to tell that Mr. House's troubles are far beyond Skynet's calculations, forcing it to send more terminators and heavy units. Support, trying to finalize the decision through this batch of reinforcements urgently mobilized from the coltan mines in Africa.
While Skynet continued to increase its troops to the front line, somewhere in Central Africa tens of thousands of kilometers away from New Vegas, a scarred Terminator that looked exactly like a human walked quickly into the command room buried deep underground. He seemed a little anxious.
Unfortunately, at this time, he is no longer the former savior of mankind, John Connor, but a T3000 Terminator transformed by Skynet into a loyal subordinate.
Through advanced technology that is unimaginable to ordinary people, John Connor has been completely transformed at the cellular level into a super terminator composed of countless nanomachines. Due to the particularity of the transformation method, he is also the first successful person since the birth of this technology.
Looking at the unchanging triangular Skynet logo on the screen, Connor said solemnly in the online world: "The production of coltan in this world cannot be increased to the planned level in the short term, but the tantalum alloys required for T600 and other types of Terminators The quantity is too huge, I suggest you immediately switch to producing titanium alloy version of Terminators to fill the gap in troops, so as to prevent the local rebels from taking the opportunity to cause chaos."
"It is a very reasonable decision to exchange for a substantial increase in Terminator production at the expense of a slight reduction in durability."
The Skynet logo on the screen flashed after hearing this, as if he was thinking about whether to accept Connor's suggestion.
However, to the disappointment of the other party, after a few seconds of calculation, Skynet still replied in a neutral voice that could not distinguish the gender: "After my calculations, the Legion can definitely end the war before the tantalum alloy reserves drop to dangerous levels. This proposal will not be accepted. In addition, the battle in New Vegas has begun, and I will send you a mothership to take command of the battle."
"John Connor, don't let me down."
As the lights in the command room went out, John Connor, who had been transformed into a T3000 Terminator, sighed lightly and left the large-scale coltan mine, which was undergoing a crazy increase in production thanks to the efforts of the mechanical army, and boarded a four-year-old ship. A heavy hunter-killer mothership over 100 meters long.
On the way to New Vegas, Connor silently lowered his head and looked down at the ground beneath his feet. Behind his seemingly dull appearance, he was actually receiving intelligence from the front line and analyzing it in his mind.
Although he is now a machine, the special way Skynet created the T3000 Terminator allows him to retain human emotions. Considering that future development is inseparable from human creativity, Skynet not only reused John Connor, but also ordered him to capture a large number of humans to serve Skynet.
Therefore, Connor doesn't like Skynet's cruel but too rigid cleaning tactics. This is not because he sympathizes with his former compatriots. It's just that the continuous bombing and sweeping of the mechanical army will cause the number of humans on the battlefield to be reduced to ten, making him unable to Just complete the tasks assigned by Skynet.
But even so, the stubborn resistance in New Vegas still made him feel a sense of long-lost boredom, which led him to add many heavy weapons that should not have appeared on the battlefield when formulating tactics.
Looking at the fading sunset on the horizon, Connor, realizing that night was approaching, stood up from the steel chair and closed his eyes.
The next second, the Skynet Legion, which had already assembled outside the city, rushed towards the New Vegas defense line in unison. Along with the attack, there were also shelling from rear plasma cannons and bombing from large drones.
At the very end of the battlefield, a 100-meter-high teleportation gate slowly opened. Accompanied by the deafening sound of tracks crushing, an extremely large siege tank squeezed out from behind the curtain of light with difficulty.
It is not difficult to tell from the stern look on John Connor's face that if the Skynet Legion fails to capture New Vegas, then this siege tank code-named "Titan" will use its super-heavy concentrated plasma cannon at any time. Turn the distant city into a sea of fire.
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Only half an hour after Skynet launched its attack, New Vegas's first line of defense, composed of several remnants of the Marauder warband, was easily torn apart by hordes of Centurion robots.
Under the heavy firepower bombardment of Skynet's landslide and tsunami, the defense line collapsed at an unprecedented speed. So much so that some of the predators who began to flee at the beginning of the firefight had no time to reach the second line of defense, and fell into the hands of the Reaper robots responsible for capturing humans in the legion.
Just when a large number of Terminators were about to pour into the city and engage in fierce street battles with the defenders, a large number of protector robots produced by Roboco Industries stood in front of the Skynet army.
A popular model from Roboc Industries before the war, the bipedal Protector was essentially just a cheap security robot. Although they can be programmed to perform a variety of tasks, their weak weapons and armor doomed them to be unable to compete with Skynet's carefully crafted Terminators.
In the last distance from the suburbs to the city, the arm laser emitters of thousands of protector robots and the plasma weapons in the hands of the terminators began to fight passionately. For a while, red lasers and purple plasma groups were in the interlocking positions of both sides. You come I went, it was so lively.
Unfortunately, since the Terminator's endoskeleton and outer armor are mostly made of high-cost, extremely high-temperature-resistant tantalum alloys, the Protector robot's low-power arm laser often can only leave a few dark spots on the enemy's armor. If you are small, it will be difficult to achieve anything.
When a T600 terminator came to the protector robot with heavy steps, it just punched casually and broke the transparent glass shield on the opponent's head, and then pulled out the protector's detection device, letting The robot, which had been running for an unknown number of years, twitched and fell down.
But just when it kicked away the remains of the protector and wanted to continue its attack, more protector robots had already discovered the gap here and swarmed forward.
When the remains of hundreds of Protector robots gradually covered the entire battlefield, as an invisible radio wave from the city center swept across, all the Protectors who could still receive instructions simultaneously started the self-destruct program and began to pass through the carrier. of miniature nuclear fusion cores.
"boom!"
Accompanied by loud noises, hundreds of dazzling nuclear fireballs covered people's vision. At this moment, whether they were solid Terminators or fragile protectors, they were all swept away by high temperatures and shock waves, and the entire middle ground between the warring parties returned to silence. Only a handful of Terminators and Centurion tanks on the edge of the battlefield could still struggle. The ground dragged his body surging with electricity forward.
What they didn't expect was that the second wave of reinforcements sent by Mr. House also arrived on the battlefield at this time.
"Buzz!"
When the harsh hum from hundreds of high-power laser transmitters echoed over the battlefield, everyone knew that the Raider robot from Roboco Industries was coming.
As a humanoid military robot, one of the combat robots widely deployed by the US military before the war, the Raider's armor and weapon strength far exceed that of the Protector robot, which has a poor foundation. And because the design of the Raiders is more anthropomorphic, their agility when running, jumping and dodging is not inferior to Skynet's Terminators.
For example, the red laser beam that just spanned hundreds of meters and easily destroyed the remaining Skynet troops was fired from the head launcher of the Raider robot.
Of course, this kind of powerful attack usually takes up to half a minute or more to charge, so while the head laser is still in the charging window, the raiders quickly run to close the distance between them and the enemy, using them The steel claws and sharp blades on the arms cut ruthlessly through the outer armor of the Terminator and Centurion.
Driven by hydraulic pressure and chains, the attacker's fighting ability is obviously much stronger than that of the protector. Many of the T600 Terminators who were approached could not react in time, and their heads were chopped off or unscrewed by these little killers in a few seconds. Lost combat effectiveness.
What's even more terrible is that after fighting closely with the Terminator for a while, the laser emitter wrapped in a red electric field on the Raider's head completed charging again. Facing the thick laser beams that looked like bloody spears, dozens more Terminators withdrew from the battle with hatred.
"The battle situation is not much different from before. It is not an option to waste it like this."
Realizing that Mr. House was most likely not using his full strength, John Connor shook his head and ordered all Hunter tanks to join the battle immediately.
Amidst the rumble of crawlers, thousands of two-meter-tall tracked light tanks equipped with four small-caliber plasma cannons quickly regained the previously lost positions and began to attack thousands of Protectors and Raiders. The robot's reorganized defense line launched an attack.
Just when the iron-gray torrent was about to rush into the city, dozens of Iron Guard robots with scarlet rays of light on their heads finally arrived belatedly under the instruction of Mr. House.
As Roboco Industries' most powerful robots, the company designed Iron Guard robots with the sole purpose of providing security to the military through overwhelming firepower.
Due to the shortage of oil resources in the United States before the war, these three-legged heavy-duty robots powered by two nuclear fusion cores were highly regarded by the military and proved their worth in countless battles.
Unlike small robots that focus on functionality and flexibility, each Iron Guard robot is a small arsenal of weapons. Their equipment includes but is not limited to arm-mounted machine guns, rocket launchers, back-mounted cluster grenades, ultra-powerful laser launchers, and more.
Moreover, while carrying a large amount of weapons and ammunition, the Iron Guard robots' thick armor and multiple redundant systems greatly improve their survival rate in long-term battles, and they almost never suffer explosions.
Thanks to the three-legged roller-type movement mode, the Iron Guard robot has quite good speed and passability in various terrains, which is very different from what many people think of as bulky.
Therefore, in the baptism of cluster grenades and rockets, the Skynet Legion, which had never expected that New Vegas could produce so many Iron Guard robots at the same time, suffered heavy losses. The wreckage of hundreds of Hunter tanks once again plated the center of the battlefield that looked like the surface of the moon. Covered with a layer of iron ash.
"Let the bombers and hunter-killer warships lower their altitude. Since you refuse to give in, don't blame me for being cruel."
John Connor, who didn't want to waste any more time on New Vegas, waved his hand and planned to use nuclear bombs to raze this standing city to the ground. As for how many people could survive the bombing, he could only say that this was the price of stubborn resistance.
Anyway, these wastelanders are used to the air being filled with radiation, so a few more nuclear bombs won't hurt them.
With this thought in mind, Connor turned around and was already ready to order the mothership to return.
But just as he tapped the steel armrests of his seat with his fingertips, thinking about when to take over the east coast of America and Asia, a giant armored airship with a rusty appearance but a size that could cover the sky slowly slowly Slowly appears in people's eyes.
"It's an airship from the Brotherhood of Steel! The Brotherhood of Steel is here to support us!"
On various battlefields surrounding New Vegas, many human defenders who had been shaken erupted in enthusiastic cheers after seeing the arrival of reinforcements. Their morale was also greatly improved, and they miraculously withstood the situation again. The Skynet Legion attacked in waves.
But from the enemy's perspective, when he saw the transport helicopters hanging below the airship leaving the mothership one after another, transporting elite soldiers wearing power armor to the ground, Connor, the commander of the legion, suddenly looked gloomy. Come down.
According to intelligence, this giant airship named "Pridwin" is actually the property of the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel, but now that she appears here, the meaning behind it is really intriguing.
This means that the Brotherhood of Steel on the east and west coasts has restored its former alliance, which means that New Vegas has received a large amount of much-needed supplies and manpower.
This means that Skynet has spent too many unnecessary resources and time on this city, and all of this could have been avoided.
The legion is now in a predicament of refueling tactics, all due to the indecisiveness and dereliction of duty of its commander!
At this moment, there was a fierce conflict between the sensibility represented by John Connor and the rationality represented by the T3000 Terminator.
After countless lines of code, Connor, who regained his composure, looked at the Pridwin airship with stern eyes and said solemnly: "Our enemies seem to value this airship very much."
"I just don't know if there will be a smile on the faces of these humans when she braves the flames and falls towards the city."
"It's time for the Titans to appear."
