Chapter 278, Irón Fáció
The Alliance does not have the ability to carry out long-range intercontinental strikes. The missiles currently produced by the Alliance cannot reach that far, nearly 20,000 kilometers away.
But just because the alliance doesn't have it doesn't mean it has no other tricks.
Now, among the Empire's conventional firepower, why is there little promotion of the development of ground long-range fire strikes?
There are three reasons: first, long-range artillery is expensive; second, the current technology's air defense capabilities are exaggerated and the interception efficiency is very high.
However, the reason why the appearance probability of a weapon is greatly reduced is rarely because there are too many natural enemies, but because its function is replaced by another weapon.
The thing that will largely replace intercontinental weapons is orbital strikes.
The Razorback Tiger can help with that.
During the communication, Ye Lixia said that there was no problem.
Gu Hang did not immediately inform him of the intelligence about Blackbird violating the intelligence ban until things started to happen at his mother's side and all parties started talking. The matter was no longer kept secret, so Gu Hang told Ye Lisia.
It's not that I don't trust him, he's not one of my own. One second I told her, the next second the Fofana family knew about it, and the next second I'm afraid Pedes would know about it.
It doesn’t matter now.
Ye Licia didn't care much about this matter. She just laughed and scolded him a few times for not telling her at the first time, and also scolded him a few times for saying that there were so many things going on on the Angry Owl Star.
In fact, Gu Hang could still feel that this Commodore was quite interested.
There is another credit to be gained!
Ye Lixia excitedly arranged for the Blade Tiger to move in the planet's orbit, preparing to launch an orbital bombardment on Blackbird City. On Gu Hang's side, he began to make other arrangements.
Before Blackbird Heavy Industries launched the missile attack, the Alliance received an alert from intelligence officers at the front.
Although the alarm came a little late and did not have any early warning effect, the missiles arrived soon. But Gu Hang did not forget that they mentioned one thing:
'Missile silos discovered.'
In that case, just reciprocate.
Although the Alliance does not have the means to carry out intercontinental strikes and cannot directly bomb missile silos, the target of the Sharp Blade Tiger is also Blackbird City, not a single missile launch base.
But the alliance has other means.
Under Gu Hang's command, the Feng Falcon took off with the Phoenix on board.
…
Fire from the sky is coming.
Iron Falchus sat on a metal throne atop a high tower.
Unlike most of the cyborgs in Blackbird City, Iron Fachers' appearance had not changed much, and she still retained her human flesh and blood. Only her pair of blue eyes faintly flashed with inhuman lightning.
The top of the mechanical tower is connected to the observation monitor at the top, allowing her vision to be raised and extended.
As she watched, a blow from outside the planet's atmosphere fell from the sky.
The frigates were equipped with the full-fire version of the 'Reflector' and 'Defender'. This was completely different from the anti-aircraft reflectors produced by the Alliance and the laser cannons placed on tanks. Although the technology used was the same, the power and strength were more than ten times greater.
The power of the Scalpel missile is several times more powerful than the intercontinental missile launched by Blackbird Heavy Industries to attack the alliance.
These things are bombarding Blackbird City without reservation.
A layer of azure light appeared in the sky above Blackbird City.
This is a huge energy shield generator, and the first round of bombardment from space orbit was blocked.
The same thing happened in the second round.
The shield generator flickered but did not turn red.
The shield generator equipped by Blackbird City is very strong and cannot be easily destroyed by the firepower of S-class ships.
However, this was just passive attack. Blackbird City did not have the corresponding anti-orbital firepower, and could not directly attack from the ground into space; there were some orbital air defense equipment, but it was not enough to intercept every round of bombardment from the Blade Tiger.
What's worse is that although the shield generator of Blackbird City is of a large size, it can't cover the entire city. The area it protects is only about half of the entire city. It barely covers the core area of the city, but there are still many places on the periphery that cannot be protected.
The Blade Tiger in the sky seemed to have noticed this as well. After two rounds of bombardment did not have a good effect, they also changed their strategy and began to bombard areas that were not covered by the energy shield.
Soon, except for the central urban area, flowers and flames began to bloom everywhere around Blackbird City, and flames shot up into the sky.
Iron Falchus saw it clearly.
She knew that this was a relatively good result. Now, the ship floating in the orbit of the Wrathful Owl was just an old model of the Blade Tiger, which had weak firepower among the frigates. If it had been the Quintet, a serious main cruiser, with the L-class heavy artillery Chutsugu's Wrath bombarding it continuously, let alone the outer city, even the energy shield covering the central city might not be able to hold up.
This was the scene she feared the most.
To the family, she was not a valued member. She had no special talents, nor a particularly valued position. Six years ago, when she had just reached adulthood, Yirong took a job in the government of Fachs 2, and worked there for three years without being outstanding or making any mistakes.
Just when she wondered if she would spend her life like this, on Facts II, in a way no different from that of an ordinary family member, an opportunity presented itself to her: the family was recruiting people to go to the Angry Owl Star to take charge of Blackbird Heavy Industries.
The original host retired, and the family needed a direct descendant to take over the business there.
What kind of place was Wrathful Owl three years ago? It was a wasteland planet, a poor and remote place where the governor could not pay the imperial taxes one after another, a place that was avoided by the direct descendants of the family like the snakes and scorpions. Who would be willing to suffer there if they were serious and promising?
To put it bluntly, the family developed a small business on Angry Owl Star, made some money, and had extra income by relying on the taxes that the previous governors of Angry Owl Star could not collect.
Of course, the family also had the idea of expanding its territory. Using Blackbird Heavy Industries, they continued to expand their influence on the Angry Owl Star, sought the position of governor at the lowest cost, and eventually incorporated this worthless planet into the territory of the Fats Family.
Yirong signed up.
In fact, at first, she hadn't decided to go. People around her said that life there was too hard, and that although the family had plans, they didn't take it seriously. Going there would just be a waste of youth, and she was afraid of that.
But on the one hand, she didn't want to live her original life, which was not worried about food and clothing but had a foreseeable end; on the other hand, she was just trying it out, and she herself didn't think that someone as ordinary as her could be chosen.
And then she was actually chosen.
Perhaps it was because the capable and respected people in the family looked down on this place, and her last name was Fats, and her past record was honest and well-behaved...
In short, no matter what the reason, she became the Fats family's candidate to be in charge of Blackbird Heavy Industries' business.
She came here with a nervous mood and started her work.
The business didn't require her to worry too much. Her predecessor, a grandfather-like figure in the family, had laid a good foundation and it wasn't a mess. Everything would run according to the arrangements made when he left, and nothing would go wrong.
However, she later discovered the problem.
She was not really a fool. In the internal management, she gradually discovered something wrong: the production capacity of Blackbird Heavy Industry was much larger than expected.
The start-up capital and support from the family were very little; the production conditions here were very poor. According to her common sense, Blackbird Heavy Industry should not have the production capacity she saw.
She soon figured out why this was happening: right under her nose, the automated production line was running day and night. Many industrial workers had long been transformed into mechanical cyborgs who were tireless, did not need to eat or drink, and could operate according to orders as long as they were charged and given energy.
There is no doubt that this has broken the intelligence ban set by the empire.
She called the relevant managers and discussed the issue seriously, but she found that those people did not take it seriously.
What's the matter with this?
The imperial ban was a ban, but how could it be managed in a place like Wrathful Owl? The planetary governors who were supposed to monitor all abnormal situations in their territories didn't know if they could survive for more than two years. They were sitting in the eastern city of Renaissance like clay statues, unable to control their own political power. How could they control what was happening in the west of the continent thousands of miles away?
The emperor is far away here, so it doesn't matter what you want to do.
Moreover, the so-called intelligent ban is an exaggeration. They are just some simple automated machines that have raised the degree of human transformation, especially the brain, which is almost the same as a servitor? How can it cause a big incident or an intelligent machine crisis?
They really don't believe that those modified humans and those automated machines will suddenly riot one day.
They have been doing this for a long time. They have been doing this since the previous president of Blackbird Heavy Industries was in office.
Nothing happened.
Even those in charge told her that it was not just Blackbird Heavy Industries that had this problem. The Fats family's home planets, Fats 1/2/3, actually had automated machines in operation. However, on those three traditional Fats family planets, there were always officials from the empire coming to inspect, and the situation on the planets was more complicated, so they didn't dare to be too blatant, and could only do it on a small scale and in a very covert manner.
After all, automated production has an immediate effect on improving productivity and reducing production costs.
At first, Yirong was panicked. Even after listening to the explanations of those supervisors, she felt something was wrong. She was afraid that once something happened, the things that happened in history books and some legends would happen to her.
The wrath of the empire descended from the sky, burning all traitors, and she herself was that traitor to the empire.
But she didn't dare to stop it.
She could see that the specific staff would not easily agree. She felt that if the relevant violations of the ban were reported to the family, she, as the person in charge, would be the one to take the blame and would be cut off from the family. The production quota and expansion goals set by the family would be impossible without the support of strong productivity. Even the control over the entire western continent might not be maintained...
She acquiesced to all of this, but only asked not to go any further; then, during an inspection, she accidentally fell from a height of two floors, and her left foot was comminuted and fractured. Recovery was difficult, so she underwent mechanized transformation of her left foot.
This is a very normal situation. Similar mechanized transformations have taken place in many places in the empire. As long as the transformation does not involve the brain, the problem should not be too big.
After the transformation, her mechanical left foot was very useful, but sometimes she vaguely felt that her left foot seemed to have its own consciousness.
After a while, some cold illusions began to appear before her eyes. She found that her logical thinking ability had become extremely strong, but instead, she began to feel that she was slowly losing some of her human emotions and becoming more and more dull.
One day a year ago, she felt like she was going crazy, but she was strangely calm.
She picked up a knife and cut open the flesh at the connection between her left calf and the machine, but she saw the upper part of the severed limb that should have belonged to her and should not have been modified. Under the flesh and blood, there should have been white bones, but it turned into something with a gray-black metallic texture!
She should have been surprised and horrified, but she wasn't. She just calmly cut open the flesh on her arms, which shouldn't have any signs of modification, and saw that there was still metal skeleton inside.
She broke her left hand again, and found some mechanical structures and cables inside the bones.
Some knowledge that should not belong to her appeared in her mind, which made her clearly understand that these cables and mechanical structures were what supported her body. In the past two years, the transformation of her body has never stopped, starting from her left foot, and gradually replacing her bones and blood structure in her body...
She may look like a normal human being now, but in essence, she has become another species.
But Iron Fachers did not panic. She just calmly repaired her broken arm, watched the disguised flesh and blood grow back on its own, and then continued to do what she was supposed to do.
She had heard that a new governor had come to the east and had sent out envoys. After learning about the various deeds he had done on the planet, she began to quietly make some additional preparations.
Build intercontinental missile silos, build shield generators, and adjust the production capacity of Blackbird Heavy Industries, transforming it from producing products in the list needed by the Fats family to producing military products and increasing the number of modified humans.
She was preparing for a future that her logic had assumed would come true, and now it had come true.
(End of this chapter)
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