The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"Are you investigating the geth? Tell us exactly what happened?"

The other side had just come out of the briefing room, and Da-chan, who had already finished her speech and was about to walk to the airlock, stopped, leaned against the wall and replied:

"It's about investigating the quarians."

[Not Geth?Is it a quarian? 】

Even though the other side couldn't see her, Dajiang still nodded her head, fiddled with her raised blue bangs, and reported to her boss the information she just heard in the briefing room:

"That's right, the quarians are assembling a fleet. The reason is that the Geth fleet has been exhausted due to the attack by the Consolidation Department a few months ago, and the actions of various civilizations to upgrade their fleets have allowed them to get more ships at a low price. boats—that gave them the strength to start the homecoming war."

Ever since their homeworld, Raynoch, was conquered by their own creation, the geth, the quarians have lived in the Survival Fleet, a vast fleet of starships of all kinds.But the homeless quarians don't have any shipyards or resource bases, so where do their ships come from?

The answer is simple, it is found in the second-hand market.The Citadel Council's standard second-hand ship market is a favorite of the quarians, as is the black market in the Citadel system.They buy all kinds of races at low prices, whether they are old ships or even wrecks from the army or civilians, and then use excellent engineering technology to make them move again.Their battleships rarely even have mass effect accelerators, because there is no special space in the ship to install this big thing that runs through the ship, and for this reason, they use a considerable number of electromagnetic accelerator turrets as the fleet's main means of attack.

Of course, such a fleet has no way to regain their hometown, and it is difficult to increase the number of ships - after all, how many ships can be obtained depends on how many ships are returned by other races.The Minmatar warships looked like wrecks, and the Quarians' ships were modified from wreckage. Although this is a bit exaggerated, it is not exaggerated too much.

And now...the Council of the Citadel is replacing a large number of new ships, and many outdated small and medium-sized warships have been retired, but this is a good thing for the Quarians.This greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the quarian fleet, and the hunting and killing of the geth fleet by the guerrilla fleet previously used by the Concord to protect the colony also greatly enhanced the quarian confidence.

The day is now to pass through the Veil of Perseus and take back home!

But many people are also uneasy about it.

Dajiang continued:

"But this obviously violates the agreement the quarians made with the Citadel council to avoid angering the geth. So Xue Jiang, as a ghost agent, went to investigate this matter-or solve the problem. Investigate the recent strange behavior of the geth Just side work."

Oregana figured it out, this was somewhat different from her own judgment, but the difference was not big.She opened a glass of Quafe and said as she drank:

"They haven't done it yet, have they?"

[Not yet, so Shepard thinks the situation is still under control.The Citadel also hopes to use this opportunity to understand the reason why the Geth changed their method of action... Then the communication should go here first, and it will be connected with the Qari fleet soon. 】

"I'll leave it to you next time, help me take a look."

【Yes! 】

The Normandie passed by the large-scale fleet in front of it, and opened a connecting gangway next to a large spaceship near the center.

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Reborn in a parallel world, under the arrangement of his parents, Higashino Yasushi, who came to Tokyo from the countryside to study, thought he would live a life full of youth.

Until the beautiful sister of the neighbor's house blocked him in the corner, raised his chin, and exposed the bat wings on his back.

Higashino An knew that his youth was over.

Chapter 1237 Chapter 254: How can the fleet lose by riding on the face? (points to the fog of war)

Because it has not entered a wartime state, the observation windows on both sides of the Normandy are not firmly covered by armor plates.From there, the massive quarian survival fleet can be seen.

This is literally [the largest fleet in the Milky Way]. The slow-moving giant warship fills the entire field of vision, and the flashing thruster light from time to time illuminates the field of vision—it is not the faint brilliance of distant stars, but It is a dazzling flash like lightning on a thunderstorm night.In this flash, the surrounding starships are illuminated. Their shells are not very clean, and there are scars and rust marks everywhere, giving people a sense of dilapidation that cannot be dispelled.However, when these dilapidated starships are connected together, what they bring is an incomparably magnificent grand scene.

You must know that this is not the well-designed and manufactured ark ships currently in service of the Consolidation Department, and everything is for the comfortable living of the residents on them (the Solar Ark class has been decommissioned), but merchant ships, decommissioned warships, and even The wreckage of several ships is put together to create a super large ecological starship with a length of 800 meters, but in terms of size, she is second to none in this universe... as long as it does not involve combat, it will be fine.

Before the Geth War, the Quarians themselves possessed the technology to manufacture flagship-class warships (standards of the Ministry of Consolidation). Their dreadnoughts were behemoths with a long axis of 950 meters, far exceeding the size of the current Citadel's conventional dreadnoughts.Their excellent technology is the best guarantee for them to survive in the cold void without preparation.

The Quarians, who lost their homeland due to the AI ​​rebellion, wandered among the stars with such a fleet for the past 300 years.But this wandering is by no means lingering - after using the 'cloud tour' system and space mining technology, they can still obtain resources, conduct trade, make their fleet stronger, and continue to accumulate strength.Even in a place like this, the quarians never forget that they must return to their homeland, and every quarian is trying to make it happen.

Perhaps, it is precisely because the roaming Querry youth saw the stable life of other races and realized that the survival fleet was in danger, so everyone could put "Homecoming" first and maintain their fighting spirit in the long three centuries ?

As a young Hell Beast and a powerful battle machine, Da-chan doesn’t have much to do. He hunts for blood on the battlefield during battles, and usually relaxes and rests to keep himself in the best condition. It is enough, and because of this, Dajiang has never considered the issue of 'survival'.But now, just seeing the Querry fleet, the precise core of thinking instantly realized how huge and tenacious it was.

A few minutes later, she saw the narrowest passage in the ship she had ever seen in her life.

Even if it is a large ecological ship, the space inside is extremely small, the corridors look messy, and there are even item boxes randomly fixed on the walls and ceilings with rope nets. The space utilization rate is even better than that of the ark ship used by the Mackenzi High - but still no match for the Solar Ark class.

Along the way, many Quarians were looking this way.Someone said that peeping on the beach is very convenient, because the sunglasses will hide the line of sight, so that the other party does not know that your eyes are staring at you. Of course, the quarian mask has a similar effect, but when there are too many lines of sight, then Even an opaque mask can't stop it.

Those eyes were not on Shepard, nor on the conspicuous asari and krogan, but on Mianchan herself.

"They didn't mean any harm." Tully whispered beside her. "They're just a little curious. After all, you're a...uh, artificial intelligence."

"I know, they're just greedy for my body and my brain." (with no expression)

"what……"

Artificial intelligence is a taboo in this world, and its root cause is the mistakes of the Quarians, so here artificial intelligence is a taboo among taboos.Now suddenly an artificial intelligence appears in front of you, of course everyone will be curious.However, Da-chan still felt a trace of tension and hostility from that curious and searching gaze.

Showing hostility to a Khorne Hellbeast is a dangerous thing to do, and it will be seen as a challenge, even more dangerous than provoking Yujiro Hanma in person.Of course, the danger of provoking Slaanesh Hell Beast is greater than provoking Fanma Yujiro face to face, but it is another matter.But miso is a well-educated model with meticulous workmanship. After suppressing the boiling blood, he endured it, and at the same time his brain became active——

Something is wrong... The other party's hostility and fear are not the kind of negative emotions directed at the 'long-time enemy', but a kind of stress response.A stress response occurs only when one is stressed and stimulated, and the stressor must exist. So what is the stressor?She frowned, took a few steps to follow Shepard, and said in a voice that only two people could hear:

"Shepard, don't be too surprised later."

"What do you mean?" Shepard didn't bow his head, his lips moved slightly.

The robot that once saved his life doesn't seem very smart, but he has always been terrifyingly strong in intuition.In the previous missions, she was always able to discover the traps and ambushes hidden by the opponent at the first time, so that everyone was prepared to save the day.It's obviously a machine, but it has an unreasonable 'intuition'... Shepard doesn't agree with this statement, he prefers that it's because Mianchan is equipped with unusual detectors, which can detect things like weapons.

If her 'intuition' were valid now, it might mean that the quarians planned to ambush the agents of the Citadel Council, but this was definitely not in line with common sense.In this period when the combat power of the Citadel Council is constantly increasing and the quality repeaters are gradually being shut down, the Quarians, who are unable to upgrade the fleet on a large scale, have absolutely no motive to anger the Citadel Council.

That's weird...but it's one thing to wonder, another to secure a way out.

"Did you find anything? An ambush? I'll tell Joker to open the hangar door. If we're ambushed later, you'll blast us out of the bulkhead with Thunderbolt."

While speaking, Shepard winked at Nilus, and another ghost agent also understood.He nodded solemnly (0w0) slightly, and Gelas (0w0) next to him seemed to have a movement to grab his back, but he didn't show it in the end.

"It should not be an ambush, and there is no direct hostility. They are wary of me. I guess this has something to do with the reason we came." Dajiang replied, "Our intelligence may be a step behind."

Shepard felt his throat tighten:

"It's better to have an ambush..."

After all, if it's just an ambush, just kill a bloody path and run away, and then just report that the quarians plan to attack the Citadel and it's over.And everything else is more difficult and troublesome than "killing a bloody path".

The place where everyone talks is in a hall, next to the agricultural equipment next to it. In this narrow hall, you can also see the working Qeli farmers opposite the transparent polymer glass. They are fully armed and tending the crops, with the sun above their heads The light was so bright that the ground was dazzlingly bright.The few quarians waiting here seem to be in high positions, but it is not easy to distinguish them.

"Admirals," he stepped forward, "I'm Shepard, the ghost agent of the God's Castle Council. Just like the previous contact, I have something to ask you."

There are roughly 700 million quarians aboard the Survival Fleet.Technically speaking, the immigrant fleet is still under military control and is led by a joint meeting of admirals. Each admiral is the leader of a fleet. Each ship that makes up the fleet is more like a big family, and the captain is the parent. .From a certain point of view, the political system of the Quarians is somewhat similar to the tribal union, but it is closer and the division of labor and cooperation is clearer.

These leaders saluted Shepard, and the admiral in women's armor with small red shoulder pads on his shoulders spoke—when the quarians spoke, a small device in their mouth would start to glow, like Like online voice chat software, this seems to be a gadget developed to quickly discover who is speaking when there is no way to see the face.

It doesn’t feel like a quarian when only Tali is present, but when so many quarians are present, everyone on the Normandy thinks this design is great.

"I'm Admiral Ryan." There was hesitation in her voice and a sense of uneasiness as if she had been caught doing something wrong, she said hesitantly, "Commander Shepard, it's nice to meet you...but this is not a Good time to meet."

Nilus took a step forward and stood beside Shepard:

"What happened? We noticed that you are building up your fleet, there are many new ships that have not been registered..." He narrowed his eyes (=w=) "It looks like it has been converted into a battleship, and even the Turian Empire The decommissioned battleship, it looks quite new, I will have to go back and find out why these national properties that should be properly disposed of appear in the Quary Survival Fleet... But for now, put these aside, what we want to know is, What is the purpose of your assembled fleet? Who do you want to attack."

"..."

Several generals looked at each other without saying a word.

The quarians are not the Citadel race. They have been kicked out of the Citadel after getting rid of the geth. In this way, they can neither enjoy the benefits of the Citadel nor be under the jurisdiction of the Citadel. On the surface, they are not related to each other.But in fact, if you live in this galaxy, you can't completely escape the influence of God's Citadel. Unless your scale is at the level of a mercenary group, no one will care what the blood bag is doing in the Jieshen galaxy, but when the largest in this universe When the fleet began to increase its personnel and assembled to launch an attack, it was impossible to cross the Citadel.

Even though the power of the Consolidation Department has entered this world, the influence of the Citadel is still there - the Consolidation Department cannot manage the world by itself, but the Citadel can, and it can only be the Citadel.

Finally, a general in combat armor with a black and white twill scarf around his neck spoke:

"We thought it was just our business. After all, the Citadel never cared who entered the Perseus Veil."

Tully couldn't help but said loudly:

"Admiral Gerald! We have no way to fight against the Geth!" She didn't care about her identity and status at all, and said in a panic, "Even the Ministry of Consolidation has no plans to rush into the Perseus Veil, 300 years Enough out-of-control artificial intelligence to build a fleet of unimaginable size! The decrease in frequency of geth's external activities is due to the rout of the Reapers, not their fleet being destroyed!"

"I know, we all know."

"Then why..."

Admiral Gerald let out a sigh:

"Because I didn't know it before. The Perseus veil cut off all detection, and we didn't know what was going on inside. But since the Geth still didn't attack as before at the most critical moment of the Reapers, it must be because the Geth Si's fleet has been consumed by the previous conglomerate's hunting operations so that it is unable to cooperate with the Reapers. This is the best opportunity in three centuries, and we all thought that this time we would be able to regain our homeland..."

He pressed a few keys on the operation panel, and the projector in the center of the hall showed a star map, and the dots of red light on it made one's scalp tingle.The red arrows extend from several galaxies in the Perseus Veil and gather in the surrounding galaxies. Each arrow is marked with a character——

Geth.

"Seven days ago, we launched a precision strike against four geth-controlled systems, the first battle to retake home. But..."

"...You guys, have you already started?"

This time he simply nodded his head, and there is nothing to hide now.You can see everything clearly from this picture—the Quary fleet launched an attack on four galaxies at the same time, and then they all came back. The Geths from the surrounding seven galaxies launched a counterattack at the same time, killing The entire Quary fleet is forced into this galaxy.

Then the problem came - the mass repeater of this galaxy went down two more hops, and the last hop was dead.why?Because the krogan demilitarized zone is further behind, one jump away from the Citadel, the repeater has been pushed out by the Dark Angel Bridge Team, and the star gate is being erected at the moment.Its purpose is to keep the nodes well and prevent the geth from being bewitched by the reapers again to make a mess.

As a result, now, moths have emerged.

The quarry's attack has stabbed the hornet's nest, and now the geth are ready to show their wrath at full force, and the tragedy of 300 years ago seems to be repeated again.

This is really more troublesome than the three hundred knives and axes ambushed by the Quarians... Now this matter must be reported to the Council of the God's Castle.From the star map, we can see that if we don't think of a way, the Quarians will really be forced to go to the krogan's hometown.

"We have to report this right away." Nilus held down the krogan battle master Lex who was about to explode with one hand - of course he didn't hold down, and several people around him went up to help to get the matter over, and pointed at Quali in front of him with one hand Admiral "You guys have made a big mess!"

Admiral Gerald was speechless, he was irrefutable - eyes blinded by the desire to go home and the nebula of the Perseus Veil failed to see the risks, and this time the quarians had actually arrived brink of destruction. 300 years ago, Geth drove the Creator to this mass repeater and went back, and did not continue to pursue, but no one knows whether they will swing the butcher knife that was withdrawn 300 years ago again this time.

"We need help, Commander. We will do anything to save our people!"

Shepard didn't have time to worry about other things, he quickly turned on the communicator, and Da-chan next to him also took out cotton thread and paper cups.But at the moment when miso put the cotton thread through the bottom of the paper cup——

"Admiral! Here they come!" A quarian ran in from outside. "The Geth passed through the repeater! Four dreadnoughts and over two hundred cruisers!"

"Huh? Now?!"

"Get ready! Let the fighters take off! Protect the agricultural ships!"

Chapter 1239 Chapter 255: The Disaster of the Normandy

In the narrow cabin, the alarm sounded.Under the cover of various armor plates to block the passage to the living area, the Quarians advanced in an orderly manner in the narrow passage, just like those submarine sailors in the World War II documentary-it is hard to imagine that this will appear in the fast three The scene in the starship of the kilometer.

"Get ready! Let the fighters take off! Protect the agricultural ships!"

Admiral Gerald's voice was transmitted to the fighters' ears through the communication system, and a few seconds later, a fighter jet ejected from the launch port, igniting the thrusters to face the light spot in the distance.These fighters were of all kinds, including Turians, Asaris, Star Alliance and Cerberus. The Normandy's detectors even identified a few purple-red 'Cosmic Enchantress' individual fighter jets.

"Isn't this a Star Alliance fighter jet?!" Joker almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, "This thing has already been smuggled in?!"

"I heard that this kind of fighter jet is roughly equivalent to the mantis gunboat in the God of God galaxy in the integration department. Its technical level is not high. The various races of the Citadel have ordered thousands of them to study plasma weapons and low-intensity combat. Lianbu bought the most..." The navigator Pressley touched his beard and sighed, "But it looks like someone's hands and feet are not clean."