Chapter 159 03.0158: "Death Battle in the Void"

32 Fury interceptors rushed down, becoming the fastest in the entire arena.

『Multi-threaded locking』

『Target: Enemy assault boat』

Activation: Hymn of Rage

This length model of the Fury interceptor has a total of 13 hardpoints on the wings and below the centerline.

These hardpoints are loaded with air-to-air missiles.

Although it is an air-to-air missile, its size is not the slender flying stick used in ancient Terra’s air combat.

This is a terrifying "steel pestle" with a diameter of up to 1.5 meters. Each missile is equipped with a set of tandem neural wetware.

As long as the huge built-in explosives hit the target, they can destroy all enemy aircraft, even the flying demons that descended from the subspace into the real universe.

As the fastest Void Legend in the Empire, the Thinker Array it carries is also very advanced. Although not as powerful as the widely applicable Thunderhawk 'Cygnus', it is completely sufficient for pure air combat.

Its array, combined with the missile's built-in wetware, can accomplish a technological feat.

Its multi-threaded locking system can lock onto 5 targets within 13 seconds, instantly launching all 13 missiles on board the aircraft to chase after the 13 locked high-speed targets respectively.

As long as it is not intercepted by close-in firepower, its accuracy can reach a terrifying 93.76%.
It's basically a lock that will lead to certain death.

These falcons of the Imperial Navy locked onto their targets during the dive time.

The array on board will also automatically screen out targets that teammates have locked onto within the same squadron to prevent two missiles from being fired at the same target, ensuring maximum firepower, intercepting as many targets as possible, and preventing enemy aircraft from causing damage to friendly ships.

Worthy of the name of an interceptor.

416 air-to-air missiles were scattered in the air, trailing long tails of flame, and pounced towards the assault boat like tentacles with bared fangs and claws.

In an instant, hundreds of dazzling sparks exploded in the void. Each gorgeous golden flower represented dozens of servants of the Blood God who died here and turned into dust and debris in the cold void.

In an instant, nearly half of the assault boats were gone.

Its efficiency was so great that Brigadier General Peru, who was sitting on the command throne, couldn't help but slap his thigh and lean forward, wanting to see it closer from the display console in front of him.

"Well, I have to admit that these carrier-based aircraft are better than I thought." Commodore Peru stared at the cathode ray tube screen without blinking, adjusted his sitting posture, leaned on the back of the throne, put his right hand in front of his mouth and muttered.

But as a supporter of the theory of large ships and large guns, he only praised it in a euphemistic way verbally.

He quickly turned his attention back.

"Captain, our ship's port side is aimed at the mutinous light cruiser, and the starboard side is aimed at the Slaughter-class cruiser."

"Both port and port gun arrays, lock onto the target, open fire at full power, and fire freely!"

Horatio saw the mutinous light cruiser from the observation porthole.

A dreadnought-class ship with a heavy lance on its bow was cruising around the Indefatigable, and it turned the lance cannon that was originally aimed at the enemy towards the Imperial Navy itself.

On the hull, the bright blue of the Fortress Fleet was repainted into scarlet red, with a hint of blue in the red, and it even looked a little purple.

The Fortress Fleet is the largest permanent formation of the Imperial Navy outside the Solar System, which guards the country's borders.

It is a large task force, similar in nature to the Imperial Navy's version of 'Death Watch'.

It is composed of the elite of the Imperial Navy's 11 fleets, drawn from various star regions in the five major star fields, and united together to destroy the enemies in the Eye of Terror.

The length of service of each squadron in the fleet varies. Some, like Vice Admiral Hood, were ordered to launch a one-time westward expedition, while others stayed there permanently for a thousand years.

It is the most combat-intensive fleet in the Imperium. Every time a traitor is conquered in the Eye of Terror, there are always a few valuable naval assets that are invaded by demons, or the crews are corrupted and mutiny, or the captains cannot bear the mental torture of the Chaos Gods and fall.

Whatever the reason, the Imperial Navy referred to these ships as the 'Traitor Fleet'.

Her original ship name was pried off by a ruthless traitor and replaced with a crude brass nameplate with the evil characters "Heart of Hatred" written on it.

Betrayed her glorious past.

Every Imperial Navy officer who saw her couldn't help but feel deeply ashamed and angry.

For the glorious Imperial Navy, it was either to destroy her utterly or to recapture her.

The recaptured ship can be fully purified by the Mechanicus into a warship that looks like new and given a glorious new name.

If it is a planet with a developed shipbuilding industry, the Mechanicus will choose to dismantle it and recycle the usable parts.

Every piece of deck, every piece of armor, and every bolt that was dismantled was blessed and purified again for recycling.

Finally, they were all broken up and based on the purity principle of "a new ship can use no more than 13% of recycled parts".

It can be distributed among countless newly built warships to minimize possible corrosion risks.

When new warships come into being, the Imperial Navy will carefully select them from the list of sacred warships and give them a sacred and glorious ship name.

It is a complete rebirth, a complete reinvention, both physically and spiritually.

"Captain... the recovery rate of this ship is determined to be..."

The Indefatigable's Tech-mages used a variety of detection equipment and emitted detection beacons to scan the Dreadnought-class light cruiser.

"87.77% of the components are reusable, and the degree of corruption is... mild." The technical sage made professional consulting advice.

"Okay, sage. I will try my best to capture her, but I cannot guarantee that after completely paralyzing her, the reuse rate will still be 50%." Captain Peru gave a cold reply.

The armaments on both sides of the Indefatigable began to fire salvos at the enemy, and the two lance turrets on the spine of the ship fired at targets on both sides.

Several frigates and destroyers were fighting on various planes in the surrounding area.

A sword-class ship has already been chosen as the winner.

She had sustained moderate structural damage, but her two vicious twin-mounted light macro turrets and broadside laser cannon arrays were more effective in close quarters combat than the twin light lance turrets on the Renegade raider.

With the double firing rate of her main gun, which allowed her to fire two rounds for every round fired by the enemy, the four macro cannons quickly broke the enemy ship's void shield.

Then, with the main and secondary guns firing at full power, they first forcibly dismantled all the lance turrets of the Apostate-class ship, and then cut open her hull piece by piece like a slow execution, draining her blood.

After the fight, the frigate immediately joined the battle with the destroyer "Starfire" that was damaged in the previous battle and the attack ship.

The Imperial Navy's destroyers are no match for Chaos raiders in terms of combat power; the compact Cobra-class destroyers have thinner overall armor than frigates and raiders.

There is only one single-shot light macro turret at the bow.

Their proud quadruple torpedo tubes had all been released during the previous interception of the Murder-class cruiser.

In the void battle, firepower and protection are at an all-round disadvantage.

But even so, they still relied on their courage, and inspired by the Skyhawk nameplate hanging above their heads that read "The God-Emperor expects you to perform your duties diligently", and fought to the death with the apostate attack ships, even at the cost of using their fragile ships to ram them.

The supporting Diligence-class and Endurance-class light cruisers quickly approached the Indefatigable with their excellent maneuverability.

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