Chapter 324:
One month after the test firing.
Broken Dome, Anchorage, Alaska.
Fu Qinghai and Xiao Fei stood side by side on the spacious landing platform of Hunter Bay. The waves rolled and smashed against the reefs and platforms. The cold breeze of the Bering Sea blew the rust-red robes of the technical priests and the power armor of the space marines.
They both looked into the distance.
A huge humanoid object wrapped in waterproof cloth, suspended by eighteen Jumping Hawk helicopters, flew towards this side across the deep blue and rough sea.
The Jumping Hawk is a helicopter specially developed to transport Mech Hunters.
The humanoid giant in Monbury is obviously a semi-finished product. The real mecha hunter can fight underwater and dive deeper than a nuclear submarine. Covering it with monbury is purely unnecessary.
At the same time, in the inland of the peninsula leading to the Broken Dome Base, on a straight and wide special road in the coniferous forest with towering trees, a large convoy was moving. Four giant multi-section tracked transport vehicles that could be used to carry rocket components were moving slowly forward.
On the back of the wide and huge flatbed truck were loaded the operating system, power core and two huge cannons - the volcano cannon and the earthquake cannon - that Fu Qinghai customized for Shaw Industries.
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The dome cave, which could originally accommodate six mecha hunters, now only had a half-finished mecha hunter standing alone. With the help of a mechanical crane, several engineering vehicles with lifts and landing machines slowly pulled open the waterproof cloth, revealing the true appearance of the huge machine inside.
The appearance is smooth and angular, with broad shoulders and thick arms. The inner armor is black, the outer shell is painted in khaki and ochre red, and the head cockpit mask is light blue "Y" shaped, which looks like the helmet of an ancient Spartan warrior. Even though some areas are exposed, the overall shape still looks very tall, burly and handsome.
"Brave Omega."
Fu Qinghai raised his head and muttered to himself.
"Do you know this mecha hunter?"
Xiao Fei next to him turned his head and asked.
"Yes."
Fu Qinghai nodded and said,
"'Brave Omega' is the first sixth-generation mecha developed, and is scheduled to be put into service in 2030. In the second movie, it was responsible for guarding and patrolling the Broken Dome Base of Meng Yulan, and was beaten to death by three monster drone mechas. It basically played a supporting role, but it cannot conceal its strength."
So far, only four sixth-generation mechas have appeared in Pacific Rim: the new protagonist "Vengeance Ranger" in tribute to "Danger Ranger", "Redeemer Titan", "Brave Omega" and "Saber Athena". Among them, "Saber Athena" was the latest to be manufactured and is considered to be the seventh generation or the sixth and a half generation, but in the official classification, "Saber Athena" is a sixth-generation mecha.
"In the movie, the completed 'Brave Omega' is equipped with two huge Y-11 twin cannons on the outside of its hands. It has a certain degree of transformation ability. In close combat mode, it can be retracted into the inside of the gauntlet, making the punching speed faster. It is equipped with 21 ray cannons on its chest, which should be a kind of laser weapon. Therefore, this mecha hunter is also called 'Twenty-one Salute Guns'."
Fu Qinghai continued to introduce.
"But I did not see the existence of the aforementioned weapons."
Xiao Fei said.
"Because this is an unfinished mecha."
Fu Qinghai smiled and said:
"It's just right that it's unfinished, so we don't have to tear it down and then modify it, which would be even more troublesome. There is a cabin in the torso of 'Brave Omega' that can accommodate 150 people, and the legs are equipped with a seawater desalination and filtration system... These medical rescue devices are not needed by us, so we can free up space for other facilities."
As he spoke, Fu Qinghai opened the white suitcase, and an orangutan crawled out by itself from the twisting blue light film.
Xiao Fei's eyes widened:
"Space ape!?"
Of course, the technical priests had heard of this famous race of ancient saints' creations.
"Hello, follower of the Void Dragon."
The brain wave sound generator on Shi Lan's neck made a mechanical electronic sound and waved at Xiao Fei.
Xiao Fei's face was filled with black lines, and he thought to himself, if I were not a reincarnation but a real engine oil man, I would probably be angry to death on the spot by your monkey's words.
"Dr. Fu Shan, all the things have been delivered. Please count and check them."
At this moment, a familiar voice came from behind.
Fu Qinghai and Xiao Fei turned around and saw two men walking side by side, one in black military uniform and the other in a blue suit. The former was General Quan, the representative of PPDC, and the latter was Director Kang, the representative of Shaw Industries.
Such a large Shattered Dome Base could certainly not be run by just eight people, namely Fu Qinghai, Shi Lan, Xiao Fei and five mecha slaves. As the representative of PPDC, General Quan led many PPDC staff to the Anchorage Shattered Dome Base, which nominally belonged to Xiao Fei, to help maintain the mecha hunters and run the entire base.
By the way, it also has a bit of supervision meaning. After all, this unfinished "Brave Omega" is nominally an asset of PPDC, so it naturally cannot be easily destroyed by anyone.
"Okay, both of you. I'll send you the material requirements list after I've done a detailed inspection."
Fu Qinghai said politely.
At this time, a thin figure with bandages all over his body sitting in a wheelchair also pushed the wheelchair over. Fu Qinghai saw the iconic shirt, bow tie and overalls and said in surprise:
"Tendo is here too?"
Cai Tiantong, who was sitting in a wheelchair, nodded and said,
"The Marshal asked me to assist you, Doctor."
Marshal Panticost sent all of his generals here. Fu Qinghai felt emotional, looking at Cai Tiantong's miserable appearance. It was a blessing in disguise that he did not die in the explosion at the Broken Dome Base in Xiangjiang.
"Welcome to the Anchorage Shatterdome."
Fu Qinghai said to the three people:
"Although this base belonged to PPDC in the past, I still want to say this, because soon we will see a brand new mecha hunter being born here!"
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The seaside cliffs outside Broken Dome.
The cold sea breeze was blowing fiercely. Fu Qinghai and Xiao Fei stood beside the two huge cannons. In the distance, there was a pile of scrapped mecha parts used as targets to test the power of the volcanic cannon and the earthquake cannon - to see whether Shaw Industries' processing level was enough to replicate these two terrifying Titan weapons.
The PPDC staff stood a little far away. They were a little afraid of Xiao Fei, the tall strange man in the red robe.
"The volcano cannon certainly can't reach that level of power."
Xiao Fei gave Fu Qinghai a heads-up in advance.
"Why?"
Fu Qinghai asked.
"Because the consumables used in the volcano cannon involve a special kind of crystal, from the mining world Cinder Planet 11. It's said that the crystals produced in the lava river are related to the illegal psychics who died in it. Some superstitious sayings say that the screams when the volcano cannon is fired are the psychics' dying cries or something like that."
Xiao Fei explained.
Fu Qinghai was not interested in whether psychics could turn into crystals in the lava river. He grasped the key words:
"So, we are now lacking a high-energy crystal as a firing consumable for the volcano cannon, is that right?"
"Yes."
The Tech Priest nodded.
Fu Qinghai opened the white briefcase, reached in and grabbed a handful of green broken crystals, and asked,
"Is this okay?"
"What's this?"
Xiao Fei asked curiously.
"Radiant Ultramarine."
Fu Qinghai said:
"It is also born from the human body, and has the same effect as your crystal."
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A heart-wrenching scream of terror.
The staff around couldn't help but cover their ears.
A thick green laser flashed by.
The wreckage of the mecha in the distance disappeared.
All that was left was a straight, charred, deep dent on the ground, leading straight to the end of the cliff by the sea. As if it had been plowed by an extremely sharp and hot sword of God, the soil and rocks turned into shining lava, still emitting white smoke.
"good."
Fu Qinghai was very satisfied.
"good."
Xiao Fei nodded:
"It's pretty much the same as the original volcano cannon."
"Next up is the earthquake cannon."
Fu Qinghai looked at the other huge cannon.
Xiao Fei started to take preventive measures again:
"Both the barrel and the shells are difficult. In order to make a qualified earthquake cannon, I gave the formulas of two special alloys and three new explosives to Shao Industrial. Shao Liwen made a lot of money. If the power is not good enough, you can't blame me."
The earthquake cannon is a siege weapon whose power requirement is that the shock wave caused by the shell can reproduce the huge impact when a planet is disintegrated by the execution of the planet-shattering extinction order.
A bit of an exaggerated description.
It's not that a piece of planetary debris is literally put into the shell - planetary debris won't explode, but the impact of a planet breaking up is recreated through explosives.
"There are only four shells in total, two 'Ghoul' earthquake bombs and two 'City Breaker' earthquake bombs. Use them sparingly."
Xiao Fei reminded.
Fu Qinghai nodded:
"In one month, Shaw Industries can produce four earthquake bombs, which is not bad."
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"boom--"
After a deafening roar.
"Damn it, the cliff is collapsing, run!"
Fu Qinghai rushed into the tractor first, pulled up the handbrake, stepped on the accelerator, and rushed back with two huge cannons. He also leaned half of his body out of the window and loudly called out to the PPDC staff to evacuate quickly with him.
People were knocked to the ground by the aftermath of the earthquake bombs that traveled back from afar. When they heard Fu Qinghai's shout, they hurriedly got up and fled.
In the distance, the earth cracked, cliffs collapsed, huge rocks fell into the sea, and huge water columns more than ten meters high splashed on the sea surface.
...
Inside the Broken Dome base in Anchorage.
The mecha hunter stood in place, surrounded by dense scaffolding and crisscrossing steel corridors. Shi Lan, Xiao Fei and Fu Qinghai were climbing up and down the outer shell of the fuselage, and occasionally drilling into the interior of the fuselage. The flashing electric sparks were "hissing". Many manufacturing workers and five mecha slaves were clinging to it like insects, and more cranes and slings were in operation.
"Speaking of Xiao Fei," Fu Qinghai asked, "Which Titan Corps did you serve in when you were studying on Mars?"
"The Firebee Legion."
The Tech Priest replied without even turning his head.
Busy directing the reinforcement of an armored partition.
"Oh, sure, it's a good idea."
Fu Qinghai gave a thumbs up.
As mentioned earlier, powerful forge worlds, such as Mars, can support more than one Titan legion.
The Death Skulls, Storm Legion and Firebee Legion are known as the Iron Trident of Mars. The most famous of them is the Death Skulls, which fought alongside the 36th Expeditionary Fleet, also known as the Luna Wolves, during the Great Crusade. It was also the first traitor Titan legion to declare its allegiance to Warmaster Horus and Kelbor Hal.
Fu Qinghai had never fought alongside the Titan Legion. He had only heard that the crew members of the Firebee Legion had a very non-mainstream style. They liked to brand source circuits on their bodies like electric monks, had indigo and acid green hedgehog hairstyles, and fiery red and gold industrial geometric style tattoos, and occasionally would have big, shiny gold teeth.
"The Firebee Legion is executing the most typical Titan Legion tactics."
Xiao Fei had to explain a few words on behalf of his old boss:
"They love heavy long-range firepower, forming battle lines, fusing void shields, and then madly projecting firepower. The Firebee Legion has a special method for controlling weapon and engine overheating, and the density and continuity of firepower are higher than other Titan Legions."
Not every Titan Legion has large Titans such as the Emperor, Warmaster and Warlord classes. Titan Legions are also divided into first-level legions and second-level legions. Legions like the "Amber Wolf Pack", which are composed entirely of War Dog-class Titans, are typical second-level legions.
There is no absolute difference in strength between the second-level legion and the first-level legion. The Cinder Wolf Pack Legion, which has long fought side by side with the World Devourers Legion, is very good at besieging and killing large Titans.
First, use complex terrain such as mountains, canyons, or city alleys to quickly go around or sneak up on the large Titan, then use a boarding harpoon called "bear claw" to hook the large Titan, pull it down, and then dismember and kill it.
The Titan has built-in gyroscopes and gravity stabilizers to help it maintain balance and stabilize its body when firing or moving over complex terrain, but it is still far inferior to the Mech Hunter.
In Pacific Rim 2: Uprising, the sixth-generation mecha "Avenger Wanderer" leaped out from the complex urban terrain of Sydney to save the crashed helicopter of Secretary General Mako Mori, and caught the crashed helicopter without causing too much damage to the city facilities. It was extremely sensitive.
In the original novel "False God", a group of War Dog-class Titans penetrated the void shield of the Emperor-class Titan, knocked out the close-in defense cannons on the legs of the Emperor-class Titan, fired a bunch of magnetic harpoons to firmly suck it, and pulled it down... Then the strongest Titan in the Empire never got up again, which was extremely clumsy.
This shows the huge difference between Titan and Mech Hunter in terms of mobility design and flexibility structure.
There is a world of difference.
Large Titans require small Titans and tanks to provide cover around them. They fight like a fleet, which is very different from the one-on-one combat mode of the Mecha Hunter.
Fu Qinghai had a hunch that if he brought the Mecha Hunter technology from Pacific Rim back to the Warhammer 40K universe, it would definitely revolutionize the combat mode between the Titan Legions.
...
Soon, the initial upgrade and transformation of the mecha hunter "Brave Omega" was completed.
Why is it a "preliminary upgrade and transformation"?
Because before the entire design team's ideas for the Mech Hunter were fully realized, the PPDC sent an alarm - monster traces were detected on the coast of South America.
New monsters are coming.
Fu Qinghai's design team is composed of a variety of people: the Space Marines' forging masters, the Titan Order's technical priests, and the space apes created by the Ancients.
Everyone has a lot of ideas about wanting to join the Mech Hunter, but time waits for no one, the monster threat is imminent, and the Mech Hunter must go into battle immediately.
"Preliminary Upgrade and Renovation Plan.txt":
First of all, the paint was completely replaced, becoming a new color scheme with a bone white main body and bright red edging.
Then, the Y-11 twin cannons originally on both arms turned into a volcano cannon and an earthquake cannon.
Secondly, the operating system and power core were replaced simultaneously, and the structure inside the head control cabin also underwent major changes.
Finally, the rescue device was removed to leave redundant space, and the excellent designs of previous generations of Mecha Hunters, such as the "Angel Wing" shoulder fins and the "Achilles" shock absorber, were also incorporated into it.
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This new MechHunter uses almost no new materials from the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
Because ceramic steel has the best defense against high-temperature directed energy weapons such as laser weapons and small-caliber live ammunition weapons, but monsters do not have the above two weapons. Facing close combat with monsters, ceramic steel armor is too rigid (too brittle) and lacks toughness, so it was not considered.
What the design team really wanted was adamantium armor. Titans all have adamantium armor shells, but there is no such mineral as "adamantine" in the Pacific Rim universe.
The design team originally planned to install the volcano cannon and earthquake cannon on the left and right as shoulder cannons, because many of the Titan's weapons are carried on the back - turrets, churches, and fortresses. However, Fu Qinghai considered that the shoulder cannon's firing angle was too narrow, so he placed the two huge cannons on the outside of the arms.
The size of the gun barrel is perfect for the size of the arm.
Because the Emperor-class Titan can be equipped with several volcanic cannons and seismic cannons, and the Mech Hunter and the Emperor-class Titan are of the same size, so they are very suitable as hand cannons.
In the first Pacific Rim movie, all of the Jaegers had their own unique crests.
Heraldry culture - Hammer's favorite, Fu Qinghai and Xiao Fei are no exception. The left shoulder of the new mecha is a red lightning piercing a golden horizontal bar, and the right shoulder is a skull wrapped in gears, representing sentiment and retro.
So far.
This mecha hunter has a new name:
"White Scar".
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Taking the protagonist of the second movie, "Avenger Wanderer", as an example, let's compare the data of the two mecha hunters:
Gipsy Avenger
Model: Sixth generation mecha
Operating system: Blue Fire 7.0.2
Power core: Two sets of nuclear-powered vortex turbines
Crew: 2 people
Fighting style: Street fighting
Special Weapons: Elbow Rocket 2.0, Chain Sword 2.0, Plasma Cannon, Gravity Sling
Performance and equipment:
1. The head is a double-person parallel operating cabin.
2. The chest is a nuclear-powered twin-turbine engine with a built-in nuclear reactor.
3. The elbow is equipped with Elbow Rocket 2.0, which can deal a heavy blow to the monster.
4. The weapons hidden in the arms are plasma cannons, which fire shotgun charged ion particles that can penetrate the monster's body and burn the inside, preventing poisonous blood from flowing out.
5. A sharp and extended version of the "Chain Sword 2.0" is hidden in the left arm, which is a close-range cutting weapon. The right arm is equipped with a gravity sling, a new type of weapon that can instantly store energy to pull objects and launch a fierce attack.
White Scars
Model: Seventh generation mecha (self-proclaimed)
Operating system: Qingming artificial intelligence expansion pack
Power core: Niadrazasa reactor
Quasi-crew: 1 person
Fighting style: Assassination fist fighting style.
Special weapons: Volcano cannon, earthquake cannon.
Performance and equipment:
1. The head is a new type of single-person operating cabin.
2. The chest is a new type of engine that combines Iron Man's Ark Reactor with the Burner's Star God knowledge.
3. The powerful power output and artificial intelligence information processing, combined with the improved gyroscope core and hydraulic damper, can complete various close combat actions, such as bouncing, rolling, kicking, etc., faster and more flexible.
4. Equipped with a large array of auspicious instruments, the machine can locate the target under the most adverse conditions. From radar scanners and echolocators to spectral sensors and electromagnetic detectors, a rich variety of detection methods can be used to draw an accurate picture of the surrounding terrain and enemy positions. The Mech Hunter can accurately lock on to the target through red heat signals, ground activities, motor noise, communication signals, and even the sound of bricks and stones when the enemy is knocked down in an attempt to escape the wrath of the Mech God.
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I have diarrhea again. It feels so uncomfortable.
This chapter has a lot of pictures. Don't rush to read it. I will upload the pictures one by one.
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