Chapter 542 Isll Give You Another Chance to Repeat Yourself (1/2)
Seeing Nagakin board the DarkStar flagship, Han Xiao knew that the enemy flagship was finished.
With the flagship in danger, the DarkStar fleet at the front did not turn back to reinforce their comrades. It was almost certain that Nakapu would end up in Nagakin's hands, and the DarkStar fleet was completely helpless. All the officers a level lower hurriedly took over command of the fleet and repeated Nakapu's orders to retreat. They then made use of the opportunity where the attention of the Godora fleet was attracted by their flagship and ran for their lives.
On the other side, the DarkStar assault forces had also broken free from the forty or so Godoran battleships and escaped in a different direction.
The DarkStar fleet abandoned their flagship and escaped with their tails between their legs. Only the flagship was left behind, deep within the enemy formation like a bunch of hunting dogs surrounding a lonely wolf.
The BlackLight Stealth hovered not too far away, and Han Xiao did not join in the fun. With Nagakin causing destruction within the interior of the ship, there was no need for him to take action. At this moment, he had his attention on something else.
”Risda, are you able to connect to DarkStar's main system through the enemy's AI and infiltrate DarkStar's main database?”
Han Xiao stroked his chin as he pondered. All the spaceships in the same organization would usually use a child AI from the main system so that it would be easier to manage the entire battle. Just like how Phillip was in charge of controlling ten or so spaceships in his mercenary group. As long as a spaceship was equipped with Phillip's duplicate microchip, Phillip would be able to open up a new channel of operation.
The child AI would be related to the main AI. Usually, a DarkStar mothership would use a main AI, and all the subsidiary spaceships under its command would use the mothership's child AI. If they are able to track the communication route between the two systems, they might be able to lock onto the position of a DarkStar mothership and find their coordinates in the vast universe.
Risda's voice sounded like a bucket of cold water. ”Not possible. Before the enemy's AI was paralyzed, it cut off all its connection with the main system. This is a very common way to prevent infiltration from the enemy. The AI of the other spaceships check its identification number and ensure that the connection is trusted before allowing it to reconnect with the main system.”
”DarkStar is still extremely careful.” Han Xiao nodded. This was an extremely simple method. If there were two spaceships, A and B, that used the same child AI, the moment A noticed that it had been infiltrated, it would automatically cut off all connections with the main system. It would not be able to share any data with the main system, and the main system would not be able to determine A's position and status.
After A solved its infiltration problem, if B's data its within its range, the child AI of B would automatically evaluate A's AI. Only after ensuring that A was safe would B send the signal back to the main system and allow A to connect back to the main system. Currently, the flagship that had been left behind had naturally severed all of its connections, so it would be impossible to infiltrate the main system.
DarkStar made use of such a system in order to protect the coordinates of its mothership. The Great Mechanic Han was not the only Mechanic Hacker in the universe, and there were plenty of them all around the universe. DarkStar needed to guard against this point.
While he found it to be a bit of a waste, Han Xiao was not too disappointed. If it was this easy to lock on to DarkStar's position, DarkStar would have been long destroyed by Godora.
While he did not take a very long time to paralyze the enemy's flagship, Han Xiao's hacking skills was far from being able to easily infiltrate an enemy spaceship. Risda was an important assistant of his, and the efficiency of this AI lifeform was extremely high. It was far superior to Phillip and greatly strengthened Han Xiao's skill judgement.
It was a pity that Risda was a free man… er, free AI and did not belong to him. Who knew when he would be able to strengthen Phillip to be on the same level as Risda? Stroking his chin, he wondered if he could get Risda to help raise Phillip's level.
After all, the one who understood AIs the most would be an AI. The growth of Risda's species would be determined by the exchange of data and upgrading each other's software. If that was the case, Risda should be able to help Phillip optimize his structure.
Ginette and Sylvia stared at each other. One of them was a Cannon Master, and the other was a Mechanical Pugilist. Hearing a Mechanic and an AI lifeform having a conversation about Artificial Intelligence, they felt a great upgrade in their intelligence.
Sylvia felt as though she had forgotten about something. After pondering for a long while, she came to a realization. She had been too busy being shocked previously, and it was time for her to vomit for a while.
After waiting for a moment, Nagakin finally sent news about his success. He had successfully taken control of the enemy's flagship. Han Xiao and Barette both boarded the enemy's flagship and saw Nagakin in the control room, together with a large bunch of captured DarkStar members.
”Well done! Truly the famous Officer Nagakin.” Barette was overjoyed.
Nagakin waved his hands and calmly replied, ”This isn't my merit. It is all thanks to Black Star. If not for him paralyzing the enemy's spaceship, it would have been impossible for me to unleash my strength. He is the one with the biggest merit.”
”Haha, you are right,” Barette said with a smile. ”Black Star truly lives up to his name.”
”It's nothing. I didn't do much,” Han Xiao replied humbly.
After a short conversation, everyone got to work and calculated their gains and losses.
Godora had lost fewer than ten battleships and destroyed a similar number of enemy battleships. Furthermore, they had been able to capture an enemy flagship together with its command team. They would be able to interrogate these members after this and find out about DarkStar's plans. Together with Black Star taking care of the ten or so assault battleships that had appeared suddenly, they had earned a huge amount in this battle!
After suffering from plenty of losses, Godora had finally achieved a victory. The War Bureau could finally heave a sigh of relief.
Nakapu looked up, and his gaze swept over the control room. Barette? A radical commander who had been played a fool by him and could not enter his sights. Nagakin? A famous high-ranking member of the War Bureau. While powerful, he was not the deciding factor in this battle.
Finally, Nakapu's gaze landed on Han Xiao like a nail. This was the person who had decided the result of the battle!
Nakapu felt that his loss was due to the underestimation of Black Star's strength. If not for a problem with their intel, the assault force would have easily ambushed Planet Aquamarine and escaped. At the same time, he would have been able to escape as well.
He had never imagined that he would be caught.
”A single mistake cost us the entire battle…” Nakapu's eyes turned dim. He knew that there was no chance for him to make a comeback.
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In the last three minutes of the DarkStar fleet's escape, the loss of their flagship and the news of Nakapu being captured was quickly sent back to DarkStar's headquarters. This was the first time that they had suffered a loss in an ambush mission, and the attention of the upper echelons was immediately drawn.