With the efforts of John, the chief officer of the Engineering Department, and the robot Isaac, using backup power and some means, Ed finally temporarily restored the communication and monitoring of the entire Orville ship, and soon passed the broadcast
This method let all the surviving crew members on the ship know what happened, and ordered those who were unable to resist to find a nearby place to take refuge or hide in their own rooms and lock the hatches.
Next!
Ed mobilized and organized at least hundreds of soldiers and officers through communications, and asked them to form several armed attack teams. Before the situation worsened and became completely uncontrollable, Tara, Pettus and Zheng
Together with little Annie who was squealing out of boredom with nothing to do, according to the instructions of the surveillance, they quickly used the stun mode of the weapon to kill all the mutant crew monsters entrenched on all decks and in the energy room, and then gave them to them all.
They were put in some controlled shackles and locked up.
Then, after completely controlling the strange monster on the ship and preventing the spread of chaos, the crew members were able to come out of their hiding places again and began to nervously invest in the investigation of what had become.
The authority crisis set by Lieutenant General Christie, the monster boss, is being dealt with.
Ed is not worried that there are more monsters hidden on the ship, because as the captain, he knows better than anyone else how many people are on his ship, and he only needs to count the number of surviving crew members and passengers, and then add them
The number of monsters that have been arrested is basically eliminated. There is absolutely no need to continue to clean and search the entire Orville multiple times.
"??"
(°ー°〃)
Not long after, when Anne returned to the bridge for the second time, she was surprised to find that the bridge was still under light control, so that many of the holographic screens in front of the crew consoles in the bridge were not turned on.
Are you just using the minimum amount of electricity and working?
"It's been a long time and you still haven't done it yet?"
(??ˇεˇ??)
"Still using backup power?"
(???.???)????
So, feeling a little strange and dissatisfied, she asked directly and unhappily.
She just worked so hard to clean up the monsters for these guys in order to return to the entertainment room as soon as possible to play games, but in the end, they were lucky. It had been almost half an hour, and they were still lingering here?
"Want to do it well?"
"It's not that easy!"
"Lieutenant General Christie has very high authority. He directly shut down and locked the entire Orville. Even the backup power supply and communication functions were performed by me bypassing the authority he set."
"It will take quite some time to completely restore the Orville."
"And someone still needs to drive a shuttle boat to the outer deck of the Orville to replace a certain piece of equipment!"
"Fortunately, we still have a spare component on board the Orville. It was originally used to restart the Orville in an emergency. I'm afraid we will have to rely on it to temporarily bypass the obstacles set by the Lieutenant General."
"besides!"
"I'm not sure it's 100% effective!"
John, the busy chief of the engineering department, answered Anne's questions without raising his head, and at the same time told one of his solutions.
Of course, now is not the time to change. They still need to eliminate some difficulties and bypass some permissions. After all, their current behavior is similar to forming a group to steal a Planet Alliance starship. Fortunately, this is not the territory of the Planet Alliance.
Otherwise, a large number of Alliance starships would have flown over to watch their Orville.
"What a mess!"
(??_?)
"Uncle Ed!"
(??ˇ?ˇ??)
"Restarting the Orville doesn't even allow you, the captain, to do it?"
!(;?o?)o
Hearing that it might take a long time and the effect was not guaranteed, Anne became even more dissatisfied and turned directly to a certain idiot Uncle Ed who was still sitting in his seat and asked.
"no!"
"Look at my epaulettes, what do you see?"
Ed shook his head with a wry smile and pointed to his shoulder.
"Epaulettes?"
く(＾_?)ゝ
"Four bars, he is a good student, what's wrong?"
(゜-゜)
Annie scratched her head, expressing some confusion.
"What kind of good student?"
"never mind!"
"What I mean is: Although I am the captain of the Orville and a commander in blue, Lieutenant General Christie is an officer in purple and gold, and my authority cannot exceed his!"
"Do you understand?"
Although Ed didn't understand what Anne meant by 'good student', that didn't stop him from explaining the ruthless fact that Lieutenant General Christie had a higher rank than him and had far more authority than he, the captain.
"??"
(???.???)????
"So what about purple clothes?"
(??ˇ?ˇ??)
"Shouldn't you be the biggest captain on the ship?"
(??ˇεˇ??)
"He is an old civilian who was temporarily sent to negotiate, and I heard that he was a professor of medicine before, and he is not your direct fleet commander. Why can he just shut down the entire ship?"
(ー`′ー)
Blinking, Annie still didn't understand why this happened.
She is not an ordinary child, nor is she from Class 2, she is the head of the Federation of Heroes. Although she almost never does anything and only gives orders, she still knows some of the rules and regulations.
For example, if it were her Koprulu sector, a bad old man like that from outside should never have the authority to go there, no matter how high his military rank is, if he is not in a combat command position or part of the fleet he belongs to.
Directly control or control a certain battleship!
"Well..."
"You're right, in theory it's true!"
"But because the mission of the Orville this time is to explore the unknown star field, and Lieutenant General Christie is assigned by the Planetary Alliance Command to accompany the ship, even if he has the authority, he will not interfere too much with the command, but who knows?
Is this happening?"
Shaking his head, Ed, who knew what Annie meant, just answered with a bitter look on his face.
"What a mess!"
(????)
"really!"
(?╭╮?)
"There is something wrong with your Planetary Alliance system!"
(ˉ▽￣~)Cut~~
Listening to the other party's answer, the more she thought about it, the more ridiculous she felt, so she simply turned her face away, and at the same time sneered without hesitation.
Anyway, this was the first time she had encountered an outsider coming into a battleship, taking control of it, and then letting a whole group of people on the ship, including the former captain, stare at her, and no matter how she thought about it, she thought it was a bit outrageous?
"really!"
“I also very much agree with the system!”
"Just like I have said many times, it is best for the Alliance Council not to concentrate all weapons supplies on the planet Mokres?"
Rarely, Ed did not refute this time and fully supported Anne's statement.
"But they just won't listen, so what can I do?"
"I'm just a little captain, a captain, not even a general. It's not my turn to dictate the operation of the Planetary Alliance."
But support is useless, because it doesn't make much sense for them to discuss that kind of thing here, and it doesn't help solve the current predicament.
Therefore, after Ed finished speaking and slumped his shoulders with a wry smile, he had no choice but to continue waiting behind John and anxiously staring at his progress.
In this situation, they can't control anything except the small shuttle boat they drove out before.
"..."
(?~?)
Anne was silent.
Because she knew that these guys would definitely not allocate any power to her exclusive entertainment room in this situation, and even her room would definitely still be pitch black, so besides staying on the bridge, she
Besides, there seems to be no other better place to go?
"Call the infirmary!"
"Claire!"
"How's the situation?"
"Have you found an effective antidote?!"
Seeing that Annie no longer continued to pester, Ed waited for a while. After seeing that John was indeed unable to quickly solve the current predicament of the Orville, he thought for a while and pressed a button on his seat.
button and started asking about another thing that he was also concerned about.
'terribly sorry!'
'Captain, the power in the infirmary is seriously insufficient and progress is very slow.'
The next second, the chief medical officer's voice sounded from a player next to the captain's position, but there was only voice and no image. This shows that the Orville's power supply is now very tight.
'Based on the two current patients who have provided research, I only know that there is not much DNA left of their own in their bodies, and they almost...'
'Almost genetically transformed into a completely different kind of creature?'
'The situation is terrible and terrible!'
'Anyway!'
'I need more power, and the medical analyzer needs more power distribution to find the right medical solution as quickly as possible!'
After a pause, the chief medical officer Claire, who seemed to be busy at work, spoke again and begged Captain Ed in an almost pleading tone.
"no!"
"The Orville is temporarily unable to restore power. Please try to control their condition based on the current conditions."
"complete!"
Ed didn't say anything more and resolutely rejected Claire's request.
Because the Orville's backup power is now allocated to important places such as communications, radar, and the bridge, even the power for the life support and respiratory systems has been diverted for other uses, and now the ventilation system on the ship has stopped operating.
After a while, the air gradually began to become turbid. Where could he go to find electricity distribution for the other party?
Until the permissions set by Lieutenant General Christie were completely removed or completely bypassed, he really had nothing to do.
"!
"
"Oh no!"
At this time, before Ed could think any more, the helmsman Gordon, who was busy with something unknown, suddenly exclaimed.
"captain!"
"Long-range passive optical scanner detects a starship!"
"yes……"
"It's that weird red spaceship, exactly the same as the previous biological space station!"
Then, he once again confirmed that it was not a misjudgment. At the same time, he also immediately enlarged the screen of the strange starship 10 million kilometers away and projected it onto the large porthole of the bridge. Then he turned his head towards the same person in horror.
Captain Ed, who was so nervous that he stood up from his seat, reported this.
"Ten million kilometers away!"
"It's getting closer!"
A mere 10 million kilometers is actually not that far away, just a dozen Earth-month distances. Even if the Orville has not activated the energy-consuming active quantum radar, that distance is just the most basic low-energy radar.
Energy-consuming light radar can also easily capture it.
"this……"
"damn it!"
"John!"
"How soon can we use quantum drive?!"
After exclaiming in surprise and seeing that it was indeed that red thing, Captain Ed, knowing that something was wrong, immediately asked John, the chief officer of the engineering department who was troubleshooting urgently.
"No chance!"
After turning his head in frustration and giving Captain Ed an expression that was uglier than crying, John answered honestly.
"We can't be faster than it!"
"Even if it uses inertia now, it can come faster than we can troubleshoot!"
Everyone knows that the Orville's current condition is definitely not suitable for combat!
Because its energy room is still blocked by the lieutenant general's authority, with the backup power, let alone the main gun, shield and quantum engine, it can't even travel at sub-light speed, let alone go and fight with it.
A starship of unknown origin and unknown force entered into battle.
In fact, their Orville is afraid that they can't even do anything about a cargo ship now. If they encounter space scavengers, they might be fished out by others and then dismantled and sold for scrap metal?
"..."
Hearing what John said, Ed immediately shut up and his face instantly turned as stinking as possible.
Obviously he also knew what kind of bad situation the Orville would face next.
If the distance of 10 million kilometers were replaced by the Orville, even if it sailed at sub-light speed, it would only take a few minutes for the other party to arrive, and they wanted to eliminate obstacles and restore the minimum quantum navigation capability.
, I’m afraid it will still take half a day?
"It's over, it's over!"
"That……"
"What are we going to do next?"
"What else can we do? Of course we have to fight those monsters!"
"That's right!"
"We must not allow monsters like them to board the ship!"
"well said!"
"Even if I die, even if I get sunk, I will never turn into that disgusting monster!"
"captain!"
"Give the order quickly!
"
"Shall we arm all the crew?"
"captain?"
At this time, knowing that the situation was urgent and even reaching the last moment, the rest of the crew members on the bridge started making noises excitedly and shouted to Captain Ed who was sitting silently to fight.
I want him to order everyone to make a final resistance inside the ship.
"..."
Ed didn't speak.
He knew that the best thing for them to do now was to escape quickly, but... currently only the shuttle boat they had when they returned from the investigation could be used, and it could carry up to thirty people into the Quill airspace.
That's all, and the rest are afraid that they can only wait to die, and he can't decide who should die and who should live.
"!
"
"Oh no!"
"captain!"
"Annie's Gundam is out!"
At this time, Gordon discovered that the hatch of the Orville's boarding gate was opened. Then, as soon as he detected it, he discovered that it was Annie's red humanoid mecha. He also captured the opponent's departure from the ship.
and flew out at high speed.
"??"
"When did she run out?"
"have no idea……"
"Don't worry about it, we can be saved anyway."
"yes!"
"Although our battleship has no energy and the fighter planes cannot take off, Annie's Gundam can!"
"Um!"
"Her weapons are not the same system as the Orville at all, and they are not affected at all!"
"Very good!"
"We are all saved!"
"Isn't it?"
"Little Annie is a great hero who single-handedly sank dozens of Kailon mechanical battleships during the Earth Defense War. A mere starship is no problem to her at all!"
"fine!"
"Haha! Fortunately she is not in the same system as us, otherwise, she would be sleeping together like that new fighter plane now."
"God bless!"
"Woo..."
"There's hope now!"
After hearing Gordon's words and seeing the red mecha attacking, including First Officer Kelly, she also cheered happily along with the other officers in the bridge, and the ugly expression on her face disappeared.
It has calmed down a bit.
"Everyone!"
"I'm more worried about that!"
"What if she destroys that battleship, attracts more enemy ships, and then causes the Planetary Alliance to start a war with the other party's forces?"
"The threat of Kairon robots has not been eliminated yet. Is it possible that we will bring new enemies to the alliance?"
At this time, unlike the behavior of others, Captain Ed was neither too happy nor unhappy. Instead, he looked troubled and asked with a frown.
"!
"
"Can you contact Anne?"
"How about we just let her drive away the enemies?"
After hearing what Ed said, First Officer Kelly quickly reacted and felt it made sense, so she hurriedly asked Gordon.
Although the current situation is that the other party attacked the Orville first, but since it was the Orville that entered this strange star field first and they know nothing about it, it is very likely that it is really someone else's airspace?
Therefore, from a legal point of view, no matter what the other party plans to do, it is completely defensible. On the contrary, the Orville will be the party at the disadvantage.
"no!"
"The off-ship communication function is not available yet!"
With just a little effort, the beautiful second lieutenant communications officer sitting next to John turned his head on the spot and said something awkward.
"Then there's nothing I can do!"
So, Kelly looked at Ed helplessly and gave him a complicated look.
"There is a way!"
"We can go to the shuttle and use its communicator to contact Annie!"
Frowning, Ed stated his method, but he didn't decide whether to do it or not.
"late!"
"Annie and the enemy are within combat distance!"
At this time, following Gordon's exclamation, everyone saw from the optical passive detection radar: in the dark starry sky in the distance, as the strange starship rapidly approached, Annie's
Only the engine behind it glowed slightly. Red Jean took the lead and opened fire.
"ah!"
"The enemy starship's shield blocked Annie's pair of ship particle cannon attacks!"
"Pity……"
"not good!"
"The enemy counterattacked!
"
"call!"
"so far so good!"
"That guy Annie escaped..."
"ah?!"
"Annie...her mecha pulled out a ship-killing knife?"
"She gave up her long-range attack!"
"She rushed over!"
"She rushed over!
"
"?!"
"marvelous!"
"The enemy's starship was hit by her, and it started to disconnect!
"
"we won!
!”
In the bridge of the Orville, helmsman Gordon's startled and not at all professional explanation and cheers rang out first.
"Great!"
"here you go!"
"marvelous!
"
"I knew it!
"
"Victory!"
"That's it!
"
"Ha ha!"
"The enemy dares to come with just one warship. Who do they look down upon?"
"that is!
"
Immediately afterwards, after it was confirmed that Anne had indeed easily cut off the approaching strange warship with one person and one machine and had indeed won the victory, it took a while before the thunderous cheers of others rang out in the bridge.
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Chapter completed!