StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

In the third week, Augustus' class began to formally learn how to operate the CMC-200 power armor. To be honest, the first try made them feel extremely disappointed.

The power armor used for training is all old models that have been eliminated from the battlefield. The surface of the armor is covered with scratches and marks left by shrapnel. Some parts of the armor are seriously damaged, and the internal servo and padding are covered with a layer of frost. of soot.

Armor mutilations were so common that recruits had some understanding of the fact that some armor was missing arms or legs.

These tattered power armors are very different from the bright steel armors on the recruitment posters, as if they are antiques from centuries ago.

After getting the power armor, Augustus had to clean the oil and soot inside, and use perfume to cover up the foot odor and sweat odor left by the previous user. And if that was disgusting enough, someone also found hardened vomit and other unspeakable objects inside his helmet.

The power armor of the Federal Marine Corps is maintained by specialized armor technicians. Usually each platoon is equipped with one armor technician and two assistants. The main force and the special tactics team will be equipped with more professional technicians, but the entire recruit training camp only has one class of technicians.

Maintenance of armor and weapons is a compulsory subject for new recruits, even if all they can actually do is polish and oil their armor.

The first thing Augustus learned was that he had to have a good relationship with the armor technicians in his team.

On the battlefield, powered armor is the only guarantee of life for Marines, and no one wants it to go wrong. If there was only one technician in his unit and there was a conflict between them, then no one would know if his power armor's life support system would suddenly fail.

Or more simply, there is an electromagnetic grenade directly in the battery unit of the power armor.

Compared with the latest experimental special-purpose armor such as the 230, 230F-X series and 250E, as well as the CMC-300 that will be installed on a large scale in the Marine Corps in the future, CMC-200 is used for cold fusion to power the servo system. The stability of the filter element is very problematic, and the failure rate fluctuates around an astonishing 0.9%.

For the unlucky old man who is trapped in this steel prison because of the shutdown of the armor's power system on the battlefield, such a failure rate is a nightmare that will happen 100% of the time.

This power armor still has many flaws from the old era, such as the fatal flaws in the connection gaps between its various armor plates. The seams between the two pieces of armor at the knees lacked strong protection, and the several-inch-thick cables of the servos and the Marine's environmental combat suit were unable to withstand bullets accelerated to supersonic speeds.

As long as the angle is right, broken shrapnel and bullets bounced off the armor may insert into the seam from above, cutting the Marine's leg in half.

At the same time, the cooling tower on the back of the CMC-200 for heat dissipation still uses mid-century technology, which makes its working efficiency far different from the latest products of the Tarsonis Brubaker military industrial enterprise.

Regardless of these shortcomings, power armor is still an epoch-making weapon in warfare. Its strong armor can ignore all small-arms firepower. All caliber rifles and shotguns in the Earth Age can only leave scratches on the armor.

They are also resistant to chemical, biological weapons and nuclear radiation. People must deal with these iron cans just like tanks and heavy armored vehicles, using anti-tank guns and heavy weapons to break the relatively fragile helmets of marines and blast the skulls of marines.

In the territory of the Tyranid Federation, local armed groups in the fringe areas usually still use the weapons that their grandfathers used for hunting, and even the most powerful automatic rifles are not enough to penetrate the protection of the Marines. First.

According to the diary of the local security officer, a company of federal marines can easily defeat a large rebel army, and it is a one-sided massacre.

It will be another century or so before marines become the most common combat force in the science sector, and it will be another century or so before power armor technology flows into the hands of private armed forces or into the hands of mercenaries and pirates.

In 2488, such technological barriers were enough for the Tyranid Federation to suppress the Kaimorian army that lacked power armor and gain an advantage in the war.

Before being exposed to these power armors, the training camp sergeant will give each recruit a power armor training manual. The compiler of the training manual was an Army general.

The admiral kindly tells the recruits at the beginning that operating the CMC series of power armor is not much more difficult than using their father's exoskeleton harvesting robot.

However, when they first put on these iron sheets, every recruit seemed to have returned to their infancy and lost the ability to walk. Beginners with uncoordinated hands and feet could not even crawl on the ground. Even the best-performing recruits could not I could only stagger a few steps.

Of course, it won't take long for the recruits to adapt to the change.

CMC power armor has a set of spine-like built-in skeletons that can bear the burden of the armor itself for the Marines inside, so that they will not be crushed by its own gravity. The use of ceramic composite armor makes the weight of the power armor itself smaller. Even the heaviest medieval full-body plate armor on Earth will not be heavier than these power armors that use fusion energy for power.

The tactile feedback system inside the power armor ensures that the Marines can operate flexibly. It can accurately transmit the Marines' movements and other operations to the entire power through the servo system embedded under each piece of armor and connected by cables. The armor prevents Marines from dislocating or spraining human tissues due to uncoordinated reactions between various parts of the power armor and the human body.

Marines must go through constant training to make the power armor truly become a part of their bodies, so that hundreds of pounds of armor can be used as easily as skin.

This is no easy task for the Federation recruits who are new to these new toys, but fortunately they still have a full eight weeks to learn how to skillfully operate the power armor. Based on experience and data, even the dumbest recruits can make the armor a part of their bodies within two weeks.

Both the training manual and the virtual noncommissioned officer in charge of recruit training emphasize the same point: If you can't make power armor your external organ, your third and fourth hands and feet in a short period of time, it will bury you. 's grave.

Augustus has never touched any harvesting robots. His only impression of the power armor of the Terran human marines in the Koprulu sector comes from Tychus in the CG version of StarCraft 2 Wings of Liberty.

Like all other recruits, Augustus acted like a drunken duck when he first donned his power armor.

Although Augustus didn't believe that the veterans were born to operate power armor, they were still scolded by the instructor who supervised them: My eighty-year-old grandmother can dance ballet in this suit!

In the eyes of the instructors, the ugly behavior of the recruits is as incredible as a newborn fish that cannot swim. Faced with their roars, any complaint will be regarded as a provocation to the superiors. The only thing the recruits can say is yes, sir .yes, sir.”

If yes, sir. is not shouted loudly enough and the enunciation is not vigorous and full enough, then the instructor will immediately question whether they are energetic enough: Why can't I hear the voices of you maggots?

At this time, Augustus and his comrades could only answer in unison over and over again: We love the Marine Corps! Being a soldier is the most glorious!

We are weapons of war! We pray for death! We long for war!

For the next three weeks, the first thing the recruits do when they get up every day is to quickly tidy up their house, and then they will board a military transport truck with a personal information card with a personal number. Military transport trucks will then deliver the recruits to the power armor assembly platform in the barracks, where modularly programmed robotic arms will assemble the armor piece by piece.

The training will last all day, and they will not be able to take a short break until the recruits are too tired to move or when Colonel McBrick makes a surprise inspection of the Marine Corps' ideological teaching results.

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