According to Furls's plan, the "Tempest" was simply modified, temporarily sealing the main gun launch port and spraying a striking aqua blue livery in gray to look like an old ship. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

These changes were made to adapt to the new identity of the "escort warship". According to the regulations of various countries, retired old warships can be used as civilian escorts, and the only requirement is that the bow main gun and stern secondary gun must be removed, and only the side turret can be retained as a defensive weapon. Originally, the "Tempest" only had a main gun and no secondary gun, so by temporarily sealing the main gun, it could be disguised as if the main gun had been removed.

In the same way, mobile suits can also be converted to civilian use, the key is that there are restrictions on models and generations, and the third- and fourth-generation models in service are not allowed to be converted to civilian use, and only the second-generation mass-produced models are legal civilian models. Perhaps in a few years, the completely decommissioned third-generation model will also be developed for civilian use.

Naturally, the three super models on the "Tempest" could not be legal, and they were also the most camouflaged part of the trip. Monica, though, doesn't think it's a big problem.

First of all, it is impossible for the UAC border inspectors who are too beautiful to think that the "Tempest" will arrogantly appear in front of them in the form of a warship, and these border inspectors basically inspect civilian spacecraft on a daily basis, and they have very few warships in contact. Those regular warships that are too beautiful to fix wormholes basically have specially approved passage permits, and it is impossible for them to be inspected by border inspection personnel.

So in the absence of comparison, at first glance the three mobile suits are generally tall, and it is really not easy for border inspectors to see that these are super models.

Of course, the necessary camouflage still has to be done. The first thing to change was the Super Model's personalized livery, with all three Mobile Suits being replaced with grey liveries for escort ships and the security company logo being sprayed.

At the same time, Lao Qiu put away the particle light knives of the three super models, leaving only the alloy saber, and replaced them with 40mm particle beam rifles, completely disguised as the weapons and equipment of the mass production machine.

At that time, Monica will use the awakening ability "illusion" to make the border inspectors misjudge the height of the three super models, and basically get through the customs in confusion.

The general idea of the plan is this, and the details will have to be adjusted slowly and according to the situation during the implementation process.

With the assistance of the new African intelligence officer, Zuabi, Monica quickly arranged the trip to the Tempest. This time, they will pass through the UAC occupation zone and join a makeshift caravan as hired escort ships.

Quickly make your way to HM02 in the UAC Occupation Zone, where the caravan will depart for the New American system.

HM02 is adjacent to the habitable planet Cape of Good Hope, which is an early development area of the New African Galaxy, where a large number of industrial and mining enterprises and trading companies set up operations, and tens of thousands of ships of thousands of caravans fly to other galaxies and star fields every year. And the "Tempest" joined only one of the ordinary caravans, and caravans like this HM02 sent out at least three per day. This also led to a shortage of escort forces, and each caravan could summon a limited number of escort ships.

Although there were only 3 mobile suits on board the "Tempest", which seemed to the caravan to be insufficient, its charges were relatively low, and the cost performance was higher than that of other escort warships, and it was successfully accepted.

Merchants will calculate that the number of mobile suits on the "Tempest" is two fewer than that of other destroyers, but the fee is only 60% of the others. The caravan consisted of twenty merchant ships, and had already hired four destroyers belonging to the same security company at a cost of about four million UAC$. Now they have to pay an average of 30,000 UAC$ per ship, which can make one more escort warship.

The caravan knew that the Tempest had only three Mobile Suits, but the pirates who might appear on the voyage did not. A caravan with five warships to escort the caravan would certainly not dare to provoke a small pirate alone, and even a medium-sized pirate fleet would have to weigh whether it could afford to lose.

Only large pirate fleets with double-digit warships would dare to strike at them. But on the main channel, where a large pirate fleet dares to come, it is easy to attract the encirclement and suppression of the UAC fleet. The large pirate hulls are usually more than willing to step on the spot to attack the remote civilian space cities.

Spending an extra 600,000 UAC$ is like buying an accident insurance, which is not only willing by the members of the caravan, but also by the security company that escorts it.

Of course, there is an important premise here, that is, the security company to which the "Tempest" belongs is credible and has no bad track record in the past. Without this prerequisite, no one would dare to ask for them, no matter how low the fee is.

After the caravan departed, the route chosen was naturally the main channel of WG1, which connects the Cape of Good Hope and Taifei WH. The last time the "Tempest" came to WG1 was more than two years ago, and the purpose was to focus on training several talented Awoken pilots for the "Quasi-Ace Squad" program.

At that time, the "Tempest" basically maintained an optically invisible posture and rarely showed its true face in front of people. Who wanted to come to this star field again in two years, but they swaggered and berthed directly at the WG1 shipping center in their original form.

Time has passed, and the 9th Fleet of the UAC New African System Front, which was stationed in WG1 at that time, has now been relegated to a local garrison fleet and sent to a remote star field in the rear to garrison. No one here can recognize this gray-painted destroyer as the "Tempest" of SC0105 WG1.

Although no one recognized the "perpetrator" of that year, the "Tempest" successively defeated several formations of the 9th Fleet in the airspace near the shipping center, and its deeds are still talked about today. Even the caravan joined by the "Tempest" docked at the WG1 shipping center, and many crew members who came here for the first time took pictures to show that they had come to the battlefield of the "Tempest" battle against the 9th Fleet.

Of course, the "Tempest" will be so famous, thanks to the "Storm", the stream-of-consciousness super ace, with the sinking of the "New Asia" in Taiya WH, his past deeds are becoming a legendary growth history, highly sought after by the world, and his fans are all over the five major galaxies and four major countries, with a number of up to nine figures.

In the new European Union, which has little to do with him, there is even a film and television company that intends to make a war film based on him. If it weren't for the fact that his identity and status were too sensitive, and the new EU government stopped it in time, maybe this film would have been released within a year or two, and the main content of the story was the battle of Taiya WH "Killing New Asia" that caused a sensation for all mankind.

Although the filming of this film has been put on hold indefinitely, "storm fans" believe that sooner or later they will wait for a film that depicts the life and deeds of their idols, and with Fengyu's colorful war experience, the film will definitely not be one or two, but a series of epic blockbusters, which make people want to stop.

At this moment, Fengyu, a modern-day legend, was quietly staying in the bridge of the "Tempest", waiting for the caravan to complete its supplies and set off as soon as possible.

According to the voyage plan, the caravan will next pass through the Taifei WH fixed wormhole, and then fly non-stop to Taimei WH without stopping, and return to the mainland of the New American galaxy before making the next stop of replenishment.

At both ends of the WH wormhole, the nearest TA1 field on the Milky Way side is 4.3 light-years away, while the WA1 shipping center on the New American side is only 1.7 light-years away from the wormhole. For caravans, it is the most economical option to go straight to Taifei WH, and it is a waste of time to go to TA1 on a special trip.

It is also because of the poor geographical location of TA1 that its status is far less prosperous than TF1 on this side of the galaxy, and the throughput is less than 20% of TF1. Even ships heading to the New American system from the Earth Federation may not berth here, and only merchant ships coming from the direction of Earth will choose to dock at TA1 for replenishment.

In comparison, WA1 on the other side of the wormhole has 2.5 times the number of ships that TA1 can handle. This imbalance cannot even change the situation under the government's macroeconomic control, and the objective market law determines that TA1 is destined to prosper.

It took two months for a caravan to fly from WG1 to WA1, which is almost the limit of interstellar voyages. All military and civilian ships are designed to carry supplies for no more than two months, and the "Tempest" is no exception.

At the speed of the Tempest, it would have taken only 13 days to complete the voyage, and there would have been no pressure on supplies at all. However, in order to cooperate with the "turtle speed" civilian spacecraft that still uses the second-generation jump engine, they can only slow down.

This is also a lot of pressure for the Tempest, if Furles's plan fails, they will not be able to fool around, and the daily supplies on board the ship will not be enough to support their return to any of the galaxy's star fields.

Fuel is not an issue, and the space used by fusion fuel used by ships in this era is very limited and almost negligible. Food and fresh water are not a big problem, people can't die without food or drink for a day or two, and the speed of the "Tempest" can ensure that it can reach the nearby TA1 within a day or two for replenishment.

The biggest problem is that the air circulation system in the ship can only maintain normal operation for two months, and if you don't breathe, you will definitely die.

In other words, the act of fooling around is one that can only succeed and not fail.