For a caravan sailing on the main channel, it was relatively safe to have five warships to escort it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 However, there are no absolutes, and accidents are called accidents because no one can predict all possible emergencies in advance.

The caravan made its way through the pirate-infested New African Galaxy, and the pirates were amused, perhaps because they saw as many as five ships escorting the caravan, and they were all amusemented not to take it upon themselves. When the caravan passed through the Celestial WH wormhole and entered the galaxy, everyone thought it would be a smooth one.

At least in the past.

Before the resumption of fighting between the new European Union and the UAC in SC0102, the pirates took advantage of the cracks between the ceasefire lines and the barrier zone to hide and operate. This, combined with the fact that the two countries deliberately connived at and even cultivated pirates to harass each other's civilian installations and ships, led to an explosive increase in the pirate fleet. It was really a happy time for the pirates.

However, after Fengyu carried out the "ignition operation", the two countries went to war again, and the GS5-SG4 line was inextricably fought, and the pirates did not dare to cross from there. Once caught up in a fleet-class battle, a round of main artillery fire can be devastating for the pirates who claim to have only three or five old warships in the fleet.

However, at that time, there was still a paradise for them to hide, until SC0104, when NO airborne Earth attacked Awa-Ker's headquarters, forcing Awa-Ker to move to the Isolation Zone between the new European Union and the UAC.

The pirates have had a very strong neighbor ever since.

Immediately after entering SC0105, NO sent a fleet to try to wipe out Awa-Ker, and thus broke out the first Battle of the Barrier Zone, and finally the pirates' paradise was also involved in the war.

After Awa-ker won the battle, Fengyu began to train the Awakened pilots, and the "Storm Blue" fleet, which was still called the "Pirate" fleet at that time, went out to train its troops everywhere, and at the same time cleared the forces of the Isolated Zone Star Field, and also wiped out the genuine pirates.

This is the victory of Li Ghost against Li Kui.

Since then, the life of the new African pirates has not been easy, although there are also two isolation zone star fields between the Earth Federation and the UAC and the new European Union, but the Earth Federation claims to be permanently neutral, and there is no substantive contradiction with the two countries, the two sides coexist peacefully on the border, and jointly send fleets to carry out daily patrols, compressing the living space of pirates. The Earth Federation Army even takes the elimination of pirates as their only training opportunity, and it is really not easy for pirates to find a star field where they can settle down.

In this context, the pirates are probably in a hurry, doesn't the Earth Federation like to fight pirates so much, so they will do the opposite and transfer the nest to the galaxy. Recently, there have been frequent reports of pirate fleet movements in the galaxy, and many caravans have really suffered here.

In the past, the escort warships hired by the caravan generally only escorted the New African Galaxy segment, and once the caravan passed through the Taifei Wh, the escort was over. Then the warships of the security company were on standby at Taifei WH, waiting to do business back. Each security company has offices in Galaxy TF1, which is responsible for helping its warships to negotiate the return business.

Therefore, during that time, the utilization efficiency of escort warships was relatively high, and in a shipping cycle, a small number of warships could escort a large number of caravans to and from the New African system.

However, the situation has changed too quickly in the past two years, and a large number of pirates have suddenly sprung up in the galactic segment. Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the Earth Federation Army is low, whether it is the captain or the pilot, the actual combat experience is not even as good as that of the pirates, and the efficiency of suppressing bandits is not high, and there is even a farce of the regular fleet being defeated by the pirate fleet.

As a result, the warship escort business of various security companies had to expand to the galaxy, which led to the utilization rate of escort warships plummeting to half of the original, and the escort business became a seller's market, and the escort cost rose a lot.

Although the market economy has the ability to self-regulate, and sooner or later this situation will get better, warship escort is a technical job, and not everyone can do it. The captain is easy to find, and the captain of a civilian spaceship can be transferred with a little training. At present, the number of retired pilots recruited from the military of various countries is limited, and it is not possible to expand in a short period of time, so it is foreseeable that the warship escort business will be a tight business in a few years.

The offices of the various security companies in TF1 were now idle, and the caravan simply signed a round-trip agreement directly because the escort warship was not easy to invite, and the escort warship was chartered, and the whole journey was accompanied by it, so as not to delay the time on the return journey because the battleship could not be temporarily escorted.

For businessmen, the cost of time is sometimes more than anything else. For example, if a shipment arrives in New Africa within two months, it is a high price, and if the price plummets in the third month, it will have to lose money. They would rather invest more in transportation costs than have this uncontrollable high risk. Anyway, everyone will increase the transportation cost together, and the price will rise together, and the impact will not be great.

For this reason, Awa-ker has also quickly entered this market. On the one hand, it can create opportunities for its young pilots to practice in real combat and prepare for a full-scale war with NO in the future. On the other hand, Awa-ker also has a large number of industries involved in cross-galaxy air trade, and there are many advantages to starting a security company by yourself. At the same time, it can also arrange an identity for a warship like the "Tempest" that needs to transit in special times, such as the current situation.

For Awa-Ker, the most reasonable thing to do is to directly arrange the "Tempest" to be escorted by his own security company, and after arriving in the new American system, he will find an excuse, such as a jump engine failure that needs to be overhauled, and replace it with a new battleship. This will allow the Tempest to be smuggled into the New American system.

Unfortunately, Awa-Ker's security company has no business to the New American system in the New African galaxy in the near future, and the investigation of the third-generation GMP Kerronn cannot afford to delay, so they have to let the "Tempest" join someone else's caravan.

There are a lot of troublesome things going to do that, like now.

This hapless caravan has encountered a pirate fleet across the galaxy, and it's not your average petty pirate, it's a large pirate fleet with a full 15 warships.

In the bridge of the "Tempest", Fengyu's face became very ugly for a while. This ragtag fleet is nothing to him, even if it is 15 warships of the first-line fleet, he is not afraid, let alone the rabble in front of him.

Among the 15 warships of this pirate fleet, there are six types of ships from three countries: Giant (U), Comet, Giant (E), Dwarf, Lanthanum, and Night. Except for the Earth Federation, which claims to be permanently neutral and cannot sell obsolete warships, the previous generation of conventional destroyers of the other three countries have been assembled by them, which can be called a task force.

It is said that in the old era, there was a three countries in the South Asian subcontinent, and in order to be known as a military power, they went around buying arms from European and American countries that had been eliminated and replaced, because there were too many different systems involved, resulting in extremely difficult and chaotic logistical support. Fortunately, the warships of the new European Union and the new Asia are modeled on the UAC with slight modifications, and the accessories and parts can basically be mixed, otherwise I really don't know what to do with their logistics support and maintenance.

Although Fengyu looked down on these pirates, this huge pirate fleet was an extremely formidable opponent for the other 4 warships escorting the ship. According to preliminary estimates, the pirate fleet has about 20 mobile squadrons, which is five times the number of escort warships. Even if the security company hires retired pilots who have been on the battlefield and seen blood, with an average of more than 20 crashes, they are still unable to face an opponent of this size.

In this case, should the "Tempest" make a move?

As an escort warship, it is obviously unreasonable for the "Tempest" not to make a move. And once the caravan is routed, their hope of passing through the border under cover is also lost.

But if you send those three super models, or even just one of them, together with those second-generation production models under the command of the security company, no matter how low-key the livery, anyone can see that these mobile suits are extraordinary.

20 meters minus 16 meters, the height difference of 4 meters is clear at a glance!