The fleet stayed on Lighthouse for two days, receiving various exploration equipment from Tarrokov, and huge alloy containers were transported by ground transport vehicles to the Black Star Legion's transports and stacked neatly.

These are all exploration materials equipped with the Empire, such as stargate equipment, dumb planetary fortress expansion packs, space monitoring buoys to improve star maps and provide dynamic environmental monitoring functions, etc., all of which are military equipment, and do not circulate in the regular interstellar market, and at most occasionally appear on the black market.

Han Xiao asked Philip to take an inventory, and he received about five hundred sets of stargate equipment, six thousand fool-type planetary fortress expansion packs, and 15 billion cosmic monitoring buoys, not to give them to him, but to borrow mission props, which were enough to use for a while.

In addition, Tarrokov sent an Imperial fleet to temporarily join the Black Star Legion to assist him in his exploration of the Gaul Cluster, commanded by a major general officer under Tarrokov named Seniko.

Tarrokov sits on the Lighthouse Star as the commander-in-chief, and the several imperial fleets sent by him have their own commanders, Senike is Tarrokov's descendant, and he is also one of the imperial cadres stationed in the shining world in Han Xiao's memory, which is a bit impressive.

Because they are partners in the future exploration period, Han Xiao and Senike met and talked and reached a simple consensus on cooperation, Senike said that he would not interfere with the exploration plan of the Black Star Legion, and they mainly assisted.

After two days of preparation, the commander-in-chief finally announced the start of the official operation. The fleets entrenched in Lighthouse have parted ways to go to the cluster of their choice.

The Reynor Cluster is explored by the War Realm and Krent, the Gaul Cluster by the Black Star Legion, and the Ringed Cluster by the remaining Imperial fleets. In contrast, the Clearing Crown Ring Cluster has the most manpower, while the Gaul Cluster has the least.

The fleet of the Black Star Legion and the fleet of Senicor traveled to the southernmost border system of the Gaul Star Cluster.

Before leaving, Han Xiao had already informed all members of the legion's exploration plan, including millions of players.

He put all kinds of tasks on the list of faction tasks, from exploring planets to laying buoys, etc., which were subdivided into different areas, and there were many tasks, but each of them had a limited number of people for millions of Legion players to choose from.

All kinds of exploration tasks have caused discussion on the forum, because the mechanism of the main quest of the shining world is a point system, which is divided into individual points and all points, and different exploration jobs give different points, depending on the actual gain, only after completing the total to know how many points to give, at this time players can only guess and analyze, but still enjoy it.

On the forum, players generally believe that exploring the planet is theoretically the most profitable, and there are points for discovering resources, discovering life, archaeological planet history, mining resources and other behaviors, and the process is full of unknown fun.

In the eyes of players, other tasks such as setting up monitoring buoys, erecting star gates, and building stronghold transfer stations are all hard work, and the least number of people are currently chosen.

Han Xiao knew that after the players figured out the process of exploration, the guilds would begin to fight openly and secretly, and the big guild hoped to use the resource-rich planet as the guild's resource point, although it could only get a small part of the total amount of resource extraction, which was only equivalent to rubbing a little oil and water, but in terms of the player's average wealth level, it was already extremely rich.

In the previous life, there were two important reasons for players from all over the world to fight, namely faction fighting and competing for planetary resource points. And now, millions of players belong to their own faction, and there will be no faction fighting, so competing for resource points is the only reason.

Han Xiao knew that in order to compete for various planets with rare resources, guilds competed fiercely, and guild wars broke out frequently, grabbing each other's "territory", although it had not yet reached that stage, he knew it in his heart, especially at this time there were clubs and guilds of different countries within the legion, and competition would inevitably occur.

He promotes the socialization of new and old players, and another purpose is to take precautions and minimize the impact of competition between national guilds on ordinary players, who cannot avoid playing against each other for fun, and what he prevents is that there is an obvious hostile mentality between ordinary players, so he uses two tasks to brush up on the contribution of the faction to promote players from all countries to actively make friends.

As long as there are no obvious cracks among internal players, the guild competition will not be a loss for him, anyway, the player's equipment will have to be repaired if it is broken, but it will promote consumption.

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The fleets of each side sailed for a number of days, and each entered its predetermined position to officially start their respective exploration work.

The Black Star Legion exploration team traveled to the southernmost border galaxy of the Gaul Star Cluster and built the first transit station to connect to the Dawn Cluster according to the plan.

The engineering forces used a fool-proof planet fortress expansion on a barren planet on the edge of the galaxy - the transport ship opened the drop bay, and hundreds of thousands of giant mechanical pedestals with their own space thrusters flew out, looking like steel nails - these were fortress nodes.

The fortress nodes are arranged on their own in the outer space of the planet, and the nodes are evenly spaced, forming a large net that envelops the entire planet.

Immediately afterward, the thrusters of these fortress nodes spewed out a surging orange tail flame, breaking through outer space, like hundreds of thousands of space-based gravity weapons, and landed on the surface of the planet, all of which were deeply inserted into the earth's crust, raising boundless dust.

In the next step, all the fortress nodes are activated, and the top glows with a crimson light, and begins to transform the planet's atmospheric environment and terrain and landforms, each node is shaking, bursting out a ring of shockwaves, causing rumbling earthquakes, tearing through the underground rock formations, and pouring a large number of metal structures.

Silvery and gray metals continue to extend from the nodes, spreading across the earth, covering the soil and turning the planet into a metallic surface. According to the preset program, these engineering alloys with nano-transformation capabilities are automatically deformed and assembled, and bases, fortresses, and warehouses are erected.

Dozens of hours later, the initial transformation was completed, and the yellow-black barren planet had been transformed into a silver-gray planetary fortress, which became the first stronghold of the Gaul Star Cluster.

The Imperial Engineer Ship was not idle, dragging huge stargate parts with a towing beam to assemble the stargate next to this stronghold.

The unopened stargate looks like a huge hollow mechanical ring, and when activated, the inner ring of the mechanical ring lights up with blue light like an indicator light in turn, releasing spatial energy, and connecting to one of the stargates near the lighthouse star according to the set coordinates.

After completing the activation process, the hollow part of the mechanical ring transforms into a wormhole-like blue vortex, turning into a complete stargate.

Except for the troops who stayed behind to build a stronghold, the others dispersed, some of them went to the surrounding area to set up space monitoring buoys, and some of them went to explore unknown planets.

A galaxy is divided into about ten sectors, and at this time, the large forces of the Black Star Legion begin to explore the first sector.

According to the plan, Han Xiao sent a task force, led by Hardaway, to act alone with one hundred and fifty sets of stargate equipment, with the goal of crossing more than a dozen systems to the east of the Gaolu star cluster and establishing a long-distance stargate channel.

The ships configured by the task force are all high-speed high-speed transport ships, with a limit of 14.1 warp speed, and it takes about four months to cross such a long distance to reach the destination.

Once the task force has established a long-distance stargate passage, the four-month journey can be shortened to a few hours - because it is not a direct stargate, and there is a dozen galaxies in between, it will require a little extra travel time.

Countless legion members worked together, and Han Xiao himself was not idle, he took the main ship, took a group of normal legion soldiers and legion players, and went to explore a planet in the center of this star region.

- In his memory, this planet was a trading transit station in the previous life, one of the gateways to the Gaul star cluster, quite valuable for mining, and there is no too harsh environment, it is a habitable planet, and there are indigenous civilizations on it.

Nowadays, this planet does not have a name, only a number, and it is just time to occupy it in advance and develop it.

……

The outer border of the Shattered Star Ring.

This is the edge of the explored universe, separated from the shining world by a long barren cosmic belt.

Fleets left the border from different directions, turning into leaping streamers into the barren cosmic belt, heading straight for the direction of the shining world.

The news of the Red Empire's development of the Shining World has already spread throughout the Star Sea, although the Empire explicitly forbids other civilizations to enter, but a paper agreement cannot scare off the high-level forces, and they all want to bypass the Empire's monopoly and enter the Shining World in advance to seize the opportunity.

These fleets are not the first people, they come from different civilizations and organizations, and they don't want to be discovered by the Empire and hide their identities.

Because he couldn't borrow the Empire's stargate, he could only smuggle to the Shining World, carrying the stargate equipment, intending to quietly establish a secret stargate passage to avoid the Empire's surveillance.

Even if these fleets are at a high warp speed level, it will take at least a long time to cross the barren cosmic belt and reach the Shining World.

And most of these smugglers are for profit, while a small number of people have ulterior motives.

One of them was the descendants secretly sent by the Ethereal Spirit Sect.

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(I have a cold, I slept for 11 hours, my thoughts are the same as my nose, I don't have to go too well, I have to pack my things tonight, and I have to catch a plane early tomorrow morning, so the number of words in the last two or three days will be relatively less, try not to ask for leave (; ￣д￣））