Parr stood in the observation room of the starport, quietly looking at the "Prince" battleship in the distance undergoing flight debugging before launch, light blue flames were pouring out from the huge circular jet, leaving sharp flames in the dark night, the current tubes covering the hull lit up one after another, each of its curves overlapped, zigzag and meandered, constructing that soft appearance, and the black and gold hull coating highlighted its hideousness.

It took a lot of resources for the Empire to build one of the Empire's only four battleships, and it would take the support of many resource planets just to keep them running. Compared with the largest battleship in the Empire, the "Liberty Fortress", it lacks the huge hull size of the flagship of the First Fleet, but it also has the advantage of being relatively small, and it is undoubtedly more suitable for combat than military parades, it was not born to symbolize the grandeur of the Empire, but for war, for confrontation, and for the destruction of other battleships.

Its hull length is 1,600 meters, the wingspan width is 400 meters, and the height is 215 meters, even if it is not as large as the "Liberty Fortress", it is far superior to other warships, it is like an awakened star sea beast, at this moment it is slowly sailing far into the depths of the star field, and its black gold is merging with the twilight of the stars, so that the prince who witnessed its departure from a distance can hardly be seen.

As he looked through its materials, Pal learned that it was first built in the early days of his father's reign, Prince Blood.

Twenty-nine years ago, in order to deter other nobles and rebuild the prestige of the Second Fleet, my father invited the Meilan Starship Company to provide qualified standard materials, and secretly invited the "Dusk Structure Research Institute" near the Galaxy Center, the "Neutral Starship Academy" from the Merchants Alliance, and the "Ship Curve Structure Research Institute" from the Star Spirit to design the internal structure of the starship's hull, external curves, and various control, conduction, and sensing systems.

It took 24 years for the "First Imperial Heavy Industries", a super enterprise specializing in ship production, to build this starship, during which it went through countless commissioning, trimming, running-in, commissioning, trimming, and running-in....... Finally, the battleship "Prince" was born, and its addition made the Second Fleet deserved, and since then this fleet guarding the Western Regions has been enough to shock the entire western star field of the empire.

It is a pity that his father never saw the "Prince" leave the port until his death, which was the biggest regret of his life, before he died, Parr observed the "Prince" that was being controlled by many engineers in the munitions factory countless times, and listened to the chief executive proudly describe its power countless times, and he never believed in the Mother of the Galaxy, after all, he still begged the Virgin Mary to have mercy, at least let his father see the starship leave the port.

But the Holy Mother of the Galaxy was really cruel, and only a year after her father left, she was willing to release the "Prince".

He vaguely remembered that day, he cut the red ribbon that symbolized the new life, pressed the dark red start button, and in front of all the soldiers of the Second Fleet who were waiting to be stationed on the starship "Prince" and their relatives, he was surrounded by merchants, nobles, councillors, and endless sycophants from all over the West, who complimented him, admired him, and did everything they could to please him. Many nobles who had secretly opposed him also began to put down their posture, because they understood that from then on, the rebuilt Second Fleet would be firmly entrenched in the entire western star field, and it would no longer be the weak fleet that could only intimidate the remote and backward native planets of the Earth Federation that lived in a corner of the galaxy.

After the "Isolation War" with the Isolated Legion forty years earlier, control of the Second Fleet was transferred from the Levin Vallians, who had been destroyed in the Isolated Legion, to the Blood Prince.

(LevenValian: An ancient branch of Valyian, with almost as long a history as the Valenian family, once entrenched in most of the Western, Southwestern, and Southern Star Fields, it was the most powerful family in the empire for thousands of years, the mastermind behind the millennial chaos of the royal family, and the former master of the First and Former Second Fleets.) Forty years ago, it was destroyed by provoking one of the Twilight civilizations, the "Isolated Legion", and now only one remnant of the force is left in the south)

But at that time, the battered Second Fleet was only a half-joke of the Big Four, and it wasn't until the advent of its core battleships that it was able to sweep away the haze of the Second Fleet and make it one of the real Big Four, rather than the bluffing fleet under the royal flag.

He also knew that this battle-class starship was his father's handiwork, so he named it "Prince".

After the opening ceremony of the "Prince", he went to meet his father at his home at the Fortress of Freedom, and personally tied the red ribbon of the "Prince" to his father's stone monument.

His wise and wise father was gone forever, he thought at the time, but the "Prince" had just entered the galaxy, and he believed that it was his father's will, his incarnation, and he also expected it to be as powerful as his father in the empire.

Five years later, Parr is almost as familiar with the Prince as he is at home.

He wasn't a graduate of Starship Materials & Construction, but he knew that it had more than 5,000 elite crew members, including their families.

He knew that with a mass of 9600,000 tons, it was a heavyweight warship that was beyond the reach of the dust. Knowing that the outer layer of its hull is lined with a 2.0 cm thick layer of AGP ablative ceramic fiber material, and that the interlayers are chemically bonded with hard tri-titanium alloys, D-uranium alloys, alloy plates made of different composite materials and various materials for other purposes, he knows that the whole ship is divided into 42 decks, and knows which decks are used for recreation, which decks are used for combat, which decks are used for running engines, which decks are used for overhauling equipment, and which decks are used for control.

He knew that the embedded decks on both sides of the hull were lined with hangar launchports, which contained a large number of the Empire's most advanced Viper-13 Sentinel-class warships, and that next to the hangar launchports were the most advanced weapons purchased from the Star Spirit Republic, including 35 XII Phase Arrays, ten new standard Phase Pulse Cannons, eight twelve-mounted VK-9 Photon Fish Ray Tubes, three five-pack rapid-fire VR-2 Quantum Fish Ray Tubes, and the most terrifying X-type phase cannon of all.

He knew that the weapon console's elliptical tilted disc base allowed for cross-concentration of fire, as well as covering all blind spots, with controllable point defense posts and separate miniature deflection shields to destroy any missiles and energy cannon beams that came close.

Not only was it formidably armed, but it was also very agile and fast, and in order to gain enough thrust to fly at sub-light speeds, it was equipped with twelve high-speed plasma pulse engines using plasma exhaust gases as propellants, six of which were located on the tail and flanks at both ends, two behind the main keel of the propulsion section, two of which were placed below to pull up the propulsion, and two of which were placed on top for settlement propulsion, and he knew that it was equipped with two subspace drives. He knew that the "Prince's" detection system was equipped with fifty standard sensor platforms, which could support most of the scientific equipment to ensure the completion of the exploration tasks required by the space science laboratory and the deep space intelligence department, and he also knew how large the hull deflection energy shield it was installed, how solid the particle field shield and how dense the point defense machine gun barrier was.

In a sense, it's another home of its own. Talking about all kinds of things, there is no doubt that even a man like himself who doesn't love starships very much can tell all its data. Every part of it was a masterpiece, almost perfect enough to be fascinating, and he knew it so well that he knew every one of its strengths and weaknesses.

It was the seat of the Valian royal family, the pride of Prince Parr, the symbol of the Second Fleet, and the highest fighting power of the Empire, but it was also the place where he worked the most, where he slept the most, where his elite crew and their relatives drank, danced and rested, and where he and his men held fleet meetings.

Originally, Parr liked to spend sleepless nights here, or face irritating papers and rambling men, but as time went on, he grew tired of living in space.

He wanted to step on the soft ground, he wanted to return to the adjacent star, he wanted to breathe the hot and humid air that was turbid but fresh, he wanted to chat with Ji Rui about the private life of the new noblewoman and the lord, he wanted to talk to his daughter about his studies in the Earth Federation, he wanted to lecture her about the current situation in the Empire, he almost forgot the smell of the earth, and he almost forgot the smile of his daughter, he hated it, he hated it.

The Prince would follow his wife to the Earth Federation, a risky move for him, and was met with strong opposition from his subordinates when it was first proposed.

"The Prince is the heart of the Second Fleet," said Chief of Deep Space Intelligence, Benny Brown. Valen, as always, repeatedly admonished, "Parr, it should follow you back to the Fortress of Liberty and make sure your journey is safe." ”

The Minister of Finance smiled sarcastically as always, "I think it should continue to hold on here, Your Highness, as long as it does not move, the Supreme Council will have no excuse to put pressure on His Royal Highness." ”

Benny is a cautious and conservative Valyian, and he is a conciliatory Zifo. Valéan and the arrogant Tine. Valen, different, is his right-hand man, a good friend for many years, and he can trust Benny enough.

Sfrunkonen was shrewd and cunning, giving the impression that he was only clever.

In the matter of the deployment of warships, it is appropriate to follow Benny's caution, but in fact, Parr agrees with Sfrunconen's opinion, the Prince is very important, it is almost a symbol of the Second Fleet, and if it is left in the Gaia system, then the Supreme Council cannot use this as an excuse to attack him, but ....... Parr deeply understands that only when the "Prince" is dispatched, can the "group fleet" with it as the core exert its tremendous combat power, and the second fleet is the second fleet that truly deserves its name. He really couldn't let Ji Rui go to Earth alone without the situation being clear, he had to make sure that she was safe, for this reason, he insisted that the "Prince" accompany him, and himself, he planned to take the "Parr" private ship to the Supreme Council, accompanied by a subsidiary fleet to ensure safety, which of course caused a wave of admonition and criticism, but he had made up his mind, and no one could do it.

At the end of the regulation, the jet engine of the "Prince" was officially ignited, light blue flames gushed out from the tail, and the eight jets were like eight inverted conical teeth deeply embedded in the deep space, and the huge glossy black hull also slowly moved at a slow pace, and faster and faster, more and more blurred.

Around the "Prince", twelve cruiser-class battleships were wedge-shaped, the dexterous and elegant "Princess Ciri", the "Jirui" cruiser and the "Chimine" cruiser "went to the front, and the bulky "Royal" was placed last, it had an old-fashioned long-range missile projection weapon, and it was too old, the propulsion system was always in trouble, so it was only used as a fire cover, and next to it was the "Age", which also had sixty years of military experience, these two were survivors of the war forty years ago, Scarred by the assault of the terrible fleet of the Isolated Legion, but the honor remains.

On the side, there are the "War", "Mother Galaxy", "Adjacent Star" and the cruiser warships belonging to the other great nobles, and around these large warships are small frigates and medium destroyers as dense as a stellar group, two-thirds of which are small fleets built by the great nobles who are loyal to the prince, and the rest are six consecutive small warships from the Imperial Arsenal, among these large and small warships, There are also countless sentinel-class miniature ships hidden in the metal decks of these ships, waiting for the right moment, they will swarm like a "swarm" to any opponent who dares to be the enemy of the Second Fleet, tearing them until they sink, this is the most terrifying part of the "swarm", the endless sea tactics.

This fleet is almost the entire base of the Second Fleet, the foundation of the current Valian royal family to get rid of the puppet, and it is also the hole card of his rivalry with the Supreme Council.

Today, they will follow the Prince to the Earth Federation under the command of the Black Hand, and they will also be accompanied by their own wife, but he has always felt uneasy. He knew that he had to give an account to the Supreme Council, but the sudden calamity of the Earth Federation made it impossible for him to leave with peace of mind, and he could not know if he had done the right thing, so he could only regain his long-abandoned faith and offer his prayers to the most benevolent and merciful Mother of the Galaxy.

Soon, his loyal Minister of Intelligence came to him again, "Everything is ready." ”

The prince gloomily looked at the "Prince" with only a bright spot left, and nodded, "It's time." He was supposed to leave for the Supreme Council immediately in the depths of winter, but it was delayed until today, and the Supreme Council also knew about the Second Fleet's departure for the Federation Earth, and the Coordinating Emperor sternly admonished him in his personal correspondence to explain it to the Deputy Speaker and the other members of the Council immediately.

The young emperor's words were anxious and hasty, but there was a crumbling old age, and Parr could clearly see that behind him, it was the deputy speaker of the Supreme Council who was asking for him, and the dangerous old man was protesting against him with the help of the emperor's verbal criticism.

What is the Emperor doing? What will you encounter on this trip? Will the Supreme Council rebuke him for this? What did the commanders-in-chief of the other fleets think of him? Parr had no way of knowing.

He had no friends in the council, and he didn't bother to make friends with those who were loyal to him today and would defect to other councillors tomorrow, but now he began to regret his youth, and the grass on the wall could also let him see the direction of the wind, and he was unwilling to even look at it, which was a huge mistake.

Now that he had to meet the cunning councilors, he had to bring with him the same cunning and shrewd. He didn't like Sfronkonen very much, but the Minister of Finance had always had a keen sense of smell, and had many friends among the parliamentarians, and if he had him, he should have been able to figure out some things in the court, and the cautious Benny, who had to bring his most trusted subordinates with him. General Secretary-General Jie Wei. Valéan knew a few members of the council well and deserved his trust, but it was a pity that the General Secretary had to stay in the Gaia system, otherwise he would only need to accompany him.

Forget it, he is Parr, the son of the Prince of Blood, when will he need the help of his subordinates to move forward an inch? He gathered up his doubts and sorrows, prepared the words he felt were most appropriate, and boarded the "Pal".