The ancestors of the Red Roar tribe were slave miners for a small mining company that could not adapt to the fierce commercial competition and could not afford to purchase large resource processing machinery, and the only way to make a profit was to explore new mining planets.

Since most of the mining planets within the scope of humanity have been exploited, the company has signed an agreement with some of its orcs to let them go deep into the edge of the wilderness to find resource-rich planets for mining, and the only condition is that the mining proceeds must be sold to the company.

After a lot of hardships and expelling the interstellar beasts that were originally dominant on the Red Roar Star, the orcs finally gained a foothold here. Despite the harsh conditions used by the mining companies to oppress them, the situation was much better for these orcs than it was in the slave days. They are like resilient weeds, and neither fires nor storms can stop the tribe from thriving.

There are many more such cases in the Wild Frontier, the farther away from the civilized world, the less influence of humanity, and the more independent planets the orcs have. In some places, several tribes have banded together to form alliances to pressure the human world for better treatment.

They have almost succeeded several times, but each time they have been divided by humans. Many orc tribes have also made enemies with each other, using primitive and rudimentary short-range ships and mining mechs to attack each other. Human mining companies are happy to see this happen, so they not only don't stop it, but sometimes they fan the flames behind it.

"Our Red Roar Star is the most resource-rich planet in the wilderness, not only has most of the rare metals and high-energy ore resources, but also the geological environment is relatively stable, and there are many hot springs rich in exotic minerals on our planet, and we can only grow so strong after soaking in this hot spring!"

Isaac explained as he looked at the star map.

He Ruozhi: "Is there a difference between wild planets?" I've heard you say that the conditions of the Red Roar Star are so bad that you can't even eat 'meat'. ”

Isaac grinned and said, "What's the hardship of not being able to eat 'meat'?" There are so many planets in the Savage Star Cluster that they can be described as hell on earth. ”

In the Savage Star Cluster, there are many planets with a great temperature difference between day and night, the temperature can be as high as more than 100 degrees during the day, and the night suddenly drops to minus seventy or eighty degrees, and it is impossible to live on the ground at all.

Some planets have extremely long intervals between day and night, sometimes months apart before a single day, and the day lasts for months. Every nearly 100 days of night, the planet's terrifying beasts will come out and attack the local miners.

Some planets are illuminated by several stars, no vegetation can grow on the ground, and the orcs born there never know what darkness is, nor have they seen magnificent constellations.

Some planets are perennially covered with strong winds, and even spaceships anchored in the harbor will be blown away immediately, and the orcs there have to be tied to their bodies with iron blocks, and ten people are connected to each other with alloy chains before they dare to 'go out'. Sometimes, even the alloy chains would break, and even the strongest orcs would be instantly hung without a trace.

Some planets are full of terrifying volcanoes, and the air is filled with deadly sulfur gases, which can erupt at any moment, flooding the mine 'holes' that the orcs have worked so hard to build, and burning them to ashes along with the miners inside.

Some planets are subjected to acid rain with high-intensity corrosive 'properties' all year round, and large 'holes' will be burned on the outer shell of the spaceship, let alone on the human body.

Isaac concluded: "It is precisely because of the harsh natural environment on these planets that human mining companies have given up on the idea of managing these planets on their own, because it would be too costly and would make it more difficult to manage. On the surface, they are well-intentioned to give us all these planets orcs, but in reality, as long as they control the relevant survival necessities, they are enough to squeeze us at will. ”

The half-orc man sighed and said: "For example, on a planet that rains acid rain all year round, there is a great need for super alloy materials that can resist acid rain, and we will definitely not be able to produce this material ourselves, so the mining company can sell this material to the miners there at an extremely high price, which is often dozens of times more expensive than buying it in the civilized world." However, in order to survive, the orcs there had to buy them. ”

He Ruozhi frowned and said: "This problem is actually two-sided 'sex', although you need those scarce materials, but the human world is absolutely indispensable to the resources you have, you can unite to form a price alliance, advance and retreat together, and strive for a more reasonable price." ”

Isaac smiled wryly, "It's not that simple. Although resources are important to human beings, they are not to the point of burning eyebrows, not to mention that most mining companies have several months of inventory, and other parts of the universe also have a certain amount of resources to supply, so they can spend time with us. And for us miners, sometimes we can't afford to delay even a day, and we have to exchange resources for synthetic food with the company, otherwise our families will starve to death. ”

He Ruozhi knew in his heart, and what he thought about on this issue was still too simple.

Isaac continued: "What's more, the orcs are not monolithic inside, as the so-called poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, the orcs living on those planets with an extremely harsh natural environment will of course be jealous of our relatively stable and rich planet like the Red Roar, and sometimes we will attack each other. ”

"And that kind of thing?" He Ruozhi was stunned, "I thought you should be very united. ”

Isaac gritted his teeth and said, "It's one thing to be united, but what can you do when your children are waiting to be fed in the 'dark' and 'wet' mines, and you don't have any food by your side?" It is impossible to go to the human world thousands of miles away to plunder, so naturally they can only find a way from their compatriots on the neighboring planet. ”

"Maybe you can make your own food, or you can set up artificial farms." He Ruozhi said.

Isaac shook his head and said, "Any technology related to food, including synthetic food technology, etc., is strictly forbidden to be introduced into the wilderness, and it is through this method that the mining company is trying to curb our lifeline." ”

Hammered the wall and said: "Actually, these desperate behaviors for survival are not too big a mistake in our half-orc world, after all, everyone is forced to live, but there is a pirate group composed of half-orcs but the common enemy of all of us, after returning to the Red Roar Star this time, I must find the 'Black Wind Pirates' and personally kill these *** who have long heads and no tails, eat people and don't spit out bones!" ”

"Pirates of the Black Wind?" He Ruozhi asked in surprise, "How can pirates survive here?" What is there to loot here? ”

Although the wilderness is rich in resources, the bulky raw ore is certainly not a worthy target.

Isaac said in a deep voice, "We orcs are the targets of their raids, these guys were originally half-orcs, but they betrayed their own race in order to get a comfortable life. They served as guides and pioneers for the human slave raiders, plundering many of our compatriots. It can be said that most of the orc slaves in the entire Savage Star Cluster were killed by the Black Wind Pirates! ”

Isaac burst into tears, "If the Black Wind Pirates were just selling us to humans as slaves, they were killing us on the Red Roar Star!" Many of our old men and young men were killed by them because they couldn't work, and some of them fled to the depths of the earth, including my son Han, who I don't know what happened now. ”

He Ruozhi knew that Isaac still had a son, and hurriedly asked. Isaac explained that he saw that the enemy was too strong at the time, and he had his son flee to an abandoned mine 'hole' with some of the tribe's thirteen or fourteen-year-olds.

It was a pit that was abandoned over the course of hundreds of years of exploitation, when resources were gradually exhausted.

These mine 'holes' extend in all directions, like a 'labyrinth', and it is impossible for people who have not lived here since childhood to know how to get in and out.

Although their lives are temporarily worry-free, they only carry food that can be eaten for a month. It is really impossible for these young people to survive in such a hostile environment.

Yes, Isaac hated the Black Wind Pirates to the core.

The Savage Cluster has arrived.

Along the way, you can encounter many clumsy and coarse cargo ships, loaded with various mineral raw materials and transported to the outside world, and the different signs can be seen that they are ships belonging to different companies.

If it is to be divided according to the sphere of influence, forty percent of the resources in the Savage Star Cluster belong to the Spartan star field; Forty percent of the resources belong to the Holy See, and the remaining two layers are used by the other three star fields.

He Ruozhi's goal is to first establish their own power on the wild planet within the Spartan Star Domain, and then 'advance' to the Holy See's sphere of influence.

Immediately after entering the busy shipping lane, the battleship activated its stealth device. It is simply impossible for the old-fashioned radar systems on those crude benzene carriers to detect this ship.

The battleship is in these cargo ships like an elegant cheetah roaming among the clumsy big clumsy elephants.