Chapter 11: The Pioneer Overture (11)

At 11:45 a.m. on June 2, the Jade Bird broke away from the Golden Fleet at two-thirds of its full speed, only one step away from the four-fifths full speed required to enter the jump speed, but the Jade Bird did not let the jump engine enter charge standby.

Even if the defense range of the Golden Fleet was expanded to 10 million kilometers, for a disaster-class battleship, it would not be far beyond the range of the main guns.

"Nasty artillery mastery." In the sound of "Didi Di" that filled the entire cabin, Wu Xiaoyu, who was the captain of the ship, complained in a low voice: "Tsk, sure enough, Emma people can still do it when they want to." ”

Wu Xiaoyu guessed that the tactical expertise of this elite fleet was gunnery mastery, so it had an ultra-long locking distance, an ultra-high rate of fire, and a turret rotation speed that even small starships could not get rid of.

Of course, that's right. Wu Xiaoyu, who was smiling bitterly, further stabilized the route, so as not to give the Blue Bird's flight trajectory to the wrong association of the group of Emma.

Just when Wu Xiaoyu was depressed in his heart, the emotionless voice of the clone subordinate came: "Captain, this ship has arrived in the predetermined area." ”

"Good." Before Wu Xiaoyu came back to his senses completely, he responded to his subordinates as if instinctively. Then, under the watchful eyes of his subordinates, the young officer gave a new order. "Open the tail compartment immediately and launch the beacon."

"Understood." Zhao Xinxing replied loudly, as the first mate of this ship, he was the one responsible for directing the crew to carry out the captain's orders. "Open the tail compartment."

"The tail hatch is open, and the airtight area is safe."

"Launch beacon...... Three, two, one. ”

"Launch successful, activating."

The Jadebird's external monitors clearly recorded that the spherical beacon had detached from the rear of the hull, and with the assistance of inertia, it was moving away from the Bluebird in a constant tumbling.

After just three minutes, the beacon was no longer visible to the under-pixel external monitor. However, the beacon has been successfully activated and has begun to send specific frequencies to the entire universe.

His Highness on the Dirandal watched all the actions of the Blue Bird with great interest at the moment, not noticing that the black tea in his hand was no longer steaming. As for the captain of the Dirandal, Baranta? Colonel Dole was nervous.

When the time came to 12 o'clock, the round beacon that kept sending signals was destroyed by the sudden spatial fluctuations almost at the moment when the time arrived.

The Dhirlandal's detection system simultaneously sounded a piercing alert representing the highest state of emergency...... Ironically, the sound and frequency were identical to the fire control warnings set up by the Federation starships.

"What's the situation?" Confused, I don't know why it's Balanta? Colonel Dole, while sitting in the position of Ra? Raphael? Coezo got up from his seat in a very gaffe: "Hyperspace Attack ......"

Balranta? Colonel Dole subconsciously asked, "What's that?" ”

"One of the latest research directions of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, I didn't expect that the Yanhuang people have actually reached the application stage." Miss Coezzo's expression darkened as she replied. As the top nobleman of the Emma Empire, she really didn't want to see the empire lag behind others in terms of technology.

If Lu Lu, who watched the live broadcast on the Federation stationed in the Hesse galaxy in the Domain of the Fountain, knew about it, he would probably tell Ra? Raphael? Coezzo, you're thinking too much.

Most of the time, the process of transforming scientific theories into weapons of destruction is fairly straightforward. But today's major empires want weapons systems that can strike with precision. It is true that the destructive power of space concussion is not something that the current starship protection system can defend, but in order to achieve the ideal level of hyperspace attack, the major empires still need to work harder.

The ripples of spatial shock continued to spread, and Emma's fleet, which was already in a state of vigilance, was more careful to move away from the distance. Eight blue-gray artifacts suddenly appeared in the center of the area, their shape-sized objects flashing with light, as if their shield system was taking damage.

Since the space shock has not stopped, no one will have the reckless idea of confronting the terrifying "cosmic catastrophe" whether it is Emma or Yan Huang.

"Hey...... it's a little familiar." While waiting for the shock to end, Wu Xiaoyu, who was sitting crookedly, was already bored with his left hand propping up his chin, and controlling the detection system of the Jade Bird with his right hand, scanning all kinds of man-made objects that suddenly appeared.

Wu Xiaoyu suddenly exclaimed: "Yo, the scan results are out, 20X80, what a big thing." It looks the same as the K5 container. ”

Zhao Xinxing, who was so bored just now that he wanted to pick his feet, glanced at the captain and sighed: "It's not like, it's our K5 container." Have you forgotten that we took a hitchhike and were almost canned directly by the Alpha base? ”

"Hey, don't say it, it's disgusting to think about it." Wu Xiaoyu shook his hand. Although it has only been a few years, the memories left by the past time are too profound.

The seniority of the two in the special service fleet is old, and they have never fallen behind in the hardships of the early stage of the special service fleet's development of the Source Domain. In order to suppress the unorganized resistance of the mentally retarded natives who were like mentally retarded, the special service fleet was exhausted with more than 2,000 ships.

At that time, the most criticized was actually the transport fleet responsible for providing logistical supplies, the fleet was accurate and efficient, but since the end of the War of Independence, the Union Navy has not suffered from material shortages.

However, because the fleet's finances were almost collapsed (impoverished) and the logistics network was not yet perfect, the personnel of the troops stationed abroad were forced to eat the synthetic food that was five years younger. That's right, the supplies sent by the K fleet in those years came and went just a few things.

So, Wu Xiaoyu and their problems with braised beef are also because they have had too many hard days in those years, and they have fallen into this kind of broken problem.

The concussion lasted a little longer, and it was only a few hours later that Wu Xiaoyu informed the Emma people and asked them to send a starship to haul the containers back. The towing beam on the Bluebird can only drag one container at a time, and at this time, it is inevitable that the Emma people will have to contribute.

"Containers? Is this a container? Yan Huang people actually said that this thing is a container? "Balranta? When Colonel Dole learned the content of Wu Xiaoyu's communication, he was so surprised that he lost his usual steadiness when he looked at the data counted by the electronic system. In fact, the colonel's surprise is understandable, after all, the Emma Empire does not have a K-5 type special container with a diameter of twenty kilometers and a length of eighty kilometers.

"Yes, that's the container." Wu Xiaoyu looked indifferent to the communication channel, and at the same time advertised to Emma people with great pride, "There is an independent attitude control system, an independent shield generation system, and a unique three-layer composite external armor." As well as the dedicated modular design, it greatly expands its range of application. ”

That's right, the K-Series container is not only used for containers, the 20X80 specification is of course unusual in the container family. However, in the early construction process of the Fountain Domain, the special service fleet found that the towed container was very, very convenient in various aspects.

"With such a huge container, I'm afraid it will take a large cargo ship to use it." Balranta? Colonel Dole had a disdainful expression, for military transports, the bigger the transport ship is not better. After all, military transport ships often have to face the blows of hostile military forces, and large cargo ships are an extra-large target.

In this regard, the cargo ships provided by the manufacturers of the Emma Empire for the Emma Navy are quite suitable. Battle-level armor protection, heavy patrol level power drive. Although the speed is a little slower, if hundreds of military cargo ships are piled up, a fleet below the size of the Emma Navy Squadron really can't do anything with that group of cargo ships.

So, Balranta? Colonel Dole's complacency was not unreasonable, and the container that appeared in front of him made him doubt the professionalism of the Federal Navy's logistics and transportation.

The Emma Empire, of course, has its own civilian starship manufacturers, and its public sales range includes tens of thousands of various brands and models. There are also such huge cargo ships, but they are all professional cargo ships used for ore transportation, and the advantages mentioned by the Yan Huang people are more like a joke.

The colonel did not notice that this was a towed container, not a built-in container for a traditional cargo ship. When the towed container is in use, it can be connected to the tow starship at the front and rear ends, and the tow starship will provide the basic power required for the jump.

The towing starship is more than 50 times more powerful than a standard battleship, and can tow as many as 24 K-5 containers at a time, and its transportation energy efficiency far exceeds that of traditional fleet transportation. It was technological improvements and the spread of transportation networks that enabled the Special Service Fleet to stabilize the situation in the Wellsprings in just a few years.

Despite the advantages of the new transportation system, each empire has its own starship manufacturing system, and domestic manufacturing accounts for almost all of the market share in the empire's own market.

However, the new territories are different, and in the modern age, when the exchanges between the major empires are increasing, it is natural for various goods to circulate with each other.

Taking the Domain of Springs as an example, most of the planetary-to-Earth defense systems come from the Tashmungon Equipment Group, but the space defense system is a product of the Federal Hesse Group. At present, the commercial activities of the Wellsprings are mainly oriented to two areas, the sale of refined minerals in the Commonwealth homeland, and the export of agricultural products to the Emma Empire.

As for the weapons and equipment contracts, they belong to the major fleets of the Federal Navy, and the management government of the Springs Domain is not qualified enough to access such contracts. The weapons and equipment contracts in the Domain of Sources are all within the responsibility of the special service fleet.

As for this time, the K-5 container represents a strong appearance of a towed transport ship, and maybe it can also open up the market in the new territory of the Emma Empire.