Chapter 360: Pisces Pirates
And due to the special circumstances of the empire (Li Mingze's absolute control over the empire), it is impossible to give birth to such a thing as piracy.
What Liu Rushun learned about pirates only stayed in film and television materials and games.
It is precisely because of this that Liu Rushun is very yearning for the profession of interstellar pirates, which sounds very exciting, and now he finally has this opportunity
"I'll choose the third one." One of the crew members said, raising their hands.
Liu Rushun looked at the crew member who was also a little excited and showed an appreciative look, this is a usable material.
"I'll choose the third one." Another crew member shouted out his decision.
"I choose the second one, we should continue to move towards the goal point according to the Empire's arrangement!" This is a rather rigid crew member, and for him the tasks of the Empire are the most important.
"Are you stupid, after we get bigger, we will be able to solve these civilizations, and then we will be able to continue on the road?" Liu Rushun looked at the crew member who had raised a different opinion dissatisfiedly and said flickeringly.
You know, he plans to stay here, the goal set by the empire is too far away, it will take hundreds of years for them to reach, and it is unknown whether that target galaxy has enough resources to develop colonies.
And in this celestial system in front of them, there are as many as twenty civilizations alone, which shows that there will definitely be no shortage of resources and life planets, and the surrounding asteroid sea has countless minerals.
Without these civilizations, it would be the perfect place to live!
"Okay, okay, then I'll pick number three." After being fooled by Liu Rushun, the crew member also changed his mind.
"yes, that's right, good boy!" Liu Rushun patted the man's shoulder happily.
A few minutes later, the entire Ark's awake crew had voted to support the 3 plan to become an interstellar pirate by a narrow margin of 52 percent.
The one who chose to become a pirate is obviously also a young man who has been attracted to movies since he was a child, and is full of curiosity and expectation about the profession of interstellar pirates.
"Excellent! I hereby announce that our Pisces Pirates are officially formed! Liu Rushun slapped his hand heavily on the console.
Soon, the Pisces Pirate Band's emblem was crafted by a crew member who loved art: a longsword full of sharp teeth stuck between two intersecting sharks.
The entire logo is composed of a black base and a red shark and sword, which is full of murderous aura.
It is similar to the symbol of the two red planets (Earth-Moon System) surrounded by two large and small red planets in the middle with a black background of the Empire.
"From now on, you are no longer part of the crew of the Pisces Ark, and now you are members of our Pisces Pirate Regiment!" Liu Rushun said that he wore the pirate decoration he bought when he was in the empire: a black eye patch, and put it on his left eye.
Of course, this kind of eye mask is actually a special toy with AR and night vision functions.
After the blindfold was activated, Liu Rushun took out the saber and inserted it into the table in front of him.
"All the warships are out of the Ark itself, and we're going out to plunder!"
"The ark retreats and hides back in the asteroid sea!"
"Let's go!" Liu Rushun shouted.
"Woooooo The crowd on the bridge shouted and ran towards the ark's arsenal.
Unlike those crew members who voluntarily became pirates, those who were unwilling to become pirates for various reasons, such as having a family, were forcibly incorporated into the Pisces Pirate Regiment.
But considering the original intention of these people, they were arranged to work in the logistics in the ark.
After the first raid has gained a little, the sleeping colonists of the empire will also be awakened according to the conditions.
What is the condition, of course, is whether you are willing to join the pirate group and engage in the cause of plundering.
Fortunately, now the Pisces Ark has lost contact with the Empire, otherwise Li Mingze would have been so angry that he would vomit blood if he knew that an Ark carrying the Empire's hopes had turned into a pirate headquarters.
However, having lost contact more than a decade ago, Li Mingze has now rowed the ark on the missing (and potentially unsuccessful) list.
At this time, Captain Liu Rushun, oh no, the leader of the pirate group, Liu Rushun, had already boarded the battleship that was combined with the ark with a group of pirate members.
(Although the two cruisers and six destroyers carried by each ark were reduced to two destroyers and six frigates due to the Empire's downgrading of the battleship class, the following will be called according to the old rank because the Ark had lost contact with each other before the reform.) )
The two cruisers and six destroyers slowly detached from the ark with the assistance of the ark's robotic arm after all the crews had boarded.
The originally streamlined ark was missing a few large gaps in an instant, and countless robots were busy in the gaps.
"Let's go!" Liu Rushun took out the command knife he had just printed out and pointed forward.
"Yes, my captain." After the many crew members shouted in amusement, the eight battleships disappeared into the flash.
On the border of the Prader Empire, a mineral star system with a large number of mining farms.
Eight warships suddenly appeared in the star system, and by the time the defenses in the star system discovered the invading fleet, it was too late.
Eight warships that have been upgraded to the Empire's newest in the Ark, the third generation of hyperspace jump engines, have been able to jump out of the galaxy relatively far from the stars.
Coupled with the fact that the civilizations within this celestial system have not invented hyperspace transition technology at all, the vigilance of these civilizations is to scan the gaps between the various star systems.
This scan is enough for Native civilizations that need to pass through the Void to enter a star system.
But it has no effect on outsiders like the Imperial fleet.
By the time the Prader Empire's defensive space station began to turn its batteries, the eight Pisces Pirate ships were already within range.
One shell after being lowered by the special stance lowered its weight was fired at the space station of the Prader Empire.
The shield of the Prade Empire's space station, which had lost its initiative, was instantly shattered by the salvo of the Pisces Pirate Regiment's battleship.
Originally, this star system was located in the hinterland of this country, and it was completely unexpectedly that the enemy would bypass the front line and enter the hinterland.
Therefore, the defense space station here is only the existence of the meaning, and it can also defend against some civilian ships in the Lower Prader Empire converted into small pirate groups.
Faced with the powerful firepower of the Pisces Pirate Fleet, this poor little space station did not survive two rounds before being bombarded into a flying wreckage by the Pisces Pirate Fleet.