In this context, a new mercenary union was born, and the original adventurers joined the mercenary union one after another to provide security services for the transport ships of major enterprises.

Originally, Li Mingze planned to send troops to encircle and suppress these pirates, but he accidentally discovered that since the profession of pirates, the originally unemployed explorers suddenly had a new place to go.

And a new industry in the empire began to flourish, that is, the private armed guard industry.

This kind of industry can greatly strengthen the combat effectiveness of the people, and once the Zerg attack, the counterattack force from the people can still delay the empire for a while.

Therefore, Li Mingze allowed those pirates to develop in secret, of course, only on the surface, the leaders of the pirates in the shadows have been secretly arrested by the Shadow Department of the Empire and replaced by clones.

Time flies.

In the year 2190 of the Sith calendar, with the blessing of the collision of science and technology of various civilizations and races, major breakthroughs were made in various technologies of the Sith Empire.

The production cost of dimensional armor has been reduced by a full fifty percent, and the production speed has been tripled.

At the same time, the metal of the world has been completely copied, and the empire has been able to produce this high-strength metal on its own.

In terms of energy, with the successful construction of the antimatter extraction ring in the ring world, a steady stream of antimatter has been created, and new antimatter reactors have also completed large-scale production, and in the next period of time, antimatter reactors will gradually replace the original nuclear fusion reactors of the Empire, providing more abundant energy for the Empire's warships.

With more energy supplies, the weapons of the Imperial warships have also been upgraded, with new beam weapons and kinetic weapons increasing their power by fifty percent, but reducing the size of the weapons by twenty percent. Moreover, the recharge time of the weapon has also been greatly reduced, and it only takes just two minutes to complete the recharge of the weapon, which greatly improves the combat effectiveness of the empire!

In the year 2192 of the Sith calendar, the empire's colonies had been established in all corners of the galaxy.

Because of the large number of colonies, there was a huge gap in the population of the empire, and some of the newly established colonies even numbered only tens of thousands.

These colonies are all built on the periphery of the Milky Way, far from the center of the Empire, and since the galaxies on the periphery of the Milky Way have existed for far too long, the stars are almost always made up of red, aged stars.

Coupled with the fact that too many civilizations have already been born in these star systems, all that can be mined for important minerals is a few barren veins.

As a result, the usable value of these colonies is minimal, simply insufficient to support a population of hundreds of millions of people.

Because of this, there are no wormhole transit stations built in these colonies, and the inhabitants can only rely on hyperspace flights to get to the nearest large colony.

At the same time, in the middle of the galaxy, the wormhole highway has been built to almost the gates of all colonies, just like the highway on Earth, extending in all directions.

These wormhole high-speed passages will serve as a mobilization of the Imperial fleet in the event of a war with the Zerg.

On December 31, 2199, another century came to an end, and the citizens of the empire came together to prepare for the dawn of the new century.

Different from the happy crowd outside the window, Li Mingze stood above the palace and looked at the crowd of people who were carnivaling on the city streets not far away, his heart was full of bitterness, the Zerg were getting closer and closer to the galaxy, and they didn't know if this carnival was the last carnival in their lives.

Outer Milky Way, Cape of Good Hope galaxies.

There is only one Sith Empire building in this barren star system, the Cape of Good Hope Deep Space Monitoring Station.

The station has been standing in this star-stellar system where birds don't for more than fifty years, and it's been keeping an eye on the latest movements of the Zerg as they fly towards the Milky Way.

At 0:00 a.m. on January 1, 2200, as the bell of the new century rang, a piercing siren suddenly sounded in the Cape of Good Hope deep space monitoring station.

The staff of the space station ran in a panic through the corridors to their respective jobs.

In the space station control room, the head of the space station, Major General Ender, propped his hands on the console in front of him with an expressionless face, staring nervously at the holographic screen on the console.

A red point of light in the holographic screen slows down more and more until it stops.

"Why did the Zerg suddenly slow down? What's going on! Major General Ander asked the soldiers who were monitoring the Zerg's movements.

"Report to the sir, we don't know, just now the Zerg fleet began to slow down without warning, and we didn't find anything unusual around." One soldier replied loudly.

"If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, give me an immediate connection to His Majesty the Emperor's emergency line!" Major General Ander said in a deep voice.

"Yes!" The soldier immediately began to press on the console.

In front of the Sith Imperial Palace, Li Mingze was sitting in front of the stage with a wine glass and several of his ladies enjoying the opera performance of the singer queen, when suddenly a special bell made Li Mingze's expression change suddenly.

"What happened to Your Majesty?" Qiu Yue asked quietly.

"You guys continue to watch the show here first, Tianyi, you come with me, something happened in deep space." After Li Mingze whispered in Tianyi's ear, he got up and left the square.

Many officials and officers didn't care about the departure of Li Mingze and Tianyi, maybe the emperor just wanted to be in love with the empress?

Dozens of minutes later, Li Mingze and Tianyi arrived at the Cape of Good Hope deep space monitoring station, where the person in charge had been waiting for a long time.

"Your Majesty, just now we detected that the Zerg fleet is stuck in place, and they seem to be brewing some kind of conspiracy." Major General Ander led Lee Ming-taek to the console.

"What are these bugs trying to do, could it be that they are going to stop and fix it? Or are they not going to go on the offensive anymore? Li Mingze frowned and wondered.

And at this time, in the outer void of the Milky Way.

A fleet of dozens of planet-sized creatures is floating in the void.

Inside one of the bio-warships wrapped in golden carapaces, three humanoids in biocarapace were kneeling in an empty hall.

The hall was littered with wriggling vessel-like structures, and in the middle of the hall was a large white egg hanging in the air.

"Dear Mother, we have arrived at our intended location." One of the three insects looked up and said, only then could he see his true face, and under the four pairs of compound eyes was a mouthpiece composed of sharp teeth.

Suddenly, the white eggs hanging in the air wriggled twice, and the eggs were sliced open from the inside, and a bloated insect covered in a heavy carapace fell from the eggs, but was held by three kneeling zergs.

The bloated bug wriggled twice before taking on the form of a human.

This humanoid form has been proven to be the most perfect form in the universe, with mediocre abilities but no flaws, and the ability to use tools.

Her current humanoid body is not her body, her body is actually the mothership under her feet.