Multi-functional exploration machine, a small engineering ship that integrates geological analysis, simple drilling, and preliminary beneficiation, with a total weight of 600 tons, is easy to buy in Segeis because it is close to MR241. Pan Wen had a second-hand aircraft in his hand, and 300 Star Coins was the packing price after the distribution of several functional expansion devices, which was higher in terms of tons than most common gunboats.

The reconnaissance planes were inconclusive for a while, and the fleet entered the rotation phase, while the Alai fighter fleet remained half patrolling the perimeter.

Half a day has passed in a blink of an eye, and in half a day, the exploration plane has sorted out the results of geological analysis in the area it has walked through, counting asteroids with a diameter of more than one kilometer and counting stones below, a total of more than 1,000 asteroids and more than 3,000 stones. There are only two of these celestial bodies that have mining value, one of which is the one that has been seen for a long time and has been hit by other asteroids and has an abandoned pit, and the other is a large stone with a diameter of less than 500 meters.

Pan Wen's time with the player as the target is calculated in days rather than months like the aborigines, and it is a bit inefficient to find only two valuable ones in more than ten hours, so he decided to work directly, and the fleet can look for "prey" that can be eaten in the surrounding area.

To identify the first mining site, he consulted with Matthew and his technicians.

"If you mine an abandoned pit, it can withstand the impact of celestial impacts, no matter how big or small, at least it proves that its internal structure is stable." Matthew was a little unsure, and looked at the technicians around him as he spoke.

The other technician hesitated for a moment, but then spoke up and suggested to his rare boss: "Boss, there is only one probe plane, I think I should go to the rock." The attraction of MR241 is that you can always find astral ore that has never been mined inside, and we can use a multi-purpose engineering ship to try to dig it in the abandoned mine, and the efficiency of a ready-made pit engineering ship is definitely much lower than that of a probe, but it can make use of both points. ”

Although all the NPCs on the scene except for Matthew are elite NPCs, not every NPC is poured out of a mold, and it is not surprising that they have strange hobbies.

Pan Wen immediately made a decision, and asked the technician who made the suggestion to be in charge of the deployment of the probe and the multi-purpose vessel. In order to facilitate the fleet's search for prey, he and several other technicians were temporarily sent to the sweeper, leaving the sweeper as a rest ship for the supply of personnel.

With these in order, the Heavy Hammer and the Kuroshio expanded their range around the target rock of the probe and began to hunt at a fixed point.

"With the demands of mining, our central point shifts nearly 260,000 kilometers per day, and the closest to our movement is the MR240 jump loop, which is expected to encounter in three days. The closest in the opposite direction of the orbit is MR243's jump lap, which has a low encounter risk assessment. "This is the assessment of the situation given by the tactical group at the beginning of the hunt.

With tactical anticipation, Pan Wen had more fighters to detect in front of the direction of the ore's movement, and the Heavy Hammer and the Kuroshio also spent more time on the same side.

This arrangement soon bore fruit, and the next day it was discovered that a squad of three ships was "fighting pirates"!

"There is a distress signal from the attacked party, and it is Segeis. The attacker's energy response showed that the energy consumption was level 7, and no higher level of energy response was found for 30 consecutive seconds, which can be judged to be a conventional patrol ship. "The radarman submitted the latest detection results.

As soon as this side stopped, another radarman also began to report: "Another ship is approaching the war zone in silent mode, and the propulsion effect is judged to be a patrol ship, and it is temporarily impossible to determine the camp it belongs to." ”

"BOSS, the S.R.I.E. team thinks that the attacker may be a mercenary from the Isis Empire, and the official outpost space station should be on the other side of the nebula now according to the latest data released by Segeis."

Pan Wen nodded, very satisfied with the elites under his command, it seems that after working for a while, everyone began to understand that his favorite attack was mercenaries, whether it was the Islamic Empire or the Gabrian Federation.

"Approaching the war zone, send a secret telegram to the attacked brother and ask him to lure the enemy towards us as much as possible."

After speaking to the members in the control room, he connected to the internal call of the fleet: "The Kuroshio follows us and prepares for battle. Sanitation No. 1 enters the alert state, and once a dangerous situation is discovered, priority recovery personnel move closer to the team. ”

Naturally, the No. 1 Sanitation is a sweeper that has been transferred from an armed merchant ship. Although it is a bargain, and the reconnaissance system is also an antique model of seventy or eighty years, but it is in a relatively stationary posture next to the ore, and the main thruster group is also closed, so it has the advantage of stationary alert, and it is not a big problem to recover a few personnel and run away.

The field of view in the MR241 nebula is very poor, and even the passive detection range of the Hammer, which is almost the latest frigate, is more than a million kilometers, and it can only be detected in a larger area by relying on the transit of fighters, so the distance of the battlefield that can be detected is not too far. At the same time, it is also due to the nebula dust, which cannot sail at a very high speed, so it still takes a lot of time to enter the battle.

They cruise at 500 kilometers per second, and can accelerate to the optimal speed of 1,000 kilometers per second in the nebula in about two minutes, including acceleration and evasion of celestial bodies, and can only enter the battle in about twenty minutes. Twenty minutes, if the attacker moves quickly, it is enough to complete the crime and run away.

"The attacked ship is approaching us, and it has broken through the alert speed ten seconds ago."

When escaping, of course, you will not think about whether the anti-radar coating will be worn, as long as the dust does not cause a large deformation of the armor, then you can do it!

"Got it, keep watching. Tactical group, choose cover for the fighter fleet, and turn them into stationary observers. ”

“Hi,sir！”

The duties of the tactical team are similar to those of an auxiliary computer, splitting the captain's instructions into detailed instructions and notifying the various departments of the ship is one of them, and several people discuss the large star map in the middle of the control room for a while, and immediately issue orders.

Medium fighters, which were not easy to attract attention before the start of the battle, found their own hiding points near the movement path of the attacked ship, and after turning off their engines and entering a relatively stationary position, they were equivalent to a part of the radar, and the danger was almost negligible in the complex terrain of the nebula.

"Boss, I think we should slow down." At this time, the navigator was a white male, and he didn't know what infection he had, and he also followed Su Qing and Doris to call the boss instead of the boss or the boss.

As soon as Pan Wen was reminded by the navigator, he reacted. When fleeing pirates approach them, the Hammer and Kuroshio will be in the direction of the attacker's bow, and although they have stronger electronic warfare capabilities, this direction is also easier to expose themselves, especially the reaction of the efficient thruster group.

"There is no need to slow down significantly, extinguish the main thruster group to adjust the course, we accelerate in the sheltered area of the bunker, and the tactical squad cooperates with the main computer to mark the safe range."

When the radar of the Galactic Age encounters a celestial body, the dead angle behind it is not radial, it is a cone-shaped region with a length of ten to twenty times the diameter of the celestial body. Pan Wen's strategy was to use the cover of these cones to open the main thruster group to adjust the angle and maintain sufficient speed, and at other times use the small thrusters in all directions on the ship to fine-tune to ensure that the dust in the nebula does not cause the ship's speed to drop significantly, and at the same time to ensure concealment from the enemy.

The main computer on the frigate is powerful, but for the sake of operational efficiency, especially the efficiency of multi-mission operation, it is not as intelligent as ordinary NPCs - everyone knows, intelligence means a variety of choices and decisions, and the purpose determines the outcome rather than the technical force.

For small tasks now, the main computer can sort out the range of thrusters that can be safely used based on the existing information, and even make a certain degree of prediction based on the movement rules of the other party. However, in fact, what type of enemy radar is, whether it has been tuned by excellent technicians, whether the opponent has used fighters in combat, the range of action of fighters, and the superpower resonance level of the opponent's crew are all unknown information for the time being.

Connecting to the Fleet Channel, Pan Wen asked the Kuroshio to use the same maneuver, considering that the Kuroshio's weight and propulsion were different from the Hammer's, and it could not be synchronized when moving in a non-straight line, he asked Doris to choose her own forward route.

Moving like fleas in the nebula for several minutes, the distance between the two sides has been reduced to the extent that the main guns can shoot in a conventional battle, but in the nebula, particles and dust have an effect on both the energy beam and the particle beam, and it needs to be closer.

"The speed of the attacked ship exceeded 2000, and the attacking side seemed to have given up the pursuit, and it escaped! Mark E5 has just turned its head and is moving away from the attacker. "Mark E5 is an unidentified ship that has just approached the war zone in silent mode.

The news of the radar officer was really bad for Pan Wen.

Going too fast in the MR241 nebula will not only wear down the coating, but also wear out the frontal armor, and if you ignore the escape, the pursuer will have a difficult choice. The choice of the attacking side's three patrol ships was obviously the last thing Pan Wen wanted to see, and as for the gratitude of the little pirate who was beaten badly, he never cared.

Even so, Pan Wen had to act like a model pirate in front of the crew.

"Send a message to congratulate them."

For the three ships suspected of being mercenaries, Pan Wen still felt that he should try, otherwise it would be too inefficient to rely on others to hit the muzzle of the gun to hunt, so he connected to the fleet channel again.

"Doris, I want the Kuroshio to move into a regular movement and continue to get closer to the target, and I want those three ships to think that the Kuroshio is a patrol ship, can you do it?"

"It's too close, I can only do my best."

Now they are less than half a million kilometers away from the pursuing ship, and if it weren't for their method of action to avoid the exposure of the thruster reaction, they would have been marked by someone's radar. If you continue to get closer, you may be directly exposed to the optical observation instrument, and if the dust happens to be much thinner somewhere, you will be manually recognized and scare the other person away.

"Well, you go ahead and do it."

The Kuroshio received the order to slightly correct the course and turn on the main thruster group again, but the eight thrusters in the main thruster group only had two adjacent openings at the edge, barely so that the Kuroshio would not slow down automatically.

This is the most common camouflage method in space warfare other than electronic silence, and the high-thruster group can easily simulate the energy reaction of the small thruster group, but not vice versa.

The three patrol ships, which had already given up the pursuit and began to slow down, immediately spotted the Kuroshio, accelerated to the standard combat speed in the nebula and kept circling without rushing directly. Maybe it's to see if the Kuroshio and the escaped patrol ship are together.

Taking advantage of the other party's hesitation, the distance between the Kuroshio and the Heavy Hammer and the other party was shortened a lot.

"How far can we go if we continue to accelerate?"

The Heavy Hammer and the Kuroshio have three main guns combined, but the patrol ship will not disintegrate if it is hit by a single shot, and considering the weakening of the Nebula's energy weapons, as well as the situation of missing and being dodged, Pan Wen feels that once the cannon is fired, he can only choose to leave one directly. Seeing the meat in his mouth still running away was not in his style, so he felt that he should take some risks within reason.

The tactical team immediately integrated some information and communicated with the navigator to have an answer: "On the premise of not damaging the coating, it is the limit to 1600 and maintain 35 seconds including the acceleration time, and in this half minute or so, the secondary gun needs to clean up the larger particles that may exist." The speed of 1400 can have a safety time of nearly 100 seconds, and it will be easier to avoid large particles manually and automatically. ”

"Hmm. Listen to my instructions, and then find a larger acceleration hiding point to increase your speed, and change angles to prevent the enemy from escaping before the Kuroshio scares them away. ”

Naturally, the two frigates cannot block the entire three-dimensional space, but they only need to have a large angle difference, so that the opponent cannot effectively use the evasion advantage of the combat surface.