In the war on the Sea of the Dead, although the mercenaries had pirates' help on the side, similar fishing strategies did not have much effect, at least so far they did not catch big fish. The fishing strategy is slow to eat away at the pirate power, so slow that it is difficult to detect, but if it continues, it will one day make Segeis depressed.

However, in addition to organizing the escort fleet and the mobile fleet to protect the route, Segeis is also making preliminary preparations for clearing up the enemy in the non-navigation area, and is contacting relevant manufacturers and research institutes.

The purpose of the preparation is to create a cheap navigation beacon, the existing navigation beacons on the Sea of Death route are specially developed for the Sea of Death environment, and the functions include navigation beacons/confusing objects, intelligence collection and location fine-tuning, etc., the value of each navigation beacon is as much as a fighter, and the navigation beacon of the secret route is several times this, if you want to use this kind of navigation beacon to cover the Sea of Death, it will directly bankrupt Segeis, who has no resource star, otherwise it is impossible for Segeis to establish only more than ten entry and exit routes for so many years.

In order to "open up horizons" in the Sea of Death, the new navigation beacon will be reduced to at least one-fiftieth of the original navigation beacon, and the functional ontology that requires such an outrageous "navigation beacon" must be abandoned.

Particle interference in the Sea of Death is very serious, and indicators such as stealth and size of the new buoy can be reduced, and the overall cost will be greatly reduced by abandoning the optical/signal navigation function of the buoy, and the obstacle lies in the outer skin material that prevents the erosion of particle storms for a long time. Ordinary research institutes don't do any research on the Sea of Death at all, after all, there is no such particle storm area that will last for thousands of years in the rest of the human domination zone, and the research capabilities of the few companies that have partnerships with Segeis are limited, and even if there are higher-cost materials as references, it will take some time to come up with new materials that meet both cost and service life standards.

During the research period of low-cost skin materials, Segeis also urgently created a batch of permanent reconnaissance arrays using old beacon skins, which compared with the throwable ones used on reconnaissance ships, the cost difference is more than ten times, so Segeis cannot be used as tactical equipment to provide to the pirates below, and can only be used for deployment near the asteroid pile.

In the days leading up to the initial deployment, the 123rd Mobile Fleet all caught "rats" outside the asteroid pile, but this action stimulated the mercenaries, and on the fifth day after the deployment, the mercenaries carried out a planned large-scale attack, crippling the Fifth Passage escort fleet.

At that time, the Fifth Passage escort fleet included a total of 120 frigates, more than 200 patrol ships, cargo ships, and armed merchant ships, and the high-energy response that burst out at the moment of war did not even need to be transited by Segeis, and directly penetrated a small half of the Sea of Death and was captured by the passive information collection system of each warship.

The time and place of the attack were carefully planned, and none of the three mobile fleets even had a chance to get close to the attack site before the battle was over, which finally made the Segeis higher-ups unable to sit still.

In the previous hot melt strike, the mercenaries had avoided the patrol time of the patrol fleet and carried out a hot melt strike on the asteroids around Segeis, but this event could have been done with a certain amount of luck if their allies provided information on the various routes.

But the current large-scale attack on the fifth route is a big problem, according to the report of the ship that escaped, when the escort fleet passed the 05613 buoy, one of the patrol ships in the convoy suddenly used weapons to destroy the buoy! The ship was ordered to break up on the spot by the commander of the escort fleet, but no one expected that when the commander hesitated to leave the course to avoid danger, the fleet was devastated. According to the ship's electronic records, all the warships in the entire fleet were precisely located, and the first wave of blows lifted the shields of sixty percent of the ships!

Inner ghost, this word immediately cast a shadow over Segeis.

In this gray area of Segeis, there has never been a shortage of spies or the like, but all the spies encountered before together are not as big as the blow caused by the attack on the fifth route, because this operation is not something that one or two internal ghosts can do, and it takes a group.

First of all, Segeis could not support more than a dozen escort fleets of the same size, so before the escort fleet set sail, the management center would inform the escort fleet which route of the departure ship and caravan had been prepared first, and it would not take more than two hours from the dispatch of the sailing information to the departure of the fleet, and no other ships would take the same route under the condition that the port was controlled, how could this information get to outsiders?

The second suspicion is that the speed of the escort fleet is not a fixed value according to the different moods of the commanders, the thrust limit of the lowest-speed ships, the overloading of cargo, and other factors. And from the analysis of the situation of the attack on the fleet and the possible speed of the Sea of Death, which requires the enemy to obtain intelligence in real time hundreds of thousands of kilometers outside the beacon aircraft, even the pirates themselves cannot do it.

Finally, there was a time lag between the destruction of the ship striking the buoy and the attack on the escort fleet, and the commander of the escort fleet also issued some orders to adjust the position of the fleet in this short period of time, and within a few minutes, the relative position of the fleet ships was transferred to the enemy, and only then could there be a full-lock attack.

After a careful investigation of the incident, some people in the Joint Council began to suspect that the people who had joined Segeis from the Empire and the Federation in the recent period were spies, but the actual data proved that it was these guys who were the most active in fighting mercenaries!

For example, there is a woman named Yuka Nishikawa, who is the first person to join the pirates with the new ability system of the Empire and the Federation, and since being guaranteed by Pan Wen, a first-level member, to become a third-level member, she has been resurrected three times in the gene bank, participated in more than 20 battles against mercenaries, and directly sank more than 30 enemy ships. There have been more and more similar guys recently, and there are some good seedlings who have performed eye-catching in the battle against mercenaries, and if they grow up, they may become the next monster like Pan Wen, so it is unscientific to generalize about these people with new ability systems.

Since there are no Awakened in the Council, or if there are for some reason that they cannot be prompted, the Council has not purged the owners of the new power system. Although there was no purge, in order to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents, the joint council formulated corresponding regulations.

On the one hand, in the future, there shall be no captains, first officers, fire controllers, radar crews, and chief technicians who use the new capability system in the escort fleet and mobile fleet. On the other hand, the owners of the new ability system who have the qualifications of Level 3 Member, Sponsor (Grand League), and Head Wolf (Brotherhood) will also encourage them to form groups and set up special liaison and mission offices, and organize channels to provide and sell various Seiko-grade and laboratory-grade equipment for them.

The introduction of the new regulations means that pirate players have finally officially stepped onto the stage of the Galactic Era, even if they are still weak now, they will have more "money" in the future, after all, they don't need to carry as many political backgrounds as Imperial and Federation players, and they don't need to bear some strange tax burdens, the only thing to do is to buy and buy and fight.

The pirate players have the right to move freely in the fleet, and the matter of the second mobile fleet has eased up in a few days, indicating that the free confrontation between them and the mercenaries still has some positive effects.

The first one, because of the production capacity, the manufacturing of the new ship purchased with points will take a week, which means that Pan Wen will be tossed around for at least another week in the mobile fleet.

The ghost incident on the fifth route in front made the command of the combined fleets not smooth, and the same was true for his second mobile fleet, fortunately, the command was also much more cautious than before, otherwise they might have been stuffed into other people's mouths. An extra week is an extra week of discomfort.

The second problem is even more serious, the news that K30E4 was occupied by bugs was finally transmitted to the MR star cluster, and the reason why it could not be concealed was that the small Barrow Empire had fallen in, and the official fleet had suffered two major blows in space during the rescue operation. However, the creditor owner of K30E4, who was originally very dissatisfied, changed its attitude and announced that the repayment period of the K30E4 loan would be relaxed for three years, and all interest would be waived and a cost would be waived!

It was a bit of a surprise that the swarm came first in the K30 rather than the Blue Nation on the Resistance side, but DBB's attitude was more interesting.

If it is a normal commercial bank, there is no doubt about this choice, and the residents who have been infested by bugs want to restore their old appearance, and the return on investment cycle is too long and does not conform to the normal investment strategy. The Development Bank is more like a fragmented country, and the opportunities for territorial expansion become less and less vigilant the more planets it owns, so giving up the opportunity to bring a planet into the management system is definitely the last option.

Development banks have always tended to use force and intimidation when it comes to recovering planets that are unable to repay their loans. The power of the Development Bank, which has twelve residents and mineral stars, should not be underestimated, not counting the territorial defense (non-state), it is simply worse than the war mobilization ability and potential, and it is not much worse than the blue country, at least half of the blue country, but this K30 incident actually made the development bank retreat, and would rather return the money at a loss than recover it by force, which is somewhat intriguing.

In Pan Wen's eyes, the possibility of the invasion of proto-alien insects can be directly ruled out, and there is no case of proto-alien insects occupying settled planets in a short period of time in "history", and there is only one option left, that is, the insect swarm led by the guys in the jurisdiction area of the overseer rain.

This group of bugs can severely damage the official fleet of the Barrow Empire and deter the Development Bank from participating in the recovery of the territory, which is no longer something that a "small" pirate like him can deal with, and then it seems that he can only watch it swell into the final boss of the era level.

But this news with no video evidence is not all bad, at least, the swarm is occupying K30 instead of K14 or K11.

In K30, even if it can't attract the attention of all mankind now, once it invades any other galaxy, it will inevitably be encircled and suppressed on a huge scale. Judging from the position of K30, at least until that point in time, the bridge is at least safe, which leaves strategic depth for the Empire and the Federation to unite to establish an anti-swarm hub in K11.

What is the good aspect of this? Of course, it's much better than taking K11 directly and taking MR243 before everyone reacts. Among the forces MR244 to MR251, except for the Florin Republic, which relies on xenophobic vigilance and special technology to make the local defense stronger and can do some resistance, the others can only wait for the swarm to run over.

Pan Vin had no choice but to do the job at hand - not for the fleet commander, but for the future to gather allies.

He already has a group of allies in MR251, and according to the news brought by the communication ship, as long as Segeis can withstand it for a month, the partners will be able to complete all the asset transfers and a certain number of low-level personnel migration. There is not much of a problem in terms of time, judging from the current situation, the mercenaries are playing tricks on each other, obviously with the increase in the level of the ship, they are no longer willing to bear large-scale losses, so that there will be no major rebellion within Segeis, and the mercenaries will not have a chance to take Segeis in a short time.

The MR251 Hemerstar D21 Group can't accommodate the big pirates to compete for power, so the binding of new allies can only be through comradeship and their excellent "pirate" ability, so that they know that they have money to make with themselves. Naturally, the targets were several commanders of the mobile fleet and several ship owners with a relatively high degree of obedience, and through intentional contacts and spoils of war, Pan Wen had determined where they would go to beg for a living after the collapse of Segeis, and received some dispensable promises.

It doesn't matter what is promised, anyway, it is a combination of interests, pirates will not get along with money, Pan Wen only hopes that when necessary, the helper he finds can be a little more reliable. Besides, on that day, it was questionable whether his teammates would survive and ask him for money.