Chapter V: Year-End Hearings

Lying on the bed, he opened and closed his eyes again, making sure that his eyeballs were not hurting, and then he opened his eyes again and got up.

After looking around, I confirmed that it was the captain's room of the Golden Ship, and the door was well closed.

Relieved, he lay down on the bed again.

After being stupid for a while, he raised his hand and turned on the display of the personal computer and pressed it a few times to check out his personal state, and sure enough, the attribute was followed by a weak state.

Fortunately, in the Great Galactic Era, except for positions such as the Marine Corps that require direct combat, there is little room for personal ability, and there is not much difference in the attributes of a few less, if it is the last era, he has to find a hole to hide for a while.

After taking a moment to sort out his emotions and organize his internal and external memories, he quickly returned to Pan Wen's role, got up, and beckoned the second host Doudou to review his course of action in the past few days.

"Tsk!"

After reading the records, he sighed and expressed disdain for the so-called role trusteeship part of the special management, which basically stayed in the captain's room, and went to the slave cadets halfway to attend classes according to the script, and there were no other activities, and the food was done in the captain's room.

If there is no action, there will be no problems that need to be solved, put down the entrusted part, Pan Wen glanced at the date, there are only a few days left before the annual salary payment date, so he simply gives the fleet a long vacation.

Of course, he can also choose to send money in advance to prepare for sailing, but at the end of the year, Segeis's public affairs such as hearings, auctions, product exhibitions, trade fairs, and the expiration of the contract of the senior crew are also quite a lot, so it is better to run around to grasp the changes in the decisions of the upper echelons in time and see if he can abduct a few good crew members by the way.

Greeting the four Elsa sisters in the security team, Pan Wen went to the committee office of the Interstellar Trade Friendship Alliance at the first stop.

With the help of the first-level membership privileges and after deducting some membership points, a request for information assistance about bugs was submitted. After applying for information assistance, the information about the bugs collected by the Alliance will be transmitted to the flagship of the Golden Ship every time Pan Wen returns to Hong Kong.

The quality of the Alliance's personnel is uneven, and the management is also herd-style, but especially the information of the insects is not confidential, and any ship owner may encounter it, so the numerical advantage of the Alliance, which accounts for more than sixty percent of the number of pirates, is more likely to be reflected.

If the worms with the essence take some time to grow like the ones that came out of the Hemmer Star before, it is impossible to bet on a single leader, and it is likely that there are many similar guys lurking around farming and developing, waiting for the right time. And the best time seems to be the information obtained from the bank - the reborn star of the KT14 nebula is about to ignite, and the surrounding galaxies may soon lose the ability to communicate across galaxies, and in such a situation, once attacked by the swarm, it is impossible to call for external help.

The stars don't mean that they burn, the time in between is not short, and the bugs may not be able to wait that long, but it is always right to have all kinds of information first, and it is better to follow the map when something happens than to guess.

The thing entrusted by the snow is the essence of the insects, and there are some other troubles in this matter, judging from the pile of insects in Haimerxing, it can only be converted into the essence that can be collected by humans when they surrender voluntarily, and it may not be possible to achieve the goal by fighting and killing alone, if you can't get the help of a ghost under the rain, I'm afraid you will have to establish a special research institute for a whole few years to force the essence.

The bug thing can be a headache later, and now it's the players next door who have the headache.

Since the last time Pan Wen provoked the Imperial players in MR241 and caused others to enter the Segeis Jump Circle, Segeis fell to the Gabri Federation and suppressed the past, causing the Isis Empire to impose MR241 ship access restrictions, and the Imperial players have taken revenge on the Segeis Pirates.

Although players usually play this and that, in fact, in order to fight without damage, there is still some restraint in terms of efficiency. With access restrictions in place they had to enter MR241 through various backdoor frigates, mercenary frigates increased, and they were more targeted at pirates than before, resulting in the Segois pirates continuing to cower in jump circles digging the pits that had been dug for several rounds. According to the data reported by the latest hearing, the number of star crystal recoveries at the Segeis branch of Interstellar Union Bank in the latest month decreased by 28% compared to the average of the previous quarter.

The importance of star crystals is self-evident, even if there are planets composed of gold and diamonds in the galaxy, only star crystals need a specific mass of stars to explode before they can be generated. It means that there are very few areas (just two) in the entire human society that can mine star crystals, and compared with all countries, there is not much difference in the difficulty of mining, and it naturally forms the basis for equivalent exchange.

The Star Crystal recovered by the Interstellar Union Bank from Segeis has dropped by nearly 30%, which can be seen as the overall output value of Segeis has declined.

The impact is multifaceted, and if the situation continues, it may lead to a decline in the consumption power of the Segeis, which in turn will make it less attractive to all kinds of trading ships.

Pan Wen has a different perspective on this matter, and the impact of the decline may take a year or two to be felt, but at the current pace, it is likely that Segois will become a leveling area for players before then. Once the trade lanes are blocked, there is no need to talk about the economy or anything like that, all that needs to be concerned is how long Segeis can hold out.

The player is a mercenary, and it is also a special kind of civil organization, Segeis cannot get them to back down through negotiations, and it is not a state but a pirate force, and there are very few ways to deal with the blockade of players, and the committee members who spoke at the hearing expressed the hope that members would go to MR241 in the future, and it would be better for more than three ship owners to act together.

There is also no way to do it, there are more ship owners, and the density of sloppy quality mines over there is so much, under the premise of ensuring the support range, a ship owner will dig a pit, and the efficiency will not be higher than getting a small boat that is not afraid of death to steal mines.

The hearing also revealed another major event, the relocation of a small number of the Blue Pirates of MR246 to Segeis.

There was some uproar at the hearing when the news was announced, but it was better after the explanation. It turns out that the Blue Pirates did not live with the local pirates in Segeis itself, but lived in Newport One.

Earlier, Segeis had been building a new port, and unlike the asteroid development and transformation that gradually transformed into an artificial bewilderment star, the new port is a completely artificial creation, and the pirates can't build a cherry blossom port like the Florin Republic for hundreds of years, and the new port is a lot smaller. At that time, the construction progress was not urgent, the investment was small, and the number of berths in the two new ports is now less than one-tenth of the main body, and the proportion of berths is even smaller in terms of volume.

After the decision to relocate came out, Newport wanted to add living quarters and other supporting facilities, but these would be paid for by the blue-skinned pirates themselves, and they didn't need to care.

The committee's explanation for the relocation decision was that MR241 had been under too much pressure lately, and since Xingji had a stake in the Blue Pirates, it would be better to cooperate if some people came over for trouble.

This reason is probably also an excuse, and I don't know what deal is behind it.

Pan Wen remembers very well that when MR241 made trouble and pressed the corresponding jump circle of the Imperial MR240, it was obviously MR246's pirate match Guyss headquarters support troops who arrived first! The main reason is that the Sea of Death Particle Storm Zone, which is the umbrella of Segeis, is making trouble, and the range of more than ten hours in the particle storm area cannot be shortened, and the distance from MR246 to MR241 is just on the minimum jump standard of the cruiser, so there is no need to transfer stations halfway.

Long-range support can't be counted on the relocated blue pirates, maybe Segeis also sensed the mercenaries' malice, so he resorted to this method, and when the time came, it was impossible for the blue pirates who moved over to run away, their flagships were all cruisers, which was somewhat of a help.

Having said that, I don't know if the decision to move is a good thing or a bad thing, and the blueskins who stay in MR246 are all conservatives of the Anikes, and seeing their compatriots engaged in vaudeville in the area outside MR246, something will happen if they don't get it right.

The final item of the hearing was a plenary voting procedure, and the matter was about the relaxation of Segeis's external channels.

The procedure for the annual plenary hearing is that the chairperson submits the issue, and the committee presents its views in two groups, sometimes neutral.

For a long time, Segeis has always been a force that is difficult for non-pirate groups to contact, and the existing merchant ship owners who come and go to Segeis are all recommended by the pirate ship owners or have done this business themselves, even the waiters in the hotel entertainment area are likely to become the crew of which pirate ship will be transformed tomorrow, and there is no ordinary crowd at all.

The committee member representing the supporters said that if the system is relaxed a little and allows Segeis to gradually move from a pirate force to a more normalized force, it will be much more flexible in diplomacy at that time.

The objections are based on the safety of the pirates themselves: Segeis is orderly, it is a pirate gathering area in the final analysis, once the access principle is relaxed, maybe a lot of bounty hunters and the like will emerge to take heads in the living quarters all day long, and pirates in the interstellar age can only be used as a joke after drinking when they die in the living quarters!

After the committee members explained on both sides, Pan Wen voted against the vote, and similarly, most of the first-level members present voted against, after all, if there are really bounty hunters, the big fish will definitely be targeted first, and everyone understands the reason.

In fact, the security issues mentioned by the opponents are the most prominent in the entire Segois, the most loosely managed Interstellar Trade Friendly Alliance, and if that happens, there is a good chance that nine out of ten of the people who will be hunted will be members of the Alliance.

Although most of the pirates were short-sighted, they were still cautious about their own lives, and the final hearing was completed with a majority of votes against it.

However, the results of the hearing on the Alliance's side do not fully represent the final decision of Segeis, and if the Star Brotherhood and the Segeis Grand Alliance are unanimously supported during the council phase, even if the alliance has a number of people, it is useless to have one more council seat.

Coming out of the hearing, Pan Wen was a little hesitant.

If this thing is finally done, Segeis will not be safe for him, even if the lethal weapons management restrictions of the ban and security are lifted, it may not be able to save his life as a wanted criminal of the two countries, and it is estimated that he will stay on board when he returns to port for safety reasons, and all the ground work will have to be handed over to the assistant team and other captains.

It seems that the progress on the Hemer Star side still needs to be accelerated, and one day he will be forced to only replenish and rest there.