Chapter 10: The Pit

According to the second plan of action, less than 100 hours after the meeting, the Combined Fleet of Segeis's covert operations had already arrived at KT11, the first stop of the KT Star Cluster, which was a small mixed area full of artificial celestial bodies, and was working in groups at this time.

It's easy to group them according to the pirate groups they belong to, and they can be done in minutes, but the current operation involves issues such as synchronous operations, and the transmission and reception of communications need to be arranged separately. Drag these things that should be dealt with at the port here, in addition to the time is relatively tight, it can also be seen that the senior management is still very concerned about the confidentiality of this matter.

In terms of the Friendship Alliance of the Star Base Trade, if based on past results, Pan Wen obviously has an advantage, but he has not taken care of interpersonal relationships at all this year, and the power of acting command is held by a guy named Steve.

Pan Wen has nothing to dispute this, first of all, Steve is the person appointed by the committee, and he may know more about the inside story than the others present, and the act of stabbing in the back is often more important than tactics. In addition, the fleet under the acting command is all first-class members, and the future committee members of the alliance will offend a group of people if one is not good, and it is difficult for each of them to settle down, so it is better to have fewer troubles like this.

After the grouping is completed, the information transmission points of each fleet and the general time frame for entering the theater of operations are assigned, and each fleet begins to enter the jump procedure.

It must be explained here once again that in the Great Galactic Era, in addition to the basic hyperspace jumping method of the main ship's power type, there is also an external equipment auxiliary type, just like Pan Wen's first frigate, the Kuroshio that has long since retired. Depending on the size of the positive section of each ship and the number of energy stages used to open the quantum channel, the speed of departure needs to reach the speed of light ranging from 6% to 8%. The external equipment-assisted type only needs 20% to 50% of the speed of the ship's output type to complete the hyperspace jump process.

Both modes have their own benefits, the external equipment-assisted type requires a lower energy value, and it is natural to use a low-output engine to reduce the cost of building and purchasing ships, and at the same time, it will have advantages in the time and length of the route, which is very suitable for pirates who change places with one shot. The output type of this ship mostly belongs to the main type of warship, because the energy required for the start of the quantum tunnel is astronomical, and the requirements for engine output and energy reserves are very high.

The combined fleets are all large-tonnage fleets, and there are quite a few ships of one kind or another, and the completion of the jump synchronization will be integrated by the acting commanders of each fleet in the next few dozen hours.

The stop from KT11 was not the adjacent area of the war zone in a few days, and the alliance side was lost a farther path due to the large size of the fleet. Go out from KT11, make two jumps, reach KT16 and stand by, and when you receive the combat signal, you have to do two consecutive jumps to enter the war zone.

The moment you join the battle, you need to do continuous jumps, although there is no clear explanation, it is also easy to understand. The area around the Duchy of Carter is far away from the Islamic Empire and the Gabri Federation, the main sphere of human power, and there is not much contact with the MR Star Cluster, even if they are neutral countries according to the Interstellar Convention, the Segeis Coalition as pirates cannot really treat them as neutral countries, and it is not wrong to be cautious.

A few hours later, the Confederate fleet arrived at the standby point, and while the other fleets were idle, the acting commander's men began to get busy.

Acting Commander Steve now has to deal with the trouble of a non-standard army - the types of ships that can be a headache for a single thought.

The vast majority of pirates do not deliberately plan the ship type of the fleet like Pan Wen, because he plans with the strength of the "future", generally speaking, only some extremely bloated pirates in the whole operation will deal with this matter, and under normal circumstances, they still only buy cost-effective second-hand ships, and cannot take care of the uniform model.

The sources of second-hand ships of pirates include decommissioned ships from the past that circulated through the surrounding underground channels, complete battleship trophies, imitation ships made by small shipyards with various equipment, etc., etc., in this environment, even if there are thousands of warships that come out of the past, it is not surprising that each model is different!

The alliance alliance is a fleet of first-class members, and it is only slightly better than the general shrimp soldiers and crab generals, sixteen people, a total of more than one hundred and seventy frigates of various types of warships of higher ranks, and a total of fifty-nine models!

Fifty-nine models! Except for this, the average seems to be less than four models, which looks pretty good?

What's good, take the Fat Dun in the Pan Wenjia Type 3 ship as an example, the 00863E class ship represented by the Fat Dun still has four ships in the entire coalition army, but they belong to the five shipowners respectively! By the way, all the sub-ships in the Pan Van fleet, including reconnaissance ships, missile ships, gunboats, etc., are completely stored in the hangar, and there is no need to jump on their own, so they do not enter the statistical process, but they still have to report the ship specifications to the acting commander's team, but there are still small boats in other fleets that cannot be included in the hangar, and these are not counted in the fifty-nine models!

Fifty-nine types of warships, many of which belong to different owners, want to complete the jump scheduling synchronously is not a small problem, more headache is that before the war is to do two consecutive jumps, there is a static and then acceleration process, want to finally synchronize into the battlefield to improve the survival rate of all members and the success rate of the operation, the amount of calculation between can only be described in days.

If the fleet is full of standard ships, in fact, the calculation part can be done by the computer, but there is a big difference between the old and new ships of the pirate family, and some are almost 100 years old, adding many parts that need to be manually evaluated out of thin air!

"It's nice not to have a headache for me." Pan Wen said something of good luck during the video call.

On the other side of the video, it was Doris who gave him a roll of the eyes, in her opinion, Pan Wen's record was enough to show his strength, and he didn't even need him to be the conductor, it was completely shady.

Doris may be slightly more inclined to Pan Wen, but her complaint probably comes more from the lack of understanding of the acting commander's tactical literacy.

Although Pan Wen and Doris saw some in their chat, they didn't make it clear. In his opinion, there is no need for similar worries, don't look at Steve is now an acting commander, if he really enters the battlefield and has an encounter, I am afraid that few fleets will completely obey orders, and it will take dozens of seconds for a fleet of more than a dozen warships to attack completely synchronously, and the combined fleet is really so commanded, there is no effectiveness at all, and it can only be assigned to combat targets in small fleets, in that case, it is almost the same as hunting in peacetime for small fleets, but there is more possibility of being hit by stray bullets.

Like Doris, in the following time, Pan Wen took time to chat with the captains of various ships, but the purpose of chatting with other people was different from chatting with Doris, these people, especially the captains of the second and third ships of the second lieutenant and the third ship, had not talked much in the months after they were hired, and Pan Wen also took advantage of the salary payment at the end of the year to now did some communication with them, and now he is striking while the iron is hot.

According to the employment system, it seems that there is no need to understand each other, and they just take money to work. Pan Wen didn't want to make the relationship with other captains the same as Doris, mainly to give them a chance to understand themselves, as the captain of the flagship, the captain under him understands his character, and it will be a little helpful to clarify his intentions during the battle, whether it is to cultivate tacit understanding, or to plan for the renewal of the contract in the future, small talk is necessary.

After wasting some time and resting for a while, I finally received a message from the communication ship forty hours after arriving at the scheduled standby point:

The Duchy Carter fleet had already left port six hours earlier, and the combined fleet could be ready to take position.

Unlike the player, the information transmission efficiency of the NPC is very rubbish, and the movement of the war fleet out of the port will not be small, so it will take six hours after leaving the port to receive the message, if it really starts, now it will be an hour or two on both sides!

Thanks to the acting commander's conscientiousness, he did a very thorough preliminary work, and the positions of each ship in front of the hyperspace jump procedure had been arranged more than ten hours ago, and after receiving the news from the communication ship, there was no further delay, and the fleet directly started the jump procedure.

The selected channel here began to move, and the landlord of KT16 finally breathed a sigh of relief, and almost had to send a salute to the pirate army.

…… Yes, the location chosen by Segeis for the Alliance is also a small single-galaxy country. Not every small country in a single galaxy will have the strength of the Florin Republic, like KT16, because the star system is relatively barren, there are only two rocky planets in total, one of which can only be used for industrial development and mining due to the high temperature, and the fleet of the whole country is a little larger than the combined fleet of the Alliance.

In fact, there may be some unspeakable intentions for arranging the standby point - for example, the alliance combined fleet is composed of all first-level members, and each first-level member is even if it is a boss-level captain, like Pan Wen's fleet, there are three boss-level captains in Pan Wen, Doris, and Pan Yue'er, and the actual combat ability is equal to two more ships! If a standard fleet of similar size dares to come over, there will be fun in the back!

Of course, there is no need to mention leaving now that there is nothing to do, but then again, due to the status of pirates, even if something happens, they cannot enter the occupation stage, because that will trigger the whole force to use force, at most robbing and robbing, and the outcome of the battle will not be much different from the intended purpose of this operation.

Back to the fleet.

Although the calculations and arrangements were made in advance, it was difficult to accurately assess the impact of equipment wear and tear in a short period of time, and when entering the last station before entering the war zone, there was a partial delay in the auxiliary equipment jumping type of battleship, and the acting commander could only make some fine-tuning of the jump timing during the second jump immediately after. Anyway, it seems that even if there is some error, as long as you don't jump into the encirclement of others, it is not a big problem.

Next, everyone is about to enter KT22 to rob.

If all goes well, of course, it would be good, but halfway through the acceleration of the jump program, another high-speed communication ship was received.

This news is not good news for the pirates, and in a way it can be considered extremely bad: the fleets of the two countries did not fight after they met, and entered into negotiations! What can be determined is that eighty percent of the main fleets of the two sides are concentrated in the confrontation area, and the next actions will be entrusted to the acting commanders with full responsibility, and the follow-up threat information can only be transmitted to the operational target area as much as possible.