Chapter 118 - Entrustment from the Bank (Part II)
The account manager's words made Pan Wen sit down again and listen to what she had to say first.
"According to the confirmation of our exploration department, the reborn star in the center of the KT14 nebula will ignite on its own in the next few years, which will cause the existing communication mechanism in neighboring countries to be negatively affected for hundreds of years, and we hope to make arrangements before this happens, as much as possible."
"Ha, I can only watch this kind of big thing, does the bank think that getting dozens of me like me can stop the star from igniting?"
Pan Wen recalled the star map, and felt that the account manager was too good at pulling it, with the geographical location of KT14, the radiation turbulence and noise generated when the star ignited wanted to affect the MR star cluster, let alone for decades.
KT14 belongs to another star cluster, and the closest MR system to KT is the MR243 galaxy with a cluster of small countries, and it is also the only way for MR to jump to KT. The geographical location is one of the reasons why no one has been willing to take over the management of MR243's small and shabby countries - it is too easy to cause public outrage.
KT14 is a galaxy with similar properties to MR241, both of which are in the rebirth period after the explosion of the protostar, and the progress is slightly behind, and its protostar mass and age are a little problematic, so the star crystal density in the nebula formed after the explosion is very low. However, there are always two sides to the matter, the cost of collecting star crystals in KT14 is very high, and the timeliness is even more messy, so it is not like MR241 that is stared at by many forces and there are local battles at any time, and the mining situation is very harmonious.
The stars are barely formed, so that the ecliptic plane is not uniform enough, and the KT14 nebula is basically rubble and there are no asteroids, and the special mining ship directly collects all the materials that can be loaded into it and processes them on site in the ship, and when they are transported away, they are already high-purity star crystals. Removing the major item of the cost of the combat ship, the Interstellar Union Bank, as the controlling party of KT14 Star Crystal Acquisition Company, has a very low cost of obtaining Star Crystal in KT14.
Therefore, although the low stable isotope density leads to low production, after all, it is profitable, unlike the recycled MR241 produced star crystals, which have to be traded at the same price as the international open price. When trading at the international open price equivalent, the bank actually earns a minting fee and a little handling fee for refining star crystals to mint star coins, so for them, even if MR241 is the largest source of star crystals, the importance is not as good as KT14.
The ignition of the star is a very significant negative event for the bank, and it may not be able to operate normally for hundreds of years after ignition, and the bank may be a little anxious at this time.
Pan Wen didn't think that the existing weapons could do anything to a star, so he naturally had to put it aside quickly.
Seeing that Pan Wen refused so simply, the account manager knew that he had thought of it, after all, the development rights of KT14 by Interstellar Union Bank were not a secret matter.
"Mr. Pan may have thought a little wrong, KT14 is very important to our bank, but this time to seek everyone's help is really for the sake of human society, and it is not to prevent the stars from ignition." The account manager sped up his speech and explained, seeing that Pan Wen had no intention of leaving, before continuing, "Our bank plans to ask a group of shipowners to establish a temporary company to carry out on-site protection during the establishment of the artificial puzzle star particle stabilizer in KT14 in the form of employment. You know that our bank is restricted by the interstellar convention law, and cannot use any armed force to participate in events unrelated to star coins and star crystals, KT14 matters, and I am afraid that I will miss time to appeal to special cases through the interstellar arbitration court. ”
It stands to reason that the Interstellar Covenant law does have this. Union Bank manages most of the star coins of the entire human society, and in addition to being relatively scattered, the operation network is not weaker than that of a medium-sized country, and it is inevitable that such a large institution that is related to the overall stability of interstellar trade will be severely restricted by all parties.
This not only protects the banking industry, but also gives the bank more word of mouth when it is done, and makes it a big deal for financial institutions that are trying to compete with Union Bank for customers.
But.
"Why not go to an insurance company or a security agency? I'm a Segeis. He didn't say the word pirate directly.
"Because of the construction period, we only have one chance, and we can't allow any possibility of failure. After-the-fact compensation by insurance companies is not helpful, and multinational security agencies are being questioned at the top about their propensity to choose national and international interests, and the hiring costs of involving multiple security companies are much higher. It is also a last resort to choose to invite powerful shipowners to form another company among all forces, hoping to avoid the impact on the progress of the project to the greatest extent. ”
After the account manager finished speaking, seeing that Pan Wen didn't respond for a long time, he came up with a trick: "With the strength of your fleet to join this plan, I can guarantee that your average monthly income will exceed 10,000 Star Coins." ”
The average monthly average of 10,000 star coins is really a lot, especially the construction period of the artificial confusing star has to be calculated on a yearly basis, after a year, the player's development will gradually turn the battle into the type of attrition war, plus the equipment demand will be reduced after the completion of the mobile star-based escort fleet, etc., the income generated by hunting will be deducted from the combat loss, and the profit will definitely shrink significantly.
But Pan Wen touched the scar on his eyebrows, and after a while, he still shook his head: "You came to me to talk about something, and you have probably investigated the warship under my name, but I'm afraid this matter won't help, because most of my ships are on another long-term mission, and it's impossible for me to run to you as a security guard." ”
The account manager was obviously a little disappointed, but it should not be the first time she had encountered this kind of thing, so she immediately sorted out her emotions and said a few polite words to send Pan Wen and Elsa and others out of the business hall, and did not even ask for a confidentiality agreement or anything like that - maybe the bank wished that the big shipowners would spread the word about it, so that they could talk less.
After returning to the Golden and letting Elsa go to the ship to play, sending Nadezhda to prepare for the voyage and locking herself in the captain's room, Pan Wen's brows locked again.
He has decided not to participate in the bank's affairs, and it is impossible to regret it, after all, MR251 Haimer Star D21 satellite still has his shares, and it is impossible to spare much strength to spend a few years running to the bank to make a fortune.
What made him a little uneasy was the ignition of the star of KT14.
The Second World is a complete society, and each of its epochs will go through a cycle, from beginning, development, turmoil, and then destruction, of which only the final destruction is considered a variable, determining whether it will self-destruct or not, depending on whether the various forces can maintain a balance that is not too fragile after the great chaos, and the Age of the Twin Legends is because it can achieve balance, so that the two behemoths of the Federation and the Empire are still giants of the era after the transition to the new era.
And turmoil is an inevitable link, Pan Wen originally took it for granted that the source of all turmoil would be the player, or a guy like him who would suddenly use strange tricks to cause a huge impact. However, judging from the current situation, the Empire and the Federation are very restrained, and even if they are both attacked on the border, they still only import all the conflicts between players into the MR241 area as much as possible.
Players can resurrect without loss and "turn money", the strategy of the Empire and the Federation gives both sides an advantage, and it is impossible for them to completely separate the victory and defeat without a strong external force to join.
But what he heard in the bank today gave Pan Wen a new clue.
As the account manager said, the unstable stage after the ignition of the star will greatly interfere with the ultra-long-distance communication of the existing human society, even if it is a little slower, but it can be expected that the affected range will be detached from the entire human society or seriously delayed, and real-time information is the most relied on by modern countries to rule society and even obtain peripheral intelligence. Once that situation happens, it is good for the big countries to fall apart, and I am afraid that any snake will have the opportunity to occupy the mountain and become the king.
If the chaos really spreads because of the failure of the Interstellar Union Bank's plan to build a stabilizer, according to the wishes of the Second World management, the internal system of the Great Galactic Era will have to be at least two or three hundred years old.
The question is where can players wait until then, with the current situation, it won't be long before the Imperial players will pull out a small number of frigates, and at most a few years will cause the Federation players to rely on low-cost recovery and be unable to keep up with the Imperial side, and maybe adjust the ship opening strategy before then. Once the players on both sides are popularized to frigates, not to mention the army, and the gods are also a fart when they come, then they will definitely do more things that just follow their own will, and it is very likely that the two great powers will be passively led into the quagmire of war.
In other words, when the KT14 star is ignited, the MR side, the two largest countries in human society have already started fighting, so isn't that a big mess?
"Tsk, how can it quickly become a philosophical question." Pan Wen complained to himself.
Stand up and look at KT14 next to the solid star map of the entity in the workshop, the physical star map is a maglev model group, and each star system has its own trajectory like the real star map, which is considered an ornament, but occasionally has other uses.
When the finger pressed on the keyboard of the light simulation at the side of the table, the center of KT14 lit up, and the table under each small star cluster was centered on KT14, showing a bunch of large and small arrows.
After looking at it for a while, Pan Wen shook his head, but he still didn't understand that its impact really took decades to reach MR243, not to mention other galaxies, and it would take more than two hundred years to reach 251. Could it be that he is overthinking, and the chaos has nothing to do with the ignition of the KT14 star?
Next, he had to bring some goods to MR251 to his teammates, some of which were ordered by Karuida and brought by the way, and some gadgets were bought by Pan Wen at his own expense, hoping to make the development of D21 that was not going well be less twists and turns.