After several hours of sailing, the 3rd Alert Fleet of the Resistance Force did not make it to the battle.

The defense line of K11 is already very perfect, even if the previous wave of pursuit troops is wiped out by bugs, the huge swarm will not run without a trace, multiple search units with information complex ships cooperate with each other, and the large-scale swarm has nothing to hide, and the third alert fleet is only providing the necessary scanning data for the front in the process.

It is the Fifth Fleet of the Federation that is on standby to solve the swarm, and there is a hole in the Federation defense line, which is the most perfect solution for the Federation fleet, but there is no profit in fighting bugs, and neither the Imperial fleet nor the mercenaries have gone to grab the merits.

The breach of the defensive line may seem like a false alarm, but the matter is far from over.

Starting from the aspect of insects, since the construction of the K11 defense line, including leakage, infiltration, breakthrough, etc., it is difficult to find out after the insects that act alone enter the stealth state, and almost all the participants believe that the swarm of K11 has not been eliminated, and the swarm is likely to have arranged a large-scale reconnaissance system in K11!

For participants like Pan Wen or the players who know the background of the swarm, the arrangement of the swarm in the K11 scout system is not impossible at all, but an inevitable preparation before the big war. Just as the players did not stop to obtain information on the deployment of the Swarm for the Imperial and Federation fleets even though they knew that they were going to die.

How to operate the reconnaissance system of the swarm in K11 is still a problem for the time being, even if the entire defense area has many information integrated ships and two newly built fortresses, with many small reconnaissance equipment, it is only barely able to maintain 7*24 hours of preliminary filtering of ecliptic surface intelligence, not to mention whether you can catch insects that sneak alone, at least there is basically no way outside the ecliptic surface, and it is difficult to find bugs with shuttle ability to openly start jumping behavior in this area.

The large-scale breakthrough of the insect swarm once again put forward a more comprehensive hidden danger investigation demand for the defense area, but the current defense area of K11 has begun to appear in crisis.

The Federation fleet suffered heavy losses, almost a semi-conventional fleet, which can be defined as the largest single combat loss of the official fleet of the Federation since the beginning of the war.

As with all federal systems, the heavy losses of the Gabre Confederation at the front clearly contributed to the decline in domestic support, and the most immediate effect was that the decree to send another troop increase to the front was far away.

The situation on the front line could not wait, and the Federation's only mobile fleet, the fifth main fleet, had to fill the defensive line as a fixed defensive force. Bugs that have infiltrated the swarm can only be handed over to mercenaries and civilian forces.

The mercenaries bear the long-term losses in order to provide the coalition fleet with swarm intelligence, and they are not interested in searching for the bugs in an environment where there is no money to be made from fighting bugs. The civilian armed forces, whether it is long-range anti-stealth equipment or personnel quality training, are far from being comparable to the army, and the scale is not comparable to that of mercenaries, half of which are still resistance self-defense forces, and the efficiency of screening and reconnaissance insects is not at all expected.

It was probably handled properly, and the Islamic Imperial fleet, which was watching the play on the side, did not fall into the ground, but instead appealed to the surrounding countries to provide more help to the front line. Although it is an old story, the forces that are moving their families from the right-wing star sector at this time passed by K11 and more or less supported some supplies as protection money.

In view of the domestic situation in which the Federation cannot advance or retreat, the Imperial side has issued the "War Resources Gathering Order" with a stroke of the pen, which will send more than 500 large transport ships and supporting personnel, containers, engineering ships, etc. to the front line in the next 72 hours, and these transport ships and engineering ships will all be used to collect resources for K11, and their main sources are resources in K11-17 in the areas where the retreat is being prepared, such as the asteroid belt.

The most powerful thing about "War Resources Gathering Order" is that it is not a picky eater, and does not consider commercial interests at all, as long as it is not pure calcium carbonate, it will be broken and dragged away when it sees a pleasing stone!

The emergence of a new resource composition in K11 will soon give rise to a new high-capacity raw material refining industry chain, which has very high energy consumption and will stimulate the construction of new energy buildings. The increase in the size of the internal economy and population will stimulate the rise in demand for logistics trade, and a series of impacts will inevitably bring more investment and speculation opportunities.

It just so happens that the immigrants in the right wing of the KT cluster have been driven out of their homes by the biters, and it will be difficult for them to make a career in the MR cluster, which is already stable, and K11 will be one of the choices for adventurous merchants.

The economic aspect has little to do with Pan Wen, but the growth of the K11 community of interests will directly affect the scale of the swarm resistance self-defense forces. When it reaches a certain level of scale, it will inevitably give rise to institutions such as the Armed Powers Management Committee, which may be a good opportunity.

Having said that, no matter how powerful the "War Resources Return Order" is, it will take time for the impact to be slowly manifested, but the rebels who suddenly appeared in front of them have no heart to wait.

Less than seventy hours after the swarm broke through the Federal Fleet's defenses, it was reported that a roving rebel fleet had appeared in the K16-K27 area of the right flank, and the fleet had captured more than 20 migrant ships and ships in just 40 hours, and then the parties did not receive any demands for ransom.

The situation is a little strange, this rebel fleet seems to have come out specifically to rob the population.

What forces need to grab the population?

When the question is raised, the result is not far from the water.

K41-K42 and subsequent areas have gathered at least 20 billion people due to bug attacks, and in the face of the fact that K42 has the planet Gaia and multiple terrestrial planets, the 20 billion people can't make any waves at all, and it seems that they have the motive to predate the population.

It's a pity that the first thing to be ruled out by the intelligence analysis teams of all parties is the new forces of K41-K42.

The area where the incident took place was not right, and no stupid leader could choose to run across the entire Swarm Occupation Zone to prey on the population, and those places where the system arrived at one stop without completing the national retreat were the better choice. More extremely, the K41-K42 forces are led by the Development Bank, and they are not unprepared to pour in, so they must have retained enough technical reserves, relying on K42's extremely excellent environment, directly violating the interstellar convention, and the large-scale use of genetic artificial humans is almost zero cost, after all, the interstellar court has no way to "denounce" across the entire swarm control area, at most use intergalactic communication to protest.

Not the new forces of K41-K42, then the new pirate group?

The expansion of a pirate organization does require a population, the average population of the original Segeis is more than 20 million, and the base population and the complex terrain that is difficult to attack make them almost develop the concept of a state, of course, when Segeis actually existed, there are many small countries in the MR243-245 area that directly treat it as a state.

The new pirate organization is a more reliable guess, but there is one condition that cannot be met, and that is the terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Without a base in an easily defended and difficult position, there is no need to plunder the population.

Looking at the existing territory of the entire human society, only five galaxies meet the requirements, and then try the elimination method.

Two of them are located deep within the borders of the Gabri Federation and the Isis Empire, and there are indeed pirates here, but it is impossible for pirates to cross the borders of the entire empire or the Federation, unless they go through the ice zone. Crossing the border from the ice area, the jump cost of two hundred warships, the energy consumed by each station is tens of thousands of star coins, even if some of them are equipped with high-performance shipborne fusion devices, they can't be reduced too much, and if you want to cross a distance of hundreds of light years, the number of jumps that cannot be determined is even worse, and with this money, you can completely find gray merchants to buy population or early genetic technology.

The remaining three points are all well-known areas, MR241, 242 and K14.

K14, the closest to the range of movement of the roving rebel fleet, is the least likely. The ignition of stars will change the dust environment of K14 in just over a decade, entering the initial formation period of celestial bodies, and the construction of any fixed facilities in K14 during this period is self-defeating. Even the Interstellar Union, the largest financial organization in human society, only intends to take advantage of the swarm to get the last vote, and has recently increased the mining of star crystal dust, and even the super project that has been destroyed but still has the hope of being repaired into an L2 facility does not plan to care.

MR242, the location of the Sea of Death, where Segeis died, will there be a successor? The answer is no. The reason is also due to the swarm, which has led to a significant increase in the security forces of the various business groups in just a decade or so, not necessarily new ships, but only in stock. In any case, this external environment is far worse than when Guiys was first built, and the cost of establishing a new pirate group here is at least ten times higher than in the past, and if something goes wrong, it is estimated that it will not be able to escape being destroyed again, so it is better to be a scattered pirate.

MR241 is probably the largest area possible, and the whereabouts of the mobile starbase that was once built with a lot of money by Segeis are still unknown, and the Empire and the Federation have not released information about their capture or destruction. Assuming that the mobile base still exists and is still in the hands of pirates, it seems that it is really possible to create a population demand from time to time, even if it is covered by a complex enough environment. The important thing is to rely on the mobile satellite base, this gang of goods does have the conditions to pick up a bunch of rogues, and the path to the crime area, which is MR243, K11, K14 several neutral areas, K11 is the front line, yes, but there have been too many immigrants recently, there is no condition for every fleet to check, and the gang of goods can also be used to break up the whole way when they go back after the case, and the inspection system that is mainly aimed at the swarm rather than immigration and trade is useless.

After Pan Wen got the news from the owner's intelligence line, he didn't hesitate too much, and directly dispatched Xiao Chun, who had grown into a boss, and her ship H1 Mishaler-class Angel Trom to go to the Hatchling Material Distribution Center of MR243 instead of him.

Xiao Chun and the Angel Trowel's team will receive help from Titan Heavy Industries in the name of returning to the factory for maintenance for the first time, but they have not found any news about the wandering rebel fleet on the Hatchling. According to the order, in the name of Pan Wen, two ships that had served in Segeis will be hired on the Hatchlings to carry out Plan B in the Fleet Crime Zone.

With Plan B, the whole process can take up to 120 hours or more to get feedback. If it turns out that the Wandering Fleet is not a pirate from a mobile star-base at all, it will be a big headache, as it will miss 120 hours.

In order not to let any irreversible mistakes happen due to willfulness, Pan Wen confirmed that the investigation on the Hinck had no results, and immediately contacted the D21 Development Company's office in K11 to start the preliminary personnel deployment.

120 hours of planning, Pan Wen finally waited 48 hours and couldn't help it.