Someone's act of causing public outrage is ultimately preceding what should have happened months later.

Mercenaries of the Empire of Islam, who have recently stepped onto the world stage due to the strategy of opening up small ships, and pirates have broken out in a large-scale armed fight in the MR241 Jumping Circle of Iss.

Compared to a few months ago, the mercenaries were fully equipped with better warships, so that they were no longer the prey of the cracks, and they wiped out all artificial objects in their path like a vicious swarm of locusts until they ......

"The super-large fleet of 950,000 kilometers ahead is changing its formation, it has slowed down as a whole, and the fighters cannot continue to approach, it should be that they have been assembled."

"That boss is really slippery, lords hurry up and get an idea."

The Imperial Honor System brings many benefits to individuals, and in the current situation of mass gatherings, it is also easier to use official status to unify opinions from different guilds. The honor system only recognizes individual honors, and most of the most honored people in guilds, consortia, and companies are not leaders, and they are still elected because after obtaining the knighthood, they must abide by the rules of the imperial nobility in their behavior, and must maintain the credibility of the empire, and it is easier for them to be recognized by scattered small groups than the presidents.

"This is Lord Yamazaki, I suggest that everyone slow down a little, and we should hurry up and clean up the wreckage, and we will have a short meeting."

The Lord is more of a spokesperson for the communication of the group, and the meeting actually needs the participation of the leadership.

950,000 kilometers, before the other side was constantly retreating to collect reinforcements, the direction of movement of the two sides is the same, but the speed is different, there is still a lot of time before the conflict, and the action can be fully discussed.

Of course, it's one thing to have enough time, and the discussion must be brief, but fortunately, the bigwigs who belong to the same imperial camp usually know each other's personalities, and the short meeting progresses quickly.

In ten minutes, the distance between the two sides was shortened to 900,000 kilometers, and Lord Yamazaki, who had just spoken, made a representative announcement to everyone: "Everyone, now the pirate fleet must be sure that it will turn back, considering that their ships are of higher level and the bonus effect of NPC captains is more specific, we discuss that it is not appropriate to clash head-on." But it's not easy for us to mobilize everyone to act together, so we must not make it easy for them! ”

After a few inconsequential nonsense and a slight pause to give everyone time to focus on the information here, Yamazaki began to talk about the main point: "We jointly decided to conduct a long-term cooperative guerrilla war, using the advantage of information speed and breadth, with guilds or guild unions as the basic unit, to sweep away pirates who were not included in the assembly fleet, and in case they dare to act separately, we will do a tactical assembly to break them one by one." ”

"Do you mean they chase us?" "If you're chased, you won't have time to pick things up."

For the messy various questions, after listening to the part, it was cut off as a whole, turned into one-way communication, and replied with another voice: "This is Lord Xiao Yin, this tactical execution will be accompanied by a comprehensive net, you must leave a reconnaissance aircraft as a static antenna at the location you pass by, and the reconnaissance array can be replaced by a reconnaissance ship, and after the tactics are deployed, you can contact friendly forces to participate in picking up the loot, and for the rest of the details, please switch to the guild fleet channel to understand the situation." ”

When the most critical wreckage question was answered, the players immediately lost their opinions, and the wreckage was separated from the combat part, whether it was combat support or ensuring the cost of operations, and the degree of freedom was also higher, and it was very efficient to discuss such a result in a short period of time.

The mercenaries acted in groups, which really hurt the pirates.

The player's ship is gradually updated, and it still looks like it is a small ship, counting the effects of various enhancements and modifications and the evasion advantage of the small ship itself, the combat ability and the last time you came to the Saigeis jump circle are no longer a concept. At the beginning, Pan Wen could go to their hometown to bully people with two or three frigates, but now even if he is led by the Golden Ship, he does not dare to easily confront hundreds of player ships, not to mention the ordinary pirates who are armed merchant ships.

What is especially tragic is that the pirates have to consider the cost of their actions, their fleet size is small, the average number of frigates is less than two, even if they can call for support, in fact, the fleet that can start to resist at the same time is only three or five main guns, in the face of a swarm of player fleets and a variety of tactics to cover each other, it is not bad to be able to replace them 1:1.

The large fleet that has just been assembled has an operational advantage, but it is a pity that half of this group of guys, Pan Wen, cannot rely on the command as a temporary commissioner, and the remaining half is also greatly reduced due to multi-level management, which greatly reduces the speed of execution of orders. After making a change of direction pursuit and failing to catch up with the mercenaries, Pan Wen didn't bother to take care of things, and directly reported the situation to the mobile star base.

His tactical response is decisive, and the mobile star-base may be able to defeat both in the face of a mercenary fleet composed of hundreds of converted patrol ships, and it is not a problem to have a pirate fleet to assist in fighting two or three times the number, but the low acceleration caused by its huge mass makes it impossible for the star-base to directly participate in mobile operations. However, even so, having the ability to communicate across galaxies is still the strongest means for a star-based to establish a unique advantage.

The incident was quickly fed back to Segeis headquarters, and announcements were immediately made to the broadcast as soon as clearance was granted. Broadcasts can be encrypted, and in the range of jump circles, the delay of a few minutes before and after is also completely acceptable.

The broadcast demanded that all non-combat ships would be forced to leave MR241, and that the escape route would pass through the perimeter of the mobile satellite, and that the satellite-based and its convoy would make them look good if they attracted "brutal" mercenaries. In addition, all combat ships were required to assemble at a vertical point on the ecliptic plane directly below the star base.

At the same time as the mobile satellite-based announcement, Segeis also used the Death Perimeter equipment to start the broadcast, because ordinary broadcast signals cannot pass through the Death Sea particle storm, so these peripherals have become an important auxiliary means of emergency notification. The broadcast over there will immediately stop all jumping to the MR241 system, and depending on the situation, a fleet may be gathered to support it. However, since the port of Seguiis is far from the sea of death, it is more than ten hours of sailing before entering the jump procedure, and the support procedure is not something that can be completed in a moment, and the main thing is to prevent more pirates from becoming unjust ghosts for no reason.

The broadcast is issued, and if it is a normal area, it is easy to complete the assembly and enter the "rights protection" stage, but unfortunately it is full of pirates.

After all, pirates are pirates, and many of them can't think about the future, even the emergency broadcast of Segeis doesn't work, some warships directly take the opportunity to follow the non-warship class, and even the fleets that have been assembled have some left the big fleet and left. Those who leave directly have no way, and those who dare to escape after the assembly, Segeis naturally has his own way to re-educate them, and these are all things that will happen later, and they don't need to be taken care of for the time being.

Despite all sorts of pitfalls, the size of the assembled fleet was halved in a matter of hours, with 90 frigates of all types, and more patrol ships and other chaotic ships. It is worth mentioning that someone provided his own dockyard ship and began to charge for emergency repairs on the spot, which is quite business-minded!

As the assembly was nearing completion, the mercenary fleets over there also noticed that the bits and pieces of pirates had disappeared, and after a short meeting on the forum, they made a stupid decision - take advantage of it and run.

This decision would be fine in a normal game world, but it would be different in a fully realistic world.

After confirming the withdrawal of the mercenary fleet, the fleet on the ecliptic plane waited in place for nearly an hour, and then received an order from the star base to transfer to Segeis:

Reach a tacit agreement with a certain force to completely block the MR240 jump circle!

The situation is very clear, Pan Wen's initiative to die has become the death of the Imperial players due to lack of consideration for the various forces, and Segeis is obviously temporarily in a neutral position leaning towards the Empire, but he was turned to the Federation Army by such a fuss.

You can't blame Segeis for defecting too quickly, there is no need to talk about the festival or anything in front of the interests of the forces, MR241's star coin is an important currency source for Segeis, because of it, Segeis has never worried about the use of currency sanctions by the United Star Bank, and it is also an important reason why he decided to build a star base when he was stimulated a little at that time.

The decision was made, and the Saigeis assembly fleet was temporarily under the command of the star base, and the star base and its escort fleet led the team to press the MR240 jump circle, and on the other side, the Federation players also received the news of the "express" from the territory of their companions in less than two hours, and began to give up hunting and routine battlefield training to assemble in the MR239 jump circle.

The news was delivered quickly at some levels, and the Imperial players also got the news, but it was too late, most of the fleets that had just been looted had already completed the jump program and gone home, even if they turned around and jumped again at the fastest speed, the acceleration process would take several hours.

According to the rear command, the Saigeis mobile satellite base and the temporary assembly fleet directly cut into the MR240 jump circle, and spread out stationary less than 5 million kilometers from the central axis of the jump circle. The mobile satellite-based factory manufactures a large number of special reconnaissance arrays on site, and distributes them to all reconnaissance ships for large-scale signal laying free of charge. In order to save costs, the reconnaissance array is completely unmotivated, with the movement of the asteroid group on the ecliptic plane, it is either hit or moves slowly with the asteroid motion, and the modified version has a certain position adjustment ability, and the cost will rise to more than four times that of the ordinary version, and too many are not something that individuals can easily afford.

The non-mercenaries on the Imperial side also took action, some ran away, and some gathered at the outpost to wait for news from the rear.

It is a completely different thing from the star base, the cost of the outpost is much lower, the average volume is only one-tenth of the Segeis mobile star base, the outpost can only provide a little energy help to friendly forces, and the maintenance environment cannot produce its own parts, and the ship to be repaired must bring its own. Most of the outposts can only rely on ships for communication, and they are only heavy defense platforms, and the MR240 imperial outpost is equipped with a point-to-point hyperspace communication relay, but in terms of the completeness of its functional facilities, it still cannot be called a star base.

It's not that the Empire doesn't have the money to build a starbase, it's just that MR241 is of very different importance to the Empire and to Segeis, and for the entire Empire, MR241 is only a small part of the border.

Therefore, even if the outpost is cheap, the combat power and logistics ability are far from being compared with the mobile star base that Segeis has invested heavily in, and the strength of the fleets of the two sides is also the temporary upper hand of Segeis, but the Segeis side did not directly rush in to deal with them. This will be followed by a process of negotiation at the rear - if the mercenaries can resist coming in.