Chapter Seventy-Eight: What the Swarm Is Doing
Although it is unreasonable for the swarm to use K7 as a key area, it is reasonable, and it can confirm that this wave of swarm is not a natural disaster, but a great demon with a high degree of tactical execution. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
K7's environment is not suitable for resource development by swarms, but in the current situation, it should be an important tactical node, for about the same reasons as the human side.
The player's internal intelligence NPCs were not known for a while, but the Hyperspace Information Synthesis System, which had barely stopped the self-defense resistance forces in the past week, still captured a little bit of information through the player's behavior.
In the twenty hours since the K7 swarm counterattacked, there have been a total of 8 hyperspace jumps to the K8 to K10 areas, each of which is very small, judging that the number of ships does not exceed ten, and there are probably small jumps that are too small for the self-defense resistance forces to detect.
After consulting with the Federal Fleet Information Release Office, none of these jumping ships have returned for the time being, and there is a high probability that they have already died. By the way, although the name of the information release office is office, it is actually a wide-area information integrated ship, it is a special ship with a tonnage no smaller than ordinary heavy cruisers, and it does not have the function of direct combat, and in some cases it can make a cameo appearance as a campaign-level command ship, and the Federation has specially deployed a civilian organization in K11 to publish officially obtained information, of course, there is a certain amount of screening, and not all information will be made public.
Through the self-defense resistance forces' own intelligence and information from the official information release office, it can be confirmed that jumping to K8 to K10 is a player's behavior, and the general civilian armed forces will not get a few ships to go to the Swarm Occupied Area to die in this environment, and the player's memories will not disappear due to resurrection in the gene bank.
If this conjecture is true, then the player must have discovered important information about K7 in the previous death act, but unfortunately it is difficult to guess what information is until the player performs the follow-up action.
Under this level of battle, it is difficult for a big pirate like Pan Wen to play much of a role, even if his fleet can command some local forces because of its combat power, he cannot participate in the front-line battle, and can only pick up the leaks in the back. Even if he buys unreliable information through players, it won't have any impact on the situation, so he simply waits for the official information to be announced.
Compared with the dispensable presence of the fleet itself in K11, Pan Wen is more concerned about the progress of the work of the special operations group in terms of public opinion guidance, whether K11 can be held or not, the swarm of K30 is still a major hidden danger, and under the favorable overall public opinion environment, the recent task of the special operation group is mainly to guide public opinion in the K12 to K21 areas.
Due to the geopolitical situation, it is difficult for the countries between K12 and K21 to unite, and even if there is a little bit of work, it may not be something that can be done in the short term. The main task of the task force in the region is to emphasize the reliability of the standing vigilance force, to put it bluntly, to keep their eyes open, and it is better to bring back troops from outside the country to strengthen their defense efforts.
In this way, once the K30 swarm incident occurs, there is a short buffer from K22 to K29, even if the momentum is still strong, the K12 to K21 area can be delayed a little longer, at least a little more armed forces and even population and industrial equipment can be preserved during the evacuation.
On the other hand, the Blue Pirates' hometown MR246 is in a good situation, according to the latest report, D21 Development Company has completed commercial negotiations and made two transactions with Target One, and the negotiations of the other early targets are also progressing smoothly, and the targets are planning to persuade other Blue Pirates to open up zero "tariff" commercial routes, once the construction of commercial routes without tolls is completed, and do not mention commercial interests, The next step is to follow the instructions that Pan Wen has just sent out with the ship to facilitate a trade agreement between the Blue Pirates and the MR249 area.
Pan Wen will have such a strange order, and what he is thinking about is still the direction of the human and insect war.
Under the current circumstances, the Blue Pirates will not care about the safety of areas outside MR243, but in fact, according to the deployment of K11's forces, if the war enters the MR243 area, the Empire and the Federation may move seriously, and it is almost inevitable to carry out the integration of armed forces and implement full militarized control, and the possibility of the Blue Pirates completely obeying the human command system is really a bit small, and it may not turn into a troublemaker behind the scenes. In order for these not weak blue-skinned pirates to be effective, Pan Wen felt that some unconventional strategies were still needed.
If we can facilitate regular trade negotiations between MR246 and MR249, and with the commercial influence of D21 Development Company in MR249 at this time, it is possible for the Blue Pirates to obtain the qualification of MR249 Servants and join the war against the swarm as a regular person! It's just that I don't know if the time will be in time to catch up with the battle of K11, after all, we still have to make the "people of insight" among the blue pirates realize the importance of normalizing relations with humans, so that they may join the resistance against the swarm outside of MR243, which also takes time, due to the social structure of MR246, the time spent is not short.
At the same time, Pan Wen's new directive also includes the next task force to act as an intermediary to let the security fleet of D21 Development Company take over the Doris fleet as soon as possible, and let the Doris fleet assemble at K11.
The assembled fleet will not have more impact on the situation of K11, but more Caesar-class can make the local civilian forces more trusted by the local civilian forces in the Panvin fleet, and if there is a need for joint operations, he will be able to more easily obtain the right to speak and even the right to command, after all, in addition to being a battle-hardened pirate, he is also a flagship boss who really has a flagship special license fleet control.
Speaking of fleet control licenses, this thing has been rather suspicious lately.
According to the comprehensive ability of the license itself, when Pan Wen has his own fleet, he can use an overload shot (primary) once in 100 seconds, which can increase the energy strength of the weapon to about 250% when there is no resonance (including the additional bonus brought by the vice captain in the captain's license and the co-operation sub-license), but in the recent contact with the small swarm, Pan Wen found that this value reached 261% at the highest!
When the upper limit of the primary license is exceeded, when the equipment is checked to confirm that there is no problem, he is a little suspicious that the license can be automatically upgraded, or if there are some special restrictions unlocked due to the emergence of the Great Demon King.
The exclusive license of the flagship level is not something that can be obtained everywhere, even if it is Segeis, who has entered the dust of history, it cannot provide expert-level promotion, and the general neutral port does not have this kind of license at all. It would be best if it could be automatically upgraded, otherwise Pan Wen would have to spend tens of thousands of star coins to get a follow-up license in the black room if his level was enough.
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Compared to humans who are nervously guarding against insect swarms, the Three Demon Kings who are in K5 at this moment are much more relaxed.
Yes, their real body is in k5 and not k7.
K7 is an important strategic node for human beings, but in the eyes of the Three Demon Kings, K7 is not so safe, K6 is different, although forward can only lead to K7, K8, but there is more room for retreat.
The Three Demon Kings have an overwhelming number of insect swarms, but it seems a little timid to think about the future before a fight, but judging from the identity of the Demon King, their choice is understandable. The Demon King will be targeted by the player group, and the overwhelming swarm is not a complete guarantee of safety, and it is necessary to retain a certain tactical space, and then compare the living environment of K5 and K7, the necessity is even more obvious.
The reservation of tactical space has made the Three Demon Kings miss some opportunities, such as the counter-attack of K7 this time, if the Three Demon Kings are in K7, they will choose a rhythmic batch attack, and with a slightly delayed command to other galaxy swarms, it is possible to destroy all the reconnaissance equipment of K11 in more than ten hours. It's just that "it's possible" doesn't satisfy the demon kings, so there's no need to regret it.
Since the prominence of the CT nebula, the swarm of the Three Demon Kings has actually been a little stretched thin as early as the occupation of K5, and the K6 was personally led by the Three Demon Kings to take it, and the subsequent galaxies can be won, purely due to adequate tactical preparation.
CT154, the base camp of the Three Demon Kings, is not a good place with rich resources, almost all of them are in the space environment of zero gravity, the resource collection efficiency of the ground weak insects is not high, and it is also the leveling point of the blue country's civil armed forces, and it is impossible to hoard a swarm that can completely loot human society at one time. Even the amount of troops sent out actually mobilized a small amount of resources that were finally collected from several surrounding galaxies.
There are almost no large rocky objects in the CT Nebula, but there are many small ones, but due to the low gravitational pull of the stars, most of the small objects are outside the warming point, and this kind of environment cannot be opened without the direct command of the Demon King.
When the resource structure within the CT154 warming point was on the verge of complete collapse, it would not be long before the productivity of the swarm could not keep up with the "demand" of peripheral leveling, and the three demon kings had no way to continue to hide and accumulate troops, so they had to discuss with other demon kings to make a strategic move to take the first step.
Compared with the swarm of the Fat Worm King, the bugs of the Three Demon Kings swarm have more powerful individual special abilities, but these abilities that can be used to deal with the human high-tech fleet also come at a price, that is, more production resources.
After occupying K1, the resource plundering at any cost is only barely keeping up with the early strategic footsteps, in just one week, the surface of the K1 resident star and the mineral star has been full of holes, and the increase in the casualty rate of ground weak insects and the increase in mining difficulty have led to a rapid decline in production capacity, after obtaining the information of the swarm that went to K11 to test the attack, the Three Demon Kings had to reluctantly let K6 also enter the comprehensive resource plunder mode.
It is more intuitive to compare the difference between the total plunder mode and the normal mode numerically, with the ratio of resources extracted from each unit of soil extracted by the two modes being 1:3, the amount of resources extracted from each unit of ore being extracted at 1:5, the ratio of resources consumed by the weak insects responsible for resource collection to self-reproduction being 5:2, and the ratio of internal consumption of the ground to about 3:2 per unit of resources such as essence and organic matter when mining resources.
There are also a lot of wastes in transportation, such as the transport insects that were knocked down by the ground survivors, not to be listed one by one, in short, under the comprehensive plunder, a resident star that has been transformed by humans can only produce less than one-tenth of the resources of the conventional mining mode before the surface structure is completely destroyed, there will be such a big gap, because in the plunder mode, the fungus blanket, the most important resource of the insect colony, the primary processing plant does not come in handy at all, and it all depends on the refining ability of the weak insect itself.
After K6 entered the plunder mode, the swarm was gradually able to maintain a certain scale of harassment of K11 while carrying out initial troop hoarding in K7, and at this moment, the scale of the K7 swarm must not be able to rush in at will. The remaining areas that are only normal mining will need another week at the earliest to export resources to space to reach a certain scale, just in time to replace the K6, whose production capacity has dropped sharply at that time, as a soldier.
As for why the Three Demon Kings did not choose to plunder all the occupied areas and quickly burst out of the worm sea tactics, in addition to the need for early strategy, one of the important factors is that they still don't know enough about humans, and if they make a wrong decision, they will not have a second chance.
The Great Demon King is somewhat similar to the Awakened from Earth in some ways, they know some of the player's methods, but they can't participate in it, so they can only rely on themselves in the second world if they want any information. Before completing the convergence with the Great Demon King's flour, the Three Demon Kings need to decipher it themselves if they want to understand the strategic resistance ability of the entire human society or call it the war potential, even if the intelligence of the Great Demon King is almost out of the category of generalized human beings, and the decipherment of a simple ten-digit code will take no more than a few tens of seconds, but the encryption method of at least two hundred digits in the Great Galactic Era and the amount of information that can basically replace the real society are enough to give them a headache, and only a few communication machines are not of much help to understand the overall ability of human society.
The Three Demon Kings don't need to directly face the human fleet in K5 It seems to be quite leisurely, in fact, they are also very busy and have a lot of troubles, if the swarm can increase steadily, two or three weeks later, it will pile up to a more suitable number, of course, it can directly push off K11, but the player group is very annoying, at this time they have already received feedback from K8, K9, K10, although the swarm in the three areas also has a certain size, but if the scale of the human fleet that breaks into these areas is greater than the one that entered K7 a few hours ago, the result is difficult to say. According to the contact of previous eras, it is definitely not a good idea to divide the troops in the face of players, and at that point, the three demon kings must decide whether to rely on 5, 6, 7 or 6, 7, 8 for defense, once they enter that stage, how to ensure that the fat insect king's swarm can retain enough power to respond and even occupy strategic places when it breaks out.