Chapter 66: Preparations for a New Resistance Front
After attending the shareholders' meeting of the steel shell port on the reduction and exemption of shareholders' fees for the purchase of ships, Pan Wen left MR251 with the replenishment fleet and began the next step of the arrangement.
Going to K29 before and not getting useful information about the swarm made Pan Wen a little worried, but considering that the location was a little far away from the interstellar bridge, even if the swarm suddenly rushed out of K30, it would not be able to get close to the interstellar bridge in a short time, so the top priority was how to stabilize the situation near the interstellar bridge after Segeis was defeated.
The Sea of the Dead does not have resources and no sizable basic industries, so it is unlikely that it will delay for a long time, and once the balance of power between Segois and the mercenaries is tilted, this once influential force will disappear in an instant.
Pan Wen once considered that after Segeis was defeated, the best situation would be to rely on the starbridge to form a new resistance front against the mercenaries, if it could develop like that, after the outbreak of the swarm, the various forces of the MR star cluster would still have enough time to understand the danger, diplomatic bargaining, and assign tasks, and finally make the other end of the starbridge the last bastion against the swarm.
During the strategic teaching, some students once asked what would happen if they could not form a resistance front.
Obviously, if the resistance front cannot be formed, the developed part of the KT cluster will inevitably be swept away, and in the worst case, a large number of industrial systems will be destroyed, and the KT cluster itself will not be able to provide effective supplies and ship manufacturing needs when the swarm erupts.
This perception may contain a lot of wishful thinking on the part of Pan Wen, but the end result will not be too far off, because he has another reason that cannot be explained: the controller of the swarm is not a creature that ordinary people can understand.
If it is compared to his personal combat cognition, Pan Wen dares to argue with those guys, but at the tactical and strategic level, Pan Wen's reaction rate is definitely not as good as that of the guys who have begun to deviate from the human category at the physical level, as long as they know that with the extension of the outbreak time, the resistance will increase geometrically, and the blitzkrieg-style outbreak is an inevitable choice.
In a blitzkrieg, only a new resistance front with a strong standing armed force will be able to withstand the pressure at the first time, giving the rear time to fight, otherwise the only factor that will stop is the size of the swarm. And the scale is exhausted, which is exactly what a person like Pan Wen who has seen the geometric increment of the E7 swarm would not think.
Promote the formation of a new resistance front? Although Pan Van is a relatively well-known pirate, he does not have the power to influence the decision-making of many small nations, and the only thing he can do is to continue to build up his strength, rally allies, and provide enough buffer time for the formation of a new resistance front at a critical moment.
There are many allies here, and they are divided into three main categories: the remnants of the pirates after the retreat of Segeis, the blueskins of MR246, and the power of the countries surrounding the bridge themselves.
The reason why the remnant pirates and the blue-skinned pirates will participate in the defense of the starbridge is the same, once the empire and the federation control the starbridge, there are a thousand ways to eliminate the pirates, the simplest is to directly cut off the material exchange between the MR cluster and the KT cluster, and take a technical blockade of the remaining star systems in the future; Or bring all the remaining countries into the alliance and provide technical and material support to carry out anti-piracy strategies, in short, the pirates will not survive after the Starbridge is captured.
In this part, Pan Wen can only visit everywhere with the fleet, a fleet with deterrent power, and some people can listen to it a little bit. In addition to MR246, the permanent residence of the Blue Pirates, the other pirates' exile points are MR245, MR249 and K7 and K8 Resistance Fronts, and there are also other areas, but there are no conditions for the formation of climate. Now that Segeis is still around, Panvin's main focus is naturally on convincing the Blue Pirates.
Speaking of which, the Blue Pirates also participated in the battle of Seguis, but according to Pan Wen's many contacts with the Blue Pirates, those guys belong to the radical faction among the Blue Pirates who tend to assimilate with humans, and the Blue Pirates will guard the dilapidated homeland and develop their own way of life, so naturally the conservatives are more powerful.
"Human, I'll pass on what you said to a friend, but you'd better not expect us to help the guy who destroyed our home." At this time, at the other end of the video, the guy with the fleshy hair on his head is explaining his meaning to Pan Wen.
"You only have to help yourself, the interstellar bridge materials are cut off, who will provide you with tolls?" Pan Wen didn't press too hard, and changed the topic after speaking, "I hope you will think about the situation I said, and then talk about business." ”
During the more than ten days of lobbying operations, the new Caesar-class, the Diamond, assumed the role of round-trip transportation, in addition to accompanying and acting as a deterrent, and also went back to MR251 at the appointed time to receive the income from the sale of captive ships, and brought back for trading. It's a bit of a waste to use a heavy cruiser with hyperspace communication and scanning capabilities within the galaxy to do this, but it's always a good idea to be careful in the territory of the Blue Pirates, who don't have much of a concept of trustworthiness.
Since the second batch of trainees has not yet completed and received their licenses, the purchase of new trainees is not the first task in this operation, but just a partner when convincing the blue-skinned pirates, it seems that they really have the intention of providing armed support to the starbridge if necessary, Pan Wen will pick one or two hundred people to buy, and if he is so wavering or simply useless, he will only buy a dozen or twenty meanings.
Compared with the previous transaction, Pan Wen's fleet only had the Shotgun, the Harbor and the Diamond, but these three were all cruisers and each one was larger than the other, making the total tonnage of the fleet several times that of ordinary snakeheads, so that more than ten days of persuasion to buy thousands of people, the actual expenditure barely exceeded 20,000 star coins.
In addition to the deterrent factor of Pan Wen's fleet, there is also a factor that the blue-skinned pirates are not as consistent as the human pirate group, a bit like the ancient mountain king who occupied the mountain as the king, unless he is really beaten, he generally will not find someone to be brave.
At the same time as the persuasion of the Blue Pirates, other advisory teams on the tailwind ship are also working in several systems such as MR243, MR244, MR245, K11, K10, and K9.
Several of the advisory teams are staff of D21 Development Company, and Pan Wen provides the project and funding, and is specially transferred to do business.
The business is very different from what they usually do, requiring them to go to various security companies, shipyards, bank stations, consortium headquarters and other places to lobby, these organizations all have their own armed fleets, and all have a certain scale, but most of the ships are usually only mothballed, there are no personnel, several ships share a maintenance group, let alone on duty, and some ships are distributed in various places doing all kinds of trivial things. The purpose of the lobbying is to hope that in the next time, they will complete or recall the fleet as much as possible to deal with the possible upheaval.
It seems that it is not easy for ordinary business consultants to lobby these bigwigs, but in fact, it is still somewhat useful, and the main credit is due to the mercenaries themselves, it is their previous actions against the MR243 waterway that make more and more people realize that the end of Segeis cannot stop these mercenaries at all, and they will have to fight outside sooner or later.
The difference is that many people still have illusions about Segeis, hoping that it can drag on for an extra month or a month with sympathizers, and it is better to delay it for ten years or eight years, and its own armament expenses can be counted a little less, after all, except for security companies and pirates, standing armament does not bring direct benefits, and the maintenance cost is very high.
The only thing Pan Wen's business advisers from the company had to do was to bust everyone's illusions, and in addition to the visits, they also had to participate in and buy off the local media to build a campaign.
Then, the strange thing happened, when the Panvin fleet was once again anchored outside the MR243 asteroid belt to receive the return of the business consultants, it sensed that there was another potential force that was fueling the trouble, and even openly supported the mercenary threat theory that suddenly appeared in the well-known media!
There are three kinds of people in this world who will do this kind of thing, think that the matter is not big enough, and want to make a big news media; Players with illness; and other Awakened Ones.
The energy consumption of intergalactic communication in the galactic era is very high, and the cost of intergalactic media promotion is also very high, although the proximity of war is a good material, under the constraints of the interstellar convention, the resident star itself has no possibility of being affected by the cosmic war between human beings, and there are not many people who care about the war, only the space inhabitants will care, but in the vicinity of the interstellar bridge, especially in the MR243, MR244, MR245 galaxies, the number of space inhabitants is only slightly more than two thousandths of the total population. High cost, low transmission rate, the media itself to operate this thing is not profitable, so except for a small number of occasional reports, the possibility of spontaneous operation of media companies can be basically ruled out.
Sick players, in Pan Wen's opinion, there may be a situation where players will invest in promoting this kind of thing - they don't like that the current Interstellar Bridge is not strong enough to give them the amount of experience and equipment they want, and in their eyes, the Interstellar Bridge should be the third leveling point after MR241 and the Sea of Death, and they should have higher experience and better equipment.
However, in this way, the player's wisdom is subject to negotiation, and the existing forces in human society cannot threaten the empire and the federation at the same time, so the epoch-level boss does not exist in the existing forces at all, and can only be one of the two of the unification of the bug or the KT star cluster. Either way, from the player's point of view, you have to quickly push across the starbridge and gain a firm foothold in K11, and strengthening the defense of the starbridge is undoubtedly uncomfortable.
If there are other Awakened people to promote this matter, it means that he will have a very strong ally at that time, even if it is not in terms of space armament, it can also give great help in its field, such as manpower, financial resources, logistics, public opinion, etc., no matter which will provide a stronger buffer for the establishment of a new resistance front for the Star Bridge.
said that he didn't want to see it, because Pan Wen was worried about the subsequent changes that might be caused by the divergence of the routes of multiple awakened people, Pan Wen's current task is to extend the validity period of the era of the Great Galaxy Era as much as possible, and use the environment of the high level of knowledge of the whole people in the Great Galaxy Era to help the guys outside accelerate the promotion of real side technology, which requires him to maintain a strange balance as much as possible, the player's force cannot be eliminated, and the Great Demon King cannot be hung up too quickly, it is best to freeze with the interstellar bridge as a node. Normally, the Great Demon King and the Awakened are not in the same group, but the acquisition of external resources is through the pit of the player, and the Awakened should push the "Great Demon King" to do the power where the player is located, in order to obtain the maximum benefit in terms of funds and real side resources.
In any case, Pan Wen and D21 Development Company did not appear in this lobbying and media promotion, even if there are really other awakened people promoting propaganda, the two sides are unable to know each other's identities in the short term, as for the future, we will talk about it later.
Now, Pan Vin still has to worry about the thousands of new cadets, the existing equipment and positions in the fleet are not enough for so many people to receive professional education and guidance at the same time, and he has to use the non-commissioned officer school of MR243 to complete part of the teaching. Of course, you can also take this opportunity to get a little better with their garrison, don't ask for too good, as long as you don't think his fleet is in a group with mercenaries after the fight, and go further, it is best to let his fleet hide in the asteroid belt when it is dangerous.