Chapter 51 Subsidizing the Household Branch Fleet
The Panvin fleet that left Segois also took with it a number of people, so-called stowaways.
The total number of smugglers reached 2,300, of whom more than 1,500 had low-level licenses, and the rest were relatives and people of all shapes.
Being able to take them away should also be considered a perk for players to give to the Awakened. It is difficult for ordinary NPCs to realize that the player will never stop if he does not kill the entire Segeis, and most pirate ship owners still feel that this is only a short-term conflict, and those who choose to leave Segeis in the short-term conflict are not suitable to participate in the battle, this group of people is worthless in their eyes, and they are easily taken away by Pan Wen "by the way".
But for Pan Van and MR251's D21 development company, more than 2,000 people are definitely a huge fortune, they are accustomed to the spaceport life of Segeis, and are accustomed to the various part-time lifestyles of the pirates at the bottom, and are an indispensable resource for the grassroots filling of the steel shell harbor. If it is other ways to obtain so many people, space adaptation training, skills training, etc. are not small expenses.
Of course, Pan Wen wanted to take more, but for the previous reason, most NPCs didn't realize that Segeis was already going to be destroyed, so they were not in a hurry to leave Segeis, and Pan Wen couldn't openly encourage the low-level people to leave, so he could only take a limited number of people with him.
Probably due to the size of the entire fleet, there was no attack on the way out of the Sea of Death, and after struggling with the cost on the way, the Pan Van fleet still went to MR243 and contacted the passenger company to help send people to Haimer.
The charter cost of interstellar passenger transport is average, more than 2,000 people only need to use the smallest passenger boat, including standard meals and basic entertainment items, which is about half of the fuel cost of a round trip MR243 to MR251 for the Pan Van fleet. Of course, this cost is much higher than letting the Harbour go and deliver it alone, but it can avoid the possible hidden dangers when the Harbour passes by the MR246 Blue Pirate Territory.
There were few of Panvin's entire fleets passing by the Blueskins to collect money, but the danger to a single Seaport was too great, as it happened to be the most lacking type of ship in the Blueskins pirate circle, the large tactical dockyard ship. Apart from the Harbour, there was no other vessel in the fleet that could provide an additional 2,300 people.
Entrusting the personnel to the passenger transport company, and sending it to the star of Hemer along with a message card, Panvin's fleet continued to the Resistance Front.
K11, the other end of the bridge has also changed a little at this time.
As mentioned earlier, K11 is an empty galaxy containing only one star, and all of them are L1-level artificial buildings, which are mainly private companies, most of them are farms, settlements, and few research institutions. Scans from this pass show that most of the L1 man-made buildings have completed or are in the process of changing tracks, and it seems that the tracks are intended to be concentrated in a small area.
It seems that these private companies were frightened by the looting of MR243's routes, and concentrated some of them not only to save security costs, but also to concentrate the otherwise scattered routes for escort and patrolling.
After arriving at the resistance front again and starting the hunt, the frequency of combat decreased again compared to the last time, and after careful consideration, Pan Wen did not dare to make trouble again.
Pan Wen is not afraid of the Blue Country Border Army, after all, he has already induced the other party to carry out an operation, and has learned about their action mode and equipment, and if he makes trouble again, he must run as far as he can, and see if he has the opportunity to get closer and take a bite. What he feared was the continued decline in the Blue Nation's efforts to invest in the Resistance Front, mostly related to the bugs on the other side. In the face of bugs, the interests of NPCs and Blue Country are the same, and it is not advisable to toss too much.
Judging from the current situation in various places, it seems that there are not many good days left.
In order to gather as many development resources as possible in the last time, Pan Wen decided to join the mining activities of the K7E1 gold planet in addition to hunting.
The mining of K7E1 is interesting, and while nearly half of the battles on the Resistance Front revolve around K7E1, the Blue Mining Team and other mining teams actually have their own unspoken rules. For example, you dig in the first 48 hours, and I come in the next 48 hours, if someone in the middle is greedy and doesn't care about the time, then it is not to blame that the successor is not polite.
Because of the existence of this unspoken rule, the Pan Wen fleet did not need the whole fleet to participate in the mining activities, but in order to maintain sufficient mining efficiency, the second and third lieutenants were sent together.
The income from gold mining does not appear to be at the same level as the astral ore mining of MR241, but K7E1 gold has very few impurities, low gravitational attraction and atmospheric density, and is not low in time efficiency.
After concentrating small engineering equipment and related personnel, including deployment and evacuation time, Ensign 23 can still mine gold mines worth more than 800 star coins every 48 hours, but the minerals of these 800 star coins are not net profits, one of the expenses is the cost of renting an atmospheric round-trip transport ship, and 10% of the minerals need to be paid as a collection tax, which is collected by the official fleet of the Resistance Front organized by several small surrounding countries.
After calculating costs and shift factors, the average 24-hour revenue can reach 140 SGD.
Each mine in the inner circle of MR241 can approach two hundred Star Coins every 24 hours, and if it is not targeted by the player, a fleet of Panwen's size can deploy at least two or three mines at the same time, so it looks like digging for gold is nothing more than that.
Pan Wen's idea is to dig and dig first, and if the mining environment is better, he can invest a little more in the purchase of professional equipment and shuttle transport ships.
Speaking of transport ships, the golden planet K7E1 is very special, it has no light elements such as hydrogen in its atmosphere, and the choice of transport ships is relatively picky.
For example, the early development of the Haimo Star D21 used the "Bee D065X" type landing ship, which is very representative among the hydrogen-fueled landing ships. If there is water or hydrogen + oxygen in the atmosphere, it can put 88 tons of equipment at a time, refuel on the spot and carry 55 tons of cargo back to the synchronous orbit layer; If not, then all the fuel will have to be provided by the mothership, and it will only be able to carry 53 tons of equipment to the surface, and the return to the orbital level will be almost empty (within 30 tons). On the K7E1, even if the low gravity can save a little capacity, the equipment deployment and recovery time will not meet the requirements at all, and occupying the mining time will only make the income lower.
In short, to dig gold on the K7E1, almost only specially designed landing ships can be used, and the price is not for nothing, and after the cost and maintenance needs generated by the use, it is only cost-effective to divide a sub-fleet and stay in the resistance front for a long time to mine.
After hunting and digging for gold at the same time continued for half a month, the mining team was attacked.
It was not only the second and third lieutenants who were attacked, but also half of the mining group, but fortunately the official fleet of the Resistance Front arrived in time to drive the other side away, otherwise Pan Wenke would have cried.
Even so, Second Lieutenant was wounded during the conflict, and it took more than a dozen hours and hundreds of stars worth of materials to repair the Harbor in the fleet's possession. If the detachment is here and does not have a harbor, using local repair services will double the cost and time of repair, and you may miss more mining opportunities.
On the bright side, because Ensign No. 2 and No. 3 were real heavy frigates, not paper armed merchant ships, they were injured in the conflict, and they won the sympathy of the owners of the Resistance Front, so not only were the proceeds of this mining tax-free, but Pan Vin also got more information about all aspects of the K7 Resistance Front.
Two of the new information came from the old owner of the fritter ship, who was digging for gold, and after reading it, Pan Vin still made up his mind to leave a branch fleet in the resistance front and start procuring it.
The fleet left behind was led by Ma Ming, the captain of the Heavy Hammer, plus the second and third lieutenants, a total of three ships.
did not leave Pan Yue'er or Doris, in addition to retaining the strength of the main fleet, the main reason is that the mining of K7E1 has no technical content, basically just listen to the command and action of the official fleet of the Resistance Front, and there is no need to even use such a good frigate, Pan Wen plans to wait for a bargain to get some people together and then exchange the three ships back, and equip a financial team, so that even if there is a loss, he will not feel distressed.
The process of setting up the mining fleet relied on the resistance front, with many merchants traveling from K7 to K13, and through intermediaries, they got new round-trip transport ships and professional surface mining equipment in a few days, and also added more than a dozen professional diggers, with a total cost of only 2,000 star coins.
With the loss of three frigates, the main fleet was left with only three ships on the move: the Gold, the Harbour, and the Fat Dun. Ensign No. 1 was placed directly in the belly of the Harbour, and Doris temporarily took over the captaincy of the Harbour. The former College Command Team was also responsible for the rotation of the Harbor's First Lieutenant and Second Lieutenant One.
There are three large ships left, but since they have become an all-boss tier fleet, the hunt has become smoother.
The fewer ships, the more greedy guys are attracted, but also because of the small number of ships, the average of the opponent's fleet has dropped a lot, and even if the frequency of battles has increased a little, the real income has still decreased.
Overall, the detachment did not increase profits, but it was still successful, after all, the exchange of fire on the Resistance may still continue to decline, and if the bugs riot one day, the Blue Kingdom may one day ask the Resistance for help. Pan Wendu has planned to beat this round, and then he will not come to K7, concentrate on integrating the fleet, and return to the Sea of Death to torture each other with the players for a while.
The idea was very good, and the blue side seemed to be very cooperative, and when the Panvin fleet arrived at the resistance line for twenty-three days, a small group of blue country fleet launched an encirclement and suppression of the lone people of the resistance front.
The Pan Wen fleet, which has the ability to scan the galaxy, immediately sensed from the tactical action that this might be a fleet composed of players, because his previous contact experience told him that the border army of the blue country is also equipped with ultra-long-range detection equipment, which can be used to surprise most fleets that have not been exposed to this detection function, without the need to come head-on.
Taking advantage of the detection distance, the Panvin fleet not only carried out tailgating of the encirclement and suppression fleet, but also reported to the command center of the resistance front remotely.
The fleet, which had more than forty frigates, was wiped out, and the thirty percent of the spoils were brought to an early stage for the Panvin fleet to end the journey of the Resistance Front and set sail back to MR243.
It is a loss to dispose of the loot in MR243, only about seventy percent of Segois before the Sea of Death was blocked, but the advantage is that the flow of goods here is huge, and the demand for various materials, equipment and equipment is very large, and some logistics and intermediary companies that are not afraid of things are willing to pay directly to take the military-grade loot.
Since Pan Wen's fleet was not allowed to approach the asteroid belt, the deal, which was supposed to be soon, was dragged on for a few days.
In the past few days, Pan Wen has not been idle, contacted the 404 shipyard of MR243 and the Titan Heavy Industries branch, and had a friendly consultation with their sales representatives on the Gold.
He did not place a new order, but through negotiation with the identity of an old customer, it was clear that the two warships that could be built in MR243 were the most combat-ready warship models, and if the purchase restrictions on heavy ships were not lifted, then this model would be the next ship of the Panvin fleet, its name was K999 Wins class.