Chapter 13: Chaos

The combined fleet sent out by Segeis to rob the technical data this time was divided into three parts, but unfortunately not all three forces were as smooth as the Alliance's side, and there was a "small problem" with the combined fleet belonging to the big alliance, and some ships and people in the fleet were captured alive by others!

The targets of the three fleets were all staggered to the system where the theater of war was located, and the Combined Fleet of the Seguis Grand Alliance also completed part of the mission and chose to evacuate before the main force could support it, but they were very unlucky and encountered multiple situations in a row.

The first test base that was attacked had two finished medium cruisers that did not participate in the early defense, they should have just been built and were still in the equipment test stage, and in the process of robbery, the two ships were probably missed because the test base was too large and the dock was missed, and when the Grand Alliance fleet sailed away, the two ships followed the Grand Alliance Combined Fleet from behind.

The Grand Alliance's fleet is a little smaller than the Brotherhood's side, but the difference in tonnage is only 5%, which is not easy to detect remotely, but their mission target is KT25, and there is a neighbor with three star systems behind them, and the forces left behind after the battle are slightly stronger than the rest of the group, plus two newly released cruisers, they have activated a tricky delaying tactic.

Of course, there is no such thing as playing tricks in the war, in fact, it is to limit the speed of the fleet from breaking away by various means with bearable losses, which is also a tactic often used in a state of war.

It is useless on the side of the Alliance Combined Fleet because the gap between the garrison force and the size of the Alliance fleet is too large to delay much, and the Alliance fleet began to retreat and accelerate a few hours early, which is a prerequisite for delaying the tactics to not be used.

The core of this tactic is to take advantage of the restriction rules of the second world, and after the ship enters the disengagement phase beyond the maximum cruising speed, the steering and changing attitude will quickly lose speed due to the action of high-speed free particles. As long as the detaching side does not have enough ships to give up jumping to escort the enemy, then the strike nodes can be arranged on the predetermined departure channel to slow down the opponent again and again, and the short two-hour disengagement may be increased to more than five hours in a state of non-stop deceleration.

By the way, in the case of someone else's home field, the strike node that implements the delaying tactic is not necessarily a death squad, it may be an asteroid, or simply an empty hull of a frigate, anyway, as long as it is a large debris that cannot be cleaned up quickly and thoroughly at high speed, it will affect the disengagement process. In the case of asteroids (large enough rocks that can be used in a few hours), for example, a fleet of single-digit ships can easily break through the asteroids and pass through the debris, losing speed time in seconds, and adding more than 100 seconds of reacceleration time if you are unlucky. However, after the size of the fleet reaches a certain level, there is no further corresponding strategy, due to the relationship between the random trajectory of the fragments, it will inevitably cause the disintegration of the formation, if the dispersion surface of the formation exceeds one-third of the range of the main gun, then naturally even the size of the fleet has been reduced, and generally encounters similar problems, the large fleet either chooses another channel, or the main fleet slows down to avoid and puts a part of the forward to clear the channel.

Obviously, for the Grand Alliance fleet of this operation, no matter which option is wrong!

In short, the result was that the fleet that had been sent out to cover the retreat did not return, and just now, on the tenth day after the incident, the committee's confidential communication to all the first-level members involved in the operation said that the victim country had come to the door with its captives, and everyone except the people of the Grand Alliance had to pretend not to know about it!

It may sound like a betrayal of an ally, but it's actually the best way to deal with it, because the victim country doesn't catch anyone from the other fleets, only knows that it's pirates, and the landing force is human. The pirates of Segeis only have the abbreviation of the group on the chest of the close-fitting uniform, the power armor is bare, and the ship's livery is uniformly customized, as long as it is repaired by the paint, it is the same, so the other party has no evidence that the other two organizations of Segeis are involved. Then the matter will be pushed to the secret operation of the internal organization of the Grand Alliance, and at the same time, Segeis will bear part of the responsibility and make a little dispensable compensation, which will be morally tenable.

There may be some problems with this "morality", but the victim country can only admit it, because Segeis has no technology base, no resource star, and the economically developed resident star is not to mention it. You can only send a fleet to the Sea of Death to rob it! Not to mention that other countries are happy that their fleets have crossed so many galaxies to come here to fight for territory, that is, in the Sea of Death, do you expect a group of pirates not to take advantage of the geographical advantage to lay mines wildly?

After Segeis said to be responsible and symbolically compensated, the rest of the matter is all the work of the Grand Alliance, and they have to do some black work for the victim country, but who let them be unlucky or the size of the fleet is not enough to bluff people?

Pan Wen and other first-level members who learned of the situation communicated a little, and simply entered the resupply stage, and left temporarily with their respective fleets after more than ten hours. Everyone will think that they are obliged to keep Segeis a secret, but no one can guarantee what the demographic style of the following is, and the best way is to tow it away with people and boats!

As for the reward for this action, if this happens, it won't be issued for a while and a half before the tear is completed, and staying is also to give others a chance to catch the thief.

Things developed a little quickly after the secret notice, but Pan Wen, who was originally waiting for the follow-up progress in Segeis, had already planned his next move, and then went to the Blue Country blockade line to take a look.

Earlier, when he was searching for the situation in the Blue Blockade Line, Pan Wen didn't care about the patrol ships that used a lot of plasma weapons, but with the subsequent emergency situation caused by insects on the D21 side, and the regulator Xue acquiesced that the bugs belonged to the camp supervised by the rain outside, then the path of the patrol ships that used a lot of plasma weapons in the Blue Country was a little suspicious.

It's impossible to tell for sure until we get to the bottom of it, but it's possible that the Blue Nation has been in contact with bugs or even researched them.

Going to the blue country to see is the main action of the fleet, and the technical data obtained from this joint operation to D21 also needs to be carried out simultaneously. Because it is not the material of the library, in addition to self-encryption, there is no situation that cannot be copied, even if it is lost, it will only cost 4,000 star coins to buy it back from a few teammates in the front of the main ship formation, so the task of escorting the materials simply selected twenty slave cadets to come out and drive the only missile patrol ship in the fleet to deliver.

In fact, the cost of buying a high-speed civilian ship will be lower, and it is easier for small civilian boats to be targeted by ill-intentioned guys on the road, but Pan Wen considered that the openness of D21 was not enough, and some of his strength was knocked out by insects before, and now there may be minefields around Haimer Star, and it will be safer to use this recorded missile ship in the past.

Speaking of which, the trainees have already gained a lot of practical experience after the rotation on the Heavy Hammer before and after the previous landing battle, as well as the command assistance during the landing process, and when they return to Segeis next time, it is time for them to take an aptitude test.

The aptitude test is part of the licensing exam, but it is not possible to obtain a license, and it is mainly used to classify the ability of individuals. Some people are not naturally suitable for learning superpower resonance, so they naturally have no chance with the command system, even if Pan Wenken makes them captains, it is not easy to do something in the case of the actual state of the battleship. Under normal circumstances, if you can't learn superpower resonance, it's best to learn personal combat and driver's license to get better salary security, but this batch of slave cadets is more inclined to internal internal affairs when they are selected, even if they grow up in the later training, only twenty or thirty people can become marines, and if the others can't pass the superpower adaptation test, they are destined to become handymen and technicians.

Until now, Pan Wen's expectations for this group of trainees have been quite high, and there are several things to focus on. If the test indicators do not decline in the subsequent time, it should be easy for them to have an elite pass rate of 50% when they complete their studies, after all, there is no opportunity for normal training subjects to learn on the field on a big ship, and there are not so many actual combat personnel as instructors; The hull of the ship can break at any time, and the cabin pressure may drop sharply, and it may even be sucked into the outer space, which is also a psychological concept from staying in the training module. If the pass rate of 50% is reached, according to the regular ratio of the captain/first mate, bridge member, technician/basic crew, the capital preservation is certain, and every additional one in it can get a rare level license is counted as earning, due to the ownership relationship, Pan Wen does not need to pay the signing fee, even if it is paid according to the salary of a free man, the longer he serves, the more he earns.

According to his plan, when this batch of cadets graduated, it would be the time for the fleet to expand again.

When the fleet traveled, when passing by MR243 again, it noticed a little abnormality, and in the whole process of accelerating and jumping, there were two waves of fleets to implement a warning posture against them, although the distance was far, but the fleet alert posture could not be separated from the radar as long as it was not a super-dense formation, which could be seen from the formation.

MR243's tattered small countries will also be wary of pirates in normal times, especially fleets with large ships, but that must also be confirmed at a medium distance The approximate size will happen, and the reason is also very valid - MR243 has no resource stars, all of them are resident stars, and the small broken countries are hostile to each other all year round and do not have enough resources to maintain the large fleet.

This route is the only way for the pirates of Segeis to get to the KT cluster, and as mentioned earlier, MR243 and KT11 on the opposite side are the closest points of the two clusters, the only passage, and it is impossible to detour before the qualitative change in the jumping technique. As for MR243, which is located in its own logistics hub, the pirates are usually very restrained, so under normal circumstances, as long as they do not deviate from the route, no one cares, let alone the patrol fleet. But now I don't know what's wrong, did these little tattered countries eat the gall of ambitious leopards? Or are there too many ships to build and have no place to consume?

Fortunately, until the jump program was completed, there were no problems, and even the communication was not received.

Could it be that these guys also received a letter that Segeis had gone to someone else's house to rob the scientific research base? These first-level members have only received the news for more than 30 hours, this kind of embarrassing thing of the other party should not be publicized by themselves, and Saigeis will naturally not make a noise if he does something bad, and the news will not spread so quickly! Or is it that the players who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic are making trouble?

He couldn't think of a clue by himself, so he simply asked the whole fleet to help him - to ask the crew to watch TV.

TV programs in the interstellar era are very chaotic, especially ships such as space battleships that are highly sensitive to signals, and programs from dozens or hundreds of years ago will be received, taking MR243 as an example, a bunch of small countries themselves have at least more than 100 TV stations The signal will spread to the channel, and then the intergalactic broadcast will occasionally respond, so that even if the timeline is sorted out, Pan Wen wants to filter out the important information in the two-hour program by himself, and he doesn't have to do anything else to say for a few days.

It turned out that more people was better to get things done, and when the KT11 was halfway through the acceleration of the jump to the resistance front, it received a summary of doubts from various ships, and the duplicate items were removed, and the remaining Pan Wen understood at a glance that he was thinking too much.

It turned out that the little broken countries hadn't beaten each other for a while, and they were itching again!

In the interstellar era, the countries in the same star system are not the same distance from each other, and all the resident stars of MR243 are concentrated in the asteroid belt, and there is a bare gas star with ice core satellites outside.

The latter thing is easier to understand, the strength of the small broken country's own fleet is so bad that it can't be done, the most likely way is to pay the pirates for help, and it is normal for someone to send a fleet to stare at the pirates' jump circle to MR243.

But this change in the situation is really not a good thing in the eyes of Pan Wen, the small countries of MR243 are hostile to each other internally, but they are neutral to all other forces outside MR243, and seventy percent of the supplies that usually flow to Segeis will pass through it, once the chaos starts, it is almost certain that Segeis will start to reserve materials in a short period of time to stabilize prices, and may also make various restrictions on the supply of ships, in that case, it will be really bad news for a large fleet like Pan Wen.

It's a pity that he can't affect a few people, so he can only pray that the little broken country will endure for a few more months, and when the D21 of Haimo Star has a complete supply and material route, it will not be too late to die.