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Taurus, Aldebaran star.

13 The Galactic Expeditionary Force, which was the last to gather here, is stepping up its final evacuation.

During this period of time, with the efforts of countless remaining Kara people, they successfully collected sufficient resources in the barren and unfamiliar galaxy, built industrial facilities, and completed the emergency maintenance work of part of the fleet, so that the expeditionary force once again had the ability to sail at the galaxy level.

This is the last struggle of the Kara people, who have lost the support of their mother civilization and are in a dead end in space. The fleet that successfully reached Aldebaran was less than half of the surviving Galactic Expeditionary Force, due to the loss of the last solar system fleet led by Besimos, so that many other Kara fleets in space could not be resupplied, and some of the fleets that did not have the ability to relaunch the galaxy-level curvature voyage, in order to save resources, they had to rely on conventional engines to accelerate the spacecraft to enough speed, relying on inertia to rush towards Aldebaran, but due to the lack of speed, it would take a long time.

But the Kara fleet, which had gathered at Aldebaran to complete emergency repairs and supplies, could not wait that long.

The information fed back by the last solar system fleet before the loss of contact informed all the Kara fleets of the current military strength of the earth civilization, and all the Kara people could not imagine how the earth civilization that had been forced into survival and exile by them had rebuilt the civilization military strength in this time of only tens of thousands of karata hours.

But facts are facts, and once they have happened, it is pointless to deny them.

In the information fed back by the last solar system fleet, the location of the earth civilization has been clearly pointed out, but because the solar system fleet only encountered the earth fleet on the way back, it was impossible to accurately locate the location of the other party, in short, they only knew which direction the earth civilization fleet came from, but there was no distance information, and there were tens of thousands of star systems in that direction, making the only remaining kara civilization unable to locate the location of the earth civilization.

This evokes a sense of crisis in every surviving Kara person.

The Grim Reaper may be far away from them, on the other side of the galaxy, but it may also be so close to them, so close that it could come at any moment.

All the Kara fleets that have gathered in Aldebaran have worked overtime to complete the emergency repair and supply work under this sense of crisis, you must know how difficult it is for a group of intelligent beings who are in space, and they have lost their social structure and are composed entirely of the military, how difficult it is to complete such a work in a strange galaxy with no interstellar home port, no technological equipment, and completely empty, it took a long time, but it is admirable that they did it.

Although this emergency repair is only limited to faster-than-light travel and the spaceship ecological dome. This recharge is only the most basic heavy element fusion fuel and the necessary basic elements to configure the biomass.

They locked their next direction of navigation to the Aldebaran Cluster hundreds of light-years away, which was the most rational choice, the Aldebaran Cluster has a large number of star systems, and the gravitational field of interstellar interaction will be the fastest to erase the existence of curvature tracks, and the speed of the Earth Fleet's ships is not as fast as theirs, as long as they can bypass the Aldebaran Cluster and escape towards the galactic border, the Earth Fleet basically has no means to track them.

Of course, this is all because the earth's civilization did not usher in a technological explosion, gaining a curvature speed above 99 times the speed of light, and the unknown existence that destroyed the solar system and did not pursue them.

Some of the Kara fleets gathered in Aldebaran were separated to meet the many fleets that were heading towards Aldebaran on regular voyages, while the other fleets were to set off towards the Aldebaran Cluster one after another in the order in which repairs and supplies were completed, and the last Galactic Expeditionary Force formed a long ship course over a vast distance, starting from Aldebaran and pointing towards the Aldebaran Cluster.

At this moment, the Kara civilization has completely become a starship civilization with Starfleet as the carrier, and a new political pattern is forming, if they can successfully escape to the back of the Alderiades, then it can be said that it is the most powerful civilization within the 5 degrees of this galaxy, and there is still a possibility of revival.

It was with this hope that every surviving Kara people set out for the Albedian star cluster.

A veteran of the Galactic Expeditionary Force, Abraham participated in the interstellar battles of the Gliese 581 system, and as a communications officer for an Ixiang-class ship, he saw the horrors of millions of fleets attacking each other, and the majestic destruction of a star.

In the long time of pursuit and exile, he has passed the golden age of being a warrior, as a grassroots civilized soldier, the life time he has is not comparable to that of the space captain and the military high-level, and he should have retired when other elite space forces are still heroic.

But it's a pity that now Kara only has a fleet left, where can he retire if he retires? In the period of shortage of manpower and material resources in the reconstruction work, he knew that he was being needed by the civilization, and the current Kara civilization no longer had the energy to extend the life of a small soldier, and his life was less than 10,000 Kara hours, but he still wanted to contribute to his civilization to the last time.

With this belief, he applied for a place in the Strategic Reserve Group, becoming one of the Kara who would be the latest to evacuate Aldebaran.

His job is to fly a shuttle and a drone to patrol the borders of the Aldebaran system, and Kara, who has lost the system's listening system, can only rely on manpower to complete the security confirmation work around the galaxy when there is no time for construction. This way is very inefficient, but now Kara has no other options.

And this group of Kara people who are responsible for patrolling the outer perimeter of the galaxy with a shuttle can be said to be cannon fodder in the real sense, once the enemy comes, they are the first to die, even if the enemy does not come, the last one to run can only be them.

But it doesn't matter, because this job is not mandatory, and those who take the initiative to apply to join this job have already had a considerable awareness.

Abraham piloted the shuttle around the dust clouds around Aldebaran, which could not travel faster than light when he was close to the galaxy, and he had just passed by a comrade in space, nodding to each other on alternating communication screens.

Security confirmation.

Abraham breathed a sigh of relief today, and it was time for a shift change, and his shuttle would return to the makeshift port for fuel and biomass replenishment, before heading to the next patrolling field.

He was not mentally ill, and it was not an easy job to fly a shuttle alone to inspect the darkness of space, and on the way back, he glanced at the light streams that were departing one after another near the star Aldebaran, and felt that his work today was worthwhile.

"Cheer up, boys."

He silently recited this sentence, and the shuttle dragged the blue-white firelight across the dust cloud, running in the opposite direction to Aldebaran, and in order to ensure the immediate supply, the temporary port was not in the Aldebaran system.

The evacuation is at the end of the process, and if all goes well, the last fleet will be after 700 carat-hours, and then he will leave the planetary system that could threaten at any time.

Although this patrol was based on his convictions, it also brought him honor, and once the evacuation of the fleet was completed, he could receive his first and possibly last badge of glory. A veteran of the Space Force to which he belonged had shown him the badge, and he still remembers the shape of the badge.

With that badge, he has no regrets in his space fleet career.

On the way back, the shuttle moving at nearly the speed of light opened the protective shield, it left a bright trail in the dust cloud, Abraham quickly arrived at the location of the temporary port, many shuttles have returned to the temporary port, and the temporary port that was built in time due to the limited shuttle acceptance point, Abraham drove the shuttle to the back of the return queue, waiting to dock in line.

It's a rare break, and Abraham plans to close his eyes and take a nap while docking and refueling will be done autonomously with the support of the shuttle AI.

Unfortunately, he didn't get the rest he wanted, and when Abraham just closed his eyes, a bright world replaced the original dark space, as if countless flashbangs were blooming around the shuttle, and Abraham opened his eyes violently.

It was a temporary port, a gorgeous scene that turned into ashes in a beam of light, and needless to say, the shuttles that had already docked in front of the queue were affected, turning into a chain of fireballs blooming in front of the queue.

The originally dark and lonely galaxy frontier is now illuminated as if it were day.

As a veteran, Abraham had the ability to act before his mind could react, he swerved the direction of the shuttle, and turned at an acute angle to complete the shuttle's course change, and because he was at the back of the docking queue, he did not collide in the chaotic turn like the queue in front of him, and the scorching blue-white fire shot out from behind the shuttle, instantly accelerating it to a terrifying speed, escaping the next chain of explosions.

When all this was done, Abraham reacted, he realized the danger was coming, his breathing began to become rapid, and his body entered a state of high euphoria under the uncooperative endocrine.

In such a chaotic moment, the soldier's instinct made his first thought to report the situation, and the temporary home port equipped with the over-range communication device had been reduced to ashes, and he tried to turn on the shuttle gravitational wave communication to directly contact the evacuated Kara fleet.

At this moment, he hesitated for a second, because if the evacuation fleet learned of the arrival of the enemy attack, they would only flee at a faster speed, and the self left here would usher in a survival and death situation even if it was not discovered by the enemy...... Now, if he maximizes his acceleration with the remaining fuel from the shuttle, there is a slight chance that he will reach the nearest evacuation point before the fleet receives reports of other enemy attacks and begins an emergency evacuation.

A second later, he pressed the gravitational wave communication button while flying towards the nearest withdrawal point with maximum acceleration.

But, to his surprise, the gravitational wave communication was gone.

As a veteran, he realized that there were already gravitational weapons operating here, interfering with the transmission of gravitational waves, and he began to switch to radio communications, broadcasting enemy attack information at maximum power, as for whether the evacuation fleet and other temporary ports could receive it, it was not within his reach.

At this moment, he still did not give up hope of life, the shuttle had been accelerated to the speed of light, and it did not take much time for him to reach the nearest evacuation point.

At this moment, near the shuttle, which was traveling at nearly the speed of light, a strange thing appeared.

It was a feather, a white-gold feather that also traveled at nearly the speed of light, and it emitted strong electromagnetic waves, obscuring the radio messages in this space.

Earth Civilization Interstellar Probe - White Dove.

At the moment when the white dove crashed through the shuttle with its strong interactive shell, Abraham remembered the badge of glory that he hadn't had time to get, and the veteran who showed off in front of him.

"Newcomer, do you know, this micro-badge is proof of the glory of the space fleet."

In the fireball of the shuttle's explosion, Abraham, who was torn apart by the impact and heat, flashed the veteran's next sentence in his dissipated consciousness.

"But it's just an alloy block, and the true glory of the space fleet comes from our lives." (To be continued.) )