Chapter Seventy-Three: Race Against Time

On August 15 of the second year of the lunar calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Chinese (the fleet has canceled the solar calendar and the lunar calendar, and all festivals are based on the ephemeris), it is a good day for universal celebration and family reunion. As soon as the news of the Soul Eater www.biquge.info Clan was revealed, although there were still seventeen jumps away from here, the tense atmosphere still spread among the fleet, and everyone was in a hurry.

The refitting of the fleet has come to an end, and the three main fleets have been completely reequipped with seventh-tier warships, which are equipped with powerful space cannons and space shields, as long as they do not encounter the overwhelming glorious imperial fleet, they are absolutely invincible in the galaxy. The reason why the Galactic Alliance failed was because the family was too big to leave behind, so it could only fight a "positional war" with the enemy, and it would be overwhelmed by the enemy's crowd tactics. The fleet doesn't have such a big family, everything is packed and taken away, and you can jump away if you can't do anything, and there is absolutely no way to take humans with the technology of the glorious empire.

The vassal fleet composed of Wa immigrants has also been formed, although the combat effectiveness is still to be discussed, but the fleet formation and the basic battle queue are still decent, although they can not fully exert their combat effectiveness, but they can barely fight, in recent times, the fleet of the Wa people has also been carrying out intense running-in training, and when the fleet departs, it is estimated that the formation has been basically completed. The fleet's warships are all highly intelligent, and each warship has a shipboard AI to control, unless there is a war, otherwise, the general situation AI can completely handle it on its own.

Compared with the official fleet officials, the civilian population is much more nervous. Due to the suddenness of the Soul Eater's incident, all parties were completely unprepared. In order to be able to make a lot of money in the race trade market, many enterprises have spread too large production areas, many projects are still in the stage of completion, and even some second-phase projects are gradually being launched. The arrival of the news of the Soul Eater really caught them off guard, and many enterprises had just started projects with emergency terminals, and all resources were tilted towards projects that could be completed on time. Some even lean directly towards projects that can be completed in advance, who knows if anything will happen at that time, and if the time is advanced again, there will be no place to cry at that time. I have to say that each of these high-level executives who can survive in the interstellar era is a human being, and all aspects have been considered, I am afraid that the fleet will leave tomorrow, and their losses will definitely be minimized.

Chen Peilin and Zhuge Wushuang stood in the conference room of the Earth, looking at the busy scene outside through the holographic projection, countless ships shuttling between warships, some industrial ships busy transporting mineral materials, some agricultural ships busy concentrating harvested crops in the space city warehouse, and more private spaceships and cruise ships traveling abroad. This phenomenon has reached its peak in the past few days, and the number of people who have traveled to the living planet during this time has reached hundreds of millions, and it took nearly a few days from receiving the notice of the fleet to rushing back, which is also the result of the upgrade of the performance of civilian ships, if it was a ship that was only equipped with warp engines before, even if it sailed at 9.99 curvature, it would take several months or even longer to reach Space City. The scientific and technological level of the fleet's civilian ships has always maintained a level two levels lower than that of the fleet's official level, after all, the more advanced the level of science and technology, the more precious metals are needed, if it were not for the fleet to make a fortune from the Wa people, even the upgrading of civilian technology could not be done.

"Where is the main body of the Soul Eater?" Chen Peilin asked. Advanced civilizations have a way to warn the Soul Eater, although the Soul Eater can't see it, but by monitoring energy fluctuations, it can still roughly identify the existence of the Soul Eater. The fleet's vigilant detachment has been monitoring the latest movements of the Soul Eaters. There is a Purple Spirit Tree in every reconnaissance ship, and the energy level of the seventh-level battleship is extremely high, as long as it is not a devastating accident, encountering the Soul Eater in the short term can still ensure the safety of the crew. Moreover, the scout ship only monitors the Soul Eater, and does not make too much contact with it.

"There are still ten jumps to go before the fleet, and we expect to encounter the fleet in twelve days," Elaine replied with a smile as her image popped up. Although this is a heavy topic, Elaine still shows that charming smile in a programmatic way.

"How's the retreat going?" 75% of the work has been completed, and it is expected that the retreat plan will be completed two days ahead of schedule.

Chen Peilin nodded, it was quite good to be able to complete it so quickly in a few days, which was simply unimaginable before. Too many people were scattered to all corners of the entire star field, especially those adventure groups, they didn't know how far they had flown out, and they were able to rush back in such a quick time, Chen Peilin was still quite satisfied.

"Is that thing built?" Chen Peilin asked.

"It's done, the fleet is ready to move in at any time," Elaine replied quickly, still with the same charming smile.

"Is it really built?" Zhuge Wushuang asked in surprise.

"Turn on the holographic projection," Chen Peilin said to Elaine.

With the opening of the holographic projection, a behemoth of more than 500 kilometers appeared in the image, this behemoth is like an enlarged version of the Earth, but it is not the same. The Earth is rectangular in shape, and this strange warship is oblate, with a high bulge in the middle and gradually thinner on the sides, as if a pair of round wings were added to the five-fold magnification of the Earth. And there are many huge gaps in the wings, like a round biscuit that has been bitten several times from both sides.

"Can it fit a fleet so small?" Zhuge Wushuang questioned.

That's right, the purpose of building this weird battleship was to fit the entire fleet together. The size of the fleet is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more industrial ships, agricultural ships, ecological ships, migrant ships, and various combat ships, which has brought great difficulties to the protection of the fleet and the navigation of formations. In wartime, if they are besieged by a large number of enemies, it is simply impossible to guarantee the safety of all ships by relying only on the three main formations of the fleet and the auxiliary fleet of the Wa tribe. When the fleet jumps, if any of the ships are a beat slower, they may break away from the formation and get lost in space. In order to reconnect the entire fleet into a whole, Chen Peilin and Natalie designed and built such a supercarrier using a fixed war fortress as a template.

The mothership has abandoned the lethal and terrifying weapons systems of the war fortress in favor of strengthening the current defense capabilities and the berthing space of the ships, and the space inside the mothership has been massively expanded, and those huge openings are huge spaceports, the space inside is much larger than what you see from the outside, and the entire fleet can be loaded into it without any problem. When the fleet is moving, all the ships are moored inside the mothership, and the mothership leads the fleet to jump en masse. After the transition is over, the combat formation and the spaceport are separated from the escort, and the spacecraft with a mission can also leave the home port for operations. In the event of war, all ships that are not capable of fighting are all hiding in the mothership, so that the protective targets of the escort fleet become smaller, more comfortable, and retreat faster, without the slightest fear that any ships will break away from the formation due to poor coordination.

"It's absolutely installed, and there are four space cities built inside the mothership, and if people living in different space cities get together in the future, they don't need to take the traffic hall to fly between fleets, there is artificial gravity and atmosphere in the space city, and it is no different from inside the battleship, everyone can meet in the space city of the mothership. Of course, the four space cities are surrounded by industrial zones, and all enterprises can relocate their factories from industrial ships, so that people don't need to go to work in the future. In the future, most of the people may live in the space city of the mothership, and they will finally not have to face the dark universe anymore. We've built a world ourselves," Chen Peilin sighed.

After leaving the living planet, I am still full of attachment to that huge space and environment, and it has always been uneasy to think that there is a cold universe outside the armor of a battleship, and now I finally have a sense of security.