Chapter 2 The Beginning of the Edge
The purple-black docros gradually shrank into a single dot.
Feng Yuan stood in front of the glass mirror at the stern of the ship, staring at the planet, this was the second time he had left the land and stepped into space. Compared to the time he left the earth, he was not very sad at this time. The blue light of multi-carats is fading, and so is the helplessness.
According to the information brought back by the Queen's advance force, it is completely certain that Princess Thea has recently appeared in the Nineteenth Sector of the galaxy, and is likely to be there at the moment. Sector 19 is the farthest point from the heart of the galaxy, and jumping out of it is also jumping out of the galaxy, while Sector 8, where Dorkra is located, is half a galaxy away from Sector 19 in a straight line. Fortunately, there are twenty-two curvature engines on board the Empress of the Sun, and if they all start, this distance can be covered in a month. At present, the Empress of the Brilliant Sun can only break away from the gravitational pull of Dokla with conventional power, and will not be able to open its curvature after a few days.
Feng Yuan and other eight pilots of the space combat team were arranged to live, in the room under the fighter cabin, each room has a wall that is part of the stern glass glass, through this wall can see the distant stars outside. This is much better than the technicians who live in the middle cabin, which is simply a cell made of titanium.
Feng Yuan is the leader of the space combat team, responsible for the daily roll call, and goes to the control module to familiarize himself with the information.
"It's boring!" Ai Yuan complained with her face pressed in front of the mirror. For a few days, they were looking at the same starry sky. No way, they belong to the combatants, and the control of the ship has nothing to do with them, unless there is a fight. But, then again, if it's just looking for the princess, how can there be a fight? Doesn't this mean that the space combat team's trip is not useful at all. The more Ai Yuan thought about it, the more disappointed she became, she turned to look at Hae Sung and found that Hae Sung was also looking at her.
Hai Cheng also thought of the same question, but he thought deeper: If he was just looking for the princess, why should he bring the troops with him, wouldn't he be afraid of hurting the princess? He looked into the mirror, and the two bands of light emitted by the Empress of the Brilliant Sun took up a large area of vision.
In the control cabin, everything is going on as normal. Captain Brian stepped out of his lounge and sat down in the chair in the middle of the control bay, a screen of particle light forming in front of him, and the starship's parameters flashed on it. His majestic voice sounded: "Now, report the situation in the cabin."
"Everything is fine in the power compartment." The commander of the power compartment reports.
"How prepared is the curvature engine?"
"Ready to start, sir." The main power compartment of the Empress is located at the bottom of the ship, and it is equipped with twenty curvature engines and fifty conventional nuclear engines. There are also two auxiliary power compartments on the middle cabin, each equipped with a curvature engine and ten conventional nuclear engines.
"How's the control pod ready?"
"Everything works." The control cabin is located in the bow of the ship, which is the most important part of the entire starship, and has the power to obtain the mechanical control of each cabin, and the core of the control cabin is the operation console located in the center, and the miniature of the starship is imaged on it, and the entire starship can be controlled through the thinking induction link.
"Where's the weapons bay?"
"Everything works." There are three weapons bays, the main weapon bay is located in front of the control module, and the left and right weapon bays are located on the left and right wings of the starship, respectively. Each weapon bay is equipped with a particle mask reduction cannon, a fluctuating magnetoelectric shock cannon, a polymeric laser cannon, an electromagnetic railgun, and the main weapon bay is also equipped with a state-of-the-art gravitational wall generator. The three weapon bays can be formed into a spherical perspective, and there is no direction in the space that cannot be hit.
"How's the mechanical cabin going?"
"Normal." The mechanical cabin is the middle cabin, which is responsible for the defense and maintenance of the starship, and it is here that the protective shield is generated and spread, and the starship repairs itself after being damaged, and its control center is also here.
"Where's the fighter cabin?"
"Normal." The fighter cabin is located at the stern of the ship, which is responsible for parking and launching all small aircraft such as space fighters, drones, and spare lifeboats, and is the second source of firepower for the mothership.
After checking everything, Brian's grim expression let go of a lot, these inspections are his daily tasks. He was a close confidant of Queen Brea and a loyal follower of the Queen, and the Queen trusted him so much that she gave him the command, and he certainly could not live up to it. Thinking of what the queen had secretly told him before she left, I couldn't help but feel heavy again.
"Full speed ahead!" Brian ordered.
"Boss, there's a ship approaching us."
"It's only one, the old rules, take it!"
"Let's be cautious, this time is different from the past."
"What's wrong?"
"It's probably not an ordinary ship, it's too big!"
"How big?"
"The Incredible ......"
Silence hung over for a while.
"Hmph, it's just a fat man, send a message to the past, and leave the passage fee to pass."
"But, sir, what if it's an Imperial ship?"
"Which time did we rob the ship of the Empire!"
In the darkness, a fleet of dozens of ships lurks quietly......
"Captain, I received a message that is not my own."
"Open it and take a look." Brian was slightly surprised, Eighth Sector has always been a no-man's land with extremely low civilization density, and the possibility of encountering other ships is very small.
The message is rendered on the particle light screen.
"It's a pirate!" The first mate said immediately.
The little pirate dared to fight the idea of the Empress of the Sun! Tired of living, Brian was so angry that it was like the Queen's dignity had been insulted.
"Captain, this kind of pirate is very difficult to entangle, give them a little travel money, you can save a lot of trouble......" someone proposed.
"Will the Empire compromise with pirates?" Brian angrily scolded the man who had proposed. No one in the audience dared to make a sound.
"Annihilate them!" Brian ordered, and the whole ship was broadcast, to activate the battle alarm.
The Empress of the Sun enters combat mode for the first time.
"Just thinking about fighting, it came so soon." Ai Yuan thought it was a little incredible.
The members of the Space Combat Team stopped what they were doing and listened intently.
Feng Yuan explained with a smile: "It's just to fight pirates, and it's enough to rely on the ship's firepower to deal with it, and we may not need to appear yet." However, it would be nice to see the battle live. ”
A particle light screen is formed on the aft compartment lobby, and above it is a real scene outside the glass sight glass of the control compartment.
In the darkness, a group of dark shadows slowly approached.
"Damn, they don't know what to do!" The pirate king was furious, "Don't blame Lao Tzu for being ruthless." Tell the ships that the 'fat' in front is our dinner today, and kill all the men on it, and take whatever you want, money, weapons, food, and women......"
The pirates on the pirate ships were all enthusiastic when they heard the words of the leader.
Dare to offend the Queso Pirates, your time of death has come. "Open the shield and attack!"
"How many people are in the weapons bay now?" Brian asked.
"There are three people in the main weapon compartment and only one person in each of the secondary compartments, so it is recommended to switch to automatic mode."
"I don't believe in automatic, I only believe in people, each weapon bay sent me ten more people, told them to wait for the enemy to be within range before firing, first with a reduced cover, and then with magnetoelectric shock!" Brian looked at the ship coming at full speed with the shield on the sight glass, and was full of confidence, "Send an order to the mechanical cabin and ask them to make sure that the starship is intact for me!" ”
"Yes." The two first mates quickly informed.
The distance between the Queso pirate fleet and the Empress of the Sun was getting closer, and the pirates were all dumbfounded by the behemoth in front of them, and the huge difference in the size of the ship had already severely damaged the pirates' self-confidence.
If the Empress of the Sun is compared to an elephant, then the largest main ship in the Queso fleet is nothing more than a mouse.
In order to cheer up the morale of the army, the pirate king yelled, "It's just a papier-mâché tiger, hit me!" ”
All the pirate ships opened fire on the Empress of the Sun. The uniform of the Corsair's armament is the Particle-Intensive Laser Cannon, whose firepower increases with the duration of the fire, and is not capped unless the ship runs out of energy. Even better, the constant strike of a short-wave laser can disintegrate the ion shield, so this weapon is very popular with pirates.
The pirate ship's powerful lasers were already dense like pouring water, but the protective shield of the Empress of the Sun showed no signs of abating.
"How so?" The Pirate King starts to get nervous.
The protective shield of the Empress of the Sun is not an ion shield, but a force field shield, and the strong laser has nothing to do with it.
"It's our turn! Beat! ”
The shroud-reducing particles emitted from the weapon bay hit the enemy ship, neutralizing and degrading the shield in a matter of seconds, and then a million-volt arc of electricity brushed through, and a pirate ship was disintegrated, and the life inside had long been destroyed by high pressure, and the flesh and blood were blurred. And then dozens of more ships repeated the same fate.
"Retreat, retreat at full speed!" Sixty-five ships were killed at once, and the Pirate King was terrified, "Damn, why didn't you tell me this was a warship!" ”
"I told you, sir."
"Want to escape? There are no doors! It's time to put it to life. Brian said coldly.
Everyone held their breath, everyone knew what Brian was referring to, but it was too cruel to do so.
Ai Yuan asked, "What the hell is that gravitational wall generator?" ”
Feng Yuan and Hai Cheng looked at her and shook their heads.
"The gravitational needle has been linked, please confirm its use." Two light screens popped up in front of Brian, one was OK and the other was canceled, and he didn't hesitate to click on the green light screen.
In the main weapon bay, the jet-black gravitational needle is located in the center of the whole cabin, with the top plate connected to it, and the base below is the core of the gravitational wall generator. At this moment, the high-density energy is continuously flowing to the gravitational needle, and a bright rotating halo begins to form around the black needle.
"Gravitational force is being generated, and gravitational point-to-point transportation is about to take place!" A system warning sounds.
"Boss, we seem to be getting slower and slower back."
"What did you say?"
"Something is holding us back, but we can't see it!"
"Give me maximum horsepower!"
"It's already the limit."
"Useless stuff!"
"Boss, the direction of our speed has changed!"
"What do you mean?"
The maximum velocity of the Corsair is still not up to the escape velocity of the gravitational wall generated by the Gravitational Wall generator. They were like kites pulled by a string, and they were dragged back by force.
"Do you want to play this trick? Move all the explosives to the front compartment! The Pirate King smiled sinisterly. Even if you are crushed, Lao Tzu will blow off one or two of your legs!
However, the Pirate King was naïve in his thoughts, and it was not the Empress of the Sun that would collide with them head-on, but an invisible wall of gravity in front of the Empress of the Sun. To make matters worse, in the process of approaching the gravitational wall, due to the existence of poor gravity, the hull of the pirate ship was torn apart, oxygen leaked, and the crew of the pirate ship died tragically for various reasons. Eventually, the wreckage collided with the gravitational wall and was crushed into particles that dissipated in a vacuum.
At this point, the largest pirate group in the galaxy, the Queso Pirate Regiment, was completely wiped out. As soon as the news came out, it caused a sensation throughout Myashk, and the Empress of the Sun became famous in a battle and became the dream demon of the pirates. And the biggest profit in this small battle is the queen, whose prestige has risen a few levels at once.
"I don't understand, do you need such a terrifying starship to find Princess Thea?" Ai Yuan vividly remembers the bloody scene just now.
"And we seem to be redundant on this ship!" Hai Cheng said that the Empress of the Sun is so powerful that she doesn't need backup at all!
"There's only one possibility." Feng Yuan said what he had been thinking about for a long time, "What we are looking for is also a starship as powerful as the Empress of the Brilliant Sun, and the owner of that starship is Princess Thea......"