While the human pioneer fleet is making intense preparations on Aden, a tense chase game is also being staged in the depths of the starry sky.

The Rockefeller family, the super family of the Earth Federation that controls the affairs of Mars, because its current patriarch Taylor? Rockefeller's strategic vision successfully invested in the election of Wilson, the 196th president of the Federation, thus gaining his friendship, and even more openly and secretly giving the family a lot of convenience, so that the Rockefeller family, which was already a behemoth, firmly occupied the position of the first family of the Federation. However, compared to the benefits he had gained over the past twelve years, a blueprint and a message from deep space that President Wilson had secretly provided before leaving office were obviously much more valuable. Rockefeller salivated. That's an unexplored galaxy! He knew better than anyone what that meant - a lot of resources, vast land, control of shipping routes, and even a market for interstellar sightseeing! All of this will bring an incomparably large fortune to his family! This is enough to make his family the largest and most powerful family in the Federation for thousands of years to come! Even, if one day you are not satisfied with being constrained by others, you can also support your own troops and establish a kingdom belonging to the noble surname of Rockefeller!

In order to gain control of this galaxy, he did not hesitate to destroy a valuable interstellar transport ship, so that it would return to the sea of stars with Wilson, in order to prevent other families from having a chance to get their hands on Proxima Centauri.

Now, how far away is Taylor? The time for Lorefeler's thousand-year plan is getting closer and closer. In the year 1010 of the ephemeris, the family sent a hundred medium-sized starships, carrying millions of personal weapons and mercenaries raised by the family, as well as tens of millions of civilians, to begin their march towards the neighbor of the solar system, Proxima Centauri.

Eight years have passed. In the past eight years, due to the continuous receipt of high-intensity pulse information sent by Mars, this fleet still has a relatively good understanding of the movements in the solar system. Because of the routes provided by Lin Feng and others, coupled with the development of ultra-long-range communication signal transmission technology in the interstellar era, the communication reception rate in this distance is maintained at more than ten percent, that is to say, one out of ten such communication contacts can be accurately received, and the signal distortion rate has been reduced to less than five percent.

Through such frequent contact, the upper echelons of the expeditionary fleet already knew that a year after they left the solar system, the other great families of the Earth Federation had risen up and formed an alliance to try to wrest the preemption of Proxima Centauri from the Rockefellers.

This alliance includes almost all the influential and wealthy families of the Earth Federation except for the Rockefeller family, including the Lee family on Mercury, the Rothfield family on Jupiter, and the Mountain Wood family on Saturn...... The political giants of the earth even sent the best heirs in their families except for the first heir in line to proxima Centauri to make political capital, of course, by the way, grabbing some economic benefits is also an important purpose of their trip.

And the so-called preemption is also the saying that the first to come first to get it, and the last to come can only stand aside! This rule is very important, in the interstellar era, in order to encourage the major families to explore space, and at the same time avoid the war caused by the competition between the various forces, the federation stipulates in the form of a law that for the stars in the starry sky, whoever sets foot first has the right to give priority to development. It can be said that this legal provision has greatly promoted the process of human development to space, and at the same time, it has also created a group of interstellar tyrants, which has exacerbated the gap between the rich and the poor and social contradictions within the Federation.

In order to achieve the goal of seizing the preemptive power, the family alliance abandoned their respective prejudices, united as never before, and those who had funds contributed funds, those who had technology contributed technology, and those who had political resources ran among the political axe families, and lobbied the federal president to formulate and promulgate the latest law on Aden, so as to eliminate the advantages obtained by the Rockefeller family through improper means.

After nearly two years of hard work, the family alliance's expeditionary fleet also set sail, coming at a speed twice that of the Rockefeller family fleet.

The Rockefellers, of course, were not going to sit still. While the family alliance was conducting research, the Rockwell Starship Factory, which is proficient in starship manufacturing technology, once again improved the surname of the starship engine to a revolutionary surname, and its speed reached 200,000 kilometers per second! Of course, it is impossible for them to provide the actual engine to the fleet that is hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, and through frequent communication, the fleet has obtained a plan for the engine modification. Through the transformation, the overall speed of the fleet has also been greatly improved, from 60,000 kilometers per second when it set sail to 150,000 kilometers per second now! This time, the alliance fleet was left far behind, and at the same time, the time of this long trip was greatly shortened.

Now, the Rockefeller family fleet is only a light year away from Proxima Centauri, and it only needs to persist in sailing for another two years, then the entire Proxima Centauri will become the territory of the Rockefeller family! It will be an extremely brilliant achievement, and it will be a mouth-watering giant cake that will be exclusive to the Rockefeller family! And all this at the cost of a small starship!

The main control room of the fleet's flagship USS Rockefeller, the de facto leader of this great feat, Taylor? Rockefeller's youngest son, Richard? Rockefeller looked at the information transmitted to him through the fleet's main control brain, and the corners of his mouth slowly outlined a slight curve, which was a sneering smile, "These little reptiles are really self-conscious, and they actually compete with our Rockefeller family for the speed of starships." Now, let's crawl slowly behind! Proxima Centauri, ours, the great Rockefeller family! ”

Rhythmically tapping his fingers on the armrests of the chair, Richard fell into deep thought. The frowning and sometimes furrowed brow at that time indicated that he was thinking about something important now.

Suddenly, his eyes, which had been slightly squinted, suddenly opened, as if he had made a major decision.

For the multi-functional miniature brain in his hand, Richard gave an order: "Contact the captains of all starships and hold a video conference in five minutes." No one is allowed to be absent! ”

The command was sent. Richard sat silently in the chair of the chair, representing the supreme authority of the fleet, and glanced at the huge round conference table in front of him. That will be where all the captains will appear, a hundred chairs, a hundred captains, and this will be an important force for him to occupy and conquer a star field.

Five minutes later, the meeting officially began as the last hologram appeared in the main control room.

Richard cleared his throat and looked majestically at the hundred, until they felt a sense of depression and unease, and then he spoke: "Gentlemen, now I have important news to announce! ”

Everyone's attention was immediately attracted by him. In other words, the nearly ten years of space travel are too much of a test of a person's nerves, and the ordinary life makes everyone in the fleet seem to be numb, and only the news from Earth can make their emotions fluctuate a little.

"Because our fleet's engine modification has been quite successful, and the speed has increased by a factor of one and a five, we have left the family alliance far behind. There is no force left to stand in the way of our occupation and domination of Proxima Centauri! Richard said impassionedly, with a proud glint in his eyes.

His words caused a small stir among the captains, although as a captain, he also had a small status in such a fleet, but the little young master of the Rockefeller family in front of him held the information tightly in his hands, so that many people did not know that there was once a huge fleet that was constantly narrowing the distance with them, and even trying to surpass them.

"There is one more good news for you. A few hours ago, our communications department received a pulse wave signal from the direction of Proxima Centauri. The signal was sent to Earth, and the content, because it was a matter of confidentiality, was not reported to you here. However, based on a detailed analysis of this communication signal, an important fact can be proven: the human fleet has entered the vicinity of Proxima Centauri, and may even have successfully landed on a certain planet! This is extremely beneficial to us. With them opening the way ahead, our fleet can be said to have a lot less trouble. ”

"The main purpose of convening everyone this time is to discuss with you, what kind of response strategy should we adopt for this advance fleet of human beings to open up the Proxima Centauri Star Domain?" (To be continued.) )