Although with the powerful performance of the Shadow Ship, the "Star Sea" only needs to make a few space jumps to return to the home galaxy, but in order to avoid the enemies along the way, especially those star systems with dangerous geographical locations and heavy guards, Yang Yi and the others can only shorten the distance of space jumps, increase the number of jumps, and find a place to hide when necessary to avoid the enemy fleet that is out on patrol.

The road can be said to be bumpy, but fortunately, there are no dangers.

It must be admitted that the performance of the Shadow Ship is indeed powerful enough. Several accidental encounters with the Silicon Charm Battleship relied on the powerful stealth ability to avoid it in time. If it had been replaced by other warships, even the most advanced reconnaissance ships of the Human Federation, such as the "Shadow", I am afraid that it would have been discovered long ago.

After making more than a dozen space jumps and making a big circle, the "Star Sea" finally came to the vicinity of the transit star on the thirteenth day.

In fact, this is already the jurisdiction of the home system.

The transit star is also a lone star, but it was an asteroid in the home galaxy hundreds of years ago, but the orbit is extremely special, the aphelion is more than 100 times that of the perihelion, the orbit period is more than 10,000 years, and most of the time it hovers around the periphery of the home galaxy. According to scientists' speculation, the relay star originally belonged to another star system, and billions of years ago, when this star system intersected with the home galaxy, it was captured by the gravitational field of the home galaxy and became a member of the home galaxy, which is why it has such a bizarre orbit. In addition, according to scientists' calculations, in a few billion years, the relay star will break away from the home galaxy and become a real lone star.

Of course, the arrival of humanity, as well as the development and growth of the Human Federation, changed the fate of the relay star.

Before the outbreak of the Fifth Greenwich War, the Human Federation tried to strengthen its defenses by expanding the defense area to deal with the invasion that could come at any time. Just in the circumstances. The Human Federation lacks both the necessary technology and the basic financial resources, so most of its plans remain on paper. Until the outbreak of the Fifth Greenwich War, the idea of turning the Transit Star into a peripheral fortress did not become a reality.

The Fifth Greenwich War changed the Federation of Mankind and the Transit Star.

Shortly after the war. The federal authorities made a decision to make the Transit Star a pillar military fortress on the periphery of the home system, with the military department taking the lead. Due to the situation, federal authorities and the military department worked together to transfer the transit star to its current location, which is about 150 million light-years from its home system, before the Galactic Alliance Council made a ruling. Although the Galactic Alliance later ruled that the Human Federation was only responsible for the management of the star system in the North 4 Region, and had no right to take these borderlands for itself, and all engineering projects designed to sovereignty needed to be approved by the Alliance Council, and the location of the relay star had exceeded the jurisdiction of the home system. But the wood is already in the boat, and the Federation of Humans is a major contributor to the Fifth Greenwich War, and the Coalition Council acquiesces to this fait accompli.

As a result, the Transit Star has become the outermost space fortress of the home system.

Unfortunately, for the next few hundred years, the Human Federation was not threatened by outsiders, the illusion of peace blinded everyone's eyes, and the military value of the transit star was not fully reflected. To put it simply. The federal authorities and the military department did not pay much attention to this space fortress. Of course, there are deeper reasons. The transit star belongs to the military department, and all expenses are borne by the federal authorities, and it has nothing to do with the nine theaters. Although military spending has increased year by year, after offsetting inflation, it has not only not increased, but has shrunk year by year. Nine theaters of operations were able to sustain themselves. That's because there is a separate fiscal revenue. The military department is just a shelf, and without jurisdiction, it is impossible to have other income. As a result, the transit star has not been taken seriously, and many of the infrastructure projects that were planned at the beginning have never been started.

Arguably. If it weren't for the fact that the military ministry was self-contained, not subject to the control of the federal authorities, and that anything that involved basic defense and security required the approval of the Bundestag, I am afraid that the federal authorities would have taken over the Transit Star and exploited it economically hundreds of years ago.

The current transit star is not a space fortress.

However, this is not necessarily a bad thing.

The relay star is not large, only about 100 kilometers in diameter. Although it fully meets the standards of a space fortress by the standards of the Human Legion, the relay star is too small for the Silicon Charm Alliance. After removing the necessary shells, the space available inside is very small, and there are not too many legions that can be deployed there. In addition, transit stars are about 1.5 billion light-years away from the home galaxy, and there are many asteroids on the periphery of the home system, and if most of them are not large enough, a few are large enough. Besides, being closer to the home system makes these asteroids a more ideal bridgehead for the Silicon Alliance to enter the home system.

The Silicon Charm army captured the Transit Star, but did not transform the Transit Star, only deployed a force here, as well as a few patrol ships.

To put it simply, the Transit Star has become a support point for the Silicon Charm army to surround the home galaxy.

It's just a siege, not a blockade.

Obviously, the main value of this forward support point is to monitor the home system, and if you find ships heading to or coming out of the home system in time, you don't need to deploy too many troops, even if you are attacked, there will be no big loss, and the fleet deployed nearby can rush to reinforce at any time.

There are many similar bearing points near the home galaxy.

In order to avoid being detected by the enemy, the distance of the last jump of the "Star Sea" was only ten light-years, and the energy of the space jump was compressed to a minimum.

Strictly speaking, this isn't the last space jump.

Coming to the vicinity of transit stars is a matter of necessity, because in the vast universe, only planets with massive masses can cause spatial distortion and thus become a reference point for conducting space treaties. Even if the "Xinghai" has extremely advanced equipment, the jump route must be determined through a reference point. Without a reference point, it is impossible to determine the exit of the jump passage and to reach the destination safely.

Although it is possible to enter the home system directly, the stars in the star system are too dense, and there are a large number of ships, so entering the home system is likely to have unexpected consequences, such as opening the exit into a certain planet, or crashing into a large ship. Therefore, even in peacetime, it is necessary to set up space jump nodes and spaceports to ensure that space jumps can be carried out safely and effectively.

There are dozens of spaceports in the home system, but these are not necessarily in their original locations in times of war.

As for the space node, in order to avoid a surprise attack by the enemy, it must have been blocked by the federal army a long time ago, and even transformed into a space trap.

To put it simply, if you don't know about your home galaxy, you can imagine the consequences of rushing in.

To do this, you must first reach the periphery of the home galaxy, try to get in touch with the military headquarters or theater command, and after obtaining reliable navigation information, you can make one last space jump into the home system. To this end, Yang Yi also brought a military communicator provided by Lin Liexun.

This is a set of quantum communication equipment, which can only be contacted by a single line with the theater command, and a military password is set. In fact, even if there is no password, it is absolutely safe, because only this communication device can receive signals from the 3rd Theater Command and thus obtain navigation information.

In order to guide the warships operating outside the country to return to their home system, the Third Theater Command has a navigation and communication department that continuously transmits navigation signals. Actually, it's some simple coordinate signals. After receiving these signals, the warships of the Third Theater will be able to safely reach the space nodes opened by the Third Theater through space jumps. However, due to the influence of objective factors such as spatial distortion and original energy fluctuations, the effective working distance of this communication equipment is very limited, and the navigation signal can only be received when it is close to the home galaxy. A little farther away, even in nearby star systems, there is no guarantee that the signal will be received accurately because of interference.

That's why, if you want to return to your home system, you first have to come to the vicinity of your home system.

Of course, for those ships that are ready to return to their home system, this step is bound to take place.

In addition, there is a huge benefit to this arrangement.

This means that one last check can be made before returning to the home system, and one final space jump can be made after making sure that it is not being tracked by enemy ships.

It can be said that this is a bloody lesson.

During the Lighthouse Star Offensive and Defensive War at the beginning of the Fifth Greenwich War, similar incidents occurred several times, that is, patrol ships and reconnaissance ships that were out of action were followed by the battleships of the Silicon Alliance, and the temporary space nodes were exposed, and then they were attacked by the Silicon Fleet. Even if Lighthouse Star did not fall because of this, under the sudden attack of the enemy, the human legion also paid a very heavy price.

Now, all Yang Yi has to do is make sure that they are not being tracked by enemy ships.

Of course, with Aaron here, Yang Yi and they don't have to do anything, they just have to wait patiently for a while.

"Major?"

"Yes."

"The first search has been completed, no suspicious targets have been found, and the enemy on the relay star has not behaved abnormally."

Yang Yi let out a sigh and said, "Can you receive the navigation signal from the theater command?" ”

"Yes, but it will take some time to determine the spatial nodes."

"Prepare." Yang Yi paused slightly, and then said, "Anyway, I'll have to wait for a while, search again, and focus on the abnormal origin energy fluctuations." If we're not lucky, even if we're not being tracked by an enemy ship, we might just happen to run into a patrol ship cruising around here. ”

"Understood."

If there is an enemy ship tailing, it will definitely have to make a space jump, so Aaron previously focused on spatial distortion and didn't care about the original energy fluctuation. On the contrary, if there is an enemy patrol ship nearby, there is no need to make a space jump, and there will naturally be no spatial distortion. It's just that any warship needs to use the Origin Converter when sailing normally, and it will inevitably produce Origin Energy fluctuations. (To be continued.) )