Chapter 129: The Pirate Fleet
The Lagrangian point, which is the gravitational equilibrium point. Most planets have two Lagrangian points, the first Lagrangian point on the inner side of the planet's orbit and the second Lagrangian point on the outer side of the planet's orbit. The second Lagrange point of the bone-buried star is about 3.5 million kilometers away, in deep space, not to mention the light emitted by the bone-buried star, even the light of the star is very weak.
In the darkness of space, a large fleet is slowly sailing.
At the head of the pack was a huge S-class battleship, but with a striking skull painted on the bow and no other iconic patterns.
It's a pirate ship!
It can be said that "piracy" is one of the oldest professions in human civilization, before humans flew out of the atmosphere, just after mastering the skills of navigation in ancient times, pirates appeared, and have been growing with human civilization. When humans flew out of the solar system, rushed to other galaxies in the Milky Way, and even came to the Southern Alpha Galaxy, the pirates also followed, and they continued to grow and develop.
In fact, the profession of "pirate" is not unique to human civilization.
To put it bluntly, a pirate is a bandit, but he is more professional than a bandit, and he abides by his unique professional ethics and has stronger combat effectiveness.
Of course, it also has a slightly better reputation than bandits.
In fact, in addition to wars, in the five thousand years of the Third Age, piracy has been a hidden danger that the human federation and even the civilizations of the Galactic Alliance have never been able to eradicate. To put it simply, in peacetime, the main value of the military forces of the various civilizations of the Galactic Alliance, including the Human Federation, is to fight piracy, maintain the security of shipping routes, and ensure the unimpeded commercial shipping routes connecting various galaxies.
It is precisely in this way that the strength of the pirates and the status of the army are mutually exclusive.
If the world is peaceful, swords and guns are put into storage, and horses are put in Nanshan, the social status of the army will plummet, and piracy will be extremely rampant. If the world is not at peace, the army is taken seriously, and the military power is strengthened, the pirates will disappear, at least they will not dare to openly provoke military violence.
The Millennium Peace Event provided an ideal environment for pirates to thrive.
Although no one is wanted, it is conservatively estimated that there are tens of thousands of pirate legions operating in the human federal territory alone. These pirate legions vary in size, with hundreds of thousands of members and a few small ones, but the "number of practitioners" is by no means less than 10 million.
It's just that it's nothing.
Limited by the strength of the Human Federation, the scale of the pirate legion dominated by humans is not very large, and it cannot be compared with the pirate legion of advanced civilization.
Of course, this also makes sense.
The Federation of Humans has never really bothered to suppress pirates, and neither have other civilizations. The reason is simple, in peacetime, the civilizations of the Galactic Alliance are not directly facing the threat of invasion from the Silicon Alliance, but the conflict with other civilizations over resources, space, and colonizing planets. Although there are Galactic Alliance Councils and the seven top civilizations, this clash of civilizations has never turned into a full-scale war, but skirmishes are not uncommon. In order to avoid accusations and become a street rat that everyone shouts at, almost all civilizations, including the Human Federation, are using pirates, and even have the army attack under the banner of pirates.
Don't forget, the Luo family controls several mercenary legions and pirate legions.
It was clear that it was impossible to eradicate piracy completely. It's just that after connecting with the official and becoming an irregular military force, the size and strength of the pirate legion will be equated with the strength of the civilization itself, and will never exceed the basic strength of the civilization.
In the Human Federation, most of the pirate legions are small.
Obviously, owning S-class warships is an unattainable dream for these pirate legions. You know, the Human Federation only has a total of S-class warships. Not to mention that pirates do not have such strong financial resources and technology, and even if they do, the federal authorities and the military department will never tolerate it.
This skull-painted pirate ship is actually a warship, the flagship of the "Prestige" secretly built by the Luo family.
In fact, this is also the only S-class warship of the Luo family.
In order to build the "prestige", the Luo family can be said to have made a bloody investment. Not to mention anything else, just to build the space shipyard that built the "Prestige", the Luo family invested enough money to buy a colonial planet, and also spent a huge amount of money to buy the equipment and raw materials necessary for the construction of S-class warships through various secret channels, and the S-class origin converter on the "Prestige" was exchanged by the Luo family from a certain advanced civilization with resources equivalent to a star system. As for the technology needed, all of them were purchased or hired by the Luo family. Even so, it still took the Luo family a hundred years to build this S-class battleship that can destroy a planet.
The "Prestige" is the flagship of the Luo family's fleet, as well as a mobile fortress and a refuge for the Luo family.
Luo Zhenyu is shrewd and cunning, and he has always been cautious, and after the idea of making a living and usurping power, he thought about the worst outcome. If it fails, the Human Federation, and even the entire Galactic Alliance, will no longer have a place for the Luo family, and Zhan Ruilin will definitely be wiped out. At that time, the Luo family can only move the race, leave the Human Federation, or even leave the Southern Alpha System, and it will need a ship that is large enough to travel in the vast universe for thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years, to send the Luo family's heirs to the nearest star system. The result is Prestige, a large, complete ecosystem that can operate stably for 10,000 years, or even 100,000 years if properly maintained. In addition, the "Prestige" has a course detection system on board, which is capable of navigating unknown star fields.
Of course, "Prestige" is a battleship.
Allowing future generations to fly away from the Southern Alpha system aboard Prestige is only a last resort. Even if there is only the slightest chance, Luo Zhenyu hopes to use this super battleship, which is enough to compete with any warship other than the nine flagships, to seize the power of the third war zone.
It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven.
When Luo Zhenyu spent money to build the "Prestige", under the full promotion of Lin Xiaoting, the "Steel Ambition" was born. Not to mention that the "Steel Ambition" is a super battleship designed according to the standards of the SSS-class and only reduced to the SS-class at the time of construction, even if it is a standard SS-class battleship, the combat power is far above the "Prestige", even if it is conservatively estimated, it is at least ten times that of the "Prestige".
With the "Steel Ambition" in charge, the "Prestige" has not yet been built, and Luo Zhenyu's dream has come to naught.
As a result, after going through a lot of hardships and finally being built, the "Prestige" was lost by Luo Zhenyu to the "Blood Moon" pirate legion with 100,000 official members and absolute loyalty, which was secretly supported by the Luo family, and became the most powerful pirate ship in the Human Federation.
However, for the past decade, Prestige has been operating mainly in extraterrestrial-controlled galaxies.
It's not that Luo Zhenyu is merciful, but he doesn't want to get burned.
The "Steel Ambition" was completed and put into service in a very short period of time, which made Luo Zhenyu feel that Lin Xiaoting already knew about the existence of the "Prestige", but there was no evidence so that he did not attack. If the "Prestige" appears in the jurisdiction of the Human Federation, it will inevitably encounter the fleets of various major theaters. When the rebellion deployment is not yet in place, exposing the "Prestige" will only lead to Luo Zhenyu's rebellion ambitions being exposed.
The "Prestige" returned to the galaxy under the jurisdiction of the Human Federation and appeared near the Bone Burial Star, which means that Luo Zhenyu's rebellion deployment has been completed, at least basically in place.
In this huge fleet, in addition to the "Prestige", there are several huge A-class warships.
Looking at the fleet hidden in the darkness, Yang Yi was silent, but his face was very ugly.
The "Shadow" has been following the fleet for several hours, and Aaron has also completed the scanning, identified the "Prestige", and other capital warships, and confirmed that these warships are all from the infamous "Blood Moon" pirate legion, and the intelligence from the special reconnaissance team headquarters and theater command shows that the "Blood Moon" pirate legion is the minions of the Luo family, which was not taken seriously before, but did not operate in the territory of the Human Federation.
What made Yang Yi unhappy was not that the Luo family was so blatant, but that Lin Liexun asked him to stand still.
Although Lin Feng said it very thoroughly, Lin Liexun ordered this because he was worried about them and didn't want them to take risks, but Yang Yi didn't want to wait.
To put it bluntly, he has such good patience.
After receiving the news from Lin Liexun, Yang Yi immediately realized that Lin Xiaoting had already grasped Luo Zhenyu's ambition to rebel, and he did not take action for a long time, not because he was afraid of Luo Zhenyu, but because the time had not yet come. To put it simply, Lin Xiaoting adopted a strategy of being a late striker. The purpose of holding the troops was to dispel Luo Zhenyu's doubts, so that Luo Zhenyu thought that the opportunity for rebellion had come, and then uprooted the Luo family with a thunderbolt.
In fact, this is also Zhan Ruilin's intention.
To deal with a behemoth like the Luo family, don't do anything, as long as you do it, you have to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and you must not leave a remnant of evil, otherwise there will be endless troubles.
The question is, when?
After having this judgment, Yang Yi guessed that the two sides were actually waiting for the same opportunity, that is, the Sixth Greenwich War.
From this, a new problem arises.
When the soldiers of the Silicon Charm Alliance were pressing, could Zhan Ruilin and Lin Xiaoting be distracted to deal with Luo Zhenyu? Even if sufficient preparations have been made, it is impossible to immediately change Luo Zhenyu's identity as the commander of the garrison, and to deal with Luo Zhenyu, you must first consider how to stabilize the garrison. If this will lead to instability or even rebellion in the garrison, Zhan Ruilin is likely to compromise with Luo Zhenyu at a critical moment.
What happened on Shennong's planet, as well as Zhan Ruilin's assurances to Yang Yi, just proved this.
Obviously, this is the last thing Yang Yi wants to see.
If you drag it out, it will inevitably be a long night and a lot of dreams.
The Luo family is a cancer that must be cut off as soon as possible!