There's something we've always known about, but no one wants to talk about, and it's only in exceptional circumstances that Sandora and I have discussed, how much of a sin the depraved apostles have done after the fall of the old empire.

No one wants to watch their former comrades-in-arms degenerate from a glorious warrior to a murderous and twisted executioner, especially for the Apostle of Hilling, who regards the destruction of the abyss and glorious battles as a high honor in his life, being controlled by the power of the abyss, and slaughtering his former comrades or other warriors who fight against the abyss, this is simply the great shame and dirty act they can think of, so every time he talks about the fall of the old empire, Sandora is reluctant to mention, It's how many of the same factions of the world have been destroyed by those crazy fallen apostles - even if those world realms are not part of the huge army group led by the Empire, they are still enough to be called comrades in arms just by their actions against the abyss. However, after the Apostle of Hiling became insane, these "comrades-in-arms" must have been the first to suffer.

The old empire is vast, ruling thousands of worlds, these worlds are not necessarily military regions, there are also a large number of colonial universes, resources world, logistics world, or simply vassal race homeland world, the old empire These universes have been arranged with countless military stations and cosmic fortresses, in the past, these military stations were a solid line of defense to protect the universe, and a world world was able to develop peacefully because of the military stations set up by the empire, no matter how ruthless the iron-blooded emperor was in terms of affairs, those commoners in the world, At the very least, these stations are a symbol of safe survival.

However, with the explosion of the catastrophe, the former guardians instantly turned into slaughtering demons, and the catastrophe spread from these military stations that were still the Great Wall of Steel a moment ago.

Countless worlds of fallen apostles have been wiped out, the magnificent kingdom built by the old empire over hundreds of millions of years has collapsed with incredible speed, a large number of vassal races have been killed, galaxies have been ignited, and the universe has been erased...... Almost all the inter-worldly passages are under the control of the Empire, and the ordinary races of the universe have almost no chance of escaping, and even badly, some races with weak individuals have also become monsters under the influence of the abyssal power, and embark on the path of destroying others and self-destruction, this is a rapid and desperate chain reaction, almost overnight, everything has been broadcast to the entire imperial network without time difference and turned into ruins under the impact of the abyss, just like the land that Sandora once ruled, There are only bleak and twisted space fortresses and broken starships left in the universe, as well as the descendants of the very few vassal races that survived the catastrophe and almost restarted from primitives, and the twisted stories that they have passed down from generation to generation.

Of course, this storm of destruction destroyed not only the Empire, but also many worlds close to the Empire's ruling area, and the impact of this earth-shattering disaster was almost no less than that within the Empire: the fallen apostles who had destroyed their own country did not stop, and after they now had no material world to destroy in their sights, they decisively turned their attention to the other worlds of their memories - those ordinary worlds that did not join the Imperial camp and fought against the abyss or remained as the third faction.

Because the great changes in the empire were too rapid, and the empire itself imposed an extremely strict military blockade on its own ruling area, no one knew what happened to the unprecedentedly powerful Ming who was suddenly silent for a few days, even if it was directly adjacent to the border of the empire's ruling area, and even ordinary Ming, who had business dealings with the latter on weekdays, could not imagine what kind of terrible scene was happening on the opposite side of the noisy and suddenly silent Shilu Realm passage. When the dark battleship of the "Emperor **" rushed angrily from the void, pouring artillery fire and death on every innocent world that appeared in their sight, all the Ming who were hit were confused, they couldn't react to what was going on, the end came so quickly, that many Ming were confused and quickly and painlessly ushered in the end of the world......

The remaining ones are the powerful high-level Ming, the void is vast, and the abyss attacks every orderly world realm indiscriminately, naturally not limited to the territory of the Protoss and the Xiling Empire, and the Ming who confronts the abyss Of course, there are not only two camps of Star Field and Xiling, many powerful ordinary Ming also fight against the abyss, and the Ming who is qualified to fight with the abyss has at least reached a level where it can cross the universe and modify the laws of mathematics, this kind of Ming faced the sudden attack of the empire, although it immediately suffered heavy losses, But still insisted on having a respite.

The Fallen Apostles who frantically attacked other worlds were slightly hindered in the face of these powerful stragglers, which led to the creation of the Ghost Fleet, all of whom were survivors who seized the last ray of life to escape from their own universe during the end of the world.

After all, no matter how strong the strength of the third camp is, it can't be compared to the behemoth of the Xiling Empire, especially a group of crazy imperial soldiers who have seriously burned out their brains, under the almost frenzied attack of the crazy people of the fallen apostles, no matter how strong the defense line is, it won't last long before it will be wiped out, and the ** army of the various worlds that hastily organized the fight did not have a long front line to resist before they had to start arranging a fleet to cover the survivors of the race to escape from this universe.

This is a great evacuation of many worlds at the same time, countless Void Escape Fleets Fallen Apostles chased out of the war and spread, on the verge of collapse of the homeland universe, plunged headlong into the same dangerous Void, these escape fleets are huge, but soon the number of them has plummeted, the huge attrition is not only because of the pursuit of the fallen apostles, but the important reason is the sinister nature of the Void: many of the Void Navigation Skills mastered by Ming are not mature, they may have the ability to use the Void as a bridge and jump into another world, However, the situation at that time was that almost every world realm they could find was already shrouded in the cannon fire of the fallen apostles, and none of the worlds in the navigation map of the battleships were safe, no matter where the escape fleet was anchored, all they were greeted by the fleeting Imperial warships.

and the same fleeting artillery fire.

Desperate, some of the escape fleets jumped into what they thought were relatively safe universes, and the vast majority of their fleets that made this choice were torn apart by the Empire's chrono firepower, while the remaining part wandered in the void, slowly disintegrating when their energy was exhausted.

In the end, the number of exiled ships that were able to stay in the void for a long time until they escaped from the Fallen Apostle's influence was less than 10 of the original number of ships, and almost all of them were severely damaged.

The Council tells us this history, and she, who is directly connected to the starship database due to the mutation of her life forms, tells it almost without emotion, as if it were a story.

"It took nearly a thousand years for the fugitive fleet to temporarily escape from the emperor's pursuit, the survivors were less than one-tenth of what they were when they came out, part of the fleet was no longer sustainable, and the large army had no extra starships and resources to continue to support them, they could only venture into the main material world before the starship disintegrated, and most of them fell into a desolate universe, lacking resources and population, and there was no vital basic industry. They have been in contact for more than a thousand years with the only remaining void equipment on their ships and the large army still on the road, and later records show that many of them have been reduced to planetary lights, and some have been destroyed by the cosmic environment. The remaining fugitives continue to wander in the void, because no one knows how long Emperor Dao Dao will chase and kill, you ...... They never knew what to give up, and no one dared to stop in the face of such an army. The Unard terminated communication with the latter group of starships and merged to form the Council. Otherwise, we will also become one of the laggards.

"After wandering for quite a long time, even the powerful Ming has begun to gradually consume resources, and there are fewer and fewer starships that can continue to operate, although those imperial warships seem to have given up the pursuit, the wandering fleet is also about to be swallowed by the void, the once huge starship cluster has been integrated again and again, and then there are only five combined fleets left, and the five high commanders finally decided to act separately and go to the five voids that no one has ever explored." Quadrant's endless drift until the entire fleet is depleted, then it leaves the void on the spot, and what kind of universe it falls into when the time comes, completely left to fate. We firmly believe that the void is vast and that there is always a 'quadrant' that is a safe area that the Empire cannot find.

"Tens of thousands of years have passed since then, and although the five fleets have split up, we have remained in touch as much as possible, and in the meantime, the Fourth Combined Fleet, has undergone a large-scale and risky reorganization: abandoning all of its respective warships and devoting all remaining resources to supporting the Toberu starship formation. When the efficiency of the current fleet is getting lower and lower, and the ability of the void to continue to develop is zero, the council has judged that only a life form like Toberu who is not afraid of ghost energy radiation and has mastered the Void Laboratory technique can re-promote the group exhibition. It is possible to extend the fleet's endurance, and the end result is as you can see, there is only one type of ship left in the wandering fleet, and that is the Toberu starship. This is the history of the Fourth Combined Fleet. ”

I was silent for a moment and asked in a low voice, "There are still four fleets, and they are ......"

In fact, this question does not need to be asked, because the young soldier has revealed the ending of several other fleets before.

"The first, second, and third fleets have encountered the emperor ** and have been destroyed," a trace of pain flashed across the council's face, but it quickly calmed down, "the situation of the fifth fleet is unknown, only the fourth and fifth fleets survived, we still maintained communication until a year ago, when they had wandered to the far reaches of the void that no one had ever reached, in a large area of the desolate world dense native area, the communication between us has been maintained intermittently for more than ten years, and finally lost contact, I don't know if they still exist, May they still live—the Fifth Fleet will eventually have almost twice as many people as the Fourth Fleet, and perhaps they will succeed. ”

"In other words, within the known void so far, you are the only remaining exiles."

Sandora sighed softly and looked at the council with a complicated expression.

The other nodded silently.

"By the way, I still remember one more thing," I suddenly remembered a detail that I had been a little interested in, "I saw some Imperial markings in your fortress when I came here just now, what is going on with the remnants of Imperial equipment and so on?" Is it the Fallen Apostle warship that you captured in a firefight? ”

"No, they are the things brought by the 'remnants'," the council shook his head, "Emperor Guan ** is our mortal enemy, but we have to admit that their technology far surpasses that of the Combined Fleet, and in order to survive, we will use everything we can use, including the enemy's weapons." ”

"Remnants?" My sister couldn't help but repeat the word, "What remnants?" ”

The council closed its eyes: "It is the former imperial dependents, when the catastrophe was born, the imperial soldiers attacked all targets, including their original minions, but under normal circumstances, the imperial dependents have very cutting-edge void navigation technology, these technologies come directly from the empire, so that they can have a high chance of escape, many imperial dependents escaped from the empire's territory, they brought a large number of technology and warships, and the combined fleet converged." At first, there was a brief battle between us, but then we understood what was going on in the Silin Empire, and the battle ended, and the two sides formed an alliance, and the Imperial equipment they brought with them was used to replenish the combined fleet's supply warehouse. ”

The council's explanation made me suddenly realize, no wonder there are traces of the empire in this planet fortress, it seems that at the time of the catastrophe, not all vassal races were as unlucky as those natives in the Mobradorian realm, some vassal races that were very powerful in technology themselves, and had a relatively large number of imperial equipment were lucky enough to escape and ascend to heaven, and then they merged with the fugitive fleet. I think the position of the early Combined Fleet of the remnants of the Empire must have been very awkward.

My suspicion was immediately confirmed by the Parliament: although the combined fleet of descendants of the current remnants of the Empire was no longer discriminated against, in the early days there was a lot of conflict between the remnants of the Empire and the exiles, mainly due to the latter's hatred and fear of the fallen apostles, and the remnants of the Empire, who were the minions of the Empire, were regarded as the spokesmen of the demons, and this conflict continued for nearly a thousand years, until basically all the first generation of the remnants of the Empire and the exiles sailed west, and the subsequent generations of living citizens. The relationship between the two sides has eased greatly, the remnants of the empire have used the void technology they inherited from the empire to greatly extend the endurance of the void of the combined fleet, and the exiles have worked hard to help the remnants correct their technology trees and reshape their ability to develop - we all know that under the control of the empire's intentional or unintentional technology shackles, the vassal races will basically make the technology tree crooked, once they break away from the empire "blood transfusion", it won't be long before they will become a group of primitive people who only know how to push the switch on the ready-made machine tools.

We already know about the general situation of the ghost fleet, and Sandora muttered slightly, and said, "Basically, I already understand, so what do you think about the information about us?" ”

"It's not credible, but it doesn't seem to make much sense to believe it or not," the council was as unscrupulous as ever, and she dared to pour out like the narrative no matter how serious the problem was, "The current combined fleet can't have much impact on the actions of the emperor, and we can only guarantee an absolute counterattack when you attack." ”

"That means, as long as we don't attack you, you won't get in trouble, will you?"

Shandora asked with a soothing face, and immediately received an affirmative answer from the council: "There is no need to hide this question, the combined fleet does not have the strength to take the initiative to attack the emperor. ”

"Now, what are you going to do in the future?" Miss Lin, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, "Do you want to continue wandering?" ”

"If we could, the Fourth Combined Fleet would continue to wander, and we would drift into the depths of the Void until we had to stop. The only thing that is, of course, if you can really let us go. ”

"I'm afraid I have bad news for you," Lilina suddenly jumped over and shouted, "After many years of silence, the Fallen Apostles have actually resumed their operations, and the place where you are now is within the Fallen Apostles' attack range - the reason why you are still alive until now is because this is also the monitoring area of the Starfield Protoss and the territory of the Empire. That is to say, if the Exiled Fleet proceeds, you will be attacked by the Fallen Apostles as soon as you are out of sight of the Empire and the Stars, just as you were when you left your homeland many years ago. ”

I have to say that the guy from psychology is different, Lilina's mouth poked someone's scar at once.

The council immediately fell into a state of entanglement, obviously the logical judgment told her that the credibility of what our group of people said was relatively high, but another logical judgment also told her that in matters related to the empire, even a mistake of even one part of the error is a fatal factor, even if the credibility of our family reaches ten points, then the remaining tenths of the untrustworthy is enough for her to ponder for a long time, shallow is an acute child, seeing that the other party began to calculate again, grinding and chirping for so long without making up her mind, she immediately jumped to her feet and shouted:" What are you wandering about? It's so dangerous out there! Our house is big, so you can live there! ”

As the mother of the empire, she is also angry, obviously as long as she has a set of three bedrooms and one living room, she can be satisfied, and now she dares to give others land hey!

"The ultimate goal of the exiled fleet is also to find a stable home," I tried to be emotionally attached to the council, although I don't know if the other party's emotional pattern is still the same as that of ordinary people, anyway, what I said is very sincere, "Although I dare not say that the territory of the empire is absolutely safe, but at least it is safer than the void, the fallen apostles have indeed regained their activities, and in this case, if they continue to wander, they still lead so many ghost ships that are seriously aging and can't even get up with the crew, it is really a disaster at any time." ”

"Emperor of the Apostles of Hiling, you mean to settle the territory of your empire with the Combined Fleet?"

There was not a hint of expression on the council's face, just asked in a very serious tone.

At this time, I also realized that I might have said a little reckless, this invitation to myself seems to be nothing, it seems too sensational for the crew of the exile fleet, not to mention anything else, after the end of World War II, you let a Jew borrow an old Nazi's house to try, and whoever knocks out whose brains the next day is considered a natural phenomenon......

But at this time, I can't take it back, so I can only nod my head, hoping that the super wisdom of the council, which is gathered by tens of thousands of souls, can think about it with pure logic, which is really unacceptable emotionally, but if I calculate it logically, I really can't find a safer way out than this.

After ten minutes of waiting, the council seemed to have finally finished her logical calculations, and our expectant gaze nodded reluctantly, but added: "I can pass this proposal, but then I will broadcast all the information to the entire United Fleet, their future, let them decide for themselves." ”