Chapter 194: Expeditionary-class research ship
The Black Rose's ring match hadn't started yet, and the news from Blake had arrived first.
Yang Yi didn't expect Blake to be quite interested in the deal he proposed. In the letter, Blake offered to arrange for him a research ship of the latest class of Yumoyan, as long as he could afford it, while vaguely stating that this was mainly due to his current lack of money to carry out activities.
A6 is worried that this is a trap. Because the letter said that if Yang Yi agreed to the transaction, then he would send someone to drive the ship to a secret place to make a transaction. However, A1 supported Yang Yi to make a deal. She believes that unless the other side sends an entire fleet to round up, the risk will not be less than the other options that have been proposed before. Since Blake was able to trade so easily, they could not afford to miss this opportunity because of some danger of their own assumptions.
Yang Yi felt that A1 was a little too keen on getting a scientific research ship, but A6's reminder was indeed true. What's more, they had already had conflicts before, and he had also tied up Blake with someone, maybe this could really be a trap.
But on the one hand, he didn't want to find another way, that would be too troublesome; On the other hand, he didn't believe that there really was any fleet that could keep him right now. To be on the safe side, he decided to take A1 and A6 with him, assuming that the opposite side was really an ambush fleet set up by UED, and with the firepower of the two Ark ships A1 and A6, it was enough to take him out of the encirclement.
After a period of bargaining, the two sides also set the price. With the money from his boss to support, buying this scientific research ship is not a big problem. Soon, Blake sent the data and the time and place of the transaction of the Yumoyan research ship named "Daystar".
To put it simply, this is an expeditionary-class scientific research ship purchased from the Yumoyan government by the seized Yumoyan Institute the year before last. Although it is not armed, it is only equipped with a small number of fixed-point defense systems to intercept possible stray bullets, space junk or some meteorite fragments, but it is equipped with advanced research equipment enough to cover multiple fields of scientific research, and it is equipped with a top-of-the-line sensor array that allows it to take clear ground photos even in high-altitude orbits of planets. At the same time, as the threat of insect swarms and tunnel insects is becoming increasingly apparent, and there are already many registered cases that insect swarms will burrow into underground insect tunnels to engage in guerrilla warfare with humans even if they are defeated in ground and space battles, the research ship is equipped with Yumoyan's "Prospector" scanner, which is still in the experimental stage, which can scan the crater conditions from low-altitude orbit under standard geological conditions to the condition of potholes within 500 meters below the surface.
The main reason for the closure of this institute is that it is backed by UHP. After the UHP was banned, the power and money transactions between the institute and the UHP were soon exposed, and then the Yumayan police force seized it, and all the assets of the institute became government assets. Originally, this scientific research ship was planned to be auctioned in a few months, but since Yang Yi wanted it, Blake planned to sell it to him directly as a favor.
“…… Research institute, power and money trading with UHP? Yang Yi frowned and read the information sent by Blake, and muttered to himself, "Does the Human Unionist Party care so much about scientific exploration?" ”
"It's just a way to expand your power. The institute needs to be maintained by investors, and UHP also wants to expand its influence through this, and the two sides are generally a deal in this matter, and it is only a transaction. A1 walked over and put a document in front of him, "It's better for you to look at this document than the UHP thing." This is the official ring rules from the Port of the Dead, you see......"
"What about Black Rose's opinion?"
"She doesn't have any opinions."
"That's it. If she doesn't have any opinions on her own, I don't need to look at it. Also, tell her that I have to win every game, I don't care how she wins, I don't want to create a remorseful image in the high-level circles of the Port of the Dead. ”
"Yes."
A1's explanation can only say that he can be reassured for a while. But he always felt that there must be something else in this, otherwise why would UHP invest in a research institute and pay for that cutting-edge scientific research ship to come back.
"This Wind Seeker...... Is it the multifunctional research ship you talked about earlier? ”
"The positioning of the expeditionary class is multi-functional, and the original purpose of its design is to meet the needs of expeditionary exploration, and to integrate the functions required for scientific research on one ship, so as to avoid the need to carry a whole scientific research fleet including more than a dozen specialized scientific research ships behind each expedition." Then A1 pointed to the email on the screen, "However, after all, this research ship has a previous owner, so we can't predict whether this research ship will be specialized for the purpose of that research institute after we get it." ”
"I'm a little worried...... Isn't there a saying that omnipotence is omnipotent? ”
As soon as he finished saying this, he saw A1 slap his head violently, showing a rare expression as if he was loveless, which made him scratch his head.
“…… Any questions? ”
"Please use less Internet cafes, Commander." A1 sighed, touched his forehead and replied helplessly, "It's not a good thing to learn a sentence online and use it blindly. Expeditionary-class research ships do have such problems, but in the final analysis, the purpose of this class of research ships is to conduct expeditionary exploration, explore new galaxies, and expand the boundaries of power, not to expand the scientific boundaries of humanity. Its purpose determines that its own scientific research equipment does not need to be of a high level, nor does it need to be so specialized in a certain aspect. Under such a requirement, specialization in one aspect is only overkill. ”
"I implore you to use the device you have at hand to inquire before asking your doubts. You are on my ship, and I myself have the entire database of the Empire, from the personal data of citizens to the secret items of the Empire; You can also think about the possible answers to this question first, and maybe you can give the answers yourself before you ask them, without ......"
"Okay, okay, when I didn't say yes. You and A6 remember to prepare, and when the time comes, we will come with the money. Blake should have sent us the information of the person we were trading with, right? ”
"Well, they'll send a cruiser to the trading site with the research ship, and they'll leave in the cruiser after the handover. We are trading with the people of the Yumayan Protectorate. ”
"Does the Protector know about this?"
"The top brass of the Protectorate doesn't know that, according to Blake, the one who traded with us was the Colonel who commanded the cruiser, and he was Blake's cronies in the Protectorate."
“…… I thought the government had nothing to do with the military. ”
"This statement is just used to deceive the kids, Commander. Not to mention the two systems of cooperative relations within the same country, that is, as two different and even hostile countries, Yumayan and the empire also had dealings with each other, and both had cronies and spies within each other...... Commander, don't you really believe Yumoyan's rhetoric? ”