Chapter 728: The Merchant Fleet
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Although it is difficult to confirm for the time being whether the many forces in this star field are really colluding with the Iron Battlestar, and worrying that once the war is rashly provoked, once the wrong target is discovered in the future, it will not only add one more enemy, but also be difficult to quickly solve the real crisis, so for the sake of conservatism, the earth civilization did not really make a big move against the resistance alliance at the first time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, the fact that there was no direct use of force does not mean that the days of resistance to the alliance are really better.
With the arrival of a large number of Earth Civilization main warships, Earth Civilization has gradually begun to take a certain degree of action against the Star Domain occupied by the Resistance Alliance.
First of all, in response to the various commercial activities in this star field, the earth civilization has started an unprecedented round of investigation and evidence collection activities.
Some of the commercial fleets that purchased goods from the relevant star fields and began to return to the sea, as well as a large number of fleets that exported goods to this star field, were intercepted by the fleets of the earth civilization in the middle of the road, and the fleets of the earth civilization randomly conducted a large-scale spot check on them on the grounds of performing official duties and inspecting prohibited items.
Originally, for the commercial team that dared to conduct large-scale long-distance interstellar trade, any half-interception or even the attempt to inspect the goods was not allowed.
Interstellar trade itself is a form of trade in which huge benefits and huge risks coexist at the same time, and any commercial fleet that wants to carry out commercial trade smoothly cannot do such trading without a certain strength.
A slightly larger commercial fleet, an interstellar trade has to form a group to gather at least one hundred and eighty faster-than-light spaceships to have basic security, and in any star field to successfully complete the transaction, it is necessary to balance all aspects of the relationship, the local powerful forces, the interstellar civilizations along the way, and even the elusive pirate fleet If any of the parties are uneven, let alone make profits through interstellar trade, the entire fleet has to be put into it if one is not careful.
Therefore, each of these commercial fleets must have considerable force, and star warfare weapons of various specifications are indispensable, and the entire fleet together is an interstellar force that is not slightly weaker than ordinary interstellar civilizations.
Even if the earth civilization conducted a thorough investigation of this star field entrenched by the resistance alliance in the past, they did not dare to play this half-way method of random inspection of goods, but sent their own faster-than-light fleet disguised as a commercial fleet to negotiate business with the forces in this star field.
As an eye-born commercial fleet, it is conceivable that it is difficult to figure out the real hole cards of others, so it is normal for the earth civilization not to know the real product situation in this star field.
This star field is a secret production den for many powerful forces in the local area, more than half of the commercial fleets where they really conduct core transactions are disguised by their own fleets, and the other half are also contacts who have been operating for many years, and it is simply impossible for ordinary faces to break into their business circles, and only in this way can they keep their hidden secret truths.
Otherwise, the earth civilization knows that this star field is one of the core production dens of the local civilization's faster-than-light spacecraft, and it is the main culprit in the competition with the earth civilization industry.
However, this time is different from the past, in the past, the strength of the earth civilization near this star field was too weak, and they did not dare to be too bold to play this trick of directly inspecting the commercial fleet, because if it is not fun, it may not only cause some damage, but also may cause an uproar.
Even though the earth civilization has a pattern that dominates the entire meteorite star sea, it is also a taboo thing to randomly spot check the fleet in places that are not its own territory, and one is not careful, it will cause a lot of trouble.
However, now that the main fleet of the Earth civilization has sailed over, and tens of thousands of space-time jump fleets are gathered here, no force within a radius of hundreds of light years that can be suppressed can jump, and at this time, it would be very simple to check the commercial fleet or something.
As soon as several space-time jumping ships stopped in front of the fleet to be inspected, and the communication signal was sent, no matter which commercial fleet, no matter how large they were, they must obediently extinguish the ship's engine and wait for the Earth fleet to conduct a commodity spot check.
No matter how powerful these commercial fleets are, can they play tricks with the Earth civilization? Do they dare? Can they level the interstellar pirates, and ask which of them has the audacity to say that they can level the main fleet of the Earth civilization?
The tens of thousands of troops of the main fleet of the earth's civilization are here, and they can really check as much as they want, and they can check which one they want, and no one dares to blow up the thorns.
In the final analysis, the reason why this action was taken was that the earth civilization wanted to confirm what kind of background the many forces in this star field had through the inventory of the real first-hand commercial trade information in this star field.
If the local forces in this star field are only engaged in general trade, or even if there is a certain degree of prohibited trade, as long as it is roughly consistent with what the earth civilization understands, then most of the suspicions about the forces in this star field can be immediately dispelled.
Because for the forces in the era of interstellar civilization, what level of technology and products they have in their hands can correspondingly show the hidden strength of these forces, as well as the ambitions they contain.
A local civilization force, if the slightest bit of faster-than-light spacecraft related scientific and technological products and technology have not been mastered, then the corresponding threat will naturally be limited, even if such a force hates the earth civilization to the core, it will never form any real threat and influence on the earth civilization.
On the contrary, if the technology and products actually possessed in this star field far exceeded the original assessment of the earth civilization, and even far exceeded the technical level and product level possessed by most of the local civilizations in the Meteorite Star Sea, then even if many forces in this star field did not have any doubts in the first place, they would immediately become suspicious now.
In essence, the birth of any ambition is based on strength, and this is especially true of a civilization's forces, and the forces with a limited level of strength, even if they have great ambitions, must come step by step and move towards higher goals step by step, and it will naturally have no threat to the earth's civilization. But if a force has a strength that far surpasses its peers, then it will naturally pursue interests and status that match its strength.
Now that there is the unexpected factor of the Iron Battlestar, it is only natural that the combination of the two makes them think of opposing the civilization of the earth.
Therefore, through the random inspection of the commercial fleet, in-depth investigation of the commodity level and technical level in this star field is definitely a relatively small move, but it has profound significance, on the one hand, it will not make the situation worse, on the other hand, it can realize the strategic intention of the earth civilization, and truly identify the state of the enemy in this star field.
In particular, although this action of the earth civilization seems to be a little unfriendly to a certain extent, but after all, the earth civilization only carried out spot checks on a part of the commercial fleet, and only investigated the types of goods, specifications and other information, and did not make any out-of-the-ordinary actions, although this behavior is a bit offensive, but at least for those commercial fleets, there is no actual loss, nothing more than to delay them a little time.
If those forces that resist the alliance intervene and accuse the earth civilization of investigating their trade secret information, the earth civilization will say, what kind of trade secrets do you have in private, the gods are mysterious, and even our earth civilization is not qualified to understand, are you doing something unseemly behind your back?
The grumpy GIs asked one sentence to ensure that the local forces would never be able to say any more about trade secrets.
And in the final analysis, although the earth civilization has strongly investigated the business partners of these forces, and even randomly inspected the commercial fleets of these forces themselves, but after all, the earth civilization did not go to their star field to conduct forcible search activities, the earth civilization only carried out commodity search activities on the public waterway around this star field, strictly speaking, it has not violated the sovereignty and security of these local forces at all, if it is really found out afterwards, it is indeed the wrong target. If you suspect the wrong person, if you want to make up for it, at least don't directly detonate new enemies, there is still plenty of room for manoeuvre.
It can be said that the Earth Civilization's multi-pronged action, at the beginning of the real beginning, they didn't really feel that their suspicious target was really the mysterious partner of the Iron Battlestar.
To a large extent, the Earth Civilization Fleet actually wants to eliminate the suspicion of this suspected target through this operation, so as to save military strength and deploy the limited mobile fleet in more critical and important areas.
But what they never expected was that this operation would be a solid hit at the heart of the resistance alliance.
You must know that during this period of time, the Resistance Alliance was vigorously transporting all kinds of strategic materials at the bottom of the box, all kinds of warships, equipment, instruments, materials, etc., all of which had to be transported in large quantities.
Although these most precious and rare strategic materials only account for less than one-ten-thousandth of the number of all foreign goods, and they are all extremely hidden, and most of them are transported through hidden shipping channels, but it is inevitable that a considerable part of them will arrive in the star field from open shipping channels.
Originally, the safety of these transportation activities was very reliable, and the large commercial fleet generally did not have any unsightly forces that dared to disturb at will, and the resistance alliance had safely transported a large number of treasures at the bottom of the box in the past few months, and the back transportation was only some relatively low-end strategic materials.
But I never expected that at this juncture, the earth civilization not only targeted them, but also directly sent a large number of main fleets to suppress the formation.
You say that this is not unfounded, if the earth civilization is just suspicious of them, then send some ships to deter them, warn them not to cause more trouble or something, they are better, anyway, they are all superficial articles that are not painful, and they will not really be serious enough to go to war, but I never thought that the earth civilization would actually play the hand of searching the commercial fleet!
You must know that a considerable part of these commercial fleets are transporting some prohibited and sensitive goods, and if they are not discovered, then they will have a lot of fun.
With the scientific and technological level and technical reserves of the earth civilization, and a large number of sensitive materials, it is only a matter of time before the earth civilization discovers their secrets!
Even if they didn't confirm their conspiracy with the Iron Battlestars, just because they dared to build faster-than-light spaceships, steal business with the Earth civilization, seriously threaten the stability and order of the interstellar civilization, and other crimes that deserve death, the Earth civilization will definitely not hesitate to send them where they should go.
It can be said that since the day the Earth Civilization began to carry out this commodity spot check activity, the various forces of the Rebellion Alliance have completely eliminated the luck mentality, and they know that it will only be a matter of time before they will do it with the Earth Civilization, and it depends on how long it will take for the Earth Civilization to get rid of their foundation.
Therefore, on the surface, the Resistance Alliance is only against the brutal actions of the Earth Civilization to forcibly search the commercial fleet, and wantonly manipulates public opinion to create momentum, and does things at the level of public opinion to attract the attention of the Earth Civilization, but in private, the Resistance Alliance has begun to deploy troops on a large scale, began to conduct frequent military exercises, and transferred all kinds of war materials to military bases in various border areas, in short, it has made all relevant preparations for the war and is ready to deal with the arrival of war at any time.
Of course, although the preparations have been fully done, the many forces that resist the alliance are still a little weak in their hearts, the earth civilization has been rampant on the meteorite star sea for thousands of years, and the prestige of the collapse of many local civilizations has always been heavy in their hearts, facing the main fleet of the earth civilization, even if it is only a small fleet of tens of thousands of ships, these forces also have a kind of fear from the bottom of their hearts.
What's more, the earth civilization is not only this fleet, once the earth civilization understands their details, I am afraid that it will not take more than a month for an army of hundreds of thousands to be transferred, and with the extension of time, the size of the fleet of the earth civilization is enough to make them feel suffocated!
In this case, the only one who can save them is the Iron Battlestar, and if the Iron Battlestar does not come, they will not be able to be at peace for a day.