Text Chapter 1695: The Fleet Behind the Brown Dwarf

It is 80 light-years away from the outer world of the Star Federation, the "Sky Ring Realm", a deep sea of ​​stars, an unknown star field, behind a brown dwarf star.

The sea of ​​stars is vast, and the stars are infinite. If you draw a sphere with a radius of 100 light-years centered on the seven worlds of the Star Federation, there will be more than 5,000 star systems included in these seven spheres. Most of them have no spiritual power. , and a lifeless barren world.

Even in the past hundred years, the Federation of Stars has continuously launched unmanned miniature exploration ships and high-sensitivity trigger-type star sea mines to these barren worlds every year, every month, and every day, trying to build a world within 200 light years around itself. Build a solid line of defense, at least the "border line", even today, it is far from filling all of these 5,000 desolate worlds.

Around the 5,000 stars, there are still a large number of dark star fields that have not yet been detected and monitored by the Federation. The so-called "border line" is completely riddled with holes and illusory things, just a kind of psychological comfort.

And the "star" is at least the Federation's largest starry sky monitoring station "Jian Xingzhai" located on Spider Nest, a large celestial body that can be monitored and locked.

Brown dwarfs are one order lower than stars.

Brown dwarfs are gaseous celestial bodies that are similar in composition to stars, but are not massive enough to ignite fusion reactions in their cores. Their masses are between the smallest stars and the largest planets, so they are very dim, and they are also called "failed stars."

Due to the lack of mass, it cannot become a burning star, so it is extremely difficult to release the psionic energy fluctuations that can be sensed by Ji Xingzhai and any star monitoring station in the Federation.

According to the analysis of Federation astronomers, within the radius of 100 light-years of the Federation's major worlds, there are very likely to be at least 3,000 brown dwarfs, and the number of brown dwarfs discovered and named by the Federation is less than 500.

There are still 2,500 brown dwarfs, like invisible eyeballs, slowly rotating and drifting in the dark and cold unknown star field.

Although these brown dwarfs are extremely difficult to be explored and developed by the Federation 100 light-years away, some of them can still release extremely high temperatures at a close distance.

This temperature can be converted into weak energy, which can be used by a fleet that has traveled a long distance to take a rest; it will not be too violent, and interfere with the various magic weapon units that have been highly worn by the fleet during the century-old voyage; it can also be slightly covered up. When the fleet is resting, repairing, deploying, and building a large-scale array of star torches, the psychic energy it releases fluctuates.

Even if it is sensed by the federal star monitoring station, it will think that the fleet is just a part of the brown dwarf.

Batu has been in a synchronous orbit with the brown dwarf for seven full years.

The star sea expedition is not something that can be accomplished overnight. When the Black Wind Fleet set off a hundred years ago, the biggest enemy they faced was the unknown star sea and the passage of time itself.

At that time, they only had a short section of incomplete coordinates of the Flying Star Realm. If they relied on this incomplete coordinate to jump, 99.99% of them would jump to a place that was not recorded in the star map, and they could not see the unknown desolation of astronomical parameters. The world is tantamount to falling into the vortex of the star sea. It is extremely difficult to jump out without consuming a lot of resources. Even if you jump out, it is very likely to be the second damn unknown barren world.

Coincidentally, the pace of expansion of the True Human Empire in the past thousand years has not yet extended to the direction of the Flying Star Realm.

As a result, the Black Wind Fleet was defeated on the front line, lost its nest, became a "solitary remnant", and was unwilling to be absorbed and annexed by other worlds. It accepted this glorious and arduous task to expand the territory of the empire. , Consolidate the rear.

Their mission is not only to explore and conquer the Flying Star Realm, but also to cover all unknown star fields between the mainland of the empire in the center of the Star Sea and the Flying Star Realm. The Great Thousand World recorded in the volume is the "prey" to be looked for.

Therefore, the Black Wind Fleet was not in a hurry to make an ultra-long-distance jump into the star sea, and jumped to the Flying Star Realm, the coordinate point released by the "Star Child" in the past.

Considering the complexity of Star Sea Jump and the calculation of the cost of psionic energy consumption, every time the distance of Star Sea Jump is doubled, the amount of psionic energy and resources consumed will increase by a square number. As a lone remnant, it is obviously impossible to get more With more supplies and reinforcements, the Black Wind Fleet will never make an ultra-long-range jump rashly.

What they chose was a tactic called "stellar leapfrogging". The distance of each short jump would not exceed 100 light-years, usually within 10 to 50 light-years, and they would find a star after each jump. The most suitable star, while exploring whether there are habitable planets and human civilization around the star, drops a special "stellar bomb" on the star.

With the supernatural powers and magic weapon level of the real human empire, it is impossible to directly destroy a star, and the purpose of this "stellar bomb" is not to destroy, but to activate a specific area of ​​the star to provide inspiration for their next jump. able.

When all the surroundings of the star are explored, all parameters and coordinates are entered into the star map for updating, and a large-scale star torch is established near the local stable planet, it means that other fleets can easily travel to and from these stars in the future. Between the domain and the mainland of the empire, it means that these star domains have been included in the "territory" of the empire.

At this time, they often have collected enough energy, so they start a new "star leapfrog" and repeat the above process.

Therefore, for a hundred years, stop and go, continue to explore, record and build, and did not reach the border of the star sea until ten years ago.

The Black Wind Fleet has had pretty bad luck over the past hundred years.

They didn't find too many habitable planets worth developing.

Even in the historical materials and star map fragments left over from the Star Sea Empire, it is recorded that the human world that once had a prosperous civilization, after they have worked hard and consumed a lot of resources to find it, often find that the local world has collapsed, and all spiritual powers have disappeared. Consumed or lost, the so-called civilization is left with only a ruined wall. Even if some savages who drink blood are lingering in the desolate world where the aura is exhausted, they cannot make up for the resources that the Black Wind Fleet consumed to find them.

Resources, resources, resources! Resources are the most precious things in the sea of ​​stars!

Civilization, civilization, civilization! Civilization is the most fragile existence in the cruel universe!

After being disappointed three or four times in a row, the situation of the Black Wind Fleet became extremely embarrassing.

Yes, on the surface, they have "opened up" a large area of ​​land for the empire, but they are all desolate worlds with the lowest evaluation level and hardly worth half a dime.

In the sea of ​​stars, the most worthless thing is the so-called "territory". Looking up at the starry sky, billions of stars, and infinite territory, theoretically contain rich resources and extremely high value. Those worlds where no intelligent creatures exist since ancient times , As long as a national flag is planted, a national anthem is sung, and at most an Astrotorch is built next to it, it can be claimed as the territory of the empire.

However, such a "land" is meaningless. No matter how high the "theoretical" value is, the empire must be able to develop it on a large scale at an appropriate cost!

Even if a certain world claims to have 10,000 points of resources, if the empire develops it, collects, smelts and transports resources back to the empire, but consumes 20,000 points of resources, what is the use of such a world?

This is not counting the construction and maintenance of the Astronomical Torch, as well as the various management costs and supply line defense costs that the empire has to spend in order to rule the world.

Unfortunately, the Black Wind Fleet has not found many such worlds in the past hundred years.

The star domains they discover are often "well, theoretically speaking, if we conduct in-depth exploration, it is possible to find 10,000 points of resources, but the cost of exploration will be 5,000 points, and the cost of follow-up development is estimated to be 10,000 to 100,000 points of resources." such a world.

In such a world, it is impossible to get much contribution points for the Black Wind Fleet.

Without contribution points, and without their own lair, it means that the Black Wind Fleet cannot get more supplies and brand-new warships from other worlds of the empire, and it means that if they go back in despair like this, they will only be eaten by others , Completely incorporated, or sent to the most dangerous front line to completely fight off the Holy League, these are two ways.

Heifeng people naturally don't want to choose any path.

They continue to march into deep space, desperate!

At this moment, they received the news that a claw fleet was wiped out, and they also learned about the existence of a regional power on the border of the Star Sea. They even found the government-in-exile of the Star Sea Republic, which had been lost for thousands of years, the last "floating land"!

A hundred years of bad luck, once reversed, but still opportunities and challenges coexist.

The good news is that the prey in front of them is fat enough. As long as they can swallow this prey that claims to be "Xingyao Federation", the strength of the Black Wind Fleet will at least increase by three to five times. Even if they return to the center of the Star Sea, they will still have enough strength Compete with everyone including the emperor, princes and warlords from all walks of life.

The bad news is that the prey seems to be a little too fat, and what hides under its huge body is not only fat, but also strong muscles, strong bones and sharp claws.

The Black Wind Fleet, which is in a dilemma, has two choices at this time.

They can set up a large-scale array of star torches here, build a magnificent starry sky gate, report the information here to the mainland of the empire, report to the greedy emperor, various princes, and warlords, and call for support from the mainland.

Of course, building the Stargate and activating it, maintaining a very high transmission level will further consume the war resources of the Black Wind Fleet, weaken their combat effectiveness, and put them in a passive position in the game of carve up prey.

either...

Just do it yourself! Eat up the behemoth of the Federation by himself, devouring all the benefits! (To be continued.)