Him and their stars

This matter also starts with some recent abnormal developments in the Black Gate Star Region.

This is also an empire border star area close to the center of the galaxy, adjacent to the extreme star area where Yu Lian and his friends are currently located. In addition to the two jump channels bordering the Extreme Star Sector and the Glory Gate Star Sector, their border galaxies are generally close to the center of the galaxy, and the other half faces the most mysterious and vast Abyss Nebula in the entire galaxy. Its geographical situation can be imagined.

If it hadn't been for a star gate directly leading to the "New World" opened in this star area fifty years ago, it would have been destined to be just a remote star area where exiles and coolie camps gathered.

This sector is adjacent to the center of the galaxy, and of course it is also the target of plunder by the Predator Legion. However, most of the transition channels between the Black Gate star region and the galactic center pass through the starry sky isolation zone composed of extremely unstable dwarf stars, giant stars and variable stars. We all know that the gravity wells formed between these unstable star bodies are also unstable. They are outlined with dotted lines on standard star charts, and the conditions for their passage are naturally imaginable.

This isolated space composed of hundreds of star galaxies is known as the "Wall of Prince Norius' Sigh", or simply "Noreus' Sigh". This has nothing to do with the Greek mythology of Earth. It was Duke Norius, the famous navigator in the history of the empire, who, before he led the scientific research ship to this galaxy, looked at the impassable stars and the "close at hand" galactic center and knew that the territory of the empire in this direction ended here. , can only let out a sigh.

Duke Norius is a member of the royal family, and this isolation zone in the starry sky has this name.

Criminals wanted by the empire would use these "Norleus' Laments" to escape to the center of the galaxy, but plunderers rarely appeared from this direction. After all, the interstellar nomads in the center of the galaxy only risked going to war for money, so they wouldn't have to risk their lives to cross the mountains just for this little food.

Therefore, compared to the Jijiang Star Region, which is the frontline facing the predators, the Black Gate Star Region does not have many troops, and the main force is marine troops. It was not so much used to prevent plunderers as it was used to suppress slave labor and exile criminals.

Later, the empire built the Dragon's Maw Fortress at the level of Sky Castle in the star area. However, this was originally prepared for the sudden opening of the Venus Gate. You know, when these star gates to another universe were opened, everyone was facing a formidable enemy, waiting for the high-dimensional demon to come and fight desperately.

However, it was later determined that there were no high-dimensional demons or other powerful civilization invaders in the New World. Instead, it was a gift package bestowed upon the civilizations of the Milky Way galaxy. As a result, the Dragon's Throat Fortress changed from a pure military fortress to a core transportation hub that guards the L3 Morning Star Gate, which was later officially named the "Dragon's Throat Star Gate" by the empire's official officials, and maintains continental waterways and freight transit.

Agnes and the others are planning to go to the New World through this "Dragon Throat Star Gate". However, the current Dragon Throat Star Gate has implemented a limited blockade, eating up the military and government transport fleets. All other merchant ships and passenger ships have implemented a traffic restriction policy and must queue up to pass.

As a result, the big guys who had just gathered to do a big job suddenly discovered that by the time they arrived at the work place, they could already celebrate the New Year there.

If it were just this, it would be fine. Anyway, the reporting time required by the contract is March next year, and whether this is a force majeure or a force majeure caused by Party A itself. However, there are already 30 people in the group, and it is not a small expense to eat people and chew horses. The minimum personnel and training expenses can easily be exhausted.

In fact, they are indeed at the end of their rope. If Feifei hadn't secretly given Agnes 10,000 gold dragons before coming here, they would have been kicked out by the landlord.

...If the God of the North Wind, who has been strengthened by personnel in advance, can really establish itself as an industry benchmark like in another timeline, this will definitely become a model entrepreneurial story that inspires generations of workers, right? It’s the same story as those in Yu Lian’s hometown who built business empires in garages and college dormitories.

However, no matter what, the championship team of the dignified God of War Festival was dragged down by the new friends to the point where they could hardly even afford to eat. They had done well enough... Well, they had really done well enough to be appointed to the task. Human beings too.

"Miss Agnes is planning to collect military expenses again like she did before, and she actually went to a local underground boxing match." Speaking of this, Feifei couldn't help laughing: "But this is the Luyuan Star on the border, and it is not as formal as the Imperial Capital. . She was cheated and got her bonus, and in a rage, she led the gang to smash up the local gang's place. Fortunately, the police came quickly, so no one was killed, and it ended well. She herself was okay, because Due to the merits of the God of War Festival, I have automatically become an empire citizen. But there are still many companions in the detention center, and they have to pay bail before they can be released!"

It turns out that this is the real reason! Yu Lian couldn't help but feel so emotional.

This may be considered a blessing in exchange for misfortune. All in all, with Yu Lian... ah no, with the capital injection from the Red Star Institute, the North Wind God's framework will be established soon, and it should be able to grow faster than the previous timeline.

As for Mr. Ginsu and his team of Terrabi people. Anyway, he didn't say anything, so Yu Lian pretended he didn't know anything. This is the tacit understanding that mature adults should have.

For now, let’s put aside the future of the North Wind Company and the Red Star Institute’s development into a military-industrial complex, and let’s return to the issue of the Black Gate Sector. Currently, the person sitting in command of the Dragon's Throat Fortress in the Black Gate Sector is the Imperial Navy Admiral, Viscount Shiran Tidalos. Of course, since the main function of Dragon's Throat Fortress has now changed from a military fortress to a trade transit station, the real managers are actually administrative bureaucrats directly appointed by the Prime Minister's Office. Admiral Tydalus himself commanded only an imperial-standard border patrol fleet with more than 300 large and small ships. The main battleships were three battle cruisers of just over 2 million tons and two heavy armored aircraft carriers. The total strength of sailors and marines is only about 200,000.

This amount of troops should be enough to guard the border, at least this has been proven in the past few hundred years. Anyway, there is no space civilization of the same level in the new continent behind the star gate. The predators in the galactic center are blocked behind the more distant starry sky by unstable stars, and it is impossible to maintain a large fleet. Only occasionally did some small-scale predator warships leak out from the "small paths" in the starry sky, and it was impossible to pose any threat at all.

In comparison, it was the pirates emerging from the Abyss Nebula who caused even greater damage.

This is also the reason why the imperial fleet stationed in the Dragon's Throat Fortress is dominated by high-speed battleships - to catch pirates, mobility is of course the main priority. Do you still expect the pirates to pull out a battle line and fight you in a fleet battle?

However, in the peaceful days of the Black Gate Star Region and Dragon's Throat Fortress, there has been a strange rumor recently. It is said that a vigilance supervision team consisting of three small ships lost contact with the Dragon's Throat Fortress while conducting a routine combat readiness patrol. The lost galaxy is three jumps away from the Dragon's Throat Fortress, about 70 light years away. In the age of the universe, this is equivalent to happening right under your nose.

But the really scary thing is that the automatic detector installed in that galaxy captured the signal of the huge battleship. Size scale, at least fearless.

But don’t think that the starry nomads in the Galactic Center are barbarians. You must know that they are a civilized race that has failed in their struggle for hegemony in the galaxy, not to mention that there have been defectors who have fled into the center of the galaxy over the years, bringing with them the latest information, cultural trends and even technology. At least in terms of military technology, they are still very advanced.

Through countless raider attacks in history, they have already proven to the world that they really have dreadnoughts. Although he looks very ugly, his fighting ability is really tough.

The Black Gate Star District suddenly felt like it was facing a formidable enemy, and it directly closed the Star Gate and entered a state of war. He even sent a request for help to King Slenn, who had arrived on the Sarna planet to eat melons.

This man, who was responsible for guarding the Gate of Glory and was in charge of one-fifth of the central military strength of the empire, was the top thug of the Chosen Emperor. He immediately ordered his fleet to reorganize and prepare for rescue, and he also rushed to the Gate of Glory overnight.

No matter how the Marauder's dreadnought passed through those dotted jump lanes, it was never wrong to be alert and alert.

The Imperial fleet did find the wreckage of its own ship in the galaxy where the accident occurred, but no survivors were found. Then, there was another week of searching. Most of the imperial fleet affiliated with Dragonmaw Fortress searched several star systems, but there was still no trace of the enemy.

The shadow of the ship illuminated by the detector seemed to be nothing more than a ghost flashing behind the deep cosmic sky.

Unmanned automatic detectors are naturally likely to malfunction, but the Imperial fleet cannot simply end this incident with mechanical failure, and still maintains a considerable number of troops near the Black Gate Starfield. This also includes the support fleet sent from the Gate of Glory, with four dreadnoughts serving as the battle core of the fleet - this is of course a response to the possible presence of dreadnoughts by the predators.

The above is the real reason why the Dragon's Throat Star Gate is restricted.

"However, only three patrol gunboats were attacked, and the total number of dead did not exceed thirty people. At the Black Gate, similar things happen every month. Everyone thinks that the real culprit is likely to be the pirate group of the Abyss Nebula. Or some violent smugglers or something like that." Feifei said.

Indeed, the universe is so big that even an empire cannot really seal its borders watertight. There will always be outlaws infiltrating.

Naturally, the empire has blocked information about the above situation, but it is not so secretive as to be a military secret. After all, there were too many witnesses present, and it was impossible to completely block the news. As a reporter who is not well-trained but talented, it is reasonable for Feifei to know this information.

However, as an insider, she was still very confused: "It is impossible for the dreadnought to pass in the direction of Norius Sigh, and those extremely unstable jump channels cannot stabilize a creation of such a large mass. In the past thousand years, None of the predators have launched any large-scale invasion from this direction."

After saying this, Yu Lian suddenly stopped feeling sleepy and said seriously: "This is impossible to say. For more than a thousand years, the God of War Festival has never given birth to a champion chosen by the gods."

Feifei glanced at the other person, shrugged her elegant nose in dissatisfaction, and said angrily: "Yu'er, aren't you already a mature adult? Are you trying to argue with me by staying here?"

Yu Lian thought to himself that this was really not an argument. In another world line, the predators have mastered a new technology, or a combination of science and psychic energy. It is said that through a drug, the hidden potential of psykers who "explore" the star ring will be given, allowing them to gain stronger spatial recognition ability and the ability to calculate cosmological constants.

A psyker who swallows this drug will truly become the most sophisticated aerospace detection radar, able to find some pathways that have not yet been discovered. At the same time, it can also conduct on-site high-speed analysis of unstable gravity wells to find its fluctuation period and determine the time when large ships can pass.

Therefore, in the turbulent era that followed, part of the main force of the Marauders actually passed through the Great Spiral Nebula and appeared in the hinterland of the Alliance, catching them off guard. Since the Predator can pass through the Spiral Nebula, it is very reasonable to be able to pass through Norius Sigh.

All in all, this is indeed a stagnant universe, but there is always a lot of progress in the use of some subtle technologies and tactics.

However, Yu Lian vaguely remembered that this incident should have happened more than ten years later. At that time, because the empire had mastered the doomsday weapons first, it gained a considerable degree of initiative and launched an all-out attack on the battlefield where the two camps were fighting for hegemony. The alliance was in dire straits for a while, but it rained all night and was invaded by the largest predators in thirty years. Many people began to wonder whether this huge alliance was It can't be continued.

Of course, there are rumors that this is actually a taboo technology. The body of a psychic who has taken too many drugs will swell and twist, completely turning into a sarcoma-like monster parasitic on the ship, becoming part of the ship's hull, achieving a certain sense of "ascension" to another level of life. .

However, this was just a piece of gossip in later generations. You must also know that although it is said that individuals born in the Galactic Center are more likely to awaken to "exploration", the population in the Galactic Center is limited after all, and they are not so abundant that they can be used as consumables.

All in all, it is still unclear whether the Predators have really mastered this evil technology in advance, but Yu Lian feels that combined with the news from Deng Zhengqing, who is serving in the outer cantilever fleet, his side still cannot take it lightly.

Yu Lian proposed that these news should be notified to the country as soon as possible.

"I've already done this a long time ago. Don't forget what they do?" Feifei smiled.

"Oh, yes, you are a well-trained spy, ah no... an excellent reporter!" Yu Lian was pinched by Feifei again, and he immediately changed his words: "It would be convenient to send the situation reported on the scene back to the country in a timely manner. It’s your job.”

Feifei laughed, too lazy to pay attention to the other party's weirdness, and said: "However, it is difficult for the National Defense Committee to pay attention to this kind of thing. Besides, even if the plunderers really come from Norius Lament, they will not pay attention to it. What influence does the community have? At this time, as long as Father Paris agrees and maintains the defense zone in the cantilever direction, it will be fine."

This is indeed the truth.

"In comparison, let's do our own thing first! This exercise has reached this level, how will it end? Also, people are also very interested in what kind of future Yu'er is talking about!"