Him and their stars

Seeing the steady stream of predator ships pouring into the galaxy, Colonel Soback almost wanted to cry. He felt that he must have offended the spirit of the universe during this period, and would say goodbye to good luck from now on.

Otherwise, how could he, an ordinary officer who just wanted to live a small life and be promoted and make a fortune and restore his family name, accept an elite reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines? How come it was almost blocked by a large army of predators in a small galaxy next to the Abyss Nebula and was wiped out? Why did he just breathe a sigh of relief and live a relaxing life for three to five days before the predators came to visit him again?

Although most of the raider ships that came over were dilapidated and looked like they had just escaped from the battlefield in panic, there were still hundreds of ships, including two dreadnoughts.

He knew that he should have been in the most dangerous situation in this reconnaissance mission. If the other party discovers him, he has no chance of surviving.

Fortunately, his paralyzed face caused by his crisis instinct prevented him from actually crying, so the crew members also calmed down after a brief panic.

"Don't be afraid. The remnants of the predators should have temporarily retreated and regrouped here." The experienced Captain Hongsha said to everyone: "They are more panicked than us. It's good to think of running away like this. They won't have any thoughts. Come search for us.”

that's the truth. The orbital cargo warehouse where we are located is located behind the gas giant planet Modan 4 in this system. The huge brown giant planet is right between us and the Predator fleet, and of course it blocks almost all detection signals. If the space shock signal of the dreadnought's jump into the galaxy was not too obvious, and the Buran was specially designed for reconnaissance and was equipped with the latest radars and sensors, it would have been difficult to detect the opponent.

"Let's hide here for a while and continue to observe." Soback also regained his composure and said to everyone.

The key is that there is nothing you can do if you don't hide here now. Once the engine of the blizzard is started, who knows whether the other party will notice some clues.

"It is still necessary to send a report to the Generalissimo's Mansion, saying that the enemy's remnant troops have been found here and are regrouping." Captain Hongsha said: "Xiaoguan found a protoplasmic wave receiver on the space station that can send encrypted messages."

Will it be discovered? The corner of Soback's mouth twitched. The power of the source mass wave signal was very high, and he didn't bring a military shielding device, so he frowned and said: "Is there no other way? I took a look, and the The mining site belongs to the Galaxy Standard Mining Group. This is a royal enterprise, and the equipment should be very advanced, but considering the management cost, it is impossible to use expensive source waves, right?"

"There is a gravitational wave center that can automatically issue mining or collection orders to the robots. The miners usually use this to contact the branch headquarters in Luyuan. However, it may take nearly a week for the news here to be sent to Luyuan, and usually only I can send some emails. Well, that's a way!" Captain Hongsha's eyes lit up.

What can I do? Colonel Soback thought.

"If it is a high-power source wave signal and is found by the predator fleet, it will immediately determine that there is our reconnaissance fleet nearby, and they will definitely flee." The captain said.

Well, I'm afraid they'll kill us first when they find out. Soback wanted to say this, but he nodded subconsciously with a straight face.

"But if we use gravitational waves to communicate automatically, predators will not care if they detect it. This kind of communication signal is for civilian use and is everywhere in the universe. As long as we use military ciphertext, they will not be able to intercept and decipher it. "Captain Hongsha drags his chin and thinks about it: "With just a few changes, we can carry out wide-area broadcasting. But even under the most optimistic situation, it will take several days for Luyuan Star to receive it!"

"Aren't the fleets of His Royal Highness King Suliuka and Admiral Farrell in the Lion's Den?" the first mate reminded.

Captain Hongsha's eyes lit up, and he patted Colonel Soback on the shoulder: "Yes, yes, in addition to His Royal Highness King Suliuka, there should also be local fleets coming nearby. We will send out the signal, and reinforcements will be available soon. People are coming from all directions. Is that what you mean?"

Colonel Soback laughed, feeling that he was not that thick-skinned yet, so he said modestly: "No, this is the method you and everyone came up with. Based on this, I can apply for a medal for you after the war."

The non-human and non-aristocratic officers present were a little moved. Even the veteran Captain Hongsha looked at Soback with a hint of respect. As a result, they worked even harder afterwards.

The wide-area signal was sent out quickly, and feedback was received within an hour, which was so fast that Soback was shocked. Later, they discovered that the responder was not King Suliuka who was still in the lion's den, nor was it the local guard fleet that rushed over nearby. It was indeed the main force of the fortress garrison fleet that had just sent the seriously injured Yongjin back to Sarna where it had temporarily taken refuge.

The garrison fleet of Lion's Den Fortress is indeed a bit embarrassed. They were attacked from both sides by the "rebellious" Lion's Den Fortress and the Marauders. The Titan ship and flagship Tirero Valor was seriously injured. The fleet commander, Lieutenant General Amoti, was seriously injured and fell into coma. Nearly half of the officers in the headquarters and staff were killed on the spot. Almost all the main battleships suffered minor or severe damage, and even double-digit large and medium-sized battleships remained in that star field forever.

If the raiders hadn't even thought about attacking the hinterland of the empire, they might even have been wiped out there.

According to common sense, no matter what kind of fleet it is, it will take a long time to restore morale after suffering such a tragic defeat. Even the Generalissimo's Mansion temporarily removed this garrison fleet from the chessboard when formulating defense and counterattack plans.

However, after sending the seriously injured ship and crew to Sarna, the remaining imperial soldiers became ferocious. This was because their most senior officer on active duty, the deputy commander of the fleet at the time, was an Imperial Rear Admiral named Fritz Biffick.

This is a major general who has just turned thirty years old. The reason why he occupies such a high position at such a young age is that he is the contemporary Earl of Cornis and a third-level psychic. More importantly, this man is indeed an excellent commander who is brave and strong-willed.

When he was still a captain, he once had the record of driving a light cruiser and beating a dozen pirate ships twice his size and tonnage on the head.

When he became the admiral of a patrol fleet, he had many more records of counterattacking against multiple enemies and achieving great victories.

This is certainly due to the high performance of the imperial warships and the well-trained crews, but the courage and bravery shown by Major General Biffick in his command position must not be ignored.

Even the emperor had heard of his name and said that the orange-haired boy had the "appearance of a famous general."

In short, with the empire's military merit system, even if Major General Biffick is not a son of a great nobleman or a transcendent, he will definitely be able to achieve the rank of general based on his military merits before the age of forty.

Now, due to the confusing defeat of his own fleet, this fierce general brother was in an extremely bad mood. When he returned to Sarna with a fleet full of injuries and illnesses, he received the news of the death of his most admired uncle.

Yes, Major General Biffick's uncle was the Grand Knight Commander Count Seliora who died on the planet Sarna.

Now, the news of the death of the Grand Knight Commander is still a top secret in the empire, but the Heraldry Academy still informed his close relatives of the bad news.

As a result, the young warrior's staunchness was about to turn into rage, and he urgently needed to destroy some enemies to relieve his pressure.

After the wounded and seriously injured battleships were properly placed, he felt that he had nothing to fear. At this time, he also received a wide-area communication from the Modan Galaxy. After looking at the star map, he suddenly realized that there were actually a group of predators here. And he is the imperial fleet closest to them.

Rear Admiral Biffick used his charisma (physics) to convince the remaining captains and senior officers to reorganize the fleet. Before receiving the order from the Generalissimo's Palace, they rushed towards the Modan Star Territory in a mighty manner.

Since Soback was preparing to finish this battle and go to the Royal Naval Academy to attend the adult training class for senior officers, he was familiar with the list of the new generation of famous generals in the empire. Of course, he had also heard about Major General Biffick. Daimyo.

He was a young man who even the emperor praised as having "the appearance of a famous general", and he was also a great nobleman. Isn't this the kind of connection that Soback urgently needs to make acquaintance?

He said that no matter who it was, as long as he wanted to lick... ah no, as long as it was a colleague who came to attack the predators, he would definitely help.

However, how to help requires attention to methods. After all, they only have one ship, so they can't just meddle in a decisive battle involving hundreds of warships and serve as cannon fodder.

"It just so happens that I learned a lot at the God of War Festival." Colonel Soback was full of confidence and felt the power of knowledge for the first time.

Captain Hongsha looked at the opponent who suddenly became angry and couldn't help but shuddered. He felt that he had vaguely seen this face somewhere.

All in all, this upcoming battle between remnant soldiers and remnant soldiers was indeed prompted by the Blizzard who was hiding here and observing in secret.

However, the looters didn't know what kind of army was coming, so they made up their mind to meet the opponent here. While they began to form a fleet, they began to search the Modan galaxy where they were now - since they decided to fight, they must be familiar with the battlefield in advance.

They soon discovered that the planet actually had two gas collection wells and a lava deep core mine, and they were all handled by automatic robots.

After receiving the news, General Huitan's eyes lit up, feeling that the spirit of the universe had finally opened its eyes.

After all, this guy is also a graduate of the Alliance's Groren Military Academy, and an excellent naval officer's knowledge of military engineering should be at least above the average, so he immediately made a calculation.

"Solid gas should be produced in the collection well! In addition to being used as backup fuel, it can also be used to fill the warhead of the missile. With some modifications, it can also be used as the energy core of the energy cannon. As for the deep core mines on the lava planet, it can occasionally be used You can guess that there are zero elements. Even if there are none, there must be a lot of precious minerals. Oh no, what is important now is not the precious minerals, but some heavy element minerals! But it can strengthen armor, cast orbital cannons, and even make treasures. Where are the tools?"

After all, they are astral nomads. Many of the predators' large ships have small production equipment, and they occasionally bring work ships with them when conducting guerrilla warfare. Now, Huitan's fleet has two medium-sized work ships, which can produce spare armor and ship parts. On his own flagship, the Scarlet King, there is even a mobile arsenal that he dug out from the ruins of an enlightened being in the center of the galaxy.

Of course, the last one is his own secret, General Huitan. Not even the Great Khan, his close comrade General Lange, whose life or death was unknown, didn't know.

In short, before the war with the imperial fleet, he was able to get one last chance to supply, which made the long-bearded demon warlord leader finally show his first smile after the defeat.

However, just as he was thinking about it, someone else came to report that the troll fleet on the opposite side had already taken the lead in sending a ship to the automatic mine.

Oops! I have forgotten that Nilgda also took an online course on military technology! Moreover, he has been a bad guy who snatched lollipops from his friends since he was a child. He is not like a troll at all, but more like a cunning and greedy Kalda goblin. He is not the same style as his loyal and honest father!

This guy wants to eat alone, General Huitan is really not surprised at all.

"Quick! Send our ship immediately! We can't let that kid eat us alone!"

For the next hour, the Trolls and the Bearded Demons engaged in fierce and frank negotiations over the ownership of the automatic mines and gas wells - don't get me wrong, there was no fighting, at most it was just a fistfight between the crews of both sides. He made an opinion without even touching the knife.

After all, Huitan and Nilgda are not fools, and of course they know their priorities. If there is really a conflict over this matter, let alone defeating the imperial fleet in the future, it will probably be passed down as a joke until the next century.

Finally, the two parties negotiated and it happened that there were two mines and two gas wells each, so they could be divided equally.

However, what made them slightly disappointed was that there were not many supplies stored in the warehouse of the automatic mine.

And when they were checking the control terminal of the automatic mine, they suddenly discovered that there was actually a cargo transfer platform in this galaxy, hiding behind the brown gas giant planet.

Most of the cargo must be placed on the transfer platform. Both parties rushed over and finally accepted a space station filled with fuel and minerals.

Of course, it’s not just the materials that are valuable, but also the fuel compression workshop and special ore grinding workshop on the freight platform. Although these two automated instruments are for civilian use, they are not technologies that they, the remnants of the looters, can master.

With them, supply becomes more efficient.

However, General Huitan searched the space station more and felt that someone had been here before, and they hadn't gone far. Asking Nilgda opposite, I found that this guy also felt the same way.

Have any imperial ships been here? And he just left not long ago?

The bearded demon and the troll quickly came to this conclusion and couldn't help but feel horrified. They guessed that it should be an imperial reconnaissance ship, not a large fleet with powerful combat capabilities, but it was still suspended. It feels like there is always a ghost hiding in the dark corner of this large Modan galaxy, peering at me secretly.

This space station wouldn't have done anything, right?

The two looked at each other and ordered their subordinates to quickly remove all the materials. Of course, they did not forget to dismantle the compressor and refiner and move them to their flagship.

The Predators' manufacturing and scientific research levels may be limited, but their ability to dismantle things has always been very high.

After the packing was completed, General Huitan was still thinking about sending someone to search to see if he could find the imperial reconnaissance ship that was hiding somewhere. But at this time, another report came that the imperial fleet had entered the next galaxy and would arrive after another jump. A conservative estimate would be that it would only take four or five hours.

"It's coming too fast! This is not just going through the motions." General Huitan couldn't help but glare at the troll, feeling that this guy had made a misjudgment and was probably going to trick him to death.