My empire of stars

A few hours later, eight battleships of the Pisces Pirate Group jumped into hyperspace, dragging the space station.

As soon as the Pisces Pirates left, the Prad Empire's reinforcement fleet arrived in this star system.

"Where is our space station?" the commander of the reinforcement fleet said dumbly as he looked at the empty orbit of the mining star.

"Sir, has it been destroyed by pirates? Look at the wreckage there." A soldier pointed to a piece of metal debris floating in the distance.

"Impossible, how could such a large mineral transfer station only have so many fragments after an explosion." The commander shook his head.

"Sir, we received a distress signal from the surface of the mining star." The correspondent in charge of battleship communications reported loudly.

"Come on, let's go there." The commander nodded.

Five destroyers separated from the support fleet and flew towards the surface of the mining star.

As a huge blast of air blew away the slag on the ground, five destroyers landed in the open space of the mining site.

"Sir! Sir! Those pirates stole everything! Even the entire space station was dragged away by them!" As soon as the deck of the spacecraft touched the ground, the person in charge of the space station ran over crying and shouting.

"Oh? Tell me what's going on." The support fleet commander pushed aside the guards in front of him and asked the person in charge of the space station.

"Two days ago, a fleet appeared near our space station." The person in charge of the space station recounted what happened, and of course his artistic processing was indispensable.

"You are not to blame for this matter. The other party is too powerful. A fleet of this size cannot be stopped by your space station. I will ask my superiors for permission to forgive you." The fleet commander nodded.

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!" The person in charge of the space station nodded and bowed hurriedly.

"Okay, go down and call the others." The commander waved his hand.

The person in charge of the space station turned and left. Out of sight of the fleet commander, the person in charge of the space station touched the bearer bankbook in his pocket and smiled stupidly.

This group of space pirates came at the perfect time. He had just embezzled a batch of precious associated minerals and was just thinking about how to destroy the evidence. The space pirates even dragged away the entire space station, and all the evidence disappeared.

One day later, eight warships dragging a "carriage" consisting of a space station appeared near the asteroid sea hidden in the Ark.

After Liu Rushun sent the security code to Ark, dozens of construction drones flew out of Ark's port and arrived at the asteroid in front of the fleet.

Dozens of chains flew out, and the construction drone carefully dragged aside the asteroid blocking the Pisces pirates and the Ark.

After all the asteroids used to conceal the Ark were towed away, the eight warships began to drag the space station into the sea of ​​asteroids.

"Okay, okay, just leave it here." Liu Rushun clapped his hands hurriedly after seeing through the holographic screen that the space station had stopped next to a huge asteroid.

"Construction ships and drones began to expand along the original space station, connect the space station to the metal mining asteroid, and then hollow out the minerals inside the asteroid."

"Also, please report to me the materials we seized this time." Liu Rushun seemed to be discouraged, lying lazily on his command chair and commanding.

"Captain, we captured one medium-sized transit space station, three large transport ships, eight medium-sized transport ships, and five small transport ships this time."

"In addition, there are 12 million tons of various precious minerals, 12,000 tons of various foods, 10,000 tons of distilled water, and a large number of other items." An officer sent a list to Liu Rushun's terminal .

"Very good. Three large transport ships will be transformed into drone carriers, and eight medium-sized transport ships will be transformed into combat ships (destroyers)."

"Let's convert those five small transport ships into frigates and stay here to patrol the Ark." Liu Rushun thought for a while and divided the captured transport ships into different categories.

Although he very much wanted to directly build various new warships sent from the empire headquarters, but unfortunately they did not have the conditions to build warships now.

The manufacturing equipment on Ark is now fully engaged in the production line and metal decomposition printing equipment. These equipment will be the basis for the future development of the pirate group.

New warships can only be built when enough equipment has been manufactured. For now, the captured transport ships will be transformed into combat ships.

As Liu Rushun's orders were issued to various departments in the Ark, the three transport ships were towed by tugboats into three simple shipyards that had just been built when the fleet went out for hunting.

This simple shipyard can only perform assembly work, but cannot build ships. It is just three empty shells with some mechanical arms inside.

The "Pisces Pirates Personnel Department" on the Ark began to select suitable members among the sleeping immigrants immersed in the virtual world.

One by one, the male and female crew members suddenly received a dialog box floating in front of them in their own virtual world. The dialog box briefly introduced the current situation of the Ark.

And they were given two choices. One was to choose to wake up, become a member of the pirate group, and work hard with the leader Liu Rushun.

The second is to wait until the pirate group is strong enough to wipe out the surrounding civilizations and then wake them up. Then they can start colonization work directly.

Because they were afraid that too many people would be awakened at once, the personnel department of the pirate group selected 10,000 people for questioning.

To everyone's surprise, more than 70% of these sleeping colonists chose to wake up.

Soon the size of the pirate group began to expand rapidly. A large number of awakened colonists became the new blood of the pirate group, and all the facilities on the Ark and the space station were activated.

The mining spacecraft carried in the Ark also began to mine minerals in the surrounding asteroid sea.

With the expansion of the pirate group and the surge in number of people, people's hearts began to slowly become lax. It was obvious that the captain Liu Rushun was still not able to fully convince the public.

Because his tenure in this position has a certain period of time, he will be automatically relieved every time, and a new captain will be selected from the next batch of awakened people.

Liu Rushun's current approach is undoubtedly to seize power for himself and concentrate power in his own hands.

Liu Rushun, who felt that the people around him were beginning to change, was also helpless. He himself did not want to seize power or anything, but a stable pirate group could not be democratic and must be controlled by a dictator.

But it was no longer enough if he didn't do something. Liu Rushun accidentally heard someone discussing whether he wanted to betray His Majesty, become independent from the empire, and take the Pisces Ark into his own hands.

What an injustice! He didn't dare to have such an idea. If he really betrayed His Majesty, all the colonists would tear him apart!

(The author is about to start preparing a new book. The new book will be uploaded in about November. The new book is slightly related to this book, and the details will be kept confidential, haha. Of course, this book will not be unfinished~Please subscribe~Please vote~)