The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

831. The Lost Fleet (5)

"Then what's the reason for the disappearance of this fleet?" Severance Tann was completely aroused and asked.

"Brain plague." Tang Xiao said, "The Senate Bureau of Intelligence (SBI [Note 1]) was directly involved in the investigation of this matter, and on the basis of the almost unlimited authority granted to them, they They searched almost every person related to the Blade Fleet, but still found nothing. Until finally, they found a group of brain plague virus carriers in the spaceport."

"Brain plague? Is it the kind of plague that once broke out on the planet Jabim?"

"That's right, this plague caused the loss of one-third of the population of the planet Jabim, which shows the severity of this plague. Moreover, people who suffer from brain plague will first appear in abnormal behavior, and then intensify, and finally fall into Complete madness, attacking everyone indiscriminately to alleviate their own pain." Tang Xiao explained, "For Coruscant, this is also a piece of luck. Because these brain plague carriers have just arrived in Coruscant. , so the brain plague virus has not spread in Coruscant."

Then he continued: "And the SBI's investigation can only go so far. They found that some carriers of the brain plague virus had contact with the crew of the Blade Fleet who partyed all night at the spaceport the day before, and they probably brought the virus into the fleet. Among them. But what happened inside the fleet afterwards, they don’t know at all, because none of the 440,000 people in the Blade Fleet can come back. So SBI turned to investigate the source of the brain plague virus, trying to find a People are responsible for that, that's a different story."

"After the disappearance of the Blade Fleet, it was once regarded as the greatest treasure in the entire galaxy. Many people thought that if this fleet was not torn apart by hyperspace, then it must still be hidden somewhere. As long as this fleet can be found, then You can reach the sky in one step. But no one has found it, and the intelligence blockade of the Republic has long forgotten this matter." Tang Xiao finally looked at Tan En with a half-smile, "But it seems that the one who reached the sky in one step is you ah."

Severance Tann nodded and said: "It seems that this time is indeed my lucky day. I actually found the blade fleet that the whole galaxy is looking for. I will bring this fleet back intact. "

"You'd better do this, Tann. You should understand that this series of battles of yours almost ruined my event." Tang Xiao said coldly.

"Yes..." Severance Tann lowered her head.

"Okay, let's go to work. I will come in person when Cunte comes back. Now the first convoy has set off, but I'm not sure if they can reach your location in time." Tang Xiao finished speaking and cut off communication.

Severance Tann let out a long sigh of relief, she found that her back was completely drenched in cold sweat, and she found that Tang Xiao was putting more and more pressure on her. She knew that Tang Xiao, or Darth Malthael's dark side was getting stronger and stronger. When he showed it unscrupulously, such oppression could completely crush a person!

She came to the console of the battleship. The engineer had been working just now, and through the log of the command system of the battleship, she found that the last hyperspace jump command of the battleship came from the flagship. And he has also found the location of the fleet's flagship, the Blade.

Severance Tann immediately followed a team into the flagship Blade, and immediately began to clean up the battleship, and entered the bridge to crack the control system and activate it.

Because this is the fleet of the Galactic Republic after all, even if the battleship is on standby, unless you have a key authorized by the Republic military, you cannot start and control the battleship. Therefore, it needs to be cracked, which takes time, and time is also what Tann is most worried about.

Through the deciphered message in the flagship Blade, Severance Tann finally put together the last piece of the puzzle of the whole incident.

Because it is a great honor to be selected as a crew member of the Blade Fleet, so before the maiden voyage of the Blade Fleet, those crew members were partying all night, drinking and picking up girls. This caused many of them to be infected with brain plague due to contact with patients, and all the crew members of the fleet had been concentrated before departure, so the brain plague virus spread very widely invisibly.

Afterwards, when the crew arrived at their posts, there were actually many people who had some abnormal behaviors, but these behaviors were ignored by careless officials who believed that the crew members were hangovers. At that time, the judicial fleet of the Republic was rife with corruption. What the officers thought about was not how to improve their combat effectiveness, but how to live a good life. Naturally, they would not spoil everyone's happiness at this juncture.

Then things happened when the first hyperspace jump was just about to take place. Dozens of warships in the fleet had crazy riots and quickly lost control, and some other warships also had crazy crews.

Only then did the fleet commander realize that something was wrong. After confirming that it was brain plague, he asked all warships to immediately block the rescue cabin and hangar platform to prevent the virus from spreading to other planets. At the same time, the fleet commander asked all warships to close the bridge to prevent the crazy crew from capturing the bridge and causing more dire consequences.

But in fact, judging from the records, the fleet commander himself was already a little incoherent at that time, obviously he was also infected with brain plague. However, it can also be seen from his series of decisions that this is a serious and responsible commander. His first consideration is to prevent the virus from spreading and causing more casualties.

However, the development of things was not satisfactory. The brain plague spread faster and wider than imagined. More than 30 warships had brain plague patients inside the bridges, and they began to attack other people like crazy.

Once the battleship is controlled by brain plague patients who still have some intelligence, it will be bad if they fire on other warships, and what is even worse is that these brain plague patients drive the battleship away.

So the fleet commander decisively made a decision to preserve the fleet to the greatest extent. He ordered all the warships to move closer to the flagship to form a dense formation, and then the flagship issued a command to jump synchronously to drive the fleet away from Coruscant to prevent the virus from affecting the Galactic Republic. The capital has a population of one trillion.

The synchronous jump command is a commonly used command when large-scale fleets jump. In order to ensure that the hyperspace jumps of all warships are synchronized, this command is issued by the flagship and enforced by other warships in the formation.

But when the fleet commander issued the jump command, he was already a little delirious due to the influence of the brain plague virus-he didn't explain the destination of the jump. At the same time, the pilot of the flagship was also infected with brain plague, so he gave the command to jump into hyperspace without navigating at all.

At the same time, they never thought of calling for help. Maybe it's because the fleet commander forgot, maybe it's because he still has the last hope, he wants to limit this matter to the Blade Fleet so that it won't become a scandal, maybe it's because of the impact of brain plague... this There is no way of knowing.

Finally, the entire fleet embarked on random hyperspace jumps without navigation. And because the fleet was too large, the hyperspace jump was completely out of control, and they spent several days in hyperspace before they escaped hyperspace.

And when the fleet jumped out of hyperspace and appeared near the Harm galaxy, there was no living person in the entire fleet...

The Blade Fleet has completely become a missing fleet.

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[Note 1: Many things in "Star Wars" have the shadow of the United States, such as the Senate Intelligence Bureau SBI, whose powers are similar to their FBI FBI. And the Galactic Republic also has a military intelligence bureau—the Republic Intelligence Bureau, RI (Republic Intelligence), which is similar to the CIA. 】