area51novel Chapter 430 Arrival
Chapter 430 Arrival
Only ten days.
Jonathan took the Third Fleet and visited all the star systems that the First and Second Fleets had visited in the previous few months.
And in each star system, a stargate is left and opened.
From now on, if any enemy situation occurs here, Luo Lan can send the admiral's fleet directly from the solar system through the interstellar gate in just eighteen minutes.
At the same time, since the ship arrived through the stargate, the number of its own jumps was not consumed.
therefore...
Even if you encounter any unfavorable situation, you can evacuate quickly through jump.
Or, when the enemy is escaping, you can use ultra-short distance jump to instantly move to the other side and block the enemy's escape route.
In particular, with the advent of the Stargate, daily transportation between star systems no longer requires the installation of jump engines, but can be completed through the Stargate.
Perhaps in the short term, this effect does not seem to be significant.
But when the people of the pirate world officially go out and expand outside the solar system, by that time...
The assistance that the Stargate system can provide will be incomparably huge.
After the Third Fleet spent ten days completing the initial Stargate deployment work, it began to move on to the next mission.
This is a task that Luo Lan specifically assigned.
Head to a life-bearing planet called Tourt 1278 light years away.
This is the base of one of the four five-star pirate groups, called the Blue Blood Pirates.
In fact, within the Pirate Alliance, pirate groups that are not at the Seven Star level cannot even be on the stage and will basically exist as the lowest-level vassal.
Whether it is looting or mining resources by themselves, they basically have to pay tribute to a high-star pirate group according to a certain ratio.
Of course, there are definitely quite a few stubborn ones.
But unfortunately, although the alliance has various iron rules, even the high-star pirate group dare not act recklessly.
But within the rules, Gao Xing's pirate group still has many ways to kill you.
Therefore, it is quite normal for low-level pirate groups to become vassals of high-level pirate groups.
As mentioned before, the Blue Blood Pirates also have vassals, and the object of their vassalage is...
The Loto Pirates are one of the Eight Star Pirates.
But that's not the point, the point is...
When the intelligence department captured the hundreds of cadres, they gave out a piece of information.
The Blue Blood Pirates once mined a planetary-scale creation core on their home planet.
As mentioned before, the Genesis Core is divided into three levels: individual level, ship level, and planetary level.
Among them, the single-soldier type is the most common. Any Genesis Core Vein will produce a large number of this type of core. As for the ship-type, it is very rare.
Although various mineral veins do produce output, the proportion is very small.
It takes about 1000 individual-grade missiles to unearth one ship-grade missile.
And finally, there is the planetary core.
How rare is this core?
Only large or larger mineral veins are likely to produce.
The probability is extremely low.
It is possible to dig out such a nugget from about one million large mineral veins.
Take the first life planet captured by Taotu and the first fleet. Although there were many large mineral veins on it, after detection, no planetary core was found.
Even the ten-star pirate groups would be jealous of this thing.
Because, as long as you have this thing, you can drive a planet to travel in interstellar space. For pirates, you can imagine how attractive a nest that can move around the universe is.
So, when the Blue Blood Pirates dug out this thing, they immediately killed all the grassroots minions present.
In addition to the head of the group, the deputy head of the group, and several core cadres.
No one knew about this at all.
Unfortunately, in the previous battle, all those who knew about it were arrested.
Under all kinds of torture, naturally some people couldn't bear it and blurted out this biggest secret.
At this moment, the news of the destruction of the four five-star pirate groups should not have been transmitted back to the mother planet.
After all, their communication technology is terrible.
As for Jonathan's purpose, it was to take advantage of the fact that the situation was still unclear over there and before the news of the planetary core was spread.
It’s better to strike first, seize this thing and transport it back to the solar system.
This is the most important mission of Jonathan this time.
1278 light years away, it takes 13 jumps to reach the destination, which takes a total of 144 hours, or six days.
If it weren't for the appearance of the jump engine, Luo Lan really wouldn't have sent people there so quickly.
After all, if you travel by cosmic currents, it will take dozens or hundreds of times longer, not to mention the fact that you have to pass through countless pirate territories along the way, which is enough to give you a headache.
You should know that cosmic ocean currents are just a special phenomenon that occurs naturally between a star system and another nearby star system.
You can't go directly to a place more than a thousand light years away via ocean currents. Instead, you have to pass through countless nodes one by one to finally reach your destination.
Each of these nodes has an owner, and many of them are the territories of many pirate groups.
This means you have to fight your way through!
It’s not that Jun Lin doesn’t have the ability to fight back.
But that's such a waste of time.
It takes several years to go back and forth.
It's all over, okay?
This is also the reason why Luo Lan did not let them do this after the first and second fleets were established, but waited until the third fleet was established before starting this task.
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Six days later.
Not far from Tourt's.
The space suddenly shrank, and then warships one after another appeared here.
There are more than 200 ships in total.
Unlike the pirate warships currently in the orbit of Turte, these warships are shining with metallic luster all over, and the smallest one is several times larger than the largest pirate warship.
As for the flagship in the center of the fleet...
For pirates, it is even more of a super giant.
"Vice Admiral, the observation radar scan is complete. We have found 78 large pirate warships, 215 medium-sized warships, more than a thousand small warships, and thousands more than three thousand unarmed ships!"
The radar officer of the bridge crew reported loudly.
Adding all these together, the number of warships is almost 1500.
When they first came to the pirate world, each pirate group only had 500 ships.
It seems that most of the forces stayed behind and did not go on the expedition together, but in fact this is not the case.
At that time, their 500 ships were basically all large and medium-sized warships, and there was not a single small warship.
After all, the small warship displayed on the main screen at this moment is actually a ship with a dozen crew members and two smoothbore cannons pushed onto the deck, which is equivalent to a small sailing ship in the world of pirates.
This thing is fine for patrolling, but for large-scale wars...
Has no effect at all.
Therefore, when they first set out on the expedition to the pirate world, none of the four pirate groups brought small warships.
It is also because of this that there are thousands of small warships left in the old nest at this moment.
However, such a large number is of no use.
"Order the fleet to advance until it enters the attack range of the laser cannons and remain out of the enemy's fire range at all times!"
"Destroy all the warships in orbit as quickly as possible!"
I didn't think about any tactics at all because there was no need for them.
Keep your distance and just crush it.
Jonathan waved his hand and gave the order.