Resurrection Empire

Zheng Tian, ​​wearing a dark red commander's uniform, stood in the middle of the command room with her hands behind her back.

On the projection platform in front of her, a band-shaped ring of stars was rapidly opening. Dozens of high-sequence commanders stood beside her, consulting the star map with her.

This belt-shaped star cluster is part of the Broken Star Ring, a huge structure that rotates around the Nanxiang star cluster.

Large or small stars, meteorites, and space fog clusters are distributed among them, either forming stars by themselves, or coiling around each other to form small galaxies.

There are too many stars distributed in a relatively small band.

If everything were natural factors and allowed the ultra-small stars in the broken star belt to evolve on their own, then the broken star belt would be relatively peaceful.

The various stars and meteorites will be relatively peaceful. It will take tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years before some stars change their orbits due to various slow natural evolutions, thus triggering a series of shocks. , just like the Black Mist Zone.

In the pure evolution of nature, no matter how complicated things are, from the evolution of the planet to the diffusion of sediment when two rivers converge, they will all follow a wonderful law in a subtle and subtle way, from chaos to order.

No matter how chaotic the broken star rings are in the early stages of their formation, or how fierce the collisions between them are, as time goes by, order will always be slowly born in the chaos, and the huge star groups will always fall into their own laws and small rules. The order becomes peaceful until one day something breaks the balance and causes a big chaos. But after the chaos ends, it will slowly return to order until a new turmoil occurs due to something. . This goes on and on, over and over again, endlessly.

However, the emergence and entry of space pirates has changed the objective external environment.

Intelligent life that has mastered megastructure technology and interstellar voyages is born with the ability to easily break the harmony of the universe. Just like the people on earth in the 21st century, as surface civilization, are always particularly good at destroying the natural environment of the earth. Now they are just destroying this The method and scope of influence have only been enlarged countless times.

A large number of space ships shuttled back and forth in the Broken Star Ring according to their own wishes without any order or navigation standards.

During the voyage, a large amount of production and domestic waste will always be thrown into space. In addition, the gravitational fields released by ships passing by at high speed are mixed and superimposed, constantly changing the fragile but delicately balanced gravitational field in the star-shattered ring.

For example, a pirate base is built on a large solid star. Then the ships of this pirate force always follow the same route when they set out for hunting, but when they return, the location of the target changes every time they hunt. , according to the principle of proximity, we will always return by a different route.

Then, the moving gravitational field left by this pirate force's ships in the universe is no longer balanced. Even if each voyage only slightly moves other nearby stars by a few centimeters, the displacement of the stars along the way will inevitably expand to several meters or even tens of meters due to the repeated pull of the non-equilibrium gravitational field over the years.

Then, one day, this star that deviates from the stable orbit given by the law of natural balance will sooner or later collide with some stars, causing a larger-scale shock and causing a chain reaction.

There are a large number of pirate bases in the Broken Star Ring, and every action of each pirate base will leave more and more deviations in the starry sky.

When the total amount of deviation accumulates to a certain limit, it may trigger a terrifying star riot, bringing serious disasters to the people living on each star.

According to the definition of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, this phenomenon in which gravitational deflections accumulate to generate natural disasters is named gravitational pollution.

The ultimate manifestation of gravitational pollution is the collision of giant stars, black holes, etc., which usually occurs in the core areas of ancient disk galaxies where the density of stars is relatively high. Not only the Machinery Empire cannot bear a disaster of this scale, but even the Ascendants, Pilgrims, and Psychic Demons are very afraid of it.

The secondary manifestation is the collision between planetary stars. The broken star ring, a super large ring-shaped star area that orbits a star cluster composed of thousands of stars, is the hardest hit area.

It is actually not difficult to control gravitational pollution. You only need to establish a strong enough department to supervise the navigation of all starships throughout the process, simultaneously monitor the changes in the gravitational field within the disaster area, and use the dispatch of starship navigation to continuously neutralize the unbalanced gravity. The deflection brought by the field can naturally prevent disasters in a more economical way. When the situation is critical, rescue teams will take the initiative to attack and use artificial means to apply deflection gravity to quickly correct the chaos.

There are such departments in the central star area of ​​the Gupan Galaxy and in the core of the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

However, there is no unified management department in the Broken Star Ring to arrange the navigation rules of the pirates' ships. After all, everyone is already a lawless pirate, who can still obey them?

Therefore, the occurrence rate of disasters in the Broken Star Ring is extremely high, ranging from once in decades to once in hundreds of years. The living standards of civilians in the pirate civilization are not very good.

The disaster caused by gravitational pollution is always latent, but once it breaks out, it will be devastating. There is no way to escape except taking a ship to escape.

But space pirates never control the population, they always reproduce crazily and reproduce again.

The Empire never refuses more human brains, and it never cares where the brains come from. Within the Nanxiang Star Cluster, there is a huge black market that continues to acquire human brains. The human brain trade was originally another way for space pirates to make money besides robbing homes and trade routes.

Therefore, every time when faced with a disaster, those who can board a ship and escape, instead of being mixed into the pile of meat tickets and slaughtered in advance, are always only a few privileged people. Among many pirate forces, people at the bottom are still trying their best to climb up, just hoping that they and their families can have a chance to survive before disaster strikes.

From this point of view, the living environment in the Broken Star Ring is similar in appearance and spirit to the Source Star back then.

But just as the earth will not be destroyed by the destruction of humans in the 21st century, no matter how bad the environment of today's Broken Star Ring is, it will not be destroyed by the Broken Star Ring itself, but only the humans living here.

The universe is like this. It creates intelligent life passionately, but it always watches indifferently as intelligent life struggles in hell, and never imposes heavenly punishment on evildoers out of mercy. If the universe is also an intelligent life, in its eyes, there will never be any distinction between justice and evil.

"The so-called justice and evil are actually human definitions. We define different evils based on different positions and viewpoints. Although the more active pirate forces in Broken Star Ring today were all after Nanxiang Bo Liu An inherited the title They have risen in these thousands of years, but the history of the pirates in the Broken Star Ring is almost as long as the colonial history of the Nanxiang Star Cluster, reaching millions of years. Even though the Nanxiang Star Cluster was once captured by the Ascendants and became the Ascendants Colony, the Imperial humans on the inner core star cluster were almost completely wiped out, but there were still pirate forces active in the Broken Star Ring at that time.”

"According to the information provided by Wumo's senior staff, in addition to the former Fang and Storm pirate groups, the strongest forces in the Broken Star Ring also have a large number of new forces with the shadow of Nanxiang Bo behind them. In addition, there are some The pirate race has existed for more than a million years, has a profound heritage, has various specialties, and its strength cannot be underestimated."

"Nowadays, their reputation is not prominent. They are just forced to lie dormant due to Liu An's strength and give up the window for development. But one day in the future, when Liu An gets old, the position of Nanxiang Bo changes hands, and then Or Liu An is promoted to Marquis and the focus of development shifts. These ancient pirate forces will make a comeback and take back their power. Now, I would like to ask a senior staff officer from Wu Mo to explain the situation to everyone."

Zheng Tian initially started the topic, and then handed over the right to speak to Wu Moyou, who knew the pirate power of Broken Star Ring thoroughly.

Wu Moyou seemed to be a little nervous. He took a step forward, nodded politely to everyone present, and then said: "Before, there were seven emerging pirate forces in the Broken Star Ring that were the most powerful. The Storm and Fangs who have not yet been destroyed will They are two of them. These seven forces are collectively known as the Seven Seas under the Seven Seas in private. Among them, the Storm is characterized by its super-fast assault ship, while the Fang is known for its stronger individual combat capabilities."

Zheng Tian and others nodded after hearing this.

When we were wiping out the remnants of the Fang Pirates before, even though we had the upper hand, we still suffered some losses and damaged some armed warships. The reason was that we were competing so crazy with the Fang Pirates one by one that we were completely lifeless in the fight. , sanity returned to zero on the spot.

Wu Moyou said again: "The other five families also have their own specialties. Obviously, Liu An focused on supporting Bo Xia Qihai, allowing the seven forces to perform their own duties to meet Liu An's different needs. In the storm and After the fangs were destroyed, the Secret Service of Nanxiang Earl's Mansion secretly supported two other new forces to supplement them. Although these two new forces had poor foundations, Nanxiang Bo's support was more comprehensive and sufficient. The two new forces have grown rapidly. They have grown up and developed in an all-round way, with almost no shortcomings, and there is a faint tendency to become the two poles of the Seven Seas. I personally speculate that the combat power of these two fleets is about half of that of the planetary system-level fleet, and will even surpass it. Getting stronger and stronger. Obviously, this is the opponent prepared by Uncle Nanxiang for the great Uncle Chifeng."

Zheng Tian coughed lightly, "Mr. Ren doesn't like people calling him with such prefixes. Just call him Lord Earl or Uncle Chifeng. You can also call him Mr. Ren like us."

Wu Moyou smiled awkwardly, "Okay, I know. Next, I want to talk about those ancient forces. According to rough statistics, there are dozens of ancient forces, but five of them have the longest inheritance and their strength before they were dormant and hidden. They are also the strongest. After discovering the nature of Nanxiang Bo, these five families were the first to hide, and their strength was best preserved. The people call them the Five Elder Clan. Yes, they are already a complete space race. They have always been There are no official statistics on how many people there are in the Wulao tribe, and no one knows the depth of their technological reserves. According to rumors, the Wulao tribe even surpassed the Nanxiang Bo at that time tens of thousands of years ago, which shows their strength. "

Everyone else in the combat command room was shocked when they heard this.

It is undeniable that because the previous war against Storm and Fang went too smoothly, the mentality of underestimating the enemy within the expedition fleet is quietly rising, especially among the new generation of middle-level commanders who have not experienced long voyages.

Many people only read history, but have not personally experienced the difficulties and obstacles, so they always feel that under the leadership of Uncle Chi Feng, they will be able to easily win. Little space pirates can't just hold it in their hands and do whatever they want.

This trend of thought deviates from the core program of "strategic contempt and tactical attention" set by Ren Zhong, but the truth is always easy to say but difficult to practice. The younger generation has never experienced real hardships, and it is indeed easy for them to have the illusion that the achievements of their ancestors came easily. After all, judging from history books, no matter how difficult the situation is, the Chifeng tribe can always turn the enemy into disaster and become invincible.

But the main contradiction at the moment is that the expedition fleet has difficulties in supplying and its troops are limited. Zheng Tian cannot waste precious resources on making the younger generation suffer. Everyone must be in the state from the beginning.

The reason why Zheng Tian asked Wu Moyou to say this at the pre-war meeting broadcast live across the fleet was to suppress the idea of ​​underestimating the enemy.

Deputy Commander-in-Chief Vincent Van Hoy, who had already known the inside story, played a good role in advocating and questioned: "This sounds too ridiculous. How can a mere pirate force be compared with the Count's regular army?"

Wu Moyou shook his head, "At that time, Uncle Nanxiang was not the helmsman of the Nanxiang military and political center, but with his status as a veteran earl, the strength of the fleet he commanded should not be underestimated. The reason why Liu An has the power he has today is because he is an empire Among them, one of the top earls who is closest to the position of marquis is also the Liu family. The successive earls of the Liu family are fiercely armed and very good at conquest. However, the Wulao clan has accumulated for millions of years, has a population of trillions, and is also full of talents. They have strong soldiers and horses, and it is rumored that they have also obtained a lot of earl-level top technologies through the black market. It is definitely not comparable to the new and cutting-edge forces like Storm and Fang."

Vincent Van Hoy frowned and nodded, "I see. Then we really have to be careful."

Seeing that the heat was almost over, Zheng Tian took over the floor and concluded: "In short, our expedition fleet has an arduous task, and we must not be careless and underestimate the enemy. But at the same time, we must also understand that Chifeng Star is waiting for us to open up the situation. Expedition The victory or defeat of the fleet determines whether Chifeng Star can develop, it also determines whether the Earl can compete with Uncle Nanxiang, and it also determines whether the compatriots who endure the oppression of Uncle Nanxiang and Viscount Nanjiu on Chifeng Star can. Do you want to feel proud? Therefore, every next step of the expedition fleet must be more solid. It can only succeed and cannot fail. Although the expedition fleet has the help of Viscount Lookout, the difficulty of supply is still real. We have to save every bullet. , every battery, and every subsequent battle must be fought to a complete victory. At the same time, although the difficulties are huge, the hope of the expedition fleet completing its mission still exists. Before setting off, the Earl once said something to me. "