It is 80 light-years away from the outer world of the Star Federation, the "Sky Ring World", in the deep sea of stars, in the unknown star field, behind a brown dwarf star.
The star sea is vast and the stars are infinite.
If we draw a sphere with a radius of 100 light years, centered on the seven worlds of the Star Federation, there will be more than 5,000 star systems included in these seven spheres.
Most of them have no psychic powers. , and a lifeless and desolate world.
Even though the Starry Federation has been continuously launching unmanned micro-exploration ships and high-sensitivity triggering star-sea mines to these desolate worlds every year, every month, and every day for the past 100 years, it is trying to build within 200 light years around itself.
A solid line of defense, at least the "national border", has been built.
To this day, it is far from filling up all the 5,000 desolate worlds.
Around 5,000 stars, there are still a large number of dark star fields that the Federation has not yet detected and monitored.
The so-called "national border" is completely riddled with holes and illusory, it is just a kind of psychological comfort.
The "star" is at least a large celestial body that can be monitored and locked by the Federation's largest starry sky monitoring station "Sting Star" located on the Spider Nest Star.
Brown dwarfs are one level lower than stars.
Brown dwarfs are gaseous objects that are similar to stars but are not massive enough to ignite fusion reactions in their cores.
Their mass is between the smallest stars and the largest planets, so they are very dim and are also called "failed stars."
Due to insufficient mass to become a burning star, it is extremely difficult to release psychic fluctuations that can be sensed by Ci Xingzhai and any starry sky monitoring station in the federation.
According to the analysis of federal astronomers, there are very likely to be at least 3,000 brown dwarfs within a 100-light-year radius of major worlds in the federation, and currently there are less than 500 brown dwarfs discovered and named by the federation.
There are still 2,500 brown dwarfs, like invisible eyes, slowly rotating and drifting in the dark and cold unknown star field.
Although these brown dwarfs are extremely difficult to explore and exploit by the Federation 100 light-years away, some of them can still emit extremely high temperatures at a short distance.
This temperature can be converted into weak energy for a fleet that has traveled a long distance to take a rest; it is not too violent to interfere with the fleet's various magic units that have been highly worn during the century-old voyage; it can also be slightly covered When the fleet is resting, repairing, deploying, and building a large-scale array of star torches, it releases psychic energy fluctuations.
Even if it is sensed by the Federation's starry sky monitoring station, it will be thought that the fleet is just a part of the brown dwarf.
The Black Wind Fleet has been in the synchronous orbit of the brown dwarf star for seven full years.
The Star Sea Expedition is not something that can be accomplished overnight.
When the Black Wind Fleet set out a hundred years ago, the biggest enemy it faced was the unknown Star Sea and the passage of time itself.
At that time, they only had a small and incomplete coordinate of the Flying Star Realm.
If they relied on this incomplete coordinate to jump, 99.99% of them would jump to an unknown and desolate place that was not recorded on the star map and could not see any astronomical parameter characteristics.
The world is trapped in the whirlpool of the sea of stars.
Without consuming a lot of resources, it is extremely difficult to jump out.
Even if you jump out, it will most likely be the second damn unknown and desolate world.
It just so happens that the expansion of the True Human Empire in the past thousand years has not yet extended to the direction of the Flying Star Realm.
Therefore, the Black Wind Fleet, which suffered a defeat on the front line, lost its home base and became a "lonely soldier", and was unwilling to be absorbed and annexed by other worlds, accepted this glorious and arduous task to expand the territory of the empire. , to consolidate the rear area.
Their mission is not only to explore and conquer the Feiting Star Realm, but also includes the empire from the center of the Star Sea to all the unknown star fields between the Feiting Star Realm.
Especially in the era of the "Old Star Sea Empire", those historical materials and star maps are incomplete.
The vast world recorded in the volume is the "prey" that needs to be searched for.
Therefore, the Black Wind Fleet was not in a hurry to make an ultra-long-distance star sea jump and jumped to the Flying Star Realm, the coordinate point released by the "Star Child" in the past.
Considering the complexity of star sea jumps and the cost calculation of spiritual energy consumption, every time the distance of star sea jumps doubles, the amount of spiritual energy and resources consumed will increase by a square number.
As a lone remnant, it is obviously impossible to get more from the base camp.
The Black Wind Fleet, which has plenty of supplies and reinforcements, will never make a super-long-distance jump rashly.
They chose a tactic called "stellar frog jumping".
The distance of each short jump will not exceed 100 light years, usually within 10 to 50 light years.
After each jump, they will find a star.
The most suitable star, while exploring whether there are habitable planets and human civilization around the star, while dropping a special "stellar bomb" to this star.
With the level of magical powers and magic weapons of the True Human Empire, it is unlikely to directly destroy a star, and the purpose of this "star bomb" is not to destroy, but to activate specific areas of the star to provide spiritual energy for their next jump. able.
When all the surroundings of the star are explored, all parameters and coordinates are entered into the star map for update, and a large-scale star torch is established near the local stable planet, it means that other fleets can easily travel to and from these stars in the future.
Between the regions and the mainland of the empire, it means that these star regions are included in the "territory" of the empire.
At this time, they often have collected enough energy, so they start a new "stellar leapfrog" and repeat the above process.
Therefore, for a hundred years, we stopped and went, constantly exploring, recording and building, until we arrived at the border of Xinghai ten years ago.
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The Black Wind Fleet has had terrible luck over the past hundred years.
They didn't find many habitable planets worth developing.
Even in the historical materials and star map fragments left behind by the Star Sea Empire, it is recorded that there once was a prosperous and civilized human world.
After they went through great pains and consumed a lot of resources to find it, they often found that the local world had collapsed and all psychic powers were lost.
After being consumed or lost, the so-called civilization is left with only ruins.
Even if there are some savages who drink blood and live in a desolate world with exhausted spiritual energy, they are completely unable to make up for the resources consumed by the Black Wind Fleet to find them.
Resources, resources, resources!
Resources are the most precious things in the sea of stars!
Civilization, civilization, civilization!
Civilization is the most fragile existence in the cold universe!
After being disappointed three or four times in a row, the situation of the Black Wind Fleet became extremely embarrassing.
Yes, on the surface, they "opened up" large areas of territory for the empire, but they were all desolate worlds with the lowest ratings and barely worth half a dime.
In the sea of stars, the least valuable thing is the so-called "territory".
Looking up at the starry sky, billions of stars and infinite territories theoretically contain rich resources and extremely high value.
Those worlds where no intelligent life has existed since ancient times. , as long as you plant a national flag, sing a national anthem, and at most build a star torch next to it, you can claim it as the territory of the empire.
However, such "land" is meaningless.
No matter how high its "theoretical" value is, the empire must be able to develop it on a large scale at an appropriate cost!
Even if a world claims to have 10,000 resource points, if the empire develops it and the collection, smelting and transportation of resources back to the empire consumes 20,000 resource points, what is the use of such a world?
This does not include the construction and maintenance of the Star Torch, as well as the various additional management costs and supply line defense costs that the empire has to spend in order to rule the world.
The elusive raiding fleet of the Holy Alliance is not easy to deal with!
Unfortunately, the Black Wind Fleet has not discovered many such worlds in the past hundred years.
The star fields they discover are often "Well, theoretically speaking, maybe if we conduct in-depth exploration, it is possible to find 10,000 resource points, but the exploration cost will be 5,000 points, and the subsequent development cost is estimated to be 10,000 to 100,000 resource points."
Such a world.
In such a world, it is impossible to obtain many contribution points for the Black Wind Fleet.
Having no contribution points and no home base means that the Black Wind Fleet cannot get more supplies and brand-new warships from other worlds in the empire.
It also means that if they just go back in despair, they will only be eaten by others. , be completely incorporated, or be sent to the most dangerous front line to fight the Holy Alliance completely, there are two ways to go.
Naturally, the Black Wind people are not willing to choose any path.
They continue to advance towards deep space, making a desperate move!
At this moment, they received news that a claw fleet had been wiped out, and they also learned about the existence of a regional power on the border of the Star Sea.
They even found the Star Sea Republic's government-in-exile, the last "mobile land" that had been lost for thousands of years!
A century of bad luck has been reversed, but opportunities and challenges still coexist.
The good news is that the prey in front of them is fat enough.
As long as it can swallow this prey that calls itself the "Star Federation", the strength of the Black Wind Fleet can be increased at least three to five times.
Even if it returns to the center of the star sea, it will still have enough power.
Compete with everyone including the emperor, various princes and warlords.
The bad news is that the prey seems to be too fat.
Hidden under its huge body is not only fat, but also strong muscles, solid bones and sharp claws.
The Black Wind Fleet was in a dilemma.
At this time, it had two choices.
They can set up a large-scale array of star torches here, build a magnificent starry sky gate, truthfully report the intelligence here to the empire, the greedy emperor and various princes and warlords, and summon support from the mainland.
Of course, establishing the Star Gate and activating it to maintain a very high transmission level will further consume the war resources of the Black Wind Fleet, weaken their combat effectiveness, and put them in a passive position in the game of carving up prey.
Either...
Just do it yourself!
Eat the behemoth of the Federation by yourself and swallow up all the benefits!