The Chanchuan Galaxy is located in the middle of the Cross Nebula. Strictly speaking, the natural endowments of this galaxy are not outstanding. There are no naturally habitable planets, and several Earth-like planets with crusts but thin atmospheres also lack colonial value. Logically speaking,
, in the Milky Way, such star systems are literally filled with the sand of the Ganges.
However, its traffic conditions are indeed excellent.
Three main channels that run through the entire Spiral Cross Nebula meet here, and then diverge directly. Because of its excellent natural transportation endowments, it should naturally become a very important transportation hub.
Of course, this place has also formed one of the most prosperous trade nodes in the universe. If it were not for the vast and lawless "high seas" in the Spiral Cross Nebula itself, this place might also become a battleground for military strategists.
However, precisely because of the balance of power formed by the two overlords here, the Canchuan Galaxy has become one of the few free trade galaxies in the universe with sovereignty entrusted by the Galactic Civilization Council and autonomous governance. As a result, after hundreds of years of development
, this galaxy with few natural endowments already has a resident population of more than 10 billion. If it is during the prosperous trade season, including the non-resident population and merchants, this number can even be easily doubled.
Most of these populations live in orbital cities above stable Earth-like planets, and of course these large-scale orbital buildings also serve as commercial ports and warehouses.
Seafarers who run businesses are often one of the groups with the greatest spending power among ordinary workers. Once they gather together, they will definitely create huge business opportunities.
As a result, the alliance began to expand the orbital city, build a giant complex integrating consumption, entertainment and leisure, and even considered whether to build a universal paradise. The empire even directly began to build a group of space villas, including commercial ones and of course those for the great nobles.
Private urban management. Anyway, the imperial nobles have abundant martial virtues, but they also spend a lot of money.
Some geniuses with lively thinking even thought about carrying out large-scale planetary transformation projects on the Earth-like planets in the galaxy. Although the estimated cost was already so high that it would make the directors of Libra Bank tremble and cry, but
Everyone has to admit that if you put aside the issue of time, you will be able to make a fortune doing development here sooner or later.
Since it is the pearl of the Spiral Cross Nebula, the mountain kings from all walks of life will of course consider it. However, since Canchuan is the most important trade node on the entire trade road, the countries around the nebula that benefit from the trade road will certainly not
Maybe they allowed something to happen here, so they used this place as their main base to establish the headquarters of the joint patrol fleet.
Even the two overlords often use long-distance training and warning patrols as excuses to send fleets to visit in turns.
After all, the Spiral Cross Nebula is such a vast and huge star field. Even with such a patrol level, there is still plenty of room for all kinds of lawless people to move around. However, at least Canchuan and its surrounding galaxies are still very safe.
According to the evaluation of some social institutions, the happiness index of the permanent residents living in this free trade port should be higher than that of Tianyu and Nephi.
In fact, the residents here are convinced of this. They regard themselves as free people of the Dominion, not slaves of the imperial nobles, nor social animals of the alliance's plutocrats.
But now, the pearl of the Spiral Cross Nebula has been stained by the flames of war.
The huge reflector placed in the orbit of the planet Chancheon 4 is like an artificial moon, shining sunlight to the other side of the planet, providing a steady stream of light for the twelve lush orbital ports.
But now, the staggered tail flames of the ion engine have covered the clear mirror with burn marks. Then, before the mirror could crack naturally, it was hit by the corpse of the battleship that lost control.
That is a Xhosa-class cruiser of the Manlan people. In the eyes of the Empire and the Alliance, this is just a second-rate product of a second-rate country, but in this peaceful Cross Nebula channel, she is a giant ship that can intimidate a small party.
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According to statistics, in the ten years since this type of warship was put into service and deployed to the Cancheon Security Combined Fleet, more than a hundred pirate ships have fallen under its gunfire, and there have been "pirate killers" and "sin busters".
The title of Todoroki.
However, before such a cutting-edge and advanced warship had time to fire a shot at its enemy, its energy core was detonated by a blazing long-range light spear.
The burning battleship crashed into the artificial mirror sun that was riddled with holes. The reason why it was riddled with holes was because the previous one was the third battleship that hit it within an hour.
The administrators of the artificial sun had already evacuated to the airport in the distance. However, when they looked at the cracked mirror, they were all heartbroken, but there was nothing they could do. The factory director even burst into tears on the spot.
"So, it's such a big universe! Why does it have to hit us?"
This is actually easy to understand, because the mirror is in the orbit of the planet and is affected by gravity. The battleships were destroyed just after leaving their home port, before they even had time to escape the planet's gravity range, so they will naturally be affected.
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However, fortunately among the misfortunes, although those downed warships hit the artificial mirror, at least they did not hit the orbiting space city.
Immediately afterwards, the scene was like a huge floor-to-ceiling window being hit by a series of small stones, and huge ripples began to ripple on the mirror. The next second, an increasingly surging explosion came out from under the mirror, and immediately tore it apart.
Broken into endless pieces.
The most advanced artificial solar mirror in the galaxy was destroyed. It turned into burning wreckage and fragments, dragging a long trail like a heavy rain and falling into the brown planet next to it, bringing up the thin atmosphere.
There was a trace of clouds that could not be considered exciting. Then, they seemed to be completely swallowed by the dark red hell, and there was no more sound.
On the other side, behind Planet No. 4, in the deep starry sky, there is flickering light, and shining thin lines streak across the starry sky, always blooming like a flower-like fire.
Surrounding the fire, there seemed to be countless flying luminous insects, constantly flying in the dense network formed by the stars.
What a splendid and beautiful scene it was.
Residents of space cities in the orbits of planets 5 and 6, which are farther away, just look at the magnificent scenery among the stars, but they don't feel any magnificent aesthetic enjoyment at all. Instead, they only feel chills in their hearts and chills all over their bodies.
It's like struggling in hell.
They all know that those shining thin lines are actually energy beams released by the enemy, which are powerful enough to destroy a space city that can accommodate a million people on the spot. Those luminous bugs that are constantly flying in the dense network,
It is the ion flame behind the fighter group. They are like a crazy swarm of wasps, biting the warships trapped in the dense network of light.
Those battleships are the main force of the guard fleet of the Canchuan Galaxy. They come from twelve countries around the Spiral Cross Nebula. They currently have 3 battle cruisers, 2 sailing ships, 18 heavy ocean ships, 10 light carriers, and 28 light cruisers.
As for why the fleet used for guarding and patrolling interstellar routes has such important national weapons as battle cruisers and regular cruisers, it is said that it is because some countries are preparing to conduct testing of new battleships and crew training.
Anyway, neither the Empire nor the Alliance expressed any objection. It is very reasonable to have a few more battle cruisers and normal ships on the trade routes.
But no matter what, even without these super-standard capital ships, the multinational joint security fleet located in Canchuan is the strongest battle group that far surpasses the "Shibao Ship Group".
But now, half of these giant ships were destroyed as soon as they left the starport. The other half were completely trapped by the opponent's ultra-long-range artillery fire and the dense network of fighter jets before they even brought the suddenly appearing hostile target into range.
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Inside the web of light, the storm of chaos and panic has completely dominated all the warships of the guard fleet. The shining particle beams continue to streak through the portholes outside the warship, and the alarms inside the warship are like second-hand goods wholesale from a flea market.
They screamed irrationally, like a hundred naughty children running around.
Before the crew could recover from such stimulation, the long-range spear ray suddenly tore open the cruiser's shield and penetrated deeply into the hull. Fortunately, in the battleship's ammunition depot and energy source,
Before Kudu was ignited by the high temperature, most of the crew members in the ship had been vaporized.
"We have lost half of our warships and have lost our combat capability?"
"Should we run away? Where else can we flee now? Leave the civilian space city to the enemy?"
"Even if we escape without cover, we will be overtaken and sunk, just like a group of ducks that cannot fly and have their necks bitten apart by hunting dogs one by one!"
"Where are the fighter planes? Where are the fighter planes used for cover?"
"They were all wiped out five minutes ago, including the aircraft carrier! Now everything outside is enemy planes!"
"Damn it, how could there be such a terrifying enemy plane... Hey, don't tell me, it looks really advanced."
"Is that the point?"
At the headquarters of the garrison fleet, generals from various countries argued endlessly, but could not come up with any solution. This is not because they are all a mob. After all, hard power lies here. Everyone present could be possessed by Sun Wu even if he were still alive.
, and there is nothing we can do.
"So, it's all the fault of XXX's imperial devils! The snake they provoked, why were we bitten first?" At the headquarters, a Circassian officer yelled like this, and was covered by the people around him.
Mouthed.
The Imperial Army advisor at the headquarters was very generous and didn't even bother to look in that direction.
In fact, he is really too lazy to pay attention to the wailing of these defeated dogs. At this time, he and his team are nervously collecting all the current battle situation information. On the terminal screen in front of them, a figure like Mugu Gu
The hemisphere like an umbrella cover is swaggeringly releasing colorful beams of light and is still moving forward.
Needless to say, this mushroom-like silver hemisphere, although harmless in shape, exudes some kind of evil aura. It is naturally the snake's lair that the famous... er, the coalition forces of the three major human countries are deliberately preparing to destroy.
Likewise, the underground worlds of the Spiral Cross Nebula are called "Void City", "Witch of the Nebula", etc. by outlaws.
"The time they appeared in this galaxy was 18:21, and their appearance location was next to gravity well No. 4. The cosmic points are XG418, YJA88, and FGH34. Now it is... 22:45."
"Nearly one and a half astronomical units traveled in four hours?"
"To be exact, it's 69. The cruising speed is 25% faster than the Iron Tyrannosaurus-class arsenal ship... It can be regarded as the speed of a standard ship for heavy decisive battles, and lower than the high-speed battleship!"
"I don't know if it is the limit speed, it must be noted in the report!"
"The range of the light spear cannon used by Snake Cave just now is the same as the type 3 tachyon light spear. The power... is too overflowing and cannot be confirmed."
"Then it's because the heavy cruiser was hit, right? Where are the three battle cruisers of the guard fleet?"
"One was hit and killed by more than thirty fighter planes just after it left the port. One is being maintained in the No. 5 star port dock, and the other is in combat and has not been hit yet... However, it will be sunk by a group of enemy planes sooner or later.
It’s over.”
"So, what about those triangular fighter planes? The intelligence sent by His Highness shows that they should be drones."
"The firepower is mediocre, but the maneuverability is extremely strong. At critical moments, it will use impact-suicide tactics."
"They haven't used the fortress cannon yet?" someone reminded.
"Perhaps, our location has already been within the range of the fortress artillery in the Snake Den."
The Imperial Army advisor with the rank of colonel did not even hesitate, but said: "Continue the analysis, and the analysis results will be sent to the General Wofata immediately!"
The dreadnought General Wofata is the flagship of the imperial fleet. Now, King Wilente and Count Tadière are sitting on that battleship.
"Understood!" the Imperial Army officers present responded loudly. They were clearly mentally prepared to fight on the front line until they were destroyed by the fortress artillery in the Snake Lair.
Then, three minutes later, news came from the front line. It was the news that the last battle cruiser of the guard fleet had been sunk.
But in fact, the imperial officers present had no sense of gloating at all. They knew that the sunk cruiser was a modified frontline Marquis purchased from the empire by Turan's Coordinating Minister State.
You know, the Frontline Marquis is already a cutting-edge battle cruiser that has been designed and served for less than 20 years. Even if it is the monkey version, it can still dominate a certain star field. However, she is fighting two
It was declared destroyed a few hours later, not even by the powerful main gun, but by a swarm of mosquito-like fighter jets.
"Sir, the main force of our army..."
"They are coming as fast as possible!" The colonel's advisor glanced at his subordinates and said angrily: "His Royal Highness King Wei and Count Tadière naturally have their plans!"
"I am just worried that if the Alliance arrives first, won't it damage the empire's reputation?"
The colonel feels that problems in this regard do exist. But the problem is that the main force of the imperial fleet is actually arriving as quickly as possible. But it still takes time.
...There is no way, who would have thought that the snake's lair would suddenly jump out of the core of the channel, Canchuan?
In such a trading galaxy, where an average of 10,000 merchant ships pass through every year, there are still undiscovered gravity wells? This is too unscientific!
Then, at this time, a signal from the reinforcement fleet finally appeared near the No. 2 gravity well on the edge.
The Imperial Army officer sighed, because that was not the direction where the main force of the Imperial Army should come.
Then, he heard the analysis given by his subordinates: "Sir, the outline analysis of the battleship has been completed. It is the new one... the earth's main god-class dreadnought ship Fuxi! What has arrived is the fleet of the Blue Star Community."
The first one to arrive was neither the Empire nor the Alliance, but the Earthling fleet. The Imperial officers present looked at each other, and for a moment they no longer knew what expressions they should make.
On the other hand, the commanders of the guard fleet next to them cheered. To them, although the Earthlings are also one of the superior "human masters", they are still much more approachable than the Empire and the Alliance.