Facts have proved that the Buran is indeed the most cutting-edge Clear Sky class battleship, and after excluding the supreme commander, the level of the crew on board is indeed considered the elite of the empire, and naturally the best in the universe.
Under the siege of the gorgeous crystal storm, this "thin" cruiser seemed likely to be swallowed by these crystals at any time, but she always soared in the sky, as proud as a fire phoenix.
The continuous lines of fire pierced into the crystal dust like arrows, causing explosions one after another, adding another layer of flame color to the colorful crystal storm.
The crew of the Blizzard may have never encountered such an enemy. Now they are so focused on evacuating that they have almost forgotten the fact that although this scene is dangerous, the ship has not been injured so far.
A cruiser has shown such stability, let alone the Dreadnought of the Throne. In any case, even if it is a half-health Dreadnought with half the firepower, it is still a Dreadnought!
In fact, Yu Lian has always known that the biggest threat to battleships from the space crystal swarm is the ultra-long-distance impact of himself as a giant orbital cannon. But such an attack is like the ultimate move of psykers.
In fact, it requires a certain amount of reading time and acceleration space. If you suddenly rush into the short range, you will deprive them of their most powerful weapon.
Of course, this kind of "creature" can also use the crystal body as a medium to absorb space radiation for energy conversion and launch electric charge attacks at medium and short distances, but in terms of power, it is far less than the third level on the side of the dreadnought.
The close-defense secondary batteries naturally cannot pose a threat to the armor and shields of the dreadnought.
As a result, the Throne drove a body much larger than that of the Blizzard, wrapped in a thick energy shield, and crashed into the scattered formation of the crystal group. It looked like a whale hitting the shore.
in the beach.
The moment the Throne suddenly accelerated and crashed into the crystal group, although they were trying to disperse, the whole group seemed more chaotic, like a group of wild animals that were stunned. At least three-digit crystals were destroyed.
The mass of the Throne attracted it, and it hit the shield and was shattered to pieces.
Until now, Yu Lian is still not sure whether these crystals are alive, but he is sure that these are definitely not automatic weapons. They do not have the calm, efficient and meticulous feeling of robots at all.
"Close-in defense guns on both sides, fire at will." Yu Lianda said.
With enemies on all sides, the gunner must be very satisfied.
In this way, the Scarlet Throne completely penetrated the crystal group, which was easier than a lion cutting through a group of sheep.
It was only at this time that these crystals, which were suspected to be "space predators", finally returned to the state of mind of wild animals and dispersed to every corner of the entire galaxy, clearly fleeing in all directions.
Although Yu Lian also considered finding an opportunity to capture a few intact crystals and take them back, this thing requires more professional equipment and manpower to capture and imprison. Moreover, if they were to escape like this, he would really have no way to pursue them, so he
According to the original plan, he continued to move towards the jump channel leading to the Tree Shepherd A galaxy. Before entering the jump channel, he did not forget to send a message to the Blizzard over there, "Let's split up and see who can find the plunder first."
The whereabouts of the main force can be regarded as the continuation of the God of War Festival."
It's a pity that such a message that requires martial ethics and a sense of ritual has not received a response from the other party.
Well, now there are several standard astronomical units between the two ships. This is not the homeland of the Milky Way with source mass waves. There is a delay in communication. This is of course very reasonable.
In this way, the Scarlet Throne officially arrived in the Shepherd A galaxy at 10:27 a.m. on January 15, standard cruise time.
Just as Yu Lian guessed, this remote galaxy located at the end of a known star path is indeed composed of an atypical pulsar as its core.
The reason why it is a pulsar is because it already has the characteristic of continuously emitting electromagnetic pulses. The halo penetrating from both ends of the star is like the fireworks released by the gods, pointing to the depths of the void, as if it can tear the universe apart.
The reason why it is atypical is that the electromagnetic pulse it releases does not at least have a great impact on the instruments of the dreadnought. It also does not have a great impact on the mass of stars. At least it can form a galaxy with a stable structure and a large-capacity transition channel.
Woolen cloth.
Of course, such a galaxy is destined to be impossible to produce habitable planets, or even transformable Earth-like planets.
The friends on the ship did find an automatic detection beacon, which is a facility used to automatically collect star data and local galaxy constants. It is placed two standard astronomical units away from the pulsar itself. The device is clearly from the Empire at a glance.
The product, unfortunately, has not been maintained for many years and has basically been scrapped.
Also, even the most conscientious workers would not be happy to work in this damn place. What's more, compared to the Milky Way mainland, the management level of the colonies in the New World is always lower. This is true for all governor-general offices in the New World.
It is the same virtue as colonial countries.
The friends on the ship have returned to their respective combat readiness posts, carefully observing the surrounding situation.
It was here that the formation led by the Empire's cruiser Sabretooth Tiger was attacked. Now thinking about it, it is very likely that they were attacked by those space crystals. But although those unknown crystal monsters were defeated, it does not mean that the galaxy is safe.
.Perhaps the predator fleet is hiding in the shadow corner of the galaxy, watching eagerly, and sneaking towards everyone.
Yu Lian closed his eyes and sensed the constants of the universe from a spiritual perspective. As a wall-hanger with "space intuition" ability and fusion of the ethereal pineal gland, his current perception ability is definitely not in the same range.
Under "Explore".
In addition to the ability to discern space beyond ordinary people's understanding, it also includes the mysterious ability to predict potential dangers, which is the legendary "I have an unknown premonition about this."
This ability is actually similar to the psyker's ability to predict when exploring and fighting, but it has a wider range.
In short, on battleships and exploration ships, the navigator's job, in addition to the humanoid shipping computer, also includes the "metaphysical radar" function to predict danger. And now, Yu Lian's radar is telling himself that everyone should be safe in this galaxy.
There are currently no enemies threatening us.
Even so, he was not prepared to let his comrades stop being vigilant.
On the one hand, it is because the so-called "metaphysical radar" has the possibility of overturning. In history, there have been cases where high-ranking psychics who were commanders of the entire army were too superstitious in their premonitions of crisis, leading the entire army to a pit.
The most typical example is that in the Fifth Galactic War, the Empire's Second Guards Fleet was deceived in the battle of Daga Starfield, causing the contemporary Queen Magana to lose her temper and yell "Purius, change."
That Admiral Pulius of "our fleet".
But even with such painful lessons learned, high-ranking psychics who hold leadership positions are still filled with insurmountable arrogance. Yu Lian feels that he cannot learn from them no matter what.
More importantly, as a materialist, we should learn to believe in science. When science and metaphysics conflict, scientific cognition must be put first.
On the other hand, there is a saying that for soldiers, the combat readiness state is actually when their experience points increase the fastest. It doesn't matter to the mercenaries, but it is very important to the naval academies sent by Toss.
Yu Lian felt that since he signed a large teaching and training contract, he should still have some contractual spirit.
No, just because everyone has been maintaining a high degree of tension and concentration, a naval cadet from Toss quickly discovered some subtle energy residual signals on the galaxy scan map, and quickly reported it to the bridge.
The Throne continued to maintain a vigilant cruising attitude, and moved towards the signal direction at a constant speed, and soon the source of the signal was within the detection range of the external camera. As a result, everyone on the bridge soon saw something floating in space.
A large piece of broken and broken ship wreckage.
"It should be the battlefield where the Saber-toothed Tiger encountered the enemy." Feifei said.
Yu Lian agreed with Feifei's opinion. Although these floating objects in space were torn and broken hull fragments, the style of the Empire could still be seen.
Sure enough, on one of the armor fragments on the ship's side, hung a relatively complete hull number and ship's emblem, it was the Saber-toothed Tiger that sent the distress signal three days ago.
In addition, Yu Lian also saw crystal fragments floating in space around him. Under the cover of the ship wreckage, they were naturally even more inconspicuous.
It seemed that these imperial warships were indeed attacked by space crystals, but it was impossible to determine whether there were other enemies present at the time.
Later, everyone determined that in addition to the Sabretooth cruiser, the wreckage of the Blade 121 destroyer and the Corona 732 assault ship were destroyed at the scene.
This reconnaissance fleet that was originally affiliated to the Imperial Governor's Mansion, except for the Apocalypse Eagle destroyer that escaped to the Hailing α system, all died here.
For humanitarian reasons, the Scarlet Throne continued to be on alert while stopping near the gathering place of the large debris. It began to conduct life response detection and sent an automatic call signal. At the same time, some mercenaries with search and rescue experience were also asked to
Soldiers led a team and drove a small traffic boat into it to conduct a search.
Yu Lian felt that although everyone's search and rescue operations were not the most professional, they were at least diligent. Sadly, after several hours of searching, many completely stiff bodies were found, but not the living ones.
But none was found.
Of course, luckily, someone finally found a relatively complete video of the ship's data terminal from the Blade Destroyer. After some not very professional repairs of the internal data, they finally got a video of less than
It's a three-minute video with a quality that still resembles the style of the classical TV era.
Although the picture quality is hard to describe, everyone still witnessed the scene when it was attacked. The imperial warship was caught off guard and was bombarded by a sudden crystal shell. It could not find its way north in an instant. This not only proved Yu Lian's guess, but also let the friends know each other again.
Apart from the dangers of those unknown crystals, there is really no value at all.
However, at the end of the video, a voice sounded off-screen: "Captain, there is a ship jump signal! Is it at D1244? No, it's F8776? Well, that's where it is anyway!"
"Is it reinforcements?" The captain in the screen was overjoyed, and the video ended here.
Of course, later insiders also knew that these unlucky imperial reconnaissance teams naturally did not wait for any rescue. However, their so-called "ship jump signal" is very imaginative.
Yu Lian looked at Feifei, or had already opened the galaxy airspace map, entered the coordinates mentioned in the video, and then harvested a vast airspace with a length, width and height of at least one standard astronomical unit.
However, what is certain is that the gravity wells currently known in this galaxy are not located in this space.
There was silence on the ship for a moment.
Anyone with a little common sense will understand what this means.
New waterways, new trade routes, both fame and fortune, and a name that will go down in history!
However, after Vega was ecstatic for a few seconds, his face collapsed again.
The environment of the pulsar is indeed not friendly to data collection. There are no particularly advanced aerospace computers installed on the Throne, and there is no professional analysis team on board. Even if the gravity wells in this airspace are known to exist, based on the current situation on the ship,
With some conditions, I'm afraid even if it doesn't take three to five months, it won't be able to calculate anything.
To put it bluntly, it is impossible to find a needle in a haystack, but is it easy to find a needle in a pond?
Vega, who had systematically studied space navigation in the academy, looked at the clumsy ship-borne center that began to chatter and collect messy data. It looked like a mess, and obvious pain suddenly appeared on his happy round face.
He looked at Yu Lian eagerly.
"Let's move towards this star field." Yu Lian said listlessly.
Everyone didn't understand why he suddenly lost energy, but he still obeyed orders. Feifei also took this opportunity to thoughtfully pour Yu Lian a cup of hot tea.
Yu Lian finished drinking the tea that Feifei had made by herself. Although she was definitely not as skilled in this aspect as Liuli, she still regained her energy.
Well, in an era when the technology tree is already skewed, if technology cannot solve things for the time being, I will try my best to use metaphysics to solve them. While he was thinking this, he walked to the outermost terrace of the upper level of the bridge.
"After entering this airspace, quickly switch to the second charge speed." Yu Lian left this instruction again.
Feifei frowned slightly and said worriedly: "Second charge speed? Can you calculate it?"
"At any rate, I have the fifth ring now, and I have always been very confident in my physical fitness." Yu Lian gave a thumbs up: "Human beings, you have to push yourself a lot of times."