Chapter 1704

It is 80 light-years away from the outer world of Xingyao Federation, the deep sea of stars, the unknown star field, and behind a brown dwarf.

There is a vast sea of stars and infinite bodies. If you draw a sphere with a radius of 100 light years, there are more than 5000 star systems in the seven spheres - most of them are inanimate and inanimate worlds.

Even in the past 100 years, every year, every month and every day, the Xingyao Federation has continuously launched unmanned Mini exploration ships and high-sensitivity triggered star sea mines to these barren worlds, trying to build a solid defense line, at least the "border line", within 200 light-years around itself. Up to now, it is far from filling all the 5000 barren worlds.

Around 5000 stars, there are still a large number of dark star regions that have not been detected and monitored by the Federation. The so-called "border line" is completely flawed and illusory, just a kind of psychological comfort.

The "Star" is at least the largest federal star monitoring station in spider's nest, cixingzhai, which can monitor and lock large objects.

Brown dwarfs are one order lower than stars.

Brown dwarf is a kind of gaseous object which is similar to a star, but its mass is not big enough to ignite fusion reaction in the core. Its mass is between the smallest star and the largest planet, so it is very dim. It is also called "failed star".

Due to the lack of mass, it is extremely difficult to release the psionic fluctuations that can be sensed by the assassinated Star Studio and any federal star monitoring station.

According to the analysis of astronomers in the Federation, there are at least 3000 brown dwarfs within the radius of 100 light-years of the major worlds in the Federation, and less than 500 brown dwarfs have been discovered and named by the Federation.

There are still 2500 brown dwarfs, like invisible eyes, slowly spinning and drifting in the dark and cold unknown star field.

Although these brown dwarfs are extremely difficult to be explored and developed by the Federation 100 light-years away, some of them can still release extremely high temperatures within a short distance.

This temperature can be transformed into weak energy for a long-distance fleet to rest; It will not be too violent to interfere with the various magic weapon units highly worn out by the fleet during the hundred year long voyage; It can also slightly cover up the fluctuation of the power released by the fleet when it is resting, repairing, unfolding, and building large-scale array torches.

Even if perceived by the federal sky watch, the fleet would be considered part of the brown dwarf.

The black wind fleet has been in the synchronous orbit of the brown dwarf for seven years.

The star sea expedition is not an overnight thing. 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 had only a small piece of incomplete flying star boundary coordinates on hand. If they jumped by relying on this piece of incomplete coordinates, 99.99% of them would jump to an unknown barren world that was not recorded in the star map and could not see any astronomical parameters. It was like falling into a whirlpool of stars without consuming a lot of resources. It was extremely difficult to jump out again, even if they jumped out, It's also very likely that it's the second damned unknown barren world.

Just as it happens, the expansion of the human empire in the past millennium has not yet extended to the flying star world.

As a result, the black wind fleet, which was defeated in the front line, lost its old nest, and became "isolated and disabled soldiers", but was not willing to be absorbed and annexed by other countries, accepted this glorious and arduous task to open up territory for the Empire and consolidate the rear area.

Their mission is not only to explore and conquer the Flying Star Kingdom, but also to explore all the unknown star regions from the Empire in the center of the star sea to the Flying Star Kingdom. Especially in the era of the "old star sea Empire", the vast world recorded in the historical materials and star map fragments is the "prey" they are looking for.

Therefore, the Kuroshio fleet is not in a hurry to make a super long-distance star sea jump, but jump to the flying star world, the coordinate point released by the former "star child".

Considering the complexity of starsea jump and the cost calculation of power consumption, the amount of power and resources consumed will be increased by a square for every time the distance of starsea jump is doubled. As a lone remnant, the black wind fleet, which clearly can't get more supplies and reinforcements from the base camp, will never rush to make a super long-range jump.

What they choose is a tactic called "star leaping frog". 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 the most suitable star. While exploring whether there are habitable stars and human civilization around the star, they will drop a special "star bomb" on the star.

With the level of magic power and magic weapon of Human Empire, it is unlikely to directly destroy a star, and the purpose of this kind of "star bomb" is not to destroy, but to activate the specific area of the star to provide power for their next jump.

When the exploration around the star is completed, all parameters and coordinates are entered into the star map for updating, and large-scale star torches are established near the local stable planets, which means that other fleets can easily travel between these star domains and the Empire in the future, which means that these star domains are included in the Empire's "territory".

At this time, they often collect enough energy, so they start a new "star leapfrog", and then repeat the above process.

Therefore, in the past 100 years, we have been exploring, recording and constructing continuously, and we didn't reach the Xinghai border until ten years ago.

The black wind fleet has had bad luck in the past 100 years.

They haven't found too many habitable planets of great value for development.

Even in the historical materials and star map fragments left by the Xinghai Empire, it is recorded that the human world, which once had a prosperous civilization, was found by them after a lot of hardships and consumption of resources. They often found that the local world had collapsed and all the powers had been consumed or lost. The civilization was only a piece of ruins, even though there were some savages, It is impossible to make up for the resources consumed by the black wind fleet in order to find them.

Resources, resources, resources! Resources are the most precious things in the sea of stars!

Civilization, civilization, civilization! Civilization is the most vulnerable existence in the cold universe!

After three or four times of disappointment, the situation of the black wind fleet became extremely embarrassing.

Yes, on the surface, they "opened up" a large area of territory for the Empire, but they were all the lowest rated and almost worthless barren world.

In the sea of stars, the most worthless is the so-called "territory". Looking up at the starry sky, hundreds of millions of stars and boundless territory, theoretically, all of them contain rich resources and extremely high value. The world that has no wisdom since ancient times can be claimed as the territory of the Empire if only a national flag is planted, a national anthem is sung and a star torch is built next to it.

However, such a "territory" is meaningless. No matter how high the "theoretical" value is, the Empire must be able to develop it on a large scale at an appropriate cost!

Even though a certain world claims to have 10000 resources, what's the use of such a world if the Empire develops it, collects, smelts and transports resources back to the Empire and consumes 20000 resources?

This does not include the construction and maintenance of the star torch, as well as all kinds of extra management costs and supply line defense costs that the Empire had to spend in order to rule the world!

Unfortunately, the black wind fleet has not found much of such a world in the past hundred years.

The star fields they found are often "well, theoretically speaking, it is possible to find 10000 points of resources for deep exploration, but the exploration cost is 5000 points, and the subsequent development cost is estimated to be 10000 to 100000 points of resources".

It is impossible for such a world to make much contribution to the black wind fleet.

There is no contribution point, and there is no home of their own, which means that the black wind fleet can not get more supplies and brand-new warships from other parts of the Empire. What's more, it means that if they slip back like this, they will only be eaten by others, completely incorporated, or sent to the most dangerous front line to compete with the holy alliance.

Naturally, Heifeng people are not willing to choose any road.

They continue to march into deep space, putting all their eggs in one basket!

At this time, they received the news that a claw fleet had been destroyed. They also knew that there was a regional power in the border area of Xinghai. They even found the exiled government of Xinghai Republic, the last "mobile land"!

A century of bad luck, once reversed, but still opportunities and challenges coexist.

The good news is that the prey in front of us is fat enough. As long as we can swallow the prey which calls itself "Xingyao Federation", the strength of the black wind fleet can be increased by at least three to five times. Even if we return to the center of Xinghai, we still have enough strength to compete with all the people including the emperor and the warlords.

The bad news is that the prey seems to be a little too fat. It's not only fat but also strong muscles, strong bones and sharp claws.

The black wind fleet in a dilemma has two choices at this time.

They can set up a large-scale array of star torches here, build a magnificent star gate, truthfully report the information here to the Empire, the insatiable emperor, various princes and warlords, and call for local support.

Of course, setting up Stargate and activating it and maintaining it at a very high teleportation 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 dividing up their prey.

Or

Do it yourself! He alone will eat the federal behemoth, devour all the benefits!