Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 406

Chapter 405: The Tall Pirate Squad

Chapter 405,

The joint forces of the tall pirate squad Dragon Eagle star field have achieved their war goals, but it does not mean that the war is over.

War can be started at will, but it cannot be ended at will.

How could the greenskins suffer this loss and just accept it?

In the two star systems of Water Mist Star and Silver Gate 2, the war continues. The greenskins attacked fiercely for two years, trying to take back these two planets, and then attack Silver Gate 3 and White Mist Star behind these two star systems.

The human army gritted its teeth and held on for two years, and beat the greenskins back.

Until now, there are still sporadic small-scale wars going on. The large-scale battle is over, otherwise, the Pegasus Fleet would not be able to come back.

According to the plan, the Pegasus Fleet will come back to rest for at least five years. People need to rest, and the ships also need to be repaired.

The attacking Pegasus Fleet is led by five cruisers, and all the warships add up to more than a hundred. After six years of fighting, one cruiser was destroyed, and more than 20 other ships were lost. The rest could only be repaired on the battlefield. Overall, they were exhausted to a certain extent.

It is estimated that after returning, it may not be possible to repair all the ships in five years. By then, the shipyard of Feiyi Star will probably have to reduce production, and many docks will have to be vacated for ship repair. The cost of repairing ships alone may exceed 20 billion.

The relevant orders have been sent.

Of course, the cost of repairing ships is paid by the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Imperial Navy, and it will be used to offset taxes, 2 billion a year.

From the perspective of income, it is not a loss. At least a few docks are vacant, and other ships can be built.

Gu Hang and Ye Lixia also talked several times during this period, and they planned to get married when they returned.

As for the war to continue, the two will face separation again in a few years, which is probably inevitable. Even at the status of Gu Hang and Ye Lixia, they are often helpless – or even more helpless.

But at least I can live a few years of peaceful life, that’s all Gu Hang can tell himself.

Calculating the time, Ye Lixia should have set off.

To come back, we need to travel through the star tunnel twelve times. Generally speaking, the one-way time from one galaxy to another is about five to eight days at the speed of an ordinary fleet. Among them, the time for traveling through the star tunnel is not long, usually just one day, mainly because the ship has to sail for a long time from the star port to the vast void between the jump point.

However, in long-distance travel, this problem can be greatly overcome. Mainly, if the starship does not stop along the way, it will be in an accelerated state, flying from one jump point to another without slowing down, and directly starting the jump when it arrives at the destination, and continuing to accelerate to the next jump point, the speed of the entire fleet will become faster and faster.

In the physical universe, the speed of navigation does not affect the jump time. The twelve star tunnels will take more than ten days, which cannot be reduced, but the time spent in space in between can be compressed to about twenty-five days. The entire voyage is only about a month.

That is to say, in another month, Gu Hang will be able to see his fiancée.

She feels strange.

Originally, in order to solve the problem of political marriage, before Ye Lixia left, Gu Hang had tried hard to bring the two closer. This separation lasted for six years. It was hard to say how much of the little feeling that was cultivated before was left.

But it was fine. This marriage had to go on anyway, no matter what the emotional foundation of the two was.

…

While arranging the welcoming ceremony on Feiyi Star, a military operation that the alliance was currently carrying out also had results.

After the routes within the Tianma Star Region became prosperous, pirates were attracted.

Pirates are annoying. They appear and disappear in the starry sea. They can’t do anything big, but they harass everywhere. They hijack a small boat today and run away to circle the navy tomorrow. It’s very disgusting.

Excluding those powerful pirate alliances that are difficult to wipe out, ordinary pirate groups are scum in front of the imperial officials. As long as you can find their nest, it’s easy to extinguish them.

But the problem is, you have to find the nest.

Where is the pirate base, where do the ships come from, where do the personnel come from… For the authorities, it is all a mystery.

And as long as this information is mastered, it is often the time when the pirate group is destroyed.

The pirate group that haunts the Tianma star zone is called the “Red Eye Pirate Group”. It has been cholera for more than a year.

The damage they caused is not big or small.

To say it is not big, it means that it is not a serious blow to the alliance.

To say it is not small, losing a ship, even a small ship like the Traveler, is several million tax coins.

Not to mention, there was a ship departing from Korojia, carrying more than 800 young students appointed by the local government of Korojia, going to Feiyi Star. All the young students who were going to study to change their destiny were captured.

This is undoubtedly a blatant provocation to the alliance.

Gu Hang could not tolerate such a thing happening in his own star zone.

The pirates conveyed the ransom demand to Gu Hang through secret channels, and the amount they demanded was ridiculously high. But they underestimated Gu Hang’s determination and the power of the alliance. No matter how much money these pirates wanted, even if it was only a dime, Gu Hang never intended to pay.

He knew that once he surrendered, it would mean setting a precedent. The pirates would become more aggressive after tasting the sweetness. By then, knowing that the alliance was weak and easy to bully, and that they could make a lot of money by coming here, there might be more than one “Red Eye Pirate Group” coming to the Tianma Star Region to beg for money. Maybe all kinds of colorful eyes would pop up.

He had to give a tough response to let all potential pirates know that challenging the alliance was to seek death.

Gu Hang rejected the ransom demand without hesitation, even if it meant the death of hundreds of people.

At the same time, he also issued orders to the newly established Alliance Navy and Du Shiliang of the Tianma Fleet, asking them to solve the problem as soon as possible and prevent such things from happening.

This was not easy, mainly because pirates were not easy to find.

All they could do was some stupid methods.

Reduce the frequency of flights, gather a group of ships, and then go together, with the Alliance Navy escorting them.

The method is effective, but the key is that it is disgusting. The efficiency of Xinghai shipping has been greatly reduced, and escort also consumes the cost of the navy, fuel money, ship depreciation, all of which are additional losses.

It takes a thousand days to steal, but it takes a thousand days to prevent thieves.

The goal of the Alliance Navy and the Imperial Navy is to eliminate this group of pirates as soon as possible.

In the several attempts to repel the pirates’ harassment, the Alliance’s fast ships played a role at this time.

Thanks to the Alliance’s technical accumulation in advanced engines, when designing ships, it is very luxurious to equip almost all types of ships with excellent engines.

Spiritual engines, which are used for conventional navigation, are actually not equipped in large quantities on normal ships. For example, ordinary patrol ships will not even install them. It is a bit expensive, and the most important thing is that it consumes high-level energy such as energy crystals, which is very expensive. It is a bit wasteful to use this for low-level ships.

But the Alliance is not afraid of waste.

The Wrathful Owl Star has a large amount of energy output. At present, the Wrathful Owl Star has rich experience in the collection and utilization of energy from waste energy storms. Energy compression technology also comes from the output of black boxes. After years of expansion, it now has a fairly good output.

Especially after the population is abundant, the other two uninhabited continents on the Wrathful Owl Star have now entered the development process. The planetary government has established large-scale energy collection factories on those two continents.

Moreover, the Alliance’s Technology Center, in conjunction with the Storm Mage Corps and the Psychic Order, has been studying how to completely quell the waste energy storm on a global scale. Once this project is conquered, the spiritual gas field is expected to reappear on the Wrath of the Owl. By then, the Wrath of the Owl will have the potential to reach a level of development of around 4 or 5 by producing energy alone. Coupled with the stronger industrial productivity and shipbuilding industry than before the war, the development potential of the entire planet is greater than any world in the Pegasus Star Region!

Even at present, we can only roughly collect the energy of the waste energy storm, which is incomparable to the efficiency of the spiritual gas field back then, but it can barely reach 20%, which is also a good output.

Thanks to the convenient advanced energy, and the spiritual engine produced by the black box, which can bring down the price a lot, the Alliance ships can be equipped with this engine set on a large scale. Especially the two fast ships, “Silver Sword” and “Black Fish”, which can bite the pirates and can’t run away.

Generally speaking, because of their combat characteristics, pirate ships generally do not choose to attack head-on, and what they pursue is an unequal attack. It was enough to defeat transport ships and armed merchant ships, and the rest was all about speed.

However, they still couldn’t escape from the ships of the Alliance Navy.

After several annihilation battles, the Red Eye Pirates were seriously injured, and their frequency of appearances was greatly reduced, and they never succeeded again.

For ordinary star regions, solving the pirate problem to this extent is almost over, and even most places where pirates are active cannot achieve this.

But the Alliance will obviously not let it go.

The Alliance Navy will never give up until these Red Eye Pirates are completely exterminated.

Through severe torture of prisoners, psychic brain searches, and the psychic order’s Star Language Hall intercepting the astropathic conversations in the entire star region, they finally figured out the background of these pirates.

They established a hidden base on a satellite near a gas giant planet in the Red Arrow Galaxy. There were some supplies needed for pirate ships stored there, and there were thousands of slaves working there, responsible for repairing ships, processing some parts with local materials, and building a small underground plantation.

Of course, the satellite of the giant planet had not undergone any habitability transformation, and humans could not survive in it normally. Those slaves could only live inside the base, and they had to wear corresponding space suits when going out.

There were more than a thousand Alliance prisoners who were also imprisoned there.

After mastering this information, the Pegasus Fleet sent some forces to raid there together with the Alliance Navy.

Nine pirate ships were destroyed, the pirate base was also destroyed, and thousands of slaves and Alliance hostages were more or less damaged, but most of them were rescued.

However, under the news of victory, there were still losses.

A “Blackfish” fast patrol ship of the Alliance Navy was lost.

It was not lost in the naval battle. With absolute power, the Alliance Navy would not lose the ship no matter how weak it was. However, after all the pirate ships were destroyed and the resistance forces on the island base were lifted, the Marines landed on the satellite surface. When they liberated the slaves and hostages, they were hit hard by a strange enemy squad.

In the ground battle, the casualties were very serious. And this strange enemy squad, in turn, occupied a landing ship and drove it into the sky. Caught

off guard, the landing ship showed very flexible driving skills, crossed the firepower net that was hesitant to fire, and smashed into a blackfish patrol ship. Then, the pirate squad hijacked the “Blackfish” and escaped the pursuit.

When Gu Hang saw the battle process at first, he was a little surprised.

There were basically no accidents in the whole combat process, and the performance of the Alliance Navy was in line with expectations. It was even excellent for a newly established army.

But this first show was messed up by the so-called pirate squad.

The ability shown by that squad was too fierce.

Before the operation, the Alliance military considered the possibility of ground combat. After all, they had to deal with the personnel and could not blow them all up. Therefore, at the beginning of the operation, in addition to the Marine Corps established with the Navy, they also requested to borrow some elite troops from the 10th Special Operations Brigade of the Alliance Army.

One hundred special operations elites participated in the battle, including three teams of elites wearing “Servant God” feedback power armor.

Such a team can be penetrated by a so-called pirate team?

What kind of pirate team is this? Space Marine pirates? !

Space Marines?

Wait a minute.

Gu Hang immediately paid attention to the description of these enemies by the survivors of the battle mentioned in the next line of the battle report.

They are very tall, much taller than ordinary people, and it is estimated that each person is about 2.2 meters tall; they are wearing heavy power armor, which is clearly different from feedback power armor; their power armor looks a bit tattered, with a pure red paint, but the parts that should have clear markings, such as the chest armor and shoulder armor, are all scratched and painted.

At the back, there is also a blurry photo.

The painted-over symbol on the shoulder was not very clear, but Gu Hang gestured and felt that there might be a soaring firebird underneath.

He thought for a moment and dialed a special number on the Wrathful Owl.

“Captain Martins? It’s me. The Alliance may need you and your warriors to provide some help.”

After a pause, he added:

“It may also be related to the Phoenix itself.”

“Anyway, take a look at the report first.”

(End of this chapter)