Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 280 The Great Colonial System
Hundreds of hundred-kilometer-class battleships opened fire at the same time, and each salvo made the huge Washington Space Station shake violently.

People walking among them stumbled toward the escape pods.

However, it didn't take long for the pirates' fierce and indiscriminate offensive to destroy the escape pod area together.

The rapid flames engulfed the people in the aisle like a fire dragon.

Some flesh and blood bodies were directly burned to ashes by the flames, and some Portmans who had been transformed by prosthetics were left with only half of their mechanical bodies still exposed after the flames.

Only the English synthetic man, who was completely transformed by the machine, survived this swift and fierce dragon crossing.

The air was scorchingly distorted, and the damage to the passage soon brought about a storm that swept through.

Like a bathtub that has been unplugged, everything is sucked out.

This time, even the synthetic man couldn't resist, and everything flew out together.

After the huge space station's energy shield covering itself was overloaded, the main guns of the battleship directly hit the heavy armor of the space station.

The fire continued continuously, and soon there were many damages at the joints of the entire space station. It was torn apart and disintegrated on the spot.

Just when everyone was running away in panic.

The soles of a synthetic man's feet were like suckers, even though the surrounding gravity device had failed, and even though the entire space station seemed about to explode in the next second.

But he still walked steadily towards the space station's spacecraft parking spot.

Outside, the main guns of the Portman 100km-class battleship fired salvo after salvo at the crumbling space station.

A tachyon light spear penetrated several spacecraft parked here like a blue spear that could penetrate the universe.

Whether it is a spacecraft that has not activated the energy shield generator or a spacecraft that has activated it.

Without exception, the main guns of the 100km-class battleships were all penetrated by one shot.

One spaceship after another was reduced to ashes under the horrific firepower of the pirates.

Among the ships that were constantly being bombed, there was an ordinary-looking merchant ship that was traveling from England to Portman for trade. It miraculously withstood all this.

When the main gun of a 100km-class battleship hits it, it is like light hitting a prism, and it is directly scattered.

After the tachyon light spear hit it, it was divided into three parts and reflected out. With a rumble, this ship was fine, but the ships parked near this ship were in disaster. Without exception, all the tachyon light spears were scattered out. The spear of light pierced through.

Ravitch boarded his "merchant ship". After the merchant ship took off, the living metal on his body quickly transformed him into a huge star fighter, shuttled towards the dense group of pirate battleships.

Is Portman so trash now?Not even pirates can stop him.

Just as Ravitch was thinking this, he saw new red dots appearing densely on the radar detection device on his spacecraft.

The location where these spaceships appeared was not near the entrance and exit of the hyperspace route, but appeared out of thin air.

Ravich's pupils suddenly shrank.

Jump drive?When did the Predators have the jump engine technology!
It can be said that a big reason why the current Predator Empire has caused extremely limited damage is that the Predator Empire has not developed a jump engine.

A predator fleet that can fly around in its own country without following hyperspace routes is terrifying.

Because this means that in order to prevent them, the country must dispatch more forces, and set up an outpost in every galaxy.

This is undoubtedly a huge expense that is unacceptable to many countries with huge territories.The Western Galaxy of the British Empire has always been a dream place for pirates.

It has a huge territory, loose management, and frequent interstellar trade.

Under the British Empire, there were countless colonial countries and colonial planets.

Many of these planets cannot exist independently and have been intentionally divided into single production functions by England to form invisible control over the local governments.

For example, after the British Empire conquers a planet, it will completely abolish the industrial production capacity of the planet and only exist as a planet-wide resort.

So in this case, even if the local government intends to resist, it cannot organize any resistance.

Because as long as the British country's own tourists and merchant ships are cut off, the whole country will instantly fall into a stage of collapse.

In the same way, the production of food and the production of industrial products should also be separated.

No one of them can do without the other. If anyone dares to leave the colonial system of the British Empire, the government will be overthrown due to economic collapse.

Therefore, under this system, a large amount of trade was required between each colony, and the number of merchant ships was dozens of times that of other countries.

Not only daily necessities but also food must be transported, and even electricity cannot be produced by oneself. Trade routes must be established through colonies that specialize in the production of energy coins.

England's real direct jurisdiction is only 5% of the entire Western Galaxy, but it relies on these 5% of land to control 100% of the land in the Western Galaxy.

Among them, the colonial system should play the leading role.

Whenever a colony wants to rebel, just cut off some of its trade routes, and it will collapse first.

This has also led to the prevalence of pirates in their country and has become the back garden of the predator empire.

The annual cost that England spends on combating piracy is an amount that is unimaginable for normal countries.

Once the Predator Empire masters the jump engine, the price England will have to pay will be dozens or hundreds of times higher than it is now.

As in the past, as long as the entrance and exit are blocked, the pirates will not be able to move forward. The countermeasure will not work.

In view of this situation, Ravitch originally wanted to kill all these pirate attackers directly, but now he plans to rush into the ship and ask them something.

"Report, there is an abnormal target ahead and it is rapidly approaching us."

A soldier immediately reported when he saw a huge starfighter quickly breaching the defenses.

In addition to the battleships, there are many densely packed small ships. These small ships are frantically blocking the strange star fighter that keeps breaking through the defense line.

Although it has the appearance of a fighter plane and its spread wings are filled with various propulsion devices, its size is comparable to that of a spaceship.

Numerous destroyers and frigates blocked him, and the anti-aircraft guns drew brilliant lines one after another in the dark universe.

Ravitch's spaceship, on the other hand, showed the speed and maneuverability of a starfighter in the dense firepower net, easily shuttled through the dense firepower net.

The distance between the two sides on the radar map was getting closer and closer, and it was obvious that the other side was heading straight for the flagship.

But what an old man Dean is.

He has never been able to sit on this flagship, and he is currently watching all this calmly on a corner battleship.

(End of this chapter)