Interstellar Soldier

Chapter 285 Borderlands
The central region is the place with the densest stars and the richest resources in the Southern Alpha galaxy.In this area that only accounts for one-tenth of the Southern Alpha galaxy, there are one-third of the star systems in the Southern Alpha galaxy, and there is also a central black hole that maintains the stable existence of the Southern Alpha galaxy.

In fact, the entire Southern Alpha galaxy revolves around the central black hole, and the cycle is about one billion years.

According to the natural evolution law of the star system, after about 120 billion years, all the stars in the Southern Alpha galaxy will fall into the central black hole.

Of course, it doesn't matter what happens 120 billion years from now.

Here, the stars are very dense, and the distance between two adjacent star systems is rarely more than five light-years, mostly between one and three light-years.Because they are so close and interact so strongly, many stars live less than a billion years.It's just that for any intelligent civilization, one billion years is a very long time.You must know that the Galactic Federation came to the Southern Alpha galaxy only 5000 years ago.

It is precisely because there are a large number of stars, as well as planets such as planets orbiting the stars, that the central region has the most abundant resources in the entire Southern Alpha galaxy.If you don't consider things a billion years later, this is also the most suitable place for the survival and development of intelligent civilization.

Of course, not all star systems are suitable for settlement by intelligent civilizations.

After 5000 years of development, the planets with rich resources and suitable environments in the central region have long been occupied by seven top civilizations, and even those planets with less resources and less suitable environments have also been occupied by later advanced civilizations.Under the predatory development, many planets were abandoned due to the depletion of resources or the destruction of the environment, and became uninhabited and unmanaged lands.

On the route from Alliance Star to Hidden Spirit Star, there are countless such planets.

The distance of [-] light-years is not too short. Within the range of [-] light-years on both sides of this route, there are nearly [-] star systems, large and small.

EJ77984 is one of them.

Because there are too many star systems to name every star, most star systems have only one official number.Only those star systems that have settlers and development value will be named, and such star systems are only a very small number.

Of course, those star systems that were abandoned due to resource exhaustion will also be forgotten, and the only thing left is the official number.

Such is the case with the EJ77984 star system.

5000 years ago, before the Galactic Federation came to the Southern Alpha system, it was home to an industrialized indigenous civilization.Although this indigenous civilization has put up a desperate resistance, the military power at the industrial level is simply not enough to resist the powerful Galactic Alliance.After conquering the indigenous civilization, the Hidden Elders occupied this star system and exploited the resources in the star system.

When they came to the Southern Alpha galaxy, even the top civilizations faced the problem of resource shortage.After occupying this star system, the Hidden Eldar did not make long-term plans, but only hoped to use the mined resources to grow rapidly and use them to wipe out the indigenous civilizations in other places.As a result, under the frantic mining of the Hidden Eldar, the resources in this star system were quickly depleted and quickly lost their value.

After that, the first Greenwich War broke out.

In order to defeat the powerful Silicon Charm Alliance, including the Spirit Race, all the civilizations of the Milky Way Alliance have tried their best, and the Spirit Race, which is the top civilization, has played the role of the mainstay.That is, during the first Greenwich War, this star system was abandoned by the Eldar because of the exhaustion of resources.

For thousands of years thereafter, it was a land of no man.

Although in the Fifth Greenwich War, the Hidden Eldar once planned to donate the EJ77984 star system to other civilizations in exchange for the resources needed to expand their military power.After the rapid fall of the Northern Fourth District, the Hidden Spirits also considered setting up a refugee camp here to accommodate the orphans of civilizations that were destroyed by the army of silicon demons.As the Human Federation blocked the advance of the Silicon Charm army on the Lighthouse Planet, all these ideas came to naught.In the eyes of the Hidden Eldar, even an abandoned star system has high value because of its unique location.As for the orphans of the low-level civilizations that suffered the catastrophe, they are not valued by the Hidden Elders at all, and they have to bear the responsibility of rebuilding them when they take in the refugees.

That is to say, for more than 4000 years after the first Greenwich War, the EJ77984 star system was not settled.

Of course, it doesn't mean that there are no people here.

According to Jackson, more than 100 years ago, when he was escorting a local tyrant to the Hidden Star, he had been to this star system and met a group of pirates here.Because the stay was not very long, Jackson didn't know the situation of these pirates. He only knew that there was a temporary base here, which mainly provided supplies for the passing pirates, and some pirates also traded here.

If this temporary base is still there, there must be pirates coming in and out, and the spaceship can be found.

Jackson made it very clear not to get your hopes up. The EJ77984 star system is within the jurisdiction of the Eldar, and warships of the Eldar often visit it.Not to mention pirates, even legions of other civilizations dare not provoke the warships of the Hidden Eldar, let alone confront the Hidden Eldar.

That's right, what's set up here is just a temporary base, and the pirates who come here will only stay here for a short time.As for the guys who run this temporary base, they are ready to escape at any time.It can be said that as long as there is the slightest sign of trouble, they will run away.

Of course, this is also the reason why Yang Yi insisted on going to the EJ77984 star system.

It's very simple, if those guys want to escape, they must need a spaceship, and it is a good enough spaceship, at least a spaceship that flies fast enough.

Obviously, this is exactly what Yang Yi and the others need now.

After flying out of the jump channel, the "Shadow" began to slow down.

Now, the "Shadow" is a small pirate ship, Yang Yi and the others are all pirates, and Jackson, who is experienced, has become the leader of the pirates.

In the entire Southern Alpha galaxy, there are only a few pirates like this with only one pirate ship and dozens of members.

According to Jackson's arrangement, they came here for three purposes, one was to replenish supplies, the other was to sell items, and the third was to obtain information.In fact, most of the small-scale pirate legions will only go to a certain base under such circumstances. They usually sail in space, so it is right to say that they are wandering.The reason is simple, the small pirate army is not capable enough, and if they stay in a certain place for a long time, they are easy to be targeted by others.Although pirates have unwritten rules and rarely kill each other, driven by profit, it is not uncommon for black to eat black.All pirates know that if you don't have enough strength, don't show off. If you are targeted by others, you may be killed.

In order to avoid attracting attention, the "Shadow" did not directly enter the EJ77984 star system.

Soon, the "Shadow" came to the outskirts of the star system, and in front of it was a meteorite belt that surrounded the star and was composed of billions of meteorites, large and small.

The EJ77984 star system originally had two solid planets, but 5000 years ago, when it was attacked by the Galactic Federation, the indigenous civilization blew up the outer planet to deal with the invading enemy. The meteorite belt ahead of the "Shadow" is the product of the planet's collapse.

"Wait, don't act rashly unless you are attacked." Jackson told Yang Yi and others.

Yang Yi nodded, indicating that he understood what Jackson meant.

That temporary base was set up on the planet behind the meteorite belt. If it was still there, the pirates who ran it would deploy patrol ships in the meteorite belt.

In fact, the meteorite belt is a natural line of defense.

Perhaps, it is precisely because of this meteorite belt that the pirates chose the EJ77984 star system and established a temporary base here.As long as some detectors are deployed in the meteorite belt, the pirates in the temporary base can escape in time even if they are attacked by the warships of the Hidden Spirit Race.If there is no meteorite belt, I am afraid that the pirates in the temporary base will not be discovered until the battleship of the Hidden Spirit Race appears in the orbit of the planet.

Under Jackson's control, the "Shadow" drilled into the meteorite belt.

In fact, the meteorite belt is not crowded.Although billions of meteorites were formed after the planet collapsed, the space around the star is huge enough.These meteorites are not crowded together, but scattered, and the distance between large meteorites is more than [-] kilometers.

Of course, in the vast cosmic space, this can be regarded as very dense.

Although these meteorites cannot prevent the battleship from passing through, they can pose a threat to the battleship, so that the battleship cannot open the space channel here, nor can it directly enter the meteorite belt through the space channel.In addition, there are a large number of space fluctuations caused by meteorites that are still moving at high speed, and the distance between the meteorite belt and the stars is not very far, so the risk of opening a space channel inside the meteorite belt is also very high.

Just like this, even the warships of the Hidden Spirit Race can only pass through the meteorite belt in the normal way.

Under Jackson's control, the "Shadow" was flying slowly.

Of course, this is only a relative term, and the speed of the "Shadow" is still as high as hundreds of kilometers per second.The reason for slowing down is not because I am afraid of hitting a meteorite, but because I don't want to cause misunderstanding.If the makeshift base was still there, and the pirates there were keeping a close eye on the Shadow as it entered the meteorite field, the rapid flight might have been taken as a sign of malice.Flying slowly, at least it can show that there is no malice.

At the same time, the detectors on the "Shadow" are also closely monitoring the surroundings, and display the images taken in the cockpit.

"what is that?"

"A spaceship." Justin answered Lin Feng's question. "Don't worry, it's a scrapped spaceship, and it's probably been docked there for thousands of years."

Lin Feng let out a long breath and calmed down.

Indeed, the spaceship docked next to the meteorite about a thousand kilometers away was very dilapidated, with a huge hole in its hull, and there were no energy fluctuations, and no signs of life.In addition, the style of the spaceship is very old, which is obviously different from the current spaceship.

It's just that there is not only that spaceship near the "Shadow".

(End of this chapter)