Interstellar Soldier

Chapter 396 Be cautious
Although with the powerful performance of the Flowing Shadow Ship, the "Xinghai" only needs to make a few space jumps to return to its home galaxy, but in order to avoid enemies along the way, especially those star systems with dangerous geographical locations and heavy guards, Yang They can only shorten the distance of space jumps, increase the number of jumps, and when necessary, they have to find a place to hide to avoid the patrolling enemy fleet.

This road can be said to be full of bumps and bumps, but fortunately, there are no dangers.

It must be admitted that the performance of Liuying Ship is indeed powerful enough.The few occasional encounters with the Silicon Phantom warship were avoided in time by relying on the powerful stealth ability.If it was replaced by other warships, even the most advanced scout ship of the Human Federation, such as the "Shadow", it might have been discovered long ago.

After more than a dozen space jumps and a big circle, the "Xinghai" finally came to the transit star on the 13th day.

In fact, this is already the jurisdiction of the home galaxy.

The transit star is also a lone star, but it was an asteroid in the home galaxy hundreds of years ago, but its orbit is very special. Time to wander the outskirts of the home galaxy.According to scientists' speculation, the transit star originally belonged to another star system. Billions of years ago, when this star system passed by the home galaxy, it was captured by the gravitational field of the home galaxy and became a member of the home galaxy. There are such bizarre tracks.In addition, according to the calculations of scientists, in a few billion years, the transit star will leave the home galaxy and become a genuine lone star.

Of course, the arrival of humans and the growth of the Human Federation have changed the fate of the Transit Star.

Before the outbreak of the Fifth Greenwich War, the Human Federation tried to strengthen its defense by expanding the defense area to deal with possible invasions at any time.However, based on the situation at the time, the Human Federation lacked both necessary technology and basic financial resources, so most of the plans remained on paper.Until the fifth Greenwich War broke out, the idea of ​​turning Transit Star into a peripheral fortress failed to become a reality.

The Fifth Greenwich War changed the Human Federation and the Transit Star.

Shortly after the war, the federal authorities made a decision, and the military department took the lead in building the transit star into a pillar-type military fortress on the periphery of the home galaxy.Affected by the situation at the time, the federal authorities and the military department worked together to transfer the transit star to its current location, which is the gravitational singularity about [-] million light-years away from the home galaxy, before the Galactic Federation Council made a ruling.Although the Galactic Federation subsequently made a ruling that the Human Federation is only responsible for the management of the star systems in the northern four districts, and has no right to take these unclaimed lands as its own. The location has already exceeded the jurisdiction of the home galaxy, but it is a done deal, and the Human Federation is a major contributor to the Fifth Greenwich War, and the Alliance Council has also acquiesced to this fait accompli.

Thus, the transit star has become the outermost space fortress of the home galaxy.

It is a pity that in the following hundreds of years, the Human Federation was not threatened by outsiders. The illusion of peace blinded everyone's eyes, and the military value of the transfer star was not fully reflected.Simply put, the federal authorities and the military do not take this space fortress seriously.Of course, the deeper reason is that Transit Star belongs to the military department, and all expenses are borne by the federal authorities, and have nothing to do with the nine theaters.Although military spending has been increasing year by year, after offsetting inflation, instead of increasing, it has shrunk year by year.The nine theaters can survive because of separate financial revenue.The military department is just a shelf, without jurisdiction, it is impossible to have other income.As a result, Transit Star has not been taken seriously, and many basic projects planned at the beginning have not been able to start construction.

It can be said that if the military hadn’t become a separate branch and was not subject to the control of the federal authorities, and anything related to basic defense and security required the approval of the Bundestag, the federal authorities would have taken over the Transit Star hundreds of years ago, and economically developed it.

The current transit star is not a space fortress.

But, that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Transit stars are not large, only about [-] kilometers in diameter.Although by the standards of the human legion, it has fully reached the standard of the space fortress, but for the Silicon Magic Alliance, the transit star is too small.After removing the necessary shell, the usable space inside is very narrow, and there are not too many legions that can be deployed here.In addition, the transit star is about [-] million light-years away from the home galaxy, and there are many asteroids on the outskirts of the home galaxy. Even if most of the asteroids are not big enough, there are a few of them that are big enough.Besides, being closer to the home galaxy makes these asteroids a more ideal bridgehead for the Silicon Charm Alliance to enter the home galaxy.

The Silicon Charm army occupied the Transit Star, but did not transform the Transit Star, but only deployed a troop and several patrol ships here.

To put it simply, the transit star has become a supporting point for the army of silicon demons to encircle the home galaxy.

It's just encirclement, not blockade.

Obviously, the main value of this frontier support point is to monitor the home galaxy and timely discover ships heading to or coming out of the home galaxy, so there is no need to deploy too many troops, and even if they are attacked, they will not suffer too much loss , and the fleet deployed nearby can arrive at any time for reinforcements.

There are many similar supporting points near the home galaxy.

In order to avoid being discovered by the enemy, the distance of the last jump of "Xinghai" was only ten light-years, and the energy for the space jump was compressed to a minimum.

Strictly speaking, this is not the last space jump.

It is imperative to come to the vicinity of transit stars, because in the vast universe, only planets with huge masses can cause space distortion, and thus become the reference point for space treaties.Even if the "Xinghai" has extremely advanced equipment, it is still necessary to determine the jumping route through reference points.If there is no reference point, it is impossible to determine the exit of the jump channel, and it is impossible to ensure safe arrival at the destination.

Although you can directly enter the home galaxy, the planets in the star system are too dense and there are a lot of spaceships, so entering the home galaxy rashly may produce unexpected results, such as opening the exit in a certain planet, or hitting a certain star system. A large spaceship.This is the case, even in peacetime, it is necessary to set up space jump nodes and space ports to ensure safe and effective space jumps.

There are dozens of spaceports in the home galaxy, but now is a time of war, and these spaceports may not be in their original positions.

As for the space node, in order to avoid sudden attacks by the enemy, it must have been blocked by the federal army long ago, and even transformed into a space trap.

Simply put, if you rush in without knowing your home galaxy, the consequences will be unimaginable.

For this reason, one must first reach the outer reaches of the home galaxy, try to get in touch with the military headquarters or the theater command, and then make the last space jump into the home galaxy after obtaining reliable navigation information.For this reason, Yang Yi also brought the military communicator provided by Lin Liexun.

This is a set of quantum communication equipment, which can only communicate with the theater command through a single line, and a military password is set.In fact, even if no password is set, it is absolutely safe, because only this communication device can receive the signal from the Third Theater Command to obtain navigation information.

In order to guide the warships active outside to return to the home galaxy, the Third Theater Command has a navigation and communication department, which continuously sends navigation signals.In fact, it is some simple coordinate signals.After receiving these signals, warships in the third theater can safely reach the space node opened by the third theater through space jumps.However, affected by objective factors such as space distortion and original energy fluctuations, the effective working distance of this kind of communication equipment is very limited, and the navigation signal can only be received when it is close to the home galaxy.A little farther away, even in a nearby star system, due to interference, it is impossible to ensure that the signal is received accurately.

Just like this, if you want to return to the home galaxy, you must first come to the vicinity of the home galaxy.

Of course, for those ships preparing to return to their home galaxy, this step must also be taken.

Furthermore, there is a huge benefit to this arrangement.

That is, the last check can be made before returning to the home galaxy, and the final space jump can be made after it is determined that it is not being tracked by an enemy ship.

It can be said that this is a bloody lesson.

During the offensive and defensive battle of the Beacon Star at the beginning of the Fifth Greenwich War, similar incidents occurred several times, that is, the patrol ships and scout ships that went out were followed by the warships of the Silicon Magic Alliance, and the temporarily opened space nodes were exposed. Go to the Silicon Charm fleet to attack.Even if the Beacon Star didn't fall because of this, the human legion paid a very heavy price under the enemy's sudden attack.

Now, what Yang Yi and the others have to do is to make sure that they are not being followed by enemy ships.

Of course, with Allen around, Yang Yi and the others don't have to do anything, they just have to wait patiently for a while.

"Major?"

"exist."

"The first search has been completed, no suspicious targets have been found, and the enemies on the transit star have not acted abnormally."

Yang Yi let out a long breath and said, "Can you receive the navigation signal from the theater command?"

"Yes, but it will take some time to determine the space node."

"Let's get ready." Yang Yi paused for a while, and then said, "Anyway, we have to wait for a while and search again, focusing on abnormal energy fluctuations. If our luck is not very good, even if we are not tracked by enemy ships, maybe Will happen to come across a patrol ship cruising around here."

"clear."

If there is an enemy ship trailing, it will definitely have to jump in space, so Allen focused on space distortion before, and didn't care about the original energy fluctuation.On the contrary, if there is an enemy patrol ship nearby, there is no need to perform space jumps, and naturally there will be no space distortion.It's just that any battleship needs to use a primary energy converter when sailing normally, and it is inevitable that primary energy fluctuations will occur.

(End of this chapter)