Interstellar Soldier

Chapter 427 Barren Land
Zag Galaxy, near Slag Star.

In the shadows on the dark side of the planet, a small battleship painted with a pirate logo was slowly sailing.Seen from a distance, the light from the battleship is like distant stars.If you don't look carefully, it's hard to find this battleship even if you get close, let alone that there are no spaceships coming to this ghostly place.

Just like the name, Slag Star is a planet that is abandoned after resources are exhausted.

The Zag galaxy is located in the north of the central area, and it has existed for about 100 billion years. It can be regarded as the oldest star system in the Southern Alpha galaxy.The main-sequence star is a brown dwarf, which will evolve into a white dwarf in a few hundred million years and become one of the densest stars in the universe.

Of course, for anyone, hundreds of millions of years is extremely long, it is simply unimaginably long.

When the Galactic Federation came to the Southern Alpha galaxy, the Zag galaxy had no indigenous inhabitants, nor was it colonized and developed by the indigenous inhabitants.The main reason is that the main sequence star is decaying, and the light and heat emitted cannot produce a temperature sufficient for carbon-based life to survive outside the reach of the main sequence star. The only planet is also extremely barren. Not only does it not have the necessary water, but even There is no atmosphere, and there is no value for development.

It wasn't until the arrival of an exploration spacecraft looking for resources that the fate of the Zag galaxy changed.

After eradicating the indigenous civilizations and occupying the Southern Alpha galaxy, the Galactic Alliance ushered in its first construction climax.At that time, including the top civilizations, all the civilizations of the Milky Way Alliance were building their homes in full swing, so obtaining construction materials became the top priority.Although most of the materials can be obtained in the local galaxy, some important materials are not available in any star system, at least not too much.In addition, the Milky Way Alliance at that time had just mastered the original energy technology, and inter-galaxy navigation became more convenient. It also became the link between various civilizations and was valued by all civilizations. Building a spaceship for inter-galaxy navigation requires a lot of rare materials.

During those hundreds of years, all the civilizations of the Galactic Federation, including the top civilizations, had a wave of space exploration.

All of a sudden, thousands of exploration spaceships appeared in every corner of the Southern Alpha galaxy.Although the vast majority of explorers never return, there are only a few lucky ones who find rare mineral deposits and return to their hometown smoothly, but one such lucky person who returns to his hometown and becomes rich overnight can drive a hundred, or even A thousand newcomers who wanted to get rich and didn't lack courage embarked on the road of adventure.

It was also during these hundreds of years that the Galactic Federation completed the control of the entire Southern Alpha galaxy.

Until this time, the value of the Zag Galaxy was not discovered.

That is, because this galaxy has existed for too long, it cannot produce an environment that can support life, but it also has precious resources that other galaxies do not have.

According to the conclusions drawn by scientists, the main sequence star of the Zag galaxy is already in the third form, that is, before this, the brown dwarf was once very huge, and it became what it is now after two rounds of evolution.It is precisely because of the large enough mass in the first two forms that it can generate extremely high temperature and pressure inside, thereby generating a large number of heavy atoms, which are the scarce minerals that explorers are looking for.

The slag at that time was called "Mine Star".

On this small planet, explorers discovered priceless and rare mineral deposits, and in the following decades, Mine Star became the busiest planet in the vicinity.

It can only be said to be lively, not prosperous, because the people who come here are either explorers or miners.

More importantly, Mine Star has no atmosphere, and the daytime temperature on the surface exceeds 150 degrees Celsius, and drops to minus [-] degrees Celsius at night.Although there was already ecological technology at that time, the cost of building a living area on the surface was too high, so the residents on the mine star lived underground.

In its heyday, there were about [-] million people on the mine planet, and thousands of spaceships entered and exited every day.

The minerals transported from the mine star not only make the civilization that owns the mine star rich, but also benefit many other civilizations, including the Human Federation.You must know that in that era more than 4000 years ago, all civilizations were poor and lacked the resources necessary for modernization.

Rare minerals make ore stars, and also destroy ore stars.

After frenzied mining for about 200 years, the main mineral deposits on the mine star are gradually exhausted.Although there are still some small mineral veins, they are no longer worth large-scale mining, and as mineral deposits on other planets are gradually discovered, and the construction work of various civilizations is basically completed, rare minerals are no longer sought after.Before the outbreak of the First Greenwich War, Minestar was an abandoned planet.

In fact, this also saved Slag Star.

At the beginning of the Fifth Greenwich War, the army of Silicon Charm invaded the central area, and the Slag Star was just to the north of the central area, next to the northern area, and not very far from the fourth northern area.Because this planet has been abandoned by the Galactic Federation and has no value, the army of Silicon Demons did not occupy this planet.If there are still many mineral deposits on Slag Planet, the Silicon Charm Alliance will definitely not let it go.

Because it was abandoned, it was also forgotten, so in the past few thousand years, few people came here.

Not to mention regular operating spaceships, even pirate ships rarely come to Slag Star.Not only because there are no resources worth patronizing on the slag star, but also related to the state of the main sequence star.This star, which has reached its twilight years, is very unstable, and it often erupts, ejecting a large amount of material that poses a serious threat to the spacecraft.It can be said that even the most daring pirates will not come to the Zag Galaxy for adventure for no reason.

The appearance of that pirate ship is very unusual, and its way of sailing is also different from ordinary pirate ships.

In fact, it was not a pirate ship, but a warship, and it was a battleship of the top civilization, but it was disguised as a pirate ship.

On the bridge of the battleship, an officer of the Lei Ling tribe stared blankly at the starry sky map in front of him.

His name is McCready, the captain of this small scout ship.Although in the Lei Ling clan's fleet, he is not his real name, but on this scout ship, he is the boss.

The reconnaissance ship has been staying around here for several hours, and has not found anything unusual.

It's just that McCready didn't give an order to return, because it wasn't time yet.

According to the order issued by the Fleet Command, he had to patrol the vicinity for eight hours and return after the next patrol ship arrived.

There are still two hours, not too long.

Although such patrol missions are very common, not to mention combat missions, even in normal training, McCready often performs similar missions, but what he couldn't figure out was why he came here to patrol.This star system is too barren, and this planet has long been abandoned.Even if there are some particularly courageous pirates hiding here, there is no threat, so there is no need to stare at this star system.

Of course, there were many things that McCready couldn't figure out.

For example, the fleet has already arrived, but it has not been dispatched, and it has not even made pre-war preparations.As to who the enemy was, McCready did not know, nor was he told.Only one thing is certain, that is, the enemy is very strong, otherwise the fleet commander would not be so cautious.

Perhaps, the enemy is the Silicon Charm Alliance that has captured the North Fourth District.

In any case, the Silicon Magic Alliance has launched a war, and has captured most of the star systems in the fourth northern region with a thunderous force. The Human Federation has retreated to the home galaxy, and it will not be able to launch a counterattack in the short term.Although the Galactic Federation Council did not pass the war proposal, if the necessary actions are not taken, the Silicon Magic Alliance will break out of the fourth northern region and march to other regions, and the central region will definitely be attacked.

Macready took it for granted that the fleet was here to fight the invading Silicon Magic Alliance.

As for why he stood still, McCready didn't think much about it.He is only a captain, and he is only the captain of a scout ship, and has no right to intervene in fleet operations.Besides, it's useless to think about it. After all, he has very little information and cannot make a correct judgment.

McCready has self-knowledge and knows that doing his own job is enough.

At this time, the starry sky map flickered a few times, and a prompt message appeared.

Noticing this message, McCready's expression turned serious.

Although this is only a small reconnaissance ship, it is equipped with the most advanced detection equipment of the Ralink family, with a maximum monitoring and detection range of over [-] million kilometers.Not to mention large battleships, even the spatial disturbance produced by a pirate ship will definitely be detected by the detection equipment of the reconnaissance ship.

That alarm detected an unknown space fluctuation, and it was preliminarily judged to be caused by a space jump.

In other words, there are spaceships appearing near here through space jumps.

What ship is coming here?
McCready had known for a long time that this star system had been deserted for thousands of years, and that it was far from the home systems of nearby civilizations and far from the main shipping lanes.For no particular reason, no ships would come here at all.Even if spaceships appeared occasionally, they only passed nearby.

Obviously, there will be no spaceships to enter the star system specifically, let alone open the exit of the space jump channel in the star system.

So, what's coming isn't a spaceship?

Without hesitation, McCready immediately asked the optical brain to analyze the information obtained.It's just that he didn't give a battle order.This is just a small reconnaissance ship, and its combat effectiveness is not strong, not even a battleship.McCready's task was not to fight those enemy ships that appeared suddenly, but to report the discovery to the fleet headquarters in time.Of course, it must be accurate news, rather than sounding the alarm at the slightest sign of trouble.

At this time, under the control of the optical brain, the detection equipment on the battleship has been aimed at the area where the unknown space fluctuations occur.

Although this is the most advanced reconnaissance ship of the Lei Ling family, equipped with the most advanced detection equipment, it still takes some time to complete the search, so as to accurately locate the unknown space fluctuation.If the distance is not too far, the cause of the spatial fluctuation can be determined.On the contrary, it will take some more time, and even bring the scout ship closer.Of course, McCready knew how to handle these situations.

Time passed by every minute and every second, but the optical brain still did not come up with a conclusion.

what happened?

Macready was very puzzled and prepared to control it manually.

At this time, the alarm sounded, and it was an attack alarm!
(End of this chapter)