Him and their stars

The Chanchuan Galaxy is located in the middle of the Cross Nebula Passage. Strictly speaking, the natural endowments of this galaxy are not outstanding. There are no naturally habitable planets, and several Earth-like planets with crusts but thin atmospheres also lack colonial value. It stands to reason that in the Milky Way, such star systems are literally filled with the sand of the Ganges.

However, its traffic conditions are indeed excellent.

Three main channels that run through the entire Spiral Cross Nebula meet here, and then directly diverge. Because of its excellent natural transportation endowment, it should naturally become a very important transportation hub.

Of course, this place has also formed one of the most prosperous trade nodes in the universe. If it weren't for the vast and lawless "high seas" in the Spiral Cross Nebula itself, it might have become a battleground for military strategists.

However, precisely because of the balance of power formed by the two overlords here, the Canchuan Galaxy has become one of the few free trade galaxies in the universe whose sovereignty is entrusted by the Galactic Civilization Parliament and whose governance is autonomous. Therefore, after hundreds of years of development, this galaxy with few natural endowments has a permanent population of more than 10 billion. If it were during a prosperous trade season, including the non-resident population and merchants, this number could even be easily doubled.

Most of these populations live in orbital cities above stable Earth-like planets, and of course these large-scale orbital buildings also serve as commercial ports and warehouses.

Seafarers who run businesses are often one of the groups with the most spending power among ordinary workers. Once they gather together, they will definitely create huge business opportunities.

As a result, the alliance began to expand the orbital city, build a giant complex integrating consumption, entertainment and leisure, and even considered building a universal paradise. The empire even directly began to build a group of space villas, including commercial ones and of course private urban management for the nobles. Anyway, although the imperial nobles have abundant martial virtues, they also spend a lot of money.

Some geniuses with broad-minded thinking even thought about carrying out large-scale planetary transformation projects on a few Earth-like planets in the galaxy. Although the estimated cost is already so high that it would make the directors of Libra Bank tremble and cry, everyone has to admit that if the issue of time is put aside, sooner or later, development here will make a fortune.

Since it is the pearl of the Spiral Cross Nebula, of course the mountain kings from all walks of life will have their thoughts on this place. However, since Canchuan is the most important trade node on the entire trade route, the neighboring countries of Nebula, which benefit from the trade route, cannot allow anything to happen here, so they use this place as their main base to establish the headquarters of the joint patrol fleet.

Even the two overlords often use long-distance training and warning patrols as excuses to send fleets to visit in turns.

After all, the Spiral Cross Nebula is such a vast and huge star field. Even at this patrol level, there is still plenty of room for all kinds of lawless people to move around. However, at least Canchuan and its surrounding galaxies are still very safe.

According to the evaluation of some social institutions, the happiness index of the permanent residents living in this free trade port should be higher than that of Tianyu and Nephi.

In fact, the residents here are convinced of this. They claim to be the free people of the Dominion, not the slaves of the imperial nobles, nor the social beasts of the alliance's plutocrats.

But now, the pearl of the Spiral Cross Nebula has been stained by the flames of war.

The huge reflector placed in the orbit of the planet Chancheon 4 is like an artificial moon, shining sunlight to the other side of the planet, providing a steady stream of light for the twelve lush orbital ports.

But now, the staggered tail flames of the ion engine have covered the clear mirror with burning marks. Then, before the mirror could crack naturally, it was hit by the corpse of a battleship that lost control.

It was a Manlan Xhosa-class cruiser. In the eyes of the Empire and the Alliance, this is just a second-rate product from a second-rate country, but in this peaceful Cross Nebula Channel, she can intimidate even a small ship.

According to statistics, in the ten years since this type of warship was put into service and deployed to the Canchuan Security Combined Fleet, more than a hundred pirate ships have fallen under its fire, and there have been such names as "pirate killers" and "sin busters". The title of Todoroki.

However, before such a cutting-edge and advanced warship had time to fire a shot at its enemy, its energy core was detonated by a blazing long-range light spear.

The burning battleship hit the artificial mirror sun riddled with holes. The reason why it is riddled with holes is because the previous one was the third warship that hit it within an hour.

The administrators of the artificial sun had already evacuated to the distant airport at this time. However, as they looked at the mirror that was beginning to crack, they were all heartbroken, but there was nothing they could do. The factory director burst into tears on the spot.

"So, it's such a big universe! Why does it have to hit us?"

This is actually easy to understand, because the mirror is in the orbit of the planet and is affected by gravity. The battleships were destroyed just after leaving their home port, before they even had time to escape the planet's gravity range, so they would naturally be affected.

However, fortunately among the misfortunes, although those downed warships hit the artificial mirror, at least they did not hit the orbiting space city.

Immediately afterwards, the scene was like a huge floor-to-ceiling window being hit by a series of small stones, and huge ripples began to ripple on the mirror surface. The next second, an increasingly violent explosion emerged from under the mirror, and was immediately torn into endless fragments.

The most advanced artificial sun mirror in the galaxy was destroyed. It turned into burning wreckage and fragments, trailing a long trail like a torrential rain and falling into the brown planet next to it, bringing up a trace of not-so-excited clouds in the thin atmosphere. Immediately afterwards, they seemed to be completely swallowed up by the dark red hell, and there was no more sound.

On the other side, on the back side of Planet No. 4, in the deep starry sky, there is flickering light, and shining thin lines streak across the starry sky, always blooming like a flower-like fire.

Surrounding the fire, there seemed to be countless flying luminous insects, constantly flying in the dense network formed by the stars.

What a brilliant and beautiful scene it was.

Residents of space cities in the orbits of planets 5 and 6, which are farther away, just look at the magnificent interstellar scenery, but they don't feel any magnificent aesthetic enjoyment at all, but they only feel chills in their hearts and chills all over their bodies. It's like struggling in hell.

They all know that those shining thin lines are actually energy beams released by the enemy, which are powerful enough to destroy a space city that can accommodate a million people on the spot. Those luminous bugs that are constantly flying in the dense network are the ion flames behind the fighter group. They were like a crazy swarm of wasps, biting the battleship trapped in the dense network of light.

Those battleships are the main force of the guard fleet of the Canchuan Galaxy. They come from twelve countries around the Spiral Cross Nebula. They currently have 3 battle cruisers, 2 sailing ships, 18 heavy ocean ships, 10 light carriers, and 28 light cruisers.

As for why the fleet used for guarding and patrolling the interstellar routes has such important national weapons as battle cruisers and regular cruisers, it is said that it is because some countries are preparing to conduct testing of new warships and crew training.

Anyway, neither the Empire nor the Alliance expressed any objection. It is very reasonable to have a few more battle cruisers and regular sailing ships on the trade routes.

But no matter what, even without these super-standard capital ships, the multinational joint security fleet located in Canchuan is the strongest battle group that far surpasses the "Shibao Ship Group".

But now, half of these giant ships were destroyed just after leaving the star port. The other half, before even bringing the suddenly appearing hostile target into range, was completely trapped by the dense network formed by the opponent's ultra-long-range artillery fire and fighter jets.

Inside the web of light, the storm of chaos and panic has completely dominated all the warships of the guard fleet. The shining particle beams continuously flashed through the portholes outside the battleship. The alarms inside the battleship were like second-hand goods wholesaled from the flea market. They screamed irrationally, like a hundred naughty children running around. Similar.

Before the crew could recover from such stimulation, the long-distance spear rays suddenly tore open the cruiser's shield and penetrated deeply into the hull. Fortunately, most of the crew on the ship had been vaporized before the battleship's ammunition and energy stores were ignited by high temperatures.

"We have lost half of our battleships and have lost our combat capabilities?"

"Should we run away? Where else can we flee now? Leave the civilian space city to the enemy?"

"Even if we escape without cover, we will be overtaken and sunk, just like a group of ducks that can't fly and have their necks bitten by hunting dogs one by one!"

"Where are the fighter planes? Where are the fighter planes used for cover?"

"They were all wiped out five minutes ago, including the aircraft carrier! Now everything outside is enemy planes!"

"Damn it, how could there be such a terrifying enemy plane... Hey, don't tell me, it looks really advanced."

"Is that the point?"

At the headquarters of the garrison fleet, generals from various countries argued endlessly, but they could not come up with any solution. This is not because they are all a mob. After all, the hard power lies here. Even if Sun Wu is alive and possessed by the emperor, everyone present will be unable to do anything.

"So, it's all the fault of the XXX imperial devils! The snake they provoked, why were we bitten first?" At the headquarters, a Circassian officer yelled like this, and was covered by the people around him. Mouthed.

The Imperial Army advisor at the headquarters was very generous and didn't even bother to look in that direction.

In fact, he really didn't bother to pay attention to these wailings like a defeated dog. At this time, he and his team were nervously collecting all the current battle situation information. On the terminal screen in front of them, a hemisphere like a mushroom cap was swaggeringly releasing colorful beams of light, and it was still moving forward.

Needless to say, this mushroom-head-like silver hemisphere, although harmless in shape, exudes some kind of evil aura inexplicably. It is naturally the snake lair that the famous... er, the coalition forces of the three major human countries are deliberately preparing to destroy.

Similarly, the underground world of the Spiral Cross Nebula is called "Void City", "Witch of the Nebula" and so on by the outlaws.

"The time they appeared in this galaxy was 18:21, and their appearance location was next to gravity well No. 4. The cosmic points are XG418, YJA88, and FGH34. Now it is... 22:45."

"Nearly one and a half astronomical units traveled in four hours?"

"To be precise, it's 1.69. The cruising speed is 25% faster than the Iron Tyrannosaurus-class arsenal ship... It can be regarded as the speed of a standard ship for heavy decisive battles, and lower than the high-speed battleship!"

"I don't know if it is the limit speed, it must be noted in the report!"

"The range of the light spear cannon used by Snake Cave just now is the same as the type 3 tachyon light spear. The power... is too overflowing and cannot be confirmed."

"Then it's because the heavy cruiser was hit, right? Where are the three battle cruisers of the guard fleet?"

"One was hit and killed by more than thirty fighter planes just after it left the port. One is being maintained in the No. 5 star port dock, and the other is in combat and has not been hit yet... However, it will be sunk by a group of enemy planes sooner or later. It’s over.”

"So, what about those triangular fighter planes? The intelligence sent by His Highness shows that they should be drones."

"The firepower is mediocre, but the maneuverability is extremely strong. At critical moments, it will use impact-suicide tactics."

"They haven't used the fortress cannon yet?" someone reminded.

"Perhaps, our location has already been within the range of the fortress cannon from Snake Den."

The Imperial Army advisor with the rank of colonel did not even hesitate, but said: "Continue the analysis, and the analysis results will be sent to the General Wofata immediately!"

The Dreadnought General Wofata is the flagship of this imperial fleet. Now, King Wilente and Count Tadière are sitting on that battleship.

"Understood!" The Imperial Army officers present responded loudly. They were clearly mentally prepared to fight on the front line until they were destroyed by the fortress artillery in the Snake Lair.

Then, three minutes later, news came from the front line. It was the news that the last battle cruiser of the guard fleet had been sunk.

But in fact, the Imperial Army officers present had no sense of gloating at all. They knew that the sunk cruiser was a modified version of the Frontline Marquis purchased from the Empire by the Turank Coordinating Minister State.

You know, the Frontline Marquis is already a cutting-edge battle cruiser that has been designed and served for less than twenty years. Even if it is the monkey version, it can still dominate a certain star field. However, she was declared destroyed after more than two hours of fighting. She was not even killed by the powerful main gun, but by a swarm of mosquito-like fighter jets.

"Sir, the main force of our army..."

"They are coming as fast as possible!" The colonel's advisor glanced at his subordinates and said angrily: "His Royal Highness King Wei and Count Tadière naturally have their own plans!"

"I'm just worried that if the Alliance arrives first, won't it damage the empire's reputation?"

The colonel feels that problems in this area do exist. But the problem is that the main force of the imperial fleet is already arriving as quickly as possible. But it still takes time.

...There is no way, who would have thought that the snake's lair would suddenly jump out of the core of the channel, Canchuan?

In such a trading galaxy, where an average of 10,000 merchant ships pass through every year, is there an undiscovered gravity well? This is too unscientific!

Then, at this time, a signal from the reinforcement fleet finally appeared near the No. 2 gravity well on the edge.

The Imperial Army officer sighed, because that was not the direction where the main force of the Imperial Army should come.

Then, he heard the analysis given by his subordinates: "Sir, the outline analysis of the battleship has been completed. It is the new... Earthling's main god-class dreadnought ship Fuxi! What has arrived is the fleet of the Blue Star Community."

The first one to arrive was neither the Empire nor the Alliance, but the Earthling fleet. The Imperial Army officers present looked at each other, and for a moment they no longer knew what expressions they should make.

On the contrary, the commanders of the guard fleet next to him cheered. To them, although the people on Earth are also one of the superior "human masters", they are still much more approachable than the Empire and Alliance.