The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

His voice spread throughout the entire fleet through the communication channel, and these young people from various civilizations, holding the same adventurous mood as themselves when they were young, immediately started to act.They are not the same as they were back then—at that time, I fell in love with prospecting and had the idea of ​​fighting against my father, and they were all about earning the first pot of gold.

The hatches on the outside of the cargo ship opened one by one, and the base of the space building was thrown outside. The workers driving the construction machinery followed the engineer's instructions to put it in the correct position, and then the intelligent machinery on board began to anchor it by itself.The man shook the cigar in his hand, and turned around with a smile on his face:

"Okay, everything is ready. If everything goes well, we should be able to eat the meals made in the cafeteria of the refining space station tomorrow." This person is Arcturus Mengsk, who is not wearing the clothes before The majestic dress of the emperor of the empire did not wear the previous black robe with black armor, but seriously wore a work jacket with the 'Arcturus' (Note ①) stitched on the left chest. The blue pickaxe logo, which looks like an ordinary mining company owner "What, Nova? Keep frowning like what? Be happy!"

(Note: Arcturus, α star of Bootes, is the brightest star in Bootes and the brightest star in the northern night sky. Its brightness ranks fourth in the whole day. For this reason... in In the original translation of Liberty's Crusade, Arcturus Mengsk was translated as Shepherd Mansk)

Sitting in the inspector's seat at the corner of the bridge was the former ace ghost agent, Nova who had been connecting with Arcturus and Tartarus.She was wearing a leather jacket casually, holding a three-coloured cat in her arms.At this moment, the ghost of the former ace is holding a work card, and said with a confused face:

"I never thought it would turn out like this."

On the work permit, it says Novinbe Terra, working for the 'Arcturus' Mining Company, with the title of Director.

"It's not suitable for us to appear in front of everyone in public. Isn't it just right now?" Arcturos shrugged. "Look, I want to settle down and join the mining industry. You want to leave the army after you settle down and raise a cat. Isn't that right? Is it good?"

Nova took a deep breath on the cat and sighed deeply:

"Although that's what you say... But this is where you teleported into the bedroom of an unmarried lady with psionic power in the middle of the night, and then dragged her to open a new one for yourself under a false identity, named after your real name, in a The reason for being the director of a super remote galaxy mining company?"

As the person with the most inside knowledge of Kepulu's inside story, Nova is almost the first to know that Mengsk did not actually die in Kerrigan's explosion.And when she saw Mengsk again, she found that this man gave her a completely different feeling. If she had to say it, she had a certain familiar atmosphere.

She had felt this kind of breath from several commanders of Tartarus. After contacting a ring engraved with an eight-pointed star that Mengsk had been wearing since then, Nova could probably guess that it was close to ten.

After that, Arcturus Mengsk always seemed to check to see what his son was up to.In addition, he forged a reliable false identity for himself through official channels, walked in the sun openly, and then planned to enter the mineral industry.

Apparently, he succeeded.Not only did he get a lot of equipment, but he even attracted a group of young people who were willing to follow him in his career—he claimed that he didn't use a single psychic power.The equipment can be obtained through Tartarus' channels, but these young employees from various races... seem to really be gathered by his charisma and eloquence.

Mengsk raised his eyebrows:

"Oh, your attributive is really long, and it's because of the time zone error in the middle of the night, not mine... But are you not satisfied? My silly son has a bad impression of you."

Because everyone knows it, but it is not convenient to say it in front of the face, Nova obviously has no way to return to the Tyrannian Empire, and it is actually good to hide her name outside.

emmmmm...God is so incognito, it's obviously just reusing that real name that everyone doesn't know. (cover face)

But this is indeed the best way now - if you really want to leave the army, it is unrealistic to ask Oregana for help. According to what I know about her, if I go to her, there is a high probability that I will be placed In the military academy, he became an instructor for the little ghost heads.But Nova has never had a good impression of the profession of instructor...not working, and getting paid to be a rice bug every month, her self-esteem will not allow this kind of thing to happen.

She put the cat on her lap and said softly:

"Well, it's not bad to start a new life like this."

Arcturus nodded in satisfaction, he exhaled smoke, pointed at the unloading cargo and said:

"In short, the United Mining Company was established in this way, look at these good things - the latest mining platform, with 79 fully enclosed mining seats, with a fully automatic mining drone system; 'Bina Mingju' type Cracking station, this is a powerful guy. She can cut open the surface of a large satellite, and then use tractor light to pull a rock plate tens of kilometers in size out of the gravitational circle for careful sorting; and these two large carrier ships ..."

He talked on and on, like a racing driver introducing his proud car to others.Although Nova is not proficient in this way, after listening to it for a long time, she only understood the whole thing——

To put it simply, each of them is a high-quality product that is difficult to obtain on the market. With them, the collection efficiency is not comparable to that of ordinary private mining companies.

"Now let's let go of our hands and feet and have a big fight!"

"Yes, yes..." Nova rubbed her forehead and asked, "But, have you found a buyer yet?"

"I haven't found it yet."

Shipping requires channels. It is very embarrassing to dig up a lot and fail to sell it, which means the company's capital chain is broken.Nova thought of a series of things she had seen recently - from Kepru to Gameiras, infrastructure construction was being carried out everywhere, large-scale development was being carried out everywhere, and minerals could be sold no matter where they were.

Maybe we should talk to the League of Nations?It looks like they are planning to develop a new colony over there.

But just when Nova was about to think about it, Arcturos had already taken out a small communicator from his pocket - the back of the communicator was painted with a golden cat's claw emblem, which was exactly when the game was set up. The one used:

"Although I don't know the specific battle damage, I'm sure that Tartarus lost a lot of ships in the recent battle, and there has always been a big gap in their minerals. The original business of Arcturus started here Bar."

PS3: Scheduled to post at [-] o'clock in the morning, the collection will hardly change (cover face)

PS4: How about trying another time?

Chapter 689 Chapter 626: Talking at the table

In free time, time flies by quickly.

On a fierce battlefield, an assault that lasted only 3 minutes with a barrage of bullets seemed like hours. When waiting for the main gun to cool down and reload during extremely close-range bombardment, four seconds seemed to be the longest time in the world. Doomsday, but when mining and dawdling, a few hours, a few days, a week or two, quickly slipped through the fingers like sand.

During this period of time, the wartime status of the Consolidation Department was gradually lifted, and the energy was once again shifted to development and development.Except for some units performing special missions, the other fleets have returned to their respective defense zones.I don't know if the propaganda after the victory played a role in suppressing Xiaoxiao. During this period, even reports of pirate attacks became rare.

This is of course a good thing, but Oregana's attention is not on these places.

In the noisy restaurant 'James' Oven', she threw the hilt of the gun and beam saber on the table, grasped the menu and studied for a long time, and finally ordered two large dishes that are very popular here. Serving fried beef and mashed potatoes.The customers of this restaurant are basically miners who are active in this star field - there are three private mining companies in this galaxy and the two surrounding galaxies, and the total number of employees may exceed 2000. Including family members who came here together.

In this era, although interstellar mining has improved automation, most types of work still require a high level of physical labor—the number of fully automated mining barges is not as many as imagined, and they can be controlled by sitting on the bridge while wearing a clean shirt. In fact, there are not many people with mining machines. Most of them are still wearing heavy spacesuits and manipulating mining guns several meters long to cut ore on the semi-open mining platform.In order to feed these industrious workers and their families, the mining company specially found people to open a lot of restaurants here with different styles, and 'James' oven was Oregana's favorite one among them.

For these reasons, Tartarus' industrial flagship stands out in an area where there are mainly small mining barges and mining platforms—not only when it is working, but also when it is parked.There is only a small living space station here, and the dock can't hold such a large ship, so that the Sudden Eternal Death uses several anchor chains to fix itself somewhere outside...

Basically all the workers knew that the commander of Tartarus was mining here. At first, they were taken aback, but considering that the commander's hobby is mining, he would drive the car every time he was on vacation. After the fin whale had been digging somewhere for a while, it didn't talk much about it.

As for the Internet water sticker?

Old Pigeon, is it the first day you saw the death on the spot number?What's so good about this, last time I picked up the mining drone she forgot to collect in Norast. (smug face)

emmmmm... Because it appears too frequently, there is nothing good about it. (far eye)

After properly ordering food with the waiter, call him a tip and ask him not to approach him temporarily, because the next thing is not a topic that can be easily spoken in a place where people come and go.

As an adjutant, Liu Lizi's main job during this period is to filter out useful information, and then inform the boss who is on a half-vacation state—she put a small device on the table and pressed the switch, and Oregana suddenly felt to the pressure of the air.The sound insulation field is already in operation. With this table as the center, the conversations within a radius of two meters are completely inaudible to the surrounding people:

"The search fleet still caught the Nazcatron fleet fleeing the battlefield, but according to the available evidence, the fleeing civilian ships and military ships have converged."

Hearing this news, Oregana frowned impatiently:

"It's been so long, but I still can't find it?" It has been more than two weeks since the end of the battle. She hadn't asked about it before, but she hasn't caught the target until now. Unreasonable, "Whose army is responsible for tracking and searching?"

"The Sky Hunters of the Blood Ravens and the Killing Fleet of the Dark Angels."

Emmmm......

At first, I thought it was because when they sent out the search force, they thought that the enemy was very good, so they sent new recruits and took this pursuit battle as a training session.If this is the case, Oregana will have to miss those commanders.

However, this is not the case.

Sky Hunter and Hunting Fleet are specialized units with the best tracking ability. They were originally built to hunt down dark worms over long distances. Later, they considered that civilizations with experience in interstellar wars might appear on the other side, so they responded to this question. After a long period of study and practice, they mainly use the black stealth special service ship that is light, nimble and good at stealth activities, and can jump across galaxies, and the smuggling ship that can quickly refuel through the 'black bridge'.So far, they have been able to analyze a space warp and pursue it within 30 seconds.

Even they, after spending such a long time, still couldn't catch the target. The opponent didn't look very powerful-and if the opponent was just a warship, it would be fine, why are they carrying civilian ships!

"How did they do it?"

"Repeated horizontal jumps on the spot, appropriate bait, false landing of an empty ship and air mines, the use of massive planets to cover the track, the use of stellar gravitational ejection maneuvers, and the use of different superluminal methods to increase the difficulty of track interpretation..." Liu Lizi wrestled his hands Counting with his fingers one by one, a helpless wry smile appeared on his white face, "Basically, I have used everything that can be used, and I have tried to use everything that can't be used. There are a few times in the middle that the shipboard scanner can confirm the scanning. The distance to reach, but in the end it escaped."

The commander on the other side seems to be the type with enough brains... No, at that time, the person who turned around and ran away instead of going up with the general flagship, and the guy who saw the dark worm was pinned down and ordered the fleet to set sail and flee. Obviously not bad in the ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

But clever to this extent...

Fleet Admiral is probably the same type of person as Brad Noah or Okita Shisan.If this kind of person is seen as a hero, he will feel very comfortable, but if he is opposite you or your teammate, it will probably make people's brains so painful that they will explode.

At this moment, the waiter with the plate came over, Oregana's frown slightly relaxed, she lightly touched the device on the table, and turned off the sound insulation field:

"Over here, thank you."

"Please use."

The waiter was a rather young girl who seemed to have just come of age.On some planets, human resources are relatively expensive, and only the most upscale restaurants have live service life, and ordinary restaurants are full of machine servants... No, service robots equipped with simple AI are doing the work for them.And this is obviously not a place where human resources are scarce.

What was brought to the table was steaming fried steak. The fried meat on a black iron plate was not only surrounded by colorful vegetable decorations, but also added some kind of sauce mixed with gravy and spices. Afterwards, it emits an attractive fragrance.

After thanking the waiter, Oregana restarted the soundproof field and picked up the knife and fork:

"Then we'll talk while we eat."

"Ah."

The chef handled it quite well, even the cheap synthetic meat that is [-]% artificially cultivated has a unique taste.The knife sank in easily and cut through the meat.A faint reddish texture emerges from the incision.The gravy oozing from the cut surface made a slight scorching sound after dripping onto the black iron plate.

"Blood Sacrifice to the Blood God..." Oregana put the meat into her mouth, biting happily, and at the same time cut off the head of the salted saury as a side dish and put it aside.

"...Are you sending this kind of thing to the Brass Throne?" Liu Lizi was stunned, she stopped halfway through the chopping, "What would the blood god think?"

"How can people guess what God thinks? Isn't that disrespectful?" (serious)

"Is it a respect if you just throw the fish head you don't want to eat?"

"After eating this, let's continue to order a grilled squid." Oregana's mouth turned into a w shape, and the bad mood before became better after eating delicious food. "What part of the squid do you think?" Is it the head? Judging from the structure of the squid girl, it should be the tentacles and a little behind the tentacles? What looks like the head is actually the body?"

Although the conclusion is correct, the process of deduction sounds a bit terrifying...

"You don't want to cause trouble for others..." Liu Lizi will send the bread dipped in the sauce of the barbecue, trying to bring back the topic of the imminent runaway. "These things will be put aside for the time being."

She put down the fork, released the star map with the electronic board, and said:

"The last encounter with the enemy was at this place."

Oregana watched in silence—that galaxy is very close to the surrounding galaxies. Considering the level of the Nascatron jump engine, there are at least a dozen or three galaxies around to go to. It's no wonder that everyone chasing the fleet will I feel annoyed.

"Tsk..." She bit her fork and asked, "Can the exact quantity be determined?"

"There are nearly 220 civilian ships of various kinds, the exact number is unknown, and there are [-] and four warships, including eight large warships, and no super-large warships."

If a super-large battleship is run, then the problem will be serious-it is embarrassing enough for people to run with a civilian ship when they are running, and it is embarrassing enough if there is a quasi-Titan ship mixed in and run along with it. It turns out that the person who chased the fleet really had to apologise.

But did more than 4 civilian ships run away... This is already terrible enough.Oregana looked at the captured image of the ship, and judging from the size, it shouldn't be a problem to put [-] to [-] people in each ship on average...

"That is to say, there may be 3000 million people gone?"

Liu Lizi gave his boss a strange look:

"3000 million is too exaggerated, how could so much be stuffed in? I guess it should be less, but it will not be less than 400 million, and it may be as much as 600 million."

"How could it be so small?"

"This is not a solar ark."

"..."

"..."

A few seconds of silence...

This seems to be the case... After all, in such a short time, no matter how sharp the other party is, it is impossible to squeeze so many people into it.She coughed twice, and said:

"We're thinking that this pursuit is not a solution... so many people, if they want to survive, they must find a livable planet." She lightly stabbed the steak with a fork, lost in thought "Their fuel and supplies are not unlimited... the surrounding area Show us the star map."

"Wait a minute...well, that's it."

According to the level of her own colonial ship, she calculated the opponent's endurance a little bit, then tapped the screen a few times, and drew a circle on it: