The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"I don't think that's what it means..."

"Can you analyze anything from the existing intelligence? See if it is a world we are familiar with?"

"Would you like to search for keywords." Oregana suggested that the public channels intercepted basically all advertisements, and the news was mostly small things - such as where a debtor ran away, which movie star's love affair was exposed Yeah, there's pirates again, there's a traffic hub breakdown and flight delays, a cat beauty pageant is about to start, and so on.

It is full of unfamiliar words, and I have heard several words in different countries that I am not familiar with...

"Search for Yang Weili?"

"Yang... Wei... Li... didn't find it, and neither did the Luo Yankelam Dynasty. This probably isn't Yinying's world."

If it were the world of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, there probably wouldn't be so many messy small countries.Oregana marked the cat beauty pageant news and put it in her favorites, and tried to search the Iserlohn Fortress, but the result was still nothing.

"Hmm..." Liu Lizi sat on the captain's seat and thought for a while, then said, "Then why not look for the Earth?"

This time, a piece of news popped up almost immediately——

'The Gaia Sanctions Committee has recently frequently mobilized fleets on Earth, and the relevant person in charge refused to disclose any information. '

"Gaia Sanctions Committee? What is this?" Oregana scratched her head and asked, "Does anyone know the origin of this organization? It sounds like an organization that wants to confront Willpower. Is it from Xingyue? "

Everyone on the bridge shook their heads. No one knew where this organization called the Gaia Sanctions Committee was from—but it definitely had nothing to do with Xingyue. The style of painting was too different.

On the screen, the warships of the Gaia Sanctions Committee were moving forward. Because there was no reference, Oregana couldn't estimate the size of these warships for a while.But their appearance is very similar to Oregana's taste - it is as hard as a rock, highlighting a sense of heaviness, four huge triple-mounted main guns are placed on the two sides of the battleship, two on the left and right, It is arranged in a piggyback style, which is the firepower configuration method for the bow of the ship to face the enemy.

"What a majestic fleet." The Tin Woodman sighed. The blue planet behind the screen looked very beautiful. The angle of shooting at this moment happened to be able to see the dawn and dusk line. From the coastline and the shape of the continent, you can tell that this is the Earth. .But looking at it, the Tin Woodman showed a puzzled expression on his face, "Is there no one living on this earth?"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Look, America doesn't even have a light at night, it's pitch black."

As she said, the American continent is shrouded in darkness, but there is no light source of any city on it—even if it is just a planet in the early days of space civilization, the light of the city on the ground can be seen from the universe at night, but here is It was pitch black, like an uncivilized primitive planet...

This problem was not resolved until three hours later, when the Moby Dick successfully found the intrusion into the civilian network.

The answer is simple -

The earth of this world was considered sacred.

Since a great war that swept across the entire universe a hundred years ago to the present, the earth has always been in a state of no one.The earth is the beginning of human civilization, and this common hometown is protected by all, and it will last forever as a holy place, managed by an organization called the 'Gaia Arbitration Council'.Any ship approaching the Earth's circle without permission will be driven away, or even directly attacked.

Gaia Holy Land.jpg

In this universe, human colonies are spread over half of the Milky Way, with a population of more than 5000 billion. It can be said that it is the largest human settlement ever discovered, and there are countless countries and forces in it.

In this regard, War Scythe commented:

"Those businessmen will probably die of joy if they find out."

"But business here may not be easy." The Tin Woodman said, "the other party does not have a unified central government at all, and the waterway is not safe, and the situation is stable. It is a dream. Doing business here may accidentally lose your life. .”

"But it looks quite peaceful. Although there are various forces everywhere, there is almost no direct confrontation. At this point in time, there is not even a formal war. In terms of this political system, it is almost like It's like a fake."

Of course, just because there is no official war, confrontation and so on have been confirmed to exist, and there may even be officially supported privateering operations.

In the news, there are not too few incidents of pirate attacks.

"Maybe it's expensive to fight..."

"perhaps……"

After all, no matter how small it is, it is an interstellar country with super-light technology. If there is a war between such countries, super-light space battleships are indispensable, and this kind of thing has never been a toy.They are not only expensive to build, but also expensive to maintain. For these small countries that generally occupy a small area, maintaining a powerful fleet is not an easy task.

Therefore, it is only possible to maintain the local defense fleet used to fight against pirates. This kind of fleet is okay to protect the trading routes and so on, but it is a bit difficult to invade other countries.

Maybe in the future, some of these countries will annex their neighbors in various ways, and they will become the 'overlords' with overwhelming power in the surrounding area. At that time, the various forces in a state of disunity will be annexed one by one, right?

However, technical and internal political reasons make it impossible for superpowers to exist in this universe.A hundred years ago, there was an empire that almost accomplished the feat of unifying the universe in that great war, but the territory was too large to be controlled by communication and transportation technology—think about it, when there was turmoil in your frontier, the news took a month Just arrived at your place, it will take five years for your fleet to run over to put down the rebellion, just suppressed a Lin Dengwan, and another Lin et al. Can this country not be finished?

As a result, the super empire of that year gradually disintegrated at an unexpected speed after reaching its peak, and now there is only a small piece left, the size of two or three galaxies.

The general trend of the world must be divided for a long time, and the general trend of the sky is the same. (far eye)

"It doesn't matter whether the business is good or not, it's quite easy to get involved." Oregana broke her finger bones and made a clicking sound. "This power structure seems to be specially prepared for us."

"The powerful Galactic Empire a hundred years ago is only a shell, and the princes who have grown up underneath are fighting openly and secretly. Countries, large and small, occupy one or several galaxies. There is no war, but the confrontation has never been less."

"Like the Warring States period?"

"That's right, each regime can't stretch its hands long enough, just get one-acre three-point land under its own hands." She drew the border line on the downloaded star map, and then pointed to the blank space flowing out of it, "Look, a large number of galaxies In fact, they all exist as a buffer zone between various forces."

There are unsovereign galaxies everywhere, occasionally a small patrol fleet passes by, but most of the time there is no one to manage it at all.Oregana believes that if she finds a hidden place to take pictures of the empty fortress, she may not be found out in a year or two—provided she doesn't skip her head.

"In this situation, there are likely to be many pirates." Behind Ling, who has been silent until now, said, "Wild pirates, and even state-sponsored privateers, may appear in this universe."

Piracy is a very traditional and ancient criminal industry. Pirates have existed since ships sailed.They usually disappear after a civilization has fully mastered the sea, and then re-emerge in the era of space voyages-this is related to the government's troops' control over the route.Places that are left alone will become places where the unemployed, homeless, and fugitives gather, and these people will obviously embark on the road of group crime, and as long as they can get armed ships, they will attack the shipping line.

Privateers, on the other hand, are partially legalized pirates—during wars, certain countries grant privateers the official license to drive armed civilian ships to attack, capture, and rob enemy merchant ships.Privateers are usually used to destroy the maritime trade lines of the enemy country, which is equivalent to allowing the country to create an extra sea force out of thin air that can attack the enemy's merchant ships and protect its own merchant ships, and protect its territorial waters without increasing the budget.

Of course, the hostile country sees you as a pirate, and if you are caught, you will be hanged.

"That's right, there will definitely be a lot of pirates, but this is just the breakthrough point." Oregana nodded in agreement, she likes pirates the most - first of all, pirates are evil forces, it doesn't matter if you fight them, if you are not careful If you hit a privateer in a certain country, not only will it not lose the country's reputation, but it will increase it; then, the pirate's equipment is usually much behind the regular army, and it is a soft persimmon that is easy to pinch, and it will be crushed to death; finally, the pirate There are many channels. If you live in this dark bottom all day long, you will meet all kinds of people—whether they are dealers or government umbrellas. These various people are all kinds of channels. The more channels , the more information there will be.

So when we were in Keprue, everyone went to steal Port of the Dead from the very beginning-just hammer it, it doesn't matter if you don't lose your reputation!

She's going to do it this time.

Find one or two suitable pirate strongholds, hammer them out, and fight with pirates can be used as a process of comparing the level of weapon technology, and then you can get information, and even hand it over to a certain government as a certificate of nomination when necessary In exchange for trust.

Oregana picked up the magnetic pen, drew a route on the star map, and then said loudly:

"Let's go, let's go find the pirates! It's going to be black and black!"

Chapter 750 Chapter 678: Discover the villain

It sounds easy to eat black and eat black, just find the pirates and smash the opposite side, but things are not as smooth as Oregana imagined.

Based on her experience, she chose a place where pirates might appear - far away from the outpost and on the route of merchant ships.Although she hasn't got the specific route map here yet, she can still see the amount of space distortion left by the jump reaction.

The place with more distorted signals is naturally a place with busy routes.

But for several days in a row, the two ships searched along this route several times, but found no trace of pirates... They placed a lot of hidden detectors at the gravitational anomalies on the road. Under my own circumstances, I detected an explosive energy response unique to combat.

As for why it is placed near the gravitational anomaly, it also makes sense-most piracy incidents occur in such places, and the reason is also easy to understand.During the long-distance jump, the ship will naturally aim at these places to jump, even if some parameters are modified, it will still be in the surrounding area.At this time, the ships that have just completed the jump are in a state of excessive energy consumption or the cooling of the jump engine, and cannot immediately take off for the next jump. At this time, it is very dangerous for the ship.

As long as the distance is right, the pirates will most likely be able to succeed.

Of course, this is also the easiest place for the navy to catch pirates, so pirates often use monitors and the like to confirm that there is no navy or the like next to the prey, so they throw the detector next to the gravitational singularity.

emmmmm... Oregana's operation is actually quite pirate.

However, twelve star systems were monitored for several days, and no piracy was found.

"How's the situation?" On the morning of the eighth day, Oregana drank golden mead while dangling out of the bedroom, her sleepy hair stretched out in the shape of cat ears, and the towel for washing her face was casually draped around her neck. It looks decadent to the extreme.

The owl stood on the shoulder, as if it was going to push down the raised hair for her, and kept pecking and pecking.

If it's on a navy ship, the officer will hang up and beat you with this kind of dress and drinking in the morning, but this is a pirate ship, so it doesn't matter-even wearing a pair of pants and walking around in flip-flops It's okay.

The tin woodman was connected to the nerve port and sat on the position of the radar officer. She spread her hands:

"Still nothing, nothing found."

"We thought there were a lot of pirates..."

"It won't be so much..."

To be honest, there are indeed a lot of pirates, but they haven’t reached the level where you can get something out of a week of squatting—after all, this is not the age of great exploration, and there are gangsters who dare to come out to rob while sitting on a sloop A, the pirates in the universe era have some thresholds anyway.Even if it is a merchant ship or an old warship, the threshold of a ship capable of superluminal maneuvering can already stop many criminals.

Oregana thought for a moment, then replied:

"There are about [-] abnormal signal points in a galaxy, and there are dozens of ships in each abnormal signal point, and at least [-] of them are at the level of battleships..."

"Do you think you are spawning monsters in Area 00!"

The Tin Woodman showed a distasteful expression like Brother Wufly. She waved the prosthetic limb that was temporarily replaced with a hook at Oregana, grabbed the cup with the other ordinary arm still made of 'weak flesh and blood' and poured it for herself. A glass of rum.

It was golden rum from Jamaica. After pouring it into the glass, she took out another cigar from Jamaica, dipped the end of the cigar in rum and smoked it, exhaling a puff of smoke. A satisfied expression appeared on his face.

Looks like this is the most entertaining 'pirate' so far...

And not only that, there is still a mobile suit parked in the very leopard hangar, based on the latest generation of jumpable MS skeleton produced by ZAFT, the shape has been redesigned, and it has a cross-shaped propeller on the back, and it is a Gundam. product of the head.

She named it XM-X1, Crossbone Gundam.

Commonly known as "Pirate Gundam".

Should I say that she really deserves to be a machine lover? She really knows how to play. (convinced)

Oregana scratched her head, and held the owl in her arms casually:

"Is the other party using some method to regularly clean up the pirates?"

"Maybe they are indeed doing this... Maybe there are civil organizations and even privateers maintaining the law and order in the ocean area." There were only two people in the empty war room, and the Tin Woodman didn't care much about his image, just leaned on the chair casually, "Go on and wait." , this matter cannot be rushed."

"Like playing "Hunter: Call of the Wild"?"

"That's right, the prey ran away when there was a lot of movement." She took another puff of cigarette, took a sip of wine slowly, and coughed lightly, "Actually, I don't like drinking rum very much, but at this time, the atmosphere The most important thing, right?"

"Well, but we're drinking golden mead purely for practicality."

The golden mead of the Cthulhu line allows people to survive in a vacuum environment, so that they can ride on alien creatures flying between the stars, but apparently Oregana is using it as an adaptation lamp for the blue fat man.

"Are you going to fight in a vacuum like Guilliman without a helmet...wait?"

At this moment, a screen on the operation panel flickered suddenly, and a detector seemed to have found something.

"Is it a pirate?"

"It's hard to say, there was this kind of thing before, but after I opened it, I found that it was a misjudgment caused by the explosive acceleration to enter the transition state." The tin woodman zoomed in on the screen, glanced at it, and immediately changed his mouth, "...No, this time Might really be pirates."

Two destroyers—according to the standards of Tartarus, a battleship close to 300 meters long is indeed at the level of a destroyer to a cruiser, but it is not necessarily the same in other civilizations, such as the super battleship Yamato.

But fortunately, these two ships are obviously not equipped with wave cannons and the like, and their armament can be said to be 'weak'... Several different types of turrets are installed on the hull in a very random way, which can be seen at a glance After leaving the factory, someone modified it privately.

And their target is a big man.

It was a large ship with a hull over 800 meters long and close to the battleship level.It slowly and cumbersomely appeared from the light of the leap, and after discovering the two warships approaching this way, it suddenly showed a panic-a few seconds later, its propellers lit up, trying to Gain as much time as possible before the jump engine cools down and shake off its enemies.

But judging from the relative speed, it has little hope of escaping.

Oregana and the Tin Woodman exchanged glances, and yanked off the battle alarm.

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