Star Survival: The Rise of the Fourth Scourge

Once the engineering ship is launched, navigation beacons and mining bases can be built in the explored star systems.

Although the mineral reserves of the star ring are rich, they will be exhausted one day.

In just four years, some commonly used minerals have been depleted.

The "Iron Slave" mining ship had to go to farther asteroid belts to mine.

Once the transport ship and engineering ship are launched, the planetary mining plan will be put on the agenda.

Ground engineering equipment, such as transportation vehicles and large-scale mining equipment, are being prepared.

These are not advanced gadgets, and the Mechanicum can produce them with just a few clicks.

"King, it's getting late, go to bed early..."

According to the current schedule of the empire, it is already the dead of night.

Outside, the star is on the other side of Star 1, dimming the planet's back side.

As soon as Sandra said this, Ellie, who was sitting on both sides of the lounge chair, knelt down and stood up quickly.

After looking at the starry sky outside, Li Meng waved and said, "You guys go back first, I'll stay alone for a while."

Hearing this, Sandra stood up.

She didn't say much, she just held her long skirt in both hands and saluted the "King".

Then he twisted his waist and walked towards the direction of the golden door, leaving only a wonderful back view of Li Meng.

He looked at Mrs. Sandra's leaving back, and then at Wang.

The two sisters looked at each other and saluted the "King" with their long skirts in hand.

Then he walked away quietly...

As the three girls left, Li Meng was the only one left in the huge hall.

After standing up, Li Meng came to the glass wall and quietly looked at the starry sky outside.

And his thoughts have already traveled through subspace...

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S-01894 star system.

The starry sky is endless, dark but full of stars.

In a dark universe, a giant ship is sailing.

The tail thruster sprayed out a white tail flame hundreds of meters long, and its shining ion light was like a comet cutting through the starry sky.

In the bridge...

"Received message from "Prince Regent", this star system is S-01894."

The Astropath in purple robe suddenly spoke, breaking the silence in the bridge.

On the captain's chair, Ralph was sitting upright in a brown military uniform.

He looked at a technology priest not far away and said: "Update the star map and record the coordinates of this star system."

After finishing speaking, Ralph asked again: "How is the collection of star system data going?"

Technology Priest: "The information has been sent..."

Ralph was a bit on the button on the gauntlet.

From the gauntlet on the other side, a blue light shot out and turned into a holographic screen in front of Ralph.

The picture shows a star map. Under the scanning of the auspicious array, large celestial objects have been captured.

The S-01894 star system has eleven planets, seventeen observable satellites, and the asteroid belt is located in the outer circle.

"Hey, is this a habitable planet?"

Suddenly, Ralph was attracted by a green and slightly red planet.

But when he saw the information, a trace of disappointment flashed in Ralph's eyes.

That is not a habitable planet, but there is liquid methane on the surface of the planet.

Although it is just a prediction, it is not far from the truth.

According to the "Regent's" custom, the green planet is marked as "No. 7" star.

Although it is not a habitable planet, but...

After thinking for a while, Ralph ordered: "Go to Star 7 first..."

There are many colors on the surface of the planet, and there may be some precious special minerals.

Navigator: "Star 7 has been locked, subspace navigation time: three seconds, timed!"

Tech Priest: "The Geller force field is activated, and the outer protective armor is closed..."

In the bridge, the sound of mechanical operation suddenly sounded.

The protective armor outside the window slowly closed, from top to bottom, from bottom to top.

Technology Priest: "The subspace engine starts, countdown: 5, 4, 3..."

Out there, in the dark universe.

As the HFB-1 ship was sailing, the space in front of the bow suddenly became distorted.

A red vortex emerged quickly.

The HFB-1 ship, which was sailing at high speed, crashed into it and disappeared without a trace.

Also disappearing with it is the red vortex.

Seconds later, in the universe outside the gravity well of a green planet.

The space suddenly became distorted and strangely turned into a huge red vortex.

The next moment, a giant ship rushed out of the whirlpool.

The engine nozzle at its rear spurted out even more dazzling white tail flames, pushing the giant ship towards the seventh star.

"Colonel Relf, ​​a high-energy heat source was detected on the surface of Planet 7. It is a man-made construction project. The optical equipment has captured the target."

Man-made construction work?

The screen in front of him flickered, and a vertically angled picture came into Ralph's eyes.

In a green swamp of liquid methane, there is a mining base.

It's not very big, it's round, like a bun, and the whole thing is green, integrating well with the environment.

If you don't look carefully, you can't see it at all.

A large mobile machine also operates in the nearby swamp.

A long pipe is dragged behind the large machinery, one end is connected to the machine, and the other end is connected to the bun base,

There are quite a few, eight in total.

There is also a transport ship docked next to Baozi Base.

It's square, like two containers merged together. It's not big, about 150 meters.

Seeing this, Ralph frowned.

Rebels?

Meanwhile, on the surface of the planet.

Alarm bells rang loudly in the mining base.

Figures running around can be seen in the large and small metal passages.

"Your Excellency, Fleet Commander Shigemitsuke, an unknown spacecraft has appeared in the outer space of Liuma Star and is entering the orbit of the planet. Do you want to call the other party?"

In the main control room, Shigemitsu stood in front of the holographic display platform with a very ugly face.

On the platform, there is a planet simulated by blue light.

In the orbit of the planet, there is a simulated battleship.

When he saw the appearance of the battleship, Shigemitsu's expression changed.

That's the enemy...

A few years ago, in the S-01909 star system, the Xinjing Shogunate encountered enemies.

That time, the Xinjing shogunate tasted its first failure.

The unknown force has the Warhammer 40K technology template, so it is called Warhammer by the "Xinjing Shogunate".

Although the Warhammer forces won the war, they did not occupy the S-01909 star system.

After two years, Shigemitsu didn't expect that the Warhammer forces would appear in the S-01894 star system.

Since the "Xinjing Shogunate" occupied this star system for a short time, no defense facilities were built at all.

The purpose of mining methane is only to make pigments, and it is not an important resource.

Therefore, Liu Maxing did not have any defensive force.

There is only one base with less than 200 employees.