Chapter 722, Black Skin?
However, Jason Morgan failed to meet Wang Jiarong as he wished.
If the situation is normal, Wang Jiarong will certainly not object to having a brief chat with Jason Morgan.
This route in the Fox Moon Star Region is quite important in the future planning of the Alliance Ministry of Commerce. There is a lot of room for cooperation between the two parties.
That’s what she originally planned.
Unexpected events disrupted her plans.
They have to complete the industrial transfer of multiple star domains and star regions along the way, and complete cross-star domain trade at the same time. At the same time, they will eventually have to conduct a large-scale transaction with the caravan from the infinite star domain. The entire The number of ships in the fleet must be quite large.
Whether it is a large merchant ship with a belly or a small or medium-sized merchant ship, there are many of them.
Such a large transport fleet carries a considerable amount of wealth; the ships themselves are also a considerable amount of wealth.
Of course, a lot of investment will be made in security.
Along with the caravan, there were a large number of armed merchant ships.
An armed merchant ship is essentially an ordinary transport ship with some naval guns installed. If conditions permit, some armor can be added to increase the strength of the energy shield.
These can all give merchant ships a certain degree of combat effectiveness.
Of course, there is no comparison with serious battleships. From the beginning of design, many details and technical routes in civilian ships that determine combat effectiveness are different from those of warships.
A large-bellied armed merchant ship that seems to be as big as a battleship, or even a little larger, is likely to be defeated if it is hunted by a frigate.
I couldn't even run away if I wanted to.
The giant belly is very slow.
Of course, this, like the 'Big Belly', is one of the most difficult ship types to carry out armed transformation. It is a special ship designed to be cheap, fuel-efficient, and capable of transporting large quantities. Let it do transportation, a good hand. Modified into a warship, it has extremely poor speed, extremely low flexibility, power output that was limited at the beginning of the design for the sake of cost, a pot-bellied body that is easily hit, and there is no suitable ship location for equipped with firepower...< br>
There are some ships that are relatively better. For example, when the small Flying Dolphin was transformed into a 'wild boar-type' armed merchant ship, it was still so-so.
The most suitable one is the 'Orca Type', which is a redesigned ship based on the whale-class transport ship. But unlike ordinary modifications, the killer whale cannot be modified from the whale class, but the killer whale must be built at the beginning of construction.
The cost of the killer whale is about 200 million tax coins, which is more expensive than the whale class, and cheaper than the Silver Sword class and Silver Shield class frigates.
However, it can be like a merchant ship, and its carrying capacity is only slightly lower than that of the Whale class. The key is in terms of combat effectiveness. Two killer whales are comparable to one Silver Shield-class frigate.
The price/performance ratio is pretty good.
During the war, the military rarely used killer whales, and even the logistics team could not use them. If the military needs logistical supplements, it can simply requisition large-capacity merchant ships and then send warships to escort them.
For ordinary caravans, killer whales are more ideal.
There is no need to bring a warship. Under normal circumstances, the killer whale can be used as an ordinary whale. It is just that the cost is 25% more expensive and the carrying capacity is 10% less.
Once it encounters danger, it immediately becomes very capable and can withstand half a frigate.
The fleet led by Wang Jiarong relies on hundreds of killer whales to provide force protection.
At the same time, due to the relatively large scale of the fleet, it will be a little difficult to supply along the way, especially many places along the way, which are a bit underdeveloped;
In addition, the mission objectives of their merchant ships are also Scattered in various places in the star field. It would be a waste of time to really go around every place.
Due to these two reasons, it is impossible for the entire caravan to stay together. Instead, it must be divided into many branch caravans to go to other trading destinations.
As long as the merchant ships of the entire caravan generally maintain the same direction of action and come to the main line to join together once in a while, it will be fine.
From a security perspective, it is not clear whether it is safe to gather together or separate. Together, the escort force is much stronger, but if something goes wrong, they will be wiped out in one fell swoop.
Separating will avoid being taken over by one pot, but the escort force of each squadron will inevitably be diluted.
However, generally speaking, caravans sailing in the spider web space should not have to worry too much about safety issues. In the entire spider web domain, the war has just ended, and the two major enemies, the iron armor and the insect swarm, should have no threats in the space realm.
However, under this circumstance, a squadron lost contact.
And no information came out.
Wang Jiarong immediately became vigilant.
She was not careless, this signal made her feel very unusual.
The main reason is that there are at least six armed merchant ships in the missing squadron, four of which are killer whales.
This power is not weak, at least for ordinary pirate threats.
Don’t think that interstellar pirates are some powerful force.
In order to rob houses in Xinghai, you need a boat.
A starship that can go into space is so expensive! If a group of pirates are really rootless trees, where can they get a ship?
Isn't there someone raising it?
If there is really that kind of pirate force that is roaming around and committing crimes, there are only a very small number of them.
But here’s the problem. There used to be some pirates here, and I’m afraid they were almost wiped out in the previous war.
No matter the insect swarm or the human navy, it is impossible to keep them.
Even if there are still pirates left, and there are still pirates who can eat up the combat power of six armed merchant ships, Wang Jiarong also admits it.
But what she couldn't admit was, what kind of pirate was so powerful that after eating an entire branch fleet, he could still prevent them from sending even a single message?
She takes this matter very seriously.
Don’t even plan to solve it with your own strength.
Although she has hundreds of armed merchant ships at her disposal, she is still not stable. Thirteen fully loaded merchant ships have been lost. It is not only the ship itself that is expensive, but also the contents inside the ship.
Wang Jiarong is not willing to bear the loss of one more merchant ship.
She called directly for Alliance naval support.
The Alliance Navy quickly responded to her call for help and quickly arrived at the scene of the incident.
It is said to be a ‘location’, but in fact, it can only be determined to be a galaxy named ‘Yang Yu’ in the Fox Moon Star Territory.
The squadron completed a trade here and then left, but lost contact before leaving the system.
The exploration of the Yangyu Galaxy unexpectedly yielded results very quickly.
On the surface, Meineke Martini of the Tribunal of Flash, together with several judges of the Tribunal of Foreign Affairs, made a judgment: This was most likely done by the Dark Eldar.
And, they already have some clues.
With the cooperation of the ground troops, they actually captured several black men disguised as human beings from Yangyu Star.
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I didn’t write anything. How many hours did it take to release it? .
(End of this chapter)