Chapter 2183 Black Gold Port
Ten minutes later, Cork walked out of the gate of the Ministry of Justice fortress. At this time, a gray off-road vehicle parked on the side of the road. After seeing him, a strong man wearing a vest Get out of the car and open the door.
"Boss, we are waiting to die."
Suddenly, he noticed the scars on Kirk's face, and immediately said angrily:
"Damn! Then Are you the boss who helped Black Dog torture you? I will organize the brothers to teach him a lesson the next time he goes to the police!”
Kirk just laughed and straightened his clothes.
"It's okay, meeting my friend, he is very polite."
"Uh, is that so?"
Koke got into the car, and then faced Mirror opened his left eyelid, carefully removed an object almost the size of gravel with tweezers, and handed it to a person in the front row who had many devices on his head that looked like the Mechanicus.
“Why so fast?”
A big man in the co-pilot wearing sunglasses and a body armor turned his head and said:
"Boss, it's the boss who has come forward."
Coker suddenly showed a surprised expression.
“It turns out to be the chief executive”
“Well, and the chief executive has also convened a meeting of all the regional executive officers of the Sagan system. There are still about 36 hours left.”
"Then go back quickly, I need to wash up and get ready."
"Yes."
Before the car window was raised, Cork turned to look at the Ministry of Justice Fortress, and Gabriel also Staring at the high wall, the two people's eyes briefly contacted each other, and finally disappeared into Cork's plain smile and the raised car window.
After returning to the luxurious mansion and preparing for an hour, Cork boarded his special plane, headed to one of his private spaceships, and headed to the trading port of Sagan II as quickly as possible. It is a huge void port, and it is also a huge creation full of desperate hopes and futile dreams. It is always full of merchants, mercenaries, wanderers, missionaries, gang members and other people temporarily stationed here. There are officials and retinues of the Home Office and members of the Adeptus Mechanicus, almost all of whom feed off the lucrative trade wealth of the Maelstrom Route.
This spaceport was originally established by the Imperial Navy in 917.M35. Its purpose was to create a forward base to facilitate the navy's military activities deep into the Maelstrom in the following hundreds of years. When the Maelstrom route was gradually fixed and ordered, the spaceport was The Gan System is also becoming more and more important as the gateway to the Solar System from the Maelstrom.
As a result, the original role of this military port as an imperial military operations base was gradually forgotten, and more and more non-military personnel began to come here, making it a famous trade transit station.
Businessmen and mercenaries began to clamor in the deserted corridors of the space station. Strange travelers were shaking off the dust from alien stars while trading strange items that had traveled through the subspace. In addition, the space port was also crowded. It's filled with arrogant civil servants, fat merchants, and everyone else, from arrogant administrators to scheming acolytes of the Inquisitors.
Although there are several large spaceports in the Sagan system, the spaceport of Sagan II was formerly a military port, so the dock was originally designed to accommodate battlecruisers and other large ships. It also made it the airport with the second largest throughput in the Maelstrom outside the Sagan Prime Airport. During the thousands of years of peace that followed, the airport continued to be expanded, and entire new modules and battlements were installed on the space station. Originally, segments are entirely covered by new buildings, and almost all of the original space station is covered by cascading new buildings.
So to this day, if you look at it from a distance, the Sagan 2 spaceport looks like a small imperial hive, with Gothic spiers and upward arching cathedral towers, a huge sky The eagle symbol symbolizes loyalty to the Emperor. There are countless ports protruding from the side. The spider-shaped docking device is always ready to anchor the ship at the berth. In addition, there are various small spacecrafts coming and going for use in the berth. Transporting people and cargo between ships and spaceports.
The various deep ravines on the space station illustrate the elongation of various buildings over thousands of years. Some of them are small ships spliced on top. They are undergoing continuous construction and external maintenance, and the servitors are like flies. The same thing is wandering around on this huge metal beast.
The lower part of the spaceport is mainly a repair dock, where damaged ships can be renovated and repaired. There are also closed dry docks in these giant shipyards that can be used for repairs of large ships. In addition, the keel of the airport There are also various complex and mysterious arrays and detectors on the ship, as well as spear turrets, weapon arrays, torpedo launchers and void shield generators throughout the entire port area.
In addition to these static defense facilities, there are several squadrons of fully armed ships parked near the airport. They are all anti-smuggling and patrol fleets affiliated with the Ministry of Justice. Occasionally, ships of the Navy's combat fleet will also regularly patrol the area. Patrolling near the Wandering Port, in addition to countless merchant ships, giant transport ships, and small spacecraft coming in and out like swarms of insects, some of them carry raw fuel gas mined from giant gas planets, and some are Bringing all kinds of rare ores, flora and fauna from further reaches of the galaxy.
Especially after the expedition was launched, the Sagan system also became the logistics hub of the expeditionary force, so it became even busier on the original basis. It also attracted countless greedy scavengers like a huge piece of fresh meat. .
Since the launch of the expedition, the throughput of Sagan II Airport has increased by more than 200%, which once caused serious channel congestion. In addition, due to the expedition ban, the prices of some commodities soared, causing smuggling to become more serious. Even more profitable, many legitimate merchants have also begun to quietly trade with smugglers behind the curtain, while mercenaries and bodyguards will look for business here.
Therefore, this place is not only a transit station, but also a huge market. All kinds of strange creations from all over the galaxy are traded here, including wine from alien planets, addictive drugs from hive worlds, or products from certain Beasts from dangerous worlds, even slaves with special talents or functions, and alien products and crafts strictly prohibited by imperial law.
These transactions never stop whether during the day under artificial lighting or in the dim night.
So much so that when the expedition was about to end, the Sagan II spaceport already had more than 5 million permanent residents and 3 million non-residents, most of whom lived in the harbor, and some chose to live on their own On the spaceship, there are naturally the empire's unique gang organizations.
In fact, just the dominance of the low-level black market around Sagan II has led to several armed gang conflicts involving more than a thousand people. Although the Ministry of Justice has specially deployed a law enforcement fortress here, most of the Law enforcement officials are indifferent to these, and some even get involved in it themselves to pad their personal accounts.
It is for these reasons that the airport of Sagan II is also jokingly called the Black Gold Port by businessmen
(End of this chapter)