Although with the powerful performance of the Yukage ship, the "Xinghai" only needs a few space jumps to return to its home galaxy, but in order to avoid enemies along the way, especially those star systems that are strategically located and heavily guarded, Yang Yi and the others can only shorten the distance of space jumps, increase the number of jumps, and when necessary, they have to find a place to hide to avoid enemy fleets going out on patrol.
This way can be said to be bumps and bumps, but fortunately, it is a surprise.
It must be admitted that the performance of the Yukage ship is indeed powerful enough. Several occasional encounters with the Silicon Charm battleship, they all rely on the powerful concealment ability to avoid them in time. If it were replaced by other warships, even the most advanced reconnaissance ship of the Human Federation, such as the "Shadow", I am afraid it would have been discovered long ago.
After a dozen space jumps and a large circle, the "Xinghai" finally came near the transit star on the thirteenth day.
In fact, this is already the jurisdiction of the homeland galaxy.
The transit star is also a lone star, but it was an asteroid in the home galaxy hundreds of years ago, but it has a very special orbit. The aphelion is more than one hundred times the perihelion, and its revolution period is more than 10,000 years. Sometimes it wanders around the outer galaxy of the homeland. According to scientists’ speculation, the transit star originally belonged to another star system. Billions of years ago, this star system was captured by the gravitational field of the home galaxy when it crossed the home galaxy and became a member of the home galaxy. There is such a bizarre track. In addition, according to scientists' calculations, in a few billion years, the transit star will leave its home galaxy and become a real lone star.
Of course, the arrival of mankind and the development and growth of the human federation changed the fate of the transit star.
Before the outbreak of the Fifth Greenwich War, the Human Federation tried to increase its defense by expanding the defense area to deal with possible invasions at any time. It's just that based on the situation at that time, the Human Federation lacks both the necessary technology and basic financial resources, so most of the plans remain on paper. Until the outbreak of the Fifth Greenwich War, the idea of turning the transit star into a fortress did not become a reality.
The Fifth Greenwich War changed the human federation and also changed the transit star.
Soon after the war, the federal authorities made a decision to take the lead in building the transit star into a pillar-type military fortress outside the homeland galaxy. Affected by the situation at the time, the federal authorities and the military department worked together to assist in rushing to move the transit star to its current location, which is about 150 million light-years away from the gravitational singularity of the home galaxy, before the Galactic Union Council made a ruling. Although the Galactic Alliance subsequently made a ruling, the Human Federation is only responsible for the management of the star system in the Northern Fourth Region, and has no right to occupy these unowned lands as its own. All projects designed to the sovereignty need to be approved by the Alliance Council, and the transit star The location has exceeded the jurisdiction of the homeland galaxy, but a done deal is done, and the human federation is a major contributor to the Fifth Greenwich War, and the Union Parliament has also acquiesced to this fait accompli.
As a result, the transit star became the outermost space fortress of the home galaxy.
It is a pity that for the next few hundred years, the human federation was not threatened by outsiders, the illusion of peace blinded everyone's eyes, and the military value of the transit star was not fully reflected. Simply put, the federal authorities and the military department do not attach importance to this space fortress. Of course, the deeper reason is that the transit star belongs to the military department, and all expenses are borne by the federal authorities, and it has nothing to do with the nine theaters. Although military spending has increased year by year, after offsetting inflation, not only has it not increased, but has shrunk year by year. The nine war zones can be maintained because of separate fiscal revenues. The military department is just a shelf, without jurisdiction, it is impossible to have other income. As a result, the transit star has never been taken seriously, and many of the basic projects planned at the beginning have never been started.
It can be said that if it is not for the military department to be its own branch, it is not controlled by the federal authorities, and any matter related to basic defense security needs the approval of the Bundestag, I am afraid that the federal authorities took over the transit star hundreds of years ago, and It has been economically developed.
The current transit star is not a space fortress.
However, this is not necessarily a bad thing.
The transit star is not big, only about a hundred kilometers in diameter. Although it fully meets the standards of a space fortress by the standards of the Human Legion, the transit star is too small for the Silicon Magic Alliance. After removing the necessary shell, the space available inside is very narrow, and there are not too many legions that can be deployed here. In addition, the transit star is about 150 million light-years away from the home galaxy, and there are many asteroids outside the home galaxy. Even if most of the asteroids are not big enough, a few are big enough. Besides, being closer to the home galaxy makes these asteroids a more ideal bridgehead for the Silicon Magic Alliance to enter the home galaxy.
The Silicon Magic army occupied the transit star, but did not modify the transit star, but deployed a force and several patrol ships here.
Simply put, the transit star has become a support point for the Silicon Charm army to encircle the home galaxy.
It's just a siege, not a blockade.
Obviously, the main value of this frontier support point is to monitor the home galaxy, and to detect ships going to the home galaxy or coming out of the home galaxy in time, and there is no need to deploy too much force, even if it is attacked, it will not cause much loss. , And the fleet deployed nearby can rush to reinforcements at any time.
There are many similar supporting points near the home galaxy.
In order to avoid being discovered by the enemy, the distance of the last jump of the "Xinghai" was only ten light-years, which reduced the energy for space jump to a minimum.
Strictly speaking, this is not the last space jump.
It is a last resort to come near the transit star, because in the vast universe, only massive planets can cause space distortion, and thus become the reference point for the space treaty. Even if the "Xinghai" has extremely advanced equipment, the jump route must be determined through reference points. If there is no reference point, the exit of the jumping channel cannot be determined, and the safe arrival of the destination cannot be guaranteed.
Although it is possible to directly enter the home galaxy, the stars in the star system are too dense and there are a large number of spacecraft. Therefore, entering the home galaxy rashly may produce unexpected results, such as opening in a certain planet or crashing into a certain planet. A large spaceship. That's why, even in peacetime, space jump nodes and spaceports must be set up to ensure that space jumps can be carried out safely and effectively.
There are dozens of spaceports in the home galaxy, but it's time of war, and these spaceports may not be in their original locations.
As for the space node, in order to avoid a sudden enemy attack, it must have been blocked by the federal army, and even transformed into a space trap.
Simply put, without understanding the homeland galaxy, if you rush in, the consequences are unimaginable.
To this end, you must first reach the periphery of the home galaxy, try to get in touch with the military or theater command, and after obtaining reliable navigation information, make the last space jump into the home galaxy. To this end, Yang Yi also brought a military communicator provided by Lin Liexun.
This is a set of quantum communication equipment that can only communicate with the theater command in a single line, and has a military password. In fact, even if no password is set, it is absolutely safe, because only this communication device can receive the signal sent by the Third Theater Command to obtain navigation information.
In order to guide the warships operating outside to return to the home galaxy, the Third Theater Command has a navigation and communication department that continuously sends navigation signals. In fact, it is just some simple coordinate signals. After receiving these signals, warships in the third theater can safely reach the space node opened by the third theater through space jumps. However, affected by objective factors such as space distortion and original energy fluctuations, the effective working distance of this communication device is very limited, and navigation signals can only be received when it is close to the home galaxy. A little farther, even in the neighboring star system, because of interference, it is impossible to ensure that the signal is received accurately.
For this reason, if you want to return to your home galaxy, you must first come near your home galaxy.
Of course, for those ships that are ready to return to their home galaxy, this step must also be taken.
In addition, this arrangement has a huge advantage.
That is, you can do one final inspection before returning to your home galaxy, and make the final space jump after you are sure that you are not being tracked by an enemy ship.
It can be said that this is a bloody lesson.
During the Beacon Star offensive and defensive warfare at the beginning of the Fifth Greenwich War, similar incidents occurred several times. Patrol ships and reconnaissance ships that went out were followed by the warships of the Silicon Magic Alliance, and the temporarily opened space nodes were exposed and subsequently suffered Attack on the Simei Fleet. Even if the Beacon Star did not fall, the human legion paid a very heavy price under the sudden attack of the enemy.
Now, what Yang Yi and the others have to do is make sure that they are not being tracked by enemy ships.
Of course, with Allen here, Yang Yi and the others don't have to do anything, just wait patiently for a while.
"Major?"
"exist."
"The first search has been completed, no suspicious targets have been found, and the enemies on the transit star have not acted abnormally."
Yang Yi let out a sigh of relief and said, "Can you receive the navigation signal from the Theater Command?"
"Yes, but it will take some time to determine the space node."
"Be prepared." Yang Yi paused for a while, and said again, "Anyway, we have to wait a while and search again, focusing on the abnormal energy fluctuations. If we are not lucky, even if we are not tracked by the enemy ship, maybe I will happen to run into a patrol ship cruising around here."
"clear."
If an enemy ship is trailing, he will definitely have to make a space jump, so Allen's previous concern was space distortion, and he didn't care about original energy fluctuations. On the contrary, if there is an enemy patrol ship nearby, there is no need to make a space jump, and naturally there will be no space distortion. It's just that any warship needs to use the original energy converter during normal navigation, and it will inevitably produce original energy fluctuations.