"Why is there a person wearing an imperial mark on the communication screen?"
The commander-in-chief of the Fifth Fleet, the spirit creature called Kokokina suddenly changed his tone, and said in a low and serious voice, the three eyes of this spirit body became brighter than before, and they also brought a kind of Lavender halo, what kind of emotional changes does this expression imply? surprise? fear? anger? Confuse? Or both? For the time being, we don't know yet, we can only confirm one thing, the situation is really complicated.
No one in our scene was wearing imperial uniforms, but Tavel's communication screen was suspended next to the "Parliament". She was wearing a uniform. From the shooting angle of the communication equipment, it happened to be clearly visible from Cocokina. Tavel, who was wearing the uniform of an imperial researcher, in his eyes, the parliament was communicating with the Fifth Fleet while communicating with the empire... Well, this is actually the truth. It's just that it's really not the time to expose this fact.
"In the Council of Nad, I don't think those monsters who lose their minds will become your new allies, but you do need to explain." Seeing that there was no response from the "Council" for a long time, Ke Kekina finally couldn't help but opened his mouth again. But before the "Parliament" could explain, Sandora stepped forward and said, "Commander Cocokina, nice to meet you. Let me introduce myself, I am Emperor Xiling, Sandora La Kelvi Ulasses, one of the rulers of the new empire, as you can see, the empire is now standing with the Fourth Fleet, and we belong to the same camp."
No one (including me) thought that Sandora would suddenly stand up. And to say things so clearly, not to mention the stunned "Parliament" and the surrounding senior officials of the Fourth Fleet, Ke Kekina on the opposite side of the video was also stunned for a while. I guess he is not ready to accept this setting at all. After Sandora's voice fell, he began to flash and flash, and finally spread his "hands" that are much wider than human beings, and made a big move towards us. A gesture in confusion: "What's going on? Has the Fourth Fleet finally fallen into your hands?"
"Sooner or later, you have to clarify the matter. If you wait for the Fifth Fleet to withdraw to the border of the Empire, let them find those Imperial military stations. I'm afraid things will be more troublesome," Sandora turned her head and whispered to the "Parliament", and then looked at the communication again. device. "No, on the contrary, we just protected the Fourth Fleet from those monsters you said not long ago."
Cocokina leaned her upper body in the direction of the communicator. His erratic "face" was enlarged on the holographic screen: "Imperial man, what are you trying to say?"
"The empire in your memory has been destroyed, completely collapsed," Sandora responded in a tone as calm as water, "Now the land is gone, and the surviving Apostles of Xiling have split into two parts, one part is the one that was chased and killed in the past. Your fallen ones are rebels to us. We are a second force, a new empire reconstituted. Unfortunately, we are alone. And most of us until a few years ago Awakened from a long slumber, powerless to do anything about what happened to you. Now the new empire is gradually rising and working to destroy those rebels who threw themselves into the abyss, while doing what it can. For the world suffering from the fallen Provide shelter. The Fourth Fleet is already in the camp of the New Empire, and not long ago, they received your distress signal, and this is how the rescue plan is now. This is all the answers you want to know."
It's hard for me to see the expression on a face with three more light bulb eyes than jelly, and Kokokina's body language is also inexplicable to us, so no one knows what the other party heard Sandora's words Doubt or simply refuse to believe. The erratic spirit energy on his body contracted three times regularly, and then he turned his attention to the "Council": "In Nad Council, I hope to get your testimony. The credibility of this matter is really impressive." suspect."
——Actually, his seeking proof is meaningless. The "Parliament" has already stood with us. Of course, the former's answer is yes, but he still hopes to get his old friend's personal acknowledgment. So the "Parliament" nodded firmly: "I can swear to the ancestors of the Nader people, His Majesty the Emperor is true."
At the same time, we heard the explanation of the "Parliament" from the spiritual connection: "For the Alan spirit race, the highest attitude to show credibility is to swear to the spirit of the ancestors of their own race. Whether the weight of this oath is the same as that of the Allen Spirit Race, this is already the most powerful move to express my attitude."
Cocokina's eyes flickered, and the three rays of light finally froze in a very dim state: "For many reasons, I should believe you. And it is really impossible for those monsters in the past to talk to me with such a rational attitude, There is no need for them to set up any kind of deception... Then, trust is temporarily established, His Majesty the Emperor of the New Empire."
"Wow, the plan is so simple?" Qianqian's bluffing voice rang out at a critical moment as always, and she was still holding a huge ninth-order Rubik's cube in her hand, as if preparing to spend most of the day, "I The toys are all ready and you just listen to this?"
The corner of Sandora's mouth twitched visibly, and I quickly coaxed Qianqian aside. In fact, Ke Kekina believed our words in such a short period of time. It really surprised me, but after a while, I understood the reason-in fact, strictly speaking, no mutual trust has been established between the two parties, Ke Ke Keener's current performance is all because of -- there is no choice.
His dilapidated fleet is being pursued, and if he can't find a way out, he will be destroyed 100% of the time. On our side, at least we can give him 10% hope.
At the same time, as he said, the completely irrational fallen apostles would not set him up in such a troublesome way (he still doesn't know that those irrational lunatics really turned into a bunch of useless You don’t need to be an extremely cunning villain), and the Yunader Council is willing to use its greatest sincerity to guarantee Sandora’s words. Under such circumstances, it is of course self-evident whether he chooses to continue leading the fleet around, or cooperate with us.
As for the national hatred and family hatred that was hunted down by the apostles of Xiling back then-of course it will not disappear in this situation, but both parties are very wise not to discuss this kind of issue at this juncture. I believe that it is time to put this issue on the table for study after the Fifth Fleet is successfully out of danger.
"Now I want to know the overall situation of your entire fleet, the working parameters of the void jumping device. Your precise location."
After the two sides established basic trust, Sandora immediately changed the topic to support for the Fifth Fleet, and asked about the other party's current situation in detail. in my opinion. It is basically impossible to rush to help the Fifth Fleet—the distance is too far away, even with the most advanced void pioneering team in the empire, it may not be too late to offer incense to all the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Fleet while it is hot.
Of course Sandora knew this too. So in her question, the option of letting the imperial fleet rush over for reinforcements has been eliminated, and she is trying to guide the other party to get rid of the pursuit first.
"We have started uploading the technical information about the fleet, and it is expected to be completed in two minutes. I must first explain that the void jump system used by the Fifth Fleet has been in disrepair for a long time, and it is difficult to guarantee how long it can operate at full power. Now The slowest of our large ships has an information offset correction of six percent per jump, and the jumps are eight seconds apart, so the fleet can only move at that speed. We lost nearly half of our resource supplies in the raid—they would have On the home planet, only a small part was diverted when the attack came, so many spaceships are now advancing almost empty, relying on the ecosystem of the ship to maintain the life of the crew. But the ecosystem of the large ship has just been restarted. They have been shut down for a full hundred years before this, although there is no problem yet, it is very likely that there will be a disaster of ecological cycle downtime... "
While Cocokina was conveying the status of the Fifth Fleet to us, Sandora and the team of Tavel scientists who were online were also synchronously analyzing the starship data sent by the other party. Although there are many technical terms that I don't understand, I also know from Sandora's face that the Fifth Fleet itself is quite pessimistic in terms of the spacecraft situation. She suddenly waved her hand and interrupted Cocokina's words: "I have seen your ecological cycle system data. Some of the systems used in the Alpha-class starships are very dangerous. These systems account for nearly one-third of the fleet. Members provided life support."
"... yes, our engineers have detected three dangerous failures. They are doing their best to salvage the failed atmospheric regeneration towers, but we lack spare components, and they are all left on the home planet."
Sandora frowned, and looked at another set of holographic projections beside her, which displayed the working data of the Death Garden system.
"The distance is too far, the positioning signal strength is insufficient, and you are crossing the quadrant boundary area. With the current transmission stability rate, we can't even send the smallest rescue device... Unprovoked transmission requires a stronger guidance signal."
Ke Kekina didn't seem to have the slightest expectation of receiving the aid equipment from the empire, so he didn't feel disappointed. He just nodded calmly, and then said that those ecosystems can last for another day or two—the implication is, If it cannot escape the pursuit and find a safe docking world within a day or two, the Fifth Fleet will have to abandon nearly a third of its members.
Unlike the Empire, they have the "secondary jump" technology to teleport units directly from one ship to another in the void, and the current state of their spaceships cannot maintain a large enough order field in the void to take advantage of small The transport ship completes a large-scale personnel transfer. Unless it can dock on a safe world, the crew members who are deeply trapped in the starship that is about to collapse ecologically will have no hope. Generally speaking, the situation of the Fifth Fleet today is infinitely worse than that of the Fourth Fleet when it met us that day.
"In short, the fleet is now proceeding according to the navigation information you provided, and we haven't found any signs of chasing troops yet, but they must not have given up yet," Ke Kekina glanced at an information terminal beside him, and said in a low voice. The tone shows that he is not optimistic about the status quo, "But it seems impossible to evacuate to the nearest safe zone that you have marked in a short period of time. Our evacuation back then happened to cross the border of your new empire. They are in diametrically opposite directions, but the 'distance' between the two is too far away now."
Tens of thousands of years ago, when the exile fleet decided to evacuate separately. All the fleets chose different void quadrants as their targets. Among them, the target of the Fourth Fleet happened to be close to the territory of the New Empire today, so they could stray into the macro world passage, but the route chosen by the Fifth Fleet happened to be in line with every world of the New Empire. Staggered (well, at least they didn't choose the route of the Second Fleet, which according to the "Parliament" is completely contrary to the current territory of the New Empire. If the Fifth Fleet took that route, I'm afraid They will not be able to run back for thousands of years), perhaps the entire territory of the empire is not as far away as the "distance" between the Fifth Fleet and us.
If it is within the empire. Since the worlds are connected by world gates, no matter how large the space is, it can be reached almost instantly, but it is outside the empire. Without the World Gate, relying on the spaceship to jump bit by bit, the time it takes is astonishing. I called up the void territory map compiled by Tavel, and input the coordinate signal of the Fifth Fleet into it, trying to find a closer route—this territory map is not the "map" or other graphical interface that most people imagine, It is a table-like thing made up of countless points with footnotes, because it is impossible to determine the position of anything in the void, and it is naturally impossible to draw a map-like map of the void territory, each of which represents the world in this table. Points can only use the "information offset" to represent the relative position of itself and the capital universe, and it is below the point of the Fifth Fleet. All I can see is a bunch of numbers and even a bunch of ellipses after it...
I even suspect that they may not be able to reach the border of the empire in a few years.
"Temporarily retreat according to the scheduled route. I am thinking about how to let you cross this distance without delay," Sandora curled her index finger against her chin. She seemed to have an idea, "Maybe there is a shortcut...give me some time."
"Who are you being hunted down by... the vassals of the old empire?" My sister can't help me technically, so I can only ask other questions that we are also very concerned about.
"It's them—those minions," Ke Kekina's voice was filled with uncontrollable excitement, but then calmed down. "I don't know who they are, but I'm sure they're vassals of what you call the 'Old Empire'. We've seen something like the Crystal Crusader on their ships, but... I thought you'd be interested in these images, which But it's not the same as the normal imperial mark."
As Cocokina said, he sent a set of pictures, which seemed to be shot on a battlefield in a high orbit. The background was basically a large piece of fragmented ship wreckage, and some planets on one side of the picture could be seen The edge, because of the high speed motion, the picture is a little blurry, I can't tell which of them are from the Fifth Fleet and which are from the pursuers. The most conspicuous in these pictures are some spaceships with arc-shaped shells and large golden paintwork. These golden round warships that look a bit like magic sticks are the pursuers that Ke Kekina said. Sister magnified one of the clearest pictures, and finally, we found the crusader emblem of the empire on the bows of these warships—strictly speaking, something that looked like the crusader emblem.
The prototype of that logo is obviously the imperial emblem, but its color has changed from blue to pale gold, and the sharp-pointed crystal spikes have been modified into arcs like a crescent shovel. On the background of the logo, then Two crossed scepters can be seen.
The whole logo seems a bit nondescript to me, but my sister frowned: "How did they make the imperial emblem into this?"
"They changed the emblem of the emperor without authorization... A normal servant army would never do this. This is a great taboo." Sandora woke up from her own contemplation, looking at the incongruous golden emblem in surprise, And I suddenly felt that someone had grabbed the hem of my clothes.
Looking down, it turned out to be Pandora.
In other words, this girl's sense of existence is really too low. She obviously came here with us, but because she didn't say a word from the beginning to the end, she was ignored like a porcelain doll in the corner of the room. Her existence Not as high as her own sister—Viska was ordered to sit on a chair more than ten minutes ago because she tried to remove parts from the modem next to her. Many people took strict precautions against her, and her sense of existence was high .
"Brother, those spaceships... know!"
Under my curious gaze, Pandora finally spoke. As always, she said concisely, "Melovians!"
I thought about it and patted Pandora on the head: "Can you say a few more words?"
"Fifteen days area, servant army, Melova people!"
Everyone fell silent—well, everyone who knew what the 15-day zone was, fell silent.
I was stunned for less than two seconds, and finally realized that I called the chief scientist who was on standby online: "Tavel, search the database immediately, and search for the information of the Melova people in the newly added data entries after the concept was split."
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Tavel replied, and a few seconds later, a large amount of information began to appear in the holographic screen around us like a blowout. Clear pictures and text information from the old empire database were listed in detail. The intelligence of the vassals of the old empire known as the "Melovians", and the luxurious and impetuous battleships with their round shells and golden paintwork accounted for more than 50% of the picture.
"The Melova people, the vassal race of the fifteen-day zone of the old empire, one of the oldest vassal races of the empire, have experienced the era of great development, and survived all wars, and their comprehensive strength ranks first among all the vassal races of the old empire. The old empire After the collapse of the empire, all the information of this group of vassals has been lost, and it is tentatively scheduled to be extinct."
The voice synthesized by the system read a brief introduction about this race for us.
Sandora shook her head slowly: "No... they are still alive, and... they may have betrayed." RS