Chapter 722, Dark Skin?

Chapter 722, Dark Skin?
However, Jason Morgan failed to meet Wang Jiarong as he wished.

If the situation was normal, Wang Jiarong would certainly not rule out 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 Commerce Department, and there is a lot of room for cooperation between the two sides.

That was her plan.

An unexpected event disrupted her plans.

Their team has to complete the industrial transfer of multiple star fields and star regions along the way, complete cross-star field trade, and finally conduct a large-scale transaction with the caravan from the infinite star field. The number of ships in the entire fleet must be quite large.

There are a large number of them, whether they are large merchant ships with huge bellies or small and medium-sized merchant ships.

Such a huge transport fleet is loaded with considerable wealth; these ships themselves are also a considerable fortune.

That naturally requires a lot of investment in security.

Traveling with the caravan were a large number of armed merchant ships.

Armed merchant ships are essentially ordinary transport ships with some naval guns installed. If conditions permit, they can even be equipped with some armor and the strength of the energy shield can be enhanced.

All of these can give merchant ships a certain level of combat effectiveness.

Of course, there is no comparison with a serious warship. From the beginning of design, many details in civilian ships, which determine the combat effectiveness, and the technical route are different from those of warships.

A giant-bellied modified armed merchant ship that looks as big as a battleship or even larger is likely to be defeated if it encounters a frigate hunting it.

Even if you want to run, you can't escape.

The giant belly is very slow.

Of course, this is also because the "Big Belly" is one of the most difficult ship models to be armed. It is a special ship designed to be cheap, fuel-efficient, and capable of transporting large quantities of goods. It is a good transporter. If it is converted into a warship, it will have a very poor speed and low flexibility. The power output is limited at the beginning of the design for cost reasons. The big belly is very easy to be hit, and there is no suitable place for the ship to equip firepower...

Some ships are relatively better, for example, the small Flying Pig, which can be converted into a "wild boar-type" armed merchant ship, is still okay.

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 Orca cannot be modified from the Whale-class, but must be built from the beginning.

The cost of building the Killer Whale is about 200 million tax coins, which is more expensive than the Whale-class frigates, but 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 less than that of the Whale class. The key is the combat power. Two Orcas can be comparable to a Silver Shield class frigate.

This is a good price-performance ratio.

During wartime, the military rarely uses killer whales, and the logistics team can't use them. If the military needs logistics, they can directly requisition large-capacity merchant ships and send warships to escort them.

For ordinary caravans, it would be more ideal to use killer whales.

There is no need to bring a warship. Under normal circumstances, a killer whale can be used like an ordinary whale. The only difference is that the cost is 25% higher and the carrying capacity is 10% less.

Once it encounters danger, it immediately becomes very powerful and is equivalent to half a frigate.

The fleet led by Wang Jiarong relies on hundreds of killer whales to provide armed protection.

At the same time, due to the large size of the fleet, it would be a bit difficult to supply it along the way, especially since many places along the way are a bit underdeveloped;
In addition, the mission targets of their merchant ships are also scattered in various places in the star field. It would be a waste of time to go to every place.

Due to these two reasons, the entire caravan cannot stay together all the time, but must be divided into many branch caravans to travel to other trading targets.

As long as the merchant ships of the entire caravan maintain a roughly consistent direction of movement and periodically converge at the main vein, it will be fine.

From the perspective of safety, it is hard to say whether it is safer to act together or separately. If they are together, the escort force will be much stronger, but if something goes wrong, they will be caught in one fell swoop.

Separation can prevent them from being wiped out at once, but the escort force of each squadron will inevitably be diluted.

However, in general, the caravans sailing in the Spider Web Universe should not have to worry too much about safety issues. The entire Spider Web Universe has just finished fighting a war, and the two major enemies, the Iron Armor and the Zerg, should not pose any threat to the space domain.

However, in this situation, a squadron lost contact.

And no information came out.

Wang Jiarong immediately became alert.

She didn't take it seriously, as the signal struck her as unusual.

The main reason was that there were at least six armed merchant ships in the missing squadron, four of which were killer whales.

This force is already quite strong, at least compared to the ordinary pirate threats.

Don't think that interstellar pirates are some high-end force.

If you want to rob people in the starry sea, you need a boat.

A starship that can go into space is so expensive! If a group of pirates were really a tree without roots, where would they get a ship?
Isn't there someone supporting him?

If there really are those pirate forces that are roaming around and committing crimes, they are actually very rare.

But the problem is, there used to be some pirates here, but they were probably wiped out in the previous war.

Neither the Zerg nor the human navy can keep them.

Even if there were still some pirates left, and even if they were pirates capable of consuming the combat power of six armed merchant ships, Wang Jiarong would accept it.

But what she couldn't accept was, what kind of pirates were so powerful that after devouring an entire branch fleet, they could still prevent them from even sending a message?

She took this matter very seriously.

Don't even plan to solve it on your own.

Although she had hundreds of armed merchant ships, she was still not safe. She had already lost 13 fully loaded merchant ships. What was expensive was not only the ships themselves, but also the things inside them.

Wang Jiarong was unwilling to bear the loss of even one more merchant ship.

She called directly for support from the Alliance Navy.

The Alliance Navy quickly responded to her call for help and arrived at the scene quickly.

Speaking of the 'location', in fact, we can only confirm that it is a galaxy called 'Yangyu' in the Fox Moon Star Region.

The squadron was here, completed a trade, and then left, but lost contact before leaving the galaxy.

The exploration of the Yangyu Galaxy unexpectedly produced results very quickly.

On the surface, Menech Martini of the Shining Tribunal, together with several inquisitors of the Anti-Xenophobia Tribunal, came to the conclusion that this was most likely done by the Dark Eldar.

And they already have some clues.

With the cooperation of the ground forces, they actually captured several black people disguised in human society from Yangyu Star.

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I didn't write anything, why did it take several hours to release it?

(End of this chapter)