Chapter 727, Defense Plan
Chapter 727, Defense Plan
Du Shiliang was not harshly criticized.
After Wang Jiarong received the recovered ships, goods and personnel, he expressed his gratitude to him and requested more escort forces. The entire caravan started moving again.
Although they are still worried about pirate attacks, the caravan's mission still needs to be completed well.
The reports submitted to the Union Government and the Ministry of Military Affairs were not criticized.
Marshal Thadius had a conversation with Du Shiliang.
Without taking the time to review what had happened in the past, Thadius was most concerned about the overall plan of the Alliance Navy to carry out security work throughout the alliance.
A simple looting incident was not critical; it was understandable that the navy was caught off guard by a newly emerged enemy like the Dark Eldar.
Thadius would not question Du Shiliang on these aspects anymore.
However, this situation must be prevented in the future and must not happen again.
The Union Government is also very concerned about this.
Before this, the Alliance had never suffered a particularly serious pirate challenge. Even during the war, the safety of star sea transportation was relatively high.
The Dark Eldar, an extremely elusive organization, poses a huge challenge to the Alliance's shipping security.
Thadius was eager to know whether the Navy Headquarters' defense plan was reliable.
Du Shiliang was under a lot of pressure as the acting chief of the Alliance Navy after Ye Lixia left. He was actually a little unsure because he had no experience in dealing with the Dark Eldar.
But fortunately, he doesn't have it, but someone else does.
Inquisitor Martini used to hang out in the Eastern Universe for many years, which was often attacked by dark elf pirates. He had a set of conventional plans that could be summarized for reference.
Then, there is the more important Inquisition. They are experts in dealing with all kinds of aliens, and the special methods of interrogating dark elves are what they use, which can also provide a lot of help.
With the help of these two parties, Du Shiliang came up with a plan that was barely acceptable.
The main focus is on active attacks and mopping-up, supplemented by passive patrol defense.
Let's talk about the so-called passive defense first. The frequency of the alliance navy's attendance has increased significantly. More escorts for alliance caravans, the fleet is slightly more dispersed, and the routes of key trade routes and tax fleets are detected in advance to ensure safety.
This is a relatively conventional method, but you cannot rely entirely on passive defense.
As long as the Dark Eldar sneak into a star system, find an uninhabited asteroid or an uncolonized, non-habitable planet in the vast universe, and build a Veil Spirit Gate at a low cost, they will be done. In the future, they can open a gate in their hometown of Comoros and come here anytime and anywhere.
Faced with such high flexibility, passive defense would definitely be impossible to defend against, and the defense line would be riddled with holes.
More importantly, we still have to rely on proactive means to detect and clear the Veil Spirit Gates that the Dark Eldar may have established in every galaxy.
If you destroy the door, they won't be able to get through.
This is the gate, which generally has a diameter of several tens of meters. On the scale of the universe, it is just a drop in the ocean and is very difficult to find.
Moreover, it does not have to be built on a habitable planet, as long as there is a place where the curtain spirit door can be fixed.
The experts of the Tribunal have some quick ways to find out.
To be honest, the reliability is not particularly high, but it is relatively more efficient than searching aimlessly.
At the same time, the Alliance has an advantage that many places do not have when fighting against the Dark Eldar: psionic power.
The Storm Mage Corps does not belong to the Alliance military, the Alliance government, or the Alliance Legal Affairs Center. Their role is more like that of the Sisters of the Holy Lily or the Phoenix Space Marines, an independent organization. It includes the Mage Corps itself and the Alliance National Mage College established on many planets.
In other words, they are the Alliance's psionic order.
In terms of power structure, they directly follow the leadership of Governor Gu.
Of course, in reality they are still relying on the financial support of the Alliance, and before leaving, Gu Hang also asked the Mage Corps to cooperate with them.
In fact, Du Shiliang's request for help from the Storm Mage Corps received a positive response.
The Mage Corps also wants to make progress, and they have to demonstrate their own value.
This was true when the Governor was present, and it was also true when the Governor was temporarily away.
With the help of a large number of psychic masters and combined with the means of the Inquisition, such a solution that also has a certain ability to search for the Veil Spirit Gate in a silent state is relatively reliable.
In addition to clearing out the Veil Spirit Gate, we must also guard against the spirit race establishing a spirit gate.
The good news is that the Eldar do not directly use the Warp engine for interstellar travel - relevant researchers believe that it is not that they do not have the relevant technology, but that they dare not use it, for fear that after entering the Warp, they will directly deliver themselves to the doorstep of the Warp evil god who is very interested in them.
Therefore, when the Dark Eldar travel across galaxies, in addition to using the Comoros Veil Gate for very convenient navigation, they also use the Astral Tunnels for normal navigation.
Often, the Dark Eldar ships that sneaked over to build the Veil Gate were relatively small in size, and they also had very powerful ship stealth technology. The technology that humans could only achieve on ships of the Traveler specification, they could achieve on the frigate level.
This means that even if an interstellar outpost is built at the jump point, it is easy to miss them.
Unless many outposts are built at each jump point and manned by inquisitors and psychics for a long time.
This is obviously impossible, there are too many and the cost is too high.
But it can be done in key hub areas.
In short, after listening to Du Shiliang's entire report, Thadius was still quite satisfied.
The budget required by Du Shiliang was also approved. The General Logistics Department and the Naval Logistics Department will work with the government's production departments to start more outpost construction and placement plans.
The Alliance began to officially welcome the challenges posed by the Dark Eldar pirates to the development of the Alliance.
The most direct way to show this is to look at your opponent.
Xernos Bloodcurse was in big trouble.
When he came out of another curtain door with his looting fleet and found an Alliance merchant fleet, he dared not take action.
The escort force is relatively strong, so if we take action, the losses may be relatively large. We may also be blocked by humans due to delays.
And after ten days or so of hesitation, a larger human naval fleet arrived in this galaxy.
They seemed to have sensed something, and although they did not catch Xernos' fleet, they found the Veil Gate and destroyed it.
The fleet of the Blood Curse Family was trapped in this galaxy in the real universe.
(End of this chapter)
