Chapter 722, Black Skin?

However, Jason Morgan did not meet Wang Jiarong as he wished.

If the situation was normal, Wang Jiarong would certainly not reject 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.

She had originally planned this way.

The unexpected incident disrupted her plan.

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

Whether it is a large-scale giant-bellied merchant ship or a small and medium-sized merchant ship, there are many.

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

Then naturally a lot of investment in security is required.

There are a large number of armed merchant ships moving with the caravan.

Armed merchant ships are essentially ordinary transport ships with some guns installed. If conditions permit, some armor can be added to enhance the strength of the energy shield.

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

Of course, there is no comparison with serious warships. From the beginning of design, many details in civilian ships that determine combat effectiveness are different from warships in terms of technical routes.

A giant belly-modified armed merchant ship that looks as big as a battleship or even bigger is likely to be defeated when it encounters a frigate.

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

The speed of the giant belly is very slow.

Of course, this is also because the 'giant 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 large-scale transportation. Let it do transportation, it's a good hand. Converted into a warship, it has a very poor speed, very low flexibility, and its power output is limited at the beginning of the design for cost reasons. Its pot-bellied body is very easy to be hit, and there is no suitable position for the ship to equip firepower...

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

The most suitable one is the "killer whale type", which is a ship redesigned based on the whale-class transport ship. But unlike ordinary conversions, the killer whale cannot be converted from the whale class, but must be built from the beginning.

The cost of the killer whale is about 200 million tax coins, which is more expensive than the whale class, and 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 worse than that of the whale class. The key is in terms of combat effectiveness. Two killer whales can be comparable to a silver shield class frigate.

This is a good price-performance ratio.

During wartime, the military is not very good at using killer whales, and the logistics team cannot use them. If the military needs logistical supplements, it can directly requisition merchant ships with large carrying capacity and then send warships for escort.

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

Without bringing warships, killer whales can be used as ordinary whales under normal circumstances, except that the cost is 25% higher and the carrying capacity is 10% less.

Once it encounters danger, it immediately becomes very capable and can fight as well as 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 will be a little difficult to supply along the way, especially many places along the way are a little 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 around every place.

For these two reasons, it is impossible for the entire caravan to stay together all the time, but to split into many branch caravans to run to other business targets.

As long as the merchant ships of the entire caravan generally maintain the same direction of action and come to the main vein to converge once in a period of time, it will be fine.

In terms of safety, it is hard to say whether it is safer to act together or separately. When they gather together, the escort force is certainly much stronger, but once something happens, they will be caught in one net.

Separation can avoid being wiped out, but the escort force of each fleet will inevitably be diluted.

However, in general, caravans sailing in the Spider Web Universe should not worry too much about safety issues.

The entire Spider Web Universe has just finished fighting, and the two major enemies, Iron Armor and Zerg, should not have any threats in the space field.

However, under such circumstances, a fleet lost contact.

And no information was transmitted.

Wang Jiarong immediately became alert.

She was not careless, and this signal made her feel very unusual.

The main reason is that there are at least six armed merchant ships in the missing fleet, four of which are killer whales.

This force is not weak, at least for ordinary pirate threats.

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

To rob in the starry sea, you need a ship.

A starship that can go to space is so expensive! If a group of pirates are really a rootless tree, where can they get a ship?

Aren't they supported by someone?

If they are really the kind of pirate force that commits crimes on the move, they are actually very rare.

But the problem is, there were some pirates here before, and I'm afraid they were almost 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 they were pirates that could consume 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 eating up an entire branch fleet, they could still prevent them from sending even a message?

She attached great importance to this matter.

She didn't even plan to solve it by her own strength.

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

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

She directly called for support from the Alliance Navy.

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

It was called a 'location', but in fact, it could only be confirmed that it was a star system called 'Yangyu' in the Fox Moon Star Region.

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

The exploration of the Yangyu star system unexpectedly produced results very quickly.

On the surface, Menek Martini of the Shining Tribunal, together with several judges of the Anti-foreign Tribunal, gave a judgment: This is most likely done by the Dark Eldar.

And they have already grasped 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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There is nothing written, why did they release them after several hours. .