An hour ago.
The nobles on Sela were enjoying their lives leisurely as usual, while the garrison fleet in the planet's orbit had a lazy look on their faces. Those who were sleeping were sleeping, and those who were playing were playing. Until …
The infamous Huge Axe Pirate Crew's fleet had jumped directly into Sela's orbit!
That's right. Originally, this should have been impossible. After all, such an important planet would definitely have warp disrupting devices deployed and activated for many years.
However, in this corrupted Empire, this impossible thing had actually happened.
All they had to do was spend some money and bribe some people to turn off the warp disrupting devices at critical moments.
However, the Huge Axe Pirate Crew only had 10,000 warships. No matter how weak the garrison was, they were still a match for them.
However, just as the garrison was suddenly ambushed by the Huge Axe Pirate Crew and lost more than 30,000 warships, they finally regained their senses and prepared to fight back.
As the new commander of the fleet, Kelvin, after arriving at the bridge, issued a very stupid order.
It was this order that brought the entire fleet to its current state.
"Space-Type weapons are not allowed!"
"Are you pigs? This group of pirates is so close to Sela. If we use the gravity cannons, even a small mistake will affect Sela. Can you bear this responsibility?"
"Alright, we're only allowed to use close-range defense and non-space-type weapons to fight back!"
"We're a hundred times stronger than them. Even if we suffer a little, we can still drive these pirates away!"
At that time, everyone on the bridge was dumbfounded.
Eldest Young Master, are you serious?
That's the ferocious Huge Axe Pirate Crew, equipped with more than 10,000 Empire T3-class warships.
You want us to use close-range defense and energy weapons to fight back?
Is the other party's space shield fake?
As a result, the entire battlefield was crushed …
Don't get it wrong. It was not that the side with more was crushing the side with fewer. It was just the opposite. The side with fewer was crushing the side with more …
The close-range defense beam cannons and energy cannons of the garrison fleet could not even scratch an itch for the Empire's T3-class warships of the Huge Axe Pirate Crew. They were completely unable to pose any threat to their space shields.
On the contrary …
On the battlefield, the fleet of the Huge Axe Pirates acted as if they were bullying a level-5 civilization. They fought until the other side cried for their parents!
But now, Kelvin was criticizing his subordinates in the bridge for not using the gravity cannons.
Everyone was stunned by what he had done.
"Commander, please give the order to reorganize the formation and reverse the current situation!"
"Since you know, why don't you do it?"
"Isn't it because you haven't given any orders?"
"Bastard, if you have to wait for my orders before carrying them out, then what's the use of having you? The current situation is all your fault! "
His words made everyone unable to believe their own ears. They wished they could go up and punch him to vent their anger …
"Also, contact that idiot Lance for me and ask him where his fleet is."
"Damn it, it's been so long and they still haven't arrived. I must punish them for delaying the battle!"
Well, after shifting the blame for the command error, Kelvin was obviously not satisfied.
He rolled his eyes and immediately accused Lance, who was desperately rushing back, of being a hindrance to the battle.
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At the same time, seven AU away from Sela, in the void that was originally empty, countless blue vortex-shaped hyperspace windows opened without warning.
A huge fleet left the hyperspace and descended here. Just from the fleet's formation, it could be seen that this was an exceptionally elite fleet that had undergone strict training!
"Commander, we have arrived at the Cassano Galaxy. No battleships are left behind!"
"Good, immediately activate the space radar at maximum power and find out the surrounding situation!"
"Yes, Commander!"
Originally, it was impossible for such a large fleet to suddenly descend not far from an important planet of a level-6 civilization empire without being discovered.
After all, even if the empire was in a bad state now, it was still a level-6 technological civilization. It still had the ability to do this.
However, because of the Sela incident, the spies of the Huge Axe Pirates not only turned off the transition interception device, but even the radar devices deployed in orbit were turned off.
In addition, the current empire had just developed the space radar and had not had time to equip the main fleet, let alone a security fleet in such a place.
Therefore, Kelvin was completely unaware that the most terrifying enemy was already not far away from him …
"Commander, a battle has been detected in the orbit of a planet seven AU away from us!"
"Hmm? Conduct long-distance observation and display the image! "
"Yes, Commander!"
Under the control of the command team officer, a video was quickly projected into the bridge. At the same time, various analysis data were displayed beside the video.
However, the data and the live situation in the video made Chris dumbfounded, wasn't it?
According to the analysis of the battleships on both sides of the battlefield and the surrounding wreckage, the battle should have started with 10,000 battleships against 1 million battleships.
Moreover, the battleships of both sides should be of the same level after analysis.
This should be a crushing battle with an absolute majority against a minority of the same technological level.
However …
Looking at the video, it was indeed a one-sided battle, but why was it that the side with the minority crushed the side with the majority?
Just how did this battle end up like this?
Just as Chris was dumbfounded, thousands of imperial battleships were destroyed by the Giant Axe Pirates, and Chris, who was watching this scene, finally discovered some problems.
If they were battleships of the same level, then why was one side only using close-range weapons and energy weapons to resist?
Wasn't this just nonsense!
"Commander, we intercepted a wide-area broadcast, and the location of the broadcast is in the current battlefield."
"Read it out!"
"Yes … this is Sela, we are under attack by the Giant Axe Pirates, requesting support, requesting support!"
Pirate group?
Chris was stunned.
Speaking of which, in the earliest days of the Milky Way when it was still under the rule of the four giants, there was indeed such a profession.
However, after the Federation unified the Milky Way, this profession had disappeared.
After all, in front of the Federation, no pirate group could escape or resist. There was no place for pirates to survive, and naturally, they gradually disappeared in the long river of history.
"Interesting. Do you want to help and get some information?"
Rubbing his chin, Chris muttered to himself.
"Order the first cluster to send a fleet to clean up the pirates and seal off the entire Sela!"
"Yes, Commander!"
Without thinking for too long, Chris made a decision.
After all, although there were exploration fleets before, they only obtained some simple basic information. The more detailed information could only be obtained after contact with the locals.
Soon, a fleet sailed out of the first cluster and quickly headed in the direction of Sela …