Chapter 425

Chapter 425. The Central Zone is always chaotic. (1)

Of course, if you look a bit further, there are bases of similar or higher levels.

For instance, about a week’s travel from here by battleship or higher, there’s an 8-level base.

And nearby, there’s the only 9-level base in the Central Zone, surrounded by four 3-level bases as escort fortresses.

But at this point, I discovered a minor feature that had been updated while I was away…

At that time, I was idly scrolling through the gallery while doing quests because I had nothing major to do.

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Title: Guys, did you know? If user areas overlap, the guard fleet and base network stop working lol

Author: I want to eat kimchi fried rice

Content: [A picture showing that when the base areas of different clans overlap, the patrols of the guard fleets stop functioning.]

If bases are close to each other without any other bases in between, the guard fleets form a kind of patrol route.

And for the base gate network to work, these routes need to be connected.

But if the base area routes of other clans or users overlap, the patrol fleets stop moving, and the internal gate network gets cut off.

And it’s the same for the other side, so if it happens, it’s a mess.

Comments:

– [How can they overlap in a three-dimensional space?]

– [That’s why they do overlap] (Author)

– [How do you solve it?]

– [It was a recent update, so the only solutions are exchanging bases or one side crushing the other]

– [Not easy] (Author)

– [So, what are you gonna do?]

– [Our Clan Leader will handle it] (Author)

– [Ah]

– [But if you set up a large area like that, wouldn’t other users get screwed?]

– [Nope]

– [There’s a distance limit; if it’s too far, it just becomes three points instead of a triangle] (Author)

– [Ah, I see]

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“Hmm.”

As shown in that gallery post, if I were to aim for the distant 8-level or 9-level bases instead of the nearby ones…

If the users of the numerous 5-level or lower bases in between share their bases, the connection to this triangle zone would be cut off.

“Hmm, that means even if I capture a new base, defense would be difficult.”

“Exactly.”

Of course, once captured, the basic functions would be shared systemically.

But to save that area, the only way would be to teleport through Tanhoizer’s own gate.

Only the main force and mercenaries I control can fly there.

If a large number of users come, it’s clear that we’ll be wiped out, making it just a “pie in the sky.”

Not to mention, I don’t even have the strength to capture an 8-level or 9-level base that’s clearly stronger than Tanhoizer.

“No matter how I look at it, it’s impossible to capture an 8 or 9-level base with just the forces I can mobilize, right?”

“Definitely impossible for a 9-level, and probably for an 8-level too.”

While building the Orbital Ring, the overall performance of the base and the capacity of the Resource Warehouse increased.

“Honestly, our maximum resource storage is only 32.5 million, right?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“Even if we use all our resources, we can only deploy 1.05 to 1.06 million ships in a day, maybe 1.1 million at most.”

“But you can’t just use them for one day during a siege; you need to save at least 300,000 to 400,000 ships.”

“With 600,000 to 700,000 mercenary ships and no special ships except the Commander’s, it’s tough.”

“It’s not an easy task.”

As Jessica and I discussed, even if we gather everything without thinking about the future, we can only deploy 1.1 million ships.

If we want to keep them hired for at least three days during a siege, the actual limit is around 700,000 to 800,000 ships.

“Plus, mercenaries are mostly small ships, so they’re weaker than the forces Commanders can mobilize.”

“Hmm.”

Listening to the Clan Leaders, they don’t openly admit it, but…

When clans like Humanity or Justice captured 8-level bases in the past, they mobilized most of their 20,000 to 30,000 users, along with mercenaries and faction forces.

For me to capture an 8-level base with just my own strength…

“At the very least, with our current resources…”

“It needs to be at least five times Zhang Liang’s size.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

Currently, we were in a state where we needed to extract ‘three times’ our current strength and have enough resources to last at least three days.

“This is impossible.”

“I think so too.”

After finishing our calculations for a while, we decided to cleanly give up on anything above level 8.

Of course, it wasn’t like there were no level 1 or 2 bases around, aside from those long-distance ones…

“How many level 1 or 2 base fleets are there?”

“For level 1, it’s about 2-3 guard fleets and 5 combat fleets, right?”

“Enemy forces.”

“That’s way too few.”

In the current situation, even if we tried to take them, defending would be ambiguous, and if we messed up, a pack of hyenas could come running, shouting ‘Let’s party!!!’, and we’d just end up sharpening our nerves.

For now, I decided to stop thinking about level 8 or even taking any additional bases.

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Anyway, excluding the above, after being dragged (?) as a mercenary to the Earth Federation coup by Humanity.

I was living a truly peaceful, almost pastoral life.

Especially since this time, the ‘Leviathan Fleet’ was setting up shop within my territory, and I could see them happily repairing in real-time.

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<Tanava Triangle Official Chat Room>

<Notice: For base docking issues, contact Icarus>

<Aragon has entered the chat.>

-[Where can I see the Leviathan?]

-[Just give anyone 100 gold and they’ll tell you]

-[Is this tourist soliciting?]

-[LOL]

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It’s not like I wanted to fight or anything, but even tourist (?) users were coming just to see the ‘super-large ships.’

Naturally, following capitalist logic, users were popping up to make gold off of it.

Seeing something so realistically unfolding was oddly comforting and a great way to pass the time.

And while living such a daily life.

“Ah, Commander? About that dimensional causality fixation ticket.”

“Why the gacha ticket all of a sudden?”

“If you clear today’s daily quest, you’ll have exactly 150. What do you want to do?”

“…Already that much?”

With the rewards from the last event and the monthly-weekly-daily quests overlapping fantastically.

Hearing that I had accumulated 150 gacha tickets, I naturally thought about rolling the gacha.

But just as I was about to get up to roll.

‘Wait, it’s probably just going to be a bunch of resource boxes anyway.’

Thinking about it, I’m not particularly lucky with gacha, and the times I’ve gotten something good can be counted on one hand.

This time, it was obvious that I’d just get a bunch of resource boxes, and the ‘memory’ of succeeding only on the 9,980th try out of 10,000 resets was still fresh…

‘…Let’s not roll now, let’s do it later.’

Rather than wasting them, I decided to save them for when I really needed resources or equipment.

Of course, after making this plan…

“…Hmm.”

“What’s wrong, Commander?”

“Ah, it’s nothing.”

Somehow, I had this sudden suspicion that the gacha would betray me in a different way.

Of course, it was just a small suspicion, so I could shake it off quickly.

But still, that uneasy feeling was unavoidable.

However, that feeling was completely erased from my mind just 2-3 hours later.

As various incidents and accidents started pouring into the Central Zone.