The battle surrounding the Tofan-1 satellite, including the parts that Lu Yuan experienced from the side and the parts he later missed, was collectively called the "Tofan Encounter" by the media. Although the parties involved in this war are always difficult to confirm. However, in terms of scale, it can be called the largest interstellar war that has broken out in the Milky Way in the past twenty years, and it has quickly entered the field of vision of the entire Milky Way.
This war was triggered by the Star Alliance suddenly launching an extermination operation against pirates. According to Batarian officials, while pretending to attack the pirates, the Star Alliance attacked the Batarian Empire's Second Fleet (owned by the country's regent). The King launched a despicable sneak attack! The Second Fleet resisted tenaciously, sinking and damaging three Starfleet dreadnoughts and twenty-two cruisers, severely damaging the invading enemy! After that, the Second Fleet was outnumbered and withdrew to the Empire.
Currently, the Batarian Empire is mobilizing the entire country to actively resist the invasion of the Star Alliance. At the same time, we are also launching a political offensive in the Citadel to make sure that the Star Alliance invaders are punished by justice...
So the reporters thought for a while and found that even their own knees couldn't convince them, so they collectively turned around and decided to rely on the information released by Star Alliance.
The Star Alliance's battle report is quite simple. It doesn't talk about motives, right or wrong, just the facts of what happened.
In the first stage, the pirates (Star Alliance) always insisted that they were fighting pirates and never had any diplomatic contact with the Batarian Empire. They lost one dreadnought, sixty-five cruiser-class battleships, and three hundred and seven escort-class battleships. Eleven, other warships are not included in the calculation... 780,000 pirates were captured; the Star Alliance lost four cruisers (withdrew from the battle). Eleven frigates crashed, 27 were seriously damaged, and 22 fighters were killed. Eight were killed. One hundred and twelve people.
The second phase is very vague - this is what reporters are most interested in - because this battle also has a twists and turns in the second phase!
When the Batarian Empire's Second Fleet was on the verge of destruction, the Empire's First Fleet rushed to the vicinity of Tovan Star, but accidentally attacked a group of merchant ships anchored in the synchronous orbit of Tovan's third satellite - the place was originally designated as " "No belligerent zone", backed by the third satellite of the habitable planet. It was originally a temporary anchorage set up by the Star Alliance to prevent the warring parties from accidentally attacking merchant ships. (The Batarian First Fleet violated a large number of Citadel conventions during this attack, and has been complained to the Citadel Council by the Star Alliance...but the Batari can no longer care.
In order to rescue the merchant ships, the Star Alliance temporary fleet launched a counterattack against the fleet of unknown origin (the first fleet of the Batarian Empire!
After both sides fought until they were exhausted, they both withdrew from the battlefield, and the "Tofan Encounter" ended.
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this battle. There is actually no problem with the confirmation of the warring parties - the Batarian Empire and the pirates are one, and everyone in the galaxy knows this except the Batarian himself who refuses to admit it! The so-called "Second Fleet of the Batarian Empire" is actually the Skillian Border Pirate Fleet.
But throughout the entire battle, there were still two major doubts.
First, why didn't the Citadel stop the fight before it escalated? ! Reporters know that according to the current authority of the Citadel Council, a truce is actually a matter of one sentence! As long as the order from the Citadel Council is sent to the Tuofan Star area. Both sides will have no choice but to sit down and quarrel! That's how awesome it is.
The second question is - how serious are the losses on both sides? !
Anyone who knows a little bit about politics can understand that the Citadel Council’s previous basic strategy was to promote the emerging race of humans to invade the World God Star Territory, thereby expanding the Citadel Council’s scope of influence. At the same time, the Batarian Empire, which is adjacent to the Star Alliance, is used to curb the development of mankind.
It is based on such a "basic strategy". As a new race that has only recently entered the pan-galactic era, humans are allowed to possess the fourth largest fleet in the galaxy; while the Batarian Empire implements slavery and supports piracy. But apart from verbal accusations, he has never received any punishment from the Citadel Council.
But now? According to well-informed sources, "the Batarian have returned to the Stone Age"! The two Dreadnought-class battleships, the "Kashan" and the "Ankh" all crashed, and the cruisers were out of ten! The losses of frigates and naval personnel were countless! Today, the empire's only remaining naval power has fallen to the third place in the galaxy!
Similarly, according to well-informed sources, the Star Alliance Navy did not take advantage, and "the achievements of twenty years of shipbuilding were destroyed in one day"!
As many as 28 Star Alliance cruisers crashed and were directly decommissioned in this battle! Of the entire temporary fleet, it was said that only two ships were still in good condition when they entered the port. Just like that, one of the ships just had time to evacuate the crew before it exploded violently! The tragic situation of the fleet simply brought tears to those who saw it! On the premise that no dreadnoughts will be dispatched in the future, the Star Alliance Navy's area control force will be directly reduced by 60% (loss of cruisers!
The Starfleet Navy will not be able to recover for at least five years...
The Citadel can choose to intervene during the half-hour interval between the first and second stages. But why did the Citadel Council remain silent until both sides suffered losses? Could it be that the basic strategy of the Citadel Council has undergone a directional change? Or is there something wrong in the middle?
Reporters are desperately trying to find out what’s wrong with this!
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Citadel Space Station, Citadel Tower, Council Hall.
"This is a shameful mistake! Someone must be held responsible for this!" Senator Salary banged the table angrily! "This has disrupted all our plans and will delay it for at least five years!"
"No, this is not a mistake," Councilor Turian spread his hands and corrected Councilor Salarian's words helplessly. "We all know that this is actually just a misunderstanding! No one could have predicted that the pair of blue giant brotherhoods in the Spear Galaxy would suddenly get angry, causing the entire buoy network to be interrupted for six hours! No one could have predicted it!"
"We need to confirm an issue first." At this time, as the representative of the strongest country, the Asari spoke and stopped the dispute between the two people. "A rare ionization storm suddenly appeared in the Spear Galaxy, paralyzing the nearby buoy network. The first thing we need to confirm is - is it really a natural phenomenon? Is there any man-made factor in it? I am from the Ceres Council The conclusion reached is that existing technology cannot achieve this... What do the Salarian research institutes say?"
"Same." The Salarian shook his head. "Damn, in order to prevent the situation from getting out of control, we must bring them back! It is not in our interests to weaken humans and Batarians too much."
"Let those damn slave traders die!" the Turians said, "What we have to consider is that the humans have lost 29 cruisers! The number of remaining battleships they have is difficult to maintain the basic security of the colony. If humans start to shrink from this, or even turn the direction of colonization towards the expansion of the Citadel Star Territory, that will not be what we want to see.”
"If we abandon the Batarians, they will go further down the wrong path until they get involved with the gang of bandits in the World God Star Region." The Asari said, "Let's inform the Batarians. , we can accept them re-establishing an embassy in the Citadel, although I don’t want to see those four-eyed pirates anymore! As for humans... First of all, I hope that the Turians can help humans maintain part of their borders as allies of the Star Alliance. The safety..."
After seeing the Turian representative nod in agreement, the Asari representative continued, "Secondly, the matter we discussed before can be started in advance. The Congress will be responsible for the investment, and the Turian and Star Alliance will jointly develop a new generation of frigates. It will help humanity regain its combat effectiveness as soon as possible..."
"There is one more thing that can increase the confidence of the Star Alliance." The Salarian representative said, "We can notify the ambassadors of the Star Alliance and allow them to submit new ghost candidates. This will help keep the influence of the Star Alliance from It has slipped too much." The Salarian representative was the one who told Star Alliance Ambassador Udina after learning about Li Huamei's deeds, "I think mankind is ready to take on more responsibilities..." .
In fact, the three people standing here were all supporters of the "containing the development of Star Alliance" argument before. But now that Star Alliance's losses have become too heavy, it is no longer in their interests, so their stance has changed 180 degrees!
"I hope... the storm in the Spear Galaxy is really just a coincidence." When the meeting ended, the Asari said something vaguely, but no one heard it.
In the darkness, Zhao Min and the "Illusive Man" looked at each other and smiled - there is never a real "coincidence" in this world...
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ps: I don’t really want to write about political balabala. However, in this volume, the encounter with Tofan happens to be the first turning point that connects the past and the future - from then on, the trajectory of many people and things has changed clearly...
ps2: Time has finally caught up! (To be continued.
