831. The Lost Fleet (5)
"Then what's the reason for the disappearance of this fleet?" Severance Tann asked, her interest completely aroused.
"Cerebral plague." Tang Xiao said, "This matter caused the Senate Bureau of Intelligence (SBI [Note 1]) to directly intervene in the investigation. Based on the almost unlimited authority they were given, they They searched almost every person related to the Blade Fleet, but still found nothing. Until finally, they discovered a group of cerebral plague virus carriers in the spaceport."
"Cerebral plague? Is it the kind of plague that once broke out on the planet Jabim?"
"Yes, this plague caused the planet Jabim to lose one-third of its population, which shows how serious this plague is. Moreover, people suffering from cerebral plague will first have abnormal behavior, and then it will get worse, and finally fall into Complete madness, attacking everyone indiscriminately to alleviate their own pain." Tang Xiao explained, "For Coruscant, this is also a blessing. Because these cerebrospinal plague carriers have just arrived in Coruscant. , so the cerebral plague virus did not spread on Coruscant."
Then he continued: "The SBI investigation can only go so far. They found that some carriers of the encephalitis virus had contact with the Blade Fleet crew members who had a night of partying at the space port the day before, and they may have brought the virus into the fleet. Among them. But they had no idea what happened inside the fleet afterwards, because none of the 440,000 people in the Blade Fleet could come back. So SBI turned to investigate the source of the cerebral plague virus, trying to find a When people take responsibility for this, it’s a different story.”
"After the Blade Fleet disappeared, it was once regarded as the biggest treasure in the entire galaxy. Many people believed that if this fleet was not torn apart by hyperspace, it must still be hidden somewhere. As long as this fleet can be found, then You can reach the sky in one step. However, no one has found it, and due to the Republic's intelligence blockade, this matter has long been forgotten." Tang Xiao finally looked at Tann with a half-smile, "But it seems that the one who reached the sky in one step is you. ah."
Severance Tann nodded and said: "It seems that this is indeed my lucky day. I actually found this blade fleet that the entire galaxy is looking for. I will bring this fleet back intact. "
"You'd better be like this, Tann. You should understand that your series of battles almost ruined my big event." Tang Xiao said coldly.
"Yes..." Severance Tann lowered her head.
"Okay, let's go to work. I will come in person when Cun Te comes back. Now the first transport fleet has set off, but I'm not sure if they can reach your location in time." After Tang Xiao finished speaking, he cut off communication.
Severance Tann breathed a long sigh of relief. She found that her back was completely soaked in cold sweat. She found that the pressure brought by Tang Xiao on her was getting bigger and bigger. She knew that the dark side of Tang Xiao or Darth Malthael was getting stronger and stronger. When he displayed it unscrupulously, such oppression could completely crush a person!
She came to the battleship's console. The engineer had been working just now, and had already read the battleship's command system log and discovered that the battleship's last hyperspace jump command came from the flagship. And he has also found the location of the fleet flagship, the Blade.
Severance Tann immediately followed a team into the flagship Blade, and immediately began to clean up the battleship, and entered the bridge to crack the control system and activate it.
Because this is the fleet of the Galactic Republic after all, even if the warship is on standby, it cannot be activated and controlled unless it has a key authorized by the Republic's military. Therefore, it needs to be cracked, which takes time, and time is what Tann is most worried about.
Through the deciphered message from the flagship Blade, Severance Tann finally put together the last piece of the puzzle of the entire incident.
Because it is a great honor to be selected as a crew member of the Blade Fleet, before the Blade Fleet's maiden voyage, those crew members partied all night, drinking and picking up girls. This resulted in many of them being infected with cerebral plague due to contact with patients, and all crew members had been concentrated before the fleet set off, so the cerebral plague virus spread very widely invisibly.
Afterwards, when the crew arrived at their posts, many people had actually behaved abnormally, but these behaviors were ignored by careless officials as the crew members were still hungover. At that time, corruption was rampant in the Republic's judicial fleet. The officers were not thinking about how to improve their combat effectiveness, but how to live their own lives well. Naturally, they would not ruin everyone's happiness at this moment.
Then something happened just as they were about to make the first hyperspace jump. Dozens of warships in the fleet had their crews go crazy and riot and quickly lost control. Some other warships also had their crews go crazy.
Only then did the fleet commander realize that something was wrong. After confirming that it was cerebral plague, he asked all warships to immediately seal off the rescue cabins and hangar platforms to prevent the virus from spreading to other planets. At the same time, the fleet commander asked all warships to close their bridges to prevent crazy sailors from occupying the bridge and causing more terrible consequences.
But in fact, judging from the records, the fleet commander himself was already a little incoherent at the time, and it was obvious that he was also infected with cerebral plague. However, it can also be seen from his series of decisions that this is a serious and responsible commander. His first consideration is to prevent the virus from spreading and causing more casualties.
However, things did not develop as expected. Cerebral plague spread faster and wider than expected. There have been more than 30 battleships with cerebral plague patients inside the front bridge, and they began to attack others like crazy.
Once a warship is controlled by brain plague patients who still have some intelligence, it would be bad if they fire on other war ships, and what's even worse is that these brain plague patients will directly drive the warship away.
So the fleet commander decisively made a decision that could preserve the fleet to the maximum extent. He ordered all warships to move closer to the flagship and form a dense formation. Then the flagship issued a synchronized jump command to drive the fleet away from Coruscant to prevent the virus from affecting the Galactic Republic. The capital has a population of one trillion.
The synchronized jump command is a commonly used command when a large fleet jumps. In order to ensure that all warships' hyperspace jumps are synchronized, this command is issued by the flagship and enforced by other warships in the formation.
But when the fleet commander issued the jump order, he was already a little delirious due to the influence of the cerebral plague virus - he did not explain the destination of the jump. At the same time, the pilot of the flagship was also infected with cerebral plague, so he directly issued the command to jump into hyperspace without conducting navigation at all.
At the same time, they never thought of asking for help. Maybe it's because the fleet commander forgot, maybe because he still has the last hope, and wants to limit this matter to the Blade Fleet so that it won't become a scandal. Maybe it's because of the influence of cerebral plague... This Nothing is known anymore.
Eventually, the entire fleet began random hyperspace jumps without navigation. And because the fleet was too large, the hyperspace jump was completely out of control. It took them several days to escape from hyperspace.
And when the fleet left the hyperspace jump and appeared near the Harm galaxy, there was no one alive in the entire fleet...
The Blade Fleet has completely become a missing fleet.
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[Note 1: Many things in "Star Wars" have shadows of the United States, such as the Senate Intelligence Bureau SBI, whose powers are similar to their FBI. The Galactic Republic also has a military intelligence agency - Republic Intelligence, RI (Republic Intelligence). This intelligence department is similar to the CIA. 】
