Chapter 172: The Return of the First Fleet
Within the Leviathan of the spiritual universe, Xue Hua was quietly waiting for Stakov to arrive in the main control room.
Not long ago, Isha told him that the Zerg's First Fleet had just finished exploring the location of the last Star Spirit Beacon, and had sent the Node King Worm to submit a return application to it.
At the speed of the First Fleet, they should soon be back within the mental range of Xue Hua's main nest after the application is approved.
Xue Hua is looking forward to what clues Stokoff's voyage can collect, and his "Golden Swarm" imagination still needs Stonekov to find a basis for him to realize!
There is also Abasser's new Zerg warship plan, which also requires the First Fleet to go to Planet One again to get enough experimental samples for the giant tentacle monster.
And having said that, since the establishment of the resource collector of Gagong, the resources in the resource pool of the Zerg have also increased very quickly, and the current resource base is enough for another major expansion of the First Fleet.
In the past, Xue Hua had been carefully saving because he wanted to reserve the start-up hatching resources of the second Leviathan, but not long ago, after Cangon entered the working mode, the number of resources in the resource pool skyrocketed in just two months.
This also gave Xue Hua more sufficient resources to implement the long-planned fleet expansion plan.
Just as he was thinking about the large fleet of swarms that filled the galaxy, in the mind of the main nest, Stokkov's long-lost voice finally sounded.
"Juggernaut, the First Fleet has returned, and your fleet commander salutes you."
"Welcome back, Your Excellency, Commander." Xue Hua nodded and said with a smile.
"The mission report for this interstellar voyage is ready, Juggernaut, do you need to report it now?"
Stokov's style remains clear and crisp, without any muddy.
"Let's get started, let me see what you've all been through this time."
Xue Hua nodded, and Stokoff immediately submitted the report of the fleet's journey to the mind of the main nest.
The report is composed of Storkov's memories, beginning with the fleet's first exit from the Shelter World and ending with the fleet's return from the location of the last Star Spirit Beacon.
The first few times the Astral Spirit Beacon locations were nothing of note.
Although the fleet occasionally finds the wreckage of some Astral colony ships or frigates during their exploration, it is clear that all of the valuable things in them have been taken by Sarnagar.
However, after the First Fleet made a way towards the eighth Star Spirit Beacon, they found some different traces at their destination.
The destination was a solid planet with a thin atmosphere, with extreme gravity on the surface and corrosive gases ejecting from beneath the surface through cracks in the surface.
There are acid-phagophage plant creatures on the surface of the planet that grow close to the ground, and there are no signs of intelligent life activity.
The planet has an extremely long rotation period, almost more than 500 times that of the sanctuary world, and the temperature polarization on the planet is serious, which is not suitable for humanoid life.
But on this very planet, the First Fleet's King Worm and surface search forces found the wreckage of a near-completely destroyed Star Spirit Hub.
There are plenty of traces of battle in the Astral Nexus, and the swarm has found the remains of a large number of Templar armor.
This proves that the Star Spirit Colony that landed in the beacon area here definitely has a dormant chamber on it.
And according to the degree of construction of the Star Spirit Hub, the Star Spirit here is obviously very strong, they are likely to have successfully ventured to land on the surface of the planet under the attack of the Sarnagar fleet, and they also built the Hub in a hidden place to defend for a while, but they were later discovered and destroyed by the Sarnagar fleet.
I don't know if any survivors escaped......
Although the discovery here still did not find any valuable information, it did let Stokoff know that the Astral Colony Fleet was not defenseless in the face of the Sarnagar fleet, nor was it a fish on the chopping block to be slaughtered.
It immediately ordered the First Fleet to set sail again, continuing to turn over the next Astral Beacon, in an attempt to find a living Astral Survivor or a working Astral Nexus.
At the same time, Stakov also left a dormant hive on the planet, hoping that if the astral survivors were recovered, the swarm would be the first to get information.
The ensuing journey was a bit disappointing, as the First Fleet seemed to be back to the way it had been, and had been circling in the deep space of the universe with nothing or worthless debris.
It wasn't until the sixteenth turn to the Star Spirit Beacon site that Stallkov felt a shock to his spirits.
Because there is nothing at this beacon site, only an endless dark universe and a dying asteroid not far away.
This was extremely unusual for the First Fleet, as the beacon locations they had searched for before, and the first thing they saw when they arrived at their destination was a tragic battlefield full of golden battleship wreckage and debris.
There has never been a situation where there is nothing at the target site.
This means that the Astral Colony fleet, which turned over to the beacon, most likely did not reach its target location for some reason, or learned of the Sarnagar fleet's ambush in advance and avoided other systems.
Before leaving, Stokoff had contacted Kelles to ask where his colony ship was going to turn and had eliminated the beacon from this location in advance, so this was not the beacon that Kelles's colony ship was supposed to arrive at.
As a result, Stokoff determined that at least one of the Astral Colony fleets had escaped the ambush of the Sarnagar fleet by luck or in advance.
The First Fleet dispersed, searching the surrounding sectors and star systems for more information about the Astral Fleet.
They found an astral spirit obelisk hidden by the Void Spirit Energy in the asteroid belt around the star system where the beacon site was located.
The obelisk contains a message about the Sarnagar ambush fleet in a very subtle manner, and sends it towards the location of another nearby beacon.
Stokoff immediately detached a part of his fleet, led by a mother worm, to continue searching for more information about the colonial fleet in the sector, and then led the main fleet to the next nearby beacon location.
Unfortunately, the warning message on the obelisk was clearly a step too late, and when Stokoff and the Swarm Fleet arrived at the seventeenth beacon site, they saw another fleet graveyard covered in the wreckage of the Star Spirit ships.
But Stokoff was not discouraged, one and two, and since one of the Astral colonies managed to escape the ambush of the Sarnagar fleet, they would certainly continue to try to inform the other colonies.
As a result, the First Fleet's quest began to accelerate, and an even more anomalous situation was soon discovered at the site of the last Astral Beacon, the twenty-second Astral Beacon.