"As you wish, I can go contact buyers right now."
"Wait, to sell something for a good price, we certainly need to let buyers see the actual effectiveness of the goods. What was the name of the faction that refused us earlier?"
"Void Concordat. This is an alliance formed by daring pirates scattered throughout the void of the Expansion Zone. They do not revere any holy things, they dare to sell anything, and profit is supreme in their eyes. Even Rogue Traders or the Imperial Navy are entities they dare to oppose."
"Attacking the Navy? Didn't the Navy want to wipe them out? The pirates' little wooden boats probably couldn't withstand a single broadside from the Navy, right?"
"As the name implies, the Void Concordat is a very vague organization. You wipe out a batch of pirates, and soon someone else will come to take their place."
"And all the merchants, and even the Navy in the Expansion Zone, need someone to do things for them that cannot be brought out into the open—purchasing or selling some covert news!"
"When you are strong enough, this group's complex network of relationships can indeed bring us enough benefits; they dare to do what others dare not."
"That is why the Dynasty chose them as our trading partners, but now this bunch of ungrateful wolves thinks we have no chance of a comeback, or perhaps they have found a new backer."
Just a bunch of pirates, and Gao Yi had already decided to use them to make an example of someone.
"Veil, suspend the crew's rest. Tell Damon to take two companies, a force of two hundred men, put on your CMC, and assemble at my location. Since they don't take me seriously, I can only rely on my fists to uphold the dignity of a Rogue Trader."
"Rightly so! How can the threats of the Dynasty be allowed to be provoked by this group of pirates! My lord! Please allow me to join this battle too." Veil had been holding in a breath for a long time, and he was very glad that Gao Yi was tough enough!
Gao Yi was not going to completely exterminate the Void Concordat; he just wanted to tell everyone that the Mongert Dynasty was still powerful, and to use the lives of this group of pirates to endorse his products.
Upon receiving the order, Damon immediately began mustering personnel, and several shuttles began heading from the Golden Ram toward the Landing Port.
"Commander! The soldiers are ready!"
Gao Yi discovered that among the two hundred soldiers, many were Rangers he had warped in.
Gao Yi could sense them.
Ever since the riot was suppressed, Damon had already begun the work of troop integration, and Barracks production had never stopped.
One hundred soldiers made up a company, with each company having 10 StarCraft soldiers serving as the backbone for leadership and training.
Temporarily, each company was composed of 3 Firebats, 2 Medics, 5 Marauders, and 90 Machine Gunners.
Now Gao Yi already had 10 companies of Rangers under his command. These soldiers were veterans who had survived the riot, possessing unwavering willpower and enough loyalty to Gao Yi.
Veil also provided them with chainswords to replace the bayonets of the C-14 rifles, making up for their disadvantage in close combat.
Gao Yi believed that soon the Rangers under his command would make a name for themselves.
Suit after suit of CMC was distributed to the soldiers. Had it not been for insufficient metal materials, production could have been increased further. Aside from what the soldiers wore, about two hundred sets of combat suits were already piled up in the warehouse.
As for the subsequent crew members, they would need to compete to be qualified to wear the CMC Combat Suit and join the Rangers.
Now among the crew of the Golden Ram, being able to join the Rangers had already become a very glorious matter.
"Target, Alfarroho Port! Forward!"
The troops marched neatly toward the target location. Gao Yi did not hide the troops' movements at all, and such a large display attracted everyone's attention.
In an instant, the news spread throughout the entire Landing Port, and smart people knew that something big was about to happen.
The guards of the Landing Port tried to step forward to stop and question the intentions of this force—after all, normal trade required a relatively safe and stable environment—but upon seeing the Rogue Trader in the formation, they tactfully backed down.
Are you kidding? Here, if you get killed by a Rogue Trader, you just have to lump it; no one is going to stand up and get justice for you.
Yet just as the troops walked into Alfarroho Port, a person blocked their path.
Just as Gao Yi was wondering who was so bold, he discovered that the person in front of him looked rather familiar...
Dark skin, gorgeous clothing, eye-catching jewelry, and implants made of precious metals.
The woman in front of him stared at Gao Yi in the formation with a full smile in her eyes.
"Jeyd Hadaly?"
Gao Yi recognized the identity of the person before him; she was one of the few normal people in the Rogue Trader game, although her hands were a bit unclean... Gao Yi had even completed her romance route.
Compared to the other obsessed lunatics in the game, Jeyd was witty, humorous, and had extremely high emotional intelligence, able to get along well with most people.
Of course, she was also an opportunist, equally obsessed with profit, just not to such an extreme degree.
It seemed the world he transmigrated into still had some connection to the game on his computer. In that case, some information could be put to use, like the Necron tomb here... There was still a C'tan Shard there...
"Esteemed Rogue Trader, Jeyd of the Kasbarika Group greets you."
"Oh? Kasbarika? So do you have business with me?"
Gao Yi knew about this organization from the game; they had arrived here right when the Expansion Zone was first discovered. Their founders could be traced back to that earliest batch of criminal syndicates from the Sol Sector that came to the Calixis Sector.
They were also the most powerful underground trade organization in the entire Expansion Zone, with a scale spanning multiple star systems. Compared to those pirates who ignored order, Kasbarika tended more toward law and order, and they considered themselves more as merchants. Their leaders liked to style themselves with nobility such as barons and dukes, though true Imperial nobles would only treat this title of theirs as a joke.
They were keen on making friends with Rogue Traders and concluding contracts with them, yet precisely because of their merchant attributes, they insisted on exacting a hefty profit from every single transaction.
Therefore, cooperating with Kasbarika meant inevitably ceding a portion of the returns.
"I have already heard about the disrespect the pirates of the Void Concordat have shown you. What a bunch of short-sighted fellows. Compared to them, I believe you must be a powerful Rogue Trader. Since those pirates don't know what's good for them, I very much hope to become your new collaborator."
"So, do you represent yourself, or do you represent Kasbarika of the Landing Port?" Gao Yi asked with zest.
"I represent only myself. I am merely a spokesperson for Kasbarika and not a thorough Kasbarika person. To tell the truth, the group is still adopting a wait-and-see attitude toward you, but I trust my own judgment." Jeyd appeared exceptionally confident when she said this.
"You really are an opportunist."
"I will take that as a compliment from you! Only this way can profits be maximized, isn't that so?"
"Then what can you provide for me?"
"I can help you look for any goods you want, and also help you sell those things that cannot see the light of day. I only need to charge a small service fee, which is lower than all the brokers in the entire Landing Port. Moreover, I can provide you with the real hiding spot of those pirates at the dock. Rather than wiping out those puppets of the Concordat on the surface, it is far more satisfying to directly wipe out their person-in-charge here."
"You also know that in an organization like ours, no one would put their true hiding spot out in the open. Furthermore, I have my intelligence channels; despite them being just pirates, they have their own backbone to be able to establish a foothold in the Landing Port."
"Sounds like a good proposal! I accept, Jeyd!"
"It is my honor to serve you."
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