831. The Lost Fleet (5)
"So what's the reason for the disappearance of this fleet?" Sefrans-Tann asked, his interest completely aroused.
"Brain Plague." Tang Xiao said, "This matter makes Senate Bureau of Intelligence (The Senate Bureau of Intelligence, SBI [Note 1]) directly intervened in the investigation. Based on the almost unlimited authority they were given, they searched almost every person related to Blade Fleet, but still found nothing. Until finally, they found a batch of Brain Plague virus carriers in the space port."
"Brain Plague? Is it the kind of plague that Jabiim planet once broke out?"
"Yes, this plague caused Jabiim planet to lose one-third of its population, which shows how serious this plague is. Moreover, people who are infected with Brain Plague will first behave abnormally, then intensify, and finally fall into complete madness, attacking everyone indiscriminately to alleviate their own pain." Tang Xiao explained, "This is also a blessing for Coruscant. Because this batch of Brain Plague carriers has just arrived in Coruscant, the Brain Plague virus has not spread in Coruscant."
Then he continued, "The SBI investigation can only go so far. They found that some Brain Plague virus carriers 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. But later in the fleet, They had no idea what happened at the Blade Fleet headquarters, because none of the 440,000 people in Blade Fleet could come back. So SBI turned to investigate the source of the Brain Plague virus and wanted to find someone responsible. This is another story."
"After 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, it can reach the sky in one step. But once No one has been able to find it, and due to Galactic Republic's intelligence blockade, this matter has long been forgotten." Tang Xiao finally looked at Tann with a half-smile, "But it seems that you are the one who climbed to the top."
Sefrans-Tann nodded and said, "It seems that this is indeed my lucky day. I actually found this Blade Fleet that the whole galaxy is looking for. I will bring this fleet back intact."
"You'd better do this, Tann. You should understand that your series of battles almost ruined my big event." Tang Xiao said coldly.
"Yes..." Sefrans-Tann lowered his head.
"Okay, let's go to work. When Cun Te comes back, I will come in person. Now the first transport fleet has set off, but I'm not sure if they can reach your location in time." Tang Xiao finished speaking and cut off the communication.
Sefrans-Tann breathed a long sigh of relief. She found that her back was completely soaked with cold sweat. She found that the pressure on her from Tang Xiao was getting bigger and bigger. She knew that Tang Xiao, or Dark Side Force of 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-Katana.
Sefrans-Tann immediately followed a team into the flagship Katana, and immediately began to clean up the warship, and entered the bridge to crack the control system and activate it.
Because this is Republic Fleet after all, even if the battleship is on standby, unless you have the key authorized by Republic military, you cannot start and control the battleship. Therefore, it needs to be cracked, which takes time, and time is what Tann is most worried about.
Through the cracked messages in the flagship Katana, Sefrans-Tann finally put together the last piece of the puzzle of the entire incident.
Because it is a great honor to be selected as the crew of Blade Fleet, before the maiden voyage of Blade Fleet, the crew members partied all night long, drank and picked up girls. This resulted in many of them being infected with Brain Plague due to contact with patients, and all crew members had been concentrated before the fleet set off, so the Brain 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 Republic Judicial Fleet. What the officers thought about was not 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 Fleet Commander realize that something was wrong. After confirming that it was Brain Plague, he asked all warships to immediately block the rescue cabin and Hangar Platform to prevent the virus from spreading to other planets. At the same time, Fleet Commander requires all warships to close their bridges to prevent crazy crews from occupying the bridges and causing more terrible consequences.
But in fact, judging from the records, Fleet Commander himself was already a little incoherent at the time, and it was obvious that he was also infected by Brain 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. Brain Plague spread faster and wider than expected. Brain Plague patients have appeared on the bridges of more than 30 battleships, and they began to attack others like crazy.
Once a battleship is controlled by Brain Plague patients who still have some intelligence, it would be bad if they fire on other battleships, and what's even worse is that these Brain Plague patients will directly drive the battleship away.
So 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 to form a dense formation, and then the flagship issued a synchronized jump command to drive the fleet away from Coruscant to prevent the virus from affecting Galactic Republic Capital, which has a trillion people.
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 Fleet Commander issued the jump command, he was already a little delirious under the influence of the Brain Plague virus - he did not explain the destination of the jump. At the same time, the flagship's navigator was also infected with Brain Plague, so he directly issued a hyperspace jump command without conducting navigation at all.
At the same time, they never thought of asking for help. Maybe it's because Fleet Commander forgot, maybe it's because he still has the last hope, and wants to limit this matter to Blade Fleet so that it won't become a scandal. Maybe it's because of the influence of Brain Plague... This is no longer known.
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 Halm system, there was no one alive in the entire fleet...
Blade Fleet has completely become a missing fleet.
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[Note 1: Many things in "Star Wars" have the shadow of the bad country, such as the Senate Intelligence Bureau SBI, whose powers are similar to their the Federation Investigation Bureau FBI. And Galactic Republic also has a military Intelligence Bureau-Republic Intelligence, RI (Republic Intelligence). This Intelligence Department door is similar to the CIA.]