The Pirate Joint Fleet was still arguing at this moment, including the Magician Pirate Crew, which had already begun turning away.
Unfortunately, the pirate warships were moving too fast, currently closing in at nearly a hundred thousand kilometers per second, because no one wanted to let the transport fleet escape.
The transport fleet was over four hundred million kilometers away from the pirates. That was why the transports' active radar only received return data several dozen minutes later.
Radar Energy Waves traveled at the speed of light. Crossing more than four hundred million kilometers took nearly twenty minutes, and the return trip took another nearly twenty minutes, making it several dozen minutes in total.
At nearly a hundred thousand kilometers per second, even if the transports did not flee, the pirate fleet would need more than an hour to catch them. At one hundred thousand kilometers per second, that was six million kilometers per minute and 360 million kilometers in sixty minutes.
If the transports fled, it would take nearly eight hours to overtake them, because although transport ships were slower than warships, they were still moving.
The Ninth Fleet was also roughly four hundred million kilometers away from the pirates.
So if these pirate fleets wanted to turn around and flee, they would need an enormous turning radius. There was virtually no resistance in space, and at such speeds, they could not use the gravity of ordinary planets to perform a Brownian-motion-like turning maneuver.
Of course, there were planets in the universe with immense gravity. If they encountered one, they could use its gravity to perform a Brownian-motion maneuver and reverse direction.
But that was extremely dangerous, because such massive gravity could tear a warship apart.
The lasers fired by Wang Muxue's Ninth Fleet could not instantly strike the