The Price

Two in a row

Earth Federation 27th Immigration Fleet

To evade the Space Behemoths, they had jumped to this Dead Silent Starfield many years ago. But this starfield, which had absolutely no mining value, had put the technologically mediocre Earth Federation through endless hardship.

Five ships with jump capabilities bore more than ninety percent of the fuel burden for their only remaining super-fusion reactor.

However, the loss of contact with the Snowflake Radiance more than two months ago had undoubtedly been a devastating blow to the immigration fleet, making an already difficult situation even worse.

The five jump-capable ships had all been modified from the discarded wreckage of other civilizations, but the Snowflake Radiance was the most important of them all.

Although its jump speed was not the fastest, its engine power made it the ship with the greatest jump capacity, so it was also the most efficient at collecting fuel.

After more than two months without contact, a shadow had fallen over the entire 27th Immigration Fleet. Everyone seemed to sense that the super-fusion reactor did not have much time left.

Inside the command tower of the immigration ship, which was as large as an asteroid and possessed a complete internal ecosystem,

the fleet commander, Liu Haoran, leaned over the table with both hands, his face dark as he looked at the elderly man in a white coat before him. He could not help letting out a sigh.

"Elder Jiang, how much longer can the reactor last?"

The elderly man in the white coat, who looked somewhat bleary-eyed, flipped through the data in his hands and slowly said,

"After shutting down all nonessential consumption, and subtracting the Snowflake Radiance's transport capacity, if the other four ships operate at their average efficiency, the ecosystem can last for roughly half a