Charlotte left for the second time, returning to the Warhammer Starfleet Union, and brought back Zhao Chen's message.
The Warhammer StarCraft United States game is about to enter its second phase.
At the same time, Zhao Chen also received a very important message.
Zhao Chen looked at Lilith.
Lilith opened an intelligence file: "This is a T3 Silver Rat-class light interstellar stealth reconnaissance ship that we sent out to investigate the relationship between Qin Xiaotian and his group and the Holy Radiant Empire."
In a recent close investigation, they indeed uncovered some clues.
Based on the clues we have obtained so far, a new starship manufacturing group has been established in the Xueyan Starfield, named Guangyan Group.
Its main business is starship manufacturing, and it has taken on the vast majority of the Imperial Army's military procurement orders.
They are also willing to accept starship orders from some interstellar forces that have a good relationship with Qin Xiaotian!
According to research, the supply of starships has increased several times compared to before the Civil War!
Zhao Chen frowned slightly: "At this time, Qin Xiaotian has the ability to establish a starship factory and provide a continuous supply of starships."
Where did he get the raw materials?
Within the current Star Glory Empire alone, the resource production capacity he controls can at most meet the needs of his current interstellar fleets. To satisfy most of the Star Glory Empire, and even expand it several times over, is simply impossible!
There's only one possibility behind this: the Holy Radiant Empire has secretly established contact with them and provided assistance of unknown extent!
Lilith nodded: "Yes, that's also the direction of our investigation."
"Has it been investigated whether a large number of interstellar warships were transported from the Holy Radiant Empire?"
"If it's a direct supply of interstellar warships, the transport of tens of thousands of interstellar warships, even within Qin Xiaotian's Snow Swallow Starfield, couldn't be done completely silently," Zhao Chen said, squinting.
“They are not finished interstellar warships. So far, we have not found any finished interstellar warships from the Holy Radiance Empire flowing into the Starshine Empire,” Lilith said.
It is not a finished product.
Zhao Chen then said, "That should be a semi-finished product, or related parts!"
Lilith nodded, pointing to a section of information in the submitted intelligence file: "According to the intelligence we have investigated..."
There are no clues that the Snow Swallow Starfield has direct contact with the Holy Radiant Empire.
However, our people realized that since it wasn't a direct exchange, it might be an indirect one, so they investigated the destinations of all interstellar trade fleets entering and leaving the Xueyan Starfield.
Indeed, the investigation yielded some clues.
In the most recent quarter, interstellar trade between a neutral interstellar power and the Star Glory Empire has increased several dozen times!
Furthermore, the busiest trading region within the Starshine Empire is the Snow Swallow Star Region, with 80% of the starships passing through it!
"Where?" Zhao Chen asked.
Lilith uttered a name: "Star Alliance!"
"The Star Alliance?" Zhao Chen remembered hearing this name when he was at the Starship Military Academy in the North.
It is the name of an interstellar faction.
When the Galactic Alliance was established, in addition to the three empires, there were actually quite a few small neutral forces.
One of the more famous ones is StarCraft.
Lilith then pulled up data related to the Star Alliance.
"The Star Alliance has been established for a long time, and it was one of the members when the Galactic Alliance was first established."
The Star Alliance is quite unique in nature. They primarily engage in interstellar trade, partly because of their interstellar location at the intersection of three empires, making them ideal for interstellar trade.
In addition, their own interstellar territories are poor in terms of natural resources, so the three empires do not pay much attention to their existence. On the contrary, some black market transactions require the existence of a star alliance.
The three empires simply ignored its existence.
Zhao Chen nodded; he had also been involved in these kinds of things.
For example, the Eden Food Trade Group he has established mainly follows this route. If the Eden Food Trade Group were to establish its own trade routes, it would probably take several years.
Therefore, Ana, who was in charge of the Eden Food Trading Group, took the advice of Li Yaqi and Red Rose and directly sought out some partners from the Star Alliance.
We will use the existing resources of our partners to sell the grain.
Of course, this also implies that those partners may raise prices significantly when selling at the retail level.
However, this is currently the most suitable sales method for the JF-17 Thunder Legion, and it also saves the most time and costs.
"To date, the number of interstellar forces that have joined the Star Alliance is as high as 109, according to the latest statistics."
Some of these interstellar powers are very small, and some don't even have their own territory, not even a single planet.
Some interstellar powers are extremely large, possibly possessing several star systems as their base.
However, for the stars, the size of their interstellar territory is not very important; what matters most is the resources they control.
There's a saying within the Star Alliance: "There's nothing they wouldn't dare buy or sell!" Lilith said.
Chu Xuan, who was standing to the side, exclaimed, "This reminds me of something. It seems like it was a few years ago when my grandfather had a business partner with the Star Alliance."
They even wanted to buy T4 Borei-class heavy starships from us back then!
"Did you sell it?" Zhao Chen asked.
Chu Xuan rolled her eyes: "This is top-notch technology, of course it's impossible to sell it."
If it weren't for our good relationship with the royal family at the time, and the fact that the royal family would supply us with military supplies every year, we would never have been able to sell the T4 Borei-class heavy starship to the royal family.
Who would have thought that we would actually have a falling out with the royal family?
Thinking about all this, Chu Xuan regretted not having her grandfather install some backdoor programs on those T4 Borei-class heavy interstellar battleships sold to the royal family.
Just like how Zhao Chen tricked Qin Ming this time.
However, no one expected things to develop to this point, after all, the Chu family had never had any thoughts of rebellion and had always been loyal to the Starry Empire.
Otherwise, when the threat from the mechanical race was still there, the Chu family would not have been able to stand guard at the border so diligently.
"So far, all clues point to the Star Alliance, but our people say that with their current capabilities, it will take them more time to investigate the Star Alliance thoroughly."
"The best way is for our Dragon Legion to send high-ranking officials to directly contact the Galactic Alliance in the form of business trade." Lilith looked at Zhao Chen.
Zhao Chen nodded; this was indeed perhaps the best way to gather intelligence.
“The Star Alliance...we don’t seem to have any connections in it.” Zhao Chen scratched his head.
"You can find it right under your nose, can't you?" Chu Xuan looked at Zhao Chen.
"Yes? How come I didn't know?" Zhao Chen was stunned.
"You don't know the identity of your interstellar battleship captain, Xue Xiaoxiao?" Chu Xuan asked.
"Xue Xiaoxiao?" Zhao Chen knew that this girl might have some background, but he never expected that she would be related to the Star Alliance!
