Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 43
Decelerating is much faster than accelerating.

Five days later, the speed of the spacecraft had slowed down to the point where it could stop at any time.

The location of the dark cemetery has also appeared within the range of the spacecraft's sensors.

At the same time, the asteroid scanning detector in the work cabin also scanned some asteroids containing ores here.

It can be seen that the quality of the ores in this dark cemetery is indeed not comparable to the star rings of Ruimu, but at least these asteroids are not pure stones.

This was enough for Chen Ming, who had not done anything other than modifying the spacecraft and reading a book for several months.

Chen Ming immediately adjusted the direction of the spacecraft, preparing to move over to collect ore to relieve his mental fatigue from being able to do only one or two things for such a long time.

The spacecraft maintained a relatively low speed and slowly approached the dark cemetery to avoid collision with the asteroids here.

Chen Ming quickly identified an asteroid with a moderate size and a decent internal ore content.

It was fixed to the side of the spacecraft using a traction device.

But just when Chen Ming was about to start the mining laser and start collecting, the spacecraft suddenly received a special signal.

This signal is not a meaningless electromagnetic wave that often appears in space, but a regular signal type that Chen Ming also knows.

S.O.S.

The distress signal is a special signal officially set by the empire.

All spacecraft can rely on their own communication systems to send distress signals to the outside world.

Mark your position in space and guide other passing ships to come to the rescue.

Help those ships that have crashed and are unable to travel to the nearest human-inhabited space station or colony on their own.

After all, there are too many reasons that can cause a spacecraft to crash in space, and no one can guarantee that they will not have an accident in any corner of space one day.

If you save someone today, you may be saved somewhere in the future.

However, although the government gives everyone the right to use distress signals, there is no mandatory obligation for those who receive distress signals.

If you want to go to the rescue, go. If you don't want to, no one will force you.

Even waiting nearby after receiving the distress signal, and waiting until everyone on the ship is dead to go and receive the inheritance is not expressly prohibited.

However, correspondingly, the initiator of the distress signal may also have malicious intentions, taking advantage of people's sympathy to fish and commit some piracy.

There is nothing wrong with the distress signal, but human behavior makes the distress signal lose its own meaning.

At least this is the case in the edge star fields of the empire.

The distress signal received by Chen Ming's spacecraft now comes from deeper in the dark cemetery.

To be honest, Chen Ming was not sure whether it was a real distress signal or something else.

Because the spacecraft may indeed crash in this area.

After all, no matter how sophisticated the equipment is, it is impossible to guarantee that there will be no accidents forever. It is normal for a spacecraft to have accidents in an area with dense asteroids like a dark cemetery.

But Chen Ming didn't want to gamble.

Especially when there's a pirate space station within two months of the Dark Graveyard.

Other people's ships may not have a hyperspace channel system like our own, and it doesn't take much time at all to get from the pirate space station.

So Chen Ming chose to directly abandon the asteroid being towed by his own traction equipment.

Turn around immediately and prepare to leave the Dark Cemetery.However, before Chen Ming could escape from the asteroid area, the Iron Ore's engine suddenly overheated and stalled, and it could only rely on inertia to fly slowly in space.

And at the next moment, the sensor suddenly gave a prompt.

Three spaceships with no transponders turned on flew out from various places in the dark cemetery and attacked Chen Ming's position at high speed.

Chen Ming immediately realized that something was wrong.

He knew his own spacecraft engine very well. Overheating of the engine was absolutely impossible, at least until the accompanying emergency cooling system was activated.

If the engine suddenly overheats and stalls when everything is normal, it can only be caused by some interfering device interfering with the engine temperature readings.

And those three spaceships that suddenly appeared were definitely the culprits that caused this situation.

Chen Ming directly forcibly shut down the safety restriction system of the spacecraft, allowing the engine to start again regardless of the temperature limit.

But within a few seconds of the engine restarting, the three spacecraft had already approached.

They would never give the Iron Ore time to speed up its escape.

And even if the Iron Mine really accelerated, Chen Ming felt that he wouldn't be able to escape.

The controllers of those three spaceships were obviously prepared.

They had one ship send out a request for help, and the other ships shut down all the ship's systems and floated nearby.

Let passing ships that receive the distress signal not detect them, and then take the opportunity to paralyze the ship's engine, turning the victim into a lamb to be slaughtered.

Looking at this operation, they are definitely professional pirates. They will definitely be fully prepared for some unexpected situations.

For example, prepare a disposable item called a channel towing device.

The channel traction device itself is a piece of equipment used in the construction of space stations in some dangerous areas, such as the star rings of Ramu.

Low-quality items within an area can be temporarily sent into hyperspace channels for rapid transfer.

It can have an effect on asteroids, but it can also have an effect on spacecraft and people.

The hyperspace channel has a special property.

Whatever comes out of the channel, no matter how fast it is in the channel, its speed will definitely decrease to zero after it comes out, and it will remain relatively stationary to the position where it came out.

As long as it is locked by the channel traction device, no matter how fast you run, it is meaningless.

The hyperspace channel system itself has been popularized in the empire, and the cost of a one-time consumable is nothing to the profit after a successful robbery.

There was no way to escape, and Chen Ming didn't have many options left.

With almost no information about the enemy, he did not choose to fight back directly, but immediately turned the ship's bow and rushed towards the other direction of the dark cemetery.

The protective panels of the ship's portholes were raised, and Chen Ming no longer avoided those small asteroids. He maintained a certain speed and directly endured the impact, rushing into the depths of the dark cemetery.

The three spaceships following behind did not expect that Chen Ming would not run outside the dark cemetery, which was almost within easy reach, but instead run inside where the environment was more complicated.

For a while, they couldn't directly lock on Chen Ming's spaceship through a large number of asteroids. They could only follow Chen Ming for the time being and wait for the opportunity.

Chen Ming took this opportunity to quickly confirm the models of these three spaceships.

Only by mastering more detailed information can we formulate a more effective counterattack plan and take the initiative in the battle.

(End of this chapter)