Chapter 532 Communication Ship
The War God did not respond to my excitement and replied calmly: "Yuo Yamamoto has now appeared in a small city in Russia. According to his report, after arriving at the port, the other party immediately arranged all NPCs to board and leave the port, but none of them were on board, but instead returned to a nearby island city by suicide. Because they were resurrected by themselves, Iuo Yamamoto could not determine the specific location of the city, but knew that the city was called Akan's Corner and belonged to a Russian guild. They made a transfer in the city and then arrived in Russia. As for those NPCs, they should have obtained specific route coordinates and may return from the sea later."
“That is, we have no chance of discovering them, right?”
"At least, I can't get any information from Yamamoto Izumoto."
"I'm afraid that's how it is."
I said to Jun Shinto helplessly: "Okay, I understand. I don't care about the information of the escaped fleet now. I guess even if I track it, I don't have any chance of chasing it. But you can record our current location first. This place can exist as a midway supply base for our guild in the future."
"Is it necessary to build a permanent base or is it temporary?"
The permanent and temporary question of the Military God asked me if I wanted to confirm the city recognized by the system. The former is difficult to build, with a large investment, a long construction time, and a high maintenance cost in the later stage, but it has a greater effect and complete functions. Especially, it can build large teleportation arrays and special buildings. This advantage is incomparable to those temporary cities similar to wild strongholds. Of course, on the other hand, temporary strongholds also have their own benefits, at least the construction cost is much lower. There is no need to maintain them in the later stage. Even if they are pushed away by enemies or monsters, the reconstruction will not lose much. Anyway, they are flexible and mobility, and the investment is not very useful. It depends on how you want to use it.
The location of this island is really good and the natural environment is good, so I simply asked the Military God to record the construction of a permanent base here, the scale is the entire island and the submarine base below. As for the two connected cities or the same city, I did not say that this was so, let the Military God discuss with the later construction workers.
After the arrangement was made here, I asked again: "By the way. How did you contact me just now? I remember this is not the communication coverage of our guild."
"It's true, but a fleet of our guild is approaching you. You have now entered the signal coverage of the communication ship of this fleet."
The so-called communication ship is a special ship equipped with large communication crystals. Just like radio transmission in reality, the communicator used by our guild also has a range limitation. The crystal communicator used by our guild relies on the resonance relationship between Atlantis crystals for communication, and this resonance response range depends entirely on the volume of Atlantis crystals. To put it simply, the volume determines the transmission distance. If there is an Atlantis crystal that is as big as the Himalayas, our signal can cover the entire solar system. However, if there is only a crystal as big as a skyscraper, the communication distance can only be guaranteed to cover the entire earth. Note that there is a different feature here, that is, the resonance relationship of Atlantis crystals is very little affected by the terrain, that is, as long as the Atlantis crystal is large enough, it can communicate with each other quickly across the earth, and there is no need to set up satellites in space like a radio for redirection.
However, it is obviously impossible for Atlantis crystal to exist as big as a skyscraper, so among the Atlantis crystals we can use, the largest piece is only as big as a four-story and one-unit residential building. The communication coverage distance of this volume of Atlantis crystal is actually very large. As long as the location is right, such a crystal can cover the communication needs of China. Moreover, Atlantis crystal has an advantage, that is, as long as there is a large piece of crystal, no matter how small it is within its coverage range, it is no matter how small it is. Moreover, Atlantis crystal has an advantage, that is, as long as there is a large piece of crystal, within its coverage range, no matter how small it is.
They can communicate with each other quickly, which means that the communication distance of the Atlantis crystal depends on the signal range of the largest signal source that can cover the location, rather than the coverage range of the Atlantis crystal itself. In other words, as long as the largest Atlantis crystal is placed in China, everyone can use any size of communicator to communicate in the entire China. Even if two people are at the east and west ends of China and use the smallest Atlantis crystal, the communication between them can be unimpeded.
In addition, Atlantis crystal has an excellent feature, that is, signal transit is not affected by volume. Even an Atlantis crystal as big as a fingernail can be used as an intermediate transmission medium between two countries for signal transit without any information congestion. This feature determines that the cost of the transit station is very low, almost small enough to be negligible.
However, there is no problem with the transfer signal of small Atlantis crystals. The volume can determine the signal range. The overlapping signal ranges of the two large crystals cannot directly communicate with each other. It is necessary to ensure that at least one of the signal coverage ranges of the two can cover the body of the other, or at least one Atlantis crystal is within the coverage range of both at the same time as the transfer signal station.
This characteristic of Atlantis crystal determines that all the communication networks of our guild are star-shaped, that is, there is a large Atlantis crystal for signal coverage in a region, and a dedicated signal transit crystal is used to connect between regions. Among them, the large Atlantis crystal is generally set in fortress cities, and must be protected by heavy troops, or it is hidden and hidden, so that no one can discover it. The communication transit node uses the method of casting a wide net. Anyway, the transit device is very cheap, so it is enough to make hundreds of them throw them within a suitable range. Even if it is destroyed or moved, it is impossible to reimburse hundreds at the same time. If the number is not enough, it will not affect the communication at all.
However, this information chain has become a big problem at sea, especially the two super oceans, the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. They are not only large in area, but also not fully controlled by our guild. It is naturally inconvenient to place large Atlantis crystals. After all, this thing is quite difficult to deal with. The Atlantis crystal, which is like a four-story building, is the largest piece we have at present, and no second piece is as big as that. Among other Atlantis crystals, the common Atlantis crystals that we use as large coverage sources are only as big as two containers. This volume is about one-eighth of the largest Atlantis crystal.
The coverage of this slightly more common large Atlantis crystal signal is pretty good, but to cover the Pacific Ocean, the amount required is still quite scary. Therefore, we have set up transit stations near the main commonly used waterways. This kind of maritime signal transit station is like a maritime buoy, with a built-in Atlantis crystal about the size of two adults. This volume of crystal is easy to get, so it can be set up in large quantities and placed in a checkerboard near the waterway to ensure that each signal buoy can cover at least eight nearby buoys, so doing can ensure that the signal will not be accidentally interrupted.
However, transport ships can sail along the waterway, and warships can sail along the waterway when they are not fighting, and there is no problem with this. However, warships cannot not fight, and there is no way to ensure the waterway problem in battle. Sometimes, in order to transfer special materials, they also need to leave the waterway to sail confidentially. The signal will be lost during this process, because it is too far away from the waterway and the signal station cannot cover it.
The method we use in this case is to install larger Atlantis crystals on all the large warships in the fleet. For example, the Biling-class battleships are equipped with Atlantis crystals as big as a minivan. The coverage of this thing is pretty good, but this is not enough.
After all, warships are warships, and the internal space needs to be used to install combat facilities, so there is not much space to place crystals. More importantly, Atlantis crystal is a relatively fragile thing after all, and the probability of damage in battle is too high. Large Atlantis crystals are relatively precious and cannot be replaced frequently. Therefore, communication ships came into being.
Just like the leading ship, communication ships are also special ships. This kind of communication ship has very little self-defense firepower and its combat power can basically be ignored. However, this guy's size is actually not small, generally comparable to the size of a light cruiser. Moreover, most of these ships are three-body or catamaran, with a commuter boat parking garage inside. When a large fleet deviates from the main channel, this kind of communication ship will be guaranteed. The large Atlantis crystal carried on it has regional signal coverage ability and can ensure ultra-long-distance communication. Although this large Atlantis crystal is easy to shatter, the communication ship is specially designed for communication, so it can be far away from the battlefield during combat. With its special balance setting, it has very good stability and fast speed, so the enemy cannot catch up. More importantly, there are many small boats with small Atlantis crystals in this thing. When it leaves the channel very far, it can also release a small boat to serve as a transit station to establish a temporary signal channel.
The reason why I can hear the words of the War God is that a large fleet of ships is approaching in this direction, and the signals of the communication ships attached to it can just cover our location. Of course, because the volume of this signal source is large enough and the coverage is very wide, the fleet is actually very far away from us now.
Chapter completed!