Du Shiliang was not criticized.
After receiving the recovered ships, cargo, and personnel, Wang Jiarong expressed her gratitude and requested more escorts, and the entire caravan resumed operations.
Although there is still concern about pirate attacks, the caravan's mission must be completed successfully.
The reports sent to the Alliance government and the Ministry of Military Affairs were not criticized.
Marshal Tadius had a conversation with Du Shiliang.
Instead of spending time reviewing what had already happened, Tadius was most concerned with the overall plan for the Alliance Navy to carry out security work within the entire Alliance.
A single looting incident is not crucial; it's understandable that the emergence of the Dark Eldar, a newly appearing enemy, caught the Navy off guard.
Tadius will not question Du Shiliang in these areas.
However, this situation must be prevented from happening again in the future.
The coalition government is also paying close attention to this.
Prior to this, the Alliance had not faced any particularly serious pirate challenges. Even during wartime, interstellar transport was relatively safe.
The Eldar, an extremely elusive organization, poses a significant challenge to the Alliance's maritime security.
Tardis was eager to know whether the Navy Headquarters' defense plan was reliable or not.
Du Shiliang, as the acting head of the Alliance Navy after Ye Lixia's departure, was under immense pressure. He was actually a little unsure of himself, as he had no experience dealing with the Dark Spirit Clan.
Fortunately, he didn't have it, but someone else did.
Judge Martini used to spend many years in the Eastern Realm, which was plagued by Dark Elf pirates. He has a set of routine methods that can be summarized and can be used as a reference.
Then there's the even more important Inquisition. They are experts in dealing with all kinds of aliens, and their special methods for interrogating dark elves are what they brought out, and they can provide a lot of help.
With the help of these two parties, Du Shiliang came up with a plan that was barely passable.
The strategy is primarily based on proactive attacks and sweeping operations, supplemented by passive patrol and defense.
First, regarding the so-called passive defense, the Alliance Navy's operational frequency has increased significantly. They are providing more escort for Alliance caravans, dispersing their fleets slightly, and conducting advance reconnaissance of key trade routes and tax revenue fleets to ensure safety.
This is a fairly standard approach, but one cannot rely entirely on passive defense.
The Dark Eldar only need to sneak into any star system, find an uninhabited asteroid or uncolonized, uninhabitable planet in the vast universe, and build a veiled portal at a low cost—that's their mission accomplished. Then, from their home planet Comoros, they can simply open a portal and come here anytime.
Faced with such high flexibility, passively defending is bound to be ineffective, and the defense line will be riddled with holes.
More importantly, we need to rely on proactive means to investigate and eliminate any potential veiled spirit gates that the Dark Eldar might have established in every star system.
If you destroy the door, they won't be able to get in.
This kind of door, which is generally only a few tens of meters in diameter, is just a drop in the ocean on a cosmic scale; it's extremely difficult to find.
Moreover, it doesn't necessarily have to be built on a habitable planet; it just needs to be somewhere that can hold the Veil Spirit Gate in place.
The experts in the courtroom have some ways to find solutions quickly.
To be honest, the reliability isn't particularly high, but it's still more efficient than searching aimlessly.
At the same time, the Alliance has an advantage that many other places do not have when fighting the Dark Eldar.
That is psionic energy.
The Storm Mage Order is not affiliated with the Alliance military, the Alliance government, or the Alliance Legal Center. Their role is more like that of the Sisters of Mercy or the Phoenix Space Marine Chapter—an independent organization. This includes the Mage Order itself, as well as the Alliance National Law Schools established on numerous planets.
Or rather, they are the Alliance's psionic order.
In terms of power structure, they directly obeyed the leadership of Governor Gu.
Of course, they were still living off the alliance's finances, and before leaving, Gu Hang also asked the mage corps to cooperate.
In fact, Du Shiliang's request for help from the Storm Mage Corps received a positive response.
The mage corps also wants to improve; they also need to demonstrate their value.
This was true when the governor was present, and it was also true when the governor was temporarily away.
With the help of a large number of psychic masters, and in conjunction with the methods of the Inquisition, this solution, which also has a certain ability to search for veiled spirit portals in a silent state, is relatively reliable.
In addition to eliminating the veiled spirit gate, they also had to be vigilant against the spirit race establishing a spirit gate.
The good news is that the Eldar will not directly use the warp engines for interstellar travel. Researchers believe that it's not that they lack the technology, but rather that they dare not use it, fearing that entering the warp would be like delivering themselves directly to the warp god who is extremely interested in them.
Therefore, the Dark Eldar used the Comoros Veil Spiritgate for very convenient intergalactic travel, and also used astral tunnels for normal travel.
These Dark Eldar ships that sneak over to build the Veil of Spirits are often relatively small in size, and they possess formidable stealth technology. What humans can only achieve on ships of the Passenger class, they can achieve on the frigate class.
This means that even if interstellar outposts are built at the jump point, they can easily slip through.
Unless each warp point is established with numerous outposts and staffed with judges and psionicists, and permanently stationed there.
That's obviously impossible; there are too many, and the cost is too high.
But this can be done in key hub areas.
In short, after listening to Du Shiliang's entire report, Tadius was fairly satisfied.
The budget required by Du Shiliang was also approved. The General Logistics Department and the Navy Logistics Department will work with the government's production departments to start more outpost construction and resettlement plans.
The Alliance has begun to formally welcome the Dark Eldar pirates, posing a challenge to the Alliance's development.
The most direct way to tell is to look at your opponents.
Zernos Blood Curse is in big trouble.
When he led his raiding fleet out through another veiled spirit gate and found an allied merchant fleet, he dared not make a move.
The escort force is quite strong, so if we were to attack, the losses could be significant, and there's also the possibility that the delay could lead to them being blocked by humans.
This hesitation, however, led to the arrival of an even larger human naval fleet in this star system about ten days later.
They seemed to have sensed something; although they failed to capture Zernos's fleet, they found and destroyed the Veil Spirit Gate.
The Blood Curse Clan's fleet is trapped in this star system in the real universe.