From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 178: Staff Expansion Problem
When the St. Russell escaped from the jump, the elves on the bridge quickly discovered the Hermes 3500 kilometers away through the psychic detection equipment.

At this time, a line of large characters was printed on the starboard armor plate of the Dragoon-class destroyer through the imaging equipment of the optical camouflage unit:
“Warmly welcome the leaders of the headquarters to inspect the work!”

"Believe it or not, this was definitely Randall's idea."

Amber said to Isabel who was snickering next to her.

He knew that among the people who stayed here, only this unruly former federal navy lieutenant commander could do such a thing as using an optical camouflage unit to give a welcome speech.

“What a unique way to welcome~”

Ellenita on the captain's seat untied the fastening device, then floated to the bridge porthole where the external biological armor was being turned on, and looked at the approaching Hermes with interest.

"Haha. This is a unique welcome ceremony in human society. Ms. Yuge can experience it."

Amber floated to the porthole with Isabel. While explaining, she prayed in her heart that Randall would not create any new tricks.

Perhaps because he didn't have time to do such idle tasks, Randall did not arrange any other "fancy tasks" except using optical camouflage to make a welcome speech.

What Randall and others just used was naturally the Chinese military salute.

Therefore, the hand-raising ceremony presented by Randall and others looks very distinctive and recognizable.

Ellenita's voice sounded very brisk, and it was not difficult to tell that the financial sponsor's father was quite satisfied with everyone's performance just now.

"Take a break."

It seems that Randall and others did not relax during his absence, and they seem to be in good spirits.

Naturally, it was easy to 'borrow' the military salute.

After the two sides exchanged a few words, Randall ended the communication, and the Hermes guided the St. Russell towards the location of the operations base.

"All crew members of the Hermes, salute!"

Amber returned the gesture and felt relieved.

"Sometimes I really wonder how Mr. Amber can hold so many things in your head."

"It is indeed convenient to continue using it, but since it is a team independent of the two countries, using a new set of things can also give everyone a sense of belonging."

And at present, whether it is the Federation or the Star Dragon Empire, military salutes are mainly hand-raising salutes. Generally, the hands are raised to a position level with the chest. There are more differences in details between the two sides.

"A way of saluting that I have never seen before, Mr. Amber, I thought you would let the combatants use the military salute of the Federation or the Star Dragon Empire."

"Hahaha, you know a little bit about everything and your life is a little more exciting."

Although it is not a combat demonstration, it is quite something in terms of energy and spirit.

There was only a "pop" sound, and everyone in the picture took a shortcut and quickly raised their right hands, with their fingers together and naturally straightened, their middle fingers slightly connected to their temples, and their palms facing downwards and slightly outwards.

Amber, standing next to the female elf, smiled and replied.

What's more, Atlas Private Military Company is not an army, but a paramilitary organization, so there is no need to make etiquette particularly complicated.

Amber was still afraid that this guy would let Murat drive the HCP in a circle in the air and draw a heart or something like that in his wake.
Soon, the communication between the two ships was established, and the psionic projection device on the bridge of the St. Russell also showed the image of the Hermes.

The members of the bridge and CIC headed by Randall were lining up neatly. After seeing the images of Amber and others, Randall shouted in a rare and energetic manner:

As a military fan, Amber had carefully learned about her country's military construction and military culture before traveling through time.

"By the way, Mr. Amber, I just saw a lot of Roma people on the bridge of the Hermes. They seem to be adapting well?"

Ellenita asked aloud as if she remembered something.

"Yes, the briefing I received a few days ago on the progress of various recent company projects also mentioned that although these Roma came later than the 'Marine Corps' candidates, because the selection at that time paid more attention to brainpower, learning ability, etc., so their training progress has completely caught up.”

Amber quickly told Ellenita some team building matters.

Isabel also floated to his side and listened. The welfare manager had only asked Amber for help these past few days and didn't know much about this aspect.

At the beginning, Amber indeed only planned to recruit Roma people into the Marine Corps, and several early large-scale selections were also operated in this direction. But soon, he received a report from Randall - the destroyer was seriously short of manpower.

It's easy to get a mil-spec destroyer up and running, and with the help of a '10-Year Veteran' class shipboard control personality, it's not that difficult to do so.

But combat and operation are completely different things.

Twenty people may be able to move the boat, or shoot a simple fixed target, and then eject the HCP.

But if there is a real fleet battle, people will not be able to see this at all.

After all, Amber has not yet mastered the technology of the unmanned fleet, and with Atlas's current strength, it is still difficult to transform a fully automated ship.

Taking the Star Dragon Empire's Dragoon-class destroyer as an example, its standard crew configuration should be 240 people, and this does not include the HCP squadron and maintenance squad in the Gnaku.

There were only twenty people on board the Hermes.

So after many urgent discussions with Randall, before heading to Isabel's hometown, Amber submitted a plan to recruit fleet combatants to Ellenita.

Soon, a group of Roma people with stronger learning ability and brain power were selected.

This time, Amber did not limit her gender. After all, sailors are different from Marines, and not all must be muscular men.

Most of the physical work on the ship is completed with the assistance of autonomous machinery, and the crew plays more of a supporting role.

In this case, in addition to lion heads, leopard heads, and bull heads and horse faces, a group of cat ladies, fox ladies, dog ladies, and sheep ladies were also recruited.

The hair content of the crew of the Hermes has been greatly increased.

Immediately afterwards, Amber arranged to spend a lot of money to invite a group of retired old crew members, including sailors from civilian ships and crew members from various battle positions on warships.

Both the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire have them.

Amber originally wanted to find those who had just retired, but as the war escalated, most of these people were recruited back by the Federation and the Empire.

The remaining people were quickly divided up by other private companies.

Therefore, this group of senior crew members became the instructors of these Roma people.

The Hermes also carried out various training while performing escort missions in the asteroid belt.

In order to facilitate the adaptation of new crew members, human warships generally have special training modes.

In training mode, some complex operations will be assisted by new crew members step by step through voice, holographic projection instructions, etc.

In addition, there are a group of 'real old Ass' with an average age of 75 watching from the side, so the training progress is surprisingly fast.

And the acceptance ability of these old people is much stronger than Amber imagined.

Before leaving, Amber specially held a meeting with them to prepare for everyone's psychological construction.

After all, they have to face a bunch of 'weird' furries, and Amber is afraid of scaring these old people.

As a result, who knew that these old people who had traveled across the sea of ​​​​stars when they were young expressed strong dissatisfaction with his care.

"Young man, thank you for your kindness, but what haven't we old guys seen before?"

"Yes, James said he had sex with an elf when he was young! Isn't that right, James?"

Amber looked suspiciously at the old crew member named James. His former fighting position was gunner.

"of course it's true!"

The old man stood up from his chair with a glowing face, his face full of pride.

"I went to visit her again a few days ago, and she is still so young and beautiful~"

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(End of this chapter)