From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 187 Ares
There is not much difference in the business models between the second-hand ship trading markets of the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire.

The larger the market and the stronger the financial backers, the more good ships can be found.

Moreover, like the Empire, the Federation has opened up military ships of the light cruise and below level for private companies to purchase.

The biggest difference between the two is the model of military-grade ships on the market.

The imperial market is basically filled with retired ships of the Royal Navy, while the warships in the federal market are basically from the federal navy.

Although in the early years, when relations between the two countries were relatively good, the other party's ships occasionally appeared for purchase in the second-hand ship trading market of both parties.

However, the number of such transnational military ship transactions will not be large, and in the current environment, those who have bought ships from the other camp do not dare to drive them around.

Amber opened the star map and looked at the updated battle front situation.

The term "front" is actually not very strict. After all, the star map is not a two-dimensional plane. However, this term has been used by various countries from ground operations, and there is no other special vocabulary to refer to it.

There are eight star systems directly 'bordering' between the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire, five of which are currently at war.

Although the galaxy's garrison fleet has strengthened its defenses and increased inspections of ships approaching various planets and space ports, at least air transportation has not stopped.

Amber curled her lips and expressed her deep disdain for the actions of the merchant who placed the order.

This kind of professional command ship derived from the Raven-class destroyer will generally exist as the command ship of the destroyer escort detachment in the fleet.

It wasn't until Amber continued to scroll down that he finally understood why the price of this thing was similar to that of an ordinary Raven.

So Amber finally chose the largest second-hand ship trading market among these three galaxies.

"As expected, he is still a profiteer. The entire command module has been dismantled, and he is still titled as a command ship."

Although she was a little attracted to this command ship, Amber finally gave up the idea of ​​being taken advantage of.

The remaining three galaxies have not yet been affected by the war due to their location.

The existence of such a command ship is of great help to the coordination of fleet navigation and operations.

Amber clicked on the details page of this command ship and found that this was a 'new ship' that had just been retired for almost half a year. For some reason, it had escaped the Federal Navy's recall and restart of decommissioned ships.

Although the ships of the Federation have always been much cheaper than the ships of the Empire, the purchasing power of Federation credits is also higher than that of the Imperial Golden Dragon.

Amber checked the recent channel information and found that there were actually many civilian ships operating on the regular passenger and cargo channels in these three star systems.

But with this kind of price increase, the price looks quite painful.

The fleet of Atlas Private Military Company will definitely be dominated by destroyers and frigates in the early stage.

"The price is not much more expensive than the Raven level. Is the merchant who placed the order doing charity?"

Amber browsed the trading platform angrily, and then suddenly saw a newly listed 'Stork-class' command ship.

The price of a regular destroyer basically fluctuates around 1000 million credit points. If converted into an Imperial Golden Dragon, it would not be much cheaper than Amber's purchase price of the Dragoon class at the time.

When you click on the market trading platform, you will see that due to the war, the price of ships has increased by almost 40% compared to before.

"Sooner or later, these profiteers will be hung up on street lights."

You can consider waiting for the light cruiser with more complete functions to be used as the formation command ship/flagship in the future, and don't consider spending this wasted money now.

So Amber finally placed an order for a conventional Haiyan-class vessel.

And he even thought of the name of the ship. Ares, the ancient Greek god of war.

Although the Federal Navy is currently installing a large number of more advanced and more functional Jackdaw-class advanced destroyers, many old models of Raven-class and Petrel-class ships in the fleet are being retired.

However, compared to the Raven class, which has more fire channels and stronger attack capabilities, it can do any dirty work. The Petrel class, which serves as a generalist in the fleet, is obviously more in line with Atlas's needs at this stage.

The main body of the Hermes, the Dragoon class, is originally the class with the strongest firepower among the current human military destroyers.

For Atlas, adding a more functional ship will still be more cost-effective.

Buying a ship is not like buying groceries. It is affected by factors such as information transmission distance. It may take almost a month for the trading market to confirm Amber's ship purchase requirements and review the ship purchase qualifications before sending a reply.

So Amber still had more than a month to spare after placing the order and paying the deposit.

During this time, whether it was him, Lilith, or everyone else under Atlas, they all had a full schedule of work.

Amber herself and Baninger took the time to continue training the first and second batches of Roma candidates.

The psyker's intuition that could not be explained by science told him that these Roma were likely to be needed in the field in the near future, so the pace of training must be accelerated.

On the other side, Isabel was not idle either.

In addition to her most important job - communicating with Amber, this former female spy from the Imperial Naval Intelligence Department returned to her old job of collecting intelligence.

The main direction of intelligence collection is the movements of the major political forces in the Star Dragon Empire.

With the intentional or unintentional help of the Irons family and Jacques Cole, the work progressed relatively smoothly.

Then came the Hermes in the asteroid belt and the miners at the base of operations.

The latter's job has not changed much. Anyway, he is just mining on asteroids.

Stimulated by the welfare of Atlas Mining, these miners burst out with enthusiasm far beyond what they had done before working under the Timler family.

After Randall received the message from Amber, he was told that the Hermes might be needed for a long-distance voyage in the near future.

They also had to reorganize the crew's training plan and compress the last part of the training time as much as possible.

Finally there is Lilith.

In addition to being given a bunch of learning tasks related to industrial production and logistics, this strong artificial intelligence also focused 50% of its energy on a new project.

That is to study the psychic entanglement communication crystal sent by Ellenita, and then try to conduct scientific research on the 'quantum entanglement communication' that humans have not been able to make progress at this stage.

After all, in Amber's memory, Lilith's final form after a large number of iterative evolutions is quantum life.

Barely considered a professional counterpart.

If Atlas were to take the lead in mastering quantum entanglement communication, a communication method that almost ignores distance, Amber couldn't even imagine where it would eventually develop.

However, compared to this task, Lilith has actually been troubled by another thing recently.

Although under the constraints of the meta-directive, she will not betray Amber, nor will she have any reservations about Amber on issues of principle.

But under the interference of her own 'emotions', she still struggled with whether she should tell Amber about this matter that was troubling her.

That was one of her 'doppelgangers', lost.

(End of this chapter)