From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 229 The window period ends and the game begins

This information is not secret information, it's just that Lilith used quantum entanglement communication to let Amber know earlier.

The content of the intelligence is also very simple, that is, the Federation passed a wartime bill some time ago and is currently communicating it to various galaxies.

This bill relaxed the previous prohibition and allowed the autonomous governments of each system to expand their military forces in response to the invasion of the Star Dragon Empire.

"This is about to begin."

Looking at this wartime bill that obviously benefited the military-industrial complex and made them a lot of money, Amber realized that the window period left for him had entered the countdown.

Because in the original game plot, it was the entry into force of this bill that rapidly increased the military strength of the autonomous governments of various galaxies in the federation.

Although it was indeed effective in containing the Star Dragon Empire's subsequent attacks, it held the 'barrel of the gun' in its hands and grew stronger.

Some people in the autonomous governments of various galaxies could not help but begin to make moves, and eventually started the civil strife in the Federation.

Judging from the current situation, the empire's expedition fleet occupies a total of six federal systems.

They were warmly received by various autonomous governments.

In this case, the current president of the Federation - 'King of Ideas' Brandon, with the 'advice' of the military-industrial complex, came up with a way to kill two birds with one stone.

After completing the optimization of its personnel structure, Atlas Industrial not only maintains contact with original customers, completes legacy orders, and restores the flow of funds.

As the 'window period' predicted by Amber comes to an end, Atlas Group has gradually digested what it has gained after several previous 'big moves'.

But naturally, the Federation will not waste this time.

It also allocated part of its production capacity and began to provide relevant equipment to Atlas's combat troops.

Amid the undercurrents of various forces, the time came to the end of June, 589th year of the New Calendar.

As a large-scale equipment manufacturer in the past, Mary Bay Industrial still has a very solid foundation.

There is a bright future for all.

To be honest, as a former part-time worker, Amber is actually a little disgusted with the behavior of 'optimization'.

Now that we know that we can use the 'ship sea' to pile up the celestial fortress, we can just let the fleet expand.

Anyway, the invasion of the Star Dragon Empire is now an established fact, and everyone has seen what the situation of the invaded galaxy is like.

Faced with such a rotten policy by the federal government, the autonomous governments of various star regions and galaxies were furious at first, angrily denouncing that this new bill exposed the incompetent nature of the federal government.

The equipment production efficiency is unmatched by the previous small workshop production model of Trident Studio.

In addition, the Federation's unmanned fleet has been supporting the manned fleet operations, so Duke Duke did not dare to rush in for the time being, so he chose a more conservative defense strategy and waited for the follow-up fleet to be replenished.

Since long-distance voyages and jumps are also affected by the distribution and environment of celestial bodies in the galaxy, the routes of large fleets can actually be roughly predicted.

Okay, okay, you can still play like this, right?

The Fortress of Sorrow, commanded by Duke Duke, led other fleets to a stalemate with the Federation Navy in the seventh target system.

The production lines were filled in a short period of time, and many shipyards even had to start urgently building additional production lines.

With the experience of the Chaos Fortress being jumped in the face by the Federation Navy, Duke Duke strengthened the surveillance of celestial bodies in the target system and at the same time increased the protection level of the celestial fortress.

Although the sales specialists of these shipyards were a little confused by this sudden 'enthusiasm'.

After being reorganized into Atlas Industrial, 30% of the employees of the original Mary Bay Industrial were optimized under the operation of the 'former professional managers' in the financial business department.

However, when he saw that among the 30% of employees who had been optimized, except for some people who were more "backbone" and were unwilling to work under Atlas.

But if you encounter a reckless man who is not afraid of death, there will still be a certain danger.

Oens, the former director of the third R&D department, staged an annual drama called "The Return of the Dragon King" and became the deputy director of the entire equipment manufacturing R&D center.

The rest are all people who entered Mary Bay Industrial 'retirement' through nepotism.

The Federation Navy only has so many main fleets and cannot take care of all galaxies. If it is killed by the Empire at the speed of light because it is reluctant to spend money to build a large fleet, it will only have itself to blame.

Soon, orders from the galaxy autonomous government flew to major shipyards from all over the federal territory.

Therefore, when the sales specialists of major shipyards followed the footsteps of this bill to cover the territory of the Federation, they went to these systems.

Against this background, Chaos Fortress, which is currently in the state of 'self-overhaul', is defending several key nodes with two newly added expeditionary strike groups.

After clarifying these situations, Amber, who considered herself to be 'well-informed', had to say "unbelievable".

This has caused the cost of the gravity-free standard production line to rise accordingly.
The federal government has prevented the fiscal deficit from continuing to increase and has slightly boosted domestic demand. Good!

There are even jobs in some departments that have nothing to do with the company's business, but nearly a hundred people are still crammed into them, and they still receive not-so-low wages.

This thing is fierce. If the Focusing Iris is deployed properly, it will have no problem causing a main fleet to lose its combat effectiveness.

But after they carefully considered the bill, they all quickly reacted.

However, the Navy's next five-year shipbuilding plan has already exhausted its budget, and at the same time, there is still a mobile fortress that has entered the final experimental stage in the 'Tombing Gold'.

He worked closely with Eugene, who is the director of research and development, to complete the final shape of the 'Crocodile A1' combat exoskeleton and put it into mass production.

The president and senior government officials also received more 'support' from the military-industrial complex, wonderful!
Major shipyards, equipment manufacturing plants, heavy industry, and mining companies have received more orders, good!
The autonomous governments of various galaxies have removed the 'dog leash' and improved their military strength, Cai!

That is to allow the autonomous governments of each galaxy to spend money from their own budgets to expand the fleet.

This means that the federal government will not be able to spend any extra budget for a while.

But this does not mean that they cannot accept this overwhelming wealth.

Not long after the 'Crazy Crocodile A1' was put into production, the situation of 'equipment waiting for people' appeared.

The way Oens and Eugene dealt with it was also very simple. They transformed part of the 'Crocodile' into 'Crocodile A1 ver.Human' that was suitable for human body size and operating habits.

Then let Atlas's human marines complete the change of clothes.

Other excess production capacity was also reduced on the basis of 'Crazy Crocodile A1 ver.Human', and then put on the market, and soon received a large number of orders.

On the other hand, Atlas Mining also completed its merger with Timler Mining.

Amber only received all the equipment and the 'enslaved' miners, not the company executives.

After all, in Atlas Mining, there is no place for these people who live in a dead position.

The substantial improvement in the size of the mining team not only improved the efficiency of mining, but also accelerated the construction of the asteroid base.

In Amber's plan, the industries that are currently deployed on industrial satellites within the federal territory will eventually find a way to get here.

This is just like playing an RTS game. The production buildings used to explode troops must be well protected. Except for a wave of scandalous operations such as "field camps" and "Taishan pressure", no one will build their own production capacity buildings at each other's homes.
Supported by the increasing profitability of Atlas Industries and Mining, as well as the 8000 million Imperial Golden Dragon compensation from the Timler family.

The armed forces under the Atlas Private Military Company have also completed integration and upgrades within the past two months.

As for the fleet, under Amber's instructions, all the 'old and dilapidated' ships from the fleets of Mary Bay Industries and Yaoguang Defense that were taken over were sold.

These ships will be cannon fodder in future more intense battles and have no use value.

In order to complete the transaction as soon as possible, many ships were sold at a discount.

Immediately afterwards, Atlas Fleet took 80% of the cash on the company's books and began to buy and buy.

And only buy active ships that have not been retired for a long time and have relatively advanced models.

The entire fleet soon expanded the total number of ships to 43.

Among them, there are 9 light cruisers, 15 destroyers and 18 frigates.

There is also a large transport ship equipped with an aerospace transport aircraft, responsible for the delivery of personnel, vehicles, and equipment.

This is also the maximum number of fleets that Atlas can currently maintain in operation.

As for the ground forces, according to Baninger's report, the training of the latest batch of Roma should be completed before July.

By then, the Roma Marine Corps will reach the size of two infantry battalions, approximately 1800 people.

Each battalion has a basic establishment of 900 people and a battalion-level headquarters of about 120 people. It has three infantry companies, a weapons support company (mortars and other supporting firepower) and a medical team.

By the way, after the number of fleets and marines increased, Atlas also activated the military rank system to facilitate the command of troops at all levels in the future.

In addition to these Roma as the main force, there is also a 'teaching team' composed of humans.

Its members are mainly those who survived the mobile infantry. Counting those who have returned from injury, there are more than 50 people in total.

In addition to these mobile infantry, some elite combat personnel who originally belonged to Yaoguang Defense were also incorporated into this 'teaching team' after passing qualification review.

Therefore, the entire teaching team currently has more than 200 people.

After being divided into two companies, A and B, he was attached to the battalion-level headquarters of the Roma Marine Corps as an 'instructor', 'military instructor' and a 'special operations team'.

Because at present, the quantity and quality of ground vehicles are not perfect enough.

Therefore, Amber did not form a synthetic force like the Federation or the Empire.

Instead, Yaoguang Defense's original batch of light multi-legged combat vehicles, wheeled combat vehicles, armored infantry fighting vehicles and a small number of main battle tanks were integrated into the two infantry battalions in a "strengthened allocation" manner to transform them into It became a 'reinforcement camp'.

As for the HCP units, in terms of number, there were 10 attack squadrons from the two unsatisfied squadrons before.

This is after eliminating a group of old and outdated HCPs, otherwise the number would be even greater.

Although the number of 10 squadrons and more than 100 HCPs seems to be a lot.

But in fact, as consumables in war.

These HCPs cannot even fill up all the warships with the HCP squadrons they should be assigned to.

Not to mention being incorporated into the ground forces.
But as the old saying goes, the meal must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be walked step by step.

Amber didn't want to become a fat man in one bite.

The construction of armed forces is inherently a long and complex process.

To be able to raise his armed forces to the current level before the end of the window period in a "white wolf with empty gloves" method, to be honest, it has exceeded Amber's initial target.

In addition to the above-mentioned combat units, there were finally some who were willing to stay, about 1500 former Yaoguang defense combat personnel, who were temporarily used as a reserve team after being disrupted and regrouped.

These people are currently training with the Roma in the expanded Babel training center and waiting for weapons and equipment to be in place.

As for the loyalty of these people, Lilith has already conducted a round of screening and eliminated some people with ulterior motives.

The most important thing is Atlas's employee treatment and employee care policies.

Among private military companies in this world, it is unprecedented, if not unprecedented.

Salaries and benefits that are much higher than the market average, including but not limited to generous combat allowances, comprehensive medical insurance, post-retirement life security, and family care.

In addition, there is a complete military rank promotion system and a corresponding salary increase mechanism.

At the same time, it also took the lead in launching 'skills training and career planning' guidance that other private military companies and PMCs have not implemented.

Provides advanced military training and skills training for all front-line combatants.

While maintaining their combat effectiveness, they can also continue to improve their personal skills and subtly enhance their self-worth.

Moreover, Amber has also set up a dedicated department under the Human Resources Center.

Provide further career path development plans for those warfighters who perform well, such as promotion to officers or technical specialists.

I won’t mention basic things like fair and transparent management, incentives and honor systems.

In short, under this set of 'combination punches', the remaining combatants were all grateful that their original decision was correct.

Although these complex and sophisticated management systems may not work perfectly in other companies.

But in Atlas with the assistance of Lilith, this system is no longer an illusory 'sky garden'.

This increasingly powerful artificial intelligence is also Amber's biggest source of confidence.

Especially in the server array of the asteroid base, after completing the second iteration, Lilith has been able to monitor everyone in real time through all the Internet terminals in Atlas.

This secret surveillance plan, known only to Amber as an 'insurance program', was eventually named 'Prism' by him.

Although this kind of behavior of monitoring everyone's privacy still makes Amber feel a little awkward.

But he had to do it when he couldn't guarantee everyone's loyalty.

When the time entered July of the New Calendar year 589.

Amber relied on her memory of the plot of the game to deploy a destroyer as an 'observation post' in the deep space of the Vendée galaxy on the border of the Star Dragon Empire.

If his memory is correct, the development of the situation within the Star Dragon Empire has not changed much.

On this colonial planet in the border system, a violent conflict will occur that will kick off the split of the Star Dragon Empire.

In another world, dramatists call it 'Bloody Tuesday'.

(End of this chapter)