From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 301 Atlas' Big Construction Plan

Translation Translation What is surprise?
The news coming back from the Lubion Galaxy was a surprise.

As we all know, except for officially licensed shipyards, other private companies and private organizations are not allowed to manufacture and own capital ships.

The Federation and the Empire currently have similar classifications of capital ships. Heavy cruisers and battleships are both considered 'capital ships'.

If Amber remembers correctly, battlecruisers will be added to the "capital ship" family in the future.

It is precisely because of official restrictions that the largest tonnage in the fleets of most private companies and private organizations is light cruisers.

And there are not many of them, and they are generally used as their 'flagship'.

As just mentioned, the official restrictions target 'most' companies, not all, which also means that some companies are not subject to restrictions.

That is the major shipbuilding giants.

Regardless of whether it is the Federation or the Star Dragon Empire, only part of the construction tasks of naval ships are carried out in officially established shipyards.

There are also a large part that are built by private/noble shipbuilding companies after bidding.

The team that made this great contribution was the 'Atlas Public Relations Department' led by Isabel.

Well, since you have asked others to 'take orders' to build heavy cruisers and battleships for you, you certainly can't continue to restrict these shipbuilding companies, right?
Therefore, there is a "white list" in the official hands, and companies that can enter the "white list" are qualified to build capital ships.

But anyway, this is a good start.

At the same time, in order to conduct seaworthiness experiments and tests of various subsystems, these companies must be allowed to take the ships out for a walk, right?

To be honest, Amber always felt a little weird about asking the intelligence chief to do this, because he was worried that the style of this department would become very strange.

Although this 'qualification' approved by the autonomous government will limit Atlas's construction and testing of heavy cruisers and battleships to the Rubian system.

'We get our hands dirty in exchange for Atlas' tomorrow'

In particular, the federal government, which has relatively strict control in this regard, has specially dispatched supervision teams to station among these companies to monitor their use of capital ships.

Under the long-term operation of various companies, this 'privilege' has allowed these shipbuilding companies to retain several capital ships in their own fleets in the name of 'experiments' and 'tests'.

It wasn't until the department was officially established and before setting off to the Lubion system that Amber ran to their department office to take a look around, his hunch became a reality.

Initially, officials will definitely restrict and supervise this behavior.

The 'shipbuilding license' obtained by Atlas in the Rubian System was approved by the Rubian System Autonomous Government.

Even many of the regulatory teams assigned by the federal government to shipbuilding companies are actually their own people.

Today, this kind of supervision is basically in name only.

Therefore, these companies also have the qualifications to allow "capital ships" to sail temporarily.

But as long as we are human, we have weaknesses and problems will arise.

Listen, does this sound like what the public relations department should say at its founding meeting?

In response to this, Baninger and the teaching team even clapped their thighs in anger, because they felt that such 'lines' seemed more suitable for their 'dirty work' troops.

Then, after looking at the composition of the PR department, Amber finally understood why they said the line "get your hands dirty" at the founding meeting. The first batch were a few "dragon field masters" seconded from the Financial Business Department who were good at opening up connections between all levels of the federal government. They were imprisoned in the "Golden Eye" on charges of "suspecting of bribing federal government officials."

In the second batch, the rich woman Ellenita found a team of young elf models - both men and women.

Many people in the group who were full of imagination about elves, after seeing these young elf models and understanding the work they were doing, their long-standing 'filters' about the Thousand Stars Empire were shattered.
The third batch is a few analysts seconded by the intelligence analysis team to analyze specific people's habits, preferences, backgrounds, and black materials.

Finally, there is the financial support from the financial business department and the all-round support of Lilith - for the latter, except for Amber, everyone else in the Atlas Group only knows that it is a relatively powerful artificial intelligence, and It is one of the core elements that maintains the operation of Atlas, and other aspects are not known.
"Isa, you are planning to do something illegal and disorderly."

After the founding meeting, Amber found Isabel with a strange expression.

When the latter heard this, he immediately took his arm and said with a smile:

"Public relations and public relations must involve some 'hidden rules'."

Regarding Isabel's words, Amber found that she seemed unable to refute.

According to the experience of players doing tasks in the game, when facing the corrupt federal government, if you use more formal methods to contact it, it will actually cause dissatisfaction on the other side.

The other party will think that you are not good enough, so they will make it more difficult for you in every aspect.

On the contrary, after some players adopted speculative and even illegal methods, they were given the green light all the way.
As for later, after being reported by some players, the official quickly deleted this part of the quest line that was suspected of being "bad guidance." However, the internal characteristics of the federal government and its decadence were still remembered by all players.

This time, Atlas was able to obtain the qualification to 'build' and 'test' capital ship-level ships in the Rubian system, all thanks to these 'public relations experts' who were urgently dispatched to the Rubian system.

After they hunted them through traditional methods such as money, sex, and illegal materials, the important government officials responsible for relevant work in the galaxy autonomous government fell one after another.

The speed was far beyond the expectations of everyone in the public relations department.

They originally thought that these self-government officials in "key positions" would go a little longer on the road of "sticking to their true intentions."
Amber can understand this.

After all, Atlas Group is now the largest cooperative enterprise of the Rubian Galaxy Autonomous Government. So many engineering teams are starting construction on Rubian 5, and there is still a large amount of investment waiting to be implemented.

Therefore, the autonomous government has relatively relaxed management of Atlas Group in all aspects.

In addition, the Atlas Group built the capital ship in order to sell the ship to the Rubian System Autonomous Government so that they could reorganize the system defense fleet that had suffered heavy losses.

A shipbuilding project that starts directly in the galaxy can provide a lot of jobs and create more tax revenue. Why not do it?

Of course, Amber feels it is equally important and cannot be ignored.

That is the lethality of the young elf models. For these people who have never seen a real elf in reality, it is still a bit too big.

Not to mention after experiencing 'negative distance' contact.

In this case, give them some "small favors", or show "dirty information" to the disobedient guys. Everything will fall into place.

"Oh, I am guilty of creating such a department."

After reading the overall 'action report', Amber, as an ordinary young man who was 'born under the red flag and grew up in the spring breeze', felt 'repent' in his mind for the things he had done.

On the other hand, he signed the word "Agree to Implement" on the OA application to "increase support for the Public Relations Department and continue to infiltrate the Rubian System Autonomous Government."

(End of this chapter)