From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 453: Atlas Does Not Keep Idle People
There was no grand welcoming ceremony, nor were there crowds of people watching to congratulate the two former federal generals for "abandoning the dark and joining the light" and joining the Atlas family.

When the meeting started, other participants, including Isabel, saw Guterres and Van Fleet sitting next to Amber and understood what was going on.

Meetings at Atlas are usually quiet, because everyone has a lot of things to do at this stage. Although there is an 'Atlas Administrative Management Module' to reasonably arrange everyone's daily work progress, the daily affairs have increased a lot compared to before.

Even with the extreme calculations of the 'Atlas Administrative Management Module', it can only barely ensure that everyone's daily working hours do not exceed 8 hours, but the increase in work intensity during working hours cannot be adjusted.

Therefore, some meetings that had to be held during this period even skipped the opening greetings and went straight to the point - how to deal with the large number of prisoners and captured equipment.

There is basically no need for much discussion on how to deal with captured equipment, as Atlas has already developed a complete set of processes in this regard.

After the defense of the A.Bava.Ku asteroid fortress ended, Atlas seized a large number of ships from the military-industrial complex joint fleet, as well as various equipment on board.

Amber and the others never intended to return these things.

If there had been a conflict with the federal government on Pella IV before, they would still make some gestures to try not to let both sides completely break up, but for these companies in the military-industrial complex, there are not so many requirements and the handling method is also very simple.

Intact, slightly damaged, and moderately damaged but repairable military-standard warships will be directly incorporated into the Atlas fleet's battle sequence to expand the strength of the combat fleet.

However, the sudden increase in the number of warships also caused Atlas to have the problem of "too many ships and too few people".

Although the 'manned warships' in the Atlas fleet are now equipped with mass-produced 'Ten Year Veteran' class shipborne control personalities, and after continuous automation transformation, the number of crew members required has been greatly reduced.

目前基本保持在护卫、驱逐舰60-70人、巡洋舰120-220人、战列舰不超过400人的水平。

Compared with the number of crew members currently required by the Federation and the Empire at all levels, it can be said to be zero, but this time there are more than 240 warships that can be used directly, which still makes the number of reserve crew members of Atlas a little stretched.
As for the prisoners on the warships, Amber really looked down upon their uneven training levels. Instead of spending so much time to retrain these people, it would be better to use the crew trained by Atlas itself, who are more loyal.

Therefore, Amber's current approach is to take a two-pronged approach, while continuing to train new crew members, and letting Lilith use unmanned fleet technology on these captured warships.

Although she had suffered from severe 'PTSD from the Omnic Crisis' before, after several heart-to-heart talks with Lilith and meeting Baninger and others who had been transformed into 'Immortals', Amber finally agreed to the plan to form an unmanned fleet and an Immortal Legion.

After all, although this thing has risks, it is really fragrant.
As for the remaining "badly damaged" warships that were not worth repairing, as well as the armed merchant ships that were completely useless to Atlas, they were all dismantled and scrapped.

Generally speaking, there are two ways to handle this process. One is to pull it into a special dock, or directly find an uninhabited place in deep space to build a temporary "disassembly operation frame", and then carry out the disassembly work in the reverse order of construction.

During this process, some key components and subsystems - such as the battleship's fusion reactor, fire control unit, main gun and other "high-value components", if intact and not damaged, will be put into secondary use after inspection and maintenance.

As for the remaining main ship structures that have no secondary utilization value, they will continue to be dismantled according to the planned process and then recycled as needed.

Since the structure of military warships is quite complicated, the internal pipeline layout is extremely complex, and the hull material strength is also high, it is also difficult to dismantle. Before this, Atlas directly sold these ships to professional ship dismantling companies, which was also a way to quickly realize cash.

But this time, the number of ships that needed to be dismantled was so large and the potential recycling value was relatively high, so Amber directly let the financial business center acquire several ship dismantling companies in full to provide ship dismantling services specifically for Atlas.

The disassembled "high-value components" can also be stored in warehouses for use as spare parts.

Another way to deal with it is to take those ships that are severely damaged and have basically lost their recycling value. After completing the harmless treatment, the fleet will directly use them as target ships for artillery training.

In addition to captured warships, the HCP or other vehicles carried inside them are handled in the same way as warships.

Those that can be used will be used directly, those that cannot be used will be dismantled and made into spare parts, and those that have no recycling value will be used as targets.

In a word, all the value of these "trophies" must be squeezed out, and not even a piece of ship armor plate can be wasted.

Compared with the standardized handling methods of these "trophies", the handling of prisoners of war has become an urgent problem that needs to be solved.

According to the final statistics, Atlas directly captured more than 30 people in this battle, 99% of whom were crew members from the captured ships of the Combined Fleet.

Since the ships of the Combined Fleet were not as highly automated as the Atlas, the number of crew members in each of their warships was relatively large, especially those battleships and heavy cruisers, which could easily take two to three thousand prisoners.
If the A.Bava.Ku asteroid fortress had not been planned to be used as a large living area in the future, responsible for receiving a large number of "immigrants" such as employees' families, and if the construction of several large synthetic protein factories and hydroponic towers had not been completed not long ago, the sudden increase of more than 30 people would really have no way to settle them.

But even so, Amber doesn't want to support these 30 people like this. After all, they can't create any value now, and they have to consume a lot of materials every day - this is purely "burning money" in Amber's view.

"We in Atlas don't keep idle people, and now is a special period. Every penny of the group's money must be used where it should be used, so we must solve the problem of these 30 prisoners as soon as possible."

While looking at the composition of the prisoners, Amber said:

"Here is my personal suggestion. Captives who are willing to stay and have passed identity verification can be recruited. If they pass the six-month internship observation period and there are no abnormalities, they will be transferred to formal employees of Atlas, and all welfare benefits will not be discounted.

As for those who don't want to stay, we don't need to send them to the asteroid belt to mine like other companies do. We don't need such a small number of people.
And the military-industrial complex companies will definitely not pay any ransom for these employees, so we will have to pay a little more, and after the headcount is counted, we will find a third-party transportation company to send them back to the Federation."

After speaking out her general thoughts in one breath, Amber looked at the other people attending the meeting.

"Now let's speak freely. If you have any suggestions or questions, please speak up now~"

(End of this chapter)