70 years in the federal calendar.

Exactly three years have passed since the selection of the commander of the 1st Corps.

In the past three years, the speed of development of the Federation is simply staggering, and at the moment when the whole people are popularizing the brain domain development medicine, all kinds of general technologies have exploded like a blowout, and new technologies are published almost every day.

Of course, this only refers to general technology, mostly civilian technology, and key technology is not so easy to break through.

However, even so, the Federation's general technology can be compared to the middle and late stages of the third-level civilization, which is already a very remarkable thing.

You must know that the general third-level civilization has not gone through thousands or even tens of thousands of years before it can reach the level of the middle or even late stage?

However, more than ten years ago, mankind was only just stepping into the stage of third-level civilization, and only more than ten years later, it has already crossed the path taken by other civilizations for thousands of years.

In fact, if you want to be more serious, it should only take five years, after all, the Federation began to popularize brain domain development drugs five years ago, and then there was a big explosion of science and technology.

In terms of key technologies, there is not much progress compared to three years ago, but whether it is energy shields, jump engines, energy weapons, etc., it is actually not weaker than the early fourth-level civilization.

Of course, if you want to compare it with the old fourth-level civilization, the gap is still quite large.

Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about energy weapons, the main guns of the Federation's warships are slightly stronger than the Oaks Empire's Holy Shield Battleships back then, you must know that the Holy Shield Battleship is a castrated product sold to it by the Babawi Empire, and it is far from the Babawi Empire's own use.

It is worth mentioning that the composition of the warships of the two major legions of the Federation has undergone a major change again, and the warships are more unified, and now the main fleet of the Federation has only one kind of warship in addition to the flagship, that is, the Orca-class battleship, as for the main fleet of the air carrier, it is no longer equipped and eliminated for the use of local guard fleets.

And the culprit of all this is the mecha.

As I said before, today's mecha is completely useless in the face of a fourth-level civilization warship, after all, the weapon is too small and the power is too weak!

You can't let a mech carry a battleship's main gun, can you? After all, the caliber of the main guns of the battleship is more than ten meters, who can carry it?

And even if you can carry the main gun, do you still have to carry a warship-level nuclear fusion device with you? Otherwise, are you sure you have enough energy to fire?

For this reason, the sound of no longer developing mechs and canceling the mecha organization in Starfleet was a big hit, and the Federation at that time really almost threw mechs into the garbage heap!

However, there was a lot of opposition at the time, after all, the mecha was not simply used to attack warships, but more for planetary airborne operations and contribution to fortress strategy operations.

Speaking of which, since the Energy Shield, the Federation Fleet has really not used mechs to fight against ships.

Therefore, the final result is to temporarily retain the mecha establishment and retain the mecha R&D team, but no longer set up a special carrier carrier for the mech, because this is a waste of fleet establishment.

Instead, the mecha legion was scattered within each Orca-class battleship, and it was for this reason that at the beginning of the design of the Orca-class battleship, a mecha hangar and corresponding ejection ports were designed in it.

Today, each Orca-class battleship carries a squadron of mechs, that is, 300 units, which is the same as Lin Fan's flagship, the Ouranos.

One of the benefits of this change is that the entire fleet of mechs has not been reduced, but the number of warships has been saved by 2,000, and the number of Orca class buildings has increased from 432,000 to 480,000!

In other words, the main army of the Federation now has one 10-million-ton heavy battleship (the commander's flagship), 11 8-million-ton heavy battleships (the commander's flagship of the 2nd to 12th fleets), and 240,000 Orca-class battleships.

In terms of personnel, the standard personnel of each Orca-class battleship is 892 people, of course, this is only the personnel who maintain the operation of the battleship, in addition to 300 mechs and 500 ground crews.

As a result, each standard main fleet has a terrifying 30 million men at full strength, while a full army needs a full 400 million men to operate.

If it was more than ten years ago, the human race would definitely not be able to support the two legions with so many people, after all, the two legions would need 800 million people when they are fully established, plus the local garrison fleet, the ground forces of various planets, as well as the starports, fortresses and other personnel, if there are more than a billion, it is not even a thought.

What is the concept of more than a billion? Today, the entire human race has only 15 billion people, more than a billion soldiers, that is, one-tenth of the entire human population.

The most important thing is that Starfleet is not just a random person, it needs more than a billion people of appropriate age and highly professional!

This would have been impossible, but the advent of gene-enhancing drugs has made it possible!

Many veterans who were originally in their sixties and seventies or even eighty years old have increased their life expectancy and their physical functions are constantly recovering after using genetically enhanced drugs.

The vast majority of elderly people can recover their physical functions to the age of thirty or forty after use, so a large number of veterans who have been retired for a long time quickly returned to Starfleet after simple training.

Today's Federation, let alone the two major legions, even if you want to be full of the four major legions, you can squeeze in enough people.

In addition, over the years, the Federation has become a veritable god by selling equipment to the Kabat Empire and the Io Federation, and now Starfleet's salary is now notoriously high.

Besides, who can resist the temptation of the cannons of the giant ships? Who doesn't have the dream of sitting in the captain's seat and commanding a battleship or even a fleet? Who doesn't expect that one day they can become a human military god like Liang Xingchen or Lin Fan?

Well, the most important thing is that once a media went to the Io Federation for an interview, and the content was the mate selection conditions of the angel girl.

So, the girls said that they don't like cowardly men, they only like heroic men on the battlefield!

Later, when this interview was broadcast in the Federation, the recruitment points of all the planets of the entire Federation were almost flattened by the crazy crowd.

Moreover, don't think that only human men do this, and even a large number of women are also involved, it can only be said that angel girls are really male and female!

In short, these series of things make the federation not short of soldiers at all.

Especially with the new intelligent industrial robots, the labor force has been completely liberated.