With the void shrinking abruptly, the First Fleet ended its leap and arrived at Horton.

The terrain here can be described as a one-man pass, and there is only a narrow star road to the outside world, which was once known as the first Xiongguan of the Oaks Empire!

At this moment, the original Third Fleet was stationed at the exit of this Star Road, and was under the acting command of Butlan, the former lieutenant of Quett.

After Chris takes office, the original Third Fleet will be officially renamed the Second Fleet of the First Legion of the Federation Starfleet, and Butland will become Chris's lieutenant.

At the same time, due to Chris's departure, Emma, who became a brigadier general, naturally became the commander of the first detachment of the First Fleet.

And Li Cangqiong is not enough in rank, even if he is promoted to one level this time, he still only has a colonel, temporarily serving as the commander of a squad under Emma, commanding 100 warships.

Speaking of which, the first squadron under the command of Lin Fan's First Fleet has become a veritable gathering place for the young generation of generals, and now the commanders of the ten squads are all new stars who have graduated from the Interstellar Military Academy in recent years, even Emma, who has only graduated for 5 years.

At present, the biggest headache for Lin Fan is that there are too few people who can use it, especially since there are still ten fleets to be expanded in the future, which alone requires thousands of senior military command talents.

But the question is, where are so many people?

Take the current fleet regulations as an example, you can command a squad only when a lieutenant colonel begins, a commodore can command a sub-fleet when you begin, and a lieutenant general can command a fleet when you start out!

It's also fortunate that there are only 4 fleets in the entire federation now, so there is no problem for the time being, but the federation will be expanded to 24 fleets in the next ten years.

Isn't it a joke that the commander of 20 fleets alone needs 20 lieutenant generals, 200 brigadier generals, and 2,000 lieutenant colonels and colonels!

This is not counting the staff officers, bridge command groups, etc. needed by each fleet, and a large number of generals are also needed here, but where are there so many generals in the four fleets?

Tune from Starfleet headquarters? Don't talk nonsense, most of them are people who can only talk on paper, and the previous lesson of Quite is not enough?

In this regard, Lin Fan believes that it cannot be done according to the old rules, and in the future, in the First Legion, everything will be on par with strength, and strength is the foundation of everything.

On the basis of satisfying his strength, Lin Fan can adjust his military rank down by two levels.

To put it simply, the commander of the fleet originally needed a vice admiral to be able to hold the position, but now, as long as you have enough strength, the minimum brigadier general can be.

And after the adjustment of the commander of the detachment, even if you are only a lieutenant colonel, of course, the premise is that you must have enough strength to pass Lin Fan's test!

After this arrangement, a large number of generals who are obviously strong but limited by insufficient military ranks will have a broader path to rise, and at the same time, the dilemma of insufficient senior officers can also be solved in a large number.

Even Lin Fan had already thought about it, when the Third Fleet was organized, Emma would be the commander, and Li Cangqiong would replace Emma as the commander of the First Fleet.

As soon as he said it, Lin Fan immediately formed a written report on the idea and submitted it directly to Sanders.

On the same day, Sanders informed Lin Fan that he agreed with Lin Fan's plan, and Lin Fan only needed to choose a good candidate to report in the future, and he didn't have to stick to his rank.

Lin Fan, who received an affirmative reply, naturally immediately announced the news to the two fleets, which caused a considerable wave of heated discussions, most of which were quite supportive, except for a small number of conservatives who were very disgusted by it.

These people are accustomed to seniority, and there are especially many such people in the Third Fleet!

For them, Lin Fan will have to clean up sooner or later, but now is not the time.

After dealing with the fleet, Lin Fan came to the Space Research City under construction.

At present, the main body has been built, and the follow-up is to continue to install other modules around the central main body one by one, and it will take about half a year to complete all of them.

"Lin Fan !!"

As soon as Lin Fan entered the central control room, he heard someone's resentful voice, which immediately aroused goosebumps all over his body.

Looking in the direction of the voice, it was looking at Bai Zixuan, who was much younger, looking at himself with resentful eyes that matched the voice just now!

Lin Fan couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat behind his back, this Bai Zixuan wouldn't have some kind of tendency!

"Ahem, Bai Lao, long time no see!"

"That's right, it's been five years, and you haven't handed me a small card in five years!"

Bai Zixuan said as he looked at Lin Fan with a resentful expression, like a very angry little daughter-in-law.

This scene even attracted the attention of others on the side, and the fire of gossip burned in the entire central control room.

Lin Fan looked at the people around him, and suddenly felt that he was really beepping.

What you said, people who don't know still think that I sent you love letters every day five years ago.

"Bai Lao, what you said is too easy for people to misunderstand!"

"Misunderstanding what? It's not you kid, I'm waiting for you to come over and hand me a small card every day at the Mars base, but it's only five years, five years! How many five years can you wait in life, huh? Tell me about it when you get there! ”

Burst... Lin Fan instantly felt that the fire of gossip around him was burning more fiercely.

quickly interrupted Bai Zixuan's words, lest the more he said, the more exaggerated he became.

"Bai Lao, the war has been busy in the past few years, and there is really no time for scientific research, and you can still dig deep into those technologies before!"

"Do you still have to say that? We've been working on your technology for the past few years, and now the second generation curvature engine is already being tested, which can roughly double the current jump speed. ”

"Also being tested is a new generation of battleship guns, which I call the plasma cannon, which has a longer range, more power, and faster recharge than the current ion beam cannon."

"By the way, there has also been great progress in the engine, and the anti-gravity engine, which is still being tackled, if successful, will increase the maximum speed of the warship by more than ten times, at least 50,000 kilometers per second, becoming a real sub-light engine."

"In other ways..."

Well, Bai Lao is still the same Bai Lao, as soon as he talks about scientific research, he can't stop being excited!

However, Lin Fan was still very interested in the second-generation curvature engine and plasma cannon that Bai Zixuan said, of course, if the anti-gravity engine could also be made, it would definitely be able to push the Human Federation to a real fourth-level civilization.

Looking at Bai Zixuan, who was still waving his hands excitedly and talking non-stop, Lin Fan had to smile helplessly!