In the Starfleet Moon Headquarters, in Marshal Sanders' office, Lin Fan and the other four were standing in front of Sanders with a serious face.

"The commander of the First Fleet of the Federation Starfleet, Vice Admiral Lin Fan, has performed well in this Oaks Empire attack and has made great achievements, and he is specially awarded the rank of Federation Admiral!"

After Sanders read out the award order, he also had a look of emotion.

The 25-year-old admiral, this is also a record breaking in the Federation, and it can be said that he is the youngest general in the history of the Federation.

In Sanders' eyes, Lin Fan's future achievements will inevitably far surpass Liang Xingchen.

With the new shoulder title, Sanders came to Lin Fan and personally changed it for him.

"Congratulations, Admiral Lin Fan!"

"Thank you, Marshal!"

"Don't thank me, it's your own strength, keep working hard!"

"Yes!"

Then, Liang Xue, Emma and Chris were also awarded, after all, they were generals, so they were awarded by Sanders himself.

Among them, Chris became a lieutenant general, Liang Xue became a major general, and Emma finally stepped into the ranks of generals and became a brigadier general.

The brigadier general was also called the reserve general star of the Federation, but Lin Fan directly took this step back then, and he became a major general as soon as he entered the general star.

But this is a special case after all, and Emma still has to start her career as a brigadier.

Sanders looked at Lin Fan and the others, nodded with satisfaction, and then picked up another appointment from his desk.

"Due to the reform of the Starfleet establishment, a new legion level has been added, and Admiral Lin Fan is now appointed as the commander of the First Legion of the Federation Starfleet, which is organized into twelve standard fleets, with a total of 240,000 warships, and the headquarters is set up in Houghton!"

"At the same time, Horton will become a military powerhouse, the Federation will not immigrate ordinary people here, and everything in this star system will be handled by Admiral Lin Fan, the commander of the First Legion of Starfleet!"

"Finally, on the issue of the establishment of the legion, the original First and Third Fleets of the Federation will be subsumed into the First Legion and become the first and second fleets under the command of the legion, of which the First Fleet, as the guard fleet of the corps commander, is still under the personal command of Admiral Lin Fan, and the commander of the second fleet is Chris Rhodes, and the remaining ten fleets will be completed within ten years, and the commander will be submitted by the First Legion at that time, and the Starfleet headquarters will review and approve it."

"That's the latest appointment, what's the problem?"

"Report, no!"

"Very well, the Third Fleet is already in Horton, you will leave tomorrow and go to Houghton to meet with him, after which you can start the construction of the legion."

"Yes, Marshal!"

"Lin Fan, wait a minute, I still have something to tell you!"

Just as Lin Fan and the four of them were about to leave the office, Sanders spoke again.

After Liang Xue and the three of them glanced at each other, they retreated very interestingly, they understood that Marshal Sanders had something important to explain to Lin Fan alone!

"Lin Fan, the task on your side is very heavy, no better than Liang Xingchen's side, the Federation needs a channel to the outside world, understand?"

"Understood, don't worry, marshal, give me five years, and I will take the Kabat Empire!"

Lin Fan naturally understood what Sanders meant, the current federal territory has two external roads, one of which is blocked by the Io Federation, and the other is blocked by the Kabat Empire.

If the Federation wants to continue to develop, it must open one of the passages, otherwise even if it relies on the curvature engine to cross these two civilizations and conquer new territories, it will be more difficult to rule because it is not connected to the mainland.

And the Io Federation must not fight, that is the key to the future increase of human population, isn't it stupid to fight that?

Therefore, the only option to choose from is the Kabat Empire, for Lin Fan, three years to replenish the establishment to 5 fleets, and another 2 years to destroy the Kabat Empire, time is enough.

"Well, until you're ready, the Federation will maintain the deal with them, on the one hand, squeeze out their last foundation, and on the other hand, reduce their ability to leave enough for you!"

"Understood!"

Ten minutes later, Lin Fan left Sanders' office, and after meeting the other three, he set off to return to Earth.

"Sorry, Chris! Originally, I wanted you to spend more time with your wife and daughter on Earth, but now it seems that it will not work, and you will leave for Horton tomorrow! ”

On the shuttle ship back to Earth, Lin Fan said to Chris.

"Well, Legion Commander, and Alice can move to Houghton as a military dependent!"

"That's fine, but you and Alice both went to Houghton, what about your daughter? After all, Horton is a military town, but there is no school! ”

You must know that Chris's daughter Ava is still young, so she can't take it to Horton together, it's a military town, but there is no school for Ava to study.

"That's no problem, Ava has already received the admission letter from the Interstellar Military Academy, and she will be enrolled in two months, and when she graduates, she will ask the commander to help her come to our legion!"

Chris said with some embarrassment, after all, this is definitely a backdoor.

It's not that Chris wants to take special care of his daughter, it's just that he hopes that the family can have more opportunities to be together.

"Okay, I'll do it! I will say hello to Dean Li Fulai, don't worry! ”

"Thank you, Captain!"

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More than twenty days later, Lin Fan arrived at Houghton with the First Fleet.

As mentioned before, Horton was once the military industrial center of the Oaks Empire, with 1 life planet and a full 42 resource stars, and also has these three huge asteroid belts, each of which is dozens of times the size of the asteroid belt of the solar system, and the resources are more abundant.

The Oaks Empire has established a huge warship manufacturing base on Houghton, consisting of countless warship production lines, and now these base groups are being transformed by a large number of industrial robots, and it is expected that all the transformations can be completed in half a year, and this will become the most important military industrial base in the entire Federation.

In addition to the battleship manufacturing base group, the Federation has also established a huge space research city in Houghton, which is located on the edge of the battleship manufacturing base group, and its main person in charge is Lin Fan's old acquaintance, Bai Zixuan, the chief scientist of the Federation.

Today's Bai Zixuan has no longer been old after using gene enhancement drugs and brain domain development drugs.

The whole person looks like he is in his 40s, not only is his physical fitness better than before, but his life span has increased by at least 200 years, which can be described as high-spirited, and there is even gossip that Bai Zixuan has recently changed his second spring and is in love with a female scientist.

For this matter, Lin Fan is definitely supportive, after all, Bai Zixuan once never married a wife or children in his life for scientific research, and now since he has this heart, it is naturally a good thing!

In short, Holden is now in an era of great construction, and every planet and every void is being built.