Chapter Seventy-Nine: Preparation of Mercenaries
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Information Publication Office, Wide Area Information Complex Ship Serra.
"You are not small!" The middle-aged man in the uniform of a major general of the Federation Gabriel spoke in a bad tone.
On the other side of the reception room was a man and a woman, their expressions relaxed, and they did not seem to be afraid of the major general's wrath.
"General Dole, we also have no choice, there is no profit in fighting insects, guys are not willing to take risks, if you can't agree to our conditions, for the sake of the future of mankind, we have to spread the news."
The man and the woman had come to the Sierra to ask for some favors.
Player cluster reconnaissance has a special information channel, the loss of reconnaissance troops is not a key aspect to consider, after dozens of hours of scattered reconnaissance, they have basically mastered the ratio of swarm force distribution from K7 to K10. Then they ran into a problem, that is, there is no benefit to fighting bugs, which was proven again in the previous wave of assaults on K7.
In the Galactic Era, except for the personnel of the D21 development company who participated in a small-scale battle against the growing swarm, there were very few people who had actually seen the essence of the swarm, and the distribution of customers who had visited it did not extend to the Starbridge, let alone know how to obtain it. After the fight, the swarm of insects and shards left only ashes and shards is of course a foe without oil and water in the eyes of others.
Players may be vicious enough to other enemies, but now that the cost of death is very high, they can deal with a small group of bugs until they see enough profit from the swarm, but they can't go out and attack the swarm front like they did with Segeis.
The most fundamental purpose of the subsequent reconnaissance was to understand the enemy's situation. And what about after understanding? They didn't intend to throw in the little possessions they had accumulated over a few months and peacetime.
Intelligence is a thing with a very short shelf life, and when intelligence does not conflict with their core interests, it is a wise choice to sell it while it is still fresh, so they approached the federal information release office in K11. In order to increase the return, it is not a single piece of intelligence that is being sold, but the comprehensive intelligence support of the Federation mercenaries to the official fleet, and in the face of the powerful swarm, the loss of the Federation's reconnaissance fleet is staggering and heart-wrenching.
"The swarm is a bit more difficult for your private forces." The rear admiral paused, but decided to give the three visitors a little hope before the meeting, "I personally think that if your information is true, it is very likely to obtain the right to purchase and use the frigate, but there will definitely be conditions attached, as for your other requirements, it is best not to have too much hope." ”
"We will accept any outcome calmly, as long as General Dole can remember the kid, we will be satisfied."
As the words say, the man in charge was actually a subordinate of Major General Dole for a certain period of time, and was one of the few federal mercenaries with real military ID, most of whom belonged to the elite organization of mercenaries.
After hearing this, Dole nodded, and left the front row of men in the reception room on the shoulders: "You should also be cautious, this group of insects is very powerful, very powerful." ”
How powerful it is, Major General Dole did not disclose, but players who have already guessed the identity of the boss behind the swarm certainly know that it is powerful.
Major General Dole had been away for nearly five hours, and when the player negotiation team, a man and two women, was taken back to the reception room again, Major General Dole was no longer the most senior in the room.
"Today's children are so bold." The lieutenant general sitting in the first seat shook his head, stretched out his hand and motioned for the three of them to sit down, and then turned to the adjutant beside him, "You can start." ”
"According to the results of the meeting, a total of 3,226 captains who have reported in the archives and have classified merits will be authorized to use the frigate, and you will get the list before you leave, and the authorization letter can be obtained at the federal armed authorization offices after a delay of thirty hours." The adjutant paused, let the three of them digest the information, and continued, "With the power of attorney, the company can purchase various types of warships with a tonnage of no more than 400,000 tons in the letter of authorization, which does not include star destroyers and first-class reconnaissance ships. ”
The adjutant's words more or less acknowledged the semi-official background of the mercenaries, so that the ban on ship types was easier to understand.
The main purpose of the star-destroying ship is to fight in the atmosphere or destroy the current situation of the planet, and this right must not be held by the civilian people, and it is easy to cause major events.
The other is a type of reconnaissance ship, as the name suggests, this is also a reconnaissance ship, but it is still very different from a reconnaissance ship whose tonnage is only a medium and light patrol ship in the general sense. The first class of reconnaissance ships is about the same as medium-sized frigates in terms of size, they are not armed, they do not have the ability to carry auxiliary equipment/sub-ships/fighters, and they are built so large for only one function - to do continuous hyperspace movement.
The first type of reconnaissance ship is equipped with a potentially risky antimatter engine, and after using a special algorithm, it will not be in a relatively stationary state when completing the jump, and it only takes about 20 minutes to enter the next jump stage. However, there are advantages and disadvantages to everything, and the accident rate of collision with celestial bodies by a type of reconnaissance ship that does not enter a stationary state is a bit high, and at that time the antimatter engine is not an engine, but an annihilation bomb. In general, if not a mission, a class of reconnaissance ships is just a ship-type ballast for the military.
Compared with the first two, the electromagnetic gunboat used by the mercenaries on the imperial side in the Segeis annihilation war is not so dangerous, it is an auxiliary type of star-destroying ship, due to factors such as the atmospheric combustion of the projectile, the threat to the atmosphere when targeting the resident star is far less than that of the genuine star-destroyer, it is only equivalent to the ground attack effect of several full-size main guns, and from the perspective of social impact, its existence is not more dangerous than a conventional frigate, so it is not in the ban.
In the eyes of one man and two women, it was not the special ships that still had to be recovered, but the restrictions on the firing of the ships in the territory. Players are a very detached group, and friction within the group is difficult to avoid, and this paper restriction prevents all partners who can obtain frigates from participating in frictions located in the Federation, which happens to be the main composition of the elite group.
What made the three even more sad was that the person who read out the results in front of them was already a lieutenant general, and if the details were to be revised, they would definitely enter the parliamentary process, and with the federal system, entering the parliament was basically equivalent to the termination of negotiations.
It took a while for the adjutant to read it out, and the three realized that there was no follow-up.
"That'...... What about the self-built and self-developed part? ”
The lieutenant general's expression was serious, but at this time he showed a smile: "The permission to manufacture large and medium-sized ships of private companies needs to pass a parliamentary resolution, and we have no jurisdiction over ships manufactured abroad if they do not infringe on the national territory." ”
Hint...... No, it has already been made clear that it doesn't matter how big a ship is built abroad, as long as the local laws and regulations allow it and you don't sail back to the country to build whatever you want.
If you really do that, you won't get any asylum in the country, which is equivalent to a pirate who has no right to return but has a privateer license, whether it is good or bad is a matter of opinion. From the point of view of the cost of combat and voyage, it is naturally better to have a large ship, but MR243 heavy frigates and above tonnage cannot enter the asteroid belt area, and many countries with weak national strength have similar protected areas, and the ports in some of these areas are all in the protected area, and large ships in these places cannot obtain supply and maintenance services even if they are neutral countries.
Although this reply did not meet the initial expectations of the negotiation team of one man and two women, it was barely acceptable, not to mention the construction of a supply port belonging to the federal mercenaries in K11, and maybe it could earn a vote for the imperial mercenaries.
Subsequently, the negotiating team, one man and two women, made some requests for amendments to the federal representatives, but the facts were consistent with their judgments. The lieutenant general directly came forward to receive them, and what he brought out was already the result of the meeting of many generals, which can almost represent the final result of the federal military, and the possibility of continuing to argue is very low, unless the mercenary side continues to increase its bargaining chips, such as promising to obey the direct command of the military in the next military operation.
However, if you think about it carefully, according to this result, from the perspective of the Gabri Federation, it does not have to pay any resources at all, just a piece of paper to exchange the white wolf for the intelligence support of the federal mercenaries to the official fleet to achieve the purpose of reducing reconnaissance losses. As for what to build in K11, K11 is not the territory of any country in the first place, and theoretically anyone can build supply facilities here.
Of course, the license is very useful to the current federal mercenaries, and the early federal mercenaries also have the advantage of low cost of combat power regeneration, but after the imperial mercenaries are seriously grouped and receive a certain number of frigates from channels such as knighthoods, they have been relatively passive, and they have to eat ashes in the back when dividing up Segeis, if this gap is not narrowed, the negative effects of battle damage when fighting against the army of the Great Demon King will widen the gap between the two sides even more, maybe there will be no federation or forces representing the federation in the next era.
The meaning of the supply port is similar, the local enterprises of K11 are very dark, or because there are no natural celestial bodies in the local area and lack of basic materials, some supplies are sold at a very high price, and the fortress under construction by the military is impossible to open to civilian ships to replenish. Once you have your own supply port, you can hire a freight company to buy goods in bulk and replenish on site, this kind of port does not need to be too perfect, it is basically a warehouse framework for replenishment materials.
After some bargaining, the player's negotiation team finally won the promise of unlimited supply at a reduced price for domestic supplies, and finally it was not for nothing to work except for permission, God knows how long it will take to fight with the Great Demon King.
Considering that it is completely unrealistic for the Federation and the private army to achieve an equivalent exchange, and that the full tax-free discount of the market price is not a small number for the entire mercenary group, the federal mercenaries finally agreed to the official conditions with this plan and sorted out and submitted the information that had been detected in advance.
Since the information provided by the player to the official Federation came from the oral statements of the crew members of the crashed warplanes and battleships, and there was no support from the machine data, it once caused official dissatisfaction and said that the agreement would be canceled immediately.
In order to get a duty-free discount for the entire process of fighting against the Great Demon King, the player had to organize a detailed "death" reconnaissance, and obtained data support that was basically the same as the previous intelligence at the cost of four of the three hundred ships, which made both the military and the civilian side embarrassed. However, the operation had an unexpected effect, and the military signed a new agreement with the mercenary representatives, the Association of Star Explorers: on the premise of ensuring the accuracy of the information, the mercenaries were allowed to provide the military with post-tabular information, but when the information distortion rate was too high, the Star Exploration Society needed to organize mercenaries to make up for the mistakes and provide direct support for the military operations unconditionally. (Star Explorer Society: An organization similar to the Actors' Guild in the Federation, where all mercenaries are registered, not the Players' Guild)
While the federal mercenaries used their long-term intelligence supply to gain for themselves that they had not gained in the Seguis War, the Imperial mercenaries, who had already owned frigates through underground channels, behaved very differently. The Imperial mercenaries only exchanged occasional intelligence support from the Imperial military for some support in the use of equipment, which required the consent of the military to obtain was not ordinary goods, but also included the remnants of the super-industrial ship, the biggest trophy of the attack on Segeis.