After fooling around with Kareda for most of the day and one night, Pan Wen remembered that D21 Development Company now has shareholder dividends, and although the development gap is very large, he can also get more than 2,000 star coins with his shares this month.

More than 2,000 star coins is not a lot of money, but Pan Wen used to provide L21 with loan-type assistance for loot materials and equipment, and this money is also a monthly payment, which adds up to a lot of help to him who is now quite short of money.

The budget is a few thousand stars more, and I have other ideas for a new ship with new thrusters.

The MCosX thrusters are electrically magnetic, so they don't need to be refueled, which also means fewer maintenance jobs and lower life-cycle costs. This is an advantage, but it is not necessarily an advantage on a battleship, because it depends on the feedback of automatic data, and some hidden dangers cannot be understood in time, and it will be fun to drop the chain at the moment of engagement.

Considering that it could have more than one flaw, Pan Vin finally decided to buy a light observation ship and two medium-sized armed merchant ships.

Armed merchant ships are to change the shells of existing frigates anyway, Pan Wen has seen test materials and shipyard reserves, and the empty shells of medium-sized frigates are enough.

This shell is sold to the shipyard after the ship of the large and small shareholders is replaced, the model is different from the old and new, the reliability of the things in the old model is worth the right to dismantle, the dismantling of the furnace of the furnace, the shell will temporarily stay in the shipyard and other suitable business, and the ship that has passed the reliability verification will be taken out and sold as a second-hand ship. This mode is also the stocking mode used by the Saigeis copycat shipyard, and the structural framework of the frigate class is not easily dismantled, which is the only way to improve the efficiency of shipbuilding for shipyards with low industrial capacity.

Two armed merchant ships are to be used to replace the Hammerhammer and Ensign 2 and Ensign 3 mining in K7.

The observation ship needs to be explained that this cargo is not a reconnaissance ship, and it is not a warship at all, it belongs to a scientific research ship. As the name suggests, the observation ship has the most complete physical and electronic observation equipment in the whole ship class, but due to the limitation of size, the actual observation ability of the light observation ship is only equivalent to that of the light cruiser, which is slightly better than that of the heavy frigate. It's really just slightly better, taking long-distance operations of 40 to 500,000 kilometers as an example, the observation ship can capture the light effect when the dock is opened and closed, but the frigate cannot, but the observation ship itself is not equipped with tactical radar and sensors, and the efficiency of capturing targets will be worse, let alone multi-point simultaneous observation.

Pan Vin asked for this ship without considering the combat use...... It also can't be used in combat at all, and I bought it for two reasons.

One is to try to see if you can observe the situation of K30 in advance.

K30 is now an area occupied by the swarm, and it has been more than two months in terms of time counting the time from the secrecy stage to the outflow and then to the present, referring to the experience of the Hemer Star E7 satellite, the two-month swarm is far from being something that Pan Wen's fleet can show off in front of him, not to mention that K30 is in the territory of a human country, and it is obvious that the scale of the swarm is extremely terrifying before it is launched. Therefore, if you want to collect more information about the swarm, there are only two channels - news from the surrounding galaxies, and directly use the observation ship in the surrounding galaxy to see if you can find any clues.

The second is for the entrustment of frost.

Pan Wen is a weirdo, and the scorching sun outside is even more of a patient, but first of all, he is still a human being, so even if he does not belong to the jurisdiction of Frost, he should also contribute to the development of human technology, really just a little. The observation ship has an unrivaled advantage in ultra-long-range observation, which makes it quite perceptive to accuracy, and when doing cross-galaxy observations, the slightest displacement will affect its working accuracy, not to mention the situation of unstable speed. This alone can obtain the most detailed data such as thruster stability, operation timeliness/accuracy, etc., which cannot be checked by normal ships.

The observation equipment of the observation ship, D21, could not be manufactured by the development company itself, but the MR249 could be bought, and Pan Wen, who needed to build it in seven days, had to pay an additional amount to let the shipyard hire a ship to buy it directly there, so the cost of this ship equipped with only a fifth-level electronic cannon (for blocking stones) also exceeded 1,000 stars, which was comparable to a warship of the same size.

The agreement for the manufacture of the three ships was signed between Scardragon and Pan Wen, and the two have not seen each other for a long time.

"I'm really flattered that Master Pan can buy a boat in our factory!" Scardragon came up and patted his ass, "You have never had a chance to express your gratitude for introducing me here, and I promise to give you the lowest price for this business." ”

Although it was said to be the lowest price, the final price still reached close to 7,000 Star Coins, and the benefit of the reduced cost of the new thruster was not felt at all. At this price, the price of the current armed merchant ship is 20% higher than that of the Sanitation No. 1 that Pan Wen took and worked in D21 at this time.

After asking Pan Wen, he knew that the industrial chain of D21 was not perfect enough, resulting in many accessories in the shipyard needing to be matched outside. The price of spare parts that go through the external process is at least 30% higher than when calculated in the whole ship, and at the same time, for these off-site standard spare parts, the shipyard has to use some local methods to eliminate the electromagnetic interference between the equipment, which also requires additional costs, so it will be more expensive than the depreciation of the sanitation No. 1.

Over the next few days, Phan Van was mainly busy with port affairs and realigning fleet personnel and contracts.

The contract consists of several parts. In the previous year, there were class promoted crew members in the Pan Wen fleet, and a certain amount of subsidies were made in the form of year-end bonuses, and from the feedback collected by the command classes of each ship, the crew still hoped to fix it in the form of subsidiary clauses, which was more reliable than bonuses, and this was just a change in form. Another point is the distinction between the salaries of new and old crews, with the expansion of the fleet size, it is difficult for Pan Wen to do a good job of "business" as in the early days to send some pocket money bonuses, in order to use the crew and commanders who are easy to use, take this opportunity to also add a new bonus additional clause, according to this clause, the beginning of the service in the Pan Van fleet for more than one year is calculated year-end bonus up to 30% of the annual salary, and if the contract expires and is renewed, the basic annual salary will be increased by 20%. Finally, the formal contract signing of the old cadets, basically just a process, their salary is one percent higher than that of the regular crew, but there is no signing fee, so Pan Wen, who has no money, can also do things.

Some high-level crew members such as BOSS Captain Pan Yue'er and Flagship Technician Chief Matthew were transferred to the new ship Shotgun, while the old students who temporarily managed the Shotgun took over the Fat Dun, and the other crew members were temporarily transferred back to their own ships. Then there are some crew members who are temporarily suspended, such as the crew members who have been promoted after the fleet, such as Shan Qiuyue, the former second lieutenant No. 1 technician, who have been promoted to the fleet, and they will form a member group of the new Caesar-class heavy cruiser together with Doris, the temporary captain of the harbor, and the vacant positions will either be replaced by the internal or take advantage of this replenishment of the crew.

This personnel adjustment was made together with the captain, chief technician, and equipment officer, so it had to be announced by Pan Wen in a group meeting, which was very time-consuming, and it was almost time to deliver the ship after it was done.

Pan Wen's follow-up trip was a bit tight, and he didn't celebrate anything when he got the ship, so he threw the people who had prepared in advance, stuffed the armed merchant ship into the harbor, and the fleet ran away.

After a few days of sailing to K7, the situation here developed as expected, although there was no information coming out, it was obvious that the blue country realized how dangerous the CT Nebula's insect swarm was, and now there were basically only gold-digging merchants left in K7, according to the captain's log submitted by Ma Ming, the captain of the Heavy Hammer, during the time that Pan Wen left, the gold-digging fleet had not been attacked on a large scale.

Take the gold, change the ship, hand over the excavation equipment, and leave the newly hired finance team. After inquiring about the dock outpost, he learned that there were no hunting opportunities, and Pan Wen did not investigate and directly transferred the fleet.

For Pan Wen to replace the three Cam X, which are almost the main ships in the mining fleet, the classmates of the Resistance Front did not make trouble with him, after all, performance determines the position, and without a powerful ship, the landing time point assigned in the mining team will be late, and the income will be reduced, and others will earn more because of the advance of the order.

The income of the gold-digging detachment has declined, and Pan Wen had already thought of it when he planned to replace the Heavy Hammer and the second second lieutenant and third lieutenant with armed merchant ships, but in the current harsh situation, he must clench his strength into a fist in order to continue to earn some extra money, which is much more important than the mining team that only dug up 5,000 star coins worth gold in a month, and when the capital chain eases up, the gold mining team will be equipped with a small landing ship, and the income will return to the level when there were three second lieutenants.

Back at K11 on the other side of the bridge, the fleet paused for a moment to sort out the news.

Both the MR and KT clusters are human, but the focus of the two is different, and in the news programs broadcast by K11, they are more concerned about what trouble the blue country is encountering and when the K30 bug problem will be solved, while the MR cluster is indifferent.

K30 Pan Wen is not going, he hopes that through the news program, he can find an excellent observation point, preferably ****, so that his fleet will have food by the way.

It is clear that he was in good luck - the Barrow Empire was beaten.

At the same time as the fall of K30, a group of fleets of the Barrow Empire were pitted, which caused its territory and military strength to plummet in a short period of time, and for a time it became a soft persimmon in the eyes of several old opponents!

Maybe it was because they were afraid that others would make the first move, but three countries chose to invade K29, where the capital of the Barrow Empire was located, on the same day, because the timing was too coincidental, after the capital fleet of the Barrow Empire was dragged down by the third-line operation, they fought themselves! After a round of confrontation, the three parties were unwilling to let go of the fat of the Barrow Empire's capital galaxy, and the KT star cluster did not have a giant like the empire and the federation whose strength was disproportionate to that of other countries, so no one listened to the persuasion, and the three families pinched up in other people's homes.

Generally, this kind of small and medium-sized country war will end the space part within a few days and turn into a protracted ground battle, but this time the three families all know why the Barrow Empire will be beaten, so they don't dare to invest their full wealth in K29, focusing on stalemate, and pick up a small bargain when they see the opportunity, but the time to take off is too long, and the news spreads out to attract more cheap goods!

So K29 is the MR241 of the current KT star cluster, the difference is that MR241's specialty is star crystal, while K29 only has one Gaia-class resident star and two industrial stars, and the Panvin fleet can't take this thing, and the only task is hunting!

It is worth mentioning that at this time, the Duchy of Carter was involved in the battle for K29, as well as the Duchy of Carter, which was severely pit by Segeis, and this time the Panvin fleet went to observe the K30, maybe it would have to "borrow" a few boats from others.