"Christine, you're a computer expert, so I'm going to need you to play the role of my personal secretary for the rest of the day. Later, when I go to some business meetings, I'll take you with me. Shut your mouth, though, I don't want to hear your nonsense anymore. ”

"No problem, don't worry, I will never say anything when I shouldn't." Christine put away her usual naughtiness and nodded cautiously.

"Lieutenant Barron, you're in charge of the crew of the AT-056. Our ship will be haunting high-security areas for the rest of the day, so keep your soldiers curious and don't show their feet in front of outsiders. ”

"I will immediately issue a lockdown order to reduce their contact with outsiders."

"Okay, then ......"

Just as Robin was about to say some more next steps, the news of Sean's visit, the commercial representative of Alex, suddenly sounded in the communication in the room.

Sean is the young man who has succeeded Calvin as the commercial representative of Alex. Unlike Calvin, who is shrewd and capable but comes from a mediocre background, Sean, despite his lack of talent in business, is Vincent, the current president of Alex? Alex's only son. In the future, Sean will succeed his father in the huge business of Alex Machinery, so after learning this through Martina, Robin immediately paid enough attention to the young man. Not long ago, Robin also chose to sign the huge order with Alex directly, hoping to win his favor.

"Christine, you come with me to meet Sean. Lieutenant Barron, you go back to the ship first, maybe a shipment of cargo will be loaded from the spaceport soon. ”

"Okay."

Lieutenant Barron saluted Robin and left the room for the spaceport, while Robin and Christine went to meet Sean in the business meeting room of the apartment.

In the reception room, Sean was holding a thick briefcase, like a salesman from the old days. If it weren't for the fact that he had already known his illustrious identity, no one would have believed that this unremarkable young man in front of him was actually Vincent, one of the mechanical giants? Alex's only son.

At this moment, when Robin and Christine walked into the reception room, Sean immediately got up in a panic and greeted him.

"Sorry to keep you waiting." After a brief exchange of pleasantries with Sean, Robin pointed to Christine and introduced, "He's my secretary Christine." ”

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Christine." Sean shook Christine's hand and said impatiently, "Mr. Robin, I have found what you asked me to find." ”

"Oh?" Robin's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he hurriedly pulled Sean to sit down: "Can you let me take a look?" ”

"Absolutely." Seeing Robin's surprised expression, Sean, who had always been very restrained in front of Robin, finally showed a relaxed smile and took out an electronic folder from his briefcase and handed it to Robin.

Opening the electronic folder and carefully browsing through the nearly 10,000 pictures stored in it, Robin couldn't help but laugh out loud in surprise.

The reason why Robin was so pleasantly surprised was that this electronic folder stored the design drawings of the 'J-9' space shuttle, as well as various follow-up research and development plans. After obtaining these precious materials, Robin even has the ability to independently produce the 'J-9' space shuttle. In the long run, this could even give the fleet a qualitative leap in its air strike capabilities.

And to be able to get such a gift, in Robin's opinion, it was a complete unexpected surprise. At first, he just thought that Alex Machinery Company is a first-class large-scale machinery maintenance enterprise in the Federation, operating the maintenance of various machinery and equipment, so there must be a large number of mechanical design drawings in Alex Machinery Company. So, when signing the huge contract with Sean of up to 200 million, Robin mentioned it slightly, hoping that Sean could help him find the design of the 'J-9' space shuttle that has been discontinued.

Originally, Robin just mentioned it casually, but Sean unexpectedly attached great importance to it. In Sean's opinion, Robin was his first big client since stepping into the business world, and that huge order allowed him to prove himself in front of his father for the first time in his life. Therefore, after accepting Robin's commission, Sean used almost all his channels to collect information about the 'J-9' space shuttle for Robin.

In the field of military machinery of the Federation, the J-9 space shuttle has actually disappeared for a long time, and its manufacturer has long since gone bankrupt after the Morgan family withdrew its capital injection. At present, the 24 'J-9' that Robin has collected are all the existing inventory, so not to mention the detailed design drawings, even the maintenance drawings that were used to sell the fighters are mostly incomplete.

The reason why Sean was able to find this almost extinct information is because the manufacturer of the 'J-9' space shuttle is completely a pseudo-military enterprise spawned by the Morgan family's attempt to get involved in the military industry. At the beginning of its development, it was supported by the technical support of the mechanical giant Ford family. After the collapse, the Ford family, which had a creditor's relationship with it, received the entire set of design drawings and subsequent planning drawings by the way, and although the Alex Machinery Company, founded by Sean's father, was nominally a large enterprise with reading power, in fact, Vincent? Alex was the son-in-law of Ford III and was inextricably linked to the Ford family, which ruled the mechanical sector. So, after using his mother's personal connections, Sean finally got what Robin wanted.

"Thank you so much, this information is very detailed and fully meets my needs." Putting down the e-folder in his hand, Robin said bluntly: "You can make a price, I want to buy these materials." ”

"Nope! No! ~" Hearing that Robin wanted to spend money to buy it, Sean hurriedly shook his hand and said, "This information is given to you by me as a thank you, and...... It's not really worth much, and it didn't cost me anything to get it. ”

"Gift?" Robin's eyes widened in surprise. In his concept, any technology can be said to be priceless, just like in the central computer database of the Nine Star Republic, as long as the information related to technology is usually matched with the relevant professional qualifications before it can be read. And now, Sean said that the full set of design materials of the 'J-9' space shuttle is worthless, which can't help but make Robin a little unacceptable.

"Huh...... In your eyes, this information may be precious. But in terms of value, the 'J-9' space shuttle is a product that has been eliminated from the market after all, so its design drawings do not have any market value. In our database of Alex, there are still a lot of product design data left over from the collapse of the company, because those products will not appear in the market anymore, so as a mechanical maintenance company, these design data are of no value. ”

"That ......" Sean's words made Robin's heart move, and he inadvertently revealed an eager gaze.

Reading Robin's inner thoughts from Robin's gaze, Sean smiled proudly: "Mr. Robin is our valued customer of Alex Machinery Company, if you need it, I can help you open a permission account, so that you can browse the public files in our database at will."

"Haha...... I don't know how to express my heartfelt gratitude, but it's a blessing of luck to be able to work with you. Robin expressed his gratitude and instructed Christine to make a connection.

In fact, the public archives that Sean said are not the archives that Alex is really open to the public, and he can build such a large enterprise single-handedly, Vincent? Alex was clearly more far-sighted than his son Sean. Therefore, this part of the public file is only open to internal high-level staff, and only a few people are qualified to refer to similar information.

And Sean as Vincent? Alex's only son naturally has such authority. So through him, Christine established a signal connection very smoothly, and while Sean helped him obtain review permissions, he also secretly built a hidden information channel under Robin's hint, trying to steal all this part of the internal files.

During Christine's secret theft, Robin diverts from the conversation with Sean about some other matters. Among them, the focus is on Robin's large-scale order from Alex Machinery Company for a large number of machinery and equipment worth 200 million.

Alex Machinery Co., Ltd.'s main business is large-scale machinery maintenance, but it is also engaged in the business of producing maintenance equipment and parts production equipment. According to the evaluation of mechanical expert Old Jack, the machine tool produced by Alex has a strong compatibility surname, and can evolve into a multi-purpose integrated production line with only a few changes when matched with parts production equipment. Therefore, Robin took the opportunity to purchase a large number of similar equipment under the pretext of developing Brustar. Except for some of the equipment and resources that are actually used for Bruno, which will be immediately loaded onto the A7-056, the rest of the equipment will be sent back to the Octopus station by other transports that arrive later, turning the Octopus station into a real logistics base that can produce itself.

…… At the same time, outside the atmosphere of Bunolu orbiting Proxima Centauri, a massive transport ship is slowly approaching the desolate brown planet.

The huge bronze hull and the giant silver eagle insignia indicate that this is a transport ship belonging to the military. And in its cargo hold, with its thick armor and automatic defensive weapons, it was loaded with 60,000 ragged prisoners of war of the Republic. These desperate people will be sent to this death star, which is even more terrible than hell, but they don't know that there is a man in this distant enemy country who is trying to save them with all his might......

(To be continued)