Chapter 229 The window period is over and the game begins
This information is not secret information, it is just that Lilith used quantum entanglement communication to let Amber know earlier.
The content of the intelligence is also very simple, that is, the Federation passed a wartime bill some time ago and is currently communicating it to various galaxies.
This bill relaxes the previous prohibition and allows the autonomous governments of each system to expand their military strength in response to the invasion of the Star Dragon Empire.
“This is about to begin.”
Looking at this wartime bill that obviously benefited the military-industrial complex and made them a lot of money, Amber realized that the window period left for him had entered the countdown.
Because in the original game plot, it was the entry into force of this bill that rapidly increased the military power of the autonomous governments of various galaxies in the federation.
Although it was indeed effective in containing the Star Dragon Empire's subsequent attacks, when it held the 'gun barrel' in its hands and became stronger and stronger.
Some people in the autonomous governments of various galaxies could not help but start to make troubles, and eventually kicked off the civil strife in the Federation.
Judging from the current situation, the empire’s expedition fleet occupies a total of six federal systems.
Since long-distance voyages and jumps are also affected by the distribution and environment of celestial bodies in the galaxy, the routes of large fleets can actually be roughly predicted.
In this context, Chaos Fortress, which is still in the state of 'self-overhaul', is defending several key nodes with two newly added expeditionary strike groups.
The Fortress of Sorrow, commanded by Duke Duke, led other fleets to a stalemate with the Federation Navy in the seventh target system.
Having learned from the past experience of the Chaos Fortress being jumped by the Federation Navy, Duke Duke strengthened the surveillance of celestial bodies in the target system and at the same time increased the level of protection of the celestial fortress.
This thing is very powerful. If the Focusing Iris is released properly, it will have no problem in making a main fleet lose its combat effectiveness with one shot.
But if you encounter a reckless man who is not afraid of death, there will still be a certain danger.
In addition, the Federation's unmanned fleet has been coordinating the manned fleet operations, so Duke Duke did not dare to rush in for the time being, so he chose a more conservative defense strategy and waited for the follow-up fleet to be replenished.
But naturally, the Federation will not waste this time.
Now that we know that we can use the 'sea of ships' to pile up the celestial fortress, we can just let the fleet expand.
However, the Navy’s next five-year shipbuilding plan has already exhausted its budget, and at the same time, there are still mobile fortresses that are entering the final experimental stage and are ‘swallowing gold’.
This means that the federal government will not be able to spend any extra budget for a while.
In this case, the current president of the Federation - 'King of Ideas' Brandon, with the 'advice' of the military-industrial complex, came up with a way to kill two birds with one stone.
That is to allow the autonomous governments of each galaxy to spend money from their own financial budgets to expand the fleet.
Anyway, the invasion of the Star Dragon Empire is now an established fact, and everyone has seen what the situation in the invaded galaxy is like.
The Federation Navy only has so many main fleets, and it cannot take care of all the galaxies. If it is because it is reluctant to spend money to build a large fleet, and is killed by the Empire at the speed of light, you can only blame yourself.
Faced with such a rotten policy by the federal government, the autonomous governments of various star regions and galaxies were furious at first, angrily denouncing that this new bill exposed the incompetent nature of the federal government.
But after they carefully considered the bill, they all quickly reacted.
Okay, okay, you can still play like this, right?
So, when the sales specialists from major shipyards followed the footsteps of this bill to cover the federal territory, they went to these systems.
They were warmly received by various autonomous governments.
Although the sales specialists of these shipyards were a little confused about this sudden 'enthusiasm'.
But this does not mean that they cannot accept this overwhelming wealth.
Soon, orders from the galaxy autonomous government flew from all over the federal territory to major shipyards.
The production lines were filled in a short period of time, and many shipyards even had to start urgently building additional production lines.
This has caused the cost of the gravity-free standard production line to rise accordingly
The federal government has prevented the fiscal deficit from continuing to increase and has slightly boosted domestic demand. Good!
The president and senior government officials have also received more ‘support’ from the military-industrial complex, wonderful!
Major shipyards, equipment manufacturing plants, heavy industry, and mining companies have received more orders, good!
The autonomous governments of various galaxies have removed the ‘dog leash’ and improved their military strength, Cai!
There is a bright future for all.
Amid the undercurrents of various forces, the time came to the end of June, 589th year of the New Calendar.
As the ‘window period’ predicted by Amber comes to an end, Atlas Group has gradually digested what it has gained from previous ‘big moves’.
After being reorganized into Atlas Industrial, 30% of the employees of the original Mary Bay Industrial were optimized under the operation of the "former professional managers" in the financial business department.
To be honest, as a former migrant worker, Amber is actually a little disgusted with the behavior of ‘optimization’.
But when he saw that among the 30% of employees who had been optimized, there were only some people who were more "backbone" and were unwilling to work under Atlas.
The rest are all people who entered Mary Bay Industrial's "retirement" through nepotism.
There are even jobs in some departments that have nothing to do with the company's business, but nearly a hundred people are still crammed into them, and they are still paid not low wages.
After clarifying these situations, Amber, who considers herself to be 'well-informed', had to say "unbelievable".
After completing the optimization of the personnel structure, Atlas Industrial not only maintains contact with original customers, completes legacy orders, and restores the flow of funds.
A part of the production capacity was also allocated and began to provide related equipment to Atlas's combat troops.
Oens, the former director of the third department of R&D, staged an annual drama called "The Return of the Dragon King" and became the deputy director of the entire equipment manufacturing R&D center.
Working closely with Eugene, who is the director of research and development, he completed the final shape of the ‘Crocodile A1’ combat exoskeleton and put it into mass production.
As a former large-scale equipment manufacturer, Mary Bay Industrial still has a strong foundation.
The equipment production efficiency is unmatched by the previous small workshop production model of Trident Studio.
Not long after the ‘Crazy Crocodile A1’ was put into production, the situation of ‘equipment waiting for people’ appeared.
The way Oens and Eugene dealt with it was also very simple. They transformed part of the 'Crocodile' into 'Crocodile A1ver.Human' that was suitable for human body size and operating habits.
Then let Atlas's human marines complete the change of clothes.
Other excess production capacity was also reduced based on the ‘Crazy Crocodile A1ver.Human’, and then put on the market, and soon received a large number of orders.
On the other hand, Atlas Mining also completed the merger of Timler Mining.
Amber only received all the equipment and the 'enslaved' miners, and none of the company executives.
After all, in Atlas Mining, there is no place for these people who live in a dead position.
The substantial improvement in the size of the mining team not only improved the efficiency of mining, but also accelerated the construction of the asteroid base.
In Amber's plan, the industries that are currently deployed on industrial satellites in the federal territory will eventually find a way to get here.
This is just like playing an RTS game. The production buildings used to explode troops must be well protected. Except for a wave of scandalous operations such as "field camps" and "Taishan pressure", no one will build their own production capacity buildings at each other's homes
In Atlas industry and mining, the industry and mining industry are getting higher and higher With the support of 80 million imperial gold dragon compensation from the Timler family.
The armed forces under Atlas Private Military Company have also completed integration and upgrades within the past two months.
As for the fleet, under Amber’s instructions, all the ‘old and dilapidated’ ships from the fleets of Mary Bay Industries and Yaoguang Defense that were taken over were sold.
These ships will be cannon fodder in future more intense battles and will have no use value.
In order to complete the transaction as soon as possible, many ships were sold at a discount.
Immediately afterwards, Atlas Fleet took 80% of the cash on the company's books and began to buy and buy.
And only buy active ships that have not been retired for a long time and have relatively advanced models.
The entire fleet soon expanded the total number of ships to 43.
Among them are 9 light cruisers, 15 destroyers and 18 frigates.
There is also a large transport ship equipped with an aerospace transport aircraft, responsible for the delivery of personnel, vehicles, and equipment.
This is also the maximum number of fleets that Atlas can currently maintain in operation.
As for the ground forces, according to Baninger's report, the training of the latest batch of Roma should be completed before July.
By then, the Roma Marine Corps will reach the size of two infantry battalions, about 1,800 people.
Each battalion has a basic establishment of 900 people and a battalion-level headquarters of about 120 people. It has three infantry companies, a weapons support company (mortars and other supporting firepower) and a medical team.
By the way, after the number of fleets and marines increased, Atlas also activated the military rank system to facilitate the command of troops at all levels in the future.
In addition to these Roma people as the main force, there is also a 'teaching team' composed of humans.
Its members are mainly those who survived the mobile infantry. Counting those who returned from injury, there are more than 50 people in total.
In addition to these mobile infantry, some elite combat personnel who originally belonged to Yaoguang Defense were also incorporated into this 'teaching team' after passing qualification review.
So the entire teaching team currently has more than 200 people.
After being divided into two companies, A and B, he was attached to the battalion-level headquarters of the Roma Marine Corps as an 'instructor', 'military instructor' and a 'special operations team'.
Because at present, the quantity and quality of ground vehicles are not perfect enough.
So Amber did not form a synthetic force like the Federation or the Empire.
Instead, Yaoguang Defense’s original batch of light multi-legged combat vehicles, wheeled combat vehicles, armored infantry fighting vehicles and a small number of main battle tanks were integrated into two Among the infantry battalions, they were turned into 'reinforced battalions'.
As for the HCP units, the number has also increased from the previous two unsatisfied squadrons to 10 attack squadrons in one fell swoop.
This is after eliminating a group of old and outdated HCPs, otherwise the number would be even greater.
Although the number of 10 squadrons and more than 100 HCPs seems to be a lot.
But in fact, as consumables in war.
These HCPs cannot even fill up all the battleships with the HCP squadrons they should be assigned to.
Not to mention being incorporated into the ground forces
But as the old saying goes, the meal must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be walked step by step.
Amber didn't want to become a fat man in one bite.
The construction of armed forces is inherently a long and complicated process.
Being able to raise his armed forces to the current level before the end of the window period in a "white wolf with empty gloves" method, to be honest, has exceeded Amber's original target.
In addition to the above-mentioned combat units, there were finally some who were willing to stay, about 1,500 former Yaoguang defense combat personnel, who were temporarily used as a reserve team after being disrupted and regrouped.
These people are currently training with the Roma in the Tower of Babel training center that has been expanded, and are waiting for weapons and equipment to be in place.
As for the loyalty of these people, Lilith has already conducted a round of screening and eliminated some people with ulterior motives.
The most important thing is Atlas’s employee treatment and employee care policies.
Among the private military companies in this world, it is unprecedented, if not unprecedented.
Salary and benefits that are much higher than the market average, including but not limited to generous combat allowances, comprehensive medical insurance, post-retirement life security and family care, etc.
In addition, there is also a complete military rank promotion system and corresponding salary increase mechanism.
At the same time, it also took the lead in launching ‘skills training and career planning’ guidance that other private military companies and PMCs have not implemented.
Provide advanced military training and skills training for all front-line combatants.
While maintaining their combat effectiveness, they can also continue to improve their personal skills and subtly enhance their self-worth.
And Amber also set up a special department under the Human Resources Center.
Provide further career path development plans for those combat personnel who perform well, such as promotion to officers or technical experts.
I won’t mention basic things like fair and transparent management, incentives and honor systems.
In short, under this set of 'combination punches', the remaining combatants were all glad that their original decision was correct.
Although these complex and sophisticated management systems may not work perfectly in other companies.
But in Atlas with the assistance of Lilith, this system is no longer an illusory 'sky garden'.
This increasingly powerful artificial intelligence is also Amber’s biggest source of confidence.
Especially in the server array of the asteroid base, after completing the second iteration, Lilith has been able to monitor everyone in real time through all the Internet terminals in Atlas.
This secret surveillance plan, which only Amber knew as an 'insurance program', was eventually named 'Prism' by him.
Although this behavior of monitoring everyone's privacy still makes Amber feel a little awkward.
But he had to do this when he couldn't guarantee everyone's loyalty.
When time enters July of 589th year of the New Calendar.
Amber relied on her memory of the plot of the game and deployed a destroyer as an 'observation post' in the deep space of the Vendée galaxy on the border of the Star Dragon Empire.
If my memory is correct, the development of the situation within the Star Dragon Empire has not changed much.
On this colonial planet in the border system, a violent conflict will occur that will kick off the split of the Star Dragon Empire.
In another world, plot parties call it 'Bloody Tuesday'.
(End of this chapter)