A fleet of 200 spaceships is being assembled. These spaceships are all uniformly painted in blue and white, and are spray-painted with a gear-like logo - this is the logo of the Galactic Republic Navy.
However, even with the symbol of the Galactic Republic Navy, this fleet is still extremely shabby compared to the Republic Justice Fleet, which although in decline, still has many thousand-meter-level cruisers and heavy cruisers.
The core of the fleet is a Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser. This kind of warship is 600 meters long and is the core ship type of the Judiciary Fleet. However, the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser can clearly see the oldness of the hull. It is obviously from the main fleet.
Among the models that have been eliminated.
In addition, there are 20 Consul-class cruisers and 60 CSS-1 Republic-class shuttles. The former is 115 meters long and the latter is 80 meters long. If you look at it from this perspective, there are 80 spacecraft of about 100 meters.
It should be enough to defeat the motley crew of corporate alliances, most of which are small spaceships with a length of 3.50 meters.
However, both the Consul-class cruiser and the CSS-1 Republic-class shuttle are actually passenger spacecraft, used by officials of the Republic at all levels to handle official and diplomatic affairs throughout the galaxy.
In an era when the Galactic Republic's military expenditures are shrinking day by day, and even the Judiciary Fleet is finding it difficult to replace battleships, not to mention these local defense fleets, it would be nice to have a few usable ones.
Therefore, many of the huge number of CSS-1 and Consul-class cruisers have undergone simple modifications, adding weapon pods, and have more or less combat capabilities. But they are still essentially passenger spacecraft. How much combat effectiveness are expected from these spacecrafts?
It's no use.
In addition, there are as many as 120 PB-950 patrol boats in the fleet. This 37-meter-long small patrol boat was already a product of Corellian Engineering Company 300 years ago. Because it is cheap and practical, it has been produced in large numbers.
With a huge number of tens of thousands, it is a common commodity that can be seen everywhere in the regional defense fleets of the Galactic Republic at all levels.
A shuttle flew into the fleet array and flew towards the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser Lord as the flagship. The cruiser hangar platform opened to welcome the shuttle.
A young general in his 30s, wearing a dark blue Republic Navy uniform and a mustache, stepped off the shuttle. He gave a military salute to the captain who came to greet him and said, "I am a military officer sent by the Republic."
The observer, Captain Wolf-Yularen, is here to assist you in this operation."
After Ruusan's reform, the Milky Way basically abandoned all military things, so at this time the ranks of the Galactic Republic's army were not high. As a naval captain, Wolf Yularen could already command a large-scale army.
It's not a big fleet. And he was directly appointed by Chancellor Finis Valorum, so others have nothing to say about this appointment.
"Hello, Captain Yularen." The captain also gave a military salute, "Now all the spaceships have been assembled, and these are the only ones we can find."
"Actually, the existence of a Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser is beyond my expectation. I believe that the pirates found by the Enterprise Alliance are not capable of fighting against this giant ship." Wolf-Yularen said very calmly.
Speaking of.
"Let's go to the bridge." The captain didn't say much and just led Yularen towards the command center of the bridge.
Walking out of the hangar, you can see that the spacecraft is crowded with people almost everywhere. Even if the air filter is operating at full capacity, the air is still filled with the smell of sweat and feet.
Wolf-Yularen frowned slightly, but he also understood the reason - this is an old model of the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser. Although this spacecraft is only 600 meters long, it has as many as 16,200 crew members.
!Almost every valve on this battleship is so small that it needs to be manually operated, which is extremely inefficient.
Therefore, the Galactic Republic Army later put forward improvement requirements to Rendili Interstellar Engineering Company, the manufacturer of the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser. Later, Rendili's engineers did come up with a modification plan, reducing the battleship's crew from 16,200 to
2,204 people, and the weapon system and energy system have also been replaced, greatly improving the combat effectiveness.
But I don’t know what happened later. The Republic’s Judicial Fleet originally wanted to order 300 new Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers, but only 100 were actually delivered. No one can tell what happened in the middle.
I think a certain official ate up the difference in price.
Since it is an old model of Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, its combat effectiveness needs to be recalculated. Wolf-Yularen began to calculate the comparison of the combat effectiveness of the two sides in this battle in his mind, simulating the combat process over and over again.
Coming to the bridge, Wolf-Yularen carefully counted the number of spaceships in the fleet, "20 Consul-class ships, 60 Republic-class ships, 100 PB-950s, and 1 Dreadnought-class ship... Where are the carrier-based aircraft?
?”
"Our Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser carries 12 Z-95 Headhunter fighter jets. This is all our carrier-based aircraft," the captain said.
Yularen nodded, "The Z-95 Headhunter fighter jet has excellent performance and is definitely enough to deal with those pirates and bounty hunters' spaceships. I have a battle plan..."
He began to arrange his own warships on the holographically projected star map while saying: "Because our main spacecraft, the Consul-class cruiser and the Republic-class shuttle are both modified transport ships, there is actually not much of a problem in terms of firepower, but the largest of these ships
The weakness is insufficient flexibility. So what we need is to keep a distance, rely on 12 Z-95 Headhunter fighter jets to protect the integrity of our battleship line, and then destroy the opponent with powerful frontal firepower!"
The captain nodded and said, "Okay, you are the commander of this battle, and I agree with your judgment."
Yularen added: "In addition, according to our intelligence, among the pirates and mercenaries hired by the Enterprise Alliance at a large price, there is a large number of Sikudian pirates. I have fought these pirates before, and the number of their spaceships
There are many, but the combat effectiveness is very weak, and most of them are modified ships. In fact, if the Sikudians were not extremely adaptable, these modified ships would be impossible to drive, and humans would have died on the ships long ago."
The captain said: "I understand what you mean. If the battle situation turns into a melee, then the situation will definitely be unfavorable to us. But we have a Dreadnought class and 80 large ships that are 100 meters long. We rely on our firepower advantage to defeat the rabble.
If we can't organize it at all, we have a sure chance of victory!"
"Yes. The Enterprise Alliance will also have spaceships to participate, but their largest spaceship should be the 200-meter-long fantail-class destroyer. This kind of warship has average performance, and the Enterprise Alliance does not dare to mass-produce it. The most important thing is that I
I don’t think a group of businessmen would go to war." Wulf-Yularen said confidently.
"Hahahaha! It seems that you are confident. In this case, I have nothing to worry about!"
"That's it. Hand over the battle plan to the captains of each ship and prepare to set off!" Captain Wolf-Yularen gave the order with great ambition.
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[Easter egg chapter attached picture 1: Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser.]