The only thing that enforces the federation's subordinate civilization system is...
Battleships participating in the Federation's foreign operations must adopt joint battleships.
The reason given by the Federation for this is also very simple. Compared with each civilization using its own battleships with large differences in firepower, defense, speed, or other aspects...
Obviously, it is more appropriate to use unified battleships.
This reason is impeccable.
Of course, the Federation will also tell all affiliated civilizations that this move is not to restrict the development of military technology of each civilization.
After all, you can still build your own battleships if you want, and the Federation won't stop it, right?
But here, the Federation has actually dug a deep hole.
Other civilizations can indeed build their own battleships, but what is the use of doing so?
Could it be used to attack the Federation, or other civilizations that are also affiliated with the Federation?
Isn't this seeking death?
What about using it to civilize foreign countries?
Don't be kidding, foreign wars are led by the Federation, and if affiliated civilizations want to participate in the war and gain benefits.
You must use the combined battleships stipulated by the federation to join the mercenary fleet of the affiliated civilization.
So, build your own warship...
Although the Federation will not stop it, there is nothing you can use it for.
Therefore, since the combined battleships entered service, civilizations have basically not built many battleships.
But now we have encountered a problem, that is the newly joined Roland Empire.
You ask him to use resources dozens or hundreds of times the cost of an imperial battleship to exchange for a combined battleship?
In this case, the Union I type is definitely inappropriate. After all, the Empire's main battleship is stronger than the Union I type.
As for the United Type II, although it is stronger than the Imperial battleship, this is only based on the fact that the Empire has just promoted to the fifth level and many technologies are not yet mature.
In twenty or thirty years, the warships built by the empire will be no worse than the Union Type II.
Then, here comes the problem...
Other affiliated civilizations are willing to exchange for imperial battleships because the United Battleships use a lot of fifth-level civilization technology, which they cannot build themselves.
And this situation is obviously inappropriate for the Luo Lan Empire.
People will soon be able to build warships comparable to the Joint Type II, so why do they have to spend dozens of times the price to purchase the Joint Type II?
Although, the federation's affiliated civilization system is still an exploitative system in essence, but on the surface, it still needs to maintain some dignity, isn't it?
In a situation like the Luo Lan Empire, if they were asked to purchase joint battleships, it would be an obvious robbery.
Nothing looks good anyway.
Therefore, after some high-level discussions, the plan to accelerate the Joint III battleship was discussed.
According to federal planning, the combat capabilities of the Joint Type III will be between those of the Pangu Type I and Pangu Type II.
According to the original timetable, this type of warship would not enter service until around the year 130 of the New Federation.
After all, the Federation itself has just been promoted to the sixth-level civilization, and has not yet mastered the basics of a large number of sixth-level civilizations. Most of the warships in the federal fleet have not had time to change their equipment and are still using the Pangu II type.
In this case, if the affiliated civilization is directly allowed to exchange for United Type III battleships, wouldn't it directly smooth the technological gap in battleships between the federation and the affiliated civilization?
Although it is still not as powerful as the Federation battleship, in any case, it is completely on the same generation.
Therefore, many senior officials are opposed to this.
It is true that all key devices on the Joint Battleship have backdoors.
But no one dares to say that this backdoor will never be cracked.
Therefore, the battleships used by affiliated civilizations will always be at least one generation different from the federal fleet. This is the consensus of most high-level officials.
Therefore, regarding the United Type III battleship, whether the project should be started in advance and the affiliated civilizations should be redeemed in advance.
There has always been some controversy at a high level.
Finally, Jiang Zhuliu, as a senior advisor to the Presidential Office, put forward a plan that finally made most people agree on the idea.
The third generation of joint warships, also known as the Joint III, entered service ahead of schedule.
However, due to limited production at the beginning, it was only supplied to the Luo Lan Empire, which was a fifth-level civilization, and the Interstellar Channel Management Department within the Federation.
Subsequently, the production of all first-generation combined battleships was stopped. From now on, the Federation will only produce second- and third-generation combined battleships.
These idle production lines will be used to fully start the production of the third-generation Pangu-class warships and complete the replacement of the pioneering fleet as quickly as possible.
Anyway, space reconstruction technology is used to produce warships. It does not require many adjustments and can be directly used in the production of the third-generation Pangu-class warships.
Finally, after the pioneering fleet was refitted, the Pangu II battleships that were replaced were handed over to the two constellation-level fleets.
In this way, risks will be minimized.
Even if something goes wrong with the third-generation combined battleship delivered to the Luo Lan Empire, it is impossible to threaten the Federation with just those numbers.
And when the third-generation Pangu-class battleships are fully commissioned, and even a large number of sixth-level civilization technologies are applied, the fourth-generation Pangu-class battleships currently under preliminary design will be put into service in small quantities.
Then fully open the exchange of third-generation combined battleships to all affiliated civilizations.
That’s it.
Everyone is right when they think about it...
The first two generations of combined battleships were just not suitable for the Luo Lan Empire.
So, just solve this problem.
There is no need to provide third-generation combined battleships to all affiliated civilizations in advance just because of the Roland Empire.
In other words, in addition to providing a small amount of supplies to the Luo Lan Empire in the early stage, the third generation of joint battleships will still follow the schedule. It will not be until around 130 years of the New Federation Calendar that all affiliated civilizations will be fully supplied.
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Oto'o galaxy group.
Luo Lan Empire, Imperial Capital Star.
At this moment, looking at the federal-affiliated civilization agreement brought back by the emperor, the military minister frowned deeply.
"Your Majesty, this is inappropriate!
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"Is there any problem? I studied every clause of the agreement before signing it. There should be no problem!"
Emperor Okate looked at the military minister and asked doubtfully.
"Your Majesty, the problem is huge, too big!"
"You see, it is clearly written here that in all foreign wars of the Federation, affiliated civilizations will be recruited to form affiliated civilization fleets. After the war, the benefits will be distributed according to the military merits of each affiliated civilization."
"Only civilizations that use United series battleships can participate in affiliated civilization mercenary fleets."
Hearing this, Okate nodded.
He knew this part, and he specifically asked about it at that time.
"I know this, because the warships, firepower, defense, speed, etc. of each civilization are very different. If it were not stipulated in this way, the affiliated civilization's mercenary fleet would probably have tens of thousands or even
Hundreds of thousands of different warships.”
"This will make command very difficult. As the Minister of Military Affairs, you should know that, right?"
Yes, the Minister of War knows.
How could he not know how difficult this situation would be?
Not to mention that it is difficult to command, in a large group battle, even the combat power will be greatly limited, and it would be great to be able to use half of it in the end.
"Your Majesty, of course I know, but the problem is not here, but..."
"Look here, regarding the two current warships in the United series, according to our calculations, the resources required to exchange for a first-generation United warship are enough for the empire to build 57 main warships, and if you exchange for the second generation...
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Hearing this, Okate's eyes suddenly widened.
He realized what the problem was.
It is obviously weaker than the Empire's main battleship, but it requires the Empire to spend resources that can build 57 main battleships to exchange it.
As for the second-generation combined battleships, although they are stronger than the Empire's main battleships, they are only so powerful that the Empire's technology will definitely catch up in twenty to thirty years at most.
And exchanging one would consume 92 times the resources required for one of the empire's main battleships.
Then isn’t the empire a success?
And just then.
A group of intelligence ministers who were playing with the federal-affiliated civilization terminal suddenly spoke.
"Your Majesty, the Federation just sent a message through the terminal..."