At the Jolly Roger headquarters, several brand new starships are docked at the starport, and a team of sailors are filing into the starships, waiting to receive them.
At the highest point of the starport, Hathaway stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at these new starships. The data about them had long been memorized in her mind. One heavy cruiser, three light cruisers and two destroyers, this is the recent history of the Jolly Roger.
All the supplements obtained. For the Jolly Roger, which is almost completely burned out, the current strength recovery is less than 30%.
Hathaway opened the communication and said, "Send me the latest personnel data."
"Please wait... There are currently 531,782 official members of the Jolly Roger Corps, of which 278,766 are active combatants. The rest have returned on their own after the last battle and have been transferred to reserves according to regulations. They can choose to retire. In addition, there are 173,321 sick and wounded, who need to be retired.
Supported 421,119 people.”
Those who need pensions are those who died in the last battle. Although most of the pensions are paid by the federal government, the Jolly Roger will also pay a corresponding part. The wounded are also divided into two categories, one is minor injuries that can be recovered quickly
, these people will return to the team after recovering from their injuries, and the other type is those who are seriously injured, but can fully recover. These people are the wounded and sick in this statistics. In addition, the Jolly Roger also stipulates that in tragic battles like the Third Theater Battle,
Those who survive the battle will be transferred to the reserves and receive psychological treatment. They are also eligible to apply for retirement.
Adding these cold numbers together, it actually means that last time the Jolly Roger deployed 80% of its entire military strength, more than half of them died in battle, and half of the survivors have not yet recovered.
This was the most brutal battle since the establishment of the Jolly Roger. Almost all of them were burned out. Those who stayed behind were actually logistics and support personnel, the kind who would not go to the battlefield. So now even if the Jolly Roger starship is given,
There are currently not enough crew members to sail it.
The Federation is now in turmoil. Recruitment orders have been sent out all over the Federation, but there are no pirate flags. The higher authorities also know that the Jolly Roger needs to be rebuilt. Such a meritorious corps must retain its seeds and cannot be recruited anymore. The federation can still provide so many starships to the pirates.
Rebuilding the flag has reached its limit.
At this time, Hathaway's communication channel flashed, and a middle-aged man with a beard appeared in front of him. He was wearing a major general epaulette, and he was very imposing.
"Legion Commander, are you looking for me?"
"What do you think about the conscription order?"
This bearded man is the deputy captain of the Jolly Roger and the captain of the flagship. Hathaway fought with Hathaway in the last battle and managed to escape through good luck. When asked by Hathaway, he said
: "Those brats are all very impulsive, and few of them are willing to retire. They are all clamoring to go back to the battlefield! Humph, I don't know how high the sky is, it seems like I can die a second time!"
The bearded man looked disapproving and continued: "Young people are ignorant and don't know the cruelty of war. But we old guys are different. Anyway, we have lived enough, and we have seen everything we need to eat and play.
We were not given a recruitment order this time, but how could our Winton family be absent from such a big event? The Presbyterian Church has organized a fleet, and I was just about to tell you about the newly arrived starships.
Give me a boat and I'll take my brothers to join in the fun."
"No." Hathaway refused immediately.
The bearded man was startled, smiled bitterly, and said: "As for my family, my two sons are in the fleet of the Presbyterian Church. I want to follow them and have a look. Even if they both die on the battlefield, I will be the father.
to accompany them."
Hathaway looked at the starship below and said: "Since the new ship has arrived, I will take you with me! We will count the people who are willing to go to the St. Paul Star Group in a while, and we will set off in two days!"
This time it was the bearded man's turn to be shocked and said in a voiceless voice: "This can't work! You are still young, and the entire Wenton family will depend on you in the future. Old guys like us are enough to risk death!"
"I am also a general of the Federation, and I also have the blood of the Winton family. Our family has never had the tradition of shrinking from a war." After that, Hathaway raised her hand to stop the bearded man's persuasion and said: "
That’s it! I also have the authority to issue recruitment orders and so on, so we can issue them ourselves!”
The bearded man refused to give up and tried to persuade him for a long time. Finally, he had no choice but to cut off the communication and prepare for the expedition.
When the image of the bearded man disappeared, Hathaway sighed softly and returned to his desk to prepare for business. At this time, the private communication channel flashed and the image of Sino appeared.
Xino has been making a lot of noise recently, and his status in the Louis family has been rising steadily. He is now among the top three heirs, and his status is equivalent to Hathaway. But Hathaway knows very well about him and Chu Jun.
Xino was also in a lot of trouble due to his unclear relationship with Guangnian during this period. There were many voices within the family wanting to remove him and replace him with someone to take charge of the family fleet. However, now everyone in the Louis family fleet
They are the direct descendants of Xino, and many of them are from Star Thieves. No one except Xino is convinced. After the two people sent by the Presbyterian Church died in mysterious circumstances, no one is willing to cause this trouble.
To be honest, Hathaway didn't want to see Xino at this time, nor did she want to see anyone related to Chu Jungui. However, Xino seemed to be very persistent, calling continuously, with the momentum of fighting to the end if you don't answer.
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Hathaway had no choice but to pick up the call and asked angrily: "What's the matter? It's all right. I hung up!"
Xino looked helpless and said: "Sister! Don't take it out on me if you are in a bad mood! My life is not much better."
"It's not my business?"
Xino sighed and said, "I really have something to do with you this time. It's about the federal recruitment order. You...must be going, right?"
"certainly."
Xino sighed again, with a look of helplessness on his face: "You can go, but I can't. After all, I have too much involvement there. Now the Presbyterian Church has locked me up, and I can't go even if I want to. But I am in the family
The fleet still has certain rights, so I plan to hand over the original starships and the soldiers belonging to the Louis family to you. The rest are the star thieves I recruited, and they use light-year starships."
"What are you..."
Xino said sadly: "After all, Jun Gui is on the side of the dynasty. Many starships and even personnel in my fleet were directly given to me by him. It is not convenient for this part of the fleet to go to the St. Paul star cluster, but the part of the Louis family originally went
There is no problem. Your Jolly Roger is not strong enough right now, so you can be safer if you bring more people with you."
"Then what are your plans?"
Xino smiled bitterly: "I won't contact you there for now. Let's wait until the war is over."