In the star system Horton, Lin Fan frowned a little in the army commander's office.
Since the Human Federation and the Io Federation reached a warship OEM agreement three months ago, the Io Federation has been working hard to start production.
According to feedback from the Io Federation, these warships can be completed in two years, not even three years.
The task that took twenty years to complete can now be completed in two years. Lin Fan should be happy, but in fact he is extremely troubled now.
The First Legion now has five fleets. The commanders from the First Fleet (Guard Fleet) to the Fifth Fleet are Lin Fan (part-time), Chris Rhodes, Emma Campbell, Li Cangqiong and Sophia Duncan.
However, in the next two years, the remaining seven fleets in the legion will be gradually established. This is a gratifying thing.
But how to deal with the commanders of these seven fleets?
If the original speed of ship building and new fleet establishment was maintained, Lin Fan would not need to worry. He would have plenty of time to slowly discover potential commanders.
But now, this time has been compressed to 2 years, which gives Lin Fan a headache.
If you just rank according to seniority, in the Starfleet headquarters, there are a lot of generals at the level of commodore and above. Not to mention 7 fleets, even 70 fleets can arrange all the commanders for you.
But the problem is, it is impossible for Lin Fan to do this. The bloody example of Quinn is still in front of him. Except for a few few generals in the Starfleet headquarters, Lin Fan really has no good impression at all.
All of them are eloquent, but when it comes to commanding fleets on the battlefield, many of them are not even as effective as some of the command trainees at the Interstellar Military Academy.
To put it bluntly, 80% of the generals in Starfleet Headquarters are cancers left over from the early days of the Federation.
These cancerous men can just play with the battleships replaced by the two major legions and build a star system guard fleet. They must not be allowed to harm the main fleet on the front line.
After thinking for a long time, the only way I could think of was to use the acting commander system and continue to promote people with insufficient military rank to the post, even if they were lieutenant colonels or even majors.
In this case, a few school-level officers who are currently studying at Xingchen Military Academy that I am optimistic about may be able to alleviate this problem.
However, although Lin Fan didn't mind the issue of military rank, he still had to find a way to silence everyone, otherwise there would be some trouble.
After all, it is unprecedented for you to let a few people who are only majors and lieutenant colonels take up the post of fleet commander. Even if you borrow the temporary system of two-level appointment, it will definitely not be their turn.
To this end, Lin Fan is planning to conduct a direct selection of fleet commanders. As long as you are a school-level officer, you can participate. In the end, the strongest seven will be selected to take up the post of acting commanders of the new seven fleets. However, this is not the case for everyone.
I understand, I am an agent in name only.
At the same time, in order to silence the generals in the Star Fleet headquarters, Lin Fan even allowed them to participate in the selection. As long as one of them can win in the end, he can also be appointed as the fleet commander.
On the one hand, it can shut them up, but on the other hand, what if there are really 1 or 2 buried talents in Starfleet headquarters? After all, Sophia was the first to serve in the headquarters, wasn't she?
After listening to Lin Fan's words, Sanders was stunned for a moment, and then sighed with emotion.
At this moment, he made some kind of determination, everything was for the future of the Federation!