When Xiao Ran heard the notification in his mind, he immediately stood up from his desk. He picked up his coat from the hanger and walked out of the study. The young female secretary saw Xiao Ran walking out with a face full of excitement, so she quickly stood up and followed behind Xiao Ran.
"Tell Catherine to stop what she is doing and immediately go to space. Inform Moses and Billy to bring people and immediately depart to space. Ask the defense force headquarters if the warships and defense facilities I asked them to arrange are ready."
"Yes." The secretary nodded respectfully. While following Xiao Ran, she took out her phone and contacted Catherine, Billy, and the defense force headquarters. After notifying Catherine, Billy, and the defense force headquarters and getting a response, Xiao Ran walked out of the presidential palace and sat in the waiting car. When the secretary sat in the passenger seat, she turned around and spoke to Xiao Ran.
"Grand President, I have already informed Chief Assistant Glass, Billy, and Moses. They will immediately depart for the Universe Rendezvous. The Defense Unified Army has replied that they have prepared everything the Grand President needs, including fifteen warships and the corresponding fighter jet configuration, a number of automatic defense cannons, and a number of pinpoint defense system generators. The LAI personnel will cooperate with the installation. In addition, the construction of the portal defense will immediately begin. The new MACROSS class warship ordered by the new Unified Army headquarters is also in the midst of discussions."
Xiao Ran nodded. After pondering for a moment, he said, "In addition to obtaining new MACROSS battleships from Earth, the fleet must also start building their own MACROSS battleships and other battleships from now on. The government and LAI will jointly oversee the construction of new MACROSS battleships and other battleships. At the same time, we will recruit enough people and immigrants from both inside and outside the fleet. If there is a lack of technology, we can obtain it from the newly established Alliance.
"Currently, the ship group has about 12 million people. The first step is to temporarily recruit at least 1 million immigrants to fill the various industries of the ship group to expand the development of the ship group. LAI's factory is the most important. As for what kind of people are needed, the government and LAI will discuss together. But remember, I want talent. No matter what kind of talent they are, as long as they have a skill, they can become immigrants. Do you understand? "
The young and beautiful female secretary nodded with a serious face. She wrote down everything Xiao Ran said and prepared to organize a detailed document at the right time before distributing it. Originally, this work should have been done by Catherine. As the chief assistant, she had a series of work such as the president's secretary, deputy, and so on.
However, after Xiao Ran became the President, Catherine, the Chief Assistant, was given the same position as the Vice President. Although there was no vice president in the ship group, to a certain extent, Catherine had obtained some of Xiao Ran's rights. Of course, this was also arranged by Xiao Ran. This included contacting the other ship groups, presiding over the trade alliance, controlling the affairs of the entire ship group, and so on. This was why Xiao Ran had a personal secretary by his side to handle some necessary matters for Xiao Ran. This person was also recommended by Catherine, so Xiao Ran just made do with it.
At present, even if LAI's technical strength was extremely high, it was still lacking compared to the several veteran forces of the Earth's Unified Army. They simply didn't have the strength to independently build a new MACROSS class warship with the current scale of the ship group. Of course, it wasn't that LAI couldn't build it, but it would take a very long time and there would be many problems.
Especially under the premise that Xiao Ran restricted them from destroying the planet's environment, LAI couldn't develop the planet's resources, so they could only send mining teams to other places in the universe to develop resources. The number of people was a very big problem. The current 12 million people in the ship group represented a complete society, and all kinds of industries were complete and balanced. It was simply impossible to allocate hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of them to the mining teams and warship construction workers. So to solve the problem of building a new MACROSS class warship, the first thing was to let more people migrate to the ship group.
It was extremely important for Xiao Ran that the ship group could obtain the ability to build their own warships. This was related to the speed of development of the Burning Legion in Prometheus. But as for the migration of people from the Federation to this side, it wasn't something that could be done immediately. At the very least, it had to wait until Xiao Ran had completely taken control of the situation on that side before he could think about it.
At present, if Xiao Ran wanted to get a new MACROSS class warship, no matter if it was new or old, he had to obtain it from the Earth's Unified Army. Although there had been some disagreements with the Earth's Unified Army due to the issue of habitable planets and bugs, these disagreements had been erased after Cruzet followed General George, who had become the new president of the Unified Army, to the stage. Others didn't know, but Xiao Ran knew what kind of fear President George had for Cruzet.
It wasn't just President George. Many people on Earth had a lot of dealings with Cruzet, and they were deeply impressed by how Cruzet had pushed George to the position of president. In a way, President George was the face and supporter of the 25 ship group in the new Unified Army, so it wasn't too difficult for Xiao Ran to get a new MACROSS class warship.
When Xiao Ran arrived in space, he saw through the bridge that the two giant steel arms of the fully constructed and huge mechanical teleportation gate had been unfolded. Through an energy activation method that couldn't be seen with the naked eye, a huge teleportation gate was created in space. As long as the materials, personnel, and 15 warships heading to the Primitive Federation were ready, they could go to the Primitive Federation world through this teleportation gate at any time.
While waiting for the fleet to assemble, Xiao Ran sat quietly in the bridge of his ship and pondered carefully. He finally understood what the large corps spent the large amount of war achievement points on in addition to the normal consumption, such as purchasing materials, airframes, warships, weapons, and ammunition in Prometheus.
Time, more time spent in the faction territory. Xiao Ran had tried to buy the cost of time spent in the faction territory. It cost 300 war achievement points per person per day, and this was the discounted price for the members of the corps. If it was an honorary member, or a guest, the price would be even higher.
Although it wasn't expensive per day, 10 days would cost 3,000 war achievement points, 100 days would cost 30,000 war achievement points, and a year would cost more than 100,000 war achievement points, and this was only for one person. If it were a group of 10 people, the cost would be more than a million war achievement points. What could 10 people do in this vast world? It should be known that defeating any enemy in this world would not give you war achievement points as a reward. Only by doing missions could you obtain war achievement points.
However, even if it was a mission with a reward of 10,000 war merit points per person, it was not something that could be easily completed in a day or two. If one was lucky, completing it in ten days would be considered fast. If one was unlucky, it would take several days just to travel. In addition to the risks involved in carrying out the mission, completing the mission within 20 days was not something that could be earned.
In other words, it was possible to earn back the cost within a year in this world, but it would take a lot of effort.
For a corps, it was absolutely impossible for only 10 people to stay in the faction territory to develop. At least five times the number would be required. Even if they only stayed in the faction territory for a year, the cost would be more than 5 million war achievement points, and this was a necessary cost every world cycle. However, the key was that a corps might earn 10 million war achievement points in a single mission cycle. Investing half of the war achievement points to purchase the time spent in the faction territory and using the rest for other expenses would inevitably lead to huge financial pressure on the corps. More importantly, even if they could earn some war achievement points by completing missions during the time spent in the faction territory, it was impossible for a large corps to earn 10 million war achievement points per mission cycle.
It was no wonder that Lao Luo unintentionally mentioned the need to select a buyer when selling the warship. But fortunately, it was completely worth it to spend the war achievement points to purchase the time spent in the faction territory. After all, every world had its own special products that could be brought back to the Prometheus to sell. Although the Prometheus would charge a portion of the price as a conversion fee, it was still worth it.
At this thought, Xiao Ran shook his head helplessly. Now, he felt that the pressure on his war achievement points was getting greater and greater. Besides, he had reached the point where he needed to purchase the time spent in the faction territory to develop the two worlds simultaneously. Otherwise, he would have to go to several mission worlds to build a new MANF-class warship after only two months in the faction territory.
And now, he needed to stay not only for the new MANF-class warship, but also for the integration of the Primitive Federation and the connection between the two worlds. But more importantly, he didn't know when Sherry Dew would return, so the cost of purchasing the war achievement points this time was unavoidable.
And this purchase wasn't just for Xiao Ran alone, but also for the entire 13-man party. He, Cruzet, and Law had to stay behind. El Erf and Dugus would also be of great use in the Primitive Federation. Moses, Billy, Mary, Ryukino, Bobby, Bassac, and Nalor couldn't be left behind in the faction territory. Although it might only be a moment for them, it wouldn't be good for the development of the party if they were treated differently. If they wanted to stay behind, they would stay together. If they didn't, they wouldn't stay behind.
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