Planet Protector's current problem was that they had too many small spaceships. Most of these spaceships were seized from plundering operations. Most of them were light cargo spaceships around 100 meters long, and most of them had been privately modified. This kind of modification was not a good thing. After the modification, the spaceships' performance was improved, but there were too many different types of spaceships. This was a huge pressure on the logistics department.
But no matter what, now such a messy fleet guarding the planet was pulled up just like that. Tang Yu divided the fleet into three parts. The first part was the main fleet, mainly made up of the 10 main battleships gifted by the Independent Star Confederation as the core, and some other small and medium-sized battleships. This fleet was equipped with the cleanest spaceships, and they were all basically new spaceships. They were currently stationed on Planet Protector. However, after the war started, this fleet would most likely be called up by the Confederation.
The second part was Jian Connor's fleet. This fleet was now officially called the Privateer Fleet. The main force of this fleet was the Predator battleship and four frigates. However, this force would not be revealed easily. On the surface, the main force was Anthony's fleet. This Privateer Fleet was mainly stationed in the Hutt Dimension, and they fought against Black Sun with this as the center.
During this time, Black Sun had suffered a very serious blow. Now, be it the Hutts, the Republic, or the Independent Star Confederation, they were all attacking them everywhere. Black Sun's leader, Prince Xizor, had no choice but to withdraw his forces to avoid the limelight. However, he truly hated Jian Connor. He kept sending out fleets and assassins, but they were unable to shake Jian Connor's power in Nar Xada. After all, the Hutts were still on Planet Protector's side.
The third fleet was Zhou Qing's rogue fleet. Apart from one organization, this fleet basically had all sorts of things. Spaceships that were too modified to be used by the military were all thrown to this fleet. Zhou Qing was very generous. Those spaceships were all rented to his smugglers and bounty hunters. Relying on these lone wolves' smuggling and plundering operations, he opened up a criminal network.
This was the most Tang Yu could do for the construction of the space fleet. He also started to analyze and replicate the production line for the Space Combat Jet 95 that he got from Black Sun. Even though this was a relatively outdated Space Combat Jet, it was still the prototype of the ARC170. The latter would eventually evolve into the famous X-wing, so it had a promising future.
Even though the Trade Alliance's Vulture was a very good model of Space Combat Jet, there was no need for them to increase their debt. Tang Yu decided that before his Space Combat Jet II and Space Leapers were released, he would try his best to produce Space Combat Jet 95 and hand it over to Mechanical Lives to pilot. In any case, there were backups of the Mechanical Life's programs, and there were as many robot bodies as he wanted, so it was not a big deal to lose them.
This was where Tang Yu could strengthen the Universe Fleet. However, what puzzled Shao Liwen was that Tang Yu seemed to be very concerned about the two Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruisers that he had just bought. After the two cruisers were bought, he basically did not have any free time. He had been training the crew outside all day. Shao Liwen did not know why. Whether it was the Sky-class Cruiser, the Defiant Class Light Destroyer, or even the Valiant Class Frigate, they were all much stronger than the Dreadnaught-class. After all, the Dreadnaught-class was a warship of the previous generation. A 600-meter long one was classified as a cruiser, while the 825-meter Valiant Class was still a frigate.
And Tang Yu's other preparation plan was to completely arm the Guardian Planet. Considering that they might not be a match for the Republic in space in the upcoming war, Tang Yu also fully considered ground battles. The situation of the Guardian Planet was a little special. Almost all the population was concentrated in North America, and with the increase in population, it had begun to expand towards Central and South America. However, the weakness of the population being too concentrated and the fact that other places were almost uninhabited was very obvious.
This would be a very fatal weakness because if they were to lose in space, the Republic's landing troops would be able to land in the vast and empty wilderness of the African continent and Eurasian continent, and then calmly establish a forward base. Therefore, Tang Yu planned to set up more than 40000 small military bases in these places. These small military bases had relatively basic supply and defense capabilities, and could station 500 human soldiers or 2,000 robots. Once invaded, the troops stationed in the base could respond within two hours and arrive at the enemy's landing site, buying time for the main forces to deploy.
At the same time, Tang Yu also imported five anti-rail cannons from the Technical Alliance. One was deployed in the Sahara Desert, the Australian continent, the North American continent, the Pyrenees Mountains in southern Europe, and the Tibetan Plateau in Asia, and they were all heavily guarded. The super explosive beam fired by these anti-rail cannons reached a speed of 27 kilometers per second, and it could attack battleships in planetary orbit outside the atmosphere, preventing the enemy from landing comfortably. It could also prevent someone from launching an orbital bombardment in a hurry.
Normally, maintaining these 40000 small military bases was a very terrifying expense, but it did not matter now. This was because the war would definitely break out within two years. No matter how hard Tang Yu worked, it would be the most he could do if he pushed back the time by a few months. Once the war broke out, Tang Yu was almost certain that the Guardian Planet would be invaded. At that time, these bases would immediately play a role.
In other words, preparing for war with certainty that the war was about to break out and how it would break out was completely different from preparing for war without knowing anything about the future. Tang Yu, the Lanxiang Team, and the Guardian Planet finally had a slight upper hand in this regard.
At the same time, in order to support this huge military expenditure, Tang Yu also thought of ways to make money. Although the Independent Star System Confederacy gave the Guardian Planet a lot of help, including interest-free loans and even direct financial assistance, they still had to think of ways to make money themselves. In addition to the popular mechanized exoskeleton, as the entire Milky Way's market gradually became familiar with the Guardian Planet, their other products also gradually opened up.
Agricultural products such as tea, cigarettes, and coffee were very popular. In addition, their various medical products were almost unique. Before the invasion of the Yuuzhan Vong in the Star Wars world, biotechnology was not developed. In contrast, the Guardian Planet's biotechnology products developed based on the super high starting point of the C virus had achieved very good market results!
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