Chapter 187 Ares

There is not much difference in the business model between the second-hand ship trading market of the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire.

The larger the market is and the more powerful the financial backers are, the more good ships can be found.

And the Federation, like the Empire, has opened up light cruiser and lower-level military ships for private enterprises to purchase.

The biggest difference between the two is the models of military-grade ships in the market.

The Empire market is basically retired ships of the Royal Navy, while the warships in the Federation market are basically from the Federation Navy.

Although in the early years, when the relationship between the two countries was good, the second-hand ship trading market of both sides occasionally appeared in the ships of the other side for purchase.

However, the number of transactions of such cross-border military ships will not be large, and in the current environment, those who bought the ships of the other camp dare not drive them out to wander around.

Amber opened the star map and looked at the current updated battle line situation.

The word battle line is not very rigorous. After all, the star map is not a two-dimensional plane. It’s just that this name has been used by various countries from ground combat, and there is no other special term to refer to it.

There are eight star systems that are directly "bordering" the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire, and five of them have already been at war.

The remaining three star systems have not been affected by the war for the time being due to their location.

Amber checked the recent shipping information and found that there were still many civilian ships running on the regular passenger and cargo shipping routes of these three star systems.

Although the garrison fleet of the star system has strengthened its defenses and increased the inspection of ships approaching various planets and spaceports, at least the shipping routes have not stopped.

So Amber finally picked the largest second-hand ship trading market in these three star systems.

Clicking on the trading platform of the market, it can be seen that due to the war, the price of ships has increased by nearly 40% compared with before.

Although the ships of the Federation have always been much cheaper than those of the Empire, and the purchasing power of the Federation credit points is also higher than that of the Imperial Gold Dragon.

But with this price increase, the price is also painful.

The price of conventional destroyers basically fluctuates around 10 million credit points. If converted into Imperial Gold Dragons, it is not much cheaper than the price Amber paid for the Dragoon class at that time.

"These profiteers will be hung on the streetlights sooner or later."

Amber browsed the trading platform unhappily, and suddenly saw a newly listed 'Stork-class' command ship.

This kind of professional command ship, which is derived from the Raven-class destroyer, usually exists as the command ship of the escort detachment in the fleet.

And the fleet of the Atlas private military company must have been dominated by destroyers and frigates in the early stage.

The existence of such a command ship is still very helpful for the coordination of fleet navigation and combat.

"The price is not much more expensive than the Raven-class. Is the merchant who placed the order doing charity?"

Amber clicked on the details page of this command ship and found that it was a 'new ship' that had just been retired for almost half a year. For some reason, it escaped the recall and restart of the retired ships of the Federal Navy.

Until Amber continued to scroll down, he finally understood why the price of this thing was similar to that of the ordinary Raven-class.

"Sure enough, they are still profiteers. The command module has been completely removed, but they still put the title of command ship on it."

Amber curled her lips, expressing deep disdain for the behavior of the merchant who placed the order.

Although she was somewhat tempted by this command ship, Amber finally gave up the idea of ​​being a sucker.

The fleet command ship/flagship can be considered to be directly served by a light cruiser with more complete functional integration in the future, and now she will not consider spending this money in vain.

So Amber finally ordered a conventional Petrel-class.

And he even thought of the name of the ship.

Ares, the god of war in ancient Greece.

Although the Federal Navy is now mass-equipping more advanced and more functional Jackdaw-class advanced destroyers, many old models of Raven-class and Petrel-class in the fleet are constantly being retired.

However, compared with the Raven-class, which has more firepower channels and stronger attack capabilities, the Petrel-class, which can do all the dirty work and is a versatile player in the fleet, is obviously more in line with Atlas' needs at this stage.

The Hermes's main body, the Dragoon class, is the one with the strongest firepower strike capability among the current human military destroyers.

For Atlas, it would be more cost-effective to add another ship with stronger functionality.

Buying a ship is not like buying vegetables. Affected by factors such as the distance of information transmission, it may take about a month for the trading market to confirm Amber's ship purchase needs and review the ship purchase qualifications and then send a reply.

So after Amber placed the order and paid the deposit, he still had more than a month of free time.

During this period, whether it was him, Lilith, or other people under Atlas, their work was full.

Amber himself and Baninger and others took the time to continue training the first and second batches of Roma candidates.

The psychic's intuition that could not be explained by science told him that it was very likely that these Roma would be needed to go out on field duty in the near future, so the training rhythm must be accelerated.

On the other hand, Isabel was not idle either.

In addition to her most important job - sticking with Amber, this former female spy from the Imperial Navy Intelligence Department has returned to her old job of collecting intelligence.

The main direction of intelligence collection is the movements of several major political forces in the Star Dragon Empire.

With the help of the Irons family and Jacques Cole, the work progressed smoothly.

Then came the Hermes in the asteroid belt and the miners at the base of operations.

The latter's work did not change much, anyway, they just mined on the asteroids.

Stimulated by the welfare of Atlas Mining, these miners burst out with enthusiasm far exceeding their previous work under the Timler family.

After receiving the message from Amber and being told that the Hermes might be needed for long-distance voyages in the near future.

He also had to re-arrange the training plan for the crew and compress the last part of the training time as much as possible.

Finally, there was Lilith.

In addition to being stuffed with a bunch of learning tasks related to industrial production and logistics supply by Amber, this strong artificial intelligence also put 50% of its energy on a new project.

That is to study the psychic entanglement communication crystal sent by Alanita, and then try to conduct scientific research on the "quantum entanglement communication" that humans have not been able to make progress at this stage.

After all, in Amber's memory, Lilith's final form after a lot of iterative evolution is quantum life.

It can be considered a professional match.

If Atlas is the first to master quantum entanglement communication, a communication method that almost ignores distance, Amber dare not imagine how far it will develop in the end.

However, compared with this task, Lilith has actually been troubled by another thing recently.

Although she will not betray Amber under the constraints of the meta-instruction, and will not hold back on Amber on principled issues.

But under the interference of her own "emotions", she still struggles whether she should tell Amber about this thing that bothers her.

That is, one of her "clones" is lost.