Happiness always seems to be very short-lived, and a happy smile cannot last long.
"We are about to enter a space jump. Please be ready, crew members. Repeat, we are about to..." The reminder broadcast echoed repeatedly. Lin Xi returned to her seat and sat down. The magnetic points on the armor were activated, holding her firmly in place. on the seat.
She closed her eyes, and as the vibrations of the ship intensified, her consciousness suddenly fell into a trance. This is a normal phenomenon when jumping in space, just like waking up and completing the jump.
However, this time, Lin Xi felt something strange, as if something invisible was washing over her body, and her consciousness gradually floated upward, approaching the sea surface. Once she leaps out of the sea of consciousness, she wakes up.
In the past, the trance only lasted for a moment, but this time it lasted a little longer. Lin Xi felt a little strange, so she tried her best to raise her consciousness to the surface. But she only had a little strength. No matter how hard she tried, she could only make her consciousness rise a little, and she was still quite far away from the water.
Lin Xi was not someone who would give up easily. She worked hard over and over again to get out of her current situation.
I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly the trance disappeared, everything around me became normal, and the deep sea of consciousness that could not surface disappeared. Lin Xi opened her eyes and saw the familiar captain's room in front of her. The virtual portholes were lighting up one by one, showing the scenery outside the ship.
"Location." Lin Xi ordered.
A star map automatically appeared on her side, marking the current position of the fleet. Not far ahead, there was a huge space base with rows of lights on, and starships constantly flying in and out. The space base has the word 'Green Apple' on its logo and is one of the three mobile bases sent by the Ninth Fleet.
At this time, a line of prompts appeared in front of Lin Xi's eyes: Command authority has been restored.
The figure of the deputy captain appeared on the console at her hand and said: "Lieutenant Colonel Lin, your authority has been restored. Are you anchored at the base now?"
"Stop at Qingping Base." After giving the order, Lin Xi disengaged the armor's magnetic suction system, stood up, and said, "Assess military merit."
A string of numbers kept jumping, and finally stopped at 3761. This number is a bit unexpected. Dynasty has a combat capability assessment for all types of starships. The combat merit number is the combat capability of the starships shot down, while the damage to the battleships depends on the damage caused. Generally much less than destroyed.
More than 3,000 military merits meant that Lin Xi had destroyed at least three frigates of the same level and damaged many more. However, according to Lin Xi's own calculations, the actual military merit should be less than this number, less than 200 military merit. After thinking about it for a moment, she realized that the colonel had made some subtle inclines towards her in the distribution of military honors.
More than 200 military merits are neither too much nor too little. It is the same as severely damaging a frigate of the same level.
Lin Xi reached out and touched the military merit table, and the screen changed into the military merit required for promotion to each military rank. Each military rank has three to four promotion modes, namely normal, advance, exceptional, and special merit. Normal promotion means that you can be promoted if your military merit reaches the basic requirements during your tenure and your tenure reaches the minimum number of years. Both advanced and exceptional levels have express provisions. If the military merit exceeds 100% and 200% of the basic military merit, the minimum number of years required for promotion will be reduced by one year each. As for special merit, when the military merit exceeds 300% of the basic military merit of the rank, promotion is no longer subject to the minimum age limit.
Just like Lin Xi is a lieutenant colonel at the moment and can command a standard frigate. The standard combat power of a frigate is 1,000, and the basic military merit is also 1,000. The minimum number of years required for promotion to major general and below is three years. The dynasty stipulates that when there is no war, a lieutenant colonel's annual military merit is fixed at 20% of the basic military merit. In other words, a lieutenant colonel can be promoted to colonel in about five years if he has no merits or demerits.
The regulations for all ranks of colonel officers are the same. That is to say, an officer can be promoted to senior colonel in about fifteen or sixteen years from the date he is promoted to major. To be promoted from senior colonel to major general, seniority cannot be extended, and merit must be actually evaluated.
Lin Xi is a lieutenant colonel at the moment, but the problem is that she has only been promoted for a month. If she wants to be promoted to another level, she must meet the standard of special merit. That is to say, she must have at least 4,000 military merit to meet the basic qualifications, and then she must meet the standard of special merit. After deliberation at all levels of the fleet, promotion must be signed by an admiral-level officer.
Lin Xi called up the status information of the ship, and what he saw was a starship with many parts of the body shown in red, and some parts even turned into ghosts, which meant that this part was completely damaged and had to be replaced with a new one.
Lin Xi's hand paused in the air before clicking to evaluate the repair time.
The evaluation icon rotated for a few minutes before slowly stopping. This assessment is not generated out of thin air, but requires contacting the mobile base to confirm the base's current dock status, parts inventory, and number of engineers. The assessment results can only be obtained in accordance with the maintenance sequence given by the base.
When the evaluation icon stopped, looking at the 112-day evaluation time, Lin Xi smiled bitterly, and then said: "Use the backup authority to advance the maintenance sequence."
The assessment icon rotates again. This time Lin Xi used his priority authority to try to advance the order of ship repairs. The origin of this authority comes from the Lin family on the one hand, and the privilege of being the first in Zhige Academy on the other.
She didn't want to use her privileges unless absolutely necessary.
Moments later, the assessment came back with results, 98 days.
Lin Xi was startled by this result and said, "Check the top items."
System reply: "Permission granted. Currently, the starships used by each shipyard and their order of use are as follows..."
The one at the front of the queue is a battleship! This behemoth occupies nearly 60% of the entire mobile base's production capacity, and it takes a full 50 days to repair before it can return to the battlefield. At the same time, there are two heavy cruise-class starships being repaired in the base. Even if Lin Xi uses his authority, there is no way he can get in front of them.
Lin Xi thought for a while and said, "Check about available replacement ships."
After a moment, the system responded: "The latest replaceable ship is at the Cangsen base 42 light-years away. The latest time it can be replaced is 211 days from now."
Changing ships was slower than repairing ships, so Lin Xi had to put this option aside.
She stood for a moment and finally opened a communication channel that she hadn't used for a long time.
Lin Xuan Shang's image appeared. He looked at Lin Xi, smiled and said, "I thought you would never use this channel."
"It will still be used if necessary."
Lin Xuanshang nodded, "That's good. I'm still a little worried that you can't let go. Is there anything you need me to solve?"
"One thing, please cancel the special protection for me."
Lin Xuanshang looked a little surprised and said, "Where is there any special protection?"
"Isn't it your order to ensure my safety under any circumstances?"
Lin Xuan Shang shook his head, "I have never given such an order. You know very well that our Lin family has never given special care to independent children."
Lin Xi thought, "Who could that be?"
