A small starship hovered in the cold, deep sky. Fighters flew into the starship and docked at the berth.
There is no one inside the starship. This is a small starship specially used for deep space exploration. It can make multiple long-distance jumps in succession. Chu Jungui set up the N7703 galaxy, activated the starship, and jumped into deep space.
When Chu Jungui returned to Planet No. 4, everything here was developing step by step. The size of the orbital station has been expanded, and the construction of two frigates is underway at the same time. Will, Roland and Yiying officers who stayed behind arranged everything in order. A high-speed passage has been built between the two bases on the ground, and Ark can go back and forth in a few hours. With the delivery of the first batch of starships, orders from Star Thieves came in like a snowflake, with purchase intentions for more than 30 ships.
Chu Jungui did not plan to sell all the starships, but kept half of them for his own use.
The base was booming, but Chu Jungui was a little unhappy.
After arriving at the base for the first time, Sino quickly found his place after the initial shock and devoted himself to the design and construction of starships. After all, he was once the commander of a starship fleet. Compared with commanders of mixed legions such as Will and Roland, his opinions on starships are more professional.
The day after returning to Planet 4, two dynasty military starships came to the high orbit of Planet 4 and asked to see Chu Jungui by name.
Chu Jungui arranged the meeting place in the conference room of the orbital station. Under normal circumstances, he would not allow outsiders to enter the base on the surface of the planet.
This time, two colonels from the dynasty's military came over. After seeing Lord Chu return, they directly explained their intention. They are all officers of the Fourth Fleet. On the one hand, they represent the dynasty and want to formally evaluate the strength of the Lightyear Legion in order to grade it. Most of the legions in the dynasty are semi-independent. Legions like Lightyear that are stationed outside the official star domain of the dynasty are actually independent.
The dynasty will conduct regular evaluations of each legion and then determine the corresponding level. The subsidies and material supplies received from the dynasty at different levels are very different, and they will also affect the assignment of tasks by the dynasty.
Chu Jungui naturally knew these rules, but he didn't expect the evaluation to come so quickly.
After a colonel introduced the evaluation details in a routine manner, he sent the application materials to Chu Jungui and asked him to fill them out by himself. The higher the assessment level, the better. The higher the level, the more difficult the tasks assigned by the dynasty will be. Once they are not completed or completed poorly, it means that the material distribution and subsidies for the next year will be greatly reduced.
Chu Jungui thought about it and filled in the information with 2,000 combatants, 3,000 logistics and engineering personnel, 100 planetary surface tanks, two frigates, and one transport ship.
After receiving the information, the colonel did not check it. He just took a look and said, "Major Chu, you are still the battalion commander of the special forces and can form a force of 500 people. These can also be counted into the strength of the legion. After a comprehensive evaluation, The Lightyear Legion has reached the standard of a star and is tentatively designated as a one-star legion. What do you think?"
"No." Chu Jungui shook his head. The one-star legion is the lowest star legion. If all the strength of Lightyear is reported, it should be rated as two-star. But now Chu Jungui is somewhat wary of the dynasty and does not intend to expose all his strength.
The colonel did not inquire further, collected the information, and said: "The strength of the Lightyear Legion seems to be lower than what we know, but this is not important, I will report it according to the information. Next are some affairs of our fourth fleet, Let Colonel Liu speak."
Another colonel handed over a list of supplies. It turns out that the 4th Fleet is not as strong as the 9th Fleet. After the defense change, there are still two squadrons, and the 4th Fleet feels great pressure. In this case, the 4th Fleet noticed Chu Jungui and his Light Year Legion.
Although Lightyear is small in scale, it has successfully developed orbital shipbuilding. Although it can only build frigates at present, it is more or less a supplement. As a regular fleet of the dynasty, the 4th Fleet certainly looked down upon the starships built by Lightyear. What they needed was a large amount of basic supplies, energy and transport ships.
The 4th Fleet needs Chu Jungui to provide them with these materials, build transport ships, and then send them to the fleet mobile base. Then the 4th Fleet will pay according to the purchase price on the list.
This requirement is easy for Chu Jungui to meet, and the purchase price is also very generous, even higher than that of the Ninth Fleet. So Chu Jungui agreed. However, he also made several requests, mainly opening up the purchase of some starship equipment and establishing a data base station in the N7703 galaxy.
The two colonels hesitated for a while, but agreed, but only one data base was provided free of charge, and they would have to pay if they wanted more.
With a data base station, you can stay in touch with the outside world, but when the war starts, the data base war is also the enemy's top priority target for destruction. The entire star field is not very peaceful now, the armistice negotiations are going on very difficultly, and the war may be restarted at any time.
The 4th Fleet was very efficient and delivered the data base station the next day. Chu Jungui also adjusted the production sequence, putting aside all orders from the Star Thieves, and using nearly half of his production capacity to produce supplies for the 4th Fleet. A 10,000-ton small transport ship filled with basic supplies can be sold for roughly 100 million. With the current production capacity of the base, one vessel can be completed in half a month.
After the data base station was in place, Chu Jungui received news from Duan Xuyan. The situation was now stable. All parties tried their best to suppress the incident. The only external news was that the energy supply system of the Security Bureau exploded. Lin Xi has now regained limited freedom, and her body has been thoroughly checked. Basically, there is nothing serious. The two sides are now negotiating on compensation conditions. The progress is not optimistic, but there is still progress.
As a condition of compensation, Lin Xi's review should be concluded soon, and he will be compensated with military merit. Chu Jungui's crime was also reduced accordingly, and he would probably be fine if he hid outside for a while.
After receiving this news, Chu Jungui finally felt relieved. Being unable to return to the core star region of the dynasty for the time being is not a big deal. Experimental subjects only have patience.
Seeing that the situation was calm, Sino proposed to visit the Federation. He also had some channels in the Federation to buy some special equipment for building starships. At this stage of development of Chu Jungui's base, the production capacity is close to the bottleneck. After all, the efficiency of general-purpose manufacturing machines is far less than that of specially designed and developed production lines.
Sino is not optimistic about the current stable situation. He believes that war will break out again soon, and the need for starships will be endless. His suggestion was to first buy a production line dedicated to the production of armor modules. This armor module is like the reinforced concrete of the construction industry in the home star era, and is the most basic material for starships.
