At the Jolly Roger headquarters, several brand new starships are docked at the starport, and a team of sailors are filing into the starships, waiting to receive them.
At the highest point of the starport, Hathaway stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking down at these new starships. The data about them had long been memorized in her heart. One heavy cruiser, three light cruisers and two destroyers, this is all the recent additions to the Jolly Roger. For the Jolly Roger, which has almost been burnt out, its current strength recovery is less than 30%.
Hathaway opened the communication and said, "Send me the latest personnel data."
"Please wait... There are currently 531,782 official members of the Jolly Roger Corps, including 278,766 active combatants. The rest returned on their own after the last battle and were transferred to reserves according to regulations. They can choose to retire. In addition, there are 173,321 sick and wounded, and they need to be retired. Provide pensions to 421,119 people.”
Those who need pensions are those who died in the last battle. Although most of the pensions are paid by the federal government, the Jolly Roger will also pay a corresponding part. The wounded are also divided into two categories, one is those with minor injuries that can recover quickly, and will return to the team after recovering from these injuries, and the other is those with serious injuries, but can fully recover. These people are the injured and injured in this statistics. In addition, the Jolly Roger also stipulates that survivors who survive tragic battles like the Battle of the Third Theater will be transferred to the reserves and receive psychological treatment. At the same time, they are also eligible to apply for retirement.
Adding these cold numbers together, it actually means that last time the Jolly Roger deployed 80% of its entire force, more than half of them died in battle, and half of the survivors have not recovered yet.
This was the most brutal battle since the establishment of the Jolly Roger. Almost all of them were burned out. Those who stayed behind were actually logistics and support personnel, the kind who would not go to the battlefield. So now even if the pirate flag starship is given, there are not enough crew members to operate it for the time being.
Now the Federation is in turmoil. Recruitment orders are issued all over the Federation, but there are no pirate flags. The above also knows that the Jolly Roger needs to be rebuilt. Such a meritorious army must retain its seeds and cannot be recruited again. At present, the Federation can still afford so many starships to rebuild the Jolly Roger, which is already the limit.
At this time, Hathaway's communication channel flashed, and a middle-aged man with a beard appeared in front of him. He was wearing a major general epaulette, and he was very imposing.
"Legion Commander, are you looking for me?"
"What do you think about the call-up order?"
This bearded man is the deputy captain of the Jolly Roger and the captain of the flagship. In the last battle, he fought with Hathaway until the end, but he still managed to escape due to good luck. When asked by Hathaway, he said: "Those kids are all very impulsive. Few of them are willing to retire. They are all clamoring to go back to the battlefield! Humph, I don't know how high the sky is, it seems like I can die a second time. !”
The bearded man looked disapproving and continued: "Young people are ignorant and don't know the cruelty of war. But us old guys are different. Anyway, we have lived enough, and we have seen everything we need to eat and play. . We were not given a recruitment order this time, but how could our Winton family be absent from such a big event? The Presbyterian Church has organized a fleet, and I was just about to tell you about the newly arrived starships. Give me a boat and I’ll take my brothers to join in the fun.”
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"No." Hathaway refused immediately.
The bearded man was startled, smiled bitterly, and said: "On the family side, my two sons are in the fleet of the Presbyterian Church. I want to follow them and have a look. Even if they both die on the battlefield, I will still be the father. Accompany them."
Hathaway looked at the starship below and said: "Since the new ship has arrived, I will take you with me! We will count the people who are willing to go to the St. Paul Star Group in a while, and we will set off in two days!"
This time it was the bearded man's turn to be shocked and said in a voiceless voice: "This can't work! You are still young, and the entire Wenton family will have to rely on you in the future. Old guys like us are enough to risk death!"
"I am also a general of the Federation, and I also have the blood of the Winton family. Our family has never had the tradition of shrinking from a war." After that, Hathaway raised his hand to stop the bearded man's persuasion and said: " That’s it! I also have the authority to issue recruitment orders and so on, so we can issue them ourselves!”
The bearded man still refused to give up and tried to persuade him for a long time. Finally, he had no choice but to cut off the communication and prepare for the expedition.
After the image of the bearded man disappeared, Hathaway sighed softly and returned to his desk to prepare for business. At this time, the private communication channel flickered, and Xino's image appeared.
Sino has been making a lot of noise recently, and his status in the Louis family has been rising steadily. He is currently among the top three heirs, and his status is already comparable to Hathaway. It's just that Hathaway is very aware of his relationship with Chu Jungui, and during this period, Xino was also in a lot of trouble because of his unclear relationship with Guangnian. There were many voices within the family who wanted to remove him and replace him with someone else. Take charge of the family fleet. However, now the Louis family fleet is all direct descendants of Sino, and many of them are from Star Thieves. No one except Sino will accept it. After the two people sent by the Presbyterian Church died in mysterious circumstances, no one finally wanted to Here comes the trouble.
To be honest, Hathaway didn't want to see Xino or anyone related to Chu Jungui at this time. However, Sino seemed to be very persistent, calling continuously, with the momentum of fighting until the end if you don't answer. of
Hathaway had no choice but to pick up the call and asked angrily: "What's the matter? It's all right!"
Xino looked helpless and said: "Sister! Don't take it out on me if you are in a bad mood! My life is not much better."
"It's not my business?"
Xino sighed and said, "I really have something to do with you this time. It's about the federal recruitment order. You...must be going, right?"
"certainly."
Xino sighed again, with a look of helplessness on his face: "You can go, but I can't. After all, I have too much involvement there, and now the Presbyterian Church has locked me up, and I can't go even if I want to. But I am in the family The fleet still has certain rights, so I plan to hand over the original starships and the soldiers belonging to the Louis family to you. The rest are the star thieves I recruited, and they use light-year starships."
"What are you..."
Xino said sadly: "After all, Jun Gui is on the side of the dynasty. Many starships and even personnel in my fleet were given to me directly by him. It is not convenient for this part of the fleet to go to the St. Paul star cluster, but the part of the Louis family originally went There is no problem. Your Jolly Roger is not strong enough now, so you can be safer if you bring more people."
"Then what are your plans?"
Xino smiled bitterly: "I won't contact you there for now. Let's wait until the war is over."
