Chapter 1645: The rise of the junk fleet! (1/2)
Li Yao frowned slightly: ”These two words are used too much, are all the officers of the Liaoyuan Fleet so narrow-minded and retributable?”
”Not really, it's a bit complicated.”
Tang Dingyuan explained, ”The Liaoyuan Fleet is the elite of the elites and the trump card of the trump cards. Fleet commanders usually regard themselves very high, and do not bother to have the general knowledge of the various miscellaneous forces. At that time, the Federation was expanded with old scrapped starships. There are more miscellaneous troops, and the Liaoyuan Fleet does not ridicule the other miscellaneous troops as the'junk fleet'.
The reason why the fleet of the White Star Sword is called ‘garbage’ does not only refer to their outdated equipment, broken starships, like scraps of copper and iron, but also refers to the officers and sailors under the White Star Sword. ”
”Oh?”
Li Yao blinked, ”The officer and sailor of Bai Xingjian, what's so special?”
”The Xinghai Fleet was developed from the'Navy' in the planetary civilization era. It is an ultra-high-tech, very focused on pedigree and inheritance of arms. It is easy to refine new starships, but it is easy to form an excellent starship combat team. Members of the bridge crew, sailors and maintenance crews in the power cabin, it will be very difficult!”
Tang Dingyuan, the captain of the Firefly, is deeply touched by this point, ”A hundred-year army, a thousand-year fleet, this is not empty talk. Whether the Federation or the Empire enters the highest state of war, you can explode dozens of them in one breath at any time. Hundreds of full crystal armor battle groups, ordinary people armed with'superior power cards' and various crystal brain auxiliary systems, can quickly master the control of low-level crystal armor and become qualified'infantry' after quick training.
But the Xinghai Fleet, especially the “deep space fleet” that can span a thousand worlds, is self-sufficient, can cruise in the universe for several years and decades, is another matter entirely. Owning a starship is just the easiest way. One step, the real key is the people who control the starship, they are sailors, navigators, fire control officers, etc...thousands of well-trained and experienced people in key positions!
Bai Xingjian's team is a transport fleet. The original subordinates had no combat experience at all, and could not be cultivated in three or five years. Even if he tried to get a large number of ancient starships that were close to scrapping, he did not have the right manpower to control them.
As a result, Bai Xingjian took an ‘evil road’ that was extremely disdainful by the ‘elite’ and ‘aces’ of the Liaoyuan fleet.
He began to expand his manpower aggressively, and the first recruit was actually a star thief from the Flying Star Realm! ”
Li Yao was startled slightly: ”Are there still star thief in the Flying Star Realm?”
”Yes, but just released from prison.”
Tang Dingyuan looked a little bit dumbfounded. He shook his head and looked quite disapproving. ”Captain Lin didn't know that there was a massive and extremely tragic'Star Thieves War' in the Flying Star Realm more than 100 years ago. With the support of the Immortal Cultivator organization'Eternal Palace', the power of Star Thieves once flourished and ravaged the entire Flying Star Realm, almost able to contend with the regular army of the major factions of the Flying Star Realm!
Of course, under the leadership of the ”Vulture” Li Yao, the cultivators of the flying star world still won the war and conquered the star thief's nest ”Spider's Nest Star”. Numerous star thiefs have found themselves in the evil of the cultivator. When they surrendered one after another.
Of course, the bandit leaders who killed nothing were executed, but not all the star thief were sentenced to death.
According to the severity of the crime, from life imprisonment to thirty to fifty years in prison, many star thieves were imprisoned in the resource planet prison in a harsh environment and spent decades in hard labor. 'Entered the era of the'New Federation'.
When the new federation, under the call of Ding Lingdang, expedition to the Celestial Circle and launched the first large-scale star-sea war since the establishment of the new federation, the'Star Thieves War' and the'Fairy Cultivator's Rebellion' in the flying star realm had passed seven or eight For ten years, even those star thief who were sentenced to life imprisonment, after several reductions, basically served their sentences, were released from prison, and started to behave again.
Naturally, even the youngest bottom sailor 70 or 80 years ago is still a man of more than a hundred years old, and the technical backbone on the Star Pirates battleship back then, as long as the cultivation level is not too high, they are all white at the moment. The old man who is dying and dying.
They are burdened with the dark past of Star Pirates, and there is no such thing as a pension. They are also more discriminated against in society, have served decades of hard labor, and have been out of touch with the whole world for too long. Where else can they find any good jobs? Most of them worked as waiters in restaurants, spar filling stations in shuttle cars, and shop assistants in supermarkets. They were impoverished and left behind.
Originally, no one took these former star thief in their eyes. Everyone regarded them as hairless tigers that had their teeth stripped decades ago. They are now too old to work. Whether they are defending the Federation or endangering society, they seem to be both. It has nothing to do with them.