Chapter 301 Atlas's 'Big Build' Plan

Translation Translation What is surprise?

The news coming back from the Lubion Galaxy was a surprise.

As we all know, except for officially licensed shipyards, other private companies and private organizations are not allowed to manufacture and own capital ships.

The Federation and the Empire currently have similar classifications of capital ships. Heavy cruisers and battleships are both considered "capital ships."

If Amber remembers correctly, battlecruisers will be added to the family of ‘capital ships’ in the future.

It is precisely because of official restrictions that the largest tonnage in the fleets of most private companies and private organizations is light cruisers.

And there are not many of them, and they are generally used as their 'flagship'.

As just mentioned, the official restrictions apply to 'most' companies, not all, which also means that some companies are not subject to restrictions.

That is the major shipbuilding giants.

Regardless of whether it is the Federation or the Star Dragon Empire, only part of the construction tasks of naval ships are carried out in officially established shipyards.

There are also a large part that are built by private/noble shipbuilding companies after bidding.

So since you let others "take orders" to build heavy cruisers and battleships for you, you certainly can't continue to restrict these shipbuilding companies, right?

Therefore, there is a "white list" in the official hands, and companies that can enter the "white list" are qualified to build capital ships.

At the same time, in order to conduct seaworthiness experiments and tests of various subsystems, these companies must be allowed to take the ships out for a walk, right?

Therefore, these companies also have the qualifications to allow "capital ships" to sail temporarily.

Under the long-term operation of various companies, this "privilege" has allowed these shipbuilding companies to retain several capital ships in their own fleets in the name of "experiments" and "tests."

Initially, officials will definitely restrict and supervise this behavior.

In particular, the federal government, which has relatively strict control in this regard, has specially dispatched supervision teams to station among these companies to monitor their use of capital ships.

But as long as we are human, we have weaknesses and problems will arise.

Today, this kind of supervision is basically in name only.

Even many regulatory teams dispatched by the federal government to shipbuilding companies are actually the "own people" of these companies.

The "ship building permit" obtained by Atlas in the Rubian System was approved by the Rubian System Autonomous Government.

Although this 'qualification' approved by the autonomous government will limit Atlas's construction and testing of heavy cruisers and battleships to the Rubian system.

But anyway, this is a good start.

The team that achieved this great achievement was the ‘Atlas Public Relations Department’ led by Isabel.

To be honest, Amber always felt a little weird about asking the intelligence chief to do this, because he was worried that the style of this department would become very strange.

It wasn't until the department was officially established and before setting off to the Lubion system that Amber ran to their department office to take a look around, his hunch became a reality.

‘We get our hands dirty in exchange for Atlas’ tomorrow’

Listen, does this sound like what the public relations department should say at its founding meeting?

In response to this, Banninger and the teaching team even clapped their thighs in anger, because they felt that such 'lines' seemed more suitable for their 'dirty work' troops.

Then, after looking at the composition of the PR department, Amber finally knew why they said the line "get your hands dirty" at the founding meeting.

The first batch were a few "dragon field masters" seconded from the Financial Business Department who were good at opening up the links between all levels of the federal government. The crime they were imprisoned in the "Golden Eye" at that time was "suspected of bribing federal government officials."

In the second batch, the rich woman Ellenita found a team of young elf models - both men and women.

Many people in the group who were full of imagination about elves, after seeing these young elf models and understanding the work they were engaged in, their long-term 'filters' of the Thousand Stars Empire were shattered.

The third batch is a few analysts seconded by the intelligence analysis team to analyze specific people's habits, preferences, backgrounds, and black materials.

Finally, there is the financial support from the financial business department and the all-round support of Lilith - for the latter, except for Amber, everyone else in the Atlas Group only knows that it is a relatively powerful artificial intelligence, and It is one of the core elements that maintains the operation of Atlas, and other aspects are not known.

"Isa, you are planning to do something illegal and disorderly."

After the founding meeting, Amber found Isabel with a strange expression.

When the latter heard this, he immediately took his arm and said with a smile:

“Public relations and public relations must involve some ‘hidden rules’.”

Regarding Isabel's words, Amber found that she seemed unable to refute.

According to the experience of players doing tasks in the game, when facing the corrupt federal government, if you use more formal methods to contact it, it will actually cause the other party to be dissatisfied.

The other party will think that you are not good enough, so they will make it more difficult for you in every aspect.

On the contrary, after some players adopted speculative and even illegal methods in reality, they were given the green light all the way.

As for later, after being reported by some players, the official quickly deleted this part of the task line that was "suspected of bad guidance", but the internal and corrupt characteristics of the federal government were still remembered by all players.

This time, Atlas won the qualification to "build" and "test" battleship-level ships in the Rubion galaxy, all thanks to this group of "public relations experts" who were urgently dispatched to the Rubion galaxy.

After they hunted through traditional routines such as money, sex, and black materials, government officials in charge of related work in the galaxy autonomous government fell one after another.

The speed was so fast that it was far beyond the expectations of the public relations department.

They thought that these autonomous government officials in "key positions" would go a little further on the road of "sticking to their original intentions".

Amber could understand this.

After all, the Atlas Group is now the largest cooperative enterprise of the Rubion galaxy autonomous government. So many engineering teams are starting construction on Rubion V, and there are still a lot of investments waiting to be implemented.

Therefore, the autonomous government has relatively relaxed management of the Atlas Group in all aspects.

In addition, the Atlas Group built the main battleship in order to sell it to the autonomous government of the Rubion Galaxy, so that they could rebuild the Galaxy Garrison Fleet that had suffered heavy losses.

A shipbuilding project that was started directly in the galaxy could provide a lot of jobs and generate more tax revenue. Why not do it?

Of course, Amber felt that it was equally important and could not be ignored.

That is, the lethality of the elf models is still a bit too great for those who have never seen real elves in reality.

Not to mention after experiencing the "negative distance" contact.

In this case, give them some "small favors" or show the "black material" to the disobedient guys. Everything will come to fruition.

"Alas, I am guilty of setting up such a department."

After reading the entire "action report", Amber, as an ordinary young man "born under the red flag and raised in the spring breeze", felt "repentant" for what he had done in his mind.

On the other hand, he signed the words "agree to execute" on the OA application for "increasing support for the Public Relations Department and continuing to infiltrate the Rubion Galaxy Autonomous Government."