Chapter 577: Reaping the Fruits of Victory

The Federation fleet of the Rubion system was eventually defeated.

Although Vice Admiral Verne, commander of the 18th Fleet, quickly took over the command after the other four fleet commanders were killed, he still could not reverse the morale of the Federation Fleet, which had fallen to the bottom.

Due to the loss of a large number of main fleets in an instant, although the remaining Federation warships were still more in number than the Atlas combat fleet, it was obvious that the secondary ships, which were in a state of leaderlessness, could not maintain the battle line under such circumstances.

Some captains who were more flexible and less afraid of the Navy Military Court, commanded their warships to leave the formation at the first time, and then after the main propulsion array was super-powered to quickly increase the speed, they entered the jump and left the battlefield.

According to the previous human regular army fleets, whether it was the Federation or the Empire, warships that left the battle without authorization generally had only three outcomes.

Either they took the initiative to "surrender" and provide various reasons to request a lighter punishment.

Or they were discovered by the military, and finally captured with the ship and received the maximum punishment.

The rest is to become pirates or join a rebel army.

Including Amber, the command of the Atlas battle fleet has naturally discovered that the federal fleet is gradually leaving.

For this situation, the many warships of Atlas can't do much, because they don't have enough warships to intercept.

So they can only rely on some nearby warships to attack and try to intercept the opponent. After all, Amber and his team can't determine whether these warships have run away or reorganized their formations in other areas.

Fortunately, as the fleets pressing in from two directions continue to compress the space of the federal fleet, it becomes more and more difficult for these warships to jump.

When Amber drove the spare machine of the 'ATLAS modified', holding a 'light sword' that was huge enough to cut the ship, and carrying a large number of HCPs and heavy armored combat boats, he pierced through the interception of the federal fleet and killed the only remaining flagship 'Legality' in one breath.

The last commander, Vice Admiral Verne, finally issued an order for the entire fleet to surrender, and asked his flagship, the ‘Legal’, to be the first to fire three white flares representing surrender.

“Fuck! We won! We really won!”

When he saw the ‘Legal’ send out the surrender signal, Randall was so excited that he jumped up from the captain’s seat of the ‘Infinity’. If it weren’t for the seat belt connected to the seat behind the cabin suit, he might have rushed directly to the ceiling of the bridge.

But the others on the bridge didn’t care about the movements of the commander of the third task force, because the entire bridge of the ‘Infinity’ was already in the ecstasy and excitement of victory.

Cheers, screams, sobs, these sounds that had been suppressed in the previous battles, were finally released and vented at this moment.

And this scene quickly spread throughout the super flagship after the communicator broadcast it to the entire ship, and the entire battleship suddenly boiled.

Next came the other surviving warships, HCPs, and heavy armored combat boats of the Third Task Force.

After a bloody battle, Murat, who had fought a whole battle, saw the white flares rising from the distant Federation fleet in the cockpit, and he also leaned back in his chair and breathed a sigh of relief.

The ‘ATLAS-Mass Production Type’ he was driving had no intact outer armor at this moment, and the huge body was covered with traces of being hit by various weapons.

However, under Murat’s control, these unavoidable attacks only caused minimal damage to the body, which also enabled him to fight until now, instead of going to ‘Valhalla’ to find Baninger and others to ‘report’.

I don’t know whether this is good news or bad news.

——

36 hours later, the Atlas combat fleet completed the suppression and temporary supervision of all enemy ships in the warring space, and also saved all survivors as much as possible.

And Amber also saw the battle report completed by Cleves, Randall, Isabel and others with the assistance of Lilith in the combat meeting room of the ‘Dawn’.

Although the Atlas Group won the battle that was a matter of life and death and future, the Atlas fleet, as the main force of the battle, suffered heavy losses.

The two unmanned fleets that barely managed to get close to full strength before the war, as the main "anti-line units" of the Atlas side in this fleet battle, had a loss rate of more than 50% after the battle.

Among the remaining 50% of unmanned warships that did not sink directly, there were actually many "badly damaged" warships that basically lost their combat capabilities, and if they were not repaired in time, they might even be directly scrapped.

Although facing the attack of four full-strength main fleets, being able to hold out for so long and surviving half of the warships is unprecedented in the history of human fleet warfare, Amber still felt a black eye when she saw the damage report.

After all, these unmanned warships were smashed one by one with real money, not blown by the wind.

Fortunately, the losses on the unmanned fleet side were very simple, with only the warships lost. The high-level shipborne control personalities on board were all safely returned to the virtual space created by Lilith before their warships sank.

Theoretically, as long as Atlas builds new warships, these high-level shipboard control personalities can re-form combat effectiveness in minutes, and they will also be in the form of 'reliable veterans' who have experienced fierce battles.

So when Lilith also discovered that Amber was a little dizzy due to the damage to the unmanned fleet, she said in his ear very 'considerately':

"Master~ don't faint yet."

Then, Amber saw the next item in the battle damage entry - the casualties of the Third Task Force and the First Fleet, which also included the personnel losses among these manned fleets.

Since the Third Task Force experienced two fierce battles in a row, its losses were relatively serious, with the battle loss rate exceeding 65%.

The few destroyers and frigates that survived the "Three Idiots' War" will be decommissioned, sealed and transformed into museums after this battle.

The losses on the First Fleet's side were relatively small, because the attack was launched from the bottom of the Federation Fleet. There were not many counterattacks, and the battle loss rate was only 10%.

However, due to a round of operations following Amber's "Death Charge", the loss rate of HCPs and heavy armored combat boats in the fleet exceeded 50%.

"I can actually accept the loss of ships and equipment. These things can always be replenished as long as we have money, but the casualties are still too serious."

After seeing the bright red number '19229' in the column of casualties of the Atlas combat troops in the battle report, Amber sighed with some disappointment.

Although the Atlas combat fleet has been greatly reduced in personnel compared to the traditional fleets of the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire, the number of people lost in a fleet battle is still not small.

Amber also knew that the meaning of this string of numbers was no longer as simple as in the game, but represented living but withered lives.

There are humans, Roma, and even a handful of elves from the Empire of Thousand Stars.

Their different personal goals and dreams came together in the Atlas Group, and then they left their lives in this dark and cold space forever.

The above is what Amber's 'emotional side' thought after seeing the casualties.

Amber's 'rational side', after seeing this series of numbers, highlighted a 'heart bleeding'.

Because this not only means that Atlas Group has lost a group of experienced crew members, pilots, and drivers, but also needs to spend a lot of time and energy to train them.

At the same time, it also means that the group is about to pay an astronomical pension.

But despite this, Amber still specifically emphasized to Isabel, the Director of Human Resources and the Director of Finance that pensions must be paid out accurately, and the families of the fallen must also be implemented in accordance with the group's "Preferential Treatment Clause for the Family of the Fallen" .

At this point, Amber acted extremely tough and did not give others any chance to refute.

Of course, others did not dare to contradict him at all, especially when it came to these 'basic' things.

When discussing the preferential treatment for the families of the deceased, considering that the number of casualties this time was relatively high, he also asked some key matters.

"So the venue, teachers, equipment and other hardware and software facilities of Zhongsi College are all ready?"

"We are completely prepared. Master Aoin Stormrage, who was responsible for training the young psykers, also brought these children to the academy to conduct various tests for us in advance~" The one who answered was Tadashi. After picking and choosing Isabel, who was preparing for the college, Amber found that this noble lady was quite suitable for this project, and all aspects were arranged in an orderly manner.

"Manpower seconded from the Tower of Babel Comprehensive Exercise Training Center, Yuge Family Chamber of Commerce, Atlas United Industries, Atlas Mining, Atlas Private Military Company, and the Financial Business Center of the Group Headquarters have formed the third team. A group of teachers completed pre-job training a month ago.

All the infrastructure required by the college, including the virtual reality training center, multi-functional comprehensive training ground, and multi-purpose workshops, have also been completed and accepted. By the way, George also reported that the mine The team specially reserved a good piece of asteroid rubble, which can be used as a 'teaching aid' for the academy."

After listening to Isabel's report that all the preparations for Zhongsi Academy were completed, Amber nodded with relief.

This academy, specially designed for the children of Atlas Group’s sacrificed employees, was also promoted by Amber.

As long as you are an employee of Atlas, whether you are an ordinary employee or a combatant, as long as you sacrifice yourself for the cause of the company, your family members can enjoy relevant pensions and benefits, and your children can also choose to study in this school. Zhongji Academy.

This school can be said to be extremely strong in terms of 'application and diversity', both in terms of teaching staff and hardware facilities. Children of the fallen can enter the chemical industry and manufacturing industry after undergoing basic training and initial assessment. , mining, biomedical, finance and combat-related majors.

After successful graduation, it will be directly divided among the various companies under Atlas.

In other words, as long as the children of those who died in battle enter Chungsi Academy, they can directly enter the Atlas Group or its subsidiaries to work as adults.

You know, with the help of Lilith, the Atlas Group needs far less manpower than other companies. So after developing to this stage, in addition to combatants, the recruitment of new employees for other positions has become extremely strict, and even tens of thousands of people often compete for one position.

So from another perspective, after entering Zhongsi College, these children of the fallen have already reached the end compared to other job seekers - if they are successfully "brainwashed" in Zhongsi College and take "dedicating their lives to the Atlas Group" as their life goal.——

After finally discussing the losses of the Atlas Group, the next topic made everyone at the meeting excited.

That is about the gains after this battle.

Although Atlas has indeed just experienced the largest loss since its establishment, the gains after the war are definitely not small. The active warships of the Federation recovered on the battlefield alone have allowed the combat fleet to "recover blood".

The captured capital ships are enough to equip 1.5 full fleets, and the other light cruisers, destroyers, and frigates easily exceed the number that two full fleets should have.

That is to say, after this battle, Atlas captured almost two fully staffed federal fleets.

And Amber did not hesitate at all, and immediately decided to "keep the ships but not the people".

Those who are willing to stay and join Atlas, especially maintenance personnel and HCP pilots, can be selected after identity review and assessment.

As for other crew members and officers, Amber will directly "pack" them and send them back to the Federation. He does not want to help the Federation to support so many people for free.

The remaining warships will be directly transformed into unmanned warships while the dock is repairing them, and then added to the two unmanned fleets with greater losses.

The severely damaged Third Task Force was directly merged with the First Fleet to become the only manned fleet of the Atlas Group as the main mobile force.

Compared with the visible and tangible "surface gains" of warships, Amber actually attaches more importance to the "invisible" hidden gains.

And the biggest hidden gain among them is that after the end of this war, the control of the Federation and the Galaxy Autonomous Government in the Rubion Galaxy was almost cleared.

From this moment on, Atlas also became the largest armed force in the Rubion galaxy - and it was unshakable.

So Amber directly split the relatively complete First Fleet into several squadrons, and then dispersed them all.

Their goal was also very simple and clear, that is, to quickly suppress other forces with space armed forces in the galaxy, and then control all important infrastructure in the galaxy, such as collection stations, deep space refineries, docks, industrial space cities, and colonial satellites.

Facilities with few people can basically be handled by the Marines on the warships in a boarding operation.

The fighting will of the guards in these facilities was not high, and they chose to surrender with almost no resistance.

For the colonial satellites with more people left behind and slightly stronger defense forces, Atlas's warships only adopted the means of siege + cutting off external contacts, and slowly captured them after the arrival of the large forces.

Almost within 3-5 days after the end of the fleet battle, the armed forces of the Atlas Group controlled more than 80% of the deep space infrastructure of the Rubion system, completely obtained the control of Rubion V, and began to support the ground forces of the Renaissance Alliance to launch a new round of offensive.

At this point in time, it can be basically announced that the Rubion system is completely under the control of the Atlas Group, and this is also the first system controlled by Amber.

However, after receiving these reports one after another, Amber did not relax, but turned around and ordered the defense forces of Pyra IV and A. Bawa Ku Fortress to enter a state of combat readiness.

After all, no one knows whether the Federation will have other hidden forces, and no one knows whether Marshal Trafalgar will choose to "change homes" like he did in the strategic decisive battle with the Empire.

Moreover, Pyra IV, located within the territory of the Star Dragon Empire, must also be on guard against the Star Dragon Empire.

Because when the news of the defeat of the Federation Navy spread, Amber could not determine whether the Empire would try to take back the Pyra IV while the main force of the Federation suffered heavy losses and the main force of the Atlas Group was transferred away.

It is true that Princess Agnes did extend an olive branch to Amber through Baron Bassf, and was even willing to hand over the Pyra IV to Amber and Atlas.

But the plot planning and copywriting of "Starry Sky OL" taught Amber one thing, that is, never believe in the "promises" of those powerful people in the Federation, the Empire, or even the Thousand Star Empire.

Before the power of both sides is completely equal, unconditionally believing in these so-called "promises" is no different from putting your head into the noose.

However, a report received on the fifth day after the end of the fleet battle still made Amber laugh and cry.

"What? You said that Baron Bassf also brought his fourth wife to the A. Bava Ku Fortress?"

"Yes, Boss" Shi Koti on the other side of the screen nodded with a helpless smile.

"I was told to release the application three hours ago, and the person arrived at the fortress gate two hours ago."

"So they brought the person here first and waited, right?"

Amber raised her eyebrows and asked a key question.

"Does Baron BASF or the Empire and the Princess already know the result of our fleet battle with the Federation?"

Shikoti: "Boss, we gradually shut down the quantum entanglement communication services in the Rubion galaxy and nearby areas after the battle began. To enter the nearest communication service area, the fastest is five standard jump distances. In other words, five days. If nothing unexpected happens, this news should have been sent out not long ago."

"In other words, Baron BASF brought his wife here without knowing the result, and it is said that this 'fourth wife' is quite familiar with Agnes?"

"Yes~"

"Interesting."