Chapter 138: Three Years (Part 1).
In the 70th year of the Federal Calendar.
Three years have passed since the selection of the commanders for the new fleet of the First Legion.
In these three years, the developnt speed of the Human Federation was simply staggering. By virtue of the Brain Developnt dicine, all kinds of technology are being discovered and innovated. Almost every day there would be new technologies that would surface.
Of course, this is only within general technology, mostly civilian technology. After all, key technology is not sothing you can easily achieve a breakthrough.
However, even so, the Human Federation's general technology can now be compared to a late stage Level 3 Civilization. This is already a very impressive feat.
After all, the average Level 3 Civilization which would have to go through thousands or even tens of thousands of years, to be able to reach the middle or late stages.
Now, compare that to the humans who, just a decade ago, have entered Level 3 Civilization. It only took them around a decade to achieve the sa progress as the thousands of years that other Level 3 Civilizations would.
In fact, if this thing was really taken seriously, it should've only taken five years. After all, the Human Federation began to popularize Brain Developnt dicine five years ago.
In terms of key technologies, there is actually not much progress compared to three years ago. However, whether it is in terms of Energy Shields, Warp Engines, energy weapons and so on, the Human Federation is actually no weaker than an early Level 4 Civilization.
Of course, if they really want to compare with a veteran Level 4 Civilization, the gap is still quite large.
Other than that, the main cannon of the Human Federation's warship was also a tad bit stronger than that of the Ochs Empire's Aegis warship, which is a nerfed warship sold to the Ochs Empire by the Babawi Empire.
It is worth ntioning that the composition of the Human Federation's two legions of warships has once again undergone a major change; warships are now more unified. The main fleet of the Human Federation, other than the flagship, is only composed of one kind of warship, that is, the Killer Whale-Class Battleship. As for the carriers, they were discarded from the main fleet and were instead given to the Guard Fleet to use.
The culprit for all this is the ch.
As previously ntioned, today's chs are completely useless in the face of Level 4 Civilization warships, after all, their weapons are too small and weak!
They also can't possibly let a ch carry a warship's main cannon, could they? Just the size of the cannon alone is more than ten ters, so how would a ch carry it?
Not to ntion that even if there was a way to carry the cannons, would there be enough energy to fire it?
For this reason, the Human Federation stopped developing chs and abolished the chs in the main fleet. They were even close to throwing the chs into the garbage!
But at that ti, the voice of opposition was also very big, after all, although chs cannot be used to attack warships, they are handy for atmospheric and fortress raid operations and so on.
Therefore, the final decision was to temporarily retain the chs and the ch developnt team, but they would no longer set up a special carrier for the chs because it is a waste of fleet composition.
Instead, the chs were dispersed within each Killer Whale-Class Battleship. It was for this reason that a ch depot and corresponding ejection ports were designed within the Killer Whale-Class Battleship at the beginning of its design.
Each Killer Whale-Class Battleship now carries a squadron of chs - around 300 units - the sa as Lin Fan's flagship Uranus.
One advantage of this change was that the fleet did not lose chs in their line up, while saving 2,000 warship space for the fleet. aning, the number of Killer Whale-Class Battleships built increased from 432,000 to 480,000!
In other words, today, the Human Federation's main fleet has one 10-million-ton heavy Battleships, 11 8-million-ton heavy Battleships, and 240,000 Killer Whale-class Battleships at full strength.
In terms of personnel, each Killer Whale-Class Battleship has a standard crew of 892. Of course, this was only the bare minimum to operate the warship. There's also another 300 people for the chs and 500 ground crew.
Therefore, each standard main fleet would have a total number of people that reached a terrifying 30 million people! As for a full legion, it would require a full 400 million people to operate!
If it was more than a decade ago, the humans certainly could not get so many people to support two legions.
After all, the two legions require 800 million people; plus there's also the Guard Fleet, the ground forces in the planets, and personnel for the Starports, fortresses, etc. Overall, it is no less than a billion people.
How many billion people? Currently, the entire human population is only at 15 billion. This basically ans that one billion soldiers is one tenth of the entire human population!
The most critical thing is that the fleet also just doesn't accept random people. They need more than a billion age-appropriate and highly professional talents!
This would have been an impossible task, but the ergence of Gene Enhancent dicines has made it possible!
Many retired military personnel who were originally 60, 70 or even 80 years old have seen their life expectancy increase and their body functions recover after using Genetic Enhancent dicines.
The vast majority of senior citizens were able to recover their vigor at around the ti when they were thirty or forty after the use of the dicine, so a large number of veterans who had been retired for a long ti, after a simple training, managed to return to the fleet.
Nowadays, not to ntion two legions, the Human Federation would be able to accommodate four legions.
There's also the fact that people can't resist the temptation of being in huge ships with cannons. Who doesn't have a dream of sitting in the captain's seat and commanding a warship or even a fleet? Who does not dream to one day beco soone like the military god Liang Xingchen or Lin Fan?
Another huge part of the demand in entering the military was that according to a survey in the Io Federation, the angels don't like cowardly n. They only like brave n who fight on the battlefield!
Back when this interview was broadcasted in the Human Federation, the recruitnt from all over the place and planets boiled.
It is worth ntioning that it's not human males who had participated in this endeavour, there are also a large number of won that participated. Who said won can't like other won?
In short, with the above reasons, the Human Federation was not short of soldiers. Especially now that there are new intelligent industrial robots that need less labor force. Hence, there are many who have their hands free.
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