Chapter 339: Annie’s Little Business

Chapter 339: Chapter 339: Annie’s Little Business

Three days later

Annie came to report work matters to Zhao Chen, accompanied by Secretary Officer Lilith.

Although Annie was responsible for formulating a series of construction plans, she still needed the cooperation of Secretary Officer Lilith, the household manager, regarding the supply of raw materials.

The moment Annie entered the conference room, she circled Commander Zhao Chen, looking him up and down.

"Commander, I feel dissecting your brain won’t do anymore. It’s necessary to study your genetic sequence and see what kind of thing you are."

Half a minute later, Annie sat obediently in her chair, holding her head in pain.

"This is the Construction Plan Outline I’ve drafted over the past few days based on the new Starship Technical Blueprints provided by the commander and the starships required for the future construction of our Soaring Dragon Legion.

If there’s anything that needs to be added, Commander and Sister Lilith, feel free to mention it."

Secretary Officer Lilith looked up at the names of several brand-new Starship Technical Blueprint documents.

[T3 Judge-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Ship Technical Blueprint]

[T3 Silver Mouse-class Light Interstellar Stealth Reconnaissance Ship Technical Blueprint]

[T3 Emperor-class Heavy Stellar Battleship]

Among them, the T3 Judge-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Ship technical blueprint undoubtedly held the highest value.

After all, the Soaring Dragon Legion had experienced the terrifying combat power of interstellar missile ships—it was addictive!

Of course, the T3 Emperor-class Heavy Stellar Battleship was no less impressive!

And it perfectly suited the current small but elite positioning of the Soaring Dragon Legion.

"Currently, we have ten T3 Forge-class Heavy Star Industrial Ships and thirty T2 Hammer-class Heavy Interstellar Industrial Ships.

Among them, five T3 Forge-class Heavy Star Industrial Ships need to carry out the original construction plan for the T3 Reborn-class Clone Starship, which can be commissioned into service by the end of June." Annie first explained the current production capacity of the Soaring Dragon Legion.

"According to your instructions, the first batch of T3 Judge-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Ships will require at least five ships to be built; they will be constructed by three T3 Forge-class Heavy Star Industrial Ships.

Next, five T3 Silver Eden-class Starships will be built by one T3 Forge-class Heavy Star Industrial Ship and several T2 Hammer-class ships.

Additionally, one T3 Forge-class ship will construct one T3 Emperor-class Heavy Stellar Battleship.

There is also some excess production capacity, which can be used to build five T3 Silver Mouse-class Light Interstellar Stealth Reconnaissance Ships.

Apart from this, we have some remaining production capacity that will be responsible for building the starships lost in the Zerg Campaign, as well as the required strategic supplies such as stellar missiles and energy blocks.

If there are any temporary changes to construction needs later, this portion of the production capacity can also handle them."

As Annie explained all this, her expression was serious, like a little adult.

But she still couldn’t break one habit: her dangling legs constantly swaying under the table.

"In summary, this construction plan.

Will produce and deliver one T4 Revenant-class Clone Starship, one T3 Emperor-class Heavy Stellar Battleship, five T3 Judge-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Ships, five T3 Silver Eden-class Starships, and five T3 Silver Mouse-class Light Interstellar Stealth Reconnaissance Ships before mid-year."

The entire construction plan will require an investment of production resources and raw materials worth seven billion Star Coins as construction costs.

"The major portion is still the T4 Revenant-class Clone Starship under construction, which has consumed five billion Star Coins over three months." Lilith provided the final summary.

Zhao Chen looked at Secretary Officer Lilith beside him.

Secretary Officer Lilith, understanding his intent, pulled up the current financial resources of the Fierce Dragon Legion.

"At the beginning of the year, due to the 20 billion Star Coin technology licensing fee from Governor Chu, our accounts held 23 billion Star Coins in financial and raw material reserves.

This quarter’s production plan consumed nearly 10 billion Star Coins, followed by the construction in the Fierce Dragon Star System, with an allocation of 1 billion Star Coins to Jiang Hong.

Finally, there are the combat expenditures from this battle."

"Have the combat expenditures for this Zerg Campaign been tallied?" Zhao Chen interjected with an aside.

"Yes, I was planning to report them to you shortly." Secretary Officer Lilith pointed to another electronic document and opened it.

Zhao Chen glanced over it.

In this Zerg Campaign, his Fierce Dragon Fleet experienced the first loss of interstellar warships.

This included five T2 Black Rhino-class Interstellar Heavy Assault Frigates and one T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser.

Some were destroyed by enemy ships, while others were too severely damaged to be worth repairing; they were dismantled on-site, their core technology modules destroyed, and sold as raw materials to local merchants.

Additionally, there was a series of losses from the stellar fighters and stellar drones equipped on the T3 Phoenix-class Heavy Carrier Starship: over 4,500 T3 Black Phoenix-class Medium Star Drones, thirty-two T3 Phoenix-class Starfighters...

"Excluding those lost interstellar warships, our total combat expenditure for this Zerg Campaign amounts to 100 million Star Coins." Secretary Officer Lilith calculated a rather astonishing figure.

A combat expenditure of 100 million Star Coins might not seem significant compared to the expenditure figures from the North Wind Star Domain’s operations against the Zerg.

But what if this 100 million Star Coin expenditure was generated by just over a hundred interstellar warships?

Many fleet commanders would likely be wide-eyed and find it hard to imagine.

At this rate, wouldn’t a legion-level fleet of three thousand ships incur combat expenditures of 30 billion Star Coins?

The more one thinks about it, the more alarming it becomes!

"In summary, based on these calculations, our Fierce Dragon Legion’s accounts still have approximately 11 billion Star Coins in funds and raw materials remaining." Lilith stated.

"11 billion Star Coins, and this construction plan is expected to cost 7 billion Star Coins. That’s still manageable." Zhao Chen said: "Then proceed with the arrangements as planned."

Originally, Zhao Chen had wanted to construct another T4 Huiguang-class Interstellar Jump Ship, but given the current need to expand combat-type interstellar warships, there simply wasn’t any spare production capacity available.

He could only temporarily set aside this idea for now.

By the second half of the year, when another batch of T3 Forge-class Heavy Star Industrial Ships is expanded, boosting the Fierce Dragon Legion’s production capacity further, these missing interstellar warships can naturally be compensated for.

For others, building a powerful interstellar fleet would take at least nearly a century.

For Zhao Chen, it has taken shape in just a few short months, yet he still feels somewhat dissatisfied with this efficiency.

If outsiders knew, they would probably just sigh and think, "They don’t know how lucky they are."

"Among them, at least one T3 Silver Eden-class Starship must be commissioned into service before early April. That shouldn’t be a problem, right?" Zhao Chen brought up an important point.

"No problem," Annie nodded.

"Then let’s end the discussion here," Zhao Chen declared the meeting over.

However, Zhao Chen’s gaze fell on Annie, looking somewhat unfriendly.

Annie cleverly sensed something was wrong. She immediately put on an apologetic smile and said, "I just remembered there are some things I haven’t handled yet. I’ll take my leave first. Goodbye, Commander."

With that, Annie jumped off her chair, ready to make a quick escape.

But alas, her head was held down by a large hand.

"Annie, I heard someone is selling things related to me online. Things like bowls I’ve used, my photos, and even things I’ve used..."

A sinister voice came from behind Annie.

"Gulp." Annie swallowed hard, looking like a ’thief’ caught red-handed.