In fact, Soshiyan did not choose to set out soon because he wanted to make as much preparation as possible so that he would not be controlled by others when he was unfamiliar with the place.
First of all, there are manpower. The Knights of the Astral Realm now have several warships that lack crew members. The formal crew is different from slave workers. They must at least have the most basic ability to repair, maintain and control equipment, and are the lowest-level technicians.
In order to quickly fill this gap, Soshyan contacted the naval department of the Star Zone and tried to ask them for some reserve crew members in the name of the commander-in-chief of the Expeditionary Force.
But who knew that the Navy did not buy his account at all and made all kinds of refusals. Soshiyang himself was just the commander-in-chief of the Great Vortex Expeditionary Force, and there was no way to deal with the local navy in the Star Zone.
Just when he was at a loss, Talos gave him an idea.
In the imperial institutions, in addition to the navy, there is another department with a large number of sailors and crew members, that is—
Legal Affairs Department.
Soshyan didn't understand it at first, but after Talos reminded him slightly, he understood the reason. The anti-smuggling department of the Ministry of Justice captures a large number of smuggling ships and illegal ships every year. There is no ignorant statement for the empire. Once the captain is guilty, everyone on the ship will be in trouble.
Therefore, the Ministry of Justice imprisons and crew members arrested for illegal acts such as smuggling activities.
Although the quality and quality of these people may not be as high as that of the students trained by the Navy, their experience is definitely first-class. After all, the route of the empire has never been peaceful, and you can't afford to have a job without some ability.
According to Talos, all Soshiyan wants is a middle- and low-level crew member, and his quality is almost the same.
Soshiyan also recognized the plan and immediately contacted the Star District Legal Department and proposed his idea of ​​wanting to acquire a group of criminal crew members.
In principle, his behavior is also inappropriate, because the Ministry of Justice has its own management plan, and giving prisoners at will does not comply with the rules and regulations.
However, compared with the Navy, Soshiyan has a better relationship with the Ministry of Justice, because the Ministry of Justice in the Star Zone often encounters difficult situations, mainly various serious alien activities. It is not appropriate to find the slow Star Zone Army at this time. Astart, who can strike quickly, often needs to come forward. As the only and most powerful Asate force in the Star Zone, the Alliance of Suffering is undoubtedly the most direct target of the Ministry of Justice in the Star Zone.
Since you have something to ask for, you can naturally open a back door.
According to regulations, the casting world of mechanical education can apply to the Ministry of Justice for criminals to carry out colonial development, large-scale transformation of maneuvers and other production activities. Therefore, under the hint of the Ministry of Justice, Soshiyang asked Zhao Akhada's sage to apply for a group of criminal crew members from the Star District Legal Department.
The Ministry of Justice was also very happy. With a big stroke, he allocated two million criminal crew members from the world of punishment to Zhao Akada.
Then these people appeared in the fleet of the Astral Knights.
After screening and testing, these people will be assigned to different positions - it is worth mentioning that during the screening process, the person in charge once reported to Soshiyang that the accidental arrest rate of the Legal Department is really high, and the situation of many people is not in line with their crimes.
But Soshiyang has no strength or energy to manage the law enforcement issues of the Ministry of Justice. After all, this is the case with the empire now. If you are unlucky, there is no way to do it, regardless of whether you are really innocent or not.
Misjudgment? If it doesn't exist, if you don't believe it, you can try to see if the shock stick in the law enforcement officer's hand is powerful enough.
After the crew problem was resolved, Soshiyan began to solve the second thing.
Problems of supplies and ships.
After gaining a basic understanding of the situation in the Great Vortex area, Soshiyan knew that it would take a long time to build a complete logistics supply system this time, and they were not familiar with the casting world around the Great Vortex, and it would take more time to reach cooperation with each other. Therefore, before this, you must prepare sufficient supplies to support this period - even if these supplies are just a drop in the bucket for the entire Expeditionary Force, it is always better than not.
For this reason, Soshiyang contacted everyone he thought was good, and had cooperated in creating the world before. He hoped that the sages could generously donate to support the expedition.
Of course, he was not so naive that he really thought that an expedition slogan could make those sages take their pockets.
According to his many long talks with Malakin, the commander of the Crypto War told Soshyan that, as one of the oldest natural phenomena in the Galaxy, there are a large number of ancient ruins in its area, including humans and aliens. Therefore, there have been many exploration teams from the Mechanical Education there, so he suggested that Soshyan negotiate with the founding world on this condition.
The conditions offered by Soshiyan and the sages of the Forging World are also very simple. The Forging World can send exploration fleets to join the expeditionary force. During the process of the large army's conquest, Soshiyan will also give priority to protecting these exploration teams. If something suspected of remains is found in the occupied area, the nearest exploration team will also be notified first.
And he also suggested that if there was a conflict with other casting exploration teams, he would support those who joined him.
The ruins of the Great Vortex do have a great attraction to the various casting worlds, but because of the chaos there and the rampant pirate activities, the exploration teams sent by the Mechanical Cult are all small teams of adventure, so the results will naturally not be much larger.
However, with Soshiyan's guarantee, the situation seems to be different again.
After a period of consultation between the messengers, five foundry companies including Griffin IV, Grieya, Lucius, Huangquan 8, Zhao Akada decided to provide free assistance to the Expeditionary Force, including weapons, equipment, ammunition, vehicles, transport ships and other materials, and sent exploration fleets of varying sizes to join the Expeditionary Force - but the foundry world also had the same conditions. The exploration fleet was not under the command of Soshiyan, and whether to join the battle was entirely determined by their choice. Only when it was absolutely necessary, Soshiyan could negotiate and mobilize them.
Among them, Griffin IV supported the supplies of three large transport ships, including 20 specialty Riemanlus Victors.
Greya supported supplies from two large transport ships, including several Greière Hellhound armored vehicles and dagger laser destroyers.
Lucius only supported the supplies of one large transport ship, and most of the supplies were logistics supplies. However, in addition to this large transport ship, they also added two troop transport ships, which were equipped with Lucius's 9th Floor Force of the Beta Battle Group of the Apologists who were good at fighting. Although led by the commander of the sage, they were willing to accept Soshiyan's command, which was also a reward for his long-term cooperation.
Huangquan Eight is also the supplies of two large transport ships. The more prominent of these is the unique Hydra air defense vehicle. However, the exploration fleet sent by the founding world is the largest. According to the other party, the fleet should be about thirty ships. Obviously, the sages there are extremely strong stars in the ruins of the Great Vortex Area.
Or they actually had a goal, but there was some huge obstacle in it, and Soshiyan gave them a chance.
Chapter completed!