After returning to the flagship, Soshiyan prepared some and went to General Mars' palace to discuss cooperation with the other party in detail.
The closed-door talks with General Mars lasted for 3 hours. In fact, in Soshiyang's opinion, this casting general was much worse than the founding director of Reza in both his vision and his energy. Perhaps it was because of the intrigues of the High Lords' Council that poisoned him all year round. In short, Soshiyang felt that this person was the typical type of person who was willing to lose his life when he saw small profits, and was even worse than Bangula.
However, this kind of person is indeed easy to deal with in a sense. The temptation of stc easily made the other party privately adjust the part of the star claw and tiger claw in the genetic seed bank. After all, there is no one to supervise these things. No one will notice it at all, let alone the rebellious battle group in the past. Even some ancient genetic seeds were put into effect and were not cleaned up. Soshiyang felt that the casting general should have no psychological pressure to do things.
But this also made Soshiyan feel very sad about the current situation of the empire. So many gene seeds "rotted" in the warehouse. They should have created many warriors to defend the territory and people of the empire, but many warring groups even fought one soldier and one soldier could not get the supplement to the eleven tax they originally paid. The high lords set up a group of new war groups, like a miser, limiting the number to a very low, for fear that one more war group would take their heads.
The eleventh tax of gene seeds should have been a life-saving straw for the battle group at its most critical moment, but it turned out to be a sickle that limits the size of Astart. Just like the Knight of the Astral Realm, it is not difficult to understand the resentment and hatred of many battle groups.
After talking about this, Soshiyang simply made a concerted effort to discuss new cooperation with the foundry general.
Mainly warships.
The Knights of the Star Realm suffered a certain loss this time. Although the Silver Redemption was seized, they lost a total of 5 main battleships, including the heavy cruiser Atonement, the strike cruiser Endeavor, the Strength Cruiser Absolute Power, and the Golden Wind. When the battle group started the expedition, there were only 14 main battleships, which was equivalent to losing one-third of the fleet's strength. The small battleship also lost twenty, accounting for half of the total.
As the empire's main shipbuilding and maintenance base and also the main location for sealing ships, Soshiyang planned to "change" some sealed ships from Mars.
Maybe this sounds a bit strange. The empire clearly needs fleets everywhere, so why are there still ships sealed?
In fact, even the navy cannot increase the size and number of fleets at will. The number of fleets and ships that a naval base can support is limited. Each huge warship means a massive investment, not only in construction, but also in the cost of maintaining and using it. This makes the navy replace new warships (the navy is generally considered to be unfamiliar in warhammers, and it is not the stronger the older it is), it often needs to retire a certain number of old warships to free up budgets and resources for new warships and fleets. However, in empires that have been facing war for a long time, it is wasteful to directly dismantle warships, and the mechanical cultivator will also cause protests. The best way is to seal them up, let the soul of the machine sleep, and put the hull into the warship cemetery to wait before awakening.
There are not many airports that can preserve a large number of warships in the entire empire. They are basically the navy's star area base or the airport for casting the world. Mars, as the largest casting world in the Sun's star field and the center of the mechanical cultivator, naturally became the largest dock sealing place in the entire star field.
However, after the warships are sealed over time, new problems will soon arise. Since the maintenance costs in the sealing stage come from the Mechanical Cultivation Council, the Mechanical Cultivation Council "just deserves" to believe that these sleepy warships are similar to those who have been "retired" soldiers. Their ownership has been returned to the Mechanical Cultivation Council during the sealing stage, so they have the power to deal with these warships, which immediately caused a rebound from the Navy and other high lords. After a long-term game, the sealing agreement was formulated. The agreement set a term for one year. The ownership of the warships with a sealing period of more than three thousand years belongs to the Mechanical Cultivation Council. However, if the Navy needs it and the warships are still in the storage place, they can still be raised.
So over the years, Mars has a lot of stock, but Soshiyang has to complain that the Mechanical Cultivation Society belongs to squirrels, and things are really bad in the warehouse than to be lazy to provide support to those in need. These ships are the same. Many ships have been sealed for six or seven thousand years, so the Mechanical Cultivation Society still lets them lie down, as if this is their wife!
But no matter how many of the complaints are, there is no doubt that for the current Knights of the Star Realm, which has less than ten main ships, this is a very huge treasure house. After all, there are so many enemies now. Even if there is no major battle to fight in the future, you have to prepare for it. Although Ruizha, Ulanhuda, and even Zhao Akada, there are still ships under construction, they still have to wait after all, and Mars is a type that can be taken away directly by ships.
After provoking Fogrim, Soshyan now has a strong sense of crisis. The power that can be strengthened immediately must not be let go. After all, only by being prepared can you be free of trouble. If a ship is still under construction in the dock, you will have no regrets if something happens.
In the Mars ship cemetery, the main ones are Emperor-class battleships, retribution-class battleships, Mars-class battleships, Gothic cruisers, Avenger-class large cruisers, Exorcist-class large cruisers, etc.
They all have one characteristic, that is, their history is relatively ancient, such as the Revenge level, the Avenger level, and the Exorcist level, which are already relatively outdated in design.
It’s not that they are not powerful, but that their designs do not match the current main tactics and mission requirements of the Imperial Fleet.
But no matter what, they are all precious battleships, the golden bumps in the eyes of the Mechanical Society, perhaps second only to the Titans.
Although Soshiyang is quite generous and has an additional stc template to trade, it is not enough for him to buy too many ships.
After carefully browsing the status of each ship and thinking about the future needs of the battle group, Soshiyan decided to use all the stc templates he carried this time and some of the "mysterious instruments" seized from the Red Pirates to exchange for 2 Mars battlecruisers and 1 Oberon-class battleship from the founding general.
The reason for this choice is that these two models of warships have outstanding independent combat capabilities. The Mars-class battlecruiser once had close contact during the Great Vortex Expedition. The coordination of the speed and firepower of this model left a deep impression on him.
Chapter completed!