Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Some ships have a magnificent exterior, but their interiors even have aging subspace shields.

Some ore carriers may look like a pile of scrap metal welded together, but they can tow tens of millions of tons of ore across short waterways.

Some of the so-called "imperial registration ships" had actually long been used as private property by local nobles.

Some merchant ships belonged to chartered trading guilds of the old empire. The ship owners held authorization certificates from hundreds of years ago, trying to prove they were not under the control of Lawson.

After the Bi'an battle group sent several of the best readers of the authorization documents to trial, the remaining ship owners' reading abilities improved significantly.

Andrei continued, "Transport ships make up the vast majority. The number of warships that can actually be used for military operations is much smaller."

Star chart switching.

Civilian vessels are first divided into several categories.

The first category is sector-coordinated transport ships.

These ships originally belonged to Imperial institutions, the Star Sector Governor's Office, the Ministry of Justice, Naval Logistics, guild public property, or to rebellious noble families who had been executed.

They are now all under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles District Transportation Authority.

The cornerstone sequence takes over the bridge, cargo hold, and route scheduling.

The second category is family-registered transport ships.

These ships belonged to noble families, merchant guilds, and trade associations that were still permitted to exist.

Lawson did not confiscate everything in one fell swoop.

The sector is too large and there are too many ships; completely dismantling the civilian transportation system would affect efficiency.

However, all private boats must be registered.

Hull number.

In reality, everyone.

Cargo hold capacity.

Armed forces situation.

Subspace navigation capability.

Frequently used routes.

Crew list.

Transportation records for the past three years.

Have you had any contact with the Red Pirates, the Dark Mechanicus, the Rebellious Planet, or the Cunning Contaminated Point?

All data was entered into the swarm intelligence framework.

Private boats can be used for business.

It can also be used for shipping goods.

However, routes, types of cargo, escort requirements, and fuel supplies are all subject to regional dispatch.

Anyone who dares to smuggle slaves, alien samples, chaotic items, or unregistered persons will have their ship confiscated, the ship owner sent to Bi'an (a mythical beast), and the crew reassigned to mining areas or machine-servant lines depending on the circumstances.

The third category is short-range regional fleets.

These ships are not suitable for long voyages, but they are suitable for transporting goods within a star system.

From mineral satellites to the main star, from orbital warehouses to starports, from agricultural continents to near-orbit granaries.

They are incorporated into the internal circulation networks of each galaxy.

The fourth category is scrapped and converted ships.

Many ships in the Agrippina sector are not available immediately.

The subspace engine is partially broken, the Geller force field is aging, the cargo hold seals have failed, the crew has mutinied, and the machine spirit has gone mad.

Some ships were also contaminated by filth, converted by Red Pirates, or used as hideouts by the Chicken Cult.

All of these ships were towed into the quarantine dock.

Repair what can be repaired; dismantle what cannot be repaired.

The dismantled cannons, armor plates, reactors, propulsion units, Thinker arrays, and internal piping were all put into the Agrippina General Warehouse.

The Mechanics Cult loves dismantling ships.

Especially dismantling other people's ships.

Logistics is only half of the lifeblood of a star sector.

The other half is a warship.

This time, for the first time, the number of warships that Lawson possessed truly exceeded one hundred.

In the past, his core fleet was very strong.

The Avenger, White Tiger, Red Dragon, Angel's Wrath, Gothic-class heavy cruisers, Luna-class cruisers, Sword-class frigates, and the Chaos warships captured and modified over time are sufficient to support local wars.

But that's not a sector defense network.

Three hundred and eighteen planets, requiring patrols, escorts, anti-piracy operations, sealing off contaminated sites, responding to rebellions, escorting food supplies, hunting down smugglers, and monitoring borders.

No matter how powerful a few capital ships are, they cannot appear on hundreds of shipping routes at the same time.

Therefore, Lawson began to reorganize the warships throughout the Agrippina Sector.

Swarm intelligence provides the statistics.

There are a total of more than 580 warships and armed vessels available.

Of these, approximately 320 are actually eligible for inclusion in the regular combat order.

The rest consist of armed transport ships, patrol boats, converted cargo ships, close-in defense ships, local gunboats, and semi-decommissioned frigates.

The number of capital ships is not large, but it is much more abundant than in the past.

Battleships and large capital ships:

The Avenger, the core flagship of the Gothic-class heavy cruiser conversion.

The Angel's Wrath, a coordination ship left behind by Dante's support system, primarily serves as a communication and heavy firepower support node.

The captured and repaired Chaos Killer-class cruiser, Red Hook, has undergone initial purification and has been renamed Broken Rope.

An old Imperial Mars-class battlecruiser, from the deep storage of the old Agrippina shipyard, has a severely aged reactor, but its macro gun deck is intact and is currently being repaired.

Two Tyrant-class cruisers, one of which is the Black Cloud, and the other comes from the remnants of the old navy in the sector.

Three Luna-class cruisers.

Two Gothic-class cruisers.

A Dictator-class cruiser with a damaged aircraft carrier deck; Kexos suggests converting it into a boarding torpedo carrier.

Escort and destroyer level:

There are approximately 140 Sword-class corvettes.

More than forty Firestorm-class frigates.

More than sixty Cobra-class destroyers.

Dozens of locally converted patrol boats, gunboats, armed merchant ships, and mining area escort vessels.

There were also some strange things seized from the Red Pirates and the rebel fleet.

The ship had substandard turrets welded onto its hull.

The machine spirit grumbled and cursed.

There were bloodstains and heretical markings in the corridor.

The T-series assassins and mechanical priests were cleaning and registering which ones were usable and which ones needed to be dismantled.

The Agrippina Sector Fleet is divided into five main parts.

First, the core mobile fleet.

The Avenger will serve as the flagship.

It is equipped with the White Tiger, Red Dragon, Angel's Wrath, Broken Rope, two Luna-class cruisers, several Gothic-class cruisers, and a main escort fleet.

Responsible for responding to large-scale Chaos invasions, the main force of the Red Pirates, the Iron Warrior heavy fleet, external threats from the Zerg, the Demon Fleet, and other sector-level wars.

This fleet is not responsible for routine patrols.

Keep your fist clenched, and wait until the time is right to strike.

Second, the sector patrol fleet.

It is divided into twelve patrol groups.

Each patrol group is equipped with one or two cruiser-class flagships, and ten to twenty frigates, destroyers, and armed transport ships.

Responsible for fixed area patrols, shipping route escort, anti-piracy, smuggling investigation, outpost resupply, and deterring small-scale rebellions.

Third, the intergalactic defense fleet.

Each key star system should have its own close-in defense fleet.

The ship doesn't need to be big.

However, it must have a fast local response time.

Railgunships, close-in defense ships, firestorm frigates, sword-class frigates, and armed barges can all be included.

It is responsible for protecting the Starport, the orbital elevator, the grain silo satellite, the green-skinned incubation pool orbital isolation station, and the outer layer of the dock.

These fleets are commanded by the local cornerstone sequence and are subject to sector swarm scheduling.

Fourth, the transport escort fleet.

It is specifically designed to protect grain, ore, promethium, military supplies, machine tool materials, prisoner transport ships, and large engineering fleets.

Fifth, the special mission fleet.

Suanni Purification Ship, Bi'an Judgment Ship, Zhulong Channel Reconnaissance Ship, T-Series Engineering Ship, Pollution Blockade Ship, Boarding Torpedo Mother Ship.

Lawson looked at the five-tiered fleet structure and nodded.