Four days had passed since Sandora and I personally inspected the New Warship. After correcting a few minor details, the new vessel model, named the Executioner-Class, officially entered mass production. The blueprints, sealed under top-secret protocols, were personally distributed by Bubble to node hosts with sufficient clearance. These node hosts were permanently stationed in starports that met production requirements, where they monitored the ships' entire manufacturing process. They would undertake no additional tasks until the first batch of warships was completed. Personally planned by the Empire's Highest Host, with every ship constructed from start to finish by a dedicated Mass-Produced Host, this treatment was normally reserved only for the most important and classified armaments. It was clear just how highly the Empire's upper ranks valued these new Ultimate Weapons. The officers at headquarters had high hopes for these vessels and unanimously agreed that even if conventional warship production had to be delayed, the Executioner-Class's production needs would take priority.
With the New Empire weaker than the Fallen Apostles in both conventional troop numbers and industrial foundations, finding new paths through technological breakthroughs and all kinds of tricky, unconventional "tactics" was our trump card for victory. That had already been proven in numerous real battles.
However, constrained by the output of Source Energy Ore and the difficulty of deeply refining it, the key materials for the Executioner-Class were in short supply. This was also the first time in many years that Imperial factories had faced a "resource shortage." After calculating the stockpiled Source Energy Ore and the rate at which it naturally formed, especially after subtracting the ore consumed by other projects, the production schedule for the first batch of Executioner-Class warships listed only three hundred vessels. Considering that even a regular legion's capital ships numbered seven or eight hundred, the