Federation Year 67.
Star System Horton, Legion Commander In the office, Lin Fan frowned.
Since Human Federation and Io Federation reached a warship OEM agreement three months ago, Io Federation has been working hard to start production.
According to feedback from Io Federation, these battleships can be completed in two years, not even three years.
A task that took twenty years to complete can now be completed in two years. Lin Fan should be happy, but in fact he is extremely troubled now.
Now First Legion has five fleets. The commanders from First Fleet (Guard Fleet) to Fifth Fleet are Lin Fan (concurrently), Chris·Rod, Emma·Campbell, Li Cangqiong and Sophia·Duncan.
However, in the next two years, the remaining seven fleets in the legion will be gradually established. This is a gratifying thing.
But what about the commanders of these seven fleets?
If the original speed of ship building and new fleet establishment was maintained, there would be no need to worry about Lin Fan. There would be plenty of time to slowly discover potential commanders.
But now, this time has been compressed to 2 years, which gives Lin Fan a headache.
If you just rank by seniority, in the Interstellar Fleet headquarters, there are a lot of generals at the level of commodore or above. Not to mention 7 fleets, even 70 fleets can arrange all the commanders for you.
But the problem is that it is impossible for Lin Fan to do this. The bloody examples of Quinn are still in front of us. Except for a few of the generals in Interstellar Fleet's headquarters, Lin Fan really doesn't have a good impression at all.
All of them are eloquent, but when it comes to commanding the fleet on the battlefield, many of them are not even as effective as some of the command students in the Interstellar Military Academy.
To put it bluntly, 80% of the generals in the Interstellar Fleet headquarters are cancers left over from the early days of the Federation.
These cancerous enemies can just play with the warships replaced by the two legions and engage in Star System Guard Fleet. They must not be allowed to harm the main fleet on the front line.
After thinking for a long time, the only way I could think of was to use the acting commander system and continue to promote people with insufficient military rank to the post, even if they were lieutenant colonels or even majors.
In this case, a few school-level officers who I am optimistic about and are currently training in the Star Military Academy may be able to alleviate this problem.
However, although Lin Fan doesn't mind the issue of military rank, he still has to find a way to silence everyone, otherwise there will be some trouble.
After all, it is unprecedented for you to let a few people who are only majors and lieutenant colonels take up the post of Fleet Commander. Even if you borrow the temporary system of two-level appointment, it will definitely not be their turn.
For this reason, Lin Fan is going to directly conduct a selection for Fleet Commander. As long as you are a school-level officer, you can participate. Finally, the seven strongest people will be selected to take up the post of acting commanders of the new seven fleets. However, everyone knows that this is only an agent in name.
At the same time, in order to silence the generals in the Interstellar Fleet headquarters, Lin Fan even allowed them to participate in the selection. As long as one of them can win to the end, he can also take up the post of Fleet Commander.
On the one hand, it can shut them up. On the other hand, what if there are really 1 or 2 buried talents in Interstellar Fleet headquarters? After all, Sophia was the first person to work at the headquarters, right?
Once the decision was made, he got to work immediately, quickly wrote a document about the problems faced by the legion and his own solutions, and submitted it to Marshal Saunders.
What surprised Lin Fan was that just ten minutes later, he received a direct communication from Saunders.
Due to the popularity of gene enhancement drugs, it only takes a few minutes for Saunders to read such a document with dozens of pages.
As the communication was connected, Saunders's figure was directly projected in front of Lin Fan.
"Lin Fan, you kid is going to cause trouble again!"
As soon as Saunders came up, he looked at Lin Fan and laughed and cursed.
It can be said that Saunders likes Lin Fan very much, and even had the idea of introducing Sophia to Lin Fan.
In his logic, there are already two of these guys anyway, and it doesn't matter if there is one more. The most important thing is that he doesn't think there is anyone in the federation other than Lin Fan who can suppress his granddaughter with a problematic personality.
It wasn't until Sophia contacted him some time ago and asked to be transferred to the First Legion that Saunders used several informants in the Sophia fleet to learn what happened.
Even not long after, he got the news again that Li Cangqiong spent the night in Sophia's room.
Therefore, the old marshal gave up the matter of making do with Sophia and Lin Fan, and began to pay attention to Li Cangqiong instead.
In fact, the whole thing was just Saunders's fuss. As Sophia said herself, she likes strong men, but she doesn't like men who are strong enough to abuse her. After all, she has a pure S attribute. What's the point of finding a man who can abuse herself casually?
Therefore, Li Cangqiong, who is powerful but slightly weaker than himself, and possesses full M attributes, immediately made Sophia fall in love with him. Now, if he doesn't bully him, he will feel uncomfortable all over.
"Marshal Saunders, there is nothing I can do about it. Where are the military rank regulations? Even the temporary two-level appointment system is not enough! Where am I going to find 7 suitable Fleet Commanders in two years!"
"Although we can catch a lot of people with sufficient military rank, the question is what is the situation of those people. I believe you, Marshal, also know!"
"And we are now in a critical period for the Federation. There is absolutely no room for moths at this time. I do not deny that there may be hidden talents in the Interstellar Fleet headquarters, so I prepared this plan!"
"On the one hand, I want to allow truly capable people to rise to the top without being restricted by military rank. On the other hand, I also give those generals a chance. If you have real ability, then I also welcome you to join, but if you don't have real ability, then I'm sorry, First Fleet will never allow you to cheat!"
"Hey, boy, do you know that this will offend a lot of people?"
Saunders sighed, thinking that when Lin Fan proposed the temporary system of level 2 appointments, it had already caused an uproar. In the end, he and President Lin took action together to suppress the opposition.
It hasn't been long yet, and now Lin Fan is about to go a step further, preparing to jump directly to the fifth and sixth levels to promote lieutenant colonel or even major. You can only imagine how noisy those Establishment Faction will be.
"Marshal, it's time to remove the cancer, otherwise sooner or later, the entire federation will be destroyed in their hands!"
"Yes, the strongest fortresses are often breached from within!"
Listening to Lin Fan's words, Saunders was stunned for a moment, and then sighed with emotion.
At this moment, he made some kind of determination, everything was for the future of the Federation!