Federation Year 1730.
Five years had passed before anyone realized it. The alliance's core civilizations were now busy refitting with Joint Warships, while the other civilizations had also begun purchasing the previous generation of standard Federal warships from the Federation.
The Federation alone had made no move.
The new-generation warships that had originally been scheduled to enter production in 1728 still had not begun production even after five years.
The entire project had stalled.
It was not a technical problem, but an issue with raw materials.
According to the designs by Jiang Xinlan and Bai Zhi, the new-generation Azure Dragon class general-purpose warship had indeed met Lin Fan's standards. However, its energy supply had become a problem.
Although Luo Li had designed an entirely new warship energy system, and it had passed testing and been finalized, problems arose during mass production.
One key material could be produced in the laboratory, but could not be mass-produced.
And over the past two years, they had still failed to find a suitable substitute material.
Thus, Lin Fan had only three choices before him.
First, continue searching for replacement materials and strive to achieve mass production as soon as possible.
Second, abandon the entire plan, scrap everything, and redesign the Azure Dragon class general-purpose warship's energy core system from scratch.
Third, put the Azure Dragon class general-purpose warship project on hold and refit using Joint Warships instead.
"Luo Li, how long would it take to redesign a new energy system?"
"At least three years, at most five. It should be possible!"
"Can you ensure we won't run into a similar problem again?"
"I can only say I'm 99 percent confident!"
Shaking her head, Luo Li answered.
She had the technology, but the problem was that the more advanced the technology, the more it relied