(Battleship reference)
(Cruiser reference)
Marine Headquarters' first space fleet.
Its scale looked considerable, but it actually had to be divided into seven parts.
The fleet marshal and the six admirals all needed their own direct fleets, making each portion even smaller.
Calculating carefully, if an admiral were to undertake an interstellar mission,
they could probably bring only one Grand Line-class Warhammer battleship, five Grand Line-class heavy battlecruisers, fewer than ten Four Seas-class light battle destroyers, plus an unspecified number of escort and transport ships.
But there was no helping it. The World Government had only just gotten started and could only develop and build up gradually.
There was also another point that President Gareth Marick had raised in his report.
The stated budget for 1.9 to 2 million troops referred to combat personnel.
It did not include the technical and logistical personnel responsible for operating the warships.
After all, having Marine Headquarters soldiers type on keyboards, watch monitors, or transport supplies was simply too wasteful of combat strength.
Then who would handle those tasks?
President Gareth Marick stated that the Academy of Sciences had already found a solution.
That was, handing them over to strong artificial intelligences and robots!
Although they had learned through various virtual worlds in the 'Main God Space'
of the potential crises that 'intelligent machines' could bring about,
after discussions and research by Vegapunk, Dr. Stylish, Flam, and others together with Kong, Tsuru, and Zephyr,
they believed that, at this stage, they still needed 'intelligent machines' to help control the space warships.
If they wanted to develop quickly and catch up with the Galactic Empire and the Cosmic Federation, they had to do this.
The issue of risk could be addressed from two angles.
First, the World Government's existing extraordinary combat power was sufficient to suppress