Colossus Civilization

The three were still in discussion when they received an urgent procurement request from the Blue Star Federation government.

The Blue Star Federation directly ordered one hundred Guardian-class Destroyers.

They were also willing to transfer certain technologies to help Maple Leaf Mining refine its warship manufacturing system.

Clearly, the Blue Star Federation had begun preparing for a rainy day.

Relying solely on the government's warship production capacity might not be enough to handle a war between civilizations, so they had begun expanding civilian reserves.

That was simply how the Blue Star Federation operated. The government was not an all-encompassing, paternalistic entity.

Unless there was an essential strategic need, nearly all business would be outsourced.

Capital conglomerates also took on part of the government's functions.

At least when it came to industrial planning, that was the case.

At the very least, every highly ranked conglomerate possessed some degree of spacecraft production capacity, which could be converted into warship production lines at critical moments.

Ambitious enterprises like Pegasus Group were even researching new-generation warships of multiple classes at the same time.

Of course, that was because they possessed the resources of an educational and research system.

Otherwise, ordinary conglomerates would not research every field at once, but would specialize in one or two fields.

Moreover, ultimate weapons like aircraft carriers were even harder to manufacture independently. Most were led by the federal government, developed jointly by several military equipment manufacturing consortiums, and then produced together.

Thus, Maple Leaf Mining, which had made the first sound in the military equipment sector with the Guardian-class Destroyer, also received part of the orders.

Frigates, destroyers, airships, and cruisers were the fields where most conglomerates clustered, and they also had the greatest variety of warship models.

Even destroyers were not a ship class without technical barriers,