Federation year 67.
In the star system Horton, Lin Fan frowned a little in the army commander's office.
Since the Human Federation and the Io Federation reached a warship OEM agreement three months ago, the Io Federation has been working hard to start production.
According to feedback from the Io Federation, these battleships can be completed in two years, not even three years.
The 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.
The First Legion now has five fleets. The commanders from the First Fleet (guard fleet) to the Fifth Fleet are Lin Fan (part-time), Chris Rhodes, 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, Lin Fan would not need to worry. He would have 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 Starfleet headquarters, there are a lot of generals at the level of commodore and above. Not to mention 7 fleets, even 70 fleets can arrange all the commanders for you.
But the problem is, it is impossible for Lin Fan to do this. The bloody example of Quinn is still in front of him. Except for a few few generals in the Starfleet headquarters, Lin Fan really has no good impression at all.
All of them are eloquent, but when it comes to commanding fleets on the battlefield, many of them are not even as effective as some of the command trainees at the Interstellar Military Academy.
To put it bluntly, 80% of the generals in Starfleet Headquarters are cancers left over from the early days of the Federation.
These cancerous men can just play with the warships replaced by the two major legions and build a 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 are currently studying at Xingchen Military Academy that I am optimistic about may be able to alleviate this problem.
However, although Lin Fan didn't mind the issue of military rank, he still had to find a way to silence everyone, otherwise there would 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 position of fleet commander. Even if you borrow the temporary system of two-level appointment, it will definitely not be their turn.
To this end, Lin Fan is planning to conduct a direct selection of fleet commanders. 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, this is something that everyone cannot do. Understand, it's just an agent in name only.
At the same time, in order to silence the generals in the Starfleet headquarters, Lin Fan even allowed them to participate in the selection. As long as one of them can win in the end, he can also be appointed as the 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 Starfleet headquarters? After all, Sophia was the first to serve at the headquarters, wasn't she
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 Sanders.
To Lin Fan's surprise, just ten minutes later, he received a direct communication from Sanders.
Due to the popularity of genetic enhancement drugs, it only takes a few minutes for Sanders to read such a document with dozens of pages.
As the communication was connected, Sanders' figure was projected directly in front of Lin Fan.
"Lin Fan, you kid is going to cause trouble again!"
As soon as Sanders came up, he looked at Lin Fan and cursed with a smile.
It can be said that Sanders liked Lin Fan quite a bit 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 anyone in the federation except Lin Fan can suppress his granddaughter with such a problematic personality.
It wasn't until some time ago that Sophia contacted him and asked to be transferred to the First Army that Sanders used several informants in Sophia's fleet to learn what happened.
Not long after, he got news again that Li Cangqiong had spent the night in Sophia's room.
Therefore, the old marshal gave up on trying to deal with Sophia and Lin Fan, and began to pay attention to Li Cangqiong instead.
In fact, the whole thing is just Sanders worrying about it. As Sophia herself said, she likes strong men, but she doesn’t like men who are strong enough to abuse her. After all, she has pure S attribute, so she can’t find someone who can abuse her at will. What does it mean to be a man
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, she will feel uncomfortable if she doesn't bully him.
"Marshal Sanders, there is nothing I can do about it. Where are the military rank regulations? Even the temporary two-level appointment system is completely insufficient! Where am I going to find 7 suitable fleet commanders within two years? !”
"Although we can catch a lot of people with sufficient military rank, the question is what condition those people are in. 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 within Starfleet 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, I will also give you a chance to join." I'm sorry, but the First Fleet will never allow cheating!"
"Hey, boy, do you know that this will offend a lot of people?"
Sanders sighed, thinking that when Lin Fan proposed the temporary system of two-level 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 take a step further, preparing to jump directly to the fifth and sixth levels and push him to the position of lieutenant colonel or even major. You can only imagine how noisy the seniority 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!"
After listening to Lin Fan's words, Sanders 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!
(End of chapter)