In the agreement between Lance and Chris, the Federation would provide a large number of battleships to the Commoners.
And this was the most important part of the entire agreement.
After all, the reason why the Commoners had not succeeded in overthrowing the Nobles was largely because of the battleships.
In the Langdon Empire, all the battleships were controlled by the Royal Family.
To put it simply, normally, one would have no problem controlling a battleship. However, if one day, one wanted to cause trouble, the Royal Family only needed to give an order and one would no longer be able to control the battleship.
The Royal Family could even remotely control the battleship to turn around and attack their own people!
Therefore, even though 99.99% of the people in the Empire's fleet were commoners, they still could not resist the Nobles' rule.
Of course, one could learn from pirates and frequently attack the battleship production bases to steal the battleships that were completed but did not have the time to install the corresponding control system.
However, relying on these stolen battleships might be more than enough for one to engage in a pirate career. However, if one wanted to overthrow the Nobles' rule, this number was completely insufficient.
After all, the Nobles' fleet was in the hundreds of billions of battleships!
Although in the agreement, the Federation was still the main force, but the Federation could only join in the form of military support.
And this …
The Commoners led by Lance had to play a major role in this.
However, with the current strength of the Commoners, not to mention playing a major role, just joining in and showing their faces was already very difficult.
Therefore, Lance needed a fleet, a fleet that was not controlled by the Royal Family, and the Federation just happened to be able to provide these battleships!
After all …
The Federation had a large number of retired battleships. Although these battleships were outdated to the current Federation, in the Langdon Empire, they were still more powerful than the Empire's main battleships.
Of course, the Federation did not provide these battleships for free. Lance still had to pay for them.
Hmm, in the future, the mining fees would be deducted from the Erlo metal. After paying off the debt, the subsequent mining fees would obtain the corresponding Federation affiliated civilization points.
In this way, the Federation got rid of tens of billions of retired battleships, and Lance obtained an important force that could resist or even overthrow the Nobles' fleet. Both sides hit it off and were very happy.
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Three days later.
The original plan of the Federation's allied civilization alliance was suspended.
Instead, countless retired battleships from the previous generation of the Empire were pulled out again and sent to Sela through the super stargate in batches.
Lance, who was on Sela, was not idle either.
Although the Federation had provided 20 billion battleships that were equivalent to peak level-6 civilizations (according to the usual practice, these battleships had a backdoor left behind by the Federation), they had the battleships, but their people had to keep up.
The number of people needed to operate 20 billion warships was definitely a terrifying number.
According to Lance's calculations, when the operation officially began, they would only be able to gather enough people to operate three billion warships at most, and this was already almost all the people that the Civilian Party had developed until now.
As for the other warships, they could only fight while recruiting more civilians to join them.
He believed that as long as his flag was raised, this should not be difficult, and his fleet would be like a rolling snowball, rolling bigger and bigger!
As time passed, a large number of Civilian Party members from various administrative districts of the Empire gradually gathered on Sela. Most of them were active and reserve soldiers of the Empire. They did not need to start training from scratch and could directly board the battleships to familiarize themselves with them.
The most interesting thing was that the disappearance of so many active and reserve soldiers did not attract the attention of the Empire's upper echelons.
Although the number of civilians was usually severely reduced due to various reasons, this time, such a large number of civilians had disappeared at the same time. The Nobles were too careless.
It could also be seen how rotten the upper echelons of the Empire had become.
After three months of preparation, Lance now had a fleet of 2.8 billion battleships!
Although it was only 2.8 billion, this was several times more than the total number of battleships of all the pirate groups in the Pirate Federation.
Not to mention, there were still 17.2 billion battleships that were idle because there was not enough manpower!
In the past, Lance would never have dared to think of something like this.
Now, the time was ripe, and Lance decided to take action. His first target was …
Kepler Star Sector!
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Kepler Star Sector.
Located in the Weiss Galaxy, on the third main spiral arm of the Cassano Galaxy, it was one of the galaxy's nine star sectors, and also the star sector where Sela was located.
At the core of the Kepler Star Sector, the administrative star of Rabi.
In the Governor's Mansion, which exuded the aura of a nouveau riche everywhere, Governor Osar was leisurely drinking afternoon tea, enjoying the life of a noble.
"Governor, according to statistics, in the past three months, the number of casualties in our fleet has reached 7 billion. This is really abnormal!"
"What's abnormal? Isn't it just that those bastards went overboard? They're just some lowly civilians. So what if they die? They're like ants anyway. No matter how many of them die, they won't die out!"
Looking at the secretary in front of him who reported respectfully, Osar's face was indifferent. He even had a look that said, "Don't bother me with this kind of thing."
In his opinion, this kind of thing was too normal.
After all, when the nobles under him had nothing to do, they liked to play all kinds of games. Among them, the most popular one among the nobles was interstellar war games!
That's right, interstellar war games!
They pulled out a portion of their battleships from their respective fleets to conduct "live ammunition exercises" and gamble.
It was precisely because of this that even in peacetime, the imperial fleet suffered a large number of casualties and battleship training damage every year.
At this moment, in response to the secretary's report, Osar only thought that his subordinates went overboard.
"These guys don't know how to control themselves!"
While complaining, Osar continued to drink afternoon tea, not taking this matter seriously at all.
The secretary could only look helpless, but he didn't dare to say anything more.
But he knew in his heart that this was definitely not caused by the "live ammunition exercises" of the nobles, but that such a large group of people really disappeared.
Something big is going to happen!
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In a colorful space, a huge fleet was moving in it, and Lance … was in one of the Titan-class battleships.
Looking at the beautiful scenery in the hyperspace outside the porthole, Lance also felt a burst of emotion.
He didn't expect that in his lifetime, he would be able to command such a huge and powerful fleet, and use technology that even the empire didn't have, to travel in the legendary hyperspace.
Perhaps, the long-cherished wish of the commoners for 30,000 years will be realized in his hands …
"Leader, we are about to arrive at the star system where the administrative planet Rabi is located. 30 seconds to exit the hyperspace!"
"Sound the fleet combat alarm!"
"Yes, leader!"