Chapter 178 Personnel Expansion Issues

When the St. Russell escaped from the jump, the elves on the bridge quickly discovered the Hermes 3,500 kilometers away through the psychic detection equipment.

At this time, a line of large characters was printed on the starboard armor plate of the Dragoon-class destroyer through the imaging equipment of the optical camouflage unit:

"Warmly welcome the leaders of the headquarters to inspect the work!"

"Believe it or not, this was definitely Randall's idea."

Amber said to Isabel who was snickering next to her.

He knew that among the people staying here, only this unruly former federal navy lieutenant commander could do such a thing as using an optical camouflage unit to give a welcome speech.

“What a unique way to welcome~”

Ellenita on the captain's seat untied the fastening device, then floated to the bridge porthole where the external biological armor was being turned on, and looked at the approaching Hermes with interest.

"Haha. This is a unique welcome ceremony in human society. Ms. Yuge can experience it."

Amber floated to the porthole with Isabel. While explaining, she prayed in her heart that Randall would not create any new tricks.

Perhaps because he didn't have time to do such idle tasks, Randall did not arrange any other "fancy tasks" except using optical camouflage to make a welcome speech.

Amber was still afraid that this guy would let Murat drive the HCP in a circle in the air and draw a heart or something like that in his wake.

Soon, the communication between the two ships was established, and the psionic projection device on the bridge of the St. Russell also showed the image of the Hermes.

The members of the bridge and CIC headed by Randall were lining up neatly. After seeing the images of Amber and others, Randall shouted in a rare and energetic manner:

"All crew members of the Hermes, salute!"

There was only a 'pop' sound, and the people in the picture took a shortcut and quickly raised their right hands, with their fingers together and naturally straightened, their middle fingers slightly connected to their temples, and their palms facing downwards and slightly outwards.

"Take a break."

Amber returned the gesture and felt relieved.

It seems that Randall and others did not relax during his absence, and they seem to be in good spirits.

After the two sides exchanged a few words, Randall ended the communication, and the Hermes guided the St. Russell towards the location of the operations base.

"A kind of salute that I have never seen before, Mr. Amber, I thought you would let the combatants use the military salute of the Federation or the Star Dragon Empire."

Ellenita's voice sounded very brisk, and it was not difficult to tell that the sponsor's father was quite satisfied with everyone's performance just now.

Although it is not a combat demonstration, it is quite something in terms of energy and spirit.

And at present, whether it is the Federation or the Star Dragon Empire, military salutes are mainly hand-raising salutes. Generally, the hands are raised to a position level with the chest. There are more differences in details between the two sides.

Therefore, the hand-raising ceremony presented by Randall and others looks very distinctive and recognizable.

"It is indeed convenient to continue using it, but since it is a team independent of the two countries, using a new set of things can also give everyone a sense of belonging."

Amber, standing next to the female elf, smiled and replied.

"Sometimes I really wonder how Mr. Amber can hold so many things in your head."

"Hahaha, you know a little bit about everything and your life is a little more exciting."

What Randall and others just used was naturally the Chinese military salute.

As a military fan, Amber had carefully learned about her country's military construction and military culture before traveling through time.

Naturally, you can 'borrow' the military salute and have it at your fingertips.

What's more, Atlas Private Military Company is not an army, but a paramilitary organization, so there is no need to make etiquette particularly complicated.

"By the way, Mr. Amber, I just saw a lot of Roma people on the bridge of the Hermes. They seem to be adapting well?"

Ellenita asked aloud as if she remembered something.

"Yes, the briefing I received a few days ago on the progress of various recent company projects also mentioned that although these Roma came later than the 'Marine Corps' candidates, because the selection at that time paid more attention to brainpower, learning ability, etc., so their training progress has completely caught up.”

Amber quickly told Ellenita some team building matters.

Isabel also floated to his side and listened. The welfare manager had only been asking Amber for help in the past few days and didn't know much about this aspect.

At the beginning, Amber indeed only planned to recruit Roma people into the Marine Corps, and several early large-scale selections were also operated in this direction.

But soon, he received a report from Randall - the destroyer was seriously short of manpower.

It's easy to get a military-class destroyer up and running, and with the help of a 'ten-year veteran' class shipboard control personality, it's not that difficult to do so.

But combat and operation are completely different things.

Twenty people may be able to move the boat, or shoot a simple fixed target, and then eject the HCP.

But if there is a real fleet battle, people will not be able to see this at all.

After all, Amber has not yet mastered the technology of the unmanned fleet, and with Atlas's current strength, it is still difficult to transform a ship that operates fully automatically.

Take the Dragon Empire's Dragoon-class destroyer as an example. Its standard crew configuration should be 240 people, not counting the HCP squadron and the maintenance class in the hangar.

And there are only 20 people on the Hermes.

So after several urgent discussions with Randall, before going to Isabel's hometown, Amber submitted a plan to Ellenita about recruiting fleet combat personnel.

Soon, a group of Roma people with stronger learning ability and brainpower were selected.

And this time Amber did not limit gender. After all, the crew is different from the Marine Corps. Not all of them have to be muscular.

Most of the physical labor on the ship is assisted by self-disciplined machines, and the crew plays a more auxiliary role.

In this case, in addition to the lion head, leopard head and ox-headed horse-faced, a group of cat girls, fox girls, dog girls, and sheep girls were also recruited.

The hair content of the Hermes crew has increased significantly.

Then, Amber arranged to spend a lot of money to invite a group of retired old crew members, including seamen from civilian ships and crew members from various combat positions on warships.

There are both Federation and Star Dragon Empire.

Amber originally wanted to find those who had just retired, but as the war escalated, most of these people were re-recruited by the Federation and the Empire.

The remaining people were soon divided up by other private companies.

So this group of elderly crew members became the instructors of these Roma people.

While the Hermes was performing escort missions in the asteroid belt, it also carried out various training.

In order to facilitate the adaptation of new crew members, the warships on the human side generally have special training modes.

In the training mode, some complex operations will be assisted by voice, holographic projection instructions, etc., to assist new crew members to operate step by step.

In addition, there is a group of "real old Ass" with an average age of 75 watching on the side, so the training progress is surprisingly fast.

And the acceptance of these old people is much stronger than Amber imagined.

Before leaving, Amber even held a meeting with them to prepare for everyone's psychological preparation.

After all, they were facing a large group of "strange" furry creatures, and Amber was afraid of scaring these old people.

As a result, who knew that these old people who traveled across the starry sea when they were young would express strong dissatisfaction with his care.

"Young man, thank you for your kindness, but what haven't we old guys seen?"

"Yes, James said that he had an elf when he was young! Isn't that right, James?"

Amber looked suspiciously at the old crew member named James, who used to be a gunner.

"Of course it's true!"

The old man stood up from the chair with a red face, his face full of pride.

"I went to visit her again a few days ago, and she is still so young and beautiful~"

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