Chapter 453: Atlas Does Not Support Idle People

There was no grand welcome ceremony, nor were there crowds of people watching to congratulate the two former federal generals for ‘abandoning the dark and joining the Atlas family’.

When the meeting started, other participants, including Isabel, saw Guterres and Van Fleet sitting next to Amber, and understood what was going on.

Meetings on the Atlas side are generally not very talkative, because everyone has a lot of things to do at this stage. Although there is an ‘Atlas Administrative Management Module’ to reasonably arrange everyone’s daily work progress, the daily affairs have increased a lot compared to before.

The ‘Atlas Administrative Management Module’ has been calculated to the extreme, and can only barely ensure that everyone’s daily working hours do not exceed 8 hours as much as possible, but the increase in work intensity during working hours cannot be adjusted.

Therefore, some meetings that had to be held during this period even saved the opening greetings, and got to the point right away - how to deal with a large number of prisoners and captured equipment.

There is basically no need for too much discussion on the handling of captured equipment. Atlas has formed a complete set of processes in this regard.

After the defense of the A.Bava.Ku asteroid fortress, Atlas seized a large number of ships from the military-industrial complex joint fleet, as well as various equipment on board.

For these things, Amber and his team never intended to return them.

If there was a conflict with the federal government on Pella IV before, they would still make gestures to prevent both sides from completely tearing each other apart, but for these enterprises in the military-industrial complex, there would be no such particularity, and the handling method is also very simple.

Intact, slightly damaged, and moderately damaged but repairable military-standard warships will be directly incorporated into the battle sequence of the Atlas fleet to expand the strength of the combat fleet.

However, the large number of warships that suddenly appeared also caused Atlas to have the trouble of "too many ships and too few people".

Although the "manned warships" in the Atlas fleet are now equipped with mass-produced "ten-year veteran" class shipborne control personalities, and after continuous automation transformation, the number of crew members required has also been greatly reduced.

At present, the number of crew members for escort and destroyer ships is basically maintained at 60-70, for cruisers 120-220, and for battleships no more than 400.

Compared with the number of crew members currently required for ships of all levels in the Federation and the Empire, it can be said to be zero to exaggerate, but the special situation of more than 240 warships that can be used directly at once this time still makes the number of reserve crew members of Atlas a little stretched.

As for the captives on the warships, Amber really doesn't like their uneven training levels. It is better to use the crew members trained by Atlas itself, and they are more loyal, rather than retraining them.

So Amber's current approach is also a two-pronged approach, while continuing to train new crew members, and letting Lilith use the unmanned fleet technology on these captured warships.

Although she had suffered from severe 'PTSD from the omnic crisis' before, after several heart-to-heart talks with Lilith and meeting Baninger and others who had transformed into 'Immortals', Amber finally agreed to the plan to form an unmanned fleet and an immortal army.

After all, although this thing has risks, it is really good.

As for the remaining 'badly damaged' warships that have no value for repair, and armed merchant ships that are completely useless to Atlas, they will all be dismantled and scrapped.

Generally speaking, there are two ways to deal with this process. One is to pull it into a special dock, or directly find an unmanned place in deep space to build a temporary 'disassembly operation framework', and then dismantle it in the reverse order of construction.

In this process, some key components and subsystems - such as 'high-value components' such as warship fusion furnaces, fire control units, main guns, etc., if they are intact and not damaged, will be used again after inspection and maintenance.

As for the remaining main ship structures that have no secondary use value, continue to dismantle them according to the planning process, and then re-refine them as needed.

Since the structure of military warships is quite complicated, the internal pipeline layout is extremely complex, and the strength of the hull material is also high, the difficulty of dismantling is also relatively high.

Before this, Atlas directly sold these ships to professional ship dismantling companies, which was also a way to quickly realize cash.

But this time, because the number of ships that need to be dismantled is too large and the potential recycling value is relatively high, Amber directly let the financial business center fully acquire several ship dismantling companies to provide ship dismantling services to Atlas.

And those dismantled "high-value components" can also be stored in warehouses for use as spare parts.

Another way to deal with it is for those ships that are severely damaged and basically lose their recycling value. After completing the harmless treatment, they are directly used as target ships for artillery training by the fleet.

In addition to the captured warships, the treatment method of the HCP or other vehicles carried inside is the same as that of the warships.

Use what can be used directly, dismantle what cannot be used as spare parts, and use what has no recycling value as targets.

In short, the value of these "trophies" should be squeezed out completely, and even a piece of ship armor plate should not be wasted.

Compared with the standardized treatment methods of these "trophies", the treatment of prisoners of war has become an urgent problem that needs to be solved.

According to the final statistics, Atlas captured more than 300,000 people in this battle, 99% of whom were from the crew of the captured ships of the Combined Fleet.

Since the ships of the Combined Fleet do not have the same high level of automation as Atlas, the number of crew members in each of their warships is still relatively large, especially those battleships and heavy cruisers, which often have two to three thousand prisoners.

If the A.Bava.Ku asteroid fortress was not originally planned to be a large living area in the future, responsible for receiving a large number of "immigrants" such as employees' families, and had not completed the construction of several large synthetic protein factories and hydroponic towers not long ago, the sudden increase of more than 300,000 people would really not be settled.

But even so, Amber did not want to support these more than 300,000 people like this. After all, they could not create any value now, and they had to consume a lot of materials every day-this was purely "burning money" in Amber's view.

"We in Atlas don't keep idle people, and now is a special period. Every penny of the group's money must be used where it should be used, so we must solve the problem of these 300,000 prisoners as soon as possible."

Amber said while looking at the composition of the prisoners:

"The following is my personal suggestion. Prisoners who are willing to stay and pass the identity verification can try to be recruited. If they pass the six-month internship observation period and there are no abnormalities, they will be transferred to Atlas's formal employees, and all welfare benefits will not be discounted.

As for those who don't want to stay, we don't have to send them to the asteroid belt to mine like other companies. They don't need so few people.

And the military-industrial complex companies will definitely not pay any ransom for these employees, so we will "bleed" ourselves, and after the headcount is counted, find a third-party transportation company to send them back to the Federation."

After speaking out her general ideas in one breath, Amber looked at the other participants.

"Next, let's speak freely. If you have any suggestions or questions, please speak up~"