61: Unified combat capability standards

After successfully taking down the "Gray Shark" Pirate Group, under Asroth's direction, they continued the same method to launch attacks on the surrounding Pirate Groups.

In just half a year, except for the "Mist Pirate Group" which possessed a Double A-Class Transcendent, the rest were secretly defeated without any surprises or dangers.

The word "accident" was almost impossible for Asroth, who possessed powerful computing capabilities. Every possibility had been considered before the plan began.

In fact, if not for the consideration that it would be unreasonable for too many Pirate Groups to go into seclusion simultaneously within a short period, it wouldn't have taken that much time.

No one noticed that in the seemingly unchanged Golden Star Sea, an emerging force was rapidly growing in secret.

At this moment, on Fenglang Star.

After taking down these eight Pirate Groups, none of which were weaker than "Wind and Waves," the resource problem was temporarily alleviated.

Rare metal resources exceeded 100 units, and conventional metal resources were approaching 1000 units.

Furthermore, this data would increase significantly after selling off the eliminated starships and collectibles from the various Pirate Groups.

Under Zhang Huaiyuan's orders, two production lines in the "starship Production Center" began operating at full capacity to build the legend series starships.

A small, full-strength fleet included one command ship, four supply ships, eight frigates, twelve scout ships, twenty-four cruisers, and thirty-two assault ships, totaling eighty-one ships.

He planned to build at least three full-strength fleets in the short term, to be used for defense, patrolling, and offense respectively.

Of course, in addition to this, landing operations must also keep pace.

Compared to the strength of the legend series starships, the current ragtag robot army modified from the "Warrior Series" could no longer keep up at all.

At this moment, in the "Combat robot Production Workshop," Zhang Huaiyuan was designing a new mech plan.

"Asroth."

Suddenly, Zhang Huaiyuan looked up and called out with a slight frown.

"I am here, Master." The communicator on his wrist lit up instantly.

"Hmm..."

Zhang Huaiyuan pondered slightly: "I have discovered a problem. Currently, we possess various mechs including the 'Warrior Series,' 'Wanderer Series,' and 'Fearless Series,' and when combined with the ones I am currently designing, our combat power system is too chaotic and lacks a clear scale. This is not conducive to us intuitively comparing the combat power intensity of different categories."

"You are correct, Master."

Asroth said respectfully: "This world will sooner or later crawl at your feet; it is time for you to unify the metrics for them in advance."

"In that case... Since the Empire's Transcendent Association classifies Transcendent levels from F to SSS, we will reference the Transcendent's combat power to set the levels for starships and mechs from one to ten, and then evaluate them in detail with digitized comprehensive combat power."

Zhang Huaiyuan thought for a moment and said: "Asroth, pause other matters for now; use all computing power to evaluate comprehensive combat power. Taking A-Class as an example, set the combat power of Tarian and Finn before modification as the average level. For S-Class, you can reference Leios; as a guest of Viscount Kane, he can be counted as a powerhouse among S-Class... As for SS-Class and SSS-Class, there are too few individual cases; just use those few SS-Class Star River Beasts and the corpse of the Sky Ancient Tree on Sea Tree Island to make a rough estimate; don't waste too much computing power for now."

"Understood, Master."

The light on the communicator dimmed.

Zhang Huaiyuan was not in a hurry either; he continued to perfect the new mech plan on his own, waiting for Asroth to finish the calculations.

A full seventy-two hours later, the communicator on his wrist lit up again.

"Master, the rough evaluation is complete, but the sample size is too small, and there is no data on Transcendent levels beyond ordinary or Gods Chosen, so it cannot be precise."

"No matter, what is the evaluation data for the legend command ship?"

"Please look, Master."

Rows of data immediately appeared on the light screen.

Category: legend series command ship.

Level: Level 6.

Comprehensive combat power rating: 49887.

"A Level 6 starship corresponds to an A-Class Transcendent... Asroth, what is Tarian's comprehensive combat power index after modification?"

"16921, Master. According to the summary of all known information, the comprehensive combat power index range for A-Class is 10001-50000. This data does not include the amplification of Transcendent weapons or Transcendents with Transcendent or Gods Chosen talents."

"It's about what I expected..."

Zhang Huaiyuan nodded.

Although the legend command ship's three main cannons have the potential to kill a Double A-Class Transcendent, the difficulty of hitting the target is too high, so it does not reach Level 7.

Moreover, unlike these mechanical equipment with stable combat power, for Transcendents, it is difficult to provide an accurate numerical evaluation.

For example, An Yu from before, although only a B-Class Transcendent, with that enchanted sniper rifle combined with the Empire's special bullets, in terms of attack power alone, it definitely reached an index of over ten thousand.

"Never mind, let's just use this as a reference for now and continue to refine it later."

Zhang Huaiyuan took another look at the data for several common starships in the Golden Star Sea.

The "wanderer ii" command ship and "voyager generation iii" command ship are both rated Level 5, with a combat power index between 7000-8000, which is equivalent to a relatively strong B-Class Transcendent.

"It seems that my legend series starships hold an absolute advantage in the Golden Star Sea at the very least. As long as the fleet is formed, we have the power to fight anyone on the front lines. What needs to be considered next is individual combat capability."

Zhang Huaiyuan thought silently.

The difference between a starship and a Transcendent of the same level is like that of a mage and a warrior in biographical novels.

The former, with sufficient energy, can output stable, large-area damage. However, the target is too large and not flexible enough; once approached or if someone uses special means to break into the ship, it can only sit and wait for death.

The latter can well compensate for this shortcoming and is suitable for combat in more complex environments.

"I don't have enough Transcendents under my command to use, so I must be more cautious in the design of combat mechs..."

He looked at the design plan in front of him; the weapon part and energy part still remained.

Unlike starships, mechs do not have that much space to install reactors, and many high-energy-consuming weapons are not suitable for equipment. And if ordinary weapons are equipped, it would lose its meaning.

"I also don't know how the Empire and other forces solve these problems."

Zhang Huaiyuan couldn't help but frown.

Many technologies and research are monopolized by major forces, and trying to perfect these technologies based solely on sporadic guesses is truly too difficult.

"The Free Star Alliance's active-duty basic standard equipment ordered from the Conscience Firm should be arriving soon; let's see if I can get some inspiration from it first..."

"If that really doesn't work, I can only let Asroth try to hack into Sea Tree Island's system... But before that, I must be fully prepared..."