Containment Control Starts With the Umbrella

While the supervisor and William were reporting, the elevator had already descended into the extremely open shipyard.

William also saw the flagship of the 'Star Destroyer' class in the shipyard through the three giant glass windows installed on the elevator.

Just look at this super battleship, which happens to be accommodated in this same 'super' shipyard.

Looking down from the position of the elevator, plus William's simple measurement with his extraordinary eyesight, he learned that the length from the tip of the bow to the stern is about 20 kilometers, and the width of the hull is about nine to ten kilometers at its widest.

But the highest height of the hull is only about five kilometers.

Moreover, the entire battleship presents a flat cone shape to everyone in the elevator.

For William, the appearance and image of this "Star Destroyer" super flagship is very similar to the "Star Destroyer" in "Star Wars".

Although it is not as wide as the sixty kilometers of the "Supreme", the Star Destroyer flagship in front of William is several times larger than most Star Destroyers in "Star Wars".

If this Star Destroyer-class warship is successfully lifted off in two months as planned, then the Endless-class will give up its throne as the "first battleship" in an instant.

But at this time, the construction of the Star Destroyer-class battleship has not yet been completed, and William can still see the 'dense', engineering team workers like ants at work.

Moreover, there are still many modules of the outer hull armor of the Star Destroyer class that have not been installed, let alone the painting that can improve the "value".

"Boss!" At this time, the supervisor looked out of the glass window, looked at the huge ship in front of him, and sighed a little bit into himself:

"The company more than ten years ago only had Paris-class and Phoenix-class warships. Now...

The current company actually has the ability to build such a super battleship, it is really... so exciting. "

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With a smile on his face, William didn't respond to the executive's excessive pride, and he still complained in his heart:

‘Hey guy, do you think Paris and Phoenix are too small now?

To know my original world, I can't even get out of the fucking Pelican, let alone the Paris class. '

"Boss..." Carl, who had been standing behind William at this time, asked in a low voice after seeing the unfinished super warship:

"Will this Star Destroyer be the flagship of our Zero Fleet?"

"Yeah." William nodded lightly without denying it.

"Boss! You said that if our entire fleet of Umbrella were replaced with this kind of flagship, wouldn't it be rampant in the entire universe?"

Myron also spoke with some excitement.

"Hey..." William turned his head and glanced at Myron, raised his left hand to cover his forehead, and said helplessly:

"Myron, someday I'll ask Rebecca to look into your mind for you. It seems that I'm not doing well recently..."

"Huh?" Myron was taken aback, and asked in confusion, "Did I say something wrong?"

"Hehe." Looking at John standing next to Myron, he gave a rare chuckle, raised his hand and patted Mai Lin's left shoulder, explaining:

"Brother, why does the company only have six Endless-class warships until now?"

"Why?" Myron was still a little puzzled.

"Hey..." John also showed a helpless expression similar to William, shook his head and said:

"It's because the construction period of an Infinity-class battleship is too long, and the construction, maintenance and renovation funds are far more than ten times that of the Phoenix-class.

The company's merchant ships, supply ships, and various non-combat ships, as well as troop expenses and colony maintenance, and even the research and development of high-tech weapons and equipment...

All of these things need money, brother, they cannot be mass-produced and built with the technology. "

"Hum...so that's the case..." Myron suddenly realized.

Listening to the conversation between the two brothers behind him, William shook his head lightly with a smile on his face.

Indeed, he also hopes that the Star Destroyer-class super battleship can replace Umbrella's six fleet flagships, and even wants the UNSC to be equipped with Star Destroyers.

But the problem is that the construction time of a Star Destroyer will take at least three years with the efforts of more than 100,000 engineering teams.

After all, a space battleship needs to be treated with extreme care in terms of fineness, airtightness, and strength, so it cannot be as fast as building colonies or buildings.

Of course, the most important thing is the construction cost and maintenance funds.

Building a Star Destroyer needs to consume about 6% of the company's net profit every year, and according to Halsey's calculations, the maintenance cost also needs to be in the tens of billions every year.

It can be said that the maintenance cost of the Star Destroyer alone can build ten to fifteen Phoenix-class aircraft carriers.

No matter how rich Umbrella is, he still has two million employees to support.

That's right, according to the statistics in January 2025, Umbrella's total employees officially exceeded 2 million, far surpassing the original "Big Mac" Wal-Mart.

Those employees who only signed a half-year or one-year engineering team contract and did not sign a non-disclosure agreement, such as hotel waiters or lobby managers, do not belong to the category of Umbrella's official employees.

If these non-staff employees are counted, it is not a figure of two million.

And Umbrella's research and development speed, as well as the extremely fast speed of infrastructure construction, is because William has always implemented high benefits and high wages.

If there is no artificial intelligence like Serena to assist him in handling the company's trivial matters, then his brain may have 'exploded' long ago.

"Ding~——."

At this moment, the elevator also came to the central location of the shipyard, which is also the area of ​​the shipyard headquarters.

At this time, the supervisor, who had recovered from his extremely proud expression, walked out of the elevator first, and waved his hand to the corridor leading to the control room and said softly:

"Boss, please follow me."

"Hmm." William also nodded lightly, leading Serena and John to inspect the shipyard.

In fact, the main purpose of William coming here is to see this Star Destroyer, which is still two months away from completion. After all, since the beginning of this project, he has not witnessed this super flagship of Umbrella with his own eyes.

next.

Under the leadership of the supervisor, William successively inspected the command room of the shipyard, and then the living area, canteen and other areas.

In the end, William used the radio to 'pour' a short chicken soup for the soul to all the workers, engineers and guards in the shipyard.

And William also promised to give bonuses to these employees who have worked silently here for three years to thank them for their efforts in the past three years.

finally.

At 21:10 Haffa time, William returned to the waiting Infinity in low-Earth orbit, and asked Carmen to start the warp speed voyage back to the solar system immediately.

Ever since he had some physical 'contact' with Serena that day, William didn't dare to go home late for a moment. He must return to Haffa's villa before ten o'clock.

Although Halsey didn't care about it on the surface, who knows if she will be sullen. The temper of a pregnant woman can be unpredictable, and William is afraid that it will affect the fetus in the womb.