I Became a Commander in a Crappy SF Game.

Ch.16″Something doesn’t seem right.”

by fnovelpia

While our Icarus was busy studying the manual diligently.

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Title: Upvote if you’re a victorious SSS-rank owner LOLOLOLOL

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of a toad shooting a gun]

Next.

Comments:

-[What? I can’t hear you saying you don’t have an SSS-rank?]

-[Bring a translator]

-(Author)[You bastards….]

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Title: All dignified SSS-rank owners, please take your seats.

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Photo of Western people in suits]

Here’s a photo from today’s SSS-rank owners’ meetup ^^

Everyone was so well-mannered ^^

Comments:

-[What LOLOLOLOLOLOL]

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL]

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL]

-[Hey bro, I told you to take down that photo]

-˪[???]

-˪[I don’t see your photo there except for the pattern on the vase]

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As the stories about Icarus’s SSS-rank began to roll into different topics in the community.

Meanwhile, rather than discussing Icarus who set a new record with double SSS-ranks.

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-Made an SSSSSSSSS-rank (5)

-I don’t think now’s the time to be talking about getting SSS-ranks (26) <

-Comment censorship off (1)

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Title: I don’t think now’s the time to be talking about getting SSS-ranks

Author: Chumiing

Content: [Pirate ship image 1], [Pirate ship image 2]

I don’t know what’s happening, but pirate fleets with destroyers are already appearing.

How are we supposed to stop those?

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A more realistic topic.

The concern was about enemies appearing that couldn’t be confronted head-on with the fleets currently owned by users.

Naturally, as proper screenshots were submitted as evidence rather than AI-generated images from the game’s setting.

Users who confirmed the situation, despite differences in their individual levels.

Were commonly showing very surprised reactions.

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-[Is that for real?]

-[Why are destroyers crawling out already when it hasn’t even been a month? Are they crazy?]

-[None of the current users would have drawn a destroyer yet.]

-[We’ve barely passed the escort ship level, right?]

-[???]

-[But isn’t it just one slightly bigger ship added? Is that so dangerous?]

-[I dunno either]

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Meanwhile, in the midst of all this, people who were truly newbies.

Or grandpas who had developed dementia, showed confusion at the appearance of destroyers.

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-[Newbies are about to get massacred.]

-[Help us, Speed Wagon!]

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To save these poor newbies and dementia patients, some users in the community quickly received information feedback and began posting informational articles.

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Title: Let me tell you why the appearance of destroyers is dangerous.

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of pirate fleet destroyer]

It looks like it’s just one ship, and size-wise it doesn’t look much bigger than the nearby escort ships or patrol ships in the photo, right?

But that’s just perspective making it look weird, and it’s actually more than twice the size of the escort ship next to it.

Plus, besides the size, its main gun’s attack power and penetration are basically more than twice that of an escort ship.

There are exceptions, but in those cases, the rate of fire is insane.

Anyway, what this means is that right now it’s fine, but later when pirates attack your base.

Those destroyer gentlemen will come along and grind up your patrol ships.

If you’ve drawn superhumans or ships from gacha, that might help, but if you’ve only drawn resources, equipment, or upgrades?

Then keep completing quests to gather resources, roll gacha, and pray that you get at least one, setting out water as an offering.

Otherwise, when you face pirates later, your fleet will get shredded and you won’t be able to replenish properly.

Comments:

-[We’re. Screwed!]

-[Not going to be easy]

-[You should tell them they need at least S-rank superhumans too, what if someone tries to get by with an A-rank?]

-˪[That’s just natural selection]

-˪[Fair point]

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With the appearance of Speed Wagon explaining things in detail, clueless newbies started wailing in the comments.

The SSS-rank topic was instantly buried, and the community’s focus quickly shifted to the pirates’ power-up.

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Title: Newbies’ bases…are game over…!

Author: Anonymous

Content: RIP

Comments:

-[For real?]

-[Why are all these bastards posting the same comment?]

-[For real?]

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And separate from these newbies.

The veterans who had been playing the game until now realized what state the game they’d been dragged into was in.

-[Hey, I don’t think they just reset equipment, bases, and skills with the update?]

-[We just kept our memory and information, but everything else is the same as beginners.]

-[This is that Pirate Empress first appearance event]

-[But is it right for that event to happen now? Last time, it only triggered when 70% of users owned at least one destroyer.]

-[Is this a bug?]

-[No, realistically, this is more normal than destroyers suddenly popping up everywhere.]

They began to hold tightly to their sanity, thinking that users might get wiped out en masse at this rate.

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And just as the community’s fiery discussions were starting to calm down.

Our Icarus, no, I finally “somewhat” understood the manual and could use it.

“Great, I completely understand it now.”

“Commander, your speech pattern suggests you haven’t understood it at all. Are you sure you’re okay?”

“Of course.”

…The truth was that I hadn’t properly understood it yet.

But the fact that I couldn’t just keep holding onto the manual right now was evident from the content of the brightly burning community gallery and chat.

And most importantly…

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<Quest>

<Pirates’ Frenzy!>

<Objective: Successfully defend your base during the Pirates’ Frenzy period (one week)>

<Reward: 1 Destroyer, Various resources and materials>

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‘Ugh, shit.’

As this damn quest proved.

The current situation was, from when I thoroughly enjoyed this game.

Breaking countless users’ mental fortitude.

Known as the Space Meltdown event, the game difficulty suddenly accelerated.

I knew this was the legendary event line that cut the number of users who joined at launch in half in an instant.

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