Ch.20Party Time for a Week (2)

To summarize the situation over the past 5 days, including the first day:

Day 1.

Enemy forces: 1 destroyer, 2 frigates, 2 patrol ships.

Through our first real battle, everyone’s teamwork improved and so on…

“Things went more smoothly than I expected!” -Jessica.

Day 2.

Enemy forces: 2 destroyers, 5 frigates.

Despite the exponentially increased forces, we somehow managed to handle it.

Due to insufficient personnel and base upgrades, all captured ships were sunk for Pashtra’s leveling.

“The enemy forces are suddenly increasing. Was it always like this?” -Jessica.

Day 3.

Enemy forces: 2 destroyers, 3 frigates, 7 patrol ships.

We had just built 1 destroyer, 1 frigate, and 8 patrol ships.

We chose to board and occupy one enemy destroyer while countering the rest through direct confrontation using Pashtra’s powerful artillery skills.

However, the pirate boss, refusing to let us take his ship, tried to overload the destroyer’s fusion reactor for self-destruction.

We barely managed to escape, but the destroyer was ultimately sunk.

The other destroyer attempted to board our destroyer and performed various annoying maneuvers, making them quite troublesome opponents.

“…This seems rather dangerous.” -Jessica.

Day 4.

This time only 3 destroyers came, making us think the madness had finally ended.

But that thought couldn’t have been more wrong.

Instead of shells and missiles, the enemy destroyers mindlessly deployed boarding pods of various sizes and numbers.

-“Join! The Helldi—”

-“Aaaaaahhhhh”

As a result, Ignis had to jump between ships to block pirates’ infiltration attempts.

Those who assaulted our base were countered by Berial controlling her doll units in a thorough defensive battle.

Of course, this was only possible after using Pashtra’s power to destroy one destroyer from the start.

It was truly a horrific day.

“When they reached the command center, I really thought this might be the end.” -Jessica.

And on Day 5.

They employed every method except for the boarding tactics from Day 4.

All of us ended up completely exhausted.

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Naturally, we weren’t the only ones suffering.

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Title: Please give us time to rest FFS

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of burning base]

What the hell is this coming once every day?

We don’t even have resources to repair our ships anymore, damn it.

Comments:

-[Mom, I’m hungry…]

-[Teeeng mama, Mr. Ship is hungry, meow.]

-[Base looted, fleet looted, what’s left unlooted?]

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOL]

-[For real, either the fleet gets completely destroyed, or the superhumans can’t recover their fatigue and everything falls apart]

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Just browsing through the “Community” gallery revealed that most posts were about how difficult it was to endure this situation.

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Title: Fuck this, I’m running away.

Author: Gooolden Melona

Content: [Image of a pirate ship ramming and burning base]

These fucking pirates destroyed my base’s power core

My characters are safe, but I only have one destroyer left

Anyone willing to take me in?

Comments:

-[How the hell do you manage to get your base blown up?]

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL]

-[Wait, if your base exploded, why aren’t you getting a game over?]

-[Seriously, why aren’t you getting a game over and still hanging in there?]

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Title: Proof

Author: Gooolden Melona

Content: [Image of characters panting in front of various items piled up in a cramped ship interior]

Before the base blew up, I stuffed everything I needed into the destroyer.

Comments:

-[Insane]

-[Wait, that’s possible?]

-[What the hell?]

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL crazy]

-[You can’t even connect the power source so you can’t do gacha or anything, but impressive survival skills]

-[It’s become a moving gacha castle]

-[Howl’s Moving…]

-[Howl’s Moving Castle…]

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Some people were adopting bizarre methods to avoid game over.

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Title: Anyone willing to live with a newbie?

Author: Non-alcoholic Beer

Content:

It’s already the 5th day of attacks, and I literally have no forces or anything left

If possible, I just want to live with someone else and survive by any means.

Comments:

-[Is that even possible?]

-[Kekek… impossible]

-[Give up]

-[Give me your base coordinates, I’ll send reinforcements if needed]

-˪[Oh really? Thanks!](Author)

-[Wait no don’t send coordinates]

-[Are you crazy, why would you send that?]

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Some newbies, finding it impossible to survive alone, tried to get help from other users, but…

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Title: Looking for this bastard

Author: Non-alcoholic Beer

Content: [Image of a fleet departing from the base]

This fucking asshole said he’d send reinforcements against pirates

Then he became a pirate himself and looted all my remaining resources

Please, if anyone knows where this bastard’s base is, let me know

Comments:

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOL idiot LOLOLOLOLOL]

-[Oh my…]

-[Newbies get tricked again today]

-[Why would you even share that info? Are you stupid?]

-[Thanks for the meal, leaving a kimbap @)))))))))))))))]

-˪[YOU!!!!BASTARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!](Author)

-[Author is super angry LOLOLOLOLOL]

-[LOLOLOLOLOL hilarious LOLOLOLOLOL]

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People were backstabbing these newbies as soon as they appeared.

I couldn’t help but shake my head at the jungle-like savagery. But honestly, I couldn’t just laugh at those people either.

Like all those victims and villains in the gallery, while my base wasn’t burning…

“Commander, here’s today’s resource status report.”

“Hmm…”

“We obtained 175 from each of the three resource mining ships, totaling 525, but considering the resources spent on ship repairs and base repairs… we’re in the negative.”

“…Sigh.”

To better withstand those damn pirates, I needed to upgrade the base further.

That would allow me to use the numerous destroyer and cruiser blueprints I had accumulated.

The problem was, as Jessica’s report indicated:

“Minerals, we need minerals…!”

“Indeed.”

With resources constantly being spent on repairing damage from pirates and repairing or building new ships, we were severely lacking the minerals needed for base upgrades.

Of course, I had already completed all the minor upgrades that were available.

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<Base Level 2 Upgrade>

<<<Required Resources: 2,500 Minerals>>>

<Features Unlocked After Upgrade>

˪<Additional Shipyard Production Line>

˪<Advanced Research Lab>

˪<Resource Synthesis Facility>

˪<Advanced Technology Management Office>

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‘Ah, I want it so badly!’

The lack of resources was relentlessly holding me back.

I had been rushing to build additional resource mining ships, but the shipyard had been busy producing patrol ships and destroyers, leaving no space.

Only yesterday did one slot finally become available.

I made the difficult decision to forgo additional ship production and instead ordered the construction of a resource mining ship.

If the newly produced mining ship could deploy and bring in additional resources before tomorrow…

My base’s resource situation would finally see some relief.

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But the next morning.

Right after waking up with high expectations.

“Commander, the pirates have attacked our resource zone instead of the base this time!”

“…”

I felt the urge to let out a roar of genuine anger at the developers for unnecessarily adding variations to this event.