I Became a Commander in a Crappy SF Game.

Ch.342Regarding the Commander’s Body. (1)

by fnovelpia

After brushing it off like that, the moment I properly saw the price of the auxiliary buildings.

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<Additional Docking Facility> (Minerals 150,000, Rare Resources 55,000) <NEW!>

<Resource Storage> (Minerals 120,000, Rare Resources 37,000) <NEW!>

<Special Defense Facility> (Minerals 592,500, Rare Resources 170,000) <NEW!>

<Nemesis Orbital Ring> (Minerals 5,350,000, Rare Resources 950,000) <NEW!>

<Dreadnought Platform> (Minerals 2,500,000, Rare Resources 950,000) <NEW!>

<Faction-Specific Special Building (Current Faction: ‘Space Monster’)> (Minerals 1,250,000, Rare Resources 600,000) <NEW!>

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‘Are you kidding me.’

I could see why users who had upgraded to level 9 before me couldn’t progress any further, as prices had jumped about five times compared to level 8.

“Hehehe, even the cheapest Resource Storage now devours 120,000 minerals.”

“…Indeed it does.”

But that thought only lasted a moment.

“By the way, Jessica, how many resources do we have right now?”

“If we count everything in both the outpost and base storage… about 8.9 million minerals and 3.5 million rare resources.”

“Excellent.”

Perhaps it was due to the additional resource income from outpost docking.

Seeing that we had accumulated more resources than expected, I nodded and decided to build the Resource Storage first, anticipating we’d continue to pile up more resources.

Of course, there were other reasons for building the Resource Storage…

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The ‘Base Construction Acceleration Voucher’ I got from this event had the effect of accelerating construction speed by a whopping 2 hours per voucher.

After quickly skipping the Resource Storage construction with those,

Exactly 36 minutes and 50 seconds later, I immediately proceeded with the construction of that ridiculously expensive ‘Dreadnought Platform’.

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And along with these efficient auxiliary building constructions,

Between repairing the Ouroboros-class and rebuilding the fleet with ships loaded with all sorts of equipment,

I found myself shaking my head as I watched nearly 9 million minerals and 3.5 million rare resources quickly drop to 4 million and 2 million respectively.

“This is truly terrible, Jessica.”

“It’s really infuriating to watch. Why is everything so expensive?”

Of course, once that ‘Dreadnought Platform’ is completed after a month,

With the production capacity of two level 5 outposts and the base itself,

Plus the resource mining fleets and forward bases scattered around,

And finally the resources gained weekly from users docked at the outposts, we’ll quickly accumulate hundreds of thousands of minerals and tens of thousands of rare resources again.

‘Let’s see… I’ll just build docking outposts to pass time while gathering resources, then follow the plan to invest once we’ve accumulated over 20 million resources.’

After reorganizing my Tannhäuser assault plan, which was now functioning as a life goal of sorts,

I realized I had nothing else to do immediately except completing daily and weekly quests.

Feeling curious about how other users were spending the event, I decided to open the gallery to check public opinion.

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But the moment I entered the gallery.

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Title: Wouldn’t commanders be invincible if they formed a shield?

Author: ImABaby

Content: [Image of a toad with a light bulb appearing above its head]

Isn’t this a brilliant idea?

We saw last time that we don’t die even when hit by beam gatlings

So if all users gathered and spread out, wouldn’t we create an ultimate shield that ignores any attack?

Comments:

-[????]

-[Are you high?]

-[Meat shield (for real)]

-[Wait;; we still feel pain, who would volunteer for that;;]

-˪[It’s just a hypothetical ㅇㅇ] (Author)

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Apart from discussions about the event, the gallery was buzzing with bizarre “meat shield” topics like this.

Of course, as always, it was just interest-based bait that was already evolving and dying down from my perspective.

But that didn’t last long.

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Title: I’m telling you, a shield made of commanders’ bodies would be invincible!

Author: RawRawRawRa

Content: [GIF showing commanders’ ‘bodies’ blocking attacks from beam gatlings or defense turrets]

Think about it

Our bodies can withstand even battleship main guns

Whether it’s railguns or anti-ship missiles

Even strategic missiles or siege batteries could be blocked, so why is everyone calling this stupid?

If you refute this, I’m right. Bye

Comments:

-[???]

-[What kind of templar is this?]

-[It’s a bit shameful to sneakily bring up something that’s already been concluded]

-˪[Stop dismissing it and speak properly?] (Author)

-˪[Seeing how everyone’s avoiding giving proper refutations, doesn’t that mean I’m right but they just don’t want to admit it?] (Author)

-[Why do these kinds of jerks always pop up from somewhere damn it]

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Some troll was sacrificing themselves to reignite the dying topic.

Naturally, as the dormant topic revived,

Everyone first praised the troll’s appearance, reminiscent of the early Loki clan,

Then immediately began posting all sorts of rebuttals to smash the user’s head in.

And the most upvoted post was:

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Title: Anyone seriously considering the commander meat shield nonsense needs to read THIS.txt

Author: Titanic

Content: [Image of a toad thoroughly mocking]

I’m writing this seriously because it seems some people are genuinely considering this

First, the total number of commanders/users barely exceeds 500,000

And because users have different appearances, some are 3m tall

While pedophiles prefer 120cm shorties

And there are even Tinkerbell-like users under 50cm, making the average user height about 150cm

Anyway, what does this mean?

If 500,000 users tried to perfectly block beam bombardment without any gaps

They could barely cover just one battleship

And that’s just the front side?

[Image with detailed calculation results attached]

Check the details yourself and make your own judgment

This proves you’re wrong, so stop spamming and go to sleep

Comments:

-[Nice calculation]

-[The number of commanders that can block is smaller than I thought]

-˪[Battleship-class vessels have deck lengths exceeding tens of kilometers, so it can’t be helped]

-˪[If the deck alone is tens of kilometers, doesn’t that mean the total length is tens of kilometers?]

-˪[The battleship model mentioned in the post has a “deck” that’s only part of it] (Author)

-˪[It’s actually longer, and obviously the “front” is also huge, so how could a mere 500,000 people cover it?] (Author)

-˪[I see]

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‘Holy moly.’

Apparently furious at the trolling,

A user presumed to be a graduate student or teaching assistant had posted calculations in extreme anger, which had become the fact-check that crushed the troll.

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