Ch.355Fortress Main Cannon Restoration Project

But such thoughts were only momentary.

At this point, I suddenly remembered something important that I’d been too busy to recall.

“Wait a minute, didn’t the Tannhäuser have a fortress main cannon?”

“…You’re right? Why isn’t it there?”

As Marian had previously pointed out, the Tannhäuser originally had a large and beautiful “fortress main cannon” attached to it.

It was powerful enough to obliterate at least 25,000 ships in a single shot, far stronger than our Ouroboros’ quintuple fusion flamethrower.

So why wasn’t it there?

I’m pretty sure it was still there when that temporary clan led by the user Aurora attacked last time.

It seemed to have melted away and disappeared at some point, which was quite strange.

And it wasn’t just me who felt this way. Other users seemed to have similar thoughts.

On the gallery, posts questioning my Tannhäuser strategy were popping up.

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Title: Hey, where did you sell the Tannhäuser main cannon?

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of Tannhäuser’s ‘Fortress Main Cannon’ firing.jpg]

That thing used to be there

There was this crazy weapon that could destroy tens of thousands of ships with one shot, where did you sell it?

This makes no sense

Comments:

-[Oh, you’re right]

-[For real, where did the main cannon go?]

-[Wasn’t it destroyed by the Ouroboros bombardment?]

-˪[The Ouroboros bombardment only hit the armor plating and defense facilities, the fortress main cannon wasn’t there]

-˪[Hmm interesting…]

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‘I’m curious too, guys.’

As I shared their doubts, I was deleting posts and blocking users who were up to their usual nonsense while deeply pondering why the main cannon was missing.

Fortunately, my questions and those of the users were soon answered by a post from another user.

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Title: Why Tannhäuser has no main cannon EU

Author: Tensai

Content: [GIF of the fortress main cannon being destroyed by concentrated attack.gif]

Of course it’s because we completely destroyed it

Always be grateful, E-karos

Comments:

-[What is this?]

-[When did you destroy it?]

-˪[During the battle when Aurora led that temporary clan](Author)

-[I don’t remember seeing it destroyed]

-˪[That’s because it was the first thing our 100-man suicide squad destroyed before any livestream could begin](Author)

-˪[Looking at footage someone recorded later, there were several more fleet bombardments in the area](Author)

-˪[Nothing was left of it](Author)

-˪[I see]

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‘Ah, I understand perfectly now.’

That’s right.

Surprisingly, the “temporary clan” that attacked before me had somehow devoured the fortress main cannon without anyone noticing.

As a result, what should have been the fortress main cannon was reduced to debris and couldn’t play any role in this battle.

Of course, as I nodded in understanding after reading such posts,

Jessica, who was looking at the gallery posts beside me, tilted her head in confusion.

“Commander, even if the main cannon was destroyed…”

“Hmm?”

“It’s been quite a while since that temporary clan’s siege. Isn’t it strange that it hasn’t been repaired during all this time?”

“Ah, so that’s what you’re wondering about.”

Jessica’s question was very reasonable and logical, so I nodded and decided to answer it.

“First of all, you know that defense facilities automatically recover when NPCs control a stronghold, right?”

“Yes, of course. That’s exactly what we faced this time.”

“But those defense facilities only include ‘regular facilities’ like interceptor hangars or defense batteries.”

“Regular facilities?”

Naturally, at my explanation, Jessica made a face that seemed to ask, ‘Why on earth is there such a troublesome and complicated system?’

To convince her, as always, I decided to show her the gallery wiki tab.

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Title: Differences between NPC and user-owned stronghold defense facilities.txt

Author: Wiki Archivist mk-45

Content: [Defense facility concept art.jpg]

Users or clans trying to capture strongholds are often surprised yet pleased by one thing

That is: ‘Why aren’t the defense facilities we destroyed last time automatically repaired?’

This is especially true for super weapons like ‘fortress main cannons’

More precisely, the question is ‘Why is this repaired but that isn’t?’

And what’s the answer?

It’s because those facilities aren’t included in the automatic repair system, and require users to invest certain resources through separate events to repair them

But NPCs can’t initiate events themselves, right?

It’s subtle, but due to system limitations, NPCs can’t touch these facilities even if they want to

Comments:

-[So if a fortress main cannon is destroyed, it can’t be fixed until a user captures it?]

-˪[Yes, unless there’s some special event](Author)

-[So that’s why NPC strongholds get weaker after multiple attacks]

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“I see.”

“That’s how it works.”

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Anyway, after figuring out the situation, we docked our base at the Tannhäuser.

We wanted to restore the large and beautiful fortress main cannon to prepare for any potential troublemakers.

However, there was one subtle problem…

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<Event>

<Tannhäuser Fortress Main Cannon Restoration Project!>

<Details>

<Restore the completely destroyed fortress main cannon to strengthen your stronghold’s defenses!>

<Restoration Cost: Minerals 10,000,000, Rare Resources 4,300,000, Gold 20,000>

<Restoration Time: 34 days 23 hours 35 minutes 27 seconds>

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“Expensive… and time-consuming.”

“I agree, Commander.”

Not only does restoring the fortress main cannon require a whopping ten million minerals,

But it also needs over four million rare resources, and for some reason, even demands “gold.”

Those horrifying requirements and the time needed would make anyone who saw them gasp in shock.

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

“As I mentioned before, after terminating the mercenary contracts, we have 1.5 million minerals and 24… no, 250,000 rare resources now.”

“…What’s our maximum storage capacity?”

“As I told you, we can currently store up to 30.5 million.”

‘Holy moly.’

My resource storage capacity is already at an insane level, almost impossible for a regular user.

Yet this demands nearly half of my maximum capacity in one go?

Even the level 9 base auxiliary buildings make my hands tremble at their cost, but this is even worse.

My excitement quickly turned sour, making me want to curse out loud.

But that feeling didn’t last long.

-Beep beep beep! Beep beep beep!

-“Commander! About 10 fleets from other commanders are approaching!”

“Ah.”

It hadn’t even been three hours since we captured the Tannhäuser and docked our base.

Seeing users already trying to pull pranks…

I firmly decided to build that damn fortress main cannon.

To completely block these small-scale user attacks like the current one.