I Became a Commander in a Crappy SF Game.

Ch.392I Can Do It, If It’s Me! (2)

by fnovelpia

Of course, regardless of my suspicions, “Arcadia” wasn’t the type of person who would do anything crazy.

I naturally pushed aside my doubts and pressed Y to accept the chat.

And as soon as I accepted the chat…

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<Icarus-Arcadia Chat>

-[Icarus]

-[Have you cleared Round 6 yet?](Arcadia)

-[Umm no]

-[The difficulty is too intense, and the damage I took in Round 5 was bigger than expected]

-[But why do you ask?](Icarus)

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When she abruptly brought up clearing Round 6, I felt suspicion welling up inside me, wondering what she was getting at.

Of course, in response to my suspicious question, Arcadia said:

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<Icarus-Arcadia Chat>

-[No, it’s nothing really]

-[Isn’t everyone in the gallery going crazy about the difficulty of Rounds 5 and 6?]

-[I was wondering if you got baited by that too]

-[You didn’t fall for the tricks in Round 5, did you?](Arcadia)

-[Hmm](Icarus)

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She confidently declared that the gallery disputes were all nonsense, as if it were obvious.

‘Oh my, what a cool woman.’

I threw away my previous suspicious attitude and began responding to Arcadia with complete sincerity.

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<Icarus-Arcadia Chat>

-[Of course not](Icarus)

-[That’s a relief]

-[Actually, unlike before, about a year before the possession?]

-[The content changed with an update patch, making Round 5 function as a sort of mid-boss](Arcadia)

-[Mid-boss?](Icarus)

-[Yes]

-[Originally the difficulty increased gradually with each round, right?]

-[But now the difficulty spikes dramatically every 5 rounds as a boss format, and then there’s almost no difficulty increase for the next rounds](Arcadia)

-[I see](Icarus)

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Besides that conversation, I also learned about various minor update patches that had occurred while I was away from the game.

As I heard about all the changes made through updates, I began to understand why this event seemed “similar yet subtly different” from what I remembered, and I nodded in understanding.

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<Icarus-Arcadia Chat>

-[So after all those patches back and forth, they did a major overhaul during the event a year before possession?](Icarus)

-[Yes]

-[Rounds 1-4 basically function as tutorials]

-[Round 5 is the mid-boss]

-[Then Rounds 6-9 are slightly easier than Round 5, but completely random]

-[Round 10 serves as the final boss](Arcadia)

-[I see]

-[Thanks so much, this really helped a lot](Icarus)

-[No problem, we’re all here to help each other](Arcadia)

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And right after I learned all these previously unknown facts through that chat…

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<<<Special Defense Facility Construction Complete!>>>

˪<EMP Generation Facility><NEW!

˪<Nanomachine Drone Swarm Launch System><NEW!

˪<Anti-Fleet Satellite Fortress><NEW!

˪<Hyper Ion Cannon System><NEW!

˪<Omnidirectional Shotgun Anti-Air System><NEW!

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‘Oh.’

When the list of various “Special Defense Facilities” that I hadn’t seen in a long time appeared, I felt a strange sense of nostalgia at the familiar list.

But unlike me feeling this sense of… profound emotion(?), Jessica’s expression beside me was, well…

“What is this, Commander, this massive list of construction options…?”

It gave off a strong “What the hell is this, you nerd” vibe.

Seeing Jessica like that, I felt a pang in my heart wondering how long I had been away from the game for her to have forgotten all this.

Of course, that thought didn’t last long.

As I just mentioned, enough time had passed for our Jessica to forget about this…

So to impart new knowledge to our Jessica once again, I opened the gallery and clicked on the wiki tab to show her explanations about these new facilities.

“Jessica, look over here.”

“Okay.”

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Title: Information about ‘Special Defense Facilities’

Author: Wiki Archivist mk-33

Content: [Hyper Ion Cannon concept art.jpg]

When you upgrade your base to level 9, you’ll get “Special Defense Facilities”

After building that, you’ll see

[Special Defense Facilities Construction List.jpg]

What are these?

I’ll explain each one precisely:

EMP Generation Facility = Creates widespread EMP near your base

When used, it cripples carrier aircraft, guided missiles, and torpedoes

Nanomachine Drone Swarm Launch System = Interceptors that can’t be shot down by fleet anti-air

Anti-Fleet Satellite Fortress = Just a really huge defense battery

Hyper Ion Cannon System = The wide-area beam cannon that annihilation ships use

Omnidirectional Shotgun Anti-Air System = Like the anti-air shotgun missiles and CIWS that ships sometimes use, but bigger and firing more

If I’m wrong, I’m right anyway bye

Comments:

-[What a manly guy]

-[I really want to correct him, but when I check each point, he’s right]

-[Frustratingly correct]

-˪[Frustrating but true…!]

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“…Is that accurate?”

“As you can see from the comments, he explained it concisely like a cram school tutor.”

Of course, if we were to dig deeper and be more precise, the story would be a bit different…

But we don’t need to know all those details right now, and that’s not what’s important at the moment.

“Anyway Jessica, there’s something more important than special defense facilities right now.”

“What are you going to have me do?”

“First, our remaining resources.”

“Let me see… we have 11.1 million minerals and about 4.7 million rare resources left?”

“Excellent.”

“Why are you—oh, are you planning to build that now?”

Seeing Jessica’s expression as she recalled what she had forgotten, I nodded and said:

“Not the fortress main cannon, we’ll do that later when we’ve gathered enough resources.”

“I see.”

“Let’s build the <Nemesis Orbital Ring> first.”

“Ah, yes.”

Although Jessica’s expression showed considerable disappointment at my response,

The possibility of some lunatic suddenly attacking Tannhäuser where I was currently stationed was virtually non-existent.

So it was unavoidable to prioritize upgrading the base first to prepare for the eventual level 10 base. And shortly after…

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“Finally hitting 35 days.”

“Siiiiigh.”

After starting construction on this massive building that consumed 5,350,000 minerals and 950,000 rare resources in one go,

I confirmed that we still had sufficient resources left and told Jessica to prepare to proceed with Round 6.

“Jessica, are all the salvaged ships currently undergoing repairs?”

“Yes, all ships with moderate damage or worse.”

“Then have the remaining regular shipyards continue producing destroyers and patrol ships.”

“Uh… just small ships?”

“Yeeeees.”

Of course, Jessica gave me a look that seemed to ask where my previous obsession with large ships had gone and why I was suddenly spamming small ships.

But that didn’t last long.

Perhaps believing I had a plan, she quickly changed her expression and obeyed my orders, beginning the work in earnest.

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