Ch.483″The end of battle doesn’t mean the end of work.” (2)

“Wow, it’s finally over!”

“Good work, everyone.”

After individually switching the combat stance of about 890 users, excluding the 123 who fought against the Punitive Fleet, including the user who had the Jebodanggeup…

I was thinking that I wished the administrators would prioritize convenience updates over anything else, as I leaned back against the command stone to rest.

And just as I was melting like cheese while going “hoooeeeeng,” our Princess Luca, who had returned with her hobby fleet, came straight to the command center and…

“Ooooooh, I never thought I’d get to see a Jebodanggeup here!”

“And unlike those villains, this one was given to us as a gift.”

The user who entered my territory was jumping up and down, wanting to see the Jebodanggeup assault landing ship they had brought along.

But in an already busy situation, having Princess Luca jumping around wanting to see the Jebodanggeup only increased my confusion.

“Princess Luca? How about you go somewhere else to look around for now~”

“Hmm, I suppose Commander Icarus’s expression doesn’t look very good, so I have no choice.”

“Let’s go take a closer look. We can quickly catch up using the Harpy-class from the hobby fleet.”

“Heehee!”

Jessica, and even Oxianor, who had been dragged along when the faction delegation disappeared and then returned, were making tremendous efforts to get the princess out of the command center.

Anyway, as Princess Luca was carried away by Oxianor…

No, as I watched her being forcibly dragged away somewhere while wedged between Oxianor’s breasts…

‘Wow, those breasts.’

…I began to rack my brain about the second problem that needed to be addressed.

And what was that problem?

“By the way, Commander, there are a lot of shipwrecks and debris near Tannhäuser.”

“Ah yes, those.”

“The commanders in our territory and those living nearby are fighting over salvage ships for resource collection.”

“Urrrgh.”

That’s right.

After fighting with the Xenovia Empire’s Punitive Fleet, an enormous amount of resources and ships were literally “scattered” around Tannhäuser.

If you’re lucky, you might find intact gacha ships, high-grade ships, or equipment.

At the very least, you could obtain resources, so…

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Title: Came to Tannhäuser to collect junk, why is this place such a hot spot?

Author: JunkCollector

Content: [Image of space filled with debris, two users’ fleets fighting over a battleship with a huge hole. jpg], [Salvage resource mining ships discovered in passing, at least 50 visible in the frame.jpg]

What happened for there to be so much debris

And so many users coming to collect?

Even dozens of dreadnoughts were destroyed

Comments:

-[Sometimes you need to check the gallery more often]

-[There was an all-out war between the user alliance and Xenovia’s Punitive Fleet near Tannhäuser]

-˪[So about 1.5 or 2 million ships from both sides crashed into each other]

-˪[Holy shit](Author)

-[<Link to summary post of the Second Tannhäuser Siege>]

-˪[Check this out]

-˪[Oh thanks](Author)

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<Neutral Zone Official Chat Room>

<Notice: Watch out for junk collectors>

-[We fought hard for this, why are these bastards taking everything?]

-[I came to retrieve my destroyed ship but some asshole ran off with my battleship]

-[Gotta keep collecting resources steadily]

-[Is picking up junk better than mining in resource zones?]

-[Yeah, since you’re just picking up resources instead of mining, it’s faster and more cost-effective]

-[<Image of resource mining ships attacking each other to obtain a broken dreadnought.jpg>]

-[Sigh]

-[Why are they fighting again lol]

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In this way, there were people who collected and repaired debris to resell it.

And because there was so much to take, users who temporarily changed their profession to salvagers(?) were also flocking in.

It was truly a scene of absolute chaos.

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Of course, such chaotic situations only occurred in the very beginning.

“That’s not our territory, right?”

“No, it’s outside our territorial boundary.”

“But our fortress cannons can reach it, right?”

“Um… yes, they can.”

“Then we’re good.”

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Title: Announcement to Tannhäuser junk collectors

Author: Icarus

Content: [Image showing the range of Tannhäuser fortress cannons, covering most of the nearby debris areas.jpg]

All the junk and debris belong to us

If you trespass, we’ll blast you with fortress cannons

Don’t try to hide behind ships docked at Tannhäuser or other bases to avoid the cannons

[Image of Marian flashing a V-sign with a bright smile as Icarus takes her picture, with “Eclipse” and the pirate fleet prominently behind her.jpg]

The Pirate Empress herself is helping the top VIP of the mercenary business

Comments:

-[That faction backing is sweet]

-[Lolololololol]

-[Come on, let’s share the loot]

-˪[Sigh](Icarus)

-[Resource normalization by Icarusub]

-[Waaah, are you going to take everything for yourself?!]

-˪[More precisely, letting all the users in his territory take everything]

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Although the fortress cannons weren’t fully repaired yet, I hid that fact and brought them out as a threat.

And by pulling a “Mona Lisa” move of “I’ve got faction backing too, you bastards”…

The conflicts and disturbances in the debris field near Tannhäuser, which had been ongoing, were quickly suppressed and settled down.

Of course, the users from the central zone had their own “guts” from living as solo players until now.

Some would sneak in, steal debris, and escape.

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Title: What’s with this guy lol

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of a user “spearing” debris with an Anchorage wormhole harpoon from just a few dozen meters outside the range of Tannhäuser fortress cannons.jpg]

This is an unexpected method

Comments:

-[We asked for a fleet battle game but he’s fishing for debris]

-[And his accuracy is damn good too]

-[Lololololol]

-[What the lol]

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“I kept detecting wormhole reactions and wondered what was happening. So that’s what it was.”

“These creative bastards in this weird place…”

As they used forced salvage ships like Anchorage to pluck debris one by one.

And as we tried to block their actions, other users kept developing new methods in response.

Wondering what to do about this, I decided to use the internal chat of our territory, which kept trying to make kingdom jokes.

With a feeling that it had been a very long time, I tried to utilize their collective intelligence.

The problem was that the approximately 5,000… no, 6,000 users who participated in my collective intelligence plan seemed to have a lot of pent-up issues.

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<Central Neutral Zone Official Chat Room>

<Notice: Stop changing the chat room title dammit>

-[How about selling access for money?]

-[Or take 10-20% of what they collect]

-[Better to take a fixed amount upfront than a percentage of the results]

-[?]

-[Unlike resource zones, debris fields get depleted as you mine them]

-[So we sell monthly passes and then we work hard to collect everything during that time]

-[But what if they complain when everything’s gone before the month ends?]

-[After everything’s collected, we just say “who cares?”]

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Since proceeding with that plan would turn all the other central zone users against us, I shook my head.

I decided to end the discussion by just taking 10% of what they collected in exchange for collection rights.