A/N: to celebrate hitting 50k words on this novel on webnovel I am giving you this extra chapter this week hope you like it
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3rd person pov
Over the next three months Dark brought his teammates in to a meeting room on the command station showing his teammates the designs of ships that they can choose from there's a total of 14 designs some brand new some look like ships from other fictional media from Darks previous life " I chose this one it suits my tastes better than the others" victor was firm on his choice it being a warship from the kiligon empire from start trek to be honest Dark sort of expected that to be his choice since he was a battle maniac and the kiligons live for war so it's a perfect match in Darks eyes as for which ship it's the Negh'Var-class warship although it will not have the cloaking tech since Dark does not have it but under Darks orders the thing was packed with weapons galore to the point it needed a AI onboard to run which was not that difficult since Red Queen could make one easily it also has decent shields too.
Now for Alice her choice was a design inspired by the Sovereign class starship of the federation from star trek it looked the same but it's interior and colour was changed to suit her since she thought the white grey colour was too much and the corridor system inside was more complicated than she wanted it to be her ship focus more on defense then assault since it had a device that could absorb shields from other ships this was achieved because the tech was with the data that Dark got from the hidden quest.
Now Philip his ship was inspired by a ship from the very universe they are in that ship is the venator class star destroyer in his words he likes that the ship can store alot of ground combat ships while still having the power to fight back the ships couple was obviously had to be changed and the weapons on board changed buy what Dark did not expecct was that Philip wanted the entire bridge to be change into the one you see in the sovereign class enterprise in next generation although difficult making this modification means rather than having a bridge the pokes out of the back of the ship the bridge can be safly hidden within the hull of the ship since the next generation bridge uses visually sensors to see a head of it rather than having an actually window leading to space this ship was than to have less fire power than Victors ship but a large capacity for fighters and drop ships as well as an assortment of ground combat vehicles.
Now for Jess she wanted something from home so dark had the designers redesign a Halcyon-class light cruiser while also converting it to a regular cruiser by making it larger however he also asked them to design a light cruiser version as well that could be apart of Jesse's fleet andbthe desighners did not disappoint they addbshikds of course while adding the best weapons we have while explanding its size and still keeping the same exterior look as well as the same interior look this ship also had some hangers added since it needs some fighter defence and attack capabilities but only for Jesse's one the light cruisers did not have it.
Despite her reservation and through Darks insistence Lucy reluctantly also chose a ship that was just as Iconic as Alice's choice that ship was the Normandy class ship from mass effect the only major difference was that the original Normandy being a military ship it was rather lacking in firepower but this os Darks opinion on wjat he saw in the games since he does not know much about the ship itself only the exterior and interiors are like the originall the version Lucy chooses it more of a balanced ship have both good amount of weapons while also maintaining a decent defence the only thing that makes this ship unique is that it has a both a planetary scanner that can scan a planet in seconds and a ridiculously powerful regular scanner making this ship perfect for gathering information of a system they enter at an incredible speed unlike the other ships this one was designed to enter a system first than send all the scan data to the rest of the fleet just like how Lucy was originally a mission handler who gave his team info on what mission they had to do and what they needed to know about where they will do the mission it sort of made sense for Lucy to have this ship.
With all the designs finalized Dark sent them to the shipyard to be built which had been going on for over three months he had them being built at the same time reaching the limit the large shipyard could build at one time but in his opinion it was worth it the remaining designs that were not chosen will be used as normal ships or if two designs offered the same thing the better ones will be used but now after 3 months the command ships are done and each member of oblivion team is shipped to their new ships to get settled in Dark also had Red Queen design some AI for each ship since Dark was sure that none of his team had experience in actual command and despite what people would say a simulation is no substitute for actual experience so even though they all did well in the simulations he had them do he still gave them an assistant to help.
The command ships are not the only thing that was built in the last three months as around hoth there's a giant ring which if one looks close enough you can see that there are shipyard inside this is Darks plan he thought in a full blown space war a constant way of replenishing ships,crew and troops is needed thust the orbital ring which contains both shipyards and cloning centers in large quantities and still has room to expand if he had to say he would guess his ship production rate was similar to Kuat Drive Yards this is due to resource constraints since he has more ability to conatruct ships just not the materials to do so but not much he can do about that since the Hoth system has limited resources.
While in his thoughts he realizes that he could produce a trade fleet and use them to not only gather information but also sell what he does not need while also using what credits they make to buy the resources he needs but before he can do that he needs Red Queen to decipher the cloaking tech from the data she was given the only issue is which cloaking tech it is since some are better than others it would be nice to get ether the kiligon or Romulan cloaking tech since they are able to hide completely without the use of a certain frequency set to sensors.
The reason for wanting this tech is to put it on the trade ships so they can go back and forth without the need to worry about pirates finding and attacking them so untill then he asks the desighners to design a large trade ship but leave a place to install the cloaking device later once the cloaking device is available they can directly put it into the design.
A week later Dark hears from Red Queen telling him she has finished deciphering the cloaking tech and that it was as he had hoped it was the cloaking tech from the kiligon empire she also said the there's only two more techs left in the data meaning after that it's on the researchers to experiment to advance the tech level he has available but he did not mind now that he has the tech he immediately has it installed on the fleet of trade ships he had built during the week he was waiting for Red Queen to finish it does not take long since the designers had done as Dark asked and left a location to install once done and tested he has some some specialitys from earth that had been made and grown in the harvest system that had been sent through the wormhole and was deemed useless loaded into the trade ships before giving them the green light to head on there way using the security code of the blocker the trade ships engage their cloaks before entering hyperspace useing a modified silent hyperdrive as Red calls it making it leave no fluctuations when entering or leaving hyperspace.