amaotonovel Chapter 271 Universal Star Group
Chapter 271 Universal Star Group
"Welcome to the Global Stars Group, the future is here."
No one remembers when the once inaccessible City of Stars, now boasting beautiful skyscrapers and advanced facilities, was established, or how the [Universal Stars Group] came into being. There are many different stories circulating about it.
Analysts worldwide define this group as a "multinational industrial and technological giant," but in reality, the Universal Star Group is not a company, but more like a country. However, there are no officials managing this small country, no classes, few "citizens" and an abundance of resources, and no production lines that require workers to operate. Only silent machines assemble and repair, even shipbuilding is done in this way.
The Starry Sky Corporation, which accounts for 15 percent of the world's industrial exports, does not require a large workforce. As a result, the population living in its two major strongholds, Starry Sky City and Control Island, is less than 300,000.
This is true for insiders, but to outsiders, people only know that it is a huge company that serves the whole world. The Stars Group has local offices in various countries and governments around the world, and the group sells all kinds of industrial products, from toothbrushes to space carriers.
The group's frontline employees don't even know who their boss is, or who the higher-ups are. They know Okas, who is almost everyone's superior, and their superior's superior. Everyone in the headquarters or overseas offices relies on Okas. He assigns work, sets plans, provides various services, and can even tell employees whether they have hemorrhoids through smart terminals.
Very few people are admitted to the Global Star Group. This huge multinational corporation only accepts the best researchers. The minimum educational requirement for general recruitment at headquarters is a master's degree. Although specific salaries have never been announced, no one has left the company yet.
In reality, the Universal Stars Group does not offer actual salaries or benefits because at headquarters, people do not need a market. They only need to place orders with Ocas, deduct labor certificates, and they can exchange them for all kinds of goods, from potato chips to yachts.
No one can accept living without the smart era. Smart terminals, commonly known as "smartphones," have changed the lives of everyone living here. People are used to posting messages online, while outside, even in Amelansi, it is still in the pre-internet era. Fax machines and DOS systems are unbearable for people living here. Even employees rotating through local offices are looking forward to rotating back to headquarters.
The group's defense forces are more accurately described as the world's most advanced military forces than actual forces. The Global Stars Group's defense department consists of conventional land forces, air forces, and naval forces.
The land defense force consists of two regiments, inherited from parts of the Amerlane Armed Forces and the Secret Intelligence Service. Fifty percent of its personnel are combat robots. Its infantry are basically equipped with a 5.45mm AK-105 assault rifle, exoskeleton armor, and a large number of T-72B3 main battle tanks based on the T-90MS-UN, as well as a large number of drones, ranging from heavy drones to FPV drones.
The air defense force is basically composed of 120 SU-27B fighters and 76 SU-30 fighters, equipped with R-73 air-to-air missiles and R-27E air-to-air missiles. The air defense force has the heavy aircraft carrier [Vigilant II], and the mobile headquarters [Rhodes Island], which is not part of the air defense force but also carries SU-30 fighters.
The naval defense force consisted of three Type 1144 nuclear-powered cruisers, nine Type 56EM destroyers, four Type 1135 frigates, and one Type 941 submarine. The three Type 1144 nuclear-powered cruisers, equipped with various types of anti-ship missiles, saw their lead ship, the Star Train, single-handedly destroy the entire fleet of the Kingdom of Burnia in December 670, thus establishing the independent status of the Universal Star Group. The second ship, the Black Tower, was launched the following year, and the third ship, the Emperor River, was launched six months later. These three unprecedented ships did not have any large-caliber naval guns, which remains an unsolved mystery in the world today.
However, no one in the world expected that the SSN-1 [Navigator] nuclear submarine of the Universal Star Group, hidden in secret, was a decommissioned underwater research vessel from the former United Nations Earth colony on the planet Amelan West. When Olina Christopher of the National Exploration Association first arrived here, the first thing she saw was a half-sunken ship. That was the Typhoon-class nuclear submarine. Its interior was rusty, but its basic structure was well preserved. After being completed at the Universal Star Group's top-secret shipyard, the Typhoon-class nuclear submarine was towed back to port, re-maintained, and had its internal observation equipment and scientific instrument laboratories removed. After being equipped with P-39 missile launch modules, it was transformed back into a deadly destroyer.
Today, this strategic missile nuclear submarine is the trump card of the entire Global Star Group.
The entire Universal Star Group relies on the legacy of the United Nations on Earth, and all the important technological equipment left behind on Earth has been recovered. However, this is not enough. At Raffarin Law's request, the most important thing for the entire group is the history and cognition teaching course. Formal members must undergo "citizenship training" to establish identification with the United Nations on Earth. Regardless of race, age, or gender, they all see the past of that once glorious civilization in the universe and the future they want to build.
Both Amelansi VI and Earth are their home, and now their goal is to liberate the entire Amelansi VI civilization, return to the United Nations on Earth, and revive humanity's golden age.
As the history of the stars unfolded before their eyes, these people, these newborns, were astonished and pondered. Earth may not be their home, but it is the very origin of all humanity in the universe.
So rather than calling this a company, it's more accurate to say it's a branch of the United Nations of Earth. Beneath the corporate veil of the Universal Stars Group lies a re-enactment of the United Nations of Earth's tarnished history.
This existence of ten thousand years, whether it is a beginning or an end, is unknown, but for Raffarin Lo, it is time for them to go home, whether they are the lost ones or the newborn wanderers, they have waited too long in time.