Today the star base is like a majestic fort. Surrounded by a four meter high concrete auxiliary wall, 13 kilometers around in rectangr shape. All of four gates are full of guards and machine guns. On the outside of the wall, along the east to the north adjoins the river Tukad, thousands of farmers were spoted busy picking potatoes. The 100 hectare agricultural crop which had been cultivated for more than three months had finally shown its results. Potatoes and yams, the perfect nts for facing the end of time. As far as the eye could see there were dozens of three-floored watchtower surrounding the headquarters.
As soon as Alex entered the main gate of the headquarters, Alex was quite surprised. The headquarters with a total of 115 hectares had be a city with a soul. There was almost no empty field left. The thousand hangars project for the residence haspletely done and fully upied within three months. One hangar could amodate five hundred people. It means that there were five hundred thousand people lived in this entire headquarters area...
Still inside the jeep, Alex went through a lot of people. At this hour, the farmers and the construction workers and also the soldiers should be outside the headquarters. Seeing the current conditions of the city, it seemed like there were still many unemployed people in this city.
Alex passed by the most crowded ce. Devita exined that this ce was a market area. There were about 10 market locations spread throughout this 100 hectares area. This market was located in an open area and side by side to a giant storage hangar. In this ce, people were allowed to exchange their meal vouchers for all types of equipment; mutated meat food, weapons, clothing and daily supplies such as soap and others. This market also epted payment with spirit stone as a currency.
Alex noticed that therge hangar, which was an iron factory, a botanical garden hangar that housed hydroponic nts, and also a medical and research center, was twice bigger than before. Alex couldn''t wait to see the details of its progress.
Finally Alex headed to the location of the meeting, arge hangar downtown which was themand center of the Star Army. There were already dozens of people gathered. They all were familiar people. Alex sat in the empty chair at the forefront of the table, Devita sat in the opposite chair while Aria stood behind Alex.
The seven leaders of the Star headquarters division that Alex had assigned before leaving were all there in attendance in this room:
Supplies and Equipment Division: Devita
Agriculture Division: Jane
Development Division: Tony
Health and Research Division: Rachel
Educational Division : Agung
Security Division: Major Sandi
Administrative Division: Cahaya
As for who was also invited to this meeting were:
James Randall, Winter, Colonel Arief, Rama, Donny, Dario and Farell.
Cahaya who was an experienced governor before was a suitable person toe for Benny who went on an expedition to East Indonesia with Commander Karra and the others.
(Benny was the assistant regent of the bay city who was asked to help Alex to buy and in Bali before the end of time.)
"Well, let''s start with the administration data of this ind first," Alex said
Cahaya had came well-prepared.
"In this situation, the residents of Bali ind have gathered at five different locations"
Star Headquarters - Main Base
Size: 115 hectares
Poption: 553,312
Military personnel: 209,000
Civilians: 344,312
Antiga City - Military Base
Size: 45 hectares
Poption: 55,572
Military personnel: 50,000
Civilians: 5,572
Bay City - Naval Base
Size: 55 hectares
Poption: 15,755
Military personnel: 10,000
Civilians 5,755
Gilimanuk Post - (West Post)
Area on the west side of Bali ind which is attached to the Java ind.
Size: 311 hectares
Poption: 7,326
Military personnel: 5,000
Civilians: 12,326
Pos Denpasar - (Central Post)
Area on the north of Denpasar. The capital of Bali
Size: 171 hectares
Poption: 7,211
Military personnel: 5000
Civilians: 2,211.
Total poption on the Bali ind: 639,176 inhabitants.
Military personnel: 289,000
Civilians: 350,176
Alex examined the data. It apparently exined that the total poption of these four locations was even more than the total poption in the city of New Java. This poption explosion urred due to poption migration from Surabaya and Madura that reached more than 300,000 people. ording to the report given by Cahaya also showed the number of poption based on age, gender, previous upation and current upation. This data was useful as benchmark in making decisions rted to development regtion of this headquarters.
As he notice how full the poption at this main Headquarters, Alex was very happy but it made him worried at the same time. This base was currently overcrowded. Alex expected that as the migrationing from the east they needed even more housing for them to live. Bali ind initially had a poption of more than 4 million people. If we didn''t count the number of migrants from Surabaya and Madura, at this time Alex was able to amodate 10 percent of this ind''s poption. Comparing to his previous life, this was way much better.
"Cahaya, how do you see about this condition?"
"People who came from Surabaya and Madura within this month have been able to adapt to the local poption here. The current conditions are much better than back in Madura ind. Even though this base is overcrowded, I am quite optimistic that they can contribute immediately. "
"Alright ... we will have a lot of additional expansion in the next few weeks so we need help as much as possible. It is also important to think that unemployment would only rock the boat. Even though it is only a simple activity, make sure all residents can contribute. "
Alex then gave a piece of paper to Cahaya, there were dozens of names of people written in that paper.
"Do me a favor to find out if there are people with these names among the list of residents gathered."
Cahaya didn''t probe any further and casually followed Alex''s order. This list of the names was the people Alex familiar with in his previous life. Alex had expectations to find them among these more than 600,000 residents.
Next Alex turned to Major Sandi.
"There are almost 300,000 fighters, almost 50 percent of the poption are fighters, this is a veryrge number, can you please give some exnation, Major?"
Major Sandi, a middle-aged man, a former head of the Bali special forces, gave his report:
Total personnel: 289.000
Elite troops: 6,000
1st Division soldier: 65,000
2nd Division soldier: 50,000 troops
Cadet: 70,000
Militia forces: 98,000
Elite troops were those who were chosen from the best. The martial arts experts, members of military special forces, and the veteran soldiers. All the members had already reached the peak stage of mortal realm.
As exining about the next category, Major Sandi reported that the 10-day basic training, that was made at the start of the end of the period, was added to the 30-day additional advance training. Beside adding and sharpening self-defense training, this training also trained some techniques to fight back the provications of the zombies and the mutant monsters. And also for survival training to face the end-time world.
The 1st division was the group of those who had sessfully passed the initial training and advance training. They also had been in battle for more than one month. On average, 1 st division troops had reached the high mortal realm stage.
Whereas 2nd division troops are those who hadpleted initial training but even though they had conducted patrols and some kind of it, they had not yetpleted the additional training. Many of them were also fighters from Surabaya and Madura who joined the group not long before. Even though they had also reached a high level of mortal realm, these 2nd division troops did not yet have sufficient cohesiveness.
Cadets are those who were still in training as fighters. At the moment, they were still under the supervision of Major Sandi and some selected trainers, such as Mahaguru Indra, the master of Pencak St.
Thest but not least was the militia forces. They were a group of those who failed the initial training. Many of them were waiting to run through the initial training again. But they were currently assigned as the city guards as well as protective forces for the equipment hunting forces for the time being.
"So, even though there are nearly 300,000 troops registered, half of them are still under some training and need some more time for additional training before they are ready to fight. and the main obstacle right now is that we''re out of trainers. Currently , Mahaguru Indra and I have more than 500 trainers, but that is not enough. Many are good at fighting but it''s just few of them have the talent to teach"
Alex got the point. Ten days of initial training and 30 additional days were nothingpared to other military training. Ranger training in America took 61 days. While special forces required up to 1.5 years. Alex''s consideration of 30 days of training was more than enough, not to train physical and technical skills, but rather to form any sense of teamwork and unity. Ideology and unity was something that was very crucial in the early formation of a military. The rest, as for technical skill, Alex will relied on the uing pirs that woulde in less than 1 month.
But Alex currently couldn''t wait for the all 300,000 people to be ready to fight. Last night situation with the emergence of the stage three zombies in the yellow zone seemed like that the zombies provocation in the city of Bali is threatening increasingly way more dangerous.
"Major Sandi, I need you to gather all the elite troops and also all of the 1st division soldier tomorrow morning"
"Yes, Sir!"
"And also call the Wolf squad special forces back to Bali"
(Wolf forces was special forces led by Jerry)
Alex also gave special assignments to Aria and Rama
Half a day had passed in a blink of eye as they had some review and discussion about these two divisions, and Alex suddenly frowned deeply as he nced at a pile of reports prepared by the other divisions.
"Ok, for the next division, I want to see with my own eyes about its progress on the field. Today you all will apany me around. "