Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 1017

Chapter 1008: The trend of the end of the disaster

Holy Terra’s production capacity and efficiency offer significant potential for development.

As the heart of the Empire, its production capacity was once formidable.

Even after enduring a brutal war, Holy Terra still possesses immense potential.

But the prerequisite is to tap into this potential and harness it for personal gain.

Once the policies from the Alliance Center were implemented, and the deacons of the Ministry of Justice, eager to make a name for themselves, diligently began to work, a dramatic transformation occurred in just a few years.

Powerful families were rapidly dismantled under the powerful government’s decrees.

A significant number of them ultimately resigned themselves to their fate and stopped struggling—such as the Kafiora family.

Their entire estates were seized, but they didn’t use their influence within the industry to hinder the central government. Instead, they diligently cooperated with the transfer process, ensuring a smooth transition.

Since they’ve accepted, backed down, and pledged their allegiance, they should act decisively and thoroughly. Once again, they demonstrated decisiveness and a lack of hesitation.

This cooperative attitude yielded considerable benefits.

Although the family business was lost, the purchase price was good. The money was distributed, and the family’s personnel were scattered, leaving few in Hive Indynia. They were dispersed to other hives and even other worlds.

However, the entire family received highly ranked positions within the Alliance system. Furthermore, many were offered highly qualified positions that matched these high-ranking positions. On other worlds, some even became hive administrators and even planetary governors. While

the position of planetary governor in the Alliance’s administrative system differed from the traditional concept of a planetary ruler, being merely a temporary official within the system, it was still the highest administrative head of an entire planet. There

were also positions in caravans, leadership of large, multi-regional state-owned enterprises…

The Kafiora family profited handsomely.

Ultimately, whether a family or a special interest group, it was still a collection of people. When people formed groups, it was to pursue their own interests. When the interests of the group and the interests of the individuals are highly aligned, such a collective is most cohesive. The benefit the alliance offers is that if the interest group is dismantled, everyone within it will benefit greatly.

This will significantly reduce the resistance to dismantling the entire interest group.

But the question remains: where will the benefits come from?

This involves two factors:

First, it comes from those disobedient elites, families, and interest groups who choose to rebel.

There will always be those who choose to rebel and have poor minds. When their collectives are violently dismantled and swiftly suppressed, the positions they leave behind are a prime opportunity.

It’s not even necessary to completely eliminate them.

A dog-eat-dog situation can be a very effective tactic.

Some families will make an ostensible promise, then, as expected, they will vehemently disobey. Those caught with evidence will be executed immediately. For those who haven’t been caught but arouse suspicion, personnel from the “obedient” families will be directly dispatched to serve as their superiors and handle their cases directly.

The effect is quite significant.

These converts to the Alliance often strike with no mercy. Furthermore, they are well aware of the various devious tactics employed by Holy Terra’s traditional elite, and they target them with remarkable effectiveness!

However, the above only covers the distribution of the pie.

Distribution alone isn’t enough to feed the disintegrated families.

To feed them, offering so many good positions and high-ranking positions, simply feeding off the corpses of the annihilated families, is still insufficient and will inevitably encroach upon and impact the Alliance’s original promotion system.

Unless the pie is made even bigger,

that’s precisely the purpose of this operation.

Not to mention expanding territory, even within Holy Terra itself, when the core industries of the numerous hives are fully controlled by the Alliance, enormous production potential is unleashed!

No more shirking work for profit, no more layers of subcontracting, no more exploitation.

Industries begin to consolidate, efficiency improves, and production capacity is released.

In the years that follow, Holy Terra’s overall economy begins to grow at a faster rate!

All of this will bring greater support for the Indomitable Expedition that His Royal Highness the Regent has been dreaming of.

Although he was dissatisfied with the two-year delay in completing the overall plan for the expeditionary force, he had to admit that the cost of these two years was completely worth it. The expeditionary force would now have a stronger backing, and Holy Terra’s support for the Indomitus Crusade would be even stronger in the future.

The time saved in future expeditions could far outweigh the two years lost in the initial phase.

And now, the great Indomitus Crusade, another crucial component of the entire Imperial Expedition, had officially begun.

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In fact, the precursors to the Indomitus Crusade had already begun, even before Holy Terra was fully pacified. Part of Robert’s expeditionary fleet, combined with part of the Solar Fleet, formed an advance fleet, departing Holy Terra to explore other parts of the Solar Segmentum, once again expanding its territory.

However, progress was slow.

Partly due to insufficient manpower, and partly due to the previous Chaos corruption, the problems were not limited to Holy Terra.

Holy Terra’s importance captivated everyone’s attention. But beyond this, the other worlds in the Solar Segmentum each faced their own problems, some of which were quite serious.

While these worlds in the Solar Segmentum could all be considered core territories of the Human Empire and were heavily fortified, a significant number were still completely conquered.

The advance fleet alone, even with numerous Space Marines aboard and even with Robert convincing Marshal Yan Xinzhen to dispatch some Custodians, could only manage to prevent the situation from escalating further.

During the fifteen years of the Terran Wars, and the five years of reconstruction and the formation of the expeditionary force, fewer than two hundred worlds in the entire Solar Segmentum were completely liberated and under the full control of the new Imperial central government. The

entire Solar Segmentum comprises eight hundred worlds.

Once the Indomitable Crusade’s forces were assembled, their first objective was to recapture the entire Solar Segmentum with a force equivalent to two and a half Alliance Dark Side Expeditionary Fronts.

This goal was achieved within two years, fueled by this massive military force.

They then split into three directions, as originally planned: the Indomitable Crusade’s Northern, Western, and Southern Fronts.

In the tenth year of the Indomitable Crusade, the Southern Front was the first to complete its mission: successfully reuniting with the Alliance’s Western Front and reorganizing into the larger Southwestern Front, it advanced steadily southwestward along the Scarlet Scar towards the Empire.

In the twenty-fifth year of the Indomitable Crusade, the Northern Front also completed its mission, joining forces from the Infinite Sector southward to form the Northern Front, aiming to reclaim the entire northern border of the Empire.

The Western Front faced a more challenging task, but at least they conquered the entire Solar System and entered the Anyang System west of it.

Thus, within the Holy Territory of the Empire, six systems, representing a quarter of the entire Holy Territory, had been largely reclaimed during the twenty-five years of the Indomitable Crusade.

Including the Dark Side Crusade, the entirety of the 13 systems in the Eastern Territory had been fully recovered.

The Southern Front entered the two systems in the Central System separated by the Scarlet Scar’s dark side and also conquered them.

The Angel Expeditionary Force and the Eastern Front, led by Dante, have fully entered the southern border of the empire.

Combined, the new empire now controls twenty-one cosmic regions.

This is already half of the empire’s total territory.

More importantly, the empire currently has six fronts carrying out its expeditionary missions, and they are in full swing. The operation to reclaim the entire empire is like a snowball, growing larger, more powerful, and more unstoppable.

And the good news doesn’t stop there.

To date, the Scarlet Scar has appeared for nearly one hundred and fifty years.

This huge scar, representing a profound disaster, is now visibly fading.

(End of this chapter)