Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 480

Chapter 479: Long-awaited Technology Lottery

. Gu Hang thought about it and still didn’t dare to do it blatantly.

Take it slow first.

However, it is also possible to make some preparations in advance.

Gu Hang has two ideas in this regard: quality and quantity.

Of course, the two are not contradictory and can be used together.

Gu Hang is already using the quality plan.

Whether it is Gu Hang’s newly trained or the old phoenixes, they are definitely not all new recruits.

The cost of cultivating a phoenix, from gene seeds to its own cultivation, is 100 for seeds, 100 for training, and 200-300 for elimination in the middle, not to mention the floating probability of operation failure of about 10%.

The full cost of a phoenix new blood is about 400 to 500 points. If Gu Hang is impatient and can’t stand the superhuman organ growth period, he will have to exchange for a superhuman organ growth acceleration, which is another 100 points of grace. Then

, all the staff will be trained to at least the veteran level, with an average cost of 200 per person.

But Gu Hang did not stop there.

He would spend another 300 to get each person to the level of “sergeant”.

This level of Space Marines is almost equivalent to everyone being a veteran among veterans. Compared with the seven veterans who had experienced the Hundred Years of Atonement Expedition when they first came to the Wrathful Owl Star, they are only a little bit behind.

In this way, it takes a thousand points of grace to train a Space Marine. Not to mention, if there is a think tank team of about 30 people, it will cost more points to find people with psychic talents among these new bloods for training.

If Gu Hang wants to train the Phoenix to the level of “Company Champion” per capita, it can actually be done. It’s nothing more than spending another 400 points per person, a total of 400,000, to pull them to this level, that is, reaching the level of having experienced the Atonement Expedition per capita, only one level weaker than Martins, who had the strength of a Space Marine company commander in the past.

If it’s still not enough, Gu Hang can even use the [Hero] panel to enlighten as much as possible in the Phoenix, and then raise the hero evaluation potential of these people one by one, and directly use the gift points to upgrade them when they reach a certain point, without waiting for them to grow up. However, if you want to get to this point, the gift points consumed per person will be like a wild horse that has run away from its reins, completely out of control.

That’s a bit too shocking, and it costs too many points, Gu Hang is a bit reluctant.

But if the problem of the number of space warriors cannot be solved, and a thousand pits is the limit, Gu Hang has enough gift points on hand, and when it is really necessary to use space warriors to fight certain crises, he won’t care about those.

Pull each person to the company champion, and then inspire the hero. It can’t reach the level of the regiment champion, but all the masters can fight five or even ten at a time, that’s not impossible.

There are solutions for quality, and there are actually solutions for quantity.

Gu Hang thought about expanding another regiment, but after thinking carefully, it’s not feasible. There are a number of regiments, and each one is recorded in the empire, and there are corresponding documents. Giving a name, designing a livery, and forming a group by yourself is definitely illegal, and it is a serious crime if it is discovered.

The key is that it is not easy to hide. Once discovered, it is better to use the Phoenix to reproduce.

However, Gu Hang can use the name of reserve team and recruit training to form a shadow regiment outside the Phoenix.

Of course, the gene seeds of the Phoenix are still used, and Gu Hang can only exchange their seeds now.

However, the trained Space Marines are hidden and not used.

The most common use is to quickly and seamlessly replenish the Phoenix when there are personnel losses. This use is not easy for the Empire to say. They are not formal Space Marines, but just reserve forces. What is there to say? It is nothing more than that this reserve force is more powerful.

But using this statement, the maximum number can be maintained at a scale of one or two hundred. If there are more, the Empire will not tolerate it.

Another use is more marginal. When necessary, the power armor of these reserve team and shadow regiment members can be painted like the Phoenix, pretending to be the Phoenix.

But if there are too many Phoenixes acting at the same time, they will end up like the Ironclad.

Although it is an idea, it is difficult to expand the number of Space Marines to an outrageous degree. First

, it is expensive. In addition to spending a lot of grace points, it will cost a lot of money to equip so many sets of power armor and a full set of expensive individual equipment.

Second, the political risk is too high. If it is exposed, it will be difficult to explain and it will be a big taboo. His and Phoenix’s reputation will fall to the level of Ironclad in an instant.

If Ironclad is the imaginary enemy, Gu Hang cannot let his reputation fall to that level. If the central government of the empire thinks that the confrontation between the alliance and the “Iron Fury Stone” is a dog-eat-dog fight between separatist warlords, it will be very bad.

First, Gu Hang feels that he is not a separatist force;

second, he cannot let others think that he is;

at the very least, even if others think he is, they cannot give them too obvious handles to accuse him.

The consequences of these three levels are completely different. The most direct one is that if Gu Hang and the Fury Flame Corps really get into trouble, will the imperial officials support him or sit on the sidelines and watch?

Gu Hang thought about expanding the number for a long time, and decided to put it aside as a backup.

…

Gu Hang still has about 1.5 million grace points left for military construction. 500,000

are temporarily reserved to ensure that when necessary, Gu Hang can immediately bring all the Phoenixes to the level of company champions.

And the remaining 1 million grace points, Gu Hang used for the training of political commissars.

100,000 political commissars, apply for the post. They will be distributed in units above the regiment level, and a small number of battalion-level units can also be equipped. There are really not enough grace points to match the instructors of the company size.

Under the military system of the alliance, the role played by the political commissar cannot be ignored. Discipline, morale, and ideology are the core factors that determine the combat effectiveness of the troops. Sometimes, it is even more important than the hardware level such as the training level and equipment level of the troops.

In fact, the alliance’s political commissar system starts with company instructors and battalion instructors. However, the political commissars trained by Gu Hang could not sink to this level, as the number of people required was too large.

A political commissar also needs 10 points of grace, which Gu Hang can’t afford.

The Alliance Army will reach a scale of 1 billion people in the future, and he can only take care of units above the regiment level. Not to mention that the scale is several times larger than that of the Alliance Army, and the total number may have exceeded 4 billion. Gu Hang needs to ensure that these allied forces stand with the Alliance and complete the Alliance’s unified goal, and a large number of political commissars are also needed, at least at the brigade level and the army level, and they must be equipped with political commissars of the Alliance.

To be honest, with this calculation, the number of 100,000 may not be enough.

When Gu Hang just got 15 million points of grace, he still didn’t know how to spend such a large amount of grace points; but when he really spent it, he found that no matter how many points he had, it was still not enough when put into the order of hundreds of millions.

But Gu Hang can no longer throw more grace points into these “bottomless pits”.

He has to spend all the remaining 4 million on the lottery.

He no longer cares about the rewards of the 10,000-level, as the pool has been basically drained. However, the 100,000-level has only been opened for a short time, and the rewards are still very generous.

And he can directly do a 40-draw streak!

He will draw 30 times first, and there will be 1 million grace points left. He will decide whether to go to the 1 million level depending on the situation.

The probability of getting an epic technology at the 100,000-level is 50%. Before, Gu Hang had drawn seven times at this level and got three epic technologies, but now the probability has been reduced to 35%.

Every time a product is drawn, the probability drops by 5%.

But at present, this 35% is still a very high number.

Five epic technologies were drawn in 30 draws, and the remaining 18 ordinary, advanced, and elite technologies were left empty seven times.

Overall, it was in line with expectations.

There were also some surprises in the non-epic technologies. Although there was basically nothing new, they were all upgrades or variants of some technologies that the alliance already had, but some of them could still play a role.

For example, more efficient servo skull production technology, such as two types of Space Marine power armor and one type of feedback power armor.

The first two are MK.5 and MK.8. Gu Hang does not plan to pull out the production line of MK.5. This type of power armor is not popular among Space Marines at present, and there is nothing particularly outstanding in performance. On the contrary, due to certain historical factors, it is the power armor with the largest number of Chaos Space Marines.

The latter can be manufactured. Although the performance is different from the MK.4 Great Power Armor that is currently used by Phoenix, it is relatively simple to produce and the cost is half cheaper. If Gu Hang wants to significantly increase the number of Space Marines in the future, but the production of MK.4 Great Power Armor is relatively low, the MK.8 Skyhawk Power Armor that has been saved can be used. If it really doesn’t work, it can be used for foreign trade.

The feedback power armor is called the “Commander” type. The main difference from the “Servant God” that the Alliance has now is that the latter was actually originally developed for the battle sisters. There are certain theological links in the manufacturing process. In the hands of the battle sisters, these links can play some metaphysical effects, making the sisters luckier, and even showing some miracles as if they were favored by the emperor at special times. But when worn by ordinary mortals, these effects will not be achieved. Instead, these special manufacturing steps and links raise the manufacturing cost.

On the contrary, the “Commander Type” is different. This is a battle armor developed for the Star Army. Although it is far behind the “Servant God” in terms of individual performance, the cost is greatly reduced, and it integrates many command link communication systems. The commander wearing it does not need a command vehicle; at the same time, a whole team of special combat soldiers wearing “Commander” can also cooperate better.

For this kind of power armor, Gu Hang plans to greatly increase the production.

When cultivating new blood of the Phoenix, the part eliminated in the screening process is only slightly unqualified for the Space Marines. Looking at the entire human group, they are talented, and after the training bonus of the [Soldier Card] system, they are all rare elite soldiers.

In the process of training 500 new Phoenix blood recently, more than 9,000 T2 soldiers and nearly 30,000 T3 soldiers were born. T4 soldiers are not counted, which are relatively few.

Some of these T2 and T3 soldiers will be sent to the special operations brigades and skeleton divisions established in the front-line troops of the Alliance Army. The other part will be concentrated to form an elite force called the “Glory Guards Corps”.

Their predecessor is the 10th Special Operations Brigade of the Alliance Army.

Gu Hang’s positioning of the “Glory Guards” is aligned with the elite of the famous Star Army in the Empire, such as the so-called “Kashejin” and “Catachan”.

The Alliance does not have the environment to create similar supermen, but the Alliance has money to invest in training and equipment.

In Gu Hang’s plan, the “Glory Guards Corps” can be used to fight against the Space Marines when necessary. Even if it comes at the cost of a high exchange rate and a large number of casualties, at least it can fight and will not be quickly annihilated.

This is also a supplement to the problem of insufficient number of Space Marines.

At least each member of the ‘Glory Guard’ must be equipped with an exoskeleton and a carapace, and as much as possible, they must be equipped with feedback power armor.

Their number is many times more than that of Space Marines, so the demand for power armor is naturally much greater. The cost of the ‘Servant of the Gods’ is too high, and the production is small. A cheaper ‘Commander Type’ is a good supplement.

Some other technologies that were drawn are actually similar. For example, there is also a ‘Walrus Type’ transport ship, which is smaller than the ‘Whale Class’ transport ship but faster, and has the potential to be converted into an armed merchant ship, but the cost is higher… If

these technologies are drawn, it is definitely better than nothing. But for the Alliance, it is more of a icing on the cake. If the problem of going from nothing to something is not solved, there will be no qualitative change.

If you want a qualitative change, you still have to look at the five epic technologies that were drawn.

[L-type missile weapon, Dongfeng Fen], [L-type macro cannon, Zhongsi’s wrath], [Predator-class Titan], [Dreadnought Mech], [Strike Cruiser].

The first two technologies directly meet the Alliance’s needs for various L-specification weapons. Prior to this, the Alliance only had the ability to produce L-type ‘Doomsday’ light spear arrays, which resulted in the main guns of the four new Moon-class cruisers produced by the Alliance being all light spears.

This is a very passive thing. Prior to this, the main guns of the Musician-class cruisers built on Wing Star were imported from Jindi Star and then assembled on board. Wing Star itself does not have the ability to produce these L-class heavy guns.

Now, these problems no longer exist.

[‘Predator’-class Titan] is a proper medium-sized Titan, much larger than the ‘War Dog-class’ Terra, which is known as the ‘Dog Tai’. Among those famous Titan Corps, the ‘Predator’ is also considered the mainstay.

With it, the ‘Alliance National Knights’, as a unit developing towards the Titan Corps, can be regarded as entering the mainstream.

As for the last two, [Dreadnought] and [Strike Cruiser], they are both Space Marine technologies.

(End of this chapter)