Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 481

Chapter 480: Apocalypse-level Technology

[Dreadnought] and [Strike Cruiser] are both Space Marine technologies.

The reason for this is that these two technologies can basically only be seen in Space Marine Chapters. Let’s

talk about the Dreadnought first. This is a type of mecha dedicated to Space Marines, but not everyone can use it.

Space Marines are very strong, but they are still not immune to injury or death. When a comrade is so seriously injured that no amount of conventional medical treatment can restore his combat effectiveness, there are two choices in the general Chapter: contribute gene seeds and obtain the peace granted by the Emperor, or enter a sarcophagus with a life support device, connect nerves to machinery, and become a Dreadnought. Once

you enter the Dreadnought, you will never get out and become one with the mecha. But at the same time, the life support system in the mecha can almost make its operator immortal. Therefore, the Dreadnought is not only a super-powerful combat unit, but also a veteran with rich experience.

The one Gu Hang drew is the [Iron Fortress Dreadnought], which can almost be regarded as the most common Dreadnought.

This thing has a very strong combat power and a huge size, just a little smaller than the ordinary knight mecha. But this smallness allows it to participate in internal ship combat, and it is almost the size limit for internal ship combat.

However, although the dreadnought mecha is smaller than the ranger-class knight mecha, if it fights, the former can basically win the latter; even if it encounters a larger overlord-class knight mecha, it has a very high chance of winning.

This is mainly because since the dreadnought mecha has been integrated into a space warrior and connected with the spirit, many control systems are unnecessary. The iron coffin is their body, and the flexibility of operation is greater than that of the knight mecha, and the combat power of the space warrior itself is also greater than that of the knight; after saving the operating system, a large amount of space in the dreadnought mecha can be used to load weapons and thicken the armor…

However, the biggest problem with using the dreadnought mecha is the scarcity of manpower.

It must be a dying space warrior.

It is not impossible to stuff a normal surviving Space Marine into a dreadnought, but this operation is too inhumane. At least Gu Hang has never heard of any regiment that would do this, and he certainly won’t do it.

In the wars of the past few years, the Phoenix has suffered about 300 casualties. Especially in the anti-boarding operations of the Battle of Temir, the Phoenix fought hard with the elite guards of the greenskins, and there were considerable casualties;

in the subsequent ground operations on multiple planets, the Phoenix also served as the main force of the assault in various places and accompanied the battle. A considerable number of particularly dangerous battlefields were personally attacked by Space Marines.

Among the casualties of about 300 people, more than 100 were real deaths. There were nearly 200 people who were seriously injured and could no longer hold on, so they were evacuated back.

Among them, there are hundreds of people who can save their lives through the Alliance’s now quite advanced medical means-among the various civilian technologies drawn, there are many related to medical care. Even after a period of recuperation, at most they can be equipped with some mechanical prostheses and return to the battlefield.

Only a few dozen people were really unable to recover from serious injuries, or died in the rear, or simply retired with their bodies.

After Gu Hang and Martins discussed, these Phoenixes who were able to return to the battlefield were also retired.

This is definitely not considered an overbirth. It is reasonable not to count the Space Marines who retired due to injuries when we replenish our personnel?

They are not afraid of being checked!

The dozens of Phoenixes who were seriously injured and unable to return to the battlefield became candidates for the Dreadnought mecha.

Of course, this still has to be based on the principle of voluntariness. They have paid a lot for the Alliance and the Chapter. If they don’t want to continue fighting, the Alliance and the Chapter will respect the ideas of these heroes.

But in fact, the proportion of seriously injured people who sign up to become Dreadnoughts is quite large. It was something they were quite unwilling to be unable to return to the battlefield. Now that there is an opportunity, they naturally have to seize it. Even if the price is that they can never come out of the Dreadnought iron coffin again in their lifetime, or even have to endure a long period of pain inside – the experience of being stuffed into the Dreadnought must be uncomfortable.

But these seriously injured soldiers did not look back.

Since there were dozens of candidates in the back, the dreadnoughts that the Alliance had manufactured through black boxes and finished product production lines at the moment might not be enough. They had to wait for a year or even several years before they could get in.

In any case, with the dreadnoughts, the Phoenix Regiment once again had more powerful weapons and could save the lives of some veterans who had survived the brutal battles. This was definitely a big boost to the strength of the entire regiment.

As for the [Strike Cruiser], it was also a Space Marine technology.

The Empire commissioned the Mechanicus to build a warship specifically for the needs of the Space Marines. It required rapid deployment, convenient deployment of elite forces, strong independent combat capabilities, and no shortcomings…

So, the Mechanicus came up with a thing called the strike cruiser.

In terms of performance, the strike cruiser exceeded the conventional cruiser, and it could also support the Space Marines to directly connect to the ship’s command and control system through the interface of the black carapace, just like controlling power armor, but the complexity was much higher.

It is even smaller than the Moon-class cruiser, but its firepower, defense, speed… all aspects of performance are superior to those of conventional cruisers.

The cost of the Moon-class cruiser is 8.5 billion tax coins, while the cost of the strike cruiser is 12 billion, which is about 1.5 times that of the Moon-class.

However, building it should not conflict with the Moon-class. Its dock also needs to be specially made.

There are now two musician-class docks and two moon-class docks in the shipyards of Feiyi Star and Angry Owl Star. The third Moon-class dock is already under construction, and now we can start building a strike cruiser dock.

In the future, with a four-year cycle, the Alliance will be able to produce six cruiser-class main battleships!

Moreover, the construction of the Alliance’s docks is still ongoing, and the production of starships in the future will continue to rise.

According to the productivity of Feiyi Star and Angry Owl Star, it is estimated that ten cruisers will be produced every four years before the upper limit is almost reached.

This upper limit is determined by the size of the starport plus the labor cost plus the productivity upper limit. If there are more, we have to expand the star port, increase the scale of various production lines for ground-based supporting starship production, and add more manpower. But if we do this, the production of other resources and products will be greatly affected.

It’s a bit unbearable.

But the Alliance also has other tricks.

On the one hand, the Angry Owl Star is constantly absorbing population. When the population of the Angry Owl Star reaches about 5 or 6 billion – this is about the upper limit of the environmental carrying capacity of this planet – the construction of the dock can be expanded.

In addition, Gu Hang plans to build large docks on Fache 1, Korojia, and Baishuo Star in the Zima Star Region.

The starports of Fache 1 and Koroja are both relatively large, suitable for expanding the docks; Baishuo, the capital planet of the Purple Horse Star Region, already has the ability to manufacture ships. Although they are small ships, it is better to have a foundation than to start from scratch. This planet signed the Economic Community Act in the second batch, and now it has been incorporated into the Alliance. The conditions for large-scale investment and construction are already in place.

After the large docks on these three planets are built, Gu Hang’s planned naval construction plan will be able to reach 20 ships in four years.

The shipbuilding industry of these 20 cruisers alone is a huge industry of 50 billion per year.

In contrast, now in addition to the Tianma Star Region, the annual output value of more than 80 worlds in the other six star regions of Qima Land is only about 120 billion.

The shipbuilding industry will not only provide a large number of powerful warships for the Alliance in the future, but will also be a huge economic development engine. It will drive a series of developments in the surrounding supporting facilities of multiple planets and even multiple star regions, and all kinds of heavy industries related to shipbuilding will burst into vigorous vitality.

Of course, such a large-scale shipbuilding expansion plan cannot be completed overnight. It will occupy a major chapter in the next four-year plan of the alliance and will be promoted as a core point.

Give it more time to develop, and the future of the alliance’s fleet is promising!

…

After drawing these thirty rounds of 100,000-level technologies, Gu Hang still has one million points of grace in his hand.

The epic explosion rate of the 100,000-level has been reduced to only 5%.

This is already a less than ideal number.

Although the prize pool is not drained, the cost-effectiveness is not particularly high.

Gu Hang set his sights on the million-level.

This is a virgin land that he has never touched before, and the probability is full.

Not to mention the 50% epic winning rate, more importantly, there is a higher level of apocalypse-level technology.

Before, when Gu Hang looked at the things drawn from the epic level, he felt that the top technology of battleships might not be as simple as the epic level.

The reason for thinking this way is that the things drawn from the epic level are obviously not up to the level of battleships.

Later, the facts proved this point.

Gu Hang’s luck in this million-dollar lottery was quite good. With a 20% probability, he drew an apocalypse-level technology.

[X-level specification giant macro cannon: Destruction Judgment].

This is the main gun on the retribution-class battleship.

It is a bit regrettable that the most urgently needed technology of the alliance, such as battleships, was not drawn. But it is also basically certain that the battleship technology must be in the apocalypse level.

Of course, the significance of “Destruction Judgment” is there. In fact, if there is no production capacity of X-level giant cannons, it is useless to just draw a battleship without a cannon. This is a necessary technical reserve.

Moreover, in terms of current practical significance, the produced “Destruction Judgment” can also be installed on the star fortress.

In some important core positions, after the starport is equipped with “Destruction Judgment”, the star fortress is equivalent to an immovable battleship. In fact, since the defense system of the star fortress is not limited to the hull, its combat effectiveness as a fixed firepower platform may be stronger than that of a battleship.

The same is true for the ground deployment.

In short, after having the “Destruction Judgment”, when the Alliance transforms a planet into a fortress, the planet will really become difficult to conquer.

At this moment, Gu Hang has several worlds that need to be fortified in this way.

Guangfu Star and Duming Star are among them.

The Alliance is currently fighting wits and courage with the Fury War Group on the front line. Who knows if it will really turn into a civil war later?

These two worlds are the only way for the Fury War Group to kill their way to the heartland of the Alliance. It is very necessary to strengthen the defense.

…

Gu Hang is still looking forward to being able to draw a few more million-level draws.

And for the current Alliance, accumulating one million points of grace is not a particularly difficult thing.

First of all, the monthly fixed grace points have increased significantly, mainly due to the increase in the number of vassals.

Let’s not talk about the four star regions of the Iron Teeth Greenskins’ lair. There are almost no humans in these places, so they are not very meaningful. However, the circle of star regions called the “Iron Teeth Line of Defense” that served as a buffer zone between humans and greenskins before this has always been under human control. In fact, in order to stabilize the Iron Teeth Line of Defense, the star region government has not stopped migrating to these places and strengthening local defense in the past few decades.

Falling under the greenskins’ front for about four to five years, these worlds have suffered serious damage, but after all, the number is there. The five major star regions of Jinguan, Tongguan, Jiaoshou, Weirui, and Speedy Cover are now basically under the control of the Alliance.

These five star regions, adding up to 59 worlds, are estimated to have a total population of 76 billion or more. This is already a very tragic number, because according to the pre-war estimate, the five star regions should have a population of more than 110 billion. In four or five years, the comprehensive erosion of the greenskins has caused these planets to lose a total of 30% of their population, which means the death of tens of billions of people. It

is very terrifying.

But at least there are still 76 billion people left.

All these worlds have joined the “Seven Horses” framework of the alliance. In fact, there are quite a few worlds where the original planetary governments have collapsed and no longer exist. After the alliance took over, it simply established a cooperative government in the local area and directly joined the Economic Community Act, which is closer to the alliance than the Seven Horses framework.

In addition, because the alliance is the “savior”, it has received a high degree of support from the local people, so that the vassal level of these worlds is not lower than LV3.

They provide the alliance with a total of about 3,000 points of gift points per month.

Add to that the 8,000 from the Seven Horses, and the total is more than 10,000.

Moreover, the gift point income of the alliance’s homeland has soared from 39,000 to 58,000.

The reason for such a high increase is that the productivity of the alliance is continuously improving. On the other hand, more than ten worlds have been incorporated into the alliance’s homeland.

These worlds that have developed well under the Economic Community Act provide a lot of grace points. If the restrictions on vassals are removed and calculated according to the local area, it is natural that they can be greatly increased.

Now, Gu Hang’s monthly grace point income is about 70,000. Just relying on fixed income in a year, he can get more than 800,000, which is almost enough for a million-dollar lottery.

The Alliance now has another big source of grace point income, that is, war.

Although the Temir War is over and the war to kill Chief Titus is over, there will be no large-scale combat against the greenskins.

However, the threat of greenskins still exists on many worlds currently controlled by the Alliance and the Alliance is fighting with the Fury Legion.

These relatively isolated wars that take place on the surface of each planet will provide Gu Hang with a considerable amount of grace point income for each victory.

The specific amount depends on the scale of the war on that planet.

But no matter what, a war on a planet can be settled once a symbolic victory is achieved; when the overall situation has been determined, although the grace points for clearing out the remaining enemies are not many, they are still there after all.

For example, on Temir 5, the more than 10 billion or 20 billion greenskins who are still alive are basically equivalent to pigs waiting to be slaughtered. Even the proportion of orc boys is not high, and most of them are surviving. The number of troops left by the Alliance Army there is actually not that large. It mainly relies on the local Allied Forces and the war materials transported by the Alliance to clear out the remaining greenskins.

According to the report given to Gu Hang by the Alliance War Committee, Temir 5 does not need the Alliance to invest too much extra manpower. They can basically eliminate the greenskin threat on the planet in about three to five years.

The subsequent land purification and long-term prevention and control of greenskins will last for decades or even hundreds of years. But at least, the current clearing operation can bring Gu Hang thousands of grace points every month.

In so many worlds, the greenskins are being cleared out in a similar way. Gu Hang can now get about 150,000 grace points from this every month.

A bigger profit comes from the clearing of the greenskins’ nests.

In the four star regions of Jiang Meiyu, Tieguan, Yinguan, and Kuolu, which were once completely occupied by greenskins, the Alliance has deployed very few ground troops. They carefully evaluate the conditions of each planet and decide which planets are worth saving.

Only places with superior resources or natural environments on the ground, where the greenskins on the surface can be cleared away, and the cost of clearing is not high, are worth saving.

For worlds that do not have these factors, just throw a Burning Sky torpedo down.

Now, the Alliance has less than ten Burning Sky Torpedoes, which are definitely not enough to cover all the worlds in these four star regions that need the Extinction Order. But it doesn’t matter, just surround them, the Extinction Orders are being produced one by one.

As long as the cost of retaking a place is higher than the cost of producing the Extinction Order, just smash it.

And by clearing a world like this, Gu Hang can get at least hundreds of thousands of points of grace.

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5k for this chapter.

Still owe 50k

(End of this chapter)