Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 487

Chapter 486, Marshal Gu

looked at the planet in front of him, he could not recognize that this was the home planet of mankind, Earth.

The blue and beautiful planet in his impression was completely gone.

The ocean that should have occupied most of the surface area of the planet had completely dried up many years ago, and the floating white clouds naturally disappeared.

Instead, there were countless man-made buildings that were clearly visible from space, covering every inch of the entire planet, including the dry seabed.

They were nest cities.

This was Gu Hang’s first thought, but he quickly overturned it.

It was too inaccurate.

They were nest cities one after another.

Today, Holy Terra is the largest nest world in the empire. According to the data of the empire, there are one trillion people living here, including more than 50 billion officials of the imperial government, who are responsible for ruling the vast territory of the entire empire.

What a terrible number is this?

Korojia is already a standard nest world, and its huge population resources are its most core output. But even so, its peak population was only 40 billion, only 4% of Holy Terra.

Today, the Alliance controls half of the star field. If we count all the worlds indirectly controlled by the Seven Horses Framework and the Economic Community Act, there are a total of 182, with a total population of only 340 billion, which is only one-third of the planet of Holy Terra.

And Holy Terra has more than just population. Its productivity is also very developed.

The entire solar system is worthy of being the most core area of mankind.

There is not only Holy Terra, but also the Moon Base, and another magnificent world – the headquarters of the Mechanicus, the Mars Forge World.

The star port area of Holy Terra is also extremely large, like a flat space world, with continuous steel creations, almost connected to the distant Moon Star Port.

Countless ships, large and small, densely packed, come in and out of this magnificent star port area. Most of them are various types of transport ships, and the daily cargo throughput of the star port is unclear. Even Gu Hang can see several ships dragging a huge ice comet into a specific star port. These ice comets may be the source of living water for the trillions of people on the long-dried Holy Terra, which is beyond Gu Hang’s imagination.

In addition, the core solar fleet of the Imperial Navy is patrolling in this area. Gu Hang can see many powerful warships of various shapes at a glance, each of which is comparable to or even larger than the size of the Retribution-class battleship. The most numerous of them are definitely the most common Retribution-class battleships; but there are also some battleship models that look different, which look more powerful than the conventional Retribution-class.

In the orbit of Holy Terra, the most eye-catching is a circular creation that looks a bit like a star fortress, but is larger than any star fortress Gu Hang has seen before.

It is called the Mountain Array, and it is the largest mobile fortress in the Empire. It is the size of a satellite or a large asteroid, and 10 battleships can be docked on the front deck alone. It can even be regarded as a cosmic nest city, which can accommodate an unimaginable population and requires an inestimable number of mortal drivers.

It is not only large, but also very fast. In the few times it left Holy Terra to fight, it was always able to quickly reach the battlefield and destroy the enemies of the Empire with unmatched firepower.

Its history even exceeds that of the human empire. It is a prehistoric creation. Human technology can only maintain it. If it is severely damaged, it can only be repaired by alternative technology, which will cause permanent performance loss, not to mention building a new ship.

The Phalanx was found by the original Seventh Legion of Space Marines 10,000 years ago. After the division was split, it also became the home of the Golden Knights after the reorganization of the Seventh Legion.

Today, the Golden Knights is the only Space Marine chapter stationed in Holy Terra. Together with the Imperial Guards, both are super warriors painted in golden color, jointly defending the home planet of mankind, the heart of the empire.

The spaceship that Gu Hang was riding passed the Phalanx from a distance, and his eyes were always reluctant to look at this huge, majestic and beautiful creation, thinking:

“When can I have such a big guy…”

He reluctantly withdrew his gaze until the Phalanx disappeared from his sight.

After entering a star port and changing to a small spaceship, Gu Hang headed for the ground.

During the near-ground flight, Gu Hang caught a glimpse of the people living in those towering nest cities.

Well… they were not living very well.

This slightly cracked the aura of Holy Terra in Gu Hang’s heart.

In the orbit of the planet, he was almost shocked by the capital of the empire and the heart of mankind. However, the living standards of the people on Holy Terra were similar to those of the nest city world in his stereotype.

But it is said that the housing prices on Holy Terra are very expensive, and the most shabby little room may be worth a palace on other planets.

On the surface of Holy Terra, the most magnificent building complex is the Imperial Palace.

It is located in the Himalayas and covers the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Its spires pierce the sky, and the magnificent palace shines brightly under the sun. Countless spaceships hover over it, guarding the glory and dignity of the empire. It is not only a symbol of the power of the Empire, but also an eternal fortress, standing in the long river of history, witnessing the rise and fall and changes of the Empire.

The Emperor made his fortune here and unified the whole world; the Emperor created the Space Marines and the Imperial Guards, who were called “perfect humans”, here, and set off a great expedition to establish the current territory of the Empire. It was here that the Emperor ascended to become a god and protected mankind for one thousand years after another.

And the destination of Gu Hang’s trip was exactly here.

…

Gu Hang’s trip to Holy Terra took him a long time.

The longest journey was from the Alliance to Wuji Star. The road in the south was a bit too dangerous. Gu Hang could only choose to go from the east to the Donglin Star Field and then go south to the Diaochou Star Field, and then to the Wuji Star Field.

After arriving at Wuji Star, make another jump to enter the Wenshou Universe Field and then enter the Sun Universe Field.

The empire also has its own rules when dividing administrative regions. Each space capital planet, while serving as the core of an entire space, has another requirement, which is that the connection with the solar space should not exceed one star region jump.

Sometimes, for the second point, the first point is even sacrificed, leaving the capital planet of a star region hanging on the edge.

This is obviously to ensure that the entire empire can maintain better control over the entire vast territory of the empire as much as possible.

Until later, when the empire’s territory was too large, this rule was relaxed to two star regions.

But in general, the journey from Wuji Star to the Solar Universe, the core of the Empire, is not as far away as it looks on the map of the Empire’s star region.

However, even so, it took Gu Hang a full 7 months of sailing time to reach the Solar Universe, and another 3 months to reach Holy Terra.

This is because Gu Hang took a high-speed spacecraft, did not bring a whole fleet, did not stop on the road, rarely slowed down, and carried the pass issued by the Central Empire to various places along the way, and only completed this voyage in 10 months. If

it were a larger fleet or transport fleet, it would generally take two years to complete this journey.

For Gu Hang, a figure who earns millions a minute, he would definitely not be happy to spend such a long time on the road.

Especially at such a critical juncture when the Silver Tribunal is about to arrive.

Isn’t Gu Hang worried that after the Silver Tribunal arrives, it will withstand the pressure and sentence the Alliance to treason, and then the Fury Flame War Group will start a war and launch a full-scale attack on the Alliance’s controlled area? Of course,

he is still worried.

However, after repeated consideration, Gu Hang decided to come.

Gallardo invited him to come in order to solve the problem that the “Iron Fury Stone” brought to the alliance.

In name, he wanted Gu Hang to come to Holy Terra, where there would be a commendation meeting specially opened for Gu Hang. The victory report of the Iron Tooth War finally went through the process of the Imperial Military Affairs Department. Although there were some twists and turns in the middle, it can now be basically established that Gu Hang and his alliance are the biggest heroes in this war.

But if it was just for commendation and awarding medals, Gu Hang would definitely not spend almost two years going back and forth to Holy Terra.

Even if Gallardo said that there was a chance to get him the rank of marshal, it would be the same.

Marshal, this is an absurdly high rank. Moreover, if he came to Holy Terra for the awarding of ranks, it would obviously not be a useless rank like some local world defense forces, but a solid rank of the Imperial Star Army Marshal.

This is usually the highest military rank that can be obtained by the highest military commander of the Astra Militarum or the Imperial Navy of an entire universe. It is also the highest permanent military rank of the Astra Militarum and the Navy. Although, there are actually two levels above the Marshal, the Grand Marshal and the Supreme Marshal, but they are basically honorary in nature. The Grand Marshal is usually a marshal appointed by the Imperial Central Government to take on the highest and unified command in a war involving multiple Imperial Marshals in a super-scale war.

Generally, after the war is over, the identity of this temporary supreme commander will be removed, or because his performance in this war is very critical, his contributions and merits cannot be ignored, it is also possible that the rank of the Grand Marshal will be retained as an honorary rank.

As for the Supreme Commander, there is only one in the entire empire, as a representative of the Astra Militarum, sitting in the thirteen seats of the Imperial Parliament.

In these senses, the Marshal is indeed the highest level among the normal military ranks of the Empire, and has great political significance. Even if it is a marshal alone, the influence brought by this title alone is quite large.

But for Gu Hang, this marshal rank was not enough to make him waste nearly two years on the way back and forth.

He was different from the regular Star Army marshals. After being promoted, they would be transferred to or command more Star Army troops and become commanders of a higher level before they would be equipped with such a top rank.

However, Gu Hang’s marshal was fought out as a relatively independent force. Although his Angry Bear Legion was also a formally registered Star Army Legion, the overall scale was only 20 million after several rounds of expansion, and of course it was impossible to support a marshal.

This marshal title was not that valuable to him as an honor.

However, the meaning behind it was relatively large.

Although he could not expect that after being conferred the title of marshal, the empire would allocate a large number of Star Army troops to expand his power. However, the Angry Bear Legion that Gu Hang already had could be further expanded.

If it can be legally expanded to a scale of billions, then the annual funding for maintaining the army, according to the standards of the Star Army, will be hundreds of billions or even hundreds of billions; the annual funding for maintaining the army is also calculated in tens of billions.

Moreover, in the discussion between Gu Hang and Gallardo, the Empire may give the Alliance another rank of admiral.

A proper admiral of the Imperial Navy.

Gu Hang will of course give this opportunity to Ye Lishia.

In addition to the honor of the rank, this also means that the Pegasus Fleet, as the Imperial Navy Fleet, can be expanded to several times its current size. This also means hundreds of billions of funding and tens of billions of maintenance costs each year.

Of course, the Empire will not actually give a penny of these “fundings” for building the army, all of which are paid by the Alliance.

But it can be deducted from taxes.

That is equivalent to real money.

Anyway, it takes time to build an army, and the amount of deductions from the Imperial taxes that the Alliance should pay each year will be how much it builds.

Instead of paying this money in vain, it is better to build the Star Army and the Imperial Navy to deduct taxes.

Of course, we can’t really build so many troops with 38 billion in taxes per year, otherwise other people who need this money along the whole line will be offended. But the tax deduction is about 20 billion per year – with the development of the alliance and the increase in taxes, this number can also increase. It will take 20 to 30 years to build these two forces.

Although, if the army of the alliance is transferred to the Star Army and the Imperial Navy, then in theory the Empire can mobilize them, but…

in the past, Gu Hang had to do whatever he was told to do with a transfer order.

However, if Gu Hang really had a Star Army and a naval fleet worth hundreds of billions in total, then no matter who wanted to issue this “transfer order”, they would have to think twice before issuing it.

Of course, Gu Hang is a loyal minister of the empire, and he will definitely execute the order, otherwise wouldn’t he become a domineering separatist warlord?

However, before the order is issued, Gu Hang’s opinion must be sought. As the marshal of the empire, and a marshal with real power at that time, who can ignore his opinion?

The significance behind the two military ranks of “Marshal of the Angry Bear” and “Admiral of the Pegasus” is the superficial reason why Gu Hang came to Holy Terra in person.

This involves matters with a total value of 200 to 300 billion, which is equivalent to the imperial tax amount of the alliance for four to five years. It also represents a major political interest that cannot be ignored.

(End of this chapter)