Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 641

Chapter 639, Direction of Advance

Chapter 639:

The Virus Bomb, the most significant technology Gu Hang has extracted this time, is crucial for the current war. Otherwise, Gu Hang wouldn’t have rushed to deploy production in Aramita.

Once developed, it will be of immense benefit to the upcoming and even the current war.

As for the other two, [Epic Materials Research] can similarly be directly used to create numerous cutting-edge materials-related research facilities using the black box. Equipped with highly skilled researchers, its most significant role lies in transforming Gu Hang’s previously acquired technologies, which could only be produced using the black box, or even deploying new production lines. Without the black box, many Alliance technologies would be unusable and lost.

Even disregarding this issue, the reliance on the black box to expand production capacity severely impacts the Alliance’s ability to expand production of high-tech, urgently needed products.

Technology exchanges like [Scientific Research] are designed to address these challenges.

Gu Hang had previously drawn similar technologies and had a basic understanding of them. The black boxes these technologies provided, along with the laboratories and research institutes they could construct, were categorized by both level and type.

Epic-level technologies were, of course, superior to elite-level ones. Biochemical and materials science research also corresponded to different technological areas, accelerating the Alliance’s ability to assimilate different technologies.

The most direct manifestation of materials science research was the promising breakthrough of the adamantium technology Gu Hang had previously drawn.

Adamantium has long been considered a precious material, found only in a tiny fraction of the universe, and used in the production of various high-end equipment.

Its applications are so diverse that precision components that must withstand immense pressures must be crafted from it. Generally speaking, this is its primary use. Its rarity and preciousness confine it to critical yet scarce applications.

However, for the truly extravagant, some even use it for armor!

Where does the golden color of the armor worn by the Emperor’s Guards come from?

It’s Adamantium!

Doesn’t Gu Hang want to use it? If the Space Marines’ armor can be coated with a layer of adamantium plating, the defense can be greatly improved!

The smelting technology of adamantium materials gave Gu Hang this possibility.

The finished black box of that technology can directly input ordinary metal ores to produce adamantium.

But the output of the finished black box is quite small, which is the level of the smallest adamantine mine; the mother machine black box can be pulled out to smelt ordinary ceramic steel into adamantine production line, but the production line is deployed slowly, and the amount of adamantine output of each production line is also very scarce.

In the past, Gu Hang thought that if his own alliance could synthesize this top material, then with high production capacity in the future, there would naturally be abundance. These precious materials could even be exported to generate income for the alliance.

However, even after several years of development, the weak production capacity has not been increased, and it is not enough even for self-use. The Alliance’s construction of Titans, warships, starports, and heavy artillery of L-class and above consumes a great deal of adamantium, some of which even needs to be imported. Thanks to the Imperial support decrees during the war, the Alliance was able to purchase it at reasonable prices. In the past, without specialized material allocation, importing would have been difficult, as there were too few suppliers.

Simply working with black boxes, incrementally, to expand production capacity to meet self-sufficiency, or even to the point of being able to refine some common products, would have taken an indefinite amount of time.

The technology drawn from this Materials Research and Development Facility, like adamantium itself, is of epic caliber, and should greatly aid in the assimilation of adamantine technology.

Of course, its application extends beyond adamantium. The optimization and research of various materials can be tackled in the laboratory, and solutions for mass production can be explored. Advances in materials will also foster the development of various engineering technologies, enabling even better solutions.

Of course, this doesn’t help with black box products. After all, what’s produced by a black box is the most standard and refined. The products produced by a black box production line are also sufficiently standard, but the precision can’t be guaranteed to be utterly perfect due to human error. For products that require large-scale capacity expansion, even the production lines are built in-house, and the quality is even more inconsistent, even resulting in a large number of inferior products. In some cases, in order to expand production capacity, key technologies are not fully understood, so inferior components can only be manufactured as substitutes.

The most typical example is on Titan and Starship.

The construction of various research facilities in materials, engineering, biochemistry, etc. will further solve this problem.

As for the final item, the Nemesis Knight Mech, it’s the most obvious. It’s simply a Knight Mech.

The largest of the Knight Mechs, it’s even larger than a Warhound-class Titan.

It’s called a “Mech” rather than a Titan primarily because the Nemesis is still operated by a single operator, like a traditional Mech, rather than a crew, like a Titan.

Currently, the Alliance has a comprehensive Knight Mech line, from the Sentinel and Squire Mechs to the true Knight Mechs: the Ranger, Overlord, and Nemesis.

Coupled with the Alliance’s current Titan construction technology, from the Warhound, Warlord, and Warmaster classes,

the combined Titan Legion and Knight Order are the Alliance’s most formidable frontal force.

Even Space Marines can’t compare to the effectiveness of a Titan Legion on the battlefield.

They’re not the same type of unit, and their capabilities are vastly different. Just because the Space Marines are powerful doesn’t mean they should be sent head-on into a Titan Legion… That commander has a problem with their minds.

Unless there’s no other way.

In short, with the Nemesis, the Alliance’s Titan Legion system will be further strengthened and improved.

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The newly extracted technology can’t be quickly translated into combat effectiveness.

Despite this, Gu Hang and his main force remained in Aramita for a considerable period,

primarily to wait for ship repairs.

During this time, there were internal discussions regarding the Alliance’s next move.

To put it bluntly, there were two options: advance towards the other two Forge Worlds and completely pacify the situation in the Alfonzo Sector.

Alternatively, advance from Alfonzo towards the Princess Sector, while also sending Martins’ detachment from the Nepeta Sector towards the Princess Sector. The two Alliance forces could then converge in the Princess Sector and strike together at the heart of the Iron Armor.

And they weren’t the only ones taking this approach. Imperial forces on the northern and western fronts were also pursuing the same strategy.

The commanders-in-chief of both lines also extended an invitation to Gu Hang, hoping that he would join them in completing this mission.

A three-pronged attack would surely put an end to this massive rebellion that has engulfed the eastern border of the empire and involved four cosmic realms.

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It’s a little early today, so I can do another chapter later!

(End of this chapter)