Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 770

Chapter 765: The Alliance’s Six Major War Groups

. Besides the three main categories of military spending, government expenditures, and government investment, the Alliance’s current fiscal expenditures also include a major component called Special Projects.

This includes funding for the Glorious Queen’s warships, as well as smaller, less significant projects.

Furthermore, it includes funding for several Space Marine Chapters.

These are not part of the Alliance military, so they certainly don’t contribute to the Alliance’s military budget.

However, the Alliance does need to support them ,

and this represents a significant amount of money.

Currently, there are six Chapters

affiliated with the Alliance: Phoenix, Yellow Springs Gull, Blood Shark, New World Torch, Fury, and Dragon King’s Spear.

Their situations vary considerably.

Phoenix is a Chapter that has returned to normalcy after completing the Atonement Crusade. Within the Imperial Space Marine administration, they should be considered a fleet-based Chapter.

Such Chapters lack a homeworld and must rely on their own resources to collect and raise the funds they need.

If these funds were obtained through employment, gifts, or war commissions, then of course there would be no problem.

However, this alone was often insufficient.

The Empire would give them a green light when necessary, such as turning a blind eye when they approached planetary governors or sector governments to demand tax payments.

However, some unscrupulous Chapters often resorted to less righteous tactics in this regard, with extortion and v*olence being common.

Whether the Empire tolerated these less shady tactics employed by Fleet-based Chapters, and to what extent, depended on the Chapter’s background and the background of the “victim.” While one Chapter might escape punishment for the same offense, the victim would be harshly criticized, while another would face the wrath of the Inquisition.

In short, Fleet-based Chapters lacked a stable source of income. For the Phoenix, this situation was not a big deal; the Alliance provided for their continued support.

However, after the Phoenixes made outstanding contributions during the Ironclad War, Gu Hang used this money to request a homeworld for them—Koroja III.

This won’t have any impact on Koroja. Phoenix doesn’t recruit soldiers from Koroja, Koroja’s revenue doesn’t belong to them, and they aren’t responsible for Koroja’s defense. This so-called “home planet” is purely nominal.

It’s primarily designed to reduce taxes.

The current population of Koroja-3, despite years of migration, remains at 35 billion, increasing rather than decreasing. This is largely due to the Alliance’s pro-birth policy. Furthermore, after the Alliance gained wealth, Koroja became the ruling core. Planetary climate modification and Eden biosphere technologies were deployed on Koroja. Furthermore, many of the Alliance’s cutting-edge technologies were directly implemented on Koroja, a place rich in industrial populations…

All of this has led to significant improvements in both the planet’s overall environment and productivity. According to standard assessments, a level 4 development rating for this planet wouldn’t be excessive.

That would mean 14 billion in annual Imperial taxes.

Now, with this home planet secured,

the Alliance is exempt from taxes, saving a significant amount.

Of course, the Alliance’s investment in Phoenix far exceeds this amount.

But even if there were no home planet, investing in the Phoenixes was necessary; the money was essential.

The situation with the Yellow Springs Gulls was identical to that of the Phoenixes.

The real Yellow Springs Gulls had vanished somewhere, and no one had heard of them for hundreds or even thousands of years. The current Yellow Springs Gulls were essentially a shadowy group, created by Gu Hang using a thousand surplus Phoenix seeds. They operated under the guise of a missing group and participated in the Iron Armor War, performing reasonably well. However, due to their somewhat shady nature, they kept a low profile and weren’t as prominent as the Phoenixes.

The Alliance also applied for a home planet for the Yellow Springs Gulls. Shouldn’t they be rewarded for their contributions?

The Empire agreed.

They had originally intended to create a developed planet to save on taxes, but the Yellow Springs Gulls’ lack of achievements led the Empire to refuse, instead allocating a world in the Menghe star region.

The Alliance’s approach was similar to that with the Phoenixes; the home planet was purely nominal, used solely to reduce taxes.

The tax reduction the Yellow Spring Gull brings to the Alliance is only 800 million per year—that’s for an ordinary world with a population of 8 billion and a development level of 1.

The Phoenix Chapter’s annual investment of 14 billion doesn’t even seem to cover the Alliance’s investment, let alone the Yellow Spring Gull’s 800 million. It

‘s a drop in the bucket. But any savings count.

As for the New World Torch, Fury Flame, and Dragon King’s Spear, these three chapters are similar in nature and can be discussed together.

The New World Torch and Fury Flame are essentially extinct, having been forged using the “lesser Infinite Warrior seeds” brought by the New World Torch’s surrender. However, since they use the names of these two chapters, their guilt is unavoidable. They are all extinction expeditions, and a sentence of hundreds of years is still far from over.

While under the Alliance’s protection, they don’t have to fight on the brink of death like the Redemption Chapter, they can’t expect to win tax reductions for the Alliance.

Even in the future, when their sentence is over, they will become fleet-based chapters like the Phoenix Chapter before them. Unless they achieve some further meritorious service that would allow the Alliance to ask the Empire for their homeworld and receive tax breaks.

Meanwhile, the Dragon King’s Spears, though also sentenced to a Penitential Expedition, only serve a 15-year sentence, which will soon be over.

Logically, they don’t necessarily want to follow the Alliance. Once they’re free, they can go wherever they choose, and the Alliance can’t force them to stay.

However, if possible, they still want to remain in the Spider Web Universe.

Their original homeworld is in the Spider Web Universe, already under Alliance control. They’re reluctant to leave their homeworld, after all, all of them were recruited from Longbeard, and they’ve defended it for a thousand years. After much

negotiation and negotiation with the Dragon King’s Spears, and with a real reluctance to part with their homeworld, they agreed to accept Alliance protection for the remainder of their penitential sentence. Upon completion of their sentence, they would serve the Alliance as a fleet-based chapter.

In return, the Alliance would provide them with Longbeard as their base and assume full responsibility for their chapter’s expenses and expenses.

The situation was the same as for other warbands, except that they were a fleet-based warband, so they were not exempt from tax.

Just as this matter was being discussed, Gu Hang saw the Spear of the Dragon King in his system interface.

(End of this chapter)