Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 917

Chapter 909: Imperial Army Cultivation Technology

. Gu Hang’s research on the Son of God wasn’t just talk.

He was genuinely interested and had actually launched it as a secret project.

If the Son of God research project could be completed as Gu Hang anticipated, the benefits would undoubtedly be enormous.

Putting aside the question of whether he could, as his ultimate goal, create a Son of God like Gu Hang, possessing both formidable individual strength and the characteristics of his genetic father, both

were equally important .

Gu Hang had already fully experienced the importance of top-tier experts in this universe. In the future, whether battling aliens or Chaos, at the level of the entire Alliance, the presence of top-tier experts would be crucial to the outcome.

The latter, however, would allow for the direct creation of a Space Marine Legion, unlike Gu Hang’s current method of simply collecting founding Chapters and then using the system’s interface to obtain 50,000 plus 5,000 gene-seed. Whether such a “legion” would be recognized by the system as a legion was uncertain, and Gu Hang didn’t particularly care. With the existence of the Gene-Father, genetic pheromones could be directly harvested from him, allowing for mass production of gene-seed.

Gu Hang could actually mass-produce this now, but that would cost him his Warp Essence. Using it to create Space Marines was fine for a few, but he’d be distressed if he had too many.

Cultivating through the Gene-Father eliminated this problem.

How could the Sons of God cultivate Space Marines without slicing their own Warp Essence? This question was a crucial challenge in the Sons of God cultivation project.

Research on the Sons of God must be kept strictly confidential. After all, they held strong religious and political significance within the Imperium. Studying them closely, or even attempting to recreate them, was a rather blasphemous idea, easily open to criticism.

Gu Hang wasn’t entirely immune to criticism, especially now that the Dark Side Crusade had reached its current stage and he had so hard-earned legitimacy, he was reluctant to relinquish it.

Legitimacy was paramount.

When the Alliance had strong enough legitimacy, it was often a matter of food and drink. If a planet faces trouble and resolves it, it will succumb. Planets with relatively peaceful conditions and few problems often join the Alliance directly, requiring no effort from the Alliance and instantly becoming a force for the Dark Side Crusade.

Even on some worlds where ambitious individuals exist, they must carefully conceal their intentions, avoiding overt overt actions. It’s even harder to directly deceive the population into opposing the Alliance, lest they be kidnapped and handed over to the Alliance by the locals themselves. Often, they resort to the guise of cooperation, carrying the red flag and opposing the red flag to achieve their own goals. This, frankly, significantly raises the costs for ambitious individuals and separatists.

The Dark Side Crusade currently seems like a snowball, growing larger and faster. Besides the Alliance’s hard power, the most crucial factor is the legitimacy it establishes.

In other words, legitimacy is part of the snowball. The more victories the Alliance achieves and the stronger its legitimacy, the easier it is to defeat the enemy without a fight.

Legitimacy and strength are certainly mutually reinforcing, but they aren’t solely based on strength. A crucial point is to make the target of the united front believe that you are one of their own.

Planning on attacking the Son of God is obviously not the behavior of one of their own.

What’s more, the most important strategic ally of the alliance is now a Son of God. It would be very bad if people knew what Gu Hang was going to do.

It must be done secretly.

We can’t invest too many resources in the research of this thing.

On the one hand, it is not easy to do it under confidentiality. On the other hand, although this thing has great benefits, the research time will probably be very long. It is simply not possible to speed up the research efficiency by investing resources.

Ordinary researchers can’t play any role at all. Only biological genetic research experts at the level of sages, combined with some research-oriented and scholar-type psychic masters, and with Gu Hang’s personal leadership, can this project be pushed forward slowly.

However, Gu Hang couldn’t focus entirely on research.

No matter how important the project

, his primary focus remained on internal affairs .

A significant portion of this focus was on system management.

Whether in research or governance, Gu Hang’s role was crucial and significant. But overall, he had a small but elite team assisting him in the former, while the vast political system of the Alliance was enforcing his will in the latter.

On the system side, he had no one to help him.

Unfortunately, with the acquisition of Grace Points reaching into the billions and the Alliance’s territorial expansion following the Dark Side Expedition, the number of points Gu Hang needed to spend, and the locations where he needed to spend them, increased. He was forced to deliberate and research longer, striving to deploy these incredible powers where they would have the greatest impact.

Whether it was soldier training, talent development, or building exchange, even if Gu Hang made a split-second decision, it took him a long time to properly allocate hundreds of millions, or even millions, of points.

However, compared to these micro-managements, exchanging technology in the tech tree interface was a breeze.

No detailed management required; just pour in your Favor Points and, with a bit of luck, see what goodies you’ll find in the “lottery.”

Of course, as the Alliance grew stronger, many technologies that were once quite valuable in their own right were no longer exciting enough for Gu Hang.

Winning a few different cruisers, battleships, or the like wouldn’t fundamentally change the Alliance’s strength.

It wasn’t unimportant. After all, a similar technology was like a new production line. Heavy industries like shipbuilding, in particular, could often drive rapid development in a sector.

But it wasn’t revolutionary.

The last technology exchange that had excited Gu Hang was Primaris.

Later, Gu Hang learned that it was actually developed by Cawl. After the Son of God’s resurrection, the two sides established contact, and the Son of God freely shared this technology with the Alliance’s Space Marine Management Association—which Gu Hang was already using on a small scale at the time.

Nevertheless, it was still valuable.

With the sharing of the Son of God, the most important thing is that Gu Hang has been authorized. He no longer needs to use it secretly on a small scale, but can use it openly.

Considering the high failure rate and heavy cost of the Primaris transformation technology, the transformation has not been widely promoted within the Alliance. However, the seeds of new recruits are already undergoing comprehensive Primaris transformation.

The new blood added to each chapter will be stronger, larger, and more powerful Primaris Space Marines.

And this time, Gu Hang has drawn a technology project that he is very interested in.

[Forbidden Army Breeding Technology].

(End of this chapter)