Chapter 340, The Golden Knight and the Titan
The thousandth level, although not drained, has almost nothing left. The probability of only the basic level is too low.
This time, Gu Hang threw all of his 50,000 points of grace into the 10,000 yuan range.
At present, the probability of shipping in the 10,000 yuan range is still 100%, of which the probability of epic level is 30%, elite level is 60%, and advanced level is 10%. In summary, the cost performance is much higher than that of drawing ten times in the 1,000 yuan range.
In Gu Hang's five consecutive draws, he got one epic-level technology, three elite-level ones, and one advanced-level one.
It is normal to have neither good nor bad luck.
After the draw, the probability of the 10,000 yuan level has become 20%/40%/40%, which are epic/elite/advanced respectively.
There is still a lot of room for exploration!
At the moment, the five technologies that have just been drawn are: [Ranger-type Knight Mech (Advanced)], [Feedback Power Armor (Elite)], [Warp Engine (Elite)], [War Dog-type Titan (Elite)], and [Adamantium Material (Epic)].
Among them, the technology of jump engine completes the last piece of the puzzle for Gu Hang to build a starship.
There are three essential prerequisite technologies for building a starship. Warp recognition allows the starship to capture the signal of the astral tunnel, the warp engine can provide power and enter the warp mode for astral travel, and the astral force field can protect the spacecraft from subspace intrusion during the process of traveling through the astral tunnel.
Gu Hang had already extracted the astral force field and the warp identification system before. Now he also got the warp engine, which was enough.
Its most direct significance is that the starport on the Angry Owl Star, which can currently only do small boat maintenance and simple assembly work, finally has a place to be used and can officially build the [Traveler] spacecraft.
It is only at this level that it can be considered a proper shipyard.
Although we can only build this kind of small boat, it is a good start.
Don't look down on the travellers, they are still 1.8 million tax coins a ship. If we really have 100 ships and form a wolf pack fleet, it will not be useless.
Of course, the biggest use is still to take interstellar passenger transport, but it can't be too far, otherwise supplies will be a problem.
If you need so many prerequisite technologies just to build a ship like the Traveler, it is definitely not worth it. But these three prerequisite technologies are essential for all ocean-going ships. You will need all three of them to build large-scale merchant ships, transport ships, and warships in the future.
This is essential technology when venturing into the starry ocean, so having it early has its benefits.
After all, skilled shipbuilding workers also need practice to be trained, and technical blueprints alone are not enough.
It’s good to create travelers first.
The [Feedback Power Armor] technology is also very interesting. This is a technology developed to match the Space Marine Power Armor, and it is called "God Servant Type".
Compared with the Space Marine's power armor, the Servant has almost all shortcomings.
The armor thickness is much worse, the flexibility is much worse, the output power is much worse, the energy consumption is higher, and the logistics maintenance is more troublesome.
Another key point is the high cost. The cost of the 'Great' type that the Alliance currently has is already twice that of the most common 'Skyhawk' type, and the cost of the 'Attendant' type feedback power armor is even more expensive than the Great Type, reaching a cost of 130,000 per unit.
It is more expensive and has much worse performance, but it has one only advantage: ordinary people can use it.
This so-called ordinary is not so ordinary. It still requires rigorous training to achieve.
Of course, it is much cheaper to train someone who can use feedback-type power armor than to train a Space Marine.
After obtaining this technology, Gu Hang was also thinking about how to use it.
It must be used as a cutting-edge combat force, otherwise the cost will be unbearable; Space Marines don't need it, but it can be equipped to the special combat elite of the 10th Brigade. A few soldiers who have been trained to the T2 level can be equipped with these feedback power armors, and their combat effectiveness will soar.
But...Gu Hang suddenly thought of something else.
If they were equipped with Regenerative Power Armour, could they play a role similar to that of Space Marines?
I'm afraid not.
The strength of a Space Marine lies in the person, not the outer layer of armor.
If we compare the combat power directly, today's special warfare elites, wearing an exoskeleton, carrying chainswords and bolt guns, will still be defeated if they encounter the Phoenix; if they change to feedback power armor, they may not be defeated to the same extent, but they will still be beaten badly, and ten people fighting against one may not necessarily win.
After all, let alone the performance gap provided by power armor, even if there is no gap, the gap between ordinary people and space warriors who have grown more than a dozen superhuman organs is still too big. Their reaction speed, instant information processing ability, and shooting accuracy are not on the same level.
Even in shooting, where both sides are closest in ability, there is a huge gap. The Space Marines can really judge the shooting point the moment the opponent pulls the trigger, dodge in advance, or block with thick armor, which is something that ordinary people cannot do. In more cases, the Space Marines will not give the opponent a chance to shoot.
The gap between the two sides is still huge.
The only point is that T2 soldiers are much easier to train than Space Marines.
However, this is true within the empire, but not for Gu Hang.
For Gu Hang, training a Space Marine is nothing more than screening one more level. The two hundred grace points are used for training to T1 level and exchanging for a gene seed.
Of course, due to Gu Hang's screening process for training Space Marines, there will be about a hundred times the number of eliminated people, including a not small number of T2 soldiers. These are inevitable by-products.
Using feedback power armor to equip these 'eliminated' and turn them into poor-version Space Marines is mainly used as a supplement to elite cutting-edge forces. This is of course one way to use feedback power armor.
It’s just that... the price-performance ratio is not high.
Another way to use it is to distribute it to frontline officers on the battlefield to enhance their survivability.
A brigade commander or battalion commander commanding on the front line is actually very vulnerable.
But this enhancement effect... is relatively average.
In short, although the technology of feedback power armor is indeed an elite-level technology, it is still relatively useless for the current alliance. It has its uses, but they are not critical.
Gu Hang is unlikely to promote large-scale production of this technology, which would take up a lot of the alliance's productivity.
However, with the technology extracted, two units can be pulled out of the black box every month.
I would definitely take the free one.
Then, Gu Hang turned his attention to two other technologies, the [Ranger-class Knight Mecha] and the [War Dog-class Titan].
The former was an old acquaintance. The Alliance now had six of them. After the Black Arrow Planet surrendered, there were only six left on the entire planet, except for those that were destroyed in a few wars. Although theoretically the ownership was still in the hands of the surrendered nobles, they had no say if the Alliance wanted to recruit them.
People always call the Knight Mech "Knight Titan", but it is not correct. The proper name is "Mech". The Ranger is eight meters high. It can be equipped with various components through different technical configurations to form some derivatives. For example, the lance type emphasizes heavy firepower, and the watch type emphasizes mobility.
But in the end, they are all under the ranger level category.
As for the Warhound Titan, it is a real Titan - although it is the smallest Titan.
The biggest difference between the Titan and the Knight mech is that the latter has a dedicated cockpit, which people brag about as a "mechanical throne", where the Knight pilots the mech into battle; while the Titan does not have a dedicated cockpit and cannot be operated by a single person. The fifteen-meter-high Warhound class is like a five-story building, with more than ten people inside, working together to control the machine to fight.
Compared to the Ranger Knight Mech, which is an advanced technology, the War Dog Titan has doubled in size, reaching a height of fifteen meters.
With these two technologies, the strength of the Alliance's army will be taken to a new level.
No matter how powerful the Lion tank is, it can only be positioned as a consumable. At 4,000 yuan per unit, it is equivalent to a large armored cannon fodder in a high-intensity battlefield.
But the Knight Mech and War Dog Titan can be considered as the main force of elite troops no matter what.
On the Black Arrow Star, a group of poorly equipped feudal troops, equipped with some sentinel mechas, could not bring out the power of the fierce knight mechas. But even so, in that decisive battle, the Alliance had to pay an average of more than 40 tanks, hundreds of armored vehicles, five wind falcons, a space warrior, and several infantry as the price to take down a ranger-class knight.
If the Knight Titan is placed in the Alliance, with more elite armored forces in front, elite infantry forming a defensive position beside, and sharp artillery coordinating to exert firepower advantages, the power that the Knight and Titan can exert will be greatly enhanced.
It was difficult for the Space Marines to get close to them. The Phoenix broke through the Kingdom Army's defensive position with one poke, but the Alliance's army formation was not so easy to penetrate. A slight delay would allow the Knights and Titans' firepower to destroy the Space Marines.
What's more, these two things, especially the knight mecha, not only can provide great help on the military level, but also have great political significance after the alliance can produce them by itself, which is very beneficial to the alliance's rule over Black Arrow Star.
Black Arrow is a place with a strong chivalrous tradition.
And now, the Alliance has the ability to produce its own Sentinel Mech (it was drawn earlier), and now it has the ability to produce its own Knight Mech. Isn't this the return of a miracle?
Gu Hang thought of many ways to deal with the situation in an instant.
The purpose of establishing the Knight Academy is, on the one hand, to serve as a military school, on the other hand, to train knight pilots, and on the other hand, to strengthen the orthodox status of the alliance.
If you want to be a knight in the future, you don’t have to waste your family’s savings for countless years. Just apply for the Knight Academy and enlist in the army, and you can become a glorious knight and drive a Sentinel mecha. The best people can drive a Ranger Knight. Special subjects are opened up, and those who cannot be single-player Ranger Knight drivers will have the opportunity to become part of a larger and more powerful real Titan driving team, with a group of more than a dozen people using War Dog-class Titans.
There are many benefits to doing this.
These noble families of Black Arrow Star still have their merits. Their ancestors were all born as knights and were proud of being knights. The new things that the Alliance has come up with now are in line with their traditions and are conducive to strengthening their rule. Because of these traditions, they have been trained how to drive knights since childhood, and they themselves are the most suitable source of drivers.
On this basis, Gu Hang even planned to establish a new organizational structure under the Allied Army.
He has already thought of a name, it will be called the 'Alliance National Knights'.
The original plan was to call it the "Black Arrow Knights", but after thinking about it, I rejected this name. The regional characteristics are too strong, and it does not match the overall concept of establishing alliance identity that Gu Hang had set before.
The Alliance National Knights Order is not really a complete military organization. Its main purpose is to provide identity authentication and enhance the sense of honor - the knights on Black Arrow Star buy into this.
On the other hand, it is the professional management of the two expensive top-level equipment, Knight Mech and Titan, from the selection of drivers, equipment maintenance, special logistics supplies and other aspects.
At the same time, the establishment of the Knights Templar also makes it easier for the Alliance to flexibly and concentratedly deploy these top weapons into the war.
After all, these top-level equipment are not suitable for direct deployment into specific army organizations, otherwise it would be troublesome to call them up.
Of course, an important subject in the training of Knight Mechs and Titan pilots is how to cooperate with conventional troops in combat. This part of the content is somewhat lacking in the original training system of Black Arrow Star, and it cannot keep up with the current conventional force model of the Alliance. The National Knights must work hard to explore this aspect.
Scratching his head, Gu Hang even planned to build the alliance's first ranger knight production line on Black Arrow Star?
Once this news gets out, it will immediately boost people's morale, right?
According to the production capacity of the black box, if the finished product is produced directly, the Ranger-class Knight will be produced every two months; the War Dog Titan will be produced every five months.
As for the production line, it is estimated that each company will be able to build one in half a year.
After Gu Hang had a communication with Wu Jiarong and discussed related matters, he roughly estimated that if the Alliance put these two things into production normally in the future and placed them on Black Arrow Star, with the Panpos Industrial Center as the main production base for the Ranger Knights and the Luman Industrial Center as the main production base for the War Dog Titans, then it is estimated that after two years of construction and the laying of multiple production lines, it will be possible to produce about six Ranger Knights and one War Dog Titan per year.
Black Arrow Star had accumulated so many years, and before the war, there were only about thirty Knight Titans on the entire planet. After the arrival of the Alliance, this kind of thing that could only be imported through foreign trade and exhausted the financial resources of a country to afford can now be produced by itself. In five years, it can reach the accumulation of countless years in the past. This will strongly prove that the arrival of the Alliance is absolutely positive for Black Arrow Star!
Gu Hang was already quite satisfied with this number.
Then, he turned his attention to the last thing, which was also the only epic technology.
Material: Fine Gold.
When he saw this thing, Gu Hang was a little surprised.
Pure gold can almost be regarded as the highest grade of materials used on a large scale in the empire. I won't go into more details about higher and rarer materials, I will only mention the ones that can be used on a large scale.
Adamantium is mainly used to build real Titans, rather than things like the Knight Mech that are falsely called Titans; Adamantium is also indispensable in some key parts of starships; it is also used in the construction of Terminator armor.
In short, with the advancement of technology, the production of high-strength technical products will inevitably bring higher requirements for basic materials.
The large-scale use of refined gold is precisely for this purpose.
However, most of the refined gold used by the Empire now is a natural product. Either a small amount of associated refined gold minerals can be collected during large-scale mineral mining, or extremely precious refined gold veins can be found on some very few planets.
This thing is undoubtedly a strategic resource in the empire. The empire has a precedent of launching a war for a fine gold mine.
Now, what exactly does this set of [Fine Gold Technology] that Gu Hang has developed mean?
A technology for mining adamantium? Why is it called epic technology?
It is difficult to mine, but what is more important is its scarcity. As long as it can be found, its high value is enough to make people ignore the difficulty and cost of mining.
If something can be called epic technology, could it be... the technology for synthesizing adamantium?
Gu Hang took a closer look and found that it was true.
After understanding the meaning of it, there was only one thought in his mind: getting rich.
Moreover, this wealth is not like some of the previously developed technologies that are difficult to explain and use.
This wealth can be used seriously by Gu Hang.
He could have simply placed the synthesis of refined gold in a certain mining area and said he had discovered a refined gold mine.
This now provides a legitimate production channel, and Gu Hang can sell it.
As for being discovered, Gu Hang was not afraid at all.
Without a thorough investigation in the mine and some geological research, who would know whether what he said was true or not?
Not to mention who would have the time to fight for the share of refined gold and question the authenticity of the refined gold mine. Even if one wanted to conduct this research, it would be too difficult to do it in Gu Hang's territory.
The development of the smelting and synthesis production line of this thing can not only provide basic material support for the alliance area to create various high-tech technologies in the future, but also can produce immediately and earn tax revenue for the alliance.
There is a big customer in the Tianma star area - the Feiyi Star Shipyard.
That is a place where cruiser-class starships can be produced and built, and there is a direct demand for adamantium.
The only pity is that even if the production line of refined gold is developed later, the production capacity cannot be expanded very quickly. It is estimated that the output in one year may be just a miniature refined gold mine.
But that's enough.
A micro-precipitate mine can generate an income of 20 million tax coins a year purely through foreign trade.
Moreover, the alliance does not necessarily have to sell all of it. It will definitely keep some in case there is a higher level of technology in the future, and when this material is needed, it can be used directly.
After finishing the technology lottery and informing Wu Jiarong of the relevant matters through remote communication, Gu Hang boarded the spacecraft and set off for Feiyi Star.
He was going to attend his engagement ceremony, where his fiancée was waiting for him. ————
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The following are free:
Uh, when I was reading the comments, I found that I had two settings... two lottery bugs...
Small: In chapter 211, I drew the chainsaw sword, and in chapter 267, I drew it again...
Big: Chapter 211 pulled out the MK.7 Skyhawk power armor, but in Chapter 315 it was said that the Alliance did not have power armor technology.
Already modified.
For readers who don’t want to go back and read the previous article, here is a report on the changes:
The chainsaw sword drawn by 267 was changed to a [gravity weapon] (the gravity scepter in the hands of Rizzo priest and the gravity fist equipped by the Knight Titan)
The MK.7 power armor extracted from 211 was changed into the [Warp Identification System], obtaining the prerequisite technology for starship construction in advance.
It shouldn't have any impact on the plot. It's just that my brain went haywire when I was writing the setting. I admit my mistake...
This chapter is 5.2k, which is a thousand words more than usual to compensate!
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