Chapter 461: Iron Cavalry Terminator
Terminator power armor!
This is good stuff!
The Alliance did not have the capacity to produce Terminators before, and the one on Martins' body was bought by Gu Hang that year.
Moreover, it was an Indomitable Terminator, and its performance was inferior to that of the Iron Cavalry Terminator.
The Iron Cavalry type originated from an even older era. It was a type of Space Marine power armor that was created when the Emperor was still alive and the entire Empire was in its great expansion phase. Later, with the long time and countless turmoil, especially the catastrophe brought about by the largest civil war within the Empire, the Empire gradually lost the technology of the Iron Cavalry Terminator.
Just like many technologies from the heyday of the empire, such as the Great Tactical Power Armor used by Phoenix now, it is lost, but not completely lost. Some forge worlds can still build it, but not many can be built. Perhaps the key components can still be manufactured now, but there is no ability to expand production capacity; perhaps because the manufacturing scale of the substitute is relatively large, these old technologies are not needed...
But in general, what Gu Hang extracted from the technology system did not have these problems.
The Iron Cavalry type is better than the Indomitable type which is the most common among the major war regiments today. The Empire's technology is always like this, the older the better; however, its manufacturing cost is also higher.
And just like the majestic power armor that Gu Hang had drawn before, it also had a problem: it was rare and ancient, which meant it was eye-catching.
The technology to manufacture iron cavalry is not common in the forging world. Can your alliance make it?
However, Gu Hang no longer cares about this matter.
There are similar situations in the alliance, with more than just one or two technologies.
He used to be very nervous, but now he is relatively calm.
There are not many lice and it won't itch.
Moreover, as the alliance grew stronger, he gradually became less worried about similar threats.
With the Iron Cavalry Terminator Power Armor, the Phoenix Regiment will be able to take its strength to the next level. They will be able to form their own Terminator team and charge at the most terrifying enemy in the universe!
Of course, the Terminator is not invincible. It is only a little over three meters tall, more than half the height of the Knight Mech.
However, if a Terminator veteran were to fight against a Knight mecha, Gu Hang believed that the Terminator veteran would most likely win.
Both are equipped with energy shields. Due to its size, the Terminator cannot be equipped with more powerful weapons like the Knight Mech, but its defense is not much different. The Terminator is much more flexible, and the internal operator is a superhuman Space Marine, which basically guarantees that the Knight Mech can kill one by one - as long as the Terminator veteran does not make a fool of himself and compete with the much larger Knight Mech in firepower or machine output, but chooses to win with experience, skills, and flexible tactics.
The Terminator has poor flexibility compared to conventional tactical power armor. Compared to the Knight Mech, it is definitely much stronger.
However, the cost of the Iron Cavalry Terminator is very expensive, basically reaching 1.2 million tax coins per unit. It is half more expensive than the regular Unyielding type, which costs 800,000. This may be one of the reasons why the Iron Cavalry type is currently in low circulation.
But again, there are black boxes to make finished products and black boxes to pull production lines, and the price of this thing made by the Alliance will not be as high as on the market.
What's more, it's not a bad idea to spend a little more money and get more performance.
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After owning the [Cruiser], [Doomsday Light Spear Array], and [Iron Cavalry Terminator Power Armor], Gu Hang was already very satisfied with the gains from this technology lottery.
However, among the three elite technologies drawn out later, two are actually quite good.
[L-type transport ship - giant belly]
This is good stuff!
Although Jingjing is only elite-class, in reality, its value is not much worse than that of the Moon-class cruiser.
Although the Giant Belly is extremely inflexible and slow, and has no potential to be converted into an armed ship due to the problem of its hull structure, if it is caught acting alone, it will be a pig waiting to be slaughtered in space...
But despite its many shortcomings, it has just one advantage that can make up for everything: it can be loaded.
It is really big, only slightly smaller than the Retribution-class battleship. As the name suggests, it has a huge cabin, like a three-dimensional hive moving in space, and can accommodate 20 million people if it is used for maximum population transportation.
Because it can hold enough cargo and can be scaled up, its transportation cost is also greatly reduced.
Its cost is not expensive, about one billion, which is much cheaper than the Crazy Shark-class destroyer.
It is the core ship of mankind in interstellar trade. As long as it can carry goods well for a few years, the cost can be broken down and the rest will be profitable.
In the past, the largest transport ship that the Alliance could build was the Whale-class. The carrying capacity of that ship was only one-tenth of the Big Belly, and in the case of large-scale transportation, the cost was still higher than that of the Big Belly.
With this thing, it will be easier for the subsequent alliance to establish an economic community across star regions. Otherwise, it would be unreliable to rely on the ship inventory of Gu's Trading Company.
The scale of Gu's Company has reached its limit in terms of the transportation needs within the Tianma Star Region and the transportation needs for the war on the front line. It is almost impossible to take into account the large-scale transportation needs required after the integration of the seven horses.
The Alliance's shipyards are already running full steam. In addition to warships, they are also building all kinds of civilian ships. In fact, the two major shipyards, even if you count the small shipyard on Baishuo Star in the Zima Star Region, are arguing with each other. The Navy wants the civilian docks to build warships for them, even if they can't build proper warships, they still want to build armed merchant ships;
The government units and caravans of the alliance are struggling, but the alliance still needs to function, and your army needs production in the rear to fight. The transportation of raw materials, the transportation of goods... these civilian ships are the blood vessels of industrial manufacturing. You can make concessions for the war and let some production capacity go out to build armed merchant ships to help your navy transport goods and fight, but don't really leave nothing for them.
The two sides often quarreled with each other and brought it to Gu Hang.
Now, after the construction of the new giant belly transport ship, this problem cannot be said to be solved, but at least it has been alleviated to a large extent. The construction dock of the giant belly can only be used to manufacture them, after all, they are too large; it cannot be used to build large warships because of the lack of sufficient technical standards. Moreover, the production of a giant belly has a transport capacity ten times that of the whale class. One ship is equivalent to ten ships, which can make the alliance's "blood vessels" much smoother.
The second elite technology is the [Dominant Knight Armor]
Its size is much larger than the Ranger Titan, even close to the Warhound Titan; its combat power is also comparable to that of the Warhound Titan. Although there is a slight gap, it is more flexible than the Warhound Titan - after all, it only needs one person to operate, unlike the Warhound Titan, which requires an operation team.
However, its cost was also very expensive, soaring fivefold from the 700,000 for a Ranger-class Knight to 3.5 million.
This is even more expensive than the War Dog-class Titan, after all, the War Dog only costs 2.3 million.
It is certainly a good thing. For many knight worlds, the Overlord Knight Mech is a treasure. A knight can drive such a large machine, which has the strength to match the Warhound Titan.
But for the alliance, it is a bit useless.
The knight families in the Knight World have feelings for this thing, but the Alliance does not. Warhounds are cheap and have a higher combat power. The lack of flexibility on the front battlefield is not as valuable as adding an extra piece of armor plate. After all, if they really want to cover the artillery fire, whether it is a Titan of more than ten meters or a knight mecha, the little bit of flexibility is useless, and they will be bombarded.
Gu Hang couldn't think of a reason to allocate production capacity to the Dominant Knights instead of to the War Dogs.
Of course, the expansion speed of War Dogs is always limited. When the expansion of production capacity cannot keep up, it is not impossible to pull out a few production lines of Domination. Moreover, since it has a certain symbolic meaning, the Alliance can also use it to win over some feudal worlds with chivalry culture within the territory.
Black Arrow is of course the most typical example.
In addition to Black Arrow Star, Iron Wing Star in the Iron Horse Star Region, Juxue No. 7 in the Bian Horse Star Region, and Ziyue No. 3 in the Purple Horse Star Region are also typical feudal worlds with knight traditions. When the Alliance has the ability to create both Ranger-level and Overlord-level knights, its control over these worlds will be greatly increased.
The lords in these knight worlds are not quite the same as those on planets with unified governments. If you push them too far, those knight masters will really fight you to the end. Killing a few people and staging a coup will not be very useful. After all, they don't even have a central government, they are just knight families. If you want to conquer them by force, you may have to fight like the Black Arrow Star.
That's definitely not worth it.
Political means, trade means, and economic control will be more reliable.
The government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Alliance have already used relevant means. The manufacturing capacity of Dominant Knights will significantly make the Alliance's various means more effective on these Knight planets.
From this perspective, the Overlord-class Knight Mech has advantages that the War Dog Titan cannot match.
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As for the other two technologies, one elite and one advanced, they are both civilian technologies.
The advanced class is a construction vehicle, and the elite class is an improved agricultural machine suitable for use on large-scale plantations.
Civilian technologies are also good and are needed for economic development.
Gu Hang was quite satisfied with the gains from this lottery.
Although it cost a full 700,000 points of grace, each one of them can be considered a good thing.
These technologies will also become a powerful engine for the development of the alliance in the next two years.
And these two years have passed very quickly.
(End of this chapter)
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