Chapter 479: Long-awaited Technology Lottery
Gu Hang thought about the matter of Space Marines' 'rebirth' and decided not to do it openly.
Take it slow first.
However, it is possible to make some preparations in advance.
Gu Hang has two ideas in this regard: quality and quantity.
Of course, the two do not conflict and can be used together.
Gu Hang is already using the quality solution.
No matter whether they are newly trained by Gu Hang or the old Phoenix, they are definitely not all new recruits.
The cost of training a phoenix, from gene seeds to its own training, is 100 for seeds, 100 for training, and 200-300 for elimination in the middle, not to mention the floating probability of operation failure of about 10%.
The full set of Phoenix new blood costs about 400 to 500 points. If Gu Hang is impatient and can't stand the superhuman organ growth period, he will have to exchange for a superhuman organ growth acceleration, which is another 100 points of gift.
Next, all personnel were trained to at least veteran level, at an average cost of $200 per person.
But Gu Hang did not stop there.
He will spend another 300 to get each person to the rank of 'non-commissioned officer'.
Space Marines at this level were almost all veterans among veterans. Compared to the seven veterans who had first arrived at the Wrathful Star and had gone through a century of atonement, they were only slightly inferior.
In this way, it takes a thousand points of grace to train a Space Marine. Not to mention, if a think tank team of about 30 people is also needed to find people with psychic talents among these new bloods for training, the points consumption will be even higher.
If Gu Hang wanted to train the Phoenix to the level of "Company Champion" per capita, it was actually possible. It was nothing more than spending another 400 points per person, a total of 400,000, to bring them to this level, which would reach the level of having experienced the Atonement Crusade per capita, only one level weaker than the former Martins, who had the strength of a Space Marine Company Commander.
If that's not enough, Gu Hang can even use the [Hero] panel to enlighten as much as possible in the Phoenix, and then raise the hero evaluation potential of these people one by one, and directly use the gift points to upgrade them when the time comes, without waiting for them to grow up. However, if you want to get to this point, the gift points consumed per person will be like a wild horse that has broken free, completely out of control.
That was a bit too shocking and would cost too many points, so Gu Hang was a bit reluctant.
But if the problem of the number of Space Marines is not solved, and one thousand pits is the limit, Gu Hang will not care about those things when he has enough grace points and it is really necessary to use Space Marines to fight certain crises.
Each person can be promoted to the company champion, and then inspired by heroes. It may not reach the level of the regiment champion, but if all the members are experts, one against five or even one against ten, that is not impossible.
There are solutions for quality, and there are also solutions for quantity.
Gu Hang thought about expanding another regiment, but after thinking it over carefully, he decided that it was not a good idea. There were a limited number of regiments, and each one was recorded in the empire, with corresponding documents. It was definitely illegal to give it a name, design a livery, and form a regiment by yourself, and it would be a serious crime if it was discovered.
The key is that it is not easy to hide. Once discovered, it is better to just take the Phoenix and be reborn.
However, Gu Hang can set up a shadow regiment in addition to the Phoenix in the name of reserve forces and new recruits training.
Of course, the genetic seeds used are still those of the Phoenix, and Gu Hang can only exchange their seeds now.
However, the trained Space Marines should be hidden and not used.
The most common use is to quickly and seamlessly fill in when the Phoenix suffers personnel losses. The Empire would not say anything if it knew about this use. They are not formal Space Marines, but just reserve forces. What can be said? It's just that this reserve force is more powerful.
But using this statement, the maximum number can be maintained at one or two hundred. If there are more, the empire will not tolerate them.
Another use is even more marginal. When necessary, the power armor of these reserve troops and shadow regiment members can be painted to look like phoenixes, and they can act like phoenixes.
But if there are too many Phoenixes acting at the same time, they will end up in a situation similar to the Iron Legion.
Although it is an idea, no matter what, expanding the number of Space Marines to an outrageous level is currently a difficult task.
Firstly, the cost is high. In addition to spending a lot of grace points, it also costs a lot of money to equip so many sets of power armor and a full set of expensive individual equipment.
Secondly, the political risk was too high. If the truth was revealed, it would be hard to explain and it would be a big taboo. His and Phoenix's reputation would drop to the level of Iron Armor in an instant.
If he took Tiekai as his imaginary enemy, Gu Hang couldn't let his reputation fall to that level. It would be bad if the central government of the empire thought that the confrontation between the alliance and 'Iron Fury Stone' was a dog-eat-dog fight between separatist warlords.
First of all, Gu Hang felt that he was not a separatist force;
Secondly, he must not let others think that he is;
At the very least, even if others think he is, they cannot give them too obvious handle to accuse him.
The consequences of these three levels are completely different. The most direct one is that if Gu Hang and the Fury Corps really have a fight, the imperial officials will support him or just sit on the sidelines and watch.
Gu Hang thought about the issue of expanding the quantity for a long time and decided to put it aside as a backup option.
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Gu Hang still has about 1.5 million gift points left for military construction.
Keep 500,000 as a backup to ensure that when necessary, Gu Hang can immediately bring all the Phoenixes to the company champion level.
Gu Hang used the remaining one million gift points on the training of political commissars.
One hundred thousand political commissars were recruited. They would be distributed in units above the regiment level, and a small number of battalion-level units could also be assigned. There were not enough grace points to assign company-level instructors.
Under the alliance's military system, the role played by the political commissar cannot be ignored. Discipline, morale, and ideology are the core factors that determine the combat effectiveness of troops. Sometimes, they are even more important than the hardware level of the troops, such as the training level and equipment level.
In fact, the alliance's political commissar system starts with company instructors and battalion instructors. However, the political commissars trained by Gu Hang could not sink to this level, as the number of people required was too large.
A political commissar also needs ten points of grace, which Gu Hang cannot afford.
The Alliance Army will reach a size of 1 billion people in the future, and he can only take care of units above the regiment level. Not to mention that the size is several times larger than the Alliance Army, and the total number may already be more than 4 billion. These allied forces, Gu Hang must ensure that they stand with the Alliance and achieve the goal of the Alliance's unification, and they also need a large number of political commissars, at least at the brigade level and the army level, and they must be equipped with political commissars from the Alliance.
To be honest, with this calculation, the number of 100,000 may still not be enough.
When he first received 15 million grace points, Gu Hang felt that he had no idea how he would be able to spend such a huge amount of grace points; but when he really started spending them, he found that no matter how many points he had, it was still not enough considering the amount was on the order of hundreds of millions.
But Gu Hang can no longer throw more grace points into these "bottomless pits".
He has to spend all the remaining 4 million on the lottery.
He no longer cared about the rewards of the 10,000 level, as the prize pool had been basically drained; but the 100,000 level had only just been opened for a short time, and the rewards were still very generous.
And he can directly do a wave of forty draws!
He drew thirty rounds first, leaving a million grace points. He planned to see whether to go up to the million level depending on the situation.
The probability of getting an epic technology at the 100,000 level is 50%. Before, Gu Hang had drawn seven times at this level and got three epic technologies, but now the probability has been reduced to 35%.
Every time a product is shipped, the probability drops by 5%.
But at present, 35% is still a very high number.
Thirty companies drew out five epic technologies, and the remaining eighteen were ordinary, advanced, and elite technologies, leaving seven empty.
Overall, it is in line with expectations.
There are also some surprises in the non-epic technologies. Although there is basically nothing new, they are all upgrades or variants of some technologies that the Alliance already has, but some of them can still be used.
For example, more efficient servo-skull manufacturing technology, two types of Space Marine power armor, and one type of feedback power armor.
The first two are MK.5 and MK.8. Gu Hang does not plan to pull out the production line of MK.5. This type of power armor is not popular among Space Marines at present, and its performance is not particularly outstanding. On the contrary, due to some historical factors, it is the power armor with the largest number of Chaos Space Marines.
The latter can be manufactured. Although its performance is inferior to the MK.4 Great Power Armor, which is currently the most used by Phoenix, it is relatively simple to produce and the cost is half as cheap. If Gu Hang wants to significantly increase the number of Space Marines in the future, but the production of the MK.4 Great Power Armor is relatively low, the saved MK.8 Skyhawk Power Armor can be used. If it really doesn't work, it can be used for foreign trade.
The feedback power armor is called the "Commander" type. The main difference from the "Attendant God" that the Alliance has now is that the latter was originally developed for the battle sisters. There are certain theological links in the manufacturing process. In the hands of the battle sisters, these links can play some metaphysical effects, making the sisters luckier, and even showing some miracles as if they were favored by the emperor at special times. But when ordinary mortals wear it, there is no such effect. On the contrary, due to these special manufacturing steps and links, the manufacturing cost is raised.
On the contrary, the "Commander Type" is different. This is a battle armor developed for the Astra Militarum. Although it is much inferior to the "Attendant God" in terms of individual soldier performance, its cost is greatly reduced, and it integrates many command link communication systems. The commander wearing it does not need a command vehicle; at the same time, a whole team of special combat soldiers wearing "Commander" can also cooperate better.
For this type of power armor, Gu Hang plans to greatly increase production.
When training new blood for the Phoenix, those who were eliminated during the screening process were only slightly unqualified for the Space Marines. Looking at the entire human population, they were talented, and after the training bonus of the [Soldier Card] system, they were all rare elite soldiers.
In the process of training 500 new Phoenix blood recently, more than 9,000 T2-level soldiers and nearly 30,000 T3-level soldiers were born. T4-level soldiers are not counted as they are relatively few.
Some of these T2 and T3 soldiers will be sent to the special operations brigades and skeleton divisions established in the front-line troops of the Alliance Army. The other part will be gathered together to form an elite force called the "Glory Guards Corps".
Their predecessor was the 10th Special Operations Brigade of the Union Army.
Gu Hang positioned the 'Glory Guards' in line with the elite forces of the famous Star Army in the Empire, such as the so-called 'Kashejin' and 'Catachan'.
The league doesn't have the environment to create similar superheroes, but it has money and can invest in training and equipment.
In Gu Hang's plan, the Glory Guards could be used to fight the Space Marines head-on when necessary. Even at the cost of a high exchange rate and a large number of casualties, at least they could fight and not be quickly annihilated.
This is also a supplement to the problem of insufficient number of Space Marines.
At least each 'Glory Guard' must be equipped with an exoskeleton and carapace armor, and as much as possible, they should be equipped with feedback power armor.
Their numbers are many times greater than those of Space Marines, so the demand for power armor is naturally much greater. The cost of the 'Attendant' is too high, and the production is small. A cheaper 'Commander' is a good supplement.
Some of the other technologies that were drawn were similar, for example, there was also the Walrus-class transport ship, which was smaller than the Whale-class transport ship but faster, and had the potential to be converted into an armed merchant ship, but the cost was higher...
Having these technologies is definitely better than having none at all. But for the Alliance, they are just icing on the cake. If the problem of creating something from nothing is not solved, there will be no qualitative change.
If you want to achieve a qualitative change, you still have to look at the five epic technologies you have drawn.
[L-type missile weapon, Dongfeng Fen], [L-type macro cannon, Zhongsi's Wrath], [Predator-class Titan], [Dreadnought Mecha], [Strike Cruiser].
The first two technologies directly supplemented the Alliance's needs for various L-specification weapons. Prior to this, the Alliance only had the ability to produce L-type 'Doomsday' Light Spear arrays, which resulted in the main guns of the four new Moon-class cruisers produced by the Alliance being all Light Spears.
This is a very passive thing. Before this, the main guns of the Musician-class cruisers built on Feiyi Star were imported from Jindi Star and then assembled on board. Feiyi Star itself does not have the ability to produce these L-class heavy guns.
Now, these problems no longer exist.
['Predator' class Titan] is a proper medium-sized Titan, much larger than the 'War Dog' class Terra, which is also known as the 'Dog Titan'. Among those famous Titan legions, the 'Predator' is also considered the backbone.
With it, the 'Alliance National Knights', as a unit developing into a Titan Legion, can be said to have made great progress.
As for the last two, the [Dreadnought] and the [Strike Cruiser], they both belong to the technology of Space Marines.
(End of this chapter)
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