Chapter 504: Zhuge-class spaceship
In space warfare, the most important capability of an aircraft carrier is to send space versions of various fighter planes, from the smallest Wind Falcon to the largest Dragon Elephant, to the vicinity of enemy ships relatively safely through the catapult deck, allowing the fighters to freely exert their capabilities and attack enemy ships.
Otherwise, a firefight in space could easily spread out over hundreds of thousands or millions of kilometers, and it would take a long time for fighter planes to fly on their own.
If you are more particular, it will be equipped with a traction system, which can guide the fighter jets to be pulled back from a relatively long distance by the traction force locked before the battle.
But this is a luxury.
After all, according to the Empire's style, sometimes the fighter jets that are launched out to perform missions are treated as disposable items or as shells fired from other warships, which is not a surprising thing.
It's nothing more than this cannonball made of iron and flesh.
Of course, Gu Hang didn't intend to do this. The traction recovery function on the equipment still needs to be installed meticulously. If the fighter can be recovered during combat, it should be recovered as much as possible. The fighter cannot be used as a shell, which is too costly.
Not only the equipment costs, a good pilot himself is also an expensive asset.
The 'Command-class' can be equipped with hundreds of space fighters and can send the fighters to their destinations, so its role will be very significant.
This is a great complement to the Alliance's naval system.
Having one more cruiser-class ship is great. Even if the alliance does not develop the aircraft carrier system as its main force, having such a black box is equivalent to picking up a dock for free, and one more cruiser-class ship can be built every two or three years.
What's more, with the cooperation of the Moon-class in holding the line, a Command-class ship carrying hundreds of various space fighters may be able to create unique strategic value.
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In Gu Hang's opinion, the "Garden of Eden" Ecological Park is a fairly high-level ecological agricultural base.
Using this technology, an ecological park built will be able to have very high agricultural output, and the internal environment will be pleasant and suitable for living, and manors and villas can be built.
Building a "Garden of Eden" is equivalent to creating high-end residences, ecological tourism, and high-level and high-quality agricultural outputs at the same time.
Looking at it this way, it’s very beautiful!
It is both ecological, improves the environment and has high yield.
If it is combined with planetary climate transformation technology, wouldn't it be possible to mass-produce garden worlds?
But after a careful understanding, Gu Hang realized that it was not that good.
In theory, it is indeed possible to do so.
But no one can ignore the cost issue.
Not to mention how much it would cost to transform a planet's climate, even on a planet with good basic conditions, the cost of building an 'Eden' is not low.
The high construction cost is one thing, but more importantly, the maintenance cost after it is built is also very high.
It is reflected in two aspects: personnel and energy.
It requires a large number of workers to do a lot of basic labor work; it requires a large number of biological experts to maintain the ecological status.
In terms of energy, a large amount of energy crystals are needed to maintain the ecological conditions of the Garden of Eden.
Judging from agricultural output alone, although the output is quite large, it is actually not cost-effective compared to the investment.
There are two areas where you can make money: superior living experience and high-quality agricultural product output.
From the perspective of solving the problem of food and clothing and basic food supply, building the Garden of Eden is obviously not cost-effective. But from the perspective of providing high-quality enjoyment, the Garden of Eden is unbeatable.
Is it valuable?
Of course!
The alliance still needs this thing.
Gu Hang has always been worried about the corruption of bureaucrats in power.
This concern has become more and more serious as the alliance develops.
Gu Hang always has a clear understanding: relying solely on ideals cannot support the long-term existence of a political system. Real interests are the foundation of every alliance member. Human desires are infinite.
When people are poor, as long as they have enough food and clothing, that is already good enough; after the problem of food and clothing is solved, people will naturally demand higher and better living conditions, especially the new generation who grew up in an environment of food and clothing. In many well-developed places in the alliance, these new generation of young people no longer know what hunger feels like, nor will they be forever grateful to the alliance just because the alliance has solved the problem of food and clothing.
People will demand higher living standards, and rightly so.
Even though war always exists, the alliance still strives to improve people's living standards as much as possible under limited conditions.
This is directly reflected in the total industrial output value, and the figures belonging to residents' consumption are slowly increasing no matter in which world.
During the rapid economic growth, this problem was well covered up. With the increase in total output value, even if the imperial taxes increased and the fiscal revenue of the alliance increased, there were still some development dividends that could be enjoyed by the people.
A more concrete manifestation is that in most of the worlds that are developing peacefully, the average rank level of Alliance citizens has been rising.
The upward path is clear and life is getting better and better, which is the core reason why the alliance has gained broad support.
The longer a world is controlled by the Alliance, the more stable its rule will become as living conditions continue to improve.
If the alliance wants to maintain this situation, it must ensure two things: first, economic development continues and cannot regress; second, the benefits of development that the citizens of the alliance should enjoy should not be too little.
Both of these provisions impose strict requirements on the alliance's huge bureaucratic system.
The former requires the bureaucrats' ability; the latter requires the bureaucrats' integrity.
The issue of economic development is still very powerful at present. Through the education system that the alliance attaches great importance to, and Gu Hang's enlightenment and training of key personnel by spending grace points, it is possible to ensure that the abilities of alliance officials are basically online, at least far exceeding the average level of the empire.
However, Gu Hang always had doubts about the issue of integrity.
There are many organizations in the alliance to ensure this, but Gu Hang is still suspicious.
He could not deny that a huge bureaucracy had in fact emerged after the establishment of the alliance.
In fact, this bureaucratic class and the military merit class are now the ruling class of the alliance.
The government, state-owned capital, public institutions, and all members of these systems are regarded as a unified class, that is, the broad bureaucracy, which holds the greatest power and interests of the alliance.
They clearly control most of the alliance's assets, but under the alliance's system, these assets are publicly owned and are state capital. This system prevents them from actually possessing these wealth.
The bureaucrats certainly hold much higher ranks than the general public and enjoy richer material conditions, but just as the people's needs grow, so do these bureaucrats.
Will they pursue more benefits? The job titles provided by them are no longer enough to satisfy their appetite, so they start to take advantage of state-owned capital? It is better to embezzle more of the extra money earned by working hard to improve their job titles.
Of course, these conventional preventive measures must exist, such as strong anti-corruption agencies cracking down vigorously, strengthening ideological education to eliminate them in the early stages, and establishing a public supervision system.
In addition to crackdown and prevention, we also have to give some sweet rewards.
'Garden of Eden' seems to be a better approach.
Establish high-end communities so that excellent, loyal, and honest people can have good living conditions;
Even if it is difficult to live in a place and those who work at the grassroots level still have the right to take a vacation, they will have a purpose after seeing it;
The high-quality and high-quality goods of Eden Garden, from exquisite food to some luxury leather goods, fine wines, etc., can be used as shopping benefits for high-level employees, so that they have a place to spend their allowances and truly bring about a good change in the quality of life.
As for some high-end products, they can be packaged as brands and sent to the shelves across the alliance. Ordinary people can buy them occasionally to improve their living conditions.
It is not realistic to expect it to make a lot of money, but it can maintain stability and improve the satisfaction of residents, especially the satisfaction of the ruling class.
Since Gu Hang could see and acknowledge that there was a huge bureaucratic class in the alliance, and that it had in fact become the ruling class, Gu Hang really needed this class to reflect his will. If this class rebelled, at the very least, development would stagnate and society would become corrupt, at the worst, local rebellion would occur, and even the alliance would disintegrate.
The unbreakable alliance in Gu Hang's memory eventually fell apart, and this factor probably played a significant role.
When it comes to internal governance, Gu Hang cannot simply adopt a high-pressure approach, but must face up to the interests of the ruling class.
The Garden of Eden is a new attempt.
Gu Hang will build a large number of these high-energy-consuming ecosystems on many planets. He defines the value of "Eden" as satisfying the Alliance citizens, especially high-ranking citizens (ruling class), who pursue a higher quality of life.
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The Valkyrie mecha is another thing.
This thing is essentially a power armor similar to the Terminator. Similar to the difference between the two types of feedback power armors, 'Samurai' and 'Commander', and real Space Marine power armor, the 'Valkyrie' is also a Terminator that does not necessarily have to be used by Space Marines.
However, the difference is that there are some structures on the Valkyrie that Gu Hang cannot quite understand.
Those complex patterns need to be made of gold.
But why? For decoration?
If it is just for decoration, why is it marked as a necessity in construction technology?
The energy crystal is placed at the back as a source of energy, and there is also a prayer process.
From these aspects, Gu Hang could only associate it with psychic power at the first moment.
And it is not normal psychic power, but psychic power unique to a certain religious attribute.
For example, Gallardo, after being "tricked" into the subspace by him, he actually held on for a long time. He was not a high-level psychic, and he did not even master the power of psychic energy. He was just a war apostle, the messenger of the Sun Lord. After the death of the Sun Lord, Gallardo's power declined rapidly. If Gu Hang had not rescued him, he would have been finished.
Where does the power of the Sun Lord come from?
There is no doubt that it comes from the Emperor.
With the favor of the Emperor, the priests and nuns of the state religion, as well as people like the Sun Lord who can be called "God's Chosen", are all favored by the Emperor - no matter how this favor comes from, as long as they have it, they can rely on grace to gain powers similar to psychic power.
The 'Valkyrie' set of armor has a bit of this meaning.
He recalled that in the normal imperial system, the Valkyrie mecha seemed to be used only by nuns.
Logically speaking, battle sisters are also mortals.
Before, Gu Hang thought that the nuns were relatively wealthy, and the general Star Army could not afford such high-end equipment. But later he found that it was not the case.
They can be used, but ordinary soldiers may not be able to do it.
The Valkyrie Armor requires some kind of theological power to drive it.
Gu Hang felt a little helpless, yet a little fortunate.
The frustration is that this technology is only used in a small area; the good news is that he has an organization under his command that can use it.
Sisters of Holy Lily of Mercy.
Strictly speaking, they are not part of the alliance.
But... at this point, the Sisters are located in the core territory of the Alliance, and their economy, politics, and development all depend on the Alliance. This is an objective reality. In practical matters, they still need Koroja to do some anti-heresy work, just like decades ago, but now they don't need to do that at all.
At present, the work of Holy Mercy Lily is mainly to work as a thug for several spies and trial agencies of the alliance, and has more contact with the legal center of the alliance. When encountering any problems and lacking high-end military forces, demon hunters often call on a few nuns to help deal with them.
Another one is war.
During the Iron Tooth War, the Holy Lily Sisters also sent out more than a thousand combat nuns to cooperate with the allied forces, and there were many sacrifices.
The relationship between the two sides is now quite close. Especially when dealing with the Silver Tribunal, the Holy Lily of Mercy helped a lot and provided a lot of military support. Many spies of the Silver Tribunal were killed by the nuns of the Holy Lily of Mercy.
This is already a very clear stance. After this test, Gu Hang really feels that he can treat them as his own people.
After all, Valkyrie armor is most useful to these combat nuns, so naturally they are equipped with it as a reward for their dedicated work for the Alliance.
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As for the last one, the technology that Gu Hang cares about the most is the apocalypse-level technology.
[Zhuge class, heavy space carrier]
This is a battleship-class ship, which is quite rare in the Imperial Navy.
On the one hand, the construction cost is relatively high, about twice as high as that of the Retribution-class battleship; on the other hand, the Imperial Navy does not like to use aircraft carriers.
In other words, the aircraft carrier faction is not the mainstream in the Imperial Navy.
Giant ships and heavy artillery are still the mainstream; the battlecruiser faction is second; and the aircraft carrier faction has the smallest voice.
(End of this chapter)
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