Chapter 59, From the Golden Age
"Do you believe it?"
Wu Jiarong didn't believe it.
Productivity comparable to Forge World? It's possible;
Is it possible to have a living standard comparable to that of the Garden World?
But both at the same time?
That's just a joke.
Garden worlds have beautiful environments, abundant resources, and excellent quality of life for people. They are usually administrative planets or trade hub planets. On the other hand, forging worlds usually have no better environment. The entire world will look like a huge factory, where countless people have to contribute their sweat and even blood and labor.
Can these two things be easily integrated?
Among the countless stars throughout the empire, how many such examples can be found?
Can Holy Terra, the capital of the Empire, live up to what the Governor says it will?
have no idea.
She heard it was possible, but she had never been there or seen it with her own eyes, so she didn't dare to believe it.
She couldn't even believe that Holy Terra would be like what the Governor described, let alone this remote wasteland planet.
Rationally, she felt that the Governor was just talking nonsense and making empty promises.
That cake was big and round, yet so far away and unreal that it seemed a little ridiculous.
But emotionally, she could feel Governor Gu's lofty ambitions.
Ambition is not something you can eat. She had the ambition to be promoted to a mechanic, or even to a technical priest, but in the end, she was treated as an imperial tax.
But she felt that she could trust Governor Gu's ambitions.
Believing that he has ambition and believing that this ambition can be realized are two different things.
But just by believing in the governor's ambitions, she could roughly imagine in her mind that her governor in the future should not be a person who only wanted to eat and wait for death, only wanted to levy heavy taxes, only wanted to pay the imperial taxes every two years, and enjoy himself the rest of the time.
Then working under such a governor seems, as if, probably... a good opportunity that he has never had before?
Ten years ago, she was in the Forge World, thinking that she was gifted and talented, but she only wanted to be promoted to a mechanic; on the starship, her future was cut off, and all she wanted was to find a good man to marry and have children, and then live a life of idleness and wait for death. One day she would be too old to retire, but it was also very likely that before that, the Quintet would be destroyed in a war, and all the people on board would become another part of the space junk.
Following a governor and becoming the most important technician under the governor, her future achievements may not be just a mechanic or a mechanical priest. Perhaps, she will have the opportunity to become a mechanical bishop, or even...
She didn't dare to think any further, as it was too difficult to become a sage. Wouldn't it be as unrealistic as the Governor's fantasy that the Wrathful Owl Star could become a combination of the Forge World and the Garden World?
All this is still far away, but not that far away.
Indeed, the Governor is now poor and the population under his direct jurisdiction is less than 10,000. Even the Governor's administrative power cannot be extended to the world. But then again, if the current Governor is in power, would he still look down on a small technical specialist like me? I'm afraid he can easily recruit a bunch of more senior experts.
It is precisely now, when we are starting out, that we have the opportunity to provide timely assistance and the opportunity to continue to grow as the Governor continues to gain power.
What's more, the Governor has a black box manufacturing machine...
The value of this thing is extremely precious.
According to legend, they come from a distant golden age, an era before the empire was established and almost impossible to verify. It is said that humans at that time were the masters of the entire universe, and every human had dignity and could enjoy the best life. They could follow their own interests and engage in any industry they wanted, or not work at all.
The black box manufacturing machine was a product of that era, ensuring that humans could easily and quickly obtain products in any environment. As long as the interstellar colonists had a black box, they could quickly build a suitable home on a new barren planet.
It is also relying on the black box that humans in the golden age can spread their footprints throughout the universe and maintain a similar level of technology in each world.
But today, the empire's technology is completely different from that of the golden age.
Scientific research relies on archaeology, this statement is no joke.
A problem that has been unsolved in a hundred years of research in the Forge World may be solved by discovering an ancient relic one day and getting a few small clues from it.
In fact, many of the technologies that are now widely used in the Empire are restored through archaeological excavations, and their level is less than one percent of that of the Golden Age. The precious Titan armor may have been just a vehicle driven by lumberjacks in the Golden Age.
And things like the black box manufacturing machine are the top priority of archaeological... uh, I mean scientific research work.
This thing can directly produce finished products and also has extremely high research value.
Although the three black boxes that Governor Gu currently has are suspected to have produced things that have long been sold everywhere in the empire and have no value in themselves, after all, which normal world can't produce rifles, alloy plastic steel, and whetstone engines?
However, it is the black box itself that is of great value.
The output is not that important, but the technology from the Golden Age contained in the black box itself is enough to drive the Mechanicus crazy.
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Gu Hang listened carefully to Wu Jiarong's introduction of the situation.
Some of them he knew from searching his memory, but some he didn't.
These messages are important, but relatively speaking not that important.
According to Wu Jiarong, he basically gave up the idea of selling the black box manufacturing machine. In fact, it is not completely impossible to sell it. It takes effort for people to snatch it away. It is not a more labor-saving way to buy it with some money.
However, Gu Hang would not sell it.
It's too dangerous.
Compared to the Mechanicus, which has extremely powerful influence throughout the empire, he is just a small governor and means nothing.
Even more dangerous, if he sold a few, wouldn't the Mechanicum be keeping an eye on him? Trying to get more? Or perhaps wondering how he got hold of the precious black box?
As for the unimportant point, it was because Wrathful Owl was too remote and inconspicuous. It was difficult for what happened here to reach the ears of the Mechanicus.
At present, the only interstellar communication on the entire Angry Owl Star is with the Quintet. If the news is not leaked to the sky, this matter will be ignored.
What's more, it is impossible for Gu Hang to lose sight of the important things and not use the black box in his hand.
He had been quite careful before, but it was inevitable that some of it would be exposed. Once it was used, there was no way to stop it.
In the future, he will be more careful.
At the same time, he also needs someone to help.
Gu Hang looked at Wu Jiarong with expectation.
(End of this chapter)
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