Chapter 764: Advanced Star Fortress and Demon-Breaking Armor
Who is the biggest contributor to the development of the alliance?
Of course it’s Gu Hang’s wise leadership!
Ahem…but other than that?
That's the gift points.
There is no doubt about it.
Not to mention Gu Hang's history of making a fortune, just talking about the improvement in the alliance's productivity, it is also closely related to the grace points.
Technology and black boxes are the primary driving forces behind the development of productivity.
Furthermore, no matter what kind of material foundation or environmental conditions there are, they all ultimately fall on people. All wealth and victory are won by people.
Grace points are also a key factor in cultivating talents and ensuring their loyalty.
The development direction of the alliance has been basically established in the previous two meetings.
Then there is the issue of execution.
This is the most important thing.
Who doesn’t know how to set goals?
It’s a little harder to formulate a plan.
But the execution step is the most challenging.
What Gu Hang has to do is to use the grace points to help with the execution issues.
After the Battle of Rheaduches, Gu Hang received a large amount of grace points.
But by then, he had spent it all.
But it doesn't matter. As the alliance's control over the fourteen star fields becomes legal, the system recognizes that all areas have been transformed from vassalage and military occupation to the core territories of the regime.
Moreover, as the Alliance has continued to build a stable ruling system for all these worlds over the past two or three years, many planets have begun to change from not providing or even reducing monthly grace point income to normally providing grace points.
Although the monthly increase in grace points is non-linear simply by relying on the expansion of scale, and is more like a milestone income curve that unlocks nodes one by one, the extent of the expansion of the control area and the number of population increases in this wave are really too much.
Even though the alliance's rule over many places was still relatively fragile and had only been established for a year or two; even though productivity in many places had not yet recovered to normal levels due to war disasters, Gu Hang's monthly gift income still skyrocketed.
When the Battle of Rheaduches just ended, Gu Hang's monthly income was only about 500,000 yuan. Now, it has increased to 1.7 million yuan.
From then until now, a total of three years and seven months, the accumulated income has exceeded 53 million.
But that’s not all.
During these forty-three months, there were no large-scale wars, but small-scale, planetary-level battles in the fourteen star fields of the alliance never stopped.
The most common thing is to clear out people infected with parasites, followed by the suppression of some rebels - there are always some confused people who will incite some fools to become bandits, believe in cults, or simply believe in unrealistic things.
With seven thousand planets and twelve trillion people, it's normal for something to go wrong.
Add to that some rare wars against the greenskins, and ever since the discovery of the dark elf pirates, the Spider Web Universe has occasionally been plagued by constant invasions of these annoying space mosquitoes.
The Dark Eldar have also become the main target of the Navy's current confrontation.
Some of these wars were lost, but most were eventually won back.
The cumulative total is more than 18 million.
Adding it all up, it’s 71 million.
And last time, Gu Hang also specially reserved 20 million grace points in case of emergency.
This brought his total accumulated grace points to a total of 91 million.
At the end of the Battle of Reyaduches, he had hundreds of millions of grace points. At that time, he was still lamenting that if it weren't for the war, how could it be easy to save hundreds of millions of grace points?
But now, he discovered that farming was the right path!
The current level is far from the limit. As the alliance develops more and more smoothly, the control of each planet continues to deepen, and the number of 1.7 million per month will definitely continue to soar.
Maybe in two or three years, he would be able to save up another 100 million grace points.
By then, there will be another ten-consecutive lottery of tens of millions of dollars in technology. Maybe we can draw some apocalyptic-level technology that can change our destiny?
Even without such top-notch stuff, ordinary technology actually has value.
Even if one of the technologies pulled out is not as good as the technology currently being used by the alliance, for example, Gu Hang first pulled out the G8 series live-fire rifles, and later he pulled out the G5... but it does not mean that this thing is useless.
First, we can build a G5 production line and use it on some planets with backward production capacity. Although the Alliance Army will definitely not purchase the mass-produced G5 gun family, when the production capacity is insufficient, the planetary defense forces of some planets can use it first. Anyway, it is better than having nothing and better than using homemade guns.
If it really doesn't work, you can use it as imperial tax. It is cheaper than the G8 gun family, but every little bit is still meat.
Under the premise of the imperial tax, there is a good thing about engaging in production and economic construction: basically, you don't have to worry about the sales of your products. Although the price given by the imperial tax is not high, there is no profit to speak of, but it is stable. As long as you can control the cost and don't make the manufacturing cost higher than the official price, you can expand production capacity unscrupulously and frantically, as long as you have a little profit.
This is also a way out for many backward products.
Of course, it is better to make high-tech products. The official price gives higher profits. If you really make bullets or laser gun energy boxes, the official price is still too low. If any of the supply chain, production management, and production efficiency are not done well, you may lose money.
Even if we take a step back and say that the extracted technology is really useless, or even repetitive, and the alliance does not want to continue expanding the production capacity of this technology, then they can just sell the extracted black boxes.
The Mechanicus was extremely concerned about the black box. And with Gu Hang's current status and the strength of the alliance, they were not afraid of the black box leaking out at all - just make sure it didn't leak out all at once.
A black box can be sold for tens of billions to hundreds of billions. The exact amount depends on the technology in the black box. A technology that breaks the G5 rifle may only be worth tens of billions.
But it’s not a small amount, and it can be exchanged for a destroyer or even a cruiser.
Uh... looking at it this way, the benefits are still not enough, at least compared to now, Gu Hang’s prize pool for low-level draws has almost been emptied. Basically, it takes 10 million grace points to draw once. If you are unlucky and draw low-level technology, it would be too uncomfortable.
After thinking it over, Gu Hang decided to keep 10 million of the 90 million grace points as a backup for emergencies, in case something happened that required a large amount of grace points and he had no points on hand.
Of the remaining 80 million, 40 million was used for a technology lottery.
If you can extract some apocalyptic-level technology, you will make a lot of money.
Unfortunately, no.
But at least there are two epic technologies.
And they are all things worth mentioning.
[Advanced Star Fortress Construction Technology], [Modular Magic-Breaking Armor Technology].
The former is easy to say, as the Alliance itself has the ability to build star fortresses.
The difficulty and cost of manufacturing this thing are not as great as building a ship. Even if the relevant technology is not extracted, with the current industrial base of the alliance, a batch of star fortresses and armed space stations can be built, and then the corresponding engineering ships can be used to tow them to the locations where they need to be deployed.
However, to be honest, if you design and manufacture it yourself, you still can't get a mature design solution from a system, and it's not as easy to use as a black box.
Not to mention the epic technology with the word "advanced".
After some research, Gu Hang discovered that the combat capability of this advanced star fortress has surpassed that of the Retribution-class battleship. If they were to fight each other in space, both Retribution-class battleships would be destroyed by it.
But this is not uncommon.
Since star fortresses don't need to move, they only need to build up their size. The armor can be made very thick, and the energy output of the engine can be fully provided to laser weapons or void shields. Compared with space ships that have to make a trade-off between power and flexibility, star fortresses have a huge natural advantage.
Even if the technical level is a little lower, just increase the scale at all costs.
But the power of this advanced technology lies in the fact that it takes the firepower density and defense strength of the star fortress to a higher level by optimizing the energy output design and layout design without increasing the cost.
The more critical point is that this advanced star fortress is also equipped with a special gravity engine, which can make the heavy star fortress move.
Even its speed and flexibility are not as good as those of the Retribution-class battleship, and its movements are essentially dependent on the gravity provided by large celestial bodies. It does not really have an independent power system, which means that its movement can only be maintained around the planet.
But it's still groundbreaking.
This special ability makes up for the biggest difficulty faced by star fortresses when defending planets - small coverage area.
After all, a star fortress cannot move, or at most it can be like a satellite, orbiting a planet in a fixed orbit.
Even in the latter case, it has a fixed periodicity. People often seize the periodicity of the star fortress's operation, go around to the other side of the planet, and launch an attack.
With this advanced star fortress, this problem is solved.
Of course, it is not impossible to have this type of new star fortress. You can build multiple star fortresses around it to provide full coverage. But in this way, the cost and manufacturing cycle will increase. Similarly, because of the comprehensive protection, some star fortresses will inevitably be on one side of the planet and some on the other side. When the enemy attacks one side, the star fortress on the other side will also be at a loss.
Furthermore, if the new star fortress can use the gravity of the planet, then the gravity of the larger star can also be used, and it will be better. This means that if the environment of a certain star system allows, and the orbit of the main defended planet is not that far from the star, then the new star fortress that uses the star orbit can even switch between the entire orbit and the planet orbit, and even protect other planets in the same star system. This will make the defense more flexible for star systems with multiple habitable planets.
At the same time, Gu Hang immediately thought that this new type of star fortress was not entirely a purely defensive weapon.
As the war progresses, engineering ships can tow these new star fortresses together, and then play a very good role in places where conditions are right.
For example, if the local planetary orbital defense system is strict, a forced attack will result in heavy losses, and the star's gravity can be used in the planetary orbit. When switching to the planetary orbit, this thing becomes a very useful weapon for forcing an attack on the planetary defense system - it is stronger than a battleship and much cheaper than a battleship.
Of course, overall, its usage scenarios are still narrow and it cannot replace the role of battleships.
But in the end, it’s not a bad thing to solve a problem and expand its use.
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Modular Magic-Breaking Armor is not a single-use technology. In fact, it can be applied to any armored equipment, from small power armor modules to add magic-breaking properties, to larger modules such as Terminator armor, Knight armor, and Titan; from armored vehicles to tanks; and even to starships.
The effect is that the armor blocks equipped with this technology can have anti-psychic, anti-subspace energy, and anti-demon effects. The related powers will be greatly weakened or even completely invalidated.
This is a very useful technique when fighting against some aliens who are good at using psychic powers and against cultists.
However, due to its high cost, it is basically impossible to put it on weapons of the armored vehicles and tanks. In that case, the cost of the magic-breaking armor is more expensive than the tank itself. With that money, it is better to build a few more tanks and use quantity to pile up.
It can't really be used on a starship. The starship is valuable, but it's too big to be practical.
The most suitable method is to use it on power armor, allowing the Space Marines or the Alliance's elite Glory Guards to be responsible for decapitation operations against enemy psychic units on the battlefield.
Gu Hang is quite concerned about this technology.
To put it another way, this is an additional piece of equipment specifically for fighting against demons and cultists.
Furthermore, in the prophetic scene he saw in the sky above the Kingdom of Storms, the figures of heretical traitors and warp demons appeared one after another, which made him worried. He suspected that the great enemy of the so-called final battle was these Chaos enemies.
If the Demon-Breaking Armor is equipped on a large scale, it should be able to give the Alliance a certain advantage when fighting against such enemies.
Even though there are no signs of this happening yet, Gu Hang is planning to start mass production of the Demon-Breaking Armor. It is not necessary to equip the entire army with it immediately, but at least it is not a bad thing to have a large stockpile to prepare for a rainy day.
After drawing these four tens of millions of technology points, there were still 40 million grace points left, and Gu Hang spent 15 million on talent enlightenment and political commissar training.
The other 25 million will be used to exchange for factory buildings, college buildings, and church buildings of various levels.
It seems like a lot, but when divided among more than 7,000 worlds, it’s really not that much.
But at least, with these talents and the support of these factory buildings, the alliance's economic production goals will be better achieved.
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I'll finish one more chapter before dawn to make up for yesterday.
(End of this chapter)
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