Chapter 767, War Group Expenses
Gu Hang was quite surprised by the bloodline composition of the blood shark gene seed.
How come half of their bloodline comes from the traitor legion?
Even if some other gene seeds were used and mixed into the chapter when the army was founded, or when the chapter was expanded later, the most that could be said was that the soldiers in the chapter had different bloodlines and it was a "hybrid" chapter.
But I've never heard of a single gene seed being mixed with other bloodlines.
Under normal circumstances, such a thing would not happen. The bat seeds were implanted and turned into a bat warrior. Whether it was the new seeds that grew five years later or the seeds dug out from the body after death, they were all of the bloodline of the Bat Corps. It would not become a fusion of the two bloodlines just because they stayed with people of the Secret Guard bloodline for a long time.
Space Marines do not reproduce sexually, so there is no natural combination of two seeds.
Gu Hang suspected that it might be genetic technology.
Either their gene seeds changed when the Blood Shark Regiment was founded; or they accidentally or even intentionally modified their own gene seeds during these years in the Dark Outland?
Both are possible.
Gu Hang took note of this matter.
But no matter what, now that the Blood Sharks have settled down, the Alliance now controls six major war regiments, and under extreme conditions, it can have an army of 8,000 Space Marines.
This is already a force that cannot be underestimated.
This is true in terms of quantity, and even more so in terms of quality.
Dragon seeds, Phoenix seeds, and Blood Shark seeds are not inferior. As long as the quality of Blood Shark seeds and Dragon seeds is similar to Phoenix seeds, it means that as long as the cost is invested, the proportion of champions in the company can be increased to 10-15%.
That's six to nine hundred people.
The fight was super fierce.
To exaggerate a little, the company champion can be invincible among the most ordinary group of Space Marines.
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The cost of maintaining Space Marines is also very high.
For the four companies like Phoenix, Yellow Spring, New World Torch, and Wrath Flame, it's not a big problem. If they don't have money, then just give them some basic ammunition and other things to ensure that the training can proceed normally.
There aren't many brutal battles that require them now.
But this is not the case for the Spear of the Dragon King and the Blood Shark.
Especially the blood shark.
The alliance has made a promise to others, it would be difficult to go back on its word.
For a Space Marine Chapter, there are several aspects that contribute to the biggest cost of maintaining them.
First of all, ‘people’.
The conditions for selecting new Space Marines are quite harsh. This is why the Chapter needs a home planet as a recruiting planet. The taxes provided by the home planet are a stable income, but what is more important is that the home planet can provide a stable source of soldiers.
Some warbands choose a remote planet with a particularly harsh natural environment as their home planet. They are not looking for income, but because this environment can naturally help screen and cultivate suitable new blood.
Gene seeds are rare, and a soldier can only produce two when he dies. A failed operation will result in heavy losses; if the probability of failure is high, it may even lead to the extinction of the group.
Because of this, the selection of new blood for the regiment is a very serious matter, and even the entire planet and all eligible personnel must be mobilized to participate in a costly and wasteful selection activity. Even the selection activities of some regiments can be described as "bloody".
No one knows how much money it will cost to hold this global event, no one knows how many young people will die or become disabled, and no one knows what the success rate is for those who come up first... This is the dilemma faced by most warbands and the cost they bear.
This cost is not even easy to measure in monetary terms.
A Space Marine, with the most common armor and a series of weapons, only costs about 100,000 tax coins, or at most 200,000. But how much is a Space Marine worth? No one can say. The seed, the cost behind the success, the experience and growth over decades or hundreds of years... are all difficult to quantify.
But this cost is directly borne entirely by the alliance.
To be precise, it was wiped out by Gu Hang using the power of the system. Simply paying a few inexpensive gift points, you can get the best benefits with minimal movement.
This is also a point that Ewing attached great importance to when he finally chose the league.
Apart from the huge and difficult to quantify cost of "people", the rest of the equipment is easier to say.
One set of power armor and one set of individual equipment for each person is definitely not enough. But even if batches of Terminator armor and various powerful equipment are included, it is only a thousand people after all, so it is not too expensive.
What's more, Blood Shark is not really poor and building from scratch. They have these equipments in stock, and the Alliance only needs to update them.
The cost directly spent on the war group is 2 billion a year, and 30 to 50 billion is considered a luxury.
But this only refers to the equipment of the one thousand Space Marines themselves. Even if it includes all kinds of advanced armor and vehicles they need, after all, there are only one thousand people, so it is not that expensive.
However, another major expense of a regiment is the auxiliary troops.
The regiment only has 1,000 people. If they really have to rely on 1,000 supermen to fight every battle, there will be losses among the supermen. No regiment is willing to suffer such losses.
Auxiliary troops are bound to exist.
But this is also a place where the upper and lower limits of each battle group vary greatly.
Some did not take the auxiliary army seriously and used it as cannon fodder; some regarded the auxiliary army as their own brothers; some wanted to build it well but had no money; some were rich and built auxiliary army that was no less than the top star army...
Gu Hang directly dialed two army groups to Blood Shark.
It was true that they were essentially auxiliary troops, but before that, when Gu Hang was talking to Ewing, he made it clear to him that the Union Army was the Union Army, and the two armies were to cooperate in action, not to be cannon fodder for them. They had to correct their past attitude of not treating mortals as human beings.
Ewing agreed.
They have seen the fighting power of the Union Army.
Even if he was allowed to use the army as cannon fodder, he would not be willing to do so. This was the force planned for his own use, so elite, why would he do that? It was so useful, if everyone just cooperated a little, victory would be won, there was no need to mess around.
Of course, when necessary, we have to fight with all our might and make sacrifices.
Not to mention the Alliance Army, even the Space Marines themselves are sometimes just more advanced consumables.
Of course, the construction of auxiliary troops does cost money, but it is not the most expensive.
The most expensive thing is the regiment fleet.
Ships are too expensive.
In response to this, the Alliance formulated a fifteen-year shipbuilding plan for Blood Shark. Although in the first few years, due to financial difficulties, only minor repairs could be made; but in the future, a batch of ships will be delivered continuously. The ultimate goal is to increase the strength of the Blood Shark fleet by more than 70% in fifteen years.
Moreover, all the logistics and consumption that had been a major headache for the Blood Sharks in the past were now borne by the alliance.
Ewing was satisfied with this.
Even the most wild-hearted Blood Shark was satisfied, let alone the Spear of the Dragon King, which had similar treatment but was only slightly inferior.
(End of this chapter)
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