Chapter 791: The Queen of Glory’s Problem
In the Battle of the Black Abyss against the Eldar pirates, the Alliance's 'East' was exposed.
Of course it was intentional.
It was not necessary for the Queen of Glory to appear to fight against the Dark Eldar pirates who were trapped in the trap.
The alliance's main fleet is enough, with a bunch of battleships and aircraft carriers in it.
Dispatching the Queen of Glory not only makes the outcome of the battle more stable, but also allows for a shot to be fired into the Dark Eldar's star gate. More importantly, the Alliance must get this battleship out.
The Queen of Glory is a national treasure that can change the outcome of a huge battle.
The alliance owns it, which represents a lot of meanings.
The most direct implication is that the alliance, which was already very difficult for the Empire to deal with militarily, is now even more difficult to deal with.
If they wanted to cause trouble for the Alliance, the exaggerated war plan made by the Military Affairs Department ten years ago seemed to be conservative. If they really wanted to attack the Alliance, they would have to be even more exaggerated.
So, if the plan that made Prime Minister Qi Bodu shake his head ten years ago were to be carried out in a more exaggerated way, would the empire be able to accept it after ten years?
In the past ten years, the empire has earned a lot of money from the alliance, and its finances have become more comfortable, so it can consider it.
It depends on whether the Empire earns more or the Alliance's economic growth is more terrifying.
At a time when calls for a new round of tax negotiations are becoming increasingly clamorous on Holy Terra, the Alliance's choice to show force is an obvious one.
At the same time, a Queen of Glory-class battleship appeared in the hands of the Alliance, which had another meaning: If I can build one, is it possible to build a second one?
This is actually a fact.
While the 'Orient' was showing its hideous face in front of the world, the second Queen of Glory-class battleship, which was secretly built by the Alliance, was almost completed.
This battleship has been named "Spider Web".
Once it is completed, construction of the third Queen of Glory-class battleship will begin immediately.
The fourth one followed closely.
However, according to the Alliance's current plan, when it comes to the fourth Queen of Glory, if the current situation does not change significantly, the Alliance will slow down the construction speed.
It takes 10-15 years to build a Queen of Glory, and that's at full capacity. It's so fast because Gu Hang always has a sense of unease in his heart. He is afraid of the empire, and he is also afraid that the doomsday prophecy he saw will explode in the near future.
If the speed is slowed down, the time can be extended to 30 years or even 50 years per ship, and the annual cost can be greatly reduced, while the overall cost will remain roughly the same.
This is a pity. If possible, Gu Hang would certainly like to build as many Queens of Glory as possible. Even if it takes ten to fifteen years to build one, after a hundred years, 8-10 Queens of Glory would be invincible.
But unfortunately, there are too many restrictions due to various practical factors.
On the one hand, there are economic factors.
The high cost and long time required to build the Queen of Glory were all tolerated. When the alliance was in financial difficulty before, it could afford to spend 150 billion a year and 15 years, let alone now.
This economic burden is certainly huge. The total cost of building a warship is approaching 2 trillion yuan.
But after all, these are resources that will be paid in installments over 15 years, and it is not a number that the alliance cannot afford.
However, the construction of the Queen of Glory did not come free of charge.
It is not easy to operate this big ship. Its complex machinery, weapons and other systems, huge hull, and more than one million retired sailors, engineers, and marines on board all require a very expensive price to maintain.
The annual maintenance cost of a Glorious Queen ship is about 5% of the total cost of the ship, which is about 100 billion.
Once a war breaks out, the price will become even higher, with no upper limit. The fuel used and the high-grade materials required for ship repairs are also extremely expensive.
Yes, the alliance can be built.
But if we make too many, we might not be able to use them.
It’s not like we don’t need to build other low-level warships.
As the alliance's pie gets bigger, there are more places to spend money.
There is actually a solution - build three and sell one.
But Gu Hang never thought about this.
The Queen of Glory warship can be rebuilt. Once the news spreads, it will definitely cause a frenzy in the outside world. If the alliance is open to accepting orders, then there will be no worries about selling it.
But Gu Hang refused to sell it.
For a warship of this level, it is no longer a matter of money.
This is core competitiveness, and the alliance will definitely not sell it.
If the relationship with the central government of the empire was good, then it would be fine. If the end of the era really came, then the power of the official empire would be strengthened, which would not be a bad thing. But now, the relationship between the two sides is bad, so the alliance must consider that if they sell the glorious queen to the empire, the guns will be pointed at themselves.
In addition to the simple economic factors, there is a more serious problem.
When building the Queen of Glory, the two biggest resource difficulties are fine gold and void forged steel.
Generally speaking, refined gold is also hard to come by, and refined gold mines are rare. But the Alliance has solved this problem. The Alliance has the technology to synthesize refined gold, and the synthesized stuff is no different from the mined stuff.
But there is no way to deal with Void Forged Steel.
This requires melting the entire gas giant planet for extraction. The construction of the first three battleships has caused the gravity of 15 star systems to be unbalanced. If we continue, it will be more troublesome.
Of course, if we can go to areas not controlled by the Alliance, or even to those desolate star systems, we might be able to do it. However, it would take too much time to go to other star systems by normal navigation.
These are the two directions of economic constraints.
Apart from economic constraints, there is another point.
When the Queen of Glory-class battleship was being built, Gu Hang often felt that there were void echoes inside the hull that resonated with the frequency of his own psychic energy.
After studying the technical specifications in detail, Gu Hang and Wu Jiarong concluded that the formation of this battleship, in addition to "technology", was also due to the fact that the Emperor and Mars borrowed the power of certain subspace entities when designing it, which enabled them to create such a great work.
And the power of this subspace entity will show signs of reverse contamination of the real universe during the construction process.
Continuing construction could cause regional reality collapse.
The solution is that Gu Hang has to tear out a part of his essence from his subspace, that is, his Kingdom of Storms, to suppress this reverse pollution.
A similar situation is also reflected in the "holy object manufacturing technology".
Perhaps, to a certain extent, any single technological product, as long as it is powerful enough, may have similar problems.
(End of this chapter)
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