Chapter 795: Not an Isolated Island
Spiderweb Universe, Fox Moon Star Region, the capital planet Snow Fox Star.
The sky here has remained crimson for thirty-seven consecutive standard days. The scarlet scar runs across the sky like a festering scar, and the mist rising from its edge shrouds the capital in a dark red halo like an eternal night. Jason Morgan, the head of the star field, stands under the prism dome of the observatory, staring at the many flashing crisis marks on the holographic star map - those are planets that are falling into chaos.
Ever since the central alliance issued a warning requiring the entire alliance to be prepared for the disaster, he has synchronized the entire star region to carry out pre-disaster war preparations.
But the disaster came too unexpectedly.
In the textile center of Snow Fox Star, the binary control cores of all textile machines suddenly began to weave blasphemous scriptures. What came out of the assembly line was no longer nano-scale snow fox fur, but "Ode to the Father" blended with human hair and metal fibers.
The gravity regulator of one hive began to go out of control at a rate of 5% every ten minutes. If not properly handled, thirty million civilians would be crushed by their own weight in forty-eight hours.
In the civilian currency circulating on the planet - Alliance Coin, there are sometimes some banknotes with Gu Hang's portrait, the Emperor's portrait, or the Phoenix Regiment logo... They will transform into the appearance of a Slaanesh succubus when the scarlet scar is most noticeable at night.
Several lower-level hives that had lost contact with the local government of the Alliance had spontaneously started using human organs as a medium of exchange. A healthy kidney was worth a week's worth of food, and uncontaminated spinal fluid was in great demand. Black market traders even developed "pain futures", using the intensity of nerve pain as a currency credit endorsement.
After the Great Rift appeared, a ship arrived at the starport of Snow Fox Star and requested to enter. They answered the electronic signal for verification correctly, and their ship encryption number was also correct.
During the inspection after allowing the ship to enter, it was discovered that the engine room of the ship had grown coral reefs made of flesh and blood, the turrets had turned into weeping bronze faces, and the crew had degenerated into translucent gelatinous creatures due to the subspace radiation.
The crew members didn't even realize they had become like this, and were still wondering why the inspectors who came aboard would open fire on them. Those who were not shot directly went crazy the moment they were detained and told what they looked like now.
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These things are just the tip of the iceberg. The scarlet scar has many more effects. Various things like this continue to occur on the planet.
According to the star map, the scarlet scar is still far away from the Fox Moon Galaxy. It runs through the southwest side of the Devouring Stars Universe, splitting the entire Devouring Stars Universe into two parts. There are about five star regions on the side close to the alliance, and eight star regions on the other side. The area covered by the scarlet scar in the middle, where the subspace torrent passes directly, has nearly seven hundred worlds.
The Fox Moon Star Region is actually at least half a universe away from the Scarlet Scar, or even an entire universe away. The aftermath of the subspace has caused so many "strange things" to happen on the planet, so it is obvious what the situation is like in places that are particularly close to the Scarlet Scar.
As for the planets inside the scarlet scar, there is no need to even think about it, they are probably all doomed.
Despite these many special circumstances, the loss of communication signals, and the unreliability of star tunnel navigation, Jason Morgan was in a panic for a while.
However, he had been warned long ago and had made various plans, so he led the Snow Fox Star government from top to bottom to fight against and quell various problems.
The most important of these is the alliance government system, whose control capabilities across the entire planet are unmatched by those of ordinary imperial worlds.
It's not that every world under the Empire is bad. With such a huge base, there are always some that are doing well. But if we talk about the average level, the world under the rule of the Alliance is definitely second to none.
As for the various problems that appeared on the planet, although none of them seemed very scary, they were not difficult to deal with.
The looms that were possessed were restarted, and those that were still possessed were destroyed. All the articles of "Ode to the Father" were burned in the holy fire. Anyone who had read it, even if it was unintentional, would be imprisoned and recite the "Word of the Emperor" for a long time, and then go through multiple rounds of identification before being released.
At the same time, the psychic team, accompanied by priests and guards from the Ministry of Justice, will review the situation in the textile center area and work together to place the reality curtain reinforcement devices issued by the Mechanicus earlier in the proper manner.
Not to say it will completely eliminate the situation, but it will be much better.
The out-of-control gravity regulator of the hive was a bit difficult to deal with. It was not something that could be restarted at will. But in the end, under the conditions of accelerated out-of-control, 30 million people were evacuated in just a few days.
Such a large population and such a fast evacuation speed demonstrate the strong mobilization capabilities of the grassroots under the alliance system.
Not to mention the feudal world and the slave world, even in some worlds with modern organizational systems, it is not certain that the evacuation of 30 million people can be solved in a few days.
Search and destroy the evil currency, deal with and attack possible evil cult organizations, clean up the bottom of the nest city, check and reconstruct the ships of the star port system...
Actions like these are pushed forward quickly in a very short period of time.
The entire Snow Fox Star had already been resolved before it even reached the point of "chaos".
Jason Morgan felt much more relieved.
Although the problems caused by the scarlet scar were troublesome, they were much better than the worst case scenario he had imagined.
And if he has the spare energy, Jason Morgan, as the head of the Fox Moon star region, will certainly not be satisfied with just the success on the capital planet.
He began to arrange personnel, actively conduct interstellar communications, and collected and sorted out some reliable communication methods, as well as means of identifying information that may be contaminated.
The planet has a large number of mechanical priests from the Aramita sect, priests and nuns of the new state religion supported by the Alliance, psychic mages, and the anti-psychic forces of the Ministry of Justice...all of them are working together under the coordination of the Alliance government.
They tackled problem after problem, overcame difficulty after difficulty, and the results gradually became clear.
Within four months, 90% of the worlds in the Fox Moon Star Region had reconnected with the star region government.
Government agencies at the star domain and star district levels began to operate normally and perform their functions.
Although star-bound navigation is still fraught with difficulties and we dare not cross the star-boundary tunnels to exchange supplies and personnel at will, the fact that we can connect through optical communications is enough to make us feel more at ease.
At least, after knowing the situation in the outside world, each planet feels that they are not isolated islands.
(End of this chapter)
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