Chapter 797, Linking Our World
The first step in everything is always the most difficult.
Jason Morgan led the ships of the Fox Moon Star Region, and in subsequent tests, they basically mastered a relatively safe way to pass through the star tunnel.
A church filled with statues of the Emperor, engraved with holy words, equipped with a choir of the state religion, and a blessed astral field generator - this is the most basic configuration.
Equipped with enough blessed holy water, equipped with a "cleaning team" on board, to fight against traces of corruption at all times and eliminate evil spirits that invade the ship, this is what needs to be done on the basis of the former. Only after the choir, church, and blessed star realm are all in place, can the evil spirit phenomenon and even the invading evil spirits be weakened to a level that can be resisted, so that the guards on the ship, with their mortal bodies, can use holy water to eliminate the enemy.
It was after exploring this set of solutions that Jason Morgan finally understood why all ships had to have churches built on board during their design and construction.
To be precise, it was not that he didn't know about this before. At his level, it was definitely enough for him to listen to someone explain these design intentions.
It is said that the church is for praying to the God-Emperor during interstellar voyages, asking for protection for the safety of the ship. However, traveling faster than light speed through the astral tunnel is already a relatively mature solution.
It is true that some weird things happen occasionally, but overall, safety can be guaranteed.
At that time, although I knew what the church was used for, I didn't understand it thoroughly enough without the actual beating. Compared with protecting safety, giving the crew a place to rest their spirits during the long voyage may be a more important factor.
I always feel that although the starship is large, every inch of space is very precious. It is unnecessary to reserve a large area for a church and make it so "exaggerated" in decoration. Sometimes I want to tear it down.
In the actual operation of the ship, when there are a lot of cargo and people, some people do say that the cargo is piled up inside the church. Usually, there are no consequences.
Because of this, it is even harder to feel the true purpose of the church.
Thanks to these designs, they were not abandoned in subsequent ship construction because they were no longer useful at the time. Instead, they were all based on past traditions. In addition, there was really no ability to change the ancient design drawings, so they were basically retained.
Now, they are all coming into play.
Those bronze organs engraved with the Word of the Emperor are not simply spiritual sustenance - each pipe is a resonator of the reality anchor, and the pitch changes of the choir's arias are actually precise equations that use sound wave frequencies to offset the increase in subspace entropy.
Beneath the base of the statue, there are buried hero statues of varying numbers and sizes. They are all heroic images from imperial legends, and they play a common role together with the emperor's statue.
In the tradition of ships, many crew members who have served on board for a long time or made outstanding contributions will be buried in the church. Each of these former crew members' ashes is like a miniature anti-subspace generator, resisting the erosion of the subspace.
The stained glass inlaid in the dome is more than just decoration. When the astral tide surges, the scenes depicting the Emperor's conquests will ooze liquid light, burning the whispers that penetrate into reality into scorch marks.
It is this brutal wisdom of transforming faith into physical barriers that allows steel and flesh to navigate the void.
But maintaining this system comes at a price - every time a choir member completes an intergalactic voyage, coral-like crystals will grow on their vocal cords, requiring long-term recuperation or even surgery; every time the church floor tiles withstand a subspace impact, the resonance frequency needs to be recalibrated and cleaned with blessed holy water; the blessed astral protection field also needs the constant addition of holy oil for maintenance.
The bigger the ship, the more churches it needs, the more clergy it needs, and the more blessed astral protective force fields it needs...
These are all additional costs and take extra time to resolve.
Currently, the largest ship that Jason Morgan can sail is a cruiser-sized ship.
Don't even think about escaping from a giant thing like the giant belly. You can only use some medium-sized transport ships to deliver supplies and personnel.
But it's enough.
The most important thing to solve is the six severely affected worlds.
The much-needed rescue supplies and the much-needed bomb-suppression troops arrived at the target planet and solved the urgent problem.
So far, all disasters caused by the appearance of scarlet scars in the entire Fox Moon Star Region have been effectively controlled.
The entire star region has restored relatively normal social order.
This is what makes Jason Morgan most happy.
Of course, there is always a gap compared to before the disaster.
What bothers him most is that the economic curve of the entire star region has always been crawling below the recovery line.
The singers that each cargo ship needs to be equipped with, the astral field generators that need to be blessed, the consumption of holy oil and holy water... these costs are quite high, but they are still just a small part.
The biggest problem is that no matter what means are used, astral navigation is ultimately severely affected.
This directly led to a severe setback in the economic development of the entire star region.
Transportation is the blood vessel of industry. Now, at best, it can be regarded as barely getting the blood flowing, but it is still a long way from being "smooth".
This is a problem that Jason Morgan has absolutely no way of solving.
He could only smile bitterly to comfort himself:
"I have done everything I can. The rest depends on whether the Governor has a way to save my life..."
The governor he was thinking about was naturally Gu Hang.
Old alliance members like him always have a strong, even blind trust in Gu Hang.
And in most cases, Gu Hang will not let them down.
The savior who could solve the final problem of Fox Moon Star Region had arrived.
Thirty-five transport ships, escorted by an equal number of warships, pierced the scarlet sky.
They leaped out of the astral tunnel, and the engines gushing from the tail of the starship brought out azure tail flames, burning away the chasing red and purple subspace tentacles.
When this fleet officially entered the border of the Fox Moon Star Region, although he had already received the news, Jason Morgan still found it difficult to restrain the joy in his heart.
He knew what these ships were here for—to install Thunder Torches.
A few months ago, when he was still working hard to solve the problems in his star region, he was contacted by a call from the Alliance Center.
Under the great power of General Gu and with the support of the Storm Mage Corps and the Order of Psionic Power, the communication between the Alliance Center and its subordinate regions can still be maintained unobstructed.
Jason Morgan learned about the existence of the miracle of the Thunder Torch Tower through his contact with the Alliance Center.
This is a device that the alliance leader Gu Hang personally developed in cooperation with the alliance research institute. Installing it on a planet can affect all star tunnels connected to the star system. As long as there is a Thunder Torch Tower at the other end of the star tunnel, the star tunnels between the two will be connected by thunder.
The alliance's public opinion field jokingly called it "electricity".
After the star tunnel is "powered on", when the Alliance ships pass through it, lightning and thunder can often be seen from the observation window, and no evil spirits exist.
Not quite back to the safest moment we’ve ever had, but not far off.
Those protective rituals that once needed to be maintained throughout the entire process now only need to be activated at two nodes, at the beginning and end of the jump, to ensure safety.
The risk is greatly reduced during the process.
When the disaster just happened and before it affected the alliance's territory, Gu Hang had already seen the massive subspace explosion with his own eyes.
From the explosion to the scarlet scar tearing the entire empire and spreading to the alliance, it took only one or two months. During this period, Gu Hang took many measures.
Not only did he warn the central government of the empire and require the entire alliance to prepare for the disaster, but he also did a lot of things himself.
The most important of these are communication and navigation.
Both problems can basically be solved by the Thunder Torch Tower.
This move was learned from the great achievements of the Divine Emperor when he first established the empire.
In the past, the Empire had only one way to travel faster than light, through the Warp. After the Emperor ascended, the Astral Tunnel was built, a much safer and more reliable way than subspace travel, which quickly replaced the high-risk and unstable Warp travel.
Gu Hang studied and thought about what the star tunnel was all about.
This thing has an unknown origin and its history is very ancient. Even the means of astral travel used by the Eldar and the astral gates used by the Dark Eldar's Veiled City are actually closely related to the astral tunnels.
However, after so many years, it has many problems.
How the Eldar solved it was unknown. But at that time, the Emperor had a confidential, huge project. To this day, this project has not been declassified, but Gu Hang knows that the huge project, which lasted for hundreds or even thousands of years, is related to the Astral Tunnel.
The final, most critical and grand symbol of completion of this project is the ascension of the Emperor.
After his ascension, he had a place in the Warp, and he became the fifth of the Four Evil Gods. From then on, there was a huge cold sun in the Warp, and combined with the project that the Emperor had led to strengthen and build the astral tunnels, all the astral tunnels were supported, so that humans could use these ancient wonders that they could not use otherwise.
Now this violent subspace explosion has made these ancient miracles unstable.
This is the crux of the disaster.
Under this kind of environment and background, it is almost impossible for Gu Hang to rebuild a safe method of faster-than-light travel.
There are not many options left: using the Emperor's existing mature mechanisms, the problem can be transformed from 'reconstructing new superluminal travel' to 're-stabilizing the astral tunnel', which is much easier.
Gu Hang, who admitted that he was not talented, was not one of the 'Four Evil Gods', but even if measured by the entire subspace, he was only second to this level, or slightly lower.
More importantly, unlike those 'native' beings in the subspace, he himself is in the real universe. He is the leader of the entire real universe force and an anchor point in reality, which makes him more advantageous than any pure subspace existence.
The connection between his Kingdom of Storm God and reality is inherently deeper.
Combining these things, Gu Hang really cooperated well with the Alliance Research Institute in the past few months and devoted himself to creating the "Thunder Torch Tower".
In essence, this building that can connect to the Kingdom of Storm God is placed on both planets, and the two will echo each other to find the astral tunnel, and with the power of the Kingdom of Storm God, it will be opened up to form a shelter.
After that, things went more smoothly.
With the Angry Owl Star and Pegasus Star Region as the core, all available industrial capabilities will be used to build these 'Thunder Torch Towers'.
The first batch of Thunder Torch Towers consisted of dozens of "electric" fleets, which set out from the Angry Owl Star with Thunder Torch Towers under the escort of warships and deployed them one by one.
The construction of the Thunder Torch Tower is not easy, but the Alliance's production capacity is superior.
As world after world reconnected with the central alliance, interstellar travel became stable, related technologies were able to spread across the board, and the speed of production increased rapidly, just like riding a rocket.
The Alliance's "electrified" fleet can naturally take a whole batch of Thunder Torch Towers at once, choose a sailing route, and reconnect the worlds.
Although some worlds will inevitably suffer a great impact during this process, Jason Morgan's achievements in the Fox Moon Star Region are not an isolated case. Although he is considered to be one of the better ones, the others who are not as good are not so bad as to be outrageous.
All the losses are acceptable after statistical analysis.
It is even slightly better than the league's initial most optimistic forecast.
Under such circumstances, Gu Hang was not stingy with rewards.
He spoke to almost every leader of every world, head of every star zone, and head of every star region that was doing things well.
It's not just verbal commendation, but also medals and promotions to higher ranks.
Meritorious officials should be rewarded.
The worlds with worse conditions were mostly located in the northern part of the Spider Web Universe. After all, that was the farthest area from the Dragon Eagle Star Region.
In fact, the alliance's rescue operation is not limited to its own core territory.
The Eastern Universe is also within the alliance’s rescue range.
In the seventh month after the catastrophe, the entire alliance was reconnected, and 60% of the Eastern Universe was also reconnected.
By the thirteenth month, the entire territory of the Eastern Universe was also connected.
And the actions of the alliance, even at this stage, have extended beyond the two traditional spheres of influence, the Eastern Universe and the Spider Web Universe.
(End of this chapter)
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