Chapter 944: Holy Terra Can't Wait Any Longer
"Such an important strategic direction decision is of course not my decision, but Mr. Gu's."
"Then let me talk to Gu Hang in person."
"certainly."
It was impossible for Xiong Lei to set any obstacles for Robert.
He had even anticipated that the communication equipment was ready, and Robert could connect the psychic communication with Gu Hang to his ship without much effort.
Robert didn't exchange any pleasantries, he just went straight to the point and put forward his opinion again.
He thought that it was time to have a proper talk with the Dark Eldar envoys about a truce.
Naturally, Gu Hang did not agree.
Just as Xiong Lei said, such a big matter would definitely not be decided by him on his own, it must be Gu Hang's opinion.
Robert was not in a hurry. He asked calmly, "Why? I want to know the reason."
He knew that Gu Hang had his own considerations, and he could even guess some of them. But he still trusted Gu Hang and would not think that Gu Hang's ideas were worthless and unworthy of mention like those of ordinary people. Therefore, he certainly needed to listen carefully to see if Gu Hang had any ideas that he had not thought of, or if they could convince him.
Gu Hang is also very direct.
"It's not easy to enter Comoros." Gu Hang's voice was full of emotion, "Dark Eldar, it's difficult to catch their traces, let alone have the chance to conquer Comoros."
Robert said: "It is not worth such a huge investment to eliminate an alien, especially one that does not pose such a big threat to humans and the empire."
"Yes, you are right. However, the most valuable thing here is not to destroy an ancient race. If it is just a dark Eldar, then they are indeed not worth our efforts. However, the greatest value here is not this race, or the elimination of an alien."
"Veil Spirit Gate technology? Haven't we already mastered this technology? We can just continue to occupy this port instead of launching a full-scale attack on the entire Comoros."
"It's not that simple." Gu Hang shook his head.
He discovered that Robert's knowledge of psychic powers and supernatural powers was very... not profound.
He patiently explained some of it.
Robert was the only one who deserved such an explanation.
Is the technology of the Curtain Spirit Gate itself important? Actually, it is not. It is essentially just a technology of "opening the door", and the most important thing is the value of the city of Comoros itself.
This city between the veils, which was left over from who knows how many tens of thousands of years ago, can almost be regarded as the last ray of light of the Eldar Empire that dominated the universe back then. Although the Eldar have survived for countless tens of thousands of years, even if they are given tens of thousands of years more, they will not be able to build a new Comoros again.
Its existence is unique in this universe.
With the help of Commorros, the human fleet can move freely and quickly like the Dark Eldar fleet. The efficiency of interstellar travel using large veil gates is far higher than the risky warp travel and astral tunnel travel.
The only problem is the size.
The number of curtain spirit doors that can be opened is limited, and the scale that can be opened is limited. One thousand five hundred warships use seven doors to operate, and it takes two months to complete the operation.
But this is because there are relatively few seven gates and none of them are large in scale.
The new, large curtain-shaped spiritual door that has just been completed is expected to be able to replace the previous seven doors.
However, new problems also emerged - the entire port was stretched to its limit due to continuous opening.
To open the Curtain Gate, the port needs to continuously output a huge amount of energy.
Energy is not a big deal, it is quite precious to the Dark Eldar. Comoros does not produce resources, and the space between the veils cannot be said to be barren, but completely empty. All materials, substances, and energy need to be obtained from the real universe and then transported in.
In order to maintain such a huge city, the Dark Eldar naturally have to plunder constantly.
However, for the alliance, this pressure is not that great. All they have to do is bring in resources and materials one by one via transport ships.
The Alliance has built many stellar energy plants in many star systems that have no colonial value. The most exaggerated one has almost surrounded the entire star, which is similar to the concept of a "Dyson sphere".
Of course, at this point, it can no longer be considered a stellar energy plant. Although, in essence, Dyson sphere technology is a combination of countless stellar energy plants, when the order of magnitude reaches the level that can cover an entire star, the number is too large. Even the simplest system, when the order of magnitude of splicing reaches this level, the technical difficulty will soar to a terrifying level.
That was a brand new technology, an epic technology that came out when Gu Hang made ten consecutive draws at the billion level.
Although the construction of a Dyson sphere makes other areas outside a galaxy completely worthless, the huge amount of energy output itself has greatly alleviated the energy pressure of the alliance.
Currently, several Dyson spheres are being built, and before they are completed, the individual power plants can already be considered operational.
In short, the Alliance has enough energy to maintain the operation of Comoros, not to mention the current situation, just to maintain the full operation of the Queen Rose Port.
However, although the energy is sufficient, there is a limit to the number of curtain gates that can be opened by this port itself, and this is a problem of the port's capacity.
The Dark Eldar have eleven medium-sized ports of similar specifications in Comoros, three large ports larger than the Queen Rose Port, and more than forty small ports.
"...So, only if we control all of these ports, or a large portion of them, can we be able to carry out strategic maneuvers."
Robert fell into deep thought.
He was also able to recognize the problem.
It was not enough to control only one Queen Rose Port. Even if the new Curtain Spirit Gate was built, which doubled the "throughput" of the entire port compared to when there were only seven gates before, it would only take a month to deploy a fleet of 1,500 warships.
Time is not a big deal, it is a relatively easy problem to solve. After all, if it is a normal voyage, it may take a month for a fleet to cross a star field - and this star field must be small, otherwise it will not be able to cross.
But the problem is that when using the Veil Gates for such transportation, only one ship can pass through each gate, unlike subspace navigation or astral tunnel navigation, where an entire fleet can arrive to complete the jump.
There is still a big difference between the two.
It would take a month for a fleet to complete the journey. If the enemy knew about it, they would mobilize a large force to block the gate and kill us, and then we would be doomed.
For the Dark Eldar, they have never worried about this problem. After all, their military operations are relatively small-scale, all pirates, guerrilla warfare, and petty theft. What 1,500 warships acting together, if they can get 15 ships out, it is already a big deal.
That's quick.
But it is completely unable to meet the most important human operation of large-scale mobile deployment of troops.
According to estimates, if one needs to deliver a legion within one day, then a throughput thirty times that of the Queen Rose Port would be required.
Doesn’t it mean that we have to occupy all the ports in Comoros?
Robert wondered for a moment, could he not be so greedy?
But on the other hand, the huge temptation made it difficult for him to give up.
Although, even if the entire Comoros was occupied, the Curtain Spirit Gate could not actually replace the current conventional navigation. What if the throughput was increased by 30 times? A human naval corps had to deliver it in one day, but the largest scale of human space navigation was not a military operation, but the voyages of transport ships, which were far more numerous than warships, between countless planets.
The Veil Spiritual Sect cannot do this. Not only is it a matter of magnitude, but the cost is also unbearable.
The giant belly transport ship can deliver a shipload of food or basic ore raw materials on the road slowly. The time requirement is relatively low, but it is more sensitive to the cost of transportation. But once the curtain door is opened, it will consume too much energy to deliver such a fully loaded transport ship to the destination, which is not cost-effective.
Sometimes, however, what matters is the rapid projection of military power.
Under the premise of the current construction of the Curtain Spirit Gate, dozens of ports on Comoros will work simultaneously, and a huge expeditionary force of 1,500 warships can be deployed to any location in the universe within one day. The strategic value will be unprecedented!
Three thousand ships can be sent over in two days, and fifteen thousand ships can be sent over in ten days!
No matter what major event happens anywhere, humans will be able to respond and handle it extremely quickly.
This expedition to Terra launched from the Infinite Star Field caused Robert a lot of suffering and left a deep impression.
But what if Comoros were in human hands?
The expedition ceremony has just been completed in the morning, and the army will be able to reach Holy Terra in the evening!
But soon, Robert came out of his fantasy.
He shook his head and said, "This is indeed a very tempting sight, but how many years will it take us to conquer Comoros?"
There was no need for him to explain the battle situation to Gu Hang, he believed that Gu Hang knew everything.
Now, the human army has only occupied less than one percent of the Comoros area, but it already feels stuck in a quagmire.
It's not that easy to occupy them all.
What's more, the Dark Eldar were forced to the point of life and death. Does this former universe overlord who has survived for who knows how many tens of thousands of years still have some powerful trump cards that he has not used? If he is forced into a corner, no one knows how much pressure will follow.
"What's more..." Robert raised a new question, "I agree that if we can capture Comoros, then no matter how much it costs and how long it takes, it will be worth it. However, if it takes too long, what will happen to Holy Terra? No one knows how long Holy Terra can hold on after experiencing a hundred years of darkness."
"Ah..." Gu Hang sighed, "I do know the general situation on Holy Terra now. I don't know the details, but overall, it's not ideal."
This is also another gain of the Alliance's Western Front Expeditionary Force after entering the Holy Land of the Empire.
In the past, when the Scarlet Scar was at its most ferocious, it was difficult for Gu Hang to cross this "natural phenomenon" that was equally terrifying in the subspace and explore the situation on the other side.
But as the alliance army has already conquered half of the universe on the other side, Gu Hang's connectivity with that side has become much better.
He could even communicate with the Alliance Embassy on Holy Terra.
Only, the results were not good.
After the catastrophe, there was also great turmoil on Holy Terra.
The living expenses of a trillion people are huge. Water, food, consumer goods... many of them need to be traded with the outside world. After the severance of contact, even if the Holy Terra authorities took more active actions to go out, the overall situation is still quite tense. Famine, water shortage, energy shortage, and consumer goods shortage are breaking out everywhere on the planet.
This crowded world with a trillion people, as the center of the center of the human empire, is a place that external evil gods always stare at and covet.
The cults and unrest that have sprouted on Holy Terra are quite frequent and numerous.
It was not just the influence of foreign enemies. As Holy Terra was cut off from the outside world, the rule of the entire empire was out of control, which led to a huge political disaster. On Holy Terra, the struggle between the political factions of various parties and some local factions in the central territory that had already established contact with the outside world was quite fierce.
This is the sad part: the more urgent the situation is, the closer we are to death, the more united humans will not necessarily become. There is also a high probability that they will fight each other madly under the pressure of extinction.
The Alliance Embassy was declared illegal decades ago. Many Alliance staff and their subordinates sent to Holy Terra were severely persecuted. Now, only a few people insist on hiding in various places, but a hundred years is too long, and it has been several generations, and few people still remember their fathers' responsibilities to the Alliance.
Even if you remember, you may not care.
Gu Hang now only knew that, with Holy Terra as the center, there were rebels everywhere in the surrounding universe; there were also rebel actions inside Holy Terra. The cult members were corrupting faster and faster, and even in the bottom of Holy Terra's nest, there were real subspace demons active.
This is a huge barrel of explosives that can be blown to pieces at any time due to a fuse event.
There is indeed an urgent need for a person like Robert to take charge there.
"Holy Terra may not be able to wait until we conquer Comoros."
When he said this, Robert felt a little anxious and sad.
(End of this chapter)
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