Chapter 764, Advanced Star Castle and Demon-Breaking Armor
Who is the biggest contributor to the development of the alliance?
Of course it’s Gu Hang’s wise leadership!
Ahem...but other than that?
That's the gift point.
There is no doubt about it.
Not to mention the history of Gu Hang's fortune, just talking about the productivity improvement of the alliance, which has a lot to do with the gift points.
Technology and black boxes are the first driving force for the development of productivity.
Going further, no matter what kind of material foundation or environmental conditions there are, it will ultimately fall on people. All wealth and victory are earned by people.
Gift points are also key factors in cultivating talents and ensuring their loyalty.
The development direction of the alliance has been basically established in the previous two meetings.
Next is the issue of execution.
This is the most important thing.
Who doesn’t know how to set goals?
Making plans is a little harder.
But the execution steps are the most challenging.
What Gu Hang has to do is use the gift points to help with execution issues.
After the Battle of Rheaducches, Gu Hang received a large amount of gift points.
But at the time, he was done with it.
But it doesn't matter. As the alliance's control over the fourteen star regions becomes legal, the system recognizes that all regions have been transformed from vassals, military occupations, etc., into core territories of the regime.
Moreover, as the Alliance has continued to build a stable governance system for all these worlds in the past two or three years, many planets have begun to change, from the past situation where they did not provide, or even reduced, monthly gift point income. , transformed into a normal provision of gift points.
Although relying solely on scale expansion, the increase in monthly gift points is non-linear and more like a milestone, an income curve unlocked one by one. However, the extent of the expansion of this wave of control areas and the increase in population are too much. .
Even though the alliance's rule over many places was still relatively fragile and had only been established for a year or two; even though productivity in many places was far from returning to normal levels due to war disasters, Gu Hang's monthly gift income still increased dramatically.
When the Battle of Rheaducches had just ended, Gu Hang's monthly income was only around 500,000 yuan. Now, it has grown to 1.7 million.
From that time to now, a total of three years and seven months, the accumulated income has exceeded 53 million.
That's not all.
In these forty-three months, there have been no large-scale wars, but small-scale, planet-level battles have never stopped in the fourteen star regions of the alliance.
The most important thing is to eradicate those infected with parasites, followed by the suppression of some rebels - there are always some people who don't know what to do and will incite some fools to become bandits, believe in cults, or simply Even if it is unrealistic, I still believe it.
There are seven thousand planets and twelve trillion people. It is normal for anything to happen.
In addition to some rare wars to eradicate green skins, since the discovery of dark elf pirates, the interior of the spider web domain has occasionally been subject to constant infestation by such nasty space mosquitoes.
The Dark Eldar have also become the current focus of the Navy's confrontation.
Some of these wars were lost, but most were eventually won.
In total, there are more than 18 million.
All added up, that’s seventy-one million.
Last time, Gu Hang also deliberately set aside 20 million gift points for emergencies.
This gave him a total of ninety-one million gift points accumulated on hand.
At the end of the previous Battle of Rheaducus, he had hundreds of millions of gifts. At that time, he still lamented that if it were not for the war, how easy would it be to save hundreds of millions of gift points?
But now, he discovered that farming is the way to go!
The current level is far from the limit. As the subsequent development of the alliance becomes smoother and smoother, and the degree of control of each planet continues to deepen, the number of 1.7 million per month will definitely continue to soar.
Maybe in two or three years, he will be able to save another 100 million gift points.
At that time, we can have another ten million-level technology lottery, and maybe we can draw out some apocalyptic-level technology that can change the fate of the gods?
Even if there is no such top-notch goods, ordinary technology actually has value.
Even if it is a technology that is not as good as the technology currently used by the alliance, for example, Gu Hang first used the G8 series of live ammunition rifles, and later used the G5... but it does not mean that this thing is useless.
First, we can build a G5 production line and give it to some planets with backward production capacity. Although the Alliance Army will definitely not purchase the mass-produced G5 guns, when productivity is insufficient, the Planetary Defense Forces of some planets can reluctantly use them first. Anyway, it is better than nothing, and it is better than using earth. Good gun.
If it really doesn't work, it can still be used as imperial tax. It's cheaper than the G8 gun family, but no matter how few mosquitoes there are, it's still meat.
Under the premise of imperial tax, there is this advantage in engaging in production and economic construction: you basically don’t have to worry about the market of things. Although the pricing of the imperial tax is not high and there is no profit at all, it is stable. As long as the cost can be controlled and the manufacturing cost is not higher than the official price, then you can expand production capacity unscrupulously and make a little profit.
This is also a way out for many backward products.
Of course, it is best to build high-precision products. That kind, the profit given by the official pricing is relatively high. When it comes to making bullets and energy boxes for laser guns, the official pricing is still too low. Supply chain, production management, production efficiency... If you fail to do one thing well, you may lose money.
To put it another step back, the extracted technology is really useless at all, and is even a duplicate. The alliance does not want to continue to expand the production capacity of this technology, so it can just sell the extracted black box.
The Mechanicus is extremely concerned about the black box. And with Gu Hang's current status and the strength of the alliance, he is not afraid of the black box leaking out - just don't let it all leak out at once.
It is possible to sell a black box for billions to hundreds of billions. The exact amount of money depends on what kind of technical black box it is. A technology that can defeat the G5 rifle may cost only a few billion.
But there are quite a few, and they can all be exchanged for a destroyer or even a cruiser.
Uh... Looking at it this way, the income is still not enough. At least compared to now, Gu Hang's prize pool in the low-level lottery has almost been exhausted. Basically, 10 million gift points are drawn once. If he draws low-level technology with a shameful face, it is still too Feeling bad.
After thinking about it for a while, Gu Hang planned to keep 10 million of the 90 million gift points as a backup emergency to avoid having none at hand when something happens that requires a lot of gift points.
Of the other 80 million, 40 million were used for a technology lottery. If you can extract a piece of apocalypse-level technology, you will make a lot of money.
Unfortunately, no.
But at least there are two epic technologies.
And it’s all worth mentioning.
[Advanced Star Castle Construction Technology], [Modular Demon-Breaking Armor Technology].
Fortunately for the former, the Alliance itself has the ability to build star castles.
The difficulty and cost of manufacturing this thing are not as high as building a ship. Even if the relevant technology is not extracted, it is enough to use the current industrial base of the alliance to build a batch of star forts and armed space stations, and then transport them to the locations that need to be defended by corresponding engineering ships.
However, if you design and manufacture it yourself, to be honest, there is still no system that can provide a mature design solution that is so easy to use even with a black box.
Not to mention it’s epic technology with the word ‘advanced’ attached to it.
After some research, Gu Hang discovered that the combat effectiveness of this advanced star fort had surpassed that of the Retribution-class battleship. If they were bombarded in space, both Retribution-class ships would be destroyed by it.
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But this is not unusual.
Since the Star Castle doesn't need to be moved, it only needs to be scaled up. The armor can be made very thick, and all the energy output of the engine can be provided to laser weapons or void shields. Compared with space ships that have to choose between power and flexibility, they have huge natural advantages.
Even if the technical level is a little lower, just increase the scale at any cost.
But the great thing about this advanced technology is that it improves the firepower density and defense strength of the Star Castle to another level by optimizing energy output design and optimizing layout design without increasing costs.
The more critical point is that this advanced star fort is also equipped with a special gravity engine. It can make the heavy star castle move.
Even if the speed and flexibility of movement are inferior to even the Retribution-class battleship, and its movements essentially rely on the gravity provided by large celestial bodies, it does not really have an independent power system, which makes Its movement can only be maintained around the planet.
But it's still groundbreaking.
This special ability makes up for one of Star Castle's biggest difficulties in planetary defense - the small coverage area.
The star castle is immobile after all, or at most it is like a satellite, orbiting the planet in a fixed orbit.
Even according to the latter situation, it still has a fixed periodicity. People often catch the cyclical movement of the star fort and circle to the other side of the planet to launch attacks.
With this advanced star fort, this problem is remedied.
Of course, it is not impossible to not have this new type of star castle. Just build multiple star castles to surround them together, and then you can cover them all. But in this way, not only the cost and manufacturing cycle will increase, but also due to comprehensive protection, there must be some star forts on one side of the planet and some on the other side. When the enemy attacks one side, the other The star castle on one side also needs to be blinded.
Furthermore, the new star castle can use the gravity of planets. Of course, the gravity of larger stars can also be borrowed, and it is even better. This means that if the environment of a certain galaxy allows and the orbit of the main planet to be defended is not that far from the star, then the new star castle that uses the orbit of the star can even switch between the entire orbit and the planet's orbit, and even To protect other planets in the same galaxy. This will increase the flexibility of defense for star systems with multiple habitable planets.
At the same time, Gu Hang immediately thought that this new type of star fort was not a purely defensive weapon.
As the war progresses, engineering ships can tow this new type of star fort together, and then exert this very good effect in places with suitable conditions.
For example, the local planet's orbital defense system is very tight, and a strong attack will cause heavy losses. Moreover, the gravity of the star can be used in the planet's orbit. When it switches to the planet's orbit, this thing becomes a very useful weapon for attacking the planet's defense system. ——Tougher than a battleship, and much cheaper than a battleship.
Of course, overall, its usage scenarios are still narrow and cannot replace the role of battleships.
But in the end, it’s not a bad thing to solve a problem and expand its uses.
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[Modular Demon-Breaking Armor] is not a technology used alone. In fact, it can be applied to any equipment that uses armor. Any module as small as power armor can be equipped with magic-breaking attributes, and as large as Terminator armor, knight mecha, or Titan; from armored vehicles to tanks; and even to starships, it can be installed on it.
The effect is that the armor blocks equipped with this technology can have anti-psionic, anti-subspace energy, and anti-demon effects. The relevant power will be greatly weakened or even completely ineffective.
This is a very useful technique when fighting against some aliens who are good at using psychic powers and against cultists.
However, due to its high cost, it is basically impossible to put it on weapons of the level of armored vehicles and tanks. In that case, the cost of the magic-breaking armor is more expensive than the tank itself. With that money, it is better to build a few more tanks and pile them up in quantity.
It's unlikely to be really used on a starship. The value of the starship is high, but it is too big to be practical.
The most appropriate method is to use it on power armor, allowing Space Marines, or the Alliance's elite Glory Guards, to be responsible for beheading enemy psychic units on the battlefield.
Gu Hang is still quite concerned about this technology.
To say the least, this is another piece of equipment specifically designed to fight against demons and cultists.
Furthermore, in the prophetic picture he saw in the sky above the Kingdom of Storms, cult traitors and subspace demons appeared one after another, which made him worried. He suspected that the so-called final battle would be these chaotic enemies.
If the Demon-Breaking Armor is equipped on a large scale, it should give the Alliance a certain advantage when fighting such enemies.
Even if there are no signs yet, Gu Hang plans to start large-scale production of magic-breaking armor. It is not necessary to equip the entire army immediately, but it is not a bad thing to at least make a large amount of reserves to prepare for a rainy day.
After drawing these four tens of millions of technologies, there were still 15 million of the 40 million gift points left, which Gu Hang spent on talent enlightenment and political commissar training.
The other 25 million are used to exchange for various levels of factory buildings, college buildings, and church buildings.
It seems like a lot, but when divided into more than 7,000 worlds, it's really not much.
But at least, with the support of these talents and these factory buildings, the alliance's economic production goals will be better achieved.
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One more chapter to make up for yesterday before dawn.
(End of chapter)