Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 341

341. Chapter 340, The Golden Knight and the Titan

. Although the thousand-yuan level has not been drained, there are almost no good things left. The probability of producing only the basic level is too uneconomical.

This time, Gu Hang threw all 50,000 points of grace into the ten thousand-yuan level.

At present, the probability of shipping in the ten thousand-yuan level is still 100%, of which the probability of epic level is 30%, elite level is 60%, and advanced level is 10%. Taken together, the cost-effectiveness is much higher than drawing ten times in the thousand-yuan level.

And Gu Hang’s five consecutive draws produced one epic-level technology, three elite-level technologies, and one advanced-level technology.

It is normal to have neither good nor bad luck.

After the draw, the probability of the ten thousand-yuan level has become 20%/40%/40%, which are epic/elite/advanced respectively.

There is still a lot of room for exploration!

At the moment, the five technologies that have just been drawn are: [Ranger Knight Armor (Advanced)], [Feedback Power Armor (Elite)], [War Dog Titan (Elite)], [Adamantium Material (Epic)]. Among

them, the warp engine technology completes the last piece of the puzzle for Gu Hang to build a starship. The

three necessary pre-techniques for building a starship, warp recognition allows the starship to capture the signal of the astral tunnel, warp engine can provide power and enter the warp mode for astral travel, and the astral force field can protect the spacecraft from subspace in the process of traveling through the astral tunnel.

Gu Hang had already drawn the astral force field and warp recognition system before. Now he has the warp engine, which is enough.

Its most direct significance means that the starport of the Angry Owl Star, which can only do small boat maintenance and simple assembly work, finally has a place to use its skills and can officially build the [Traveler] spacecraft.

It is only at this level that it can be considered a proper shipyard.

Although it can only build this kind of small boat, it is also a good start.

Don’t look down on the Traveler, it is also 1.8 million tax coins per ship. If you really build 100 ships and form a wolf pack fleet, it is not useless.

Of course, the biggest use is to take interstellar passenger transport, and it can’t be too far, otherwise supply will be a problem.

If you only need so many pre-technologies to build ships like the [Traveler], it is definitely not worth it. But these three pre-technologies are essential for all ocean-going ships. In the future, you will have to build large-scale merchant ships, transport ships, and warships, and all three of them are indispensable.

This is a necessary technology for entering the starry ocean, so it is also beneficial to have it early.

After all, skilled shipbuilding workers also need practice to cultivate, and it is not enough to have a technical blueprint alone.

It is good to build the Traveler first.

And the [Feedback Power Armor] technology is also very interesting. This is a technology that is designed to compete with Space Marine power armor. It is called the “Attendant”.

Compared with the Space Marine power armor, the Attendant has almost all shortcomings.

The armor thickness is not as good, the flexibility is not as good, the output power is not as good, the energy consumption is higher, and the logistics maintenance is more troublesome.

Another key point is that it is expensive. The “Great” type that the Alliance currently has is twice as expensive as the most common “Skyhawk” type, and the cost of the “Attendant” type feedback power armor is even more expensive than the Great Type, reaching 130,000 per unit. It is

more expensive and has much worse performance, but it has only one advantage: ordinary people can also use it.

This so-called ordinary is not so ordinary, and it still requires more rigorous training to be feasible.

Of course, compared to training a Space Marine, it is still much cheaper to train someone who can use feedback power armor.

After getting this technology, Gu Hang was also thinking about how to use it?

It must be used as a cutting-edge combat force, otherwise the cost cannot be borne; Space Marines are not needed, but they can be equipped to the special warfare elites of the 10th Brigade. A few soldiers who have been trained to the T2 level can be equipped with these feedback power armors, and their combat effectiveness will soar.

But… Gu Hang suddenly thought of another point.

If they are equipped with feedback power armors, can they play a similar role to Space Marines?

I’m afraid not.

Space Marines are strong in people, not in the outer layer of armor.

If the combat effectiveness is directly compared, the current special warfare elites, wearing an exoskeleton, carrying chainswords and bolt guns, will still be beaten by the Phoenix; if they are equipped with feedback power armors, they may not be beaten by the Phoenix, but they will still be beaten violently, and ten people may not be able to win against one.

After all, let alone the performance gap provided by power armor, even if there is no gap, the gap between ordinary people and Space Marines who have grown more than a dozen superhuman organs is still too big. Their reaction speed, instant information processing ability, and shooting accuracy are not on the same level.

Even in the shooting event where both sides have the closest ability, the gap is huge. Space Marines can really judge the shooting point at the moment when the opponent pulls the trigger, dodge in advance, or block with thick armor. These are things that ordinary people cannot do. In more cases, Space Marines will not give the opponent a chance to shoot.

The gap between the two sides is still huge.

The only point is that T2 soldiers are much easier to train than Space Marines.

However, this is true in the empire, but not in Gu Hang.

To train a Space Marine here, Gu Hang is nothing more than selecting another layer, and the two hundred points of grace are used to train to the T1 level and exchange for a gene seed.

Of course, due to Gu Hang’s selection process in training Space Marines, there will be about a hundred times the number of eliminated people, including a not small number of T2 soldiers, which are inevitable by-products.

Using feedback power armor to equip these “eliminated people” and turn them into poor-version Space Marines is mainly used to supplement the elite cutting-edge forces. This is of course a way to use feedback power armor.

It’s just… not cost-effective.

Another way to use it is to distribute it to frontline officers on the battlefield to enhance their survivability.

A brigade commander or battalion commander commanding on the front line is actually very vulnerable.

But this enhancement effect… is relatively average.

In short, although the feedback power armor technology is indeed an elite technology, it is still relatively useless for the current alliance. It has a place to play a role, but it is not critical.

Gu Hang should not promote the large-scale production of this technology and occupy a lot of the alliance’s productivity.

However, the extracted technology can pull out two units from the black box every month.

The free ones must be taken.

Then, Gu Hang turned his attention to two other technologies, the [Ranger-class Knight Mech] and the [War Dog-class Titan].

The former is an old acquaintance. The Alliance now has six of them. After the Black Arrow Planet surrendered, there were only six left on the entire planet, except for those that were destroyed in a few wars. Although theoretically the ownership is still in the hands of the surrendered nobles, they have nothing to say if the Alliance wants to recruit them.

People always call the Knight Mech “Knight Titan”, but in fact it is not correct. The proper name is “Mech”. The Ranger class is eight meters high. It can be equipped with various components through different technical configurations to form some derivative types. For example, the lance type that emphasizes heavy firepower, the watch type that emphasizes mobility, etc.

But in the end, they are all under the category of the Ranger class.

As for the Warhound Titan, it is a real Titan – although it is the smallest Titan.

The biggest difference between the Titan and the Knight Mech is that the latter has a special cockpit, which people brag about calling it the “mechanical throne”, where the Knight drives the mech to fight; while the Titan does not have a special cockpit and cannot be operated by one person. The fifteen-meter-high Warhound-class is like a five-story building, with more than ten people inside, working together to operate this machine.

Compared with the Ranger Knight Mech, which is an advanced technology, the Warhound Titan is doubled in size, reaching a height of fifteen meters.

With these two technologies, the strength of the Alliance’s army will be taken to a new level.

No matter how powerful the Lion tank is, it can only be positioned as a consumable. At four thousand yuan per unit, it is equivalent to a large armored cannon fodder on a high-intensity battlefield.

But the Knight Mech and the Warhound Titan can be regarded as the main force of elite troops in any case.

On the Black Arrow Star, a group of feudal armies with poor equipment, equipped with some Sentinel Mechs, could not bring out the power of the fierce Knight Mechs at all. But even so, in that decisive battle, the Alliance had to pay an average of more than 40 tanks, hundreds of armored vehicles, five Wind Falcons, a Space Marine, and several infantry as the price to take down a Ranger Knight.

If the Knight Titans were placed here with the Alliance, there would be more elite armored troops in front, elite infantry forming a defensive position next to them, and sharp artillery coordinating to exert firepower advantages. The power that the Knights and Titans could exert would be greatly enhanced.

It would be difficult for the Space Marines to get close to them. The Phoenix broke through the Kingdom Army’s defensive position with one poke, but the Alliance’s military formation was not so easy to penetrate. A slight delay would allow the firepower of the Knights and Titans to be enough to destroy the Space Marines.

Moreover, these two things, especially the Knight Mech, can not only provide great help at the military level, but also have great political significance after the Alliance can produce them by itself, which is very conducive to the Alliance’s rule over Black Arrow Star.

Black Arrow Star is a place with a strong tradition of knights.

Now, the Alliance has the ability to produce sentinel mechs (it was drawn earlier), and the ability to produce knight mechs by itself, isn’t this a miracle?

Gu Hang thought of many ways to deal with it in an instant.

The establishment of the Knight Academy is, on the one hand, a military school, on the other hand, to train knight pilots, and on the other hand, to strengthen the orthodox status of the Alliance.

In the future, if you want to be a knight, you don’t have to waste the family’s savings for many years. As long as you come to the Knight Academy and enlist in the army, you can become a glorious knight and drive a sentinel mech; the best people can drive a Ranger Knight; open up special subjects, and those who can’t be single Ranger Knight drivers will also have the opportunity to become a larger and more powerful real Titan driving group, a group of more than a dozen people using War Dog Titans.

This way, there are many benefits.

These noble families on the Black Arrow Star still have their merits. Their ancestors were born as knights and were proud of being knights. The new things that the Alliance has come up with now are in line with their traditions and are conducive to strengthening their rule. Because of these traditions, they have been trained how to drive knights since childhood, and they themselves are the most suitable source of drivers.

On this basis, Gu Hang even plans to establish a new organizational structure and place it under the Alliance Army.

He has already thought of the name, which is called the “Alliance National Knights”.

Originally, it was planned to be called the “Black Arrow Knights”, but after thinking about it, it was rejected. The regional characteristics are too strong, which does not match the overall concept of establishing alliance identity that Gu Hang had set before.

This Alliance National Knights is not really a complete military organization. Its main purpose is to provide identity authentication and strengthen the sense of honor – the knights on the Black Arrow Star are like this.

On the other hand, it is the professional management of the two expensive top-level equipment, the Knight Mech and the Titan, from the selection of drivers, equipment maintenance, special logistics supplies and other aspects.

At the same time, the establishment of the Knights also makes it easier for the Alliance to flexibly and centrally deploy these top weapons into the war.

After all, these top equipment are not suitable for direct configuration into specific army organizations, otherwise it will be troublesome to call them up.

Of course, there is an important subject in the training of the Knight Mechs and Titan drivers, which is how to cooperate with conventional troops in combat. This part of the content is somewhat lacking in the original training system of Black Arrow Star, and it cannot keep up with the current conventional force model of the Alliance. The National Knights must work hard to explore this aspect.

Scratching his head, Gu Hang even planned to build the first set of Ranger Knight production lines of the Alliance on Black Arrow Star?

This news will immediately boost people’s enthusiasm, right?

According to the production capacity of the black box, if the finished product is directly pulled, the Ranger Knight will be about one every two months; the War Dog Titan will be one every five months.

As for the production line, it is estimated that after half a year, each will be able to initially produce one.

After Gu Hang had a communication with Wu Jiarong and talked about related matters, he estimated that if the alliance put these two things into production normally in the future and put them on Black Arrow Star, with Panbos Industrial Center as the main production base of Ranger Knights and Luman Industrial Center as the main production base of War Dog Titans, it is estimated that after two years of construction and laying multiple production lines, it will be possible to produce about six Ranger Knights and one War Dog Titan per year. After

so many years of accumulation on Black Arrow Star, there were only about 30 Knight Titans on the entire planet before the war. After the arrival of the alliance, this kind of thing that could only be imported through foreign trade and exhausted the financial resources of a country to support can be produced by itself. In five years, it can reach the accumulation of countless years in the past. This will strongly prove that the arrival of the alliance is absolutely positive for Black Arrow Star!

Gu Hang is already quite satisfied with this number.

Then, he turned his attention to the last thing, which is also the only epic technology.

Fine gold material.

When he saw this thing, Gu Hang was still a little surprised.

Among the materials used on a large scale in the Empire, the fine gold can almost be regarded as the highest grade. I won’t talk about the higher and rarer materials, and here I will only mention the ones that can be used on a large scale.

Fine gold is mainly used to build real Titans, not the Knight Mechs that are falsely called Titans; fine gold is also indispensable in some key parts of starships; it is also used when building Terminator armor.

In short, with the advancement of technology, the production of those high-intensity technical products will inevitably bring higher requirements for basic materials.

The large-scale use of fine gold is born for this purpose.

However, most of the fine gold used by the Empire now is a natural product. Either a small amount of associated fine gold minerals can be collected during large-scale mineral mining, or extremely precious fine gold veins can be found on some very few planets.

This thing is undoubtedly a strategic resource in the Empire. The Empire has a precedent of launching a war for a fine gold mine.

Now, what does this set of [fine gold technology] that Gu Hang has opened on his hand mean?

Fine gold mining technology? Why is it called epic technology?

It is difficult to mine, but what is more important is its scarcity. As long as it can be found, its high value is enough to make people ignore the difficulty and cost of mining.

If it can be called epic technology, could it be… the synthesis technology of refined gold?

Gu Hang took a closer look and found that it was indeed.

After understanding the meaning, he had only one thought in his mind: I’m getting rich.

Moreover, this wealth is not like some of the technologies that were developed before, which are difficult to explain and use.

This wealth is something that Gu Hang can use seriously.

He can just put the synthesis of refined gold in a certain mining area and say that a refined gold mine has been discovered.

This way, there is a proper output channel, and Gu Hang can sell it.

As for the problem of being discovered, Gu Hang is not afraid at all. If

he doesn’t go to the mine to conduct a practical investigation and do a wave of geological research, who knows whether what he said is true or false?

Not to mention who has nothing to do but fight for a share of refined gold, but question the authenticity of the refined gold mine, even if you want to do this wave of research, it is too difficult to do it in Gu Hang’s territory.

The smelting and synthesis production line of this thing can not only provide basic material support for the future when the alliance area creates various high-tech technologies, but also can be produced immediately to earn tax revenue for the alliance.

There is a big customer in the Tianma star area – the Feiyi Star Shipyard.

It is a place that can produce and build cruiser-level starships, and there is a direct demand for refined gold.

The only pity is that even if the production line of adamantium synthesis technology is put into production later, the speed of capacity expansion cannot be too fast. It is estimated that the output in one year may be only one micro-adamantium mine.

But it is enough.

A micro-adamantium mine can also earn 20 million tax coins a year purely for foreign trade.

Moreover, the alliance does not have to sell all of it. Some will definitely be kept in case there are higher-level technologies in the future. When this material is needed, it can be directly used.

After completing the technology lottery and handing over the relevant matters to Wu Jiarong through remote communication, Gu Hang boarded the spacecraft and set off for Feiyi Star.

He was going to attend his engagement ceremony, and his fiancée was waiting for him there.

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The following is free:

Uh, when I was reading the comments, I found that I had two settings… There are two lottery bugs…

Small: The chain saw sword was drawn in Chapter 211, and it was drawn again in 267…

Big: The MK.7 Skyhawk power armor was drawn in Chapter 211, but in Chapter 315, it was said that the alliance did not have power armor technology.

It has been modified.

For readers who don’t want to go back and read the previous chapters, here are the changes:

The chainsaw sword drawn in 267 was changed to a [gravity weapon] (the gravity scepter in the hands of Rizzo priest, and the gravity fist equipped by the Knight Titan)

The MK.7 power armor drawn in 211 was changed to a [warp recognition system], and the pre-technical equipment for starship construction was obtained in advance.

It should have no impact on the plot. It’s mainly because my brain was confused when I was writing the settings. I admit my mistake…

This chapter is 5.2k, a thousand words more than usual, as compensation!

(End of this chapter)