Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 430

Chapter 429, I am the ruling bishop!

Whether it is the training of the backbone of the army, the construction of the academy, the loyalty training of Zhongsi Academy, or the targeted activation of ship engineers and special agents, it is an investment in “people”, the most basic and most important resource.

Together with the previous 500,000 factory investment, Gu Hang has basically spent most of the gift points he earned this time.

The remaining 100,000 or so, except for keeping tens of thousands as a reserve fund, the rest, he plans to invest in the technology tree lottery.

Not counting the prize pool that has been drained before, Gu Hang now has two choices: 10,000 and 100,000.

After thinking about it, he still chooses the latter.

Although the prize pool of the former has not been dried up, the probability of epic and elite shipments is not high.

Although, if you really draw ten times in a row, you may get goods, but since you have 100,000 on hand, and the prize pool of 100,000 is still a complete and high-probability prize pool, it’s better to go big.

What Gu Hang hoped most was to draw naval-related technology to directly increase the speed of the alliance’s subsequent naval explosion.

However, after spending 100,000 grace points, the opposite happened.

Although there is a 50% chance of getting an epic technology, it should not be considered unlucky. However, the naval-related technology he wanted was not obtained, but the [Stellar Energy Technology] was obtained. He

was a little disappointed, but Gu Hang quickly accepted the reality and thought that this [Stellar Energy Technology] was actually quite good.

The alliance is now in a stage of explosive production capacity, and the daily energy consumption on the front battlefield is also astronomical.

It is definitely unrealistic to rely on fossil energy, not to mention that many core war machines and many high-level manufacturing plants cannot use fossil energy at all.

The former is represented by the navy’s ships and the army’s Titans; the latter is represented by the shipyard.

The energy solution for these things relies on the elite technology that Gu Hang had extracted earlier, [Compressed Energy Technology], to convert electrical energy or spiritual energy into energy crystals – this is a kind of ultra-high-density solid energy crystal, which can be compared to a battery with extremely high performance and storage.

Although the oil industry is now also in the alliance, it is basically supplied to some low-end vehicles and machinery that use the grindstone engine. The energy used by high-level machinery is all energy crystals.

Even at critical times, when the fossil energy reserves on the front battlefield are insufficient, but the machine needs to move, the grindstone engine also needs to be supported by energy crystals. At that time, the cost-effectiveness is not considered, and the machine moves first.

Similarly, energy crystals can also be converted back into electrical energy. When it is necessary to conduct interstellar energy trade, there is no need to actually build a transmission network to send it to another planet – that is also impossible to achieve. On the contrary, it is a more convenient and quicker way to transport a ship of energy crystals and send them to the power plant on the other planet as fuel.

A standard compressed energy crystal block, worth 1,000 tax coins, is enough to supply a town with a population of over 100,000 for a whole year – of course, this cannot be counted as industrial electricity consumed by factory production. Such an energy crystal block is about a cube shape with a length, width and height of 10 cm. If it is not used with compressed energy release technology, it will not explode, is not afraid of collision, and can even be cut. It is also convenient and reliable to transport.

However, its energy source is a problem that needs to be solved.

Compressed energy technology can only convert available energy into this energy crystal block, but where does the source of the converted energy come from?

The main energy source of the alliance now is the waste energy storm of the Angry Owl Star.

Build a compressed energy factory directly in the area where the waste energy storm has been raging for a long time. When the storm blows, use the technology of collecting the waste energy storm to infuse it into the energy compressor in the factory to make energy crystal blocks.

But this depends on the weather.

Even on the two waste continents of the Angry Owl Star, the storm does not blow every day.

Another relatively stable means is power generation supply.

One energy crystal block can supply a small town for a year, so a small power plant of this size can also produce one energy crystal block a year, right?

This technology is now mainly used in large nuclear power plants in some nest cities and industrial centers, but it is mainly used to collect surplus electricity or release electricity to correspond to peak electricity consumption when electricity consumption is flat and peak. Although some energy crystal blocks can be produced, it is definitely unrealistic to expect them to be used for trade and supply wars. Even some large power plants need the waste energy conversion plant of the Wrathful Owl to export energy crystal blocks when supplying energy consumption for industrial production in order to ensure the cost.

As more and more starships are built,

the main means of power generation in the alliance is now the controllable reactor. Using air and water, nuclear fuel can be generated and electricity can be generated. This thing is already black technology enough, and the cost of generating energy is low enough.

But… the Wrathful Owl and the Black Arrow can be developed on a large scale because of the abundant water resources, but if it takes a long time, the sea will be drained.

At present, the population scale is not very dense, which is still a little better. However, the energy consumption required by the increasingly developed industrial production has begun to show its strength. If we don’t care about it now, environmental problems will become serious in the future.

The Korojia Hive World, which has dried up and only has industrial wastewater left, and most of the domestic water resources can only rely on the water circulation system, is an example.

If possible, Gu Hang does not want to drain every world under his control to that point in the end.

He has two ways to go: calm the storm of the Angry Owl Star and repair it into a spiritual gas field.

Needless to say, just by collecting and manufacturing energy crystals in the spiritual gas field, the Angry Owl Star can get a net income of 8 billion tax coins a year. This is already equivalent to half of the current annual output value of the Angry Owl Star.

But obviously, the alliance does not have planetary-level climate modification technology. Gu Hang doesn’t even know if this technology is in the epic prize pool. Maybe its level will be higher.

And [Stellar Energy Technology] is another route.

After carefully checking the instructions of the blueprint, although he certainly can’t understand the specific technology at once, he can roughly understand it from the effect.

Just build a huge stellar energy collection station around the planet, and with the supporting compression energy technology, you can continuously extract stellar energy and create energy crystals.

And if there are enough collection stations built around the star, so that the entire star is completely surrounded, it will form a thing in Gu Hang’s impression: Dyson sphere.

Of course, there are many engineering technology fortresses in between, and it is not something that can be solved by simply accumulating numbers.

Moreover, even if there is technology, the current alliance certainly does not have the qualifications and financial resources to invest in building such a super megastructure. At present, several galaxies in the Tianma star region do not have this condition. Building a Dyson sphere will make the entire galaxy fall into silence.

However, it is always easy to build a few energy mining stations.

The standard output value of such an energy mining station is 10,000 energy crystals per year, which is equivalent to about 10 million tax coins. It takes half a year to a year to build a station, and a total of 100 million tax coins are needed to build one station. In the future, high maintenance costs will be required every year.

Overall, it will take about 20 years to pay back the investment.

But this is the normal construction cost, which is calculated by pulling out the production line and using the technical blueprint to build it yourself.

Gu Hang has a black box cheat. He uses the finished black box to produce key components and then transports and assembles them. The construction cost can be sharply compressed to almost only the cost of labor, and the construction cycle can be shortened by half.

This is a cheaper energy source than the reactor. With the supporting compression technology, it can not only solve the energy needs of the present and for a long time in the future, but also sell the unused energy directly after the war.

Moreover, if the number of it is not built in large quantities, the environmental impact on many planets in the star system will be minimal.

Gu Hang put the black box into the black box factory located in the subspace storm kingdom. Under Gu Hang’s instructions, the secret research institute of the alliance began to prepare to produce things, and the corresponding construction instructions were also issued to the alliance government.

Later, the Union Government will follow his orders and launch a certain number of energy station projects on the eight major stars in the Tianma Star Region.

However, this construction time will be relatively long.

Gu Hang’s chief technical officer, Ms. Wu Jiarong, is not in the Tianma Star Region at the moment.

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In the distant Steel Fire Dragon Star Region, on the orbit of Jindi, the core forging world of the Mechanicus-Ming Yang Sect, a huge fleet of the Mechanicus slowly sailed out of the port.

The paint of all the ships is different from the common red of the Mechanicus, but is mainly bright yellow with bright red as embellishment.

The leader is a square-shaped “battleship” that looks a bit bloated. Judging from its size alone, it is much larger than the flagship “Dragon Eagle” of the Yunluo Fleet, and even larger than the main battleships in the Human Empire Navy.

The actual combat effectiveness may be slightly worse. Because the “Jindi” mechanical ark of the Ming Yang Sect also has certain research and manufacturing functions, its structure is not entirely designed for war. The firepower and protection have reached the level of battleships, and even exceeded it by a lot, but there are gaps in structural strength, agility, speed, and turning, and the overall combat power may be slightly weaker.

But in general, when the greenskins invaded, the Mingyang Sect did not stick to its own forging world, but clearly chose to stand with the star domain government and take the initiative to deal with the disaster, which greatly inspired the entire Dragon Eagle star domain government.

The original desperate atmosphere has changed.

Although the revitalized Yunluo fleet, even with the addition of the Mechanicus fleet of Jindi Star, is still behind the main force of the greenskins led by Titus in terms of overall scale, in terms of main battleships, with the addition of the Jindi Ark, it has reached the level of confrontation.

At present, the huge fleet of the Mechanicus is going to attack and head to Shangyuan Star to join the Yunluo fleet.

According to the agreement between Jindi’s forging general Chen Haixu and the star domain head Tan Jiuyi, the two fleets will be combined and take the initiative to attack and fight against the greenskin fleet together.

It was not a fleet decisive battle, but they could confidently defend the Upper Plateau, which was a major transportation route.

Titus had already shown his strategic intentions, and the fleet was clearly moving from the Snow Eagle Star Region to the Steel Fire Dragon Star Region. Between the star region capital Yunluo Star and the forging world Jindi Star, Chief Irontooth chose Jindi Star as the primary target.

Wu Jiarong is on this ship at the moment.

More than a year ago, she finally accepted the invitation of Wang Zhaoran, the technical director of the Feiyixing Shipyard and the ruling bishop of the Mingyang Sect, and came to Jindi Star.

In the past year or so, she has been doing well on Jindi Star.

The struggle within the Mechanicus is quite fierce and cruel, and Wu Jiarong has a deep understanding of this. She was born on Jindi Star, and she became a victim and paid human taxes without knowing it.

This is of course unreasonable. Jindi Star is the forging world of the Mechanicus, and this type of world does not even need to bear imperial taxes. She was completely cheated to death.

However, the people who cheated her could never have imagined that she would be able to come back one day, and as an important guest.

While the struggle within the Mechanicus was fierce, the entire sect also had a strong worship of technical ability. After Wu Jiarong returned, she gave several speeches and participated in several project guidances, and she showed her full level, which was the basis for her to win respect.

Furthermore, many of the technologies she mastered were not even available in the Mingyang Sect.

It was normal. Wu Jiarong’s academic foundation came from her studies on Jin Dixing, but the subsequent growth of her technical and academic abilities was basically due to the growth brought about by the research on the black box.

She studied every finished product directly produced by the black box, and pondered what these most accurate products represented, and thus gained some experience.

The so-called technology that she mastered and the Mingyang Sect did not have did not roughly refer to that she mastered the production blueprint of the War Dog Titan, and Jin Dixing could not build a Titan. Jin Dixing could certainly build a War Dog, and even Jin Dixing had the ability to build a higher-level warlord-level Titan.

Still taking the War Dog Titan as an example, Wu Jiarong mastered some special technical details. For example, by studying the key components produced by the black box, she knew the specific technical details of a weapon installation component. And this detail can increase the power of the War Dog Titan by 7% when assembling a hot melt weapon, and it is safer and more stable. She not only knows how to do it, but also knows how to improve the production line to achieve this goal.

This is a technical detail that she has mastered after studying the absolute standard parts produced by the black box, which is not available on Jindi Star.

And there is no doubt that this kind of detail is very important.

There are many similar things. As long as the black box of the alliance has output and she has studied it carefully, there will be more or less similar gains, it is nothing more than the value of this gain.

Of course, she will not be stupid enough to throw all these things out, then what she will win is not admiration, but suspicion and greed.

The current level is just right.

The things she took out were all discussed with Gu Hang before coming. These efforts will be exchanged for the recognition and formal titles of the Mechanicus, and some technology can be exchanged in return. This deal can be done.

She successfully passed the review conducted by the review committee composed of six main business sages and got the title of the ruling bishop.

In the past, she only met the standard of ability; now, after she has obtained a definite identity, the corresponding honor, status, and authority will follow.

Then, she did a “little thing” besides her normal activities: she checked who was responsible for sending her to be a human tax and becoming a technical specialist that she couldn’t leave on the Pegasus Fleet.

Later, she found out that it was really a little thing. One of her “colleagues” at that time was also competing for the promotion opportunity of a mechanic, but he couldn’t beat her through the normal assessment route. In addition, the two had a feud, so he mobilized some connections and gave a gift to one of his relatives. That person was just a mechanical priest, and then she was sent away.

After finding out the matter, she didn’t want to pursue it further. That might not be a bad thing. If she hadn’t been sent away that year and hadn’t met Governor Gu later, she would have been hanging around on Jindi Star for fourteen years, and she might still be wasting her time at the level of a mechanic.

Without special opportunities, it would be too difficult to cross the level. At most, she found someone to guide her, and she could only reach the level of a mechanical priest at most, and she might stop there in her life.

How could she have the opportunity to be a big shot in the entire Jindi Star, having officially obtained the status of the ruling bishop?

However, she didn’t have to do anything personally.

Her action of investigating the matter naturally attracted the attention of those who were interested.

Then, the mechanical priest and his entire family soon became slaves.

Wu Jiarong also asked if this was a bit too much.

An engine prophet in charge of supervision smiled humbly and said no.

That person was not clean to begin with, and getting rid of him was like removing the termite.

Wu Jiarong said nothing more.

She remembered that day, she looked up at the dim sun hanging in the sky of Jindi Star, and was filled with emotion.

All the past grievances disappeared.

At the same time, the little idea of returning to the Mechanicus that she had in her heart also disappeared.

According to her original plan, it was time for her to return.

She had become a ruling bishop recognized by the Mechanicus, gained some reputation, and even avenged her past grudges. What needs to be done on Jindi Star has been basically completed. It is time to go back and prepare to establish a branch sect of my own.

The level of the ruling bishop is enough.

At that time, the small branch sect established will be a part of the Mingyang Sect.

This situation is quite common. A ruling bishop or a main business sage has some special ideas of his own, unites a circle of members of the Mechanicus around him, and forms a branch sect that is attached to the main sect in the past.

Generally speaking, it is not certain whether the attached sect will support, ignore, or even be hostile to this. It depends on the popularity of the ruling bishop in the original sect and what the motivation and goal of establishing a branch sect is.

Specifically for Wu Jiarong, she has already privately talked with some other bishops and even two sages who she has contacted and has a good relationship with. It is not realistic for the new sect to get the support of the Mingyang Sect, but for now, it should not be hostile, at most it will be cold.

Wu Jiarong said that the alliance had developed very rapidly after she had boasted about it. The governor was indeed very reliable and had a sense of wisdom and bravery. Moreover, she had played a role in it. She had contributed a lot to the development of the alliance. The alliance was also part of her life’s work, and she was reluctant to give it up.

With the foundation of Feiyi Star and the population of Korojia, the alliance would have great potential for development in the future. She could establish a branch of the Mingyang Sect there, and Bishop Wang Zhaoran at the Feiyi Star Shipyard could also provide some help. Wang Zhaoran had been on Feiyi Star for so many years, and the expansion of the religious influence of the Mechanicus had not been very good. She would change this situation.

In fact, the Ming Yang Sect was not particularly interested in Wu Jiarong’s statement. In other words, the Mechanicus was not so persistent in expanding the influence of religion in the traditional sense, unlike the state religion. Anyway, as long as an imperial world needs machinery and has technical needs, it is inseparable from the Mechanicus, and faith is not so important. What

they care more about is where there are special technologies, precious resources, and potential to build a new forge world.

However, they will not hinder the expansion of religious influence.

In summary, Xiao Wu, if you want to help us expand our religious influence, that’s great. We are a sect, so you can build a branch. We won’t obstruct it. We may support it in name, but this matter is not very important, so don’t expect actual support.

Wu Jiarong completely accepted this.

However, just as she was about to leave, the Iron Tooth War broke out.

The green-skinned orcs pierced through the Dragon Eagle Star Region, and the east-west traffic was cut off, so Wu Jiarong could not go back.

She was also involved in this war and began to work for the Ming Yang Sect in Jindi Star.

Supervising factory production, and personally engaging in the production of some high-tech equipment…

It’s not without benefits. She has even mastered the ability to hand-make Titans now – it’s just that she is a little slow to do it alone and can’t mass-produce. But on Jindi Star, she is only responsible for the hand-making of core components, and the main production is handed over to the factory.

In addition, she also used the resources of Jindi Star to make a series of body modifications for herself. At present, although she still looks like a human girl, in fact, there are four metal brackets extending from her back, supporting a mechanical vehicle that is almost as big as her, which is part of her body.

It looks like a means of transportation, but when necessary, it can be transformed into a variety of powerful weapons, both melee and long-range. In a one-on-one fight, it should be no problem to kill an ordinary space warrior.

To be honest, she actually doesn’t want to do such a large-scale body modification.

However, during the war, she must do so. Otherwise, if an accident happens, she will not even have the ability to defend herself and she will be finished.

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6k

4k regular updates, 2k debt repayment, and 70k still owed

. There is also a star field map behind it.

(End of this chapter)