Chapter 480, Apocalypse Level Technology

Chapter 480, Apocalypse Level Technology
[Dreadnought] and [Strike Cruiser] both belong to Space Marine technology.

The reason why I say this is because these two technologies can basically only be seen in the Space Marine Chapter.

Let’s talk about the Dreadnought first. This is a type of mecha specially designed for Space Marines, but not everyone can use it.

Space Marines are extremely tough, but they are not immune to injury or death. When a comrade is seriously injured and no amount of conventional medical treatment can restore him to combat effectiveness, the average Chapter will have two options: contribute gene seeds and obtain the peace granted by the Emperor, or enter a team with life. The sarcophagus that supports the device connects nerves and machinery to become a fearless mecha.

Once you enter the Dreadnought Mecha, you will never be able to get out. You will become one with the Mecha. But at the same time, the life support system within the mecha allows its operator to be virtually immortal. Therefore, the Dreadnought Mechas are not only super powerful combat units, but also veterans with rich experience.

The one Gu Hang drew was an [Iron Barrier Type Dreadnought Mecha], which can be regarded as almost the most common type of Dreadnought Mecha.

This thing's combat power is very fierce and its size is huge. It is only slightly smaller than the knight mecha that you can usually see. But this small thing allows it to participate in internal battles of ships. It is almost the size limit for internal battles of ships.

However, although the fearless mecha is smaller than the ranger-class knight mecha, if it comes to confrontation, the former can basically defeat the latter; even if it encounters a larger dominator-class knight mecha, it still has a very high chance of winning.

This is mainly because since the Dreadnought Mecha has been integrated into a Space Marine and connected spiritually, many control systems are unnecessary. The iron coffin is their body, and the flexibility of operation is greater than that of the knight mecha, and the combat power of the space warrior itself is also greater than that of the knight; after saving the operating system, a large amount of space in the fearless mecha can be used to load weapons and thicken the armor... …

However, the biggest problem with using fearless mechas is the scarcity of soldiers.

For comparison, in addition to the Tianma Star District in Qima Di, the combined annual output value of more than 80 worlds in the other six star districts is only about 120 billion.

It's a bit overwhelming.

But these seriously injured people had no hesitation.

Since there are dozens of candidates to choose from, the Dreadnoughts that the alliance has produced through black boxes and finished product production lines may not be enough. They will have to wait for a year and a half, or even several years. , to be able to enter.

Among them, there are hundreds of people who can save their lives through the alliance's now quite advanced medical methods - among the various civilian technologies drawn, there are many related to medical treatment. Even after a period of training, and at most some mechanical prosthetics, one can return to the battlefield.

In the future, with a four-year cycle, the alliance will be able to produce six cruiser-level main ships!

This is already a less than ideal number.

The shipbuilding industry of these twenty cruisers alone is a huge industry of 500 billion per year.

The Empire commissioned the Adeptus Mechanicus to create warships specially built to meet the needs of the Space Marine Chapters. It requires rapid deployment, easy deployment of elite troops, strong independent combat capabilities, and no shortcomings...

The starport of Falches 1 and the Koroga Starport are relatively large and suitable for shipyard expansion; Baishuo Star, the capital planet of the Zima Sector, originally has ship manufacturing capabilities. Although it is a small ship, it has The basics are better than starting from scratch. This planet signed the Economic Community Act in the second batch, and now it has been merged into the alliance. The conditions for large-scale investment in construction are already met.

According to the productivity of the Winged Star and the Furious Star, it is estimated that ten cruisers will be produced every four years before the upper limit is almost reached.

The shipbuilding industry will not only provide the alliance with a large number of powerful warships in the future, but will also be a huge economic development engine. It will drive a series of developments in peripheral supporting facilities on multiple planets and even multiple star regions. Heavy industries related to shipbuilding will burst out with vitality.

In the shipyards of Wing Star and Angry Owl Star, there are now two Musician-level shipyards, two-level shipyards, and a third-level shipyard is already under construction. Construction of a strike cruiser shipyard can now be started.

But in fact, a very large proportion of seriously injured people signed up to become fearless. Not being able to return to the battlefield was something they were quite unwilling to do. Now that they had an opportunity, they would naturally seize it. Even if the price is that he will never be able to come out of the iron coffin of the Dreadnought for the rest of his life, or even have to endure a long period of pain inside - the experience of being stuffed into the Dauntless is definitely uncomfortable.

After drawing out these 30 rounds of 100,000-level technology, Gu Hang still had one million points of gifts in his hand.

On the one hand, the planet Raging Owl is constantly absorbing the population. When the population of Raging Owl reaches about five to six billion - which is approximately the upper limit of the planet's environmental carrying capacity - the construction of shipyards can be expanded.

It is smaller than the Moon-class cruiser, but its firepower, defense, speed... all aspects of performance are superior to conventional cruisers.

As for the [Strike Cruiser], this is also a Space Marine technology.

Moreover, the alliance's shipyard construction is still continuing, and the production of starships will continue to increase in the future.

This upper limit is determined by the scale of the star port plus labor costs plus the upper limit of productivity. Any more, and the star port must be expanded, the scale of various production lines supporting the production of starships on the ground must be increased, and more manpower must be allocated. But if we do this, the production of other resources and products will be greatly affected.

Ever since, the Adeptus Mechanicus came up with something like a strike cruiser.

After Gu Hang and Martins discussed it, these phoenixes that could return to the battlefield were also retired.

This is definitely not considered a supernatural being. Space Marines who have retired due to injuries will not be counted as our replacement personnel. It makes sense, right?

Among the approximately 300 casualties, more than 100 were truly killed in battle. Nearly two hundred others were seriously injured and could no longer hold on, so they were evacuated.

Don’t be afraid of checking!
Those dozens of Phoenixes who were seriously injured and unable to return to the battlefield became candidates for the Dreadnought Mecha.

In the follow-up ground operations on multiple planets, Phoenix also served as the main attack force in various places, accompanying the operations. Quite a few particularly dangerous battlefields were taken by Space Marines to take risks and attack in person.

After the large shipyards on these three planets are built, Gu Hang's naval construction plan will be able to reach twenty ships in four years.

Of course, this is still subject to the voluntary principle. They have paid a lot for the Alliance and the Chapter. If they do not want to continue fighting, both the Alliance and the Chapter will respect the ideas of these heroes.

However, its construction should not conflict with the moon level. Its dock also needs to be specially made.

Only a few dozen people were seriously injured and could not recover, or died in the rear, or simply retired with their broken bodies.

In addition, Gu Hang plans to build large shipyards on Falches 1, Koluojia, and Baishuo in the Zima Sector.

Of course, such a large-scale shipbuilding industry expansion plan cannot be completed overnight. It will occupy a major chapter in the league's next four-year plans and be promoted as a core point.

In terms of performance, the strike cruiser surpasses conventional cruisers, and it can also support space warriors to directly connect to the ship's command and control system through the black carapace interface, just like controlling power armor, but with a much higher level of complexity.

Give it more time to develop, and the alliance’s fleet will have a promising future!
……

But the alliance also has other tricks.

It would have to be a dying Space Marine.

In any case, with the Dreadnought Mecha, the Phoenix Chapter once again has more powerful weapons, and can save the lives of some veterans who survived brutal battles. This will definitely be a great enhancement to the strength of the entire Chapter.

The epic explosion rate of 5 levels has been reduced to only %.

In the wars of the past few years, Phoenix's casualties have been as high as 300. Especially in the anti-boarding operations in the Battle of Temir, the Phoenix fought head-on with the green-skinned elite guards, which resulted in considerable casualties;

The cost of building a Moon-class cruiser is 1.5 billion tax coins, while the cost of a strike cruiser has reached billion, which is almost times that of the Moon-class.

It's not impossible to stuff a normally surviving Space Marine into a Dreadnought mecha, but this operation is too inhumane. At least Gu Hang has never heard of any war group that would do this, and he certainly wouldn't do it.

Although the prize pool is not drained, the price/performance ratio is not particularly high.

Gu Hang set his sights on the million level.

This is virgin territory that he has never touched before, and the odds are high.

Not to mention the 50% epic-level winning rate, more importantly, there is also a higher level of apocalyptic-level technology. Before, when Gu Hang looked at the things pulled out of the epic class, he vaguely felt that top-level technology like battleships might not be as simple as the epic class.

The reason why I think this is because the things that come out of the epic class are obviously not up to the level of battleships.

Later, the facts proved this.

Gu Hang was very lucky in this million-dollar lottery. There was a 20% chance that he would win an apocalypse-level technology.

[X-level specification giant macro cannon: Judgment of Destruction].

This is the main gun on the Retribution-class battleship.

It's a pity that the battleship, the most urgently needed technology for the alliance, was not released. But it is basically certain that the battleship technology must be in the Apocalypse class.

Of course, the meaning of 'Judgment of Destruction' is there. In fact, if you don't have the production capacity of X-level cannons, you can't do anything if you just draw out a battleship without cannons. This is a necessary technical reserve.

Moreover, in terms of current practical significance, the produced 'Judgment of Destruction' can also be installed on the Star Fortress.

In some important core locations, after the star port is equipped with the 'Judgment of Destruction', the star port is equivalent to an immovable battleship. In fact, since the star fort's defense system is not limited to the hull, its combat effectiveness as a fixed firepower platform may be stronger than that of a battleship.

The same principle applies when placed on the ground.

In short, after possessing the 'Judgment of Destruction', when the Alliance transforms a planet into a fortress, the planet will really become difficult to conquer.

Right now, Gu Hang has several worlds that need to be fortified in this way.

Guangfuxing and Duxingxing are among them.

The Alliance is currently engaging in a battle of wits and courage with the Fury Legion on the front lines. Who knows if this will really turn into a civil war?
These two worlds are the only way for the Raging Flames to fight their way to the hinterland of the Alliance. It is very necessary to strengthen their defenses.

……

Gu Hang is still very much looking forward to holding a few more million-level draws.

For the current alliance, accumulating one million points of gifts is not a particularly difficult task.

The first is the monthly fixed gift points, which have increased significantly, mainly due to the increase in the number of vassals.

Not to mention the four star regions in the iron-toothed greenskin lair, there are almost no humans existing in these places, which is of little significance; however, the iron-toothed greenskin's home base, known as the "Iron", served as a buffer zone for the war between humans and greenskins before. The circle of stars along the Teeth Defense Line has always been under human control. In fact, in order to stabilize the iron-teeth defense line, in the past few decades, the star region government has migrated to these places to strengthen local defense.

Falling under the green-skinned troops for about four to five years has certainly caused serious damage to these worlds, but after all, the numbers are here. Jinguan, Tongguan, Jiaoshou, Weirui, and Sugai, these five star regions are now basically under the control of the alliance.

These five star regions, adding up to fifty-nine worlds, are estimated to have a total population of over 760 billion. This is already a quite tragic number, because according to pre-war estimates, the five star regions should have a population of more than 1100 billion. In four or five years, the comprehensive erosion of green skins caused these planets to lose a total of 30% of their entire population, which was the death of tens of billions of people.

very horrible.

But there are still 760 billion people left.

All these worlds have joined the alliance's "Seven Horses" framework. In fact, in quite a few worlds, the original planetary governments have collapsed and ceased to exist. After the alliance took over, it simply established a local cooperative government and directly joined the EC Act. This was even closer to the alliance than the Seven Horse Framework.

Moreover, due to the alliance's status as the 'savior', it has received a high degree of support from the local people, so that the vassal level of these worlds is not lower than LV3.

In total, they provided the alliance with approximately three thousand grace points of income per month.

In addition to the eight thousand from Qima Di, the total is more than ten thousand.

Moreover, the alliance's local gift point income has soared from 3.9 to 5.8.

The reason for such a high increase is that the alliance's productivity continues to improve. On the other hand, there are more than ten worlds that have been included in the alliance's homeland.

These well-developed worlds under the EC Act provide a lot of gift points themselves. After removing the restrictions of vassals, it is natural that they can be greatly increased based on local calculations.

Now, Gu Hang's monthly gift point income is about 70,000. With a fixed income alone, you can earn more than 800,000 yuan a year, which is almost enough for a million-dollar lottery.

The Alliance now has another major revenue source of gift points, and that is war.

Although the Temir War is over, and the war to intercept and kill Chief Titus is also over, it seems that there will be no large-scale battles against the greenskins.

However, the Greenskin threat continues to exist on many worlds that the Alliance currently controls and that the Alliance contests with the Furious Flames.

Each victory in these relatively isolated wars that took place on the surface of various planets would provide Gu Hang with a large amount of gift points.

The specific amount depends on the scale of the war on that planet.

But no matter what, as long as a landmark victory is achieved in a war on a planet, it can be settled once; when the overall situation has been decided, the reward points given by wiping out the remaining enemies will not be many. , but it still exists after all.

For example, on Temir 5, the dozen or two billion green skins still alive are basically equivalent to pigs waiting to be slaughtered. Even the proportion of orc boys is not high, and most of them are grunts. The Alliance Army's troops left there are actually not that many. They mainly rely on the locally formed Allied Forces and rely on the war materials transported by the Alliance to clear out the remaining greenskins.

According to the report given to Gu Hang by the Alliance War Commission, the Alliance no longer needs to invest too much additional power on Temir 5. They can basically eliminate the green skin threat on the planet in about three to five years. .

Subsequent land purification and long-term prevention and control of green skin will take decades or hundreds of years. But at least, the current purge operation can bring thousands of blessings to Gu Hang every month.

In so many worlds, green skins are being eradicated in similar ways. The number of gift points Gu Hang gets from this every month can now reach about 150,000.

The bigger profit comes from clearing out the green-skin lair.

In Jiangmeiyu, Tieguan, Yinguan, and Kuoluo, the four star sectors that were once completely occupied by the greenskins, the alliance deployed very few ground troops. They carefully assess the condition of each planet and decide which planets are worth saving.

Only places where the resources or natural environment on the ground are superior enough, the green skin on the surface can be cleaned up, and the cost of cleaning up is not high, is worthy of saving.

For a world that does not have these factors, just smash a sky-burning torpedo into it.

Now, the alliance has less than ten sky-burning torpedoes on hand, which is definitely not enough to cover all the worlds in these four star regions that require extermination orders. But it doesn't matter, just surround them, the extermination orders behind them are being produced one after another.

As long as the recovery cost is higher than the production cost of the extinction order, just smash it.

And by cleaning up a world in this way, Gu Hang would be able to obtain at least hundreds of thousands of points of gifts.

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5k for this chapter.

Still owe 50k
(End of this chapter)