Chapter 543, Battleship Technology

Chapter 543, Battleship Technology
When Gu Hang learned that the problem of the Shangdong-Guangfeng throat passage in the rear had been solved, he smiled slightly.

From the Menghe Star Region to the Aozhua Star Region, this passage is the only way to go. It is the lifeline for subsequent wars and must be taken seriously.

Opening up the jump points on both sides only makes the road passable; up to now, it is relatively smooth and there is no need to worry too much about threats.

In fact, for Gu Hang, if the Fury Fleet was on Guangfeng Star, relying on the complete planetary defense facilities to defend itself, he would not dare to rush forward recklessly, and the war situation would become different.

But the current situation is not necessarily better than a situation that had not happened.

After all, if the Fury Flame Fleet and the main forces of their regiment gathered at Guangfeng Star, then Gu Hang could adopt the strategy of fighting a decisive battle to deal with it. The battle itself would definitely be much more difficult, but if they won, the Aozhua Star Region behind would be a smooth road for Gu Hang to cross.

It's not like now, after circling just two star regions, we have to consider the risk issues and have to stop and digest them. We can only continue the attack after eliminating the hidden dangers and risks as much as possible.

And since the current stage is to digest the results of the battle, Gu Hang also decided to use the gift points in his hand to add some extra points.

The number of gift points he has now is quite a lot.

Over the past few years, the monthly gift points of the alliance have been growing. The main growth point is the various planets and star regions in the Dragon Eagle Star Region. After the institutional reform of the alliance, the degree of centralization and the control of the alliance over the local areas are becoming stronger and stronger.

These, in turn, have enabled the Alliance to better invest resources and develop the economies of these planets in accordance with local conditions.

The alliance's rank system can effectively improve people's living standards.

Control is improved, productivity and economic level are improved, and people's living standards are improved.

These are the three most important factors in your monthly grace point income.

In addition, there is a huge income coming from the control of the Menghe star field.

Although the control, development level and people's living standards are not very good in the Menghe star field, it is still so big with hundreds of worlds, and the total number of gift points that can be provided is still quite a lot.

So far, Gu Hang’s monthly gift point income has reached 33 per month.

This is already double what it was four years ago.

Just from these monthly fixed incomes, Gu Hang has earned more than 1200 million in the past four years.

However, these grace points were basically not saved.

The past four years were the four years the Alliance was preparing for war. Of course, there was no way to save the grace points, so we had to spend them.

Moreover, a lot of money was spent on military training and various building exchanges to increase productivity.

As for the money spent on technology, only four million was used for four million-dollar lotteries.

These four times, I failed to reach the Apocalypse level.

The probability of winning the million-dollar Apocalypse-level technology is only ten percent.

It’s epic technology, I got two.

They are [Engineering Technology Research Facilities] and [Phase Weapons] respectively.

The former is used for engineering technology research, which can help the alliance build a better research institute. Its greatest help is that it can enable the alliance to better and faster digest various extracted black box technologies, so that these new technologies, even after leaving the black box, the alliance can rely on its own industrial chain to ensure continuous production.

Gu Hang had drawn this kind of thing before, but it was in the research direction of biochemical technology.

Biochemical technology is of course also very important, but relatively speaking, the most important aspect is engineering technology.

The manufacturing of various types of machinery, from tanks to mechas, from Titans to starships, are all under the general framework of engineering technology.

With it, the alliance's own technological level will be greatly improved, and it will be able to reverse-engineer many things that can now only be produced with the help of black boxes.

As for the second epic technology, [Phase Weapon], this thing is also very powerful.

The Alliance had never heard of this thing in the Empire's conventional technology before.

However, this item was mentioned in various records and anecdotes collected by the Alliance Intelligence Department.

This kind of green-glowing weapon can occasionally be seen in some warbands and some very secretive imperial forces.

Most of the time, they still appear in the form of cold weapons and cannot be made into projectiles; but their destructive power is very amazing. The phase swords made with this technology can almost ignore all material defenses and directly destroy the parts that the holder hopes to destroy.

In other words, if the Phoenix and Fury were fighting to the death, Martins had replaced the finely crafted power sword with a phase sword, then the battle would not have reached the point where both of them were exhausted. When the weapon in his hand could ignore the protection of the Terminator power armor and directly damage the flesh inside, Martins would have killed the opponent long ago.

Of course, the same is true the other way around.

However, Gu Hang was not too excited about this.

He checked the detailed technical information and discussed it with the engineers at the Alliance's secret research institute. It was basically confirmed that the Alliance had no way of mass-producing this kind of weapon.

Even if there is a motherboard black box, it won’t work.

The Alliance does not have the ability to process the basic materials it needs. Even if the production line is built, it cannot be completed without the pre-processing parts.

It can only be made through the finished black box, and one can be made in a week.

Then the application level is very small.

Not to mention large-scale equipment, even if it were to equip the Phoenix Regiment, it would take twenty years.

Of course, this problem is actually related to the [Engineering Technology Research Facility] technology that Gu Hang mentioned earlier.

Engineering technology research is aimed at solving this kind of problem.

Of course, Gu Hang did not require a large amount of research resources to be invested in this project.

As a cold weapon, although it is very powerful, it can also play a very important role in key battles. However, after all, its use is relatively narrow. There are finished black boxes for manufacturing and small-scale equipment. There are also a lot of other important technologies that need the alliance's technicians to work on. The priority of phase weapons is not high.

This is roughly the consumption situation of gift points in the past four years.

However, although he has not saved any money through the monthly fixed income, it cannot be ignored that the fixed income is only a part of Gu Hang's gift points income.

Another major source of his income came from war.

In the early years, the war to conquer the entire Menghe star field did not provide much income for Gu Hang.

The main purpose was to conquer Menghe. Although the scale was large and involved an entire star field, the intensity of the war was not great. The alliance's conquest operation relied more on political means. The enemy's resistance was not strong either.

In this case, the number of grace points that can be accumulated will naturally not be too many.

However, when the rebels, led by the Fury Corps, began to move south and the two sides began a fierce battle in the northern part of the Menghe star field, the benefits of the grace points brought by the war began to rise rapidly.

And when the main force of the alliance attacked, broke through the Shangdong-Guangfeng channel, and recovered the two star regions within the Aozhua star field, the income from the war gift points increased even more.

Although, during this process, the Alliance did not find an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the Fury Fleet and failed to destroy the main force of the Fury Fleet. But after all, the overall scale of the war is here, whether it is to destroy the space defense system of those star tunnel jump points, or to conquer the battle of Upper East Star, or to suppress the twenty worlds in the Proud Claw Star Region... there are battles to fight.

Gu Hang did not spend the gift points earned from the war recklessly, but saved them all.

Up to now, the total income from this aspect has reached more than 10 million.

Just in time for a ten-draw streak of a million-dollar prize!
Apocalypse-level technology, the probability of shipment in the million level is 10%, just ten consecutive shipments, there is a high probability of getting a harvest!
And sure enough, just as Gu Hang expected, the goods were shipped.

Moreover, what came out was exactly what he wanted most:

[Apocalypse-class technology: Retribution-class battleship]

Gu Hang's face once again showed a smile that he didn't need to hide!
The long-awaited battleship technology is finally here!
Although the technology has just been extracted, it cannot be used immediately. After all, from the construction of the dock to the long manufacturing cycle of the starship itself, it is not easy for the Alliance to build its own Retribution-class battleship.

But, it’s a great start!
Gu Hang almost immediately informed Wu Jiarong of the relevant technical information through the most encrypted star language communication.

Ms. Wu Jiarong, as one of the sages of the Mingyang Sect, is now stationed on the Angry Owl Star as an important participant in the close cooperation between the Mechanicus and the Alliance.

To put it bluntly, it means returning.

The situation has changed. In the past, Gu Hang was thinking about whether he should create a branch sect under the guise of the Mechanicus to cover up the black box technology.

But now it seems that it is no longer necessary.

The Ming Yang sect has a high degree of cooperation.

In the context of the entire universe and the entire empire, the Mingyang Sect is of course a small, remote sect with little reputation and very weak power. But after all, they have a very long history. As a forging world, Jindi Star has also developed for more than three thousand years, so it has some foundation.

It has a solid foundation, but its actual power is relatively ordinary. Its core power is in the Dragon Eagle Star Region, the homeland of the alliance, and its influence covers at most half of the Eastern Universe... Such a sect is simply too good to be true.

The wave of diplomatic exchanges conducted through the black box four years ago was relatively successful.

Under such circumstances, Gu Hang gave up the idea of ​​letting Wu Jiarong become independent and form her own sect. With her status as a sage in the Mingyang Sect, she could just use the Mingyang Sect's skin to develop.

Of course, it is definitely not enough to just send back the relevant information about the Retribution-class battleship.

He exchanged out the two black boxes about this technology - the one for auxiliary dock construction, and the finished black box for directly manufacturing the core components of the Retribution-class battleships, and tore open the subspace rift and threw the things into his Kingdom of Storms.

Most of the black boxes that the Alliance currently has are in the black box workshop in the Kingdom of Storms. These two black boxes are no exception.

The heroes will work hard in the black box workshop, produce things according to the needs of the research institute, and regularly send the things out from the secret research institute on the Angry Owl Star.

According to Wu Jiarong's judgment, taking into account factors such as dock construction and the direct production of key components by black boxes, the Alliance's first self-produced Retribution-class battleship should be completed in six years.

Going forward, the pace of producing two ships every eight years will probably be maintained.

It should be noted here that producing two ships in eight years does not mean that one ship can be produced in four years.

The production cycle of a single Retribution-class battleship is actually quite remarkable at eight years. The Alliance can at most start construction of two ships at the same time with the help of black box technology, and some highly technically difficult and time-consuming steps are left to the finished black box to solve.

At this construction pace, eight years later, the Alliance will have two more Retribution-class ships, one Zhuge-class ship, two Holy Grail-class ships, and two Dragon Snake-class ships purchased from the Ming Yang Sect.

If we add the eight ships we have now, the number of main battleships will soar to fifteen!

If this scale is successfully reached, then the alliance will have hope of engaging in a major battle with Iron Fury's main fleet!
After all, the Iron Legion only has 21 battleships and aircraft carriers, and about thirty battlecruisers.

But they can’t possibly bring all the ships to the south, otherwise they would have trouble surviving in other directions.
Unfortunately……

No matter how optimistic Gu Hang was, he couldn't say what the war would be like eight years later.

Perhaps, if the war lasts for a long time, it will really reach that time.

However, will the Ironclad Legion allow the Alliance to continue to develop quietly in the south during these eight years?

It seems unlikely.

Moreover, the Alliance itself also needs to adjust its economic structure. If two more battleship production lines are put into operation, the economic structure of the Angry Owl Star may not be able to bear it. More people need to be relocated, and more consumer goods and materials need to be imported from the planet level to support it.

However, Gu Hang didn't think there was much to regret.

With battleship technology, our war potential has been greatly enhanced.

Time will be on your side.

As for the current war, just fight it at your own pace.

(End of this chapter)