Chapter 702: Building Relationships

Chapter 702: Building Relationships
The relationships that Gu Hang and the alliance built up during this war are precious.

Of course, it was impossible to expect these favors to stand on one's side when one rebelled against Holy Terra. When the time came, they would still come to quell the rebellion.

The stage when human relations come into play is before the outbreak of war.

To put it bluntly, Gu Hang didn't really want to fall out with Holy Terra, and Terra didn't want to either. However, there was a fierce conflict between the expansion of the alliance and Holy Terra's sense of security.

Those so-called favors are used to reconcile conflicts and ease situations.

However, if it is just a favor, it is still a bit too loose.

Human favors will gradually dissipate over time.

Gu Hang needs to build a stronger and closer union as much as possible while the favors are still there.

The cleanup work of the Zerg War is still going on, but Gu Hang, as the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces, has no intention of taking care of it.

Occasionally he would sign some reports and show up at some military meetings, and most of the rest of his time was spent on building relationships, dealing with people, and signing some agreements.

Among them, the more important ones are the ones signed with various Space Marine chapters.

Generally speaking, they are all "military mutual assistance agreements".

However, depending on the nature of the target regiment, the signed agreements will also be different.

As for the Phoenix and the 'Yellow Spring Gulls' (Shadows' skin) that Gu Hang is about to launch, they are completely controlled by the Alliance, from equipment to personnel to leadership, all under the control of the Alliance. Then they will be given a home planet to settle down on, and there is no need to sign any special agreement.

For the New World Torch and the Fury, the situation is a little different.

Although they are also completely controlled by the Alliance, they still have the concept of a redemption expedition.

For these two chapters, Gu Hang planned to sign an "atonement agreement" with them. The alliance would have enough wars and would need them to participate in the wars, and then spend the hundred years as their time of atonement.

The so-called sufficient war also has a reason, and it is not entirely a fictitious war demand. Among the five star regions that Gu Hang has regarded as his own territory, there are three clear threats at the star region level - pest control in the Alfonzo and Nepeta star regions, eliminating those disabled insect swarms; re-colonization of planets in the Princess Star Region that have not been dealt with by the extermination order; in the northern part of the Dragon Eagle Star Region, the areas where the orcs left over from the Iron Tooth War have not been cleared out also need to be resolved through re-colonization...

Everyone wants to fight.

In addition, in addition to these three significant star-level threats, there are pirate threats in Menghe Star Region and Aozhua Star Region. With a scale of five star regions and four thousand worlds, the Alliance will also promote the reform of the Alliance system, and the speed must be fast. It must not be as delicate as in the past when the territory was not large. It is normal for those groups whose interests are damaged on this planet to cause some chaos.

Many social unrests cannot be resolved by force, after all, people cannot be killed. However, in this era, in the Alliance, this statement is not very applicable.

As long as the rebellion does not spread to dozens or hundreds of worlds, and is only an on-planet rebellion, the Alliance can really kill everyone and overthrow the country.

These rebellions are enough to call upon the Atonement Crusade to fight.

In short, they are on "expedition" in the five star fields of the alliance and have no worries about fighting.

The Empire's requirements for sentencing the Atonement Expeditionary Corps are that they will not be given supplies or resources, and during the expedition period, they must unconditionally accept the Empire's call to war.

The Alliance can exploit this bug.

If the Empire doesn’t give you resources and supplies, I will;

If you accept the call to war unconditionally, then I will call for it all the time. The legion is always fighting. If other forces want to call for it, they have to wait until the Redemption Legion finishes the current battle, right?

If it were any other Atonement Chapter, they wouldn't be able to get stuck like this. The Imperial authorities, especially the forces that sentenced the Chapter to the Atonement Expedition, would not let you be so comfortable. If you act cunningly, that would be disloyalty, and if you refuse to change, more severe punishment measures would probably be imposed.

But when it comes to the alliance, there is nothing to be afraid of.

Who sentenced these two chapters to the Penitential Crusade?
It’s Gu Hang.

Who is the supervisor?

It’s still Gu Hang.

After they have discovered such a bug, whoever wants to punish them will have to get through the alliance first.

Is there anyone who would do this?

No one would dare to do this except to deliberately disgust the alliance.

The Dragon King's Spears were also sentenced to the Penitence Crusade, but their "crime" was relatively light, only fifteen years. But unlike the Fury and the New World Torch, the Dragon King's Spears were not a chapter completely controlled by the Alliance.

A similar situation occurs with blood sharks.

However, both groups wanted to join the alliance.

The Blood Sharks did not want to continue living a precarious life in the Dark Outer Realm. They wanted a home planet to end their long wandering career. The Spear of the Dragon King lost their home planet after the Atonement Expedition, but after fifteen years they did not want to wander anymore and wanted to take their home planet back - their home planet was in the Nepeta Star Domain.

The alliance can provide all of these.

Even if it is not possible on a political level, they can indeed get a tax-free home planet. However, it is difficult for a planet to support a complete war group, unless it is a particularly wealthy and developed world. When most war groups are assigned to an ordinary planet, they have to continue to expand their influence outward, using military force to provide protection to the star region or even the star region in which they are located in exchange for resources.

The Alliance can allocate all the resources produced by a planet to the war group, and the Alliance government will help them manage them to ensure that the output is higher than if they manage it themselves; it is true that the planet has to pay imperial taxes, but this tax can be afforded by the Alliance.

In addition to the output of the mother planet, the Alliance will also provide a large amount of resources based on the number of times and contributions the chapter participates in alliance battles.

The Alliance has everything the Chapter wants.

This can be called the [Chapter Military and Economic Mutual Assistance Agreement].

Of course, compared to the Fury and New World Torch, which the Alliance already had complete control over, their independence was indeed stronger. In theory, they would be able to refuse the Alliance's call for war, and even if they accepted it, they would have the right to act independently during the battle according to their own ideas.

While they had a certain degree of autonomy, they also lost the unconditional support of the alliance. The support they needed could only be obtained through their own specific military achievements within the framework of the agreement.

That is definitely not as abundant as the resources obtained by Phoenix, Yellow Spring Gull, New World Torch, and Fury Flame. Even the personnel replenishment, that is, the high-quality and high-success rate gene seed implantation surgery candidates provided by the Alliance, which these two regiments have personally experienced, also need to be exchanged for merit.

This is actually Gu Hang’s idea... It’s not really a conspiracy, but it’s a clever idea.

If you force it on them, they might think there is something fishy and feel uneasy; but if they need to exchange it, they will feel more at ease.

In fact, there are some new recruits from the Alliance in both chapters. Some of these new recruits have served in the two chapters for a few months, while some have served for more than one or two years. Their performance is obvious to all the veterans in the chapters.

Loyal, brave, and with outstanding potential. It can't even be called potential, it's as if he is comparable to a veteran.

They had never encountered such quality of soldiers before, and had to believe that the Alliance was unique in selecting soldiers and training elites.

Of course, these soldiers coming from the Alliance all have a 'small' problem, which is that they are particularly friendly to the Alliance.

But isn't this normal?

Compared with their advantages, this disadvantage is nothing.

Gu Hang hopes they have this idea.

In the future, as time goes by and there are more members from the Alliance in the chapter, then naturally, the entire chapter will be more inclined to stand on the side of the Alliance.

It wouldn't even be necessary for the Alliance's battle-brothers to rise to high positions; the benefits of the Pact, combined with the situation of the four Chapters being fully controlled by the Alliance, would likely entice them to fully join the Alliance.

Even if it doesn't come to this, Gu Hang would be satisfied with just the existing agreement framework.

This is the situation of the six chapters that stand with the Alliance.

Gu Hang also took the time to consider those warbands that had nothing to do with the Alliance after the war.

The Black Crusaders, Phoenix, and Ortopis, these three are the top priorities.

Gu Hang had a good talk with the leaders of the three families, and each of them signed a "Joint Defense Agreement of the Princess Star Domain and the Spider Web Universe Domain."

This defense agreement is not particularly binding, it just means that the area mentioned in the agreement may have long-term threats in the future, such as the remaining rebels of Iron Armor, the infected, the disabled Zerg, and the new Zerg that may emerge from the void black hole in the future...

Gu Hang invited each regiment to send a certain number of personnel to jointly defend the area.

We don't need a lot of people, three or five symbolic people, or even just one person will do as observers.

All expenses shall be borne by the alliance.

Of course, the Alliance doesn't need them to really help. At present, the situation in the Spider Web Universe can be easily handled by the Alliance alone. This agreement is to keep in touch with these war groups at all times, so that everyone has a common goal, it is convenient to communicate more, and even do business.

For each regiment, this place is also where they fought and bleed. Staying here to see if this area is indeed settled in the future is also a way to maintain their own achievements.

In addition, it never hurts to keep communicating with the alliance. Those who have a good impression of the alliance can communicate more; those who are wary of the alliance can also take this opportunity to place someone in to observe the development of the alliance.

Gu Hang was not afraid of the latter either.

The three major battle groups that Gu Hang focused on attacking basically agreed to leave an observation team behind in the end.

As for other regiments, some agreed, or said they would go back and discuss with the regiment’s top leaders before giving a reply.

Gu Hang also has high expectations for them.

For example, the Infinity Corps and the Bat Corps were two newly founded groups. They also sent their own companies to participate in this war. If they were also willing to maintain long-term exchanges with the Alliance, it would obviously be a good thing.

As for the other ordinary war groups that participated in the war, their influence was quite ordinary.

But after all, there are so many of them!

On the Western Front and the Northern Front, the number of Space Marine Chapters participating in the war, which came from different places, probably added up to more than twenty.

Not to mention all of them, even if half of them can establish long-term ties with the alliance, that would be a considerable force, and Gu Hang doesn't despise it at all.

The same is true for two of the three most important factions in the Inquisition, the Order of Heretics and the Order of Xenophobia.

The Alliance brought them together to build a "Joint Supervision and Defense Agreement" in the hope that they could send branches to monitor the internal corruption and alien corruption in the Spider Web Universe.

The alliance provides the money and they can provide the work or not. As long as the branch is established, Gu Hang’s goal will be achieved.

The two companies have not agreed yet, but looking at the representatives of the two companies, they are all senior presiding judges with very important status in their respective systems, and their attitudes are relatively positive.

Then the future results should be more optimistic.

Gu Hang didn't have any good solutions for the Astra Militarum and the Navy that came from all over the place. After all, unlike the Space Marines, they were not as independent as the Space Marines, and were more subject to the jurisdiction of the Military Affairs Department, the Imperial Astra Militarum Headquarters, and the Navy Headquarters.

But you can also take the path of donation.

Gu Hang can donate some military equipment and supplies to these armies in the name of donations and establish some contacts.

Through these people, some senior generals of the Astra Militarum and the Navy can be influenced.

As for the three lines of south, north and west, there are some local troops coming from various star fields and universes, such as the armed fleet of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce, which makes it easier to deal with.

If we conduct business directly, the connections will be very close.

As a result, through this war, the alliance was able to establish connections with many forces in the northern and eastern territories of the empire.

Before this, even if Gu Hang wanted to give money, he might not have the chance to do so.

(End of this chapter)