Chapter 906: Subspace Navigation
Chapter 906: Subspace Navigation
Gu Hang expressed his concern about Robert's plan.
With the power gathered from the infinite star field, regardless of anything else, rush directly to Holy Terra?
Directly navigate in the subspace?
Navigation depends on the alien?
The more Gu Hang listened, the more he felt it was unreliable.
Robert explained his plan to Gu Hang in detail.
Listen, it's still very reliable.
Robert would not take an unprepared risk with the most important troops he had.
But he will take calculated risks.
The preparation of the army and the modification of the subspace engine required to travel through the subspace will take a lot of time and are extremely important preparations.
Especially the transformation of subspace navigation.
It has been a long time since the Empire has carried out large-scale warp travel. In Robert's opinion, the ships' preparations for this are completely insufficient, and there are too many areas that need improvement.
Especially the engine.
The current astral jump engines are not suitable for subspace navigation. But fortunately, they do not need to be dismantled. Instead, there is corresponding transformation technology that can enable them to have subspace navigation capabilities at a relatively low cost and method.
At the same time, on Super Starfish and several other industrial worlds in the Five Hundred Worlds, Robert used his authority to open several secret strategic arsenals.
These treasure houses are unknown to the station leaders of the Infinite Warriors. They are fully automatically maintained. At the beginning of their design, Robert ordered them to be buried ten thousand years ago for future strategic preparations in emergencies. The confidentiality level is very high, and only a very few people know about it.
Before it was dug out, even he himself didn't hold much hope.
After all, ten thousand years is still too long.
Although this secret arsenal had been prepared for long-term storage when it was first built, even the stasis field was used. The fully automated maintenance facilities inside were also very complete. However, after ten thousand years, could the things in the arsenal still be used? Had they already decayed into scrap metal?
But fortunately, most of the things stored in the arsenal are miraculously still usable!
The Terran Expeditionary Force saved a lot of time in preparing for the warp navigation. After all, many of these old goods from thousands of years ago were specially prepared for warp navigation, even including the warp engine.
After all, subspace navigation was the mainstream ten thousand years ago. It was quite reasonable that the arsenal ten thousand years ago had relevant supplies and equipment.
In addition to preparations for subspace navigation, the arsenal also contains a large number of ancient equipment dating back tens of thousands of years.
Given the current state of the empire, the older the technological equipment, the more powerful it is obviously - over the past ten thousand years, the empire's technology has regressed significantly.
These "ancient" equipment will be able to significantly boost the overall strength of the Terra Expeditionary Force.
However, all these preparations are not as important as the last thing - navigation.
It has been a long time since we last traveled through the subspace. If humans simply lack equipment, they can still manufacture, modify, and dig up antiques.
But no one understands warp navigation anymore, and that's a big problem.
You can learn it now, there are some ancient technical materials; Robert himself understands subspace navigation, but he can't go to every ship in person, and as the commander, he can't do the navigation himself.
Here, we can only rely on the elves.
The Eldar are also willing to help.
In fact, Robert had initially placed his hopes on the so-called "webway" of the Eldar. Although that thing was "alien technology", Robert didn't care that much. He learned from the guests who saved him how they had traveled such a long distance to the Super Starfish when the Cartier Fortress World exploded.
The magic of the Eldar Webway was still fresh in his memory.
Of course, he is also aware of the risks.
First of all, the webway may not be completely reliable. Otherwise, how could they have been lost in it for decades? Secondly, the Eldar may not be reliable. Although they saved him, although they expressed goodwill, although they said they wanted to form an alliance... However, Robert still remembered this race. They were arrogant and capricious. Although they were one of the few alien races in this sea of stars that could communicate well, they were still aliens.
However, after thinking it over again and again, he decided to trust those elves once.
After all, the other party is also on the verge of genocide.
However, it was the Eldar who refused to allow such a large human fleet to use the Webway.
If there are too many people, the network will not be able to support it.
The Eldar webway can handle tens of thousands of people at a time, and at its limit, hundreds of thousands of people, which is already the maximum limit.
This thing is indeed very convenient and useful, but it really can't hold so many people. If hundreds of thousands of people are sent at a time, this webway from Super Starfish to the vicinity of Holy Terra will take decades to repair before it can be used again.
Even if there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people at a time, it will take nearly a year to repair.
And how many people are there in Robert's Terran expeditionary force? Hundreds of millions are the numbers planned in the early stage! There are also those very large warships, and the massive amount of supplies needed to maintain such a large army... The Eldar's webway simply cannot bear such a large amount of transportation.
Be it the Eldar or the Dark Eldar, when they use the Webway, they usually deploy small elite troops - given the population size of their race, they can only afford this kind of war.
And once the Eldar go crazy and want to gather their forces for a head-on battle, which would require the mobilization of millions or tens of millions of people, they will have to conduct conventional navigation in the warp.
Because of this, they are relatively skilled in navigating in the subspace and can provide navigation assistance.
Then do it!
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After listening to Robert's plan, Gu Hang stopped persuading him.
On the one hand, the Son of God's judgment on the importance of Holy Terra is reasonable.
On the other hand, he already has a complete plan and it is quite feasible.
Of course, if it were Gu Hang's turn, he still wouldn't make such a risky decision.
But there is no need to persuade.
He was a son of God. When the other party had spent a lot of time and made a complete plan, and even the entire infinite star field was acting under his will, then this matter was unstoppable. He said he wanted to discuss it with Gu Hang, but in fact it was just a notification between allies. No matter how much Gu Hang talked, the other party would not listen, and it would only make the relationship between the two parties awkward.
It’s better to cooperate well.
Once it is accomplished, the situation of the human empire will improve greatly.
This profit is also due to Gu Hang's support.
Afterwards, the two sides discussed some specific measures for cooperation.
Where will the Western Front attack? What is the expected time? Will they be able to pick up the Terran Expeditionary Force that has completed its subspace voyage?
Also, what kind of help can Gu Hang provide when the Terra Expeditionary Force is conducting subspace navigation?
They talked for a long time and finally ended the conversation after they decided on a series of major guidelines.
During this process, Dante, the commander of the Blood Angels, was listening in the corner.
Even though he saw Gu Hang standing there thinking after the conversation, as if he had forgotten about him, he did not feel neglectful.
His heart seemed to be much calmer now after the initial storm, but after settling and fermenting, it was filled with even more mixed feelings.
(End of this chapter)
