Chapter 504, Zhuge-Class Spaceship

In space battles, the most important ability of an aircraft carrier is to send various space-based fighters, from small wind falcons to large dragon elephants, to the vicinity of enemy ships relatively safely through the catapult deck, allowing the fighters to freely exert their capabilities and attack enemy ships.

Otherwise, the firefights in space would be pulled out to hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of kilometers at any time, and it would take a long time for the fighters to fly by themselves.

If it is more sophisticated, it will be equipped with a traction system that can guide the fighters to be pulled back by the traction locked before the battle at a relatively long distance.

But this is a luxury.

After all, according to the style of the Empire, sometimes it is not a magical thing to treat the fighters that are launched out to perform missions as disposable items and as shells fired by other warships.

It's nothing more than this shell wrapped in iron.

Of course, Gu Hang does not intend to do this. The traction and recovery function on the equipment should be installed meticulously. If the fighter can be recovered during combat, it should be recovered as much as possible. The fighter cannot be used as a shell, which is too expensive.

Not only the equipment cost, but also an excellent pilot is an expensive asset.

The "Command Class" is equipped with hundreds of space fighters and can send the fighters to the right place. Its role will be very large.

This is a good supplement to the alliance's naval system.

It is good to have one more cruiser-class ship. Even if the alliance does not develop the aircraft carrier system as the main force, with such a black box, it is equivalent to picking up a dock for free, and one more cruiser-class ship can be built every two or three years.

What's more, with the cooperation of the Moon Class to resist the line, a Command Class with hundreds of various space fighters may be able to play a unique strategic value.

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['Garden of Eden' Ecological Park], in Gu Hang's view, is a fairly high-level ecological agricultural base.

Using this technology, an ecological park built will be able to have very high agricultural output, and the internal environment is pleasant and suitable for living, and manors and villas can be built.

Building a "Garden of Eden" is equivalent to creating high-end residences, ecological travel, and high-level and high-quality agricultural output at the same time.

It looks very beautiful!

It is ecological, improves the environment, and has high output.

If it is combined with planetary climate transformation technology, wouldn't it be possible to mass-produce garden worlds?

But after a careful understanding, Gu Hang knew that there was no such good thing.

In theory, it can be done.

But no one can ignore the cost issue.

Not to mention how much it costs to transform the planetary climate, even on a planet with good basic conditions, the construction cost of building an "Garden of Eden" is not low.

The construction cost alone is high, and the more important thing is that the maintenance cost of this thing after it is built is also very high.

It is reflected in two aspects: personnel and energy.

It requires a large number of laborers to do a lot of basic labor work; it requires a large number of biological experts to maintain the ecological status.

In terms of energy, a large amount of energy crystals are needed to maintain the ecological status of the Garden of Eden.

From the perspective of agricultural output alone, although the output is quite large, it is actually not cost-effective compared to the investment.

There are two places to make money: superior living experience, and high-quality agricultural product output.

If you look at it from the perspective of solving food and clothing and solving basic food supply, building the Garden of Eden is obviously not cost-effective. But if you look at it from the perspective of providing high-quality enjoyment, then the Garden of Eden is invincible.

Is it valuable?

Of course it is!

The alliance still needs this thing.

Gu Hang has always had a worry: the corruption of bureaucrats in power.

This worry has become more and more serious with the development of the alliance.

Gu Hang has always had a clear understanding: relying solely on ideals cannot support the long-term existence of a political system. Real interests are the foundation of every member of the alliance. Human desires are infinite.

When you are poor, having enough food and clothing is good enough; after the problem of food and clothing is solved, people will naturally demand higher and better living conditions, especially the new generation who grew up in a food and clothing environment. In many well-developed places in the alliance, these new generation of young people no longer know what hunger feels like, and will not be forever grateful to the alliance because the alliance has solved the problem of food and clothing.

It is reasonable for people to demand a higher standard of living.

Even though war always exists, the alliance is still trying to improve the living standards of the people as much as possible under limited conditions.

This is directly reflected in the total industrial output value, which belongs to the figures of residents' consumption. No matter which world it is, it is slowly increasing.

In the process of rapid economic growth, this problem has been well covered up. The increase in total output value, even if the imperial tax has increased and the fiscal revenue of the alliance has increased, there are still some development dividends that can be enjoyed by the people.

A more concrete manifestation is that in most worlds that are developing peacefully, the average rank of the Alliance's citizens has been rising.

The upward path is clear, and life is getting better and better. This is the core of the Alliance's broad support.

The longer the world is controlled by the Alliance, the more stable the Alliance's rule will be under the continuous improvement of living conditions.

To maintain this situation, the Alliance must ensure two points: first, economic development is always continuous and cannot regress; second, the development dividends that the Alliance's citizens should enjoy should not be too little.

Both of these have put forward strict requirements for the Alliance's huge bureaucracy.

The former requires the ability of bureaucrats; the latter requires the integrity of bureaucrats.

The issue of economic development is still very powerful at present. Through the education system that the Alliance attaches great importance to, and Gu Hang's enlightenment and training of key personnel with gift points, it is possible to ensure that the ability of Alliance officials is basically online, at least far exceeding the average level of the Empire.

However, Gu Hang always has doubts about the issue of integrity.

The Alliance has many institutions to ensure this, but Gu Hang is still suspicious.

He could not deny that after the establishment of the alliance, a huge bureaucracy had actually been formed.

In fact, this bureaucracy and military merit class are the ruling class of the alliance now.

The government, state-owned capital, public institutions, all members of these systems are regarded as a unified class, that is, the bureaucracy in a broad sense, and they hold the greatest power and interests of the alliance.

They actually hold most of the assets of the alliance, but under the system of the alliance, these assets belong to the public and are state capital. This system prevents them from truly possessing these wealth.

The bureaucracy certainly has a much higher rank than the general public and enjoys rich material conditions. But just like the growing needs of the people, these bureaucrats will also have.

Will they pursue more benefits? The rank provided can no longer satisfy their appetite, and they start to start with state-owned capital? It is better to embezzle more corruption than to earn more by working hard to improve the rank.

Of course, these conventional preventive measures must exist, such as the strong anti-corruption agency's fierce crackdown, the strengthening of ideological education to eliminate it in the early stage, and the establishment of a public supervision system.

In addition to crackdowns and prevention, some sweet treats should also be given.

'Garden of Eden' seems to be a better way.

Build a high-end community so that excellent, loyal and honest people can get good living conditions;

Even if it is difficult to live in, those who work at the grassroots level have the right to vacation, and they will have a goal after seeing it;

The high-quality and high-quality goods in Garden of Eden, from exquisite food to some luxury leather goods, fine wines, etc., can be used as shopping benefits for high-level positions. Let them have a place to spend their allowances and bring about a good change in the quality of life.

And some high-end goods can be packaged as brands and sent to commodity shelves across the alliance. Ordinary people can buy them occasionally to improve their living conditions.

It is not realistic to expect it to make a lot of money. But it can maintain stability and improve residents' satisfaction, especially the satisfaction of the ruling class.

Since Gu Hang can see and admit that there is a huge bureaucratic class in the alliance, and it has in fact become the ruling class, Gu Hang really needs this class to reflect his will. If this class rebels, the situation will be stagnant development and social corruption, or even local rebellion and even the disintegration of the alliance.

The unbreakable alliance in Gu Hang's memory eventually disintegrated, and this factor probably accounted for a large proportion.

Then Gu Hang cannot blindly apply high pressure in internal governance, and must face up to the interests of this ruling class.

The Garden of Eden is a new attempt.

Gu Hang will build a large number of these high-energy-consuming ecosystems on many planets. He defines the value of the "Garden of Eden" as satisfying the alliance citizens, especially high-ranking citizens (ruling class), for a higher quality of life.

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The Valkyrie mecha is another thing.

This thing is essentially a power armor similar to the Terminator. Similar to the difference between the two types of feedback power armors, "Servant God" and "Commander", and the real Space Marine power armor, the "Valkyrie" is also a Terminator that does not necessarily have to be used by Space Marines.

However, the difference is that there are some structures on the Valkyrie that Gu Hang can't quite understand.

Those complicated patterns need to be made of gold.

But why? Is it for decoration?

If it is just for decoration, why is it marked as a necessity in the construction process?

The back position where the energy crystal is placed as a source of energy, and the prayer process.

From these aspects, Gu Hang can only associate it with spiritual power at the first time.

And it is not normal spiritual power, but spiritual power that belongs to a certain religious attribute.

For example, after being "tricked" into the warp by him, Gallardo actually held on for a long time without dying. He was not a high-level psychic, and he did not even master the power of psychic energy. He was just a war apostle, the messenger of the Sun Lord. After the death of the Sun Lord, Gallardo's power declined rapidly. If Gu Hang had not rescued him, he would have been finished.

Where did the power of the Sun Lord come from?

Undoubtedly, it came from the Emperor.

With the favor of the Emperor, the priests and nuns of the state religion, as well as people like the Sun Lord who could be called "chosen by God", were favored by the Emperor - no matter how this favor came from, as long as they had it, they could rely on grace to obtain power similar to psychic energy.

And the "Valkyrie" armor is a bit like this.

He recalled that in the normal imperial system, the "Valkyrie" armor seemed to be used only by nuns.

Logically speaking, combat nuns are also mortals.

Before, Gu Hang thought that the Sisters were richer, and the general Star Army could not afford such high-end equipment. But later he found that it was not the case.

They can use it, but ordinary soldiers cannot.

Valkyrie armor requires some kind of theological power to drive it.

Gu Hang was a little helpless, but also a little fortunate.

The helpless thing is that the use area of ​​this technology is relatively small; fortunately, he has an organization under his command that can use it.

Holy Lily Sisters.

Strictly speaking, they are not a member of the Alliance.

But... at this point, the Sisters are located in the core territory of the Alliance, and the economy, politics, and their own development all need to rely on the Alliance. This is an objective reality. In practical affairs, they have to do some anti-heresy work with Koroja decades ago, but now they don't have to do it at all.

At present, the work of Holy Lily is mainly to be a thug for several spies and trial agencies of the Alliance, and they have more contact with the Alliance's Legal Affairs Center. When encountering any problems and lacking high-end military forces, demon hunters often call on a few nuns to help deal with them.

Another reason is war.

During the Iron Tooth War, the Sisters of the Holy Lily also sent out more than a thousand combat nuns to cooperate with the Alliance Army, and many sacrifices were made.

The relationship between the two sides is now quite close. Especially when dealing with the Silver Tribunal before, the Holy Lily helped a lot and provided a lot of military support. Many spies of the Silver Tribunal were killed by the nuns of the Holy Lily.

This is already a very clear stance. After this test, Gu Hang really feels that he can regard them as his own people.

After all, the Valkyrie armor is best used by these combat nuns, so naturally they are equipped as a reward for their hard work for the Alliance.

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As for the last one, the technology that Gu Hang cares about most is the Apocalypse-level technology.

[Zhuge-class, heavy space carrier]

This is a battleship-class ship, which is quite rare in the Imperial Navy.

On the one hand, the construction cost is relatively high, about twice as high as the Retribution-class battleship; on the other hand, the Imperial Navy does not like to use aircraft carriers.

Or the aircraft carrier faction is not the mainstream in the Imperial Navy.

The giant ship and heavy artillery are still the most mainstream; the battlecruiser faction is second; the aircraft carrier faction has the smallest voice.