Chapter 767, War Group Expenses

The composition of the bloodline of the Blood Shark gene seed surprised Gu Hang.

How come half of the bloodline came from the traitor legion?

Even if some other gene seeds were used and mixed into the legion when the army was founded, or when the legion was expanded later, at most it was said that the warriors in the legion had different bloodlines and it was a "hybrid" legion.

But I have never heard of a single gene seed being mixed with other bloodlines.

Under normal circumstances, such a thing would not happen. The bat seed was implanted to become a bat warrior. Whether it was a new seed that grew five years later or a seed dug out from the body after death, it was all the bloodline of the Bat Legion. It would not become a fusion of two bloodlines just because they stayed with people of the Secret Guard bloodline for a long time.

Space Marines are not bisexual reproduction, and there is no natural combination of two seeds.

Gu Hang suspected that it might be genetic technology.

Either their gene seeds changed when the Blood Shark Legion was founded; or they accidentally or even intentionally modified their own gene seeds during the years in the Dark Outer Realm?

Both are possible.

Gu Hang took note of this.

But no matter what, now that the Blood Shark has settled down, the Alliance has controlled six major war groups, and at the limit, it can burst 8,000 Space Marines.

This is already a force that cannot be underestimated.

This is true in terms of quantity, and even more so in terms of quality.

Dragon seeds, Phoenix seeds, and Blood Shark seeds are not inferior. As long as the quality of Blood Shark seeds and Dragon seeds is similar to that of Phoenix, it means that as long as the capital is invested, the proportion of company champions can be raised to 10-15%.

That is 600 to 900 people.

It's super fierce when fighting.

To exaggerate a little, the company champion can be unparalleled in the most ordinary Space Marine groups.

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The cost of raising Space Marines is also very high.

For the four families like Phoenix, Huangquan Gull, New World Torch, and Fury Flame, there is no big problem. If there is no money, then give them some basic ammunition and other things to ensure that the training can proceed normally.

There are not many fierce battles that can use them now.

But it is not so easy for the Dragon King's Spear and the Blood Shark.

Especially the Blood Shark.

The Alliance made a promise to them, and it is not easy to break it.

For a Space Marine Chapter, the biggest cost of raising them is in several aspects.

The first is "people".

The conditions for selecting new blood for Space Marines are quite harsh. This is also the reason why the chapter needs a mother planet as a recruiting planet. The taxes provided by the mother planet are a stable income, but it is often more important that the mother planet can provide a stable source of soldiers.

Some chapters find a planet with a remote and harsh natural environment as their mother planet. They are not looking for income, but this environment can naturally help screen and cultivate suitable new blood.

Gene seeds are rare, and a warrior can only produce two when he dies. A failed operation will result in heavy losses; if the probability of failure is high, it may even lead to the extinction of the group.

Because of this, the selection of new blood for the chapter is a particularly serious matter, and even the entire planet and all eligible personnel must be mobilized to carry out a selection activity that is costly and lossy. Even the selection activities of some warbands can be called "bloody".

It is unknown how much money it costs to hold such a global event, how many young people will die or be disabled, and how high the success rate of the last one to come up is... This is the dilemma faced by most warbands and the cost they bear.

This cost is not even easy to measure with money.

A space warrior, the most ordinary armor, equipped with a series of weapons, only costs about 100,000 tax coins, at most 200,000. But how much is a space warrior worth? No one can say. The seed, the cost behind the success, decades and hundreds of years of experience growth... are all difficult to quantify.

But this cost, in the alliance, is directly borne by the alliance.

To be precise, it was wiped out by Gu Hang using the power of the system. Simply paying a few not expensive gift points can get the best benefits with minimal movement.

This is also a point that Ewing valued very much when he finally chose the alliance.

Apart from the cost of the dimension of ‘people’, which is very expensive and difficult to quantify, the rest of the equipment is easier to say.

It is definitely not enough to have one set of power armor and one set of individual equipment for each person. But even if batches of Terminator armor and various powerful equipment are counted, it is only a thousand people after all, which is not too expensive.

What’s more, Blood Shark is not really poor and building from scratch. They have inventory of these equipment, and the Alliance only needs to update them.

The cost directly spent on the war group is enough for 2 billion a year, and 30 to 50 billion is considered a luxury.

But this only refers to the equipment of 1,000 Space Marines themselves, even if it includes all kinds of advanced armor and vehicles they need. After all, it is only a thousand people, so it is not expensive.

However, another major expense of a war group is the auxiliary army.

The war group has only 1,000 people. If all battles are fought by 1,000 supermen, then the supermen will also be damaged. No war group is willing to lose money like this.

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Auxiliary troops must exist.

But this thing is also a place where the upper and lower limits of each war group are very different.

Some do not attach importance to it and use the auxiliary troops as cannon fodder; some regard the auxiliary troops as direct brothers; some want to build well but have no money; some local tyrants build auxiliary troops that are not inferior to the top star army...

Gu Hang directly allocated two army groups to Blood Shark.

It is true that it is essentially similar to the role of the auxiliary army, but before that, when Gu Hang talked to Ewing, he made it clear to him that the Alliance Army is the Alliance Army, and the two army groups are to cooperate in action, not to be cannon fodder for them. They must correct their past attitude of not treating mortals as human beings.

Ewing agreed.

They have seen the combat effectiveness of the Alliance Army.

Now even if he is allowed to use the army as cannon fodder, he is reluctant. This is the force planned for his own men. Why do that when they are so elite? It is so useful. If everyone cooperates well, victory will be won. There is no need to mess around.

Of course, when necessary, we must fight hard and make losses.

Let alone the Alliance Army, the Space Marines themselves are sometimes just advanced consumables.

Of course, the construction of auxiliary forces costs money, but it is not the most expensive.

The most expensive is the battle group fleet.

Ships are too expensive.

In response, the Alliance has formulated a 15-year shipbuilding plan for the Blood Shark. Although in the first few years, due to financial difficulties, only minor repairs can be made; but later, a batch of ships will be delivered continuously. The ultimate goal is to increase the strength of the Blood Shark Fleet by more than 70% in 15 years.

In addition, all the logistics and consumption that have been the most troublesome for the Blood Shark in the past have been borne by the Alliance.

Ewing is satisfied with this.

Even the most wild Blood Shark is satisfied, let alone the Dragon King's Spear, which is treated similarly but slightly worse.