Chapter 580: Chapter 338, A Hundred Thousand Favors_2
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These several changes directly reflected in the system conditions were that beneath Gu Hang’s “vassal” panel, within a short time, many other nations had been added aside from the Luman Kingdom; soon after, the vassal ranks of these nations rapidly advanced. A few days ago, the option to annex finally appeared.
Gu Hang had already clicked it.
As of now, Heijian Star could be regarded by the system as a ‘home’ territory just like Rage Owl Star.
However, the ‘Grace Points’ enhancement provided by this home territory was currently not substantial.
Even with a population of four hundred million, the monthly ‘Grace Points’ provided were barely two thousand, less than half of what was provided by Rage Owl Star.
But Gu Hang was not particularly surprised by this.
Gu Hang knew that the monthly supply of ‘Grace Points’ was closely related to a series of data including population size, total production power, average living standards of the population, government control, and so on. Moreover, the growth of ‘Grace Points’ did not increase linearly with these factors; it was more like a tiered system, moving up a notch upon reaching certain data points.
To raise the ‘Grace Points’ provided by Heijian Star to a more satisfactory level, it was necessary to calmly focus on constructing and developing the planet in a positive direction.
This was also precisely the objective of the Alliance.
The ‘Grace Points’ accumulated from Rage Owl Star had nearly reached fifty thousand this year; as Heijian Star had just become a ‘home’ territory, the points provided as a “vassal” were not significant, adding up to less than ten thousand over the past year.
Adding the war rewards to this total, the ‘Grace Points’ Gu Hang had received over the past year had already exceeded one hundred thousand.
Of course, he did not have that many on hand now. After all, Gu Hang could not have possibly spent a year without utilizing any ‘Grace Points’.
The main expenditures were focused on personnel.
Gu Hang had been consistently activating talents through the “Hero” interface, and even included some native people from Heijian Star—if he found them reliably trustworthy, he would transform them into talents.
This “Hero” interface was indeed reliable, as the activated talents conformed to their original abilities and aptitudes, and also possessed good growth potential, being of greater value than those trained en masse by the Army Badge System.
Besides, whether it was the activated talents or those stepping into important positions on both planets, their loyalty still needed assurance.
The Loyal Heir Academy continued to play a significant role in this matter.
Before assuming their positions, these individuals would have to pass through the Wind-Extinguishing Zhongsi Academy. It was easy to manage the people from Rage Owl Star, but for those from Heijian Star, they had to travel to Revival City for advanced studies. Periodically, Gu Hang would spend some ‘Grace Points’ at the academy’s advanced classes to convert these individuals into ‘Political Officers’ directly.
Furthermore, the Alliance was gradually experimenting with cross-border official appointments. For instance, promoting officials from Rage Owl Star to work on Heijian Star or vice versa, with the former case being more common.
The Alliance’s few passenger vessels were almost constantly traveling back and forth between the two planets, primarily transporting various government officials and official documents.
This was normal, after all, since the passenger vessels had a limited cargo capacity, and could only be used for such tasks.
Apart from personnel, another area was military reinforcement.
Whether on Heijian Star or Korolya, the Alliance was engaged in battle. Inevitable losses in troop numbers ensued.
Currently, the largest source of troops for the Alliance Army was still Rage Owl Star. The training camps consistently maintained a size of several hundred thousand people, requiring Gu Hang to expend thousands of ‘Grace Points’ to complete their training. When the front lines suffered reductions in personnel, new troops, along with a series of goods such as weapons, equipment, and ammunition, were sent to the front, replenishing the respective frontline units.
This situation was definitely not going to continue for long.
With the expansion of the Rage Bear Legion factored in, the overall strength of the Alliance Land Forces was going to exceed a million. It should not rely solely on Rage Owl Star for reinforcements.
Now that Heijian Star had become home territory, there was no need to maintain a specific ratio for troop numbers.
In fact, Tadeusz had already been ordered to establish several new recruit training centers on Heijian Star, to continuously recruit new soldiers and replenish the Alliance Army.
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Meanwhile, there will also be a special training center for new recruits established on Korolya, dedicated to replenishing the losses of the Rage Bear Legion.
However, the reason this training center is called special is that the Rage Bear Legion doesn’t have the authority to directly conscript soldiers from Korolya. Even if they did, the system wouldn’t recognize it, and Gu Hang wouldn’t be able to train them. They could only pass through the logistic replenishment channel of the Star Realm Army. Essentially, the personnel are allocated as Imperial Tax to the Rage Bear Legion for use, thus entering the training camp for new recruits.
In this way, these individuals could be counted as reserves for the Rage Bear Legion, allowing Gu Hang, the commander of the Rage Bear Legion, to directly conduct training.
By imperial decree, these soldiers are also exclusively for replenishing the ranks of the Rage Bear Legion and cannot be diverted for other uses.
Overall, the training expenses for ordinary soldiers are still not high. One grace point can train a hundred T5 level soldiers. Maintaining a training camp of over two hundred thousand in multiple new recruit training bases on three planets, to ensure the ability to replenish the front lines at any time, would cost less than a few thousand grace points, which isn’t much pressure.
What really counts as a big expense is the construction of the Phoenix Battle Group.
In the great battle of Heijian Star, the interstellar warriors of Phoenix played a major role in the destruction of all twelve Knight Titans.
The losses on the Alliance side, in addition to thousands of armored vehicles, nearly five hundred tanks, and more than forty Wind Falcons, Phoenix also lost a total of six warriors.
From this perspective, it’s clear that Knight Titans are indeed formidable—after all, they cost seven hundred thousand each. In comparison, the production cost of an Interstellar Warrior’s powered armor is only fifty thousand a set; the Terminator suit that Matins wore costs just eight hundred thousand.
Of course, cost doesn’t equate to everything, as the most valuable aspect of an Interstellar Warrior is the warrior themselves inside the armor, not the suit itself.
But regardless, cost does explain a lot of issues.
The losses of the Interstellar Warriors are still quite painful for Matins. But after all, it’s different from before, now that the number of Battle Groups has been continuously increasing, his mindset is relatively more stable.
In the past six months, Gu Hang has newly trained twelve Interstellar Warriors and over a thousand elite special forces from the Tenth Brigade.
Among these twelve, seven are natives of Rage Owl Star, and among the remaining five, two are immigrants from Korolya and three are from Heijian Star.
Gu Hang intentionally does many things in this way.
On the concept of ‘Alliance’ recognition and the integration of species, Gu Hang tries his best in all possible areas.
Although it is somewhat difficult to create a sense of ‘Alliance’ recognition in addition to the existing ‘Imperial’, ‘Human’, ‘Planetary’, and ‘Ethnic’ identifications, and it’s not something that can be achieved in a short time, it still needs to be done, and any opportunity to emphasize this must be seized.
In every exchange policy involving various personnel—officials, armed forces, and the selection of Interstellar Warriors—Gu Hang follows this approach.
Rage Owl Star is his main foundation, true, but it’s too small. It’s not feasible to always rely on its population of forty-five million to navigate the Star Sea in the future.
Expanding the base is essential, and Heijian Star is the first step.
For these personnel-related grace points, the total consumption for Gu Hang is just over twenty thousand.
Besides personnel, he’s also spent some points on the [Construction] interface in the past six months.
Mostly on factory construction.
He piled up over twenty civilian/military factories in the three industrial centers on Heijian Star; he also piled up ten on Rage Owl Star.
This is an additional consumption of over three thousand grace points.
But all in all, it’s not much.
He still has over seventy thousand points left.
He plans to keep around twenty thousand for emergencies, and with the remaining fifty thousand, he intends to spend them all on technology draws.