Chapter 881: Chapter 479, Apocalypse-level Technology_3
Chapter 881: Chapter 479, Apocalypse-level Technology_3
These two worlds were essential paths for the Fury Flame Battle Group to strike into the heartland of the Alliance, making it imperative to strengthen defenses.
Gu Hang was still very much looking forward to having a few more draws in million-point ranges.
For the current Alliance, accumulating one million Grace Points was not a particularly difficult task.
First came the fixed monthly Grace Points that had increased significantly, mainly sourced from the growing number of vassals.
Not to mention the Iron Tooth Greenskin Lair’s four Star Sectors, which were almost devoid of humans and thus inconsequential; however, the regions previously acting as buffer zones between humans and Greenskins, known as the Iron Tooth Defense Line, had always been under human control. Indeed, to ensure the stability of the Iron Tooth Defense Line, the Star Domain Government had relocated countless people to these areas over the past few decades to bolster local defenses.
Although four to five years under the Greenskin onslaught had severely damaged these worlds, the sheer number of them still stood. Golden Pass, Copper Barrier, and three other major Star Sectors were now largely under the control of the Alliance.
Combined, these five Star Sectors comprised fifty-nine worlds, with an estimated total population exceeding 76 billion. This number was stark, as pre-war estimates had placed the population of these five Star Sectors at over 110 billion. In just four to five years, the Greenskins’ comprehensive erosion had resulted in a 30% loss of the population, amounting to hundreds of billions of deaths.
But at least 76 billion people were left.
These worlds were all incorporated into the Alliance’s “Seven Horse” framework. In fact, many of the original planetary governments had collapsed and ceased to exist. After taking over, the Alliance simply established cooperative governments on-site, directly incorporating them into the Economic Community Act, which brought them even closer to the Alliance than the Seven Horse framework.
Moreover, as the “savior,” the Alliance had garnered substantial support from the local populations, ensuring that none of these worlds were vassalized below LV3.
They collectively contributed over three thousand Grace Points to the Alliance’s monthly income.
Adding to this the eight thousand from the Seven Horse Territory, the total exceeded ten thousand.
Moreover, the domestic Grace Points income of the Alliance had skyrocketed from 39,000 to 58,000.
This substantial increase was partly due to the continuous improvement in the Alliance’s productivity. On the other hand, over ten worlds had been integrated into the Alliance’s homeland.
The worlds developing well under the Economic Community Act, which already provided substantial Grace Points, naturally yielded a significant boost when the vassal limits were removed and they were counted as part of the homeland.
Now, Gu Hang received about seventy thousand Grace Points a month. Relying solely on a fixed income, he could accumulate over eight hundred thousand in a year, nearly enough for a million-point draw.
The Alliance also had another major source of Grace Points income: war.
Although the Temir War had ended, and the war that aimed at assassinating Chieftain Titus had also concluded, there appeared to be no large-scale combat operations forthcoming against the Greenskins.
However, the threat of Greenskins still persisted on many worlds currently controlled by the Alliance and those it was disputing with the Fury Flame Battle Group.
These isolated wars on various planetary surfaces provided Gu Hang with considerable Grace Points income for every victory.
The exact amount depended on the scale of warfare on each planet.
Regardless, a war staged on a planet that resulted in a landmark victory would allow for settlements; even if the cleanup of remaining enemies didn’t yield many Grace Points, there were still some to be garnered.
For example, on Temir No.5, the tens of billions of surviving Greenskins were essentially like pigs waiting to be slaughtered, with a very low proportion of Beastman youngsters, most being mere riffraffs. The Land Forces left there by the Alliance weren’t numerous, primarily relying on the Pact Army formed locally and supported by war supplies sent by the Alliance, to carry out the extermination of the remaining Greenskins.
According to reports from the Alliance War Committee to Gu Hang, Temir No.5 no longer needed much additional input from the Alliance; they were expected to clear the Greenskin threat from the planet within three to five years.
The subsequent land purification and long-term control measures against the Greenskins would continue for decades, perhaps even centuries. But at least for now, the ongoing extermination operations could bring Gu Hang several thousand Grace Points each month.
In similar ways, all these worlds were clearing out Greenskins, and Gu Hang was currently receiving about one hundred fifty thousand Grace Points a month from this aspect.
An even larger revenue source came from clearing out the Greenskin strongholds.
Jiang Meiyu, Iron Pass, Silver Pass, Kuoluo—these four Star Sectors, once fully occupied by Greenskins, had minimal deployment of ground troops by the Alliance. They were meticulously assessing the condition of each planet to decide which were worth saving.
Only those planets with sufficient resources or favorable natural environments, where the Greenskins could be efficiently cleared at a small cost, were deemed worth saving.
For those worlds lacking these factors, it was just as well to drop a Skyburn Torpedo.
Currently, the Alliance had fewer than ten Skyburn Torpedoes left, certainly not enough to cover all the worlds in these four Star Sectors needing an Extinction Order. But it didn’t matter; surrounding them was sufficient while more Extinction Orders were being produced.
Wherever the recovery cost exceeded the production cost of an Extinction Order, a torpedo would simply be dropped.
And by clearing out a world in this way, Gu Hang could earn at least several tens of thousands of Grace Points.