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Chapter 1006: Chapter 542, Battleship Technology_2

Even with black box technology, it’s not feasible.

The basic materials it requires, the Alliance simply lacks the capability to process. Even if the production line is set up, without the preliminary processed parts, it’s impossible to produce.

It can only be made through a finished black box, producing one per week.

This limits its application greatly.

Not to mention large-scale outfitting, even equipping the Phoenix Battle Group would take twenty years.

Of course, this issue is actually linked to the [Engineering Technology Research Facility] technology that Gu Hang mentioned earlier.

Engineering technology research is aimed at solving such problems.

However, Gu Hang didn’t demand a large amount of research resources be invested in this project.

As a melee weapon, despite its immense power and significant impact in crucial battles, its usage is quite limited. Having a finished black box for small-scale equipment is sufficient.

There are many other important technologies that require the Alliance’s technical personnel to work on. The priority for phase weapons is not high.

The expenditure of Gift Points over the past four years was roughly like this.

However, although none of the monthly fixed income was saved up to form any significant reserves, one cannot overlook that fixed income is only part of Gu Hang’s Gift Points revenue.

His other main source of revenue comes from wars.

In the early years, the war to conquer the entire Menghe Star Domain didn’t provide much income for Gu Hang.

Mainly because claiming Menghe, though large-scale and involving a whole star domain, the intensity of warfare wasn’t high. The Alliance’s annexation actions relied more on political methods. The enemy’s resistance wasn’t strong.

In such circumstances, naturally, the saved Gift Points wouldn’t be much.

However, when the Fury Flame Battle Group, leading the rebellion, moved south and both sides were stuck in stalemate battles in the northern Menghe Star Domain, the war began to significantly increase the Gift Points income.

When the Alliance’s main force broke through the Shangdong-Guangfeng corridor and recovered two sectors within the Proudclaw Cosmos, the Gift Points revenue from war saw even greater growth.

Although during this process, the Alliance never found an opportunity to engage in a decisive battle with the Fury Fleet, nor could they eliminate the main forces of the Fury Fleet. Still, the sheer scale of war speaks volumes, whether it was destroying those space defense systems around several Star Realm Tunnels or the battles to conquer Shangdong Star, or the suppression of those twenty worlds in the Proudclaw Cosmos…all contributed to the accounts.

All the Gift Points from these wars, Gu Hang didn’t waste; he saved them all.

Up till now, this income has accumulated to over ten million.

Perfect, time for a grand ten-time draw at the million-point tier!

Apocalypse-level Technology, with a 10% chance of dropping in the million-point tier, has a pretty high probability of yielding results in ten tries!

And indeed, as Gu Hang anticipated, a result came out.

And it was exactly one of the things he most wanted:

[Apocalypse-level Technology: Retribution-class Battleship]

Gu Hang’s face once again wore an unrestrained smile!

The long-awaited battleship technology had finally arrived!

Although now that the technology has been drawn, it can’t be put to use immediately. After all, from dock construction to the lengthy manufacturing cycle of the starship itself, it’s not simple for the Alliance to produce its own Retribution-class Battleship.

However, this is a promising start!

Gu Hang almost immediately communicated the corresponding technical information, using the most secure level of star language communication, to Wu Jiarong.

Ms. Wu Jiarong, as one of the Sages of the Mingyang Sect, and now an important participant in the close cooperation between the Sect of Mechanics and the Alliance, had become a resident of Rage Owl Star.

Simply put, she had returned.

Circumstances had changed, previously Gu Hang considered whether he needed to create an offshoot Sect of Mechanics as a cover for black box technology.

But now it seems unnecessary.

The Mingyang Sect has a high level of cooperation.

The Mingyang Sect, in the context of the whole universe and the entire Empire, of course, is a rather obscure and weak little sect. Nonetheless, they possess an enduring history, and Jindi Star as a Founding World has been developing for over three thousand years, with some level of foundation.

Possessing such a foundation, albeit with a generally modest actual influence, their core influence lies within the Dragonhawk Star Domain, the Alliance’s home base, with a maximum coverage of half of the Eastern Cosmos Domain…such a sect is truly perfect.

The diplomatic exchanges carried out via the black box four years ago were rather successful.

In this situation, Gu Hang suspended the idea of having Wu Jiarong break off and start her own sect. Using her standing as a Sage in the Mingyang Sect, continuing development under the guise of the Mingyang Sect was fine.

However, simply notifying them about the Retribution-class Battleship information clearly wasn’t sufficient.

He exchanged the two related black boxes for this technology — the auxiliary dock construction and the finished black box for directly manufacturing core components of the Retribution-class Battleship. He tore open a Subspace Rift and tossed the items into his Storm God Kingdom.

The majority of the black boxes owned by the Alliance are housed within the Black Box Workshop in the Storm God Kingdom. These two black boxes will be no exception.

The spirits at the Black Box Workshop will work earnestly, according to the institute’s requirements, produce items, and regularly deliver them from the Secret Research Institute on Rage Owl Star.

According to Wu Jiarong’s assessment, considering the dock construction, that critical components can be directly manufactured by black boxes, the first Retribution-class Battleship autonomously produced by the Alliance should be completed in six years.

Subsequently, they should be able to maintain a pace of producing two every eight years.

It’s worth noting here that producing two every eight years doesn’t mean one can be produced every four years.

A single Retribution-class Battleship’s production cycle of eight years is actually already quite commendable. The most the Alliance can manage, with the help of black box technology, is to start construction on two simultaneously, and delegate some highly technical and time-consuming steps to the finished black box to handle.

Following this construction rhythm, eight years later, the Alliance will have two more Retribution-class, one Zhugexia-class, two Holy Grail-class, and two Drachenfang-class purchased from the Mingyang Sect.

Adding these to our current fleet of eight, the number of main battleships will soar to fifteen!

If it progresses smoothly to this scale, even facing the Iron Fury’s main fleet in a major battle, the Alliance has hope!

After all, the Iron Armor Battle Group officially has only 21 battleships plus carriers, about thirty battlecruisers.

But they can’t possibly bring all their ships to the south, otherwise, things won’t go well in other directions?

Alas…

No matter how optimistic Gu Hang is, he dares not claim to know what this war will look like eight years later.

Perhaps, the war might drag on long enough to reach that point.

But will the Iron Armor Battle Group really allow the Alliance eight years of uninterrupted development in the south?

It seems unlikely.

Moreover, the Alliance itself needs more adjustments to its economic structure. Starting two more battleship production lines might overwhelm Rage Owl Star’s economy. More population migration is needed, and more consumer goods must be imported at the planetary level to sustain it.

However, Gu Hang doesn’t consider the situation too regretful.

Acquiring battleship technology has, in any case, greatly enhanced the war potential on our side.

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