Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1071: Chapter 583, Army Upgrade_2

A significant wave of promotion opportunities, the naval system was brimming with excitement and optimism.

As for low-ranking officers and the missing personnel among the enlisted sailors, replacements would still need to be made.

Earlier, when the Alliance Navy reached a certain scale, the [Personnel Card] interface quietly unlocked the sailor training branch. It required soldiers to reach the T5 level, and at the cost of 1 Gift Point per 10 individuals, qualified sailors could be trained.

The deficit of fewer than three million sailors translated into a total cost of 300,000 Gift Points.

With Gu Hang’s current possession of 30 million Gift Points, this was a relatively insignificant expense.

However, Gu Hang wasn’t planning to completely rely on Gift Points to solve all the problems.

Nor did he need to.

The comprehensive educational system actively developed across the Alliance territory was expected to yield results.

The Naval Academy on Flying Wing Star trained mid-level and senior officers, while under his Alliance governance structure, military schools were prevalent everywhere—not only in the Tianma Star Sector but also throughout the Alliance. Education systems represented a significant budget allocation within the Alliance.

Gu Hang had always understood that the issue of talent could partially, even crucially, be resolved using system resources, but it could never be completely addressed this way. As his domain expanded to encompass two or more Star Domains, with a population measured at hundreds of billions or even trillions, the vast requirements for military personnel, engineers, technical workers, and managerial talents…

These demands couldn’t solely rely on Gift Points to be met.

No matter how many Gift Points Gu Hang earned through wars, it would never be enough to support such expansive territories and immense populations.

Fortunately, Gu Hang had long considered these issues. In the past, he placed heavy emphasis on the Alliance’s educational system. On one hand, he exchanged vast amounts of Gift Points for academy buildings, ensuring they were established in various worlds across the Alliance’s territory. On the other hand, despite the Alliance’s stringent budget constraints, educational funding was always allocated—even if it had to be scraped together from the corners of the budget.

The educational system, paired with Gu Hang’s use of the [Hero] interface to inspire exceptional talents and the [Personnel Card] interface to train key personnel, was one of the critical reasons for the Alliance’s robust development. It ensured the Alliance excelled in economic growth, manufacturing, overall governance, and military readiness by cultivating a substantial backbone of talent.

The Navy was just one aspect.

The abundance of skilled sailors was enough to fill the void of several million navy personnel.

Gu Hang planned to allocate Gift Points to address only part of this deficit. He devised a plan to spend roughly 60,000 Gift Points, training 600,000 sailors. As for the remaining vacancies, a mentor-apprentice system would be sufficient to bridge the gap effectively.

On the other hand, the Navy Marine Corps required significantly more investment.

Although in past naval battles it was often the Alliance boarding enemy ships, preparations needed to be made in advance to counter scenarios where this situation reversed, particularly against Iron Armor forces.

The reason for such frugal planning was another major expense: the strengthening of frontline combat troops.

Among the two million sailor deficit, roughly half was reserved for the Navy Marine Corps.

Gu Hang intended to elevate this unit’s capabilities to a very high standard.

Beyond a large quantity of sophisticated gear designed for fighting within ships, the elite caliber of personnel could not be neglected.

Gu Hang anticipated training these forces to achieve an average combat capability of T3 level.

This approach also applied to the existing Navy Marine Corps personnel within the fleets.

Their primary mission was to execute anti-boarding operations; at critical moments, they could be deployed as boarding forces or paratroopers for ground support.

The Alliance Navy Marine Corps had an estimated total scale of about three million personnel, inclusive of those required for both new and old ships.

This amounted to an expenditure of three million Gift Points.

But this figure encompassed only part of the overall costs.

Two other substantial expenditures involved the Army and the Interstellar Warriors.

For the Army, the Alliance Army’s formal forces reached a size of about 1.5 billion personnel. Within the Alliance system, these units were equivalent to the Star Realm Army in the Empire structure, capable of combat deployment outside their home planets, distinguishing them from the native Pact Army.

For a long time, Gu Hang had ceased training every Alliance Army soldier using Gift Points—it was unaffordable. Currently, only about 30% of the soldiers had undergone Gift Point training.

This proportion was already quite significant, equating to the training of approximately 500 million soldiers, an expenditure of over 5 million Gift Points.

Proportionally speaking, the situation was still manageable.

The Alliance’s military schools didn’t solely train naval officers; they focused more heavily on the Army.

Furthermore, the Alliance Army’s training system had long been established, fundamentally mirroring the Imperial structure: selecting elites from the Planetary Defense Forces.

The basic quality of these troops was already high. While not all members reached T5 level, the deviation wasn’t significant enough to hinder operations, and a considerable portion of the personnel had reached this level.

With an additional 30% trained via Gift Points, the overall proportion of T5-level soldiers exceeded 60%. The collective strength of the Alliance Army remained comparable to the combat readiness of typical Star Realm Army Corps.

In fact, it even surpassed some.

After all, many Star Realm Army Corps generally maintained only about 30% of personnel meeting T5 standards.

Such quality in the Alliance Army could even rival certain well-known Star Realm Army Corps.

And with a scale of 1.5 billion, the magnitude was even more formidable.

Currently, over 1 billion soldiers were battling across various sectors of the Proudclaw Cosmos.

They were working toward extinguishing fires of conflict in different areas to ensure hundreds of worlds within the Proudclaw Cosmos came under control, thus securing resources essential for sustaining the war. The Alliance’s provisional administrative bodies, operating under wartime strategies, managed these worlds with support from the Army.

Once these worlds were sufficiently stabilized and new Planetary Defense Forces were established, the Army would withdraw from each planet.

Looking to the future, the demand for Army personnel was unlikely to decline. Considering the prospect of prolonged confrontation during the Iron Armor War, even more troops might be required.

Gu Hang planned an additional expansion of the Alliance Army by 500 million personnel.

Recruits would be drawn from the Defense Forces of Meng River and Dragonhawk Star Domains. Gu Hang allocated 2 million Gift Points to train 200 million of these soldiers, ensuring high quality among the new recruits.

Mindful of limitations on troop deployment numbers, Gu Hang aimed to increase the proportion of elite forces. He intended to elevate one to two Skeleton Divisions within each Army Group to T4 levels, establishing them as core combat units.

The Alliance currently fielded 2,000 Army Groups, with a total of 2,600 Skeleton Divisions comprising 1.3 billion troops. To train all units to T4 level, excluding those whom war experiences or prior training had already elevated to this level, Gu Hang needed to train at least 1 billion personnel to T4.

This required an expenditure of 10 million Gift Points.

But the results would be worthwhile.

Skeleton Divisions at this level of capability would dominate battles against armies of similar size, including the Princess Legion or the Battle Group Auxiliary Forces.

Even the core units in some renowned Star Realm Armies only achieved comparable levels.

Additionally, Gu Hang expanded the Alliance Glory Guard Corps from its current 10,000 personnel to a scale of 50,000.

This elite force would consist entirely of soldiers at least T2 level, with a significant number reaching T1 level.

Glory Guards with such scale and average strength were projected to annihilate two fully-staffed ordinary Battle Groups in direct combat.

Given the high cost and limited numbers of Interstellar Warriors, Gu Hang had no choice but to take this approach.

This added another 1.5 million Gift Points to the expenditure.

In total, Gu Hang spent 16.5 million Gift Points on personnel expansions across the Navy and Army.

Half of the assets he had accumulated from the current war were thus spent.

Gu Hang estimated that, following this significant investment in personnel and equipment, the Alliance Army’s needs could be met for ongoing operations, at least for the foreseeable future.

There would be a clear enhancement in the overall combat strength of the Alliance military.

Even the most basic Army Group would hold its ground against enemy elite forces and could potentially gain an advantage.

After addressing the Army, Gu Hang turned his attention to the Interstellar Warriors.

Both Phoenix and Blood Shark required nurturing.

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