Starting from the Planetary Governor-Chapter 768 - 428, I am the Dominant Bishop!
Chapter 768: Chapter 428, I am the Dominant Bishop!
Chapter 768: Chapter 428, I am the Dominant Bishop!
The investment in nurturing military backbone, the construction of academies, the loyalty training at Loyal Heir Academy, and the targeted activation of ship engineers and special agent talents are all investments in ‘people,’ the most fundamental and important resource.
Together with the previous investment of five hundred thousand in factories, the grace points Gu Hang had earned in this round were mostly spent.
Of the remaining one or two hundred thousand, aside from setting aside a few tens of thousands as a reserve, he planned to invest the rest in the technology tree lottery draw.
Not counting the previously exhausted prize pool, Gu Hang now had two choices: ten thousand, and one hundred thousand.
After some thought, he chose the latter.
Although the prize pool for the former hadn’t dried up yet, the probabilities of drawing epic and elite-grade technologies were getting low.
True, there might be a chance to get something good with ten consecutive draws, but since he had one hundred thousand at hand and the prize pool for that was still a complete, high-probability one, it made more sense to go for a big play.
What Gu Hang most hoped for was to draw naval-related technologies to directly boost the speed at which the alliance could surge its navy.
However, after really investing the one hundred thousand grace points, things did not go as desired.
Though winning an epic-grade technology with a 50% chance, he didn’t get the hoped-for naval-related technology but instead drew [Stellar Energy Technology].
Somewhat disappointed, Gu Hang quickly accepted reality and deemed the [Stellar Energy Technology] to be quite impressive.
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The alliance was currently in a phase of explosive capacity production, and the daily energy consumption on the frontlines was astronomical.
Reliance on fossil fuels was certainly unrealistic, not to mention, many core war machines and high-grade manufacturing factories couldn’t use fossil fuels at all.
The representatives of the former are the navy’s ships and the Land Forces’ Titans; of the latter, the shipyards.
The energy solution for these things depended on the elite-grade technology that Gu Hang had already drawn earlier, [Compressed Energy Technology], which transformed electrical or spirit-based energy into energy crystal blocks—these are highly dense solid-state energy crystals that can be likened to batteries with extraordinarily high performance and capacity.
Although the alliance had an oil industry, it supplied mainly medium and low-end vehicles and machinery that use the Grindstone Engine.
The energy used by high-grade machinery was all from energy crystal blocks.
Even, at critical times, when fossil fuel reserves on the frontlines weren’t sufficient, and machinery needed to run, the Grindstone Engines would rely on energy crystal blocks to keep going.
At such times, cost-effectiveness was not considered; the priority was to get machines operating.
Likewise, energy crystal blocks could also be transformed back into electrical energy.
This was useful for interstellar-level energy trade, eliminating the need to build a truly interplanetary power transmission network—which was impossible.
Conversely, transporting a shipload of energy crystal blocks to fuel power plants on another planet was a far more convenient and rapid method.
A standard Compressed Energy Crystal Block, worth 1000 tax currency, could supply a small town with a population of over 100,000 for an entire year—of course, this doesn’t include the industrial electricity consumed by factories.
Such an energy crystal block, roughly the size of a 10-centimeter cube, would not explode, fear collision, and could even be cut if not utilized with compressed energy release technology, making it convenient and reliable for transport.
However, the source of its energy was a problem to be solved.
Compressed Energy Technology could only transform available energy into these energy crystal blocks, but from where would the energy for this transformation originate?
The main source of energy for the alliance was the Low Energy Storm on Rage Owl Star.
Compressed energy factories were directly constructed in regions long tormented by the Low Energy Storm.
When the storm surged, the technology to collect it funneled energy into the factory’s Energy Compressors to manufacture energy crystal blocks.
But this depended on the weather.
Even on the two barren continents of Rage Owl Star, storms didn’t blow every day.
An alternative, relatively stable method was power supply.
If an energy crystal block could supply a town for a year, then a small-scale power plant of this size could theoretically produce one energy crystal block a year as well, right?
This technology was primarily utilized in large nuclear power stations in some Nest Capitals and industrial centers, mainly to collect surplus electricity during low demand periods or to release energy to meet peak demand.
Although it could produce some energy crystal blocks, relying on it for trade or war supply was definitely unrealistic.
Even some large power plants, when supplying the energy consumption for industrial production, needed to import energy crystal blocks from Rage Owl Star’s conversion factories to ensure sufficient power.
As more and more starships were built,
the main method of power generation for the alliance was controlled nuclear reactors.
With just air and water, nuclear fuel could be generated and power produced—this technology was already advanced enough, and the cost of generating energy was sufficiently low.
But…
planets like Rage Owl Star and Heijian Star could be extensively developed because they had abundant water resources.
If this went on for long, even the oceans would be drained dry.
At present, with a population scale not yet dense, the situation was somewhat manageable.
However, the energy consumption required by the increasingly advanced industrial production was beginning to show its enormity.
If neglected now, environmental issues would become severe in the future.
Korolya Nest Capital World, a world now left with only industrial wastewater, with most of its living water resources relying on a water cycle system, is a testament to that.
