Looking at the planet in front of him, he couldn't recognize this as the home planet of mankind, Earth.

The blue and beautiful planet in my impression is completely gone.

The oceans, which were supposed to occupy most of the planet's surface, dried up completely years ago, and the drifting white clouds naturally disappeared.

Instead, there are countless man-made structures that are clearly visible from space, covering every inch of the planet, including the dry seabed.

It's a nest.

This was Gu Hang's first thought, but he quickly overturned it.

It's so inaccurate.

It was a nest by nest.

Today's Holy Terra is the largest nest capital world in the Empire. According to the Empire, trillions of people live here, including more than 50 billion officials of the Empire's government, who rule over the vast territory of the Empire.

What a terrible number?

The starport area of Sacred Terra is also incomparably large, like a flat space world, with continuous steel creations, almost connected with the distant lunar starport.

Today's alliance controls half of the star field, counting all the worlds indirectly controlled by the Seven Horses framework and the Economic Community Act, a total of 182, with a total population of only 340 billion, which is only one-third of the planet Holy Terra.

Today, the Golden Knights are the only Space Marine warbands based in Holy Terra, and together with the Imperial Forbidden Army, both are super soldiers in golden livery, defending the home planet of humanity, the heart of the Empire.

During the near-earth flight, Gu Hang saw at a glance the people living in those towering nest capitals.

Gu Hang's spaceship flew far past the Mountain Formation, and his eyes had been reluctantly looking at this huge, mighty, and beautiful creation, thinking in his heart:

10,000 years ago, the Mountain Formation was recovered by the original Star Marines Seventh Legion. After splitting the warband, it also became the home of the reorganized Golden Knights of the Seventh Legion.

And Holy Terra doesn't just have a population. Its productivity is equally developed.

The entire solar system is the most core region of mankind.

It is called the Mountain Formation, and it is currently the largest mobile fortress in the Empire. It was the size of a moon or a large asteroid, and could accommodate 10 battleships on the foredeck alone. It can even be seen as a cosmic nest city, capable of accommodating an unimaginable number of people and requiring an incalculable number of mortal pilots.

In addition, the Sun Fleet, the core of the Imperial Navy, was patrolling this area, and Gu Hang could see many powerful warships of different shapes at a glance, each of which was comparable to or even exceeded the size of a Retribution-class battleship. The most numerous of them are certainly the most common Retribution-class battleships; But there are also some battleship models that look different, and they look fiercer than the decent Retribution class.

It wasn't until the Mountain Formation disappeared from his field of vision that he reluctantly withdrew his gaze.

This made the aura of the Divine Terra in Gu Hang's heart break slightly.

Its history has even surpassed the history of the human empire, it belongs to the prehistoric creation, and the current technology of mankind can only maintain it, and if there is a huge damage, it can only be repaired by alternative technology, and it will lead to a permanent loss of performance, let alone build a new one.

Countless ships, large and small, come and go from this magnificent starport area. Most of them are all kinds of transport ships, and the daily portrayal of the starport is not clear. Gu Hang could even see several ships dragging a huge ice comet into a specific starport. These ice comets may be the source of water for the trillions of people on the long-dried Divine Terra, which is beyond Gu Hang's imagination.

And in the orbit of the Holy Terra, the most eye-catching thing was still a round creation that was somewhat like a star castle, but it was much larger than any star castle Gu Hang had seen before.

Entering a starport, changing into a small spaceship, Gu Hang headed to the ground.

Well...... It's not going well.

"When will I have such a big dick......

Not only is it big, but it's also fast. On the few occasions when it has left Holy Terra to fight, it has always been able to reach the battlefield quickly and destroy the enemies of the Empire with unrivaled firepower.

There is not only the Holy Terra, but also the lunar base, and another magnificent world, the headquarters of the Mecha, the Martian Casting World.

Koroga is already a standard nest world, and its huge population resources are its core output. But even then, at its peak, it had a population of only 40 billion, only 4% of the population of Sacred Terra.

In orbit around the planet, he was almost shocked by the capital of the empire, the heart of humanity. However, the people on the Holy Terra have a standard of living similar to his stereotype of the Hive Capital world.

But it is said that the house prices on the Holy Terra are very expensive, and the most dilapidated small room may be worth a palace on another planet.

And on the surface of Holy Terra, if there is one of the most magnificent complexes, it is the Imperial Palace.

It is located in the Himalayas and covers the entire Tibetan Plateau. Its spires reach into the sky, its golden palaces gleaming in the sun, and countless ships hovering over it, guarding the glory and dignity of the empire. It is not only a symbol of imperial power, but also an eternal fortress, standing in the long river of history, witnessing the rise and fall of the empire.

The emperor made his fortune from here and unified the whole world; Here, the Emperor created the Space Marines and the Imperial Forbidden Army, which can be called 'Perfect Humans', and set off a great expedition to build the current territory of the Empire. The emperor is here, soaring into a god and sheltering mankind for thousands of years.

And the destination of Gu Hang's trip is exactly here.

……

Gu Hang's trip to Divine Terra took him a long time.

The longest stretch of the journey was from the Alliance to the Infinity Star. The road to the south was a bit too dangerous, and Gu Hang could only choose to take the East Star Domain from the east and then go south to the Carved Silk Star Field, and then he could reach the Wuji Star Domain.

And after arriving at the Infinity Star, make another jump to enter the Wenshou Universe Domain, and then enter the Sun Universe Domain.

The empire also pays attention to the division of administrative regions, and each of the capital planets of the Celestial Domain, while serving as the core of the entire Celestial Domain, also has a requirement, that is, the connection with the Solar Celestial Domain does not exceed the jump of a star domain.

Even, for the sake of the second point, sometimes the first point will be sacrificed, so that the capital planet of a certain star field hangs on the edge.

This was apparently to ensure that the entire empire could maintain as much control over the vast territory as possible.

It wasn't until later that the empire's territory was too large, and this rule was relaxed to two star fields.

But all in all, the journey from the Infinity Star to the Solar Celestial Domain, the core of the Empire, is not as far as it seems from the map of the Imperial Star Field.

However, even so, it took Gu Hang a full 7 months of sailing time to reach the Solar Universe, and another 3 months to reach the Holy Terra.

This is also because Gu Hang took a high-speed spaceship, did not bring a whole fleet, did not stop on the road, rarely slowed down, and carried the passage orders issued by the central government of the empire all the way, and only completed the voyage in 10 months.

Switching to a larger fleet, or transport fleet, to complete the journey, it usually takes two years.

For Gu Hang, a figure with millions of dollars a minute, he must not be very happy to let him spend such a long time on the road.

Especially at such a critical juncture as the Silver Court is approaching.

Isn't Gu Hang worried, after the Silver Inquisition came, he resisted the pressure and pronounced the alliance's treason, and then the Furious Flame War Group set off a war and launched a full-scale attack on the alliance's controlled area?

That, of course, is still a concern.

However, after thinking about it again, Gu Hang still decided to come on this trip.

Gallardo invited him to come in order to solve the problems that the Iron Fury Stone had brought to the Alliance.

Nominally, it is to let Gu Hang come to the Holy Terra, and there will be a commendation conference specially opened for Gu Hang. The victory report of the Iron Tooth War has finally gone through the process in the Imperial War Department. Although there are some twists and turns in the middle, it can basically be established now, and Gu Hang and his alliance are the biggest contributors in this war.

But if it was just for commendation and awarding, then Gu Hang would definitely not spend almost two years going back and forth to Divine Terra.

Even if Gallardo said that there was a chance to get him the rank of marshal.

Marshal, this is an outrageously high military rank. Moreover, when he came to Holy Terra to confer the title, it was obviously impossible to give a military rank that was not used like some native World Defense Forces, but a solid Marshal of the Imperial Astral Army.

This is usually the highest military rank that can only be obtained by the highest military commander of the Astral Army or the Imperial Navy in an entire Celestial Domain, and it is also the highest permanent military rank in the Astral Army and Navy. Although, in fact, above the marshal, there are two levels: the generalissimo and the supreme marshal, but they are basically of an honorary nature. The Generalissimo is generally a person who assigns a certain marshal to the highest and unified command position in a war of great scale in which multiple Imperial Marshals are involved.

Generally, after the end of the war, the position of the temporary supreme commander will be removed, or because his performance in this war is very crucial, and the contributions and merits are impossible to ignore, it is also possible to retain the rank of generalissimo as an honorary military rank.

And the Supreme Commander, there is only one in the entire empire, as the representative of the Astral Army, sitting in the thirteen seats of the Imperial Council.

In these senses, the marshal is indeed the highest level in the normal military rank of the empire, and it has huge political significance, even if it is a light marshal, the influence brought by this title alone is quite large.

But for Gu Hang, this rank of marshal was not enough for him to waste nearly two years on the way back and forth.

He was not the same as the average serious Marshal of the Astral Army. After being promoted, it is necessary to transfer to or master more Astral Army troops and become a higher-level commander, so that they will be equipped with such a top military rank.

However, Gu Hang's marshal was fought as a relatively independent force. His Raging Bear Legion, although it is also a registered Astral Army legion, but after several rounds of expansion, the overall scale is only 20 million, of course, it is impossible to support a marshal.

This title of marshal, if it is only an honor for him, is not so valuable.

However, the meaning behind it is relatively large.

Although he could not expect that after the marshal, the empire would deploy a large number of Astral Army troops to expand the power in his hands. However, the Angry Bear Legion that Gu Hang already had in his hands could be further expanded.

If it can be legally expanded to a scale of billions, then the annual money for raising troops, according to the standards of the Astral Army, is hundreds of billions, or even hundreds of billions; The annual money for raising soldiers is also calculated in tens of billions.

Moreover, in the discussion between Gu Hang and Gallardo, it is possible that the empire will give the alliance another rank of admiral.

Serious Imperial Admiral.

Of course, Gu Hang would give this opportunity to Yelicia.

In addition to the honor of military rank, this also means that the Pegasus fleet, as an imperial naval fleet, can be expanded to several times the current scale. This also means hundreds of billions of allocations, as well as tens of billions of annual maintenance costs.

Of course, the empire will not actually give a dime to these 'appropriations' for army building, and all of them are from the alliance.

However, it is tax deductible.

That's the equivalent of real money.

Anyway, it takes time to build an army, and the imperial tax payable by the alliance every year can be built as much as it deducts.

Instead of handing over this money in vain, it is better to build the Astral Army and the Imperial Navy to deduct taxes.

Of course, you can't really build that much with a tax amount of 38 billion / year, otherwise other people who need this money on the whole line will be offended. But the tax deduction is about 20 billion a year - this figure can also be increased as the alliance grows and the tax amount increases. It would take twenty or thirty years to build these two troops.

Although, if the Alliance's army is converted into the Astral Army and the Imperial Navy, then theoretically the Empire can be mobilized, but ......

In the past, Gu Hang came over with a paper order, saying that he had to do what he wanted.

However, if Gu Hang really had the Astral Bounds Army and Navy fleet worth hundreds of billions in his hands, then whoever wanted to issue this 'one-piece order' would have to think twice first.

Of course, Gu Hang is a loyal minister of the empire, and he will definitely carry out orders if he has them, otherwise wouldn't he become a domineering warlord?

It's just that before the order is issued, you have to ask Gu Hang's opinion. As a marshal of the Reich, and at that time a marshal of real power, who could ignore his opinion?

The meaning behind the two military ranks of 'Marshal Angry Bear' and 'Admiral of the Heavenly Horse' was the apparent reason why Gu Hang wanted to visit Divine Terra in person.

This involves a total value of two or three hundred billion, which is equivalent to four to five years of imperial taxes for the Alliance, and at the same time represents a major political interest that cannot be ignored.

(End of chapter)