Chapter 1096: Chapter 598, the Gu Clan’s New Child_2
There are so things Gu Hang could be completely upfront about with Matins.
The Furyfla had been completely annihilated; there was no Furyfla anymore.
It was rely borrowing a shell.
When it was no longer needed in the future, Furyfla could officially and nominally disappear at any ti.
…
Handling these matters didn’t take up much of Gu Hang’s ti.
After setting the overarching ideas and tone, the specific execution details were left to the Battle Group Managent Office to handle.
This was a brand-new Alliance institution, established not long ago. It wasn’t responsible for decision-making, only for executing Gu Hang’s directives, aiming to et the needs of all battle groups as efficiently as possible.
It wasn’t an independent organization but rather a subsidiary of Gu Hang’s Governor’s Office, dedicated to handling such tasks.
They would coordinate with the Alliance’s biological research institute to receive all genetic seeds, collaborate with the Alliance’s Military Affairs Departnt to screen the personnel Gu Hang required, arrange surgeries, and assign those individuals to the two new battle groups.
As the Alliance grew larger, Gu Hang had less ti to micromanage these tasks personally.
Moreover, he indeed had another very important matter to attend to currently.
He went to the master bedroom shared with Yelisia; a crib was set up beside them.
Taking a bottle from the nanny, Gu Hang personally fed the baby.
Though he lacked extensive experience in this area, he had mastered holding and feeding techniques quite well.
Naturally, the child he was feeding at this mont was his own.
Yelisia watched on, laughing warmly.
“What’s making you so happy?”
Yelisia responded, “In the past, I imagined many futures—becoming a General, commanding fleets, annihilating the Empire’s enemies… But this scene here, I never foresaw.”
“Becoming a mother?”
“Not just that.” Yelisia’s laughter grew even gentler. “Of course I had thought about becoming a mother and nurturing offspring. I just never imagined quietly seeing my husband hold our child would make feel this kind of happiness.”
Gu Hang gently kissed her face while holding the child.
…
Warm and leisurely monts were inevitably fleeting facades. What couldn’t be ignored was that this scene took place on the Firebath Nova battleship.
A new life born aboard a battleship wasn’t a rare event. Among the more than forty thousand permanent residents aboard the Firebath Nova, many had started families on the ship. After all, sotis drifting aboard a vessel could last for many years.
Although the Alliance tried to reduce the phenona of people living their entire lives—from birth to death—on a ship, it was still a fairly common situation. Crew mbers had employnt contracts, wages, and Alliance tiers, and could choose to renew their contracts or retire after their service ti expired. However, those opting for retirent were rarer. Only injuries and advancing age resulted in relatively higher retirent rates.
Nevertheless, the long-term nature of space navigation ant that forming families aboard ships was not uncommon. A population of tens of thousands gathered together resembled a city, and most things one would find in a regular city could also be found aboard a Starship.
This included schools—kindergarten, elentary, and secondary.
Of course, this was sothing established by the Alliance; typical Imperial battleships wouldn’t feature such infrastructure systems.
Many people started families aboard ships, then, after working for a period of ti, took advantage of the ship resting at a location to retire, either individually or one mber of the family. Mothers or fathers would leave the ship with their children, settling in the local area or boarding ships to return to their holands.
This was to avoid the misfortune of future wars wiping out entire families.
These asures were relatively humane initiatives brought about by the Alliance. Frankly, it was hard to say whether efficiency had improved, but Gu Hang believed they were the right course of action.
Before the Alliance, people lived this way. After the Alliance, if lives continued unchanged, then what would be the point of the Alliance?
In this sense, Gu Hang and Yelisia were like any other family ford in similar circumstances. Their child had also been born aboard a starship.
Even the underlying struggles for this decision were the sa.
Gu Hang and Yelisia decided to have a child.
Not for reasons such as needing an heir for the Alliance or anything like that.
In fact, there was no such necessity.
Gu Hang calculated that he might be fifty-seven years old this year. Yet, his physical state and appearance remained indistinguishable from those of the young man he had been years ago. He didn’t know whether he counted as an Eternal Life yet, but with the power of Spiritual Energy’s resonance inhering within him, he felt no signs of bodily decay. He estimated that living for another thousand years might not be a problem.
Longevity wasn’t an issue for him.
Furthermore, when facing the end of his lifespan, he held one last backup plan: ascending to godhood right where he stood. Embracing Subspace, claiming complete dominion of the Storm God Kingdom that now solely belonged to him, abandoning his humanity to beco a Subspace Inferior God, and achieving eternal immortality thereafter.
Of course, he wouldn’t take this action until absolutely necessary.
For such a man as Gu Hang, the need for an heir was far from pressing.
Yelisia likewise had little concern over lifespan matters. Though older than Gu Hang by several years and already past sixty in actual years, she had undergone her first life extension surgery early and therefore enjoyed at least two hundred years of life, with youth permanently preserved. Additionally, she had at least three more surgeries available to extend her life span to five hundred years.
For both of them, the desire for offspring was not urgently driven.
The decision to have a child was simply a private one made between them as a couple.
This decision might carry so political significance, but both of them agreed it was not the priority. They were rely completing sothing mutually decided upon during a stage of their lives, adding another facet to their shared journey.
As for incidental effects—like in the coming fifteen or twenty years, having an heir they trusted the most as a participant in Alliance politics; the symbolic completeness of Gu Hang’s family among Alliance society; providing stability to citizens—such as ensuring that if Gu Hang were to one day perish, the Alliance still had a successor…
These benefits? Let nature take its course.
And if the child were to be raised poorly… that was not impossible.
But the impact would be minimal. After all, Gu Hang didn’t truly need an heir. Should the child fail spectacularly, they could live as pampered heirs, resembling affluent but idle second-generation elites, which was Gu Hang’s final act of rcy for his offspring.
Of course, as a father, Gu Hang sincerely hoped this wouldn’t be the outco.
He nad the child simply “Jing,” a na imbued with his aspirations.
…
While Gu Hang delighted in the arrival of his child, the war situation continued its ceaseless evolution.
The southern front remained relatively stable.
Although battles were happening on many planets, even two battle groups t their final end—not annihilation but surrender—on Fantasm Moon.
Overall, though, there were no major campaigns.
The Alliance was still adhering to Gu Hang’s directive—to wait for eighteen months.
Construction of starships, creation of new Interstellar Warriors, seed implantation, and growth of superhuman organs all required ti.
All they needed to do was wait.
For this reason, Gu Hang avoided excessively provoking Iron Armor or Alfonso.
The Alliance only secured territories on their side of the passage leading from Proudclaw Cosmos to Thistle Muster Star Field and Alfonso Star Domain. The other side could have been taken, but there was no hurry to seize it.
anwhile, Humphrey Paolo didn’t redeploy his main forces southward. He rely strengthened defenses in Thistle and Mustard Star Field, leaving Alfonso Star Domain to the Sect of chanics. The primary forces of the battle groups remained focused on the western front.
The lords of Holy Terra, wary of their worst fears, found the situation less grim than expected. Despite Iron Armor’s decisive victory in key battles, no attempt was made to push into the Empire’s Central Territory. Instead, they locked down a few key route planets in Skywatch Starfield without penetrating further, redirecting their efforts toward the expansive Magrey Cosmic Domain.
The officials of Holy Terra breathed a massive sigh of relief.
Though Iron Armor’s campaign in Magrey Cosmic Domain surged unstoppably, with countless planets falling swiftly, they could trade space for ti—and this was exactly what they had hoped for.
The Empire lacked much, but ample territory wasn’t one of its deficiencies.
Still, Gu Hang found it odd.
Such aggressive invasion, rapid conquests across Magrey Cosmic Domain—what was the point?
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