Chapter 1561: Chapter 885: Expedition Status and Alliance Economy
Due to the Alliance’s long-term investnts in various regions, the initial phase imposed so pressure on the Alliance, and the pace of warti expansion was not as fast as imagined.
People often like to compare the Dark Side Expedition with the Solar Expedition that started about two hundred years ago.
There are actually significant differences between the two.
In terms of scale, they are roughly similar. Although the Dark Side Expedition was launched centered on two cosmic domains, it quickly swept across eight cosmic domains so far, and in the long run, it aims to further expand into the entire Eastern and Southern Borders.
The Solar Expedition, on the other hand, although its main battlefield was confined to the Solaria Domain, unlike the Dark Side Expedition which has expanded to encompass eight domains, the difference lies in the magnitude of the Solaria Domain, which spans around ten thousand worlds, equivalent to three or four tis that of the Forward Cosmic Domain. Moreover, even though the battlefield of the Solar Expedition was relatively confined, its scope was much broader, with the entire Empire supporting the war effort.
From the perspective of military achievents, the Solar Expedition took sixty years to conquer ten thousand worlds; anwhile, the Dark Side Expedition expanded the Alliance’s territorial range to over forty thousand worlds in the sa period. It seems there is a multiples discrepancy, but in reality, it is not so. The Dark Side Expedition involves fighting within the Empire’s territory, frankly speaking, it’s much easier.
Especially as the Alliance’s Dark Side Expedition becos more vigorous, the military pressure diminishes. After all, those Empire Worlds aren’t enemies of the Alliance. They often welco the Alliance’s arrival. The real enemy of the Alliance is rely the threats faced by those worlds.
The Oglia Campaign is a typical example. Within two or three years, the conflict was resolved, and three thousand worlds in the Forward Cosmic Domain instantly ‘submitted’, with governance being quite stable.
In other regions, although not on as grand a scale as the Oglia Campaign, the mode is quite similar.
By eliminating the greatest threat to a planet, the planet essentially returns. These planetary-level threats are likely to be rebels or cults of so sort.
By removing a sector-level threat, it often brings back multiple sectors, dozens of worlds; eliminating a domain-level threat leads to the rapid submission of hundreds of worlds in that domain. This generally involves a cross-stellar rebellion or cult force, or so alien threat, or an invasion by a Chaos Demon Army.
From this perspective, the rapid progress of the Dark Side Expedition is only reasonable. After all, during the Solar Expedition, there was no such convenience. The Solar Expedition fought outside the Empire’s territory, requiring effort to conquer every world, every sector, every domain.
In terms of scale, the two can be compared, yet comparable. But regarding the impact on the Empire, on humanity as a species, the differences are completely distinct.
So far, the Solar Expedition can be definitively concluded as a prolonged disaster for the Empire. Not only during the sixty years of the expedition, where the Empire continuously spent enormously to support it, but even after the expedition ended, it seemingly expanded into a vast domain like Solaria with over ten thousand worlds. However, these ten thousand worlds have hardly brought any benefits to the Empire, instead constant revolts have been a continuous bleeding point, a burden.
Conversely, Gu Hang’s Dark Side Expedition genuinely recaptured lost territories for humanity. Moreover, the Alliance’s longstanding policy of heavy governance ans that each world will quickly return to normal production; overall, the Dark Side Expedition is positively profitable.
And substantial gains at that.
The two can be clearly distinguished in terms of their outcos.
The high-profit nature of the Dark Side Expedition allows the entire expedition not only not to drain the Alliance dostically but rather add fuel to the flas, growing increasingly fervent.
Currently, the overall command of the Dark Side Expedition is already discussing, considering the Southern Expeditionary Force’s smooth progress, whether to add an Eastern Expeditionary Force, advancing south along the Guangjin Domain, to attack the Lingyuan and Turku Domains, ultimately targeting the southeastern fringe of the Empire’s map—the Caloria Domain.
anwhile, the Southern Line continues along the Ning Shou and Dingyuan Domains, which have been mostly conquered, to further advance southward to the Mai Liang and Hexiang Domains.
At this stage, the largest Eastern Border among the Empire’s five territories will fall entirely under the Alliance’s control. From the number of worlds, this is nearly a quarter of the Empire.
The acceleration of expansion brings effects evident herein.
Without needing further dostic resource exploitation or raising the mobilization order level, simply investing in infrastructure and industry within these newly expanded regions is already enough to support further expeditionary scale increase.
This expansion won’t significantly affect the Alliance’s investnts in new occupied areas!
Under such circumstances, Gu Hang approved the order for establishing a new direction of the expeditionary force.
The already exceptionally fast-paced Dark Side Expedition just pressed the acceleration button once again.
In the next phase of planning, with a fifteen-year tiline, the entire eastern territory of the Empire should be completely reclaid; simultaneously, the Empire’s Central Territory, after the Skywatch Domain, currently the Western Expeditionary Army has also advanced into the Ando Domain.
In the past, the Ando Cosmic Domain was already considered the core of the Empire’s territory. Moving further west from the Ando Cosmic Domain would lead you to the Sun Zhou Domain, the location of the heart of the Empire, Holy Terra.
There, is also the place close to the Scarlet Scar.
The Western Expedition Army essentially fights close to the Scarlet Scar, with the intensity and violence of the war being significantly higher than elsewhere. The situation is expected to continue as such.
But just because it’s tough and progresses slowly, we cannot ignore the achievents on the western front.
Just like we cannot deem the northern front to have no achievents rely because it has been on the defensive during the Dark Side Expedition, constantly losing soldiers, instead of expanding territory. On the contrary, the Northern Line Army established a solid defensive line at the edge of the Alliance’s heartland, preventing the armies pouring out madly from the Scarlet Scar from directly invading the most vital core holand of the Alliance, which is their greatest achievent.
The generals honed from the northern front are the most nurous.
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After wrapping up the overall situation of the Dark Side Expedition, Gu Hang turned his focus onto the overall developnt of the Alliance.
Currently, the most important engine for the Alliance still centers on the Dragonhawk Star Domain, extending to the Eastern Cosmos Domain and Spiderweb Domain, the earliest territories of the Alliance.
Especially the Dragonhawk Star Domain, where the high-speed economic developnt has never been interrupted since it was unified by the Alliance.
Even though the growth rate has slowed down a bit in recent years, that’s because the size is simply too large, reaching so kind of limit. But even so, the recent economic growth rate can still reach around 3% per year.
Looking back over the entire 110 years from unification to the present, the average economic growth rate is about 6%. The overall economic scale of the Dragonhawk Star Domain, from 110 years ago was considered an upper-middle-level star domain economy in the East, and it has nearly expanded 600 tis since then!
The population has also grown nearly tenfold from less than a trillion at the ti of unification, reaching a scale of ten trillion.
Economically speaking, a single Dragonhawk Star Domain alone is over fifty tis larger than a smaller domain like the Forward Cosmic Domain.
This is after the Forward Cosmic Domain joined the Alliance, receiving much investnt, and was developed for twenty to thirty years. If compared to the ti when the Forward Cosmic Domain was first incorporated into the Alliance, this number is nearly a hundred tis.
Even talking about population alone, the Forward Cosmic Domain, after the Ogalia Campaign, which left a domain almost empty, had a population of around five trillion in the post-war period, less than half of the Dragonhawk Star Domain.
It is precisely because of the Dragonhawk Star Domain as the central engine, driving the developnt of the Spiderweb and Eastern Cosmic Domains, and further investing in all newly occupied regions within the Alliance, to secure returns, establishing an overall economic model for the Alliance, allowing for a stable and healthy progression of the Dark Side Expedition.
For the Alliance, the importance of the Dragonhawk Star Domain is equivalent to the importance of the Sun Star Domain to the entire Human Empire.
Perhaps, currently, the Alliance does not have any single world that can reach the level of the mother planet Holy Terra, whether in terms of population or economic scale, the situation on Holy Terra is a rarity in the entire universe, an absolutely unreplicable existence.
But frankly, Gu Hang has no intention of replicating a Holy Terra within the Alliance.
In his view, developing a single world to that extent is very unhealthy. On the one hand, for the Human Empire, if Holy Terra were to fall, the consequences would be almost unacceptable. Politically unacceptable, and economically unacceptable.
On the other hand, even though Holy Terra is so developed, how much of the vast economic benefits have fallen into the hands of the Terrans there?
They have enjoyed so, but not much.
High property prices, high living costs just to na a few, and precisely because of the overcrowding of population on Holy Terra, there’s not enough resources, the planet’s entire ecosystem is almost destroyed, completely relying on technology, and artificial support…
The wealthy elite do not worry, but for the vast civilian class, the living conditions on Holy Terra can hardly be called good.
While the Alliance also has its core of cores, such as Rage Owl Star and Flying Wing Star, the Tianma Star Sector where the Alliance started, or the other core comprising Yunluo Star and the Founding World Jindi Star where the Starfield Capital is located, overall, the economic developnt of the Dragonhawk Star Domain is relatively balanced.
The burden of supporting the population is evenly distributed, not as great as it is on Holy Terra; nor, like Holy Terra, is the risk like putting all eggs in one basket.
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