Gazing at the planet before him, he couldn't recognize it as Earth, the mother planet of humanity.
The impression of that blue and beautiful planet was completely gone.
Oceans that should have once covered most of the planet's surface had dried up an unknown number of years ago, and naturally, the floating white clouds also vanished without a trace.
Instead, countless artificial structures, clearly visible even from space, covered every inch of the planet, including the dried-up seabeds.
They were the Nest Capitals.
That was Gu Hang's first thought, but he quickly dismissed it.
It was far too imprecise.
It was a patchwork of Nest Capitals.
Today's Holy Terra was the Empire's largest Nest Capital World. According to the Empire's data, a trillion people lived here, including over fifty billion officials of the Empire Governnt, responsible for governing the vast territories of the Empire.
What a terrifying number that was?
Korolya was already a standard Nest Capital World, with its huge population being its core resource. But even at its peak, it only had a population of 40 billion, rely 4% of Holy Terra.
Currently, the Alliance controlled half of the Star Domain, and if we included the worlds indirectly controlled through the Economic Community Act within the Seven Horse Frawork, there would be a total of 182 planets, with a combined population of 3.4 trillion, a re one-third of that of Holy Terra.
And Holy Terra possessed not just a vast population. Its productivity was equally developed.
The entire Solar System was indeed the core region of humanity.
Here, not only Holy Terra existed, but also the Moon Base, as well as another magnificent world—the headquarters of the Sect of chanics, the Martian Foundry World.
Holy Terra's Starport District was also staggeringly vast, resembling a sprawling space world made of steel, stretching unbroken and nearly blending into the Moon Star Port in the distance.
Countless vessels, big and small, tightly packed, were entering and leaving this grand Starport District. The daily volu of materials moving through the starport was beyond calculation. Gu Hang could even see several ships hauling massive ice cots into designated starports. These ice cots, perhaps, were the source of water for the unimaginable trillion inhabitants of the now parched Holy Terra.
Additionally, the Imperial Navy's core Solar Fleet patrolled this area; Gu Hang could see many powerful warships of diverse shapes, each comparable in size to or even surpassing a Retribution-class Battleship. The most nurous, of course, were the commonly seen Retribution-class Battleships; but there were also so Battleships of a different mold that looked fiercer than the conventional Retribution-class.
Above the orbit of Holy Terra, the most eye-catching was a circular object, sowhat resembling a Star Fortress but larger than any other Star Fortress Gu Hang had ever seen.
Nad Mount Array, it was the Empire's largest mobile fortress to date. Its size was like a satellite or a large asteroid, with its foredeck alone able to accommodate 10 warships. It could even be considered a cosmic Nest Capital, capable of housing an inconceivable number of inhabitants and requiring an incalculable number of mortal crew mbers.
It was not only enormous, but also fast. From the few records of its departures from Holy Terra, it was always able to quickly reach the battlefield and annihilate the Empire's enemies with unmatched firepower.
Its history even predated that of the Human Empire; it belonged to a prehistoric creation that the current human technology could only maintain. If it sustained significant damage, it could only be repaired with substitute technology, resulting in permanent performance loss, not to ntion the impossibility of building a new one.
Mount Array was retrieved by the Interstellar Warrior 7th Legion 10,000 years ago. After the division of the Battle Group, it beca the ho of the reorganized Golden Knight Legion.
Now, the Golden Knight Legion was the only Starfighter Battle Group permanently stationed on Holy Terra, and together with the Imperial Guard, both painted golden, they defended the mother planet of humanity and the heart of the Empire.
As Gu Hang's ship skimd past Mount Array, his gaze lingered on this massive, majestic, and beautiful creation, thinking:
"When will I ever have such a behemoth..."
Until Mount Array vanished from his view, he reluctantly pulled his gaze away.
Entering a Starport, he switched to a smaller ship and headed for the surface.
In the approach, Gu Hang caught a glimpse of the people living among those towering Nest Capitals.
Hmm... life didn't seem great.
This slightly shattered the halo of Holy Terra in Gu Hang's heart.
In orbit above the planet, he was almost awestruck by the Imperial Capital, the heart of humanity. However, the living standards of the people on Holy Terra were similar to the Nest Capital Worlds of his stereotypical impression.
But it was said that real estate prices on Holy Terra were exceedingly expensive, with the most dilapidated room perhaps worth as much as a palace on other planets.
On the surface of Holy Terra, if one were to talk about the most magnificent set of buildings, that would still be the Imperial Palace.
It was situated on the Himalayas, covering the entire Tibetan Plateau. Its spires pierced the sky, and the resplendent palace glead in the sunlight with nurous ships circling above, guarding the glory and dignity of the Empire. It was not only a symbol of imperial authority but also seed like an eternal fortress, standing through the ages, witnessing the rise and fall, the changes and transitions of the Empire.
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