Star Lord: Rob the alien race and you will get a hundred times the reward

Chapter 137 Twenty Years of Settlement
Time flows like a long river, and twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye.

The Star Sea Territory made use of hundreds of vassal races to gather resources and flourish. Although the direct territories did not expand drastically, only five star systems with the 312 star system in Zone D as the core were designated as direct territories.

However, the thousands of star systems around are controlled by the vassal races of the Star Sea Territory. After twenty years of domestication, the races with obvious disloyalty have been screened out, and the rest, whether intimidated by force or sincerely following, all obey the Star Sea Territory's orders.

But it is still not safe at this time, because this generation of aliens is still there, and their culture and mental state are still intact, so it will take a longer time to educate their descendants. It will take several generations to basically guarantee the loyalty of these aliens to the Star Sea Territory, but this will take a long time, measured in hundreds of years.

During these twenty years, although the Star Sea Territory did not actively expand its territory, that was only because the two spaces, the Nix subspace and the microcosm, had not yet been developed and required a large population to populate and develop.

During this period, the Star Sea Territory migrated hundreds of billions of people from the Human Union, initially developed the microcosm, improved the immigration system of the Nix subspace, and established countless educational and training institutions to train genetically optimized humans into qualified talents, which increased the development speed of the Star Sea Territory day by day.

Using the combined fleet formed by vassal races as the main force and the Star Sea Territory's training fleet as the auxiliary force, they attack and beat up those alien civilizations that do not know how to be reverent, forcing these alien races to pay security fees every year in the vast void under the deterrence of the Star Sea Territory's warships.

After being multiplied by the golden finger, these security costs will be turned into a huge amount of resources supplied to the development of the territory. The industrial system has been comprehensively upgraded more than a dozen times, and the foundries for warships and other weapons have expanded hundreds of times. Fifty planetary megastructures alone have been built, and more than 600 mobile fortresses with a diameter of 50 kilometers can be built at the same time, and the construction time only takes more than two months.

The expansion of the industrial system has filled up the space in the two industrial zones. Every day, a large number of warships begin to display their equipment. It only takes half a month for an entire legion's fleet to join the battle sequence.

These are just conventional fleets, with technology above level six and a lot of level seven and eight technologies applied, but they are not equipped with rule-level equipment and cannot carry out rule-level attacks. Their combat methods are still mainly based on energy weapons, and they have only improved their defense resistance, allowing these conventional fleets to resist a certain degree of rule-level attacks.

The real main combat force of the Star Sea Territory has transformed from conventional fleets to rule-class battleships.

After twenty years of development, the industrial equipment in the Star Sea Territory has been improved rapidly through the acquisition of some conceptual-level equipment from the Human Union. As long as the Research Institute digests the technology and redesigns the equipment suitable for the Star Sea Territory, most of them can be built with these devices.

As a result, a lot of manufacturing time and material loss are saved, and the upgrade and expansion speed of the industrial system is increased by dozens of times. This is the main factor in the rapid development of the Star Sea Territory.

Military technology is advancing with each passing day, and the levels of technology are getting higher and higher, but in terms of civilian technology, Liu Wen still follows the sixth-level technology maintained by the human kingdom, and has not popularized rule-level technology on a large scale.

He didn't know the reason before. Human civilization has higher-level technology, but technology above level six basically does not appear in the civilian field. The technology above level seven that he has encountered and known only appears in the military field.

It stands to reason that if these technologies above level seven can be popularized for civilian use, then human life expectancy and development prospects will be much stronger than they are now. Both the number of talents and the war potential will be far beyond the reach of the current human civilization which is restricted by technology.

It was only after he became famous in the decision-making level of the Human Rights Union that his own authority level was greatly improved, and only then did he understand the reasons behind this through his own authority.

It's not that the Human Rights Union is unwilling to popularize these technologies. Everyone knows the huge benefits that will be brought about by popularization, and they are very eager for it. The clearer they are about the meaning of these technologies, the more they hope to impose constraints on them.

The reason is actually very simple, it’s a resource issue.

The star cluster where human civilization is located is not large. Whether in the main universe or the second world, all human countries are frantically plundering resources, and the existence of the pioneer system is proof of this.

The more advanced the technological products, especially the large items and equipment, the more materials will be needed. According to the total population of human beings, once the technological restrictions are lifted, it will not be long before the scarcity of resources will drive external expansion and military plunder. However, the current situation of human beings is not suitable for large-scale foreign military operations. The main purpose of the existence of many war zones is to prevent invasion, rather than to serve as a bridgehead to invade others. The reason is that they are not sure they can win.

Therefore, for the stable development of human civilization, technology was limited to level six. This also resulted in Liu Wendu believing that the technological strength of human civilization was not strong before reaching the open star field, and that at most the rule level could not reach the conceptual level. But in fact, the technological power mastered by humans had already reached the conceptual level and had gone some way.

The technological strength of human civilization has also caused the surrounding alien races to have a strong sense of vigilance against human civilization, and they have been under containment for a long time.

Frequent battles in war zones and rising resource consumption have further curbed the development of human civilization.

Although the territory is now very rich in resources and the resource planets in the industrial zone have piled up to form an artificial star system, these resources will be exhausted one day. A large-scale war can consume all the resources. Therefore, Liu Wen had to limit the level of civilian technology in the territory and only open up higher-level scientific and technological knowledge to talented scientific researchers to promote the development of territory technology.

In the Sera Industrial Zone, Laura's main control center has been upgraded into a mobile planet, and Liu Wen's daily life is also here.

This day was a gathering day for the six of them. It was a rare occasion for them to get together, and after having fun, they discussed the current development of the territory.

"Now the territory has basically completed the service standard of one thousand regular legions, one level seven rule legion, fifteen advanced special operations fleets, twenty butterfly rule biological legions, and two thousand regular biological legions. If we add the joint fleet composed of six thousand legions of vassal civilizations, the total force of our territory is now close to ten thousand legions." Jack shook his glass and said with a smile. The little fox and the cat were slightly surprised: "Ah, we have so many fleets? It's only been a short time, and we have almost ten thousand legions. If we develop for a few more decades and complete the industrial system in the Star Sea Microcosm, wouldn't it be possible to reach a scale of millions of legions!"

The blue fat man propped up his round belly and pouted, saying, "It's not that easy. The development of the territory is about to hit a bottleneck. The territory's resources seem to be abundant now, but once all industrial systems are running at full capacity, they can only guarantee two years of operation before they are exhausted. The number of warships built is still less than one-tenth of the losses suffered by the Human Alliance in the last war. What can this number do? A large-scale battle will consume them all."

"So few?" Frog, who had reached the peak of level six psychic and was accumulating strength to become a level seven master psychic, was a little confused when he heard the blue fat man's words. For those who had witnessed the last total war, there was not much difference between tens of thousands of legions and hundreds of thousands of legions. It was just a matter of a few more rounds of artillery fire. The Human Alliance lost tens of millions of legions in a single battle and has not recovered until now. Batches of crew members were recruited into the fleet for training, and there were dozens of legions of warships joining the service sequence every day.

"Our territory is still too weak, and our ability to resist risks is too poor. Boss, we should expand and gather resources as quickly as possible. At least we should fill the void of the microcosm with matter first, otherwise the territory will be blown over if it encounters a big storm."

Before Liu Wen could say anything, Jack laughed out loud: "Do you have a phobia of insufficient firepower or something? You're still trying to fill up the small universe. Do you know how many resources it takes to fill up the small universe?"

"The diameter of the small universe is 150,000 light years. If you want to fill it up, you need to put all the matter in the developed star field into it."

Frog stared at Jack with his big eyes, blinked innocently and said, "This is not much. Although the space technology we have now cannot create a living space on the same level as the Star Sea Microcosm, it is still no problem to collect half of the galaxy through space scaling technology. Prepare a few more sets of equipment, collect the matter of a galaxy at a time and fill it in. It won't take long!"

In order to become a seventh-level psychic master, Wa Zai studied scientific knowledge very carefully, so he was very familiar with the territory's technological level. It could be said that he knew more about the territory's technological level and the level of research than many scientific researchers.

After all, scientific researchers still have the problem of expertise. The directions they can play are very purposeful and therefore relatively narrow. But Frog has to learn all kinds of technology, including attack, defense, life, medical care, communication, construction, etc.

In theory, as long as psychics have the relevant power base, they can replicate technological applications according to technological theories, so there is indeed a lot to learn.

Frog's words left Jack at a loss. After hearing what he said, it seemed that filling the small universe was not difficult, and it would not be really filled up. At most, it would just construct gravitational sources to turn it into an artificial star system, making the matter density relatively richer. Therefore, a space with a diameter of 150,000 light years would only require a dozen galaxies to fill it. More than that would affect the internal operation. After all, there were tens of billions of immigrants living and reproducing in it, and the space required was very large.

Liu Wen took a sip of wine, feeling the spiritual energy of the sixth level that he had just been promoted to, and said, "Don't think about such a good thing. Do you think I really don't want to expand my territory? I can't."

"Why not? All the alien races in the open star field combined are not enough for us to defeat. Who can stop us?" The little fox asked puzzledly.

Liu Wen explained: "There are indeed no alien races that can be our opponents in the open star field. Even if they unite to fight against the territory, we only need to send out the rule-level legions to annihilate as many of them as possible."

"But this is the pioneering star field, a training base left by the Human Union for pioneering lords, not a welfare benefit provided to our Xinghai territory. How could they watch us consume most of the pioneering star field? Will they let the pioneering lords who come after us survive?"

"Ah? There is such a thing?" Maomao was surprised. She really didn't expect that it was not the alien race but the backing of the Human Alliance that restricted the development of the territory.

Frog also asked with a depressed look on his face: "What about our territory? Should we just shrink back and develop it?"

Jack explained to them, "Of course, we can't always tie ourselves down. The resources accumulated in the territory are definitely not enough, and the number of warships in reserve is far from enough. But we really can't annex foreign territories on a large scale and squeeze out the later pioneering lords. Therefore, we need to find an appropriate critical value that can allow the territory to continue to develop without causing the human alliance to restrict it."

"In fact, according to the intelligence passed on by our connections within the Human Union, some of the Human Union's top brass have proposed moving the Xinghai Territory to the first two war zones. Continuing to stay in the sixth war zone has already disrupted the local balance of power, making it impossible for future pioneer lords to be trained, and naturally, no qualified pioneer lords can be selected."

"So that's how it is." Frog and the others nodded in understanding and realized what Liu Wen and the others were worried about. The territory seemed to be well developed and powerful now, but in fact the existing military force could not withstand the ravages of a high-intensity war.

Therefore, it would be best if they could continue to develop for a period of time. They also know that the Star Sea Territory cannot stay here forever, and the surrounding alien races will not watch the Star Sea Territory grow and threaten them. After they feel that the territory has become a hidden danger, they will inevitably take action to contain it or even directly destroy the territory.

Although the opponent may not be able to do it, the danger is indeed increasing, so cautious development is the right choice. Even if it is just a layer of skin through a vassal race, it is an effective way to blur the opponent's judgment.

After all, these alien civilizations have no way to carefully distinguish the relationships between them, and the existence of alien vassals can to a certain extent conceal the true situation of the star sea territory.

Coupled with Liu Wen's own golden finger, every time he actively plundered alien resources, they would appear in his hands a hundred times more. Although most of them had been invested in territory construction, he still had a batch of reserve resources in his hands for Laura to mobilize.

(End of this chapter)