Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1407: Chapter 801

When the second batch of expeditionary troops joined the battle, the entire progress and speed of the expedition once again reached a new level.

And this is not the end.

The expansion plan within the Alliance is ongoing.

Moreover, the entire economic system of the Alliance had already begun to shift on the eve of the disaster outbreak.

From prioritizing economic construction to serving the war effort.

The level three mobilization order has been issued, and units are required to be ready to sound the level two mobilization order at any time.

Factories began to serve military production, the social environment and atmosphere started to change under official guidance, news tightened control, war-related news became more prevalent, mainly led by government propaganda.

On many eligible planets, citizens began to need to undergo four hours of weekly military training in militia camps as a reserve force. This is almost considered a civic duty covering all residents.

Gaining basic military skill training is to strengthen the reserve military force. When necessary to expand recruitment, these reserve militiamen can reduce the costs of selection and training.

All military factories were relieved of many restrictions previously imposed for economic development. Many civilian factories began to receive large numbers of processing orders from military factories, or even be transformed into military factories.

Some welfare policies for all residents started to shift towards wartime.

There are many similar policies.

The sounding of the mobilization order essentially means that the war potential of the Alliance is beginning to be unleashed.

With the current massive scale of the Alliance, a complete shift to a wartime economy and a full release of potential all of a sudden is difficult and would greatly harm society. The Alliance Government wouldn’t do that, and the current situation is far from completing full mobilization tomorrow.

A gradual shift is enough; the Alliance still has a lot of time to do this.

And related propaganda policies must also be in place.

Over the past two to three decades, the Alliance experienced a long-lasting golden period of peaceful development.

Now, this period is coming to an end.

In the future, war will be the main theme. The whole society must serve the war, and the duration won’t simply be a few years or decades; it might be a much longer period, even spanning several generations’ lifetimes.

Of course, that does not mean that the development of the Alliance must stop.

It’s just that the past ’golden period’ development emphasized comprehensive and foundational development for all, laying the groundwork.

Post-mobilization development will focus on military and military-industrial development.

Perhaps in a general sense, the people’s living standards might stagnate for a long time or even slightly regress. But in terms of the scale and quality of military production, it will significantly progress.

That’s inevitable.

In times of crisis, living issues must take a backseat to survival issues.

The same situation occurs in the Eastern Cosmos Domain.

The situation in the Eastern Cosmos Domain is quite special.

Previously, the Alliance system was not widely implemented in the Eastern Cosmos Domain. The Alliance’s control over the Eastern Cosmos Domain was more like economic colonial control, somewhat akin to economic exploitation.

Objectively, the profits earned from the Eastern Cosmos Domain accelerated the development of the Alliance’s homeland, but similarly, the considerable investment by the Alliance, especially in infrastructure, allowed the Eastern Cosmos Domain to achieve substantial economic growth.

However, due to the lack of support from the Alliance system, this economic growth did not benefit the general populace but was more devoured by the privileged class in the Eastern Cosmos Domain. As a result, the benefits to the general populace were relatively small.

At the time, the Alliance did not incorporate the Eastern Cosmos Domain mainly because expanding governance scale required high costs, but more importantly, due to the obstruction by Holy Terra. The Alliance restrained its ’greed’ for the Eastern Cosmos Domain to avoid overly stimulating the sensitive nerves of the Central Empire.

Now, there is no need for this worry.

And the political stage of the Eastern Cosmos Domain, which was heavily influenced by the Alliance, was entirely restored during the telecommunication operations. After the Declaration to Disaster Comrades announcing the start of the Dark Side Expedition, the Eastern Cosmic Realm Government declared on behalf of the entire Cosmos Domain to accept full management by the Imperial Dark Side Control Committee, acknowledging Gu Hang as the sole High Lord with supreme authority on the Dark Side of the Empire, and all planets within the Cosmos Domain will fully comply with all instructions from the Control Committee.

This means the Eastern Cosmos Domain smoothly completed its merger with the Alliance.

Moreover, in previous years, the Eastern Cosmos Domain already had many planets that accepted a significant number of Alliance-origin employees as government officials and professional managers. The entire political shift and reform have become quite smooth—compared to other places still requiring violent transformation, it is indeed relatively smooth.

Subsequently, the Alliance-style system will rapidly develop the entire Eastern Cosmos Domain towards Alliance homelandization while formulating citizen welfare and social production scale according to the mobilization order standards.

However, this peaceful evolution left many historical legacy issues, and the entire Cosmos Domain inevitably has many historical remnants, unlike the Alliance Fourteen Star Domains washed clean by blood and fire, allowing the Alliance to paint freely.

To appease and reward the original privileged class, although integrated into the Alliance system, they generally received particularly high positions, enjoying high-level welfare benefits and allowances, without having to undertake any special work tasks, in addition to extra allowances outside their rank… They are well-rewarded.

For those truly with desires for power or grand ambitions, it doesn’t matter. The Alliance’s demand for talent is always significant. Whether achieving ambitions or controlling power, the platform of the Alliance is far greater than in the past when they only had one planet, one star domain, or even one cosmos domain.

Engaging in a Dark Side Expedition that can influence the entire Empire’s fate!

This allure, for those with great ambitions, is more tempting than anything else.

The Alliance also warmly welcomes and needs the participation of these idealists.

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With fourteen star domains on the Alliance’s homeland, plus seven star domains from the Eastern Cosmos Domain, totaling 21 star domains, this constitutes the fundamental base supporting the current Dark Side Expedition.

So far, the Dark Side Expedition has been going on for three months. The second batch of expeditionary forces have been sent to the front line, and the third batch will be assembled within no more than half a year.

In these three months, more than seventy planets have been taken in the Magrey Cosmic Domain.

How to evaluate this speed…

Claim it’s slow, but on average, it takes less than 1.3 days to take over one world, and during the Sun Expedition years back, it was merely at this speed.

Who can say this speed is slow?

Even though in many worlds, once the Alliance Army arrives, they change their flags immediately; sometimes they don’t even need to arrive, as long as communication is established, they announce compliance with the Control Committee’s management and wait for engineering ships to bring and install the Thunder Torch Tower.

That is why this speed is achieved.

However, wasn’t it similar during the Sun Expedition years ago? Often after a pivotal battle, destroying the main forces of a pocket Empire meant dozens or even hundreds of planets surrendered simultaneously, falling into the Empire’s territory. To speak of control, it’s not certain if the worlds acquired after the Sun Expedition had higher control levels than those taken during the Alliance’s Dark Side Expedition.

It’s likely they do not.

Of course, there are differences within this. The Dark Side Expedition has a definite advantage over the Sun Expedition, which is that the targets the Alliance attacks are all original Empire worlds, so the resistance is less than when the Sun Expedition went to conquer the worlds in the Dark Outer Domain.

Nevertheless, a speed of 1.3 days per world is certainly not slow.

However, even if this speed continues, how long would it take to conquer the entire Magrey Cosmic Domain?

The Magrey Cosmic Domain has 5000 worlds!

Even at this constant speed, hoping in the later process of the Dark Side Expedition, no significant obstacles would arise, the calculation comes down to at least seventeen years, nearly eighteen years to restore the entire Magrey Cosmic Domain.

And this is just the Magrey Cosmic Domain.

The entire Dark Side of the Empire totals 25 cosmos domains!

Eliminating the Spiderweb and Eastern domains, there are remaining 23 domains. Calculating at this speed, it would take 400 years!

The Alliance is certainly wealthy, but can it support a 400-year expedition, consuming twenty generations with every twenty years a generation?

I’m afraid not.

This Dark Side Expedition certainly cannot be sustained solely by the Alliance’s own power.

The forces of those planets already captured during the Dark Side Expedition must be activated and utilized.

Otherwise, as the Dark Side Expedition expands and the controlled regions increase, the Alliance will be dragged down.

This means the Alliance must properly invest in the captured planets during the expedition process.

Economic construction and political construction cannot stop.

The former needs no further explanation, while the latter determines how much power the Alliance can mobilize and utilize in these planets.

A vast amount of economic and political talent is indispensable.

Conversely, the challenge posed to the Alliance Government is rather significant.

The entire government is strained optimally, like a wound-up spring, not allowing even the slightest stop.

All actions need to be swift, yet stable. In such an enormous undertaking, any minor oversight will have profound impacts.

But just under such circumstances, the Alliance faces an even greater challenge.

The trouble facing the Alliance now is not just supporting the ever-expanding and endless Dark Side Expedition. Suddenly, the Alliance’s security problem emerged.

That is in the northern part of the Spiderweb Domain, bordering the Star Devouring Cosmos of the Empire’s Northern Border.

Star Devouring Cosmos is penetrated by the Great Rift, with a portion separated towards the Dark Side of the Empire where the Alliance is located.

Although the Dark Side Expedition of the Alliance did not target the Star Devouring Cosmos, due to the proximity of this area to the Great Rift, it will significantly suffer more subspace influences. The disasters there will be notably more troublesome and abundant than elsewhere.

Moreover, the Chaos Rebel Army and Chaos Demon’s military front might swiftly move with the help of the Scarlet Scar.

To the Empire and mankind, the Scarlet Scar is an insurmountable natural divide between the Empire’s two ends. But for those Chaos Great Enemies, it is a shortcut. They can swiftly move by leveraging the Scarlet Scar. The Chaos Army can almost appear anywhere along the Scarlet Scar.

So in the early phase of the Dark Side Expedition, albeit the hassle, pursuing speed and temporarily avoiding the north might be expedient.

But even without venturing northbound for the expedition, the reconnaissance and alert work for those regions bordering the Scarlet Scar cannot be halted.