Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1428: Chapter 812

In the West Line and South Line, ten battle groups have submitted, and in the North Line, three battle groups have submitted, making a total of thirteen groups. This will provide Gu Hang with 26,000 Starfighter Genetic Seeds exchange slots.

The Alliance itself already has 17 battle groups.

Among them, Phoenix, Blood Shark, Spear of the Dragon King, New World Torch, Dominion Bastion, Sky Vault Pioneer, Decree Knight, Light Crown, Devourer, a total of 9 battle groups, are groups not established by the Alliance, i.e., pre-existing groups that can provide Gu Hang with slots.

The first four need no mention; the three in the middle, Dominion Bastion, Sky Vault Pioneer, and Decree Knight, are slots obtained when the Alliance and the Empire renewed their tax treaties more than thirty years ago. Dominion Bastion and Sky Vault Pioneer use the genetic seeds of Infinite Warriors, while Decree Knight uses the genetic seeds of the Golden Knight Legion.

Although they are second-grade seeds, the resulting Interstellar Warriors, apart from having a slightly lower ratio of Company Champions and Exemplars compared to the good seeds, still have an overall combat strength superior to general indigenous battle groups without systemic support after training a large number of veterans.

The two battle groups, Light Crown and Devourer, originate from two mother star battle groups from the Eastern Cosmos Domain that conceded earlier years ago.

Additionally, there are Yellow Springs Seagull, Ghost Shark, Dragon Queen’s Shield, Furyflame, Star Ring Blade, Eagle Vanguard, Holy Shield Iron Guard, a total of seven battle groups, which were expanded based on the genetic seeds of original battle groups. According to the Empire’s regulations, a Starfighter Battle Group is limited to a maximum of a thousand people, but the interface provided Gu Hang with two thousand exchange slots. If Gu Hang does not wish to overtly exceed the battle group’s size, he can break through in numbers instead.

Previously, he was still covering up. For example, Yellow Springs Seagull borrowed the identity of a missing group; Furyflame destroyed the Fury Flame Battle Group and created a new group pretending to use New World Torch’s seeds.

But when Scarlet Scar emerged and the Empire was torn in two, Gu Hang didn’t even bother to pretend.

He used his status as a High Lord to conduct a ’Dark Side Army Building’ under the name of the Dark Side Expedition. Not only were the three battle group slots from the Empire established, but new battle groups were also created using Blood Shark and Spear of the Dragon King’s seeds.

The group established by Blood Shark is Ghost Shark; the one established by Spear of the Dragon King is Dragon Queen’s Shield; Dominion Bastion, Sky Vault Pioneer, Decree Knight established Star Ring Blade, Eagle Vanguard, Holy Shield Iron Guard respectively.

For the two recovered battle groups from the Eastern Cosmos Domain, Light Crown and Devourer, Gu Hang has not yet used the additional genetic seeds. After these two groups submitted, Gu Hang first made them turn over all their Genetic Seed Bank, and then gradually replenished them with new blood over the years.

At first, they were very reluctant to turn over all their genetic seeds. After all, this is the lifeblood of a battle group’s development.

The Empire’s gene seed tax takes away 10% of newly generated seeds, yet many groups try to avoid it. Some battle groups, when it comes to collecting gene seed taxes, claim they were in battle outside, or use some captured traitor battle group seeds as a facade—using this method, however, involves taking some risks. After all, one of the two great goals of the Empire’s gene seed tax, apart from using it to establish new battle groups, has a more high-sounding purpose to check if a group’s genes are still pure. Using seeds from a Rebellion Warband might easily result in acquiring some mutated seeds, leading to some troubles.

Some battle groups aren’t afraid of troubles, while others are more cautious, carefully checking the spoils to ensure the seeds aren’t contaminated and are from the same lineage as their group, ensuring the gene taxes sent up don’t get caught.

Of course, more battle groups still choose to honestly hand over the seeds. Even if the 10% tax makes it very difficult.

And now, the Alliance demands all the seeds.

Even if the Alliance promises that these seeds will be returned to them, in a more efficient manner, with higher success rates, and better new recruits quality, ensuring the future development of their battle group… but who knows if they’re just being deceived?

Genetic seeds are best kept in their own hands, for sure.

But what can they do?

They have already ’submitted,’ under the overwhelming power of the Alliance, where is there any room for resistance?

Eventually, however reluctantly, they have to hand things over honestly.

Gu Hang is aware of the dissatisfaction within these battle groups.

But he doesn’t care.

If they honestly accept everything, that would be best. However, if they are dissatisfied, it doesn’t matter. Ultimately, they have already joined the Dark Side Expedition, and the Alliance Command Center would not deliberately sabotage them. However, since it’s war, there’s bound to be troop attrition. All replacements will be Alliance People, new blood trained in Alliance loyalty courses, gradually replacing the veterans of the battle group.

At first, there might not be any particularly big changes. After all, these new bloods will face exclusion, be disregarded, and remain untrusted when joining the battle group. However, their outstanding capability levels, given enough time, will inevitably rise. These new bloods, besides being loyal to the Alliance, will have no significant differences from the veterans.