Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1429: Chapter 812:

After a while, when all the blood is replaced, or even without reaching that point, as long as the leadership of the Battle Group sees the proportion of Alliance People begin to dominate, the nature of the entire Battle Group will transform.

Gu Hang refers to this as a ’gentle cleansing’, or a blood exchange.

This is how it is handled for the Light and Devourer Battle Groups, and for the thirteen recently recaptured Starfighter Battle Groups, this ’blood exchange plan’, as a strategic move, can be reused.

Gu Hang plans to use up all the slots for these fifteen newly recaptured Battle Groups’ New Seeds in the near future.

This will be called the Second Dark Side Military Build-up, far grander than the first.

After this military build-up, the Alliance will have a total of 45 Battle Groups under its command.

That’s a total of 45,000 interstellar warriors under full capacity!

In the Empire’s millennium history, since the Emperor ascended and departed, has there ever been such a large number of interstellar warriors and Battle Groups unified under one banner to fight?

Gu Hang has never seen it recorded explicitly. Perhaps, in certain obliterated, unrecordable historical events, similar situations occurred.

Even if we push the timeline further back, to the founding of the Empire. At that time, during the so-called Great National Expanse, interstellar warriors still operated with the Corps as their structure, not yet split into Battle Groups. Back then, the entire Empire had eighteen Battle Groups, each with varying numbers but at least several tens of thousands and at most several hundred thousand.

Comparing the scale of that time with the force the Alliance now commands, one might say the Alliance now holds a force commensurate with an interstellar soldier corps.

Of course, the actual differences are significant.

Back then, under a single corps, there was unified command and a unified Battle Group culture. Each Battle Group had a Son of God as leader, commanding the entire Battle Group. They, as a whole, often led large numbers of the Empire’s mortal armies—at the time, the mortal armies mostly belonged to each Battle Group’s Auxiliary Army.

They would bring fleets and ground forces, responsible for an entire direction of expeditionary action. Only when facing a formidable enemy would there be some probability of uniting to fight.

Now, though the Alliance’s 45,000 interstellar warriors are under the Alliance’s banner, many are unwilling and have been forced to submit as dissenters. Not to mention, their inherent attributes differ greatly, their cultures and combat habits are vastly different among the Battle Groups, making it very challenging to forcibly unite them and collaborate in combat.

Moreover, they each have independent command systems and independent inheritance systems. Forcing them to collaborate is indeed unreasonable.

This situation needs resolution.

Gu Hang plans, after the Second Dark Side Military Build-up, to establish a specialized Star Warrior Management Agency under the Imperial Dark Side Control Committee.

Each Battle Group can send personnel into this management agency to uniformly manage all the Battle Groups. Their responsibilities are to communicate comprehensively with the Alliance to ensure that under unified legislature, logistics supply, new blood supplementation, combat directions, changes in Battle Group Leaders, and other key Battle Group high level replacements are guaranteed to be perfected.

However, it is especially worth mentioning, although a corps-level interstellar warrior group is to be unified and managed for combat, Gu Hang emphasizes to each Battle Group that their independence will be ensured.

There is absolutely no intent to reconstruct an interstellar soldier corps.

This point must be emphasized.

The “Star Warrior Codex” has been a codex specialized in managing interstellar warriors within the Empire for millennia. Its utmost purpose is to prevent interstellar warriors’ formidable martial force from mass gathering. Reappearing corps is something fundamentally prevented. The corps were split due to a civil war that nearly destroyed the Empire, leading to the Empire’s resolute action afterwards.

The Loyalist Faction’s interstellar warrior leadership also fully acknowledged this stipulation.

For Gu Hang to challenge the Codex would be to consume his prestige foolishly.

Not only would the current interstellar warriors under his command react negatively, but any future attempt to persuade other Battle Groups to join the Dark Side Expedition would become even more difficult.

Moreover, this is not deceit. Gu Hang truly has no intention of reconstructing the corps.

If 45,000 interstellar warriors were to achieve internal unity and form a legitimate corps, their power and influence would be enormous.

Even Gu Hang would worry about a rebellion.

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of the Auxiliary Army.

They would bring fleets and ground forces, responsible for an entire direction of expeditionary action. Only when facing a formidable enemy would there be some probability of uniting to fight.

Now, though the Alliance’s 45,000 interstellar warriors are under the Alliance’s banner, many are unwilling and have been forced to submit as dissenters. Not to mention, their inherent attributes differ greatly, their cultures and combat habits are vastly different among the Battle Groups, making it very challenging to forcibly unite them and collaborate in combat.

Moreover, they each have independent command systems and independent inheritance systems. Forcing them to collaborate is indeed unreasonable.

This situation needs resolution.

Gu Hang plans, after the Second Dark Side Military Build-up, to establish a specialized Star Warrior Management Agency under the Imperial Dark Side Control Committee.

Each Battle Group can send personnel into this management agency to uniformly manage all the Battle Groups. Their responsibilities are to communicate comprehensively with the Alliance to ensure that under unified legislature, logistics supply, new blood supplementation, combat directions, changes in Battle Group Leaders, and other key Battle Group high level replacements are guaranteed to be perfected.

However, it is especially worth mentioning, although a corps-level interstellar warrior group is to be unified and managed for combat, Gu Hang emphasizes to each Battle Group that their independence will be ensured.

There is absolutely no intent to reconstruct an interstellar soldier corps.

This point must be emphasized.

The “Star Warrior Codex” has been a codex specialized in managing interstellar warriors within the Empire for millennia. Its utmost purpose is to prevent interstellar warriors’ formidable martial force from mass gathering. Reappearing corps is something fundamentally prevented. The corps were split due to a civil war that nearly destroyed the Empire, leading to the Empire’s resolute action afterwards.

The Loyalist Faction’s interstellar warrior leadership also fully acknowledged this stipulation.

For Gu Hang to challenge the Codex would be to consume his prestige foolishly.

Not only would the current interstellar warriors under his command react negatively, but any future attempt to persuade other Battle Groups to join the Dark Side Expedition would become even more difficult.

Moreover, this is not deceit. Gu Hang truly has no intention of reconstructing the corps.

If 45,000 interstellar warriors were to achieve internal unity and form a legitimate corps, their power and influence would be enormous.

Even Gu Hang would worry about a rebellion.

…matter.

The Loyalist Faction’s interstellar warrior leadership also fully acknowledged this stipulation.

For Gu Hang to challenge the Codex would be to consume his prestige foolishly.

Not only would the current interstellar warriors under his command react negatively, but any future attempt to persuade other Battle Groups to join the Dark Side Expedition would become even more difficult.

Moreover, this is not deceit. Gu Hang truly has no intention of reconstructing the corps.

If 45,000 interstellar warriors were to achieve internal unity and form a legitimate corps, their power and influence would be enormous.

Even Gu Hang would worry about a rebellion.