Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1584: Chapter 897

The Saints Battle Group, as a founding warband, was finally taken by Gu Hang.

After the great purge, they had already appeared on the list.

And the benefits brought by the founding warband were indeed as Gu Hang had expected, far greater than those of an ordinary warband.

It directly opened a branch page: Legion!

The first point is reflected in the quota of genetic seeds.

Fifty thousand!

When Gu Hang first saw this number, he was a bit stunned.

No wonder it’s called a legion.

If all fifty thousand interstellar warriors are fully recruited, wouldn’t that be equivalent to an interstellar soldier corps from the era of the Empire’s great expedition before the implementation of the ’Star Warrior Codex’?

However, upon closer inspection, there are still some limitations.

This fifty thousand is limited to all the Saints’ bloodline.

This means, after collecting the Saints, this founding warband, collecting other sub-groups no longer holds much significance.

So far, the Alliance has a hundred warbands under its command. Among them, the number of Saints’ sub-groups is the second-largest, only after the Infinite Sub-group, with eighteen.

Decades ago, when the Saints Battle Group decided to shoulder the responsibility of guarding the Seven Star Corridor, they were not fighting alone but issued a call. Ten of the Saints’ sub-groups responded to the mother group’s call and came to Mercifat. Additionally, there were originally four Saints’ sub-groups in the Mercifat Star Domain. Counting the Saints themselves, a total of fifteen warbands were here.

Now, all have ’submitted’ to Gu Hang at once, plus the eighteen Saints’ sub-groups previously conquered, bringing the total number of the Saints lineage warbands to 33, becoming the largest in the entire Alliance.

However, this no longer matters. No matter how many there are, the total number of interstellar warriors of the Saints’ bloodline remains fixed at this scale of fifty thousand.

The number fifty thousand does not actually reach the scale of the Saints during the great expedition era when the empire was founded. At that time, their total number should have exceeded 200,000.

This caused some discontent for Gu Hang.

Why not give me 200,000? When the legion was at its peak, they had that many!

But then again, it was because they originally had a large population. Some groups have pitifully small numbers.

If it’s a fixed quota of fifty thousand, it’s not unacceptable. In the future, resorting to warbands like the Blood Angels, Phoenix—known for their exceptional individual prowess albeit smaller numbers—could well compensate.

Besides, having a current capacity of fifty thousand is strong enough.

With the Saints alone, Gu Hang can gather 50,000, plus a total of 88 other warbands, completing a total of 138,000 interstellar warriors!

This is definitely an interstellar soldier corps during the great expedition period!

Moreover, beyond the quota of fifty thousand, taking down the founding warband has another benefit: after full recruitment, each time a ’Inheritance Seed’ is used to培养 produce a new warrior, this warrior will be counted towards the total seed quota!

This means the quota of fifty thousand is not the ultimate limit but will continue to grow!

Each interstellar warrior will ’produce’ two genetic seeds throughout their life.

The first seed is known as the ’new seed’, obtainable five years after they become an interstellar warrior. The other, taken upon their death, is called the ’Inheritance Seed’.

The second one should have been implanted into their body at the very beginning and constantly supported them in battle. It even contains some fragments of the interstellar warrior’s long years—mainly concerning knowledge, skills, training, command, etc.

According to general understanding, a new recruit bred with such an inheritance seed will inherit many attributes of the genetic seed, becoming more talented and easily mastering the techniques and content inscribed within, even achieving mastery without a teacher.

The two types of seeds are distinguished.

If successfully培养條 with an inheritance seed, does it increase the quota by one?

Converting this into a tangible context, it means that once the quota of 50,000 Saints is filled, every veteran who dies after over five years of service—in the case that their genetic seed is successfully retrieved and a new warrior cultivated using that seed—would mean an increment of one in the total quota?

The prerequisites seem quite stringent.

Five years of service, a battle death, successful seed retrieval…compiled, this probability might aggregate to around 30-40%. And this ratio is actually the eligible to total decedent count ratio. Although some derogatorily nickname them oversized grunts, interstellar warriors have low mortality in ordinary wars.

Besides, even in doomsday-level battles, sustaining losses of hundreds or thousands of interstellar warriors is a serious affair.

Additionally, with the long lifespan of interstellar warriors, the thresholds are relatively challenging to fulfill, hence a slower growth rate.

But there’s no concern; this is ultimately good news.

Under the new legion system, Gu Hang can reliably command fifty thousand Saints warriors to fight for him. Their numbers can be swiftly replenished after casualties, and this figure will remain sustainably growing. The further time progresses, the larger this number will become.

Moreover, if there truly are fifty thousand Saints, and Gu Hang swiftly exchanges for all the genetic seeds to make up the shortage, this inherently growing number will naturally increase the Saints’ total count to approximately 70,000 after five years—new warriors will generate new seeds after five years.