Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1198: Chapter 649, Waiting for the Right Time

What does it feel like to sign seven Extinction Orders in four days?

Gu Hang feels it is very heavy.

According to the previous standards for signing Extinction Orders, those worlds weren’t just problematic; the loyalty factions there had already been unreachable, offering no assistance. Most crucially, these were core worlds with abundant populations.

Even the smallest one had a pre-war population of over five billion.

Besides population, another evaluation dimension is whether the world’s orbital defense system is strong enough. If the orbital defense system is mediocre and can’t defend against the Alliance fleet effectively, then Gu Hang wouldn’t easily issue an Extinction Order. Instead, he would prefer dispatching ground troops, under the support of the fleet’s orbits, to attack enemy forces on the surface and to search for survivors as much as possible.

The troops participating in the war might not necessarily be the Alliance’s regular forces. Instead, they could mobilize local troops from some better-situated planets in the Alfonso Star Domain for combat.

For this purpose, the Alliance only needs to pay for the logistics of deploying troops and a few Escort Ships or Destroyers that can provide ground support. Even ammunition can be requisitioned from those planets for use.

The fleet would attack especially stubborn defensive areas on the ground to cooperate with ground forces. With the constantly produced virus bombs, nearly as soon as they are made, they are transported to needed places, exploiting the period before those infected individuals have time to receive information and genetically modify themselves to maximize the impact.

Thus, planets with only three to five billion, at most a dozen or two billion infected individuals, could eventually be conquered slowly. And with the virus bombs and orbital support, the cost might not be particularly high.

But if a planet’s population is too large, exceeding the number of five billion, and the orbital defense is relatively intact, the cost of fleet breaching would be significantly high. The process of deploying troops would suffer enormous losses, and ground warfare would be a huge quagmire that’s difficult to resolve, even with virus bombs… This is the kind of scenario that Gu Hang targets with an Extinction Order.

Counting the seven Extinction Orders, a total of six hundred billion people will be exterminated.

Of course, Gu Hang’s heaviness isn’t about deciding the fate of six hundred billion people.

In reality, their fate was already determined in the process of pest-induced infection.

Gu Hang won’t naively consider these infected ones as living humans.

His heaviness lies in that the loss of six hundred billion means seven worlds are entirely wasted.

Additionally, according to data models, an estimated thirty to fifty billion mentally healthy loyalty faction humans on these planets would also be lost.

All are losses.

Among the remaining forty-three disconnected worlds, seventeen were finally contacted and could stabilize planets with their help; the other twenty-six were still unreachable but were still in a manageable range, with low population or weak planetary defense systems, which could be gradually tackled.

If it can be said that since the great victory of Alamita, the situation in the Alfonso Star Domain has stabilized, then now, the situation will no longer have any fluctuations.

As long as the established strategy is advanced, battles involving tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people on the planets won’t impact the general trend.

And what is the general trend?

The general trend is that the Alliance will inevitably completely control the entire Alfonso Star Domain.

Counting Matins as the commander, having captured the Thistle Muster Star Field, currently, the Alliance directly controls as many as five Star Domains.

Among them, Dragonhawk and Meng River can already be considered ’home territories.’ The Alliance’s governmental institutions are distributed on nearly every planet in these two Star Domains. The human and material resources on these planets can all be mobilized by the Alliance.

Proudclaw Cosmos is actively advancing this work at full speed.

In a state of war, the work of the Alliance Government is also exceedingly arduous.

In addition to preparations for various wars, another task is to receive all occupied areas by the Alliance.

The focus is on Proudclaw.

In many places of the Proudclaw Cosmos, military control has ended, and the commissions to local power groups concluded, shifting to establish the Alliance system.

This is the inevitable path to assimilate territories into the Alliance’s own strength.

Of course, building is always more difficult than destroying.

Transplanting the Alliance’s political system and establishing direct governance relations on many planets is not an easy task.

But despite the difficulties, it still has to progress step by step.

Currently, the Alliance has three modes of governance.

The most core one is the complete establishment of the Alliance’s political system, including an official rank system, highly centralized to the government’s institutions… Areas completing these political constructions can be considered the Alliance’s core territories. The Alliance will develop these planets according to local conditions, and can fully mobilize all planetary resources and adjust production modes for war or development assistance.

Another is the incomplete establishment of the political system. Rank systems are only used on some people, leaving a significant portion of the population outside the system. Government institutions also directly managed by the Alliance’s upper government include a considerable number of personnel with traces of old powers, which have not been fully transformed.

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