Chapter 764: Chapter 426, Factory Exchange of 500,000 Chapter 764: Chapter 426, Factory Exchange of 500,000 The battle at Steel Wing Star might be the largest campaign that Gu Hang had ever initiated and conducted.
The ground combat alone was probably even more massive than the Plague War at Korolya—except for the part where a Great Demon was fought in the Subspace.
But the battle at Steel Wing Star also involved lines of mighty starships firing volleys at each other across the Star Sea.
In total, Gu Hang received 930,000 grace points.
The grace points calculated from this battle were slightly less than those from the Plague War at Korolya.
The latter had reached the million mark, whereas this time it fell short.
The reason, Gu Hang surmised, was that the Demon Govaaga he had taken down provided a substantial number of grace points.
In the battle at Steel Wing Star, the main source of substantial gains in grace points was, after all, the naval part of the conflict.
Since the ships of the Tianma Fleet that served as the main force were not considered his core power, their victories were not included in the gains of grace points by the system.
Were it not for the fact that many of the enemy’s main ships were brought down by the shields Gu Hang tore through with his Spiritual Energy, the calculated grace points would have been even fewer.
Nevertheless, with this, Gu Hang’s grace point balance had once again surpassed one million.
In addition to the 930,000 points from this settlement, the monthly income from the past two months also added up, amounting to almost seventy thousand; plus the little left over from before, as well as some achievements earned by the Alliance Army in various worlds of the Eagle Horse Star Sector on the way to Steel Wing Star—altogether accounting for tens of thousands more.
Gu Hang still did not plan on saving these one million grace points.
He intended to spend them quickly, hoping that these points could further accelerate the Alliance’s construction work, preparing for the next phase of the war.
With a bold stroke, he invested five hundred thousand grace points all into one thing: the exchange of various kinds of “Factories” in the “Construction” panel.
“Factory” buildings were a very solid exchange option.
They had no fancy effects, and did not offer anything new; they simply and directly enhanced the production efficiency of existing real-life factories.
Gu Hang had indeed studied it carefully: the factories upgraded through the exchange showed spurts of brilliance with some comrades having innovative ideas for improvements to the existing production lines, from workflow to factory design, to specific enhancements in production lines, bringing forth actual benefits.
These were the improvements in production efficiency reflected in the exchange options.
No matter how the increase in production efficiency was achieved, if enough of these options were exchanged, they would bring a substantial boost to the Alliance’s overall production capacity.
Furthermore, the “Construction” interface now not only offered the initial level one factories but had also expanded up to level three.
The exchange option for a level one factory was 100 grace points, level two reached 1,000 points, and level three 10,000 points.
Gu Hang decisively upgraded every dock of the Alliance’s two major shipyards to at least level two; a few key docks, such as those at Flying Wing Star’s cruiser dockyards, were upgraded to level three.
At important ammunition production center factories on Rage Owl Star and Korolya, Gu Hang bit the bullet and upgraded them to level three production as well.
Gu Hang exchanged for a total of 10 level three factories, 100 level two factories, and 3,000 level one factories, applying them to various production lines.
Spending these five hundred thousand grace points directly boosted the total industrial output value of the Alliance from 112.3 billion tax currency to 124 billion.
This was an increase of over 10% in total production value, a development goal that, according to the plan, the Alliance would have needed one year to achieve.
Under the miraculous effect of Gu Hang’s grace points, what would have taken a whole year happened in just a second.
Moreover, the areas of growth were precisely what Gu Hang wanted: primarily in military industrial production and secondarily in the supply of various other military materials, such as field rations.
In the military industry sector, the focus was on the construction of starships, where the largest production growth occurred.
Other key areas included the production of heat-melting bombs, plasma weapons, heavy shells, and missiles.
One should not overlook these—especially the shells, which are the biggest consumables in war.
When the intensity of a war escalates to a certain degree and the situation is dominated by a stalemate, it often happens that there are cannons but not enough shells to fire.
Having thousands of cannons fire simultaneously may sound fierce and passionately explosive, but with the Alliance’s cannon technology, it’s easy to fire about ten rounds per minute—a higher rate of fire is possible, but it would take too heavy a toll on the barrel life.
This rate of ten rounds per minute optimizes barrel longevity.
To say that ten thousand cannons are difficult to come by would be an understatement; one Alliance Army Group genuinely has that many, and even far more.
And at that rate, one Alliance Army Group can fire a million heavy shells in an hour—lighter weapons like mortars or light field guns don’t even qualify for the conversation; these are all large-caliber heavy cannons, with at least 155mm howitzers, and the Alliance Land Forces even have a small number of even mightier 305mm self-propelled heavy cannons.
Without sufficient production capacity, how could one sustain the consumption of the Alliance Land Forces to this extent?
The mightier the production, the stronger the firepower.
Not to mention, it’s not just the Land Forces that need various types of shells; the navy needs them just as much.
Another part of the production boost was invested in the manufacture of Lion King Tanks, Mechas, and Titans.
These ace war machines of the Land Forces were the core equipment needed to confront the Green Skin Orcs’ Killer Cans, Death Cans, and Skugg War Behemoths in head-to-head battles on the frontline—naturally, the more the better.
The fully-powered production of the Alliance will send massive amounts of war materials to the front lines via a huge transportation fleet.
Currently, the intensity of the war the Alliance faces does not actually require so much ammunition reserve and equipment consumption.
But that’s alright; all these can be stored on key transit hubs like Steel Wing Star, Emerald Spring I, and the planets in the Eagle Horse and Mist Horse Star Districts.
This is in preparation for the large-scale war with the Green Skins that may very well erupt next.
The more prepared we are now, the more at ease we can be when the war starts.
And the significance of these five hundred thousand grace points Gu Hang spent goes beyond just the war.
The enhanced productivity, as long as there are no accidents, will never vanish.
In the future, it will always be effective.