Chapter 374, Alpha level psyker
Gu Hang never dared to underestimate the state religion. Although they did not possess the nominal force, their greatest weapon was influence. But this thing is inherently terrifying.
If the pope of the state religion, or a particularly influential cardinal and archbishop, really goes out of his way to declare someone or a place a heretic, or lays claim to an area occupied by aliens or chaos cults, it is very likely to lead to a disaster. The beginning of a holy war.
The bishop's men may not have regular armed forces other than the Sisters, but they can call on all governors and imperial military forces in several sectors in the name of 'holy war'.
And if they want to do this, they often succeed. There are many examples in the recorded history of the empire.
This is not a matter of power, command or compulsion, but the appeal brought by influence.
But it is precisely this kind of influence and appeal that makes governments at all levels of the empire, from the central to the local levels, actually quite vigilant.
Good guy, after the state religion caused political turmoil that spread throughout the empire, they had already been put under layer after layer of curses, and as a result, they still have such a strong influence now.
Who is not afraid of this?
In places where the state religion is strong, government officials who believe in it will put restrictions on it, regardless of the government officials under normal circumstances.
Of course, this will cause contradictions and even conflicts, depending on personal means and local conditions.
There was no trouble on Koroja, which made Gu Hang feel much more at ease.
The core reason is that not long after the last war ended, Gu Hang gained huge prestige and military power, and he was still the commander of the theater. Bishop Zhao Qinghong is not a particularly strong person. Although he has a good mass base, he is not satisfied with the cancellation of privileges. However, he has weighed the compensation provided by Gu Hang, such as promising to support missionary work and the alliance government will also provide special allocations; To measure the consequences of a riot, especially one without the support of the Sisters...
Forget it, so be it.
As for filing a complaint with the higher-level organizational structure of the state religion, Zhao Qinghong actually did so.
But it's useless, and he knows it. The goal of the complaint was essentially to cry and talk about how difficult it was for me. The superior archbishop comforted me, and that was it.
The higher-level state religious organizations have no intention of taking action for this.
The core point of this is that Gu Hang has not touched the core interest that the state religion values most: influence.
The state religion can still continue to preach without being restricted, and the alliance government even provides some conveniences.
As long as the number of registered believers does not decrease, it will be fine.
Even as the management system becomes more effective and clearer, the number of registered believers may even increase.
So what's so big about this?
As for not allowing them to touch politics and not allowing them to have economic privileges - what does it have to do with the superior state religious organizations?
The state religious organization has no plan to control the Tianma Sector through influence, nor will it fight for the economic privileges of lower-level sects: they won't give me money, but they will applaud the elimination of corrupt elements.
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After talking about the state religion, all the matters related to Koluojia are on the right track. The rest just needs time to ferment.
Gu Hang needs to wait for Mingyan City to follow the planned pace and move step by step to the point where an internal cycle can be formed.
As for himself, he felt at ease.
But the so-called 'leisure' is only relative. How could he get real free time when he was in his position?
After he no longer needs to devote his time and energy to government affairs, he naturally has other things to do.
He first visited the Kingdom of Storms. The subspace essence of the Great Unclean One Gawaga was still being baptized and tortured by the storm on the high tower of the Kingdom of God.
Several months have passed, and Gevaga's subspace essence has been almost eliminated. In fact, Gu Hang could no longer see the 'little' unclean person baring his teeth and claws, only a yellow-green mist was left.
Instead, the storm god's country was filled with thunder.
In the dense thunderclouds, a more powerful new life is nurtured.
The size of the entire Kingdom of Storms has almost doubled in recent months.
Gevaga's warp essence was broken down and then consumed, making the Storm God's power even more powerful. After possessing greater 'subspace authority', the power that the entire Storm Kingdom can mobilize has also increased significantly.
According to Gu Hang's own estimation, with the current strength of the Kingdom of Storms, if he once again faced a big demon of Gawaja's level and dared to invade alone, he should not need to rely on the right time and place, and he would have to squeeze the opponent out. To get between the cracks in the curtain of reality, you have to rely on the blows of the real world to destroy the opponent's body and soul.
Now, just relying on the power of the Kingdom of Storm God, we should be able to defeat the opponent.
Even if it is not a single invasion, but a big demon with thousands of his own demon army, the Kingdom of Storm God still has the ability to fight head-on.
This is not only the result of the significant increase in the power of the Storm God Kingdom, but also the result of Gu Hang himself becoming stronger.
After defeating Gawaja, he had accumulated enough experience to level up.
Although, the number of gift points required to upgrade to LV9 has reached a terrifying two hundred thousand points. But after having many personal experiences, Gu Hang clearly understood that in this universe, the army is very important, and strong top-level combat power is equally important.
He spent this gift point decisively.
After being promoted to LV9, his psychic strength has reached S level without the subspace bonus.
This is the highest level that can be reached in a psychic order, and one can almost form an army by one person. The thunder he calls will be more terrifying than the salvo of thousands of artillery, and can repeatedly bombard an entire battlefield into debris; his telekinesis can crush the charging armor cluster into twists; he can use the assistance of an entire psionic mage group , amplifying its power, affecting places more than 100,000 kilometers away in the void space environment, tearing apart cruiser-level void shields...
Gu Hang also has a trump card. Once he tears open the curtain of reality and lets the power of the Kingdom of Storms leak into reality, his psychic power will reach another level, reaching S+ level strength.
If placed in the subspace, Gu Hang would already have the strength equivalent to that of a great demon while staying in the Storm God's country.
However, this goes to the top.
Gu Hang used to think that when it reached 9, it was normal for it to have 10 on it.
It makes no sense that 9 is the top level, right? Gu Hang is still blessed by various events and characteristics, so that he can have S-level psychic strength at the level of LV9. If the [Heroes] under him are activated normally, even if they are upgraded to LV9 in terms of psychic abilities, they are probably at the level of A+, or at most weak S level.
However, regardless of those records that are a bit like myths and legends, among the existing people in the Imperial Psychic Order, there are so-called S+ level psykers. This is a level of strength that Gu Hang cannot even rely on his characteristics, and can only be achieved by cheating in subspace. Not to mention, within the hierarchy of the Psychic Order, there are Alpha-level psykers who are one level higher than S-level.
A psyker of this level, to be exaggerated, can break a star with just a thought - of course, the premise is that the 'star' has no protection.
In any case, Gu Hang's current psychic strength, although it can be considered top-notch, is obviously still far from the ceiling, but in the system, it has risen to the top.
This situation reminded Gu Hang of the dream he had before. The person in the dream said that this was a 'very interesting little toy'.
Small toys cannot be put on the table. Is this what you are referring to? Because it's just a 'little toy', is there a ceiling?
This explanation seemed reasonable, but Gu Hang was not willing to accept it.
He has recently read through a lot of information collections shared by the Psychic Order, and even troubled Wang Yuyang, the president of the Star Area Order, to make a special trip from the Winged Star to send him the information.
Combined with his own situation, especially his careful perception of how he felt when using psychic powers, and some self-analysis and research, he came up with a rough guess.
When a psyker uses their psychic powers, they are not essentially using their own power. They are essentially 'loopholes' in the real world, a channel through which psychic energy comes into this world with the soul of the psyker as its anchor.
Theoretically, a high-level psyker, even without any training, will exhibit psychic power, but this power is uncontrolled and can cause terrible damage and even become a subspace. The evil thing comes to the real world and even tears open a gap in the subspace.
Controlled psykers can use this power according to their own talents.
In this sense, how much power a psyker can control is destined to depend on whether his 'loophole' is big or small. The acquired training improves the control of psychic power. However, the vast majority of people cannot reach that upper limit, and the psychic powers that can be controlled are used; the psychic powers that cannot be controlled are deliberately suppressed to avoid losing control. This is the core of the training of psykers.
The function of the system has always been to provide Gu Hang with 'spirituality' and 'talent', so that he can better apply and master spiritual energy. Without a system, his lifetime ability in spiritual energy would probably only be around C-level strength, and he would suppress the spiritual energy that he could not control and never reveal it.
But now, the system has improved his ability to control psychic energy to an impossible level, allowing him to fully grasp the ultimate power of a psyker. On the [Hero] interface, the system can only improve these things, but there is no way for Gu Hang to expand the 'loopholes'.
And further up, if you reach the Alpha level psyker, according to the research definition of the Psychic Order, that has exceeded the upper limit of the psionic intensity that a human individual can control.
All beings with this level of psychic talent have no 'control' in the conventional sense, and the loopholes cannot be filled. The surging psychic waves in the subspace will engulf people with this level of talent. As they grow older, psykers of this level will be unable to block their wanton psychic power, and thus become distorted into existences that can endanger an entire planet or even cause disasters on a larger scale.
The Psychic Order's method for dealing with Alpha-level psykers is to capture them if they can be discovered in the early stage, and then control them in a specially designed anti-psionic prison for research. If the anti-psionic prison cannot control them, they will be executed; otherwise If it's easy to capture, then execute him directly.
Even if there are extremely few Alpha-level psykers who can control the power, according to the research of the Psychic Order, this control is temporary and unsustainable. The human brain will be burned out and eventually cannot be suppressed. Soul distortion occurs.
Unless... there are some crazy people. That is a very individual case and needs to be studied, but generally speaking, it is believed that this is related to the Emperor, the most powerful being in history, who far exceeds the strength of Alpha level psykers. For example, the legendary Holy Angel and Sage, these two demigods among Space Marines who are famous for their psychic powers.
Now the situation is very clear. Under normal circumstances, Gu Hang's psychic power has indeed reached its end and cannot be improved.
However, he himself thought of another way.
Since I think that S-level is the most powerful psychic level that humans can conventionally master, and the higher level cannot be mastered as a human being, then I shouldn't be... oh, I definitely can't be a human being. However, Gu Hang also has a unique advantage, that is, he has mastered the essence of the subspace secondary god.
If you want to break through the limits of human beings and master Alpha-level psychic powers, or even to a greater degree, you cannot rely solely on 'loopholes'. You must possess the essence of subspace and become one of your own in subspace.
If he is now in the subspace and has the power to defeat the Great Demon head-on, he has actually reached the strength of an Alpha-level psyker. Next, what he has to do is to make this subspace essence as close to himself as possible, and even embrace this essence, so that he can gradually gain corresponding strength in the real world.
But Gu Hang still had doubts about this.
If we over-embrace the subspace nature of the Kingdom of Storms, wouldn't that mean... not being a human being?
Now, he was still a psyker, and even with the Grand Inquisitor standing before him, he was still a legitimate Imperial psyker. But if combined with the nature of the storm, that won't work.
Gu Hang also had doubts about this.
But fortunately, this is not something that needs to be decided immediately.
The current LV9 psychic power, which is similar to S+ level strength, is enough. If something big happens, Gu Hang can temporarily gain alpha-level power even if he cheats. There is nothing dissatisfying about it.
There is still enough time to explore ways to touch the ceiling in the future.
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Gu Hang had a lot of gift points on hand. He got 1.3 million directly after winning the previous battle. At that time, he even felt that he couldn't spend all the gift points.
Later I found out that it was a complete illusion.
The loyalty training of 40,000 administrative officials cost 400,000 points; his personal upgrade cost 200,000 points.
Almost half is gone.
But after spending so much money, these 40,000 people can only be regarded as emergencies at best, and there are still not enough administrative officials.
In the future, he will leave a large number of gift points for training the army. He wanted to implement military control in all the hives of Koroga, clean up all the bottom areas and lower hive areas, and he also needed to guard them for a long time. The current 150 million planetary defense forces are simply not enough, and Gu Hang also looks down upon ordinary planetary defense forces. He wants to eventually transform the entire Koroga army into the 'Salvation Army' system.
Not to mention the expansion of the army, the training of more than 100 million existing troops will also cost one million gift points. How can you afford this?
It would be even more impossible to expand to his ideal army of around 3-4 million people.
Looking at it this way, the gift points are still very insufficient.
Gu Hang's expectation that Koluojia would be able to significantly increase his monthly gift points income after being recognized by the system also came to nothing.
Koroja was indeed recognized by the system, and Gu Hang can now see it on the panel.
However, the 40 billion people joining the alliance have not only failed to bring about an increase in monthly income, but have actually declined!
Previously, Gu Hang's monthly income had reached 7,000 yuan. But the moment Koroga was recognized by the system, this number dropped to four thousand, which was only the level of four years ago.
Good guy, Koroga turns out to be a burden, right?
Gu Hang was complaining in his mind.
This situation was indeed slightly beyond his expectation.
Originally, he did not expect Koroga to provide him with a particularly high income of gift points all at once, even if there were 40 billion people here. But the worst-case scenario that Gu Hang thought about before was nothing more than a relatively low income. He really didn't expect that it would be a direct negative number.
But Gu Hang didn't panic at all.
He knew then that it was only temporary. It is normal for tens of billions of people with low quality of life, low productivity and low control to be added at once. This situation will soon be improved as various practical problems on Koroga are resolved.
that's the truth.
In the few months since Koroga was recognized by the system, Koroga has transported a total of hundreds of millions of people to the Alliance Twin Stars.
This incident also attracted the attention of Lois, who had returned to the Star Territory Government and was about to take up the position of Chief of the Interior.
Huge changes in population over a short period of time will certainly cause problems.
She would question, what if Koroga continues to export people and pay taxes six years later?
At the same time, Gu Hang also had questions. The rapid population growth of the Alliance Twin Stars is achieved through population migration. How to calculate the tax issue? You can't calculate Koruga based on 400 billion people on the one hand, and then calculate Alliance Double Star based on the newly added population. Doesn't that mean the tax is calculated twice for me?
After this communication, Ms. Lois agreed in principle that the subsequent tax payment by the alliance would be calculated as a whole. That is, the annual tax amount is 40.5 billion tax dollars.
Koluojia will be transformed into a war zone and reduced by 40 billion. In the past six years, you only need to turn in those from Black Arrow and Raging Owl every year.
However, there will be a follow-up to this matter. The empire will recalculate the rated tax amount of each world every ten years, and the next calculation period will be one year later.
At that time, the administrative officials of the star region government will conduct a detailed investigation of the situation of the three planets in the alliance, and finally calculate the tax amount and report it to the star region. According to the situation in previous years, it is too difficult to calculate the population of Koroga clearly. I am afraid that it will still be calculated as 40 billion in the end. However, Double Star is easy to calculate. The estimated number of people will be calculated based on the number of people.
The empire does not care whether the population migrates or not. There is no such precedent. In order to avoid being taxed twice, if Gu Hang can manage Koroja in an orderly manner, do a better job of population statistics, and can withstand on-site inspections by the star district government and re-inspections by the star domain government, then Isn't it over?
Demography makes it clear that population movement within an alliance will not affect tax calculations - unless the overall development coefficient of the alliance is adjusted upwards.
For example, Winged Star also pays 40 billion tax coins every year, the same as Koruga, but it only has a population of 80 billion. This highly developed garden world has a development coefficient of level 5, which means that one population corresponds to 0.5 tax coins.
Simply jaw-dropping.
But at present, the alliance should not be raised.
It's hard to say after the next ten years.
Regarding this result, Gu Hang was still a little helpless.
Even if he is relatively optimistic about adjusting the rule of Koroga to the point where complete population statistics can be carried out within a year, he is still a little unsure.
Maybe you will still be unlucky then.
However, even so, one cannot give up eating because of choking. Population migration still needs to be done persistently and continuously, even if we suffer losses.
In fact, this has had an effect.
There is no debuff for the population that has been migrated to the Black Arrow and Raging Owl stars, and they can indeed be put into production immediately.
On the Raging Owl Star, there is still a lot of land that can be reclaimed in the Northern Green Valley area; people can also start to reclaim wasteland in the Southern Green Valley area. The Qinggu Group Army, which has always been established, has been ordered to march south to eliminate the mutant monsters inside. Much of the jungle was cleared - not all of it, but systematically - and the land was cleared for cultivation.
According to estimates, at least 200 million more laborers will be needed to fully develop the farmland in the Guangqing Valley area.
Not to mention, the industrial center of Weixing City is still expanding its production capacity and has a large demand for industrial workers.
According to the calculations of the alliance government, it will be very difficult for the Raging Owl to return to its grand glory hundreds of years ago, and the natural conditions no longer support it. However, it is still no problem to carry 3 billion people.
This is still the premise of not developing into the model of the hive city world. In fact, Raging Owl could develop one or two industrial hives, which could double the population it could accommodate.
The natural conditions are superior, but the ocean area is too large and the land area is small. Black Arrow Star can also accommodate more than three billion people.
If the great migration is carried out in accordance with this goal, the population of Koluojia will be reduced by 15%-20%, and the pressure of survival will be much less.
Black Arrow Star and Angry Owl Star, which have received a large number of population supplements, will develop rapidly.
At the same time, the reforms within Koluojia, especially in Mingyan City, have begun to bear fruit.
As of now, Gu Hang's monthly gift point income has returned to more than 7,000 points.
So far, it has been eight months since the battle to defend Mingyan City ended. In terms of monthly income alone, Gu Hang has received more than 30,000 yuan.
Coupled with the income from some small-scale battles against the rebellion, Gu Hang now has a total of 75 gifts on hand.
Most of it, of course, should be reserved for subsequent preparations. He also had to expand his army and train administrative officials.
However, it might be possible to take some of it out and extract some technology.
At the 10,000-yuan level, let's try a ten-draw draw first.
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