100 fleets!
Not to mention being more advanced and powerful than now, just such a fleet now requires more than 500,000 front-line warriors. 100 fleets, that is more than 50 million front-line warriors!
To support such a huge fleet, the number of supporting logistics personnel, base staff, etc., plus military factories, research institutes, civilian personnel, etc., will probably be several times this number.
All added up, the total number of people engaged in the military industry is probably at least 300 million!
From the perspective of the overall economic structure of civilization, the military industry is an industry that purely consumes but does not produce anything, like a bottomless pit. It is not like agriculture and industry, which can produce products and feed back civilization.
In other words, the approximately 300 million people employed in the military industry simply need to be "supported" by practitioners in other industries within civilization.
Moreover, the average consumption level of employees in the military industry is extremely high - just for one maneuver of the Space Carrier Earth, the fuel consumed is converted into human currency and spread equally among every soldier, which is a burden that the average salary level cannot bear. . What's more, the space carrier also needs to undertake many other tasks. Combat spaceships need to launch missiles, vacuum cannons, and electromagnetic guns. Spy satellites need to be built, communication systems need to be set up, interstellar mines need to be built, and there is money everywhere.
This is not like the ancient times, when each person was given a stick and a few cornbreads to go to war.
Divided evenly, a rough calculation shows that at least 50-60 normal, highly educated working people are needed to support one soldier.
This is still under the premise that the industrial supporting facilities are extremely complete, the level of science and technology is extremely high, the degree of automation is also extremely high, and productivity is extremely liberated.
Based on this calculation, under ideal circumstances, the scale of human civilization must reach at least 16 billion to be able to support a fleet of 300 million people.
But there is a premise, that is, the entire social structure is full of labor force. There are no elderly, minors, or patients. Everyone has to work, and there is almost no additional loss.
Add in the elderly, sick, minors, plus the losses that you will inevitably have - people are not machines. People need to eat good food, drink good drinks, watch movies, travel, and need service industry practitioners. , we need entertainment industry practitioners, internal order maintainers, social managers, etc. Counting these own losses, this number must be at least tripled.
In this way, the population size is about 50 billion people. A slightly more relaxed approach to make people less stressed would be a population of 60 billion.
This is almost the lower limit of population to support 100 fleets.
Now, the overall scale of human civilization is only over 15 billion people.
One sentence from Zhao Changxing laid out the overall development blueprint for the entire civilization for more than a hundred years. At this moment, people clearly know that in the future, the population will continue to grow rapidly, and major factories will continue to be built, including infant care, education, roller-type residential bases, scientific research and development...
"History is created by the people, never by one or a few people in high positions. As leaders of civilization, the only thing we can do is to follow the trend of the times and the voice of the people. We must defeat the invasion To protect our wealth and create a prosperous and powerful civilization...
The next period of time will be a magnificent era. let's work hard together. "
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In the h1 galaxy, human civilization is developing rapidly at a speed that even surprises itself. Ordinary people may not have too deep feelings about this. They just see through the news that something has been built today, which route has been connected again, and there has been a breakthrough in a certain technology. But from the perspective of a civilized leader , looking at the data displayed on each document, I have a deeper feeling about this.
The first is steel production.
Steel is the foundation upon which all else is built. However, in the decades since the first "Venus" class fleet was commissioned, the average annual steel production has increased more than the previous year, and has always remained above 100 billion tons.
Another important indicator is antimatter production.
Antimatter is the basis that drives everything. Although it never appears in front of the general public because it is too dangerous, its influence is everywhere.
The spacecraft needed for navigation, the energy used daily, the operation of the roller-type residential base, everything is inseparable from its existence.
Since the first antimatter production line with an annual output of 1,000 tons was put into operation, humankind's own antimatter mass production process has continued to rapidly innovate. Today, there are even production lines with an annual output of one million tons and have been put into production after rigorous testing. With such production lines and huge factories, dozens of new cities are built on average every year. Correspondingly, antimatter production is at least above the previous year's level, increasing by hundreds of millions of tons every year.
What surprised Zhao Changxing the most was the most important indicator among all indicators, that is, the growth rate of the total population.
In the past few decades, the total population has increased from more than 15 billion to more than 35 billion, more than doubling, and it is still maintaining a rapid growth rate.
A larger population means stronger productivity, but how to make a larger population become a boost to the growth of civilization rather than a burden is also a profound knowledge.
This requires social operations to be more efficient and transparent, and at the same time, a continuous and high-pressure attack on the dark side of society must be carried out. In this regard, Zhao Changxing thinks he has done a good job - the numerous corpses that are legally deprived of life every year can testify to this.
At this stage, the number of "Venus" class fleets that Zhao Changxing wants has increased to 20. At this moment, more than 10 million frontline soldiers are busy all day long, either during exercises or on the way to the exercise venue.
Near stars, rocky planets, planets with atmospheres, interstellar space, gaseous planets, etc. In every different space environment, there are fleets belonging to human civilization in constant confrontation, trying to find every new tactics and find ways to deal with them, and make every effort to improve their combat abilities and skills.
At this moment, production lines for the mass production of warships and space carriers, interstellar mines, forts, spies, military and communication satellites, etc. have been fully rolled out, and the production speed will increase again in the future.
Under this situation, one day after another few decades, hundreds of deep space observation stations and a larger number of deep space observation forces submitted a report to higher levels at the same time.
In the direction of the Iron Blood Nebula, they discovered numerous unusual flashes of light.
This report immediately attracted Zhao Changxing's attention. After further analysis, it didn't take long for extremely clear results to be placed in front of the civilized leaders.
"This is a huge fleet that is slowing down. Their course is exactly the H1 galaxy where we are."
"Preliminary observations show that the size of the fleet is at least more than 10,000 very large transport ships. Based on our understanding of the storm civilization, the population of the storm civilization that these spacecraft can carry is at least 140 billion people. It is basically certain that, This is the main body of Storm Civilization."
Experts on the history of human civilization have done a lot of research on the documents and materials contained in the space carrier of the G1 Galaxy Alliance, as well as the interrogation data of prisoners, etc., and then combined it with the location information of the original explosion and the current course. Information, people have basically determined that this third-level civilization from the Iron Blood Nebula is the Storm Civilization.
At this moment, after actually observing the deceleration tail flame of the Storm Civilization fleet and determining their route, people knew that the dust had finally settled.
Although human civilization has been carrying out large-scale war preparation activities before, the basis for supporting this move was only some inferences. Because people don’t know whether the third-level civilization will really come.
And now, there is no doubt.
Zhao Changxing let out a sigh of relief.
"Isn't this what we are prepared to face?"
"According to current observational data, it will probably take about 50 years for the main body of the Storm Civilization fleet to reach our galaxy."
"Then, let them come and not leave."
Stimulated by this news, the development speed of human civilization has once again increased much faster than before. Zhao Changxing's main energy was temporarily removed from development and focused on another aspect.
"It's time to develop a plan for total galaxy defense."
Interstellar war is not about group fights, it is not about a swarm of spaceships swarming up to do it. Mobility, range, performance, lethality, defense, logistics base, communications, etc., there are countless factors that require people to comprehensively consider and arrange them. If one area is not properly arranged, the overall plan may be disrupted, and countless people's efforts and hard work will be wasted.
This is a huge task that requires the participation of tens of thousands of senior staff officers and many senior military officers and takes a long time to complete.
After layers of discussions and reviews, a preliminary opinion finally caught Zhao Changxing’s attention.
"With the observation capabilities of the Storm Civilization, our embarrassing escape from the Iron-Blooded Nebula must have been hidden from their observation. And, according to literature research, the civilization in the Iron-Blooded Nebula also pursues the principle of 'humanity and subordination'. Man's policy. Although this type of civilization has stronger survivability and is more suitable for this universe, its development speed is limited and its potential is also limited.
It can be deduced from this that from the perspective of the Storm Civilization, it is impossible for a weak fleet like ours to develop to the extent it is today after arriving in the H1 galaxy in just a few hundred years. This gives us room for strategic deception.
We should pursue a principle to better utilize this rare strategic space and opportunity.
This principle is, pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger. "
