Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1399: Chapter 796

The first step is always the hardest.

Jason Morgan led the ships of the Fox Moon Star Domain and basically mastered a relatively safe way to pass through the Star Realm Tunnel in the subsequent tests.

A church filled with the Emperor Divine Statue and inscribed with the Holy Words, equipped with the National Church’s choir, and supplemented by a Blessed Star Realm Protective Field generator, forms the most basic configuration.

Equipped with enough Blessed Holy Water, the ship has a ’clean-up team’ to constantly combat corrosion marks and eliminate the evil entities invading the vessel. This is what needs to be done on top of the previous setup. Only when the choir, church, and Blessed Star Realm Field are all in place can the phenomenon of evil presence and even invading Evil Demons be weakened to a level that can be fought against, allowing the guards on the ship, using Holy Water, to destroy the enemies with mortal bodies.

It is precisely because this set of solutions was explored that Jason Morgan realizes why all the ships, when designed and built, must have a church constructed on board.

To be precise, he wasn’t unaware before. With his rank, hearing explanations of these design intentions is definitely sufficient.

It is said that the church is meant to pray to the Divine Emperor during interstellar travel, seeking protection for the ship’s safety. However, traveling faster than light through the Star Realm Tunnel is already a relatively mature option.

Indeed, occasionally strange things happen, but overall, safety can still be assured.

At that time, although he knew what the church was for, without the harsh reality, the understanding was not thorough enough. Compared to ensuring safety, providing the crew on board with a place to spiritually anchor during the long voyage might be a more important factor.

It always felt like, though the Starship is big, every inch of space is extremely precious. Keeping a large area as a church and decorating it so ’extravagantly’ seemed unnecessary, sometimes wishing it could just be dismantled.

In the actual process of running the ship, when encountering particularly large amounts of cargo or people, indeed there would be instances of cargo being piled up in the church. Often, this had no consequences.

Precisely for this reason, the real function of the church is less felt.

Luckily, these designs were not discarded in the subsequent shipbuilding processes due to current lack of use, but rather, they were retained according to past traditions and because there really weren’t any capabilities to modify the ancient blueprints.

Now, they’ve come into play.

Those bronze pipe organs engraved with the Emperor’s Holy Words are not mere spiritual sustenance—each pipe is a resonator for reality-stabilizing anchors, and the pitch changes of the choir’s hymns are actually a precise equation countering the entropy increase of Subspace with sound wave frequencies.

Beneath the base of the holy statues, different numbers of hero statues are buried according to specifications, all figures of heroes from the Empire’s legends, working alongside the Emperor’s Divine Statue to have a collective effect.

And in the ship’s tradition, many crew members who have long served on board or made outstanding contributions are buried in the church. These former crew members, each grain of their ashes, act like a mini anti-Subspace generator, resisting Subspace penetration.

The stained glass inlaid in the dome is far from mere decoration. When the Star Realm’s tides surge, the scenes depicting the Emperor’s battles would seep out with liquid light, burning any whispers penetrating reality into scorch marks.

It is this harsh wisdom of transforming faith into a physical barrier that allows steel and flesh to voyage through the void.

But maintaining this system comes at a cost—the choir members, after completing an intergalactic voyage, would develop coral-like crystals on their vocal cords, requiring long periods of rest and even surgical treatment; the church floor tiles need to be recalibrated for resonance frequency after each resistance to Subspace impacts and cleansed with Blessed Holy Water; the blessed Star Realm Protective Field also needs constant addition of Holy Oil for maintenance.

The larger the ship, the more churches, clergy, and Blessed Star Realm Protective Fields it requires…

All these are additional costs and require extra time to solve.

Currently, the largest scale of ships that Jason Morgan’s fleet can sustain navigation with is only of cruiser-size vessels.

Forget about trying to send something as big as a behemoth. Only some medium-sized transport ships can be used to deliver supplies and personnel.

But it’s enough.

The most critical issue to resolve is just the six heavily disaster-stricken worlds.

The urgent relief supplies, the sorely needed anti-riot forces, once reaching the target planet, alleviated the urgent crisis.

Up to this point, the disasters caused by the emergence of Scarlet Scar throughout the Fox Moon Star Domain have been effectively controlled.

The entire Star Domain has returned to a relatively normal social order.

This is what pleases Jason Morgan the most.

Of course, there’s always a gap compared to before the disaster outbreak.

The main headache for him is that the economic curve of the entire Star Domain has always been crawling below the recovery line.

Every cargo ship requires accompanying singers, Blessed Star Realm Field generators, and the consumption of Holy Oil and Holy Water… these costs are extremely high, yet they are still minor issues.

The biggest problem is that regardless of the means used, Star Realm navigation is inevitably severely affected.

This directly resulted in severe setbacks to the entire Star Domain’s economic development.

Transportation is the blood vessels of industry. Now, it’s at most barely getting the blood flow started, but still far from being ’unobstructed.’