Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1401: Chapter 797: An Open Letter to Compatriots Amid Disaster

The entire Alliance, as well as the entirety of the Eastern Cosmos Domain, were all linked together during the months-long ’Electrification’ operation.

When the linking work on the last planet was completed, Gu Hang could finally let out a sigh of relief.

No matter what, during this great catastrophe, his foundational territory was preserved.

After the ’Electrification’, Star Realm navigation still couldn’t match the safety levels of the past, but it had reached a usable point.

In the current environment, being able to achieve this level is already quite satisfactory.

At least within the Alliance, everyone is now rejoicing. Although life is still quite tough, at least the most difficult times are over.

There isn’t any grand celebration, but at least people’s lives and the development of the Alliance can return to their normal tracks.

However, Gu Hang did not feel happy.

Thinking of other regions of the Empire, the situation is probably dire enough to make one lament.

The only piece of good news is that Gu Hang observed the aftermath of the subspace turbulence, gradually lessening as it passed.

This inevitably gives rise to a hope: Will the disaster pass over time?

The fact proves it will not.

When the subspace waves diminished to a certain level, they no longer weakened, instead entering a very stable state.

By directly observing the subspace, Gu Hang could see that after the world called Cartier disappeared, what’s left in the real universe is a never-healing wound. The power of the subspace constantly leaks out from it. Though not as violent as at the outset, it is enough to sustain the existence of the Scarlet Scar, perpetually altering the real universe.

That Scarlet Scar itself remains like an impassable barrier, completely isolating both ends.

Without addressing the problem at its root, the disaster will not end.

But how to eradicate the problem?

Gu Hang simply has no idea right now.

At least, from his perspective, he is powerless.

In the subspace, even the Divine Emperor must avoid confrontation, so he stands no chance.

In the real universe, the Alliance is quite far from the Hell’s Gate, almost from the northeastern end of the Empire corresponding to the southwestern frontier. When the Star Realm Tunnel was usable, a trip there would take two to three years; now that the Star Realm Tunnel is unusable, it’s utterly unreachable.

What should be done?

Gu Hang felt deeply sympathetic.

He’s not thinking about the bugs in the Central Empire or Holy Terra, those high officials better off gone. Expecting Gu Hang to have any loyalty or concern for them is sheer fantasy.

However, for the human race and the whole emblematic ’Empire’ that encompasses the entire species, Gu Hang naturally worries.

The fundamental hue of this universe is dark and terrifying. However flawed, the Empire, as the aggregation of the entire species, seems objectively to be the greatest reliance the human race has had to exist among the stars until now.

It has borne countless pressures over the millennia.

No matter how many contradictions have existed between the Alliance and the Central Empire, Gu Hang never thought that without the Empire, the Alliance would improve.

It won’t.

Without the Empire as the ’tall one,’ if the sky collapses, the Alliance would have to bear it alone.

If other human worlds outside the Alliance fall one by one, Gu Hang can’t even imagine how powerful those enemies of humanity would become.

The Green Skin Orcs would occupy many worlds suitable for breeding; the Void Insect Species, having devoured countless worlds, would expand unimaginably; human souls sacrificed in trillion and quadrillion numbers would become the most delicious supplies for the Subspace Evil Gods…

For now, the Alliance can ensure temporary stability, and due to being unable to communicate with the Central Empire, they don’t even have to pay the tens of trillions of Imperial Tax each year.

But who can guarantee a century of peace?

When the outside has been nearly eaten up, and the Aliens or Chaos push to the Alliance’s borders, it will be just the Alliance left to withstand those enemies enhanced to an invincible level.

Such a situation must not happen!

Something must be done.

The predicament within the Alliance’s homeland has already been solved; lingering side effects aren’t a major issue. Thanks to timely handling and clear effects, severe chaos invasions and rebellions were not triggered. Small-scale quelling wars don’t pose a challenge to the current governance of the Alliance.

Now, Gu Hang’s focus must extend beyond the Alliance.

The first thing he wants to do is to establish contact with the Central Empire and Holy Terra.

No matter how much their relationship has deteriorated, at least they haven’t openly fallen out; so far, only Holy Terra possesses the grand cause to unify the entire Empire.

Even excluding this, the strength held by the Central Empire remains the strongest. Just Holy Terra alone, with a population of two trillion, is equivalent to an entire star domain elsewhere. Not to mention, the countless years of accumulation, how many secrets and depths are unknown in Holy Terra.

Moreover, the Solar Star Domain where Holy Terra is located is the most developed area in the entire Empire; The current Dragonhawk Star Domain might not even match up, mainly because Holy Terra and Mars are too formidable.

Indeed, the nine Cosmos Domains of the entire Imperial Central Territory are, within the Empire’s scope, the region with the strongest average productivity. Of course, now if the fourteen Alliance Star Domains are counted as a Cosmos Domain, it would probably be more developed than a Central Territory Cosmos Domain.