Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1402: Chapter 797: Letter to Our Compatriots in Disaster (Part 2)

Bringing the Central Empire back to life, or at least confirming their current status, would be immensely helpful for the empire’s fate.

Gu Hang thought he had the ability to do so.

I am a top psychic, if not the first, not the second, then at least third in the entire subspace. Can I not handle this?

Turns out, I really can’t.

Now, it can basically be determined that the Alliance and Holy Terra have been completely separated by the Scarlet Scar.

Under the current situation where the Great Rift traverses the empire, the two have already been divided into separate sides.

In the past, he could casually make a psychic call to Holy Terra, chatting with Galaraldo. Moreover, if he wished, he wouldn’t necessarily need a year’s voyage, but could directly traverse physically, reaching Holy Terra in just two to three days.

The price was merely the hassle during subspace traversal, easily attracting attention; also, when descending upon Holy Terra, the noise would be considerable, inevitably being discovered by the Tribunal, the Imperial Guard, and so forth.

Compared to those troubles, it was better to just take the year-long ship ride.

However, now he can’t even make a call.

The Scarlet Scar’s turbulent subspace waves are too violent. In the past very easy route, now he has to pass through countless unreliable Star Realm Tunnels; Gu Hang could handle all these. But when facing the Scarlet Scar, like a wall of sighs, all messages are stopped on this side of the wall, unable to penetrate.

If he had to penetrate it, Gu Hang would have to be at the edge of that wall—not just physically reaching there in reality, but also in subspace.

The risk of the latter is quite high.

In the current subspace environment, Gu Hang conceptually reaching near the Scarlet Scar in subspace and attempting to breach it, truly would be seeking death. During that process, there is nothing that could protect him. And he would be completely exposed to the ’hunters’. To those four great gods, he is a mouth-watering delicacy.

Moreover, it’s different than with mortals. Sometimes, for a super-dimensional existence in subspace to eat a mortal hero, it has to spend a lot of effort to lure them into corruption. But Gu Hang has an essence in subspace, which makes eating him unnecessary of weaving fate or enticing corruption.

Finding him and swallowing is enough.

He has to thank the Emperor, without the protective canopy of some powerful figure, he’d have been devoured long ago amidst the constant growth of his spiritual power, becoming conspicuous in subspace, never reaching his current level.

And without being able to go in person or break through the Scarlet Scar in subspace, he can’t contact Holy Terra.

Calculating the entire situation, about three domains in the Central Empire territory, all thirteen domains in the Eastern territory, two domains in the Northern territory have been split in half on this side, and there are 8 domains in the Southern territory…

Altogether, it really is about half of the empire.

Now, with Holy Terra on the other side of the Scarlet Scar, does having this half of the empire on this side mean Gu Hang can do as he pleases?

In a certain sense, yes.

However, Gu Hang doesn’t feel happy at all, just wants a bitter smile.

Just thinking about how much trouble is out there now gives him a headache.

Power is always coupled with responsibility.

But what can be done?

At this moment, I can only say, if not me, who else?

…

Even though he has been mentally prepared to bear the responsibilities of half of the empire, in practical operations, he must proceed with utmost caution.

Gu Hang knows the outside world urgently needs the Alliance’s rescue, but just like meals need to be eaten bite by bite, the domain also needs to be rescued bit by bit…not swallowed.

Rescue of the empire, or rather half of the empire, fundamentally relies on the strength of the Alliance itself. Gu Hang can’t be overaggressive to achieve success, consequently losing his main forces, plunging the Alliance into crisis, as that would be a huge loss.

During the rescue process, who knows how many demons are waiting for him on the outside.

The Alliance General Staff Department devised three cautious marching routes, with relatively modest force deployment, targeting the Magrey Cosmic Domain neighboring the Spiderweb Domain.

This domain isn’t large, medium-scaled, with eight Star Domains. Between it and the Spiderweb Domain, there are nine Star Realm Tunnels connecting. They chose three of them, cautiously advancing with a fleet of not particularly large scale.

Venturing into outer domains poses significant risks.

Primarily during the journey.

Although in the departure world on the alliance’s side, Thunder Torch Towers were surely arranged, but not on the other side.

This process is conceptually similar to the previous ’electrification’ actions where they went to ignite many alliance worlds, but slightly more challenging.

In the Alliance territory, Gu Hang’s Storm God Kingdom could provide a degree of protection. After all, while not everyone in the alliance chants Gu Hang’s name, his leadership stature does resonate deeply. Positive emotions like gratitude, trust, and adoration, or negative emotions like hatred and fear, as long as they aren’t ignoring or dismissing, exert an effect.

However, outside the alliance, the protective effect of the Storm God Kingdom diminishes significantly.

This implies increased difficulty in Star Realm navigation.

Alliance vessels are equipped with more and even excessive anti-Chaos measures.

This so-called ’standard’ was derived from various precious data from experiments like the one Jason Morgan conducted in the Fox Moon Star Domain, along with dedicated testing data from Alliance Central, compiled into a “Dangerous Navigation Manual”.

Yet, its reliability remains questionable. Warnings are prominently printed on the first page of the manual.

The main reason being the test data still isn’t abundant enough due to time constraints. Also, these data were obtained from within the Alliance territory, and Alliance technical experts believe that safe navigation is higher internally than externally.

While compiling the manual, a margin was added to the existing data standards, but that only added to the uncertainty.

For these initial three expeditionary fleets, even after utilizing measures thrice the manual standard, they still felt insufficiently secure.

However, facts proved, the Alliance, being very strong, was also overly cautious.

The threefold safety measures proved quite effective.

Despite inevitable occurrences of Chaos corrosion on board after traversing the Star Realm Tunnel to reach regions outside the Alliance,

the severity wasn’t high and resolution was swift.

Additionally, the fleet wasn’t solely composed of the Navy; considering that the rescues of external planets involve ground operations, a substantial deployment of Army units with the fleets was necessary.

When encountering Chaos corruption onboard, naturally, there were ample manpower resources to resolve it.

Moreover, war might be the main theme, but an even greater theme is disaster relief. Following the warships were numerous transport ships. Besides transporting Army and equipment, resources for disaster relief were also abundant.

The Alliance’s expeditionary fleet thus wielded a carrot in one hand, a big stick in the other, arriving at the Magrey Cosmic Domain.

…

In contrast to the cautious advance of the Alliance expeditionary fleet, another measure of Gu Hang seemed far bolder and more aggressive.

That concerns communication.

Can’t contact Holy Terra, but can’t contact the other Empire Worlds on this isolated side?

Certainly, it can be done.

In fact, it can be considered relatively easy.

Even without the help of Alliance Central, a well-managed region like the Fox Moon Star Domain took nearly six months to reunify all planets. In places beyond the alliance, the islanding problem would be even more severe.

People always try to grasp onto lifelines desperately.

At this moment, Gu Hang could feel numerous helpless communication signals flying out from various planets.

And he intends to give them hope.

He had the Alliance Foreign Affairs Department draft a “Letter to Compatriots in Disaster” in the name of the High Lord.