The Bottas Sector is an administrative region located at the very edge of the human empire's jurisdiction, consisting of more than 500 star systems and probably less than 100 planets inhabited by more than one billion people.
It was established in a very short period of time, less than 1,500 years, and was one of the few new colonies that the human empire successfully expanded outwards and established a firm foothold during the 10,000-year-long dark period.
Since when it was first established, the empire only wanted to turn this area into a huge mining area and primary industrial products processing area, so there was not much immigration of people.
However, with hundreds of years of natural reproduction, the population in the area gradually expanded to such an alarming scale that it began to need to allocate food and other daily necessities from other places to maintain social stability.
It is obviously not cost-effective to transport ordinary materials over long distances through subspace, so the local development of some corresponding agricultural and light industrial industries has naturally been put on the agenda.
Finally, with the approval of the Terran Council, this sexual sector quickly obtained more than a hundred planetary governor quotas.
Of course, just having a quota is not enough.
To start from scratch and establish an industrial system on an uninhabited planet with no infrastructure is far more difficult than what ordinary people can imagine.
Not to mention anything else, just facing the harsh environment of the planet itself and the counterattack of the local native creatures is a lot of trouble, not to mention the threats from outer space orcs, Zerg, Eldar, Necron, and Chaos forces.
Therefore, colonizing a new planet from scratch is definitely a very dangerous job. If you are not careful, you will die, even if you can get the support of the empire.
But without saying much, becoming the governor of a planet is still very attractive to most people in the middle and lower classes.
After all, newly developed planets like this often do not need to pay any taxes in the first few hundred years.
And once the development is successful, you and your family's descendants will be able to become the rulers of the planet permanently, and even implement primitive feudalism and cruel slavery, and enjoy a beautiful life by riding on the necks of ordinary people on the planet.
Many Rogue Traders are even willing to pay a high price for a spot, and then use their connections and resources to develop planets, and eventually become governors.
Situations like this were countless during the period of rapid expansion of the Great Expedition.
However, during the long dark ages, due to the severe challenge to the rule of the entire galaxy by the Human Empire, even if the Astartes fought with all their strength to put out fires, they could only watch the scope of their influence shrink.
Therefore, Terra was unable to provide sufficient support to the newly developed colonial planet.
Usually, it is the planetary governor who finds ways to raise the population, funds, and technology needed for development.
Therefore, the development of the Bottas sector has been very slow for a long time. The population of only six planets has barely reached tens of billions, and the technological level and industrial capabilities can be regarded as the highest in the entire empire.
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The most typical example is that more than three hundred years ago, Terra sent people to collect the only tax. As a result, after inspecting the quality of weapons and equipment manufactured in the area, only a small amount of food was taken away.
Because other junk gadgets, even the cannon fodder distributed to the Astra Militarum, seemed too backward.
Yes, you read that right, in the 1,500-year-long colonial history, this useless place has only been taxed once.
It was so poor and backward that the empire's top officials completely forgot about it for a long time, completely forgetting that there was such a colonial star that could collect taxes.
This situation is not an isolated case, but an administrative chaos caused by the territorial scope far exceeding the theoretical limit of governance.
There are also some remote star areas that were developed relatively early, and they may only suddenly be reminded to levy taxes once every two to three thousand years, and one levy is the total amount owed during the two to three thousand years.
If the Planetary Governor can't get it out, he might be killed with a blast to the head with a bolter, and then replaced with a new one.
To be honest, even with the brutal and ineffective ruling method of the Human Empire, it can still maintain such a status as a galactic hegemon despite various disasters for ten thousand years.
You can imagine how amazing the role it plays.
Even the entire empire does not have universal values ​​from top to bottom, and the systems and laws implemented in various sectors and planets are also diverse.
When the emperor was there, he basically relied on personality worship and the imperial truth he promoted to unite people's hearts. Without the emperor, he could only rely entirely on religious belief, an extremely backward spiritual anesthetic.
According to the experience of human history, the final outcome of such bulk empires is basically either implosion or gradual disintegration.
Of course, as a planetary governor in a remote area, Moscat didn't care about the way the Empire was ruled now, or what happened to the big figures in the Terran Council.
Because the Bottas sector is so far away from the empire's center, such blockbuster news that the primarch has awakened and become regent again will not have even the slightest impact on this area that has just suffered a small-scale invasion by the Zerg.
What really disturbed him was a document signed by Robert Guilliman himself.
This document requires that all personnel and troops belonging to the empire's administrative, state religion, tribunal and other institutions in the entire sector be evacuated, and that all living planetary governors immediately go to the foundry planet where various outrageous rumors have been leaked recently - Tur.
According to information disclosed by an "informed person", the reason why this place was able to withstand or even eliminate the main force of the Tyranid Zerg has nothing to do with the Astartes warband stationed there, nor is it the large number of tanks manufactured by the Mechanicus.
, mechas and other weapons, but a weird unknown creature appeared inexplicably.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Those bugs that frightened all civilizations in the entire galaxy were all killed under the attack of this unknown creature in just a few days, and they were even devastated.
A huge city was rebuilt on the ruins, as well as a fully automated assembly line that could continuously produce various things.
What's even more incredible is that the empire, which has always been unfriendly to alien creatures, actually did not immediately send the most powerful Astartes battle group to destroy the opponent this time, but instead allowed the opponent to control the entire planet.
Not long ago, Navy transport ships transported hundreds of millions of prisoners.
All of this proves that the empire seems to have reached some kind of deal with this unknown existence.
And Bottas is very likely to be one of the bargaining chips in this transaction.
So Moscat is now very worried about his own situation and future as well as that of the entire family.
He was afraid of being abandoned by the Terran Council, afraid of losing the power that his family had inherited for hundreds of years, and even more afraid of becoming a slave of some kind of alien or unknown entity.
Although he rules a planet with a population of more than 30 billion, has certain industrial manufacturing capabilities, and can raise tens of millions of mortal auxiliary legions during war, he is not even qualified to participate in cosmic-level wars and conflicts.
This small Tyranid invasion is the best example.
Not to mention an unknown life form that can easily drive away ferocious insects.
Of course, Moscat is not the only one who has the same idea. Dozens of other planetary governors who did not become the Zerg's rations in this disaster also have similar anxieties and worries.
But they obviously did not dare to disobey the orders from the Terran Council and the Regent, and they also did not dare to speculate on how powerful a creature could be that could allow the empire to adopt a moderate strategy.
"well--"
After a long time, when the spaceport in the outer space orbit of the Tour star could be seen outside the window, the planetary governor who was over forty years old couldn't help but sigh slightly, and slowly stood up from his seat, with an expression on his face.
The back view looks like he is about to go to the execution ground.
Because to a certain extent, what he has to do now is to be a prisoner who accepts the trial of his fate.
Soon, with the spaceship engine extinguished, Moscat finally slowly walked out of the oppressive cabin, and was stunned by the incredible sight in front of him.
Although he has been to some extremely densely populated hive worlds and seen steel jungles stacked together like mountains that stretch for thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers, they are simply not on the same level as the super giant city in front of him.
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To be precise, most hive worlds are actually super-powered cyberpunk cities.
The residents at the bottom are not even worthy of electricity and can only survive on the garbage and discarded food thrown by the middle and upper classes. All kinds of violence, murder and gang conflicts are staged almost every day.
In the eyes of the empire's top brass, these gang members who have experienced darkness and despair since childhood and are proficient in using various weapons are the most ideal recruitment targets.
They only need to undergo a short period of brainwashing and discipline training before they can be thrown onto the battlefield as consumables to fend off endless enemies.
Anyway, no one would really place their hopes on mortal soldiers.
There was once a very classic joke, that is, as an ordinary big-headed soldier, how to judge the probability of surviving the battle he is going to participate in.
Generally speaking, only a small number of Astartes warriors appear, which means that the situation is not too bad, and there is at least more than 50% chance of surviving until the end of the war.
But if a certain scale of knight mecha appears, it means that the probability of surviving to the end will not exceed 25%.
If you had witnessed the emergence of the god's machine, the Titan Mecha, with your own eyes, you would have basically considered yourself dead from the moment you stepped onto the battlefield.
Therefore, the shockingly huge class differences in the hive city are most likely deliberately created by the upper ruling class.
Not to mention the people at the lowest level, even those workers who manufacture various weapons and equipment for the empire may not be able to go to the surface of the earth to see the real sky in their lifetime.
Only the elites at the top of the ruling class are qualified to enjoy life in the true sense.
As for the people at the lower level, they are just tools to maintain the operation of the huge empire. There are even restrictions on what kind of knowledge the class can learn.
For this reason, they still have to kneel down every day to express their gratitude to the governor who gave them such a "good life", and to offer their loyalty, faith and life to the great God-Emperor.
Although it sounds very dark and cruel, this is the current situation of the human empire, and it is even regarded as political correctness for granted.
If this method of class solidification is not adopted, the empire will simply not be able to maintain the stability of its rule, and various rebellions will quickly sweep through every corner like the plague of Nurgle.
As the planetary governor, Moscat has already seen through everything, so he has implemented a similar system on the planets he rules.
But now, he witnessed with his own eyes a scene that was also a steel jungle but completely opposite to the hive city.
From the lowest level to the highest point in the city, everyone can travel unimpeded without any restrictions at all.
Moreover, the highly automated and extremely advanced technology makes the entire city look like there is no sense of hierarchical tearing and class differences like the hive city.
The most important thing is that Moscat did not see even a single human being working. The entire assembly line was run by machines and some semi-mechanical creations.
Many people wearing various clothes were wandering aimlessly in parks and green belts. Others were sitting in places like restaurants eating snacks, drinking drinks, or chatting and laughing in small groups.
To be continued...