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Chapter 175 Imperial Immigration
There are many ways for the empire to colonize planets, and the most common one is very simple and crude.

That is to directly smash the immigration ship brought by the pioneering group, then transform the immigration ship into a living cabin, and use the materials on the ship to build the first settlement.

Of course, another more sophisticated approach would be to have special landing transport ships that travel between the immigration ships and the surface of the planet. The immigration ships would not crash directly into the surface, but generally speaking, the main goal would still be to establish settlements.

With the technology of the empire, building a town that can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people (it can only be called a town in the empire) is only a matter of ten days or half a month.

If Chen Xi were to organize it himself, he might not have been so extravagant as to smash the immigrant ship down and turn it into a disposable item.

After all, even if it is just the cheapest civilian transport ship, a void ship with the ability to jump into the subspace is worth hundreds of thousands or even millions of throne coins.

It’s better to save as much as possible.

However, the pioneering group's ship was paid for by the state religion, and the practice of directly launching the ship was also determined by the state religion. Naturally, Chen Xi did not save the state religion this money.

After all, directly launching the immigration ship can save a lot of trouble.

First of all, the immigrants of the pioneer group do not have to sleep in the open air.

The sturdy shell of the immigration ship is enough to protect the immigrants of the pioneer group from harm by the planetary environment and indigenous creatures in any harsh planetary surface environment.

Except in extremely rare cases, the environment and life on the surface of a planet are unlikely to pose any harm to a ship that can cross the void.

Secondly, the energy, water supply and food circulation system of the immigration ship itself can provide immigrants with sufficient electricity, drinking water and food supply in the early stages of immigration and development, ensuring that they do not need to worry about food, drink and energy.

You should know that even in a spacecraft that has fallen into the starry sea for hundreds or even thousands of years, the ion reactor installed on it can still operate normally and provide sufficient power for the spacecraft.

The circulation equipment on the spacecraft can also provide enough food and water for the settlements left behind in the wrecked space ship to sustain their survival for a thousand years.

Therefore, as long as an immigration ship is used properly, it can be sufficient to support the operation and development of a city for hundreds or even thousands of years.

With these guarantees, immigrants can comfortably get through the most difficult initial development stage and quickly establish a relatively stable and safe settlement.

With safe settlements, unless there are extreme exceptions, the subsequent development and construction of the planet will have sufficient support and can enter a stable fast lane.

Many of the Empire's colony worlds, including Rostov II, were originally established in this way.

Although simple and crude, it is extremely efficient, especially when facing planets with harsh environments and scarce resources, this method is almost the only option.

However, Chen Xi also knew that this method was not without its drawbacks.

Once an immigrant ship lands, it loses the ability to take off again.

This extravagant act of treating void ships as disposable items will cause the cost of immigration and development to surge.

At the same time, the dismantling and modification of immigration ships also requires professional technology and equipment, as well as a considerable degree of manpower investment.

Without sufficient equipment and technical investment, it might take hundreds of years for local immigrants to slowly dismantle the immigrant ships and turn them into materials for urban construction.

If the planet's environment is too harsh or the resources are too dispersed, the initial construction costs will be very high.

However, these issues do not seem to be important to the state religion. Their goal is to quickly establish the state religion's belief system on the new planet, rather than considering long-term economic benefits.

Therefore, directly landing on the immigration ship is the most suitable option for them.

Chen Xi didn't have much opinion on this.

After all, the state church provided a lot of financial support for this immigration plan, and he had no reason to question the decision of the financier.

What's more, this method can indeed provide better initial protection for immigrants and reduce their survival pressure on the new planet.

According to Chen Xi's plan, the first pioneering group will arrive at the neighboring galaxy not far from Rostov, settle on a mineral planet, and then mine the planet's resources.

Chen Xi has reached an agreement with the Mechanicus, and they will provide the necessary technical support and equipment to the immigrant group.

Everything is running in an orderly manner according to plan. When settlements are established one after another in the sub-star region in the future and worlds are developed one after another, the entire sub-star region will provide Chen Xi with resources sufficient to support his entire plan and ambition.

And Rostov will be the starting point of all this.

He took a deep breath, turned back to his desk and continued to deal with the various documents at hand.

The immigration plan is only a part of his many tasks, but it will be the focus of his and his friends' work for some time to come.

We must ensure that every link is correct in order for the entire plan to proceed smoothly and prepare for the unfolding of the Great Rift.

Time waits for no one, Chen Xi must seize the remaining twenty years to make preparations.

This is the last period of relative peace and stability before the darkest age arrives. Once the critical time node of 999.M41, the opening of the Great Rift, is passed, the entire empire will be in chaos!

In the next two hundred years, the entire galaxy will burn, and the flames of war will sweep across every world in the empire. No one can stay out of it, and no one can escape this disaster.

If the empire wants to be relatively stable again, everything has to wait for that man's return.

He will eventually return to the empire he is not loyal to, rebuild everything, and save this dying empire.

However, before the Lord of the Thirteenth Legion can save the Empire again, the Empire will face a huge natural disaster that will tear the galaxy apart, and the dark reality that the entire Empire will be divided into isolated islands again.

Had Guilliman's Indomitable Crusade not reunited the realms within the Holy Realm of the Imperium after the Great Rift had reopened, humanity would have been plunged once again into the Age of Strife following the fall of the Dark Age of Technology, reliving the horrors of the past.

This time, there is no emperor to save mankind again. In addition to waiting for the salvation of the Son of the God-Emperor, mankind must rely on its own strength to save itself.

Chen Xi must ensure that before Guilliman wakes up and embarks on the expedition again, the Rostov sub-sector has enough strength to cope with the catastrophe that sweeps across the galaxy, and develop rapidly during this catastrophe to accumulate enough strength.

Only in this way can he not miss the grand expedition of the Indomitable Era and complete the mission entrusted by the Emperor.

Although Chen Xi is still not quite sure to what extent the emperor wants him to do, saving the empire is the right thing to do after all.

(End of this chapter)