Gamma World.
"Expand the military?"
"Another expansion?"
"This isn't an ordinary expansion. It's an expansion for the genetic ascension program."
"What's that?"
"No idea."
"You don't know, yet you're this excited?"
"Anything the Governor submits directly to the Chief Council is definitely no trivial matter."
"Don't forget, the last thing the Governor submitted to the Chief Council was the expedition beyond Gamma World. This expansion is probably another extremely important event. I wonder what Chief Finance Officer Mina thinks of it."
"The Chief Finance Officer controls Governor Cisrain's treasury. She should have enough spare money to support it, right?"
Finance Minister Mina looked at the military expansion decree sent by Cisrain.
She nearly crushed the cup in her hand.
Did our Governor really have no idea how much military expansion cost?!
Even with one Forge World, three colony planets, and one homeworld,
they still could not afford to maintain a complete naval fleet, let alone tens of thousands of genetically ascended war legionnaires.
Last time, merely using the Gravity Slingshot to launch an armed merchant ship had cost them an astronomical sum just to lock onto the target and achieve absolute precision.
And the five hundred modified soldiers Governor Cisrain had raised before that had nearly emptied her coffers. She had worried so much that she could not sleep for days and had nearly raised taxes above eighty percent.
Expanding the military was fine, but they needed an enormous amount of resources.
Not merely electricity, alloys, and minerals.
They also needed vast computing power to sustain training, simulations, modifications, and all the subsequent maintenance brought on by expanding their numbers.
Even with full automation, the automated modules they needed to build required initial computing power for research and production, while later maintenance still demanded large numbers of people.
Maintaining the