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Chapter 379, Star Language Phone

The so-called award was to commend Gu Hang for his outstanding performance in the Battle of Koluga as the commander of the theater.

The atmosphere of the award ceremony was very formal, but it was not too complicated or grand.

Gu Hang wore a military uniform, took the document from the representative of the Astra Militarum, and pinned the medal on his chest. This matter was considered finished.

It's a little awkward to bring a medal to yourself, but that's about it for this occasion.

There are no high-ranking officials among those who come from the Star Realm or the Cosmic Realm. The representative of the Astra Militarum, who was a civilian lieutenant colonel, was even more weird to have him award the medal.

Gu Hang simply came by himself.

After chatting with these guests for a while, they were hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and rested for a few days on the Raging Star before returning.

Gu Hang has since become a Lieutenant General of the Astral Army and received the Glory Medal.

This is the second level among the five-level imperial medals. Although it is only one level higher than the Warrior Medal, it is actually a great honor.

In fact, as long as it is an 'Imperial Medal', no matter what level it is, its gold content is very high.

This is not the same thing as the Pheasant Medal awarded by some planets and other interstellar organizations. There are only five medals that are commonly used in all fields throughout the empire. Even if it is the lowest level of warrior medal, if a Space Marine obtains it, he will hang it on his shoulder armor and breastplate as an honor.

But in terms of actual value, it has no real value. Although there are people who have made great achievements and are awarded medals, and then rewarded with a planet or something, or have a particularly high political status, these are not incidental to the medal, but the value of the merit itself. The medal is purely an honorary function.

Gu Hang couldn't help but complain, the alliance's medals are still paid! The Renaissance Medal, the Chi Feng Medal, and the Third Class Combat Meritorious Medal all come with additional allowances for life, unless they commit crimes later and are deprived of the medals, which is another matter.

However, Gu Hang happily kept his glorious medal.

From now on, it will be quite respectable to wear it on your chest when you go out.

In addition, Gu Hang's military rank has also been promoted.

The saucy maneuvers carried out by War Apostle Gallardo had transformed Gu Hang into the commander of the Raging Bear Legion, and even given him the rank of major general.

At that time, his military rank was somewhat undeserved. Which major general of the Astra Militarum does not command an army group? The size of a group army is at least a million people. When the Raging Bear Legion was first established, there were only about 100,000 people, and the size of two or three masters was a bit overwhelming for even a brigadier general.

The current Raging Bear Legion has a scale of more than one million people, and the commander of the Legion deserves the rank of major general.

But Gu Hang's identity is more than that. Although the Koluojia War Zone is a temporary setting, as the commander of the war zone, Gu Hang was in charge of less than half of the Pegasus fleet, an entire army group of the Dragon Eagle Legion, plus the local area. The planetary defense force, which turned out to be only a major general, was a bit small - below him, Hans, who had to take orders from him, was all a lieutenant general.

As a result, Gu Hang's military rank was promoted to Lieutenant General - a member of the Astra Militarum rank.

Gu Hang continued to complain: The battle is over, and now you think that my military rank is inappropriate?

The empire's reaction speed...

But no matter what, if you upgrade afterwards, it is still an upgrade.

In the future, if Gu Hang goes out, or if someone comes to the Raging Owl Star, the rank of Lieutenant General of the Astral Army and the Imperial Medal of Glory, these two things put together will be regarded as a good match.

However, Gu Hang was still thinking about another situation: The empire took the initiative to do this for him?

He didn't quite believe it.

Based on the value of these things and the understanding of the imperial political ecology of China Air Transport, we can only talk about what rewards are merited. If you don’t take part in activities, don’t strive for something, and don’t have a backer, then it’s hard to say whether your contribution is really yours.

No one could compare to Gu Hang's achievements, but it would be a bit difficult for the empire to proactively reward him with considerable force.

But when it comes to backers, Gu Hang really thinks of two people.

One is Neil Loyce.

But he quickly ruled out that option.

Lois has considerable power, but his position is not high enough. Being under the current management can bring some real benefits to Gu Hang, but it shouldn't take much effort to obtain the rank of lieutenant general or the imperial medal. The identity of the Chief of Internal Affairs of the Star Territory is not very relevant to what Gu Hang is currently acquiring.

However, he seems to have another backer.

Gallardo.

He thought about it for a while, and made a very complicated interstellar phone call through the Star Tower of Angry Owl Star. The target of the call was Wuji Star, the capital of the Eastern Universe.

The Astrology Tower in his hand can actually only reach the Winged Star where the capital of the star region is located - that's already across two star systems and passed through two star tunnels.

If you want to contact Yunluo Star, where the Star Territory Government is located, you need to jump from the Star Tower system of Flying Wing Star.

If you want to contact Wuji Star, the capital planet of the Eastern Universe, you still need to jump from Yunluo Star.

Just use the Star Tower to search for psychic channels, then apply for permission, get permission, then jump to search, and then apply for permission... This whole process is very troublesome.

Especially when searching for psychic channels, the more jumps and the farther away they are, the more difficult it will be to find them in a complex psychic environment, and the greater the work challenge for astropaths.

The original Astropath on Raging Owl couldn't do it.

Even if he is paired with dozens of psykers from the Storm Mage Group to maximize his psychic power, he still won't be able to jump to the capital of the universe multiple times.

Ultra-long-distance astrological communication requires astropaths, in addition to the strength of their psychic powers, a stronger ability to search for signals is equally important.

The current astropath in Raging Owl is just not good at anything.

It's not even possible to throw this guy into the Alliance's Storm Mage Academy for further training. He has no potential.

This guy was sent to him by Gu Hang's mother. In fact, the Star Talk Tower was also given to him by his mother, and the Astropath was sent along with him. I used to think that he was a highly skilled person, but later I discovered that this guy was only at this level. He had neither talent nor ambition, and just wanted to eat and die.

It's no problem, Gu Hang is very tolerant of this. It doesn't matter what level you can achieve, just work normally. Gu Hang won't ask for more on the remaining ability issues.

However, Gu Hang had a realistic need for star language communication.

As the alliance's stall grows bigger and bigger, the demand for external communications will definitely increase.

Moreover, astrological communication to fixed planets is already the simplest. What's more difficult is for the voyage fleet.

It’s so laborious to make a call to Wuji Star now. The war fleet is in a remote star area, constantly moving, and may enter a silent state from time to time - such as the Pegasus fleet to which Gu Hang’s fiancée Ye Lixia belongs. , wouldn’t that mean we can’t be contacted even more?

This is indeed the case.

This area needs to be strengthened.

On the one hand, it is the quality improvement of the Astropaths, and on the other hand, it is the technical level of the Astropath Tower.     The two complement each other. A good astropath can use bad equipment to directly connect to Holy Terra; a bad astropath equipped with a good enough astropathic tower can at least contact a place outside the universe.

While thinking about the next direction for the alliance to strengthen its development, Gu Hang's psychic perception followed the signal from the Star Language Tower and connected to the transfer station of Feiyi Star, and then connected to Yunluo Star, and then Looking for the Promise Star again.

There was nothing he could do, and if his subordinates couldn't do it, Gu Hang would have to do it on his own.

He is different from the long-term Astropath on Raging Owl. He is a serious S-class psyker, and his psychic power is not on the same level. Although his disadvantage is that he has not received professional training as an astropath, he still has time to practice now - he has enough capital to try it.

Then, this whole phone call process wasted a whole day of his time.

Fortunately, it only took two hours to get a call from Wuji Star, but after the call, Gu Hang got the news that Gallardo was no longer at Wuji Star.

This is not consistent with the last news Gu Hang received.

Gallardo should have taken a fast ship to the capital of the empire and the mother planet of mankind: Holy Terra.

It should have been a year and a half since he left Wuji Star. According to the speed of the ship he was traveling on, Gallardo should have arrived at Holy Terra long ago.

So, Gu Hang called Holy Terra again.

This was far away, and it took Gu Hang a whole day.

After this wave, Gu Hang's proficiency in operating Star Language calls has greatly improved.

Next time we call Wuji Star, it should only take an hour to get it done; if we call Holy Terra, it will take at most seven or eight hours.

Of course, even so, the time is actually a bit unacceptable. How could Gu Hang spend so much time on the phone?

In the future, unless there is a better Astropath and a better Astropath Tower, Gu Hang can no longer be the telephone operator himself. Otherwise, if it is not an extremely important thing, he will definitely not make any super long-distance calls. The interstellar phone.

In fact, this time he actually regretted it. He felt that he didn't have anything special to say to Gallardo.

But in the middle, time had already been invested and the sunk costs were already too high, so he gritted his teeth and persisted, treating it as an exercise for himself.

But when the call finally got through, Gu Hang felt that the information he got from this call was still very valuable.

"I'm still wondering how long it will take for this phone call to come through." On the other side, Gallardo's frivolous voice sounded, with an intimacy not seen in a long time.

"The people who were awarded the honors arrived at the Raging Owl Star. After I met them, I immediately wanted to communicate with you, but... it's a remote place. Please understand that it is really difficult to get in touch with Holy Terra."

"I understand, I understand, but you are quick..."

"Hello? Hello?"

"Oh, I can hear you... this damn call quality!" Gallardo complained and cursed, then his tone returned to lightness, "I called a few astropaths to come over and strengthen the call channel for us, now It shouldn’t be a big problem!”

"From what you said, it seems that you are also well-respected in Holy Terra?"

"Of course, who am I? I am Borgia Gallardo!"

"War Apostle..."

"Don't call me War Apostle, I am no longer." When he said this, Gallardo's mood dropped slightly for a moment, but he was quickly infected by a new full emotion, "Now, please Call me Deputy Minister of Imperial Military Affairs!”

Later, Gallardo added: "If nothing else happens, within six months, I will be promoted to Assistant Secretary of the Department of Military Affairs."

"!"

Gu Hang's sigh was not fake.

The surprise that Gallardo brought to Gu Hang was even more significant than he imagined.

The prefix of the ‘Ministry of Military Affairs’ mentioned by the former War Apostle is Empire, and no other suffixes are added.

This also means that he is referring to the Empire's Central Military Affairs Department.

And what level is the deputy chief?

The head of the central government of the empire is the Imperial Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister of the Imperial Military Affairs Department is one of the most important government positions under the Imperial Prime Minister. In some cases—such as the current era—the Prime Minister of the Imperial Military Affairs Department can be ranked among the thirteen people in the Supreme Council of Mankind. one of.

Within the Ministry of Military Affairs, under the prime minister are the deputy prime minister and assistant minister, and then the deputy minister.

In the Ministry of Military Affairs, there may only be six or seven people under Gallardo's head, including the Prime Minister. If he really does what he said and becomes the assistant minister within six months, then he can almost be regarded as the former assistant minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs. A figure of five can even be counted as the third in command in extreme cases.

So, in this case, Gu Hang’s ‘good friend’, Gallardo, has become a serious official of the empire?

They are not the so-called 'war apostles' who rely purely on the authority of the Sun Lord but do not actually have specific positions, but are serious high-ranking officials of the empire.

How did this guy...do it?

Gu Hang felt deeply surprised.

Feeling proud, Gallardo told Gu Hang roughly what he had experienced during this period.

"Wait, where are you..."

Gallardo understood in seconds: "Don't worry, of course I will be careful that our conversation will not be eavesdropped."

He continued: "Let me see where I'm at..."

……

When Gallardo was fished out of the subspace by Gu Hang and heard that the Sun Lord delegation that came to rescue him had hurriedly withdrew halfway, he realized that something had happened to the Sun Lord.

He immediately ran away from the Tianma Star District.

No matter how important the Pegasus Sector seems, it is always located in a remote area of ​​the empire. He must act quickly while there is still enough time.

No matter how the Sun Lord died, Gallardo, as a confidant, clearly understood that after the Sun Lord, no one could continue to maintain the Sun Expedition; the huge Sun Expeditionary Army, which almost gathered the elite of the entire empire, would also Falling apart.

He must find a way out for himself, otherwise people like him, who have no military power, make money for the Sun Lord, and have offended countless high-ranking officials in the empire, will be quickly purged in the first wave. Lose.

(End of this chapter)