The Empire's development of the planet can be described as exhausting the resources, because for the Empire, resources are never enough.
Although the empire has millions of worlds on the surface, and not every world represents a planet, it is still at least hundreds of thousands of planets.
(The Empire's space stations also count as Empire worlds)
However, if such a huge number is scattered throughout the Milky Way, it would be as sparse as a large drop of water sprinkled into the ocean.
It can't be said that there is no effect, but it is basically invisible.
And because these worlds are scattered throughout the galaxy, it is difficult for the Ministry of the Interior to ensure that the taxes and materials they collect can be allocated in a timely manner to the places where they are most needed.
After all, the empire's territory, measured in tens of thousands of light years, makes logistics and transportation a desperate matter.
The subspace engine is the only technology capable of transporting materials across star regions, but it is not safe.
The dangers of Warp trekking often negate the precious tithes collected over centuries by an entire sector.
So for the Empire, many times they have to use a safer way to transport precious tithe materials, that is, the Imperial merchant fleet slowly crawls through the real universe.
Although traveling through the real universe is indeed safe and there won't be any major troubles except pirate attacks, it usually takes decades or even hundreds of years to transport supplies to their destination.
This speed is acceptable for transporting supplies within a star region, but it is unimaginably slow for the entire empire.
After all, if Guilliman was providing support at this speed from Macragge to Holy Terra, then he would have set out at the time of the Heresy, and by the time he arrived at Terra, the Age of Apostasy would have ended.
Precisely because of this, for the empire to be able to ensure the stable production of resources in the control area, it is undoubtedly necessary to squeeze out resources to the maximum extent possible.
This has led to a tendency for the empire to continuously exhaust all resources from top to bottom, and it has not considered more reasonable development methods that would reduce the burden on the people of the empire.
After all, a galaxy can be drained within a thousand, and squeezing out enough resources to support the war in the surrounding star fields is the most practical and most necessary for the empire.
As for squeezing out less resources so that it can operate for a thousand more years, or producing resources sustainably for ten thousand years, it is not practical for the empire.
While this is wonderful, how can you guarantee that the front line won't collapse if you lose this little bit of resources? How can you guarantee that the loss of this little bit of tax revenue won't cause dozens of imperial worlds to fall?
So even though the Ministry of the Interior knows that they can get more by exploiting resources in a more reasonable way, they still have to exploit the Empire's worlds to the extreme, forcing them to provide resources for the survival of the Empire.
This undoubtedly brought great suffering to the people of the empire, but it was also a necessary sacrifice.
And ironically, it is precisely because of more suffering that the people of the empire believe more devoutly in the state religion and the emperor.
This is why those governors who were considered very valuable from the perspective of the 3K era were role models from the perspective of the Imperial Ministry of the Interior.
You are able to collect taxes for the empire efficiently, and the people under your rule are extremely pious. Some of them with good physical fitness can be recruited into the Astra Militarum or even the Astartes. If you are not a role model, who is?
As for the fact that the average life expectancy of the empire's citizens is less than 40 years old, and the vast majority of people have no opportunity to receive education and will die from overwork, what does this have to do with you?
You are the planetary governor. In a hive, only the imperial citizens above the middle hive are considered human. Even so, they are still just a burden to the empire.
Even if they could live among the Imperial citizens in the Upper Nest, if they could not become a member of the Astra Militarum or other Imperial institutions, then most of them would still be a burden to the Empire.
This includes the so-called planetary nobility and even the planetary governor himself.
Luka certainly had no intention of becoming the governor of such a precious commodity, nor did he intend to become the so-called "burden to the emperor."
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"If we want to avoid becoming a 'burden to the Emperor,' we must at least develop this planet. If nothing else, we must at least allow the PDF to be transformed into the Astra Militarum." At a gathering after leaving the Warhammer world, Guterres expressed his opinion: "Currently, the combat effectiveness of the PDF on this planet is worrying. Their training level is passable, but their weaponry, fighting spirit, and combat experience are truly not up to par."
At this time, the four were still in Guterres' store. After opening a bottle of wine, they sat together and discussed plans for future development.
"The financial situation of Rostov II is very average. It is almost impossible to update the armament of PDF at present." Luka placed the financial statements compiled by Ochumelov on the table. The numbers on it were not optimistic.
The four people present were obviously aware of this and did not waste any words on this topic. Luka and Guterres just turned their eyes to Mai Mai and Mu Se.
When they divided the work before, in addition to going to the star district capital to build relationships, they were also responsible for conducting a census of the entire sub-star district, at least to find out how many planets there were in this sub-star district and what types of different planets there were.
And most importantly, whether there are resources on these planets that can be turned into throne coins.
"According to the scans of the ship's auspicious array, the sub-region we are in has thirteen suns, with distances between them ranging from 3 to 5 light-years. It's a relatively densely populated area of stars." Mai Mai produced a record copied on blessed parchment. Luka could tell it was written by a servo skull or an automated scribe: "Each sun is surrounded by at least 3-5 planets. Some galaxies have more than a dozen planets, while others have only one sun. Generally speaking, all the suns are quite ordinary, nothing special.
There are no other Imperial worlds in the entire sub-sector except Rostov II, which is the only developed planet.
Aside from our planet, there are 33 planets in the entire sub-stellar region. Three are classified as death worlds due to their harsh environments. Six are barren worlds with atmospheres suitable for colonization. Seven have rich mineral deposits that can be mined. Eight are just ordinary stone planets, and the remaining nine are gas giants.
Hearing these numbers, Luka felt his face turn green: "Three, six, seven, eight, nine, thirteen, this damn place is so blessed with so many talented people?"
'A land of outstanding people' is of course an irony, for three and seven are the sacred numbers of Nurgle, six is the sacred number of Slaanesh, eight is the sacred number of Khorne, and nine is the sacred number of Tzeentch.
As for thirteen, although it is rumored to be the Emperor's sacred number, the Emperor does not actually have a sacred number. It's just that this number has been associated with the Emperor since some time ago.
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