From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 605: May 0050, 5 of the Imperial Calendar

The main universe, Earth.

Looking down from low-Earth orbit, New Accra is like a dazzling gem inlaid in the earth's surface. Countless giant structures rise from the ground and reach the sky, sparkling with brilliant metallic luster under the sun.

This city is one of the core administrative hubs of the human empire. Its scale is as grand as Coruscant in the "One Seven" universe (Star Wars), but unlike that ancient capital that is completely covered with steel, every inch of New Akra is carefully woven into the harmonious coexistence of nature and technology.

In the atmosphere, above the city.

The architectural style of New Accra follows the "supreme order aesthetics" of the human empire.

The towering spire-like administrative center, the arc-domed interstellar trade center, and the residential areas that roll like mountains together form a vertical city that seems to have no end in sight.

The most eye-catching are the "pillars of the sky" that are thousands of meters high. These giant buildings are not only administrative and commercial centers, but also one of the "electric fields" that provide energy for the entire city.

Their surface is covered with adaptive nano-glass, which can adjust the light transmittance according to the sunlight, making the whole city glow with a light golden glow during the day and turn into a dark blue sea of ​​stars at night.

In this steel forest, countless civilian hovercrafts shuttled back and forth like a swarm of bees.

They are not the chaotic traffic flow like that of Coruscant, but follow the precise Imperial air route protocols and flow in an orderly manner on the preset magnetic levitation tracks.

As for the paint job of the public transport boat, it was the Empire's unified standard black, and the dragon emblem on the hatch sparkled in the sun.

New Acra, which was already an important city in the Atlas era, is not a purely human city. It accommodates ethnic groups from different universes.

In the shops on the street, Twi'leks dressed in gorgeous clothes were bargaining with human merchants. The tentacles on their heads swayed slightly with their emotions, and their brightly colored clothes were particularly eye-catching in the sunlight.

The elite race from the "20" universe (Halo) is indeed the most common other race. After all, their population is large. Before the Empire entered the "" universe (Star Wars), the elite race accounted for about % of the total population of the Empire.

On the terrace of a suspended restaurant on an aerial street, several human officers on leave were drinking with an elite veteran.

The restaurant mainly provides traditional food and drinks from other ethnic groups, and all food and drinks are certified by the Imperial Food Control Bureau and are suitable for the taste and drinking of most ethnic groups.

However, the most amazing thing about New Accra is not its technology, but its ubiquitous greenery.

On Coruscant, greenery was a luxury reserved for the rich and powerful, but here, eco-strips were considered a basic right of citizenship.

Every extended platform of the megastructure is planted with cold-resistant interstellar ferns, and hundreds of suspended sky gardens float among the buildings like emerald islands.

These gardens are maintained by anti-gravity engines, and are planted with exotic flowers and trees from various planets in the empire. There are even miniature artificial lakes, the surface of which reflects the clouds in the sky and the shadows of airships.

The city’s central ecological dome is an architectural wonder of the empire. It is a transparent force field with a diameter of more than three kilometers, covering a complete forest where oak trees, red vines and various animals coexist harmoniously.

Under the dome, citizens strolled along the winding crystal paths, children played by the fountains, and the elderly sat on benches, enjoying the warmth of the sun.

In such a city, people's happiness index is astonishingly high.

The empire's social welfare system ensures that every legal citizen can enjoy basic benefits.

Combined with the employment security bill, the unemployment rate is close to zero.

There are no beggars on the streets because the Empire's "service means security" policy allows any individual willing to serve the human race to earn a decent living.

The Market District is always bustling with vendors selling delicacies from all over the galaxy—

Quarantine seafood from Kamino, smoked terror meat from Harvest, rare fruits from Terra, and more.

When night falls, the city is never plunged into darkness.

The lighting on the building's facade turned into soft tones, and the hovercraft's navigation lights streaked across the sky like shooting stars.

Bars and theaters remain open, but order is maintained, and the Imperial Sheriff's Sentinel drones silently fly through the streets to ensure that no criminals, or even Chaos or Heresy forces, can tarnish this prosperity.

The New Accra is not a utopia.

It still abides by the human empire's iron law of "might is right", and one can even occasionally see the black ships of the Inquisition moored above the starport, indicating that agents affiliated with the Inquisition are carrying out some kind of mission.

But here, ordinary citizens can at least enjoy the happiness under order——

Stable jobs, safe streets, fresh air, and the steel sky dotted with greenery that you can see when you look up.

This is the life that the human empire can give to its people.

Looking north from the central urban area of ​​New Accra, a metal "skyline" stretches across the horizon like a giant wall.

That is not a mountain range, but the outer defense circle of the human empire palace.

The giant "city wall" is composed of tens of thousands of interconnected bastion-like buildings. These alloy structures are a thousand meters high and their surfaces are covered with honeycomb-shaped weapon arrays.

As the distance got closer, the hustle and bustle of the city was gradually replaced by a low mechanical hum.

On a large number of military maglev trunk roads, armored transport trains travel at a constant speed at precise intervals, and the dragon emblem painted on the body of the train is particularly eye-catching against the gray tone.

There is a checkpoint every five kilometers, guarded by imperial guards wearing golden armor.

Their three-meter-tall bodies were as still as statues; only the scarlet light flashing in their helmet visors proved that they were not decorations.

After crossing the seventh line of defense, the view suddenly opened up.

The outline of the Imperial Palace appeared in the morning mist like an awakening Titan.

This "metal miracle" that stretches across the northern part of New Accra has completely reshaped the geographical concept within a radius of 300 kilometers with its magnificent scale.

The extended edge line of the main building complex merges with the horizon at the end of the field of vision, and the exterior wall cast with living alloy will present a flowing metallic texture as the sunlight changes.

The morning light is cold, iron-blue, turning into solemn dark gold at noon, and then transforming into deep violet at dusk, as if the entire palace is breathing the color of the sky.

The psychic barrier above the palace formed an absolute domain with a diameter of more than 100 kilometers, repelling the clouds into a perfect circular vortex.

Under this "artificial" clear sky, three arches three kilometers high form the main entrance.
On both sides of each main entrance, there are two rows of giant statues, which seem to be guardians carved from a whole piece of obsidian crystal. These masterpieces of engineering and psychic energy, their electronic prosthetic eyes are performing quantum scanning every minute and every meter, and the dark golden light patterns flowing in the irises can instantly analyze the genetic sequence and psychic characteristics of those who pass through.

Any unauthorized life form, the moment it steps through the shadow of the arch, will be transformed into elementary particles by the decomposition force field hidden in the palm of the statue.

In addition, the palace's outer walls are not only defensive fortifications, but also a three-dimensional epic of conquest.

Tens of thousands of reliefs are engraved on the surface of living metal with nanometer precision, each depicting the progress of human history and the glorious battles in which the Imperial fleet incinerated aliens and heretics.

When the observer gazes at a specific angle, the plasma cannon fire in the relief will burst out with real flame effects, and the engine jets of the battleship will produce dynamic afterimages visually.

These artistic masterpieces that utilize holographic interference technology allow the cold metal walls to constantly perform an epic war of light and shadow.

The most core area is the ruins area.

Seventeen space gate arrays of astonishing size, measuring 6km x 6km, constitute the core framework of this multi-dimensional universe hub. Each gate frame is an absolute square with a side length of six kilometers.

These towering structures are arranged in three concentric circles, with three in the innermost ring, six in the middle ring, and eight in the outer ring. They are connected to each other by three-dimensional interlaced magnetic levitation tracks, forming a geometric wonder that is so precise that it is breathtaking.

The rail network connecting the space gates is a miracle of engineering.

The 200-meter-diameter superconducting tubes are stacked and interwoven with a fractal structure, creating a three-dimensional transportation network that appears to have countless layers within numerous height ranges.

The silver-white maglev train travels through the tube at a cruising speed of 0.75 Mach. The navigation lights on the streamlined car shell drag a faint blue light track during the high-speed movement.

Looking down from the observation deck, these never-ending traces of light are like living galaxies, weaving the longitude and latitude of light in the steel jungle.

Each orbital intersection node is equipped with a circular dispatching station with a diameter of two kilometers. A large number of spherical drones fly around like worker bees, responsible for coordination, assistance, scanning and inspection, etc.

The sight of the space gate in operation is enough to shock any observer.

When a space gate is activated, the air inside the door frame will first produce waves like the surface of water, and then burst out with dazzling white light.

Then, a freight train several kilometers long will quickly emerge from the light curtain.

The highest point of the palace is a platform with a diameter of five kilometers, on which stands the main area of ​​the Imperial Palace and the Meditation Hall where the Golden Throne is located.

In addition, the top of the meditation hall is inlaid with a large number of crystal-like matrices, which, together with the golden throne, project the Emperor's will to the entire territory of the empire.

The soldiers patrolling here form a moving Great Wall of Steel.

In the sunlight, the armor of the Imperial Guards seemed to be flowing with the luster of liquid gold, while the dark green power armor of the Flame Lizard Legion was like emeralds inlaid in a gold vein.

As these giants walked, the hot exhaust from their power backpacks condensed into fleeting steam vortices in the air.

When dusk falls, it seems that countless smart lighting devices begin to perform a breathtaking symphony of light.

Along every cornice and pillar, lights of gold, blue and other colours pulse like blood vessels, while phosphorescent crystals on the building’s surface change colour as the energy fluctuates.

Looking down from low-Earth orbit, this metal giant structure seems to have life-like fluctuations of light and dark, and its precise light rhythmic pattern constitutes the most spectacular totem of human civilization.

A heart of steel that never stops beating, throbbing firmly in the darkness.

In fact, more than ten years have passed since the Empire opened the "One Seven" (Star Wars) space gate.

During this period of time, which was enough for a generation to grow up, the "Expeditionary Force" composed of the Thousand Sons, Imperial Fists, War Hounds, Iron Warriors, Word Bearers and Night Lords reshaped the order of the "One Seven" universe with steel and blood.

The expeditionary force's strategy is a textbook example of conquest.

They adopted a sophisticated "classification" approach to different races.

The Twi'leks became the Empire's ideal vassal race, and the Kaminoan cloning technology was incorporated into the Biology Department's research system.

And those species that are threatening, such as criminal groups like the Hutts, have been struck by thunder.

Statistics show that a total of 972 extermination orders were carried out during the expedition, annihilating approximately 4.3 trillion enemy life forms.

This uncompromising, iron-blooded approach produced an astonishing deterrent effect, and the rebellious galaxies surrendered 47% faster than expected.

At the same time, the order dividend policy implemented by the Imperial Government Department brought unprecedented stability to the surrendered world.

The crime rate dropped by 89%, food production increased by 320%, and the basic education coverage rate reached 75%.

At this point, the total population of the Human Empire has skyrocketed.

The Galactic Empire once had a territory of more than one million star systems and a population of about 200 billion. If the known territory and all humans and races are included, the "One-Seven" universe has a total population of about 100 billion and more than 50 million habitable planets.

After more than a decade of unification wars, the Empire of Mankind mainly took over the "legacy" of the Galactic Empire and incorporated many forces of the Old Republic, such as the Rebel Alliance, and races and civilizations that supported the Rebel Alliance, which caused the Empire's total population to surge to four quadrillion.

It is particularly noteworthy that the fringe galaxies controlled by the former Rebel Alliance have shown an unexpected willingness to surrender, with their conscription rate even exceeding that of the core worlds by 12%.

In addition, in the Empire's vast ruling system, a unique psychic and Force military force, led by Master Yoda and Chirrut Ingwe, has achieved an alternative rebirth.

Master Yoda, a Jedi master who has experienced thousands of years of vicissitudes, now sits in the temple of the new Accra Central Eco-dome.

When the Human Empire unified the "One-Seven Universes", it also gathered all the surviving Jedi Masters and rebuilt the Jedi Master organization under the Human Empire.

The Empire selected many Force-sensitive people from the "One Seven" universe. For example, among the civilians rescued by the Iron Warriors, there was a Twi'lek named Ancy Secourt, who joined the ranks of new Jedi Masters.

In addition, the Empire will select young people with psychic potential from the main universe and other universes and have them trained by Master Yoda and Chirrut Ingwe.

So far, the human empire has a total of 40,000 new Jedi Knights, who are under the jurisdiction of the Inquisition.

At the same time, calendar reform is also the most important part.

The Empire no longer uses the original main universe Gregorian calendar, but instead uses the year when the space gate was opened, that is, 1993, as the first year of the era, and calls it the "Imperial Calendar."

Today is May 0050, 5 in the Imperial Calendar.
(End of this chapter)