Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 126: The Merchant and Ronin Alliance
Soon, eight wandering merchants present chose to join the alliance proposed by Gao Yi.

A dynasty of traveling merchants and wanderers headed by the Monget Dynasty has apparently slowly taken shape. As those who join enjoy more and more benefits, Gao Yi believes that others will be tempted sooner or later.

The funding of combat uniforms can give these small-scale wandering merchants a qualitative improvement in their crew strength.

Some were happy and some were sad at this meeting. The Kulda Dynasty did not gain any benefits, and even some wandering merchants were killed in the battle. The Kulda Dynasty's fleet could only rush back to the galaxy where the dynasty was located.

The subsequent fight for the position of the Rogue Trader is expected to be another bloody battle.

They were so exhausted that they couldn't even take care of the planets they had captured before, and the troops left behind on the planets had to evacuate along with the fleet.

Gao Yi did not choose to rely entirely on the Monget Dynasty to digest these ownerless planets. He really wanted to take them all in one go, but the dynasty simply did not have enough manpower to manage and develop these planets.

The management and development of the planets he conquered will keep Gao Yi busy for a while.

Gao Yi also extended a second olive branch to those small dynasties that voluntarily attached themselves to him.

Gao Yi can temporarily hand over the management and development rights of these planets to them, and let them cooperate in management and development.

For some of these wandering traders who don't have planets, it is an irresistible temptation.

However, Gao Yi also has requirements, and these are not free. Of course, the first one is that they must remain loyal. While remaining loyal to the Divine Emperor and the Empire, they must also remain loyal to Gao Yi.

Sometimes, their loyalty to Gao Yi is even higher than that to the empire, and Gao Yi's reward is to provide them with food and construction resources in the initial stage of construction.

Although these resources seem to be free, Gao Yi is also cultivating the dependence of these dynasties on himself. When all the materials needed by these dynasties in all aspects come from the Monget Dynasty, even if they are not incorporated into the Monget Dynasty on the surface, they are actually inseparable from Gao Yi.

Gao Yi believed that many of them could see what he was thinking. Few people who could reach such a height were fools.

They might be thinking of sucking Gao Yi's blood in this way, and then find a way to completely take over the planet and break away from the Monget Dynasty.

But by the time they really develop to this point, perhaps everything is too late.

Once you become dependent, it is not so easy to get away from it. Perhaps you as a Rogue Merchant agree, but other people in your dynasty may not be willing to give up their current lives.

Moreover, by that time, the Monget Dynasty had already become a behemoth. They joined with a smile, and wanted to run away after getting enough benefits. How could such a good thing happen?

If the other party attempts to do something to harm the Monget Dynasty, in addition to resolving it by force, they can also choose to fund other candidates for Rogue Traders within the dynasty. There is almost no dispute in which a dynasty does not have the position of Rogue Trader.

When these wandering merchants gain control of these planets, they must also pay a portion of their profits to the Monget Dynasty, just like the empire collects tithes from the planets. Gao Yi will send some supervisors to these planets, but these supervisors will not become rulers.

However, they will be supervised to implement the policies of the Mongols Dynasty, such as not killing people indiscriminately and abusing civilians, and forming a defensive alliance when alliance members are attacked.

Or when they discover plunderable wealth and a single Rogue Trader is unable to handle it, they may ask other alliance members for help in distributing the benefits.

The Monget dynasty became the overseers and leaders of the alliance.

These supervisors will also review the output of these planets to ensure that their contributions are accurate, and the existence of quantum communication can also ensure that these supervisors do not have to worry about these temporary managers preventing them from sending astrologer communications, and can send the current status of these planets back to Agathos at any time.

Once there is any unusual movement, the leaping fleet can immediately eliminate the hidden dangers of these dynasties.

Although they were dissatisfied with Gao Yi's confession and various supervisory requirements, these people still suppressed their dissatisfaction. After all, the benefits were too great.

This is enough to double the size of these small traveling merchants.

In this way, Gao Yi would establish a Rogue Trader Alliance centered around himself, with control over it. The Battle of Winsterkel would continue to circulate throughout the expansion for a period of time, further increasing the legendary status of Gao Yi's name.

Only the living will be remembered, and those who have died will soon be forgotten. After all, death is too common in this dark universe.

The Imperial Inquisition's archives will include an additional entry that states Sivir sacrificed her life to destroy a demon world, but that's all.

The fleets that remained in these galaxies no longer stayed.

This galaxy has no value anymore, and everyone needs to go back to rest. People with a keen sense of smell have already begun to prepare to fight for the interest vacuum created by the Winsterkel Dynasty. Even the Kulda Dynasty will have no time to consider certain interests.

And these benefits are enough to allow some forces to obtain a large amount of resources.

However, the biggest beneficiary is Gao Yi after all. After all, the planet itself is the greatest value, and Pavian and a group of priests stole a lot of technology.

After all, the Winsterkel Dynasty has been digging graves and picking up trash for so many years, and has accumulated a lot of good things. Many of their technologies are complementary to Pavian's current research.

For example, the void shield that protects the hive city. For nearly a thousand years, the Winsterkel Dynasty and its cooperating Mechanicus have never stopped researching this void shield. Some of the technologies developed at a huge cost are now all in Gao Yi's hands.

If we work harder and use some of the remaining technology in the Star Pioneer, we may have a chance to build our own void shield.

The most important thing is the warship construction technology in the Winsterkel Dynasty shipyard.

In addition to the construction technology of several conventional light frigates, there is even the construction technology of the Indomitable-class light cruiser.

This shipyard actually belongs to the Mechanicus, and it is using a large amount of planetary resources and profits from exploration to exchange interests with the Mechanicus.

But the materials needed to build a battleship are astonishing.

At least Gao Yi didn't discover that Winterkyle owned the Indomitable-class cruiser.

The biggest use of a shipyard is to repair warships and build a small number of frigates, but the difference between having one and not having one is huge.

If you can build it yourself, you don't need to be held back by the Mechanicus. After all, the Mechanicus rarely sells warships of this level to Rogue Traders, and most of them are supplied to the Imperial Navy.

The Imperial Navy in the expanded area has always been a situation with few ships and many people.

When Gao Yi counted his losses after the war, he felt heartbroken.

Although the gains this time were huge, not only in terms of material but also in terms of power and reputation.

However, the battle on the surface of the planet still caused him considerable losses.

The existence of demons is still too great a threat to mortals. Gao Yi even guessed that a big demon would appear, but he didn't expect that it would be Skarbrand who appeared.

Looking at the long list of victims, Gao Yi could only sigh.

Moreover, when a large-scale war broke out, with the presence of medics and SCVs, his troops' equipment losses were not that great; the real cost was ammunition.
Laser rifles are easy to charge, but whether it's the C-14 in the hands of the machine gunners or the grenades in the hands of the raiders, although these live ammunition weapons have advantages in penetration and firepower density, the amount of ammunition they consume is astronomical.

Wars are never fought just with the combat effectiveness of soldiers, but also with sufficient logistical supplies.

After all, the machine gunners here don't have unlimited ammunition like in the game, and the ammunition consumed by soldiers and vehicles is an astronomical number.

(End of this chapter)