Chapter 276 Resource Allocation
When many people discuss the Four Gods of Chaos, it is very easy to overlook one issue - the existence of the reality barrier. The four gods of chaos have no way to cross the barrier and directly interfere with reality.
As a reincarnationist, Fu Qinghai can naturally draw this conclusion easily, but for the local aborigines of the human empire, it was not until 243.M32 that the demon judge Damakoso first proposed that "the god of chaos must exist through intelligent life." Use force in the real world" this research corollary.
Even in the subspace, the four gods of chaos are not omnipotent. They are indeed the four strongest, but there are also a large number of subspace creatures and undivided demons that do not belong to the four gods in the subspace, as well as other gods: the gods of the spirit race, the second brother Gomao, the legendary third Five evil gods.
Fu Qinghai was sitting upright in the captain's cabin.
I'm patiently flipping through the Forge World's colonial log.
He guessed that through the probability of a planet giving birth to psykers, he might be able to roughly judge the strength of the reality barrier in the area where the planet is located - only roughly.
The birth of psykers requires statistics from a specialized agency. In addition, there may be another way - to check the history of this planet: are there any traditional feudal superstitions, are there myths and legends about cows, ghosts and snake gods, are there frequent saints? Appearance and other phenomena, if all of the above situations are present, it means that the reality barrier in this place is relatively weak.
The "Whispering Mountains" where the Luna Wolves first encountered demon possession, and the "City of Anthem" where the battle on the planet Istvan III took place, are all very famous places in the original novel where the barriers to reality are relatively weak.
After the Great Rift opened in the 41K period, places like this could be seen everywhere near the dark side of the empire.
Through the colonial log, Fu Qinghai learned that Phaeton Forge World is an advanced base of the Mechanicum with a short history. There are very few local historical records. What attracts the exploration fleet is the huge and complex ancient maze underground.
Ancient labyrinth...
Fu Qinghai began to think deeply.
We have to talk to Master Buck later about what he discovered in the underground labyrinth.
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After investigation and exploration, it was discovered that the Phaeton Galaxy has a rich meteorite ring that lingers around the periphery of the entire galaxy. The long and winding ring is like an endless road, leading to the dark void outside the galaxy.
Fu Qinghai named it: rust ring.
The Ishimura sailed silently among the rings of rust.
Fu Qinghai led the technical priests, including Master Buck, to pilot the Ishimura in the first mining operation in the Warhammer 40K universe to demonstrate this technology to them live.
The process of planetary cracking mining generally goes like this:
After preliminary exploration, a high-value mining target is first identified. The Harmony Mining Company (CEC) will then send a ground team to establish a colony on the target planet or celestial body for subsequent work.
This kind of colony is generally ring-shaped, surrounding the land mass that will be broken off from the planet. During the construction process of these colonies, in addition to cutting the land mass that is about to be mined from the surrounding land mass, it is also necessary to A ring of special devices is built at a location selected in advance to generate a gravity cable.
After all these preparations are completed, a planetary cracking-class mining ship will be parked in the orbit of the planet, and the rib-shaped gravity cable generating device on the belly of the ship will be used to cooperate with the devices on the ground to generate a very powerful gravity connection or so-called The gravity field pulls the target land mass away from the planet in an extremely spectacular way.
Pull it all the way into space - that is, within the working range of the mining deck of the mining ship. Sometimes, the entire block of land of suitable size will be pulled directly into the mining deck. The mining workers and geological experts on the mining deck began to squeeze out the remaining value of the land bit by bit.
As the mining ships process the removed plots, teams on the ground repeat the work and build new ring colonies around the new plots.
When nothing is left of the land parcels that have already reached the sky, the mining ship on the track will move to the new land parcels and start a new round of cracking mining operations.
To sum up, planet disintegration technology can indeed be used as a weapon, but it has considerable limitations - mainly the establishment of a ring colony in the early stage.
“The act of breaking up the first chunk of land from a planet is often referred to as ‘pulling the cork’.”
Fu Qinghai said to Master Buck.
In its first operation, the Ishimura did not select a planet as its target, but a medium-sized meteorite. The Tech-Priests had established a ring colony and returned to the mining ship, and the Ishimura could begin to crack the meteorite.
"Then, pull the cork and let's get started."
Fu Qinghai ordered.
On each rib of the fishbone spacecraft, blue columnar rays were connected to the device on the meteorite, and began to pull the meteorite, slowly approaching the mining deck of the Ishimura.
"What about lysis efficiency?"
Master Buck asked.
Fu Qinghai said:
"This is a long-term operation that takes up to three to five years, depending on the size of the planet. Generally speaking, the first year is spent prospecting and establishing a ring colony, and the following two and a half years The time involved the excavation of the earth’s crust, as well as crushing, sorting, smelting and other operations in space.”
"It takes about a week to break up a block, and the process of transferring the broken block from the surface to a synchronous orbit in space takes about a day."
"The week and day are both Terran Standard Time."
Master Buck nodded:
"It takes three to five years to completely deplete a planet's mineral resources. It is indeed very efficient."
"Master, in the future, Phaeton Foundry World will establish Phaeton United Mining Co., Ltd. to uniformly command mining operations and coordinate external sales prices and channels."
Master Buck looked confused:
"Company? What is that?"
"Uh... It's similar to the Hive City Guild."
Fu Qinghai didn't know how to explain it.
"Oh, within the Mechanicum, we generally call it 'Hongzhi' or 'Branch'."
Master Buck said.
"Okay. By the way, Master, you and your technical priests have been in Phaeton's underground maze for so long and found nothing?"
Without any foreshadowing, Fu Qinghai changed the topic to this point directly.
"I knew you were going to ask this, Qingshan."
Buck didn’t hide it either, saying:
"It was a complicated ancient labyrinth. There are still many areas that have not been explored. Those places are full of traps and restrictions of ancient technology. We used the cover of these unknown areas to escape the pursuit of the Sons of Horus, but we were Your Raven Guard found it easily."
Master Buck took a deep look at Fu Qinghai:
"He can blend in with the shadows, he's a powerful thinker, right?"
Fu Qinghai said a few words of humility for Satflan:
"It's just talent, it hasn't reached the level of a think tank."
"Originally, I didn't plan to share this technological discovery with you. This is the last trump card I left for myself. If I lose power or fall into a dangerous situation, I will use this thing to exchange for power, status and personal safety from Mars."
Master Buck said:
"However, I saw ambition in your eyes, Qingshan, and I suddenly realized that your pursuit and ambition are far more than a small forging world. You long for glory and conquest, and you long for more things. "
No, you overestimate me, I only long for Naoko...
Fu Qinghai thought to himself.
"Compared with the magical technologies you showed... Forgive me, I can only use the word 'magical', because I'm not sure whether they are relic technologies or alien technologies."
Speaking of this, Master Buck's tone had a hint of cunning and tacit understanding.
"Compared with them, what are the few things I have hidden away? What I regard as the foundation of my life, others easily take out a lot of them. It's really ridiculous for me to cherish them."
Fu Qinghai understood what Master Buck meant, nodded slightly, and said:
"so?"
"So, what we found in the ancient labyrinth is the STC that converts beam weapons."
"ah."
Fu Qinghai nodded clearly.
Conversion beam weapons, like detonation weapons, are semi-lost relic technologies. They can still be seen on the Knight Titans of some knight families, as well as in some forge worlds of the Dark Mechanicus, but they are no longer available in most places.
Conversion beam weapons are somewhat similar to the castrated and weakened versions of the Necrons' antimatter particle cannons. Many of the weapons of the Human Empire are very similar to the monkey versions of Necron weapons. I don't know if there is any connection between them. Maybe it's just a GW screenwriter. The imagination is exhausted.
This weapon fires a high-energy conversion beam that converts matter into pure energy. The denser the target's material structure, the more energy it converts into. This makes the conversion beam weapon particularly suitable for dealing with heavily armored units and building bunkers.
But there are many shortcomings. The size, weight and energy consumption of the converted beam weapon make it a vehicle-mounted weapon. It is usually installed on the arm of the Knight Titan or Dreadnought mecha, or used as the main gun of a tank. Small converted beam weapons are also available. Usually carried by Terminators, it is less common now.
After a conversation between the two, it was revealed that the Ishimura had fully incorporated the meteorite blocks into the working scope of the mining deck. The technical priests were using a wide variety of tools and equipment on the mining deck to process the minerals in the meteorites.
"Thank you for your dedication and candor, Master Buck."
Fu Qinghai said:
"Although you are no longer the casting director, the future Phaeton casting world will still be indispensable for your help. I also have a technological discovery to share with you."
Master Buck was stunned:
"you also have?"
Why isn't it over yet?
Fu Qinghai pointed to the PIG protective suit on the bridge of the Shicun and said:
"It's not a relic technology, it's just another form of use of the stasis field - the stasis module."
The mechanical body under Master Buck's robe trembled slightly.
Not every forge world can produce stasis fields. This thing is very expensive. The stasis fields in the entire Obscurity Sector are produced by the Barakon Forge World in the Calixis Sector. It has a monopoly in this area. status.
Fu Qinghai raised his head and smiled:
"I hope to see my company equipped with stasis grenades and stasis bombs soon."
"grown ups!"
At this time, a technical priest hurried over.
"The meteorites have been mined, and we have roughly figured out the operating mode of this mining ship."
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The Goliath-class factory ship was brightly lit.
The Tech-priests are working overtime to produce pulse bolters and Fat Man launchers. The latter has been magically modified by the Adeptus Mechanicus. The hydraulic ejection distance is longer, and the appearance is no longer so radiant wasteland style, but has become Familiar Warhammer 40K style.
Taking this opportunity, Fu Qinghai also began to consider upgrading his personal equipment.
Unlike company equipment and Imperial Guard equipment, personal equipment is the only one that does not need to consider cost. You can get it as expensive or powerful as you like.
Fu Qinghai came across many science fiction IP powered armors and protective suits in the Resident Evil movie universe, but none of these things aroused his interest.
As far as mass-produced power armor is concerned, the MK series of Space Marines is already the best. The Adeptus Mechanicus has been constantly improving and polishing it for thousands of years. It has almost no shortcomings and is very mature in all aspects.
As far as personal models of power armor are concerned, Iron Man's Mark series and Model series are also the most luxurious personal equipment among various science fiction IPs. Fu Qinghai owns some of the technology of the former but has no experience with the latter.
He was equipped with a combination of the best two kinds of power armor when he first came up. Naturally, he was familiar with Fallout, Alien, Half-Life, Dead Space, Elysium, Oblivion, Nuclear Explosion RPG, and these sci-fi reincarnation worlds. The various powered armors and protective suits in it are all disdainful.
So can these things that Fu Qinghai dislikes be given to the Schwerin Corps equipment under Koshvito?
No money, no need.
Unlike personal equipment, any mass-produced and installed weapons need to consider cost issues. Not to mention that Fu Qinghai currently only has a forging world and a hive world in his hands. Even if he sits on the golden toilet, the resources he controls will not be Infinite, as long as resources are limited, allocation issues will be involved.
Doesn't the Imperium of Man have mortal-sized power armor? The Inquisitors and Sisters of Battle both have dedicated power armor, as well as the Sisters of Silence's famous Oath Armor.
So why not give the big guys in the Imperial Guard a set of power armor? Not because of lack of money, the Imperial Guard regiments that can wear carapace are rich and elite.
The Sun Auxiliary Army wearing solar void combat armor has long become history.
Why do you say it's not necessary?
The history of the development of weapons technology has always been that spears are greater than shields. Comparing the same cost, the offensive power of weapons is always far greater than the defensive power of armor. The money to make a set of carapace armor is enough to make many laser guns. Of course, the Ministry of Military Affairs Will settle accounts.
Fu Qinghai felt that if he had the money to equip all members of the Imperial Guard with power armor, it would be better to use it to create a few more Space Marines. The Emperor probably thought so too. The Solar Auxiliary Army only had 120,000 people at full strength, and at its peak The eighteen Legions of Astartes at the time numbered two million men.
This is called "resource allocation".
By wiping out the Night Lords war gang, the God Machine Brotherhood harvested more than 120 usable gene seeds, gene seeds from the Eighth Legion.
Fu Qinghai's plan is to wait until the gene seeds are not enough, and then consider making personal armor for the Chapter servants and the Imperial Guard led by Kirshvitto.
Not necessarily power armor, maybe just protective clothing.
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