Chapter 435, Navigator Program
The plan of these rat engineers was successful. The huge iron comet finally broke away from the gravitational pull of the gas giant after accelerating again and again, and rushed towards the vast and empty starry sky again. Of course, this was impossible. The small ships placed on the meteorite began to push back and slowed down with the comet until it slowly stopped and was successfully captured by the First Expeditionary Fleet of the Rat.
With enough resources, the industrial zone in the flagship began to recover, and the damage on the outer armor was finally repaired. Various preparations were in full swing, and the First Expeditionary Fleet of the Rat began to press towards the yellow desert planet in front of them.
In fact, before the First Expeditionary Fleet completely pressed forward, another group of advance troops had already started the action, that is, the Rat Reconnaissance Team.
They had a heavy task, responsible for completing the detection of various data on this desert planet before the official outbreak of this colonial war.
The rats are a real cosmic race after all. You can say that their technology tree is crooked and strange, but in the colonization of the six planets on the Holy Road and the initial environmental transformation, they have suffered a lot of losses and have also lit up almost all the technologies of interstellar colonization.
For the detection of the atmospheric composition of strange planets, the assessment of extreme climate, and the monitoring of crustal activity, the atmospheric composition is the most important indicator in the colonization stage. This will determine whether the rats can smoothly carry out activities on this planet, whether they wear a simple oxygen supply system and hold weapons to land from the outer space, or hold weapons and go into battle lightly.
Of course, the remaining two items are also equally critical.
The assessment of extreme short-term climate will determine the rats' activity strategy on this planet and the value of this planet.
The monitoring of crustal activity is to prevent the rats from building major cities directly on dangerous earthquake zones and active volcanoes.
These are all very important data. Although the First Expeditionary Fleet has the data collected by the first batch of ratmen who arrived here and those ratman exploration ships, it is obvious that the First Expeditionary Fleet's colonization plan cannot be fully determined by relying on this ratman data from many years ago.
The mission of these reconnaissance teams alone is not limited to these. They have to explore the star systems of the indigenous people on this planet, observe their civilization structure, evaluate the level of force, the state of civilization, collect languages, and preliminarily determine the valuable areas and areas suitable for the first round of landing. These are what they have to do.
Bringing supplies, in a mobilization, these guys as pioneers, they are extremely excited and board those small reconnaissance ships. The times are indeed different. In the past, such vanguards were not easy to mobilize. They had to use death and spears to make them rush to the battlefield.
The small reconnaissance ship of the headquarters left the First Expeditionary Fleet like a meteor and rushed towards the desert planet in front of them.
The distance in the starry sky is extremely vast, but don't be afraid, these small reconnaissance ships are special models, equipped with small psychic engines and the ability to jump in the subspace.
Of course, the level and ability of these small reconnaissance ships only allow them to afford short-range jumps, but even so, they can quickly reduce the time of travel.
A large number of young ratmen felt something was wrong when they just broke into the subspace of this star field.
The subspace in this area is particularly chaotic, and those monsters, disordered passages, and twisted spaces can be seen almost everywhere here.
This is not a good phenomenon, which means that it is difficult for the subspace in this area to find a stable area to establish direct contact with the rat empire far away.
Perhaps even if the rat empire takes this planet into its hands in the future, it can only appear from outside the galaxy every time it goes back and forth, and rush here.
Such a situation may greatly reduce the value of this planet to the Skaven Empire, but these have nothing to do with these reconnaissance teams. This is not something they need to worry about. They only need to act as pioneers like warriors and provide enough information to the First Expeditionary Fleet behind them.
When the Skaven broke into this chaotic subspace, the things that were entrenched and piled up in this chaotic subspace also saw the Skaven.
But compared to the gerbils who had no ability to resist these subspace disasters, the Skavens were familiar with these guys and had no fear.
The psychic engine was stimulated to the limit by the driver. The Skaven had the ability to manufacture psychic engines, or in other words, magic engines. When they were able to manufacture these things, they had the ability to disturb the subspace.
At this time, each of these Skaven reconnaissance teams was like a torch that suddenly lit in the subspace, very tempting, and at the same time, it was also able to burn and expel the weak guys in the subspace.
These weak, not powerful enough subspace spirits were not dangerous to them.
The real danger is those big guys, but now, the ratman reconnaissance team has begun to speed up. In the violent blue tail flame, these guys are running wildly in this subspace like wild horses, and then disappear in an instant and return to the physical world.
Ratmen and gerbils, both belong to the big family of ratmen, but they seem to be in a state of different fates.
The Skaven Empire is more extravagant and has more capital than the gerbils. After all, a certain indescribable god left a large legacy to this group of noisy guys before leaving.
Psychics, those Skavens with natural magic talents, sacred channels, a large amount of ether, and the greedy aggregation of Skavens who are obedient and dare not get angry at all.
Which of these is something the gerbils dare to imagine, it's too extravagant.
It's so extravagant that the Skavens can boldly explore the subspace as soon as they step out of the starry sky, and even boldly study those strange-looking subspace spirits.
It may be difficult for you to imagine the scene of the Skaven Empire's royal engineers studying the subspace spirits.
These crazy guys carry the exaggerated ether bombs while cursing and chasing the subspace spirits in the subspace.
"Asshole, hurry up! Stop it! It's time to sacrifice for science! It's time to sacrifice for the great gear spirit!"
In the subspace, a ratman engineer with mixed emotions, who was extremely fond of the subspace spirit, cursed madly while chasing the subspace spirit not far away.
Can you imagine that this subspace spirit born out of anger and greed, a guy with a very bad temper, was chased by the crazy ratman engineers and cried in grievance.
This is unique no matter where it is placed. It can even be said that the anti-star weapon Soul Scream of the Ratman Empire was upgraded little by little in such an application scenario.
Of course, it must be admitted that the subspace is always a dangerous place. The death rate of all crazy ratman engineers who do such things is the highest among the royal engineers of the Ratman Empire.
But it is not without results. At least they really captured a lot of subspace spirits. They used ether, that is, soul gems, on the fortress star to build a subspace prison and began crazy experiments on these wonderful subspace spirits.
The Navigator Project and the Prophet Project are their latest achievements. These guys are trying to inject the power of these warp spirits into the psychic genes in the rat bloodline to create a group of real rat prophets, a group of navigators who can guide the rat fleet in the chaotic warp. They are very close to the results. If these crazy rat engineers knew that the gerbils were destroyed because of the invasion of the warp spirits, they would definitely laugh at and humiliate these stupid guys.
You should know that the next big move of these crazy guys is to knock out a permanent warp channel on the fortress star, the capital of the rat empire.
It is difficult to evaluate how suicidal such behavior is, but everything depends on comparison. Look at the gerbils. They didn't do that much suicidal, but they still fell to the street. Even though their technology is not necessarily worse than that of the rats, and they walk more steadily than the rats, they were almost taken away by a wave.
What's the use of climbing the technology tree steadily? Do you have a background, do you have a boss, do you have Yu Ze?
In such a turbulent era, there is no doubt that the physical universe and the subspace should be grasped with both hands, and both hands should be strong. This is the right way!
The rats are currently running wildly on such a right way. We rats are thriving!
In the short-distance subspace jumps again and again, the rat reconnaissance teams gradually approached the desert planet, and suffered a lot of losses. The subspace is always dangerous.
At this time, only half of the rat reconnaissance teams that arrived outside the yellow planet were left.
Without much hesitation, these guys plunged into the yellow planet in front of them.
One of the rat reconnaissance teams.
This is a rat reconnaissance ship with a team of five people on board. Under the control of the driver, the reconnaissance ship dived towards the planet in front of it in a high-speed gliding posture.
This is a very risky move. After all, this old antique has been lying in the hangar for nearly 20 years. It was only last month that it was pulled out for an emergency maintenance.
Many of the Skaven reconnaissance ships that fell into the subspace were due to warship failures.
At this time, you shouldn't even bet on whether this old guy, who is older than you, can stop, not to mention that these guys are still doing that extremely dangerous high-speed dive.
Even if the engine is turned off, the gravity of the planet will spontaneously help the intruding warship to increase its speed, rush through the open outer space, and break into the atmosphere. In the high-speed friction, the outer shell of the warship began to heat up, and the wings of the warship swept across the sky, leaving two white traces. In the warship, these new generation of space began to cheer.
The world in front of us is extremely vast, and it is more interesting than the flagship that seems to never change.
The Skaven are not all timid guys, especially when they walk into the starry sky.
Many useful data were detected by these reconnaissance teams crossing the sky.
The atmosphere is standard, and the rat people can breathe directly. The climate is not too extreme. At least there is no terrible rain that will last for hundreds or thousands of years, or thunderstorms, terrible fires that are difficult to extinguish, and high temperatures.
The crust is still active, but no super volcanoes are found that are about to erupt. This young planet is becoming stable and calm.
This is a very suitable planet, a very suitable planet. Except for one indicator that is slightly high, there are no other problems.
The abnormally high radiation.
Five hundred years have passed, and the radiation left over from the horrific nuclear war has not been completely eliminated.
But it doesn't matter, the rats are not afraid of radiation.
This is not something that can quickly cause death. It is even something that can be exempted as long as the physique is high enough.
The determination of the data and the suitability of this planet saves the rats a lot of effort.
Of course, even if it is not so suitable, even if the situation on this planet is so bad that it cannot be worse, it will not affect Qi's determination. As long as the rats can exist on this planet, even if they exist in pain and struggle, he will occupy this planet without hesitation.
This is not just Qi's decision, but also the intention of the emperor Qi of the empire.
In any case, the first expeditionary colonization of the rats out of the sacred passage must be successful and smooth!
Qi is the escort that Qi found to ensure this.
Of course, things did not develop to such a bad situation. This planet is generally habitable for the rats.
The next step is more about preparations for war.
The landing fleet is making final preparations. After simple maintenance, a large number of war exoskeletons have begun to be deployed in large numbers. Magic tanks, armored vehicles, lightning towers, and even flagship main guns will provide sufficient support for the landing ground forces when necessary.
They even carry Soul Screams, and more than one.
If the natives on this planet are too difficult to deal with, so difficult that even if the rats lose all the ground forces in the First Expeditionary Fleet, they will not be able to complete the occupation.
Then launching Soul Screams to welcome a silent world is also one of the options to be made.
Of course, launching Soul Screams is the last resort. Flag will not approve the launch unless it is absolutely necessary.
No weapon is without price. The price behind Soul Scream's efficient cleaning of the planet is that the barrier between this area and the subspace will be permanently thinned.
Although no one can say what problems this will cause, Flag does not want to face the unpredictable accidents.