Chapter 276 Resource Allocation

When many people discuss the Four Chaos Gods, they tend to overlook one issue: the existence of the reality barrier. The Four Chaos Gods have no way of crossing the barrier to directly interfere with reality.

As a reincarnation, Fu Qinghai could easily come to this conclusion. However, for the natives of the human empire, it was not until 243.M32 that the demon inquisitor Damakoso first proposed the research conclusion that "the God of Chaos must use his power in the world through intelligent life."

Even in the Warp, the Chaos Four Gods are not omnipotent. They are indeed the four strongest, but there are still a large number of Warp creatures and unclassified demons that do not belong to the Four Gods, as well as other gods: the Eldar gods, the second brother, and the legendary fifth evil god.

Fu Qinghai sat upright in the captain's room.

Patiently reading through the Forge World's Colonial Journal.

He guessed that by looking at the probability of psychics being born on a planet, one could probably determine roughly the strength of the reality barrier in the area where the planet was located - just roughly.

The birth of psychics requires statistics from a specialized agency. In addition to this, there may be another approach - looking up the history of the planet: Are there any traditional customs of feudal superstition, any myths and legends about monsters and demons, are there frequent appearances of saints and the like? If all of the above exist, it means that the reality barrier of this place is relatively weak.

The "Whispering Mountains", where the Luna Wolves first encountered the demonic possession, and the "City of Anthem", where the Battle of Isstvan III took place, are both very famous places in the original novel where the reality barrier is relatively weak.

After the Great Rift opened in 41K, such places could be found everywhere near the Dark Side of the Empire.

Through the colonization log, Fu Qinghai learned that the Phaeton Forge World was a very short-lived forward base of the Mechanicus, with very few local historical records. What attracted the exploration fleet was the huge and complex ancient maze underground.

Ancient Labyrinth...

Fu Qinghai fell into deep thought.

I have to talk to Master Buck later to find out what he found in the underground maze.

…

After investigation and exploration, it was found that the Phaeton Galaxy has a rich meteorite belt, which lingers around the periphery of the entire galaxy. The long and winding belt is like an endless road, leading to the dark void outside the galaxy.

Fu Qinghai named it: Rust Belt.

The Ishimura sailed silently in the rust belt.

Fu Qinghai led the technical priests, including Master Buck, to pilot the Ishimura to carry out the first mining operation in the Warhammer 40K universe, demonstrating this technology to them on the spot.

The process of planetary pyrolysis mining is generally like this:

after preliminary exploration, a high-value mining target is first locked in. The Harmony Mining Company (CEC) will then send a ground work team to the target planet or celestial body to establish a colony for subsequent work.

This type of colony is generally ring-shaped, surrounding the land that is to be broken off from the planet. During the construction of these colonies, in addition to chiseling the land to be mined from the surrounding land, it is also necessary to establish a circle of special devices at pre-selected locations to generate gravity cables.

After all these preparations are completed, a planet-breaking mining ship will dock in the orbit of the planet, and use the rib-shaped gravity cable generating device on the belly of the ship to cooperate with the device on the ground to generate a circle of very powerful gravity connection or gravity field, which will pull the target land from the planet in an extremely spectacular way.

The land is pulled all the way up to space, that is, within the working range of the mining deck of the mining ship. Sometimes, the land of suitable size is directly pulled into the mining deck. The miners and geologists on the mining deck then begin to extract the remaining value of the land bit by bit.

While the mining ships process the plots of land that have been hauled away, teams on the ground repeat their previous work, establishing new circular colonies around the new plots of land.

When the land that has been launched into space has been mined to the point where nothing is left, the mining ship in orbit will move to the new land and start a new round of cracking mining operations.

To sum up, planetary fragmentation technology can indeed be used as a weapon, but it has significant limitations - mainly the establishment of ring-shaped colonies in the early stages.

"The act of breaking off the first chunk of land from a planet is often referred to as 'pulling the cork.'"

Fu Qinghai said to Master Buck.

For the first operation, the Ishimura did not select a planet as its target, but a medium-sized meteorite. The technical priests had already established a circular colony and returned to the mining ship, so the Ishimura could begin to crack the meteorite.

"Well, uncork the bottle and begin."

Fu Qinghai gave the order.

On each rib of the herringbone spacecraft, blue columnar rays connected to the device on the meteorite and began to pull the meteorite, slowly approaching the mining deck of the Ishimura.

"What about the cleavage efficiency?"

Master Buck asked.

"This is a long-term operation that takes three to five years, depending on the size of the planet," said Fu Qinghai.

"Generally speaking, the first year is spent prospecting and building a ring colony, and the next two and a half years involve excavating the crust, as well as crushing, sorting, and smelting in space."

"It takes about a week to break up a block of land, and it takes about a day to transfer the broken-up blocks from the surface to the synchronous orbit in space."

"Weeks and days are in Terran standard time."

Master Buck nodded:

"It takes three to five years to completely drain a planet of its mineral resources. It's really efficient."

"Master, the Phaeton Foundry World will establish the Phaeton United Mining Co., Ltd. to unify the command of mining operations and coordinate the prices and channels for external sales."

Master Buck looked confused:

"Company? What is that?"

"Uh... it's similar to the Hive Union."

Fu Qinghai didn't know how to explain it.

"Oh, within the Adeptus Mechanicus, we generally call it 'macro branch' or 'branch'."

Master Buck said.

"Okay. By the way, Master, you and your technical priests have been in the underground labyrinth of Phaeton for so long, but you didn't find anything?"

Without any preparation, Fu Qinghai directly shifted the topic to this.

"I know you're going to ask this, Qingshan."

Buck did not hide it and said,

"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 these unknown areas as cover to escape the pursuit of the Sons of Horus, but we were easily found by the Raven Guard under your command."

Master Buck looked at Fu Qinghai deeply:

"He can merge with the shadows, he is a powerful think tank, right?"

Fu Qinghai said modestly on behalf of Sartre Fran:

"It's just talent, not yet at the level of a think tank."

"Originally, I didn't intend to share this technological discovery with you. This is the last trump card I have left for myself. If I lose power or fall into danger, I will use this thing to exchange power, status and personal safety from Mars."

Master Buck said:

"But I see ambition in your eyes, Qingshan. I suddenly realize that your pursuit and ambition are far more than just a small forging world. You desire glory and conquest, and you desire more."

No, you overestimate me, I only desire Naoko...

Fu Qinghai thought.

"Compared to the amazing technologies you showed me... forgive me for using the word 'amazing' because I'm not sure whether they are relic technologies or alien technologies."

At this point, there was a hint of cunning and tacit understanding in Master Buck's tone.

"Compared with them, what are these few things I hide? What I regard as the foundation of my life, others can easily take out a lot of them. It's ridiculous that I cherish my own things."

Fu Qinghai understood what Master Buck meant, nodded slightly, and said,

"So?"

"So, what we found in the ancient labyrinth is the STC for converting beam weapons."

"ah."

Fu Qinghai nodded in understanding.

Conversion beam weapons, like incendiary weapons, are a semi-lost relic technology that can still be seen on the Knight Titans of certain Knight Families and on the Forge Worlds of a few Dark Mechanicus, but are no longer available in most places.

The conversion beam weapon is a bit like a castrated and weakened version of the Necrons' antimatter particle cannon. Many weapons of the human empire are very similar to the monkey version of Necrons' weapons. I don't know if there is any connection between them. Maybe the imagination of GW's screenwriters has run out.

This weapon fires a high-energy conversion beam that converts matter into pure energy. The denser the target's material structure, the more energy is converted, making conversion beam weapons particularly useful against heavily armored units and building shelters.

But there are also many disadvantages. The size, weight and energy consumption of conversion beam weapons make it a vehicle-mounted weapon, usually installed on the arm of a Knight Titan or a Dreadnought, or as the main gun of a tank. There are also small conversion beam weapons, which are usually carried by Terminators and are not very common now.

After a conversation between the two, it was discovered that the Ishimura had completely incorporated the meteorite blocks into the working scope of the mining deck, and the technical priests were using a wide variety of tools and equipment on the mining deck to process the minerals in the meteorite.

"Thank you for your selfless dedication and honesty, Master Buck."

Fu Qinghai said:

"Although you are no longer the foundry director, the future Phaeton foundry world still cannot do without your great help. I also have a technological discovery to share with you."

Master Buck was stunned:

"You still have it?"

Why isn't it over yet?

Fu Qinghai pointed to the PIG protective suit on the bridge of the Ishimura and said:

"It's not some relic technology. It's just another form of using the stasis field - the stasis module."

The mechanical body beneath Master Buck's robe trembled slightly.

Not every forge world can produce stasis fields. This thing is very expensive. The stasis fields of the entire Hazy Star Region are produced by the Belacken Forge World in the Calixis Sector. It has a monopoly in this area.

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 moment, a technical priest came running over in a hurry.

"The meteorite has been mined, and we have roughly figured out the operating mode of this mining ship."

…

The Goliath-class factory ship was brightly lit.

The technical priests are working overtime to produce pulse bolters and Fat Man launchers. The latter has been modified by the Mechanicus, with hydraulic ejection distance longer and the appearance is no longer so radioactive wasteland style, but has become a 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 require cost considerations. It can be as expensive and powerful as possible.

Fu Qinghai came into contact with many science fiction IP power 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 Space Marine MK series is already the best one. The Adeptus Mechanicus has been constantly improving and polishing it for thousands of years. It has almost no shortcomings and is very mature and comprehensive.

As far as personal power armor is concerned, Iron Man's Mark series and Model series are also the most luxurious personal equipment in various science fiction IPs. Fu Qinghai has some of the technology of the former but has never been exposed to the latter.

He was equipped with the combination of the two best power armors right from the start, so naturally he looked down on the various power armors and protective suits in Fallout, Alien, Half-Life, Dead Space, Elysium, Oblivion, Nuclear Explosion RPG, and other sci-fi reincarnation worlds.

Then, can these things that Fu Qinghai despised be used to equip the Schwerin Corps under Koshvituo?

There is no money, and there is no need.

Unlike personal equipment, any mass-produced weapons need to consider the cost issue. Not to mention that Fu Qinghai currently only has one forging world and one nest world. Even if he is sitting on a golden toilet, the resources he controls are not unlimited. As long as the resources are limited, there will be distribution issues involved.

Doesn't the Imperium of Man have mortal-sized power armor? Inquisitors and Sisters of Battle have specialized power armor, as well as the Sisters of Silence's famous Oath Armor.

Why don't they give every Imperial Guardsman a set of power armor? It's because they don't have money. The Imperial Guards who can wear power armor are all rich and elite.

The Solar Auxiliary Army wearing solar-style void combat armor has long become history.

Why do you say it is unnecessary?

In the history of the development of weapon technology, the spear has always been greater than the shield. Compared with the same cost, the attack power of weapons is always far greater than the defense power of armor. The money used to build a set of armor is enough to build many laser guns. The Military Affairs Department will certainly do the math.

Fu Qinghai felt that instead of using 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 Corps had only 120,000 people at full strength, while the 18 Astartes Legions had 2 million people at their peak.

This is called "resource allocation".

By annihilating the Midnight Lords warband, the Brotherhood of God Machine harvested more than 120 usable gene seeds from the Eighth Legion.

Fu Qinghai's plan is to wait until the gene seeds are insufficient, and then consider creating personal armor for the regiment servants and the Imperial Guards led by Koshveto.

Not necessarily power armor, maybe just a protective suit.

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(End of this chapter)