Chapter 277 The Blue Mountains'

relentless pursuit of knowledge is our only way to find liberation, but absolute arrogance towards knowledge is nothing but an arrogant wishful thinking.

——Article 10 of the Mechanicum

The most important discovery in the conversation between Fu Qinghai and Master Buck was not the STC for converting beam weapons, but his sudden discovery that Master Buck, like Master Quinto, was also a technical priest of the Heterodox faction.

It feels a bit coincidental, but when you think about it carefully, why would a forge master-level blacksmith come to Phaeton, a remote forward base located on the border, instead of presiding over the forge temple and furnace crucible on Mars?

Whether it was due to his own interest in alien technology or the exclusion of him by the traditional conservative faction on Mars, probably only Master Buck himself knew.

Once it is confirmed that Master Buck is not the kind of technical priest who is conservative, stubborn and adheres to his creed, many tasks of the Phaeton Forge World will be carried out more conveniently, without having to spend a lot of time explaining the sources of these technologies from different reincarnation worlds.

Everyone understands the principle of learning from the barbarians in order to defeat them. However, why the Mechanicus is so averse to alien technology and even lists it along with artificial intelligence as two major taboos and red lines that must not be crossed? In addition to the subjective factors of their own conservatism and superstition, there are actually some objective factors as well.

Like artificial intelligence, alien technology has also brought great harm to mankind, because many alien races are not opposed to believing in the Four Chaos Gods. They believe in Chaos openly and uprightly, so their technological creations often contain backdoors, loopholes and certain tricks secretly left by the Chaos Gods. If the Mechanicus studies these alien technologies at will, once some kind of Chaos waste code or electronic demon is triggered, the entire Forge World will be destroyed if they are not careful.

Apart from anything else, the piercing sword that led to Fulgrim's fall and the Nemesis Blade that led to the Warmaster's fall are strictly speaking creations of alien technology and are well-known artifacts in Warhammer 40K.

But Fu Qinghai never worried about these hidden dangers. The technology he brought from other reincarnation worlds, even if it was "alien technology", was from an alien race in other universes and had nothing to do with the Four Chaos Gods. There was absolutely no potential risk of the spread of chaos waste code or infection by electronic demons.

On the other hand, the Mechanicus claims that research into alien technology is forbidden, but this is actually hypocritical. Within the Mechanicus there is a title similar to "Biological Sage" and "Lord of the Forge" called "Necromancer", which refers to those technical priests who specialize in the study of space necron technology and have made considerable achievements.

The Phaeton Forge World has not yet started researching the alien technology in Warhammer 40K, but it will definitely do so in the future, so Master Buck's attitude is very important. Master Quinto has always been a deeply hidden alien faction, but if Master Buck is a conservative who is extremely averse to alien technology, then Fu Qinghai will have to find an opportunity and a reason to get rid of him.

Speaking of alien technology, Fu Qinghai had even thought about the direction in which the Phaeton Forge World would research alien technology in the future. There were only two research objects: the Necrons and the Tau Empire.

The technology of these two forces is very materialistic and has nothing to do with psychic power or magic.

The Necrons are a purely materialistic faction in the Warhammer 40K universe, the only race that is completely disconnected from the Warp. They don't even have souls.

As for the Tau Empire, due to racial talent, ordinary humans are at the lowest level in the positive psychic energy scale (π/ρ), and the Tau are even slower in reacting to psychic energy than ordinary humans. They belong to the first level in the negative psychic energy scale (σ/τ). They are naturally psionically inert, but not to the extent of being completely isolated from psychic energy like the Untouchables.

To be honest, the innate conditions of the Titanium people are indeed very poor. Not only are their bodies weaker than those of ordinary humans, but they are also unable to utilize psychic energy and can also be harmed by it.

Because Fu Qinghai has no psychic talent, his most powerful plug-in is called "Tony Stark's Electronic Soul Backup" instead of "A Dark Personality of Dr. Strange", so he has no interest in studying the technology of the Eldar and Orks.

The Orcs' technological creations rely on waaagh force fields to maintain their existence, while the Eldar are even more thorough. The Eldar can be said to be the opposite of the Necrons in this respect. All their technological creations are closely related to psionic energy. Wraithbone is the basic material of the Ark Eldar. Everything from armor to warships are made of wraithbone.

Many technologies of the human empire are actually related to psychic energy: void shields, teleportation technology, astropathic communication, astronomical navigation, subspace engines...

The Tau Empire captured a Moon-class cruiser. Aether led the scientists of the Tu Clan to dismantle the warp engine for research, and concluded that it was a bunch of inexplicable witchcraft devices.

The Silent King Szalak once commented on the Emperor - "a piece of bacon playing with witchcraft", which may be referring to the transaction between the Emperor and the Four Chaos Gods for twenty Primarchs.

However, the Human Empire can afford the cost of completely decoupling from the Warp. At worst, the above technologies will become completely ineffective.

The Imperial Truth is the Emperor's attempt to reduce the influence of Chaos. The Imperial Truth tells people that there is no supernatural power or magic in the universe - this is of course a complete lie, but it can indeed reduce the influence of the Four Chaos Gods to a certain extent. The Warp is a collection of thoughts and concepts. Perhaps if people no longer believe in their existence, their power will be weakened.

But the Eldar cannot do that. This race is deeply bound to psionics. Psionics is an important part of their lives. The Eldar can never be separated from psionics. They are both controlled by and dependent on the Warp.

Therefore, Fu Qinghai believes that the Eldar are destined to decline and have no future, and that Evelyne and her Army of the Dead will find it difficult to lead the Aida Eldar into a new future.

Everything has its pros and cons. Although completely decoupling from the Warp can reduce the impact of Chaos on itself, it also has many disadvantages. For example, the Necrons are known as the "technological ceiling of Warhammer 40K" and do not actually have faster-than-light travel technology.

The inertia-free engine is the fastest of all sub-light travel technologies, but it still does not exceed the speed of light. If the Star God Burner Nyadrazasa had not invented the Tombstone Gate, allowing the Necrons to temporarily hijack the Webway created by the Old Ones to travel at superluminal speeds, even the Human Empire would have laughed at the Necrons in terms of superluminal travel.

Sitting in the captain's room, Qingshan Khan commented on the various forces in the Warhammer 40K universe with a very high attitude, and finally wrote down two core keywords for future research on alien technology in the supplementary memo of the "First Five-Year Plan":

Dig graves and look for titanium.

…

The Tau Empire has not yet been born. The Fire Caste may be just a group of nomads still fishing and hunting. The Earth Caste may be just a group of cave dwellers hiding in caves and making mud. The Air Caste and the Water Caste have no idea where to make a living. The Ether group of charlatans has not appeared either. It will be of no avail even if the planet of origin is found.

The Necrons just happen to have a soft persimmon to exploit - a tomb world on a wild alien planet.

Unfortunately, the technological gap between necromancy technology and human technology is too great to be understood at all. Perhaps the key to cracking the code of necromancy technology lies in... the mysterious knowledge that has never been unlocked that the Burner forcibly injected into Fu Qinghai's mind?

But the Star God fragments are not a soft persimmon.

Fu Qinghai thought to himself.

Those things are too far away.

The most urgent task now is...

Big Hunt!

Fu Qinghai stood in the armory of the Suzheng and began to take stock of the skills and equipment he currently possessed.

Among all the weapon technologies from the Iron Man Mark series power armor, the one that Fu Qinghai used the most was the arc pulse cannon, which belongs to the category of laser weapons.

Fu Qinghai will never give up laser weapons.

Don't think that the Imperial Guard's flashlights are like tickling the Space Marines. That's because ceramic steel just happens to restrain lasers, and the battery pack of ordinary laser guns has too little power.

Laser weapons are like this, their power increases with the size and caliber. The elite of the Imperial Guard, graduates of the Zhongxi Academy - Stormtroopers, use weapons called Hell Guns, which have a very loud name. They are still laser guns, and the gun body is connected to a huge battery backpack on the back through a pipeline. In this way, the power of the Hell Gun is far greater than that of the laser gun.

The Leman Rust tank's frontal secondary laser cannon can also penetrate power armor.

The light spears on the battleships are also laser weapons. Not to mention ceramic steel, they can even penetrate refined gold.

Fu Qinghai rarely uses the arc pulse cannon, because he is a rather sinister person and likes to use this concealed laser weapon as a surprise attack against people.

Iron Man's most commonly used weapon is this arc pulse cannon that fires thick golden and white lasers. It has considerable power despite its small size and was retained by Fu Qinghai.

Iron Man also used a cutting ray that emitted dark red thin laser lines, which was exactly the same as the laser ray in the Resident Evil movie. However, it was too weak and was abandoned by Fu Qinghai.

The way to increase the power of weapons in Warhammer 40K is the same as the process from laser gun to hell gun to laser cannon, which is very simple and crude - increase! Increase!

If a single shot of an ordinary bomb is not powerful enough, increase the caliber to make it a heavy bomb. If the firepower density of an ordinary bomb is not enough, connect two shots in parallel to make it a storm bomb.

Although simple and crude, it is undeniable that this method contains an intoxicating aesthetic of violence.

Large-caliber doctrine, multi-turret cult...

Fu Qinghai's idea of ​​adding a pulse shooting mode to the grenade launcher is not so violent and aesthetically pleasing.

Fu Qinghai looked at the various imperial weapons and expensive materials in the arsenal and began to have some evil thoughts.

…

One month later.

Fu Qinghai raised his hand and stroked the brand new set of power armor that stood quietly in front of him. It had a huge body and sturdy limbs, broad shoulder armor that was as high as the top of the helmet, and heavy armor that was almost seamlessly integrated. The abdomen, waist and joints had fewer exposed weak parts than traditional power armor.

Tactical Dreadnought Armor, also known as Terminator Armor.

First, overhead is a Cyclone missile launcher consisting of two cubic twin-linked missile pods with a sensor and sight array mounted in the middle.

Then, on the left shoulder armor is a thick conversion beam cannon, and on the right shoulder armor is a heavy plasma cannon. Both weapons of considerable size exist in the form of shoulder cannons. Even the Predator has shoulder cannons, so how could a Space Marine not have shoulder cannons?

Finally, the left-hand weapon is a belt-fed heavy bolter, and the right-hand weapon is a parallel double-barreled melta gun.

This is a new set of power armor that Fu Qinghai has used during this period of time to hand-craft based on the design of the Iron Cavalry Terminator. It is also his first set of Terminator armor.

Name: Cyan Mountain Heavy Power Armor.

Tony Stark in the MCU once launched a "family gathering" plan to create many special functions and models of Mark series power armor.

Fu Qinghai did not intend to follow the same route at first, because frequent switching of armor was very troublesome, and assimilating multiple sets of armor was not very cost-effective, so he integrated most of the small functions of the Mark series together, which is the current Blue Shell Power Armor.

But when it comes to tactical fearless armor, there is finally a fork in the road with different functional positioning.

You can't have both defense and speed.

You can't have both firepower and mobility.

Because of the powerful energy supply of the Nyadrazasa reactor, the outer shell of the entire set of armor is no longer a triple composite armor, but directly uses refined gold homogeneous armor, which is heavier but stronger.

A major flaw of the Iron Cavalry Terminator is that the helmet is almost wrapped inside the armor, and the field of vision is very limited. Fu Qinghai's solution is to have three reconnaissance servo skulls float around to provide field of vision compensation.

At the same time, due to the huge ammunition consumption of heavy bombs and melta guns, Fu Qinghai will be accompanied by two heavily armed servitors when he moves, carrying huge ammunition boxes and promethium boxes to replenish ammunition for Fu Qinghai at any time.

"If only there was some kind of space technology that could connect to a remote ammunition supply station..."

Fu Qinghai looked at the huge Terminator armor that was a head taller than the Blue Shell, and muttered to himself.

Most other Terminators use melee weapons, but Fu Qinghai's understanding of Terminator is different from others. In his understanding of melee combat, strength and agility must be balanced. Power armor like the Terminator, which has great power but slow speed, should not be used for melee combat.

It should be a long-range firepower tank.

Extreme, violent long-range firepower output, this is the positioning of the Blue Mountain Power Armor.

It can be regarded as a derivative model of the Blue Shell Power Armor.

Fu Qinghai took off his Blue Shell Power Armor, put on a black vibranium woven electronic muscle fiber suit, and walked into the open-chested Blue Mountain Heavy Power Armor.

The vibranium lining involves rare materials, so of course it will continue to be used and there is no way to create a new one.

After feeling the unique sensation of being wrapped in the Terminator armor, Fu Qinghai was preparing to activate the servoskull and the heavy-duty servitors in turn to conduct a combat exercise.

The hatch slid open and Camille walked in, saying,

"Qingshan, I have completely healed all the disabilities and hidden injuries of Latani Kalamanda. He wants to see you."

"oh?"

Fu Qinghai turned his head in his armor.

"Did he say anything?"

Camille said:

"He said he had important information to share with you."

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　Thanks to life586, wind and rain sound, vertigo111, Arctic Monster, True Colors of Butterfly, Skin is My Faith, and several book friends for their rewards.

　　I forgot to mention that the fifth evil god, Mara, has been completely destroyed in the book and will not appear again due to copyright issues caused by the resignation of GW's screenwriter. And "if the human empire is destroyed, the emperor will become the fifth evil god" is just nonsense among fans, and it is not an official setting. Of course, this possibility is not ruled out in my book.

(End of this chapter)