Chapter 357 Qingshanism

Marquez Wangxing District, Phaeton Casting World.

Looking back at this battle - "Warhammer 40K Cavalry Mayhem to Save the Planet Kaelnak III", Fu Qinghai spent more time on the road than in battle. Although the Octarius sector is also in the Hazy Star Field, it is still a bit far from the Marcus King sector.

The key is that subspace navigation is too unstable.

With the support of relic technology such as the Subspace Sextant in hardware and the gifted navigator Tracy Gray in software, it still took the fleet a lot of time to return to its base. There were less than three days left before the deadline for starting a new cycle as indicated by the Eye of Prophecy.

Fu Qinghai hurried to Xiao Fei's foundry temple.

The technical priest came out to greet them.

"How's it going? Is everything going well?"

Fu Qinghai asked right away.

After all, building a Titan is not like making guns or cannons. Building a Titan is like building a wonder. What he is most worried about is hearing bad news like "some accident caused the project to be delayed."

Fortunately, Xiao Fei gave a definite answer:

"Everything went well, Boss. The first prototype of the Khan-class Titan has passed the final testing phase and will be ready for actual combat use soon. I'll take you to visit it now."

"good."

…

The internal structure of Xiao Fei's foundry temple somewhat imitates the broken dome in the Pacific Rim universe, with many tall caves, which makes Fu Qinghai feel slightly familiar.

Building such a large cave to store Titans in the dungeon is a little simpler than on the ground.

A huge human-like object stood quietly in the cave. The two of them looked up together. It was surrounded by various cantilevers, components, prayers, incense and blessed holy oils. The shocking sight of the giant object was mixed with the sacred majesty of the cargo worship. At this moment, Fu Qinghai understood a little.

Why is Titan called "God's Machine"?

The Mechanicus is one of the mainstream religious beliefs of the Human Empire, and this cave and this Titan are like the Longmen Grottoes and Leshan Giant Buddha of the Mechanicus.

It's just that the idols of ordinary religions can only be used for worship and veneration, while the idols of the Mechanicus can also spew out incinerating plasma and sprinkle down rain of death bullets...

The Oil Man took the Chapter Captain onto the gravity platform. After it was started, the platform automatically floated into the air. The two of them soared from the Titan's feet all the way up to the head.

The Khan-class Titan is different from other "hunchbacked" Titans. It has its chest and head held high. It is eighty meters tall, and its overall shape is more "burly and solid" than the slightly "slender and tall" Pacific Rim Mecha Hunter.

"It was implemented exactly as planned."

Xiao Fei said:

"The Titan weapons ordered from other forge worlds have all arrived and have been adapted and debugged without error."

This is why Xiao Fei dared to guarantee that a new Titan would be built within three months. The Phaeton Forging World only needed to build the main body of the fuselage, and long-range weapons could be ordered from other forging worlds with Titan legions: Mori-type seismic cannons, Mars-type melta cannons, you can tell where they were made by just listening to the names.

"For the Titan's control system, I have two options. One is a combination of a multi-pilot crew and the Thinker system, and the other is a combination of a single pilot and artificial intelligence. Since you said you'll be entering the Monster Movie Universe soon, this Titan uses the second control system. However, I have reserved a modification port so you can switch at any time."

Xiao Fei continued.

"very good."

Fu Qinghai agreed.

Humanoid mechanical vehicles have complex movements and are difficult to exercise. Mechanical transmission, pressure feedback, signal transmission, etc. are all difficult problems, requiring a very powerful information processing system. This is why the "push rod flow" is unreasonable and the "precision control flow" is reasonable.

The solution for most science fiction IPs is artificial intelligence, including the Pacific Rim universe. The movie does not show artificial intelligence plots, but in the animated series Pacific Rim: The Black, the mecha hunters have an artificial intelligence assistance system that can even control the mecha hunters independently.

The Warhammer 40K universe is a fucked-up place. According to the Crimson Protocol of the Adeptus Mechanicus, neither artificial intelligence nor silicon-based chips are allowed here. So Xiao Fei prepared two plans to deal with wars in different universes.

"Specifically, as for the control method: traditional Titans use thought pulse units to connect and use manifold interfaces to observe the outside world. New Titans follow the Pacific Rim design, use Pons bridge devices to connect, and use holographic projection to observe the outside world."

Xiao Fei pointed inside the head control cabin.

The Mind Impulse Unit, referred to as the "MIU" system, is also a very distinctive mental link system of the Titan Adeptus Ordos in Warhammer 40K. Synaesthesia and MIU have their own side effects.

For the Titan pilots, every time the captain loses the connection with the Titan, they will suffer a double shock from both the mind and the body - they are used to controlling the Titan body and find it difficult to adapt to the human body. Coupled with the physical wear and tear caused by years of service, the captain will eventually be transferred to the amniotic fluid tank and become a "parasite" and "vegetation" fixed on the Titan.

Compared to the side effects of MIU, the side effects of synaesthesia can hardly be called side effects. The pilots are more tacit and in tune with each other. Is this also called a side effect?

​​"However, I did not follow the design blueprint we had planned. I also came up with something new."

Xiao Fei said.

"What?"

Fu Qinghai asked.

"Remember that Punisher-class Titan?"

Xiao Fei asked.

"certainly."

Fu Qinghai still remembered the relic Titan, which Xiao Fei had discovered during archaeological excavations in the Forge World of Charonia. The regiment specially dispatched two companies to transport back the great treasure.

"After some analysis, I restored a melee weapon of the Punisher-class Titan - the Power Claw. This is a Titan-level power weapon, and I also got two different models, the Fallen Angel Power Claw and the Royal Power Claw."

Xiao Fei said excitedly,

"We have one more melee weapon!"

"good."

Fu Qinghai was also very happy.

This gives the Khan-class Titan three melee weapons to choose from: Chainsword, Siege Drill, and Power Claw.

The two inspected the entire Titan. Fu Qinghai, as the driver, tried to control it and felt very good.

"Please name the new Titan, Khan."

Finally, Xiao Fei said.

"Um..."

Fu Qinghai pinched his chin and looked up at the servitors who were crawling around on the Titan and painting it. The prototype of the Khan-class Titan was different from the "White Scar" which was a concept and verification machine. It adopted the classic black and gold paint scheme of the Chapter.

"Let's call it... Pojun Jinjia."

Fu Qinghai thought for a moment and said.

"As you wish, Khan."

Although I don't know what the name means.

But Xiao Fei agreed immediately.

…

After leaving Xiao Fei's Foundry Temple, Fu Qinghai wandered around the entire dungeon, visiting Master Quinto's Foundry Temple and Master Buck's Foundry Temple in turn.

As for Master Quinto, Fu Qinghai asked Kalamanda to bring a few captured Kroot as gifts. Master Quinto was an expert on aliens in the Mechanicus and liked to dissect and study various alien creatures. He might be interested in the Kroot.

"I've heard of this alien. They can devour the flesh and blood of other creatures to obtain genes and evolve new traits. I wanted to study it a long time ago, but I never got a living sample. The Empire doesn't take the Kroot as seriously as the Orks and doesn't think they are a threat."

Master Quinto was very pleased with the gift.

After that, he complained a few words.

"As long as you like it."

Every time Fu Qinghai went out to fight, he liked to bring back some strange biological materials and living tissues for Master Quinto. This time, there were not only Kroot captives, but also the corpses of giant Roaring Lock Dragon and Kroot Ape Beast.

This made the biological sage very happy. He felt that his teaching to this cheap student was not in vain. Even though he had become the captain of a chapter and held a high position, he was still so well-behaved and sensible.

…

Master Buck was also very busy removing the profane decorations, cleaning the interior spaces, and purifying the fallen machine spirits from the many armored vehicles captured by the regiment.

Fu Qinghai thought about it and concluded that if all the different types and models of armored vehicles were combined and used together, they could form an armored company, similar to the "Desolate Brigade" of the Midnight Lords.

"Why not just call...the vanguard team?"

Fu Qinghai suggested.

As the land combat vanguard of the regiment, the armored company charged into battle and deserves the title of "first to ascend".

"I don't mind."

Master Buck had no opinion on how to name it.

The Phaeton Forge World does not have any STC for armored vehicles and cannot produce and manufacture armored vehicles on its own, but that does not mean the Iron Pagoda Regiment cannot form its own armored forces - at worst they can just buy them and place orders with them from other Forge Worlds.

The Phaeton Foundry World can be said to be extremely wealthy, with many unique products and an endless stream of trade. Why doesn't Fu Qinghai directly purchase armored vehicles from other foundry worlds?

In addition to being busy expanding production capacity and manufacturing new Titans, there is another important reason: Phaeton has used all the funds to build airports, space docks and orbital defense facilities.

These three are real money-eating beasts.

However, with the orbital defense facilities, the Chapter no longer needs to leave enough troops to guard the satellite before each battle. Phaeton Forge World is undoubtedly the most valuable of the three planets currently directly controlled by the Chapter.

Accidents can happen anywhere, but they can't happen here.

Fu Qinghai, who had just finished the "Cavalry Mixed Exercise", could not think of where he would need to fight a "Tank Battle" for the time being. At present, it was enough to assemble an armored company. The three major items of airports, space docks and orbital defense facilities had a higher priority than forming a main armored force.

First, there will be a large airport to expand the scale of trade, then there will be orbital defense facilities to have self-defense capabilities, and finally there will be a space dock... the regiment fleet will be able to produce dumplings.

Too bad Space Marines don't dream.

Fu Qinghai thought to himself.

Otherwise, there will be everything in the dream.

…

Fu Qinghai returned to his captain's room.

He is thinking about a problem.

There is one biggest difference between the Khan-class Titans. Normally, the Titan's piloting crew are all mortals of the Titan Order, but the future Titan Legion of the Phaeton Forge World is destined to be piloted by all-new alien Space Marines.

Fortunately, Xiao Fei is a sensible Reincarnation. If Xiao Fei was a real mechanic, he would never allow such a thing to happen. The Titan Legion is a direct force of the Mechanicus. How could the Adeptus Astartes reach out to the Titan Legion?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

This is not a question of the Codex Astartes.

The Mechanicus is definitely going to go crazy.

Unfortunately, Mount Huiteng is high and the emperor is far away. The two sages plus a quasi-sage are all Fu Qinghai's people, and Mars has no control over them!

Expanding on this line of thought:

the regiment now has only one armored company.

The Suzheng does not yet have its own carrier-based aircraft.

Fu Qinghai suddenly had an idea, or a way of thinking about building an army: from now on, whether tank drivers or fighter pilots, they would all use new alien space warriors instead of mortals, just like Titan drivers.

Not to mention tanks, there are many examples of fighter jets.

In the previous life on Earth, when high-performance fighter jets or reconnaissance aircraft developed to the later stages, the problem to be solved was not the engine power or fuselage material of the fighter jet itself... but the problem of the fighter pilot's physical endurance.

Many military fans only pay attention to radar, engine, electronic control system, aerodynamic shape...but they don't know that the load-bearing suit made by the Soviet Union for the MiG-25 in the 1960s is still not manufactured by 90% of countries today.

The example of the load-carrying suit shows that the fragile body structure of human beings has hindered the development of weapons and equipment, so later, the research direction of countries around the world turned to unmanned fighter jets and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

In the Warhammer 40K universe, whether it is the Imperial Navy's naval aviation unit or the Imperial Guard's land aviation unit, pilots are also required to wear load-bearing suits.

But the Space Marines don't need it!

Isn't the biochemical transformation of the Space Marines to overcome these difficulties of "flesh, blood, bitterness and weakness"?

Thinking of this, Fu Qinghai secretly made a decision:

in the future, whether it is land-based fighters or naval-based fighters, whether it is ordinary armored vehicles or new Titan units, they will all belong to the combat sequence of the Space Marines.

In the cruel battlefield of the Warhammer 40K universe, mortal soldiers can just serve as auxiliary forces.

…

This idea is currently just an idea in my mind, and no specific project or action has been started.

Fu Qinghai didn't know that in the future 40K era, the historians of the Empire would give a name to this retro army-building idea that traced back to the era of the Astartes Legion and this combat concept that gave priority to the Astartes in all battles:

Greater Astartesism.

Also known as: Qingshanism.

Qingshan Khan of the Iron Pagoda Chapter was regarded as the first Great Astartes, and many chapter masters of the chapters also claimed to believe in the so-called "Qingshanism".

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　　1. The Savage World of Separil. In the original novel, the King of Figures, Tarazin, locked the world spirits and all the Eldar in a maze of stasis fields and it became one of his collections.

　　2. Dehaan is a dark apostle of the Word Bearers in a short story. He also wanted to get the soul stone of the Eldar and sacrifice the souls of the Eldar to please the Four Gods. In the end, he died at the hands of the Savage Eldar.

　　3. The original book did not say that the old prophet had a daughter. Sarah Mande Uslan was an original character.

(End of this chapter)