Chapter 454: The regiment organization is modified:

Phaeton forges the world and Titan forges the temple.

This is the territory of Sage Xiao Fei.

The Forge Temple, modeled after the Broken Dome, has traditional sci-fi elements from Pacific Rim and many Gothic religious elements from the Warhammer 40K universe. The entire Forge World is located underground, with almost no natural light. A row of giant spotlights above the Forge Temple, as well as light strips and panels of different colors around the walls, illuminate the entire production and assembly workshop. The Forge Temple is large in scale, with six arched caves large enough to accommodate Titans.

It is the Longmen Grottoes of Phaeton.

At this time, in the very center of the forging temple.

"Pojun Golden Armor" is undergoing repair and maintenance.

Like a group of ants, servitors and technical priests crawled all over the four-armed Titan, with clusters of welding sparks lighting up from time to time. Multiple giant mechanical cranes were transporting adamantium armor shells, death strike missiles, and various component modules. A technical priest stood on the bridge surrounding the Titan, wearing a gravity glove on his hand, easily lifting a large component, and then precisely manipulating the component to insert it into the predetermined position.

The Titan ranged weapons ordered from other forging worlds have arrived one after another, and Xiao Fei's technical priests are inspecting and accepting them. In addition to the "Pojun Golden Armor" in the cave in the middle, which is undergoing repair and maintenance, the five Titan skeletons in the other five caves are also slowly being assembled and filled.

The "Pojun Golden Armor" is a four-armed Titan created by combining all the forging power of the Phaeton forging world.

Now five Titans are under construction at the same time, and only Xiao Fei's Titan Casting Temple is in charge.

The pressure is high and the progress is slow.

But Qingshan Khan is not in a hurry, because forming a Titan Legion is never a matter of overnight.

The five Titans under construction have a body shape that is significantly different from the "Pojun Jinjia". First, they do not have four arms but only two. Secondly, although the main structure is exactly the same, the melee weapons are different. Since Xiao Fei has obtained the manufacturing data of all mecha hunters in the Pacific Rim universe, some special weapons are also in the plan.

But the name has been decided.

Phaeton forges the world's Titan Legion.

Also known as: Legion of Disaster.

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Phaeton casting world, the temple of industrial casting.

Compared to Master Quinto's Biochemical Foundry Temple and Master Xiao Fei's Titan Foundry Temple, this is the largest and most extensive foundry temple cluster in the entire Phaeton, responsible for all aspects of the foundry world except for biochemical technology and Titan technology. From large warship parts to small bombs, all the forges and workshops of Phaeton, big and small, are planned and dispatched by the Industrial Foundry Temple, arranging and allocating production tasks.

Master Buck presides over this temple.

After visiting the first two casting temples, Fu Qinghai strolled to the Industrial Casting Temple, but unexpectedly, Master Buck gave him a huge surprise.

Fifty sets of Iron Pagoda Terminators.

Neatly arranged and stacked in the warehouse.

"We completed our production task ahead of schedule."

Master Buck hummed.

The Lord of the Forge was huge in size. When he stood up, he was taller than a Space Marine. He looked like a hill made of machines. Fu Qinghai looked small even when he stood next to him. No one knew how many enhanced components were hidden under that red robe.

"Very good, Master Buck."

Fu Qinghai nodded with satisfaction.

Together with the fifty Iron Pagoda Terminators who originally served as the Khan's personal guards and the regiment's honor guard, the regiment now has a total of one hundred Iron Pagoda Terminators, and can form a special company composed entirely of tactical dreadnought armor.

What does it mean to be wealthy?

This is called being rich and powerful.

Only in the Legion Era did the Primarch have enough resources to deploy and concentrate all the Terminator armor to form a Terminator force, such as the Gastarin of the Sons of Horus and the Phoenix Guard of the Emperor's Children. But in the Chapter Era, these armors are extremely scarce and expensive. Usually only the Chapter Master himself and the captains of each company can be equipped with this tactical dreadnought armor. No one can form a unit composed entirely of tactical dreadnought armor.

Of course, Fu Qinghai also knew that the Terminator's scope of application was not that wide, and its movement speed was relatively clumsy and slow. It needed to rely on short-distance teleportation to engage the enemy face to face. The most suitable combat scenario for the Terminator was boarding.

"Besides that, Quinto and I have made some research progress on wormhole technology. Please follow me."

Master Buck said.

Fu Qinghai followed him several levels underground.

Came in front of a giant tracked armored vehicle.

Fu Qinghai recognized it at a glance.

This is a giant mining excavator.

Taking the chassis and carriage of a giant mining excavator as the main body, the digging equipment and crushing equipment were dismantled to create a...wormhole generator?

"Yes, a wormhole generator."

Master Buck nodded and said.

The Master of the Forge waved his hand and ordered:

"Show me once!"

The technical priests on the minecart immediately began to operate.

The mine cart made a rumbling vibration and roar.

A bright blue beam of light shot out from the front of the vehicle, which was originally used to house the excavator bucket. The beam quickly expanded outward to form a circle with a diameter of more than 100 meters. This bright blue circle was exactly the same as the sea wormhole in "Pacific Rim 2: Uprising", with a layer of floating light film in the middle.

"Where is the other side?"

Fu Qinghai narrowed his eyes and asked.

"Kuitun Death World."

Master Buck said.

As soon as he finished speaking, several armed Space Marines walked out of the aperture. They were the Iron Pagodas who stayed behind in the regiment's recruitment world of Kuitun, and they were followed by several mortal servants.

"Khan!"

They knelt on one knee and saluted by beating their chests.

The two masters created an artificial wormhole!

Fu Qinghai was a little surprised. He waved his hand to signal his men to stand up, then turned around and asked:

"Duration? Energy consumption?"

"The energy consumption is very high. If a giant mining excavator is used as an artificial wormhole generator, the energy in the car can only sustain the artificial wormhole for fifteen minutes at most. If it is used as a fixed permanent facility, it can only last for half an hour at most, and then the wormhole will automatically collapse and decompose due to some kind of repulsion. At the same time, this circle is the current maximum diameter, and it cannot be further expanded even if the output power is increased."

Master Buck said.

"Fifteen minutes..."

Fu Qinghai evaluated silently in his mind.

Assess the tactical value and strategic significance of artificial wormholes.

What can you do in fifteen minutes?

There are so many things you can do in fifteen minutes.

The problem is not fifteen minutes, but the machine that maintains the existence of the wormhole is too large. It needs to rely on a giant mining excavator as the chassis and the generator of the vehicle. It is conceivable that it is so large that six drones can create a temporary wormhole in the movie. If the artificial wormhole is only used as an expedited transportation method, then it is OK. If you want to use the artificial wormhole to implement the internal blossoming tactic, then how to transport it into the enemy's defense? More application conditions and tactical options may need further consideration.

"What is this thing called?"

Fu Qinghai asked.

"It's called the 'Wormhole Bridging Tank', Khan."

Master Buck replied.

What a simple and straightforward name.

"Excellent research result. Thank you for your hard work, Master."

"I don't deserve it. It's all your skill, Khan."

The two exchanged pleasantries.

Fu Qinghai ordered to continue to improve this wormhole bridge tank. Reduce energy consumption, reduce noise. If possible, increase the moving speed a little. Enhance stability and reliability.

...

Unconsciously, the "First Seven-Year Plan for Economic and Technological Development of the Phaeton Casting World", referred to as the Development Plan, formulated by Fu Qinghai, has been successfully implemented for four years, and everything is being carried out step by step.

The foundry world is booming.

The giant airport and space dock that surrounds half of the planet is almost completed. The giant airport has many berths, so it can accommodate the endless stream of trade ships, and the daily throughput is very large. The space dock can currently repair more severe damage, can modify warships by itself, and can manufacture standard imperial transport ships and planetary cracking mining ships, but it cannot manufacture warships independently, not even the smallest destroyer.

The technology required to build warships is too complex.

Moreover, all these orbital facilities are synchronized with the rotation speed of the planet. They are located on the dark side of Phaeton, so there is no need to worry about being directly exposed to the high temperature of the star and so on. Note that the Phaeton galaxy is a binary star system with two suns in the sky. This provides Phaeton with almost inexhaustible clean energy, but it also brings some troubles to the construction of surface and orbital facilities. Attention must be paid to radiation and temperature issues.

Phaeton products are also exported to the Solar Star Region, the Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar, and the neighboring Calixis Star Region.

Civilian industry sector: Giant mining excavators and planetary cracking mining ships, two major products, have basically met domestic demand and have begun to be exported to foreign countries on a limited basis. In addition, the unique gravity technology of the Phaeton Foundry World is also very advanced, with three gravity technologies from the Dead Space Universe, Pacific Rim Universe and Half-Life Universe. Although these gravity technologies are very ineffective as weapons, they are very efficient as production. Representative products include: Gravity Gloves (Half-Life), Gravity Lasso (Pacific Rim) and Gravity Lift Module (Dead Space)...

Civilian biochemical sector: A series of anti-radiation drugs and strengthening drugs from the radiation universe are all in short supply. The former are mainly supplied to various forging worlds, where people often have a rigid need to prevent and treat radiation diseases, and the latter are mainly supplied to the Penal Corps in the Imperial Army. The Penal Corps is the Sin Corps, which cannot fight without stimulants and strengthening drugs. In addition to the pharmaceutical sector, the representative product of the food sector, Nuka-Cola, has also begun to become popular in various forging worlds, but the endless emergence of pirated and counterfeit products has resulted in low profits.

One-Day Tour, Anti-Radiation Ning, Radiation Elimination Ning, Super Power X... together with Nuka-Cola, numerous medicines and beverages support a huge pharmaceutical and food industrial group.

Finally, there is the military industry sector.

Currently, only one military product is allowed to be exported from the Phaeton Foundry World, which is the Needle Blaster Rifle, also known as the Feather Gun. This product is sold all over the Empire, especially in the Hive World and Frontier Star Regions, because this firearm is powerful and does not pick bullets. You can just stuff metal scraps into the gun barrel and it can be fired as a bullet. It is more powerful than laser guns and automatic guns, but weaker than bolt guns. The cost is between bolt guns and laser guns, and it can be used as a substitute for bolt weapons. Many Imperial Guard Corps are also considering purchasing this firearm as their main weapon, but its reliability and stability still need to be verified.

The overall replacement of a main light individual weapon has always been very cautious. The Imperial Guard has been using laser guns for so many years, and it is not realistic to ask them to replace them with needle blasting rifles. The key is that the production capacity of the Phaeton Forge World is not enough. The needle blasting rifle needs to be equipped with the servitors, armed sailors and the Imperial Guard Corps of Koshveto first. Some small batches of firearms that flow into the outside world are regarded as special weapons, and the prices in the black market are very high.

Fu Qinghai saw all this.

I feel very pleased and proud.

Marcus Wang Star Region is not only his garrison area, but also his foundation and home. Developing and building this remote frontier star region is to build his own power. He has invested the most energy and time in the Phaeton Forge World, even more than the Warband Recruiting World.

Because he knew very well that only by giving priority to the development of the Phaeton Forging World could it drive the development of other imperial worlds in the star zone. The remaining three inhabited planets in the star zone, the home planet of the Kuytun regiment, the Schwerin hive world and the Cheslatan agricultural world, could all benefit from the development of Phaeton.

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Sound the alarm, conference room.

Fu Qinghai summoned all the officers of the regiment to assemble.

"I plan to change the existing organizational structure of the Chapter."

Fu Qinghai spoke straight to the point.

"I plan to create a company that is fully equipped with tactical dreadnought armor, modeled after the 4th Company of the Chapter, to serve as the vanguard of naval boarding. Since boarding operations are always fought with a small number of troops against a large number of troops, they will inevitably be surrounded by the enemy, so this special company is going to be called... the Vanguard Brigade."

"Except for the vanguard and assault troops that are specifically used for boarding operations, the Vanguard Brigade will still serve as the Iron Pagoda Regiment's personal guard and honor guard, and the commander will still be Qiao Shida. What do you think of this arrangement?"

Fu Qinghai looked around at his brothers.

"no comment."

Everyone shook their heads.

"The regiment currently has more than 300 jet motorcycles in total, and these vehicles should not be mixed. I plan to assign all of these motorcycles to three companies. Then according to convention, these three companies will be named: Cavalry Battalion, Hussar Battalion and Assault Cavalry Battalion. What do you think?"

Fu Qinghai put forward another proposal.

Everyone shook their heads:

"no comment."

"In addition, the carrier-based aircraft of the Supremacy have also arrived. According to statistics, there are a total of fifty Swordtail-class interceptors in good condition. According to the organization and habits of the Imperial Navy, this is a full five squadrons. But I do not intend to follow the Navy's organization, but to imitate the practice of the Vanguard Squadron and the Formation Squadron. I will separate a half-strength company of fifty people and set it as a separate flight squadron to be responsible for flying this carrier-based aircraft group."

Fu Qinghai continued:

"The name is... Xiaolong Squadron!"

The previous "Xiandeng Xianzhen" and even "Xiaoqi Huqi" all originated from ancient Chinese military terms, highlighting the oriental characteristics of the regiment. However, there were no flying arms in ancient times, so when it came to the carrier-based aircraft group, Fu Qinghai used a modern term.

Xiaolong, FC-1, is a very famous all-weather, multi-purpose, light, single-engine, foreign trade fighter. It is quite appropriate to use it to name the regiment's air force company.

Naturally, everyone in the battle group had no objection.

Fu Qinghai even started to imagine:

When the anti-subspace tactical team expands into an anti-subspace company, it will be called the Exorcist Squadron. When the Suzheng is equipped with bombers in the future, it will be called the Flying Leopard Squadron. When the regiment forms a think tank unit in the future, it will be called the Witch Brigade...

J-7 modified = Xiaolong, JH-7 = Flying Leopard.

Pretty reasonable, isn't it?

It's such a pleasant thought.

The Chapter specializes in the combat style of each company, but that does not mean that the Space Marines in these companies are only responsible for this combat mode. On the contrary, Fu Qinghai's concept of building the army has always been the concept of an all-round warrior in the early days of the Great Crusade.

As a space marine, one must be proficient in all military skills, including but not limited to driving gunboats, fighter planes, jet motorcycles, armored vehicles, battleship operation and command, and fighting in tactical dreadnought armor.

This is what Ogedei asked Fu Qinghai to do.

Fu Qinghai also asked Tiefutu to do the same.

For traditional Space Marines, perhaps only those century-old veterans with service spikes on their foreheads can master so many military skills. But for the new and alien Space Marines, possessing the brain of MODOK, they can understand quickly and remember everything they see, which can greatly speed up their learning and growth, and they can master a military skill in a short time.

Of course, proficiency is one thing, and mastery is another. The First Captain and the Chief Chaplain will screen and select all the Space Marines, selecting those who are particularly good at driving jet motorcycles or boarding and landing operations, and send them to serve in different companies.

Fu Qinghai does not force certain gene seeds to serve in certain companies, but only coordinates them according to the specific military skills that each Space Marine excels in. However, the gene seeds give them unique talents, which often make Space Marines begin to gather in different companies - Iron Warriors join the Vanguard, White Scars like fast vehicles, and the Emperor's Children love to study close combat skills and become Iron Pagoda Terminators.

But overall.

Chapter organization divisions have nothing to do with gene-seed.

When a unit develops to a certain extent, it will inevitably undergo this kind of organizational change, just like the three major fronts becoming five major field armies. The organizational evolution of the Iron Pagoda Regiment is not original or unique. In addition to the famous six-winged organization of the Dark Angels, the ten companies of the White Scars Regiment in the 42K era are also divided according to combat styles: the first company "Spearhead Society", the reconnaissance and infiltration company "Wind Whispering Society", the flying vehicle company "Kanyuan Society", the storm prophet company "Rage Hurricane Society", the fire support company "Thunder Arrow Society"...

This is the case for almost all nine founding warbands.

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The Rectification, the Hangnaku.

Fighter planes were constantly coming in and out.

The regiment is selecting members for the Xiaolong Squadron.

It is also an opportunity to familiarize yourself with this ancient and powerful Astartes-specific fighter.

The Swordtail-class interceptor is very powerful. The Blood Angels Legion, using this fighter, once set an astonishing record of three Swordtail-class interceptors shooting down more than fifty greenskin fighters, a terrifying loss ratio of zero for fifty, an achievement that the air forces of the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Army could not achieve. This was due to the superhuman physique of the Astartes as fighter pilots, and the extremely powerful performance of the Swordtail-class interceptor itself.

However, the Swordtail-class interceptor also has many flaws.

In addition to the complex structure and difficult maintenance mentioned above, as a standard air superiority fighter, the word "interceptor" has already described its main purpose. Compared with other multi-purpose fighters, such as the Lightning-class fighter, the Swordtail-class interceptor has three engine nozzles, one large and two small, while the Lightning-class fighter has only two. However, the Lightning-class fighter can load external fuel tanks, and the fuel tank volume of the Swordtail-class interceptor is even smaller than that of the Lightning-class fighter. The former completely crushes the latter in speed, but the latter has a completely better range. As a result, many legions do not like this fighter, and call the Swordtail-class interceptor a "mast defender", just like the MiG-29 is called an "airport defender".

However, this problem can be improved.

The Lightning-class fighter also has a Space Marine-specific model called the "Peak Lightning-class Fighter". The Chapter Tech Sergeant plans to improve the Swordtail-class interceptor to produce a derivative model called the "Phaeton Swordtail-class Interceptor". The specific improvement principle is also very simple - use an acid-resistant alloy coating to cover the inner wall of the engine, and then use artificial monster blood instead of promethium as fuel to increase engine output and increase cruising range.

There were many Astartes ace fighter pilots in history, such as Vidon Tarn of the Iron Hands Legion, who was seriously injured during the landing site massacre on the planet Isstvan III when he broke through the blockade with a Swordtail-class interceptor. Logically, he should have been put into a dreadnought, but in the end they cut off his limbs and put him in the cabin of a Swordtail-class interceptor, becoming a unique "flying dreadnought" or "Swordtail Dreadnought", and continued to fly fighters to participate in air combat.

With diligent practice and actual combat training, Fu Qinghai believes that the Iron Pagoda Regiment will also have ace pilots in the near future.

The first one is Fu Qinghai himself!

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(End of this chapter)