Travel to Warhammer 40K with Gray Wind.

Chapter 119 Memorandum

The thin electromagnetic pulse caressed the void, and a dormant ring-shaped colossus was parked on the orbit of the star base outside the quantum slingshot, slowly rotating.

After three years, Anti-Entropy has also upgraded and expanded the star base here to a certain extent in addition to continuously producing munitions and ships. However, due to the speed limit of resource acquisition, the original outpost is far from becoming A Sky Fort of the level of the Seeker can only be regarded as a star port.

But this deprivation will soon come to an end.

Following the administrator's instructions, anti-entropy manipulated the nano-robot cluster and automatic engineering machinery to dismantle the launch module of the "Smart Beam" from the center of the Colossus and store it in the warehouse of the star base, and then installed it. An extreme weapon system branded with the Skull Destroyer logo.

Star Destroyer Weapon: Earth Explosion Star.

"Weapon installation is complete, and system debugging is in progress... After debugging, Colossus is at your service at any time."

The cold synthetic voice of anti-entropy reported the complete launch of a giant weapon capable of crushing planets. Russell stood on the side of the gray Gu mothership, overlooking the Earthburst Star in standby, thinking about a question:
For the sake of numerical balance, after using Earthburst Star to smash a planet in the stars, a large amount of minerals and metals will not be obtained directly, but a space mine that continues to produce minerals will be created at the wreckage of the original planet.

While the mine can only be obtained by smashing a habitable planet, the monthly output of this mine is not high, and it is infinitely close to tasteless.

Therefore, the fourth natural disaster who really uses the Earth Explosion Star as a mining machine is a minority after all.

But in the actual universe, planets like the earth are mostly dense metal cores. The planet itself is a natural melting pot, constantly refining minerals and metals with its own gravity and the planet's self-rotation.

Using the Earth Explosive Star to smash the star core, one can directly obtain a large amount of semi-finished metal raw materials and countless minerals that a planet has self-condensed for billions of years-of course, an overheated star needs time to cool down.

The larger the star body, the greater the movement after being crushed. The core composition of different planets is also different, some are iron-nickel alloys, and some are pure iron.

Therefore, it is also a science to select the detonation target by surveying the geological composition and astronomical position.

Russell's original plan was to find a few unmanned galaxies near Falla to survey and start starburst mining, but after receiving the gift full of love from the Worm of Time, he has a more secure way to obtain resources: enter the miniature galaxy.

When mining in the miniature galaxy, there is no need to worry about a sudden explosion of European gas, and a pile of sleeping iron ribs will be blown out.It can also effectively prevent the astronomical-scale interstellar noise from being noticed by other forces.

Although under the siege of the green-skinned orcs, they are under pressure to prepare for the so-called "Terra Expedition" in various star regions in the Far East, and they have no time to take into account some astronomical phenomena that occur in the barren galaxy.

"Speaking of which, what is this Terra Expedition? Does it mean it literally?" Looking at the slowly rotating giant statue, Russell asked suddenly.

He asked about anti-entropy. During the time when Worm of Time skipped over, the relative highest authority of the critical base has always been in the hands of anti-entropy, the logistical support for the scientific research fleet, the black market arms trade between the stars, and the allocation of resources. It also coordinates the work, and this kind of work intensity is just a drizzle for the powerful computing power of the anti-entropy host.

The extra energy can be used to do some extra work, such as intelligence collection, which Russell has not paid much attention to due to lack of manpower.

"The Terra Expedition is a large-scale military operation launched by the spiritual leader of Nefer, the Living Saint Alexei Reyput." Anti-Entropy's answer was very formulaic: "This expedition plans to deploy at least 13 The Astartes battle group and the foundry fleets of multiple forged worlds, the size of the imperial navy affected by the transfer order cannot be counted."

"But what is certain is that the Living Saint's move will take away most of the standing troops in the entire Far East border area, making the human empire lose control of this area."

"The National Church, the Mechanic Society, and the Astartes War Group, knowing that carrying out this large-scale expedition will leave the defense of the Far East border area empty, still support Alexei, because the end of the expedition It is the home planet of human civilization - Terra."

"It's really going to Terra..." The corner of Russell's mouth slightly raised, which was interesting.

"According to my subjective inference, the purpose of this expedition may be to transport something important to Terra."

Anti-entropy finally concluded: "The living saint Alexei declared that she would personally lead the fleet's actions. She seemed to have predicted that the expedition would encounter great danger through some kind of witchcraft, so Nifl is doing its best to Gather as many troops as possible for escort."

Anti-entropy's reports are calm and unemotional, and it always states the facts in the most objective terms.But behind the cold fleet numbers reported by artificial intelligence, there are countless imperial colonies that have been ruthlessly abandoned.

The Mortal Legion and the Astartes Chapter summoned by Alexei had to voluntarily abandon one Imperial world after another that was facing the threat of aliens in order to escort the Prophet to successfully send the thing to Terra.

Their fleets assembled in Nirvana, leaving tens of billions of people in the empire without the protection of their warriors, only praying the name of the emperor, and being ravaged and slaughtered by the green skins.

For a warrior who regards glory as his life, abandoning the world he insists on is far more unacceptable than dying in battle.

So, what lofty reason did Alexei use to persuade the soldiers to abandon the line of defense, and how did he win the support of the state religion, the Mechanic Society, and even the nobles of many places, and give up the resources of multiple worlds?
There are very few things of this magnitude, so to speak, and Espernes happens to have one.

"It seems that she intends to send the standard construction template of the L-star gate to Terra." Russell came to the conclusion suggested to him by anti-entropy.

If the conclusion is correct, then this idea can also explain why the expedition with the goal of Terra needs to muster such a large number of troops:

The Cthulhu will never sit back and let the prophetess bring the stargate back to Terra.

Once the expedition fleet sets off, the four gods of chaos who are attacking each other in the subspace will definitely put aside all past grievances and deal the deadliest target and the craziest blow to the human empire. Alexei may even enjoy the power of Horus back then. That level of treatment.

Under such circumstances, it would not be an exaggeration to empty out all the military power on the entire Far East frontier.

"Is she really ready?" Gray Wind was a little worried, why now?

"Who knows?" Russell was noncommittal.

The future of the expedition fleet is bleak, and the four gods of chaos stir the waves in the sea of ​​​​souls, waiting for them to leap into it.

In fact, if Russell is willing to give them the jump engine or the warp speed engine to get rid of the constraints of subspace navigation, then the difficulty of this expedition will be greatly reduced.

But he didn't want to do that.

Russell does not regard himself as a member of the human empire. He views the star bomber as a partner who is at the same level as the emperor. Therefore, the help to the empire is not a selfless dedication, but an equivalent exchange of mutual benefit.

It depends on whether the emperor can afford it.

"Before worrying about how many people will die in this grand expedition to Terra, let's plant our own fields first." Russell said to himself.

The administrative system of Esbenes is still operating at full speed, and the connection of the L-star gate network has given Alexei the basis for coordinating the transportation of the entire star area in real time.

More and more worlds were abandoned, and more and more fleets gathered in Nirvana and the surrounding galaxies. Amid the dying wailing and desperate wailing of countless people of the empire, the strength of the Terra expedition fleet became stronger.

At the same time, the colossus of Earthburst equipped with the star-destroying weapon also went to the L-star gate and entered the miniature galaxy under the control of anti-entropy.

Standing on the side of the ship and looking at the colossus of destruction that disappeared into the L-star gate, Russell said softly to the girl in the navy uniform beside him: "Grey Wind, record what I say next, if I'm caught by a bug of time or something If the reasons for your actions suddenly disappear for a period of time, then these messages will be your general outline for the next actions.”

"I will be with you, Marshal." Gray Wind said hastily.

"Records." Russell repeated his request.

Gray Wind suddenly faltered: "Yes."

Russell took a deep breath, and said: "Smashing planets to obtain metal minerals is an act of fishing out of water. It can only be used to obtain the accumulation of primitive resources. I don't want to do this for a long time."

"After crushing 1-3 ore-rich planets to obtain enough raw materials, we need to proceed with the construction of giant structures in the following steps."

1. Build a star gate at the critical base and the big black hole at the original site of the Lost Dream Nebula—an ordinary star gate, not an L-star gate—for resource transportation

2. Build a star base at the horizon of the black hole, equip it with the highest standard of defense force we can give regardless of the cost, and equip it with a Zelo storm projector, keep it open all year round, and completely isolate all possible external influences
3. Build a matter decompressor at the horizon of the black hole
"After these three stages of construction are completed, we will be able to obtain an endless and stable source of raw materials." Russell nodded as he watched Gray Wind translate these words and store them in his main consciousness.

Then, he also gave some other plans, such as: building a giant dock in Falla to mass-produce the fleet, selecting a site for the Order of Truth to build a scientific research hub after it has developed to a certain level, and he hopes that the missionaries can Find something for yourself...

Russell tirelessly expounded the various thoughts hidden in his mind, and explained the stakes and deep meaning of them. Gray Wind listened quietly without saying a word, and recorded the data, but Russell couldn't see it. In the world, it has sent the original document of this memo to anti-entropy synchronous storage.

In Gray Wind's cognition, there has never been a situation where Russell leaves everything to himself and then disappears alone. This is a backup for him to follow him.

After dictating the memorandum, Russell unbuttoned a button on his collar and sat on the sofa to drink some water, when a message came from Anti-Entropy:
"Administrator, the initiator of the Terra expedition, the living sage Alexei Reyput hopes to meet you. She is asking the technology sage Spangler about your whereabouts on Embra."

Russell put down the water glass in the book and smiled as expected.As expected, Alexei came to ask for his help... Alexei, or the Emperor?Then we have to meet to know.

After getting the news, Russell didn't delay for a moment, and immediately went to the urban planet Embra with Gray Wind.

With Russell's great support, Embra, which has received a large order, is no longer what it used to be. Four of the six spiers of the urban planet standard have been built, and the first phase of the star ring base on orbit has also been connected. The prohibition of the government cannot prevent profit-seeking businessmen from rushing to the development prospects here. It is very lively on the track, and overall it looks a lot more decent.

In fact, if anti-entropy or Gray Wind presided over the construction, this urban planet should have been fully online long ago, but the contracted project is the Mechanics Society, and they have to bathe, burn incense, fast for three days, and then chant sutras and cast spells. It is very rare for Tiao Dashen's work attitude to be so efficient, although it still seems to be procrastinating.

"It's pretty decent." The gray Gu mothership flew to the orbit of the Embra star ring, and Russell nodded slightly as he looked at the construction progress of the urban planet that was finally coming to an end.

Gray Wind was a little puzzled: "Why didn't you just let me take charge of the construction of this planet at the beginning? Marshal, for such a modular planetary city, it would be perfect for me to coordinate resources and plan the construction. It can be completed in less than 1/3 of the man-hours and resource consumption."

It doesn't quite understand why the marshal, who pursues high efficiency, would contract such an important project to a group of cyber gods who are in love with electronic products.

"Although they are both industrial bases, they are different from nanoplanets. Urban planets must be inhabited by people. A city is called a city because it has people." Russell said: "There is a risk of corruption if there are people, although we have learned from the psionic theory of the Human Federation , and the spiritual bone technology of the Spirit Race has obtained a variety of technical means that can effectively shield the subspace, but this is still not enough."

"Because in addition to genetic degradation, in the long night before the Great Crusade, humans in this universe suffered more than one very serious collective subspace pollution, and the connection with the subspace has long been carved into the bottom of the soul of every ordinary person Unless I purify them one by one like the preachers of the Order of Truth, and then use quantum neural connections to replace brain thinking, can the corruption of the subspace be truly eradicated."

He obviously does not have the conditions to go through such a process for the hundreds of billions of people that an urban planet will accommodate.

Russell said, gently holding Gray Wind's soft palm with both hands: "With you, I don't really need the production capacity of Ideal City. Since this urban planet is originally a gift to the Mechanics Society, they should naturally pass own way against Chaos Corruption."

For example, pouring holy water on each screw and burning incense to pray for blessings, and forcibly worshiping the entire industrial world out of the machine spirit under the gaze of the icon of the guide.

(End of this chapter)