The Emperor’s Angel of Death

The current mainstream gas giant development technology of the Mechanicum generally involves first building super-large space stations, directly deploying the constructed transport platforms to relatively stable positions on the planet, and then launching the mining ships entirely onto the surface.

These dedicated mining ships have thick hulls capable of withstanding the high pressure deep within the planet, and use huge external buckets to collect concentrated promethium, then return to the transport platform.

The giant plasma engines on the transport platform then send the filled cargo holds into space, and once the space station receives the cargo holds, they are either refined on-site or transferred to waiting cargo ships.

The entire process is relatively cumbersome and involves a large investment.

Therefore, although the Naysen system has gas giants, Griffin IV has not invested here, after all, the distance is too far and uncontrollable, which makes the Naysen system's promethium very dependent on imports.

Soshjan certainly couldn't let people control his neck!

But now Naysen VII's orbit is empty, even without satellites, and it would take too long to build from scratch.

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However, Soshjan had already made arrangements on his return, and this was the real purpose of his trip.

"It seems that the two factory ships have already started operating."

Standing in front of the huge observation window of the bridge, Soshjan stared at the two huge Goliath-class factory ships hovering in the planet's orbit, nodding with satisfaction.

Near the two factory ships, there were also several huge transport ships, with large and small engineering ships constantly flying out of the holds, carrying huge structural components, and working hard to piece together the prototype of the space station.

Traces of construction could also be seen on several satellites.

"Chapter Master, 29 transport platforms and 151 mining ships have been deployed on the planet, with a daily promethium mining volume of 1820 tons, but it still cannot meet the full-efficiency production needs of the two factory ships.

Currently, it can only meet 32% of the Furnace's needs and 22% of the Song of Fire's needs. The next batch of transport platforms and mining ships from the planet are on the way."

Standing next to Soshjan was a Sage from Ulan Hudda.

In fact, Ulan Hudda had already started promethium mining on Naysen VII a long time ago, but it had always been on a very small scale, mining a little and then transporting it away.

Before Soshjan obtained the ruling power of the entire star system, they were not easy to mine openly here, and could only "steal" in this form of moving like mice.

So as soon as Soshjan obtained authorization in Terra, he immediately sent a star-language signal to Ulan Hudda, asking them to start large-scale mining and construction.

However, if this is the case, it still cannot meet Soshjan's construction plan's demand for promethium, but fortunately, he got two Goliath-class factory ships from Mars!

With factory ships, the situation is different.

A single one of these giant production ships can continuously supply the promethium needs of an entire star system, so even without space station facilities, as long as there is enough raw promethium, a large amount of refined promethium can still be produced!

Once the raw promethium leaves the planet, all the filtering, heating, fractionation, and catalytic purification processes can be completed in one step inside the factory ship.

At the same time, it can also produce many additional products, such as the very important food, corpse starch.→

These two factory ships are also the material basis for Soshjan's daring to carry out large-scale reforms on Naysen IV and V.

Even to protect these two important factory ships, two Luna-class cruisers and two escort squadrons also came here, parked in the planet's high orbit, constantly monitoring the movements of the surrounding space.

"The output must be increased, doubled, at least to a daily mining volume of 5,000 tons. Subsequently, it must be increased to a daily mining volume of 10,000 tons. The possibility of factory ships fighting with the army must be considered, and the space station facilities should also be established as soon as possible."

Soshjan didn't ask about the output of refined promethium, because he knew that it must not be much, and most of it had to be supplied to the transport platforms and mining ships on the ground first, those are all big promethium consumers, but it is always a good start.

As for why Ulan Hudda doesn't have factory ships, this is because this world itself can run, so naturally it has no interest and demand for that kind of slow-moving and fragile promethium refinery.

In fact, it was because of starting to "settle" in this forge world that they began to pay attention to the source of promethium, but more to the demand for raw ore.

After all, the forge world itself has a stable energy source and does not rely very much on promethium to provide energy, but the by-products of raw promethium are still needed.

"In addition, I have not forgotten the needs of Ulan Hudda. What is the raw promethium mining ratio required by Director Bangula?"

"It's 15%."

"Well, no problem."

Just then, a burst of rapid ringing suddenly sounded on the bridge, and then the person in charge of the communications area said to Soshjan through the speaking tube:

"Chapter Master, the patrol fleet has discovered an unknown ship intruding into the star system, located in the E24-D12 area, about 80,000 kilometers away from here, and has passed through the asteroid belt at the edge of the star system."

Soshjan frowned, looked at some star charts, and the other party's position was marked in red, near Naysen VII.

"What kind of ship is it?"

"According to the other party's response, it is an Astartes ship! Chapter number is Ⅲ-051."

Ⅲ-051, Soshjan recalled for a moment, and the result shocked him.

"The Ashen Claws Chapter! ?"

The tech-sage next to him knew that he should not stay any longer, bowed slightly, and turned to leave the bridge. Soshjan then came to the throne, turned on the display, and entered the database. After querying the updated chapter information, he found this chapter.

The Ashen Claws Chapter, an Imperial Fists successor chapter established around the Age of Apostasy. The chapter is a fleet-based chapter and has also participated in the Feast of Blades, even the one just before Soshjan went, the one before last.

None of this is the point. The point is that this chapter has been declared a traitor and is shown as being destroyed, and the ones who destroyed them were none other than their parent chapter, the Imperial Fists.

The feud between the Ashen Claws Chapter and their parent chapter can be said to be a tragedy.

As a fleet-based chapter, because they wanted to establish the chapter's rule on the planet Sanatar, which they had taken back from the xenos (that is, to bring it over as a homeworld, and learn from the Ultramarines to establish star system-level rule), to commemorate their military exploits and the sacrificed warriors, it caused conflicts with several Imperial departments, and also contradictions with brother chapters.

But all of this belongs to the more common disputes between Astartes and mortals, but at the Feast of Blades in 41, the champion of the Ashen Claws Chapter, Tekshar, defeated the then Chaplain Belisarius of the Imperial Fists, and after the game, Belisarius criticized the behavior of the Ashen Claws and tried to persuade Tekshar and his chapter to give up their obsession with the liberated world, but Tekshar also retorted to the Chaplain with sharp language.

The result was that the angry Belisarius directly killed Tekshar.