The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Long before participating in the Diocesan War, Thracian had planned to start with transportation, because during the Great Whirlpool Expedition, he personally experienced the various structural problems brought about by transportation, and this matter has only come to fruition in recent years.

Old topic, there is no solution to this matter from the human side, but there are solutions from the "subhumans".

The Votan Alliance has had professional logistics and transportation companies for a long time. Their transport ships are not only large in size, but also capable of multiple modes of navigation, not limited to deep-level warp navigation. At the same time, they also have very professional large-scale gravity hoisting equipment, short-range precision transfer transport capsules, etc., and the team is also very mature and professional. However, Thracian had not had a very intuitive feeling before, until he personally experienced the warp dive with short-person characteristics, he realized the gap between humans and short people in navigation technology - although the speed of human warp navigation is actually faster than that of short people, compared with the time distortion, demon invasion and the risks faced when traveling through deep warp, this speed is really not worth mentioning, after all, "slow" warp navigation is fast enough, and stability is the most important thing.

It was also because of this that he finally decided to reach a cooperation agreement with the Ymir Commercial Alliance.

Simply put, the Ymir Alliance is responsible for the main business of the entire logistics department, and their professional "Shunfeng" transport fleet establishes stable and efficient routes between various foundry worlds and resource planets. Similarly, they will also receive extremely generous profits, and obtain some of the rare minerals they need from mineral trade and transportation. At the same time, they can also get a share of the trade of the Wangting vassal races.

The price is not insignificant, but in Thracian's view, it is worth it, because the Ymir Group is strong. At least according to them, they can send 900 transport ships at any time to establish business. Subsequent construction of new ships can ensure the construction of a logistics and transportation network with 3,000 transport ships as the core within five years. This is impossible for other forces to do.

Of course, the Great Saurian Alliance might also be able to do it, but Thracian hopes to get the help of the entire Votan Alliance. If only one family eats its fill, it will cause dissatisfaction among other commercial alliances, and it is not suitable to put all eggs in one basket.

"Commander Thracian, is it a bit unsafe to completely hand over the transportation line to... short people? After all, they are a group of merchants who do nothing without profit, and have no morals at all."

After Christopher finished reading it, he raised a question for the first time. The Mechanicus knew something about the short people, and even had contact with them, but because the short people had a bad attitude towards the Mechanicus, the contact between the two parties was often unpleasant. Maybe Riza is an exception, or maybe it's just a little better.

Zhao-Akada's representative also echoed:

"They can be hired, which means they can be bought."

Thracian raised his hand.

"I can understand your concerns, but the transportation convenience provided by the short people is difficult for the empire to surpass in a short period of time. This is an objective fact. I will do my best to ensure that they can fulfill the contract. Of course, this does not mean that we have to hand over everything to them. Each foundry world still has its own transport fleet. After all, compared to the huge transport lines, thousands of transport ships are not many. The short people are mainly responsible for the transport of key materials and key equipment."

Having said that, it is not easy for the sages to continue to doubt, otherwise it would be a question of Thracian's personal ability.

At this time, the representative of Ecclessia suddenly raised a hand.

"Lord Thracian, when the director sent me here, he asked me to convey a small request."

"Please speak."

"The last gene stealer riots and Necron invasions caused huge blows to the foundry world. Many people believe that our world lacks defensive power, especially decisive forces like the Titan Legion, so the director hopes to get help to establish a Titan Legion belonging to us."

As soon as this statement came out, Zhao-Akada's representative made a sarcastic sound with a metallic friction texture.

"Titan Legion, this is not a 'small' request."

After Thracian pondered for a moment, he said slowly:

"I can understand Ecclessia's idea of self-defense, but the establishment of the Titan Legion is not a matter of overnight. Ecclessia has never had Titan-related industrial facilities in the past. Even if it is given to you now, you don't even have a place for maintenance and repair, let alone construction... But I will do my best to give Ecclessia relevant assistance."

Speaking of this, something suddenly flashed in Thracian's mind. When he found Elena, or rather YT-001, the other party said that she had hidden a "treasure of the Mechanicus" in Wallistad, but because that world had something that made Thracian very embarrassed, he didn't pay attention to it anymore.

"Thank you very much for your generosity, sir."

Although Thracian's words did not have much substantive content, the other party had already expressed his position, and the representative of Ecclessia immediately expressed his gratitude.

"Commander Thracian, so what should this... organization be called?"

Ulanhuda appropriately raised the last issue. Thracian glanced at the four sages and replied:

"The past Iron Belt no longer exists. The era of strife and internal strife is long gone. Now we are going to use a brand new Iron Passage to defend the southern frontier of the empire. Why not call it the Star Dome Railway?"

The four sages looked at me and I looked at you. Although they didn't speak, they obviously didn't approve of the name.

"Call it Star Steel."

A voice came from above. The sages all raised their heads, but Thracian did not, because he knew who was speaking, and nodded slightly.

"Star Steel, it seems good too."

This time the four sages also nodded.

So a foundry world complex that inherited the broken Iron Belt was revived in the name of Star Steel, but this time it was no longer a coordination of a group of foundry worlds, but joined the Astartes and more other forces.

And Thracian is also integrating the foundry worlds he can reach in a meaningful way. This is already an unprecedentedly powerful force in the current empire. Four foundry worlds, three Titan Legions, one knight family, thousands of Astartes, tens of millions of elite soldiers, a huge fleet capable of launching star area-level wars...

If the High Lords knew that he had these in his hands, they would never sleep well for a day, but to be honest, these are not even one-tenth of the Eternal Court he rules as the Phoenix King. Thracian's painstaking efforts are only to deal with the more wars that may occur next, and to provide a stable retreat for the legion.