paranoianovel Chapter 167 Eyes closed and opened, Star Torch is back, I am surrounded
Chapter 167 Eyes closed and opened, Star Torch is back, I am surrounded
The warriors on the Tau side of the Red Flood had not yet realized that the Emperor's Star Torch had once again illuminated the galaxy.
The Tau's territory was originally outside the Emperor's Star. The empire also has no time to manage the territory of Red Flood.
The temporary Second Pacific Star Territory is an enclave.
In more than a hundred years of war, the areas near the Great Rift and the areas adjacent to our home territory in the Taiping Star Territory were all captured.
And they were captured in large numbers.
From the territory we control to the territory controlled by the Empire, criss-crossing the middle are rebel worlds, green-skinned planets, worlds captured by Chaos, and worlds that were degenerated due to massive plunder by the Dark Eldar...
It is conservatively estimated that it will take the same two hundred years as the Indomitus Crusade for the Empire to regain control of these worlds and regain control of fringe worlds like ours.
Without conservative estimates, the empire would never be able to reach here.
The three hundred worlds on the Tau side are still better. Although a large number of greenskins, Tyranids, and Necrons are holding back the Astartes, a small part of the Tau's territory here is the ancient Ultramarines. The northern space domain of the Five Hundred Worlds.
The hometown of our great Regent Guilliman, the core foundation of our family.
Although he doesn't have time to care about it now.
Lang Juxu... No one has cared about him for who knows how many years.
For the time being, the war group is still safe...
Phew, we are the Astartes fighting where the Empire cannot care, we are the loyal guardians of humanity, the light of humanity in the darkest areas!
(Jaghatai Khan: Well, my little brother is as good as ever, so get up!)
Tell me loudly, what is our goal!
Liberate the entire galaxy!
Not this, a small-stage strategic goal.
Mao equipment! Gathering the wool and plucking the bald Mechanic!
That's old, replace it with a new one!
Stars surround the warp! ! !
After a while, the empire was surprised to find that the entire galaxy was like a donut. The empire was in the middle, the enemies of the empire were outside, and the outermost was the territory of the red torrent. That would be fun.
Brothers, work!
Anos: "Brother Yifeng, I think our war group seriously lacks technological power. I need more brothers to learn technology."
"Okay, how many people do you need?" Yifeng was very happy. It was rare for this exhausted technical sergeant to ask for people.
"One hundred people."
"Okay...wait, how many people?"
"One hundred people, I'm thinking about it. Brother Yifeng, instead of being exhausted to death, it's better to be a little more tired and train more people to come out. Maybe I can be more relaxed in the future."
"Well, it's a good thing that you're thinking about it, but our next batch of recruits will only be about one hundred and fifty people."
Don't ask why there is less. A large number of modified cans were sent to the world on the edge of the subspace vortex. Yes, that's where the No. 1 supply transport train was obtained.
"Then give it to me. I don't mind more seed-type warriors."
"I mean, we just had more than two hundred people killed, and we need new strength..."
"We lost so many battle brothers, what did we get in exchange?"
"A hive-class battleship, I feel like we don't have enough manpower to guard it."
"Then you won't allocate me the manpower and facilities to study this huge battleship?"
"You have eaten the flesh and blood of the Tantric Cult."
(Yifeng: Didi~Fengfeng’s takeaway, the Esoteric Cult flesh and blood set meal, has been delivered.
Anos: It tastes terrible, bad review! )
"That needs to be studied. These secret cults are just users, not shipbuilders. The core technology is much worse. I have to study it carefully..." Anos gently shook the mechanical wrench behind him, and the mechanical backpack on Some of the mechanisms clicked.
Seeing the joy in Anos's eyes, Yifeng was very unhappy and decided to give him a blow.
"Have you decided what weapons to install on the Great Think Tank?"
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Yifeng left leisurely, leaving Anos deep in thought.
The huge battleship stayed in the orbit of the Tau star system, devastated, and many things were destroyed by the Astartes.
Now it's even more troublesome to repair it.
There is no need for any shipyard maintenance, and it is impossible to have such a large shipyard. This warship can only carry out self-repair.
During this period, the Chapter has acquired so many new technologies that even with eleven technical sergeants, it is impossible to digest them all quickly.
This means we are on the higher path to the higher good!
Among the assistance of Tau science, there is one race that provides technological support second only to the Earth clan, and that is the space dwarves!
This group of demi-humans, whose homes were gnawed away, survived the cleansing of the local human world and Yifeng, and continued to forge and provide new technologies as before.
But it was for Ti before, and now it is for Yifeng.
The dwarves don't care, they are like mercenaries, just give them benefits and be used as a cheap Mechanicus.
There are very few dwarf settlements, and dwarves who act alone are also masters of forging, and the quality of the objects they collect is comparable to that of the mechanical priests.
A certain battle suit was customized with dwarves in it. Of course, the Earth clan scientists would not admit this.
A large number of dwarves were gathered, and they have been skilled at one thing all their lives, because they rarely use external memory storage devices like the Mechanicum. But they have an amazing talent for combining materials.
The materials for this secret warship were handed over to this group of dwarves for research.
The war group is also wandering around these three hundred worlds, protecting and patrolling these places and starting to develop again.
Suddenly, we entered a very busy but peaceful period.
Only the main force is like this.
Anthony was almost exhausted.
Our Red Torrent Scam Squad, while defrauding the empire of subsistence allowances, also has to show off and put in some effort when it's time to take action.
During the days of Yifeng's expedition to the Tau, the Great Rift had not yet closed, and Anthony received instructions from Yifeng to find the remnants of the Angel of Dawn.
After asking around and looking around, I learned the location of the Angel of Dawn Monastery.
When Anthony took the remains of the Angel of Dawn's power armor to the monastery, all the remaining Angels of Dawn fell into grief. Anthony did not dare to speak for fear of triggering the Black Fury.
There are more than thirty new recruits, sixteen wounded warriors and a pharmacist in the Dawn Angel Monastery.
After the pharmacist treated the injured warrior, because the main force never came back, he temporarily assumed the role of a priest and led the battle group.
Red Torrent's next move made them feel very heart-warming.
In the name of the son of Jaghatai Khan, the best friend of the son of Vulkan, the Chapter of Praise personally awarded by Dante, and the defender of the Pacific Star Territory enclave, we ask the Empire not to cancel the Angel of the Dawn. Established, their wounded and treated in the monastery were sixteen veterans, enough to carry on the Chapter's traditions.
The Dawn Angel Chapter is not dead yet!
You vouched for the remaining four of us back then, and now it's our turn.
The Empire then thought about it, this chapter has something to do with Dante, and the Angels of Dawn are quite a "Holy Codex" (Death Company Commander) Astartes chapter, so let's sell it to save face.
In this way, one subsistence allowance household became two subsistence allowance households.
Anthony and the Dawn Angels formed a deep friendship, and in the following period they often traveled together and fought side by side.
The Empire has no problem with this either. (Together, we can’t even make up three companies. I’m afraid you don’t have enough people.)
Until the Great Rift ended and their good days were over.
After information and communication were restored, a large number of worlds were confirmed to be lost, and the empire was about to launch an expedition to recover the lost lands.
Anthony was very wise and immediately asked to follow the Salamander Chapter. We will go wherever they go.
Everyone knows the Salamander's fighting style, jumping up and burning everything in close combat at every turn. He is also very close to the people and willing to fight for mankind. Their warriors don't distinguish between commandos and destroyers, all of them are all-rounders.
It's very similar to our main army. It's like going home.
What followed was a period of high-intensity warfare.
The Salamanders are the original battle group, their combat effectiveness is not generally strong, and the wars they participate in are not generally intense.
In the baptism of blood and fire, Anthony grew up rapidly.
The number of members of this Astartes force grew slowly while being beaten, but its combat effectiveness increased rapidly.
They didn't know where the main force had fought. They only knew that our faith gradually spread as more and more troops fought alongside them.
Except for the two views that the emperor is not a god and wants to kill the aristocracy, everything else is pretty normal, right?
At least it is quite acceptable to the Astartes Chapter who have been cheated by the Empire for a long time.
Okay, let’s turn our attention back to Yifeng.
After another five years of rest, the Chapter continued to spread its ideas to the Three Hundred Worlds.
The "extremists" of the Tau have blown up a large number of technological products. They are die-hards who are determined not to surrender. They rely on their own ships to fight guerrillas in space and destroy a large number of "high-tech" products. They are determined to fight with Asta. Fight to the end.
The Tau rebels have never calmed down, but after the intervention of the human Astartes, they could not make any waves. Deployment of Extinction Order weapons on orbital space stations on the planet's few remaining settled worlds is a good deterrent.
Security and stability are one aspect, and production and life are another aspect.
The Three Hundred Worlds are quite barren, and many worlds can only rely on low-profit processing industries and agriculture to barely survive starvation.
This is also the reason why only imperial tax collection ships have come occasionally for hundreds of years. They are so poor that it is difficult for ships to come here, and there is no point in coming.
Do you have your own specialties? What important weapons can be mass-produced? No.
Even the transportation industry here is weak, and navigation is very difficult outside the Emperor's Star.
Either you become as proficient at sailing without a star like the Sons of Jaghatai Khan or the Raven Guard, or you become like the Tau and navigate the real world.
None of these worlds are good, so they are getting poorer and poorer.
What to do, if you want to be rich, build roads first.
The road between the stars is the subspace channel.
A large number of worlds here are not on the main channel, and it is difficult to see the Emperor's Star Torch, which is also one of the reasons for poverty.
Tau's real-world engine comes in handy.
Reality is reality, and slowness is slowness. It is just slower than the main battleships of the Empire. The new submersible engine can reach 70 to 80% of the speed of some transport ships.
The key is that it's not easy to get lost, there's no such thing as subspace trekking, and you don't have to worry about being ganged up by the Chaos forces while driving.
As a result, a large number of improved Imperial transport ships began to be built, and the shipyards that the Tau had worked so hard to dismantle were to be rebuilt and renovated by the Adeptus Mechanicus.
There are still problems. After the Empire's transport ship replaced the reality engine with a Tau one, 20% of the machine souls died suddenly on the spot, 40% of the machine souls fell into a rage, and only about 30% of the machine souls were "hospitable".
Yifeng waved his hand. If the machine soul died, it was not because the ship exploded. The ship without the machine soul was dismantled and rebuilt.
Transport ships are not only an important means of transportation for commercial circulation, but also the main force for exploration.
The universe contains huge wealth, no matter where you are, don't forget this.
This is an era of great exploration. Almost all of the three hundred worlds have been visited by the Tau who sailed according to the map of the real world. The aliens there have either joined the Greater Good or been killed.
But their resource exploration capabilities are not as good as ours.
When it comes to the ability to find treasures, humans have long-term technical support and innate talents.
For example, the technology analyzed by Anos from the third STC template fragment snatched from the World Eaters is a technology that extends the detection distance but cannot detect life. In subsequent analysis, it was confirmed that it is a resource detection bird servant. instrument.
In the past, humans explored resources along subspace routes, but now they no longer have to do so. It is really a distance exploration in the real world. In many worlds, it has been discovered that important resource points are close at hand.
The important shackles restricting the development of the planet - resource issues are gradually being lifted.
Another issue, production technology, needless to say, the battle group will deploy it uniformly.
The Tau don't dare to use the technology. We in the Empire don't have it, but Father Mapes has a lot of it in his memory.
It’s not like you have to designate a certain technology or transport a certain resource. It’s not like you can only build one kind of thing and ask me to know how to do it.
If you don’t know how to build a laser gun, just build a motorcycle. The materials are pretty much the same. (Our war group has seeds from all walks of life, and they are good at everything)
Now, Yifeng is standing on a grand strategic map. Finally, he no longer has to worry about the internal development of a planet. He can focus on strategic development like a big leader.
Cool!
This big map is so cool to look at!
Stewart, work harder! Strive to have a descendant of Guilliman in each world.
The war group no longer has the conditions to station ten more people on each planet, and this is not a lonely planet deep behind enemy lines.
Here are three hundred worlds connected together! This will be our rear area. A very peaceful place (no one wants the poor).
Yifeng made detailed plans to resist the invaders.
The first is the matter of gene stealers. The Tau have genetic testing technology, and they are "arranged marriages" where scientists match the best genomes, so if there is a problem there, it is especially easy to find out if there is a problem in the eighteenth generation of the ancestors.
We can't do it, we can only try to standardize it as much as possible. In addition to slowly reducing the hive level, marriage registration and paternity testing are greatly promoted.
As a result, many families are now in a bit of a mess, hehe~
In addition to the standing patrol team of psykers at the town level and a certain committee in the community, the technology of the Tau tribe is being cracked. To put it simply, they are thinking about how to get a machine soul and stuff it in.
Defending against the Genestealers is equivalent to guarding against the Tyranid Hive Fleet.
We have nothing to do against the Necron dynasty led by the Storm King. It is a technological dimensionality reduction attack.
It wants to flash to my door, but I can't help it.
You can only try to avoid its territory.
We have always been hospitable to the greenskins who come to visit us for no reason, and we will bury them as soon as they come.
Deploying reconnaissance beacons on the periphery is better than nothing. This waaaaahg is not coming towards us for the time being, but is heading towards the middle of the Five Hundred Worlds.
Regarding the plunder of the Dark Eldar, we actively mobilized the local planetary defense forces. The combat effectiveness of the planetary defense forces is directly proportional to the wealth of the planet. This brings us back to the issue of economic development.
There are people, who have the skills, who need the materials.
The main problem of the Three Hundred Worlds here is that there are a lot of materials around them and it is extremely difficult to mine them. Moreover, both in terms of galaxy density and resource distribution, they are not as rich as the galactic center.
With a wave of someone's hand, if there are no conditions, we will create conditions, grow food, and develop the population.
Using the demographic dividend to drive resource extraction, the problem of difficulty in resource extraction will become a problem of high resource extraction costs after Anos Cristina completes its technology integration.
It is always better to have the cost of extracting a resource borne by the taxes paid by one hundred people than by the taxes paid by ten people.
This is the bonus.
The extra population needs to be employed. In addition to the military, we must also vigorously develop forestry and transform agriculture into industry.
If you have more food, you can make wine, and alcohol is an important component of promethium fuel.
Pay attention to the biological fermentation industry. Certain strains of bacteria can "eat grain", "produce methane" or other gases, initial drugs, etc., which can be used as typical representatives of the transformation of agricultural processing technology into industry.
In the future, the mortal legions from the Three Hundred Worlds may become famous in the galaxy for their proficiency in using flamethrowers in large numbers.
(Salamander: Don’t look at me, I didn’t teach him)
Next, there is the world of Naranko, the only intersection of subspace main channels in the Three Hundred Worlds, a large-scale mineral distribution center, the only forging world of the Mechanicum, and a place that often cooperates with heretics.
Nothing happened. The two parties made a tacit agreement not to mention the Tau affairs and continued business as usual.
The next step is very common. The war group asks them to help repair warships and armor. They charge a high price. We block the subspace waterway, intercept and buy all the metal in the transport ship. After a long time, they relent and lower the price.
Happy transaction, isn't it?
On the other side, after the Weepers fought against Farsight's troops, Matthew Leo fell into long-term isolation.
When he came out of seclusion, the first order he gave was:
We no longer regard following the Red Torrent troops as our first principle.
We take following the Yifeng brothers as our first principle.
After repeated reflections and replays of the battles between the two war groups, Matthew Leo came to the conclusion that the Weeper needed to change their war thinking.
Matthew Leo thinks he needs to study! Yifeng's fighting method, which has little damage but great results and does not cause too many casualties in the human world, is worth learning from them.
Then, the Dawn Light moved hard towards the Eternal Mountain.
Yifeng has no time to care about him now.
"Report to Chapter Leader Yifeng that the subspace storm has dissipated and the Emperor's Star Torch can be seen again."
"Reporting to the leader of the Yifeng Chapter, a large number of hostile forces have been identified in the Rush Galaxy (next door to the Three Hundred Worlds). It seems that it has been completely captured and we have become an enclave."
"Reporting to the leader of the Yifeng Chapter, there is news from the Anthony Division that the remnants of the Dawn Angels have been found, but the Hazy Star Territory has issued a rally order to launch an expedition to regain the territory. They are fighting."
"Report to Captain Yifeng, the temporary Second Pacific Star Territory reports that they have become an enclave and are surrounded by a large number of rebel worlds. They need support."
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It was chaotic, and it became even more chaotic after the Great Rift ended.
"William, you lead the Iron Jungle, Dawnlight, Infinite Loyalty and the rest of the Moon-class cruisers to station and develop the Three Hundred Worlds. I will command the Eternal Mountain to go back to support the temporary Second Pacific Star Territory."
"No problem, Chapter Commander, please rest assured."
Matthew Leo: "I object. My fleet will follow Brother Yifeng to the death."
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"It's the same with William, we are all a family."
Matthew Leo stubbornly stated that he would only follow the Yifeng brothers and not care about anyone else.
In desperation, Yifeng left the Eternal Mountain to William, and he and the Thirteenth Company and the First Company of his headquarters boarded the Dawn Light and headed for his old territory.
I brought Sisyphus and Supply Transport No. 1, but I didn't bring the Great Thinker, Anos, Titan and Heavy Armor Group.
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Lian Leiluo, who was stationed here in the temporary Second Pacific Star Territory, was already exhausted.
There are more than two hundred warriors under him, ordinary Astartes.
After all, Yifeng didn't pay much attention to him for about fifty years after he started the expedition, and only came back once to ask for some people.
These warriors are more than capable of dealing with the constant onslaught of enemies.
But they only have one ship, the Blessed Forest.
After the Great Rift closed, they found that they were surrounded by enemies. They invaded from all directions. Although they were small in scale, they exhausted the only battleship.
We need more ships.
Yifeng arrived in this world, and the Dawn Light sailed to the Maverick Forge World as soon as possible.
"Lao Deng! Where are those strike cruisers? Have they been repaired? Hand them over to me quickly!"
Archbishop Froes slowly walked out of the conference hall, and was met with a verbal attack from Yifeng.
"Captain Yifeng, integrity always comes first in our transactions."
"I know, but what about those three battleships? The battleship Infinite Loyalty fought hard to bring them back. Now that Infinite Loyalty has been repaired and has been in service for so long, where are those three battleships!"
"Yes, Chapter Commander Yifeng, we have repaired those three strike cruisers, but the problem is, you haven't paid yet."
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"Ah, that's it..."
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\"I'll go back and scold Lian Lei Luo, how can I do anything..."
"Not only that, dear Captain Yifeng, you have not paid the money for repairing the Infinite Loyalty twice."
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"If you continue like this, we will stop supplying support to your battle group." Archbishop Froes was cursing madly in his heart. The hundred-year supply has only been halfway through, and the supplies you have spent are enough for three hundred years!
"Don't worry, let's change the conference room to chat. We have more skills this time."
In an anti-psionic conference room, the two sides started a fierce war of words.
Needless to say, there are many heretical technologies in the Maverick world. After all, they believe in the truth of the empire.
Yifeng has more skills here.
Solid ground, ion storm, flying train, Tau technology, a certain land sweeper...