The sage's words did not surprise Soshyan. He smiled and raised four fingers and said:
"Yes, I know it is very difficult, so the time I gave is forty years. Within forty years, the battle group will make every effort to provide raw materials, but most of the equipment and manpower still need to be found by you."
Jada Evra shook her head.
"Forty years is too short and unrealistic. Even if the shipyards on Mars are operating at full capacity, we will never be able to build something like this again in less than a hundred years."
"We don't have that long, and I believe that Zhao Akada, as the best partner of the Thousand Sons in the past, must have his own uniqueness."
When Soshyan said this sentence, there seemed to be some hint.
According to Kayon, 10,000 years ago, when the original body was still alive, Zhao Akada once had a joint research project with the Thousand Sons called "Void Realm Shipyard". The ultimate goal of this project was to A separate area is opened between subspace and reality, and a special shipyard is established in it, where builders can shape materials and structures in ways that violate the rules of physics. This can greatly increase the speed of shipbuilding, and can also Avoid a series of troubles in the real universe.
The reason why Zhao Akada is interested in this project is that there is said to be an abandoned webway entrance near the planet, but the difference between it and other abandoned webways is that it has not been completely destroyed. On the contrary, the webway The collapse made it accidentally become a closed and independent area of subspace.
This unique advantage gives Zhao Akada the opportunity to achieve such a feat.
Before the burning of Prospero, this project was said to have achieved certain results, but at that time Khayon's rank was still very low and he did not have access to such core secrets.
But he speculated that over the past 10,000 years, Zhao Akada was probably still advancing this project alone and achieved certain results.
The reason why Soshiyang came to Zhao Akada in person was to confirm this point.
Veronica was on the transport ship. As soon as she approached the planet, she sensed the abandoned webway gate and noticed that there seemed to be something strange inside.
And Soshyan remembered that he had tried it with words. If he proposed this order and the other party rejected it immediately, he would not mention it again later. But Jada Evra's reaction was just that it was difficult, so Soshyan would Conclude that the other party must be able to do it.
The only remaining problem is the price.
Jada Evra was silent for a while and finally replied:
"We need research, and ... we need adequate compensation."
Soshyan smiled slightly, knowing that most of the matter was already done.
"Of course, I can hand this blueprint directly to you. In addition, I will also pay a deposit in advance——"
As he spoke, he took a step forward and lowered his voice:
"A complete piece of silicon crystal intelligence."
Upon hearing this, the sage's three mechanical eyes flashed at the same time.
"That's the best."
Next, they visited the engine room, power cabin, armory and other areas.
Afterwards, Soshyan came to the surface of the planet, and the forging world held a grand welcome ceremony for him. During the ceremony, he also met the heads of various forging temples and furnaces.
As allies that need to be maintained for a long time in the future, Soshyan highly praised their relationship at the meeting and declared that what they will build in the future is a "strategic partnership" relationship.
After the meeting, he also reviewed Zhao Akada's Titan Legion, the Sleepless Iron Guard.
The Sleepless Iron Guards are a less well-known legion in the Titan Society. They were even rated as a third-level legion at the end of the Great Crusade. Focusing on defense, they have never participated in very large-scale battles. Their main activities are in secondary battlefields and some During sporadic conquest operations.
However, their actual combat effectiveness was not as unknown as they appeared. During the Burning of Prospero, a detachment of the Sleepless Iron Guards watched side by side with the Thousand Sons, and finally defeated the Deathly Hallows, who were considered the most powerful in combat at the time. Cranial Corps detachment.
Although Dead Skull later claimed that the Sleepless Iron Guard used a large amount of forbidden technology to achieve such results, it did not affect their victory, although in the end the team was completely destroyed.
During the following days of the Heresy, the leaders of the Sleepless Iron Guard and the Arkadar Mechanicum stood side by side but took little part in other operations, continuing their solitary night watch.
During the Great Purge that followed, the Sleepless Guards were forgiven for not choosing their own side. The entire Legion accepted the consideration of the Inquisition Team and forcibly gave up various discovered heretical technologies under the orders of the newly born Adeptus Mechanicus. equipment.
However, the legion organization has been retained, and currently there are at least forty Titans of various sizes.
After reviewing the Sleepless Iron Guards, Soshyan visited many of the local "specialties" of Zhao-Akada. Among them, the one that impressed him the most was the hybrid intelligent control robot of the Eminari Forging Temple.
This is a three-meter-tall large combat soldier. Its appearance is consistent with the common dome-type fighter soldiers of the Mechanicum, but its core is completely different. It is neither a wetware nor an intelligent control core, but a kind of weapon called The creation of black iron core.
This object originated from the research and imitation of the Eldar Titans by the great sages of the ancient Eminari Forge Temple. In the end, they created something similar to the spirit bone core, which is the "Black Iron Core".
This creation makes the intelligent control robots of the Eminari Forge Temple several times more responsive and flexible than other robots. It also gives the robots high battlefield logic analysis capabilities and can even intelligently change weapons independently.
In a sense, this kind of robot is even much more advanced than the castle-level combat robot left to him by the Legion. After all, the castle-level robot only has an advantage in size, but is far inferior to its opponent in intelligence.
It is estimated that only those few extinct relics can be compared.
The only shortcoming is that the black iron core is a forbidden technology banned by the Mars Order. Zhao Akada cannot show it to others and can only admire it in isolation.
So Soshyan expressed his desire to order a batch.
The sages of Eminari's Forging Temple are quite happy. As long as the price is right, there are still many new products in the warehouse.
Perhaps in the view of that sage, a chapter leader who can come up with the blueprint for an abyss-class battleship must have no pain for the black iron core.
In this way, Soshyan reached a new order, and it was the kind of direct delivery.
The first batch of twenty robots will be transported from Zhao Akada to the monastery fortress of the Astral Knights in the next month, and the subsequent thirty units will be delivered within two years.
The price is just an STC template fragment that is useless to Soshyan.
Of course, for the sages of the Eminari Forging Temple, this deal seems to be profitable.
After staying on the surface of the planet for another three days, Soshyan was finally able to set off home, but this time it was not on a transport ship——
In the void, the thrusters of the Eternal Loyalty made a dull roar, and then a low and continuous hum came from the awakening plasma engine. Even Tohru could feel it standing on the bridge.
Dominant Sage Jada Evra will be responsible for the ignition ceremony, and the button to start the first stage engine is at his fingertips.
Looking at the giant ship in the dock, he gently pressed the button.
In an instant, rows of explosions rippled along the edge of the pier like strings of fire lines.
The net of elevators, assembly arrays, and scaffolding disappeared into the darkness, as magnetic tugs plowed around collecting debris, and radiation shielding panels were slowly lowered from the hull.
As the plasma engine roared, blue flames and heat surged from the stern, like a new star rising in the dark void.
In the eyes of many members of the Adeptus Mechanicus, it is so great and wonderful that it is simply indescribable.
Just like that, under the gaze of everyone, the Eternal Loyalty was like a newly delivered baby, cutting off the last connection, slowly leaving the mother body that gave birth to her, and heading towards the endless void——
