After hearing Soshyan's question, Walker took two puffs of his pipe, and then said slowly:
"Actually, I don't know. Maybe it's Wotan's guidance, or maybe it's the pull of my destiny. Some kind of intuition pulls me to join this journey. But after meeting you, I realized that maybe That’s the answer.”
Facing the other party's deep and wise gaze, Soshyan noticed the word Wotan. Could it be an older furnace descendant, or some other existence?
"Oh? But I've never had any contact with the Hearthborn."
"A flapping of the wings of an insect on the grassland may set off a storm in the distant jungle. The connection between things is not always superficial. And you see, aren't we sitting together now?"
Soshiyang suddenly burst into laughter.
This old Hearthborn always speaks in a cloudy manner, which is indeed very standard for a psyker.
Then he turned to ask:
"Master Walker, what is the attitude of the Wotan Alliance towards the Human Empire? What do you think of us who are so similar?"
"Different road non-phase plan."
It was concise and clear, but enough to express all attitudes. Soshiyang was silent for a moment and nodded.
"Then it seems we still have room for cooperation."
Then he looked at Eldgrim.
"Now I really need an elite force with sufficient strength."
He then looked at Graham.
"I think this clan leader also intends to sell his clan's force and warriors, but I have another question, which is this transaction. What do you want us to use to pay for it? Minerals? Precious metals?"
Eldergrim smiled like a flower. He rubbed his palms and said:
"All are fine, but if you can provide something else, none of these are actually needed."
"Oh? What is it?"
"The league hopes to get some trade concessions in the Maelstrom."
Soshiyang shook his head and refused without thinking.
"Impossible. I may treat you as demi-humans who are related to humans, but it does not mean that other people in the empire will do the same. Frankly speaking, this is a gray area that cannot be seen."
What a joke, not to mention that the classification of short people in the empire is still controversial. Once they are given a trade concession, these guys will definitely dump their products aggressively, including those merchants, trade guilds, and even all the forging worlds in the Maelstrom. He will immediately stand on the opposite side of Soshyan.
This is much more troublesome than the Red Pirates.
It's hard to tell that these dwarfs are not big in stature but have big appetites. Soshiyang has a new understanding of short people.
"How about this."
Soshiyang thought for a while, and it was not realistic to directly give a lot of resources to the other party now. Because of the war, factories everywhere were at full capacity, and many mineral resources were already in short supply. The Forge World also had to be satisfied, so he planned to make a A compromise.
"I can give your alliance some limited-time mining rights in the mineral world."
As he spoke, he pressed the tabletop, and a star map flashed out, gradually shrinking to a star region with Soshyan's fingers.
"The Bloody Skeleton Galaxy, there is a rich ore belt there, which contains many rare minerals, and the mining difficulty is very low. Some of them can even be mined directly in the open. I can set aside an area for you, and the time ranges from thirty to fifty years. .”
Eldergrim looked at the star map, then frowned.
"Commander-in-Chief, if I remember correctly, this seems to be the territory of the Red Pirates?"
"Will return to the Empire soon."
"this"
Seeing the other party's hesitation, Sosh raised his hand.
"Of course, you can also pay now, but you need to wait for some time, and I'm afraid the price won't be too high. The resources I can mobilize are limited, so you can make your own choice."
Eldergrim hesitated for a long time, then nodded.
"I need to ask my superiors for instructions, ah, Commander-in-Chief, we still have some weapons and equipment, would you consider them?"
Soshiyang glanced around at the furnace descendants, then smiled and said:
"I'm afraid we can't use the equipment you use, and it seems too expensive to hand over to mortals."
Although the other party did not say the price, according to the information revealed by Angstrom, short-term items and equipment are generally relatively expensive. Although they are easy to use and indeed easy to use, similar products are almost 3- 5 times the price.
Soshyan is not yet wealthy enough to arm mortal soldiers with such expensive equipment. After all, for an army of hundreds of millions, even the simplest equipment such as a laser gun and carapace is an astronomical sum.
Eldergrim blinked, then smiled:
"You can rest assured that all our equipment is modular in design and can be adjusted according to the user's situation."
"Oh, but aren't you worried about technology leaks? Or does the Wotan Alliance have no control over the arms trade?"
"What's there to worry about?"
Aliyeu, the machine forger, smiled and touched his beard.
"Unless we are willing to provide technology, no one can imitate our weapons, let alone those mechanical monks. They may not even be able to imitate the things they research. The Alliance does not have any arms trade ban on the human empire, but those mechanical monks are very I usually interpret rejection of our products as jealousy, and the Tau are much smarter by comparison."
"Tau Tribe? Do you also have trade relations with the Tau Tribe?"
"Well, that is a young but full of potential race."
The other party didn't say much about this topic, he just responded briefly and stopped talking.
Soshyan nodded thoughtfully and turned to Eldgrim.
"What do you guys plan to recommend to me?"
"Maybe you could see it in action."
Not long after, at a secret testing ground in Angstrom, various company commanders of the Astral Knights, the command staff and some non-commissioned officers gathered. They stood on the high platform and looked at the forging master who was adjusting the weapons in the testing range below. Rogris.
"Brother, who are those short guys called short men?"
Zod leaned against the guardrail, and then bumped Oscar with his shoulder. The latter looked at the Hearthborn who were communicating with Roglis, and replied in an uncertain tone:
"Probably. Like Ogryn, he's some kind of demi-human."
"What could be so powerful about the Nayar? I've never even heard of them before."
"I don't know where the Chapter Master got it from, but it's hard to say with such a vast galaxy. What if it's a pocket kingdom left over from the Great Crusade? As long as these demi-humans don't rebel and pay their tithes on time, the Empire Generally speaking, I don't care. You have seen the cat people in the Astra Militarum. They are not considered human by my standards, and there is nothing wrong with them. These demi-humans are just a little short. Others are very standard. Human form.”
"Oh, to be honest, I'm so short. I was really afraid of accidentally kicking them when I walked. Once on the battlefield, I almost stepped on a Letling man. You know, he was huddled in a pit. I thought it was something. Small animals"
