In return for Soshyan's performance of the contract, a large number of weapons and equipment from the Wotan Alliance entered the expeditionary army's armory. Soshyan distributed some of them to such groups as Dark Angel, Flesh Tearer, Lamenter, and Ascetic. They are a friendly war group, and their evaluations of these short-man equipment are pretty good.
Moreover, Farzad, the third company commander in the war group, seems to have established a friendship with Graham, the clan leader of the Deep Rock Berserkers, who also gave him a plasma battle ax. Farzad gave him a plasma battle ax in return. A power axe, Dasolian is also deeply satisfied with this transaction, and there is still a lot of room for cooperation between the two parties in the future.
After briefly dealing with the mortal side, Soshiyan convened representatives of all participating war groups for a simple meeting.
The first is the distribution of spoils. From the second Angstrom to the decisive battle in the Kara system, the expeditionary force also captured a large amount of Astartes equipment, including power armor, bolters, and even some vehicles. While sweeping the Magar Galaxy, they discovered an entire squad of super-heavy armor locked in a warehouse, a total of 12 super-heavy vehicles from the Great Crusade era. Obviously Huron was not willing to send these armors to the battlefield, and ended up working for others. Make a wedding dress.
And all of this, except for those overweight vehicles, Soshyan announced that the other Astral Knights would not want them, and all of them would be given to the participating battle groups.
Not only that, including the battleships captured in the decisive battle of Kara, none of the Astral Knights were required, and were distributed by each war group according to actual conditions.
If the former surprised everyone, the latter shocked, even the Chapter Master of the Minotaur.
Soshyan's explanation is also simple.
"In this expedition, the Astral Knights have received the highest honor. We have received too much. I feel really guilty. If it weren't for your support, it would have been difficult to launch the expedition, let alone victory. And This expedition has nothing to do with you, but brothers have poured your blood into it, how dare the Astral Knights take any more of it?"
Everyone declined for a while, and Lysander also persuaded Soshyan that the Astral Knights were also the main force in combat and had to make sacrifices, just like everyone else.
But Soshyan still insisted, and after going back and forth three times, everyone finally accepted the plan.
Of course, the previously repaired Silver Redemption was not included in this allocation because it had already joined the Astral Knights' combat sequence.
Although this move is suspected of buying people's hearts, there is no doubt that the tangible benefits still make all war groups respect Soshyan. Even Asterion Moloch, who was tricked by him before, praised this as a "righteous act." "——The Minotaur, who contributed greatly in the decisive battle, were assigned two cruisers and several small ships. In addition, the battleships they captured could be said to be fully loaded. Soshyan also showed surprising abilities in this matter. To be fair, I don't care about the previous relationship between the two.
In fact, it's not that Soshyan doesn't want to expand his armaments and fleet, it's just that he has a better way. In addition, the decomposed wreckage of the hulk also has unexpected gains. All the magic steel nerve plexuses have been collected and are waiting to be sent back to Ulan Huda. Conduct research, and some of the relatively complete wreckage inside can be cut and processed in Angstrom. Although there is no way to repair it into a battleship, it can be recast and key parts of the engine can be reused, as well as ships salvaged from the battlefield. The wreckage can also be reforged and used. Using these materials, Angstrom promised to build 2 Tyrant-class cruisers and 3 destroyer squadrons totaling 12 destroyers for the Astral Knights in the next five years, as well as 6 frigate squadrons including 18 frigates.
The Tyrant Cruiser is also the largest first-class battleship Angstrom can build. One of the features of this battleship is the use of ancient scram plasma weapons recycled from Chaos warships.
In addition, the "Steel Corridor" built by Reza has been completed, and a safe route consisting of outposts and large detection stations has arrived at the Kliman Drift Zone, which means that Reza has a direct route to the maelstrom and can escape from it. Overcoming the restrictions of Mars, with the establishment of military tickets as early as two years ago, products from Reza have continuously entered the maelstrom market, and in exchange for a large number of rare minerals that are urgently needed in the casting world, especially heavy metals and plasma-related crystal.
Reza's Ultramok Foundry Director was very satisfied with this, and the warships Soshyan ordered in Reza five years ago also began to be accelerated in the shipyard. These warships also have an almost forgotten name -
Ryza-class battle barge.
Only six ships of this type were built, one of which bore a name that Soshyan would never let go of his life.
Storm
Of course, the technology of the original Ryza-class battle barge has long been lost. Ryza's sages only retained part of the original design. The current Ryza-class battle barge was redesigned and built by them for more than two thousand years. It seems to be As fate would have it, the design of this ship was not basically finalized until Soshyan arrived in Reza, so the foundry director of Ultramok even gave Soshyan the honor of naming the model. After thinking for a long time, Soshyan A victim-level answer was given.
The Sacrifice-class inherited the Riza-class's famously sturdy hull. In order to restore the past design, the Sages even went to the wreckage of the Tempest in person to refer to its almost deformed keel design, and found out the secret of the stacked keel. Afterwards, it underwent some "modernization" transformations, mainly converting ordinary macro cannons into plasma macro cannons, and laying experimental energy adjustment coils and other equipment inside the ship, in conjunction with Riza's powerful plasma. The reactor allows the Sacrifice-class battle barge to have extremely fierce close-range plasma macrocannon attacks, as well as long-range light spear shooting capabilities. Its power is comparable to that of a battleship, and it can even maintain a high speed. The entire design is very compact. There's no wasted space on huge shipboard hangars or Nova cannons with variable reliability.
Similarly, the bow of the Sacrifice class is also specially reinforced, just like the ancient Ryza class, which can easily pass through cosmic environments such as asteroid belts, and can cause devastating damage to the enemy in close impacts.
Whether it was out of satisfaction with its performance or special feelings, Soshyan had no reason to refuse such a warship, so he ordered three at once!
The payment was his indifference to Reza's infiltration into the maelstrom during this period.
As for the local Mechanicus forces in the Maelstrom, the two smaller forge worlds are powerless to do anything about it, and the largest Angstrom has been deeply involved in the whirlpool of internal strife at this time. Representatives of Mars have arrived, and he has not authorized Soshyan He was dissatisfied with the arrangement of forging world power, but the deal was already done. He could only hold his nose and recognize the management council created by Soshyan, and firmly stand against Reza's faction. Now there is a strong smell of gunpowder in Angstrom. Nong, Reza is also working hard to support the Flame-Blooded Sect, but there is still pressure from the Expeditionary Army and Soshyan, so there will not be any big trouble. Angstrom is also still producing armaments for the Expeditionary Army and the Astral Knights.
This is also the reason why Soshyan distributed all those captured on the battlefield, because Angstrom has several production lines specifically to serve the Astral Knights, but there is no shortage of power armor and bolters. They are even more Most of them are producing equipment for the mortal troops being built by Soshyan, as well as various equipment needed for the development of new colonies.
But Angstrom will definitely not be peaceful in the future. Soshyan himself has no idea where the struggle between multiple forces will lead this forging world.
As for the food, living supplies, etc. needed by the new colonies in the Bracato system, Sorge can basically handle them. Now he is already the leading underworld tycoon in the Maelstrom. His name has been marked on the Ministry of Justice, and there are even some trials. The officer also noticed him, but Sorge was a cautious person and had never been caught with anything big. And with his current strength, as long as he didn't make any big mistakes, it was enough to protect himself.
(End of chapter)
