On the fifth day after returning to Nessen 4, Soshyan had basically taken care of his personal affairs and led the battle group to participate in a grand triumphal ceremony on the planet. This ceremony even attracted high-level officials from the empire across the entire sector. For Soshyan In honor of this famous imperial hero, all kinds of praises and compliments came in like sea water.
However, after experiencing the "big scene" in Terra, Soshyan is already familiar with these things, but the difference compared to before is that he is the "host" here rather than the "guest".
Since Terra has handed over the governance of all planets and asteroids in the Nessen system to Soshyan, and the High Lords Council has granted him the honorary title of "Archon", during the triumphal ceremony, his status was not only He is not only the leader of the Astral Knights Chapter, but also the "Consul of the Nessen System". Here he realizes Tirian's intention of finding a way to get this title for himself.
The Archon itself has become an honorary title, but after all, it is a former high-level bureaucratic title in the empire, which has the effect of cross-sector rule. If it is paired with a person with actual ruling and management rights, the situation is different, like A little man wearing a big hat looks a little funny, but if the little man becomes a big man, the hat will fit just right.
At this time, there is a huge difference between having a hat and not having a hat.
Otherwise, his title would only be the Governor of the Nessen System. But now, he holds almost the highest-level administrative title in the entire Storm Star Territory. Although he cannot bypass Terra to intervene in other galaxies, if one day Why can't we contact Tyra suddenly?
This is politics. A small means can produce a violent reaction like a catalyst.
After the triumphal ceremony, Soshyan held talks with representatives from all parties, especially the Adeptus Mechanicus. Originally, the resource mining rights for several planets in the Nessen system belonged to Griffin IV, and the system was transferred to Terra After the right to rule, the ownership of these mineral resources became an issue.
However, Griffin 4 itself was not very concerned about the Neisan system, and the mining scale was relatively small, mainly focusing on some rare minerals. It did not get too entangled in this aspect, and it was "returned" generously. Soshyan, of course the other party must be asking for something so readily.
According to Griffin Four, since the last time the Astral Knights "dewormed" them, the resource galaxies around the forge world have not seen large-scale gene stealer activities in the decades. Everyone thought that these aliens had been eradicated, but who knew that long-term lurking was just for a more violent outbreak.
Just a year ago, gene stealer riots of varying degrees broke out or were discovered in several major mining worlds and branch industrial worlds of Griffin IV. Millions of Skitarii were splashed out like water, but there was no trace of them. no effect.
Although the average size of these gene stealers who have been lurking for who knows how long is only more than ten thousand, they are not large in scale, but the skitarii are good at fighting head-on battles. The bad battles of drilling into ravines and underground labyrinths somewhat make those The ruling sages felt uncomfortable, and these gene stealers were also very cunning. They knew that the Adeptus Mechanicus valued machinery, especially large facilities, so they often set up strongholds near those facilities to prevent the heavy firepower of the Adeptus Mechanicus. blow.
The Adeptus Mechanicus is not without research on this alien threat. The sages have concluded that as long as their leader, known as the clan leader or nest master, is eliminated, the command and coordination capabilities of the entire group will quickly weaken. It will be very easy to clean up at that time, but those group leaders themselves are also very powerful. It is difficult to achieve effective killing with assassination machines such as Rust Seekers. In this case, there is a great need for space warriors who can take down the opponent's leader from the crowd of thousands of troops. Super elite warrior of life.
However, when Griffin 4 wanted to go to the Scar of Victory to shake people, they discovered that——
late!
Most of the war groups in the Suffering Alliance have gone to perform their own tasks. Those who are left are either unable to make the decision, or are not interested in Griffin IV's request for help. After all, the Forging World itself is not threatened, and those mining worlds It doesn't matter if there is chaos for a while. There is fire everywhere now. The Space Marines must give priority to responding to requests for help from worlds and hives with larger populations and more important locations, because the Genestealer is an alien that can easily "snowball". Once they take control of a densely populated area, they can easily convert local residents into their own kind.
Moreover, Griffin IV is also one of the largest large-scale forging worlds in the Storm Star Territory, as well as the Titan Legion. There is no reason that the "small group" of aliens cannot be eliminated with its own weapons. Even the Ministry of Military Affairs ignored them, no matter how much they were urged. They all replied with one sentence - the troops are tight, wait for now.
But Griffin No. 4 really can’t wait!
Although these aliens are indeed small in scale, very scattered, and do not threaten the Forge World itself, they still cause trouble.
The main mining world and resource world will be affected, and the production efficiency of the entire forging world will decrease accordingly. However, the production tasks assigned to Griffin 4 by Mars will not be less at all. If they are not completed, they will only be superimposed unless the entire forging world is completely destroyed. Don't do it badly, otherwise slight fluctuations in efficiency will cause great harm to subsequent production.
To make matters worse, two groups of green-skinned pirates have recently merged and begun to attack and plunder resource systems around the forge world, forcing Griffin IV to allocate its strength to resist.
However, this principle is useless to the Space Marines and imperial bureaucrats. When there is no life or death crisis, everyone is doing their own thing.
So Griffin Four naturally found their "old friends", Astral Knight and Soshyan.
Now that Griffin 4 has opened its mouth, it has made another favor and packaged all the facilities and resource collection stations in the Nessen galaxy to the Astral Knights. Soshyan could not refuse, but He also gave a careless look and only said that he would send companies to assist in the battle, but currently each company is still in the process of reorganizing and it will take some time - In fact, when talking to the sage of Griffin 4, Soshiyang was thinking I'm a little confused, because according to the statements of several members of the Chapter, as well as historical cases, Genestealers often launch riots only when the Tyranid Hive Fleet appears near the galaxy, but there has been no Tyranid Hive Fleet in the Storm Star Territory recently. message.
For some reason, Soshiyang felt a little uneasy, but he could only suppress it temporarily.
On Zhao Aka's side, they also encountered some troubles with gene stealers and green-skinned pirates. The depth of cooperation in this world was much stronger than that of Griffin 4, so Soshiyang naturally had to come forward to help. He told Zhao Aka As a representative of Da, he will send a company as soon as possible to assist in the battle.
Later, they talked about the construction progress of the Abyss-class ship. According to Zhao Akada, 70% of the main structure has been completed, but some relatively large technical difficulties have also been encountered.
The first is the problem of the engine. Although there are drawings, the engine of the Abyss class uses the same "Saint" engine as the Glory Queen class. This engine is also the most powerful ship engine currently known in the empire. Not only is the process extremely complex, It also requires a lot of extremely rare metal materials. Limited by the industrial level, many precision parts of the engine even have to be made by hand by technical priests and sages bit by bit. Even so, there are still insurmountable problems in materials science and energy components. Due to technical obstacles, the sages from Zhao Akada and the sages from Ulan Huda held several meetings, but they failed to solve this problem.
Another issue is the main gun. According to the blueprint, the bow of the Abyss-class ship is equipped with a plasma spear cannon that has never been recorded. If there is a reference for the "Saint" engine, then this unheard-of There is no reference at all for the giant cannon. Even with the most detailed structural diagram, the actual production process is still more complicated than building a cruiser.
(End of chapter)
