Chapter 261 Pilgrimage ship to Holy Terra?
Ron flipped through the email.
Based on the traces found along the route of Shahim's fleet, it is inferred that the Tyranid Hive Fleet came from outside the galaxy.
It moved along a straight track, swallowing many planets along the way.
These include several planets in the territory of the Govindi family, an imperial blood merchant. The Govindi family is unable to resist the swarm of insects.
They gave up resistance and fled back to the Empire's territory, the Goli Sector.
But what is even more terrifying is that after the Tyranid Hive Fleet devoured those planets, it continued to move forward.
And ahead is the Goli Star District.
What is even more troublesome is that the planet Urth is on the path of the Hive Fleet.
If they continue to move forward, they will definitely pass by the planet Erth and then swallow it up completely.
Only bare, barren rocks stripped of all traces of life are left!
However, for some unknown reason, the Tyranid Hive Fleet suddenly turned a corner and headed to other areas.
According to the speculation of the biological sage.
Probably because of the emergence of a large rift in the subspace, the surging chaotic energy displeased the insect nest and forced it to turn a slight corner.
So, it was the big crack that saved the planet Erth?
"Hiss~ The fate of Erth Star is really hard..." Seeing this, Ron couldn't help but sigh.
If it had not been for the emergence of a large rift in the subspace, the planet Erth would have probably perished before Ron came to this world.
If you count carefully, the planet Erth actually suffered two Tyranid invasions.
In addition, it has been corrupted by the Four Evil Gods of Chaos, as well as possible greenskin attacks.
This treatment is almost the same as that of a warning star.
But the Euse Star is luckier than the Warning Star. It met itself from the 2k era.
Under the light of the great savior, these crises have been resolved, turned into peace, and developed stably.
As for the warning star, it is estimated that it is still in a state of chaos.
The planet with a population of more than 167 billion, together with the galaxy to which it belongs, has become the hottest battlefield in the galaxy.
The imperial army, the Chaos Legion, the Chaos Demons, the Chicken Thief Cult, and the green-skinned orcs have all gathered together to turn the entire alert galaxy into a mess.
And there are many enemies coming soon, such as Necron, Eldar, etc.
It can be said to be a gathering of talents.
What is even more worth mentioning is that there are massive black stone deposits buried underground on the Vigilant Star. The forces of the Huangquan No. 8 Foundry World are deeply rooted here and are mining those black stone rock formations.
That is also the reason why the Warning Star was not completely swallowed up by the Great Rift. The black stone has the effect of suppressing or diffusing subspace energy.
All forces want to seize this precious mineral deposit, and the one who wants the Warning Star the most is probably the Great Predator Abaddon.
This large-scale and long-lasting war on the Vigilance Star will affect the direction of the galaxy.
In fact, Ron is also very jealous of the Warning Star. Those black stones are treasures.
The territory is already researching related blackstone technology.
But now that the territory has just stabilized, everything is in competition.
It is not good to start a war at this time.
Moreover, the territory may not be able to withstand the high-intensity war in the alert galaxy.
Let them fight first. There should be no results for a while.
Stay still and develop, and wait and see when the time is right.
Ron suppressed his thoughts and turned his attention back to the email.
Although the Tyranids left the area, he still sent a message to the Ministry of Military Affairs just in case.
Have the Reconnaissance Division be on the lookout for signs of Tyranid activity.
But the Tyranids were not the focus of that email.
That email was actually good news.
Over the years, the territory has carried out several large-scale projects at the same time, especially the Forge World, which has swallowed up massive amounts of ore like a bottomless pit.
Ron has been worrying about this.
It can even be said that the shortage of mineral resources has limited the development speed of the territory.
Nowadays, the mining machines in the territory are all smoking and working day and night, but there are still too few ore veins in the star area.
Unable to meet demand.
Faced with the ore shortage in various projects, the mining department is simply worried.
They sent hundreds of reconnaissance teams to search for ownerless mineral veins across the galaxy.
Unfortunately, there is no progress yet.
The mining department has applied to the Ministry of Interior many times, hoping to launch a commercial department as soon as possible to conduct trade with the outside world.
To fill the ore gap in the territory.
Such a proposal is undoubtedly reasonable.
In the vast territory of the empire, there are millions of civilized worlds.
As long as they do not deviate from the empire's beliefs and pay the tithe, which symbolizes loyalty and responsibility, they can enjoy the space for free development.
The governors who control the civilized world are all greedy and shrewd rulers.
Once they see the tangible benefits of trade, they will not hesitate to start trade with the territory.
In this way, the territory can dump goods at a more favorable price through trade, and then purchase raw materials such as ore.
Given that the territory can produce at extremely low costs, the network can also reduce transportation costs and trade with more civilized worlds regardless of distance.
Once back and forth, the territory can make a fortune, purchase more related raw materials, and produce more goods for trade.
Like a snowball, make more profits.
Ultimately, through the profits earned from trade and the mineral resources acquired, the territory will be able to fill the mineral resource gap required for large-scale projects.
It can even start more large-scale projects.
Absolutely perfect!
Now, the business department is already in the process of being launched.
As the head of the business department, Shahim went to the territory left behind by his family this time in order to retrieve more family relics to prove his identity.
After all, the verification procedures for Rogue Traders, especially Traders of Imperial Blood, in Holy Terra, the capital of the empire, are very complicated and strict.
According to the original plan, Shahim would return immediately after retrieving the relics.
Then head to Holy Terra with Ron.
Unexpectedly, this exploration would bring unexpected surprises.
The Tyranid Hive Fleet devoured several planets in a straight line and then left the galaxy.
Through detection, Shahim and the others discovered that the planets in the galaxy containing rich mineral veins were intact.
That is an entire galaxy's rich mineral resources, more than a dozen mineral-rich planets, which are very rare even in the entire galaxy!
After the Govindi family discovered that galaxy, they resolutely left the empire's territory and went there to cultivate it at great risk.
Unfortunately, before they had time to develop, they were attacked by the Tyranids, and later fell completely in a series of unlucky encounters.
Only the Shahim brother and sister are left.
Now, it's all cheaper Ron.
According to the reports in the email, Shahim and others are already exploring those mineral-rich planets and setting navigation anchor points.
I will probably return later.
Ron closed his email and took a nice sip of his Ice Cream.
The emergence of new mineral sources is good news worth celebrating. The problem of mineral shortage in the territory has finally been alleviated!
If you guessed it correctly, the mineral department is organizing a mining fleet right now, almost like the Chinese New Year.
When Shahim and others set up the navigation anchor point, they can go over to mine as soon as possible.
After that, Ron received more good news.
Not long ago, Grand Inquisitor Dwyer of the Inquisition organized twenty Stormtroopers troops and nearly three thousand Space Marines to conduct a cleanup operation called the "Great Purge."
These warriors will go to various planets in the star region to completely clean up the hidden Chaos heretics and aliens.
Many cult organizations and hidden alien life forms have been uncovered and given due justice.
Follow Dwyer's narration.
His purpose is to purify the entire star region so that the light of the savior can shine wherever the eye can see.
The latest battle report is that one of the "purification troops" cleared and restored an agricultural world that had been eroded by Chaos.
At the same time, the technical priests sent by the Agricultural Research Institute are using the environmental and ecological technology of Green Wave Farm.
Transforming that agricultural world.
After the transformation is completed, the food production speed and output of this agricultural world will increase several times.
In this way, the territory will have abundant food, and there will be no problem in exporting large quantities!
"I believe that in the near future, those starch technologies will be eliminated, or they will be retained and made into corresponding starch foods for export..."
Ron enjoyed the afternoon tea cakes sent by the maid.
In today’s territory, there is no corpse starch food.
In the absence of large-scale famine and war, corpses are harder to find than food.
Now the food in the territory is relatively sufficient, and the top-level Holy Land basically supplies pure food and meat.
After all, as a holy land, it has a special status.
This is also one of the important reasons why citizens strive to make contributions and want to work in the Holy Land.
Because this place has the best resource supply and environment in the star region.
Other areas also provide different levels of food products according to the citizen level system.
The lowest grade is wheat products mixed with 80% industrial starch and wheat husks.
This kind of food was a rare delicacy in the original Essian planet.
But now it has become the cheapest and lowest quality food.
Ordinary citizens no longer worry about going hungry.
If they are willing to give up the credit points, they can also exchange them for some fine pure grains to taste.
Such as rice, pure wheat noodles, butter bread, akenberry pastries and so on.
But these are still too luxurious for them, and they are usually reluctant to exchange them.
Ding dong——
Ron was flipping through the battle report of the "Great Purge" operation when a message popped up at the bottom of the mechanical screen.
He clicked on the message: "Xingyuting's invitation, just go over and have a look..."
After reading the message, Ron got up and went out, riding the hover car there The area where Star Language Court is located.
...
The top holy place.
Xingyuting, Xingju. Ron got off the hover car and looked up at a psychic mechanical tower hundreds of meters high.
That is the Star Torch.
As the little sun grew larger, he discovered its huge range of psychic radiation.
Then Ron imitated the God Emperor and established the Star Language Court, and at the same time built a small Star Torch.
The Star Torch projects a stable psychic beacon across the galaxy and warp, guiding ships across the galaxy.
Also capable of ultra-long distance communication.
And when necessary, you can turn off the star torch or interrupt the beam at any time.
Unfortunately, Star Torch has limitations.
As the territory expands, the Star Torch's demand for the user's psychic energy is increasing, causing a serious burden.
This is an important reason why the Empire of Astrology sends black ships everywhere to capture psykers. They need these psykers as consumables to maintain the Star Torch.
When the God-Emperor discovered the shortcomings of the Star Torch, he devoted himself to the research of the Web Channel, hoping to master the Web Channel technology and eliminate the Star Torch.
But He failed.
The Empire could only continue to use the Star Torch.
No matter how you look at it, for Ron, who masters the Webway, the Star Torch is a backward technology.
But he still insisted on getting a small star torch powered by the energy of a small sun.
"Lord Savior~"
A numbing voice sounded.
Lilith, the psyker with deep blue eyes, wearing a black robe and high heels, and an proud figure, came to greet her.
Ron looked at Lilith and felt that times had changed.
This psychic mentor named Lilith is Deville's sister. When he first met Lilith, she was still a sixteen-year-old blond girl.
Later, Lilith awakened her psychic powers. She was afraid but did not want to influence her brother, so she escaped from the nest.
But she was soon caught and sent to the court.
It was Ron who came forward and fished Lilith out.
Otherwise, that guy De Vere might have reluctantly dealt with Lilith in order to maintain the authority of the Tribunal.
Because of this incident, Ron issued a new decree, no longer hunting psykers in the territory.
At the same time, a psychic college was established to not only provide shelter and shelter for psychics, but also assign jobs.
Let them be upright and upright.
"Lord Savior, the star torch is running smoothly and can project psychic beacons..."
Lilith looked at the savior, there was unconcealable fanaticism in her eyes, and there was also a hint of something else.
Ron nodded gently, slightly avoiding the other person's gaze that wanted to swallow him.
What a transformation of women.
The innocent little Loli gradually became like a wolf and a tiger.
But this time he came here for business, not to exchange feelings.
The existence of Xing Yuting and Xing Ju is not for the re-employment of psychics, but has a real role.
It’s just a bit niche.
After all, there is a webway in the territory, so there is no need for a star torch to navigate.
As for internal communication, there is no need for it. The existence of Xiaoling allows full networking within the sector.
The only function left is ultra-long-distance communication, allowing ships far outside the star zone to contact the territory.
Until the territory establishes more efficient ultra-long-distance communications, it will still have to rely on star torches to transmit information.
But not long ago, Ron thought of a new use for the Star Torch, which was to salvage boats.
To be more precise, it was the boats that fished out the pilgrims.
Anyway, Star Torch has built the capital, and it is useless to just leave it idle, so why not make use of it.
The emergence of a large rift in the warp caused the Imperial Star Torch to be temporarily extinguished, causing countless ships to become lost.
Those large fleets may be able to return to the correct course with that weak guidance after the Imperial Star Torch lights up again.
But those small ships, especially those on the dark side of the Empire, may be lost forever.
The largest number of them are the ships of the pilgrims.
There are too many pilgrims in the galaxy, and they set off from various civilized worlds in dilapidated or ancient ships.
They will worship at various holy places along the way, and finally arrive at the throne world - Holy Terra.
To worship the great, holy, and merciful Emperor.
This journey may last for centuries, or even longer.
On the pilgrim ship, generations of pilgrims die and new pilgrims are born.
Many pilgrims were born among the stars, resulting in slight body mutations, and were called children of the void.
Suffering discrimination.
But the pilgrims didn't care and remained pious.
They sincerely believe that one day in the future, they or their descendants will be lucky enough to reach Holy Terra.
But most of the time, those pilgrims will be buried in the vast galaxy or subspace for various reasons.
There are very few pilgrim ships that can reach Holy Terra.
Ron's purpose is to find those lost pilgrim ships through the star torch, and then send psychic beacons to them.
Guide them to worship at the Holy Land of Eth.
After that, send them away.
In this way, not only can he obtain a purer power of faith, but he can also spread the existence of the Holy Land of Erth and the name of the Savior.
Let more believers know the existence of the Savior.
to absorb more faith.
This will also be helpful for future trade activities.
After all, those governors will not easily trade with strange beings, no matter which side they belong to.
The territory has developed to the current point, and it is no longer feasible to work secretly and behind closed doors.
Must actively communicate with the outside world.
At that time, Shahim will cooperate with the mysterious Erth Holy Land in the outside world in the name of Emperor Blood Merchant.
Selling merchandise from the Holy Land of Erth.
No matter how the empire feels about Erth, whether it is disgust, rejection or attack, it will not affect the activities of the Emperor's Blood Merchant.
After all, the Imperial Blood Merchant has the power granted by the Emperor and can even make deals with aliens.
A human territory that believes in the Emperor and is loyal to the Empire cannot be worse than an alien, right?
As for not paying the tithe?
There are many places in the empire that do not pay the tithe. Even if he wants to pay it, the empire has no way to come and collect it.
And the empire's laws are relatively flexible, especially for powerful beings.
Guilliman also established the Second Empire, which was very loyal.
Who dares to say anything?
Everyone within the empire knew that the Forge World of Huangquan No. 8 was researching alien technology and was almost corrupted.
But because it is an important forging world of the Mechanicum, there is no punishment for it.
Those mutated battle groups have grown horns and have no human form. No one dares to say that they are heretics.
Of course, if you are a soft persimmon.
Then there is no other way. It is very likely that you will be severely judged or ravaged for "disloyalty".
For example, the original Erth Star.
Even though the wrong and cruel tithe tax was imposed, the planet's resources were exhausted, the people were bleeding like rivers, and they were almost destroyed.
There is no right to say no or to complain.
And now the Erth Star or the Erth Holy Land has the confidence to say no to the empire.
You can now act on the table as part of the empire or human power.
In short, the empire is a combination of many forces, full of contradictions.
Now it has too much to take care of itself, and its tentacles cannot touch the Holy Land of Erth on the edge of the dark side.
I don’t even have the energy.
Guilliman, the Emperor's son, will soon return to Holy Terra and seize the supreme power of the Empire. Feeling deeply constrained, he will carry out large-scale purges.
Then realign and distribute power to save the collapsing empire.
At that time, all the energy and power of the empire will be devoted to the Indomitable Crusade and gradually regain the dark side of the empire.
This process is estimated to take tens to hundreds of years, or even more.
This is a good opportunity for the territory.
Make good use of this chaotic time and develop boldly and you’ll be done!
Ron followed Lilith to the interior of the Star Torch, and then saw a familiar thing.
His expression changed: "Who designed this thing?"
The chair in front of me looks like a black stone throne.
Lilith smiled:
"I customized it specially for you. Master Caul said you will like it."
You know...
Ron was silent for a moment.
Lilith was a little confused: "What's wrong with you?"
"It's okay, continue..."
Under Lilith's operation, that one looked very much like the Black Stone Throne The psychic seat is activated, and the psychic arc is entangled.
Ron sat on it and performed the operation.
He was just experiencing the process this time, and he could let Lilith control the Star Torch in the future.
Boom——
The moment the Star Torch was activated, Ron felt his consciousness being stretched into the endless distance.
With the help of the Star Torch, the spiritual energy of the little sun continues to radiate and spread in a certain direction.
Because it is a small star torch, it can only explore in a narrow direction.
But on a galactic scale, it's enough.
After a while.
Ron's "consciousness" crossed the stars and saw a lonely, dilapidated pilgrim ship.
It has been lost for a long time...
(End of this chapter)