Chapter 204 About the Agricultural World
Stay alive, eat, and reproduce new individuals. These basic and indescribable needs and desires are imprinted in every real organism by the actual base sequence and cis-acting elements. Deep in the genetic code, what if a creature does not have these... Let's go a step further and talk about the food problem of our world and the entire star region.
The large rift that is now opening has caused an almost absolute chaos in the material galaxy, both in time and space. The side that can see the star torch is also overwhelmed by the chaos of the star torch being temporarily extinguished, and in People struggling to survive in the dark side of the empire can only find ways to use all the resources they can find to overcome the difficulties at hand.
As we have said before, living, eating and reproducing, obviously living and eating are closely related, and the importance is ranked before reproduction.
The key to satisfying these two desires for humans is fresh water and food. These two resources undoubtedly determine the life and death of hundreds of millions of mortals in the empire, a hive world or a savage wilderness. Even if the world has a certain self-sustaining food production cycle capability, relative to the number of people, its food reserves will simply not be able to meet everyone's long-term needs without relying on large amounts of imports.
As a result, one of the harshest and most horrific punishments that can be inflicted on a hive world is the Order of Quarantine, which prohibits any Imperial ships from traveling to the world on which punishment has been imposed until a sufficient time has elapsed and those worlds are The original population disappears, and the planet becomes suitable for landing new colony ships again.
As for the practical application of this measure, the Argos hive world in the Jericho sector, which like its sister planets is dying extremely painfully and horribly, is an excellent example and shocking example. The fate of Argos Hive is undoubtedly a terrifying reminder to everyone of the final punishment for those who betray the Empire and those who try to start a separatist rebellion.
Just like the medieval lords of Ancient Terra and Europa, after hanging the bandits and traitors in their territory, they would leave the bodies on the gallows and stand them on both sides of the road for birds to peck and the wind to blow. After being exposed to the sun for a long time, the swaying corpses on the rows of poles demonstrated their authority and dominance, until the corpses themselves rotted enough to fall down - although this was already a human being lifted up by the things he created. , thousands of years after flying into the deep sky and the sea of stars.
Perturabo had discussed this issue with his guardian before in one afternoon's leisure time. They finally agreed that it was the Empire itself that divided the planets into The overly dedicated island world approach makes this approach feasible.
Before it is impossible to fully grasp the subspace itself, or to be able to replace the subspace for safe, efficient, reliable interstellar communication or travel, each planet will be simply and crudely transformed into an isolated island with specialized functions. It is undoubtedly a very brainless and clever method for rulers, or colonists, to plunder resources in the shortest possible time without spending a lot of administrative costs and energy.
Well, so under the above premise, assuming that you happen to be a resident of an agricultural world, and the planet you live on has not been affected by the war and is used to produce food, the situation may seem worse than other places. People feel more at ease?
Of course - no.
In the galaxy of the 42nd millennium, an imperial agricultural world is not what the ancient Terrans thought in most cases. With the advancement of technology and the development of human exploration, it has become Some idyllic, peaceful and leisurely places.
The Agricultural World, as the name suggests in the simple and crude nomenclature of the Empire, this planet and everything on it are just to build this place into a planet-level planet that the Empire needs to transport food from the space port all year round. Farm world.
Some people may think that it is too much to allow such a large farm to not even have a day's rest, but the fact is that planets that can be transformed to the level required by the agricultural world are extremely rare, and one The output of an agricultural world may need to feed the population of the surrounding star system or even the entire sub-sector, and these populations are related to the output of industrial products, soldiers and tithes. The human empire's important source of rations to maintain its huge Astra Militarum legions is largely produced from raw materials provided by the agricultural world. Of course, when ration bars and starch biscuits are not enough, the Mechanicus' solution will be promethium A by-product of vegetable refining.
If the conditions of an agricultural world are so favorable that the workers and servitors on it can still perform routine agricultural operations in the planet's own atmosphere with little protection, then the planet itself will be It is already quite a paradise, a one-in-a-million rich place, such as some agricultural worlds among the 500 worlds or the famous former home world of the Crimson Fist Chapter, Ryan.
A more common situation is that in the agricultural world that has been operating for many years, workers must wear radiation masks, respirators and protective clothing to work in the haze of pesticides and fertilizers in the fields - because of the high-yield crops specially bred It won't take long for the crops to suck up the fertility of the land, turning them into yellowish, flying, nutritious dust. The fertilizers and pesticides transported by the starship are the key to ensuring high yields in the future.
More agricultural planets do not even have such superior conditions. They may be giant cultivation cages covering the entire planet's ocean, huge hollow hydroponic farms made of hollowed out mountains, or in the stars Huge culture tanks of algae and microorganisms that multiply rapidly under high radiation energy, or mysterious giant mushroom communities underground, and even insects are also sources of many protein powders - if a Glocks animal farm can be established, it is of course a better choice.
Considering that after the Great Rift, due to the complete interruption of transportation cargo ships in the distant subspace, the demand for the agricultural world's output in the dark side panic has only increased. Therefore, Angron's proposal is that in Calixis Before the Governor's Mansion could figure out what was going on, it sent troops to control the agricultural world on the route from Belakarn to the port of landing. As long as it controlled one or two of the crucial agricultural planets in this sector, it would have no doubt that it would have the right to speak and take the initiative. They will all be immediately in the hands of the Iron-Blooded Horn.
Moreover, Angron has very thoughtfully scouted the planets they need to capture in advance. Ms. Lotara said that as an imperial ship, the database of the Desert Ark can also provide some precious information for their rapid strike operations.
As for directly using the authority of His Majesty the Emperor and the Primarch to declare ownership of the agricultural world in this region?
Everyone tacitly avoided this topic.
Lami Zane nodded understandingly, "The barrel of a gun is better spoken and more efficient than the so-called royal authority. Look at what the judges are shouting, but in fact Who is not fully armed but can still sway people? After all, our side has loyal... and the original body of the empire, so after defeating it, I should not have any worries about governance before."
(End of Chapter)