Chapter 528 The First Cooperation
While waiting for the Terran mission to arrive, Soshyan was not idle. Although there was still a lack of supplies and personnel, part of the repair work on the Scar of Victory had already started.
The first thing to start is the outer area, where the border formed by the metal cables adjacent to the dock is surrounded by a swarm of welding drones.
In order to inspect each damaged area, maintenance personnel dismantled most of the armor, leaving the decks directly exposed to the void, but they will soon be covered with heavy anti-ablative armor plates. Only the most powerful space weapons can penetrate it.
Inspectors float between steel latticework, lifting half-finished bulkheads ahead of loading payloads.
The priests of the Mechanicum hurried through the gaping cavity, distributing binary instructions everywhere, assessing, measuring, and directing.
Soshyan spent two hours driving the shuttle to visit the entire Star Castle, shuttling between the steel cliffs and the cabins between the arc flashes.
Loken was accompanied by Soshyan, who walked at a leisurely pace, showing off everything he could, clearly extremely proud of himself for presiding over the job.
“We spent a lot of time to restore it, sir. Thanks to the internal structure design drawings of the Ramirez-class star fortress provided by Mars, we were able to work so smoothly.”
The shuttle pivoted on an invisible axis, then began to climb, gliding between rows of half-finished decks.
Occasionally, a thoroughfare opens, allowing one to get a glimpse into the heart of the fortress, whose complexity is formidable.
Soshiyang observed all this, silent, but his eyes deep in his face took in everything.
Loken knew very well that when he was in such a mood, it was best not to speak.
The Chapter Master is studying the fortress as he studies every weapon in its possession - looking for flaws in it, assessing its power.
“These sections can be completed in a matter of weeks.”
The shuttle passed through a circular opening that was opening, exposing the pillars of a hall like a rib against a deep sky filled with stars.
"This will become your strategic research laboratory, sir. By the way, we have expanded the space of the center to accommodate more arrays of meditators."
Sosh Yang leaned forward in his seat, resting his elbows on his knees.
A larger hall slowly came into view. The dome made of armored glass was inlaid with concentric annular arch beams. The elevator rotated on the center line, and a large number of meditator computing cores were pulled and loaded into the recessed area under the dome. groove.
There are thousands of slaves working in this space alone. Most of them can only be called human beings. At the same time, Lovelace can be seen commanding.
The deck of the shuttle trembled, as if it had been hit by some kind of atmospheric interference, and the observation window was temporarily filled with cracks caused by static electricity.
"A brief explosion of oxygen under the influence of gravity."
Loken explained.
"Would you like to land for a closer look, my lord?"
Soshyan nodded in agreement, still studying the superstructure around them, staring at the beams and skeleton-like The pillars are like a priest tearing apart the flesh and blood of the divination sacrifice.
As the shuttle descended toward the illuminated decks, enveloped in a vibrating teardrop cloud of gas maintained at survivable temperatures, the worst of the background radiation had been eliminated.
Then the shuttle's legs extended outward, and steam clouds filled the matte gray deck below.
At the bottom of the unfolding slope, a delegation from the Adeptus Mechanicus was waiting. A phalanx of twenty Skitarii Guardians armed with long-handled war staffs is accompanied by a limp Mechanicum monk in a scarlet uniform.
This man has an expanded rib-like mechanical chest, underneath is a crab-like gliding device, and his face is a mask as smooth as a mirror.
This is the envoy of Zhao Akada.
"Captain Soshiyan, welcome."
The messenger's name is Jairzinho Zavala, a sage from Zhao-Akadar, who replaced the previous messenger , also reflects the importance the Forging World attaches to the Alliance of Tribulation deal.
In fact, they value not only this single transaction, but also the friendship of the entire Suffering Alliance. In particular, Soshiyang expressed that the alliance hopes to have more cooperation with the Forge World in the future, and even sign a contract. After that, Zhao Akada immediately posted up.
One hopes to revive the world, but suffers from isolation and helplessness.
One needs to restore his vitality, but a penny is too much for the hero. One is wealthy and the other is powerful, so the two naturally hit it off.
Although Zhao Akada cannot fully undertake the repair work of the entire Star Fort, they can at least restore some of its functions first, and the rest can take their time.
"Master Zavala, thank you for your hard work."
Soshiyang stretched out his arm, gently held the opponent's raised robotic arm, and then looked around.
“The progress is faster than I thought.”
"The main reason is that this area has not been too seriously damaged. The only time-consuming work is purification."
Under the leadership of Master Zavala, they entered a circle with a diameter of 130 meters. shaped hall.
The hall was emitting a gentle light at this time - although Soshyan could not find an obvious light source.
Except for a segment of the fan, the walls of the hall are of mechanically polished rock, whose polished and reflective nature makes it look like marble.
The wall that is not made of stone looks like it has an internal light source emitting light. A curtain of energy invisible to the naked eye sways and jumps in front of this wall, revealing its rippling and charming appearance in the multi-spectral enhanced vision. of rainbow light.
This is the central hall that has been expanded and renovated. Only the most basic work has been completed so far. Those walls are huge display screens that have both imaging and projection functions.
There is a leaf-shaped arch in the center of the wall, and the simple door is equipped with a number pad and wheel.
Sosyan walked over and stood in front of the energy field and then turned around and looked at Irzinho Zavala.
"I came into contact with the priests of Mars a few days ago. They seem to be prejudiced against some forge worlds in the Storm Sector, and even call some of them wizards. Did you know?"
Obviously, the "certain worlds" Soshiyang refers to are Zhao Akada.
In fact, this is not a lie. He did communicate with the representative of Mars. The other party did not like the world of Zhao-Akada, and he did call the technology priests above him "wizards."
"Wizards? No, I don't know, but what difference does it make? In the end, ignorant people will still mistake sufficiently advanced technology for witchcraft."
Irzini O. Zavala described it without emotion.
“A long time ago, we were ahead of all other worlds in our era in certain technological advancements. At that time, we also entered into a contract with the Thousand Sons.”
“I know this. , maybe it is for this reason that you are rejected by Mars?”
"In fact, it's not important."
"How was your technology lost after that?"
"No, it was not lost."
The multi-spectrum of the technology sage The eyepiece made a slight clicking sound, indicating that it was rotating.
“We voluntarily gave up those technologies.”
"Why?"
"Because it is too dangerous, our ancestors tried to use technology to create a consciousness far beyond human beings... That consciousness will not be bound by the technology of natural laws, and can arbitrarily change those laws. Twisted into what they wanted, all their efforts were to make it a reality."
"It did sound rather heretical."
"So they gave up."< br>
Soshiyang looked at the technological sage and wondered whether it was really wise to be associated with that marginalized forging world.
But then, an announcement interrupted his thoughts.
"My lord, Terra's envoys have left the subspace node."
(End of this chapter)