Chapter 1778 Battlefield Recycling
After letting Rogris take care of the think tank Dauntless, Soshyan returned to the heavy work. He knew very well that the end of the Angstrom naval battle did not mean the war. It will be over soon. The main force of the Red Pirate Fleet has not been seriously damaged. They are still capable of fighting the Imperial Expeditionary Force. Moreover, the power of Chaos is best at cunning and cunning. The opponent may not be able to use any more vicious tricks. , so the slight advantage in the frontal battlefield can be completely ignored.
In other words, until now, the expeditionary force and the Red Pirates are still in a stalemate stage, and this stage may continue for quite some time until the accumulated troops and weapons and equipment reach the scale originally envisioned by Soshyan.
So Soshyan was not in a hurry to return to the Sagan system, but stayed in Angstrom for some time. On the one hand, he kept the battleships damaged in the battle in the Angstrom dock. Maintenance, on the other hand, continues to arrange post-war disposal.
Although the red pirates were defeated, they still left some troubles, such as the ruined ship.
The hulk itself is very troublesome because of its huge size. In addition, a demon summoning ritual was previously performed inside it, which caused it to be extremely corrupted. Its complex internal structure also made it difficult to clean up after the war, even until the end of the battle. In the next few days, we will still receive reports of some red pirate activities slipping through the net. However, if such a huge space junk is ignored, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not cause any trouble, even if it accidentally interacts with Angstrom's A collision between orbital stations would cause a disaster.
After considering various opinions, Soshyan decided to dismantle it directly in space.
The specific process is to first use the battleship's light spear shot to break it into several pieces, then use the tugboat's gravity pulling device to separate the large fragments, and then the Mechanicus' engineering ship uses a high-power cutting laser Break the large fragments into smaller parts, and finally bring the fragments near the star and propel them directly into the star with a booster rocket.
Originally, the Adeptus Mechanicus considered whether to recycle part of it, but after the Inquisitors rushed to the battlefield, this plan was immediately rejected. The only solution to such a seriously polluted hulk is to destroy it, and it is the most thorough way. of destruction.
During this process, more than twenty red pirates were actually caught. Some of them resisted and were finally eliminated, while others were captured and handed over to the judges - unless there are special circumstances, Otherwise, there is only endless torture waiting for them, until all the secrets in their heads are tortured. Even the powerful Space Marines, the Inquisition has a thousand ways to pry their mouths open.
In addition, some red pirate warships were damaged and unable to move due to various reasons and were finally abandoned on the battlefield. Under the current circumstances where every warship is very important, Soshyan naturally cannot let go of these precious war materials.
The most special and largest of them is an Executor-class large cruiser.
The Executioner class is a kind of light spear ship, equipped with a total of 6 sets of light spears on the left and right sides, making its production quantity relatively small, but it has a very strong long-range output capability
< br>However, this model was discontinued after several batches were produced during the M35 period. Those remaining Executioner classes continued to suffer battle damage, and their numbers gradually decreased. By the end of the M37, only the last Executioner class led by the Royal Glory remained. A squadron that forms part of the larger fleet garrisoning the Cadian Gate. During a fleet operation against Chaos ships from the Eye of Terror, Royal Glory formed part of a pursuit force with her sister ships, and after holding the line and forcing the raiders to retreat, she engaged a number of ships in pursuit , however, all the ships involved in the pursuit disappeared, and their fate became a mystery. Most people believed that they were lured into a trap and destroyed. However, five centuries later, three missing ships - including the Royal Glory, identified as part of the rebel fleet.
The Royal Glory went through many twists and turns, and after thousands of years of rebellion, it came into the hands of the Red Pirates and was renamed the Bloody Glory.
During the Angstrom naval battle, the Scarlet Glory was besieged by fighter planes. Because the Executor class was not designed with the possibility of large-scale air strikes in mind, its point defense firepower was relatively weak, so It was very fragile in the face of a large number of fighters, and its powerful light spear array was even more ineffective. Eventually, the upper deck and engine were blown up and it lost its combat effectiveness and exited the battlefield. Afterwards, the Red Pirates who were eager to escape did not have time to destroy it and left it alone. It floated on the edge of the battlefield and was captured by the Empire.
However, it was captured, but the condition of the ship was really bad. The entire upper deck was almost destroyed. Fortunately, the keel was not damaged, but the engine was almost scrapped, which meant that it had to be repaired. It is equivalent to rebuilding one-third, and thousands of years of subspace corrosion have made its machine soul irretrievable. It can only be completely erased and replaced, not to mention the parts inside the hull. If the Executioner class is not really rare, other The light spear array derived from ancient technology on the side is also relatively intact. Soshyan is really too lazy to repair it, because it is basically equivalent to rebuilding a ship - to put it bluntly, repairing it is all based on the appearance of its cannons. .
However, the Inquisitors disagreed with this. Most of their opinions were that the ship was severely corroded and had no salvage value. Some people believed that the cost of repairing it was not proportional to the return, and the cost It also takes a long time, and the expedition may be over after repairs are completed, which is a simple waste of resources.
Soshyan didn't bother to talk nonsense to these inquisitors who had little experience in the military field. He listened to the valuable ones and pretended not to hear the worthless ones. After all, repairing this ship was not just for the future. Battle - these are battlefield captures, the kind that belong to the war group and can be brought back after the expedition.
So the ship was towed to Angstrom and underwent lengthy repairs here - according to various accounts, it would take at least 3 years to completely repair and purify the warship.
In fact, this time has come faster than Soshiyan expected. After all, it took almost ten years to repair the Eternal Loyalty. After careful questioning, we found out that the most complicated thing about the Executioner class is its light spear array. and energy transmission system. It happened that these things were not on the upper deck, so there was not much damage. And this ship had no other main weapons except the light spear, so the structure was much simpler, and it was easier to repair than other large cruisers. .
As for other light cruisers and small battleships, those that can be repaired quickly are recycled, and those that do not have much recycling value are dismantled. Of course, not all captured battleships Soshiyan are swallowed up, and all battle groups participating in the war are A certain amount of battleships have been added. Although most of them are small battleships or even modified armed transport ships, they are already very precious trophies for most battle groups with tight ships.
In addition, the weapons and equipment in Angstrom's inventory will also be given priority to replenish the participating battle groups, and then transported to various war zones via transport ships. As the premier forging world in the Maelstrom, Angstrom can produce Most Space Marine equipment, from bolters to jetpacks to power armor, as well as some light vehicles, there is even some brand-new equipment in the warehouse that was to be handed over to the Starclaw Chapter before the Badab War. These directly Requisitioned by Soshyan without compensation and distributed to various war groups.
(End of this chapter)