Chapter 1902 Arms Deal
Hearing Soshyan’s question, Walker took two puffs of his pipe, and then said slowly:
“Actually, I don’t know, maybe it’s Walker. Tan’s guidance, or maybe the pull of my destiny, some kind of intuition pulled me to join this journey, but after meeting you, I realized that maybe this is the answer.”
Facing the other party's deep and wise gaze, Soshiyang noticed the word Wotan. Could it be an older furnace descendant, or some other existence?
"Oh? But I have never had any contact with the Hearthborn."
"A flapping of the wings of an insect on the grassland may set off a storm in the distant jungle. The connection between things is not always superficial, and you see, aren't we sitting together now."
< br>Soshiyang suddenly burst into laughter.
This old Hearthborn always speaks in a cloudy manner, which is indeed very standard for a psyker.
Then he turned to ask:
"Master Walker, what is the attitude of the Wotan Alliance towards the human empire? What do you think of us who are so similar?"
"Different ways do not mean to conspire against each other."
Succinct and clear, but enough to express all attitudes, Soshiyang was silent for a moment and nodded.
"Then it seems we still have room for cooperation."
So he looked at Eldgrim.
“Now I really need an elite force with sufficient strength.”
He then looked at Graham.
“I think this clan leader also intends to sell their clan’s force and warriors, but I have another question, that is, what do you want us to pay for this transaction? Minerals? Precious metals ?”
Eldergrim’s face smiled like a flower, he rubbed his palms and said:
“It’s okay, but if you can provide another one, these Actually no need.”
“Oh?”
"The Alliance hopes to get some trade concessions in the Maelstrom."
Soshiyan shook his head and refused without thinking.
"Impossible. I may treat you as demi-humans who are related to humans, but it does not mean that other people in the empire will do the same. Frankly speaking, this is a gray area that cannot be seen."
Are you kidding? Not to mention that the classification of short people in the empire is still controversial. Once they are given a trade concession, these guys will definitely dump their products wantonly. Those merchants and trading guilds, Even all the forging worlds in the Maelstrom will immediately stand against Soshyan.
This is much more troublesome than the Red Pirates.
It's hard to tell that these dwarfs are not big in stature but have big appetites. Soshiyang has a new understanding of short people.
"Let's do it."
Soshiyang thought for a moment, and it is not realistic to directly give a lot of resources to the other party now. Because of the war, factories everywhere are at full capacity, and there are many minerals. Resources were already in short supply, and the Forging World also had to be satisfied, so he planned to come up with a compromise plan.
“I can give your alliance some limited-time mining rights in the mineral world.”
As he spoke, he clicked on the desktop, and a star map flashed out, and followed Soshyan’s The fingers gradually narrowed down to a star area.
"The Bloody Skeleton Galaxy, there is a rich ore belt there, which contains many rare minerals, and the mining difficulty is very low. Some of them can even be mined directly in the open. I can set aside an area for you, and the time ranges from thirty to fifty years. "
Eldergrim looked at the star map, and then frowned.
"Commander, if I remember correctly, this seems to be the territory of the Red Pirates?"
"It will return to the empire soon." "This"
Seeing the other party's hesitation, Sosh raised his hand.
"Of course, you can also settle it now, but you need to wait for some time, and I'm afraid the price won't be too high. The resources I can mobilize are limited, you make your own choice."
Elder Grim hesitated for a long time, then nodded.
"I need to ask my superiors for instructions, ah, commander-in-chief, we still have some weapons and equipment, would you consider it?"
Soshiyang glanced at the furnace descendants from left to right, and then Smiled:
"I'm afraid we can't use the equipment you use, and it seems too expensive to hand over to mortals."
Although the other party did not say the price, according to the information revealed by Angstrom, short-term items The equipment and equipment are generally relatively expensive. Although they are easy to use and indeed easy to use, similar products are almost 3-5 times the price of Forge World.
Soshiyan is not wealthy enough to arm mortal soldiers with such expensive equipment. After all, for an army of hundreds of millions, even the simplest equipment such as a laser gun and a carapace is an astronomical sum.
Eldergrim blinked, then smiled:
“Don’t worry, all our equipment is modular in design and can be adjusted according to the user’s situation. ”
"Oh, but aren't you worried about technology leaks? Or does the Wotan Alliance have no control over the arms trade?"
"What is there to worry about?"
Machine Forger Aliye Wu smiled and touched his beard.
“Unless we are willing to provide technology, no one can imitate our weapons, let alone those mechanical monks. They may not even be able to imitate the things they research. The Alliance does not have any arms trade ban on the human empire. , but those mechanical monks are very repulsive to our products, which I usually interpret as jealousy. In comparison, the Tau are much smarter."
"You also have trade relations with the Tau?" br>
"Well, that's a young but full of potential race."
The other party didn't say much on this topic, but simply dealt with it and stopped talking.
Soshyan nodded thoughtfully and turned to Eldgrim.
“What do you want to recommend to me?”
“Perhaps you can see the actual effect.”
Not long after, at a secret testing ground in Angstrom, various company commanders of the Astral Knights, the command staff and some non-commissioned officers gathered. They stood on the high platform and looked at the forging master who was adjusting the weapons in the testing range below. Rogris.
"Brother, who are those short guys called short men?"
Zod leaned against the guardrail, then bumped Oscar with his shoulder, who looked at those who were talking to Rogge The Hearthborn who communicated with Reese replied with an uncertain tone:
"Probably. Like Ogryn, he is some kind of demi-human."
"How powerful can that demi-human be?" Something? I hadn’t even heard of them before.”
"I don't know where the Chapter Master got it from, but it's hard to say with such a vast galaxy. What if it's a pocket kingdom left over from the Great Crusade? As long as these demi-humans don't rebel and pay their tithes on time, the Empire Generally speaking, I don't care. You have seen the cat people in the Astra Militarum. They are not considered human by my standards, and there is nothing wrong with them. These demi-humans are just a little short. Others are very standard. "Human form."
"Oh, to be honest, I was so short that I was really afraid of accidentally kicking them when I was walking. I almost stepped on a Letling man on the battlefield. You know, he was Hiding in the pit, I thought it was some small animal"
(End of this chapter)