Chapter 2324 Griffin 4’s request for help
On the fifth day after returning to Nessen 4, Soshyan had basically taken care of his personal affairs and led the battle group to participate in the grand triumphal ceremony on the planet. This The ceremony even attracted high-ranking officials from the entire star region. For Soshiyang, a well-known imperial hero, all kinds of praises and praises poured in like sea water.
However, after experiencing the "big scene" in Terra, Soshyan is already familiar with these things, but the difference compared to before is that he is the "host" here instead of the "guest" .
Since Terra has handed over the dominance of all planets and asteroids in the Nessen system to Soshyan, and the High Lords Council granted him the honorary title of "Archon", during the triumphal ceremony On the show, his identity is not only the leader of the Astral Knights Chapter, but also the "Consul of the Nessen System". Here he realizes Tirian's intention to find a way to get this title for himself.
The Praetor itself has become an honorary title, but after all, it is the title of a senior bureaucrat in the empire and has the effect of cross-sector rule. If it is paired with a person with actual ruling and management rights, the situation will be different. It's different, just like a little man wearing a big hat, it looks a little funny, but if the little man becomes a big man, the hat will fit just right.
At this time, there is a huge difference between having a hat and not having a hat.
Otherwise, his title would have been the Governor of the Nessen System. But now, he has almost the highest-level administrative title in the entire Storm Star Territory, although he cannot bypass Terra to interfere with other Galaxy, but what if Terra suddenly cannot be contacted here one day?
This is politics. A small means can produce a violent reaction like a catalyst.
After the triumphal ceremony, Soshyan held talks with representatives from all parties, especially the Adeptus Mechanicus. Originally, the resource mining rights of several planets in the Nessun system belonged to Griffin IV. , after Terra transferred the right to rule the galaxy, the ownership of these mineral resources became an issue.
However, Griffin 4 itself is not very concerned about the Neisan system, and the scale of mining is relatively small, mainly focusing on some rare minerals, and it does not get too entangled in this aspect. It is very generous. He "returned" it to Soshyan. Of course, the other party must be asking for something so readily.
According to Griffin Four, since the last time the Astral Knights "dewormed" them, the resource galaxies around the forge world have not seen large-scale gene stealer activities in the decades. Everyone thought that these aliens had been eradicated, but who knew that the long-term lurking was just for a more violent outbreak.
Just a year ago, varying degrees of gene stealer riots broke out or were discovered in several major mining worlds and branch industrial worlds of Griffin IV. Millions of Skitarii were like water. Splashing it out also had no effect at all.
Although the average size of these gene stealers who have been lurking for who knows how long is only about ten thousand, they are not large in scale, but the Skitarii are good at fighting head-on battles, drilling into ravines and underground mazes The bad battles in the Mechanicus made the ruling sages somewhat uncomfortable, and these gene stealers were also very cunning. They knew that the Adeptus Mechanicus valued machinery, especially large facilities, so they often set up strongholds near those facilities to prevent Heavy firepower from the Adeptus Mechanicus.
The Adeptus Mechanicus is not without research on this alien threat. The sages have concluded that as long as their leader, who is called the leader or nest master, is eliminated, the command and coordination capabilities of the entire group will be reduced. It will weaken quickly, and it will be very easy to clean up at that time, but those group leaders themselves are also extraordinary in strength, and it is difficult to cause effective damage with assassination machines such as Rust Seekers. In this case, there is a great need for Space Marines who can do everything. A super elite warrior who takes the life of the opponent's leader in the army.
However, when Griffin 4 wanted to go to the Scar of Victory to shake people, it discovered that——
It's too late!
Most of the warbands of the Tribulation Alliance have gone on to carry out their own missions. Those who remain are either unable to make the decision, or are not interested in Griffin IV's request for help. After all, the Forge World itself does not Under threat, it doesn't matter if those mining worlds are in chaos for a while. Now that there is fire everywhere, the Space Marines must give priority to responding to the requests for help from worlds and hives with larger populations and more important locations, because gene stealers are an easy target. "Snowball" aliens, once they take control of a densely populated area, can easily convert local residents into their own kind.
Furthermore, Griffin IV is also one of the largest large-scale forging worlds in the Storm Star Territory, as well as the Titan Legion. There is no reason that the "small group" of aliens cannot be eliminated with its own weapons. Not even the Ministry of Military Affairs can No matter how much they were urged, they would always reply with the same reply - the troops were in short supply, please wait. But Griffin No. 4 really can’t wait!
Although these aliens are indeed small in scale and very scattered, and do not threaten the Forge World itself, they still cause trouble.
The main mining world and resource world will be affected, and the production efficiency of the entire forging world will decrease accordingly. However, the production tasks assigned to Griffin 4 by Mars will not be less at all. If they are not completed, they will only be superimposed unless the entire forging world is completely destroyed. Don't do it badly, otherwise slight fluctuations in efficiency will cause great harm to subsequent production.
To make matters worse, two groups of green-skinned pirates have recently merged and begun to attack and plunder resource systems around the forge world, forcing Griffin IV to allocate its strength to resist.
However, this principle is useless to the Space Marines and imperial bureaucrats. When there is no life or death crisis, everyone is doing their own thing.
So Griffin Four naturally found their "old friends", the Astral Knights and Soshyan.
Now that Griffin 4 has opened its mouth, it has made another favor and packaged all the facilities and resource collection stations in the Neisen system to the Astral Knights. Soshyan also It was hard to refuse, but he was careless and only said that he would send companies to assist in the battle. However, each company is still in the process of reorganizing and needs some time. In fact, he talked to the sage from Griffin 4. At that time, Soshyan was a little confused, because according to the statements of several people in the battle group, and combined with historical cases, the gene stealers often launched riots only when the Tyranid Hive Fleet appeared near the galaxy, but the Storm Star Territory has not recently No word from Tyranid Hive Fleet.
For some reason, Soshiyang felt a little uneasy, but he could only suppress it temporarily.
On Zhao Akada's side, they also encountered some troubles from gene stealers and green-skinned pirates. The depth of cooperation in this world is much stronger than that of Griffin 4, so Soshiyang naturally has to come forward to help. , he told Zhao Akada’s representative that he would send a company as soon as possible to assist in the battle.
Then we talked about the construction progress of the Abyss-class ship. According to Zhao Akada, 70% of the main structure has been completed, but some relatively large technical difficulties have also been encountered.
The first is the engine problem. Although there are drawings, the Abyss-class engine uses the same "Saint" engine as the Glory Queen-class. This engine is also the most powerful ship engine currently known to the Empire. Not only is the process extremely complicated, but it also requires a lot of extremely rare metal materials. Due to the industrial level, many precision parts of the engine even have to be made by hand by technical priests and sages bit by bit. Even so, it is still a matter of materials science and There are technical obstacles that cannot be overcome in the energy components. The sages from Zhao Akada and the sages from Ulanhuda held several meetings but failed to solve this problem.
The other issue is the main gun. According to the blueprint, the bow of the Abyss-class ship is equipped with a plasma spear cannon that has never been recorded. If there is a reference for the "Saint" engine, then this There is no reference at all for the unheard-of giant cannon. Even with the most detailed structural diagram, the actual production process is still more complicated than building a cruiser.
(End of this chapter)