I'm in Warhammer, I just want to grow mushrooms

Chapter 158 The Future Queen of the Legion

The proposal to rebuild Granit 5 has been submitted to the Imperial Ministry of Internal Affairs and has been approved as a matter of course.

Generally speaking, a hive's planetary defense forces cannot leave their homeland.

In order to ensure that the governors of the Solar Segmentum had a legitimate reason to act, Imperial Chancellor Malcador and the Imperial Military Affairs Department made a series of arrangements.

In the Solar Star Region, there is a very famous imperial army called the Solar Legion.

This is a mortal armed force whose comprehensive combat capability is second to none in all star fields.

The 131st Regiment of the Legion recently arrived at the hive city of Epimet.

In the name of temporarily forming an auxiliary corps, the 131st Regiment converted the veteran regiments of the local planetary defense force into its own auxiliary force.

A total of more than five million combat-experienced planetary defense forces will follow the 131st Regiment to the planet Granite 5.

Including the 131st Regiment, the total number of troops reached seven million.

The ships needed to transport personnel and supplies will be provided by the Solar Legion, and Epimite only needs to provide sufficient food, weapons, ammunition, medicine and other military supplies.

There are 7 million of our side and 30 million rebels. Are we at a disadvantage?
They were indeed not at an advantage in terms of numbers, but in other aspects they completely crushed the rebels of Granite 5.

The planet's airport and orbital tower were damaged by rebel forces and were left in a state of disarray.

The supplies on the ground are not enough to support the rebels in manufacturing anti-aircraft weapons, let alone attacking ships in low-ground orbit.

First, we will launch a global bombing campaign to destroy the strategic facilities set up by the rebels on the surface, and then drop landing capsules and personnel shuttles to transport the Marines and engineering teams to the ground.

Once the orbital tower and the airport are repaired, the rebels will be doomed.

A large number of imperial troops will rush to the surface and wipe out the rebels hiding in the underground mines with great force.

According to the pre-war plan made by the 131st Regiment, Granite 5 will return to the embrace of the empire in at most half a year.

After wiping out the rebels, the 131st Regiment will leave Granite 5 and go to other planets to quell the rebellion.

The post-disaster reconstruction and security work will be the responsibility of Fugas, the temporary planetary governor, and his planetary defense forces.

As long as Fugais can successfully pay the material tax for Granite 5 next year, it will be a foregone conclusion that the planet will be transferred to Fugais's name.

The expedition work progressed steadily. After a month of preparation, it was early March and the day of departure finally arrived.

At the airport of Epimet, more than ten armed transport ships are docked here.

The Planetary Defense Force bid farewell to their local families and boarded the ship to Granite 5 with the expectation of triumph and glory.

Fu Gaisi arrived at the dock in a transport vehicle.

When he got out of the car, he was followed by Li Nuo and Tido.

Behind the three people was a black metal box measuring 2m*1.5m*1m.

The box was extremely heavy, with a smooth surface, and apart from the rich darkness, there were no patterns or colors.

Eight robot servants worked together to unload the metal box and placed it on a cart with an auxiliary power system. The wheels rolled over the metal floor of the dock, and bursts of slight metal deformation sounds were heard.

"Vuges, you look pretty good today."

Rahn walked forward and shook hands with Fugas.

Rane is the leader of the 131st Regiment of the Solar Legion. He has a light grey goatee and appears to be in his early forties. He has an upright stature and a resolute temperament forged on the battlefield.

His eyes swept across Fugas's refreshed face.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Rane feels that Fugaisi is a little different today than he was yesterday.

Yesterday, there were clear crow's feet at the corners of Fugai's eyes. He was energetic only when he smoked his pipe. His breathing was unsteady when he spoke, and he could not hide his fatigue and old age.

Today's Fugais is different.

He looked decades younger, with a rosy complexion, full of energy, and walked briskly.

"Lahn, I used the Mechanicus' incense before going to bed last night. I have to admit, I have never slept so comfortably."

Fu Gaisi responded with a smile, the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes faintly visible when the corners of his mouth curved upward.

It turns out that I used incense to aid my sleep. No wonder I feel so energetic today.

Laen felt relieved, the end of his goatee trembled slightly, and he chuckled:
"Don't use incense to fall asleep when you get to Granite 5. I'm afraid you'll oversleep."

"Haha, don't worry, I only use it occasionally." Vogue looked around, "Has Delton arrived?"

"Not yet. Let's wait together." When Rahn heard the name "Delton", his expression became slightly more serious, as if Delton had once been his superior.

This is indeed the case.

Before retiring, Delton served as the commander of the 131st Regiment, while Rahn was only the company commander of the veteran company of the 131st Regiment.

Rane had great respect for his former superior.

Not only because of his talent and achievements in command, but also because of his almost unchanged appearance.

When he saw Delton getting off another transport vehicle, Rahn couldn't help but sigh:
"Sir, you really haven't changed at all."

Delton was carrying a metal box that was two meters long, one meter wide and one and a half meters high. He walked steadily, and the metal base under his feet made a slight deformation sound.

Hearing Rahn's sentiment, Delton smiled slightly:
"I've told you a long time ago that retirement life is very nourishing."

Delton nodded to Vogue, and when he saw the black metal box behind him, he was subconsciously stunned.

When Fu Gais's box was placed horizontally, it was two meters long, one and a half meters wide, and one meter high, and was somewhat similar to the one in his hand.

Delton looked down at his own box and suddenly became curious about what was in Fugas's box.

Fugais opened his arms and invited everyone to board the ship:
"Okay, now that everyone is here, let's get on board. Tidu, Lino, the two of you don't need to come up. With Delton accompanying me, I won't be in danger."

Tiduo's eyes were red, she pursed her lips, and hugged Li Nuo's arm tightly:

"Okay, Dad, Li Nuo and I will take good care of Epimate, and you must return safely."

"Don't worry, I will." Fu Gaisi nodded to Li Nuo, asked him with his eyes to take good care of his daughter, then turned and walked towards the ship.

"With my box here, Dad will be fine." Li Nuo watched Fu Gaisi leave and patted the back of Tido's hand to comfort her.

"Yeah." Tido hid her head behind Li Nuo's shoulder and secretly wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.

After saying goodbye to Lino and the others, Larn and Delton followed Fugas onto the command ship.

This is an Oberon-class battleship, an all-round ship of the Human Empire that can handle all combat scenarios without the escort of a frigate formation.

It is fully equipped with facilities such as light spears, naval gun arrays, carrier-based attack aircraft, and carrier-based reconnaissance squadrons.

Since the space forces and land forces were inseparable in the 30k era, the Oberon-class battleship in front of us was also equipped with elite soldiers of the Solar Army and ten heavy assault shuttles.

With such a luxurious lineup, I'm afraid only the God-chosen Demon himself can hurt Fugais.

Bah, bah, bah, stop planting flags randomly.

Li Nuo stopped talking nonsense in his mind, and got on the transport vehicle with Tido and returned to the royal court area.

In the past month, Li Nuo has manufactured three Black Knights, bringing the number of first-generation Junstats from one to four.

Three of them are stored in a private laboratory, and the remaining one is placed in the black metal box of Vogue to protect Vogue.

In addition to arranging a personal bodyguard for Fu Gaisi, Li Nuo also made a miniature aircraft for Fu Gaisi to take away.

This aircraft will help Vorges quell the rebellion more quickly.

Everything was arranged by Li Nuo.

Back at the mansion in the Royal Court, Tido prepared to handle official business.

Li Nuo called Tiduo and led her into his office.

There is an additional "communication machine" with a gray metal shell. The screen is an ordinary pixel screen, and the input device is also similar to that of an ordinary communication machine.

Li Nuo patted the outer shell of the machine and motioned Tido to sit down and try it.

Tido didn't take it seriously at first, thinking it was just an ordinary device that Li Nuo had copied based on an existing communication device.

But when she connected her data tablet to the machine, she was stunned by the rapidly flashing pixel text on the screen.

From 10 o'clock last night to 9 o'clock this morning, various departments of the Nest City sent a total of 124 documents that needed to be reviewed and signed by Tido.

Tido was ready to fight for this until 7pm.

But now, before Tido could react, 124 documents had been processed.

She rubbed her eyes and clicked on the processed document to take a closer look. The more she looked, the more surprised she was. Her beautiful eyes widened and her mouth opened wide.

"Oh my... God. I am not dreaming. Over a hundred documents, and this machine processed them in less than ten minutes?!"

Tiduo's pupils trembled violently, and she held the breath in her chest for a long time before she slowly let it out:
"Compared to it, I feel like a fool..." "You can use it to handle official business in the future." Li Nuo laughed and warned in a deep voice:
"This is my latest invention. It's not perfect yet, so you can only use it here. Don't tell anyone else."

"Mmmmmmm!"

Tido nodded repeatedly, her face filled with joy, and the gloom brought by her father's "business trip" was swept away.

She scratched her head again and asked:
"But, after I finish my official duties so quickly, what should I do? I can't just sit here and do nothing, right?"

"You have a lot to do, and so do I. Come, let me show you something."

After Li Nuo finished making the Black Knight, he has been thinking about the great rebellion that the hive city will face in the future.

The many survival problems facing Li Nuo made him feel a little suffocated.

Fortunately, after thinking about it for a few days, he finally figured it out.

Li Nuo pressed the switch on the desk.

The wall behind the bookshelf moved backwards, revealing a secret room.

This secret room existed when the office was first renovated, but Li Nuo only started using it now.

The area of the secret room is not large, only three hundred square meters at most.

There is a holographic projection device on its ceiling, which can project screens onto the walls on three sides.

After Li Nuo activated the holographic projection, many images appeared on the wall.

There are Ark Eldar wearing war masks, Dark Eldar riding on anti-gravity motorcycles, Orcs baring their teeth and howling, powerful psykers holding force field staffs, and armed fleets controlled by Bone Drinkers...

All kinds of violent elements that posed a threat to the empire were listed by Li Nuo using a holographic device.

Tido was confused and for a moment didn't understand what her fiancé was trying to do.

Li Nuo walked to the center of the secret room, opened his arms and said:

"My new machine can help us calculate data and process documents, but there is one thing it can't help with. That's crisis planning."

"Crisis plan? Hmm... I understand what you mean." Titus clapped her hands lightly and stretched out her fingertips to scan the holographic image on the wall:
"You mean, we should assume that the hive is attacked by these enemies and formulate preventive measures in advance, right?"

"Yes, that's it."

Li Nuo snapped his fingers, and the holographic projection projected a line of text in front of him:
"How many veterans of the Planetary Defense Force can kill one of the aliens listed on the wall?"

Exchanging one veteran for one alien is pure wishful thinking.

It is no exaggeration to say that with a plan and sufficient supplies and equipment, it takes at least 10 veterans to kill an alien with 100% certainty, and they may even pay the price of their lives.

If it is to deal with psychics of Gamma level or above, no matter how many planetary defense forces come, they will not be enough. One Gamma level can easily kill hundreds of veterans.

The reason for this is nothing more than that the local planetary defense force is extremely weak.

This is a common phenomenon in the human empire.

This problem exists on all Empire worlds except Bastion worlds.

The fortress world does not engage in production and does not have to bear material taxes. It relies purely on other worlds to provide materials and can focus on training soldiers.

The hive world is different.

If the hive world does not have to pay material taxes, it will either have a governor who is rotten to the core, or it will produce local warlords that the empire fears.

Therefore, material tax is the fundamental reason for suppressing the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the planetary defense force.

How to improve the hive's self-defense capabilities as much as possible while bearing the material tax is the core idea of the crisis rehearsal.

Tido has been exposed to this since childhood and knows it very well.

"So, what do you think?" Tido asked curiously.

My idea is to whitewash the greenskin technology and use it to massively strengthen the armed personnel in the hive city.

Li Nuo thought to himself, but did not speak out his true thoughts directly. Instead, he took out a potion:
"My thoughts are related to this potion."

There is light green liquid in the potion bottle.

This liquid exhibits a certain viscosity when flowing freely and appears to be relatively viscous.

"This is a temporary strengthening potion I made based on the green beads. Anyone who drinks it can gain a strengthening effect that lasts for one year. After one year, the effect will disappear on its own."

"So magical." Tiduo took the potion bottle and stared at the liquid inside:

"But the question is, can the drinkers fulfill their duties? If they are disloyal to us, won't we be in danger?"

"You and I are thinking the same thing, Tiduo." Li Nuo changed the subject and asked:
"Have you contacted Jersey? Will she accept our funding?"

"Yes, I have contacted you." Tiduo opened the Star Language communication record on the data board:

"Look. She wrote back thanking us for our generosity. If we need any custom-made mechanical devices, her Lava City happens to have excess production capacity and the price is negotiable."

Tido's eyes lit up:
"Oh! I see. You want Jersey to help us produce customized combat servants, and then use potions to strengthen these mechanical servants, right?"

Li Nuo praised:

"You're quite smart, you understand everything at once. That's what I thought. I've calculated that instead of spending materials to support more planetary defense forces, it's better to use them to purchase and maintain combat servitors. The command of these servitors is in your hands."

"Ah? Me?" Tido was stunned.

"Yes, you will command the future army of robot servants. This requires the use of another invention of Ms. Jersey, the thought space."

Thanks to the numerous factions within the Mechanicus, and thanks to the fact that Jersey, Cass, and Lazlo, the three masters and apprentices, are marginal figures in the Mechanicus.

At this very moment, the thought space that the three of them jointly developed was not popular and was completely out of the eyes of the high-level mechanical priests.

Martian Forging General Carl Bohar disdains the thought space, and Deputy Supervisor Kane also doesn't care much about the thought space.

These two Mars No. 1 and No. 2 figures are in charge of Mars' production work and order distribution.

Li Nuo checked and found that so far, no imperial force has ever ordered the logical pipeline of thought space.

This thing can resist Chaos Code. Doesn't the Mechanicus know this?
Yes, I really don’t know.

There is a place on Mars called Moravec Caverns, where the legacy of the old times is sealed, including but not limited to research and development logs, reliquaries, ancient technology drawings, etc.

Chaos codes taint the legacy of these bygone eras.

Therefore, even though the heritage was extremely valuable, the Emperor resolutely sealed them in the Moravec Caves.

Currently only the Emperor can open this cave.

After Horus ascended to the position of Warmaster, he received authorization from the Emperor.

Horus used the opening of the Moravec Cave as a bargaining chip to win over the current Martian Forge General Carl Bohar to his side.

Carl Bohar opened the cave and used the technical drawings inside to secretly develop the Kaban machine.

After Horus launched the Heresy, Kal Bohar released the Chaos Code in the cave, polluting Mars' public network and severely damaging the loyalists on Mars.

At this point, the fact that thought space could shield chaos codes was known to both the black and white circles of the Mechanicus.

Li Nuo was not clear about the subscription price of thought space in the 40k era.

But now, it doesn’t cost 9999 million Throne Coins, it doesn’t cost 999 million Throne Coins, it only costs 299 million Throne Coins to take it home.

Of course, it is not the version for the Mechanicus, but a customized version for non-Mechanicus members.

Li Nuo decided to install a logic pipeline of thought space for Tido. From then on, she would be the queen of the hive city's mechanical servants with an army of one person.

Tido was very excited about this. She felt safe at the thought that she would be able to command thousands of combat servants in the future.

She happily imagined the future scene, poked Li Nuo's arm and asked:
"What about you, Li Nuo? Don't you want to install the thought space? We can command the combat servants together."

Li Nuo glanced at the seven character archives on the system interface.

To date, the number of greenskin Palu under his command has reached 30, as well as a battleship-class greenskin ship, more than frigates built for air transport of raw materials and auxiliary defense, and a boulder-class greenskin space fortress that is gradually taking shape.

After experiencing the growth process of the greenskin army, Li Nuo felt unimpressed by the speed at which the human empire expanded its forces.

Facing Tiduo's question, Li Nuo smiled gently, stroked the other's head and said:

"I want to spend my time and energy on research. I believe that with you, the future queen of the Servitor Corps, the safety of the hive and me will be guaranteed."

"Okay, okay~" Tiduo patted Li Nuo's shoulder, raised her white chin, and replied in a condescending manner:
"I will protect you from now on. Now, go and work for me. I need more temporary strengthening potions to strengthen my army. If you do a good job, there will be a reward."

Li Nuo was amused by Tiduo's expression, "What reward? Have you forgotten that I am not yet an adult?"

Tido's cheeks flushed.

She rolled her eyes at Li Nuo, turned her head to the side, and pretended to check the alien information in the holographic device.

(End of this chapter)