Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 397 Space Marine Strengthening Plan (Please Subscribe)

The first meeting of the Advanced Technology Community had just ended, and many mechanical priests had already dispersed. Some of them went to retrieve the technological relics they had hidden, and some wanted to find a quiet place to slowly communicate with the intelligent computer.

Some mechanical priests who have quietly dabbled in the field of abominable intelligence have seized this rare opportunity to interact with Zhinao, a true artificial intelligence, and collect precious sample data.

There are not many opportunities to legally research artificial intelligence, and some mechanical priests even have to use excuses such as intelligent control robots to cover up their actions.

After all, they do not have the Emperor's endorsement. Once their forbidden behavior is discovered by others, they will probably immediately violate the Scarlet Concordat and be liquidated and sanctioned by the Mechanicus.

"Sage Luo Xi, the God of All Things blesses you."

When Luo Xi walked through the crowd, he immediately attracted a lot of blessings. The mechanics performed the gear salute with respect from the bottom of their hearts, paying tribute to the creator of the advanced technology community.

Luo Xi smiled and nodded, and the crowd parted in front of him like a tide, saving Sharokin the effort of clearing the way for them.

In Ganymede's planetary control center, every registered user is eligible to apply for a completely confidential room as their own storage location.

As the great sage of the Mechanicum, Arkan Rand naturally enjoys higher treatment than others. Ganymede has almost all kinds of high-end laboratories, but to use these laboratories, one also needs to pay a certain amount of contribution points.

High-energy colliders that study the microscopic field consume a huge amount of resources once they are started up, and will also cause minor damage to the mechanical equipment. Therefore, it is necessary to collect a certain amount of contribution points.

Accompanied by Sharokin, Luo Xi came to the biological laboratory being used by Rand Sage.

To Luo Xi's surprise, Belisarius Cawl, who made a fortune in silence, was actually following Sage Rand, and seemed to be participating in the analysis and research of Moravec's Cube.

Luo Xi knocked on the door and only stepped into this advanced biological laboratory after getting permission.

At this moment, Sage Rand was working on the clean bench, nervously unlocking the stasis field on the outer layer of the Moravec Cube. He used the laboratory's own high-precision robotic arm to carefully peel off the restrictions imposed on it by the Dark Angels.

This technological relic involving psychic energy is still flipping and changing over and over again even under the influence of the static stance. The Rubik's Cube columns are constantly rotating according to a certain operating law, making crisp interlaced sounds of mechanical operation.

In addition to the two of them, Cawl was accompanied by a companion. Roshi identified the other party's identity information. He was a young mechanical priest named Fredisi, who escaped from the Trisolian galaxy with Cawl.

Sage Rand was accompanied by several of his student assistants, who were busy assisting their teacher in carrying out experiments.

The disciples of Sage Rand are completely different from their teacher who is unwilling to accept any bionic mechanical transformation. Almost everyone of them carries a huge shell-shaped metal object on their backs. Several sophisticated mechanical arms are dancing in the air, and servo skulls connected by neural data cables are floating in the air.

Their lower bodies have been transformed into more efficient mechanical structures, with the roar of gears and steam circulating back and forth, and the power that drives the bodies comes from the reaction of nuclear matter.

Beneath their Martian red robes, there are many relic-level high-energy weapons hidden. When each mechanical priest is at full firepower, the firepower output he unleashes can even surpass that of an entire company of mortal auxiliary troops.

As disciples of Arkan Rand, these mechanical priests were undoubtedly the most senior among their colleagues. Roche had no doubt that the same number of mechanical priests could wipe out the same number of Astartes warriors.

Since Sage Rand did not have many mechanized modifications, his disciples used electronic eyes with multiple surveying functions to observe the specific situation of the Moravec Cube.

"This is indeed a creation left behind by the sage Moravec. Although this is only a preliminary analysis, the wisdom of that genius is indeed beyond the reach of us."

After half a day of decoding and analyzing, Sage Rand leaned back in his chair, feeling somewhat helpless. The lab's supercomputer, directly connected to the AI, harnessed its nearly limitless computing power to perform the tedious and repetitive analysis. Roshi frowned slightly. Rand was already one of the most accomplished sages in the Mechanicus. Did even he consider himself inferior to Moravec?
"In fact, most people cannot see the value of the psychic technology contained in this Rubik's Cube. But if you study it deeply enough and go far enough on this road, you will find that this guy is simply not a human being." Rand said.

"This cube contains some of Moravec's research theories on psychic technology, with a focus on human psychic transformation. This knowledge is enough for us to take a new step in the field of psychic energy. For today's empire—"

"This seems to mean that we can have a completely new army, one that is stronger than the Astartes."

"What do you mean?" Compared with top researchers like Rand, Roche was a little inferior. He could vaguely grasp the other party's intentions, but he was just short of the finishing touch.

"The Legion of Astartes is the most powerful military force in the Empire today. It can transform the Astartes, upgrade and evolve them to perfection."

Rand's words were very shocking. The Astartes Legion was an important force that the Empire relied on today, although in terms of overall size, it might be far less than the larger mortal auxiliary forces.

If we look at the data on paper alone, the pillars of the Empire are actually the trillions of mortal troops and the power of the Mechanicus, and the Space Marine Legions account for a very small proportion.

However, the Astartes Legion is qualitatively different. In many battlefield environments, no matter how many mortals are deployed, it will be of no avail. The strength of mortals lies in the whole, but often on a single battlefield, it is impossible to mobilize too many troops to join the battle.

At this time, the Astartes Legion with higher quality and capability is needed to solve the problem.

"Are you sure, Sage Rand? Things like improving the Astartes must be considered carefully." Luo Xi said cautiously.

It is well known that the Astartes are superhuman transformed warriors developed by the Emperor in the genetic laboratory of the Terra Palace. They are stronger, more tenacious, and their willpower and learning ability surpass those of ordinary people.

This contains the Emperor's mysterious biochemical transformation technology. The 19 transformation operations of a normal Astartes are closely linked to each other, and each one has its own meaning.

Due to the impact of the Horus Heresy that lasted for several years, all legions were short of manpower, whether loyal or treacherous, and the degraded version of the Astartes, the "Rapid Enlistment Corps", was being deployed to the battlefield more and more.

Some of them omitted several transformation operations in order to complete the troop replenishment more quickly.

The most famous are the large number of crazy and bloodthirsty monsters created by the World Eaters on the conscription world of Bot. These guys who blasphemed the glory of Astartes were given the name of the Speedy Conscription Army.

In addition, the Imperial Fists also carried out a conscription operation in Cthunia, the home planet of the Sons of Horus. Rogal Dorn ordered the cancellation of the implantation of the two modified organs, the "salivary glands" and the "Suan meninges", thereby shortening the modification time by more than 34%.

But this also caused these Astartes to lose their acidic saliva and near-death protection, and according to battlefield statistics, the Imperial Fists' mortality rate increased by 11.4%.

Rand nodded affirmatively. He found that the theories on improving Space Marines recorded in Moravec's Cube were inherently consistent and logical, and at least had the possibility of success.

Sometimes, to verify whether a scientific research has problems, you can analyze its internal logic. If there is a problem with the logic, then there is a high probability that the research also has problems.

After Rand opened the Moravec Rubik's Cube, he was surprised to find that there was nothing wrong with the other party's thinking and logic. What he saw was a technological system that seemed to be formed naturally. Every thread had its own origin and extension. They were so perfect that there was almost nothing wrong with them.

"But I remember that Moravec was once a warlord on Terra. He fled to Mars after being defeated by the Emperor and other Terran technological warlords. Why would he study the improvements of the Astartes?"

Luo Xi was really confused. Why did Moravec want to improve the biological weapons of his mortal enemy?
Are there really such kind people? Even after being defeated, they still help their opponents improve and upgrade? As for the valuables of the Terran warlords, Luo Xi didn't think they would have such character.

(End of this chapter)