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

Chapter 432 The Birth of the Iron Legion
Unlike the impending storm in the Beta Garmon Cluster, the solar system can now be said to be temporarily safe.

On the one hand, the expedition fleet led by Ryan swept and wiped out all the rebel forces and interstellar pirates in the star system leading to Beta Garmon in the solar system, suddenly eliminating these enemies who had been harassing the solar system's defense line.

On the other hand, part of the reinforcements from the Five Hundred Worlds were allocated to Rogal Dorn's Sun Fleet. Steward Terra had much more power in his hands, and he had enough energy to deploy a defense system.

The solar system, which has become the rear, is now continuously producing military supplies, including weapons and ammunition, power armor, heavy vehicles, etc. for Space Marines.

Similar to what happened in Macragge, Roxi is also working hard to replace the Sun Auxiliary Army with better equipment.

Under the control of artificial intelligence and stone men, the foundry on Ganymede has exploded with the theoretical production capacity.

Even the group of mechanics who have joined the advanced technology community did not expect how terrifying the productivity released by artificial intelligence would be, completely free from the low efficiency of humans.

Artificial intelligence does not get tired, rarely makes rational mistakes, has almost infinite multi-threaded thinking, and can perform calculations on thousands of complex events simultaneously.

The long and complex assembly lines in giant factories, as long as materials and energy are continuously input at one end, can produce finished weapons and equipment and construction machinery at the other end.

Ganymede's transportation port is always full, and transport ships from all over the world can always load up with cargo and return to the designated location.

In the asteroid belt between Wood and Fire, the Helios planetary dock is already able to produce small ships including battleships, and the time to manufacture a battleship has been shortened to months.

This is the case when the dock is still under construction. When it is completed, it will be able to normally manufacture void battleships of the same level as the Queen of Glory-class battleships, or the larger Thundercloud-class planetary battleships.

Naturally, Luo Xi would not waste his precious time on these repetitive tasks. He handed over the research related to mind control towers and thought stamps to Sage Akan Rand.

If Cawl successfully brings back the original mother from the moon, the research work on strengthening the Space Marines will also be handed over to his research team.

"I will never again do everything by myself like I did before. That is too stupid and too inefficient."

Luo Xi thought with lingering fear that partnering with Guilliman was not a pleasant experience at all. The other party always found various excuses to squeeze more things into his already full schedule.

"That kind of life is simply the life of a slave. It's ok that Guilliman himself doesn't want to live a normal life, but he also drags others to do it."

Now that he had the Advanced Technology Community, Luo Xi finally had enough free labor at his disposal.

As long as they were rewarded with some contribution points, those mechanical priests would work madly. They would even thank Roche for providing them with the opportunity and conditions to carry out such meaningful research work.

In addition to the first batch of mechanical priests who joined the advanced technology community, there are many more mechanical men who have not participated before but have heard about the experiences of their colleagues. They are rushing in from all over, eager to join in and get a piece of the pie.

Luo Xi's life also became better. He had thousands of senior researchers under him who could act under his orders. If he needed to do something, he just had to give a call and someone would naturally help him get it done.

And now, Luo Xi is doing something that makes him feel meaningful.

Since opening up the forge world of Ganymede and establishing a high-tech community, he has experimentally produced a group of stone men and iron men to test their abilities and limits.

Production-type iron men have proven their efficiency, and the manufacture of war-type iron men has also been put on the agenda.

Although there are STCs for certain types of iron men in Luo Xi's database, building an army of iron men has never been something that can be taken for granted.

The iron men in these databases are war weapons designed by humans in the Golden Age against the enemies that threatened them at the time. They are more adapted to the environment and wars of the time, and the destructive power they can cause far exceeds the imagination of humans today.

Even shattering planets and prying gravity is not a difficult task for a large-scale army of iron men.

But in Luo Xi's eyes, stronger is never better, on the contrary, the most suitable one is the best.

The main threat facing humanity today is not powerful alien races, or some equally technologically powerful opponents, but Warp Demons and Chaos traitors have become the main targets.

Many forms of attack often have little effect against these new enemies, and excessive destructive power would also threaten the safety of the Imperial Army. Roche decided to design a combat-oriented Iron Man more suitable for today's wartime conditions. Considering the strong resistance of the Warp Daemons to long-range weapons, Roche's Iron Man design would favor close combat while also possessing powerful long-range firepower output.

Thinking in his mind, Luo Xi added melee weapons such as chainsword, power sword, magnetic sword, etc. to the Iron Man general template on the design platform.

Depending on the usage, the combat iron man can also freely switch between different forms of power weapons such as power fist, power hammer, power claw, etc.

"Sure enough, this is the way to go. What kind of iron man is this with all those sissy ranged weapons?"

Luo Xi suddenly laughed out loud. After dealing with the Empire for so long, he also had a strong preference for melee weapons represented by power swords.

You know, when he just woke up, he once laughed at the primitiveness and barbarism of the empire.

Your ranged weapons may be unreliable, but as long as you have the power sword in your hand, you will always have a backup plan.

Considering the cost, Roche could not use rare metals such as refined gold, and rare goods such as strong interaction force materials were also ruled out.

Please, iron men are not human beings. Even if they are broken into pieces, their consciousness can be reborn by changing their bodies. Luo Xi just chose a cost-effective alloy material to serve as the body of the iron man.

With the living metal of the Necrons as a reference, this alloy material has a weak self-healing effect. Although it is not as abnormal as that of the Necrons warriors, the combat-type iron man is still capable of fighting for a long time.

As for long-range weapons, the general weapons of combat-type Iron Man are their own Tesla arc weapons or laser weapons, which can be switched to degraded Gauss rifles produced by humans to crack the Necrons' Gauss weapons when necessary.

Although Roche tried his best to catch up, the technological gap between humans and Necrons was still huge. The Gauss weapons he was now able to mass-produce were inferior to those of the Necrons in terms of stability and lethality.

Although this weapon with a strong decomposition effect on matter is common to the Necrons, it is a magical weapon for humans.

After adding together some necessary elements, Luo Xi got an ugly iron man similar to a Necron warrior. He immediately shook his head in disgust and continued to design an iron man that was more in line with his aesthetic taste.

This is a mass-produced Iron Man that is taller than the armored Space Marine. Its overall appearance is similar to a smaller version of the Veronica-type Iron Man. It is about three meters tall, and its energy reactor is located under the heavy armor on its chest.

Due to the reduction in material performance, Roche increased the thickness of the defensive armor. In addition, the Iron Man has far fewer vital parts than a living being. At least in terms of defense, the Iron Man is far superior to the Astartes who originally wore ceramic steel armor.

As for thinking, Luo Xi did not intend to give advanced thinking to every Iron Man. He referred to the behavioral patterns of the Orcs and only gave thinking authority to a small number of elite Iron Men.

These elite Iron Men can connect directly to the intelligent brain, controlling their Iron Man comrades around them like node creatures. This can greatly reduce the consumption of Black Stone and the possibility of subspace corruption.

The intelligent brain, which is in an anti-subspace stance, can monitor the status of the Iron Men in real time and take countermeasures against potential threats of subspace corruption.

This Gestalt-style organizational structure is the most suitable behavioral model that Roche can propose for the Iron Men.

"According to this estimate, the combat power of this type of combat iron man may be higher than that of the original Astartes, but in a one-on-one situation, it is inferior to the Astartes who have completed the weapon replacement."

Roche has devoted a lot of effort to Astartes, and the cost of Astartes power armor is much higher than those mass-produced iron men.

"However, fortunately, in terms of quantity, these cost-effective Iron Men can be produced continuously and deployed in large quantities on the battlefield."

Luo Xi positioned the Iron Men as a large and well-equipped main force. They would gradually replace the mortal auxiliary troops and lead the way in the most dangerous places.

As for the Astartes, after the future Space Marine strengthening plan is successful, the Astartes envisioned by Roche will become true demigod warriors, serving as high-tech assault forces.

The Astartes, the Mortal Auxiliary Army, and the Iron Men cooperate with each other to become a complete war community to wipe out all types of dangerous enemies.

(End of this chapter)