Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 307 Repairing the Panacea STC
"This is the panacea? Why is it so small? Didn't Blood Raven's report say that it took up almost half a compartment with the Dark Eldar?"

Pavian excitedly circled around the shattered STC, observing it closely.

While the Montgard dynasty also possessed impressive STCs such as barracks and heavy factories, this was the first STC in Warhammer's homeland, let alone one of such a heavyweight scale.

Even now, with the Montgomery dynasty's considerable influence across many forging planets and mechanical guilds, no tech enthusiast is willing to sell their STC; it's priceless to them.

The collected STC was much smaller than expected.

At this moment, only one SCV was being repaired, and priests were sorting through the fragments brought back by the Blood Ravens to ensure that nothing was missed.

"That was indeed the case when my warband and I discovered it."

Gabriel was in much better condition upon returning to the dynasty. Gao Yi had purified the chaotic energy in his body, but the physical mutations caused by the chaos were irreversible. The purpose of bringing Gabriel here was to let him verify the wonders of the panacea STC and try to repair Gabriel's physical mutations.

“STCs are usually not very large in size. They are tools created by humans to facilitate colonization, so how could they be large? They are usually only needed after mass production, which is why you see what you saw before.”

Caul patiently explained to everyone, even though he himself was extremely excited.

Everyone watched silently as STC fused back into its original form from countless fragments.

The moment the repairs began, both Kaul and Pavian rushed over.

The two men ordered the priests to connect the power cables to it.

With a large influx of energy, the damaged STC started running again.

"Praise be to Om Messiah! It is functioning perfectly! Gabriel, what you have brought back will completely change the Empire's predicament in the face of Nurgle!"

Kaul was generous with his praise.

"Karl, Pavian, will STC be able to successfully begin large-scale production of the panacea?"

"Of course, its servo system will proactively tell us how to set up suitable auxiliary production equipment."

The power of STC lies in the fact that as long as we provide it with our existing resources and technology, and then make demands on it, it can provide a reasonable solution within our and its own limits.

And as we previously suspected, the panacea not only produces medicines to cure diseases, but also heals genetic and physical defects.

Upon hearing this, Gao Yi immediately instructed Pavia to integrate the data from the dynasty's internal affairs system. This saved everyone a lot of time, as the existing resources and technologies were stored on the network and could be directly imported.

Gao Yi then extracted Gabriel's blood and placed it into STC for analysis.

Just a few minutes later, the panacea provided a solution to Gabriel's physical mutation, clearly listing everything from the required materials to the synthesis and usage methods.

Simply follow the procedure to achieve the desired effect.

In theory, any civilization at any stage that possesses an STC can obtain a solution after making a request to it. However, if the civilization's level is too low, even if the STC provides a solution, the complexity and time required to reach the goal will vary depending on the civilization's level.

Hearing that his body could be saved, Gabriel smiled. Although he knew that the members of the chapter and Gao Yi would not condemn him as a heretic because of this physical mutation, most Astartes still valued the purity of their bodies. After obtaining a solution, Caul immediately began production. Utilizing existing resources and technology, half an hour later, a special biological agent was delivered to Gabriel.

As soon as Kaul injected it into Gabriel's body, he soon noticed some changes in his body.

The proliferating flesh and blood, which were not its own, were losing their vitality and detaching on their own. Within a few breaths, only a shallow scar remained where the proliferating flesh and blood had been.
With further treatment using the nanotherapy gun, Gabriel's body seemed to have never undergone any mutation.

Further testing by Kaul revealed that Astartes, who had long fought against chaos, also had a slight mutation in his original genes.

This is also a key reason why the Empire requires each chapter to regularly pay a gene seed tax to test their purity.

Under the influence of this drug, Gabriel's body possessed an alarmingly high level of purity.
Everyone marveled at the miraculous power of the elixir.
Gao Yi saw even greater value in it. The effect of repairing genetic defects was indeed comparable to the genetic ascension in the stars, but it did not have the ability to increase the strength of the race's genes. Gao Yi thought that the genetic ascension that could be developed later could be combined with the panacea STC, so that the panacea could eliminate the negative traits in the genes of the species.

This saves on gene point consumption, allowing gene points to be used in more important areas.

Currently, I'm using all my physics research points in Stellar Technology, while I still have some research points in social sciences that I haven't used yet.

In social science research, there is a technology called gene editing, which can provide two species modification points to give humans more powerful genetic characteristics.

Without hesitation, Gao Yi opened the system and used 10000 social research points to unlock this technology.

It may seem like just two points, but they can greatly enhance the capabilities of the human race itself.

Gao Yi used the system to view the available genetic traits.

Exceptionally powerful genetic traits require three or four points, such as being super strong. The game describes their physical strength as being so great that it defies the laws of physics, which seems utterly absurd.
However, the second-best option, the Strong Gene trait, only requires 1 point of gene trait and is described as making them unstoppable warriors when performing ground combat.

Gao Yi has decided on the two genetic traits he wants that can immediately increase the combat effectiveness of his troops.

That is, it consumes 1 point of Strength, and also consumes 1 point of Quick Heal.

Rapid healing: This species can recover quickly after being injured.

If we follow the conventional process of species reproduction and iteration, it would take a very long time for all humans within a dynasty to possess this trait.

Replacing all of humanity in the galaxy is an even more distant prospect.

However, Gao Yi doesn't need to do that now; he only needs to give this trait to a portion of his combat troops.

The android army already created within the dynasty using cloning chambers can be integrated with this genetic trait to create a new generation of even more powerful android armies.

With the current production capacity of cloned artificial soldiers, and after some education, a batch of genetically enhanced soldiers can be produced very quickly.

"I wonder just how powerful this unstoppable force really is. Will everyone become an Astartes? Perhaps we could try genetically modifying Blood Raven first to see the effects?"

(End of this chapter)