Warhammer: Expedition to the Multiverse from 30k

The great sage Rand suddenly began to breathe rapidly. He recognized what the giant structure formed by the star ring was.

Under the pull of the gravity well created by the ring, a large amount of matter in Jupiter's outer atmosphere was siphoned in like a giant straw, directly crossing the long space scale to the mineral refining center of Ganymede.

With the gravity well as the core, Jupiter and Ganymede are connected as if by an extremely thin umbilical cord. Ganymede is hungry for supplies of materials from its parent planet, and those materials from Jupiter are mined and transported to designated locations with an extraordinary efficiency.

"What the hell, building a gravity well just for mining, do you have to be so arrogant?"

"This, this, is the precious relic technology of the gravity well."

Akan Rand was roaring inside, but the manners he had developed over the years allowed him to control his facial expression.

Only the electronic monkey he raised noticed the ups and downs in his master's heart. It immediately calmed down, grabbed Rand's ears and trembled.

Gravity wells are relic technologies inherited from the Dark Age of Technology. To the Mechanicus, this thing may not be considered rare. Some ancient forge worlds have remnants of this super technology and can be used normally.

But for the oil men, this thing is something they need to worship devoutly, appease the machine spirit carefully, and use the most sacred lubricating oil to maintain the machine before it can be used.

In reality, the Mechanicus currently makes very limited use of this super technology, and it is a measure that they will only use when it comes to life and death.

Rand felt mixed emotions as his precious relics, which he had painstakingly collected, were used by others as a means of mining.

It's quite a complicated feeling, as if the goddess who you take good care of and maintain at home is treated like a shared bicycle and has to stand up and pedal hard.

"Why are you doing this? Is it just for mining?" Rand tentatively asked the guiding intelligent machine in front of him.

After receiving the inquiry request, the intelligent machines immediately turned around and faced Rand.

+ Authorize to answer: Affirmative reply, Sage Arkan Rand, the existence of gravity wells is to obtain gaseous planetary materials more quickly. For the forging world of Ganymede, we call it high efficiency. +

+Efficiency is productivity, productivity is everything, everything is for Ganymede+

+I hope you can get used to everything here soon, wish you all the best+

Chapter 388 There are Iron Men Everywhere (Please Subscribe)

When everyone landed on the surface of Ganymede, these mechanical priests from Mars were still horrified by the huge gravity well structure above the sky.

The "umbilical cord" connecting Jupiter for material transportation is not very conspicuous, but when the solar wind blows past, those high-energy charged particles will rub and collide with these material flows, thus flashing dazzling cosmic auroras.

Arkan Rand looked at the conveyor belt with the aurora floating in the air with fascination. In the encyclopedic library of Mars, he had discovered those lost creations from the past, and now he saw the shadow of those lost scientific and technological knowledge.

No, perhaps it cannot be called shadows, because these are real things.

Although this is only my first time on Ganymede, there is no ancient and magnificent forged star ring like on Mars, nor so many ancient spaceports. The history of those spaceports built around Mars' low-Earth orbit is even older than that of everyone here.

Mars used to be a cradle of new technologies, but after the Dark Ages, what these people could dig out from the wasteland was already the limit of the technological relics of the past, and they had no energy left to innovate.

But the novelty displayed here deeply fascinated these believers of Om Messiah.

Look at this new promised land. There are no ugly and stupid mindless robot servants, no skinny mortal slaves, and no inefficient machines spewing thick black smoke. All work is completed efficiently and quickly by intelligent machines.

"Efficiency is productivity, and productivity is everything." Sage Rand silently savored this sentence, and suddenly realized that there were differences between them and the other party.

When they pass by foundries that produce various equipment and vehicles, the waste they emit will even enter multiple cycles to squeeze out every bit of value.

No substance is useless; as long as it exists, it can be used.

On Mars, the exhaust gases emitted by those huge foundries have been brewing in the Martian atmosphere for hundreds and thousands of years. Acidic radioactive rainwater is always washing the outer walls of the foundry world, and everyone has become accustomed to this scene.

There is a reason why mechanical transformation is popular on Mars. It is because the extremely harsh environment greatly increases the probability of mortals developing cancer and serious diseases, so they have to use machines to replace part of the flesh.

But now, their worldview has been rewritten. The Forge World may not necessarily be a hell shrouded in dark clouds with thick smoke and hot gases everywhere. It may also be a clean and tidy city of the future where the air is even clean enough to allow mortals to breathe directly.

Everything here is still under construction, but its general framework has already taken shape.

The circular three-dimensional city is divided into living areas. In this place designed for mortals to live, some integrated houses can be seen. The great sage Rand even saw artificial gardens with fountains and some extremely luxurious natural landscapes.

"The mortals and low-level Mechanicus on Mars can only live in bloated hives. Clean air is a delusion, not to mention these gardens and natural landscapes. After death, humans will even be recycled as biomass and continue to be put into a new round of material circulation."

"He returned these luxuries that only belonged to a few people to the general public."

Rand sighed and said that these were always privileges for a few people, and they could only be seen in the upper nest.

"They even have an entertainment area, which is a public place similar to a church, which provides a library system where you can read the latest knowledge and even play some public videos."

"I can already see what kind of life the people living here will have in the future, but Sage Roshi from Macragge, are you really so confident to face the coming war?"

What a blasphemy and tragedy it would be if Ganymede was destroyed in war just after its birth?

Under the guidance of the triangular-structured robot, Rand and his team were getting closer and closer to the tall tower that almost reached the sky.

That is the so-called planetary control center, and the artifact called the weather controller on the top of the spire is regulating the atmosphere of Ganymede to make it stable and controllable.

On both sides of the wide road, countless large-scale engineering vehicles are carrying out construction work with amazing tacit coordination. The raw materials from Jupiter are processed at the ore refining center and then transported directly to the front line. Then everything is built as if it had been planned.

Rand noticed that the cockpits of those huge engineering vehicles were all empty. There was no sign of the mortals who were supposed to be driving these mechanical creations, or the priests of the Mechanicus.

A dozen beings that looked similar to humans but were much taller came into the delegation's sight.

They have a silver metallic appearance and are extremely agile and free-flowing.

“These are iron men.”

There was a hint of uneasiness in Rand's tone. He swore on the reputation of his long life that these things were definitely not comparable to the so-called intelligent robots of the Mechanicus.

The two are completely two different things. It is these iron men who control thousands of engineering equipment and make them run in perfect condition.

When they waved their hands, the machines received the instructions. They could control thousands of different intelligent machines at the same time by themselves and carry out multi-threaded thinking command.

There was a sudden commotion among the crowd; the long-standing fear and suspicion of the Iron Man made the oil men uneasy.

Before they landed, they already knew that artificial intelligence was being used on Ganymede on a large scale, otherwise it would be impossible to explain the earth-shaking changes that had taken place there in a short period of time.

Given human organization and efficiency, it is simply impossible to build a technological city so quickly.

But knowing and seeing directly are two different things. When the abominable iron man that had always existed in the rumors appeared in front of the mechanical priest, their external thinking processors and computing modules were heating up at a high speed.

"They completely treat the Scarlet Accord as a piece of paper to wipe their ass. Why would the Sigillite allow them to exist?"

"Is there any justice in the world? Such a huge technological heresy is here, but no one is intervening to manage it. And when we study a little bit of things, we have to consider whether it will cross the red line." Some people complained, while others felt an uncontrollable urge in their hearts.

When they arrived at the gate of the planet control center, the triangular-structured robots that had accompanied them all the way suddenly dispersed. They returned to their posts and continued to work diligently and tirelessly.

Instead, a petite human woman came to greet them.

At least, she looked like a human woman.

"Everyone, Lord Luo Xi has been waiting for a long time, please follow me."

"You are using hateful intelligence and iron man." Someone in the crowd suddenly shouted.

The woman turned her head and looked at the person who raised the objection.

"Please rest assured, they are all controllable Iron Men. We have mastered the ability to prevent the corruption of the Warp, and the Iron Men are still our reliable allies." The human woman continued.

“There’s no need to be intimidated by them.”

She had an almost perfect appearance, and her body proportions were abstracted into a series of golden ratio numbers in Rand's eyes. Except for her petite figure that made it difficult for her to adapt to the regular size of the laboratory, Rand could not see any shortcomings.

But she was too perfect. It was impossible for a normally born life to have such a perfect sense of coordination.

"Are you a android?" Rand asked tentatively.

"Perhaps you can call me the Stone Man." The woman who looked exactly like a human replied.

"As durable as stone, even the passage of tens of millions of years cannot stop me from fulfilling my mission. This is the origin of the name Stoneman."

"I have independent thinking ability and my own emotions. Don't treat me as a stupid and foolish biochemical transformation product. The great sage Roshi created me and gave me life, as did those iron men."

She continued, "They are the main builders of Ganymede. The planet is being reborn at a very fast speed thanks to the joint efforts of the Stone Men and Iron Men. If it were you, it might take hundreds or even thousands of years."

Rand had to admit that the other party was right, but... was this really safe?

His reason told him that this place was extremely unstable, and the best way was to destroy Ganymede immediately and destroy these blasphemous creations.

The Iron Man Rebellion ended humanity’s dark technological age and directly triggered the subsequent Long Night of Strife. This is a historical event that everyone knows about. But when Stone Men and Iron Men appear again on Ganymede, what will be the future outcome?

"Yes, the Scarlet Accords, the Olympia Accords, but does the Adeptus Mechanicus have the ability to enforce these terms today? Mars no longer has the power to punish others."

"This sage Roshi showed us Ganymede inside and out. He created a technological forging world in 70 days. The star ring megastructures, as well as these stone men and iron men, are all demonstrations of his strength.

He wants to show us a bit of power before we meet, to dampen our spirits. Well, if you are really capable, then you can control us refugees from Mars."

"The Empire's new Forge General Kane can't do it, and neither can I. Although Keb Har is a bastard, he is indeed the most capable one among us."

Rand seemed to have made up his mind.

Akan Rand stared at the magnificent building in front of him that reached the sky like the Tower of Babel. When he stood below and looked up, he discovered that the building actually had a double helix structure similar to human DNA. It was like an Ouroboros entangled with each other, constantly spreading upwards.

With a nervous heart, Rand still walked inside with his colleagues.

Chapter 389 The Backstage is Ohm Messiah (Please Subscribe)

Luo Xi changed into the sage's robe given to him by the old man Buckel Dylan when he was in Macragge. It was slightly different from the traditional Martian red, with black gear patterns and blue laurel wreaths interwoven.

After all, it is the local forging world of the Five Hundred Worlds, and of course it is somewhat different from the orthodox one on Mars. Luo Xi quietly waited for the arrival of Sage Akan Rand and others at the top of the tower.

After the meeting with the Emperor, he had made up his mind to unlock the data information and STC templates about the Iron Man and the Stone Man stored in the Red Alert's database.

The Iron Man has never rebelled. Whether it was the rebels or the Golden Alliance that oppressed humanity, they all had the support of the Iron Man.

However, the Warp still has the ability to threaten these intelligent creations. Chaos waste code, direct Warp corruption and other means can distort the Iron Man's thinking matrix, and the Blackstone technology that Roche obtained from the Necrons undoubtedly makes up for this weakness.

The artificial intelligence body on Ganymede is in the black stone matrix of the reaction space, and its thinking matrix controls the planet through countless signal tentacles. Strictly speaking, those iron men are connected to the artificial intelligence of Ganymede through thinking.

The artificial intelligence matrix in the Blackstone Array can eliminate the interference of the Warp to the greatest extent. Once those Iron Men are affected by the corruption of the Warp, the matrix will immediately detect it and initiate countermeasures.

Only after taking a variety of insurance measures did Luo Xi dare to release these extremely dangerous creatures.

And on Ganymede, he used the database and STC from Red Alert to create the first stone man, and he named this female stone man "Angie".

Stonemen are extremely sophisticated bionic humans, designed and shaped by humans in order to conduct space colonization more quickly and conveniently.

They are the most capable assistants of mankind, possessing independent thinking and self-emotions. The learning ability and intelligence of stone men are even better than those of humans, but stone men cannot reproduce and evolve like humans, and it is difficult for them to continuously upgrade and replicate themselves like iron men.

Roche is only one person, and his time and energy are very limited. He must need the help of loyal stone men to promote the progress of research and manage the organization that integrates all loyal Mechanicus in the Roche Project blueprint.

"They are coming." The elevator in front of Luo Xi slowly opened, and the Stoneman Angie came to him with Sage Rand and other Mechanicus delegations.

The first thing Luo Xi saw was the figure wearing a wig and with a biochemically modified electronic monkey standing on his shoulder.