The Abyss Independent Regiment had gone through a difficult period of development. Though they were also soldiers of the New Empire, their sensitive origins and dangerously unstable power meant that the Abyss Independent Regiment could only develop slowly. Under normal circumstances, the New Empire expanded its forces by one or two large legions every year, while the Abyss Independent Regiment had still not reached the scale of a standard legion since the first batch of Fallen Apostles had been reversed. Of course, what truly restricted the regiment's development was not its "background problem," but the lack of a genuinely systematic and stable industrial foundation.
Building a standard legion required systematic industrial support: warship production, soldier manufacture, individual equipment, shipboard equipment, fortress-grade facilities, the research and manufacture of various auxiliary units, supporting technical departments, command, engineering, logistics... It was an enormously vast system. The complexity of operating an army in reality was difficult for ordinary people to imagine. It was nothing like a game, where a click produced a pile of soldiers and a right-click sent an entire army marching off. Whether it was the Empire or the Star Domain God Race, no matter how powerful the civilization, its military rested upon a complex and precise foundation. As a race born for war, the Shilin Apostles' uniquely innovative "battlefield mainframe technology" had simplified this system to its absolute limit. With only a Shilin Mainframe and enough time, an entire military system, including industrial master machines, could be manufactured. It was a Von Neumann machine system developed to the extreme—of course, far more complex, and its replication and self-evolution processes were nowhere near comparable to a single-threaded Von Neumann proliferation model. Yet even so, the New Empire did not possess a single Abyss-type Industrial Production Line that could serve as an industrial