Training courses were not academic lectures, after all. Once Officer Sheng Zhan had used rigorous theory and data-driven logic to explain the difficulties currently facing the Relay Station and their roots, he began assigning specific tasks. In truth, this was simply a series of strategic shifts already underway in the logistics department.
At the heart of it was the wartime modification, production, replacement, and corresponding design iteration of various kinds of equipment, represented by Machine Cores.
According to Officer Sheng Zhan, among the Relay Station's more than eleven thousand officers and soldiers, the installation rate of internally implanted and externally mounted Machine Cores had reached 99.8%—essentially full coverage. This was also a longstanding custom of the Sky Abyss Empire: Machine Cores were a mainstream technology that had penetrated every level of society. Their installation and usage rates had always remained high. Once someone entered society, they basically began a series of Machine Core upgrades.
Not to mention the military, where individuals did not have to bear the cost themselves: young people with hopes for the future needed externally mounted Machine Cores to ensure immediate combat strength amid the trials of Blood and Fire; those who had no more potential to tap in their personal cultivation needed internally implanted Machine Cores even more to raise their capabilities.
Under such circumstances, altering Machine Core designs to improve adaptability to the Evil Poison environment was an enormous undertaking. The complex scheduling and deployment of defensive lines, departments, and personnel was enough to drive anyone mad.
Everyone would be affected.
Why were rookies like Liang Lu and Ronan being assigned posts farther and farther outward? It was precisely because, after beginning the replacement of Machine Cores and other equipment, the base had adopted a strategy of "trading materials for time":
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