Global Crossing: Empire of Stars - Part 795

"Praise the Omnissiah!" The Fabricator-General and Tech-Priests quickly noticed some of the changes and fell to their knees.

Lin Zhichen, now embodied as a star spirit, looked across the Forge Planet, whose diameter had expanded to 50,000 kilometers. This single planet produced enough industrial goods to supply over a thousand star-system colonies.

And across the vast Imperium, although Forge Worlds varied in size, their total number exceeded ten thousand.

Even if most of them were little more than token installations, they still far outnumbered Longhun's. According to the Ministry of Industry's calculations, the Imperium had around a thousand Forge Worlds.

In terms of total industrial output, the two powers were not far apart. Longhun's Industrial System had the advantage of a large number of excellent engineers and vast colonies, while the Imperium's industrial system was embodied in a single individual.

It might have been backward, but it had the foundation built up over thousands upon thousands of years. With a little revamping, it could be brought in line with Longhun's current system, easily boosting the industrial capacity of the entire human realm by more than tenfold!

That was the main reason Lin Zhichen had chosen a relatively peaceful approach to bringing the hidebound Adeptus Mechanicus into the Imperium.

In a region of the Orion Arm, the merging of Instance Worlds had brought more than a dozen colonial sectors founded by human settlers into existence within this Dark Star Domain. Now, a massive invasion had descended upon them, and the brave defenders of their home were fighting a heartrending battle with the help of a passing squad of Space Marines from the Sanguinary Guard.

According to the Instance World's history, this region lay beyond the Astronomican's light, on the Imperium's lost Dark Side.

After inheriting the Warmaster's legacy, Abaddon, heir to