Secret Wars, Phase One · Same Day
Mobilizing strategic supplies took time. Heavy armored vehicles such as Self-Propelled Siege Cannons, Armored Personnel Carriers, and tanks especially required aerial vehicles with formidable transport capacity. After the Fimbulwinter Campaign, Salomon wanted to sever the City of Immortals' dependence on Kamar-Taj for mobility and strategic deployment, because portals were not entirely safe. Even with Sling Rings, there was no guarantee that an Arcanist's portal would not malfunction.
His true goal was to reduce reliance on magic. The Sorcerer Supreme understood Salomon's intentions.
Kamar-Taj's mission was to render itself obsolete in the face of the times, and Salomon was walking that path.
The concepts of suborbital transport and transport ships were proposed. Working with the completed docking bays of the Sky Sword Space Station, transport ships capable of traveling from the surface to suborbital space could conduct large-scale personnel transport. Before this, only the Helicarrier could handle such work, and only after unloading every Assault Transport from its hangars. However, as a suborbital firepower fortress and transfer station, the Sky Sword Space Station lacked the ability to transfer heavy armored vehicles. Therefore, future starships would also need to coordinate with transport craft. Transport craft would even need to be capable of interlocking with one another to increase carrying capacity.
As long as Salomon had an idea, Malphas had to make it happen. That was the purpose of the Mars Foundry.
Thanks to thought-processing components and cloned brains far beyond ordinary human capabilities, the Fifth Demon Pillar had somehow avoided being worked to death. Yet without the Sorcerer Supreme's unauthorized use of the Time Stone, Malphas and the Mars Foundry could not have completed this project in mere months. Without the Foundry staff who had undergone extensive mechanical-biological modifications, the vast supply of nutrients, and