Warhammer 40K: Rise of the Second Imperium
Chapter 105

Planetary Gravity Engine

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The Art Student's primary research project was now focused on the Planetary Gravity Engine. Activating the gravity engine could restore life to a planet whose core had already died.

There were three other planets in the Star Sea Galaxy roughly the same size as Worlds One and Two, but their gravity was far too weak for humans to survive on them.

The Art Student had originally wanted to research the Planet Killer, a weapon capable of completely destroying a planet in a single strike. But midway through the research, he had a sudden thought. Every weapon had two sides. Once created, technological equipment could save lives, but it could also kill with ease.

Since he had decided to research a planet-destroying weapon, why not also develop one that could raise the gravity of low-gravity planets to a level suitable for human survival, allowing carbon-based lifeforms to live there? This would ease the population pressure on every planet and bring humanity into balance with the planets they inhabited.

It would neither increase the burden on the planets nor stop humanity from expanding, allowing mankind to truly become the masters of the galaxy.

The Art Student acted as soon as the idea struck him. After studying a vast amount of data, he discovered that these dead planets had stopped functioning because their cores no longer rotated, leaving the planets unable to generate electromagnetic fields to protect the life within them.

Once a planet lost its gravitational magnetic field, its ozone layer would collapse, and the life living there would be unable to directly withstand stellar storms and gamma rays.

Before the Art Student stood a gigantic "pencil" a thousand meters long and one hundred meters in diameter. The Planetary Gravity Engine resembled a pencil, and it weighed twenty thousand tons.

Its outer

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