Many aspects of this suit of armor were modeled after Stark's designs. To make his armor technology more accessible and lower the cost, Hydra's scientists had worked tirelessly. Even so, each suit still cost over eight million dollars. Unless humanity's industrial capabilities underwent a qualitative leap, they could not get the price any lower even if it killed them.
Daisy was fairly satisfied with that. How much did Stark's armor cost? Two hundred million at minimum! And hers? Eight million! Once Baldy became President of the United States, there would be... you know...
The result of pursuing neither appearance nor anything but low cost and mass production was that her soldiers looked extremely bulky in their armor. From a distance, they resembled Terran Marines from StarCraft.
It was impossible to equip all five thousand soldiers at once. Some areas of the underground space were extremely cramped, so only three hundred soldiers with the new weapons marched at the front. The rest of the main force was equipped as well, rotating onto the front lines. It was both training and weapon testing. Director Daisy's war of extermination against the Subterraneans had officially begun.
Subterranea was an immense underground metropolis, twice the size of New York City. In theory, it could support more than ten million Subterraneans, but their internal slaughter was extremely severe. At present, Xiayan City had fewer than five million Subterraneans.
This place had originally been a colossal natural cavern. After the Subterraneans excavated it day and night, it had eventually become a majestic underground kingdom.
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s advance and clearing operations had long since alerted those in power here.
Every Subterranean was a soldier. They confronted S.H.I.E.L.D. in numbers that nearly filled the entire city.
"Dad?" Rachel temporarily put aside her grand money-making plans. She had originally only liked