Construction Achievements

However, to ensure procedural justice, the judicial process still had to be followed first. Furthermore, many of those people still had surviving victims, requiring public trials, which inevitably caused the pace to slow down.

Even though the court operated without stopping while the staff took turns, running three shifts 24 hours a day to conduct trials day and night, the entirety of Badab still only executed one to two million bastards in a single day.

At this rate, just killing these bastards would take several years, to say nothing of the other criminals.

However, it was not without good news. Under the blessing of the system's divine might, the overall restoration of Palatus was already more than half complete, and it was projected to be fully finished within one year.

The livelihood transformation project in the underhive was also more than half complete.

Three east-west running and two north-south running water supply mains were now connected and operational, their total length immeasurable. Tens of millions of water collection points had been established along the routes, with hundreds of billions of liters of purified water surging through them daily to bring hope to the residents of the underhive.

To collect all available resources, the sewage system was established concurrently, covering over seventy percent of the area. Although it was merely a basic public sanitation system where most people had to go outside their homes to use the toilet, due to the semi-forced guidance of government personnel and the improvement of the security environment, the residents of the underhive did not have a low acceptance of it, and the sanitary environment of the underhive improved greatly.

To meet these gigantic systems, hundreds of large plasma reactors had also been built and connected to the grid for power generation, with high-voltage main transmission lines providing surging energy for the operation of each system.

The air purification and circulation system covering the entire underhive was also built and operational. After more than a year of improvements, the air environment of the underhive had been vastly upgraded, successfully reaching a level where it would not choke people to death.

Sufficient electricity also provided the preconditions for the public lighting system and public surveillance system to be built. Complementing each other, the two completely illuminated the underhive—where most areas used to be pitch black—and the continuously expanding surveillance cameras left various monsters and freaks with nowhere to hide, safeguarding the safety of the residents.

Among the forty-seven pioneer pilot blocks in the underhive, the first batch of standardized residential areas had been built, and about twenty million households had moved in.

These residential areas were assembled from unified prefabricated components into six-story buildings with four households per floor. Each household had an area of about sixty square meters, equipped with an independent kitchen, bathroom, and balcony. In front of the building were a small square and green space, and behind it was a garbage collection point.

The first batch of resident families consisted of "labor models" from the engineering team, which was also a measure by the new government to inspire the people.

Community service centers, health stations, police stations, activity rooms... These facilities, which they had never heard of before, filled them with wonder and amazement.

Although compared to the more than twenty billion residents of the underhive, these twenty million households accounted for less than one percent, they still let other residents see hope.

Yet, to Huron, this was only the level of a small county town in his impression, and the kind with hardly any high-rise buildings at that.

Even so, for most people in the underhive, this was already a heaven-shaking transformation.

Aside from the underhive, the industrial zone in the mid-hive underwent tremendous changes as well.

Factories that used to be the private property of various nobles were uniformly nationalized by the new government and centrally allocated and arranged by the economic development bureau.

After clearing logistics obstacles, building transportation roads, and integrating complementary industries, this massive industrial zone covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometers erupted with unprecedented production capacity.

Basic materials such as plasteel, plastasteel, and duracrete had all reached a daily production capacity level of hundreds of millions of tons, but because of the scarcity of basic resources, this production capacity had not reached its limit.

Although the scale of mining areas and ruins clearance and recycling near the hive city was growing larger, restricted by road construction and transport vehicles, the freight volume could never be pushed up.

Now, a major priority for the new government was to repair and expand the transportation system.

Through integration and expansion, the production line for the MA-1 sapper exoskeleton had reached a monthly output of one million sets. However, compared to the large number of special operations divisions and billions of labor workers Huron intended to form, this production capacity could only be described as... well, promising for the future.

Chainswords and bolters had also reached a monthly production of hundreds of thousands, while the production lines for the Chimera Armored Vehicle were continuously under construction, now turning out tens of thousands of units a month.

Armenius even led the Techmarine to work in full cooperation with the Bureau of Knowledge and Technology and its subordinate Department of Applied Technology Development, attempting to mass-produce the Mk7 Aquila Power Armor.

Even though progress was currently minor due to the relatively complex technology involved and the precious raw materials required, it still gave Huron something to look forward to.

In addition, regarding the air force, air-superiority fighters represented by the Lightning and the Bolt, transport and support aircraft represented by the Valkyrie and the Avenger, and bombers represented by the Marauder also began production. Their output was currently low, but they were also shaking off the problem of insufficient air power.

It had to be said that the ambitious Astral Claws saved Huron a great deal of effort; they had long since prepared equipment production blueprints for all aspects. Although high-end fine goods were lacking, it did not matter—a massive volume of usable weapons was the key to victory.

Therefore, Huron prepared to add an army aviation squadron equipped with sixty Lightnings to the special operations divisions to compensate for their current lack of specialized tanks and further strengthen their combat prowess.

Progress on the navy side, however, was slow. The repair of the original fleet and the completion of repairs on two Sword-class Frigates captured from the nobles brought the number of frigates to eight, along with a dozen accompanying armed transports.

Huron also had the armoury cooperate with the Bureau of Knowledge and Technology to raise the degree of ship automation, reduce the number of required personnel, and further reinforce the advantages of Astartes warships.

The advantages of Astartes warships were their high degree of automation, fast ship battery rate of fire, and high speed, so those advantages naturally had to be augmented.

The extra space could serve as living quarters for breacher teams or be fitted with more armor and supporting structures.

Following more than a year of development, the shipyard expanded, launching twelve Gladius-class frigates simultaneously, with an estimated construction time of ten years.

Huron's void drydocks were increased to fifteen, and he simultaneously placed an order for five Gladius-class frigates. With three drydocks building a single warship concurrently, it would only take three years to finish.

As for how to explain the sudden appearance of five warships when the time came? Do not ask; asking meant the divine might of the Emperor.

Once these warships were built, he believed his control over the Astral Claws—and even over the Lamenters and the Mantis Warriors—would rise immensely.

By then, would it not suffice for such a minor matter to become everyone's little secret?

Which Astartes Chapter in the entire Imperium did not have some little secrets of their own? We of the Astral Claws would have ours as well!