Warhammer: The Third Empire Starting from the Maelstrom
Chapter 49

New National Focus: Administrative System Optimization

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In terms of faith, with the abundance of personnel, all indigenous factions in every Hive City were forcibly converted to the Human Evangelical. Because of the endorsement of Lord Angel and the lingering aftermath of the previous global manifestation, the overall process went relatively smoothly.

A minority of diehards and extremist factions were also personally purged and judged by the Special Operations Division and the Lord Angels.

The popularization and promotion of the Human Evangelical also made the newborn power of the Emperor grow increasingly robust. The most direct manifestation of this was that Huron's system panel had added quite a few Emperor-related decisions.

For example, "Mitigate Gene-seed Flaws".

The Red Thirst of the Lamenters was well-known, and the Mantis Warriors also had their own characteristic symptoms.

Due to genetic mutation, the gene-seed of the Mantis Warriors secreted an additional neurotoxin that altered their physiological functions and enhanced their perception of space and time.

This characteristic state, named "War Will Obsession", would greatly enhance the Mantis Warriors' space-time perception, plunging them into a "time-dilation" state where they saw everyone else as if looking at a slideshow.

However, this state was irreversible and would also cause them to focus solely on their target while ignoring their surroundings.

Therefore, Huron prepared to prepare another little gift for the two chapters to alleviate the negative mutations.

As for why she knew the little secrets of the two chapters?

That was naturally because of the revelation of the Emperor!

Apart from the newly added decisions, the system panel also had quite a few changes.

The Strengthen Production and Construction decision pointed in 719 had already been completed, and the administrative points gained that year were all used by her to click on productivity decisions, achieving the terrifying production capacity of Badab now.

Originally, she wanted to prioritize the coreization of other Hive Cities, but neither the order establishment nor the stability of the Hive City governments in the others met the requirements.

Therefore, she could only retreat to second best, first developing productivity to pull up stability and establish order, and then plotting coreization.

Thus, the new national focus she chose was Administrative System Optimization.

"Administrative System Optimization (0/360)

Introduction: Our forces have already taken control of the entirety of Badab, but the rapidly expanding administrative scale has also lowered the efficiency of the original administrative system. Phenomena of corruption, graft, and slacking off have also begun to appear within our ranks. For everyone's sake, it is time to set about improving the administrative system.

Effects: Gain the "Smooth Reform" buff and unlock a series of decisions to form and optimize the government."

"Smooth Reform: When carrying out optimization and reform, reduce the turmoil that may be caused."

A national focus was essentially Huron's wish, so this was what she currently wanted to do.

Even though she had previously decided the deaths of over a billion people without batting an eye, she still hoped to achieve a happy ending for everyone.

As an administrative system built entirely from scratch, the biggest advantage of the new government was that it did not have to endure the various bad habits and shackles of the old aristocratic system.

Although problems like corruption inevitably appeared, most of them were in a mild stage, with clumsy and obvious methods.

Therefore, under the premise of no accidents having occurred, she still wanted to give these people a chance.

After all, once a human head was cut off, it would not grow back, so it was best to learn from past mistakes and cure the sickness to save the patient.

As for the stubborn elements who refused to repent, Huron could only send them to hell to play a rematch with the nobles and see if the Emperor would grant them a resurrection.

The Emperor: Stop throwing trash into my domain!

However, the problem of corruption was not the crux. The main purpose of Huron clicking this decision was to build a new management system.

Previously back at Palatos Hive, the new government resembled an oversized engineering team more than a government.

But because it was just starting out, this problem was not severe. Relying on her experience from her past life, Huron could still give some guiding opinions.

Yet having run for barely two years, the overall administrative scale suddenly expanded by several folds, and the flaws of insufficient experience and inadequate systems were undoubtedly exposed.

Although various problems were suppressed by relying on Huron's system functions, they would not disappear on their own, and they severely dragged down Badab's construction speed.

Moreover, reaching this scale of a full seventy billion people covering the entire Planet Badab, even with Huron's experience from her past life, she was completely unable to put forth any guiding opinions.

That crappy little ball of eight billion people in her past life had never even been unified, so where would she get any experience from?

Therefore, she could only flip through various books of the Imperium of Man, trying to find experience from them, but regrettably, the Imperium of Man did not have much experience in this regard either.

After all, while it was said that at the planetary level the Imperium generally did not care, ninety-nine point nine percent of Imperial worlds still maintained that state of aristocratic enfeeoffment and clanning trade guilds, giving not the slightest bit of experience to a fully unified centralized government.

Right now, the entire Badab government was feeling its way across the river, without even a single stone.

Basically, problems were discovered and then solved, completely lacking the experience of preventing problems from arising, purely at the level of treating the head when the head aches and the foot when the foot hurts.

Although relying on the violent buff of the system, most of these problems were properly resolved, and the new government began to gradually accumulate experience, the development slowed down as a result was very real.

Therefore, Huron chose to seek help from the system, seeing if the omnipotent national focus could solve this problem.

After all, judging by past experience, what the system was best at was manipulating human hearts, and perhaps it truly had a solution.

And the result was Administrative System Optimization.

Once this national focus was completed, organizational improvement decisions at various levels ranging from "Optimize Community Grassroots Organizations" to "Optimize Planetary Government Organization" would appear, thereby solving the problem of insufficient administrative efficiency.

"Political Points: 12

National Focus Slot: 1

Decisions: Omitted.

Civilian Factory: 35

Military Factory: 35

Shipyard: 15"

Lying on the sofa in the lounge, Huron looked at the data on the system panel, feeling only that it was a pleasing sight to the eye.

Right now, the military factories were producing equipment like Terminators and Land Raiders, as well as high-end weapons such as plasma weapons, meltas, and power weapons.

However, the number of battle-brothers was currently too small, completely in a state of equipment waiting for people, so she had adjusted each type of equipment to the level of one set produced per day. Even so, a lot of surplus equipment had accumulated.

After all, one could hardly expect everyone to drive a Land Raider; this wasn't a Predator tank.

Speaking of which, Huron felt some regret; the Astral Claws were still not resourceful enough.

Regardless of whether it was Astra Militarum tanks like the Leman Russ, Malcador, and Rogal Dorn, or Astartes tanks like the Predator, they only had a few units in stock, with no production blueprints.

The task of reverse engineering had likewise been handed to Armenius for her to get more exercise, as one did not feel the burden of debt when there were too many.

She believed in the ability of the future Master of the Forges of the Red Corsairs, the "Alchemist".

"However, when are Hans and Carl and the others coming back? It's been over a year already. Damn Warp."

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