Afterward, Li Qinwu wandered over to his factory district to check on the production lines.
When he arrived, he found Busi and the Dwarf Buni Tansen arguing.
Their dispute concerned automating the factories.
The Dwarf Buni Tansen said:
"You stupid tall fellow! Why won't you agree to automate the factories?
Your production lines have so many workers who could clearly be replaced with automated machinery. All these people are just taking up space!
Besides, automated production would increase efficiency more than tenfold. I have absolutely no idea why you're being so stubborn!"
Busi insisted:
"Automated machinery requires Abominable Intelligence (AI). The laws of both the Imperium and the Adeptus Mechanicus forbid its use!
And Lord Earl's warship has to enter and leave the Warp repeatedly. That would further increase the chances of an Electronic Daemon attacking the automated factories!"
After listening for a moment, Li Qinwu understood. This was an age-old problem in Warhammer 40,000: the three-way struggle between efficiency, intelligent systems, and daemonic corruption.
Generally speaking, the more sophisticated an electronic device was, such as a computer, the easier it was for an Electronic Daemon to corrupt.
Older equipment, such as a Cogitator Array, was comparatively harder to corrupt, and the likelihood of corruption was lower.
An artificial intelligence system like Skynet, which spanned the entire world in Terminator, would get stuffed like a cream puff by Electronic Daemons within minutes if it came to Warhammer 40,000.
When the two bickering men noticed Li Qinwu's arrival, they both turned to look at him.
The Dwarf Buni Tansen planted his hands on his hips and said:
"Big fellow, the decision is yours now!
Your earlier attack on the T'au factories netted you a great deal of their automated equipment. If you install that equipment on automated production lines, your warship's