Next came the technology recorded in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
"Can't we use weapons made according to those design concepts?" Siegfried asked.
Raiden Ryoma shook his head. "It's not that we can't use them. It's just that they're both fire-element weapons, yet the fire-element pistols designed by ME Company still can't compare to Schicksal's Fire Sprite Type I. And Schicksal is currently developing second-generation Honkai Energy weapons."
"...We seized quite a few samples before," Welt reminded him.
On the day of the great incident at Schicksal, Siegfried and Welt had both hidden aboard a transport ship.
They had also taken away nearly half of the Honkai Energy weapons inside.
Among them were several prototype second-generation Honkai Energy weapons.
At this point, Welt and Raiden Ryoma could not help but marvel at Schicksal's research institutions.
Especially the several black-tech research institutes led by Research Institute 1504. Anti-Entropy's technology had been unable to analyze several prototype weapons. In the end, Welt had no choice but to personally use the Herrscher's power to analyze those prototypes.
"Alliance Leader, regarding those samples, ME Company's manufacturing capabilities are likely insufficient to replicate them. The technological gap is simply too great, and most importantly, we don't have a Honkai Energy Reactor."
Raiden Ryoma revealed the true reason the replication plan had failed.
Although Anti-Entropy's Floating Battleships were already powered by Honkai Energy, Anti-Entropy itself did not possess its own Honkai Energy Reactor.
There were many reasons why it could not build one.
The first was Schicksal's suppression. Anti-Entropy could not possibly construct a Honkai Energy Reactor while under Schicksal's watchful eye.
The second was Anti-Entropy's lack of technology for utilizing Honkai Energy. Even with the technology recorded in the Dead Sea Scrolls, its Honkai Energy utilization efficiency still lagged far behind Schicksal's.
The other reasons were