Compared with the giant Enforcer tanks once used by the Men of Iron, the Emperor's Bane Blade was utterly fragile in Iax's eyes.
The Quantum Printing device inside the machine was working smoothly, rapidly consuming and reconstructing the original Bane Blade.
The newly formed tank was a third smaller.
Its exposed hull had a dull metallic gray finish.
The matte armor surface effectively prevented light from reflecting off it.
The Quantum Printing device's atomic-level reconstruction refined the hull armor, which had originally been produced through smelting.
Having lost its ancient technology, the Imperium still relied on crude, rudimentary methods of smelting and casting.
Compared with the Necrons' metal printing, the Aeldari's wraithbone weaving, or even the T'au's exceptionally high quality control maintained by rudimentary artificial intelligence, the Imperium's creations were primitive and backward.
Although the hull reconstructed through Quantum Printing had not undergone a drastic change in its material composition,
its matter had been reorganized at the atomic level, creating a difference almost as vast as that between pig iron and steel plate.
Large quantities of impurities that the Imperium could not eliminate were easily removed.
Meanwhile, the enormous interior, which had resembled that of a small spacecraft, was reconfigured, and many unnecessary compartments were eliminated.
Iax could understand installing life-support systems in a tank. After all, living soldiers needed them in a vacuum or a toxic environment.
But what exactly was the point of putting toilets, kitchens, and bedrooms inside a tank?
Why did a combat machine have so many pointless compartments?
Removing the unnecessary compartments also meant eliminating a large number of redundant crew members.
A standard Emperor's Bane Blade required a crew of ten to twelve.
Most of them were responsible for its assorted secondary weapons.
The original ammunition compartment was removed and converted into a new