Warhammer 40K: Return of the Men of Iron
Chapter 690

Torment of the Highest Order

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When Guilliman and Trajann Valoris left, the entire fleet had become extremely large.

Iax provided Imperium with four hundred Battleship named Executioner-class.

These new warships have a typical Imperium style, with towering Gothic spires and various architectural styles of cabin structures, but their size is larger than any ship built in Imperium history.

Even the unique Planet Killer in the hands of Abaddon will lose its deterrent effect in front of these giant battleships.

This period of time was extremely cruel torture for those Tech-Priest and Terran technicians.

Even if it does not contain any of the current technologies used by Federation at the time, the variety of old technology product options given by Iax are still dizzying.

Many of the names of these devices are just numerical and alphabetical codes. Even if they have names, they cannot be directly identified. They do not know the specific functions of these things.

Even though Iax carefully labeled these components, they did not know the meaning of these components.

To do this, they must observe the actual effects of these component modules through the holographic recording tags one by one.

There are dozens of these project types, large and small, and there are nearly hundreds of technical options under each total project.

There are an astonishing number of branches under some projects.

Fortunately, Iax still provides certain convenience for their ship assembly.

The energy supply core of the hull is the most important supply.

The dynamic structure of the hologram is amazing.

They had never built a ship like this.

After repeated discussions, these technicians and Tech-Priest selected a giant Arc Reactor that was only several times more advanced than Imperium Plasma Reactor as the heart of the ship.

It's not that the technology provided by Iax is not more advanced. Even the old-fashioned Antimatter stack energy supply will be larger than that of Arc Reactor.

But they still choose this backward technology.

This is the latest technology within the current technological limits of Imperium.

It is not ruled out that some Sage can easily master this technology, but these ships will become an important force for Imperium.

They have to make sure they can maintain these ships.

Choosing a reactor based on the upgraded version of Plasma Reactor technology will help drive the technological progress of the entire Imperium.

According to the current intelligence data, the technical products given by Men of Iron are rarely corrupted by Chaos.

These devices seem to be naturally resistant to Chaos corruption. Imperium can study these devices carefully.

It only takes some time for them to maintain these precious ship cores on their own, and at the same time, they can also find ways to manufacture more Arc Reactor on their own to replace the Plasma Reactor currently installed in large numbers on ships.

After selecting Energy Core, a large number of components immediately disappeared from the dense data list.

Facing the questions from these technicians, a Attendant Men of Iron answered their doubts.

This happens because the missing component does not match the Energy Core or because its energy consumption exceeds the standard and the core cannot support it.

To this end, a bold Tech-Priest made a request.

"Can we load multiple Energy Cores on one ship?"

After making simple calculations, Iax quickly gave suggestions. In order to ensure that the size of the ship would not be too large and difficult to operate, the ship should not have more than four Energy Core at most.

After all, without using any Intelligence Core assistance, four Energy Core is already the maximum option under limited manual maintenance.

As more Energy Core are added, the total energy supply value of the hull is multiplied, and some equipment that disappeared in the weapon system begins to appear.

Some ship layout structures and energy pipeline technology options have been significantly reduced.

Dynamic changes allow all participants to see the ultimate impact of each of their decisions on the ship.

In this way, after hundreds of hours of back and forth, everyone finally completed the layout and design of the ship.

This is not so painful for the technicians from the Imperial Palace, they just marvel at the advancement of lost technology and the glory of humanity in the past.

After all, everything is visible in the simple manufacturing mode with dynamic option changes.

But for the Tech-Priests who were transferred by Guilliman, it was a torture.

Various technological components they had never seen before appeared and disappeared in front of them. Those Holographic Projection flashed before their eyes, and details such as shape, size, energy parameters, etc. were all recorded bit by bit by them.

But I have no idea about the underlying technology and principles.

This feeling of being able to see but only be able to look is really torture Priest.

The only thing that can comfort them is Guilliman's promise that they will be allowed to board the ships to study the technology after they are completed.

After completing the technical combination, everyone once again witnessed the amazing construction efficiency of Men of Iron.

Below Heart of the Forge Titan, the giant Quantum Printing Array began to roar.

These forty kilometers long giant battleships began to emerge one after another from the Thousands of Kilometers long blue printing device at a speed of more than 20 ships per hour.

These warships that had not yet started were pulled by the Gravity Tow device and then approached the Star Fortress floating outside Necromunda in batches.

The rectangular Star Fortress extends with movable locking devices to lock these Giant Ship under the main body.

This makes the entire Star Fortress look a bit like an enlarged version of the chip.

Due to manpower issues, Guilliman had to let Iax and Machine Body assist in operating the ship first.

After all, each of these ships requires at least 100,000 people to maintain basic operations, which is almost twice the number of people working on Gloriana-class Battleship.

When these ships ignited their engines in the void and were neatly arranged in a square array and drifted in the void, the scene was even comparable to that of Emperor and Great Crusade.

The wide triangular structure, tall hull, and huge weapons make these ships full of intimidation.

The coil-shaped energy generating device under the bow of the ship is an energy weapon called Executioner Cannon. Its power is enough to directly explode the planet. It has a shorter energy storage time and stronger destructive power than the Nova Cannon used by Imperium.

The Orbital Accelerator Cannon on both sides has a larger caliber and more terrifying accuracy than the common Macro-cannon.

Dense Vortex Laser anti-aircraft arrays and Missile Pod are spread over almost every piece of movable armor.

The huge long-shaped nozzle at the end of the hull demonstrates its terrifying power system.

One hundred of these four hundred battleships were assigned to Adeptus Custodes.

The other three hundred ships were reassigned by Guilliman.

In order to prevent Imperium from becoming more suspicious of him, Guilliman very generously distributed these three hundred ships downwards.

Except for Dark Angels, all other Space Marine and Parent Chapter will receive a quota of thirty ships.

These ships will be escorted by Ultramarines to the location of these Parent Chapter.

As for Dark Angels, Guilliman's statement is very direct. He doesn't know where the Rock is, nor does he know where Lion El'Jonson is causing trouble at Milky Way. He will wait for him to pick it up.

As for the additional 60 ships, they were handed over to Departmento Munitorum for unified deployment.

To this end, Departmento Munitorum needs to issue orders and ask each Sector Departmento Munitorum to cooperate with each Chapter Parent Chapter to prepare suitable crew members for these Giant Ship.

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