Ever since the Emperor had completely cast off the curse of the Dark King, stepped down from the Golden Throne, and returned to the Imperium, the entire human empire had swiftly regained a vitality unseen for a very long time.
If the old Imperium had been a sluggish train, it could only run along the inherited tracks left behind by the Emperor.
Even if it could maintain stable operation, so long as no new tracks were laid, that train could only keep circling along the old rails.
Once the tracks decayed, or the train's power system failed, the Imperium of Man would plunge into an endless abyss.
Though that process was extraordinarily slow, it was inevitable.
But now, the train's conductor had returned. He had upgraded its power system, allowing it to run faster than before.
More importantly, the train had begun creating new tracks. That was the decisive factor in breaking the old deadlock.
The Imperium's most important project now was naturally the repair of that section of artificial Webway beneath the Imperial Palace.
Rogal Dorn and Perturabo, two Primarchs, personally oversaw the work, sparing no cost to ensure the repair proceeded safely and steadily.
At every moment, massive quantities of materials and resources were transported into that stretch of Webway, where conversion machines turned them into suitable Webway materials.
In truth, the greatest bottleneck limiting humanity's Webway repair speed was the Aeldari Bonesingers' rate of producing wraithbone.
Compared to humanity's ability to rely on mass production and crazily expand its productive capacity, wraithbone could only be produced by Bonesingers slowly using their psychic power to solidify Warp energy.
One was industrialized mass production in the interstellar age, while the other relied on painstaking handcraft. Their efficiency differed by more than tens of millions of times.
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