At the center of the Mechanicus support fleet, the massive celestial body temporarily named the Iron Men Planet was transforming according to Lox's will.
Countless industrial Iron Men emerged from the newly completed foundry workshops. They possessed entirely different body designs to meet production requirements in different environments.
Some were better suited to working deep underground, and were therefore shorter and more agile; others needed to undertake factory construction, and possessed massive frames comparable to Knight walkers, able to move heavy materials by themselves.
Under the Iron Men's efforts, enormous material transport platforms were built at an incredible pace. They would bore into the ground, gathering all manner of mineral resources like countless capillaries.
After being purified and refined at the ore processing centers, these raw materials were sent to manufacturing plants to replicate industrial Iron Men and various large-scale, high-efficiency production equipment.
Even rock could be converted into metal through heavy nuclear fusion. Those reactors could even burn rock and turn it into energy.
Any waste of matter was a luxury. Supreme efficiency was converting all matter into usable war resources.
Compared to humans, the Iron Men could carry out production tasks around the clock. They did not tire, did not complain, and did not fear accidents in dangerous working environments.
Such extensive planetary alteration would inevitably bring all kinds of geological disasters and dangers. Even the Iron Men encountered hazards, whether being buried and crushed by suddenly collapsing strata or suffering malfunctions during the operation of production equipment.
The most basic industrial Iron Men possessed only simple consciousnesses, allowing them to carry out relatively fixed production operations without the remote control of node Iron Men.
Even if their bodies were damaged beyond repair, their consciousnesses could still be uploaded into a node Iron Man's processor and injected once