This was a secret meeting.
The entire surrounding area had been thoroughly inspected, and all personnel had been screened. They had even uncovered a Callidus Assassin.
An urn containing the ashes of an "Untouchable" hung on the wall, while a thick blast-proof wall sealed everything off.
The meeting was attended not only by Fabricator-General Antonia, but also by several important Archmagoses.
The personnel of the Adeptus Mechanicus were a complicated bunch. Bona was certain at least two of them belonged to the Dark Mechanicum.
Given how mixed the Adeptus Mechanicus itself was, though, this was fairly normal. After all, the only deity they revered was the Machine God, the Omnissiah.
Not the God-Emperor or the Chaos Gods.
As a result, many radical factions of the Adeptus Mechanicus within the Imperium were even more extreme and heretical than the Dark Mechanicum.
Bona could not be bothered to care about any of that. As long as these cogheads could provide safe, reliable, practical equipment, that was enough.
"All right, go ahead."
Fabricator-General Antonia nodded slightly, and a projection appeared on the wall.
"The Planetary Ring Psychic Broadcast System."
This was an enormous system installed along a planet's equator or orbital ring, inspired by that earth-shattering psychic bomb Magnus had unleashed.
As its territory expanded, the Thunderhawk Empire had begun to experience delays in transmitting information.
From the Fortress World of Hexen in the far west to Tarankd III in the far east, an ordinary astropathic message took roughly six months to arrive, and its contents would change along the way.
Although the Thunderhawk Empire employed vast numbers of Abominable Intelligences and mortal officials, achieving a terrifying efficiency unimaginable to Terra's government, the distortion of astropathic messages remained a major headache.
To address this, at Bona's request, the Adeptus Mechanicus had used the