Chapter 109: Technology Fusion
Without the threat of the majority of the Knights, the process of occupying the entirety of Vaporis proceeded with exceptional smoothness.
Those enemies still wielding melee weapons were not even considered a threat. The Thors and Gorgons were dispatched to hunt down the Knights scattered in other areas.
Fortunately, the area of this peripheral world in Winterscale's Realm that had been affected by Khornate corruption was not too large.
The entire planet could still be saved.
The Raiders began to sweep the planet for remaining enemy forces.
The logistics corps, meanwhile, began to search for valuable items on the planet.
Priests from the Ecclesiarchy began the attempt to purify the corruption and started to promote the name of Lucan the savior in the hearts of these survivors.
There was no time more suitable than now. At this moment, sufficient supplies and a hot mouthful of food could move people's hearts more than anything else.
Ymir looked at the mushroom stew in his hands and took a deep breath.
He swore this was the most fragrant thing he had ever smelled in his life. He took a small sip, and a warmth instantly flowed through his whole body, quickly calming his mind.
"Brother, what is this… it's so good!" Anna drank in large gulps at his side, even licking the entire bowl clean. Compared to what she had eaten before, that was simply not fit for human consumption.
And Ymir smiled, pouring half of the stew from his own bowl into Anna's.
"Brother, you drink too."
"I'm already full! You drink it!"
Ymir looked up and saw the priests walking among them, the refugees, speaking a name he had never heard before: Lucan Mongorte.
Ymir now knew it was this person who had saved them and provided them with food.
And a tall, heroic figure also began to form in Ymir's imagination.
Sometimes, loyalty is formed just that simply.
Even Lucan didn't notice that his own Warp projection had absorbed a wisp of faith, though for his current Warp projection, this bit of faith was far too little.
Under Lucan's command, he did not let these civilians remain idle. Compared to distributing food to them for free, it was more appropriate to have them exchange labor for food.
Although the engineering machinery could easily complete the work that would take these civilians a large amount of manpower, only a home built with one's own hands could give people the motivation to protect it.
Lucan's saving of these people indeed involved feelings of pity; he felt their lives were too miserable. But at the same time, he also had his own private interests. This planet was now considered part of his Dynasty. He needed these people to protect his territory, and cultivating their loyalty also required them to make more contributions, even sacrifices, for his Dynasty.
As one's own position gets higher and higher, one's thinking also changes. While saving more people, Lucan would also make it more in line with his own interests.
The castle of the traitorous Knight House had already become a field of ruins.
And after destroying this castle complex, although the enemies within were quickly annihilated, a large number of valuable items were also buried beneath these ruins.
Pavian was currently having his Tech-Priests use SCVs and various engineering machines to clear this rubble.
And a large number of civilians were also transported here by the Raiders' transport aircraft to carry out the cleanup work.
The Raiders stood guard in the surroundings, in case some individuals who weren't quite dead were dug out from under the ruins. After all, the vitality of these Chaos cultists was much stronger than that of ordinary people.
And as the rubble was continuously cleared, some still-breathing Khornate cultists were indeed dug out. Even though they were completely paralyzed, they still bared their teeth and cursed the humans before them.
The lucky ones were met with a bullet in return, while the unlucky ones were beaten to death by angry civilians with shovels.
Pavian waited anxiously at the side.
The excavation work had been going on for two days, and he still hadn't found what he was looking for.
Just as he thought it might have been destroyed by the Gorgons' artillery, good news came from the Tech-Priests.
He strode towards the excavation site.
As several huge boulders were lifted away, a hangar that had housed a full ten Knights was excavated.
"A Styrix-class… a Gallant-class… a Lancer-class… a Questoris-class…" These Knights, which had not had time to be activated, now lay scattered here. Around them were also many Sacristans who had been crushed to death or killed by the shockwaves of the artillery.
They were the Knight House's equivalent of Tech-Priests. Although their names were different, these people had all been trained by the Adeptus Mechanicus, and their duties were almost the same as a Tech-Priest's. Their job was to repair and maintain these Knights.
Pavian was very satisfied with these Knights. Although they were corrupted, for the Cult of the Holy Machine, it was not a problem.
One by one, the Tech-Priests affixed Purity Seals to the bodies of these Knights. As the seals took effect, the corrupted machine spirits slowly began to break free from the influence of Chaos corruption. Before long, normal machine spirits once again appeared within these Knights.
As long as the blasphemous decorations on these Knights were removed, they would once again be excellent machine spirits loyal to humanity. The machine spirits of Knights possessed a strong sense of autonomy, and could even advocate for their pilots in court. And apart from belligerent machine spirits like the Styrix-class, most machine spirits were unwilling to be corrupted by Chaos.
There had even been instances of corrupted machine spirits forcibly going on strike and requesting others to destroy them.
Although the Dynasty already possessed Thors, it still lacked large-scale melee vehicles. These Knights could fill this gap for the Dynasty. And their intrinsic value, even if not used by himself, could be exchanged for a massive amount of Thrones and various resources if sold externally.
And the most valuable thing was not these Knights themselves.
Pavian controlled the mechadendrites on his back and began to gather the corpses of these Sacristans together.
He began to open their skulls and remove the storage units from within their brains. Although the scene was somewhat bloody and cruel, with each one he removed, Pavian appeared extremely excited.
He then looked at several damaged Cogitators in the ruins.
He and his Tech-Priests began to work on repairing these Cogitators. When the Cogitators were connected to a power source and turned on again, the data inside showed "access denied." But with another slap of a Purity Seal, the Knight House's simple encryption method was proactively opened under the influence of the overjoyed machine spirit.
And the contents within were precisely what Pavian needed.
Maintenance and repair technology related to Knight mechs. Although the Knight House could not independently produce these large vehicles, after so many years, they had ultimately figured out some methods. At least on some principles, these Sacristans also had their own unique insights.
The development of the Thor had hit a bottleneck. And with this knowledge, Pavian could use the powerful computational power of the Stellar Pioneer to reverse-engineer the technology. Knights were originally civilian mechs used for colonization during the Golden Age.
Perhaps there was a chance to combine the technology of Knight mechs with the technology of the Thor to create an even more powerful large-scale mech.
The fleet to which the Stellar Pioneer belonged was originally a colonization fleet. Although the data was no longer complete, under Pavian's organization and search, a considerable number of fragmented technical documents were still found.
When Lucan heard Pavian's idea, he was not stingy with his praise at all!
The Thor's firepower was already sufficient, but without the support of Medivacs, its mobility and flexibility were much worse than a Knight's.
Modularity had its advantages, but excessive modularity also made the Thor's limb joints unable to swing melee weapons as freely as a Knight Gallant could.
Once in close combat, the Thor was practically at the mercy of a Knight Gallant. Both went to an extreme.
If the two were combined, perhaps it would produce an unexpected effect.
"Pavian, I will increase your resource allocation again. I hope you can complete the design of the new generation of heavy mechs as soon as possible!"
"Thank you, my Lord. My Tech-Priests and I will do our utmost. I already have some ideas!"
(End of Chapter)
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