Survival of the Stars: Rise of the Fourth Scourge

Although warp storms are ubiquitous, their intensity is very low, and the sea is relatively calm, which is most suitable for sailing.

But as time passed, he became stronger and more sensitive to psionic perception.

Now that he entered the subspace, the subspace gave him the feeling that it was not as calm as before.

Undercurrents are surging under the calm, and the evil consciousness is sleeping, and it may suddenly wake up one day.

Once they wake up, the galaxy will usher in a true dark age.

The gears of fate will be turned again, ushering in a new cycle.

The evil god who has been sleeping for millions of years will finally wake up, and the bloody feast of souls will spread to the entire galaxy.

Consider the "Omnic Crisis" event that will erupt [-]% of the time.

And in order to avoid being invaded by demons, Li Meng gave up.

However, Li Meng did not give up completely.

Although the path of "artificial intelligence" does not work, the empire has another path to take.

That's "wetware," a "human-brain-like neuronal culture."

Although it cannot be compared with "artificial intelligence" in terms of function, it is fortunately safe.

However, is there really no "artificial intelligence" in the empire?

In fact, it is not entirely true, but the existence of "it" is relatively vague.

It exists in various vehicles of the empire as an auxiliary AI.

But "whether" they exist is a mystery.

The Mechanicus call "them" machine-souls.

Why the Mechanicus can create things with "machine souls", but they can't know whether the "machine souls" really exist.

The reason is actually very simple.

Because the technology owned by Mechanicus is just a piece of data.

Although they can understand, they can use STC to materialize the data.

It is better to integrate the data to get what you want.

But they don't know the basic principles of "technology".

For example, a bolt gun, the Mechanicus can modify it to increase the caliber, increase the power, and reduce the recoil.

Capable of crafting any part of a bolter, including modifying the size of the bolter.

But they couldn't understand why the bullet could produce thrust and come out of the chamber.

It is even more impossible to understand where the "force" comes from, why the rocket fuel in the explosive bomb can fuel, and what the principle is, I don't know at all.

They only know how to use this thing, not how it works.

This is related to the history of the old empire.

In that era, the empire had a golden age.

In that era, the empire was not yet an empire, it was the golden age of mankind.

In that era, human understanding of technology has reached the extreme.

It can even manipulate time, and artificial intelligence has reached its peak.

STC is a product of that era.

"STC", also known as "Automated Construction Module", can manufacture anything that humans need based on existing resources.

For example, a spacecraft carrying "STC" arrives at a strange planet.

Even if the resources of this planet are very poor, it lacks common minerals in the universe.

It can build any tool that humans need through existing resources.

It allows a colony to quickly go from nothing to something.

In that era, human beings traveled almost all over the galaxy.

But in the end, with the "Iron Rebellion", the golden age of mankind came to an end.

And because the subspace set off an unprecedented subspace storm, the human colonies lost contact.

Since then, mankind has entered a dark age.

One day, on Terra, the home planet of the human empire, a new star rose rapidly.

He is full of legend like a god.

He is the Emperor.

He unified Terra and conquered the "Mechanicus" of Mars.

He created the Legion Astartes, giving the Imperium a force unrivaled.

In the end, he launched a great crusade to the star field that humans had lost.

In the following 1 years, the star domains once owned by humans were incorporated into the empire's territory one by one.

Under the leadership of the Emperor, mankind returned to the dominance of the galaxy.

However, just as the empire was thriving for a year and returned to its golden age.

Under the conspiracy of the evil god, a great rebellion descended on the empire.

Although the rebellion was eventually quelled, the Emperor was also badly wounded.

When he was dying, he had to sit on the golden throne.

In the stasis field, the Emperor's time was stopped at the last moment.

Much has happened in the history of the Empire in the aftermath.

In the endless foreign wars and internal conflicts, a lot of technology was lost.

Although in the powerful period of the empire, compared with the technology of the golden age, it was backward.

The "Mechanicus" also uses the STC left over from the golden age to obtain new technologies.

However, under the guidance of the "Emperor's Truth", the human beings of that era were advancing in science and technology, not regressing.

Since the Great Rebellion, without the guidance of the Emperor, there have been many struggles within the "Mechanicus".

As a result, a lot of technology was lost, and the forge worlds became more complacent.

In more serious cases, new research is regarded as treason and will be severely punished.

In this way, the tech priests gradually turned into a group of mechanical lunatics who love archeology.

"King, please name the new ship!"

Donald's sound again interrupted the wild thoughts in Li Meng's mind.

name?

Li Meng looked at 001 at the side.

001 floated over immediately and stopped beside Li Meng.

Blue light shot out from its electronic eyes, forming a holographic screen in front of Li Meng.

As the screen flickered, three ships appeared in Li Meng's eyes.

Seeing this, Li Meng rolled his eyes.

Still enough empire style...

Isn't this a replica of the "Firestorm Class"?
It should be the hull template of the "Firestorm-class" frigate.

It's stretched a bit and bloated a bit, but it still looks like a church in appearance.

The overall color is dark, with a heavy dark wind.

The only difference from the "Firestorm" is that the weapon system is probably deleted.

Even as an industrial ship, the huge ram angle still exists on the ship.

It is said that there are three new types of spaceships, but it seems that they basically all use one.

Seeing this, Li Meng shook his head secretly.

Come on, it seems that he overestimated the self-development ability of the Mechanicus.

What is he expecting?
Forget it, just use it.

Imperial battleships are inherently large platforms.

Form is not important, but function is important.

Although the industrial ship uses the platform of the "Flame Storm-class" escort ship.

But the internal structure should be optimized.

Mining barges are used for mining and must have large enough storage bins and mineral refining equipment.

"Iron Slave" mining boats and "slave labor" mining machines are naturally also available.

Information from the mining barge shows all of the above.

A mining barge can carry 20 Iron Slaves.

You must know that the "Iron Slave" mining boat is not small, with a length of more than 100 meters.