Immortal, My Desperate Journey at 40k

Chapter 811: Unmanned Fleet

"I am Zuosekt, the emperor of the Muhat Dynasty. I have come to your ship to declare war on you, the protector of the human race. This is a belated declaration of war. Please forgive our rudeness. After all, before this, we just regarded your race as a group of inferior creatures."

The Necromancer was sitting in Wang Ming's room. He looked at Wang Ming who was about to pick up the power knife and spoke to him with a very strange politeness. Wang Ming didn't know why a very polite and strange feeling could be heard in his words even though the Necromancer's words were very cold and without much emotion.

It was like talking to a noble who was very knowledgeable about social etiquette. Wang Ming looked at the Necron Emperor in front of him. He silently picked up the power knife he had placed on the table, then stared at the guy in front of him and chopped off his head without hesitation. Wang Ming did not need to discuss declaring war with these guys. The moment they attacked the human world, they had actually declared war on humans. The so-called etiquette or politeness had actually completely disappeared when they massacred the civilians on those worlds.

This guy had the audacity to explain that they actually regarded the human civilians on those worlds as some kind of inferior creatures, and that they now wanted to declare war on humans with etiquette and courtesy only because they discovered that humans' technology was actually similar to theirs, at least the technology of the 21st Legion was not much different from theirs.

The 21st Legion's complete set of federal technology made the Necrons feel the power of humans. However, even so, the Necrons would only show some courtesy to humans. They also put humans in a position similar to their own. In their eyes, human technology is not actually more powerful than theirs. They just think that the technology of the human federation is similar to theirs.

The recognition of a civilization can only be based on your strength and its equal strength. If you are weak, you will definitely be bullied by that civilization. Now the gap between humans and Necrons has been pulled to the same level by the 21st Legion. Human technology is not worse than that of Necrons, it's just that the Empire's technology is much worse than that of Necrons. If it were the former Human Federation, then the technological gap between them and the Necrons would be pulled to a very small point.

However, the only ones who can now make full use of the human federation technology are the time travelers of the 21st Legion. Due to the distrust of the human federation technology by various departments of the Empire and the fact that some of the human federation's weapons of mass destruction require artificial intelligence for real-time calculations, even if those federation ships are handed over to the Imperial Navy and other Astartes Corps, in order for them to use them without scruples, those ships are actually castrated versions. Although the energy weapons and kinetic weapons of those ships are very powerful, the real weapons of mass destruction cannot be used at all, or there are very few regular weapons that can be used. After all, without the use of artificial intelligence, the thinker arrays produced by the Empire cannot keep up with the computing power required for those weapons.

If those regular weapons are used forcibly, they will not be able to be used at all, and it is even possible that their ships will be directly affected by the regular weapons and the ship will be destroyed and people will die. So it is not that Wang Ming does not want to hand over all the human federal technology to the empire, but the conservative attitude of the empire prevents Wang Ming from giving all those technologies to the empire. After all, if you really give artificial intelligence to them, they will not use artificial intelligence to do anything at all, and they may even directly break the artificial intelligence motherboard. And according to the crazy attitude of the empire, it is very likely that Wang Ming just gave it to them because this battleship has artificial intelligence, so they think this battleship is some kind of heretical creation, and then throw it directly into the star to burn it.

The level of madness in the Empire forced Wang Ming to review the technological creations given to them. There must not be any creations that are considered heretical by the Empire. Otherwise, if the Mechanicus shouted that the 21st Legion was heresy, and then there was a civil war on Mars because of problems with the Mechanicus's beliefs, it would be very uncomfortable.

After all, there really is a group of geeks in the Mechanicus who believe in Wang Ming. These guys think that Wang Ming is another incarnation of Ohm Messiah in the mortal world because he brought those technological treasures of Ohm Messiah. After all, the number of STC templates possessed by the 21st Legion has reached a very scary level. Basically, any technological creation you can imagine will eventually have its corresponding STC template in the 21st Legion.

Wang Ming is never reluctant to give the STC template to the legion, and he would even give it directly to a planetary government on a world for use. After all, what Wang Ming did was just to let the STC template play the role it should play. Although the Mechanicus believes that the STC template is sacred, this is not the case for Wang Ming. In Wang Ming's cognition, the standard construction template is just a tool. In the era of the Human Federation, it was just a tool. Tools should play their purpose and play their role in the development of human civilization.

So Wang Ming is actually now in the empire, and has been constrained by the empire's traditions. He cannot quickly eliminate the empire's distrust of those creatures, nor can he get rid of the conservatism of the Mechanicus. He can only slowly and step by step continue to reform the empire. This is a helpless choice.

Having said all this, let us now turn our attention back to the problem that Wang Ming needs to face now. What Wang Ming needs to face now is the joint forces of at least three Necron dynasties. These three Necron dynasties are extremely powerful, as can be seen from the six world engines they own, and they also have extremely large fleets.

On the other hand, of Wang Ming's imperial fleet, the only ones that can actually participate in this terrible battle are the fleet of the 21st Legion and the wandering fleet of the Human Federation that is still following the 21st Legion. If the Second Renaissance Expedition Fleet of the 21st Legion that is already in this star region is included, the actual force that humans can truly confront the Necrons head-on is only three standard Federation fleets.

The three standard Federation fleets were facing all the fleets of the three powerful Necromancer dynasties and six world engines. This situation was a bit too much for the Empire. Wang Ming looked at the body of the Necromancer whose neck he had cut off and was gradually being teleported back. He silently closed the decomposition position of his power knife and put it back on the table. Then Wang Ming began to think. He kept thinking about whether he should use the relatively dangerous technology in the human Federation. The current situation has made him think about using those technologies. Wang Ming cannot force other imperial navies or fleets of other legions to use Federation ships equipped with artificial intelligence.

After thinking for a very long time, Wang Ming finally decided that he must use that technology. In fact, Wang Ming thought for a very long time. Even for a mortal, it was a long time. Wang Ming thought for a full hour before making this decision, which was enough to show how dangerous that technology was.

The technology that Wang Ming needs to use is the unmanned warship. This technology is actually very simple. It is an unmanned warship in the literal sense. This technology was developed by the Human Federation Navy at the request of the Federation. This technology may also be one of the important reasons for the Iron Man Rebellion. After all, this technology is the first time that humans have given all decision-making power of a warship to artificial intelligence, without any human restrictions.

It can be said that as long as artificial intelligence wants to disobey human orders, there is actually no way to stop it except to destroy it. After all, the navy of the human federation has given these unmanned warships very high authority. They do not want those unmanned warships to serve as cannon fodder on the battlefield, but want those unmanned warships to cooperate with each other to form a complete command chain. The navy of the human federation even hopes that some unmanned warships operated by artificial intelligence can become command ships to command other federal navies.

It can be said that when the Human Federation was designing these manually operated unmanned warships, it did not consider the three laws of robotics at all. After all, the main reason for involving them is to allow them to command the human navy and other unmanned warships on the battlefield. If the three laws of robotics were added, this task would likely become extremely difficult, and even lead to various very unacceptable problems.

After all, as long as there is a battlefield, there will be more or less human sacrifices on that battlefield, and the three laws of robotics will force artificial intelligence to obey orders to protect humans. Therefore, artificial intelligence that has learned these three laws will not be able to command the human navy and other unmanned warships on the battlefield at all.

The rebellious behavior of these artificial intelligence warships that do not have the three major laws on the battlefield may very likely cause accidents that are worse than those of the enemy on the entire battlefield. Therefore, the human federation’s countermeasures against them can only be to place some equipment to prevent artificial intelligence rebellion in them, and to maintain control of the self-destruction programs of these warships.

To be honest, this situation is not very effective in controlling artificial intelligence. Those countermeasure devices are likely to be cleared by the artificial intelligence's self-inspection system, or they may be deliberately dismantled by artificial intelligence without the knowledge of humans. The backdoor programs set up in the artificial intelligence system can also be edited by artificial intelligence.

After all, the artificial intelligence of those unmanned warships has too much freedom of authority, and these warships were manufactured at the end of the entire Golden Age, which was the stage when the Iron Man Rebellion was about to begin, so these things may also have a certain relationship with the Iron Man Rebellion. That's why Wang Ming was very reluctant to use this technology, but when facing the joint forces of the three powerful Necron dynasties, he had to use this technology.

When Wang Ming uses this technology, he will also add some safety valves to it. He will not use any equipment or program backdoor protocols for these things like the Human Federation does. Instead, he will directly arrange a team of traversers on those unmanned warships. As long as those unmanned warships show any signs of rebellion against humans, the team of traversers will immediately activate the antimatter bombs they carry with them. Moreover, they will not carry just one antimatter bomb, but one per person, and they will be distributed in various positions on those warships to prevent being collectively beheaded by the rebellious artificial intelligence.

Only in this way can Wang Ming safely use the unmanned warships controlled by artificial intelligence. Even so, Wang Ming continued to add some safety valves. In addition to the manual prevention measures of those time travelers, Wang Ming also asked the First Engineer Corps to add a large number of backdoor programs and virus programs to these warships. These things will be activated at the moment when those artificial intelligences rebel. At that time, as long as any artificial intelligence rebels, their systems will collapse in an instant. Even if they are lucky enough to deal with those backdoor programs and virus programs, the time travelers will use their own antimatter bombs to let them know the consequences of betraying mankind.

After arranging all this, Wang Ming began to arrange the unmanned fleet. First, Wang Ming gathered all the traversers in the fleet, and then assigned them to unmanned warships in groups.

When Wang Ming assigned them to the unmanned warships, he also gave them one high-gram antimatter bomb each. These time travelers would serve as the first safety valve after an accident on the battlefield. Moreover, if possible, the time travelers would not need to destroy the warships. They only needed to control the artificial intelligence on the warships. The rest would be to drive the warships into the Necrons' warships.

After all, Wang Ming's main purpose is to maximize the use of these unmanned warships. After arranging all this, the fleet gradually began to grow larger and larger. One warship after another appeared from the void. In this newly emerged fleet, countless shuttles shuttled between these warships in preparation for the upcoming battle.