Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 528 06.0527: "Type IX Experimental Plan - 'Bayonet Class' Long-Range Cruiser Attack Ship"

Her artificial eye directly projected a complex holographic plan and showed it to Horatio: "The current Epic is a Type VII (Type 7) medium-range attack ship plan, but the final result will be a Type IX (Type 9) long-range ocean-going plan. Internally, she is called the 'Bayonet-class' long-range cruiser attack ship."

"Bayonet class? Her appearance is quite consistent with this class name."

Horatio looked at the extended Type IX long-range cruiser attack ship plan and commented:
"The width and height remain the same, but the length is elongated, and it has a knife-shaped bow, straight and long. It does have some flavor of a bayonet, and it is indeed like a bayonet that pierces the enemy's chest, slender and deadly."

"You don't know, Captain. If you really want to trace its design source, it has many similarities with the Scimitar-class escort ship.

(A Cutlass escort ship half the length of a light cruiser.)
They are both 2.2 kilometers long, half the length of a dreadnought-class light cruiser, and are simply "little giants" among ships of the same type. This means that she can carry more torpedoes, with four torpedo silos in the front and two in the rear, so that you can make more deceptive ambush strategies.

There are also as many as 36 internal torpedoes, four of which are located in the front launch tubes, and 26 spare bombs are located in the front bomb compartment; two torpedoes are located in the rear torpedo silos, and four spare bombs are located in the rear bomb compartment. "

“I approve of the length of your product from Voss.

When other escort ships are only 1.6 kilometers long, you have built a huge thing like the Scimitar class that is 2.2 kilometers long. Well, are you the priest of Voss, the priest of Mars, or...?"

"It's not important, Captain. What's important is what I can bring to you." She smiled and said, "If we follow the normal process, I will arrange a Scimitar-class escort ship for you, so that you can spend your career as a lieutenant commander on the largest escort ship in the human empire.

But unfortunately, you don't seem to be satisfied with your current position as a lieutenant commander, nor do you feel interested in escort missions. You are eager for military merit, so you hope to continue commanding the Epic. I can also meet your needs."

[To be precise, I want to slack off, but the disaster that is about to happen in the future does not allow me to slack off.]
Horatio complained silently in his heart and gave his own answer:
"That's right, Father Lati. Just as you said, I am not satisfied with my current position as a lieutenant commander in the navy, nor am I interested in boring escort missions. But how can you meet my needs? It will probably take more than a day or two to transfer a new warship from the Forge World in the Gothic Sector or by other means."

"Of course not." Her smile became more mysterious. "I will take the Epic to the Gantz Forge World Prime, Konor. Although we are not from the same Mechanicus, Archmagos Kron Barberel supports Macragge, and Macragge spared no effort to support the Second Damocles Gulf Expedition.

Therefore, we could use their shipyard to transform the Epic, and the necessary components for the transformation from Type VII to Type IX could be obtained from the inventory, and the technical team accompanying the expedition would be able to perform all the steps of the transformation. Well, or we had originally planned to try the experimental Type IX solution in the second Damocles Gulf expedition.

However, after the transformation is completed, because some technical issues are not yet mature, I suggest that you continue to use her as an attack ship without the ability to navigate the subspace, and wait until I have completely solved the relevant problems before performing subspace jump navigation. "

"It sounds a bit ridiculous that a warship equipped with a warp jump engine cannot enter the warp."

"To be precise, this is just to match your status as a lieutenant commander. After all, naval regulations only stipulate that you should command a class ship that can navigate in the warp, but there is no requirement that you must use the warp navigation to fight, right?" Lati cunningly took advantage of a loophole.

This amusing little rascal reminded Horatio of an incident from the days of sail.

A naval captain was ordered to command a warship to intercept the smuggling ship, but only the brig was left in the port.

According to regulations, a naval captain should command a "three-masted warship", and a brig was obviously not suitable for the captain's status. Just when the captain was about to command, the Admiralty sent a fake mast to be installed on the brig, on the grounds that "according to the Admiralty Act, a naval captain should command a three-masted warship".

At first he thought it was a joke, a satire on the British Admiralty's rigid adherence to rules and regulations, until he learned that the name of the ship, 'HMS Beagle', was real in history, and even in the 41st millennium, his own personal experience was somewhat similar.

But careful testing of new designs is entirely legitimate and necessary, making this less ironic.

"Of course, Captain, it shouldn't take too long to solve this technical problem, and the machine soul won't change much. You'll still be facing your familiar comrades, although the changes caused by the new additions and replacements will cause the machine soul to need to be re-adjusted.

Once I have everything ready, you can take advantage of all the new equipment on the Epic Bayonet!"

"Well, since you are so confident, I will leave the Epic to you. I will recruit crew members in Zhendan and prepare a lot of supplies in advance to prepare for long-range operations."

"No problem, Captain. I wish you a pleasant vacation in Aurora." Latti gave Horatio a very ladylike gear salute, then left his side and conveyed Horatio's wishes to the person in charge of the Imperial Navy's commission.

His letter of commission deliberately left a blank space for the name of the commissioned warship, and soon the blank space was filled with "Project IX Experimental Bayonet-class Epic Long-range Cruiser Attack Ship".

A drawing ship that still exists on the drawing board and has no real object.

This undoubtedly added a special and colorful stroke to the service record of this ambitious and adventurous young "Wolf King".

If it were someone else, they wouldn't have the face to get such a chance to be chosen - there are many people who want to become the captain of a classified ship, and if you don't want to do it, there are plenty of people who want to do it, so there is no room for bargaining at all.

But for a legendary heir who has just made remarkable achievements on the front lines, he is fully qualified to make his own choice in the Gothic Sector Fleet.

"It is called choosing a better way to serve the Emperor," Vice Admiral Samuel Hood, commander of the expeditionary fleet, told his colleagues.
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Receiving the welcome ceremony at the Star Harbor was only the first step of his entire journey after arriving in Aurora.

Escorted by the tall and straight Aurora honor guard, he went to the most magnificent Imperial Temple on the entire planet - a place of religious ceremonies of higher standards than the cathedral.

Its design combines the Gothic style with the Aurora-style 'Thirteen-story Pagoda'.

The entire building is majestic and magnificent, with its top reaching into the clouds, which is breathtaking.

(End of this chapter)