Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 63: Battle Planet in Place

"Attention all warships, please leave the gravitational range of Virgin Star immediately."

"The gravity generators are all in place. Pay attention to gravity fluctuations and keep a safe distance."

The shrill alarm sounded in a loop on every Ultramarines warship in the galaxy, and a large number of mortal servants ran back and forth to ensure that the movable objects on the warships would not be damaged in the subsequent gravitational impact.

The technical priests of the Mechanicus were already on standby on their respective ships, using all the sensors at their disposal to observe the miracle that was about to happen before their eyes.

Various binary messages were flying around on the Mechanicus' spacecraft. No believer of the God of Machines would miss this historic moment. They prayed and watched devoutly.

In the Macragge system, on the edge orbit of Mustafar, on the surface of an asteroid called Virgin, there are a large number of metal tower-like objects over a hundred meters high.

Their locations are all standard gravity points after careful calculation by the intelligent brain, and the intersection where all gravity generators are connected is the mass center of the planet.

Under the control of the intelligent computer, those densely packed gravity generators released a terrifying gravitational field, as if an invisible giant hand was holding the planet in its hand and continuously exerting pressure.

The rocky asteroid is experiencing a strong seismic effect, its interior is constantly collapsing, and the loose body is transforming into a new, extremely dense state.

And in the innermost part of the asteroid, where the subspace engine is deployed, even miniature atomic reactions occurred.

Guilliman and Roche witnessed the transformation of the planet in the starship. Due to the strong mass effect, the surrounding man-made spacecraft were shaking.

"It's incredible that you have done it, transforming an asteroid from the universe into a man-made weapon. A combat planet that can obey orders and move freely." Guilliman praised without reservation.

Amatra lost communications half a month ago, and everyone knew what this meant. The enemy had cut off its connection with Macragge, and war had already arrived.

Guilliman's reinforcements set out as soon as the communication was lost. Hundreds of warships, led by the Macragge's Glory, were heading straight for Amatra at sub-light speeds combined with short-distance warp jumps.

While marching in such a treacherous warp storm, the navigator's psychic energy would be drained every once in a while, and he would then be replaced by a substitute navigator.

Every step forward is built on bloody sacrifices.

But he chose to stay in Macragge, just to witness the final formation of the ultimate weapon that would decide the outcome of this battle. He watched the battle planet being built from scratch, and his superhuman brain memorized every detail.

Now, after many days of waiting, the harvest has finally come. The volume of Vega has been reduced to only one third of its original size, and its surface has a silvery metallic luster.

Originally an elliptical star, Virgo now has no bulge larger than 0.1 cm. If it were reduced in proportion, it would be a perfect sphere.

Arrays of artificial weapons are being loaded onto its surface by transport ships.

South of its equator, more than a thousand planetary engines spew blue plasma wakes, and the powerful energy released by the antimatter furnace is enough to propel the asteroid.

In addition to the dense array of weapons, command centers and maintenance centers were set up in those areas with normal gravity that were specially reserved. It was large enough to accommodate more than 5000 Astartes and hundreds of thousands of mortal auxiliary troops, as well as an entire Titan legion.

Its warp engine is located in the core of the planet, and the entire planet's huge energy system provides it with energy. It would require an astronomical amount of energy to make this behemoth jump into the warp.

So much so that when it enters the warp jump, it has to stop most of its weapon array to meet the needs of the warp engine.

The planet was equipped with numerous Cogito systems, maintained and operated by technicians and Tech-Priests of the Mechanicum dispatched by Guilliman. Of course, Roche had also left an intelligent offspring of the "Pika" computer at the command center. This was an extremely rudimentary artificial intelligence, specially designed to linger on the fringes of the Martian Scarlet Accord. Its intelligence, in Roche's eyes, was practically retardant, yet it surpassed the vast majority of Cogito systems.

This was the result of Guilliman's strong request. Originally, Roche only wanted to let the intelligent computer split out a sub-body to carry out overall control, but Roboute believed that the control of this dangerous weapon must be in the hands of humans.

After another 48 hours of intense assembly, the final appearance of this battle planet was finally determined.

Thousands of planetary engines are located in the southern hemisphere of the asteroid. These engines will drive the combat planets to carry out real space navigation and tactical orbit changes. The ejected plasma wake can also be used as a backup means of attack.

In its northern hemisphere, there are densely distributed a large number of light spear arrays and macro cannon positions, torpedo launchers are hidden in silos under the earth's crust, missile nests are installed everywhere on the battle planet, and different types of warheads are enough to deal with all enemies.

At Guilliman's request, its arsenal even included bipolar cyclone torpedoes and Modaris atmospheric missiles, the latter being the Exterminator weapon known as the atmospheric incinerator torpedo.

Antimatter bombs and virus bombs are also stored in the arsenal compartments, guarded and used by specialized crew members and technicians. When needed, missiles will carry these warheads and rush towards the enemy.

"When necessary, the gravity generators on the battle planets can be mobilized in unison to exert a strong gravitational field on the target area, creating a gravitational storm to tear apart the enemy.
If something foolish enough tries to make a warp jump in the midst of gravity's frenzy, it will only be crushed into pieces by both the real world and the warp."

Luo Xi was also quite proud. Although this weapon could not be compared with those in the database, it was at least a work he created after improving the design.

He exerted his subjective initiative to a considerable extent, selecting some suitable lost technologies from the STC library, assembling them and combining them on this planet.

It was the first battle planet, and there were no identical ones even in the Golden Age.

"What is the most powerful attack it can produce? Is it the main gun?" Guilliman pointed to the huge muzzle on the front of the battle planet. Roche did not introduce what the big guy was used for.

"The neutron generator, you can also call it a neutron cannon, it can release blue neutron energy projectiles for destruction, which cannot be intercepted by the enemy's void shields and anti-aircraft guns and other defensive means, and can cause irreparable damage to the enemy's hull and onboard personnel."

Guilliman's hands clenched involuntarily, and his new armor made of strong interaction force material also became tense. The Hand of Domination kept shaking, revealing his uneasy heart.

"Of course, just one shot is enough to overload the energy system on the combat planet, so there is no need to use this weapon unless it is necessary. It requires a cooling time of more than 24 hours and cannot be fired continuously." Luo Xi also poured a bucket of cold water. This cobbled-together weapon had too many problems.

"That's enough, but are you sure it can withstand the disturbance and jump to the Amatra system when the subspace storm is raging? I don't want this battle planet that I just acquired and spent a huge amount of resources on to be scrapped like this."

Luo Xi nodded confidently. If it was just a short-distance warp jump, the battle planet would be fully capable of withstanding it. Its huge mass itself was a projection of the power of the real world, and its ability to resist warp storms was even stronger.

The risk of long-distance jumps can be avoided by shortening the distance and increasing the number of jumps, although this will cause navigators to be consumed like matches. A navigator who could have served for decades may be drained into scum after a few jumps.

The Lord of Five Hundred Worlds took a deep breath, and his magnetic voice rang out on all the warships.

"Virgin Battle Planet, set off!"

The warp engines deep in the earth's core burst with tremendous energy, and the energy pipelines throughout the planet extracted energy from the reactors. For the first time, Macragge had such a powerful energy reaction, and almost all the battleships' meditator systems were affected by the electromagnetic storm.

The gate to the immaterial world slowly opened, and the sea of ​​​​subspace opened its arms to the battle planet.

Along with the five thousand Astartes warriors, one million mortal auxiliary troops, as well as the super-heavy vehicles and more than one hundred Titans that had just been transported here from the production line, the battle planet slowly entered the newly opened warp channel.

(End of this chapter)