Warhammer 40K in a box

Chapter 106 Trivial Construction
After inspecting all the facilities, Chen Xi quickly left this secret warband monastery.

Chen Xi certainly has high hopes for this army, but for now they are still just an ambush force. Their biggest goal is to actively expand the army in preparation for the crisis of the opening of the Great Rift in the next thirty years.

Although the Mariupol sector is located in the Solar Sector, even if the Great Rift opens, it is still in the Holy Territory of the Empire and will not be like the Dark Side of the Empire.

But that doesn't mean Rostov fared much better when the Great Rift opened.

During this period when Chen Xi returned to the 3k era, he also read a lot of official novels, which contained many descriptions of the imperial world after the Great Rift unfolded.

One of the biggest problems they face is that as the Great Rift unfolds, the light of the Astronomican will be affected, and the dark side of the Empire will no longer be able to see the light of the Astronomican. Only the Holy Land of the Empire can still travel through the warp under the guidance of the Astronomican.

This will undoubtedly have a great impact on the Rostov sub-sector. After all, Rostov II still relies on other agricultural worlds in the sub-sector to import food, and the input of materials and the transportation of output require the help of subspace navigation.

Once the navigation of the Star Torch is lost or affected, Rostov's foreign exchanges will inevitably be greatly affected.

In addition to these, as the Great Rift unfolds, psychic awakening will surge, and a large number of psychics will be born due to the opening of the Great Rift. At the same time, they will fall into madness or chaos due to looking directly at the Great Rift.

The reason why the Empire has always strictly managed psychics is to prevent the damage that may be caused by these psychics falling into madness and the evil consequences caused by their corruption.

If the psychic is simply corrupted himself, then at most he would create a small warp rift, allowing some warp demons to briefly enter the real world.

This is actually a small problem that is relatively easy to control for the empire.

The real trouble is that psykers can hear voices from the Warp and possess knowledge related to Chaos Daemons.

Once this knowledge spreads, it will cause serious Chaos pollution. At the very least, a rebellion will result in heavy casualties, and at worst, an entire planet will sink and be pulled into the warp, or even receive an extermination order.

In the past, thanks to the efforts of Imperial departments such as the Ministry of Justice, the Inquisition and the Ecclesiarchy, knowledge of the Warp was not spread in normal Imperial worlds, and the people of the Empire have always been relatively well protected.

As long as they don't actively explore the knowledge of the subspace, even cultists won't cause any trouble.

But with the opening of the Great Rift, even ordinary psychics might dream of the names of several demons at night, and simply chant them to offer sacrifices to them...

You can imagine how serious the problem is for the empire.

Especially since the Great Rift is not visible to just one or two worlds, but to a million worlds across the entire empire.

This is also why Guilliman immediately launched the Indomitus Crusade after returning to the Empire.

It's not that this Primarch is addicted to war and wants to replicate the Great Crusade.

But for the Empire, if it does not launch an expedition to retake these planets, then the Empire will be shattered like the former Human Federation, with only Holy Terra left.

So for Chen Xi, thirty years is actually a very tight time.

He had to do everything he could to expand his military and prepare for war during those thirty years. Otherwise, when the Great Rift opened, he might be safe, but the rest of the Imperial worlds in the sector might not be. If those worlds fell, Chaos would invade the entire sector, and no one would be left unharmed. It was clearly impossible for him to resist the Chaos invasion with just one planet and a population of over a billion.

In other words, what Chen Xi needs is to build the entire sub-star region into a force that can at least resist star-level chaos invasion.

Whether it is the naval fleet, the Astra Militarum, or the Space Marines and Battle Sisters, Chen Xi needs to stockpile enough of them.

And this is inseparable from the support of a huge industrial system.
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"32, how is the construction of the Rostov III factory going?" Returning to the 3k era, Chen Xi asked 32 about the situation.

In the 40K era, the two were separated by half a galaxy. Although they could communicate, it was obviously not as convenient as chatting face to face like it is now.

"We're already laying the foundation to reinforce the continental shelf." 32 stretched, grabbed the cat that was crawling by him and petted it a few times before continuing, "The minerals mined on Hot Dog Planet are basically sufficient for now. It will take about three years for the factory to be operational.

It will take about ten years of follow-up construction to complete the intercontinental forging plant.

Moreover, after it is built, a large amount of resources will need to be continuously invested to maintain its operation.

Judging from the current situation, the output of the entire Rostov system is probably enough to operate this factory at about 15-20%.

But this level of output is not enough to meet your military expansion requirements, unless you are willing to spend hundreds of years accumulating military equipment."

Chen Xi nodded, not surprised by this situation.

He asked 32 to build a super intercontinental factory on the planet Rostov III, which would cover an area as large as the entire Eurasian continent.

Once a super factory of this size is put into operation, it can produce massive amounts of materials and equipment, even things like the keels of battleships and the skeletons of Titans.

But at the same time, the mineral resources needed to maintain the operation of such a super factory are astronomical.

If the output of only one or two planets is sufficient, it will definitely not be enough to feed a super factory of this size.

However, Chen Xi had already expected this. He simply nodded and looked at Mai Mai and Mu Se, asking them, "By the way, where have you two been? Are you still floating in the subspace? Are you really just draining succubi all day long?"

"We're here, we've arrived in Gria and are currently in contact with their sage who is in charge of reception." Mai Mai replied hurriedly. Although it was indeed interesting to extract succubi in the warp, it would not be good to be misunderstood as doing Slaanesh.

"Take it easy, both of you. While extracting a succubus as a demon host is less dangerous than the other types, it's still very dangerous." Chen Xi reminded them before continuing, "What's Gloria's attitude? Are they interested in this order?"

"We are still in contact. Overall, they are interested, but they don't seem very interested in the compensation we offer. We need to continue the discussion later." Mai Mai explained the situation to Chen Xi and also explained the biggest problem they are facing now.

Chen Xi wasn't surprised by the unsuccessful progress. He nodded and said, "Then continue the talks with them. The National Church should agree to help us pay for the Star Ring, so there's no need to rush into reaching an agreement with them."

"Star Ring?" 32's eyes lit up when he heard the word "ring".

(End of this chapter)