Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 61 Integrating Resources
After hearing Gao Yi's words, the one hundred refugees in the audience couldn't believe their eyes.

They can live in the upper nest. Things that they never dared to imagine happened to them.

Holt on the side also slowly walked off the stage.

He walked towards a refugee who was kneeling on the ground, squatted down and said with a smile.

"Is your name Andrew? I heard that during this period of time, you took the people around you to pray to the Divine Emperor to calm their emotions. You did a great job!"

"Yes, yes, Bishop Holt, I have always believed that the Emperor of God will not abandon us. As long as we remain pious, He will definitely come to save us!" Andrew spoke nervously and began to stutter.

"You are worthy of the Divine Emperor. In the name of the Bishop of the Agathos State Religion, I invite you to become a priest under my command. Are you willing? You will have the opportunity to serve the Divine Emperor more closely!"

Holt helped Andrew up.

"God Emperor, do I really have a chance to join your church?"

"Of course, you've proven yourself!"

"I do! Of course I do! Praise the God-Emperor! I can become a priest who preaches to the God-Emperor!"

Holt then found several other devout believers in the crowd and invited them to join the state religion.

This was something Gao Yi and Holt had discussed. The state church was in urgent need of staff and couldn't even maintain normal church operations and sermons. This action could both win people's hearts and replenish manpower.

After the invitation, Holt returned to the podium again.

"Today is a particularly important day for Agathos. I, Holt Reyes, in the name of the Divine Emperor and the Bishop of the Agathos Empire, solemnly announce that a living saint has been born in Agathos. The Divine Emperor has given me an oracle, and that person is none other than your Rogue Trader, Gao Yi Mungert.

Hail, followers of the God-Emperor, people of the Empire, you will enter a brilliant and glorious future under his leadership! ”

Holt's news really ignited everyone's excitement. If whether Gao Yi really received the gift of the Divine Emperor was all speculation, then Holt's words completely confirmed it.

Almost everyone has heard of the legend of the Living Saints. They are powerful and just, and are the spokespersons and incarnations of the God-Emperor in the mortal world. No wonder their wandering merchants are willing to change their lives and can kill the Astartes who are called angels.

The official recovery operation of Xiachao has begun, and the production capacity of Shangchao Industrial Zone has been fully utilized.

One piece of combat uniform after another was shipped off the production line of the barracks at a speed visible to the naked eye. Unfortunately, there were too few priests of the order in Agathos now, and many priests in the lower nest were the first targets of attack at the beginning of the riot.

Even though Pavian led the remaining priests to work all night long and the processor was smoking, the production of composite materials such as ceramic steel still could not be increased.

There was no other choice but to use some conventional existing metals to manufacture combat uniforms for ordinary PDFs, while the ceramic steel armor with lower production was provided to elite troops.

Even so, the coverage rate of combat uniforms for troops entering the lower nest has reached 3%, and this number is increasing at an extremely fast rate every day.

The starport of Agathos is also continuing to produce Banshee fighters. The only problem is the shortage of pilots. Pilots who originally only drove shuttles and transport ships have also been temporarily recruited to conduct Banshee flight training.

Many areas of the Lower Nest are high enough for aircraft to fly. When the Banshees were first designed, they were used for riot control, which is just right for dealing with Lower Nest traitors who lack heavy equipment. Their concealment can also be used for reconnaissance missions for the troops.

The heavy factory also started its own production.

However, Gao Yi chose not to produce the Thor. While powerful, the Thor required extensive training. These heavy units were primarily used on frontal battlefields, making them unsuitable for operations in the lower lair. Highly maneuverable vehicles like the Hellion and the Trainman were temporarily replaced by the Firebat. The primary goal was to advance steadily, clearing each area and conquering it. Missile vehicles, on the other hand, lacked aerial targets to strike.

Therefore, Gao Yi will devote all his efforts to the production of widow mines and siege tanks in the two heavy factories he built.

There is no shortage of people who can drive tanks in the nest. After a certain amount of training, they can drive siege tanks, and the siege mode can just restrain the enemy's human wave tactics.

It's not just Chaos Believers; the cunning ones you'll face often rely on numbers to win.

The Widow Mine can complete its task automatically without the need for manpower to operate it.

[Widow Mine: 10 tons of metal material, 10 minutes/piece]

[100 tons of metal materials for a siege tank, 2 hours/vehicle]

Widow Mines can also be produced in sufficient quantities with a heavy factory.

This unit that can bury itself and become invisible is tailor-made for Gao Yi's current situation.

Highly effective and powerful, the Sentinel missiles fired from the ground are incredibly powerful, with AOE damage, making them particularly effective against lightly armored units! Like the Marauder, its automated internal ammunition production line can automatically regenerate missiles after they've been consumed.

The Widowmaker, which is only half the size of a machine gunner, is a very effective weapon for sneaking into enemies.

Just burying it on the ground will perfectly solve Gao Yi's current problem of lack of manpower. It will eliminate any approaching enemies by itself. As the saying goes, always have a widow mine at home, and you will never be afraid of being hammered when you show off.

For Gao Yi, exchanging equipment for human lives is a very cost-effective thing. To the Divine Emperor, a human life may be just an insignificant currency, and it doesn't matter if it is consumed, but to Gao Yi, a soldier is at least worth a hundred-dollar bill, so the equipment has become a cheap consumable.

The high production efficiency allows Gao Yi to continuously produce a large number of widow mines in a short period of time. With the uninterrupted production of the heavy factory, there are now 200 widow mines lying quietly in the warehouse waiting for orders.

A large amount of weapons, equipment and resources were mobilized, and the food brought by Gorigos began to be processed and distributed to everyone.

Gao Yi looked at the material allocation report that Rebecca brought to the table and was surprised by the gap in living standards between the people in the upper nest and the lower nest.

He really saw what it meant that a little bit of money that slipped through the fingers of the masters in the upper nest was enough for the garbage men in the lower nest to live a good life for a long time.

If we follow the standards before the Agasos rebellion, and reduce the quality of life of the nobles of the Upper Nest by 5%, the existing food supplies in Agasos can last for another two months.

You have to know that although the nobles have quite a few children, their number is more than ten thousand times less than that of refugees.

"Cut it off! Cut him off 70% first!"

"Will this cause dissatisfaction among the nobles?" Rebecca said worriedly.

"Dissatisfied? Even if they cut 5%, they can still eat bread! What's there to be dissatisfied about?! I eat nothing but this now. Go tell those nobles that their Rogue Traders eat the same as them. Do they expect to eat better than me?!"

Gao Yi was furious. If these nobles ate less, how many more lives could be saved?

(End of this chapter)