Warhammer: The Time Traveler

Chapter 343 Automatic STC Repair (Seventh Update)
The Federation's technology offers a path based on rigorous physics that can be rationally understood and replicated.

He began to delve into the details: How to achieve lossless or extremely low-loss quantum scanning? How to ensure that information is not disturbed during subspace transmission? How to precisely guide and control the massive amount of energy during the reconstruction process?
In particular, how do the "reservoirs" or "sources of raw materials" on which replication technology depends, which provide basic substances and energy, work?
Chen Yu's mind raced as he assessed the potential applications of these technologies on his future flagship.

He foresaw that teleportation and replication technologies would revolutionize starship logistics and operations.

Efficient maintenance will become possible. Damaged parts will no longer need to rely on a large and complicated physical spare parts library. With just a stockpile of common raw materials and sufficient energy, replacement parts can be quickly generated by scanning the blueprint of the damaged parts and calling the replication system, greatly improving the ability to conduct continuous combat and expeditions.

Furthermore, once it obtains the design blueprints for any equipment or weapon, this system can rapidly manufacture the required equipment, drones, and even more complex systems using locally available raw materials, making its flagship a self-sufficient mobile production base.

Stable teleportation technology indicates a qualitative leap in the efficiency of personnel and supplies delivery between the ship and the planetary surface. However, he remains cautious about the long-term safety of placing organic life forms in the decomposition-recombination process and requires more rigorous evaluation.

In addition, this technology provides an unprecedented tool for reverse engineering, enabling atomic-level non-destructive scanning of acquired unknown technological samples, which will greatly accelerate the analysis and understanding process and shorten the technology absorption cycle.

Of course, he was also keenly aware that these federal technologies were not without limitations.

Such precise quantum-level scanning and matter reconstruction inevitably involve huge energy consumption, while also placing extremely stringent requirements on the complexity of the equipment and the stability of the operating environment.

In the Warhammer universe he was familiar with, which was often filled with high-intensity radiation, psionic interference, and even local distortions of the laws of physics, whether this system could operate stably was still an unknown that needed to be questioned.

But in any case, these two technologies have undoubtedly opened a door to entirely new possibilities for him.

He began to deeply integrate the relevant core principles, control algorithms and engineering data into his ever-expanding knowledge base, and attempted to initially integrate and deduce them with his own mechanical teaching technology and even the manufacturing technology acquired from the cyberpunk world.

In fact, similar technologies involving the disassembly and recombination of matter at the quantum or molecular level are not entirely absent in the Warhammer universe.

Deep within Chen Yu's database lies a precious memory from the Great Expedition era—he once followed the expeditionary fleet and, during an exploration of ancient human ruins, recovered a set of four STC (Standard Construction Template) fragments from the Dark Ages of technology.

This STC system, labeled as an "automatic repair system," is a miraculous creation made by humankind at the height of technological advancement. Its principles and manufacturing methods have been lost after the turbulent times, making it an irreplaceable marvel.

The effect of this STC system is nothing short of miraculous: once activated and locked onto a target, whether it is a broken pen, a broken screwdriver, a severely damaged Titan, or even a battleship, it can be restored to its original, intact state in a very short time under the coverage of the energy field.

This is not a simple repair, but a deeper "reset" or "restoration".

Back then, faced with this treasure of immeasurable value, Chen Yu, leveraging his priestly authority and profound understanding of the Mechanicus's internal knowledge blockade, made a bold decision—he didn't hand it over to Mars or any forging world, but secretly retained it, and for many years thereafter conducted private and extremely cautious analysis and research. Based on his years of analysis, the domain operating this "Automatic Repair STC" likely involves local entropy reversal operations on the time factor, as well as the precise backtracking and locking of matter's quantum states; its technological level is far beyond the current comprehension of the Mechanicus.

It's more like directly "commanding" the substance to return to one of its recorded "intact" states, rather than performing routine repairs or replacements.

However, there is a huge gap between understanding the principles and actually implementing and reproducing them.

The STC itself was a technical black box. Chen Yu could use it, but he could hardly understand its intricacies, let alone manufacture it himself.

Now, delving into the Federation's teleportation and replication technologies has given him a glimmer of hope amidst the fog.

While the Federation's technology may not seem as incredible as the STC's near-"law-level" approach, it offers a clear, physics-based path that can be rationally understood and gradually optimized: acquiring information about the state of matter through precise scanning, and then using energy and raw materials for quantum-level recombination.

“The direction is consistent,” Chen Yu recorded this key discovery in the internal log. “Although the federated technology appears ‘clumsy,’ requiring multiple steps such as scanning, decomposition, transmission, and recombination, and consuming a huge amount of energy, its core is also the precise manipulation and reconstruction of the basic composition of matter.”

This might... be the stepping stone to understanding, and even partially reproducing, that automatic STC repair mechanism.

He realized that federal technology might offer more than just efficient repair and manufacturing methods; it could also provide a valuable "theoretical breakthrough."

By delving into the limits of precision in matter scanning, the maintenance of information fidelity, and the guidance and control of energy during the recombination process, he may be able to gradually approach the realm covered by the ancient STC.

He could even try to use federal technology as a framework, incorporating some anomalous energy field parameters and quantum locking modes he observed from STC, to perform reverse derivation.

This discovery fueled his unprecedented passion for mining federal databases.

He began to go beyond simply acquiring technical parameters at the application level, and instead delved deeper into the underlying fundamental physical theories, mathematical tools, and engineering philosophies.

Each deeper understanding of the Federation's material recombination technology felt like filling in a missing piece of the puzzle for the vague, self-repairing blueprint of humanity's golden age in his mind.

The Federation's technology is like a key. Although it cannot directly open the door to the pinnacle of miracles in the dark age of technology, it may point him to the location of the keyhole and even give him the opportunity to replicate a similar, albeit crude, alternative.

(End of this chapter)