Warhammer: Empire Reboot

What truly brought about fundamental change in the empire was the great purge that began ten years ago.

What happened on Terra is happening all over the Empire again.

It took many years for the number of gallows throughout the empire to gradually decrease.

The exact number of people killed is so great that even many administrators have stopped bothering to count it.

The number is large, but when placed into the millions of worlds, it is only a tiny fraction.

What truly pleased Lawson was that the old system of layered exploitation had been largely disrupted.

The number of rebellions also began to decline.

Many problems that would have escalated into major rebellions were dealt with in their infancy.

If it's just a small-scale armed rebellion involving a few thousand or tens of thousands of people, the local army can handle it.

On a larger scale, galaxies mobilize troops, but the galaxies can't suppress them, so they move to star sectors.

Most questions end here.

The only things that can truly get you all the way to Terra are a large-scale alien invasion, the emergence of the Chaos Warband, the Tyranid swarm invasion, and the awakening of the Necropolis world in space.

Once such matters reach the highest alert level in a sector node, the information will bypass the normal administrative process and go directly to Terra.

Then the other side of the empire was truly revealed.

The frontline commanders were initially a little unaccustomed to it.

They had barely sent out a request for help when reinforcements began to move out.

The days when a sector was completely destroyed and Terra was still waiting for an official report are becoming increasingly rare.

The empire seemed to have transformed from an enormous, paralyzed giant into a swift and powerful warrior.

Ten years later, the Mechanicus finally became an official part of the Imperial system.

Of the two choices given by Lawson, Raschian ultimately chose the second.

The double-headed eagle remains, and the gear-shaped head of the Mechanicus has not disappeared from the Imperial emblem.

Mars is still Mars.

But the relationship between the two sides has completely changed.

The Cult of Mechanics is no longer the semi-independent ally that stood on equal footing with Terra and maintained its special status through the Treaty of Olympia.

It became the largest sector in the imperial industrial and technological system.

From then on, the strategic orders of the Seal Master's Office were directly sent to Mars.

If a certain Titan legion is closer to the battlefield, then that one will be deployed.

Whichever mechanized training fleet has just completed its maintenance, the dispatch system will directly add it to the expedition sequence.

However, what truly enabled Mars to quickly accept its new identity was not unified scheduling, but its physical body.

Laskian had been replaced. At the first All-Mars High-Level Technology Conference, when Laskian walked into the hall, the already noisy binary communication became even noisier.

What material was used to forge the general's right hand?

"Can you see the joint-driven structure?"

"Did his mechanical eye just complete a twelve-layer focal length switching?"

"The skin surface has a temperature!"

"Where is the core power source?"

Why is there no external heat dissipation structure?

Of course, it's impossible for Lawson to replace the top-tier mechanical bodies of all tens of millions of high-ranking sages in the Cult of Mechanics in one go.

Therefore, only 3,000 slots were available in the first batch.

The higher-ups at the Mechanical Engineering Academy almost burned down the review committee's server in their race for those three thousand spots.

Lawson made them line up according to their contributions.

Whoever increased the world's casting capacity, whoever repaired important technologies, whoever completed major scientific research, and whoever made contributions in the war.

Once you have enough points, you can join the queue.

Thus, the Mechanicus witnessed a scene that would never have happened in the past.

A group of great sages who had lived for hundreds or thousands of years began to swirl wildly.

Aside from the mechanical body, what truly drove the Great Sage of the Mechanics to madness was technology.

UR-025 has too many things on her hands.

Of course, in the official records of the Cult of Mechanics, it is still not that unspeakable identity.

It is merely one of the highest-level mechanized consciousness carriers of the Empire's dark side.

Chief Technical Advisor for T Sequence

As for how long it actually lived and why it was able to produce so many blueprints from the Golden Age, a tacit understanding had formed within the Cult of Mechanics.

Don't ask, it won't tell you even if you do.

At the first technical exchange meeting, the Type 025 only presented a very ordinary ship heat exchange system.

In its own database classification, that's not even considered an important technology.

Laskian summoned seven great sages in the relevant fields.

The meeting was originally scheduled to last two hours, but it ended up lasting eleven days.

There are plenty of 025-type blueprints; you can't possibly take them all.

Many of the drawings are even more complete than the incomplete STC held by the Faculty of Mechanics.

One sheet is enough for a group of great sages to study for decades.

025 is often thrown out like waste paper.

"This should suit you."

"This version is too old, I'll use it to practice first."

"Don't start production of this set directly; you don't have enough materials."

Some high-ranking members of the Mechanical Engineering Department even applied to be assistants to 025.

A spot is harder to get than a body transplant.

As a result, a very strange change occurred in Mechanics.

The most conservative sages of the past have instead begun urging those below them to implement reforms.

Most importantly, many maintenance procedures that were once considered sacred and unalterable are now meaningless when applied to new equipment.

Of course, the Mechanicus did not completely abandon rituals as a result.

In a universe where chaos, demons, psionic contamination, and machine anomalies truly exist, many ancient rituals are not entirely meaningless.

The problem is that the old mechanical religions could no longer distinguish which step was a necessary safeguard and which step was just a habit left by their ancestors.

At first, some wise men were indeed worried.

"Will the new parts be rejected by the machine spirit without a complete prayer?"

"What if it grows tentacles?"

This statement isn't funny at all in the Cult of Mechanics, because it actually happened before.

Thus, the first batch of equipment, which had not undergone the traditional complete ritual, was continuously monitored by the Cult of Mechanics for three years.

Nothing grew.

Not to mention the tentacles, even the failure rate has dropped significantly.

Some wise old scholars have specifically studied the reasons.

Some believe that the new standard parts have higher purity.

Some insist that the Machine God was finally satisfied with the changes in the Empire in recent years.

Various schools of thought have been arguing for years, but no one has convinced anyone else.

Nobody knows the real answer.

All they knew was that since Lawson arrived, many of the strange things that were once commonplace had indeed become less and less frequent.

The mechanical teachers finally began to adapt to a completely new feeling.

The young mechanical priests began to learn the true and complete principles of engineering, while the old sages, though still spouting about tradition, were all eagerly applying for access to new technologies.

The two-headed eagle is still the same two-headed eagle.

The Cult of Mechanics is no longer the same Cult of Mechanics it was ten years ago.

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Ten years ago, Terra was more like a huge ruin crammed with people.

The city is layered upon layered across the land, with old buildings pressing down on even older ones. Giant spires pierce the sky from the gray-black urban area, while underground lie residential areas and abandoned facilities that extend for countless layers.

Terra is the most sacred world in the Empire, and also the most somber.

Hundreds of billions of people are crammed onto a planet that has already been developed to its limits.

This place is home to the empire's wealthiest people, as well as a large number of ordinary people who never see the natural sky in their entire lives.

Pilgrims arrive year after year.

They may enter Terra, but they may not actually get close to the Imperial Palace.

More people were crammed into pilgrimage zones, temporary housing areas, and lower-level urban areas, and eventually simply stayed there.

After ten thousand years, Terra could no longer bear such weight.

Public transportation is always congested, and air handling systems are overloaded.

The water circulation pipeline network has been repaired and repaired repeatedly, and food has to be transported from the solar system and even more distant regions every day.

A single port accident could lead to ration cuts for several nesting areas.