Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Emberg has already finished calculating the data.

A brand new standard appeared on the light screen.

[Imperial Heavy Industry Universal Thread System - First Edition]

Even the tens of thousands of different bolts from the old era, and which new specification should be replaced by, have been automatically generated.

A year later, the entire empire began to standardize the casting of standard parts for the world.

One of the situations that used to drive the Star Force logistics officers crazy quickly disappeared.

The same model of the Leman Rustank, with its Martian-made track wheels, can be directly mounted onto the Agrippina's chassis.

The plasma cooling valves manufactured by Riza can directly replace older parts in the Solar System inventory.

This was only the third year after the standardization of parts.

The average maintenance cycle of the Empire's main fleet has decreased by 68 percent, the downtime rate of large ground equipment has decreased by more than half, and the types of parts that need to be stored in the logistics warehouse for a long time have been directly cut by 70 percent.

Guilliman couldn't help but sigh when he saw the report: "After ten thousand years of turmoil, the screws of the empire can finally be tightened together."

The senior members of the Mechanical Engineering Department pretended not to hear.

The second Ancestral Spirit Core, the Abyss Navigator.

New designation: [Imperial Star Craftsman]

Responsibilities: Extreme environment engineering, gravity technology, planetary development, deep mining, megastructure engineering, space station, and orbital industry.

If the Galactic Core can be transformed into an industrial zone by Wotan, then the ordinary Imperial mining world is simply an open-air warehouse in the eyes of this Core.

It allows the empire to begin reusing resources it previously dared not touch:

High gravity worlds, neutron star outer resource zones, black hole accretion disk mining areas, planets with extreme radiation, deep mantle veins, and automated mining on asteroids.

This will truly usher the empire into a period of resource explosion.

The third ancestral spirit core, the son of the anvil.

Number: [Imperial Armory]

Its work is most easily understood by the Imperial military.

The first long-term target that Lawson set for it was very simple.

Over ten years, the total size of the three new types of warships of the Golden Age reached:

One million ships.

A production network of several million pages was broken down into thousands of independently executable projects.

From this moment on, the empire enters the era of a million-strong global collaborative fleet manufacturing system.

The fourth ancestral spirit core, the Stonebreaker.

Number: [Imperial Engineering Mother Brain]

This machine is primarily responsible for optimizing the entire industrial system.

Production line layout, factory design, robot scheduling, industrial star planning, transportation efficiency, equipment lifespan, and capacity model.

This means that the Empire now has a planetary industrialization template generator for the first time.

What was STC in the past?

Often, it is an ancient blueprint so precious that the Mechanics Church can wage war for it.

Now, the Four Ancestor Cores + UR-025 can restore the STC from a relic back to its original form:

The mechanical engineering department will no longer submit: "We found a reactor blueprint."

Instead, we need a reactor with a power output of 600 terawatts, capable of operating in a 2.7G gravity environment, with materials limited to ceramic steel and titanium alloy, and a maintenance staff of no more than 600 people.

Zuhe provides you with design drawings, a bill of materials, manufacturing processes, production lines, tolerances, maintenance manuals, failure models, training materials, and spare material replacement plans.

This is a true [civilization-level STC compiler].

If the first decade after Lawson entered Terra was about forcibly pulling this rotting beast, which had been decaying for ten thousand years, out of the mire, then the next decade was about teaching it to truly run.

The changes began in the factories.

After the four ancestral spirit cores were fully operational, the empire's previously fragmented technological systems were gradually reassembled into a single technological tree.

The empires of the past were not without good things; rather, they had too many good things, and no one knew anyone else.

That doesn't happen anymore.

Unification, and more unification. From a single screw to a reactor, and then to an entire 15-kilometer-long Star-Burning Super Battleship, everything began to be produced according to the same industrial language.

The biggest change brought about by the core of the four ancestral spirits is precisely here.

The golden age technologies that were once enshrined in shrines are now coming off the assembly line one by one.

By the latter half of this decade, the Imperial military had even stopped using the term "relics of the Golden Age" very often.

Because many of these things no longer deserve to be called relics.

The warehouse was filled with boxes.

They use it every day in grassroots units.

The entire empire officially entered its first true period of technological revival.

The most tangible result is always the fleet.

Ten years ago, Lawson gave the son of the Anvil, Zunu, a target that made many admirals at the time doubt their hearing.

During the Golden Age, the total number of the three types of new main warships exceeded one million.

Now, this goal has not only been achieved, but also exceeded.

Inside the highest naval command hall in Terra, a newly compiled and updated ship register was slowly unfolded.

[70 Lightsweeper-class light strike ships.]

[40 Zhenyue-class heavy warships.]

[10 super battleships capable of burning through the stars.]

The three main models, plus the specialized modifications developed over the past decade, have resulted in a total of 1.2 million ships in service.

This does not include the traditional imperial fleet.

Of course, not all of the old warships were dismantled. After all, the fleet that the human empire had accumulated over ten thousand years was too large, and simply throwing them away would be a real waste.

The vast majority of older ships that still have structural value have entered the modernization program, with new reactors, shields, fire control systems, heat exchangers, and redesigned compartments and automatic damage control systems.

Even though the outside still has a church and ramming heads, the inside is no longer the same ship it used to be.

The changes to naval vessels were enormous, and the changes to ground forces were even more dramatic.

The Empire's new generation of standard power armor has finally been fully finalized.

Official designation: [All-domain powered armor].

The name was chosen by Lawson because the initial design requirement for this thing was only one sentence:

“Make a set of heavy armor for the cornerstone sequence that can fight, run, fly, and enter the vacuum, and don’t make them look like coffins.”

Finally, the final product delivered by the Ancestral Spirit Core, UR-025, the Mechanicus, and the Wotan Engineering team even amused Lawson.

The Xuanwu-style armor weighs only about half as much as the old Terminator power armor. Its outer layer is made of multi-layered composite material redesigned by the Imperial Forge, while the interior is layered with a level 4 chitin inner armor, a micro force field, intelligent damage control fiber and swarm fire control interface. The power core is a miniaturized derivative of compressed star-related technology.

It doesn't need the Terminator's heavy, almost brute-force posture.

It can run, jump, pounce, perform short-range aerial maneuvers, enter vacuum, and enter high-radiation areas.

It can also quickly replace shoulder, back, and arm weapon modules according to battlefield missions.

Its defensive capabilities surpass those of the old-era Terminator armor, while its mobility is close to that of ordinary power armor.

The most crucial part is preparing for the cornerstone sequence.

After the first large-scale re-equipment legion was completed, the Imperial military conducted a special combat test.

One hundred Astartes simulation units wearing old-style Terminator armor face off against one hundred Xuanwu-style cornerstone sequences.

The battle ended after seven minutes, with the Cornerstone sequence emerging victorious.

So ten years ago, an exaggerated saying circulated in the Milky Way:

Lawson possesses "as many Astartes as the Astral Army".

At the time, many people took it as a rumor.

If we only look at the battlefield results now...

Billions of Foundations units wear power armor more advanced than the Terminator, use standardized new weapons, and share target, fire control, ammunition, injury, and tactical data through swarms—this is even more outrageous than "an Astartes on the scale of the Astral Army."

The growth of air power is equally terrifying.

After several generations of improvements, the Empire now has 300 million Raptor fighters in active service.

The new model has been fully integrated with Titanium Group avionics, Wotan structural materials, and Imperial's next-generation energy system.

As for the Flying Bear Motorcycle and the Hurricane Motorcycle, they were completely transformed from special forces equipment into the backbone of the Empire's highly mobile warfare system.

The combined scale of the two has reached tens of billions.

In its earliest days, the Flying Bear motorcycles were so powerful and demanding inertia control that only a monster like Xiong Wei could ride them.

Now, after nine rounds of engineering improvements, anti-gravity field reconstruction, and automatic attitude compensation, the ordinary foundation sequence can also be stably controlled.

As a result, a tactical scenario that sent chills down the spines of many traditional Astral Army generals began to become the norm.

Tens of millions of high-speed motorcycles swept across a continent head-on.

It was overwhelming, yet perfectly orderly.

What truly made the Empire's various allies reluctant to speak after just one glance were the Wolverine and Sabretooth mechs.

These two early, most representative combat mechs of Lawson have undergone nine consecutive iterations.

The ninth-generation Wolverine is no longer just a high-speed close-combat hunter. It possesses all-terrain propulsion, short-range anti-gravity jump, modular heavy firepower, and new swarm cooperative armor, enabling it to operate in urban, desert, ice field, underground, vacuum facilities, and even some shipboard environments.

The ninth-generation Sabretooth became a true heavy battlefield stronghold, with enhanced shields, armor, long-range firepower, melee combat, and area air defense.

When necessary, it can even temporarily act as a small fire control node, taking over a large number of unmanned units in the surrounding area.