Warhammer: Empire Reboot

The calculation window for the final ballistic correction has been opened.

The swarm intelligence mechanism is now at work.

The precise positions of the six ships were determined through cross-location using inertial navigation systems and the star map database within the swarm intelligence system.

Unpowered gliding resulted in a cumulative heading deviation of approximately 0.0003 degrees due to the slight gravitational disturbance from the star. Without correction, the six ships would have deviated from their target orbital window by about 1,200 kilometers.

The six ships completed their trajectory corrections in sequence over the next two hours.

After the corrections were completed, the swarm optimization team reconfirmed the endpoint parameters.

Blind Spot No. 1.

The window that Cassius marked represents the gap between the areas scanned by the two defense satellites.

Gap width: 400 kilometers.

Duration: 22 minutes and 17 seconds.

It occurs once every seven standard hours.

The six ships will enter the gap at the fourth hour and eleventh minute of the tenth day.

At 42% the speed of light, it would take less than three seconds to cross a window that is 400 kilometers long.

The swarm intelligence system has entered its highest operational state.

The cargo hold doors on the belly of all six ships were pre-locked.

Inside the cargo hold, twenty landing cocoons were secured to the catapult racks.

The landing cocoon is shaped like a flattened egg.

It is two meters long and one and two meters wide, with a titanium alloy shell and an outer layer covered with a 10-centimeter-thick ablation insulation material.

The cocoon's interior space was just enough to accommodate one White Tiger Armor assassin.

The shock-absorbing gel fills all the gaps between the body and the shell wall. This gel can change from a liquid to a semi-solid state at the moment of impact, and evenly distribute the deceleration overload of hundreds of Gs throughout the body of the assassin.

There are no markings, coatings, or identification signals on the outer wall of each cocoon.

The countdown to swarm intelligence has begun.

The scanning beams of the two defense satellites swept from both sides of the agricultural world orbit toward the center.

At this moment, the two scanning beams are slowing down and turning around at their respective reversal points.

The two beams began to move outwards, and the gap between them gradually widened from zero.

Blind spot activated.

All six ships simultaneously opened their belly cargo hatches.

The catapult is activated.

The entire process, from catapult launch to the final cocoon leaving the ship, took 1.7 seconds.

The cargo door is closed.

The six ships continued flying in a straight line into deep space.

Their mission is complete.

The swarm intelligence handed over control commands to the newly transferred White Tiger Armor assassins on board. They would start their engines to slow down after flying out of the sensor range of the agricultural world, and then enter a stealth trajectory to wait for orders.

Twenty landing cocoons spread out in space, like a handful of seeds scattered.

The trajectory of each cocoon is calculated independently.

Their landing points are distributed across twenty different locations on the northern and southern continents of the agricultural world.

The distances range from 100 kilometers to 3,000 kilometers.

Based on Cassius's intelligence and preliminary data from the assassin reconnaissance, the swarm intelligence team selected an area far from known military bases, communication facilities, and population centers.

Forty minutes later, the gravity capture was complete.

The landing cocoon cuts into the atmosphere at an average speed of 3% to 5% of the speed of light.

The physical process of atmospheric intrusion lasted four seconds.

The landing cocoon crashed onto a patch of gray-brown wasteland along the northern coast.

The impact crater is about six meters in diameter and about two meters deep.

The titanium alloy shell of the cocoon was charred and deformed, broken into three pieces, and emitting thick smoke.

From high altitude, the only difference between this impact crater and a natural meteorite crater is that there is a white tiger powered armor moving at the bottom.

Jiaqi stood up from the bottom of the impact crater.

Shock-absorbing gel seeped from the joint gaps of the power armor, dripping onto the gravel beneath its feet.

The grayish-white, translucent colloid solidifies rapidly upon contact with air, turning into a thin, brittle shell.

A transverse fracture of the midshaft of the left humerus and a comminuted fracture of the fourth rib. A torn meniscus in the right knee. No internal bleeding. The dynamic armor structure is intact, the servo muscle bundles function normally, and the self-repair mechanism of the living metal coating has been initiated.

The swarm intelligence immediately consumed life points to repair itself, and soon, Jia Qi was fully repaired and returned to its peak condition.

He climbed out of the impact crater.

He straightened up and scanned the room from all 360 degrees.

The sky was grayish-yellow.

The atmosphere is filled with high concentrations of industrial emissions and ocean vapor.

The ground beneath our feet was a hard, grayish-brown crust.

Jiaqi's boots had shallow dents on them.

He turned toward the coast.

The coastline is about two kilometers to the northwest.

Starting from the coastline, it extends all the way to the limits of optical system resolution.

For about thirty kilometers, the entire sea surface was covered by a layer of dark green substance. It was so dense that the water's surface was completely obscured.

As he got closer, he saw it clearly.

Each seaweed plant has leaves that are over two meters wide and nearly ten centimeters thick.

The leaf surface has a layer of rough, granular protrusions, which are traces left by Imperial Genetic Engineering to increase the photosynthetic area.

The leaves are not bright green, but a deep, dark green.

They intertwine, overlap, and entwine with each other, forming a living carpet several meters thick.

At location Jiaqi, you can see the cross-section of the carpet, with the leaves stacked from below the water surface to a height of about two meters above the water surface.

Imperial Standard Type-VII Seaweed.

The swarm intelligence retrieved the complete file of this species from the database.

Genetically modified super crops.

It requires no land, fresh water, or fertilizer.

Photosynthesis is driven by minerals in the seawater and the unique stellar spectrum of this planet.

The growth rate is three to eight meters per day.

One square kilometer of seaweed field can produce enough dry matter in a year to feed 100,000 people.

This planet is covered by oceans covering millions of square kilometers.

But there was clearly something wrong with the seaweed field in front of Jiaqi.

A normal seaweed field should be maintained at a thickness of two to three meters. Harvesting machinery should periodically cut off any parts that exceed the height to maintain a stable "harvest-growth-re-harvest" cycle.

But now, the thickness of the seaweed layer has at least tripled.

In some areas, the water level exceeded ten meters, with the leaves piled up three or four meters high above the water surface, resembling a low green wall.

No one has come to harvest it for a long time.

The seaweed, once unrestrained, grew wildly, turning into a chaotic, dark green wasteland.

Jiaqi moved about seven kilometers eastward along the coastline.

He discovered a processing plant.

The distant outline gradually became clear against the backdrop of the gray-yellow sky.

It was a complex of steel buildings covering several square kilometers, stretching out along the coastline.

The high-temperature drying tower is the most conspicuous structure in the entire complex. There are more than a dozen cylindrical towers side by side, about fifty meters high. The exhaust vents at the top should have been emitting steam, but at this moment only two are still in operation.

The rest of the tower was dark, resembling a row of extinguished chimneys.

The factory gates were open.

A conveyor belt extends from the coast to the cutting workshop, its surface covered with dried seaweed fragments; the belt itself has stopped rotating.

Jiaqi is located near the factory wall.

There is a huge warehouse complex in the northeast corner of the factory.

By comparing the building structure with the factory layout diagram in the Cassius data board, the swarm intelligence team confirmed that it was a finished product storage area.

Jiaqi spent forty minutes completing the first round of reconnaissance on the perimeter, and then retreated to a depression near the impact crater to hide.

The teleportation anchor point is activated.

In the third hive world, Lawson received the signal.

All twenty landing cocoons survived.

Twenty anchor points are distributed across the northern and southern continents of the agricultural world.

Swarm intelligence marks their positions on a map, like twenty chess pieces being precisely placed on a chessboard.

Lawson examined the map in the command post of Hive City One.

"Initiate reinforcements."

The static force field of the armory space is activated.