Warhammer: Empire Reboot

"clear."

Swarm intelligence began to devise new exercise scenarios.

A month later.

The Ironbone Project's cultivation pools have completed their fourth and fifth harvest cycles.

Each cycle consistently generates 850 million to 920 million life points, with a total income of approximately 1780 million life points over two cycles.

Lawson sat in the command center of the spire, looking at the numbers on the system panel.

Combat-type suicide soldiers: 50000. Among them, the number of company commanders has been expanded from 6000 to 20000.

He upgraded each of the earliest batch of assassins one by one. Although the life points and refined steel consumed by each person were considerable, the Iron Bone Project's money-printing speed made it entirely affordable.

The remaining 30000 people remained at the platoon leader level.

The number of platoon-level suicide soldiers is sufficient to meet the needs of most battlefields, while company commander-level suicide soldiers serve as elite backbone personnel to fill every key position.

The number of non-combatant assassins has exploded.

It used to be 45, now it's 95.

Lawson increased the number of non-combat suicide soldiers from 45 to 95.

20 people were added to the intelligence network and industrial production lines of Planet Three, and 15 people were sent to reinforce the infiltration operations on Planet One. The total number of suicide soldiers on Planet One soared from 4 to 19.

In addition, 800 million life points were reserved as a reserve, to be quickly replenished wherever there was a shortage of assassins.

With the addition of 5 combat suicide soldiers, the total number of suicide soldiers under Lawson's command officially exceeded one million in the early hours of this morning.

The moment that number appeared on the system panel, what Lawson had been waiting for happened.

The system emitted a low hum.

The data flow of swarm intelligence instantly surged by an order of magnitude. The parallel computing power of a million brain nodes spread out in Lawson's consciousness like a boundless sea of ​​stars.

Then, a new function panel appeared in his mind.

[Single Organ Targeted Enhancement System for Suicide Squads, now unlocked]

Previously, the only way to enhance assassins was through an overall upgrade of their template.

From ordinary suicide soldier to platoon leader, and from platoon leader to company commander, each promotion is a synchronous upgrade of all organs and systems in the body.

This approach is simple and straightforward, with stable results, but it lacks flexibility.

All platoon-level suicide soldiers have almost identical physical parameters, and all company-level suicide soldiers also have almost identical physical parameters. They are standardized war machines, but nothing more.

The new system now offers a completely different route.

Single-organ targeted enhancement.

Choose a zombie, select an organ, select an enhancement direction, consume the specified subspace energy, and the subspace energy will perform targeted and in-depth reconstruction of the organ, enabling it to reach an extreme level far exceeding that of zombies of the same level in a specific field.

"List of organs that can be enhanced," Lawson commanded in his mind.

The list unfolded before his eyes...

Eyes. Ears. Nose. Throat. Heart. Lungs. Liver. Kidneys. Stomach. Cerebral cortex. Cerebellum. Spinal cord. Bones (optional, single limb). Muscle groups. Skin.

It covers almost every major organ and system in the human body.

Lawson opened his eyes first.

Three enhancement paths unfolded in my consciousness.

【Route 1: Eagle Eye - Precision Strike Beyond Visual Range】

First stage: Visual sensitivity is increased to 48 times that of an average human. Scratches on a bullet casing can be distinguished with the naked eye from 3 kilometers away. Visual attenuation in low-light conditions is less than 5%. Cost: 8000 points of subspace energy.

Second stage: A ballistic pre-projection crystal is generated within the eyeball, capable of pre-projecting the entire flight trajectory of the projectile within 0.2 seconds before the trigger is pulled, and automatically fine-tuning the aiming angle to compensate for wind drift, temperature, and Coriolis force. Cost: 50000 points of subspace energy.

Third stage: Requires unlocking the second stage to be displayed.

When Lawson saw the words "distinguish scratches on bullet casings from 3 kilometers away," an image instantly flashed into his mind.

A suicide soldier lay prone on an abandoned tower on the outskirts of the hive, holding a modified long-barreled explosive gun. With his enhanced Eagle Eye, he locked onto the left eye of an orc chieftain who was advancing in rank 3 kilometers away, and then fired. The bullet accurately pierced the eye socket and exploded inside the skull.

A perfect sniper.

【Route 2: Spider Eye - Global Situational Awareness】

First stage: Eye structure reorganization, increasing the ability to perceive infrared, ultraviolet, and microwave frequencies. It can process multi-frequency visual information simultaneously, "seeing" everything in complete darkness through thermal radiation. Cost: 10000 points of subspace energy.

Second stage: The eyeball generates a 360-degree omnidirectional sensory membrane. There are no longer blind spots; information from the front, back, top of the head, and bottom of the feet simultaneously floods into the brain. This requires the computational power of swarm intelligence to process the omnidirectional visual data stream. Cost: 65000 points of subspace energy.

Third stage: Requires unlocking the second stage to be displayed.

“360 degrees, no blind spots,” Lawson murmured. The application scenario for this route was all too clear: close combat. In the chaos of melee fighting, the most lethal attacks often come from behind and the sides.

If a suicide squad member could see threats from all directions simultaneously...

But Lawson's gaze swept past the spider eye's path and landed on the third one.

【Route 3: Star Eye - Subspace Navigation】

Tier 1: The eyeballs are completely reconstructed into a psionic isolation medium. One can directly view the warp without being mentally corrupted. To the assassin, the warp will appear as a color-coded 3D flight path map, with safe zones in blue, danger zones in red, and warp reefs and storms marked with pulsating orange. Cost: 10000 warp energy.

Second Tier: Sensing the flow of subspace energy. Captures precursory signals of energy enrichment approximately 5 minutes before a subspace storm forms and automatically generates an evasive course. Also gains the ability to dynamically track the trajectories of moving objects in subspace, and can "see" the contrails of other ships in subspace. Cost: 50000 subspace energy.

Third stage: Requires unlocking the second stage to be displayed.

Lawson stared at the description of Route Three.

The Empire’s warp travel depends on two things: starlight and navigators.

He already had his own Star Torch.

Navigators are a mutated human race cultivated by the Empire for tens of thousands of years, born with a third eye that can see directly into the warp. They sit in the navigation cabin of their warships, using that eye to observe the tides and reefs of the warp, guiding the fleet to a safe route.

Navigators are extremely rare, extremely expensive, and extremely fragile. The training period for a navigator is several decades, and prolonged exposure to the warp will gradually drive them insane.

Now, Lawson's system provides him with a shortcut to bypass these two bottlenecks.

His newly acquired beacon ability solved the problem of the Star Torch.

The Star Eye route addresses the navigator's problem.

A Star-Eye Tier 1 assassin is equivalent to a navigator who will never go mad, never tire, and can be mass-produced indefinitely. Moreover, they are stronger than Imperial navigators. Imperial navigators experience immense mental stress when looking directly into the warp; prolonged exposure will cause them to bleed, scream, and break down. But the Star-Eye assassin's eyeballs have been reconstructed into a psionic isolation medium, rendering them completely immune to warp-related mental pollution.

A beacon plus a satellite eye is like GPS plus a car headlight.

Lawson has his own GPS. Now, he's going to install it on his car headlights.

"Summon a company commander-level suicide soldier to come in."

Three seconds later, the armored door to the command room slid open, and a company commander-level suicide soldier walked in.

Lawson glanced at him.

Company commander-level suicide soldiers have a better physical foundation, and their organ enhancement compatibility and upper limit are higher than those of platoon leader-level soldiers.

Using company commanders as the first batch of Star Eye enhancement personnel is a reasonable choice.

Lawson selected the first stage of route three in his mind and anchored it to the assassin in front of him.

Consumption confirmed: 10000 points of subspace energy.

The change occurred within 0.3 seconds.

Through the connection of swarm intelligence, Lawson clearly sensed the intense reconstruction taking place inside the assassin's eyeball.

Within milliseconds, the capillary network inside the eyeball is severed and dissolved one by one by the system, replaced by a completely new microcirculation system. The color of the fluid flowing through it changes from dark red to light blue, exhibiting a kind of non-biological transparent texture.

Then there's the lens, where the original protein structure is replaced with a substance that Rosen cannot name. This substance is almost completely transparent under physical light, but when subspace energy passes through it, it produces refraction and dispersion at specific frequencies, transforming the originally invisible subspace tides into color codes within the visible spectrum.

Finally, the sclera and cornea. The original white sclera gradually turned into a deep blue, and extremely fine, flowing patterns appeared on the transparent corneal surface, as if something was slowly rotating under the cornea.

Lawson looked into the eyes of the assassin in front of him.

His pupils had turned deep blue, and his irises had a translucent quality similar to sapphire.

Under normal lighting, these eyes only appear unusual in color. But upon closer inspection, a faint light can be seen flowing deep within the pupils, like two tiny blue stars.

"How are you feeling?" Lawson asked.

The assassin blinked, and the swarm's mind simultaneously transmitted his visual data feedback: under normal lighting, his vision was not significantly different from before the enhancement, and everything in the physical world was normal.

But when Lawson commanded him to close his eyes and channel his consciousness into the psychic perception layer of the swarm mind, a completely new picture unfolded in the assassin's mind.

The physical walls of the command room have disappeared.

Instead, a colorful three-dimensional space appeared, with the blue safe zone meandering like a river through a chaotic orange-red ocean.

That is subspace.

That orange-red ocean is the edge of the great rift's storm belt, and the blue rivers are relatively stable shipping routes within the storm gaps.

In the distance, a faint but exceptionally clear golden dot floats—a small star projected from the Rosen black hole.

In the Star Eye's field of vision, this point of light is no longer a vague sense of direction, but a coordinate anchor point so precise that its angle and distance can be calculated.

“I see it,” the assassin reported. “The tidal direction in the subspace is flowing from 12 degrees south of southeast to 7 degrees north of northwest, with a moderate flow rate. No storm precursor signals were detected. The beacon coordinates of the master are locked, the orientation is stable, and the signal strength is sufficient.”

Lawson nodded in satisfaction.

"From now on, your number will be changed to 'Starship-001'."

"clear."

"Go back and await orders. Once you have a fleet, you will be the flagship's navigator."

Xinghang-001 gave a military salute, turned around and walked out of the command room.

Lawson watched him leave, then turned his attention back to the system panel.

10000 points of subspace energy can be exchanged for a navigator.

It's not cheap, but it's definitely worth the price.

He currently has 85 points of subspace energy, which, purely in terms of quantity, allows him to create 85 Starship Death Knights in one go.

But Lawson wouldn't do that.

At this stage, he hasn't even acquired a real warship yet, so mass-producing starship suicide soldiers is meaningless.

Let's talk about it after we capture the Tyrant-class fleet.