Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Because these 318 planets are not just his nominal territory.

These are food, minerals, population, crew, servants, life points, industrial cycles, frontline supplies, and sector defenses.

These are the foundations upon which he will establish himself in the shadows of the empire in the future.

Maggots lurk in the foundation; no matter how high the palace is built, it will collapse.

"We really should drag the Emperor over here to see what kind of mess he left behind."

Lawson traced a string of gray marks on the star map with his finger.

"It's so bad that you can't even fix it. You can only smash a part of it and rebuild a completely new system."

If it were an ordinary governor, seeing this situation, he would only do three things.

First, restore the tithe.

Second, resume conscription.

Third, allow the local nobles to continue governing the local people.

As long as food, ore, crew, and taxes can be delivered, no one really cares how the water purification guild sells water, how the corpse guild burns people, how the grain bureau starves its middle-ranking officials, or how the nobles annex the nests.

The empire is too big.

It is so large that it habitually uses abstract numbers to rule people.

If a single nest can cause 30 million deaths worldwide, the report might only show "structural loss of labor force".

A prisoner riot has broken out in a mining star system, and the Ministry of the Interior is more concerned about how much ore production has decreased.

A governor who sells his people to pirates has a chance of surviving several rounds of scrutiny as long as he continues to pay tithes and writes neat documents.

Lawson cannot do that.

What he wanted to take over was not simply changing the flag at the governor's mansion.

He wants to dismantle and reassemble a planet from the inside out, just like he took over the Oberlus Triad.

Population registration, food distribution, water pipelines, corpse disposal, union ledgers, orbital defense, hive city security, old army, mining, belief system, legal records.

All critical nodes must be inserted into the cornerstone sequence.

All armed forces must be renumbered.

All governors, unions, nobles, merchants, and local church factions must be thoroughly investigated before a decision is made on whether to retain them, replace or transform them into servants, or execute them outright.

This is slow.

It's very complicated.

It's also very un-"imperial".

Empires prefer compromise because they are too large and inefficient.

Lawson has no intention of compromising on his own turf.

Andrei said, "At the current rate, it would take at least three to five years to fully take over 318 worlds. If there is a large-scale rebellion, a plague quarantine, the remnants of chaos, or a civil war, it will take even longer."

"Relying solely on the Bi'an Warband and the existing Cornerstone sequence is indeed slow," said Lawson.

So this is the key point?

Andrei raised his hand and switched the star map to another model.

Green-skinned breeding farm.

If this word were placed in any public document of the Empire, it would be enough for the Inquisition to burn everyone who saw the document.

Green cars are a disaster.

Green spores are a nightmare for countless worlds.

If things get out of control, the entire planet will be dragged into an endless orc frenzy by the war fungus.

But in Lawson's case, the green skin is also a cycle.

The Oberlus Triad has proven that this system is feasible.

The Klein agricultural galaxy also demonstrates that, under the premise of swarm thinking, cornerstone sequence, waste extraction, pollution isolation, and regular harvesting, green-skinned culture ponds can become a stable source of biomass and life points.

The rampant growth of the green skin, its physical strength, and its spore reproduction characteristics are a disaster when out of control, but under absolute control, it is a biomass production machine.

Of course, the key is absolute control, and only Lawson can achieve that.

He has the ability to turn disaster into a production line.

On the star map, 318 recoverable worlds are marked one by one.

Next to each planet, a basic model appears.

Recommended number of standard green-skinned culture pools: 300 per planet.

Multiple experiments at the Oberlus, Klein, and Agrippina mining areas have proven that three hundred culture pools are the most suitable for an ordinary human world.

Three hundred seats represent a balance between revenue, risk, management costs, and sustainability.

Andrei looked at the formula.

"318 planets, 300 seats each."

Lawson continued, "95400 culture pools."

The star chart is calculated automatically.

【318 × 300 = 95400.】

Then, the second line lit up.

[Net meat yield per cycle for a single culture tank: 200 tons.]

[Duration: 14 days.]

[95400 × 200 = 1908 million tons.]

Every fourteen days.

When that number lit up, even Andrei was silent for a moment.

In his previous life, he had ruled the Earth with Lawson and had seen various industrial-grade production facilities, military synthetic rations, artificial proteins, and bioengineering facilities.

In the Warhammer universe, over 19 million tons of net flesh means a lot.

Hive city rations, Astral Army supplies, servant nutrient mud, long-term voyage reserves for warships, refugee resettlement, and stabilization of lower hives.

Hunger is the first spark that ignites rebellion on many planets.

If Lawson can produce this amount of net meat in a two-week cycle, it will be tantamount to strangling the sector's order.

"Meat is just a byproduct."

Lawson looked at the third line.

[Lifepoint output per cycle for a single culture tank: 10000 points.]

[95400 cultivation pools produce 9.54 million life points per cycle.]

Lawson's expression finally changed.

He rarely loses his composure because of resource figures.

But the number in front of us has a different meaning.

The lifeblood of the green-skinned culture pool lies in its cyclical output, stable circulation, and its status as a fundamental resource that can be included in long-term strategic planning.

9.54 million life points.

Every fourteen days.

what does this mean?

This means that the rate of casualty replenishment in combat sequences will be pushed to a level that was previously unimaginable.

The nine battle groups—White Tiger, Red Dragon, Black Tortoise, Luan Bird, Taotie, Bian, Yazi, Zhulong, and Suanni—can always maintain full strength.

The non-combat-related foundational sequences will see a true explosion of power.

If all cornerstone sequences are redeemed, approximately 45 million new cornerstone sequences can be added each cycle.

Forty-five million.

This is a stable grassroots nerve center capable of accessing swarm intelligence, executing orders, repairing pipelines, managing granaries, taking over trade unions, maintaining artillery positions, organizing archives, rebuilding water networks, assisting in anti-revolutionary purges, monitoring pollution, and connecting communication nodes.

The hardest thing about an imperial planet is not killing the rebellious governor.

But after the killing, who will take care of the water?

Who will take care of the food? Who will take care of the corpses? Who will control any rebellions in the lower colonies?

Who will re-register the 100,000 messy work hour tickets?

Who will keep the rail elevator running the next day?

Who will ensure that the local nobles don't simply change their identities and continue to exploit others?

The cornerstone sequence is the answer.

In the past, Lawson always felt that he didn't have enough manpower.

Oberlus Tri-Star is a key figure.

A key figure in the Klein agricultural system.

Agrippina's creation of the world is more like a bottomless pit, with a shortage of billions of machine servants.

There are 318 planets, and each one needs to be disassembled and reassembled.

Even with a swarm of brains, insufficient execution at the grassroots level means that many orders can only remain on the tactical star map.

Once the 9.54 million life points become stable cyclical income, all of this will change.

Forty-five million cornerstone sequences per cycle.

Even if only half is used for exchange, and the other half is reserved for combat sequences, special templates, and reserve stocks, the control of the star sector will increase at a speed that was unimaginable in the past.

Lawson's lips slowly curled into a smile.

Andrei saw it.