Warhammer: Empire Reboot

The outside world is increasingly desolate.

The residents squeezed further inside.

Clean water comes through pipelines, food is imported from outside, air is filtered, and corpses are cremated by unions. Aside from garbage disposal, waste dumping, convict labor, and illegal gang hideouts, the scorched earth region has virtually no positive value.

Lawson has no intention of accepting this situation.

What he wants is a planet.

It's not three human chimneys stuck in toxic soil.

The black hole cleanup has lasted for three weeks.

The first week, the sky thinned.

The acid rain stopped in the second week.

In the third week, starlight penetrated the clouds.

By the end of the third week, the main radiation cloud over the Tri-Star had been evacuated, and the remaining contamination layer had been reduced to a manageable level.

The civil affairs report of planet Obolos III shows:

The incidence of acute exacerbations of mid-level respiratory diseases has decreased.

The consumption of air purifier filters has decreased.

Energy consumption for low-rise lighting has decreased.

The solar array has begun to partially resume operation.

Greenhouse crops are growing faster.

Violence in the lower nest area has increased in the short term due to residents trying to compete for "open-air sunlit areas".

When Lawson saw the last item, he even smiled.

That's just how humans are.

They fight for water in the darkness, but when the light comes out, they fight for light.

It's ok.

As long as what they fight over changes from corpses, moldy grain, and dirty water to places to air out blankets, it means the world is getting better.

The clearing of the sky by the Tri-Stars is only the first step.

Outside the capital city, it was still a scorched wasteland.

Lawson unfolded the planet's surface layer.

The scorched earth area accounts for about 70%.

One-third of it is industrial wasteland.

One-third of it consists of acidified soil and a crust of metallic salts.

The remaining area consists of old battlefields, bone mines, garbage dumps, abandoned high-speed rail tracks, and gang ruins.

Ordinary plants cannot survive.

If you try to plant common grains, fruit trees, and algae from the Empire using externally cultivated varieties, they will all die in the first acid wind.

But the Milky Way is very large.

There are many special plants on this wild planet.

Some plants can take root in soil containing heavy metals and fix the toxic substances in their root nodules.

Some plants can grow in slightly acidic environments and release gases that are suitable for human respiration.

Some vines can cover ruins and trap dust on the ground.

There are also some high-fiber tree species that grow very slowly, yet can change the soil structure of an area within a few decades.

In the past, the Empire rarely used these things for the repair of the hive capital.

There are many reasons.

Transplanetary introduction of species requires approval.

The ecological restoration cycle is too long.

The nobles believed that the scorched earth would not affect the spire.

Mechanics dislikes uncontrollable biological systems.

The Ministry of the Interior is unwilling to allocate funds to projects that will not be effective for decades.

Local governors are more concerned with whether they can pay taxes during their term.

In addition, given the massive population of the Nest City world, any ecological failure could trigger allergies, poisoning, pest infestations, or new epidemics.

So the simplest solution is to do nothing.

Continue to levy taxes.

Continue building the filtration towers.

Continue to let the lower-class residents cough themselves to death.

Lawson handled it differently.

He can break down ecological restoration into a military project.

First, divide the area into zones, then clean it up.

Lockdown again, reintroduce the species, monitor again, expand again.

Failed areas are directly incinerated and restarted.

Copy template to successful region.

The scorched earth outside of Obolos III was divided into three thousand ecological experimental zones.

Only one or two main plants are planted in each area.

The first batch introduced was "Iron Root Grass" from the border planet of Azure Thunder.

This grass is short in stature with deep roots, which can trap heavy metal dust. It has an unpleasant smell and is inedible, but it can reduce sandstorms.

The second batch consisted of "Gray Leaf Vine" from the edge of the moon in the Fenrir Orchard system.

It can adhere to the surface of abandoned buildings, absorb trace amounts of radiation, and secrete a weakly alkaline liquid to neutralize acidic dust.

The third batch came from a "black-shelled tree" in a wild, dead world.

With its thick bark, slow growth, and resistance to toxins, the tree's roots can spread even in poor soil, making it suitable for a long-term ecological framework.

Plant-compatible matrix sequences were assigned to various experimental areas.

They knew what was wrong with the plants earlier than the instruments.

The soil is too acidic.

Root system obstructed.

High levels of residual radiation.

Fungal contamination.

Local insect populations are biting.

These feedbacks are fed into the swarm intelligence system in real time.

The T series adjusts the purifier ratio based on feedback.

This renovation project is very slow.

It's so slow that even an ordinary imperial governor would find it pointless.

Klossen was looking at a century-long timeframe.

If Nest City can restore 10% of its external ecosystem, it can establish an external agricultural experimental zone, an open-air training ground, a solar array, a low-cost residential area, and a defensive buffer zone.

If 30% of the resources are restored, the nest city's reliance on external food and air purification systems will decrease.

If 50% of the planet were restored, it would no longer be a steel cage that only squeezes human lives inward.

It will regain the surface.

Owning the land means owning space for future expansion.

Lawson stood by the window, watching the starlight shine on the glass of the spire.

The Empire possesses territories spanning the galaxy, weapons capable of destroying planets, and countless saints, heroes, chapters, fleets, and miracles.

But often, it can't even be bothered to provide ordinary people with a breath of clean air.

In the imperial ledger, the lungs of a commoner in the lower realms were worth far less than a single cannon factory.

In Crosen's ledger.

A worker who lives to forty years old works twenty years longer than a worker who dies of coughing at twenty.

A child who doesn't have to inhale drug clouds every day is more likely to become a qualified engineer, a pilot, or a fleet sailor when he grows up.

In a nest city where the environment gradually improves, the riot rate will decrease, medical consumption will decrease, and production efficiency will increase.

Andrei walked to his side.

"The civil affairs department suggested giving this sky cleanup a name to facilitate publicity."

"What do they want to call it?" asked Lawson.

"The Emperor's Sky Curtain Reboot Project".

Lawson glanced at him.

Andrei continued, "It was provided by the state religion."

"Too long."

"The cornerstone sequence has proposed another one."

"explain."

"Project Qingtian".