Warhammer: Empire Reboot

“The traditional Agrippina process, from keel to sea trials, takes about three to five years.”

"In the event of resource shortages, damaged shipyards, and a shortage of priests, the period could be extended to seven years."

"After adopting a subcontracting and modular process, the basic components are produced simultaneously on all twelve hives and industrial planets. Agrippina is responsible for the keel, reactor, main weapon interface, void shield core, and machine soul carrying system."

"The construction time for the first ship is expected to be reduced to sixteen months."

"Once the process is mature, the cycle time for a single ship can be reduced to ten to twelve months."

Lawson's eyes flickered slightly.

"One frigate per year?"

“A single dock with a single berth can produce about one ship per year,” T-001 said. “If multiple docks operate in parallel, the annual output can be greatly increased.”

Krusas added, "This is not about compromising quality, but about freeing up a lot of low-holiness, low-precision, standardizable components from the Agrippina shipyard. The shipyard no longer spends time producing common supports, bulkheads, pipes, and low-level decks, but focuses on the core structure."

T-001 continues to be on display.

"The traditional cycle for the Cobra-class destroyer is two to four years, but after the new process matures, it will take eight to ten months."

"The traditional cycle for the Firestorm-class frigate is three to five years, while the new process takes twelve to fourteen months."

"The traditional cycle for a lunar-class cruiser is ten to fifteen years. The new process is expected to take five to seven years in the initial stage, and can be shortened to four to five years after it matures."

"Battlecruiser class ships are not recommended for immediate construction. Existing older ships should be restored first."

“For battleships, if starting from scratch, the traditional cycle is over fifty years. With the new process, once it matures, the supply chain is stable, and the core keel dock is expanded, it can theoretically be reduced to twenty to twenty-five years.”

Lawson looked at Kexas.

"One battleship every twenty years?"

"That's an ideal estimate," said Krus. "Battleship-class ships still require a lot of core components, especially the main keel, reactor, void shield array, plasma propulsion, and machine spirit support structure, which cannot be completely outsourced. The real way to compress time is to reduce the waste in the dock on basic components."

"If there is an existing old keel or a semi-finished hull, the time can be even shorter."

T-001 added: "There are still three unfinished large ship keels in the old Agrippina shipyard: one for a Mars-class battlecruiser, one suspected to be an auxiliary keel for an old battleship, and one with missing data. If repaired and integrated into the new process, a large capital ship may be completed within ten years."

Lawson tapped the platform.

"That's the key point."

Building battleships from scratch takes too long.

Repairing the old keel, modifying the semi-finished hull, and expanding the production capacity of frigates and cruisers are necessary to meet current needs.

What the Agrippina sector needs is a fleet growth curve.

"The first batch of targets," Lawson asked.

T-001 immediately provided the list.

"The first phase of modular mass production will last for five years."

"Objective 1: To add an average of 24 Sword-class corvettes per year."

"Objective Two: To add an average of eighteen Cobra-class destroyers per year."

"Objective 3: To add an average of 12 Firestorm-class frigates per year."

"Objective 4: Complete the keel laying of three Lunar-class cruisers within five years, and have two enter sea trials."

"Objective 5: Repair one Tyrant-class cruiser, one Gothic-class cruiser, and convert one damaged Dictator-class cruiser into a sector hub ship."

"Objective Six: Initiate the restoration project of the old keel of a large capital ship."

Lawson did the math.

If this goal is achieved, the Agrippina Sector will have a large number of new escort, destroyer and frigate ships in five years.

This is of great significance for sector defense.

Battleships are powerful, but few in number.

The ships that actually patrol, escort, eliminate pirates, protect logistics lines, and blockade polluted starports are frigates and destroyers.

Without them, a capital ship is like a big fist with no one guarding its blood vessels.

Are there enough resources?

Krus replied, “The ore is sufficient. With the reconnection of the mining planets in the Agrippina Sector, the supply of steel, refined metals, and ceramic steel raw materials can meet the needs of the Phase One plan. The limitations lie in the Void Shield Generator, the Geller Force Field Core, the Plasma Reactor, the Long-Life Thinker Array, and the number of qualified Dock Priests.”

Lawson asked, "The solution."

T-001 said, "First, core components will be prioritized for warships and will no longer be wasted on aristocratic giant yachts."

Lawson nodded.

"approve."

"Secondly, the T-series suicide squad will expand its production line for high-precision components."

"approve."

"Third, mechanical priests and cornerstone personnel are mixed together to form standard dock crews. Priests are responsible for the mechanical soul, core rituals and high-precision technology, while cornerstone personnel are responsible for execution, recording, quality inspection and scheduling."

"This will displease some priests," said Krus.

Lawson looked at him.

"You handle it."

The Xerox mechanical eye rotates.

"feasible."

"Fourth, establish a star-rating system for subcontracting factories. Factories are divided into five levels based on quality, on-time delivery rate, defect rate, material loss, and corruption risk. Higher-level factories receive more orders and resources. Lower-level factories undergo rectification. Those with consecutive failures are shut down."

Lawson said, "Let Bi'an participate in the audit."

"Already included."

"Fifth, utilize swarm intelligence to establish a comprehensive control system for warship production. Every piece of armor plate can be traced from its ore source to its installation location."

Lawson was satisfied.

This is what he wants.

Empires cannot do that.

It's not because the empire has no people.

It's not because the empire lacks resources.

Rather, its structure is too old, too cumbersome, too slow, and too fond of wrapping problems in religion, aristocracy, tradition, and procedures.

Mechanical engineering is unwilling to outsource because knowledge is power.

Local authorities cannot be trusted, because corruption runs deep.

Logistics are unstable because subspace is like a raging river.

The standards are not uniform because every casting world has been patching up STC with its own interpretation over thousands of years.

The warships resembled cathedrals because the Empire needed grand narratives to suppress the crew's fear of the void.

Lawson was able to do it because he tackled these problems one by one.

This is not a gentle reform.

This is like using a tomahawk for industrial management.

Krus looked at Lawson and suddenly said, "Master of the Seals, if this system succeeds, the nature of the world that Agrippina forged will change."

Krus pointed to the hive cities and mining planets on the star map.

“From the perspective of the Mechanic tradition, this is dangerous.”

"From the perspective of war efficiency, this is correct."

Lawson smiled.

"Then do it the correct way."

Outside the dock, a Sword-class frigate undergoing repairs moved slowly.

Its outer armor wasn't fully closed yet, and the internal keel was exposed to the lights. Several crew members were installing standard bulkheads from different planets.

All of this data is incorporated into the swarm intelligence framework.

A mechanical priest stood in front of the bulkhead, habitually intending to recite a full forty-minute soothing prayer.

The adjacent cornerstone sequence reminded him: "The standard procedure allows for three minutes of prayer. Exceeding this time limit will affect the installation schedule."

The priest remained silent for a few seconds.

The forty-minute prayer was then compressed into three minutes.

From a distance, T-001 recorded this scene.

"Efficiency improvement".

Lawson watched the priest forced to accelerate and felt quite pleased.

This is change.

It's not about abolishing everything about the empire.

Many things from the empire are still useful.

Faith is useful.

The Machine Soul Ritual is useful.

Mechanical knowledge is useful.

Experience from old shipyards is useful.

But everything has to be put into his rhythm.

Prayer is acceptable.

Don't block the production line.

Tradition is acceptable.

Don't let warships be launched ten years late.