Warhammer: Empire Reboot

T-sequence assassins and mechanical priests observed its structure from a distance, with many priests' mechanical eyes almost welded to the observation windows.

The Ghost of Destruction is too big.

It's too dirty.

That's incredibly valuable.

It's like a steel monster pieced together from red pirates, the dark mechanical cult, the remnants of war, the glory of the old empire, and the corruption of chaos.

From today onwards, it belongs to Lawson.

The true core gains from the Destroyer Ghost need to be gradually tallied up.

Now, what he wants to see is what was sent back from the vortex through the static force field over seven days and seven nights.

At the top of the tower, Lawson stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, his swarm mentality unfolding before him.

Numerous perspectives lit up simultaneously.

Agrippina, the main star.

Third-track warehouse cluster.

The seventh large enclosed warehouse.

A transshipment port for ore in the Northern Hemisphere.

Abandoned holy oil storage area.

There's also the Oberlus Triad.

All warehouses are full.

It was filled by the plunder and accumulation of the great vortex over hundreds or thousands of years.

Lawson's perspective first falls on the Agrippina Third Track warehouse complex.

This place was originally a ore reserve for the Forging World, enough to hold the basic materials needed to upgrade an entire fleet. Now, on the gravity platform at the bottom of the warehouse, walls of refined gold ingots are stacked.

High-purity refined gold.

The adamantite looted by the Red Pirates from Mechanicus transport ships, noble tribute ships, ship graveyards, and border forging nodes is now neatly piled up in Agrippina's warehouse.

Each gold ingot bears a mark indicating its origin.

Some of them bear the old seals of the Mechanical Church.

Some bear the coat of arms of noble families.

Some surfaces still bear the tax stamps re-imprinted by the Red Pirates.

Now, all these imprints have been worn away by the foundation sequence and replaced with new batch numbers.

【The Great Whirlpool - Rusty Star Wharf - Fine Gold Batch 01】

【Great Vortex - Fractured Star City - Adamantite Batch 14】

【Great Vortex - Black Jaws Area - Refined Gold Ingot Batch 07】

As Lawson looked at the rows of refined gold, a slight smile appeared on his lips.

You can never have too much of this.

In the past, Agrippina had fine gold, but the supply always had to be accounted for.

Now, this account can be made much more lenient.

Next to the refined gold zone are ceramic steel and ultra-high strength ship hull alloys.

The quality varies, the sources are diverse, but the quantity is enormous.

The T-sequence assassins are being classified.

Class A is used directly for the armor of frigates and destroyers.

Grade B, used as material for non-critical sections of cruisers.

Grade C, remelted and then used.

The cornerstone sequence is recorded alongside.

The aircraft towed huge pieces of ship armor plates along the track to the testing area.

Some of the armor plating still bears the names of the old warships.

"The Holy Spear Bearer".

"Grey Harbor Glory".

"Promethium Saints"

These ships may have been hijacked by the Red Pirates hundreds of years ago, or they may have been dragged into a whirlpool during a war and eventually dismantled for materials.

The empire's ships and goods, after going around in circles, finally returned to Lawson's hands in another form.

Lawson felt no psychological burden whatsoever.

The pirates of the Great Whirlpool plundered for a thousand years.

He robbed pirates for seven days.

fair enough.

The next perspective is of the energy warehouse.

The level of control here is higher than that of the metal warehouse.

Even the most expensive adamantite and ceramic steel are just silent metals. Their energy sources are different; they can ignite the reactor of a warship or turn half an orbital port into a fireball in a second.

Lawson's perspective falls on the old promethium transit port in the northern hemisphere of Agrippina.

This transit port was already partially abandoned.

In the past, it was responsible for receiving industrial fuel from mining planets to power the foundry, orbital dock, and macro cannon production line. After the Chaos invasion, half of the transit port was destroyed, leaving only a few main transport rails and a dozen or so usable explosion-proof warehouses.

Now, all of these explosion-proof warehouses have been put back into use.

Rows of promethium canisters are secured to gravity locks, and are covered with explosion-proof steel frames and cooling pipes.

These promethium sources came from the fuel anchorages of the Great Whirlpool, black merchant fleets, Red Pirate supply depots, and smuggling ports.

Now, they have all been renumbered.

【Great Whirlpool - Rust Star Wharf - High Purity Promethium Batch 02】

[Great Whirlpool - Black Jaws Area - Ship Fuel Tank Batch 17]

【The Great Vortex - Red Bone Market - Black Market Fuel Reserve Batch 06】

Promethium is the blood of war.

Ground armor is needed.

We need to use fire weapons.

The track factory needs it.

The warship's secondary systems also need to be used.

Since Lawson took over the 318 planets, fuel allocation has been a major issue. Nesting worlds, mining planets, forging worlds, patrol fleets, and green-skinned farms are all consuming energy.

Now that the promethium from the Great Vortex has entered the market, it will at least significantly ease Agrippina's short-term energy account.

Next to the promethium warehouse is the plasma energy zone.

It's more dangerous here.

Each plasma fuel rod was sealed within a blue-white cryogenic field, surrounded by three layers of automated isolation walls. T-sequence assassins personally supervised the operation, and any Foundation Sequence member required authorization before entering.

Most of these plasma fuel rods came from the Dark Mechanicus warehouses and Imperial Navy supply ships stolen by the Red Pirates.

Some of them are of older specifications, but are well preserved.

Some of them have been modified by the Dark Mechanicus, resulting in more violent output and poor stability, requiring recalibration.

There were also a few sets of fuel rods with ancient numbers engraved on their surfaces that Lawson couldn't understand. When Xerath saw them, he immediately demanded that they be sealed away separately, saying that they might come from the energy compartment of a ship left over from a dark age of technology.

Plasma energy is not a staple food.

When used properly, it is a powerful boost to the heart of a warship.

If used improperly, it could turn your own dock into the sun.

In addition to promethium and plasma fuel, Lawson also secured a batch of even rarer energy components.

Core for ignition of shipboard reactor.

Short-distance transition auxiliary capacitor array.

High-density plasma confinement ring.

Old-fashioned Void Shield Energy Storage Box.

Subspace engine preheating coil.

And several irregularly shaped dynamic crystals sealed in a transparent force field.

These items, though not numerous, are extremely valuable.

Because they are not ordinary fuels, but core energy components that can be directly used in ships, railguns, void shields, and heavy equipment in docks.

In the past, when Agrippina wanted to build warships, what she lacked most was not the steel plates for the hull.

The real bottlenecks are often the core energy components related to reactors, void shields, Geller force fields, and propulsion systems.

These things are technically complex, have long production cycles, and high failure rates. Furthermore, mechanical engineers like to add rituals to each step of the process.

Now, the pirates of the Great Maelstrom and the Dark Machine Cult have been accumulating wealth for Lawson for thousands of years.

The Red Pirates don't build ships properly.

But they will steal it.

The Imperial supply ships, mechanical cargo ships, naval repair ships, and ship graveyard energy cells they looted were all dismantled and stockpiled at various fuel anchorages and dark workshops in the Great Maelstrom.

With that one slash, Lawson took back all the inventory.

T-001 provides a preliminary estimate.