Warhammer: Empire Reboot

"Live metal quota is maxed out."

Lawson waved his hand generously: "Forty liters, pile it up to the maximum."

Ordinary dynamic armor only uses a small amount for direct neural connections and basic coating.

But for his own armor, Lawson doubled it.

During his duel with Valentine, Lawson personally disassembled the hydraulic lines of the armor's joints and experienced firsthand the hardness of the adamantite ceramic steel.

He knew better than any technical priest where the armor's limits lay, and where its shortcomings lay.

The MK IV Conqueror is the pinnacle of creation from the Great Expedition era.

But it was, after all, imperial technology, and imperial technology, even in its most prosperous era, had its inherent limitations.

But the Empire has never possessed living metal; even if you dig up a grave, the space necromantic metal will be teleported away.

Living metal is the culmination of 60 million years of technology from the Necromancer civilization.

When 60 million years meet 10,000 years, Lawson is very much looking forward to it.

The technical class began their assignments.

Forty liters of silvery liquid living metal were injected into the armor's lining and outer shell.

Guided by swarm intelligence, the living metal was the first to complete the repair of battle damage.

This armor has been worn for twelve thousand years.

Even the finely forged ceramic steel of the Great Expedition era would not remain unscathed in the face of this time span.

After the nanounits of living metals infiltrated the microstructure of the carapace, a large amount of deep metal fatigue invisible to the naked eye was discovered.

The effective load-bearing capacity of the carapace increased by approximately 12% after the hidden damage was repaired.

Of the forty liters of living metal, approximately eight liters were specifically allocated to all the seams of the carapace.

The silvery liquid metal seeped into every crevice, filling all the gaps between the decks, and then solidified into an elastic alloy layer that combined flexibility and hardness.

This layer is soft under normal conditions, allowing joints to move freely without affecting the relative movement between the decks.

But at the moment of impact, it hardens instantly, like living metal on the surface of a carapace.

This means that the gap-targeting tactics that Lawson used in the one-on-one fight were almost ineffective against this modified Tiger King Armor.

Chapter 75 Tiger King Armor

The next step is to upgrade the transmission network.

The living metal neural conductive network did something that the Empire's neural interfaces could never do.

The Empire's black armor cannot transmit data in the reverse direction. The impact, temperature changes, and surface pressure experienced by the armor can only be displayed as data on the helmet display through sensors built into the armor within the Empire's power armor system.

The wearer sees the state of the carapace, rather than feels it.

The conductive network of living metals is bidirectional.

It not only transmits the wearer's movement commands, but also transmits all the sensory data from the shell back.

After putting on the Tiger King armor, Lawson could feel the armor.

Changes in airflow over the surface of the carapace.

He could feel the precise force, direction, and point of impact when the carapace was hit.

Even the temperature gradient on the surface of the shell.

This is a completely new dimension beyond the design concept of Imperial Power Armor, where man and armor become one.

The Empire's Astartes wear power armor; it is a person controlling a machine.

Lawson, dressed as the Tiger King, appeared to have grown a new layer of skin.

Finally, the outer armor was reinforced.

Six hours later.

The renovation is complete.

Swarm optimization provides the final comprehensive performance evaluation.

[Tiger King Armor - Comprehensive Performance Evaluation]

[Based on: MK IV Conqueror-type Commander Custom Edition - Great Expedition Era, factory peak condition.]

[Carapace Defense: +18%]

[Seam Defense: +85%]

[Servo response accuracy: +15%]

[Environmental Awareness Dimension: Upgraded from zero to full shell coverage (no corresponding function in the Empire system).]

[Self-repair capability: Shallow battle damage can automatically recover within minutes.]

Overall performance improved by approximately 30% compared to peak performance.

A creation from the Great Expedition, after 12,000 years of battles, was not only repaired to its peak, but also pushed to a level 30 percent higher than its peak by living metal.

If the master forgers of the Great Crusade era saw this report, he would most likely suffer three strokes first, and then kneel down and worship Lawson as a god.

The robotic arm of the inspection frame slowly opened.

Lawson turned around and stepped into the open back of the armor.

The heavy carapace was locked in place perfectly by the hydraulic system.

The living metal inside, like gentle ripples of water, enveloped every inch of Lawson's skin, and countless nanoscale neural interfaces connected with his nervous system.

The power backpack emitted a deep hum.

The fusion reactor is ignited.

Servo muscle bundles are activated group by group.

The deep red lenses in the Tiger King Power Armor's eyes suddenly lit up.

Lawson took a step forward.

The 40-liter living metal body, combined with the MK IV's sliding rail composite hinge, gives this nearly one-ton steel behemoth almost feline agility.

When Lawson put on the Tiger King costume, his height exceeded 2.5 meters.

Its massive body, with broad shoulder armor, and streamlined armor surfaces that shimmered with a cold light of silver and tiger stripes against the backdrop of living metal.

This is his armor.

It was personally stripped from the body of a 12,000-year-old Chaos Chapter Commander.

Creations of the Great Expedition Era.

The swan song of the Martian casting master, the immortal skeleton of refined gold and ceramic steel, and the new bloodline of living metal.

"Tiger King," Lawson gave it a name.

He took a few steps inside the storage tanks at the outpost.

The power armor fit him like a well-fitting coat, and every movement was so fluid that it seemed as if the armor grew out of his body.

three days later.

The technical team completed the repair and modification of all the newly captured power armor.

Forty-five White Tiger powered armored vehicles were neatly arranged in the spherical storage tank at the forge stronghold.

Lawson, wearing the Tiger King Armor, stood at the very front of the line.

At 2.5 meters tall, he was half a head taller than everyone else.

He looked to the left, then to the right.

Forty-five steel giants.

"From today onwards, you will be called the White Tiger Team."

Forty-five people simultaneously pressed their right fists onto the white tiger relief on their breastplates.

"loyalty!"

On the same day that the White Tiger team was formed, Lawson launched another plan that he had been planning for a long time.

The entire army has been upgraded.

First, upgrade all 900 existing team leaders from standard enhancement to platoon leader level with triple enhancement.

The cost is considerable; each platoon leader-level suicide soldier requires three times the life points and refined steel of a standard elite.

But Lawson had done the math and concluded that it was a sure thing.

The reason is not simply that three times the physical strength equals three times the combat power.

The advantage of triple enhancement is a geometric progression.

A standard elite assassin needs two people to work together to kill an orc boy in melee.

A platoon leader-level assassin can kill an orc boy in an instant.

More importantly, the survival rate is higher.

If you die fewer times, you don't need to spend life points to redeem them again.

Exchanging one platoon leader costs the same as three standard elites, but the platoon leader's casualty rate is less than one-third that of a standard elite. In the long run, it actually saves resources.

Lawson issued the order to upgrade in batches.

If you have enough life points, swarm intelligence can upgrade simultaneously.

Unfortunately, I don't have enough life points, so I can only proceed in order.

The swarm intelligence system automatically created an upgrade queue, prioritizing the upgrades of squad leaders and deputy squad leaders, followed by frontline combat personnel performing high-risk missions, and finally rear-area garrison and patrol personnel.

Meanwhile, swarm intelligence accomplished another task.

The combat data filtered from Valentine's consciousness was then reclassified.