Warhammer: Empire Reboot

A woman holding a child received two food rations and a can of clean water through the window.

Moran stood by the roadside and watched for a while.

Then he turned and left.

He suddenly realized that this was actually quite good.

The story of Colvis-VII is not an isolated case.

It is one of hundreds of planets.

With the Agrippina sector at its core, Lawson's recapture formation spread outwards like ripples.

Each squadron is small in size, with three to five hundred combat soldiers responsible for military deterrence and security clearance, and twenty to fifty thousand core members responsible for administration.

With the instantaneous delivery of the static force field and the unlimited replenishment of the swarm logistics network, a fleet can complete the entire process of a planet going from "lost contact" to "connected to the network" within two weeks.

Every day, gray spots on the star chart turn gold.

Lawson was not greedy for credit and did not act rashly.

Once one is captured, it becomes a stable asset.

He didn't want a map covered in gold markings but riddled with cracks; he wanted every planet truly in his grasp.

The only standard for "truly holding it in one's hands" is that the entire administrative chain, from the planetary governor to the nest patrol officer, is replaced by the cornerstone sequence.

The empire’s original administrative system was completely uninstalled.

The new planetary governor is a high-level administrative node in the cornerstone sequence, directly connected to swarm thinking.

The Planetary Defense Force was also dismantled and rebuilt.

The old officer corps was disbanded.

Those who are capable are incorporated into the cornerstone system as instructors or advisors, while those who are incompetent receive retirement rations and go home.

Ordinary soldiers were retained, but command was completely transferred.

The Cornerstone Warriors serve as all the core officers from squad leader to regimental commander, using swarm intelligence and zero-delay coordination to maximize the combat effectiveness of ordinary soldiers.

Each company is equipped with three key political commissars.

For the indigenous people, the feeling of all these changes is simple.

Clean rations, ample rations, punctual and accurate rations every day, rain or shine.

They don't need to understand what "swarm intelligence" is.

They only needed to know three things: First, the Empire has returned. Second, the people in charge are now the Lord Seal's men. Third, there's food to eat today, and there will be food tomorrow.

This is enough.

Empire World No. 679, mining planet Thales-III.

After being out of contact for nine years, one-third of the main mine was controlled by a chaotic cult, while the remaining area was being struggled to maintain by the remnants of the Astronautical Army.

After the recapture formation arrived, three hundred combat soldiers spent six hours clearing out the cult stronghold. The Cornerstone Sequence took over the Mining Administration and restored full production capacity within three days.

The former governor was taken away by the Bi'an Warband for tacitly allowing the cult to infiltrate in exchange for a share of the mines.

The first order from the newly appointed Chief Executive of Cornerstone was to reduce miners' shift work hours from sixteen hours to twelve hours and increase rations to 1.5 times the standard.

Empire World No. 423, Nest City Planet Curaçao-V.

Seven years after being out of contact, the upper-class nobles of the Nest City hoarded supplies, while two hundred million people had starved to death in the Lower Nest. When the recapture fleet arrived, the nobles' private armies attempted to resist.

The battle formation was activated, the nobles were arrested en masse, their assets were confiscated, and all resources were redistributed.

Within 48 hours, the distribution station at the bottom of the nest reopened.

Empire World 1007, agricultural planet Verdan-II. Twelve years after losing contact, the world has been ravaged by orcs, leaving only three fortified cities, and the population has plummeted from eight billion to six hundred million. When the recapture fleet arrives, orc warlords are besieging the last fortress.

Ten thousand combat suicide soldiers were airdropped directly behind the orc army using the stasis field, while three thousand cornerstone cavalrymen rode Eldar jet motorcycles to cut in from both flanks.

After twelve hours of strangulation, three million orcs were crushed.

The moment the fortress gates opened, the garrison and civilians inside poured out.

What they saw was a ground littered with green-skinned corpses, and an Imperial double-headed eagle banner rising over the scorched earth.

Beneath the flag, golden palm prints shimmered in the sunlight.

The garrison commander stood at the city gate, looking at the flag.

"Go back and tell everyone that the Empire has not forgotten us."

One after another.

The golden area on the star chart expands steadily outward from Agrippina as its center.

Behind each golden dot of light lies a planet that has been completely reorganized, fully integrated into the swarm system, and belongs to Lawson from bone to skin.

On the surface, these planets all bear the imperial double-headed eagle.

But the real driving force behind them is the bee colony.

Material dispatch utilizes a swarm logistics network.

Communication is achieved through real-time transmission via swarm.

Defense operations are conducted through coordinated command and control via swarm tactics.

The administrative approach follows a standardized template, where each planet is a node in this giant network, interconnected, sharing resources, and supporting one another.

The network won't collapse if you pull out any one of them.

But if someone tries to tear this net apart from the outside, he will find that he is not facing hundreds of isolated planets, but a steel nervous system woven by billions of Cornerstone Death Knights, covering half of the Empire's dark side.

Lawson sat in Agrippina's court, watching as yet another gray dot on the star map turned gold.

Swarm Intelligence Report: Thirty-seven planets were recaptured this month, bringing the total to four hundred and two. Administrative takeover is complete, production recovery rate is 78%, and ration coverage is 100%. Planetary Defense Force reorganization is 63% complete.

In addition, the “Level 4 Agricultural Waste Disposal World” that Val-Synn used to disguise himself gave Lawson some inspiration.

The empire generates staggering amounts of industrial waste, biological waste, obsolete machinery, and toxic organic matter every year.

These things cannot be piled up in the nest city, nor can they be thrown into space to pollute the shipping lanes.

The Empire's solution was to find a batch of worthless marginal planets and use them as landfills.

Over thousands of years, the surfaces of these planets have accumulated layers of organic waste tens or even hundreds of meters thick.

The empire's administrative system classified these planets as the lowest priority.

Occasionally, a transport barge comes by to dump a new batch of garbage and then leaves.

In the eyes of the Empire, these planets are utter waste.

A layer of organic matter hundreds of meters thick, containing decaying proteins, carbohydrates, fatty acids, and amino acid residues.

What is a deadly poison to humans is paradise to green-skinned creatures.

The Greenskins' ecosystem is one of the most outrageous creations in the Warhammer universe.

Their spores can germinate on any organic substrate; the dirtier, more rotten, and richer the environment in terms of decaying matter, the faster and stronger the green skin grows.

Throw a lump of rotten synthetic protein into a culture tank, and three days later a cluster of fist-sized mushrooms will sprout.

Three days later, the mushroom body differentiated into the first batch of Squiger larvae.

Seven days later, Squig grew to a slaughterable size, and at the same time, the first batch of green-skinned larvae emerged from the spore layer.

A complete cycle lasts fourteen days.

Organic waste is input to produce green-skinned live animals and Squiger meat.

After a green-skinned living being is killed by a suicide soldier, the system converts it into life points.

Squiger meat undergoes high-temperature sterilization and purification to become the Spark-1 standard ration, which is pure protein, pollution-free, and can feed billions of mouths.

This process has been running in the Agrippina sector for nearly two years.

Ninety-five thousand four hundred cultivation pools were built in the bottom nest of the three hundred and eighteen planets, producing nine hundred and fifty-four million life points every fourteen days, enough to exchange for forty-five million cornerstone sequences.

This number is more than enough before the territory expands.

But that's not enough now.

Four hundred planets were recaptured, and it took millions of foundation stones to complete the comprehensive takeover, from administrative to military aspects, on each of them.

At the current pace of recovery, things are already getting tense.

More importantly, Lawson didn't want to continue raising greenskins in the bottom nests of every inhabited planet.

Although the bottom nest breeding farm has layers of isolation and strict control by the cornerstone assassins, it is still raising an alien creature that releases spores under the feet of hundreds of billions of ordinary people.

No matter how high the safety redundancy is, risks will always exist.

As more and more of the dark side of the empire is incorporated into the system, Lawson's foundation of rule is shifting from "military power" to "administrative credibility".

The common people trust the ruler because the sky is blue, the water is clean, and there is plenty of food.

If one day a group of greens suddenly emerges from the bottom nest of a certain planet, even if it's just a small group, that would be bad.

Therefore, the green-skinned aquaculture farm must be relocated.

Lawson pulled up the star map of the Empire's dark side, setting the filter to "Level 4 and below waste disposal worlds".

There are quite a few planets like this.

They are scattered throughout the dark side of the Empire, some near the core shipping lanes of the star sector, and some in the edge wastelands.

Most of them have been receiving garbage for thousands of years, and the most fertile ones have enough organic matter reserves to support hundreds of thousands of cultivation ponds for a hundred years without drying up.

What's even more ingenious is that the locations of these junk planets naturally form a distribution network.

You can find two or three in almost every sector.

This means that Lawson does not need to transport Greenskin production over long distances; it can supply locally, allowing each sector to be self-sufficient.

Lawson spent half a day selecting the first batch of forty-seven garbage planets with the best conditions and issued a transformation order.

The renovation plan was designed primarily by T-001, with collaborative optimization using swarm intelligence.

The core idea is to hollow out the entire planet and transform it into a giant industrialized aquaculture factory.

The foundation sequence and the machine tool use industrial drill bits and thermal melting equipment to excavate layers of giant cavities in the earth's crust.