Warhammer: Empire Reboot

He had seen how Lawson's army coordinated.

That level of precision was beyond the explanation of any command system he understood.

This human must possess something, but it's not something the Farsighted Enclave is in a position to inquire about right now.

Lawson continued, "How much original material is needed for the first batch of matrix modifications?"

O. Visa switched the table.

"To maintain the original performance, you need Fio-tak lightweight alloy, Thurnite standard composite building materials, micro cold fusion power supply units, pulse turret interfaces, drone maintenance nest cores, and three types of precision sensors. You have already requested the Fio-tak smelting matrix and cold fusion technology, but in the short term, you will need Vision Enclave to provide the material package until your production line is fully adapted."

Lawson nodded.

"For the first six months, all the core materials, repair parts, and Fio-tak prefabricated skeletons for the Nesting Matrix were supplied by Vision Enclave. After six months, my people took over production."

"This will reduce our own reconstruction quota," O. Vesa said in a deep voice.

"You retain nine planets; there is no need for expansion."

Lawson looked at him. "What I need is to get this system up and running. Once Agrippina completes the replication of the smelting matrix, the material problem will naturally disappear."

O. Vesa did not refute it, nor could he.

Lawson continued: "The template needs to be modified. Retain part of the pulse turret, and connect the main body to the Imperial standard heavy artillery, missile silos, laser turrets and Void Shield nodes. Prioritize the civilian template for water purification stations, hospitals, granaries, starport runways and basic housing. Use your material packs in the early stages, and switch to Imperial native materials and Fio-tak mass-produced parts later."

At this moment, O. Vesa finally understood why Lawson valued this item the most.

Combat suits can make an army stronger. Cold fusion can make vehicles last longer. Fio-tak can make armor lighter and harder.

These three things strengthen existing power.

Building drones is different. It reinforces expansion itself.

The Tau Empire used this system for thousands of years to develop numerous colonies.

Its speed has far exceeded the average level of the Milky Way.

When the empire reclaims a nest city world destroyed by war, administrative approvals, material allocation, dispatching engineering teams by the Mechanical Cult, and production scheduling in the world of casting all take several years to complete.

The reconstruction cycle starts at ten years and ends at several hundred years.

The reason why the Tau's construction matrix did not change the galactic landscape is because the Tau Empire was too small.

Klossen is not the Titanium Empire.

O. Visa had no idea how many people, how much industrial world, or how much production capacity were under the rule of Losen.

But he knew one thing: when Lawson heard the statement, "If we connect to the Empire's dark side heavy industrial base, the upper limit of cold fusion production will be far higher than ours," there was no surprise on his face.

That wasn't the reaction of someone who was being reminded; it was the reaction of someone who had already calculated this.

What is the concept of an empire's heavy industrial base?

The annual steel production of a single titanium quarry could power the Titanium Empire for a century.

Even if only one-tenth of the Forgeworld of the Empire's Dark Side is still operational, its raw material supply is thousands or even tens of thousands of times greater than that of the Tau.

If Lawson truly controls a significant number of industrial planets on the dark side of the Empire...

O. Vesa had a scene in his mind that he didn't want to face.

The Tau's building matrix is ​​designed to "colonize a planet." A single matrix, equipped with thousands of drones, can build an outpost in a few days and a colony in a few weeks, using locally sourced materials.

But what if we multiply the number of matrices by one hundred? Or by one thousand?

What if there's an empire-level Fio-tak mass production line, a large-scale supply of cold fusion cores, and an endless supply of basic building materials behind it?

That would not be "colonizing a planet".

That means simultaneously colonizing a thousand planets.

What the Titans built over thousands of years could be copied ten thousand times in ten years if it fell into the hands of an empire of that size.

O. Visage didn't know exactly how Lawson planned to use it.

But he knew that the way Lawson looked at this system was completely different from how the Tau people looked at it.

The way Lawson looked at it was like a farmer who had just received the seeds staring at ten thousand acres of wasteland in front of him.

Er Gou listened for a long time, but only grasped the last part.

"Boss, does that mean that if we conquer a planet, we can build a pillbox on the enemy's grave the very next day?"

Lawson glanced at him.

"almost."

Several Tu scientists lowered their heads.

This human guard used the crudest language to express the most accurate conclusion.

The Tau used this system to expand their borders, establish outposts, repair colonies, and improve the planet's environment.

Lawson will use it to grow war cities on every battlefield that has just been soaked in blood.

O. Vesa suppressed his emotions and announced the final number.

"A total of 246 matrix groups have been constructed. There are approximately 1.8 million engineering drones of various types, of which 30% require maintenance. There are 12 production lines, distributed across three industrial satellites and two underground factories."

Lawson said, "I want 70% of the military matrix, template core, and production line. You can keep 30% for civilian repair capabilities, and operate them under my supervision."

O'Showa said in a deep voice, "If they take 70%, our reconstruction speed will be severely slowed down."

“You don’t need to expand,” Lawson said, looking at him. “You need to live.”

O'Showa was silent for three seconds, then nodded.

"pay."

O. Vesa did not argue further.

The highest level lock is open.

The project unfolds layer by layer, including construction matrix design drawings, drone swarm protocols, material matching tables, template editors, terrain databases, disaster construction logic, fire fortress schemes, water cycle modules, and special environmental engineering packages for deserts, ice fields, toxic atmospheres, low gravity, strong radiation, and marine platforms.

Lawson watched as the data stream poured into the swarm storage.

He has already seen what the future will look like.

A hive world that has just been burned to ruins by chaos.

Under the old imperial system, a reconstruction report for such a planet would sit in the administration for ten years before being classified as a "low-priority asset awaiting restoration."

Lawson's version: The combat sequence has been cleared, and the first batch of the foundation sequence has landed to take over the population. The construction of the matrix begins on the same day. Drone swarms drill into the rubble, converting scrap steel, gravel, groundwater, and old pipeline debris into new materials on the spot.

The water purification station resumed water supply within six hours.

The air defense tower went online within twelve hours.

Within 24 hours, the field hospital began receiving the wounded.

Three days later, the Starport runway was repaired, and the first batch of transport ships landed.

Seven days later, the outer fortifications were closed, and the fire control network was connected to the orbital defense.

Within a month, energy, water supply, grain depots, hospitals, military camps, communication towers, ammunition depots, and orbital interfaces were all restored to operation. A dead star began to beat again.

He suppressed the area that the empire had spent ten or even hundreds of years to barely repair in just one month.

Lawson gave his conclusion.

Project code name: Nest Building.

He turned to O. Vesa.

"From now on, all materials will be delivered in separate versions: the original version, the version supervised by the Turks, the military version, and the colonial version. Any deletions, cuts, or backdoors will be deducted from your remaining nine planets."

O. Vesa bowed his head.

"clear."

P.S.: Guys, 1.3 words updated today.

Chapter 235 Combat Suit Drill, A New Toy for the Cornerstone Sequence

Lawson has now conquered more than 10,000 imperial worlds, and there will be more in the future.

Taking over a planet would not be difficult for him.

The challenge lies in getting this planet back to producing food, steel, soldiers, and taxes in the shortest possible time, transforming it into a node in the Empire's dark swarm network.

The empire was so vast that victory itself was only the beginning; the real, long-term expenditure was in its construction.

The Tu family's construction of drones was precisely the move to finish off this problem.

The foundation sequence is implemented to manage people, and the construction matrix is ​​implemented to build cities. The two lines run simultaneously, and the time difference between occupation and construction is compressed to days.

Lawson dislikes titanium.

But he admitted that this young race has done a really good job in engineering automation.

Over thousands of years, they have progressed from primitive civilizations to interstellar colonization, making the exploration, engineering, and military modules replicable processes.

Humans gnawed on the remnants of the past during a ten-thousand-year civil war, the Eldar slowly declined while guarding their graves, and the Tau, on the other hand, turned colonization into a standardized operation.

Now this standardized operating procedure has fallen into the hands of Lawson.

Technical data began to be synchronously transmitted back using swarm intelligence.

The Agrippina main star, sixty casting worlds, and all the cornerstone nodes related to engineering, materials, and automated production simultaneously received the first batch of split data.

After completing the first round of deduction in Lawson's mind, the swarm intelligence presented a question.

Having data alone is not enough.

The Empire's forging capabilities allow it to manufacture cannons, armor, and ship hull parts according to blueprints.

However, the Tushi construction drone is a complete automated engineering ecosystem, not a single product.

Tu's engineers know which parts can have their precision reduced and which parts should never be replaced.

Know the differences in failure rates of drone swarms on desert planets, icy planets, toxic atmospheres, and low-gravity ruins. Know whether the first batch of drones should dig foundations or lay power lines before deploying the construction matrix. Know how the silicon content, iron content, moisture, and radiation contamination of local materials affect the strength of quick-setting building materials.

These things won't be fully written in the technical files, and even if they were, the Imperial Factory would still encounter many pitfalls at the beginning.

Lawson didn't want to wait.