In Mint's design factory, the lights were on, countless robot servants were dragging semi-finished weapons in and out, and the sound of plasma flames was echoing.
Several specific high-level sages were left behind, vying to watch Hades' operation at a location far away from the core design area. Even though Hades promised to teach them how to make it afterwards, these sages were still unwilling to miss any details, and they kept their eyes fixed while silently chanting prayers.
Hades, who was in the center of the sages' vision, was manipulating the robotic arms to carry out the transformation like flowing water. He controlled the black area within a reasonable range and concentrated on the design.
The purpose of opening the black domain is to prevent interference from the subspace. Although Hades itself will not be disturbed by the subspace, it is still a safe bet.
As for the machine soul, these mechanical parts that are still fragments do not possess a relatively complete machine soul. Even if there is a slight fluctuation of spiritual energy, Hades will go into the black domain and everything will return to calm.
Not all machines have machine souls. Machine souls usually appear in machines that have been used for a long time and have been invested with emotions by the humans around them.
Initially, Hades' Black Domain still made the Machine Soul uncomfortable, leading to targeted incidents, but after cleaning up Barbarus, Hades discovered that his Black Domain could directly "erase" the Machine Soul.
This was after he unconsciously picked up a special-made gun from Graeae. A scream rang in Hades' ears, and then silence returned.
Then the Graeae sages discovered that the high-quality gun they had specially selected had become the most standard state, and its use was in line with all the calculations on the design drawings.
Hades silently withdrew his hand, as if he had just accidentally killed a machine spirit.
Afterwards, Hades tried it again with the help of Graeae's arsenal and summed up some experience.
Without the machine soul, low- and medium-level machines will operate in the most standard state. A plasma gun will not overheat after firing for a long time, nor will it stall because of poor treatment by soldiers.
Generally speaking, it is not easy for such low- to medium-level machines to produce machine souls.
But what about high-level mechas? For example, mechas like Knight and Titan are famous for their machine souls that can interact with the pilot.
Driving a Knight or a Titan requires the driver's consciousness and soul to deeply penetrate the mecha. The most common statement about its machine soul is that it is a mixture of countless drivers' consciousness and souls, or that it is a machine soul awakened by the driver's consciousness and soul.
Hades has two inferences about mechas such as Knight and Titan whose machine souls are critical to control. The first is that after the machine souls are erased, these mechas will operate in standard mode.
The second possibility is that these mechas will be scrapped, or part of them will be scrapped, because Hades has never heard of knights and Titans without machine souls. In other words, unlike low- and medium-level machines, machine souls are likely to play a practical role in the operation of this type of mecha.
If it is the second type, then Hades will be defeated if he really faces this type of mecha.
Hades controlled the Black Domain and looked thoughtfully at the knight mecha in the corner of the armory. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but the knight mecha seemed to shrink back.
Well, the cost of the experiment is a bit high, so I won’t do it for now.
Let's see if we can try using other people's knights and Titans -
Wait, there's a disabled knight in the Death Guard's warehouse? The one they knocked out with a stasis grenade on that plague planet.
However, the pilot of that knight was an untouchable, and that knight looked too simple and didn't seem to have an organic soul.
Can untouchables also become Knight Pilots
Hades thought.
I'll have to go see it after this.
At present, Hades just happened to have a lot of knowledge about anti-psychic energy, and his black domain was further strengthened, so he could continue to develop Blackstone technology.
Hades chose to finish the negotiations with Minint first, keep the assembly line running, and then go back to the small workshop to manufacture his Black Stone technology.
Regarding Blackstone Technology, Hades hopes that Sage Kirkland can build an assembly line for him, but realistically speaking, this is unlikely.
Moreover, the Blackrock technology that Hades now controls is the Blackrock Tower. If it is not controlled by Hades, the Untouchables who want to activate the Blackrock Tower will need to sacrifice at least a few lives before they can activate the Blackrock Tower.
At present, Hades has not found any untouchables with strong abilities. Even the Sister of Silence is not very strong in the anti-psychic domain.
Powerful Untouchables are hard to find.
Hades sighed and continued to modify the armor and guns with his hands.
A week later.
Mortarion looked at the armor and weapons in front of him in silence, while Hades stood beside the Primarch, counting and checking these revised weapons again.
Mortarion was still obsessed with the chemical reactions in the laboratory. The highly toxic crystals precipitated from the atmosphere of Barbarus gave Mortarion many good experimental attempts. With only slight changes and precipitation, he could produce beautiful gases of different colors.
And the crystals precipitated from the entire atmosphere of Barbarus are enough for the Death Guard to use for a long time, Mortarion thought with satisfaction.
After developing the 51st new type of air, Mortarion was called out of the laboratory by Hades for document approval.
"I picked them out. These will be the logistical support Graeae will focus on providing to the Death Guard in the future."
In addition to official supplies from Mars and the Imperium, the Death Guard can draw additional logistical resources from the Graeae.
After finishing the inventory, Hades handed Mortarion a long list that stretched to the ground.
"You can add something else."
Hades pointed behind him, and Mortarion turned around and saw the parchments neatly stacked in an entire side room.
“.”
Mortarion chose to look down at the list in his hand.
This list mainly includes tanks and other armored vehicles, as well as a large amount of ammunition and weapons for mortal auxiliary soldiers. However, Mortarion has never heard of the names of these weapons.
"These are not the weapon models officially compiled by the Empire."
Mortarion looked towards Hades.
"And in my previous investigation of Graeae, I did not see these types of weapons appear."
Mortarion turned his gaze to the weapons that Hades had just sorted out.
"Is that it?"
Hades nodded, walked over and knocked on a tank. All the equipment displayed on the scene were modified by him personally.
"That's the case for now."
Although the Legion's weapons involve many types, ranging from warships to pistols, based on Graeae's current assembly lines and production capacity, Hades still focuses mainly on armor and guided weapons.
After all, you can't ask a forging world that mainly manufactures armor to suddenly start mass-producing aircraft. For this kind of supplies, you'd better go to the Empire and Mars for it.
"It was given to the mortal auxiliary army first."
Even among the 30k Space Marines, which have a large number of soldiers, the mortal auxiliaries that follow the legion are also a force to be reckoned with in combat.
Although the Legion will be deployed on a battlefield of high intensity where mortals have difficulty participating, if the auxiliary forces are allowed to operate heavy vehicles to assist the Death Guard in combat, the power of the mortal auxiliary forces can be fully utilized to provide additional assistance on high-intensity battlefields.
After all, the recruitment of Space Marines may be subject to many restrictions, and the success rate of gene seeds has also locked the upper limit of the number of people in each legion. As a result, no matter how much you farm, the number of Space Marines cannot be too large. The Ultramarines next door are an example.
But for the recruitment of mortal auxiliary troops, in a world with tens of billions of people in a nest world, it is quite easy to expand the auxiliary army. If the strength of the auxiliary army is slightly improved, there will be a qualitative leap due to the increase in its huge number of people.
Moreover, there are actually quite a lot of weapons and armor for Space Marines, and compared with mortal troops, there is less room for operation and improvement.
"This is a modified version of the Hellhound, or rather, a modified version of the Poison Wolf. I haven't decided what to call it yet. It has enhanced flexibility and is more convenient for maneuvering in the enemy's heavy armor. It has a replaceable large-capacity gas tank, two heavy flamethrowers, and a simplified version of the Lion's Tail Scorpion missile mounted on the flanks."
"We can store Barbarus air in it, or some other gas, depending on what kind of enemy we encounter."
Hades said,
Mortarion was very satisfied with this modification. He could already imagine the thick fog that would fill the sky as these heavy tanks charged into the enemy battlefield. The Death Guard would rely on the assistance of these tanks and the fog to gain an excellent combat experience.
Let your enemies feel the love from Barbarus.
"Just call it Hadeshound."
Hades nodded. He obviously didn't understand Mortarion's pun and thought it was just an original name based on the inventor's name.
“And then this.”
Hades picked up a bazooka with one hand. In Hades' hand, it looked like a larger gun, but it actually required a strong Astra Militarum to carry it.
This is a rocket launcher with a relatively simple appearance, but the key point is the ammunition inside, which is all guided type, and the type of ammunition loaded can be replaced independently. Explosive, chemical weapons, and hot melt can all be changed.
"I took out the Graeae's Liontail Scorpion missile and simplified it to make a single-soldier weapon. This is the auxiliary army version, and there is also a space marine version over there."
Hades pointed to another complex version of the rocket launcher that was obviously two rounds larger. The firing of these rocket launchers was based on the grenade launchers that Graeae already had, but the firepower was stronger than that.
These rocket launchers equipped with the Graie precision guidance system will fill the gap in small ground firepower. When the armored cluster has not yet arrived at the battlefield or our side has not gained air superiority, these individual portable firepower will provide the first batch of precision firepower support.
"These are called Scorpion Bazookas."
Mortarion took a look at the rocket launcher and was surprised to find that this weapon was not so high-tech. It looked so simple, easy to operate and easy to repair.
After a relatively normal introduction, Hades touched the things in the corners of the ground.
"Look at this again."
Hades picked up a rifle that was glowing green.
This looks like the most ordinary Necrons' Gauss rifle, with a shell on the outside and the Imperial double-headed eagle emblem pasted on it.
In fact, this double-headed eagle emblem was affixed by the Graeae sages and has nothing to do with Hades.
Mortarion looked at Hades silently, and Hades looked away silently.
"Ahem, this is a very useful rifle called the Wraith Rifle. The reaction device inside is quite special. Other than that, there's nothing special about it."
Thanks to the Undead technology provided by Trazyn, although that guy deliberately concealed and distorted part of the knowledge, so that they could only imitate the smallest and crudest electric motors, but even so, this simplified version of the Gauss rifle is the only choice that can greatly enhance the strength of individual auxiliary soldiers.
It won't overheat, has low recoil, can shred everything at the atomic level, and theoretically ignores all defenses from solid matter - if one shot doesn't work, then use two.
When fighting against the Necrons, the Space Marines relied on their individual high mobility to avoid the damage from these rifles rather than taking real damage.
However, the main strengths of this gun lie in its low recoil and small size. Among Space Marines, there are many weapons that can cause the same damage when enlarged, which makes this weapon seem rather useless. Therefore, it is more suitable for mortal auxiliary troops.
"Unfortunately, the production of this type of weapon is very small, and we can only distribute it to a small number of people in the auxiliary army."
Trazyn definitely did it on purpose. The production of this rifle takes a very long time, the raw materials are expensive, and some steps cannot even be produced on an assembly line.
Only a powerful group like the Necrons would play like this.
Hades thought with gritted teeth.
Mortarion stared at the "Imperial Rifle" in Hades' hand, and thought about the alien technology Pluto and Annihilation in his own hand.
At last Mortarion spoke:
"Will you not get into trouble?"
"No," Hades vowed.
"I have already communicated with Graeae. This is the weapon Graeae provided to the Death Guard. We don't know anything else."
But in fact, Graeae only knew how to make this kind of products and nothing else.
In this regard, when it comes to the production of Necron technology, Hades has placed it on Barbarus's forging satellite Minint, and will not entrust the main world of Graeae to produce it. Other armors, etc., will be entrusted to the main world of Graeae.
"That's fine."
Mortarion thought for a moment, then said,
"You put a lot of effort into the equipment of the Mortal Auxiliary Army."
Hades nodded.
"I also envisioned and modified some of the Space Marines' weapons, but I haven't mentioned them yet."
Mortarion looked at Hades.
"Why?"
Hades winked.
"Let's put it this way. We all know that Titans are the kings of the battlefield, but the production cost, maintenance cost, and transportation cost of Titans will cause a lot of problems."
"So we can't just build Titans."
There should be one more update, let me take my time...
I am a military illiterate, I am out to tell you the truth, please help me correct the mistakes in these articles...
(End of this chapter)