SWNOVELXO Chapter 111: 210
Chapter 210 Repairing the Mountain Array
After assisting Cadia, Gao Yi did not have many SCVs left. When he actually saw the Phalanx, Gao Yi found that he had still underestimated its size and damage.
Even though this star fortress was built using the skeleton of a Golden Age and then combined with Imperial technology, it is still one of the most powerful war machines in the Empire.
Perhaps the only things that can be compared to them are the mechanical arks belonging to the Adeptus Mechanicus, which were truly designed and built during the Golden Age.
There are countless huge gun muzzles and sensor arrays all over it.
It is difficult for a warship to completely absorb a salvo from the Shanzhen.
However, the Phalanx was strong enough that even when severely damaged, it was able to engage the Blackrock Fortress with damaged shields and eventually destroy it.
This was also the important reason why Gao Yi asked the Emperor to help him contact the Phalanx to come here and repair it. A complete Phalanx could greatly make up for the Empire's disadvantage in the high-end combat power of Cadia battleships.
The early joining of the Shanzhen can also share the pressure on Cadia and buy more time for Gao Yi.
"It seems that repairing this battleship as quickly as possible is still a bit stressful. The SCVs on hand are not enough."
Fortunately, Lorisa and the dynasty troops that were clearing the influence of chaos in Agrippina were constantly harvesting psychic crystals for Gao Yi.
This gave Gao Yi some extra money.
Gao Yi temporarily folded three thousand SCVs and directly engaged in the maintenance work of the Mountain Array.
Although Galadon did not believe the proposal of the Imperial Guard, he still ordered the technical sergeants and other priests on the Phalanx to open the passages that were completely blocked due to the damaged hull.
They collected all the repair reports and provided them to the priests of the Order of the Holy Mechanicus.
One SCV after another led the way to the area where the Phalanx was most severely damaged.
The SCV does not need to completely repair the Phalanx. The most important thing is to repair its outer armor layer and the missing important parts. The interior can be repaired slowly.
Otherwise, it would take a lot of time to complete even this number of SCVs, as the entire Mountain Array is too large.
After seeing the maintenance report, Gao Yi also knew that the battleship was now facing not only damage to the hull, but also the residual subspace corruption was still affecting many facilities and cabins within the Shanzhen.
However, the Mark of Purity can also solve this problem.
The mechanical authority that Gao Yi shared began to take effect.
Under the divine power of the Mark of Purity, the chaotic waste code was swallowed up and absorbed and turned into a psychic crystal in Gao Yi's pocket.
These psychic crystals just offset the cost of Gao Yi summoning SCV.
Galadon looked at the prompts on the system interface of the Phalanx in disbelief. The integrity of the Phalanx's hull was improving at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the downtime system started to operate again.
The awakening of the machine soul allowed a large number of facilities that had stopped operating within the Mountain Array to resume operation.
The wandering trader and the imperial guards had not deceived him.
At the current rate of progress, it might only take a few days to repair the external armor and important parts of the Phalanx.
Those seemingly simple engineering machines are indeed demonstrating things that transcend the laws of physics. It is not an exaggeration to call them miracles.
As the Imperial Fists who are best at positional and defensive warfare, Galadon has been thinking in his mind that if these things can be obtained by the chapter, then their chapter's ability in positional warfare will be infinitely magnified again.
Think about the fortifications that the enemy had destroyed with great difficulty, and before they even waited to launch the next wave of attacks, the fortifications had already been repaired again.
How desperate this is.
The remaining chaos corruption in the battleship was being restored at an extremely fast speed.
Cabins that had been corrupted or even turned into flesh and blood were returning to their original appearance, and the machine souls in various mechanical creations that had been eroded by the chaos waste code were also regaining vitality.
"Captain Galadon, these engineering machines called SCVs will continue to remain in the Phalanx. They can repair damage to the warship even during the battle. There are also these pure marks. They can not only purify corruption, but also please the machine spirits."
This sudden surprise made Galadon understand why the Legion of the Damned allowed them to leave the warp and come here. He was originally thinking about how to obtain these SCVs, but Gao Yi generously gave them to Galadon.
He handed over authority to Galadon.
Gao Yi also hopes that these SCVs will provide more advantages for the Mountain Array in the upcoming wars.
"Thank you, Lord Gao Yi!"
Now he could understand why the Imperial Guards would stay with a Rogue Trader. Perhaps this was a gift and guidance from the Emperor.
And it wasn't just these engineering machines that the Phalanx lost; it also lost not only the Astartes within the chapter, but also a large number of mortal auxiliary troops and priests who had suffered heavy losses in the previous invasion.
Although there are Cursed Legions on the battleship, these Cursed Legions are only focused on combat and cannot provide help in other aspects.
Gao Yi proposed to station the two legions of rangers he brought with him on the Phalanx to assist Galadon in its defense and serve as a combat force to support Cadia.
Galadon wanted to refuse, but after seeing the troops in combat uniforms, he was moved. He also had to admit that with all the interstellar equipment attached to the war's combat organization, it was impossible for all the companies of the Third Company to do as well as such a force even if they put their strength together.
Some of the Phalanx's internal passages and compartments could even accommodate Thor's operations.
Galadon immediately agreed to allow this fresh force to join the Phalanx.
With the addition of these two Ranger Corps, Chaos will have to reconsider if it wants to board the Phalanx again.
Even if the demons were faced with the saturation attack of Thor in the narrow passage, they would be exiled. There would be no harm except that the defense facilities inside the Phalanx might be destroyed.
Ten days passed quickly, and the damaged hull of the Phalanx had been completely repaired, allowing the Gellert Station to operate at full capacity again, and the Phalanx's navigation speed in the subspace was greatly improved.
The delay here did not affect the original speed of the Phalanx, and may even allow it to reach Cadia earlier.
Internal maintenance work on the SCV is still ongoing, and repairs can be continued during the voyage.
After saying goodbye to Gao Yi, the Shanzhen set off again.
"Emperor, can you tell me whether the Cursed Legion is formed by the dead Astartes? Did you really transform Ferrus into a Cursed Warrior?"
The beheaded Primarch Ferrus once appeared as a cursed warrior.
Watching the Shanzhen leave, Gao Yi asked the emperor curiously.
The Emperor also gave Gao Yi an affirmative answer, but creating these warriors was also a burden for the Emperor. They were like the living saint Celestine. These warriors who turned into the Cursed Legion were essentially no different from demons.
The Emperor had no choice. It was easiest to use his power to help humanity in this way. Otherwise, he would not have transformed these most loyal warriors of humanity into this form. Every time a warrior was created and maintained, the Emperor would take a step closer to being a god.
This is created through the Emperor's Warp Essence, or 'Divine Power'.
If the Emperor chooses to become a god, then the dead human warriors in His domain will also become his demonic army.
"How miserable. They have to continue working even after they die. But if these people exist in a state similar to souls, perhaps my Protoss can let them continue to exist in another way. The Purifier Project may be able to do it.
Mechanical life is better than existing in the form of warp space, which allows them to continue to fight for humans and relieve your pressure. Wraithbone can carry souls. Karax's research based on this new material shows that Purifier technology can not only upload memories but also upload souls. "
Hearing this, the emperor was also a little moved