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"Oh, I didn't expect that even the Mechanicus couldn't orbit a star to repair the ring belt!" Back on his spaceship, Mai Mai complained to Dusk.

"You should know it's impossible, right? Although the technology in the Warhammer world is indeed very advanced, it's not yet at the level of 'more megastructures' like in Stellaris. Otherwise, why build the ring belt? Wouldn't it be better to build the Galactic Center Birch World?" Dusk of course understood why Mai Mai asked this question, so he also complained: "But seriously, the Empire should have such technology, right?
I remember that before the Old Night, humans once built a flat square world specifically to serve as the signing site for a peace agreement with the Eldar?"

"Humans have such technology, but the Empire... I'm not sure if the Empire has it." Mai Mai just wanted to take a gamble. What if the Mechanicus had some amazing technology?

As for why humans and the empire are discussed separately, it is because of the collapse of human civilization in the Old Night Era.

At that time, human civilization, which had spread throughout the galaxy, fell into decline due to the subspace storms that blocked transportation. The once powerful colonies declined rapidly, and some even degenerated into a barbaric era!
Those worlds that were able to maintain a certain level of technology were not much better off. Due to the influence of the warp storm, the large number of psykers and Chaos cults that appeared on the planets almost destroyed the entire colony. The degree of corruption on some planets was even beyond imagination.

The Emperor and his children had seen many worlds like this during the Great Crusade.

Even Mortarion was born into such a corrupt world, and his adoptive father was a corrupt warlord who practiced psychic sorcery.

As for the technological barbarians and warlords before the Emperor unified Terra, they were so powerful that they almost wiped out the newly established Salamander Legion.

And this is only part of the technological heritage of mankind at that time.

(The one who nearly destroyed the Salamanders was just an automated security robot)

In addition, the Emperor also buried a fragment of the Void Dragon, a star god whose power is technology, on Mars. Logically speaking, the technological level of mankind at that time was sufficient to build a star ring around a star.

But to this day, this ring is still impossible for humans to repair.

"In that case, if we want to build a giant ring, do we have to go to the center of the Milky Way to snatch those dwarfs?" Dusk thought of the space dwarf that GW took out of the coffin and asked curiously.

According to GW's new setting, the space dwarves are the mining team that humans once sent to the center of the Milky Way to mine resources. These dwarves are clones that have undergone special genetic modification, and they even have complete and usable STCs in their hands.

"If we can gather an expeditionary force from the Great Crusade era, it wouldn't be a problem to go to the center of the Milky Way to cause trouble for the dwarfs, but now... let's wait until the Regent wakes up!" Mai Mai shook his head and dismissed this unrealistic idea from his mind.

Although he knew that if he told those dwarves in the Mechanicus that they had a complete and usable STC, they would go crazy and launch an expedition to the center of the Milky Way, but this matter revealed an air of unreliability from beginning to end.

If it were during the Great Crusade, this might not have been a big problem, and the Emperor would not have minded launching an expedition to the Galactic Center.

But for the empire now... the most urgent task is to find a way to deal with the opening of the Great Rift!
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On the other side, Chen Xi had completed the inspection of several planets and returned to Rostov II, and his black ship had also returned from the star district capital and docked at the berth of the star port.

Chen Xi liked this black ship very much. After all, he wouldn't mind having a few more free cruisers.

And more importantly, this is a benefit for the Inquisitors from the Inquisition! Don't miss it!

Chen Xi is not the kind of Inquisitor who can raise a fleet to fight people. Although he can also requisition the Imperial Navy's fleet if necessary, he does not have a fleet under his command ready to be dispatched at all times.

However, as his work as Governor gradually improved, a small fleet of cruisers would not be a problem for Chen Xi in the future. After all, he already had a black ship, a forging ship, and a strike cruiser, which was already a small fleet of a certain size.

Not to mention that the Ecclesiarchy also sent a Ruler-class ship, and later promised to send three newly built Moon-class ships.

Compared with how to get ships to form a fleet, Chen Xi should consider more about how he can afford to maintain such a large fleet.

You have to know that the sailors in the fleet are a highly skilled military force, and they are not comparable to the illiterate soldiers in the Star Army.

Naturally, the welfare benefits of the Imperial Navy are far from comparable to those of the Astra Militarum.

Not to mention the low-level sailors on the lower deck, the real Imperial Navy has fresh natural food to eat!
As for the salary, it is more than one level higher than that of ordinary interstellar troops.

Although so far, the forge ships and strike cruisers in Chen Xi's hands do not need to be paid, and the black ships and ruler-class ships are maintained by the Inquisition and the Ecclesiastes respectively, this does not mean that Chen Xi does not need to spend money.

To keep a fleet running, crew salaries are only the smallest expense.

Fortunately, Chen Xi now has a repair dock, otherwise the maintenance of the several boats he has would be enough of a headache for him.

But even so, he still had to find a way to pay the huge expenses for maintaining the fleet.

The simplest thing is that every time the ship docks, it costs hundreds of thousands of throne coins just to replenish the promethium used as fuel and drinking water.

Fortunately, "Loyalty" has started selling now, and the financial situation of Rostov II is still relatively good. Otherwise, Chen Xi really has to consider where to grab some.

Currently, thanks to the unremitting efforts of the state religion, the production of consecrated wine has increased to 40,000 bottles per year.

After several rounds of discussions between high-level officials of the star regions, the Inquisition and the Ecclesiarchy finally decided on a distribution plan in which the Inquisition would take 10,000 bottles a year and the Ecclesiarchy would take 15,000 bottles.

The reason for this division is that the data announced by Chen Xi to the public is that the annual production of "Loyalty" is 32,000 bottles, and he must ensure that he still has a certain share.

Both the Ecclesiarchy and the Inquisition knew that Chen Xi must have concealed the production volume, but both sides remained silent on the matter, or tacitly agreed that these were part of the benefits that Chen Xi deserved.

After all, up to now, both the Ecclesiarchy and the Inquisition have tried various methods to replicate the brewing process of the blessed wine, and they even sent spies to steal the grape vines and seedlings on the Rostov II.

They used the same method to let nuns grow and brew wine in other places, but the result was only very ordinary wine, without the special effects of consecrated wine.

Under such circumstances, everyone can only assume that Chen Xi's place is the only place of production and allow him to reap some benefits for himself.

(End of this chapter)