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Chapter 161 Foundry and Orders
"This is a new collection of gears. The blood of the God of Machines has not yet flowed here, and I have not felt the pulse of the Om Messiah." Christen stood on a high platform, looking at the forging production line of the foundry still under construction below, and used the unique abstract description of the Mechanicus to describe what he saw.

32, standing by, automatically translated the words into human language, and then replied in binary: "This factory was built less than a year ago, and it's not even finished yet.

The minerals from Rostov I are now mainly processed by my foundry ships to produce the parts needed to build the foundry."

Hearing 32's answer, Christen didn't find fault, but just nodded slightly.

Since they all had the title of sage, there was no need to say any empty words. The simple exchange between the two basically set the tone.

"Sage Oregana, your foundry may not be able to produce large components." Christen didn't deliberately find fault, but after some calculations, he pointed out the current problem: "The orbital ring requires a large adamantine skeleton. According to calculations, your foundry cannot produce large components of this size.

As for other parts and equipment, you can produce them here, but the production capacity may be slightly insufficient."

Although 32 built a large intercontinental factory on Rostov III, it was still difficult to meet its construction needs compared to an entire orbital ring.

32 did not find this question strange. When she and Chen Xi first planned this foundry, they considered meeting the material needs of the sub-star region development and producing some weapons and equipment themselves.

After all, Chen Xi is still secretly saving Primaris. The formation of the Star Army and the Defense Corps also requires weapons. It would be great if they could produce them themselves.

Although it is not impossible to expand this foundry into an entire foundry world, Rostov’s current population and resources are not sufficient to support an entire foundry world.

It can even be said that even if the entire sub-star region is developed, it will be very difficult to support a forging world.

After all, maintaining the Forge World requires more than just population and resources. More importantly, there must be a market, and massive orders to fill the various forges in the entire Forge World. We must keep the river of refined gold flowing, the fire in the forge burning, and the pulse of Om Messiah beating firmly and powerfully!

A small sub-star district would not have an order of this size, not even a star district.

In the final analysis, the entire Mariupol sector is just a frontier sector. It is not developed enough, and there is also a Forge World here. There is no soil for a second Forge World to survive.

Therefore, what Chen Xi and 32 originally wanted was just to create an industrial world, produce some industrial products, and think about some weapons and equipment.

As for the issue of orbital rings, they naturally considered it.

"You can order large components from the Mariupol Forge World. While they don't have the ability to build star rings, they can still produce some large components." 32 told Kristen and the others what she and Chen Xi had already discussed: "The main function of the Rostov III Forge World is to serve as a backing for the development of the sub-sector and provide the necessary productivity support for the sub-sector's development.

Future products here will also mainly focus on industrial products and various planetary development equipment, as well as various weapons and equipment used by the defense forces.

As for the production of large components, I have no such plans, and Governor Chen Xi is not interested in it either."

Chen Xi and 32 had already agreed to assign large component orders to Mariupol Foundry World during their previous discussions. After all, it was a foundry world, and building a good relationship with them by securing large component orders was a very cost-effective undertaking.

In the future, if you want to order items such as battleship platinum keels, large light spears, and macro cannon arrays, it will be much more convenient.

Although it might be possible for the 32nd foundry to produce the products, the construction and development of the foundry takes time, and what they lack most is time.

Exchanging part of the order for time is a fairly acceptable deal.

"Is that so? Ordering large components from the local foundry world..." Christen calculated briefly in his mind, then nodded: "This is an acceptable result, but in this case we still need to go to the local foundry world to verify whether they are capable of completing the production of large components.

And more importantly, do they have spare production capacity to produce large components for casting star rings?

If they don't have time, it will severely delay the construction of the Forge Star Ring, which is unacceptable to Griya."

"Don't worry, it's a forge world after all, so it's not completely incapable of this." 32 stroked the cat nonchalantly. Although she had never been to Mariupol Forge World, she knew about its situation through conversations with Olivia and Tonya. "Besides, the Mariupol sector is only a newly developed frontier sector, and the forge worlds here don't have enough orders to fill all the forges."

"In that case, we will go to Mariupol Forge World for an inspection later." Christen thought about it and felt that it would be safer to take a look.

32 did not object to this, but only asked Christen if he could buy a group of workers from Gria.

Christen agreed to 32's request after just a moment's consideration. This kind of thing was not a problem for the Forging World.

"It seems we've reached a consensus." 32 nodded in satisfaction and then asked, "Can you plan an orbital ring for this planet? I'm interested in expanding it."

Christen was a little confused when he heard this request, but there was no reason to postpone the important order.

So she thought for a moment before answering, "That's certainly not a problem, but even Gloria can't afford to build two forge rings simultaneously. I'm afraid we'll have to wait until Rostov II's orbital ring is completed before we can begin construction on this planet."

"That's okay, as long as you can take this order." 32 was immediately happy, grinning like a cat, petting the cat crazily with his hands.

Christen didn't quite understand what was so good about this furry animal. It looked difficult to clean with so much hair, and it was easy for it to fall into the gaps of machinery and cause unnecessary impact.

But towards the sage of the Discipline Academy in front of her, she could only express respect despite not understanding.

(End of this chapter)