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Chapter 190 Training Low-level Priests
With the construction of various facilities on Rostov, the demand for low-level mechanical priests is increasing.

Construction of the orbital ring, maintenance of the hydroponic farm, chaplaincy for the defense forces, routine maintenance of the starport, and the foundry for Rostov III...

Each project requires a large number of technical personnel to maintain and operate.

Chen Xi can indeed hire people from other forging worlds, but there is always something about the people he hires that is not particularly convenient.

Especially with the advancement of the sub-sector development plan, this gap and demand are getting bigger and bigger, and it has become inevitable for Chen Xi to train low-level mechanical priests himself.

In fact, after Olivia took back her technical team, the training of new mechanical priests has been ongoing.

Low-ranking mechanical priests built mechanical temples in the streets of Rostov. They served as workshops that provided services to the local area, and also as religious places for the Mechanicus to preach and spread the gospel.

Low-level mechanical priests provide mechanical maintenance services to the residents of the neighborhood, and also spread their faith in the God of Machines.

It may sound counterintuitive, but low-level mechanical priests are also responsible for the maintenance of various mechanical equipment in the block.

In the teachings of the Mechanicus, all machines are blessed by the God of Machines and have organic souls.

According to the beliefs of the Mechanicus, every machine should be properly cared for, and every machine spirit should be appeased and blessed, so that it can better fulfill the sacred mission and duties entrusted by the God of Machines.

In other words, if you have a broken machine, you can take it to a mechanical temple in this kind of neighborhood and ask the local low-level gear guys to repair it for you.

They'll bless your machine with a binary prayer and then repair it with expert hands.

Of course, whether he charges fees or whether he will curse you with binary swear words is another matter.

These mechanical temples are not only centers of technical services, but also important strongholds for the Mechanicus to spread his faith in Rostov.

Low-level mechanical priests will patrol the streets and preach like the priests of the state religion, but unlike the priests of the state religion who preach the classics of the state religion, mechanical priests preach various simple little knowledge.

For example, how to repair mechanical parts, how to assemble circuits correctly, etc.

Although these are all very basic knowledge, if you are willing and diligent, you can learn a lot of useful knowledge.

At the very least, become a qualified technical worker and know what to do when facing the factory's production equipment so as not to anger the machine spirit.

Even if you work harder and learn how to appease the machine spirit when there are problems with the production equipment, you can become a small supervisor in the factory.

Of course, this is for adults.

If you are a child, you even have the opportunity to become an apprentice of the Mechanicus through continuous learning.

This is also one of the ways for the Mechanicus to recruit new gears. These apprentices may not be able to achieve much in doctrine or technology, but after training they can become qualified low-level mechanical priests such as Rune Monks, Communication Monks, and Thinking Monks.

After all, the Mechanicum is spread across the galaxy, and the shortage and demand for lower-level clergy is huge. Although the orthodox practice of the Mechanicum itself is to use incubators to cultivate fast-growing humans who are instilled with a large amount of knowledge during the embryonic stage through genetic engineering, this does not mean that the Mechanicum will not recruit apprentices from ordinary people.

Although the Mechanicus possesses cloning technology, they do not use it to produce low-level priests.

Cloning technology is mainly used to produce thinker wetware and mechanical servants. The real mechanical priests still use embryo breeding, but they are born through artificial cultivation.

(A classic old rumor is that Krieg is a clone, but in fact, Krieg should only use the life womb technology, that is, directly extracting embryos from the female body, artificially fertilizing in vitro, and then quickly ripening them in a culture tank. Dora Kaur also belongs to this type, not a clone)

The threshold to join the Mechanicus is indeed very high, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

The Mechanicus does not select its apprentices based on birth, background, or social status, but instead uses genetic testing to determine whether a person has talent.

It is for this reason that regular genetic screening is carried out in worlds where Imperial rule is more complete, or in Forge Worlds controlled by the Mechanicus.

Chen Xi is currently popularizing genetic screening on Rostov II, selecting candidates whose genetic talents meet the standards of the Mechanicus from among the billions of people on the planet, and then recruiting them as Mechanicus apprentices and training them.

These people are not qualified yet. After all, even if the Mechanicus has advanced technology and can directly instill knowledge into their brains, it still takes time to train a qualified low-level mechanical priest.

Chen Xi had only been running Rostov for a few years, so it was naturally impossible for him to produce a large number of talents.

But generally speaking, the business has been set up, and in just a few years, we will be able to produce talents continuously.

It is hard to say whether top-level geniuses can emerge, but basic low-level mechanical priests can indeed be trained in batches.

The information Chen Xi had asked Olivia for before was precisely for the purpose of training such talents.

This set of basic materials can train ordinary people who have not received any systematic education into qualified mechanical apprentices. It can be regarded as an entry-level textbook.

Together with this minor theoretical knowledge on the self-sustaining microecological cycle of hydroponic farms, it is enough to train a low-level priest of the Mechanicum who develops into a geneticist.

Of course, if it is handed over to professionals who have received systematic education, it is possible that a few talents comparable to geneticists can be trained.

You know, a Geneticist is already considered a high-level priest within the Mechanicus, and if he goes up further, he can prepare for the Sage Examination.

It is not difficult for professionals in the 3k era to become priests of the Mechanicus if they have enough knowledge accumulation. It is even not impossible for bigwigs in related professions to switch to become sages.

But there is a gap of 3 years between the two. Even if the technology of the Human Empire was completely cut off in the Old Night Era, what was left was at the level of the Fallen Empire, which had once reached its peak. The gap in technology level in the k era, which had not even broken away from the planet, was extremely large.

So even though Chen Xi sent a package to No. 40 East Chang'an Avenue, he didn't plan to move the 3k items to k. Not only would the impact be too great, but the key point was that it was difficult to understand.

"Just give them a few sets of introductory teaching materials. When we snatch a set of ancestral shrines and clone tapestries from the short people, we can consider giving them some good things!" Chen Xi said casually, put the things in his hand into the garbage bag, and prepared to go out to throw away the garbage.

(End of this chapter)