Warhammer 40K in a box

Chapter 47 Additional Investment
Even after Mai Mai's great success in persuading the investor, the Mechanicus's Director of Foundry only agreed to sponsor some minor Astra Militarum equipment and sent a Goliath-class foundry ship to Rostov II for temporary stay. The ship left after excavating the Tomb of the Undead.

As for the Skitarii? Sorry, the Skitarii of Mariupol Forge World is small in size and currently busy with missions, so they can't be mobilized for the time being.

As for the Knight Families, the Director of the Foundry did not agree to mobilize the Knight Families loyal to the Mechanicus in the name of the Forge World. He only said that Mai Mai could contact the Knight Families who were willing to go out, and the Mechanicus would not stop them.

Sage Donia did help contact several knight families, but the number of knights who could come was not large. Most of the time, only one or two knights expressed their willingness to come, but Maimai needed to send a ship to pick them up.

This result is not unacceptable to Mai Mai, but it is also satisfactory.

According to the idea he and Chen Xi had originally discussed, they should be able to borrow at least one Hongzhi Crusader from the Mechanicus, or a complete knight family.

This amount of troops cannot be said to be useless now, but it is not of much use either.

It might be enough for tomb exploration, but it might be difficult to fight a small-scale battle.

"How can I convince those oil men... I can't really tell them there is a big tomb, right?" Mai Mai scratched his head.

Although Mai Mai has gained the support of the Star Governor and the Ecclesiarchy, and his gains on this trip have met his expectations, it would undoubtedly be better if he could take down the Mechanicus.

As a person who likes to collect everything and get a perfect ending when playing games, Mai Mai still hopes to do his best, at least to make the line of assistance to the Mechanicus come out.

However, just when he was thinking about how to win the support of the Mechanicus, the servant suddenly announced that a priest of the Ecclesiarchy and a combat nun were visiting outside the door.

Mai Mai was a little surprised. The cooperation with the state religion had already been negotiated. As for the Battle Sisters, because the Mariupol star region was mainly composed of battle sisters from the Ebony Grail Order, which was not the same faction as the Holy Rose Order used by Chen Xi, Mai Mai did not have much contact with them.

Now both parties are visiting together, what happened?
But no matter what, Mai Mai still received the other party very seriously and welcomed the priests and combat nuns of the state religion in.

"Sir Mai Lin, are grapes being grown on the Rostov II and brewed into wine? Does this wine have the ability to purify heretics?" The Anglican priest didn't exchange pleasantries with Mai Mai, and went straight to the point to ask the question that concerned him most.

"Ah?" Mai Mai felt confused and had no idea what the pastor was talking about.

Before Mai Mai could react, a Battle Sister of the Ebon Grail Order asked, "Can the grapes grown by the sisters of the Order achieve the same effect as the blessed grapes aboard the Rostov II? Do you have some special technology, or have these grapes been blessed by His Majesty the Divine Emperor?"

"What's going on? Can you two tell me what exactly happened?" Mai Mai felt his head was full of question marks, so he wanted to figure out what was going on.

He knew Chen Xi was growing grapes on the Rostov II, but what about the purification of heretics? And what were the blessed grapes?
Mai Mai felt as if she knew nothing.

After hearing what Mai Mai said, who seemed to know nothing, the priest and the combat nun looked at each other for a while before explaining the whole story to him.

"Are you saying that the grapes grown on Rostov II were blessed by the Emperor, and that drinking the resulting wine can identify heresy, and that the corrupt nobles aboard Rostov II were simply burned to death?" Mai Mai finally understood what was going on, but he truly knew nothing about the matter. The Mariupol sector capital and Rostov II were separated by nearly a hundred light-years. Back in the 3K era, humans wouldn't have been able to communicate, let alone observe in real time.

In the 40K era, not everyone can afford to use astrocommunication.

Although the Rogue Trader's Void Ship is equipped with an astropathic choir and can communicate in astropathic communication at any time, this thing is actually similar to sending a telegram in the 2K era. The content to be sent needs to be encrypted first and then sent out using psychic energy.

Please note that the sending and receiving of astropathic messages require the power of the subspace, and only trained and sufficiently powerful psychics can accurately send astropathic communications to the designated target.

The general astropaths are more like shouting on the public screen and sending messages to the whole galaxy.

Therefore, in order to prevent important information from being intercepted by the enemy, encryption becomes a top priority.

If there is encryption, there must be decryption, but decryption takes time. Generally speaking, if there is no urgent star message, the star talker can only passively receive the mass star message.

It is also because of this that if there is nothing particularly important, the astropath on the void ship will not contact Mai Mai to tell him what news he has received recently.

However, although he did not know the latest first-hand news, Mai Mai was still keenly aware of the huge amount of information and opportunities contained therein.

So he said, "I'm not really sure about this matter. When I left Rostov II, Judge Chen Xi was trying to grow grapes on this planet. According to the time calculation, the first batch of grapes should be harvested now, and the first batch of wine should also be brewed.

According to Judge Chen Xi's arrangement, these grapes will be cared for by the novice nuns of the Holy Rose Congregation, and all subsequent winemaking processes should be completed by them personally."

Hearing what Mai Mai said, the battle sister of the Ebony Grail Order's eyes suddenly lit up, and she hurriedly wrote down this information with a pen.

Judging from her appearance, she seemed to want to recreate this process.

"Because the grapes are taken care of by nuns from the Holy Rosary Order, they sing hymns while working. These grapes are likely to have special properties due to the influence of the hymns." Mai Mai did not care what the nun from the Ebony Grail Order recorded, he just made a supplementary explanation.

After the battle sister wrote down everything Mai Mai said, she looked at the priest and motioned him to continue.

The pastor nodded, then continued to say to Mai Mai, "Your Excellency Mai Lin, the State Church attaches great importance to the matter of the consecrated wine. If possible, we will send a delegation to Rostov II to authenticate the authenticity of this matter.

Once verified as authentic, Rostov II will undoubtedly become an important holy site for the State Church. All the development and construction projects you discussed with us will need to be adjusted. The State Church does not want any accidents to happen to the holy site."

(End of this chapter)