Warhammer 40K in a box

Chapter 98: The Ox Hidden in the Sea of ​​Qi
The Imperial Navy's regular patrols and port calls for replenishment provided Rostov II with a valuable development opportunity.

Seizing this opportunity is a big challenge for Rostov II itself.

Apart from anything else, if you want to provide warship maintenance for the Imperial Navy, you must first have enough mechanical priests.

Not only knowledgeable high-level priests are needed, but also low-level priests who kowtow, burn incense, tighten screws, and sing hymns.

In addition, Rostov II also had to provide various supplies for the Imperial Navy.

It is impossible for the navy to dock to repair the ship. It will take several months for Chen Xi to order the refined gold armor plates from the Forging World.

Therefore, the development of mineral resources is essential.

If it were before, Chen Xi might have had to wait for Maimai and Mu Se to come back and then leave the matter to them.

But now, 32 was very happy to take over this job. She took the casting ship that Chen Xi got for her and headed towards the undeveloped planets in the Rostov galaxy.

The Rostov galaxy has a total of four planets and an asteroid belt. The second planet is Rostov II, the only planet located in the habitable zone of a star and the only planet in the world suitable for human colonization.

Of the remaining three planets, one is a huge gas giant, and the remaining two are a desolate and dead world and a dead world with lava flowing everywhere.

The Empire's definition of a death world is very broad; any planet that is unsuitable for human survival can be designated as a death world.

For example, the Catachan jungle world is lush with vegetation and full of vitality, but when the Tyranids come, they will be beaten to a pulp by the native creatures, so it is a standard death world.

The ocean covers almost the entire planet of Fenris, and there are abundant water resources. However, due to problems with its orbit, the planet is frozen for half a year and has tsunamis for half a year, making it a less typical death world.

Krieg has been bombarded by a large number of nuclear bombs, but the irradiated wasteland is not suitable for survival, and this one is a typical death world.

The Rostov I was simply too close to its star, and the planet itself had extremely intense geological activity, so two-thirds of the planet's surface was covered with oceans and seas composed of magma.

Although the remaining one-third is land, the geology is extremely unstable, with frequent volcanic earthquakes.

Such a world is certainly not suitable for human habitation and survival, but volcanic lava can bring large amounts of rare minerals from the interior of the star to the surface and accumulate them into precious veins.

Some special minerals are transformed into other minerals under the special environment of high temperature and high pressure inside the earth's crust, and their value is so precious that it is difficult to describe.

For example, 32 found a lava river with molten gold flowing on Rostov I. The gold in the river only needed to be pumped out through pipes, and the difficulty of mining was almost zero.

Although the refined gold reserves in this lava river are not particularly rich, it still has high mining value.

32 could hardly wait to deploy mining equipment on the surface of the planet, extracting the magma containing various precious minerals directly to the casting ship, and refining it into various raw materials.

These materials weren't sent to a warehouse, but were instead used directly to produce new mining equipment and planetary development equipment for the molten planet. "The lava mineral extraction array is complete. Now all the major mineral veins detected on Hot Dog Planet can be mined! Thank you for your hard work!" 32 wiped the nonexistent sweat from his forehead, extremely satisfied with the results of his labor.

Hot Dog Star is the name given to Rostov I by 32.

This naming style, which is out of tune with others, is actually in line with her usual style.

However, although the naming style is a bit weird, she is still doing a good job in planet development. The main proven adamantium veins and other mineral resources worthy of large-scale mining on this planet have been marked and mined by her.

Currently, all mining arrays are operating at full capacity, and the amount of minerals mined can meet the construction needs of a frigate in a year according to 32 calculations.

This amount is not large, but it is still very considerable considering the output of just one planet.

After all, a Warhammer frigate is 1.5 kilometers long, which would be the size of a battleship if placed in a certain space Excel spreadsheet game familiar to 32 schools.

If it were a little bigger, it would almost be flagship level.

The mined minerals will be stored in a storage facility in Rostov I's geostationary orbit, and will be hauled away by a special transport ship every month.

These transport ships were bought by Chen Xi for use as intra-galactic logistics transportation, and they do not have the ability to navigate in subspace.

However, they can still fly at sub-light speeds and are still useful within galaxies and even sub-stellar regions.

At the same time, because there is no need to install a subspace engine, a lot of space and system redundancy are saved inside the hull, which makes the cargo hold of this cargo ship very large and capable of carrying a lot of things.

Basically, only one ship is needed to make a trip per month to transport all the mined minerals.

"Then we just need to cover the remaining two planets with mining arrays, and the initial development of this galaxy will be complete. The rest..." 32 flipped through the data tablet in her hand, which listed what she had to do next: "Build a secret space outpost in the atmosphere of the gas giant planet and transform it into a chapter monastery?
Are there cows hidden in the mines? Is Chen Xi planning a hidden trick here? If we use incubators to produce populations, and then train them into canned recruits...

Holy shit, there's a way! We can produce our own weapons and equipment. Although we can't build big warships, we can still make do with small frigates...

Tsk tsk, I didn't expect that Chen Xi, who seemed to be so low-key, actually wanted to hold back something big! "

After Chen Xi was upgraded to Level III authority, he was able to deploy Space Marine chess pieces, but due to the score limit, the number of chess pieces he could deploy was still limited.

Therefore, Chen Xi did not plan to use only his own chess pieces, but planned to use his own chess pieces as a basis to train Astartes like training combat nuns.

Of course, if we only recruit soldiers from Rostov II, it would not be a problem to meet the needs of a regiment, but we would not be able to stockpile many troops.

So after Chen Xi obtained a set of cultivation chambers from the Mechanicus, he planned to hide a group of Primaris Space Marines in the atmosphere of the gas giant Rostov IV and secretly expand the army.

After thirty years, when Guilliman returns to the Imperium and lifts the Codex restrictions, and Dorakor brings out the Primaris Space Marines, this Chapter can be brought out openly.
(End of this chapter)