Chapter 261 A pilgrimage ship to Holy Terra?
Ron flipped through the email.
According to the traces found along the way by Shasim's fleet, the Tyranid Hive Fleet came from outside the Milky Way.
It moved along a straight track and devoured many planets along the way.
Among them were several planets in the territory of the Emperor Blood Merchant Gowendi family. The Gowendi family could not resist the swarm.
They gave up resistance and fled back to the Goli Sector in the imperial territory.
But what was even more terrifying was that after the Tyranid Hive Fleet devoured those planets, it continued to move forward.
And in front of it was the Goli Sector.
What was even more troublesome was that the planet Ers was on the trajectory of the Hive Fleet.
If they continued to move forward, they would pass by Ers and then devour it completely.
Only bare, desolate rocks stripped of all traces of life were left!
However, for some reason, the Tyranid Hive Fleet suddenly turned a corner and went to other areas.
According to the biological sage's speculation.
Probably because of the appearance of the Great Subspace Crack, the surging chaotic energy made the Hive unhappy, forcing it to turn a corner slightly.
So, it was the Great Rift that saved Ers?
"Hiss~ Ers is really tough..." Seeing this, Ron couldn't help but sigh.
If it weren't for the Great Rift in the Subspace, Ers would probably have perished before Ron came to this world.
If you count carefully, Ers actually suffered two invasions by the Tyranids.
In addition, it was also corrupted by the four evil gods of Chaos, and there might be attacks from greenskins.
This treatment is almost the same as that of Vigilance.
But Ers is luckier than Vigilance, it met itself from the 2k era.
Under the glory of the great savior, these crises were resolved, turned danger into safety, and developed steadily.
As for Vigilance, it is estimated that it is still in a state of chaos.
That planet with a population of more than 167 billion, together with the galaxy it belongs to, has become the most intense battlefield in the galaxy.
The Imperial Army, the Chaos Legion, the Chaos Demons, the Chicken Thief Cult, the Greenskin Orcs, and the forces of all parties have gathered together and have turned the entire Vigilance Galaxy into a mess.
And there are many enemies about to join, such as the Necrons, the Eldar, and so on.
It can be said that there are many heroes.
It is worth mentioning that there are huge amounts of black stone deposits buried under the Alert Star. The forces of the Huangquan No. 8 Forge World have taken deep roots here and are mining those black stone rock formations.
That is also the reason why the Alert Star has not been completely swallowed by the Great Rift. Black stone has the effect of suppressing or diffusing the energy of the subspace.
All forces want to seize this precious mineral deposit. Among them, the one who wants Alert Star the most should be the Great Plunderer Abaddon.
This large-scale and long-lasting war on Alert Star will affect the direction of the galactic situation.
In fact, Ron is also very jealous of Alert Star. Those black stones are all treasures.
The territory is already studying related black stone technology.
But now the territory has just stabilized, and everything is competing.
It is not good to start a war at this time.
Moreover, the territory may not be able to withstand the high-intensity war in the Alert Star System.
Let them fight first. It should not be able to produce any results for a while.
Just stay here and wait for the right time to come.
Ron suppressed his thoughts and turned his attention back to the email.
Although the Tyranids had left the area, he still sent a message to the Military Affairs Department just in case.
Ask the reconnaissance department to monitor the activity signs of the Tyranids.
But the Tyranids were not the focus of the email.
That email was actually good news.
Over the years, the territory has carried out several large-scale projects at the same time, especially the Forge World, which swallowed up a huge amount of ore like a bottomless pit.
Ron has been worrying about this.
It can even be said that the shortage of mineral resources has limited the development speed of the territory.
Nowadays, the mining machines in the territory are all smoking, working day and night, but there are still too few mineral veins in the star zone.
It cannot meet the demand.
Faced with the ore gap of various projects, the mining department is simply worried.
They sent hundreds of reconnaissance teams to various parts of the galaxy to find unowned mineral veins.
Unfortunately, there has been no progress so far.
The mining department has applied to the Ministry of the Interior many times, hoping to start the business department as soon as possible and trade with the outside world.
To fill the ore gap in the territory.
Such a proposal is undoubtedly reasonable.
There are millions of civilized worlds in the vast territory of the empire.
They only need to not betray the beliefs of the empire and pay the tithe, which symbolizes loyalty and responsibility, to enjoy the space for free development.
Those governors who control the civilized world are all greedy and shrewd rulers.
Once they see the tangible benefits brought by trade, they will not hesitate to trade with the territory.
In this way, the territory can dump goods at a more favorable price through trade, and then purchase raw materials such as ores.
Given that the territory can produce at extremely low costs, it can also reduce transportation costs with the help of the network road, and trade with more civilized worlds regardless of distance.
Back and forth, the territory can make a fortune, and then purchase more related raw materials and produce more goods for trade.
Like a snowball, make more profits.
Eventually, through the profits earned from trade and the mineral resources obtained, the territory will be able to fill the mineral resource gaps needed for large-scale projects.
It can even start more large-scale projects.
Simply perfect!
Now, the business department is already in the process of being launched.
As the head of the business department, Shahim went to the territory left behind by his family this time in order to retrieve more family relics to prove his identity.
After all, the verification procedures for Rogue Traders, especially Traders of Imperial Blood, in Holy Terra, the capital of the empire, are very complicated and strict.
According to the original plan, Shahim would return immediately after retrieving the relics.
Then head to Holy Terra with Ron.
Unexpectedly, this exploration would bring unexpected surprises.
The Tyranids' Hive Fleet devoured several planets in a straight line and then left the galaxy.
Through detection, Shahim and the others found that the planets in the galaxy containing rich mineral veins were intact.
That is the rich mineral resources of an entire galaxy, more than a dozen mineral-rich planets, which are very rare even in the entire galaxy!
After the Govindi family discovered that galaxy, they resolutely left the empire's territory and went there to cultivate it at great risk.
Unfortunately, before they had time to develop, they were attacked by the Tyranids, and later fell completely in a series of unlucky encounters.
Only the Shahim brother and sister were left.
Now, it's all cheaper Ron.
According to the report in the email, Shahim and others are already exploring those mineral-rich planets and setting navigation anchor points.
I will probably return later.
Ron closed his email and took a nice sip of his Ice Cream.
The emergence of new mineral sources is good news worth celebrating. The problem of mineral shortage in the territory has finally been alleviated!
If I guessed correctly, the mineral department is organizing a mining fleet right now, almost like the Chinese New Year.
After Shahim and others set up the navigation anchor point, they can go over to mine as soon as possible.
Later, Ron received more good news.
Not long ago, Grand Inquisitor Dwyer of the Inquisition organized twenty Stormtroopers troops and nearly three thousand Space Marines to conduct a cleansing operation called the "Great Purge."
These warriors will go to various planets in the star region to completely clean up the hidden Chaos heretics and aliens.
Many cult organizations and hidden alien life forms have been uncovered and given due justice.
According to Deville's account.
His purpose is to purify the entire sector so that the savior's light can shine wherever the eye can see.
The latest battle report is that one of the "purification troops" cleared and restored an agricultural world that had been eroded by Chaos.
At the same time, the technical priests sent by the Agricultural Research Institute are using the environmental and ecological technology of Green Wave Farm.
Transform that agricultural world.
Once the transformation is completed, the food production speed and output of this agricultural world will increase several times.
In this way, the territory will be rich in food, and there will be no problem in exporting large quantities!
"I believe that in the near future, those starch technologies will be eliminated, or they will be retained and made into corresponding starch foods for export..."
Ron enjoyed the afternoon tea cakes brought by the maid.
In today's territory, there is no corpse starch food.
In the absence of large-scale famine and war, corpses are harder to find than food.
Now the food in the territory is relatively sufficient, and the top-level holy places are basically supplied with pure food and meat.
After all, as a holy land, it has a special status.
This is also one of the important reasons why citizens work hard to contribute and want to work in the Holy Land.
Because this place has the best resource supply and environment in the star region.
Other areas also provide different levels of food products according to the classification system of citizens.
The lowest grade is a wheat product mixed with 80% industrial starch and wheat husks.
This kind of food was a rare delicacy in the original Essian planet.
But now it has become the cheapest and lowest quality food.
Ordinary citizens no longer worry about going hungry.
If they are willing to give up the credit points, they can also exchange them for some fine pure grains to taste.
Such as rice, pure wheat noodles, brioche bread, akenberry pastries and so on.
But these are still too luxurious for them, and they are usually reluctant to exchange them.
Ding dong——
Ron was flipping through the battle report of Operation "Great Purge" when a message popped up at the bottom of the mechanical screen.
He clicked on the message: "Invitation from Xingyuting, I just happened to go over and have a look..."
After reading the news, Ron got up and went out, riding the hover car to the area where the Star Language Court was.
…
The top holy place.
Xingyuting, Xingju.
Ron got off the hover car and looked up at a psychic mechanical tower hundreds of meters high.
That is the Star Torch.
As the little sun grew larger, he discovered its huge range of psychic radiation.
Then Ron imitated the God Emperor and established the Star Language Court, and at the same time built a small Star Torch.
The Star Torch projects a stable psychic beacon across the galaxy and the Warp, guiding ships across the galaxy.
It is also capable of ultra-long-distance communication.
And when necessary, the star torch can be turned off or the beam interrupted at any time.
Unfortunately, Star Torch has limitations.
As the territory expands, the Star Torch places greater and greater demands on the user's psychic energy, causing a serious burden.
This is an important reason why the Imperial Astrology Chamber sends black ships everywhere to capture psykers. They need these psykers as consumables to maintain the Star Torch.
When the Emperor discovered the shortcomings of the Astronomican, he devoted himself to the study of the Webway, hoping to master the Webway technology and eliminate the Astronomican.
However, he failed.
The Empire could only continue to use the Astronomican.
No matter from which level, for Ron, who mastered the Webway, the Astronomican was an outdated technology.
But he still insisted on making a small Astronomican driven by the psychic energy of the small sun.
"Savior~"
A numb voice sounded.
Lilith, a royal sister psychic with deep blue eyes, a black robe and high heels, and a proud figure, came to greet him.
Ron looked at Lilith and felt that some time had passed.
This psychic mentor named Lilith was Deville's sister. When he first met Lilith, she was still a sixteen-year-old blonde girl.
Later, Lilith awakened her psychic power. She was afraid and worried about affecting her brother, so she fled from the Upper Nest.
But she was soon caught and sent to the Tribunal.
At that time, it was still Ron who came forward and pulled Lilith out.
Otherwise, Deville might have reluctantly dealt with Lilith in order to maintain the authority of the Tribunal.
Because of this incident, Ron issued a new decree that psychics would no longer be hunted in the territory.
At the same time, a psychic academy was established to provide psychics with housing and shelter, as well as jobs.
So that they could live uprightly.
"Savior, the Star Torch is running smoothly and can project psychic beacons..."
Lilith looked at the Savior with an undisguised enthusiasm in her eyes, and a hint of something else.
Ron nodded gently, slightly avoiding the other person's gaze that wanted to swallow him.
Girls really change a lot when they grow up.
The innocent little Lolita gradually became like a wolf and a tiger.
But this time he came here for a serious matter, not to exchange feelings.
The existence of the Star Language Court and the Star Torch is not for the re-employment of psychics, but has a real role.
It's just a little niche.
After all, there is a network in the territory, and the Star Torch is not needed for navigation.
As for internal communication, it is even more unnecessary. The existence of Xiaoling allows the entire star zone to be connected to the Internet.
The only function left is ultra-long-distance communication, so that ships far outside the star zone can contact the territory.
Before the territory has established more efficient ultra-long-distance communication, it still has to rely on the Astronomican to transmit information.
But not long ago, Ron thought of a new use for the Astronomican, which is to salvage ships.
To be more precise, it is to salvage the ships of the pilgrims.
Anyway, the Astronomican has been built, and it is idle there, so why not use it.
The emergence of the Great Subspace Crack caused the Imperial Astronomican to be temporarily extinguished, causing countless ships to be lost.
Those large fleets may be able to return to the correct route with the weak guidance after the Imperial Astronomican is lit again.
But those small ships, especially those on the dark side of the empire, may be lost forever.
The largest number of them are the ships of the pilgrims.
There are too many pilgrims in the galaxy. They drive old or ancient ships from various civilized worlds.
They will make pilgrimages to various holy places and finally arrive at the throne world - Holy Terra.
To worship the great, holy and benevolent Emperor.
This journey may last for centuries or even longer.
On the pilgrimage ship, generation after generation of pilgrims died and new pilgrims were born.
Many pilgrims were born among the stars, causing slight mutations in their bodies and were called the Sons of the Void.
They were discriminated against.
But the pilgrims didn't care and remained pious.
They sincerely believed that one day in the future, they or their descendants would be lucky enough to reach Holy Terra.
But most of the time, those pilgrims would be buried in the vast galaxy or the subspace for various reasons.
There are very few pilgrimage ships that can reach Holy Terra.
Ron's goal is to find those lost pilgrim ships through the Star Torch and then send them psychic beacons.
Guide them to worship at the Holy Land of Ers.
Then send them away.
In this way, he can not only get a purer power of faith, but also spread the existence of the Holy Land of Ers and the name of the Savior.
Let more believers know the existence of the Savior.
To absorb more faith.
This will also help future trade activities.
After all, those governors will not easily trade with strange beings, no matter which side he is from.
The territory has developed to the point where it is now, and it is no longer feasible to work secretly behind closed doors.
It is necessary to actively communicate with the outside world.
At that time, Shashim will cooperate with the mysterious Holy Land of Ers in the name of the Emperor Blood Merchants in the outside world.
Sell the goods of the Holy Land of Ers.
No matter how the Empire feels about Ers, disgust, rejection or attack, it will not affect the activities of the Emperor Blood Merchants.
After all, the Emperor Blood Merchants have the power granted by the Emperor and can even trade with aliens.
A human territory that believes in the Emperor and is loyal to the Empire will not be worse than the aliens, right?
As for not paying the tithe?
There are many places in the Empire that do not pay tithes. Even if he wants to pay, the Empire cannot come to collect it.
Moreover, the laws of the Empire are more flexible, especially for powerful entities.
Guilliman also established the Second Empire, which is different and very loyal.
Who dares to say anything?
Everyone in the Empire knows that Huangquan No. 8 Forge World is researching alien technology and is almost corrupt.
But because it is an important forge world of the Mechanicus, there is no punishment for it.
Those mutant war groups have horns and no human form, but no one dares to say they are heretics.
Of course, if you are a soft persimmon.
Then there is nothing you can do. You may be severely judged or ravaged for "disloyalty".
For example, the original Ers planet.
Even if it suffers from the wrong and cruel tithe, the resources of the planet are exhausted, the people are bleeding, and it is almost extinct.
There is no right to say no or appeal.
And now Ers planet or Ers Holy Land has the confidence to say no to the Empire.
It can act on the surface as part of the Empire or human forces.
In short, the Empire is a union of many forces, with many contradictions.
Today, it can no longer take care of itself, and its tentacles cannot touch the Ers Holy Land on the edge of the dark side.
It doesn't have the energy.
Guilliman, the son of the Emperor, will soon return to Holy Terra and take over the supreme power of the Empire. Feeling constrained, he will carry out a large-scale purge.
Then he will readjust and redistribute power to save the collapsing Empire.
At that time, all the energy and strength of the Empire will be invested in the Indomitable Crusade to gradually recover the dark side of the Empire.
This process is estimated to take dozens or hundreds of years, or even more time.
For the territory, this is a good opportunity.
Make good use of this chaotic and disordered time, and develop boldly!
Ron followed Lilith to the interior of the Star Torch, and then saw a familiar thing.
His face changed: "Who designed this thing?"
The chair in front of him is too much like the Blackstone Throne.
Lilith smiled:
"I customized it for you. Lord Cawl said you will like it."
I knew...
Ron was silent for a while.
Lilith was a little puzzled: "What's wrong with you?"
"It's okay, continue..."
Under Lilith's operation, the psychic chair that looked like the Blackstone Throne started, and psychic arcs were entangled.
Ron sat on it and operated it.
He was just experiencing the process this time, and he could let Lilith control the Star Torch in the future.
Boom——
The moment the Star Torch was activated, Ron felt that his consciousness was stretched to an endless distance.
With the help of the Star Torch, the spiritual energy of the little sun continued to radiate and spread in a certain direction.
Because it was a small Star Torch, it could only explore in a narrow direction.
But on the scale of the Milky Way, it was enough.
After a while.
Ron's "consciousness" passed over the stars and saw a lonely, dilapidated pilgrim ship.
It had been lost for a long time...
