The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Besides these personnel transport pods, there are also four larger combat readiness transport pods in the teleportation area, which can be used to transport things such as Dreadnoughts or combat readiness materials.

"Not only the teleportation devices here, but I also plan to replace all the teleportation devices of other large ships with those from the Hearthkin."

Soshjan looked at Talos.

"This way, the teleportation of each main battleship will be stable and safe, and there is no need to deploy personnel in a decentralized manner, but deploy them wherever they are needed, ensuring the efficiency of troop use."

Talos nodded.

"Those dwarves' teleportation devices are quite powerful. I've used them once and didn't even experience that unique warp-induced dizziness."

Soshjan showed a wry smile and said in a low voice:

"Of course, it's good, but even if it's expensive, it's worth it. These things are priceless, and it's good to be able to buy them."

Talos showed a meaningful smile and raised his finger to tease:

"You're not short of money."

"The national treasury is not my personal vault, and it's not something that can be used at will. There must be some rules."

Following the passage all the way out of the teleportation area, the group came to a fast walkway, which could rotate forward quickly on its own, but people could walk on it very steadily. On both sides of the walkway were gates leading to repair rooms and preparation rooms. Passing through the walkway, they arrived at a new area.

After the ten-meter-high heavy explosion-proof gate opened, it revealed a cabin that looked like it was full of container boxes.

The top of the cabin had huge automatic cranes, and the walls extended long mechanical arms. The container frames stacked together were currently empty, and there was a huge circular elevator in the middle of the cabin.

"This is Combat Robot No. 1 Preparation Area, which can accommodate about five thousand combat robots of various models at most, and the elevator in the middle leads to the robot repair area."

Like the teleportation area, this area was originally designed as a personnel area, but considering the large number of combat robots in the Star Knights Chapter, after consulting Soshjan, the sages of Zhao-Akada transformed a considerable area of the personnel area into a combat robot preparation area for storing, maintaining, and modifying combat robots.

There are a total of three such cabins, which means that the Abyss-class can carry about fifteen thousand combat robots.

Whether for defense or ground support, it is more than enough.

Just as Soshjan was inspecting the combat robot preparation area, a burst of subtle metal friction suddenly came from overhead. He looked up and found a group of small things quickly crawling out of the ventilation ducts and climbing towards another ventilation duct.

In appearance, they were basically servo skulls, but the original small nozzles were replaced by six thin metal legs, which seemed to have some kind of magnetic device that allowed them to stand firmly on smooth metal plates. At the same time, the "mouth" part became a welding torch, a small cutter, and other tools. At first glance, it was nothing, but a closer look was a bit creepy. It seemed to be a skull with spider legs, or a mechanical spider parasitizing in a human skull.

"This is"

A sage from Zhao-Akada then explained:

"Lord, these are micro-servo repair machines. Considering the large number of small and micro pipelines in the ship, it is very difficult to inspect and maintain them by manpower alone. Therefore, we have adopted a large number of these semi-automatic micro-machines, numbering around 300,000. They can perform simple repair work, and they can also become ubiquitous sentinels in the ship, detecting any enemies trying to hide in the pipelines in a timely manner. In addition to the automatic mechanical control center in the bridge area, we have also established thirteen branch control centers throughout the ship, which can ensure that all automatic machines in the ship are in a state of constant adjustment and monitoring, and can ensure that the ship's automation level is within a controllable range, minimizing the number of unnecessary crew members."

Soshjan nodded and muttered to himself:

"A bit similar to the Necron scarabs... Not bad, not bad. It seems you've thought of many problems. I said, human wisdom shouldn't be worse than other races. Even without touching any Crimson Protocols, there are still ways to improve the automation level of ships. We can't always be diodes, either hating intelligence or relying on manpower. Human electromechanical technology has been developing for tens of thousands of years, so we can't let living people be stifled by urine." (Probably for people in the 90s, GTP is also considered artificial intelligence)

He turned to Kayan and smiled:

"It seems I don't need to do anything."

Kayan knew what he was talking about and spread his hands.

"It's best if you don't have to do it yourself."

Leaving the robot preparation area, the group came to a branch station and boarded a maglev train, quickly arriving at a more spacious but very empty place. There were many huge gantry cranes and large engineering machinery, and some engineering machinery could be seen carrying out the final welding and cleaning work.

"According to your instructions, Chapter Master, this place has been transformed into a Knight Titan preparation area."

"Hmm."

Soshjan crossed his arms and looked around. This place was originally used to store Titans, taking up a lot of space inside the ship, but to be honest, the Adeptus Mechanicus has its own Titan transport ships, and the Abyss-class really doesn't need to waste valuable hull space to transport Titans on its own. However, Knight families will be accompanying the Chapter on expeditions more often in the future, and in order to be able to "manage" them well, it is still necessary to deploy them on the Abyss-class. Therefore, Soshjan decided to remove the Titan loading area and transform one-third of the original space into a Knight loading area, and use the remaining space for more useful things.

In fact, Soshjan had the same view of the Avista, but after all, that legion flagship has distinct cultural and historical attributes, and it is not easy to modify it, and it is also a troublesome thing to greatly modify the cabin layout of a warship that has already been built.

Leaving here, the group took a vertically ascending train and arrived at the location of the main gun deck.

"Quack, so powerful! How magnificent a cannon is this going to install?"

As soon as the door opened, Soshjan vaguely heard a somewhat familiar voice, and Talos shook his head helplessly.

"That kid."

"Brother, do you think such a big gun mount can install a Nova Cannon?"

"Absolutely, easily."

"Such a big ship, it can't be built in a few hundred years, right? Did our Chapter Master pick it up in the Warp again?"

After the group walked through three open explosion-proof gates, they entered the main gun deck. At this time, the Tenth and Eleventh Companies of soldiers were already here, and the loudest voice was undoubtedly Li Lin.

Since the type of the spine-mounted main gun has not even been decided yet, this place is very empty, so empty that it can even cause a kind of megalophobia, but some auxiliary equipment has been installed, such as huge auxiliary arms exceeding eighty meters in height, and transmission devices like behemoths that drive the rotation of the huge main gun turret.

"Hey, the Chapter Master is here."

The sound of footsteps quickly made the warriors of the two companies notice the people coming, and they immediately changed from scattered to gathered, and lined up.

"No need to be restrained, today is a tour day, everyone is free to move around."

"Yes!"