The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Although Sotha said that, with him present, the warriors became much more cautious and spoke in hushed voices.

And at this time, a very important topic, or rather a choice, would be decided by Sotha himself.

"Chapter Master, this is our plan."

The sage of Zhao-Akada projected their design onto a huge holographic panel, including the data and structure of the main gun, the functional system design and deployment of the gun deck, and the corresponding safety devices.

After all, it was mature technology, and the safety factor was relatively high.

Only some emergency interceptors were needed to basically eliminate the risk of overload flash explosions.

But maturity also meant that the upper limit could be seen at a glance.

If designed according to Zhao-Akada's plan, the firepower of this Abyss-class ship would not be much stronger than that of a Gloriana-class battleship.

"Chapter Master, our plan"

The sage of Ulan Huda then presented their plan.

The official name of their designed super-giant dark flame cannon was the Blacklight Cannon.

The entire design was undoubtedly very bold, but the structure given by Ulan Huda was incomplete.

Some important parts were mosaicked, obviously there were things that were not convenient to show publicly, but Sotha actually knew what these were.

To put it bluntly, this thing was not Ulan Huda's completely original creation.

Bangura had once told Sotha that some sages of Ulan Huda were tackling the field of dark matter weapons, but without any progress.

Because he had been to Commorragh and seen the Dark Eldar's "dark lance", he hoped that Sotha could provide some physical objects for them to study.

This was naturally not difficult for Sotha.

A dozen dark lances installed on Ravager gunships were sent to Ulan Huda, and he never asked about it again.

But obviously the dark matter weapons of the Eldar were indeed inspiring to the sages.

Although miniaturization was still full of difficulties, it was different when enlarged.

Many technical problems or indicators could be solved by stacking materials or energy output.

This was a coincidence in a sense.

What Ulan Huda wanted to design was a dark matter cannon used on Titans, but due to material problems and a series of operations of adding more flour when there's too much water and adding more water when there's too much flour, the volume of the weapon when it finally took shape was already excessively large.

It was even a little difficult to install it on the track as a defensive weapon.

At this time, the Abyss-class ship's spine turret plan entered the vision of Ulan Huda's senior management.

Wasn't this a ready-made application?

Therefore, the parts that Ulan Huda concealed were some technologies derived from the dark lance.

Although there were no outsiders here, confidentiality still had to be considered.

Although Sotha knew the reason, the Blacklight Cannon was indeed a somewhat experimental weapon.

Even though it had undergone hundreds of firing tests, they were all conducted in a stable environment, which was completely different from the real combat environment.

"Benn, what do you think?"

Hearing Sotha ask himself, Albert Benn, the White Templars Forge Master who had been examining the two plans, thought for a moment and replied:

"From the perspective of safety and reliability, I prefer the giant lance, but with such a huge energy power of the Abyss-class, it is indeed a bit of a waste of tonnage.

I have also studied the knowledge of dark matter weapons regarding the Blacklight Cannon's lethality.

I admit that its lethality is very tempting, especially at this level of power.

It will definitely make this warship a terrifying weapon.

Even the Vengeful Spirit of a Great Raider would probably not dare to lightly test its edge, but I can't see its full picture now.

Just looking at the structure of the energy system, there is still a certain risk, because the energy storage of the lance can be dispersed.

That is to say, even if the turret or gun deck is hit during energy storage, there is time to activate the interceptor to prevent energy storage flash explosion, but the Blacklight Cannon requires a larger energy storage device.

Due to the limited space of the gun deck, they can only be squeezed together.

In this case, once hit, the explosion-proof measures may not be activated in time, and at that time it will turn into a disaster."

"We will install stasis reactors on the gun deck.

Once activated, it will release a large-scale stasis field, which can last for about fifteen seconds, enough to implement interception measures."

"Large stasis devices require very large energy.

What if its power supply system fails in battle, or is weakened, causing the stasis reactor not to activate?

The interceptor of the lance is mechanically triggered and very stable, while your stasis reactor is electrically triggered.

I admit that the reaction speed is very fast, but it is unstable.

I am personally not optimistic about unstable weapons combined with unstable emergency systems."

Sotha raised his eyebrows slightly without expressing any opinion, but looked at Talos.

"Talos, what do you think?"

Talos shrugged.

"I'm not a technical person.

I can't even learn the apothecary's tricks well.

You're asking me this but this Blacklight Cannon, I think it might be more useful against those difficult opponents, such as the Necrons.

After all, there are many lance ships, there is no need to build another one.

The things they can win don't need an Abyss-class ship.

If their lances can't win, then how much better will an Abyss-class ship with a body of lances be?"

Sotha thought for a while and nodded.

"Improve it.

There is no rush to use it for the time being.

First, improve the weapon system to be more stable, and if necessary, find some more professional people to come."

Although he didn't say it directly, everyone already knew Sotha's decision, but only a very few understood his last sentence—

If the people of Ulan Huda really can't solve the safety problem of the Blacklight Cannon, then he will let the Eldar artisans intervene in the improvement of the Blacklight Cannon.

Of course, Sotha still took care of the sages' face, and still emphasized the word "necessary", which gave them more time.

After all, there were still many devices and systems that needed to be installed on the Abyss-class ship, and there was no problem with installing the spine main gun last.

The penultimate stop for everyone was naturally the real main gun of the Abyss-class ship, which was the position of the ship's bow, but because the highest confidential department was here, the people of Zhao-Akada could not enter, and only the chapter's Space Marines and the sages of Ulan Huda could accompany them.

When he arrived there, Sotha could already see many Tech-Priests busy.

The bow of the ship was already in an open state, covered by a huge isolation cover to ensure that the people working inside would not be sucked into the void.

In addition, he could see many flying machines going in and out along the opening and passages, transporting huge metal structures into the ship, just like busy bees returning to their nests.