The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Chapter 3402: Stellar Transfer (Happy New Year's Eve!)

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"I remember Gellan having three shipbuilding facilities here, right?"

"That's the planned number. The actual number can be increased, but it would require building additional structures on the outer layer."

"Can ships like these be built?"

Soshjan handed over a memory storage chip, and the other party replied in just two seconds:

"Yes, but is it necessary? I can point out over ten thousand design flaws in each of these ships."

"I know, but no weapon is absolutely perfect. Its most important indicator is its usability. In the Imperium, using inappropriate weapons can easily lead to trouble. I've already suffered such losses. No matter how powerful a warship is, if it can't be used openly, it's as good as non-existent. So, my first requirement for a warship is that it can be used, openly and legitimately. Performance comes second."

"Some of the ships' specifications are beyond standard. The original shipyard design was only for producing small ships. If you want to produce those oversized and heavily wasteful large warships, you can only build additional production facilities, and only on the outer layer. This will consume more time and resources."

"No problem."

"Commander, I still need to remind you that my original duty was only research and habitation. Although my production capabilities are very complete, my production efficiency is not as high as you think. Doesn't the Imperium have massive industrial complexes called Forge Worlds? Even if their production efficiency is low, they can still form sufficient production capacity by relying on their huge scale."

"Since you know about the Adeptus Mechanicus, you should know how difficult they are to deal with."

"Understood."

"Can Gellan leave the Webway on its own now?"

"The space here is unique. All kinds of sensors cannot find the spatial access point, so assistance is needed."

Hearing what the other party said, Soshjan thought for a moment and nodded.

"In that case, we'll first find a way to take you out of the Webway and go to the Eldar world closest to Orpheus."

"Everything is arranged by the commander."

After leaving the Gellan star, Soshjan immediately began to preside over the separation of the Shadow Nexus.

This matter looks complicated, and doing it is even more complicated, comparable to a highly precise surgery, but magnified countless times.

To detach the Shadow Nexus from Gellan's surface without damaging its critical facilities means figuring out how many contact points and support points there are. This task was originally extremely complex, but Gellan completed it in less than half a minute with its scans.

Before the official action, the Shadow Nexus closed all passages and then detained and transferred all irrelevant personnel within the Nexus.

Immediately afterward, the Bonesingers began to work. They would build a "chassis" at the bottom of the Shadow Nexus to support the main structure of the entire Nexus, preventing it from collapsing. At the same time, the Warp Smiths would also place large aggregation devices in various parts of the Nexus, forming an aggregation field that enveloped the entire Nexus, protecting it.

After this series of tasks was completed, it was time for separation.

Gellan directly abandoned the divine tower occupied as the core of the Shadow Nexus, controlling hundreds of thousands of Tech-Thralls to cut the entire divine tower structure from its body. Then, the entire Shadow Nexus began to shake, and tens of thousands of contact points were disintegrating one by one. The Bonesingers needed to fill in some of the cracks in a timely manner as the disintegration occurred.

The whole process was actually very laborious, but fortunately, it was in the Webway, and the Bonesingers and artisans could directly draw energy from the Webway for their own use.

Finally, with the joint efforts of all parties, the Shadow Nexus, which had been parasitic on Gellan, slowly floated away from its host and began its own independent survival.

This also meant that the Shadow Nexus would become fragile. After losing Gellan's protection, it also lost most of its defensive power. This was also why Soshjan brought in the other two Kabals, using their power to protect the Shadow Nexus was the most appropriate.

The follow-up was the expansion and strengthening of the Shadow Nexus, which Dorale would be responsible for, so Soshjan didn't need to worry too much.

Instead, how Gellan could move and transfer in the Webway was more of a concern for Soshjan. After all, it was too big. Generally speaking, the Webway couldn't accommodate something this big.

Fortunately, Callistus Thule provided a solution, which was the large-scale folding teleportation that Commorragh had used several times. In the past, Commorragh used this technology to transfer stars into the Webway as Commorragh's sun. After that, there were several large-scale transfers, mainly of satellites or other celestial bodies, but the Craftworld Eldar had never used this technology.

Soshjan did not hesitate and directly agreed to the plan.

But before the transfer, some noise entered his ears. Some of his courtiers, including those in the inner court who were in the know, believed that he should not transfer Gellan to the human empire.

Their view was that even if this planet was not compatible with Eldar technology, it was still a powerful weapon. The Phoenix Lord should keep it in the Royal Court for his wife and subjects.

Soshjan dismissed these rumors, but he also noticed some trends contained within them.

With the increasing strength and expansion of the Royal Court, Eldar supremacy was bound to rise. More and more Eldar would demand that he cut ties with the human side, and more and more Eldar would no longer hold an attitude of peaceful coexistence with humans. When there were few people, everything was easy to manage. Once there were more people, their hearts would naturally be in turmoil.

Soshjan himself couldn't say what the future would hold. Perhaps only that sentence could.

Only heaven knows.

But his actions were not affected in any way. Under Callistus Thule's operation, the Royal Court's first large-scale Webway teleportation plan began to be implemented—since the fall of the ancient empire, only Commorragh still mastered this technology. The inhabitants of the Craftworlds and Exodite Worlds had long lost most of their ability to apply the Webway, limited only to navigation.

However, this work required some preparation time. Fortunately, the flow of time in the Webway was very slow compared to the material universe, so Soshjan could afford to wait. He stayed on the Gellan star, wandering around when he had nothing to do, occasionally gathering with his courtiers to handle the affairs of the Royal Court, which could be considered a short personal rest time. Of course, the artificial intelligence Qingzhao appeared most often by his side, but her behavior was rather strange. Sometimes she couldn't be seen for a long time, and sometimes she quietly appeared next to Soshjan, watching him all the time, wondering what she was thinking.

"Huff."

Putting down the reader in his hand, Soshjan stood up from the huge recliner and stretched his muscles.

This was a high-rise viewing room located on the manufacturing level, very close to the transportation level. According to Qingzhao, it used to be the residence of Gellan's security chief. From here, you could see the huge mechanical city stretching to the end of the horizon.

At this time, the rising sun, representing sunrise, rose up. Looking out from the viewing window, a large area of stacked block-shaped residential areas was illuminated by artificial sunlight, emitting golden light.