Warhammer III

Tai Yue and others then returned to Mars and went to the Tianyuanfang Black Stone Fortress docked at the Imperial Navy's Mars dock.

During the three years that the Tianyuanfang was docked here, it was fully renovated and repaired.

The first thing was to strengthen the armament of the fortress. With the full support of the Mechanicus, the destructive weapons used by various warships were installed on the top of the fortress, including light spear arrays, macro cannon arrays, fish launch arrays, close defense gun arrays, etc. The fortress was also equipped with various detectors that could detect any enemy ship in a galaxy.

These weapons and detectors can fully arm more than a dozen Imperial Navy battleships, but for this super-large Black Stone Fortress, the weapons loaded can only be said to be just enough.

Below the Black Stone Fortress are 20 ancient psychic turrets, but unfortunately some of them have been damaged. The psychic turrets use the subspace energy in the black stone cylinder to attack. Each psychic turret is huge in size, equivalent to an independent fortress.

With the help of the intelligent system Varda, Taiyue has been trying to repair the fortress's psychic turrets with the ability of void creation. In the end, 8 of the 20 psychic turrets can still be used.

According to the distance from the center of the fortress to the psychic turrets, Taiyue numbered the turrets:

Psychic turret No. 1: 'Fissure Shield', a defensive turret, similar to the void shield, but more violent. After the turret is activated, it directly tears open the subspace rift to cover the entire fortress. The defensive performance is far superior to the void shield, and it can even defend against the star fragments released by the space necromancer tomb ship.

The rift shield also has the function of a subspace engine. While using the subspace rift defense, the Blackstone Fortress can directly enter the subspace. The spirit bone structure where Varda's consciousness is located is in this psychic turret, which will serve as the battle command center.

Psychic Turret No. 2: ‘Flame Field’, a short-range attack and defense turret. After the turret is activated, a psychic high temperature will appear in the area 10-50 kilometers away from the fortress, which can not only burn the approaching enemy troops, but also detonate and destroy the enemy's shells in advance for defense.

Psychic Turret No. 3: ‘Void Lightning’, a medium- and short-range attack turret. The powerful psychic lightning will destroy any invading enemy, and can even destroy the fortress fortress on the planet in the planetary orbit.

This psychic turret also serves as the training base of the Ninth Brotherhood Think Tank. Bruce is responsible for managing it. Everyone can make full use of the subspace energy here to train psychic witchcraft.

Psychic Turret No. 4: ‘Whirlpool Torrent’, a long-range attack turret, similar to the subspace turbine guns of the six Blackstone Fortresses that appeared before, is essentially a directional subspace energy beam.

Psychic turrets 5-7: ‘Trinity’, three turrets charged by the subspace negative energy field. Other turrets can only be charged after the subspace energy is exhausted. A single turret can seal the subspace at a fixed point, and three turrets can seal the subspace in a wide area.

When the rift shield is turned on, the use of psychic turrets 5-7 can open a channel in the subspace rift covering the fortress and allow other warships or aircraft to enter.

Considering the subspace negative energy field characteristics of these three turrets, Tai Yue used psychic turret 5 as the Ninth Brotherhood’s metal organ training base, allowing the Ninth Brotherhood to train here to control metal cells and improve the activity of metal cells in the body. Brotherhood Captain Nelson is responsible for managing this place. And psychic turret 6 will be used as a prison for heretic psychics and demons, and it will be managed by the Brotherhood think tank.

Psychic Turret No. 8: ‘One-way transmission’, a subspace transmission turret, which can transmit a large number of imperial troops and vehicle weapons to the ground after a single charge, and can also transmit gunboats and Titan mechas. In theory, it can also transmit bombs to enemy warships.

This turret is currently stationed with the Astra Militarum and the Sisters of Battle. The psychic turret No. 8 can quickly deploy ground troops.

After repairing the psychic turret, Tai Yue repaired various psychic equipment inside the fortress through the servitor, consuming a large amount of subspace crystals, and basically restored various functions inside the Blackstone Fortress.

These psychic equipment once again became part of Varda’s consciousness, allowing her to know the situation inside the fortress, and at the same time coordinate internal communications to make the fortress as a whole.

The 12 unrepaired psychic turrets were temporarily transformed into simple ports for temporary docking of warships.

The Uruk strike cruiser and the Broken Claw frigate were the first to dock here. The latter was snatched from the Chaos Warband of the Abir Claws. After the frigate was pulled from the Relic Star to the solar system, it was repaired in the Deimos forge world of Phobos. This is the second warship of the Ninth Brotherhood.

In order to ensure that there are sufficient weapons and ammunition inside the fortress, Taiyue planned to build a foundry in an open area of ​​the fortress. The Great Sage Kaul opposed it at first, but Taiyue provided the STC casting template obtained from the Styx Forge:

Drawing number:

Drawing content: Subspace energy mutagenesis device

Template category: Subspace engine variant equipment

After Taiyue also promised to hand over the control of the foundry to the Sage Dela, the Great Sage Kaul finally agreed to the entire request.

This newly built foundry produces psychic weapons used by the Grey Knights on the one hand, and serves as a research base for Dela to study the Tyranids on the other hand.

According to the prophecy, the Tyranids will eventually enter Holy Terra, and related research must be accelerated to have a glimmer of hope to intercept the Tyranids.

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After returning to Blackstone Fortress, Tai Yue began to make psychic weapons for the Brotherhood. He will use the subspace crystals obtained from the Cyclops Tower to create powerful psychic weapons!