In the high orbit of the planet, which is difficult to see with the naked eye, eight small celestial bodies are encased in solar sails in an octahedron (in the form of a diamond-shaped gemstone). They are connected by orbits to form the eight points of a hexahedron (cube). And at each point, there is a track that leads directly to the central core.

This is the appearance of the newly built industrial site, which is called the Cube.

Compared to Gradius, it naturally appears to be a small one, but in fact it is a factory complex that can accommodate a million people in total.

Of course, there is not really a need for millions of workers to work here, but a fully automated assembly line.

Due to the cheap energy, many of the operations of the people of this era can be regarded as the norm.

For example, using a short-range stargate to teleport resources.

The star system where Gradius is located has gas stars, other non-ferrous mineral stars, frozen planets, and asteroids.

Under normal circumstances, even if there is a stargate, it is reluctant to use it to transport such conventional resources.

Because the gains outweigh the losses, the energy consumption of opening the stargate once is very huge, and every time it is opened, the stargate itself is also lost. Generally speaking, only rare minerals such as Pandora's Rare Element (Avatar) have the value of stargate transportation.

But to a certain extent that science and technology are prosperous, energy is extremely cheap, and conventional materials can also be transported by Stargate.

In fact, technology is in line with the bucket effect, and the shortest board will always become a problem that restricts the overall level of science and technology.

On the other hand, when energy is so cheap that you can use the stargate to transport conventional materials without feeling distressed, other aspects of technology, such as microscopic science, etc., are also so clever that they are almost godlike.

The mass-energy conversion technology is completely mature, and only if there is energy, or any kind of matter, it can be converted into another, molecular construction, or even atomic construction, and directly generate the required materials with energy particles.

With such technology, where do you need the regular materials of Xingmen Transportation?

However, the Warhammer 40K universe is a pseudo-sci-fi and true fantasy world. As a result, there are some cutting-edge technologies that are not suitable for use in this universe.

Because even in the physical universe, there is extraordinary energy that cannot be avoided. And the more cutting-edge technology, the more stringent the conditions are often achieved. With the interference of extraordinary energy, the conversion of mass and energy is prone to problems.

This is also an important reason why technology has no future in the transcendent world. You can't go to the real extreme, and the extraordinary is more compelling.

The cube industrial base itself also produces resources and energy, and the solar sail and connecting orbit are borrowed from the spirit bone technology of the Eldar Clan, which is light but tough, and uses the solar wind, as well as cosmic rays, and energy particles to achieve a certain extreme efficiency.

With abundant resources and continuous self-replication of industrial machine tools, 3D printing begins after the scale is formed.

Although the design of the final industrial transfer, Kane did not have more advanced holographic printing, but the mature 3D printing system is still efficient.

The key is that this kind of equipment has the characteristics of simplifying, only asking about product specifications, not specific content. From pots and pans to aircraft cannons, can be printed, the specific printing production line, divided into large, medium, small, micro, giant, five models, it is enough, what to produce, the relevant information is entered, the supply of raw materials is replaced, it is OK.

In this way, a super industrial base with a full range of products looks like an old-fashioned Internet café, in order, or the same.

With the right robotic arm and a multi-functional robot, the automated production line is complete. The part involving computing and information is all point-to-point management in the form of quantum communication, and the supercomputer base station at the core of the cube is enough to cope with all the computing work.

Since the incoming and outgoing goods all pass through the Star Gate, there is no movement of goods and people from the outside. The cube is like a satellite in high orbit, looping in a circle.

This is actually very good, which greatly reduces the hidden dangers of conventional people and logistics in the background of star ports and docks.

The mature stargate technology itself is equipped with a security inspection system, and the security is very high.

In the eyes of Rodriguez and others, it was Kane's command who built a mirror pyramid building with a bit of science fiction in just a few dozen minutes, and then began to transport all kinds of items from the inside endlessly, as if it was not a building, but a cornucopia!

"After two thousand years of losing contact, has the technology of the empire reached such a point?" Rodriguez and the others were amazed, and at the same time looked at Kane and his entourage with envy.

However, the representatives of the major institutions of the empire were sour in their hearts: "It's right to envy Kane, don't piggyback on us, we are also turtles who look at Xuanqi......"

The first equipment to be built was used to evaluate and give birth to 'swordsmen'.

The Gladiator is the Tempest Trooper of the Imperial Defense Force in Gradius.

Kane's selection of troops can be said to only look at the soul. Physical fitness, with the height of biotechnology he has mastered, cultivating soldiers of various types and strengths is almost as easy as a breeze.

Thus, Gradius's big-headed soldiers began their magical journey.

They were told that before taking part in the assessment, in order to test as realistically as possible, they were required to take a special medication that would allow them to get the most sleep and help regulate their body functions so that they could be at their best.

Since it is not a voluntary registration, but a full assessment, the qualification is obtained.

As for whether or not you want to become a member of the glorious swordsmen after obtaining the qualification, it is up to one's own will.

Even the officers have the relevant assessment to become a swordsman officer. Even the cooks and the like will participate. It is nothing more than in batches, in order.

In fact, the real test starts after taking the drug.

Of course, it also includes the procedure for checking for chicken thief mixes.

Take, for example, the separate regiment in Rodriguez.

The soldiers first took two days off to settle personal chores, write letters to their families, and so on. This is followed by taking medication and going to bed.

This medicine is not actually a sweet sleep to make, but a medication that works with the testing equipment.

The soldiers thought that they had slept beautifully, and the next day they were refreshed and began to meet the assessment.

In fact, they didn't wake up at all, but in the virtual world bridging with the dream.

It's okay to say it's out of the body, it's okay to say it's consciousness upload, in short, it's only consciousness that wakes up, not the body.

Soon, the assessment began.

The first level of the assessment has a famous name, called difficult choice.

That is, through a series of two choices, a person's three views, temperament, and mentality are identified.

This pass is very similar to a game called 'Train Problem' that Kane played back then, except that because of the virtual world, the simple train problem has been replaced by a series of events, making people immersive, just like a real encounter.

The choice given by the 'train problem' itself is philosophical, and it does not give people too many things to think about, and the choice must be made in a matter of seconds.

And now the assessment is similar.

For example, a few train problems, the general meaning of this game is that a train is running at high speed, due to loss of control, it will inevitably run over some people, and the electronically controlled trigger for the train to change lanes is in your hands, how to choose.

Option 1:

A: One staff member who can always work according to the plan.

B always does not work according to the plan of the staff 5 people.

Option 2:

A: 1 leader who came to inspect according to the plan.

B: 3 employees who were forced to work overtime.

Option 3:

A two adults who are lost.

B is a small child who gets lost.

Option 4:

A wanted prison escapee.

B Zoo escaped five bears.

Option 5:

A abandoned baby.

B: Five old people who were abandoned by their families.

Option 6:

A: Two parents who discarded the child.

B. Ten members of the family who abandoned the old man.

And so on, and the further you go, the more human nature is tested.

For example, $100 million or an ordinary person. You have a choice between a friend and someone who is far better than you, an advanced medical machine, and five ordinary medical workers.

There are also some that feel a little weird. For example, one ultra-high-performance test robot, five mass-produced robots with average performance, and so on.

The most nasty thing is that at the end of a series of choices, the game tells you that your choices determine who and what will end up on the starship.

The planet is about to be destroyed, and you will embark on a cosmic escape journey with the people and things of your choice.

And who you interact with and what supplies you have available during this long adventure is up to you.

Because it's a game, it's not only problem-intensive, but also seems to be asking questions for the sake of asking questions.

The assessment trial that Kane asked Miranda to handle will integrate similar questions into the event as much as possible, and according to the choice of the examiner, the relevant plot of the next choice will be specifically arranged. The purpose is to be realistic. Let the person concerned think that this is what he has experienced.

This is both a test and a baptism.

Only those who pass the score will have a chance to advance to the next level.

The second level is to test the spirit of battle.

This is also a very important part of Kane's view.

In this section, the main thing is to single out those who are particularly talented in combat, and those who are particularly lacking in talent.

This also seems to be Kane's habit all along.

In the movie interpretation of the Spartan Three Hundred Warriors, Leonidas did not accept Efaltes, who was not weak in personal combat power but was deformed, for the sake of the tactical unity of the team array.

Kane, on the other hand, is a top and bottom, not burdensome, and not heroic.

Of course, there is no need to be too strict in the selection of swordsmen. Those who are talented are not really kicked out of the gladiator, but are used as spearheads, like the anti-terrorist squad, 6-8 people, each with their own unique skills, on special missions.

The team of swordsmen is an elite that has risen to a higher level than ordinary soldiers, but it is still not out of the category of soldiers, and it still emphasizes faith, discipline, and organization.

'Sacrifice' is indeed a very good quality. But Kane didn't mean to encourage it.

In other words, he proudly believes that the human forces under his command do not rely on advocating sacrifice to win. After all, this kind of practice itself will be deflected to the brainwashing of cults if we are not careful.

As for the war bugs he commands, or other puppet armies, they are themselves weapons, and in order to complete the task, they do not hesitate to do their own things, which is a duty and a procedure, not a sacrifice in the real sense.

Sacrifice is a noble consciousness, but also a helplessness that violates the instinct of life. Its noble point lies in the fact that reason and sensibility defeat instinct and dedicate the ego to the maximum. This is the glory of a self-conscious, intelligent life.

Kane argues that any unconscious sacrifice that is guided and demagogic is a blasphemy of the concept. It is a kind of profit-driven and deception.

From the point of view of the Imperial Defense Forces, the staffing of the independent regiment of Rodriguez can be said to be decent.

The establishment of the Imperial Defense Force is a squad of ten people, two to five squads are a platoon, two to six platoons are a company, and five to a company is a regiment. There is no battalion level.

The independent regiments were all in the middle, with three squads as platoons, three platoons as companies, and three companies as regiments, so that the number of war regiments was about the same as that of the Astarte monks.

Brother Astarte is a team of ten, a company of ten, and a regiment of ten companies.

In other words, the independent regiment is a thousand people.

Of course, this refers to combat personnel, and non-combat personnel are 1.5 times more than this.

Of the 2,500-strong independent regiment, more than 260 people finally passed the assessment and were willing to become swordsmen.

With a ratio of almost 10:1, Kane thinks it's not low.

There are more than 30 chicken thieves who have been found to be mixed, and more than half of them have become non-commissioned officers, and the highest position is a major staff officer and a captain and company commander.

This is shocking enough, after all, even people who don't know much about military affairs can imagine how much destructive power such two positions can be released if they are sincere in doing things in a group like the army, which pays attention to obedience.

Kane even thinks that the invasion of the swarm is imminent.

Because the genetic thieves do not care about personal and organizational honor and disgrace, everything is based on welcoming the great cause of the king.

In this context, if it were not for imminent action, they would not have too much real power in the first line.

And they are more accustomed to saving the country from the curve, such as taking the wife route and making a fuss about the family members of officials or rich people, so as to gain strong enough influence and arrange for their own people to quickly seize real power when needed.

Know that the more spies arrange, the greater the chance of exposure. Once discovered by humans, it will often alarm the relevant departments, and it will be very troublesome to continue to track down.

Only when the invasion of the insect swarm is imminent, it is necessary to grasp as much real power as possible, and it is good to exert force at a critical time, so that a remote garrison will be brightened, and so many spies will be mixed in.

It can be said that it is entirely possible to let these lurkers have a smooth attack, paralyze the independent regiment for several days, or even mutiny and civil strife.

Kane couldn't help but think. After all, according to the prophetic information he had, there had been no swarm invasion in this year.

"Is it because of the Empire's isolation from Gradius that there is no official chronicle of events, or is it because of some reason that the swarm didn't make the trip this time?"

He himself prefers the latter possibility. After all, according to his understanding of the current combat power of the Gradian humans, as long as the swarm comes, there is no possibility of losing.

After all, the people here can't even jump out of the gravity well on their own, and the swarm can easily obtain the right to control the track, and then they can advance and retreat freely, and if they only rush this point, the Gradius humans will be defeated without help.

But if humanity is defeated, it is not a question of whether the official memorabilia is recorded, but that the planet will be gnawed into a barren star by the swarm, and there will be no later Gradius.

Kane couldn't explain why. It can only be said that it is better to believe in a book than to have no book. He preferred to believe his own observations and analyses rather than to believe prophetic messages.

Based on the genetically thief's activity, he believes that the swarm is about to invade.

Then, it is necessary to make arrangements according to the situation that the swarm will kill at any time.

He contacted Miranda and asked the Buzhoushan to start construction mode at full speed and build more production lines.

This is both to create more combat weapons to deal with possible major wars. At the same time, it is also to quickly digest the resources of this star system.

The First Order is the first to drain or aggregate the resources of the star system. When the Tyranid starts a war, it can only stretch the supply line, and even fight by depleting its own reserves, hoping to replenish the consumption after victory.

And no matter which one it is, it is equivalent to the long-term and the other.

If he had enough time, he could even try to make a Dyson sphere, which would be completely covered except for the part of the sun that corresponded to Gradius. Turn the star into a death star (the one from Star Wars) that continues to emit faint rays of destruction.

If they do that, the swarm will have to put up more reserves in advance to wage war. So with the simplicity of the swarm, will you cling to your plan, or will you give up on Gradius because you feel that the profit is low after settling accounts?

Kane knew that he could not rely on the mercy of his enemies to avoid the scourge of war. That's too passive.

But he still hopes that the swarm will choose to give up on Gradius, not for the hundreds of millions of humans on Gradius, but for the fear of the swarm's rampage and waking up the space necrons in advance. At that time, if humanity is caught between the two, it will really be burnt out.

"Firepower, more and more accurate firepower!" Kane has always been a proponent of the supremacy of firepower, and poured as much energy as possible in as little time as possible.

If the light and heat emitted by the calculated lifetime of a star of 10 billion years are released in one direction in a very short period of time, then a superweapon such as a human-controlled gamma-ray burst is not willing to be beaten head-on even if it is sacrificed.

Back then, why the star gods were so strong, wasn't it because their energy throughput efficiency was high. These beings who live on stellar energy, each of them can attack with all their strength, and I am afraid that they can achieve the gimmick of Abaddon's Twelfth Expedition, the main cannon bombardment effect of the planet killer when destroying the planet. And it is by using this extraordinary brute force again and again that the ancient saint clan, who is very technically good, very comprehensive and fanciful, hates and exterminates the clan.

So with Kane's order, the bone-squeezing plan began, and Gradius's planetary companions began to be unlucky.

Rather than being squeezed dry by the possible swarm in the future, it is better to be squeezed dry by me now. With such a fierce idea, Kane began to farm with all his might.

To this end, he even built a large stargate connecting to Korna, and notified the Big Dipper to rush to make the equipment and send it over.

There is no doubt that, in terms of scale, this is beyond the construction of the original window world of Kulna.

As a result, due to the large amount of movement, it attracted enemies that were originally unlikely to appear, Chaos, and Orc Orcs......

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