The conditions of the Livingston system are relatively good even among the nearly hundreds of millions of galaxies in the Empire's possession. Military, economic, construction, agriculture, these important aspects all have relative worlds to take on tasks in the Livingston system.

And there is also a satellite that has been built into a fortress world by the Space Marines, which means that the safety of the entire galaxy is also guaranteed.

Although, for the Imperial world in the Livingston system now, they lack troops and supplies, as long as they are given enough time, these are problems that can be solved.

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Eric looked at the sky.

Above the vast sky, there are all kinds of huge space stations, which are huge docks and shipyards that are closely packed together, and they form a huge circle around the orbit of the planet.

This planet-orbiting ring-shaped space station offers a variety of defense and infrastructure buffs.

Eric didn't crane his neck to see how far these incredible complexes would stretch like those who had come to Dawn for the first time.

Because he already knew that even if he tried his best, he would not see the end of those shimmering docks. One end of the steel arch rises from the horizon of his region, and the other end disappears into the edge of the planet along the curve of the planet.

Countless spaceships descended into the Ring Base, a huge, ring-shaped space base built in a planetary stable orbit, like industrious bees returning to the hive after going out to collect honey.

"Ring of Steel!" Eric sighed in his heart. "It's huge!"

Eric didn't know how many times he had seen this magnificent thing, but each time he described it so bluntly. Because only this description can express the shock in his heart.

Even Astarte, the most powerful under the Imperial Throne, would feel the same sense of insignificance as an ordinary mortal when faced with such a massive structure.

Fireflies can be seen everywhere on the Ring of Steel. In those places, new ships are being built by armies of shipbuilders.

"Most of the Legion's fleets were built here, and now, the expeditionary fleet led by the Living Saint Debra is also built in these harbors."

"It's time to go."

Eric, who was looking at the sky in distraction, heard the words and turned his head to look at the worker standing beside him.

"It's time to go, my lord." The captain of the porters said to Eric.

"All the supplies have been shipped, and the transport boat is ready to depart at any time, just your orders."

"Well, let's go now. Thank you, hmm......"

"Carlos Gabibioni, my lord, my name is Carlos Gabibiauni."

After hearing the name, Eric raised his eyebrows, seemed a little surprised, and asked, "Oh? You're Carlod's brother? ”

As a Space Marine, Eric's brain is strong enough for him to memorize the names of every warrior under his command, even though he now has more than 7,000 warriors under his command. He could even vaguely recall the background information about Carlod in the thousands of documents he had seen.

"Yes, sir."

Carlos led the way ahead as he answered Eric's question. The smile on his face shows that he is very proud to have a brother of a Space Marine.

"If it's possible, I'd like you to grant me a request."

Eric raised his eyebrows again, slightly surprised. He didn't expect an ordinary person to dare to make a request to a space marine.

Although under the teaching of the Holy Son, most of the current attitude of the Space Marines towards ordinary people is closer to the heirs of the former Lord of the Fire Dragon, few can be calm in the face of those warriors who stand like mythical giants, let alone make demands on them.

However, as a think tank director, Eric's psionic powers made it easy for him to feel that Carlos didn't have any negative thoughts in his heart, which made him give Carlos more tolerance.

"Well, if that's a legitimate request, I'll consider it."

Hearing Eric's words, Carlos stood in front of the transportboat and stopped in his tracks. Turning his head, he looked up at Eric seriously and said, "If you can, I want you to send my brother to the most dangerous place on the battlefield." ”

"It will be a great honor for him, and he will fight bloodily for the empire under the watchful eye of the emperor, and may you bestow this honor on him."

Eric nodded and said, "If the time comes, he'll get the honor." ”

After receiving an answer, Carlos boarded a transport boat full of supplies, most of which were blessed ammunition or weapons.

The resulting equipment will be transported to a moored space fleet at the Ring base.

The fleets in the sky looked smaller because of the distance, but at such a distance, Eric was still able to recognize and identify each ship.

But this is not due to Eric's super eyesight as a Space Marine, and the ordinary people on the transport ship, such as Carlos, can also see the same scenery as Eric. This means that the ships are unimaginably large.

From here, the battleships with their sloping pointed bows look like sleek javelins, and the long, Gothic hulls look like grand palaces thrown into the sky and finely crafted into the form of battleships.

Although these ships are similar in appearance to previous Imperial warships, the interior of the ship uses the latest design. This is due to the fact that they are equipped with the most advanced jump engine in the Empire at the moment.

While the subspace storm currently surrounding the Livingston system has not completely disappeared, it has no effect on these ships, and they can easily ignore these obstacles and reach their destination.

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With Eric's order, the last group of hundreds of transports flew into the sky, rapidly rising.

The transport boat quickly disappeared from the sight of those on the ground. The flames slid down the hull of the transport, and the heat from the friction as it crossed the planet's atmosphere rippled through the hull's protective shell.

The flames and thermal distortion quickly blurred the view, but within a few minutes it all faded, and the surface of the Akatsura was undisguised before everyone's eyes.

Countless joint foundries, continental-scale refineries, and millions of factories stand on the land. These buildings are connected by a transport network and maglev tracks, and towering roads made of glass and steel.

Industrial facilities as large as a city. Like black roses made of steel, clouds of ultra-high steam tumbled and roared, like the breath of a giant dragon.

Huge cities made of steel are bigger and more ornate than any natural landscape.

But as the transports entered the interior of the ships in the Star Ring base, these shocking sights disappeared from everyone's eyes.

Eric and some Space Marines stepped out of the transport, while the workers were tasked with transporting the supplies onto the ship.

Although the vantage point here is not very good for the spectacular sight of the Dawn Furnace, there is another amazing picture in space.

Countless ships rise and fall on the planet, and they are constantly transporting various resources to the planet, so that the industrial planet can have enough raw materials to operate.

Some of these are substances that are converted into energy by resource replicators on other planets, but these alone cannot meet the needs of Dawn Furnace. Others are minerals and alloys that are catalyzed by food.

And so much food, comes from a tree, a world tree.

Eric looked into space, where the giant tree that had taken root on a gaseous planet had been felled, cut, and collected by the countless Imperial engineering ships on it.

It was the product of a huge bioengineering technique, a tree of steel.

These are some of the necessary structures and staging stations that the Empire has built on the gaseous planets, which will sow a large number of bioengineered life forms into the upper atmosphere of the gaseous planets, and manipulate the main climate of the upper atmospheres of the gas giants to ensure that these life forms can truly survive.

This will turn a gaseous planet into a giant aerial farm for the Empire.

The staff of the World Tree Orchid Complex will eventually succeed in transforming the gas giant planet it orbits into the World Tree Orchid, an upper atmosphere covered with plants.

This bioengineering marvel will produce a large amount of food and feed all the planets in the Livingston system, and even be able to use the surplus food for interstellar trade.

But now, these foods will be used for catalytic processing into minerals and alloys.

The engineering ships rise and fall on the World Tree Orchid, like ants that have found food, little by little carrying everything back to their nests.

Yes, all.

Including the steel complexes that surround the planet, and those agricultural products in them.

The Livingston system has completely dismantled this bioengineering marvel and used it to build everything the expeditionary fleet needs.

And the reason for this decision is not only because of the lack of expensive materials, but also because of another consideration.

That is to prevent the food from falling into the mouths of the possible Tyranids, which they can use to produce new fleets.

Although the Livingston system has not yet faced the threat of Tyranny due to the obstruction of the subspace storm, it will be too late to wait until Tylen arrives to dismantle it.

The Livingston system doesn't have enough power to ensure that the World Tree Orchid doesn't fall into the mouths of the Tyranids. So, it's more important than anything else to get these things into your stomach as soon as possible.

While Eric was watching the hectic scene in space, his command of more than 7,000 Space Marines had already assembled.

That's right, more than seven thousand.

Although Eric is only a small company commander, he is in charge of almost seven companies under his command, which can almost be said to be the commander of most of the battle regiment.

Of course, it is impossible for all of these warriors to be veterans, most of them have become Space Marines in the Livingston system for nearly a hundred years.

There is no need to be bothered by the problem of genetic seeds, the empire has the ability to produce more genetic seeds. So just like the expansion of the Astral Army, the number of Space Marines under Eric has also increased dramatically.

And the combat effectiveness of these warriors may not be as good as those veterans who have experienced a hundred battles, but they are also space marines, and their combat effectiveness is far greater than that of ordinary mortal soldiers.

However, although he managed so many soldiers, due to the problem of establishment, Eric was only a company commander at this time.

In addition to these Space Marines, Eric also has a large number of astral legions under his command.

After the end of the Chaos Invasion, the people of this planet came to a consensus out of loyalty and unwavering faith: the first child of every family swore to serve the Empire and join the Astral Army.

The Emperor gave them a peaceful and happy life, but was destroyed by the evil of the other world.

Now is the time for them to give back to the Empire and take revenge on those Galactic enemies of the Empire. Serving the Emperor and having his eldest son join the Astral Army is both a duty and an honor.

And this Daybreaker Corps, which is composed of the people of the Dawn Furnace Star, currently belongs to Eric, the commander of the 13th Company of the 9th Regiment of the Eighth Army.

And the reason why these warriors gathered on the star ring base of Xiaolu Star at this time was because of the order of the living saint.

In the past hundred years, although the Livingston system has not had much contact with the Empire, they will receive information for help from time to time that have been invaded by demons and Tyranns.

The Livingston system is good enough to understand the difficulties of the empire at this time. So Debra, the living saint, decided that they couldn't wait any longer, they had to act!

Although the subspace storm has not subsided, most warships cannot be guaranteed to sail safely out of their destinations. But no more time.

The time has come! Now is the time to strike!

The Living Saints will concentrate the majority of the current forces in the Livingston system on the Ring base, and they will be the first to leave the system in those ships equipped with jump engines and embark on an expedition elsewhere.

The remaining fleets and fighters will proceed to the next step as the situation takes place once the subspace storm has completely subsided.

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Siyuan Star, an imperial planet surrounded by Tyranny and invaded on a large scale.

Their space power has been destroyed by countless Tyranid creatures, and the entire planet can only rely on determined warriors to resist the invasion of Tyranid creatures on the ground.

If there are no more changes, then there is only one outcome that awaits the subjects of the Empire on this planet, and that is to be devoured by Tyran.

But just as they were in despair, a fleet suddenly appeared over the planet and fought countless Tyrons. Hope once again swelled up in the hearts of the people of the empire on the Siyuan planet.