Although the Volcano is not a mechanical ark, as a casting ship, it also carries a high-value production line inside, and its scale is even larger than a furnace in the casting world...
As long as you enter the hinterland of the foundry, you can see countless smelters, weapon shops, armories, refineries, ore warehouses and hangars. At the same time, millions of skilled workers, laborers and servants are living in it. It is countless of them who can make the foundry's machines run.
Like most foundries in the world, the factories inside the Volcano also serve wars. It is difficult for the exploration fleet to predict what kind of enemies they will encounter in the void, and it is even less important to know how many weapons and ammunition it needs. The forged iron and cut steel will never fill the desire of war.
In the center of the casting ship, a huge dispatching platform transports thousands of freight containers from various supply stations to the platform on standby, and ships supplies to different factories according to the instructions.
However, during this period, a special production line is being fully powered.
Most of the time, this line is in a sleepy state because it has a special function - everything it serves Astarte.
These foundries produced the weapons used by the Emperor's most terrifying warriors to realize his great dreams. Generally, in the casting world, the most skilled experts are responsible for making these weapons and guaranteed to never fail. All Astart's armor will be carefully forged on the anvil and adjusted by the highest specification calibration.
Blaster guns, laser cannons, missile launchers and other Astart weapons can be made here, with formed armor sheets rumbled down from the vast assembly lines, arched hangars and assembly areas throughout the city-sized assembly areas all dedicated to producing uncountable bombs.
His logic module is running fast as the Explore Sage Dij Katona passes under the gilded arch leading to the Armory.
These days have been very sad and tormenting for him. Everything he had planned out of control, and now he has to face a difficult choice.
The warehouse outside the arch was brightly lit, the roof was hundreds of meters high, and the direction was not clear at the far end. The loader operator controlled the whining elevator to transport piles of metal materials, which were arranged in metal containers along the wall, extending to the distant end.
Hundreds of quality inspection experts shuttled between each container, inspected each container, and checked the measurement readings of each piece of material in accordance with preset specifications.
In a very rare case, the raw materials produced by the smelter will not meet strict testing standards. This situation will lead to a thorough investigation of the causes of the defects. Any defect will become an isolated case, and those who cause defects due to laxity will be severely punished.
Only after each piece of material has been inspected and confirmed can it be put into the real production line.
‘Never fail’ is more than a slogan for mechanical teaching.
Especially now.
After walking for dozens of meters, Dij Katona took a deep breath and turned to the head of the Volcano, Tammy Poulson Sage.
“Can production progress be kept up with the recent progress?”
"No problem, great sage."
The highly mechanized sage Tammy Poulson uses instruments to simulate the sound of flesh and blood of his past, but his pronunciation has a certain nasal sound and is very unpleasant.
"It's just that the current inventory capacity of silicon, quenched steel, as well as microcrystalline wax and dilute acid is almost at a critical risk."
Dij Katona shook her head.
"No, now is not the time to consider the price."
"Why are you so anxious to produce Astate's equipment?"
"We have had some unpleasantness with our former partners because of some mistakes, and now he lacks trust in our ability, so we have to show each other that we can provide the best armor and weapons for the Emperor's warriors and can play a greater role."
"I understand, the great sage."
The other party said this, but Dij Katona knew that he actually didn't understand.
After all, the whole thing is basically done by oneself, and the mistakes are also made by oneself.
At this time a porter passed by the two sages, pushing a row of glittering, freshly washed shoulder armor.
The rude biochemical monster was muscular, and the genetically modified stubble was equipped with pistons to further strengthen its strength. The slave labor effortlessly held heavy armor with his hydraulic claws, each piece of armor shining silver, without paint to leave it for Astart to decorate with his own painting.
"The day before yesterday I wanted to try to talk to the leader of Soshyan's battle with him about his previous plasma weapons."
Dige Cato retracted his sight from slave labor and walked along the production line of pistons and robotic arms in the room.
"But he kept avoiding talking and showed a considerable degree of impatientness."
"We irritated him?"
"Maybe, I let my emotions and hormones influence myself in that meeting. This is my mistake. For this reason, I have made further adjustments to my brain and fluid ratio, but the mistake must be restored."
As he said, the sage of exploration pointed to one of the armor being assembled.
"This armor is a more valuable resource than most of the wealth in the empire. On most days, I felt very satisfied to know how much Astart relied on us."
He saw Tammy Poulson about to speak, and immediately continued:
"Of course I won't say that, I'm still in awe of Astart's power and comforted by our protection from these awesome heroes."
"Conclusion: Your words made me infer that you were in a bad mood today."
"The fact is, old guy, despite my efforts to immerse myself in my daily work, I found that I still cannot forgive my failure. The STC template in the Mechanical Ark has been made public, and we have no chance to occupy it again, and the precious Mechanical Ark will not be owned by us unless we can get enough support from Soshiyan to lend us his power to retake the Ark. Both the Man-Eater Shark and the Malicious Warrior have been withdrawn. Now Soshiyan and the others have become the decisive force, but the price to hire them is too huge... We do not have enough chips, and the other party has made it clear that there will be no conflict with Mars again."
"This is really bad. Are our efforts going to go to waste?"
"The situation is not at its worst. According to the previous agreement, after the template is announced, Space Marines will take away one tenth, that is, two copies. The remaining fifteen templates are divided equally, but there was no agreement at the beginning that who will divide and how to divide them."
"But now those STC templates are all in the hands of Space Marines."
His old friend hit the nail on the head, and Dige Katona couldn't help but sigh mechanically.