The current mainstream gaseous planet development technology of the Adeptus Mechanicus is generally to first build a very large space station, put the built transport platform directly to a relatively stable position on the planet, and then put the entire mining ship into the ground. Those special mining ships have thick
The ship's hull can withstand the high pressure deep in the planet, and uses a huge external bucket to collect the concentrated raw promethium and return it to the transport platform. Then the giant plasma engine on the transport platform will send the filled cargo compartment into space, and wait until the space station collects it.
After arriving at the cargo hold, it is either refined on site or transferred to a waiting cargo ship. The whole process is relatively cumbersome and requires a lot of investment.
Therefore, although there are gas planets in the Neisen system, Griffin 4 did not invest here. After all, the distance is too far and it is uncontrollable. This makes the Neisan system very dependent on imports of promethium.
Soshyan must not let anyone choke him!
But now the orbit of Nathan 7 is empty, even the satellites. It would take too long to build it from scratch...
However, Soshyan had already made arrangements when he returned, which was also the real purpose of his trip.
"It appears that the two factory ships are already operational."
Standing in front of the huge observation window on the bridge, Soshyan stared at the two huge Goliath-class factory ships hovering in the orbit of the planet, and nodded with satisfaction. There were several more parked near the two factory ships.
Huge transport ships and engineering ships of various sizes are constantly flying out of the cabin, carrying huge structural components, working hard to piece together the prototype of the space station. Traces of construction can also be seen on several satellites.
"Leader of the Chapter, 29 transport platforms and 151 dredging ships have been deployed on the planet. The original promethium excavation capacity of Japan is 1820 tons, but it cannot meet the needs of the two factory ships for full-efficiency production operations. Currently, it can only
To meet 32% of the needs of the Furnace and 22% of the needs of the Song of Fire, the next batch of transport platforms and dredgers from the planet are on their way."
Standing next to Soshyan was a sage from Ulanhuda. In fact, Ulanhuda had started mining raw promethium at Naisen 7 very early, but it had always been on a small scale.
Before Soshyan gained the right to rule the entire galaxy, they would not be able to blatantly mine here and could only use this method of moving mice to "secretly mine".
So as soon as Soshyan obtained the authorization in Terra, he immediately sent an astronomical signal to Ulahuda and asked them to start large-scale mining and construction.
But if this is the case, it still cannot meet the demand for promethium in Soshyan's construction plan, but fortunately he obtained two Goliath-class factory ships from Mars!
With factory ships, the situation is different. One of these giant production ships can even continuously supply the promethium demand of a galaxy. Therefore, even if there are no space station facilities, as long as the raw promethium is enough, refined promethium can still be produced in large quantities.
!After the raw promethium leaves the planet, it can directly complete all filtration, heating, fractionation, and catalytic purification processes in one step in the factory ship. At the same time, it can also produce many additional products, such as very critical food, corpse starch.
These two factory ships are also the material basis for Soshyan's courage to carry out large-scale reforms on Naisen No. 4 and No. 5.
Even in order to protect these two important factory ships, two moon-class cruisers and two frigate squadrons also came here and stopped in the high orbit of the planet, constantly monitoring the movements of the surrounding space.
"The output needs to be increased and doubled to at least reach the standard of 5,000 tons of daily mining volume. It will be increased to 10,000 tons of daily mining volume in the future. The possibility of factory ships accompanying the army in combat must be taken into consideration, and the space station facilities must be established as soon as possible."
Soshyan did not ask about the output of refined promethium, because he knew that it would not be much, and most of it would have to be supplied to ground transportation platforms and dredgers first. Those are big producers of promethium, but it was still a good start.
As for why there are no factory ships in Ulan Huda, this is because the world itself can run on its own, and naturally there is no interest or demand for the slow-moving and fragile promethium refinery. In fact, it is also because it has begun to "settlement"
This forge world has only begun to pay attention to the source of promethium, but it also has more of a demand for raw ore. After all, the forge world itself has a stable source of energy and does not rely heavily on promethium to provide energy, but the by-products of raw promethium are still needed.
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"In addition, I have not forgotten the demand from Ulan Huda. What proportion of raw promethium mining does Director Bangura want?"
"It's 15%."
"Well, no problem."
At this moment, a rapid ringing sound suddenly sounded on the bridge, and then the person in charge of the communication area said to Soshyan through the speaker:
"Chapter Commander, the patrol fleet discovered that a strange ship broke into the galaxy. It is located in the E24-D12 area. It is about 80,000 kilometers away from here and has passed through the asteroid belt on the edge of the star system."
Soshiyang frowned and looked at some star maps. The opponent's position was marked with a red dot, which was near Naisen No. 7.
"What kind of ship is it?"
"According to the other party's response... it is an Astartes ship! The battle group number is 3-051."
3-051, Soshyan recalled it, and the result shocked him.
"The Poisonous Thorns Chapter!?"
The technical sage on the side knew that he should not stay any longer. After bending down, he turned and left the bridge. Soshiyang immediately came to the throne, clicked on the imager, and entered the database to query the updated battle.
After learning about the group situation, I found this war group.
The Poisonous Thorns Chapter is an Imperial Fists Chapter that was founded probably around the Heresy Era. The Chapter is a ship-based Chapter, and has also participated in the Feast of Blades, and was even the previous one not long before Soshyan left.
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This is not the point. The point is that this chapter has been declared a traitor and shown to be in a state of being eliminated, and the person who destroyed them is none other than their parent group, the Imperial Fists...
The feud between the Venomous Thorns Chapter and its parent group can be said to be a tragedy. As a ship-based chapter, it wanted to establish its own rule on the planet Sanatar that it had recaptured from the aliens (that is, to get it there).
(as the home planet, and learned to establish galaxy-level rule like the Ultramarines) in order to commemorate their military exploits and sacrificed warriors, which led to conflicts with many departments of the empire, as well as conflicts with brother war groups.
But these are all common disputes between Astartes and mortals, but at the Feast of Blades in 599.M41, Tek'shar, the champion of the Venomous Thorns Chapter, defeated Bailey, the Priest of the Imperial Fists at the time.
After the game, Thrall, Belisal criticized the behavior of Poisonous Thorns and tried to persuade Texhar and his warband to give up their obsession with liberating the world, but Texhar also hit back at the priest with sharp words.
As a result, the angry Belisal killed Texhar directly....