Although the sages of Zhao-Akada had a good idea, the Banshee plan encountered obstacles from the beginning.
After the Great Rebellion, in order to avoid Mars' investigation, Zhao Akada hid all the Titans. Only the foundry director at the time and a few sages knew the specific location. Even after being passed down for three generations, the hidden coordinates were actually lost.
No one even remembered that there was an army of Titans hidden there. Instead, the Banshee plan continued, but encountered the embarrassing situation of having no test carrier.
At that time, Director Zhao Akada, who was suffering from the lack of Titans to conduct experiments, suddenly came up with a great idea.
During the Great Rebellion, a large number of Titans fell in battles. Some of their wrecks were recovered, but some of them are still sleeping under the ancient battlefield after many years. So if an exploration team is sent to search for those worlds where Titan wars broke out, will it be possible?
Will we find some less damaged Titans, or useful parts?
Soon, the plan was implemented. Zhao Akada's exploration team spent three hundred years traveling through three star fields, and actually found a Warmaster-class that was seriously damaged, but the main structure was still there.
He also assembled and repaired it using parts collected from various places.
One hundred and fifty years later, a basically complete Warmaster-class became the experimental carrier of the Banshee Project, and this became its name.
In the following thousands of years, Zhao Akada conducted countless transformation experiments around this Titan, and even the black iron core was replaced by four generations. Their previous cooperation with the Thousand Sons gave them considerable experience in psychic equipment, making
The Banshee has a unique psychic driving system. When the black iron core is combined with this system, a very powerful driving function appears - unlike other Titans who often have dozens of driving teams, the Banshee
In principle, a person can drive as long as his psychic energy is strong enough.
Yes, the pilot of the Banshee designed by Zhao Akada must be a psyker. This is also related to the characteristics of the black iron core. Its underlying design comes from the Eldar Titan, Tacitus the Great Sage.
A psychic reactive substance was created to simulate some of the functions of the spirit bones, but the Eldar are all highly psychically sensitive beings, especially their Titan pilots.
In order to maximize the potential of the Black Iron Core, a psionic pilot is the best choice, but this leads to another hidden danger - psykers can easily lose control.
Human psychic energy is not as stable as that of the Eldar. The sages of Zhao-Akada knew this very well, but they also thought of a solution later.
Just like mechanical equipment, just install a fuse on the Banshee.
This fuse is the Soulless One.
Near the Banshee cockpit, there will be two co-pilots, each with a soulless person as an auxiliary pilot and weapons hand. Once the psyker shows signs of going berserk, the isolation door will be opened immediately.
Two soulless men will rush in and subdue the pilot.
After solving the driving system, the remaining key is the weapons.
Since you want to have an overwhelming advantage, you must be equipped with the most powerful weapons. The dimensional distortion cannon used by the Eldar Titans immediately entered the sight of Sage Zhao Akada. There is no doubt that this weapon is powerful, although it is dangerous.
However, it took a lot of time to imitate this kind of weapon. The technology of the Eldar was too complex and mysterious. Zhao Akada made no progress for a long time and almost caused an accident.
Until I met Soshyan.
Yes, this plan actually has something to do with Soshyan. During the process of repairing the Eternal Loyalty, the sages of Zhao Akada finally discovered a problem by creating amplified rift weapons.
Their thinking was wrong from the beginning.
At present, humans simply cannot imitate the spiritually conductive material of spiritual bone. They must either amplify the weapon countless times and use heap output power to offset the shortcomings of the material's low spiritual conductivity, which is the main gun of the Eternal Loyalty.
Or just change your mind.
The Empire has whirlpool weapons, why do they have to be direct-fire weapons?
In the former armory of the Empire, there once existed a very unique bolt weapon called a vortex bolt. Such bolts were made by the mysterious craftsman clan of the solar system in that almost forgotten era. They are extremely rare.
It creates micro-whirlpools within the target when it explodes. This feature allows vortex bombs to cause effective damage to even the largest enemies.
However, the vortex bomb is so ancient that it is almost a legend. Zhao Akada has never seen it, so where can he get it?
This involves Soshyan again.
In the Avesta's armory, there are one hundred rounds of vortex bombs stored in special ammunition boxes. In order to deceive others, Zhao Akada and his cooperating Ulan Huda claimed to research a large-caliber live ammunition.
Vortex weapons are equipped on combat soldiers, but Ulanhuda does not have this technology. After accidentally being informed by Soshyan, he generously donated ten vortex bombs to the project as samples - after all, vortex weapons
This thing actually conflicts with the undead army and is not very useful in situations.
And this was more than ten years ago. Soshyan did not expect that Zhao Akada actually imitated a similar live ammunition vortex weapon in this very short period of time. It was called the Nirvana Split.
Soul cannon, and it is also equipped on a psychic Titan.
When this weapon is tested and assembled, it means that the Banshee is truly capable of combat.
But at this point, the differences within Zhao Akada could no longer be suppressed.
Not only Soshiyang, but actually many mechanical sages are puzzled by the decisions of their ancestors. Is it worth spending so much effort, so much manpower and material resources, just for one breath, for an almost non-existent opponent?
In fact, from Soshiyang's point of view, the reason why the Banshee project has reached this point is that the sunk cost is too high. The sages of Zhao-Akada have invested too much in it, and the more they invest, the harder it is to give up.
Although I know that this project is actually of little significance, I cannot propose giving up, otherwise it will easily be a huge waste of resources.
"...What use can this thing have now? It cannot be used on the open battlefield at all. It is just a toy made of gorgeous technology..."
Soshyan blinked, and the Banshee used the Nirvana Soul Breaker Cannon again. The whistling vortex shells fell on the distant horizon, creating a purple spot and involving hundreds of Tyranid artillery.
in.
His question has also been raised by many sages in private. The Banshee's weapon is powerful, but the problem is that it cannot be used in public because it is a heretical weapon and violates more than twenty-three Martian commandments.
, after all, the research of any new psionic weapons is prohibited unless authorized by Mars - in 755.M40, an unapproved psionic weapon test led to a serious demonic invasion in the Eridanus sector, which required
It took the deployment of a large number of Gray Knights to stop the invasion, but more than 60 billion people were killed in the invasion, eleven worlds were permanently abandoned, and since that accident, Mars has implemented stricter psionic review standards.