Chapter 92: Technology of the Golden Age
Seeing the warboss beneath him had gone completely silent, Lucan also stopped. He tossed aside the broken power sword in his hand, then picked up the power klaw he had chopped off Irongob's arm from the ground.
Under normal circumstances, humans couldn't use the weapons "finked" up by this group of Orks. But at this moment, after killing their boss in front of all the other strongest Orks of this klan, the WAAAGH! energy also produced a strange reaction in Lucan.
Gork and Mork, those two easy-going racial gods, didn't care whether the person who obtained this power was an Ork or not. Yarrick of the one eye was clearly a mortal, yet he became absurdly powerful, his lifespan even exceeding what it should have been. It was all based on pure idealism.
Lucan threw out the stump of Irongob's arm remaining inside, and without minding the lingering Ork stench, he put the power klaw on his own hand.
When Lucan raised his right hand, now wearing the power klaw, in the eyes of the surrounding Orks, he was the new Warboss!
Lucan tried swinging this newly acquired weapon. Though it looked cumbersome, its weight was exceptionally light. The strength amplification it provided gave even Lucan's current physical strength a considerable boost. And the alloy used to forge it, even without activating a disruption field, was terrifyingly hard.
The surrounding Orks also began to cease their fighting and resistance.
They all looked at Lucan with awe.
The human before them was too WAAAGH!, so WAAAGH! that even though he was a different race, they couldn't even muster the thought of challenging him.
"Cease fire!"
Lucan also ordered his troops to stop attacking these Orks who had given up resistance.
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The metal throne that originally belonged to Irongob had already been dismantled. Under the repairs of the SCVs, the bridge of this warship had been restored to its original appearance.
A portion of the Tech-Priests and crew had already entered, beginning to familiarize themselves with this warship. However, to repair a nearly disintegrated warship to a state where it could take off would still take a considerable amount of time. A significant portion of the equipment was completely irreparable and could only be replaced by finding other alternatives.
These system-level calibrations were not something SCVs could accomplish.
With the three Gorgons having leveled the ground from the air, Lucan learned after the battle that outside the fortress, not many survivors remained from this originally massive Ork klan.
A large number of severed limbs and torsos were still exposed in the ruins. Lucan could only have the Firebats slowly clear them area by area.
However, Lucan knew that this method could not clear out all the spores.
The Orks' reproductive ability was like that of leeks; you cut one crop, and another grows. It wouldn't be long before they returned to their original numbers.
At this time, the remaining Orks were acting as laborers under the supervision of the Raiders.
Cleaning up the scrap that had fallen off during the warship's repair was a massive undertaking; who knew how much garbage this group of Orks had piled onto this warship.
"These Mekboyz's brains really know how to 'fink'… Later, when I get the Synaptic Lathe built, if I throw them all in as wetware, I wonder if the effect will be surprisingly good!"
But that was a matter for the future. Lucan would also mark this planet down, and he would definitely clear out all these Orks who had seen his warships.
He didn't want the entire star system to be filled with scrap-ships later on.
And the crew and Tech-Priests also began to report information about this warship to Lucan.
Unfortunately, Lucan couldn't understand the data and professional terminology provided by the Tech-Priests. To put it simply, the paper stats showed that this warship was incredibly powerful.
The entire warship was 11 kilometers long, more than twice the length of the Golden Ram!
There was good news and bad news. The good news was that the warship's shield system, power supply system, and propulsion system had not been completely destroyed, and with the help of the SCVs, they were as good as new.
This warship's plasma engine was two-thirds the size of the engine on the Golden Ram, yet it could output 10 times the energy power and utilization rate.
All the systems and weapons of the entire warship were powered by this single plasma engine.
And the shield array was just as Lucan had thought. With sufficient energy supply, ten layers of void shields could allow it to withstand a massive amount of enemy firepower.
Not only that, but with the Gellar Field active, this void shield could even allow for safer travel in the Warp, able to resist stronger Warp corruption and Warp storms.
And the existing Warp Drive within this warship also had a power output that the Tech-Priests had never seen before. It could allow the warship to traverse the Warp faster, and to travel on routes that were impassable for others.
However, the bad news was that the warship's weapon systems were extremely severely damaged. Perhaps when the Iron Men wanted to destroy this warship, the weapon arrays were the first target.
Only 20 percent of the existing weapon systems could be repaired by the SCVs. The Tech-Priests guessed that many of the weapon array emplacements that should have been on the hull had been hit by unknown weapons.
These weapons had been completely annihilated at the molecular level, making it impossible for even SCVs to repair them.
These vacant weapon positions could only be repaired and retrofitted after returning to Agathos.
A small number of point-defense cannons and lance arrays could still function normally. However, compared to standard Imperial lances, these lances were two grades ahead in both power and penetration. And the most powerful weapon on this warship was the massive naval cannon on its prow.
The effect of creating a vacuum in the Warp did not come from Ork teknology, but was an inherent effect of this naval cannon itself, similar in design to a Nova Cannon.
The plasma engine and the Warp Drive both acted on this naval cannon simultaneously, combined together by an unknown technology that the Tech-Priests could not currently identify, allowing it to inflict damage on both the physical and Warp planes at the same time.
And Lucan had already witnessed its power before; it far surpassed the main cannons of conventional Imperial warships.
And the operational efficiency of the entire warship's intelligent servitor combat management system was also much faster than that of a conventional Imperial warship.
Lucan had originally been worried that with the completion of the warship's repairs, an Artificial Intelligence from the Golden Age might pop up.
After all, it was this group of Iron Men who had destroyed this fleet. If one really did appear, Lucan would have no countermeasures against it, and then it would be uncertain who this warship truly belonged to.
Fortunately, what Lucan had worried about did not happen. Under the effect of the SCVs, a nascent machine spirit had begun to gestate. Lucan could also sense the existence of these machine spirits.
Under normal circumstances, an Artificial Intelligence would not produce a machine spirit.
And with the enhancement of this warship's extremely powerful system processing power, it was even more active than the newborn machine spirit on the Gorgon-class ships.
If he waited until this warship was completely repaired and refitted, the Golden Ram would have to retire from its position as flagship.
And the Tech-Priests had also found some valuable things in this warship's workshops and laboratories.
Although most of the equipment or STCs had either been destroyed during the Iron Men Rebellion over countless years or had gone missing due to the ravages of the Orks over innumerable ages, they still managed to find some usable things.
Among them was a type of nano-alloy material. The power klaw Lucan had pulled off Irongob was also made from this material.
Its strength was higher than ceramite but lower than adamantium, yet its weight was only half that of ceramite.
It was more lightweight, and after mass production was implemented, it could even be used to manufacture sturdier combat suits with fewer materials.
Besides this, there was also a technology for an ecological circulation system. This technology could establish an ecological circulation zone within the warship.
Without damage and with proper maintenance, it could efficiently sustain the essential living supplies for tens of thousands of people on the ship for hundreds of years, to bear the consumption of pioneering and colonization.
Lucan was very satisfied with this technology. It could be completely popularized on his warships. This way, the lives of the lower-deck crew members wouldn't have to be too harsh, and they would no longer need to worry about food during voyages.
And this technology also had the potential for expansion. If more resources were invested, it could even reach the level of rebuilding the ecosystem of an entire planet.
And by further excavating the residual data within the warship's systems, they also found the maintenance data for this warship's lances, main cannon, engines, and a series of other systems. Lucan hoped this data could provide his Tech-Priests with ideas to eventually complete a reverse-engineered replica.
(End of Chapter)
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