The Emperor’s Angel of Death

After waiting for half a minute, a weapon descended into the testing ground. It immediately gave Soshjan a familiar feeling. Arash also looked surprised and said:

"Isn't that a Dietrian-pattern heavy plasma gun?"

Indeed, its appearance was very similar to the heavy plasma machine guns that were now popular in the Undying Legion faction, even the three-sided energy shields looked alike. However, Soshjan still noticed some differences. For example, its barrel had been increased to three, and the gun body was slightly different.

"Punisher-pattern Knights originally used twin-linked Punisher autocannons, which were designed to attack clustered infantry targets and light armor. However, when facing heavy armor targets, they still needed to risk a melee attack with the Stormblade. Therefore, I enlarged and improved upon the Dietrian-pattern heavy plasma gun blueprint you provided. Of course, simply enlarging it without any changes would cause many problems, because the energy transmission efficiency would be different, and the requirements for materials and energy regulators would be higher. To this end, I borrowed some Eldar technology."

"Eldar!? That's alien technology!"

Arash immediately let out a surprised sound, but Soshjan appeared very calm. Because the Royal Court was on a planet at the very edge of the system, and this planet was protected and shielded by Ulan Huda under the guise of development, Bangura would have had some contact with the Eldar over the years. In fact, Soshjan also told him that if there was anything in the Dorar system, he could go directly to Bangura.

And Bangura himself was a relatively "open-minded" or rather radical person. Ulan Huda used to be a society leaning towards the Dark Mechanicum, so he certainly wouldn't have any psychological burden about using alien technology. He said this knowing that Soshjan would accept it.

However, before Soshjan could speak, Bangura explained himself:

"Chieftain Arash, the Imperium has always used alien technology. The Deathwatch would like to replace all their equipment with alien technology in order to fight the aliens. I once cooperated with a Watch Fortress commander of the Deathwatch in the Ghoul Stars. Even when I explained my identity as a 'Tech-Heretic,' he didn't care at all. In times of war, we must first consider victory. Imperial Regent Roboute Guilliman said after the Horus Heresy, 'It doesn't matter if it's a black cat or a white cat--'"

"Alright."

Soshjan interrupted Bangura's rambling, then turned to look at Arash.

"Plasma represents the Emperor's wrath, and these technologies are just making it better released. Perhaps the ancient humans also had the same technology? Humanity has a long and glorious era. Many aliens have learned human wisdom and knowledge, but many of these descendants have forgotten it and instead think it is alien technology. Is this reasonable? It's not reasonable, so we're just retrieving lost human things."

Arash was a little stunned by Soshjan's rhetoric, then nodded.

"I understand."

Soon, the weapon was fully charged. Then came the plasma hiss and flash that Soshjan was very familiar with. The three barrels projected dense streams of plasma at an extremely fast rate, like a blue storm, and the alloy armor plate was riddled with dense holes.

"This Punisher-pattern plasma accelerator cannon not only has a fast rate of fire and great power, but can also adjust the output energy to target different targets."

As the energy increased, the muzzle no longer spewed out thin streams, but clusters of hot plasma, but the rate of fire also obviously slowed down.

"After using it, the Punisher-pattern Knight will be able to pose a threat to some heavily armored targets. However, in order to supply this powerful weapon, a small reactor needs to be installed on the back of the Knight to connect to it. Therefore, this type of Knight should avoid close combat with enemies as much as possible."

"A very thoughtful creation, it seems that you really care about the Knights."

Soshjan put his hand on the railing of the anti-gravity platform, and as the platform moved, his gaze was fixed on a half-built Ferrox-pattern lancer mech, wondering what he was thinking.

A few minutes later, he turned to Bangura and said:

"Are there any large-scale operations in the Forge World recently?"

"Magos Bobancastrano discovered a valuable relic in the Viperis system two years ago, but some savage and unfriendly alien forces may be entrenched there."

"Orks?"

"Yes."

Soshjan had already guessed Bangura's thoughts. This was normal. After all, the Mechanicum helped the Knight Houses at a price. The latter had to be used by the former. Now, the DuPont-Derringer family and Ulan Huda had a very awkward relationship. Ulan Huda had to provide them with expensive mechs, but the other party hardly needed to bear any responsibility to Ulan Huda, only a simple garrison agreement.

"The Knights need to be trained, let the DuPont-Derringer family send a team to follow the exploring Magos. It's time for them to move."

Although he knew that what Bangura really wanted was the DuPont-Derringer family's subordination, Soshjan would not give it to him. The Knight Houses needed to show their value, and a very important value was to balance the power of Ulan Huda in this system.

Even for factions that were very loyal to him, an imbalance of power could cause serious consequences, especially since Bangura himself was a relatively bold person. With the subordination of the Knight Houses, he might dare to use the power in his hands to find a powerful Necron dynasty to obtain the knowledge he wanted.

In the end, Bangura was still a Tech-Priest, and he had a desire for knowledge no less than other Magos.

Soshjan didn't have much capital, not enough to waste on the Mechanicum.

After that, Soshjan went to see other weapon production factories and assembly lines in Ulan Huda. Because the Legion's reserves of arms were still sufficient, he did not ask Ulan Huda to produce a large number of Astartes series weapons and equipment. However, even so, fifty Indomitus-pattern Terminators, two hundred Ranger-pattern power armors, and one thousand four hundred Aquila-pattern power armors, as well as more than five thousand sets of various firearms and melee weapons, were produced over the past ten years. Because Soshjan said that the White Templars could freely obtain equipment from Ulan Huda, some of it had already been taken away by the White Templars.

As for vehicles, because the Chapter's ground vehicles were still relatively abundant, Soshjan did not let Ulan Huda manufacture a large number of large tanks or armored vehicles for the Astartes. After all, there were still a dozen or so Brutalis Dreadnoughts that no one was driving. He had asked Ulan Huda to mainly produce aircraft before the expedition was launched.

Especially the Stormhawk Interceptor, an excellent air superiority interceptor and ground support gunship, of which the Chapter had almost zero stock before.