With the increased number of tech-priests, and their extra forges and servitors, completing the first orbital dock took only a few months, and we began manufacturing the new Necron-based reactor and ship drive, using the new and fake STC patterns we have discovered aboard the derelict battleship.
We called them Macharius-pattern, because that guy was now a Saint and thus less likely to arouse too much suspicion.
Brother Cassiel was reassembled successfully by the strangely effective Biologis Magi, without the Necron mind-control scarabs, and expedited to his howorld of Baal to donate his knowledge and gene-seed to his weakened Chapter.
anwhile, Forge Antax worked hard to upgrade our Baneblades to the Doomhamr-pattern with twin Magma lances and atomantic reactors, and converting the Leman Russ tanks to Volcano Lance variants.
It took much less ti and resources than building a new superheavy war machine, and with Flare shields the Doomhamrs would be twice as durable now.
Our destroyers have all finished converting to the Los Angeles-class, with 30 torpedoes in a vertical cell, and the corvettes followed the upgrading queue right now with a 20 torpedoes cell, because they were smaller.
The Litany and the Hymnal, as well as the Dominator-class cruiser and the new rcury-class battlecruiser will take much too long to upgrade, and so they remained in factory specifications, only adding the improved auguries and a lot more point-defense weapons.
As for myself, between coordinating construction and making babies, I worked with the two Fabricators on the Nova shells we had, trying to modify the schematic for a Nova mine.
For all our efforts, the best we could achieve was sothing akin to a slow torpedo, sheathed in layers of ceramite and asteroid rock.
Wasn't ideal, but I did have my tesseract to deploy them in advantageous locations. For other people and our local defense, they would be much less effective.
And then, the first transport of blackstone from Mandragora arrived right on ti, and we could really start upgrading most of our installations and ships with Warp-resistant armor. Only 10 centiter thick plates of blackstone, because we had a lot to cover.
Necron ships were made entirely out of this stuff, and were amazingly durable, but we were thieves and scavengers and had to ration our resources.
We did have enough adamantium to cover the battleships in 10-ter-thick armor layers, and we will probably do that, once we had strong enough reactors to allow those ships to still move.
One mass-conveyor was sent to Forge Ryza, containing a few new STC templates, a lted adamantium hull recovered from that Space Hulk, plus enough blackstone for thousands of power armor plates and a dozen Eldar derelicts from the siege of Sotha, and even an intact Eldar cruiser, without prisoners.
I was sure the Fabricator will appreciate the gift and start upgrading the conveyor into the fleet carrier I had envisioned. I even 'found' an ancient STC template of an .
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