Those past "failure" history is also the reason why Soshyan agreed to ask for these "old antiques". Although the Cardinal level is outdated, it can be seen from the performance of the Styx, that the transformation potential is great. He vaguely guessed that the technology of improving the Cardinal level light spear was probably from Ada's star light spear, because the defects of the Cardinal light spear are obviously from the issues of energy supply efficiency and crystal heat dissipation, and Ada is the race that is best at this type of technology.
Thinking of the casting world where such technology may be obtained, Soshiyan immediately judged that the Styx level must be related to Aida.
Is this a coincidence?
This may be just the beginning, because the Cardinal-class, as one of the main cruisers, had a large holding in that year. Even after the destruction of the great rebellion, Soshiyang guessed that until the model was completely retired, there should be 200-300 ships in the entire empire. Most of these ships were sealed in the war preparation warehouses of the various ship cemeteries of the empire that were cast in the world. If these ships could be "drawn" in large quantities and sent to a hidden place to "slightly" improve and renovate, wouldn't it save more time and effort than to build them directly? It can also save costs to the maximum extent.
The second place is Riza, who also won 14 stcs in the forging world. They were also surprised by Soshiyang's "harvest" in the Great Vortex. After all, Riza's expedition fleet has been digging in the Great Vortex for some days. It cannot be said that there is no gain, but they can only say that they still need to work hard.
The price given by Rizha was to waive all the subsequent fees for Soshiyan to order the Rizha-class combat barge, and also provided 45 Storm Sword super heavy tanks and 40 sets of Indomitable Terminator armor. However, Soshiyan was not satisfied with this offer because he had actually paid one-third of the construction cost of Rizha-class, and the subsequent two-thirds could not afford the value of these stcs. Even if he had a good relationship with Rizha, the account still had to be settled clearly.
After some pulling, Riza finally took out four Cardinal-class heavy cruisers from their secret warehouse.
In fact, they were also puzzled about what Soshiyang wanted these old things, because there were 31 cardinal cemeteries in Rizha's ship cemetery, but most of them had been dismantled for thousands of years. Now there are only these 4 ships left. Although the empire has regulations to preserve combat readiness ships, in the eyes of the Rizha people, they are no longer the favorites of the God of All Machines but recyclable garbage. Instead of throwing them in waste, it is better to recycle surplus value to do more important things.
Soshiyan is really sorry for this. The empire's wealth is very rich, but it should not be wasted.
The remaining stc was divided into pieces by the various casting worlds. Griffin IV only got 8 stc templates. Their sages were very dissatisfied with this but could not do anything about it. After all, they had a great influence in the Storm Star Domain, but they could not affect the ruling chief.
Within ten years after the STC auction, the Immortal Fleet will add 2 Revenge-class large cruisers, 1 Mars-class battlecruiser, 2 Styx heavy cruisers, 13 Cardinal-class heavy cruisers, 3 Tyrant-class cruisers, 9 Fearless-class light cruisers, 21 new star frigates, and 18 Goliath-class casting ships.
On the contrary, the infantry equipment has not increased much, just some Terminators and ground vehicles, which are almost negligible for the current armory of the Immortal Army.
But the auction did not end there. Soshiyan secretly summoned some sages the next day in a more secret place.
But this time it's not stc...
"... Not long ago, the group encountered these enemies while supporting a world close to the Olps Star Zone. It seemed that local gene thieves riots awakened them. After a brief battle with them, we decided to evacuate the surviving residents of the local area and then-"
In the spotlight in the dim meeting room, Soushiyang, smiling, raised his hand and made an explosive gesture.
Around him, the extreme sages in red robes, one more unique in shape, were looking back and forth at the wreckage of space undead placed on the glowing table, as well as their weapons and various equipment.
The people from Huangquan No. 8 were almost lying on the remains of a space undead lord, hoping to take this thing away now. After all, the space undead are still very unfamiliar with the empire, and the mechanical cultivator's understanding of them is basically based on gold-touching.
"Of course, I also know that many scholars have been studying this kind of... Similar to the aliens that hate intelligence, these things are not very rare, but the battle group collected a lot of relatively complete remains when cleaning the battlefield. Instead of throwing them into the incinerator, I think..."
At this moment, the sage from Riza suddenly turned around and said in a shriveled voice:
"This is a banned alien research, Your Excellency Soshiyang."
Soshiyang smiled slightly.
"What is considered alien research? Is it calculated to study a gun? Gaussian weapons are not only used by space undead, is it calculated to study energy systems? So what kind of energy is not considered the category of 'alien technology'? Since I invite everyone, I think you and the world they represent should be enlightened and know what humans need now."
The sage of Huangquan No. 8 raised his head and said in a hoarse voice with a silly accent:
"That's right! A self-supporting idiot will only hinder human progress! Fear of witchcraft can be understood as caution, but even fear of the enemy's weapons operation principle, that is a complete coward."
The alien faction of Huangquan 8 has always been famous for its radicalism, and other sages are not surprised by this.
"I show these to you. I don't want to get anything. But everyone knows the past of the Astral Knights. It is these damn space necromancers that have forced us to the brink of extinction. I have always believed that these things will be a major concern for human beings, but most people in the Empire have no feelings about this, and they even know nothing about the enemy. I hope to change all this. Now the battle group has stood up again. It is time for us to take revenge on this alien hybrid. The future goal of the Astral Knights is to eliminate all these garbage so that they can never threaten humans again. Therefore, all this starts with understanding them and studying them."
Soshiyan's words made some sages nod their heads, and they seemed to understand his behavior as a radical means driven by revenge, which was also very consistent with Astart's general impression of "revenge first".
"Yes, I agree with the view of His Excellency Commander."
The sage of Riza nodded as well.
Chapter completed!