After listening to the introduction, Soshyan stared at the position of Supreme Varya, thinking about it in his mind, and nodded for a while.
"I understand, thank you for your answer, everyone can go about their business."
When the other three sages left, Sage Alatimos did not move, but waited for everyone else to leave before approaching Soshyan.
"Sir, the director asked me one thing before leaving, but I didn't dare to disturb you because you were busy with military affairs..."
As he said that, he turned to look at Dietrian in the distance. Soshyan immediately understood what the other person meant.
"Dietrian, you should go out first."
Dietrian didn't say anything, stood up and left the conference room. Only then did Sage Alatimos speak:
"In gratitude for your aid to the Forge World and your contribution to the fight against the enemies of humanity, the Director is willing to provide you and your warriors with a powerful weapon."
"oh?"
At first Soshyan thought it was a Terminator or something, so he smiled.
"Thank you very much."
Perhaps sensing Soshyan's somewhat disapproving attitude, the sage stretched out a metal tentacle to connect to the data panel, and then the projection water rippled, and then something with an unusually complex structure appeared.
"This is..."
Soshyan looked at this thing. Since he was not very interested in mechanical equipment, he didn't know what it was.
"Sir, this is the pride of Alatimos, and it is also the result of the wisdom of our greatest ancestors and geniuses, the light flash cannon."
"Flash Cannon...how powerful is it?"
"Sir, I'm not bragging. This is so far the most extreme laser weapon that humans can produce within the limits of real physics! It can even be said to be the most powerful energy weapon humans have in the same volume! You see
This is the size of a gunboat, but even so, its power is unimaginable by ordinary people.
Yes, it has two firing modes. One is wide-area shooting, which can completely vaporize almost an entire town in an instant, but it requires sacrificing range. The other is concentrated firing mode, which has a longer range and
Penetrating energy, in this mode, not even a well-prepared Warrior-level Titan can block a shot!"
"hiss--"
Even Soshyan, who has seen the most powerful weapons of the human and Ada tribes, couldn't help but gasp slightly after hearing this kind of power, but when he thought about it, it seemed that a "big cake" like the Adeptus Mechanicus was...
There has been no shortage of drawings for thousands of years. Many weapons are theoretically very powerful, but either cannot be built or are very unstable.
In order not to hurt the other party's self-esteem, Soshiyang said tactfully:
"Alatimos must have been developing such a powerful weapon for many years, right? Was it completed recently?"
The other party shook his head.
"Sir, this is not an experimental weapon. It was designed and manufactured ten thousand years ago."
"Huh? But why a little information-"
Suddenly, Soshyan thought of something, or a piece of news revealed by Zhao Akada: Alatimos seemed to have some relationship with the Forbidden Army during the Great Crusade.
"Could it be that they are the Forbidden Army?"
"Yes, sir, it is the Forbidden Army. The flash cannon is the main weapon of the Ares gunship of the Forbidden Army, so it is strictly kept secret."
"It turned out to be like this..."
After getting this information, Soshyan finally began to really examine the weapon, but he really couldn't see anything.
"...So does Alatimus still have contact with the Custodes?"
"After developing the Flash Cannon, the Imperial Army took away most of the sages and priests who developed this weapon. Subsequently, the Forge World was only responsible for the manufacture of some machined parts. After the civil war in the Steel Ring ended, we announced
This technology has been completely lost, we can no longer provide any parts, and the Imperial Army has never paid attention to us again...even if we gave them such a gift."
Soshyan could tell that Alatimos was obviously resentful for sealing up this technology. He clearly provided the empire with his best technology and best talents, but was abandoned just because of civil strife.
No one else would be full of resentment for my poor performance.
In fact, this has always been the take-and-take attitude of the Empire, which has led so many forging worlds to believe that they have been exploited and plundered, and eventually defected to traitors or became semi-independent. Even the forging worlds that were loyal to the empire had to
Keep some secrets in your own hands, such as secretly hiding an entire knight family like Reza did.
Don't they want to contribute to the Empire of Man?
In fact, there are just too many thankless tasks, not to mention that most of the time there is absolutely no reward for the efforts, so no matter how loyal the power is, it will gradually become fishy in troubled waters.
Soshyan has always been extremely generous to his allies, whether it is the Alliance of Suffering or the Mechanicus Order, and may even seem overly generous to outsiders, but he understands the truth that for a complex group, faith,
Ideals can strengthen the bond between each other, but they can never replace the real bond. Only interests can become the real bond. Although it is easy to get together for benefit, it is easy to break up for benefit, but if we cannot even take care of each other's most basic interests
, it will only disperse faster.
Therefore, he would not ask the other party why this technology was only brought out now, and whether they would not have provided this technology if he had not given them Titan, because there is no need, and everyone can just understand some things tacitly.
"I see. Since the flash cannon is so powerful, how stable is it?"
"Well, because the energy generated during operation is too huge, it requires a highly equipped and powerful cooling system. This cooling system... is relatively complex, and cannot be used in a small and closed environment."
"Does it look like an Ares gunship?"
"some."
Soon, a unique twin-engine gunboat appeared in Soshyan's eyes. He observed it carefully and noticed the weapons on the nose.
"That's the flash cannon?"
"Yes."
Then the view rotated to the rear, and Soshyan was stunned.
"It's... open at the back?"
There was a recessed area on the tail of the Ares gunship without armor protection, which was filled with various precision capacitors and heat dissipation equipment. Soshyan immediately saw its shortcomings.
"This weakness is too obvious. Even if this gunboat is protected by a shield, once it is hit by any external force in this area, it will lead to catastrophic consequences..."
Soshiyang frowned and thought about the suitable vehicles for this weapon. It seemed that the only vehicles that could be used were gunboats, which would only be more dangerous on the ground.
"Would it be very serious if damaged?"
The other party's answer confirmed his suspicion.
"Yes, the energy storage system of the flash cannon is very powerful, which means that once it explodes, it will be no less than the explosion of the Titan's plasma furnace."