Chapter 332 Titanium Ambition

The Tau Empire, this ambitious alien empire on the edge of the empire, is preparing for their third expansion.

This expansion will be led by Oshasara, who performed outstandingly during the last expansion. According to tradition, the Supreme Council of Ether has also prepared a title for her.

"Shadow Sun"

Commander Shadow Sun, when not fighting, she will sleep in the stasis field and wake up when needed

And now they are in the holographic conference room, discussing the implementation of the third expansion.

The technological facilities of the Tau Empire are full of smooth curves, neat and clean structures. Compared with the cabins full of cables and cold iron plates in the empire, their conference rooms are more comfortable.

The holographic projection is also clearer and brighter, without unstable tremors due to interference, and the sound and color will not be distorted with obvious noise.

Named the new commander, Shadow Sun is kneeling on one knee in front of the holographic image of the Ethers, listening to the holy sound.

"Commander Shadowsun, do you have confidence in the third expansion?"

"I always believe that the Greater Good will be realized, and the Tau Empire is the eldest son of the Greater Good."

"Very good, Commander Resolute Shadowsun, the Supreme Council is optimistic about you, don't let the Greater Good be ashamed."

After several hours of meetings, Shadowsun came out of the meeting room and ran into the Earth Clan's senior technician, Wakan, and the Water Clan's senior diplomat, Masha, who had been waiting outside the door for a long time.

The three of them walked quickly through the corridor, and their toenails made crisp sounds on the ground.

"How are our weapons prepared?"

Wakan listened to Shadowsun's question, controlled a floating data drone, and unfolded a panel that was lighter and smaller than the Empire's data board.

"During the second expansion period, we collected some of the weapon debris left by humans and reversed it."

"Oh." Shadowsun responded lightly. This was not because she knew much about technology and production, but because she had indeed seen the strength of the Empire's weapons on the battlefield.

Those crude assemblies and designs were made before they expanded, when they were still busy moving from Titanium to the universe. The outdated design did not take into account any aerodynamics or the theory of deflecting shells.

They were just pieces of crude and ugly iron thrown into the battlefield.

According to the art mentor of the Water Clan, the great work dedicated to the Greatest Good, Shiojiu Tsetsu, "A powerful weapon should conform to aesthetics and artistic conception, be as streamlined and smooth as a fish's body, and as relaxed and light as a bird's wings."

Because of these words, the technicians of the Earth Clan completed an important part of the development of science and technology, learning and imitating nature.

Although their current technology no longer needs to imitate the structure of organisms to meet the requirements, this tradition that has been preserved for thousands of years has been carried forward by the technicians of the Earth Clan.

Perhaps human weapons are also a kind of imitation of organisms? But how stupid, big, black and rough a creature must be to have such an appearance?

Ying Yang didn't know this. While listening to Wakan's report, she admired the beauty of the various Guna worlds from the slowly descending gravity elevator.

The huge building shells were painted with yellow or white non-reflective paint, so that the city would not reflect the dazzling light under the shining of the galaxy stars.

A soft and hazy light enveloped the city, making the city more beautiful and pleasing to the soul.

These buildings imitating the Gusak tree have main branches like trees, and there are huge silent and safe gravity elevators in them.

The residents' residences are distributed on the main branches, like the branches and leaves of trees, distributed up and down, and each residence has space to receive sunlight.

Excessive coldness and darkness can cause many people to suffer from claustrophobia and depression. At least from the research of scholars in the Titanium Empire, they can draw this conclusion.

Ying Yang showed a smile on his face, recalling that when this place was just conquered by the Titanium Empire, the retreating human empire army left only a ruin, and they didn't care about the soldiers and people struggling on the edge of life and death.

The Tau Empire upholds the great ideal of the Greater Good, cleans up the ruins on the planet, purifies the deeply polluted soil, and restores the thick, dark atmosphere with only toxic gases, so that it can have the ability to precipitate rain by itself.

After more than a hundred years of hard work and struggle, the planet finally has a bit of the Tau Empire. The humans who once hostile to them have also converted to the light of the Greater Good and are willing to contribute to their great cause.

The territory of the Tau Empire is so vast that the best ships take decades to cross the entire territory.

And they withstood the attack of the orcs and the counterattack of the fleeing human empire. This expansion will definitely make the Tau Empire even greater!

At least for most of the Tau people, this is the case, but Yingyang has no confidence in his heart.

Facing the firmness of the ether is just a disguise. Commanders like her who have access to confidential documents and have experienced the second expansion period have a deeper understanding of the power of the human empire.

Just from the tower cities that were built without any consideration for the comfort of the residents, like crowded beehives, she had a pessimistic view of the strength of the Tau Empire.

Perhaps the size of the Human Empire is five to six times that of the current Tau Empire, not three to four times as conservative scholars have estimated.

She was not worried that the Human Empire, with its backward tactics, would crush the Tau Empire. She was worried that the huge population of the Human Empire would seriously deplete the strength of the Tau Empire.

She could see the tactics of the Human Empire from the last expansion war. They like wars of attrition, endless wars of attrition that torture their opponents and themselves.

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But this kind of war of attrition is exactly what the Tau Empire is not good at dealing with. So every time they attack, they strive to strike quickly and quickly to eliminate the enemy's resistance, so as not to let the pressure on the front line affect the life and production in the rear.

After calculations by the Earth Clan, the nest city can carry a huge population, and even the Tau people on more than a hundred nearby planets cannot completely fill a human "nest city"

Many scholars regard the structure of the nest city as a display of the waste of financial resources of the Human Empire, and a terrible situation of overall backwardness in political, cultural system and science and technology.

But some scholars are worried about the huge and bloated structure of the hive city. However, the human race that has joined the Tau Empire is very serious about serving the Greater Good, so no one really regards the horror of the hive city as a problem. They just think that humans are too stupid and don't know how to use the space on the planet.

They don't even know how to revive the planet's environment. God knows how these people can survive in the harsh climate.

As a star-level civilization, the Tau Empire is already very large.

Generally, after the illustrations, the author explains and supplements the background, which is not counted in the updated word count of the chapter.

According to the background, the territory of the Tau Empire before the third expansion was a star cluster with a radius of 300 light years, but according to the ancient document (more than a decade ago) "The Order of 40k Material Power", the number of planets in the Tau Empire was more than 100, and you will think this number is quite nonsense.

GW has a hobby (loophole) in writing books, which is to write about astronomical things as if the earth is filled with villages. (A common problem in space operas, describing a planet based on the population of a city)

A star cluster with light-years as the unit, in the end, there are only a few hundred usable planets, which is really ridiculous.

According to the density near the earth, a cube of 32.6 light years has more than 60 stars. If it is converted to a volume of 200 light years, the difference is about 231 times, and there can be a star.

But if it is calculated according to the standards of the Imperial Star Zone, the upper limit of a star zone is one world. The Tau Empire currently has a maximum of 7 star zones, so it has an upper limit of 420,000 developable worlds, which is about 0.42 of the Empire's million world standard. But the number of planets controlled by the Human Empire is obviously more than one million, otherwise this war cannot be fought.

What if it is developed? Only one planet around a star is developed, and the population scale is unimaginable.

Even if you calculate the development level of the earth, it is obvious that there are large areas of uninhabited areas, and there are only a few areas with real dense populations. Then we expanded in the style of Warhammer, flattening mountains and draining seas, planting hives all over the world, and then we developed thousands of these planets.

Can you feel the population scale? Can you appreciate how exaggerated this administrative capacity is?

But in the setting of GW, conquering a world with such a large population is as easy as conquering a small town. There is no shortage of a small group of Space Marines in the background story that drove across the world, but how many people were there? How many people per world? The bolter barrels are almost worn out, and you Space Marines haven't killed them all.

Just based on the millions of Space Marines conquering the galaxy during the Great Crusade is quite far-fetched. The Milky Way conservatively has hundreds of billions of stars. If you are a single warrior conquering a galaxy alone, it will take you one hundred thousand years to prepare for it.

And the background mentioned that the home world of the Tau Empire is highly developed and densely populated, and an Ork combat asteroid hitting it can cause billions of casualties.

Considering their automation and modular production, it can be said that there are no electronic demons and Tzeentchs to cause trouble, and their unit productivity is indeed much higher than the average level of the Empire. After all, the Empire does not have many forge worlds.

Then let's talk about eating books. It is said that the population of a hive city cannot be filled even by the entire Tau Empire, and then it is said that a Water Clan diplomatic ship takes away all the population of the hive city. What is the ultimate change of size anywhere.

On the one hand, the fleet of the Tau Empire is stretched to its limits, and the expansion fleet sent out is pitifully small. On the other hand, it is said that as long as the Ether Ammonium Va wants, it can create millions of fleets in a short time to attack the stars.

So how do we understand it? It can only be understood as the same soup as the Empire, with five or six ships that can really go up to fight, and the rest are all kinds of civilian and small rags.

It can only be thought that millions of small rags piled up can't even scratch the skin of an ordinary frigate, otherwise it is really hard to explain how the astronomical-level Empire can be so lagging in the fleet.

It is also mentioned in the background that the Tau soldiers are well equipped. They are farsighted, with high-tech sights built into their helmets, and the Hammerhead Railgun can strike beyond visual range.

But once in the book (for the sake of the table chess pieces, you can't let the players use telescopes to observe from a distance, what will happen then?) these things are gone, and once the fight starts, it becomes a Call of Duty-style melee assault + turn-based. Even the materialistic ceiling Necrons, after mastering the phase technology, the first thing they do is to make a thing like a phase sickle.

So my comment is don't think too much about these issues, this world is unreasonable. Although Call of Duty is also nonsense, it doesn't affect its fun to play.

The scale of the Tau Empire after the rift opened. A small red dot.