Chapter 1317 Socio-Ecological Demon Edition
After a brief farewell to Louvansberg, Kane left the Antioch Fortress aboard the Burdington.
The obvious advantages of the Gothic War space warfare made Louvansberg a little arrogant, and after the Chaos Cultists risked their lives to bomb the ship, he asked Kane for the opportunity to use the Burdington as bait to trap the Chaos forces in space.
Of course, Louvansberg was not presumptuous under Kane's name, but euphemistically said that if he wanted to see the tricks of the demon army in the universe and see if the human fleet with technology as the main means of camouflage, it was really not an opponent.
Considering that some of the lessons can only be remembered by experiencing them firsthand, Kane did not refuse the request.
The Burdington is accompanied by a stealth frigate, and the size and appearance of this frigate are extremely similar to the Burdington, coupled with the First Order's unique evil god cell mimicry technology, impersonating the Burdington is a backup tactical option.
Rather than stay to observe the Gothic fleet's fishing operations, Kane made the Burdington invisible and returned to Khulner's star system.
To get to Gradius quickly, you have to use the stargate on Khulner's side.
The subspace storm set off by Tzeentch once made Gradius a besieged space island, and later it was passable, which indeed had a lot to do with space necromancy.
Back then, the space necrons waged war against the ancient saints, and although their actions were arrogant, they also relied on something, rather than the ignorance and fearlessness that primitive people shouted at modern people.
As the race with the highest level of technological development in the entire Warhammer 40K universe so far, the space necromancers already have a means to deal with subspace forces before absorbing the star gods, that is, the void powerless field.
Subspace creatures and demons, in a way, are like sea creatures that come from the waves, and they can take advantage of the ravages of subspace storms to be more mobile in the physical universe and stay longer.
And the void power field matrix of space necromancy can calm the subspace storm.
In Kane's eyes, this technique is not particularly high-end, but it is just an ingenious idea, just like the red dot aiming technique, the role of spiritual flashes is greater than the technology itself.
And an important reason why the space necrons can make this thing is that this is Warhammer 40K. If you go to other universes, this technology cannot be reproduced.
Because of this, considering the stinky farts and extremism of the space necromancers, the First Order did not look at it once, and then produced its own replacement with better performance, but kept making the space necrons think that this was their unique technology, and it was one of the bargaining chips used for cooperation.
The use of the stargate requires a virtual powerless field matrix to temporarily weaken the subspace storm in a certain area, as if opening a cavitation channel in the water, so that the normal operation of the stargate can reach a safe level.
It didn't take long to get out of the tunnel, and the Chaos side tried to disrupt the teleportation on more than one occasion.
However, they have been beaten into a clear disadvantage in the space field, and there are only a limited number of seriously ill spaceports left, and as the stationing place of the starship, they can no longer even do the daily patrol in the nearby celestial domain, let alone destroy the location of the stargate.
The frame of the gate shone brightly, the runes shone one one after another, and the majestic energy poured into the ring gate, causing the ice-like crystals in it to quickly melt into a liquid state.
And this liquid energy soon formed a whirlpool, and with the acceleration of the rotation, the liquid energy flowed to the periphery, making the star gate 'plump' into a chubby appearance like a bagel.
At this time, the scene presented in the inner part of the ring gate was already the appearance of the other side of the stargate, and the Burdington waiting to be teleported could be clearly seen, and Khulner was a little farther away.
In recent years, Kulna's planetary transformation has not stopped, and has shown results, the beautiful blue planet, and the similarity with the earth is getting higher and higher.
And Gradius is still the same colorful 'big flower face' he was a few years ago.
It's just that the space is a lot dirtier, like the originally clear waters, but now there are a lot of floating flotsam.
These floating flakes are basically the wreckage of the Great War.
Due to the frequent wars, even if the earthwork cleaning ability of the First Order is very strong, it is difficult to clean up in time, and the cleanup requires a lot of risk, so in addition to the necessary reusable recycling, the rest exist in the form of space junk.
As for the Chaos side, they have always only known how to destroy, ignore the cleanup, grab if they don't have any, and like pampered bear children, they only gnaw on the fattest parts, and then discard the rest and choose the next target.
But this habit, in Gradius, was successfully taught by the First Order.
At the beginning, Kane cleared the wilderness in order to meet the looting of the possible arrival of the Tyranid swarm, and deployed his operational ability to control and sort out all the resources of the Gradius star system.
Although it has just begun, the war has started one after another, but even when Kane returned to the dark HP universe, the related work was still vigorously carried out.
From the perspective of ordinary people, those years, the days of the First Order in the Gradius star system, were very hard.
It's just that the main body is a puppet of his feelings, and no matter how many deaths and injuries there are, they are just numbers.
A large number of low-cost cannon fodder, in exchange for a large amount of energy and resources of the chaotic side, and bought time, from a strategic point of view, the First Order won without any suspense.
When the demon army changed from a refreshing killing mentality to a boredom of killing too much, they found that they had not made any substantial progress, and the so-called important places that had been captured by the other party at the expense of the other party could not provide them with any valuable help, and everything they needed had to be transported from the rear.
Although the logistics of the demons are relatively simple, it is claimed that as long as there is energy, nothing else is a problem. But that's in the subspace, in the physical universe, you have to follow the rules of the physical universe, and the subspace power can distort the rules, but it is not without an upper limit, and the consumption is also very large.
In the past wars, the demons have not paid much attention to this aspect of the problem, mainly because resources are everywhere, such as water, gas, heavy metals, and even life, they only need to control extraordinary powers, and they can extract what they need from these resources with methods and efficiency that seem unbelievable to mortals, and then create a variety of destructive effects.
But this time, the area they set foot in was material, and it felt like they were entering deep space.
The cannon fodder of the First Order looks like a kind of life, with rhinoceros skin-like rough skin, an exceptionally strong physique, they are like rubber tires, hard and tough, whether it is a demonic version of cannon fire, or fangs and claws with extraordinary strength, or energy erosion, it is difficult to tear apart as easily as ordinary creatures.
According to the experience gained by the demons in the past, this kind of existence often means the enrichment of life energy and soul energy, which is difficult to fight and difficult to fight, and it is also very profitable to win, and it can be delicious and gluttonous. Not only is the soul delicious, but even its flesh and blood, which is permeated with a lot of psionic energy, is exceptionally sweet.
However, these cannon fodder soldiers of the First Order are different, when they are killed, they will immediately become gray and rotten, and they will look like they are rockified, but they cannot be regarded as rocks, because once a large force is applied to them, they will be crushed into slag, and they will be stone-like things that can no longer be glued.
At first, the demons didn't pay much attention to it.
An important reason is that they notice that these enemies are very fond of self-detonation, and they feel that it is this self-detonation that consumes their own energy, thus making them unprofitable.
And another reason why I don't care about it is that in this invasion, the top bosses have funded, made a big spend, and fought a big battle, and they can be squandered wantonly, there is no need to instigate calculations, as long as they can win all the time, everything else is not a problem.
However, they were soon disgusted by one discovery, that is, the corpses of those cannon fodder soldiers who died in the First Order would be like a sponge absorbing water, not only devouring the energy of the area where they were located, especially the transcendent energy.
This is one of the applications of the evil god cell.
After Kane fully analyzed the characteristics of the evil god cell of the old ruler, he insisted on splitting it to the point where it could be mass-produced by scientific and technological means, and its attributes were also as simple as possible, forming elements, and then freely combining them according to actual needs.
And, in order to facilitate control and leave no chance for the enemy, the prime-child mechanic is used. The prototype body is the mother, which can reproduce indefinitely, but the reproduced offspring is the last body, which survives for a limited time and does not have the possibility of reproduction.
The First Order even makes use of the nature of life to find a way out of existence on its own, creating it into a pit, and the mechanism for absorbing energy from the corpses stems from this.
What can absorb water may not be seeds that will sprout, but sawdust that will only rot and accelerate degradation. That's pretty much it.
The demons are used to being masters, especially when they come to the real universe to pretend to compare, they always spend a lot of money, but they are strong.
Kane is from a hard background, he is used to being diligent and thrifty, and he also loves to work hard in this area, especially after the completion of microscopic technology, he likes to put dripping water through stones and gather armpits into fur This principle is further exerted to the extreme.
The amount of energy that each wreck can absorb may not be much, but if there is a large number, the efficiency is terrifying.
And the demons have nothing to do with these slags that will be further broken up after absorbing energy, they also have the habit of cleaning the battlefield, but it is only a harvest, at least it has to be something valuable, cleaning, which they are not used to.
Fortunately, the demons can be regarded as knights in the chaos forces, and there are always servants by their side, and if they don't want to do it, they can order it to be done by servants like Chaos Believers.
However, the demons soon discovered that the servants who had always been happy to do such things, and even flattered each other in order to compete for places, were complaining and refusing to help.
It is precisely this discovery that lifts the veil on the social ecology of the chaotic forces and teaches a lesson to the demons who usually don't care much about certain aspects.
Among the forces of chaos, 'no profit can not be early' is still a wise saying, even more so than in the mortal world.
If demons are beasts that are born to eat big meat, then their slaves are vulture crows that bite the flesh and bones, and even ant tribes that eat minced meat further.
The first order is to be unprofitable enough to starve ants to death, and the lower they are, the more fragile they are, almost all of them are the kind that have no overnight food at home, and it is unprofitable to work hard, that is, let them die.
It is said that you eat meat and I drink soup, although the demons usually give soup or not depends on their mood, but in fact, their extravagance and leakage are enough to survive below, and the soup they give is often a tooth sacrifice or even a small windfall.
However, in the chaotic forces, exploitation is often extremely cruel, and the unspoken rules formed for a long time make the underlying social and ecological environment always on the verge of collapse.
Wars of aggression are often the means of alleviating such crises. The bottom of the chaotic forces, just like the nomads in Kane's hometown who encountered disaster years in ancient times, went south to find food, left some rations for their families, and then invested the rest in the preparation for invasion.
Of course, most of the bottom of the chaotic forces don't have that sense of family responsibility, they only care about themselves, but even so, there is a corresponding pattern that needs to be maintained, after all, it is also a society, and it has to be interacted, just like mortals are inevitably basic socializing when they are alive, and entertainment has expenses.
In short, it was the First Order that staged a 'poor enough rat to starve to death', thus exposing the current situation of the Chaos Forces, and then further revealing the social status of the Four Evil Gods in the entire Chaos Forces, as well as the approximate proportion of their personal energy, and so on.
For the first time, many Demon Lords also considered how many of their previous battles were purely out of their hearts, rather than ignorantly realizing that fighting wars was for the survival needs of the group with themselves as the core.
Some demons even suspect that they are not good at mixing, and it is likely that their subordinates are too greedy. The war was intentionally or unintentionally provoked by them, and it didn't reap much benefit after the battle, but it was mixed with a round belly......
Of course, this is also in the Warhammer 40K universe, if it is in the DND universe, this kind of brain, let alone being a devil, when a demon is the kind of person who is repeatedly used as a gun, either grow or die. It will not set off any ideological trends, because those who are not smart enough will be eliminated again.
The bottom of the chaotic forces screamed with hunger, and the demons realized that they were really like the knights of ancient times in some ways, and they couldn't even put on armor on their own, let alone fight on horseback.
And by killing a hundred and so on, to make those lazy bones and cheap slaves move, it can only solve the urgent need for a while, and it will not work if the time is extended.
Only then did the demons realize what it meant to fight a war that was getting poorer and poorer and poorer.
Gradius's war has been able to stalemate until now, largely because the demon army has no energy from top to bottom.
Tzeentch thinks that his arrogant handwriting, if it is left on other battlefields, it is valid, after all, even if the demons on other battlefields can't make profits, they won't stick upside down, and they can be captured if they defeat the enemy, and even without defeating, resources can be seen everywhere, but here, those paid by Tzeentch are a bit difficult to maintain for them who are used to spending a lot of money, so naturally they can't go all out.
Interestingly, as a kind of intelligent creature, the demons are not bad at adaptability, and the 'smart demons' were soon born, and then the more explicit ** demons were also born, and operations similar to those that do not work are gradually becoming popular.
In a society where the forces of chaos are full of scumbags, bad habits can always be swept away quickly.
The demons fighting on the front line gradually not only played all kinds of tricks, but also gloated, and every time a new demon army arrived, they watched the show on the sidelines.
And soon evolved into not just watching a play, but rubbing oil, plucking, picking up corpses, and so on.
The newly arrived demon legions often quickly taste what it means to fight the enemy, and how sour it is to pit one's own people and a friendly army with a race on the side.
And this time, the abusive legion entered the field, and it was even more non-negotiable.
Just a few hours before Kane arrived at Gradius, the demons who were afraid of a certain legion really felt the chic style of Gradius.
Many of their old enemies, old rivals, and Tzeentch's elite legions are still familiar faces, and they no longer have the annoying arrogance and poisonous tongue that can anger people to death, but are cowardly and lowly, and even lead their subordinates to do some similar things like scavenging that the servants of the past may not have done, and when you look at the past with suspicious eyes, you are often greeted with humble, flattering smiles and actions.
This special thing has been by the enemy, and even his temperament has changed?
And the Tzeentch demons, as if they had read the minds of the demons of terror, laughed in their hearts: "We can still survive on our knees, what about you? When you are poor and crazy for a while, you don't even have children to rob, what should you do?" Do you kill yourself?......