Without a doubt, after conversing with his student, Zeke got what he wanted, and the skitarii legion was the most favored of all the gains.
His student still had some brains.
He knew that Zeke wanted the skitarii legion not for war, but for some other purpose.
So he withdrew all other Adeptus Mechanicus personnel from the skitarii legion, leaving only the skitarii.
This undoubtedly helped Zeke, who had never intended to use this unit for war.
He merely planned to use this skitarii legion to legitimately create a group of laborers for himself.
He was already fed up with his current production capacity.
He needed to expand production, and the biggest limitation was his lack of sufficient workers. If that was the case, then robots should take over!
With the Adeptus Mechanicus's skitarii as a front, he could establish a robot labor force within a reasonable scope, using robots to replace some workers and expand his armor production line.
This way, he could at least, to some extent, continue to increase his output and produce more armor.
Although he still couldn't produce qualified null-material armor, or even defective ones, he could only produce defective among defective among defective among defective.
At the same time, even for these defective among defective among defective among defective among defective, the quantity he produced was simply not enough.
However, plastisteel, after 10 iterations of stellaris technology, could at least be manufactured.
By then, he could replace all the ceramite armor used by his Astra Militarum with plastisteel, and also use this plastisteel to build some frigates for himself.
In any case, metal materials are generally the cornerstone of technological development.
Only by possessing sufficient basic materials can the true function of technology be realized.
For Zeke, he actually had some ideas.
He already had some technologies that could be slightly downgraded, downgraded, and then downgraded again from stellaris technology and applied in Warhammer.
However, limited by the fact that qualified metal materials in Warhammer were too expensive, he had to expand his plastisteel production capacity.
Zeke didn't wait for his student to send over the skitarii legion to start manufacturing robots; he directly sent an instruction via quantum communication to the asteroid base.
Immediately after, the workers on the asteroid base quickly began manufacturing intelligent robots.
Under Zeke's many years of education, they had no resistance to robots, as intelligent machines were merely a manifestation of technological development.
Zeke was successful; he cultivated a small core team for himself. This team could objectively view technological development and held no other opinions about intelligent AI, which was extremely valuable.
After all, at this time, the Imperium of Man had a very peculiar idea about AI, having experienced the Men of Iron Rebellion, the entire humanity feared the development of AI.
What Zeke needed was such a group of people who could follow his pace.
Don't be afraid, there's nothing to fear. Even if there's a rebellion, what then? It's not like he hasn't suppressed the Men of Iron Rebellion before.
For some reason, Zeke recalled the AI rebellions he encountered while playing stellaris.
60% of the fleet within the entire Dominion rebelled, but so what?
Wasn't it still suppressed under his command?
If one stops advancing out of fear, a civilization will only head towards its demise.
Better to perish in development than to stop developing.
Once a civilization stops developing, its destruction is not far off, referring to the Fallen Empires.
These Fallen Empires, stated in their descriptions to have millions of years of history, ultimately fell under the fleet of the Terran Dominion.
There was even a building that stated, "We even doubt if these old relics still understand these technologies."
The pace of civilizational progress must never stop; it must continuously explore forward.
Even if the road ahead is full of thorns and dangers, it is better than being overtaken and then annihilated.
During the time when a large number of robots were continuously being manufactured, Zeke also received various supplies from his student at the end of the first Terra month, and these supplies were exactly what he needed.
In the previous Gene Modification, although he had performed some Gene Modification on his subordinates, making his guard theoretically no weaker than the Astartes.
However, with such combat power, 500 Astartes could play too small a role in the 13th Black Crusade.
This was not enough.
To expand his combat power as much as possible, Zeke urgently needed stronger troops, for example, those comparable to the Custodes.
The supplies sent from the Forge World were enough for him to now strengthen his 500 Astartes to the level of the Custodes.
Similarly, his 10,000 Astra Militarum could also be strengthened to the level of Astartes, making them true Astartes.
To cope with this large-scale battle, Zeke went all out; he would fully expand his military equipment and prepare for war.
Of course, unlike Zeke, the entire Yaeger House was not as tense as he was; instead, they were continuing to prepare various projects in an orderly manner.
Everyone was accustomed to such Great Crusades; the other side had already launched 12 Great Crusades. Wasn't it just a small 13th Black Crusade?
Nothing to be afraid of, they were used to it.
The knight house had their own countermeasures, so the Yaeger House was preparing various tasks in an orderly manner.
Since the family had its own set of procedures, Zeke's father, Grisha, did not need to constantly handle various matters, as the elders of the family were still alive.
They could still contribute their remaining energy.
Therefore, having some rare free time, he also began to prepare to find Zeke to properly train his heir, so that he could acquire more practical combat skills before going to the battlefield, thereby saving his own life.
Although Grisha had always been busy dealing with various planetary affairs, he was also quite aware that his child, after successfully linking with a knight, seemed to have never sat in a knight titan.
Although everyone was used to the Black Crusade, it must be said that it was indeed a large-scale chaos invasion.
One wrong move and people could die, so he had to strengthen his son's practical combat skills.
He hadn't even piloted a knight titan; how dangerous would that be when he went to the battlefield?
Thinking this, Grisha began to contact Zeke.
However, his attempt to contact him clearly failed. At this time, Zeke was busy upgrading the physiques of his Custodes. How could he have the leisure to answer the phone?
Grisha looked at the communicator in his hand with a helpless expression.
Unable to contact his son, he knew exactly where he was without even having to think.
He must be on the asteroid base again, working on his technology.
"Sigh," he let out a heavy sigh.
The next high king of the knight house was a technologist; how could this be good?