However, although the orks are excellent food providers, they possess a certain level of combat effectiveness, which Noah discovered after some practical experience.
Among the orks, there are some giant creatures. When dealing with these giant creatures, even his Mechanical Legion, built from a combination of gold and civilian robots, suffered losses.
To capture orks for recipe research, his Mechanical Legion, originally 400 strong, has now been reduced to 398; two Servo-Automatons were destroyed by the orks.
Even though these Servo-Automatons were handmade by him and not the federation's standard civilian Servo-Automatons, the combat effectiveness of the orks is still evident.
The materials required for the federation's standard civilian combat exploration robots are too expensive.
Standard combat exploration robots require at least Grade 3 alloys for production, and usually Grade 4 alloys.
Although these materials were not expensive back in the federation, in this current region...
He doesn't know where to get these materials, unless he can first establish basic industries.
While he still has some materials in his Void Backpack, he absolutely cannot waste them like this.
Because these materials are also good for building warships.
So, the legion Noah is currently using is generally a substandard legion, made from the rare materials he pieced together from junk piles.
As long as those orks can be completely turned into a food production area for him, Noah needs more Mechanical Legions.
Noah glanced at the number of orks marked on the 3D map.
Hmm.
A full 2 million.
Moreover, this number is still rapidly increasing, with two, three, four, or five tens of thousands added every day.
To suppress these orks, he must ensure a Mechanical Legion of at least 50,000.
Only then can he completely turn these orks into food without suffering unnecessary losses.
So, after confirming his location, Noah began his hand-crafting journey again.
He needed to craft more combat robots.
At the same time, he also pulled out a batch of industrial robots from his spatial backpack and began crafting these simple combat robots with him.
Actually, it would be best if combat robots could also have some liquid metal, but there's no way; Noah's liquid metal is also limited, and using it to make these things would be a bit wasteful.
"If only I could find a liquid metal mine, I would be very happy..."
Noah looked at the inferior civilian combat robots he had crafted by hand, while longing for liquid metal.
Time passed as he slowly crafted.
During the time he spent crafting combat robots, many things also happened on the planet where he was located.
The first thing was that the Krieg soldier had already launched an attack on the orks, but the Imperium clearly underestimated the orks.
300,000 orks are a huge threat to a planet because orks can be replenished endlessly. What's more, in just that small area, according to Noah's reconnaissance, there were already a full 2 million orks.
This was just a small area; the orks in other regions combined would be even more, which was already enough to launch a massive Waaahg.
Without suspense, the attack by the Krieg soldier failed... Now, the Krieg soldier is no longer thinking about attacking; they are holding their fortresses, preparing to wait for reinforcements from the Imperium.
In the Underhive region, the encirclement and suppression of gangs and cultists intensified. The Imperium's PDF troops began to enter the Underhive for encirclement, but this undoubtedly directly clashed with Noah.
Noah provided a large amount of weapons and equipment to those gangs, who in turn provided Noah with a large number of healthy personnel, which meant that the gangs' firepower greatly increased.
The Planetary Defense Force troops were even at a disadvantage in their engagements with the gangs.
For a time, the governor felt that things were going badly; he always felt that his planet was probably doomed.
He urgently requested support from the Departmento Administratum, but everyone knows the efficiency of the Imperium of Man.
It will be a long time before the Imperium's reinforcements arrive.
Now, the people on this planet can only continue to persevere on their own.
However, all of this had little to do with Noah; he was still diligently crafting his Mechanical Legion.
Soon, when the 10th day arrived, his 80,000-strong Mechanical Legion was all crafted by him.
80,000 was already completely sufficient for him to clear out those orks.
Although these civilian combat robots were inferior versions and not very strong in combat, they were theoretically enough to fight orks.
After the troop assembly was completed, Noah only left 400 Servo-Automatons to continue guarding the children, while he himself led more Servo-Automatons and began to advance towards the orks.
Adhering to the concept of stealth, Noah specifically added optical camouflage invisibility to his Mechanical Legion.
Coupled with Noah's own powerful physique and psionics, an army left the Underhive without the Astra Militarum even noticing, and then headed straight towards a Mushroom Wasteland occupied by orks.
This army was not equipped with any heavy weapons.
If you ask why, it's because there were no suitable metal materials to manufacture suitable weapons, whether they were weapons long since phased out by the federation or currently active federation weapons.
In short, after decomposing all the junk stored by the entire gangs and turning it into materials, Noah still hadn't found qualified materials that could be used to manufacture federation heavy weapons.
He hadn't even found simple substandard ones.
So, this entire army could only be equipped with light weapons for combat; this was the biggest problem with Noah's force: they had no heavy weapons.
Although the power of those light spear guns was no different from heavy weapons, there were indeed no large-volume heavy weapons.
As Noah's Mechanical Legion reached the edge of the Mushroom Wasteland where the orks were entrenched, it was already dusk.
The crimson sunset dyed the entire wasteland blood-red, and the air was filled with a strange smell, a mixture of the peculiar sweet scent of spore plants and metal rust.
"Optical scan shows abnormal energy readings in the target area." A reconnaissance robot suddenly issued an alert.
Noah narrowed his eyes, and his psionics vision pierced through the gradually dimming sky—deep within the mushroom clusters, dozens of huge devices cobbled together from scrap metal could vaguely be seen humming and operating, and a giant mechanical construct rose from the ground.
Around it were warboys twice as tall as ordinary orks.
"Damn it, what exactly is going on with these things? Each messy thing, looking like scrap metal, can actually move?!"
Noah felt his worldview being impacted in a different way; he hadn't seen such bizarre things when he was capturing orks before.
Previously, when eliminating orks and capturing them for cooking, Noah had not been without dealings with these orks.
Although the weapons of those orks indeed looked incredibly absurd, they were never this absurd.
But the current scene truly shocked his perception; such a huge, messy thing, like a pile of scrap metal, actually moved.
"All forces, attack! Preserve that giant mechanical construct for me; I want to study how this thing actually moves!"
It was undoubtedly an excellent research material. Noah excitedly issued the command for a general assault; he was now eager to study how that peculiar mechanical construct stood up.
After all, in his eyes, that thing was simply a pile of scrap metal.