The newly created figurine-girl was Angel Yan.
Kryptonian soldier genes, fused with the genes of mutant angels.
Mutants came in two varieties: demonic mutants and angelic mutants—named that simply because they resembled demons or angels. Thousands of years ago, these two kinds of mutants waged a war that the people of the time mistook for a holy war between angels and demons. In the end, only the demonic mutant Azazel the Red Devil survived; every last angelic mutant perished.
Of course, this universe had yet to produce any naturally occurring mutants; they were all created by Zod Hess.
Angel Yan was exactly that kind of mutant-Kryptonian hybrid, just like Esdeath and the others.
"Zod…"
Angel Yan opened her eyes, and when she saw Zod, she smiled.
...
In the cold underground factory, machinery cycled back and forth, assembling steel automatons one after another.
This was the Black Queen in operation, manufacturing the interstellar warriors Zod Hess desired.
Bulky power armor was completely unnecessary; the Marvel world had far better armor technology and materials. The "power armor"—or "mecha"—crafted with these resources vastly outclassed the power armor of the Warhammer universe.
Even so, Zod demanded these suits be built thick. The outer surface was coated in vibranium. Forget tanks—even an Imperial plasma pistol, chainsword, or thunder hammer would likely never breach this armor. Vibranium absorbed kinetic energy and conducted neither heat nor kinetic force, a property that put it above ninety-nine percent of all other materials, physically indestructible.
Of course, Thanos carving through it in a few swings was an exception—though Zod had no idea how Thanos managed to pull that off.
These mecha's aesthetic closely resembled, or outright copied, the power armor of the Warhammer Imperium. Since these armored warriors were meant for boarding actions, and Zod possessed the Space Stone, they had no need for assault boats—they could board directly inside the enemy. That meant they didn't need extreme penetration; what they needed were weapons capable of inflicting massive casualties in a very short time.
Thus, the Gauss rifle—or Gauss machine gun—became the standard-issue weapon for these mecha warriors.
Its power came from electromagnetic coils. When a powerful current surged through the coil in an instant, the magnetic force generated would launch a ferromagnetic projectile at tremendous speed. The bullets packed terrifying power, capable of punching through steel plates with ease in tests.
Everybody knows Gauss transformations and Gauss's theorem—stuff you get exposed to in middle school, or high school at the latest.
Since magnetic field lines are always closed curves, any magnetic field line entering a closed surface must exit from somewhere inside—otherwise, the line would never close. If you define the outward direction as the positive normal, then magnetic flux entering the surface is negative and flux exiting is positive, so the total magnetic flux through any closed surface must be zero. This is analogous to Gauss's theorem in electrostatics, which is why it's also called Gauss's theorem.
Compared to Gauss's theorem in electrostatics, the two are fundamentally different. In an electrostatic field, independent charges exist in nature, so electric field lines have a beginning and an end. As long as a closed surface encloses a net positive or net negative charge, the electric flux through that surface is not zero—an electrostatic field is a sourced field. In a magnetic field, however, no isolated magnetic poles exist in nature; N and S poles can never be separated. Magnetic field lines are all endless, unbroken closed loops, so the magnetic flux through any closed surface must always be zero.
Their close-combat weapon was the melta blade. Melta clears the way—absolute loyalty!
The mecha linked directly to their brainwaves, allowing them to control movement and attacks at the speed of thought.
This group of mecha warriors, once created, was given a name by Zod out of sheer whimsy: the "Grey Knights."
As for the Kree's biochemical warrior research, that was currently designated "Project Greater Daemon."
Those who donned the Grey Knight armor were, like Space Marines, thoroughly brainwashed—devoid of individual personality, left only with absolute loyalty to the Empire and the Emperor.
After all, the Marvel universe was enormous. You never knew when you might run into a telepath. Keeping an individual personality would make them easy prey for psychic intrusion.
Minotaur Prime.
This was a star system with a rare binary-sun configuration, and Minotaur Prime was the Minotaur homeworld—except now, it was under invasion.
The Grey Knights jumped directly onto Minotaur Prime through the "Rainbow Bridge" the Kree had developed from Space Stone research, leaving the Minotaur fleet utterly helpless.
The moment they hit the ground, the Grey Knights began the slaughter. Their Gauss machine guns spat out streams of elegant, beam-like light. They looked like energy weapons, but they were actually projectile weapons—it was just that the electromagnetic propulsion made the gunfire resemble beams.
Minotaur defensive measures and soldiers were mowed down with contemptuous ease. The Gauss machine guns' penetrative power was overwhelming, completely unstoppable, while the Minotaurs' return fire could only strike sparks off the Grey Knights. The vibranium coating shrugged off every attack perfectly.
Leading this hundred-man Grey Knight squad was a "Black Knight" clad in black armor.
The Black Knight's armor was even more extravagant than the Grey Knights'—the outer layer was an adamantium alloy coating, and beneath that was a layer of vibranium. Adamantium's hardness exceeded ninety-nine percent of all materials, nearly indestructible, capable of withstanding all forms of energy and physical attack. But adamantium lacked vibranium's property of non-conduction for heat and kinetic energy, so a secondary vibranium layer was necessary. Combined, this Black Knight mecha was genuinely indestructible; probably not even Thanos could hack through it in a few cuts.
"For the Emperor!!!"
"We are the Emperor's chosen! Blood for the God-Emperor, skulls for the Throne!"
The ruler of Minotaur Prime was trampled beneath the Grey Knights' boots and his head was taken!
This was now the tenth civilization the Kryptonian Empire had conquered. The previous civilizations had all been crushed by the unstoppable Grey Knights and Black Knights.
The Emperor became the one and only faith. All else was heresy, blasphemy, disloyalty.
Of course, resistance forces still existed, lying low and fighting the Kryptonian Empire. Zod didn't really care; his expansion was simply to acquire more soldiers.
The Marvel world didn't have civilizations that were truly troublesome to deal with, unlike the Warhammer world.
Marvel's threats were mostly the high-end enemies—the Celestials and the Celestial race, Galactus, and the like.
Although Zod only had the Black Queen produce a hundred hundred-man squads of Grey Knights, to the outside world, the Kryptonian Empire's military might was terrifying.
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