I guess it will be difficult for us to apply for help from the Space Marines." Luka did not hold much hope for applying for the Death Watch to station there.
His original idea was to apply through Guterres's identity to build a watch fortress, allowing the Death Watch to be stationed permanently in this sub-star region where aliens exist. This would be easier to obtain approval than directly applying for a space marine squadron to Rostov II.
After all, if all he needed was a team of space warriors, Luka could just wait until his authority was increased and then use his own pieces directly.
"Indeed, the Empire needs Space Marines everywhere. It's unlikely that a frontier world like ours will have any Space Marines coming to it. Even the Death Watch wouldn't waste their precious manpower on a world of little value to the Empire." Guterres didn't object, even though it was his suggestion. "But I think we should still apply, maybe? Captain Titus should be with Death Watch right now."
"We can give it a try. If we can get a kill squad, that would be great. If not, we can only wait for the battle sisters to be trained." Luka touched his chin and turned to look at the other two: "Mai Mai, Mu Se, what do you think?"
"I think we can get some sponsorship." Mai Mai seemed to have adopted a more profit-oriented way of thinking because of his role as a Rogue Trader: "The sub-sector we are in is a desolate place. Developing this sub-sector will bring huge profits, which is extremely tempting to many people or forces.
If we can get some sponsorship from the star region, then all the current problems will no longer be a problem.
After all, as long as we have money, the Mechanicus can solve most of our needs, right?"
For the Mechanicus, whether you want to build a planet-scale foundry, a super hive, a giant spaceport, adjust the planet's tilt angle, modify the orbit, or simply want to blow up a planet and turn it into ore, as long as you can afford it, the Mechanicus can do it for you.
"That's an option, but considering all the circumstances, we might need to be more cautious in selecting investors." Luka didn't object to Mai Mai's suggestion, but he also put forward his own requirements: "We can appropriately attract investment from the sector nobles, and we must maintain good relations with the state religion. As for the Mechanicus… Mai Mai, what are your thoughts?"
"I don't think we need to tell them about the tomb. After all, as you said, Seventeen, the Salekh Dynasty is not to be trifled with. If the Mechanicus knew there was a tomb here, I think they would start a big fight." Mai Mai thought for a moment and expressed his thoughts: "We can just tell them about the tomb of the dead on Rostov II and use that to attract sponsorship. I believe the Mechanicus would be happy to invest some money to sponsor us, wouldn't they?"
"It's more likely that the Mechanicus will form an expedition team to dig up the entire Necronomicon, take away everything, and leave some leftovers for us." Luka shook his head. It's not so easy to get sponsorship for the Mechanicus.
But Mai Mai seemed confident. He assured her, "I'm certain of this. Don't forget, I'm a Rogue Trader now. Even the Mechanicus wouldn't easily cause trouble in a Rogue Trader's territory, right? Not to mention this is the core world of the Merchant Empire."
"Using a tiger's skin to make a big banner? The power of the Rogue Merchants depends on the strength of their merchant dynasty. Are you planning to declare this sub-star region as your merchant dynasty?" Luka looked at Mai Mai. He didn't expect that he would actually plan to play it this way.
Rogue Traders enjoy special privileges in the Empire. Generally speaking, a powerful Rogue Trader dynasty can even control more than a dozen Imperial worlds. In a sense, they are the 40k version of the East India Company.
Whether a Rogue Trader is powerful or not does not depend on who signed the Merchant Certificate in his hand or what kind of power it gives them, but on how much wealth and power they have as a Rogue Trader.
At this point, Mai Mai was like a novice as a Rogue Trader, with nothing but a frigate.
However, Luka was not worried about whether Mai Mai could do what he wanted to do. After all, the chess pieces they put into the Warhammer world all had corresponding identities, backgrounds and abilities.
If a wandering merchant is willing, even if he has nothing, a merchant certificate alone can still bring him huge wealth, and it is enough to convince others to invest in him.
Just like Luka clearly has no administrative talent, but after arriving in the Warhammer world he is able to perform his duties as governor.
However, he still reminded Mai Mai, "The Merchant Certificate you hold should be enough to convince various parties to invest in you. As long as you can attract enough sponsorship, you can ask the Mechanicum to order the various things we need."
"I don't plan to declare this sub-star region as the dynasty's territory. Instead, I plan to use formal means to obtain the development rights of the entire sub-star region, and then go to the Mechanicus for sponsorship." Mai Mai was very confident about this.
As an ancient technological religion from humanity's dark technological age, it accompanied the Emperor across the galaxy during the Great Crusade. Over a period of ten thousand years, it collected a vast amount of technology from before humanity's Old Night Age, and then devoted another ten thousand years to research and development. It's hard for ordinary people to imagine what good things the Mechanicus has in its hands.
Contrary to what many people imagine, the Mechanicus does rely on archaeology for its technology and kowtows for repairs, and it is indeed a religious organization. However, this does not mean that the Mechanicus does not engage in scientific research and all its progress depends on archaeology.
Although technological progress has been very slow for various reasons, and it can even be said that it has been regressing, the Mechanicus has indeed researched a lot of things and invented many things over the years.
Dora Kaur single-handedly updated the entire Space Marine armament system, even digging out incendiary weapons from the archives. All of this was done through research rather than archaeology.
The reason why people have such an illusion is mainly because human beings developed too rapidly in the dark technological age, and even reached a height that today's human empire can hardly match.
In addition, the original civilization of mankind collapsed in the old night, colonies were scattered across the galaxy, technology regressed and declined seriously, a large amount of technology was lost, and the overall technological system collapsed, which made the technology of the human empire rely on archaeology.
After all, archaeological finds are incredibly useful! The Astronomican, the Golden Throne…these are all ancient artifacts from the Dark Age of Technology.
It is precisely because of this that many people think that the Mechanicus is barbaric and primitive, but in fact, the technology of these oil men and gear boys is astonishingly black.
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