With money, Alex can do many things without any worries.
Although ten million throne coins were not enough to last, at least Alex could get Olivia to finish building the protein processing plant and solve the planet's food problem.
You can also build an ecological dome and grow some food and vegetables.
Of course, don't count on the production of these things. It will only be enough to meet the needs of the aristocracy.
Generally speaking, some hive worlds use this ecological dome to grow some rare flowers and rare medicinal herbs.
Some people use it to grow crops, but due to cost considerations, few do so.
In addition to solving the food problem, Alex also ordered a batch of heavy equipment of the Astra Militarum from the Forge World through Pavel's connections, including enough Basilisks and Hydras to equip an artillery regiment, various models of Leman Russ and Macharius to form an armored regiment, and a large number of Valkyrie gunships.
Alex had only just discovered, when deploying the defense forces, that Rostov II's planetary defense force consisted of only the Taurus, in addition to the Chimera troop carriers and the Bison armored vehicles…
It's outrageous that there is not even a Valkyrie.
It's not that the former governor didn't want to give them good equipment, but he simply had no money.
The Governor has to pay for the Planetary Defense Force himself. If you can afford it, you can equip each person with a set of power armor, but if you can't, don't blame the Governor for making the food expensive.
Although corpse starch is cheap, it still costs money.
Only the Star Army funded by the Ministry of Military Affairs can be equipped with all kinds of luxurious weapons. Although the Ministry of Military Affairs is more focused on arming elite troops as much as possible, ordinary filler babies only have basic equipment, which is similar to some defense forces with better equipment.
However, with the state religion as a huge financial backer, Alex could be a little more generous and buy some good things for his own defense forces.
By the way, the current defense forces can be reorganized based on these equipments, and the ten light infantry regiments can be streamlined and adjusted to see if they can be organized into a force similar to a heavy combined brigade.
Although it is said to be the sci-fi 40k era, due to the fact that GW was written too early, the Astra Militarum's fighting style is still basically stuck in the style of World War I and World War II, highlighting the use of high-tech weapons to hit each other with bricks.
Although the tactics of the Astra Militarum were constantly changing as all kinds of monsters appeared during the Dark Millennium (in fact, GW realized that it was stupid and was following the book), the overall style was still a mixture of World War I and World War II.
Alex was of course very dissatisfied with this, so he planned to copy the existing homework and change the style of the Rostov II Defense Force into a heavy armored combined brigade.
Although many things cannot be applied mechanically, and Alex himself has never seen a heavy-armored combined brigade, he still thinks that the tactical ideas can be borrowed.
At least infantry-tank coordination, armored assault, air-ground integration and so on are all possible, and even unmanned combat is not impossible.
Although the imperial equipment looks clumsy and stupid, we must understand that its foundation is always the golden technology left over from the dark technological age of mankind.
The Empire actually has no shortage of automatic weapons, from servoskulls that can replace drones to automated turrets that can replace small combat robots. If the Empire really lets out the power of these things at their disposal, instead of fighting a war with high-tech equipment, the combat effectiveness of the Imperial armed forces is simply beyond imagination.
With an army with sufficient combat effectiveness, Alex felt that he could seriously consider digging up the graves of the Necrons.
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Dusk controlled the huge void ship and sailed it into the star port. Although the ship of the state religion occupied the berth, it was still possible to park the ship upright at the dock.
However, this places high demands on the helmsman, as he needs to personally take action and manually control the ship to enter the port, and after the ship stops, he has to spend some energy to calm the machine spirit.
As the captain of a voidship, Dusk can connect to the entire ship through implants and communicate directly with the machine spirit.
This gave him a high degree of freedom in control, but he also had to deal with the occasional displeasure of the machine spirit, even though the machine spirit of this ship was very easy to talk to.
But for Dusk, being able to drive a voidship was already great. The feeling of personally traveling through the universe was simply too wonderful! It was as if he had become the ship himself!
Perhaps this is also why many void ship captains of the Imperial Navy choose to merge their souls and memories into their machine souls when they die of old age. The two have already become one through countless connections in the past.
The only drawback is perhaps that the boat is not big enough.
Pulling himself down from the captain's throne, Dusk felt as if he was being scolded by the machine spirit of this ship. It must be that the machine spirit was unhappy with his idea of wanting to drive a big ship.
Fortunately, the Machine Spirit was not unhappy about this, and I could just let the Engine Prophet comfort it later.
"Can we go now? We're waiting for you!" Mai Mai looked at Dusk who was still sitting on the captain's throne and asked him.
"I can go now. I just need to relax for a while. It will take me a while to get used to the switch of senses." Dusk explained, then stood up and left the bridge with Mai Mai.
This is just like those Titan pilots, who, after driving Titans for so long, are unwilling to leave their mechanical thrones.
After all, the world is yours when you sit on it, and the world is yours when you leave. The feeling of physical and mental integration with the Titan is simply too wonderful, and driving a void ship will only be more exciting!
The two got off the boat and Alex was waiting for them at the star port.
"Welcome! You two have done a great job this time! Thank you for your hard work!" Alex warmly welcomed his two friends and said, "I saw you brought back a transport ship. How many goodies do you have to find a special ship to transport them?"
Alex was very emotional at this moment. After all, around the Rostov II starport, in addition to four Imperial Navy light cruisers, there was also a large transport ship, all of which were moored in the void because there was no space in the starport.
These ships are loaded with the resources and funds needed for the development and construction of Rostov II!
"The small forge you asked me to buy is in the transport ship. With it, we can produce equipment ourselves." Mai Mai explained to Alex with a happy expression, and said excitedly, "But the forge is not the main point. The sage Donia that Olivia asked us to find did us a great favor by bringing in a family of knights who had lost their land!
I have already talked to them, and they will fight for you if you are willing to provide them with a piece of land to settle their people."