Ape Force Field is a unique force field technology possessed by Space Apes. They can modify Imperial force fields to create something similar to a Geller Field, effectively resisting demonic and Chaos corruption.
The Geller Field, essential for Imperial vessels navigating the Warp, has the effect of isolating Warp contamination.
The Ape Force Field can achieve the same effect, which is very important for the Imperium, as no Governor would idly install a Geller Field in their Hive City.
Generally speaking, Hive Cities do install various defenses, but these are more often super-large Void Shields used for defending against various physical attacks.
Those with more money might install a Psyker Shield, as powerful Psykers or Subspace Storms can be quite annoying. No one wants their Hive City to be like a burst sewer, with filth bubbling up from below, after a Subspace Storm.
Installing a Psyker Shield can largely isolate some Warp influences.
Furthermore, when the Great Rift opens, a Psyker Shield can effectively protect the inhabitants of a planet, preventing their brains from exploding (both physically and spiritually) if they look up at the Great Rift at night.
Therefore, to avoid wild Warp portals erupting in his planets and cities after the Great Rift opens, Luka felt it was better to install more force fields.
As for the materials and equipment needed to create the force fields? Space Apes, like Orks, can fashion any technological construct by tinkering with various discarded materials.
Luka even suspected that this ability was a manifestation of the Old Ones' own power of creation; otherwise, there's no explaining why both of the Old Ones' creations could assemble spaceships from junk piles.
Moreover, Space Apes do not rely on the Waaagh! Field's 'I fink' like Orks, but on proper technology.
And the monkeys' technological level has always remained very high; they only need to constantly acquire materials for modification and upgrades, unlike Orks who require passive activation.
This made Luka seriously doubt whether the Orks' Waaagh! Field and 'I fink' were truly given to the Orks by the Old Ones, as this style is quite inconsistent with the Old Ones' creations, especially when Orks revert to beasts and Old Orks, which are completely different in style from current Orks.
There's no reason why Space Apes haven't had problems for so many years, while Orks have 'devolved,' right?
Especially since Space Apes' spacecraft traverse the galaxy by harnessing psychic energy and invisible energy currents between stars, changing the relationship between the hull and the cosmic energy to alter the ship's position in the real universe.
(Space Apes' spacecraft move by altering the shape of their external framework to manipulate the energy between stars.)
This technology is so difficult to comprehend, yet so powerful, that it makes one suspect, 'Could the Orks have been corrupted by Gork and Mork?'
After all, Gork and Mork are Warp minor gods, not as strong as the Four Chaos Gods, but still capable of 'corrupting' the material universe.
But these are not important; after all, GW themselves probably haven't thought about how to set this up. Luka has no reason to complete their lore; he just needs the monkeys to work for him.
And this Space Ape quickly accepted Luka's request, then chattered a lot to Luka through the communication device it had made.
These monkeys do not have a language, but they can communicate with humans in various ways. This particular monkey, under Luka's control, created a communication device that allowed people to better understand its meaning.
In short, this monkey agreed to build a planetary-level Ape Force Field for Luka, but it needed a large amount of materials and hoped Luka could help it call more companions.
The engineering work for a planetary-level Ape Force Field is too massive; it would take a single monkey a very long time.
After Luka asked if the Adeptus Mechanicus could help, the monkey indicated that the Tech-Priests could first build a planetary shield.
Luka was very satisfied with this result, so he took the monkey to find Ovilia.
Ovilia now spends most of her time in the Forge at the Starport. This place has become her laboratory, or rather, she moved her original laboratory from the planet's surface to the Forge.
Although she delegated the work of presiding over the Forge to her subordinate Tech-Priests, the conversion of some scientific research results still needs to be realized in the Forge.
Luka turned a blind eye to Ovilia's actions; as long as she completed the tasks he assigned on time and with quality, and didn't cause major trouble, Luka didn't want to inquire about anything else she wanted to do.
However, though Luka didn't want to inquire, Ovilia, after Luka arrived, proactively told him what she had been doing recently.
"The Ecclesiarchy came to see me; they hope I can accelerate research into planetary modification, and they also said they could help me resolve my status as a Tech-heretic," Ovilia told Luka about the Ecclesiarchy's visits during this time, then asked an additional question: "Speaking of my status, do you have a way to resolve it? If not, I was really planning to cooperate with the Ecclesiarchy."
"I have a friend who is a Sage of the Prefecture Magisterium. I'll talk to her later," Luka had considered this issue long ago. His instruction for 32 to use the Tech-Priest Inquisitor's piece was essentially to address this problem.
However, upon hearing the name Prefecture Magisterium, Ovilia visibly flinched and asked with some trepidation, "Prefecture Magisterium? Your friend isn't an Arcuitor Magisterium, is she?"
"No, but she is an Inquisitor dispatched by the Prefecture Magisterium to the Inquisition," Luka briefly introduced 32's identity and explained: "Sage Olegana 0032 is my good friend; she can help you resolve the Tech-heretic issue.
Of course, this also requires your cooperation; at least you need to prove that you are not a true Tech-heretic, otherwise..."
"Or maybe not? I think things are pretty good as they are now..." Ovilia decisively recoiled, not for any other reason, but because the term Prefecture Magisterium truly gave her PTSD.
This is an organization within the Adeptus Mechanicus specifically dedicated to hunting Tech-heretics, which can be simply understood as a hybrid of the Adeptus Mechanicus's version of the Inquisition and the Officio Assassinorum.
An Arcuitor Magisterium is a Sage specifically hunting heretical Tech-Priests. Tech-Priests like Ovilia, who are suspected of heresy, genuinely fear these individuals.
And this is precisely one of Luka's intentions for 32 to use this identity: to create deterrence for Ovilia and Donia, and also to deter the Tech-Priests coming from Griya and Griffin IV in the future.
After all, no Tech-Priest wants to simultaneously provoke both the Prefecture Magisterium and the Inquisition, these two great powers.
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