It was a new day, and Luka woke up in the palatial and luxurious bedroom of the Governor's Office, genuinely marveling at the disparity in the world.
In the 3k era, a 300-square-meter large flat was already an extremely luxurious residence. If Luka hadn't gotten involved with certain special connections, he wouldn't have been able to afford such a house even if he emptied six wallets.
But in the 40k era, his bedroom alone in the Governor's Office exceeded 300 square meters.
And this was only the bedroom in the narrow sense, used for sleeping, not including the equally large accompanying bathroom, reception room, study, and a wardrobe that was only half the size.
In short, in the enormous Governor's Office, Luka's broad-sense bedroom area covered a huge space exceeding 3,000 square meters.
This area included a maid's lounge, a small simple kitchen for meal preparation, a laundry room for temporary washing, and a small armory for storing backup weapons…
This area even had a second floor! There was a small banquet hall covering 2,000 square meters, used for private banquets.
And these, in the functional division of the Governor's Office, belonged to the Planetary Governor's private activity area, separated from the functional and office areas of the Governor's Office.
It was somewhat similar to the front hall and rear palace layout of Chinese imperial palaces, but the specific layout style was still that of a Western European palace.
It was also because of this that getting lost in one's own home was not a joke, but something that could truly happen—getting lost in a room, even in one's own bedroom!
Luka had made such a joke before. Because several rooms were connected by corridors and also had interconnected doors, it was easy to go in circles if one didn't know the route, going round and round without finding the way out.
Fortunately, Luka directly activated his psychic power at the time to perform a small divination, which prevented the embarrassing mishap of a dignified Inquisition Lord Inquisitor, Planetary Governor, and Living Saint-certified saint getting lost in his own home.
This was only the part of the Governor's Office provided for Luka's private residence. As for the administrative and office area of this Governor's Office, it spanned over a dozen floors.
And the Governor's Office itself was a small military fortress; a Defense Force company, fully equipped with heavy weapons, was permanently stationed there, responsible for providing security for the Governor's Office.
Not only that, after Luka obtained the Sub-Sector development rights and sanctus wine began to rake in throne gelts, Rachel even planned to renovate and expand the Governor's Office, at least to make it look like a palace, not just an official residence.
To put it simply, Miss Rachel planned to build a palace as tall as the Burj Khalifa on an area as large as the Forbidden City.
This was not a big project for the Imperium; the entire palace construction might cost less than a million throne gelts, with the bulk of the cost going to various protective equipment.
After all, the Imperium's super concrete, called Instacrete, could construct Hive Cities reaching the clouds in an extremely short time, and its internal structure was incredibly sturdy. Even tens of thousands of years of extreme environmental erosion could hardly damage buildings constructed with Instacrete.
So, for the Imperium, building houses was truly fast. In contrast, things like installed Void Shields and defensive artillery were the truly valuable and expensive parts.
Luka left his room and did not go to the office area but instead went to a small, separately designated 'laboratory' within the residential area.
The monkey he had invested in last time was currently here, modifying his equipment.
Without sufficient understanding of warhammer, one might be very confused as to why a monkey could modify equipment.
But for those who understood warhammer well enough, the incredible nature of this monkey was beyond imagination, because it was an Old One creation.
Like the Green-skinned Orcs that sprouted mushrooms all over the galaxy, these monkeys, known as Space Apes, were also creations of the Old Ones during the ancient War in Heaven era, created to fight against the C'tan and Necrons.
However, they were slightly different from the Green-skinned Orcs, which were pure combat races. Space Apes were more akin to logistics; their racial talent was technological mimicry.
And like the Green-skinned Orcs, the technology of Space Apes was written in their DNA, unlocking when the Space Apes had a need, allowing them to modify any technological creation they came into contact with.
One major characteristic of Space Apes was their meticulous modification of various technological creations and weapons they encountered, often resulting in greatly improved performance of the weapons and equipment.
Of course, this applies to most cases; occasionally, these monkeys might only add meaningless decorations to weapons and equipment.
Everything was like the Green-skinned Orcs' 'I fink so'; it all depended on the mood of these monkeys. However, they wouldn't break things, so encountering a Space Ape was always a positive gain.
And the creations of these monkeys, which resembled orangutans, were very popular within the Inquisition. Every Inquisitor would hope to obtain a product made by a Space Ape, and even the Inquisition itself employed these monkeys to serve them.
The reason for deploying this chess piece was Luka's hope of utilizing the Space Apes' technology to serve him, as his monkey was a chess piece, and Luka had sufficient control over it.
When Luka arrived at the laboratory, his monkey was busy tinkering with his relic Power Armor.
It was clear that the entire Power Armor had been disassembled, and the monkey was modifying the internal components.
One of the technologies Space Apes excelled at was miniaturization technology, which involved shrinking the Imperium's common brick-sized laser and melta weapons down to the size of a ring while maintaining their power.
These miniaturized ring weapons could only be crafted by Space Apes, making them incredibly valuable and extremely rare weapons even within the Imperium, used more frequently only by the Inquisition.
Luka deployed this monkey hoping to leverage the Space Apes' technology to create various high-tech equipment for himself, and even to pull off some serious feats.
For example, through communication, Luka learned that this monkey was installing a device called a Protection Orb (5+ Invulnerable Save) into his Power Armor.
And besides the Protection Orb, a shield generator-like equipment that the monkey had placed aside, not yet finished, was a personal Void Shield.
Once these devices were installed, the defense of this relic Power Armor would reach an astonishing level.
Wearing it, Luka could truly take a direct hit from a Titan's volcano cannon and still converse casually.
As for weapons, the monkey crafted him a gun, modified from the Gauss Weapons previously acquired from the Necrons; it was a delicate and compact-looking pistol.
But its power… Miss Rachel later rebuilt the firing range and the surrounding buildings.
However, Luka came to see this monkey today not to check its work progress, but to ask the monkey to create an Ape Force Field for this city, and even for this planet.
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