Zeke stood beside his colossal titan, looking at the female knight who had grown up with him.
The two had grown up together, but their feelings were not what others imagined, like admiration or love.
They simply shared a very pure friendship.
Honestly, when Zeke's parents learned of this, they sighed for a long time.
They had thought their son's lifelong matter finally had hope, only for it to turn out they were just friends.
Zeke could see that his good friend's eyes were filled with longing for BT003.
So, after some deep thought, he made a decision.
"BT, what is your evaluation of Lissa?"
"pilot , acting pilot Lissa is very good. My neural synchronization with her is 98.6%, and our cooperative combat far exceeds the cooperative combat between ordinary pilot s and titan."
"My individual unit suggests that you can upgrade her to a formal pilot and have her undergo the training a pilot should receive."
Hearing this, Zeke smiled even more brightly.
"Lissa, a certain machine is very fond of you."
Lissa's eyes instantly lit up, much like a kitten seeing a fresh can of food.
She rushed to BT-003 in a few strides, reaching out to stroke the titan's cold armor shell, her fingertips trembling slightly.
"Can... can it really be?" Her voice trembled, a rare occurrence. "I mean, I haven't even had formal pilot training..."
"BT says you're more reliable than 90% of pilot s," Zeke interrupted her with a smile, pulling up a holographic projection. "Look, even the neural synchronization data is far above the standard value."
Pale blue data streams flickered in the projection. Lissa's neural synchronization curve with BT-003 perfectly overlapped, even surpassing standard parameters at certain combat peaks. She stared at the data, then suddenly hugged the titan's mechanical foot.
Although his body was so tiny, and the titan's body was so massive, looking like an ant in comparison, this scene made Zeke's smile grow even wider.
"BT, I authorize Lissa to be your official pilot , and you shall be her titan."
"Authorization confirmed." BT-003's electronic eyes flickered with a warm orange light. "Establishing permanent neural link... pilot Lissa, welcome to the 21st Titan Legions of the Terran Dominion Imperial Guard."
"From now on, you are not only a titan pilot , but you are also Imperial Guard."
The massive mechanical arm slowly lowered, unfolding into a standard pilot boarding platform in front of Lissa.
Unlike directly warping a person into the titan's collective body with a jump-drive beam, this was an extremely ritualistic act.
The young woman took a deep breath, stepping onto the platform with the same solemnity as when she first donned power armor. As the hydraulic system hummed softly, she was smoothly conveyed into the cockpit.
After witnessing this, Zeke did not stay but turned and left.
His good friend needed time to integrate with her titan; after all, while the neural link network had been established, permanence and temporariness were different and required time to adapt.
It was almost done. Everyone around him was now protected by titan; it would probably be impossible for chaos to threaten them.
As for the other members of House Yaeger, Zeke did not need to worry about them.
Honestly, in such a large family, Zeke couldn't possibly be on good terms with everyone.
The people he was close to were actually quite few, usually those of similar age.
Most of those who grew up with him at the time had died while linking with knight titan.
Many of his uncles were busy managing the family's merchant fleet.
It would clearly be unreasonable to send them titan; the Imperial merchant fleet was not very large.
A 1000-meter-tall giant titan simply wouldn't fit.
The only ones who needed to go to the battlefield were his parents and his knight Acolyte Commander.
Therefore, preparing such star-class battle titan for the three of them was more than sufficient.
The star-class battle titan was a top-tier Titan Legions unit crafted from null-material armor.
Such titan war machines had long been phased out in a fully developed Terran Dominion.
But for Zeke at this moment, this was indeed the most powerful Titan Legions titan war machines he could build, without a doubt.
If he wanted to build more powerful titan, he would need to continue developing basic technology.
One colony was far from enough. The battle with chaos was over, and Zeke now urgently needed to acquire some new colonies for himself.
After all, his various production capacities were simply too small. Relying on just one colony for development was far too slow, and he needed to colonize other new planets.
Zeke needed to contact his colony, then consult the star charts and send exploration teams to explore the surrounding star systems.
To see which star systems might be suitable for him to colonize.
And he naturally couldn't stay where he was. He went to his parents' camp, found a spot, sat down, and began to examine the star chart.
For the Terran Dominion, they could actually terraform any planet into a Gaia planet and colonize it.
But doing so also had drawbacks.
The drawback was that they couldn't immediately colonize it and allow for population growth; planetary transformation was required first.
This point, if the Terran Dominion had been fully present, would not have been a problem for Zeke at all.
But for him now, it was a problem.
After all, he only had this one colony.
The resources required for environmental transformation on a planet completely unsuitable for life, and transforming a planet that was already habitable, were not the same.
The most important issue was population.
Only with a sufficient population could there be enough output.
And even if he used genetic cloning, the population issue would still take time.
Besides, why do that when it's better to directly seize those fallen Imperial world of the Imperium?
There were enough humans on those worlds. As long as those humans were brought in and trained for a short period, they could become productive.
Zeke's idea was simple: what he needed to do now was to find those fallen Imperial world on the star chart and secretly reclaim them.
As for why he came to his parents' location?
The main reason was that it was quiet here.
Except for the Astra Militarum Lords General and the Space Marines Chapters Masters, no one was qualified to enter the camp of the Yaeger knight house's high king.
Also, and most importantly, if he was here, his parents would see him first when they returned, preventing them from worrying about him.
Zeke himself was also a very filial person; after all, with loving parents, he certainly had to cherish them greatly.
Just as Zeke was in his parents' tent, studying which world he could reclaim first for construction and improvement, unbeknownst to him, the Adeptus Mechanicus had sought out his parents.
The 1000-meter-tall star-class battle titan was simply too coveted and attracted too much attention.
Whether it was its powerful dark energy shield, its almost indestructible body, or the fact that it walked across the earth without any discernible weight.
All of these things made the Adeptus Mechanicus feel an unprecedented longing. They yearned for these giant titan war machines and called them the Omnissiah's miracles.
Precisely because of this, which of these Archmagos of the Adeptus Mechanicus could possibly resist?
They wished they could immediately touch the star-class battle titan with their probes.