In short, after dealing with all the orks in the entire ork cave, Noah never saw what the ork Warlord actually looked like; all he saw was a pile of ashes.
These were deliberately left by the bodyguard robots, just a little ash for Noah to see what the ork Warlord, who had been hiding there, looked like.
However, a pile of ash was obviously useless. Noah blew a breath at the pile of ash, completely scattering the dust, and then returned with his troops.
The impact of his slaying the ork Warlord also spread throughout the entire planet.
The orks, who had been charging like a continuous mountain and filling the sea, quickly began to retreat after sensing that their Warlord had been eliminated.
Fight?
Why fight? It would be better to run back and compete for a new ork Warlord.
One by one, the ork bosses began to lead their subordinates towards the ork birthplace to restart their struggle for dominance, while the Human Legion forces chasing them steadily advanced.
The ork farm still needed to be preserved, but its scale could not be too large. So, the Mechanical Legion currently in operation also used flamethrowers to incinerate the ork's fungal mats at 6000 degrees Celsius.
This method would completely eliminate the possibility of ork regeneration. The ork farm was to be preserved, but only the part within the farm itself, and it had to be effectively controlled.
It must not create a disaster like the current one.
The orks on the planet were on their countdown to extinction. The PDF began their final purge.
Within a month, all orks on the entire planet were cleared.
After more than four years of ork infestation, the Bethel finally ushered in days without orks, or rather, orks became their food, and the war ended.
Theoretically, the war really ended. At this point, Noah could finally breathe a sigh of relief and begin his journey of development.
Development.
Development is the primary element of an economic civilization; without development, nothing will exist. At the same time, technology is also the top priority.
In this war, although the federation's weapons were very effective, leaving the orks no power to fight back, the Imperium of Man's weapons also highlighted their practicality.
Simple, durable, cheap, and most importantly, their energy output was simply over the top.
Unlike the federation's military, which generally uses energy cores for weapon functions, ordinary Imperial weapons can even use anything to charge.
And most importantly, he also discovered something peculiar: the machine spirit.
According to the Imperium's archives, it should indeed be a 'machine spirit.' Although Noah had no idea what a machine spirit actually was, its existence made him very curious.
As a researcher, Noah was now eager to understand how machine spirits were born and what purpose this magical thing served.
Because in Noah's psionic exploration, he always felt that these machine spirits were not much different from his own sentient ai. If they could be standardized and mass-produced...
And with sufficient limitations, could sentient ai be mass-produced?
The production cost of sentient ai is not low at all; at least, so far, he hasn't seen any possibility that the remaining processing equipment of the Imperium of Man could manufacture sentient ai.
Rather than calling sentient ai an artificial intelligence, it could be directly named a mechanical life form. It possesses its own soul.
Such a thing is very difficult to create. Even if Noah could upgrade the industrial level of this planet in the future, it would still be too difficult to reach the capability of producing sentient ai.
Unlike the arduous climb up the tech tree.
Obviously, the appearance of machine spirits now gave him a better option.
He could thoroughly research the machine spirit.
Then try to see if it could be modified into a sentient ai.
If successful, the cost could be significantly reduced.
After completing the planetary cleanup work, Noah plunged into the research of machine spirits, leaving the various planetary governmental affairs to his little AI assistant.
His federation sentient ai could completely solve these problems. Although it couldn't compare to governor Grey Wind, solving a planet's administrative issues was still very simple.
Noah continuously researched in his laboratory how to improve the production of machine spirits and standardize their manufacturing process.
At the same time, he brought in a large number of Imperial books. After filtering out the religious and other chaotic elements, Noah began to dissect the machine spirit.
During the time Noah researched machine spirits, the Bethel also entered a period of vigorous development.
One primitive alloy station after another was built, and one mining site after another capable of extracting minerals was established, then residents were guided to start mining.
Minerals that the Imperium had no way to process before also began to be extracted. There was no need to worry about these minerals being too low in purity, too expensive to extract, or not cost-effective.
In Noah's view, there weren't so many problems. He had a zero-point reactor, which could completely provide all necessary energy demands.
Energy consumption was not an issue for Noah at this time. Furthermore, he was preparing to produce something quite useful.
In the Terran Federation, energy is the cheapest commodity. the federation has a very interesting device called the 'Grid Integration.'
Grid Integration was a very painful thing in the early days of the Terran Federation, but now, after the federation's long development, Grid Integration is no longer as brutal as before; instead, it has become integrated into people's lives.
Every ship in the Terran Federation has an energy collection device. As long as someone sleeps on the bed, excess bio-energy and a series of other things will be collected.
Finally, it is transmitted through quantum transmission into the federation's energy reserve for consumption and use.
This means that once Noah's development improves a bit, he can give everyone a bed and build everyone a house, letting them sleep inside.
When they sleep, they will provide energy to Noah.
Without the hindrance of energy, a civilization's development will be rapid.
Noah is not a native citizen of the Imperium of Man; he comes from the Terran Federation.
And he comes from the stellaris Terran Federation, which means he knows how technology should develop.
Technology serves the common people; only by serving the common people can technology's true purpose be realized.
And while serving the people, it will also bring back high returns.
For example, these beds for Grid Integration can be distributed to citizens for free.
At the same time, they can also be provided with a house each to live in.
These are the basics.
After providing these basics, the wealth generated by their daily lives will also be far greater than the cost Noah is currently paying.
Building a house, providing some furniture, some home appliances, compared to the endless energy harvested, is nothing at all.
With energy, Noah can operate his factories, thereby bringing forth more ordinary robots to undertake tedious and boring work.
They cannot really be called robots, because these robots do not have AI assistance; they merely mechanically perform the tasks they need to do.
Accurately speaking, they should be called mechanical devices.
As energy becomes cheap, everything needed in society will become exceptionally cheap.
Time passed slowly amidst orderly development.
Ever since Noah took over the Bethel's capital world, the pace of development far exceeded the expectations of the former imperial citizens and officials.
The first hydroponic farm was built, utilizing only the early hydroponic farming technology of the Terran Federation.
After a group of people was conscripted across the entire capital world and maintained the operation of this hydroponic farm, it could produce 30 units of food per month.
According to the Terran Federation's supply standards, these 30 units of food were enough to sustain 60 billion people for one month's food consumption.
This was merely according to the Terran Federation's supply standards.
However, if viewed according to the Imperium's supply standards, then these 30 units of food would be enough to sustain 1.8 trillion people for six months' food consumption.
Undoubtedly, after this hydroponic farm was built, the food crisis had completely left the Bethel's capital world.
In addition to the hydroponic farm, there was also a unique farm on this planet: the ork Farm.
The ork Farm's output was also not low; after establishing a complete process from their birth to harvest, this farm could provide 10 units of ork meat to the entire world each month.
This meant that the entire Bethel's capital world could produce 40 units of food per month.
According to the Terran Federation's standards, this would sustain 80 billion people.
After Noah's second round of population statistics and census, he determined the planet's total population.
After so much war and suffering, the Bethel's capital world still had 37.6 billion people.
This was undoubtedly a terrifying number; no single planet in the Terran Federation would have such a large population.
After all, the federation did not lack habitable planets, and most jobs only required AI and robots to perform.
Furthermore, due to all federation citizens undergoing genetic modification, the difficulty of having offspring was greatly increased.
Unless cloning technology was used, it was truly difficult to have descendants.
And generally, a family only wanted one child.
Under the guidance and interference of various factors, the current population of the Terran Federation on each planet does not exceed 2 billion.
When Noah saw that a civilization had crammed nearly 40 billion people onto a single planet, how could he not feel excited and shocked?
It must be said that the Imperium's population was indeed a huge advantage.
Noah was happy that he had a population of 37.6 billion, but at the same time, he was worried about not having enough resources.
Not to mention genetically modifying all citizens according to federation standards, even just performing genetic restoration for all citizens, he couldn't afford the resources.
Let alone subsequent gene therapy and a series of other things; he couldn't afford the resources for any of those.
Having many people is sometimes a very useful thing, but that's only good for a fully developed stellar civilization.
For Noah's civilization, which was just starting, it was too difficult. The large population meant he couldn't perform genetic modification or gene therapy for everyone.
More importantly, Noah's Stellaris-series industry was too unfamiliar to the Imperium.
These people from the Imperium simply couldn't work in the completely new industrial system; only a few who had undergone genetic restoration could.
So far, apart from the 4 million people who underwent genetic restoration at the hydroponic farm, the remaining Imperium citizens were still doing the jobs they had before Noah arrived.
There were even a large number of Imperium citizens without any work; they could only stay idly in their homes every day.
All they could do was try their best not to cause trouble for Noah.
Then, they tried to lie in bed as much as possible, attempting to sleep and generate power to provide energy for Noah.
This was the only way these citizens thought they could repay Noah.
They had no jobs, but Noah would not abandon them.
After all, he came from the Terran Federation; even if he was indeed poor, Noah still provided them with a place to live and settle down.
After the war ended, there were various hive cities left behind by the Imperium.
Aside from those destroyed, there were also many vacant houses, and these vacant houses became the best choice for Noah to arrange these Imperium citizens.
At the same time, the first urban planning project was also under construction.
Noah understood one thing at this moment: if a civilization wanted to develop, it must have motivation.
The way the Terran Federation operated was not applicable to the Imperium at this time.
Noah did not intend to distribute the houses provided by the urban planning project for free; instead, he planned to use them for those who worked.
As for those citizens without jobs, they could only live in the hive cities for now.
Of course, in terms of medical care, Noah also provided them with some medical care to the best of his ability.
He provided basic free medical care to all citizens.
Minor illnesses could be directly resolved, as long as they weren't major genetic diseases.
Minor illnesses like common gene chain collapse could also be treated, but gene restructuring was out of the question for now.
Noah could only do so much.
But after he ensured everyone had a place to live and took care of all their food problems, he was already revered by the local citizens.
In the Imperium of Warhammer 40,000, a governor emerged who gave everyone houses and provided everyone with food.
Most importantly, he also provided basic medical care for everyone.
Oh no.
My goodness, in their eyes, this was not basic medical care at all, but their entire life's medical care.
What kind of person was this? This was practically a saint! This was the God-Emperor's Living Saint!
As soon as such a thought appeared, it was discovered by the person in charge of the state religion, personally trained by Noah, who then heavily promoted this idea.
In just one month, Noah was directly revered by the local state religion and citizens as the Emperor's chosen Emperor and a Living Saint.
The Imperium was feudal, ignorant, and superstitious, and superstition sometimes became the best means of governing these ordinary Imperium citizens.
This greatly reduced the energy consumed by the mechanical legions' daily patrols.
At the same time, because they stayed in their rooms to generate power, it also increased energy output.
So the state religion also started its propaganda machine, proclaiming:
All unemployed people should stay in their rooms every day and not wander around, adding to the burden of the patrol officers.
They should study hard to be able to serve the governor, sir.
Knowledge books were taken out of Noah's hands and then distributed to everyone by his mechanical legions.
Noah couldn't perform genetic restoration surgery for them at this time, but he couldn't keep supporting these people indefinitely either, so he needed them to learn something.
Worst case, he would just create a production line for them based on what they learned.
In short, they couldn't just be idle.
Although he could afford to support them, he couldn't do it forever.
The inherent flaw of humanity is inertia; who knows if supporting them indefinitely might turn gratitude into resentment?