Slider Zero
Not too sore, are you?
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Amazing chapter as always, good work.
Though it does feel weird to me when you have the Celestial Forge in a sci-fi setting and you spend your time on small scale stuff like Aura and Chakra and weapons designed for infantry combat, when you have access to building spaceships that can annihilate continents down to bedrock in a single shot.
If I were in the protagonists shoes, I would find a way to shield against Chaos, and then immediately go completely Von Neumann on everyone and their Tyranid mothers. Why would I waste my time on training Aura and Chakra when I can build a quadrillion of murderbots a day?
Or, in case I don't find a reliable way to shield against Chaos and have to stay in a singular ship of my own design, why would I care about Aura if my spaceship can fire a single time and obliterate the entire Chaos Armada?
The power of the Celestial Forge is endless exponential escalation. You don't need to escalate exponentially all that much before things like Chakra and Aura become useless because you have a turret that can identify every single enemy in a radius of multiple continents and shoot them through hyperspace.
Oh, I understand completely, and agree wholeheartedly. The problem is that, in 40k, you are NEVER going to be able to outpunch everyone, and at the end of the day the infantry scale is what's truly important, as no battle in the setting that wasn't explicitly in deep space has ever been won without boots on the ground. it is also, incidentally, the part about 40k that most needs help. if you can bolster the people, you bolster the Imperium as a whole.
as god as the spaceships are, they mean NOTHING when you are being boarded by the warp horrors that got past the shield, or managed to get you off of it.
besides, they realistically only have one proper ship right now, and even Satori would have trouble trying to build a new one from scratch straight off.