Chapter 907: Robot Legion

At this time, the Airport, after a period of planning and construction, still appeared very empty.

Currently, there are fewer than one hundred spaceships docked at the Mars Airport in total, and most are Golden Eagle series Armed Transport Ships and fighter ships, supplemented by a batch of Hope-class modified small cargo ships.

The only Explorer-class medium cargo ship was the one Sun Cheng traveled on when he transported goods from Earth this time.

Currently, with all the resources under his command, only four of these ships have been built; leaving one here on Mars is fine, but it must be used with caution.

After staying at the Airport for a while, Sun Cheng headed to his next destination.

Before leaving Mars, he needed to inspect two places; the Airport was only one, and the second was the arsenal.

More accurately, it was the Combat Robot factory.

The robot factory on Mars is also located within Valles Marineris, just 23 kilometers from Mars Base One here, and is also built inside a naturally formed cavern discovered within the canyon.

As the earliest factory to begin construction on Mars.

At first, it only produced various Engineering Robots, but later, with the establishment of several other robot factories, this earliest factory underwent equipment upgrades under Sun Cheng's orders, specifically for the production of Combat Robots.

And now, he was ready to receive the results.

The Mars Base seems to have been greatly influenced by Sun Cheng, with an architectural style that places great emphasis on concealment and practicality.

Therefore, this Combat Robot factory did not have much that was flashy.

After entering a gate built into the canyon wall, inside was a passage several hundred meters long, with a total of three interceptor doors used to isolate dust.

Further inside were three cave spaces arranged in parallel, with the one in the middle having the largest area; this was the main workshop of the Combat Robot factory, with an area of about 30,000 square meters.

On the left was the metal processing workshop, and on the right was the robot weapon production line; these two spaces were smaller, only seven or eight thousand square meters in size.

Squads of robots moved in and out of the Combat Robot factory, and six Decepticon Workers were enough to maintain and operate all the production equipment here.

Twenty-four hours a day, without interruption, they converted various metals derived from minerals mined on Mars, first manufacturing them into robot parts and weapon equipment, and then assembling them into Combat Robots.

Subsequently, all the manufactured Combat Robots were piled up in a huge warehouse located even deeper, directly connected to the middle cave space.

Sun Cheng did not stay long in the Combat Robot factory; such factories and production lines also existed in the central control base on Earth, though the scale was not as large as this one on Mars.

Guided directly by the Decepticon responsible for managing the place, he walked toward the factory in the back.

The warehouse was very large, as it had to house the massive number of Combat Robots being manufactured.

Although the resources on Mars are far less abundant than on Earth, except for a very small number of two or three types, all other raw materials for manufacturing Combat Robots could be found here.

Moreover, because of the large-scale use of robots for underground mining, the mining cost, when calculated carefully, was actually even lower than on Earth.

This is also the reason why Sun Cheng began to demand the mass production of Combat Robots on Mars.

Although this stuff cannot compare to Decepticon Warriors, and even less so to the Shadow Guards of Maximus.

Yet, Sun Cheng cannot do without them for the time being!

The atmosphere on Earth is becoming increasingly oppressive, and it is estimated that it cannot be suppressed for much longer; war is about to break out.

The Decepticon Legion, the Autobot faction, Earth's local forces, and then counting Sun Cheng's own forces.

Among the four parties, he can probably only trade blows evenly with Earth's local forces in conventional warfare.

However, once the opponent uses nuclear weapons, with his side's currently limited number of Small Tactical Nuclear Bombs, he will not only suffer a loss but a heavy one at that.

Of course, if Sun Cheng were to truly come into conflict with Earth's local nations, he would certainly take the initiative to strike and paralyze the opponent's strategic nuclear counterattack capability as much as possible before they showed signs of acting.

But this still does not get rid of an awkward fact: he and his forces are still not on the same order of magnitude as the Decepticon Legion and the Autobots.

However, compared to them, Sun Cheng is not entirely without comparability.

At the very least, it cannot be said that his forces are united in heart and mind, but currently, there is only one voice internally.

By comparison, within the Decepticon Legion, there are Megatron, Shockwave, Starscream, and many other factions, and their power cannot be brought to bear in one place at all.

Even on the Autobot side, there are Sentinel Prime, Optimus Prime, Royalists, Democrats, and various liberals.

In his mind, some chaotic thoughts kept flashing and then quickly disappeared.

Sun Cheng looked at the warehouse filled with Combat Robots, two azure beams of light shot out from his eyes, quickly checking the status of all the robots in the surrounding thousands of square meters of the warehouse, and then he immediately walked in other directions.

Not long after, as the status of the last batch of robots was checked, he nodded with satisfaction.

"The production plan was completed well; I will take this batch of robots!"

Before setting off for Mars this time, Sun Cheng considered that the clouds of war on Earth were already very heavy.

Liking to make the worst-case plans in advance, in addition to starting to send some production lines and more Decepticons to Mars, he also stored the vast majority of the materials stored in his internal Spherical Space into the warehouse here on Mars.

Plus, not long ago, perhaps because he absorbed a lot of Energy Liquid, the Spherical Space inside Sun Cheng expanded a bit more.

Therefore, it was not difficult at all to fit this batch of Combat Robots.

"It just so happens that I will incorporate them all into my Private Legion!"

The Private Legion is a project Sun Cheng had been preparing for a long time, using the internal Spherical Space to transport a large number of troops and deploy them immediately when a battle breaks out.

In his plan, possessing a Private Legion, he alone could become an army.

However, that is based on the most ideal state; if it were really implemented, the difficulty would not be small.

First of all, although Sun Cheng no longer cares about using the Spherical Space to store and transport items in front of his subordinates, with his authority within his own forces, he uses "Space Bridge" to describe this technology, and even if the Decepticons under him are suspicious, no one dares to question it.

But the Spherical Space is, after all, his biggest trump card, and the interior also involves the secret of traveling between two worlds; he is not at ease and it is impossible for him to put any Decepticon inside, even if they seem infinitely loyal to him.

Therefore, Combat Robots became the only choice.

"With those Shadow Guard corpses obtained from the experiments of Maximus, I believe that the batch of Decepticon Engineers under me will be able to research some useful technology before long to further upgrade the Combat Robots..."

Only when that time comes will Sun Cheng's Private Legion be able to escape the fate of becoming Cannon Fodder on the battlefield.