Regardless of how much Horus once disdained the mundane bureaucracy, Hathor now profoundly understood the indispensable role of these administrative managers within the colossal machinery of the Imperium.
This realization stemmed from her deep reflection on the mistakes made during the Great Crusade Era.
Leveraging her extraordinary Primarch wisdom and exceptional information processing capabilities, Hathor was thoroughly reforming the administrative structure of the Rostov Sub-Sector, propelling its efficiency to a qualitative leap.
Since assuming the role of Governor Chen Xi's administrative secretary, the entire Sub-Sector's administrative efficiency had astonishingly increased by over thirty percent.
This achievement was particularly commendable.
Because in the past, the Governors Office was buried under a mountain of pending documents, decision-making processes were protracted and cumbersome, and crucial information often became lost in the sea of paperwork.
The current increase in efficiency far surpassed the approval processes that typically took decades for the Imperial bureaucracy to complete.
Under Hathor's meticulous planning, the Rostov Sub-Sector's production engine was accelerating its operations.
Focusing on the most deeply troubled specific areas, the improvements were especially significant.
Weapon production efficiency directly doubled, completely overturning the previous predicament where Power Armor annual output was less than ten sets, and production lines were long occupied by Titan manufacturing.
The smoothness of resource transportation also doubled, greatly alleviating the inherent lengthy inefficiency and layers of embezzlement in Imperial supply lines.
At the same time, the optimization of overall production efficiency also effectively mitigated severe capacity bottlenecks caused by excessively long resource extraction and refining cycles.
In this strong wave of improvement, Governor Chen Xi's vigorously promoted Mutants policy also played a key role.
When a report detailing the construction progress of Mutant resettlement points and the initial output from the reform camps, which had been integrated into the logistics support system, was submitted, Alex handed it over to Hathor, who was efficiently reviewing allocation documents for a mining world.
This 'Administrative Secretary,' with her restrained power yet undiminished authority, swiftly reviewed the report data.
A glint of assessment flashed in her amber-gold eyes.
"Your policy direction is correct, Governor," Hathor put down the datapad in her hand, her tone carrying the calm and clear approval characteristic of a strategic decision-maker, without hesitation: "Even if their external form deviates from the standard human genetic template, their core still belongs to the human species.
To simply view them as a burden to the Imperium or an alien species that must be eradicated is not only a tremendous waste of valuable resources but also a severe dereliction of duty at the governance level."
She lightly tapped the genetic analysis identifier on the report with her finger, further explaining: "Undeniably, in certain special environments, their physiological and psychological structures may exhibit a relatively higher susceptibility to Chaos corruption; this is an unavoidable objective risk.
But before corruption occurs, and at a time when the Imperium urgently needs to mobilize every ounce of strength to resist external enemies and maintain systemic operation, they are members of humanity, individuals with the capacity for labor and the ability to create value.
Allowing them to realize their own value, rather than arbitrarily pushing them to the opposite side or carrying out extermination, is a more efficient and strategically farsighted governance strategy."
She picked up the report, delivering a decisive conclusion: "Your arrangement for them to reclaim barren land, maintain basic machinery, and enter lower-risk production lines, exchanging labor for survival and dignity, is commendable. The Imperium needs to fully utilize every available strength.
These Mutants, provided with correct guidance and strict monitoring, can create significantly more value for the Imperium compared to simply eliminating them."
Her clear and unequivocal support carried far more weight than the approval of any ordinary administrative official.
As the Mutants policy steadily advanced on a pilot basis, the long-standing and once ten-million-strong qualified labor shortage that had plagued the Sub-Sector was effectively and substantially filled.
Large numbers of Mutants were placed into low-efficiency, grassroots positions previously barely sustained by marginalized social groups.
The formal workers thus released were precisely redeployed to technology-intensive positions or crucial areas with severe personnel shortages, such as key defensive line construction and military industrial production.
Although the shortage had not completely disappeared, its severity had been fundamentally alleviated compared to the difficult period when people's livelihoods were in decline, public services were on the verge of collapse, and non-essential industries were largely shut down.
Especially under Hathor's strategic planning, her extraordinary ability to process massive amounts of information acted as a powerful catalyst, injected into every aspect of the entire administrative system of the Sub-Sector.
The improvement in overall resource utilization and the significant increase in administrative operational efficiency allowed the full potential of existing human and material resources to be unleashed.
This greatly reduced the absolute dependence on new resources.
The steady growth in production efficiency, the rational absorption and integration of Mutant labor resources, and the efficiency revolution brought by Hathor finally coalesced.
This allowed the Rostov Sub-Sector, a war machine that was once on the verge of stagnation, to regain a stable and powerful operational core.
The current situation of the Sub-Sector has achieved a relatively significant improvement compared to the past.
Weapon production efficiency has increased by approximately thirty percent due to the rise in overall resource utilization and the effective replenishment of qualified labor.
More destructive equipment is continuously rolling off the assembly lines.
The most crucial change occurred deep within the crust of Rostov III.
In that forge temple, where mechanical prayers echoed and the smell of oil smoke permeated the air, the production line for the Saturn Terminator Power Armor was now roaring, like an awakened ancient Titan beast, producing deadly steel war-suits.
These legendary armors originated from ancient lost technology and were personally refined by the Primarch Vulkan.
They possessed impenetrable Adamantium composite armor, astonishingly powerful heavy weaponry, and the most core equipment—a coordinated array system capable of precise, seamless teleportation between Terminator Assault Squad members.
These characteristics made the Saturn Terminator Power Armor an almost mythical existence throughout the Imperium.
Initially, Governor Chen Xi sent unpainted 'blank' armor as a friendly gift, like quietly sowing a seed.
Now, under Hathor's profound strategic vision and precise deployment, this seed had finally borne abundant fruit.
Hathor deeply understood the Imperium's laws of survival and logic of power.
She skillfully utilized the cutting-edge Saturn Terminator Power Armor and master-crafted Primaris Space Marine weapons produced by the Rostov Forge World, transforming them into highly attractive strategic equivalents for strategic material trade with the Space Marine Chapters with whom Alex had established initial cooperative relationships.
She fully understood these 'Emperor's Angels of Death's' intense desire to rediscover lost technology and their relentless pursuit of continuously enhancing their combat power.
This resource exchange, based on practical interests, was the normal state of survival at the Imperium's grassroots level.
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