Since so many people got confused about the time manipulation field, I'll be posting tech information about it into this codex, along with any other fancy tech.
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Time Manipulation Field
Also known as a Time Bubble, it is a field that accelerates the passage of time in the area affected. They are installed at the center of the system of choice so that each of them can form a solar system wide time bubble. By doing so development of the Imperium is greatly accelerated and everything became so efficient that there is virtually no delay in anything, barring Ork Waaaghs, which frequently enraged The Imperial Military to incomprehensible levels. The reason for such an inconvenient method of creating time bubbles is due to the inability to control the field of expansion of Imperial choice from the prototype of the galaxy wide the inventor of the Time Bubble device created, as such it was deemed unpredictable and thus abandoned.
Replicator
One of the most useful inventions in Mankind's golden age, a replicator can create any object, whether they're spare parts, food, medicine or even ammunition of any type out of pure energy. To create the object in question, the replicator will first search the matter pattern of the material of the product in question in the STC database that is inbuilt inside the replicator and constantly updated, once it's finished with scanning, it will start rearrange subatomic particles (which are more than abundant in the universe) into certain molecules that is required to form the object in question. The process however, must be monitored very carefully, as even the slightest error in molecular creation can greatly affect the quality of the product from good to the worst. Food taste can become substandard and even inedible, medicine can become poisonous etc. As such, each of them are at all times monitored by a Monitor Class AIs for signs of abnormalities.
This piece of technology rendered farming obsolete, but due to tradition and preparation for potential energy shortage (a replicator requires a considerable amount of energy to operate), the Imperium maintains a small amount of farms with gene-crafted non-sentient or intelligent creatures acting as farmers that are enough to feed an entire hive world's population on each planet and enough greenhouses to feed a ship or station's crew on each of them.
This piece of technology also revolutionised the Imperial industry, no longer are parts required to be created through long gruesome processing, but they now only require to assemble them into the product they wish for. Greatly increasing efficiency, and granting the ability of shipbuilding to virtuallily any world.
Miniature and compact versions of this piece of technology are also developed for use as ammunition builders for the Astartes and Imperial Navy, who often need to stay at one certain place for too long to replenish ammunition supplies, creating gaps in the (usually) indomitable defence line of the Imperium that Orks would take advantage (willingly or unwittingly) of.
To feed these useful but power-hungry devices, they are wirelessly linked to Imperial Dyson Spheres hidden somewhere to provide a near-limitless source of energy to the device to power them. Planet and Shipboard versions are also linked to their places' power reactor wirelessly and wired in case of a sever in Dyson Sphere connection. Infantry and vehicle (includes aircraft, tanks and walkers) mounted variants will have to rely on their own power source if there is a loss of connection. Infantry variants the power armour's reactor, while vehicle variants the vehicle in question's power reactor.
The rate of production of the replicators depends on the amount of energy used to power them, give them small amount of energy, then they'll produce slowly, give them a lot of juice, then they'll pump things the size of a tank at a unimaginable pace.
Plasma Weapons
Plasma weapons are one of the Imperium's standard arsenal, firing superheated hydrogen in a magnetic field that forms the projectile, depending on the power output, a standard infantry plasma rifle can blow a hole in flesh or vaporise half a meter thick metal. The only drawbacks are the range of the weapon which is due to the magnetic field disapitating over time and it's prone of overheating when fired at High or above causing an explosion that can vaporise everything in a radius from 3 meters up to 1 kilometre depending on weapon variant.
They are found on ships and stations as Plasma Macro Batteries, tanks, walkers, titans, Iron Men as Heavy and Super Heavy cannons and Infantry as rifles, pistols and other variants.
Ballistic weaponry
The most primitive yet reliable weapon in Imperial Arsenal, this piece of chemical propulsion technology range from the Astartes bolters, to a battlestation's Super Heavy Macrocannon, a volley of light macrocannons alone on an escort (40-50km in length) can deal high petatons to even low exatons of TNT spread across hundreds of kilometres like a carpet bombing, the sheer kinetic energy of a light macro shell alone ( around 15 tons in weight) is more than enough to rip apart anything that meets it.
For bolters, due to the relatively weak damage it can cause via kinetic energy only, explosive tips are often added to deal extra damage.
Ammunition limit had once been a massive problem to both the fleets and ground forces, but since the invention of miniature replicator technology, the problem has been completely negated, that is if the energy source of the replicator is secured.
Warp Drives and Gellar Fields
The main method of FTL for the Imperium, these FTL drives allow for extreme distance jumps by sending the ship into a dimension called the Warp, the Warp is what people describe as a calm storm, with lethal energies occasionally shooting at the ship, damaging or even destroying Imperial ships, to counter such issues, the Imperium developed the Gellar Field, which is designed to specifically defend against warp energy, making them useless to other weapons.
A Warp Drive can theoretically reach one end of the galaxy to another within 2 minutes but due to the Imperium's policy of slow, systematic expansion and development, there is no chance for testing that theory.
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Alright that's all for now since I've been doing this for hours already, also ya guys are in luck, it's New Year Holiday in Hong Kong, if there's one thing that's good about living in Hong Kong, it's the timing of holidays!!!
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