From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 433, Arrival, Speech, Preparation

Twenty years, this not-so-short journey has finally come to an end.

The First Expeditionary Fleet has arrived at its destination.

This was an assist that allowed those numb guys on the fleet to get some exciting news. Of course, they would not launch an attack right away, even though many ratmen were so impatient at this moment.

During this long period of time, a new generation of ratmen have grown up in the warships of the First Expeditionary Fleet. From their birth to their growth, until they took over the jobs of the first generation of expeditionaries on those warships, they have been instilled with only one goal and are waiting for only one thing, and that is this planet.

A fanatical warmongerer, but that's not surprising.

In the film and in the narrative, they do not understand and have never been exposed to the world outside of battleships, so it is natural that they would be fanatical.

However, no matter how fanatical they were, the war did not start immediately. Yes, it was a war. Even if they just thought about the colonization of the ratmen, they could clearly know that it would not be a very gentle thing. They have never had the habit of negotiating with other races. They wanted to destroy everything, clean up everything, and leave only the ratmen.

Putting this into practice requires some preparation.

During these twenty years of voyage, many problems arose because the First Expeditionary Fleet was the first expeditionary fleet sent by the Rat Empire. Of course, these were all recorded by the Rat engineers on the warships. If the First Expeditionary Fleet could successfully return to the Rat Empire to end this expedition, then these problems would not have occurred in the first and second colonial expeditions.

But that was later, now, these issues are imminent.

The industrial zone stopped operating, there was a lack of raw materials, and the production strategy was too aggressive at the beginning. In the first one or two years, the industrial zone in the flagship converted 90% of the raw materials into various weapons. The imperfect flagship lacked measures to recycle these resources. This was originally a small problem until a month before arriving at the destination.

At that time, in order to prepare for the impending war, the Rat Affairs Officers in the fleet ordered the industrial zone to enter a preheating state. However, as soon as the order was issued and the Rat Engineers began to test the equipment in the industrial zone, the situation became bad. Almost half of the industrial equipment could not be started normally due to being parked for a long time. Even those that could be started normally had various minor problems.

And there is more than one such serious problem.

The damage to the flagship's outer armor, unreasonable personnel arrangements that resulted in too many rat engineers being awakened from hibernation prematurely, and a large number of small ships lacking maintenance, these messy problems almost made every rat officer feel their brains trembling.

If these problems, big and small, are not resolved, then I am afraid that this colonization will not be particularly smooth.

Of course, the rat affairs officers don’t need to worry too much about these things. They just need to sort out the messy situation and report it.

The real captain of the First Expeditionary Fleet is about to wake up, and these are the things he has to worry about.

Outside the binary star system, in the center of the enormous fleet, deep inside the flagship.

Two guys who already looked old stood quietly outside the room, waiting quietly. These two old guys were the flag officers' deputies and also the deputy captains of this fleet.

At this moment, the expressions of both of them were not so calm. They had rotated with each other twice and each had served two terms. They had been in charge of the First Expeditionary Fleet for ten years respectively and were the real big figures in this fleet. But now, they were both a little panicked.

There is no other reason because what they both did was not good.

During the first five years of the rebellion, a group of Skavens attempted to seize control of the flagship and return to the Skaven Empire.

During the second collision of the five years, the Ratman flagship collided with a frigate due to negligence, resulting in a damage on the right side of the flagship which has not yet been completely repaired.

There were no such serious incidents during the third and fourth five-year periods, but the difficulties faced by the expeditionary fleet at this time were caused by the fact that they had not been resolved during the third and fourth five-year periods and had continued to accumulate until now.

It is not easy to become a real captain, especially the captain of such a large fleet.

They were afraid of being punished by the flag, and even more afraid of being hung high.

Even now, rats still love hanging. Of course, hanging is not the end. The custom of hanging the corpse high up has also been continued. Even though many rats have begun to call for the abolition of this punishment, it is useless. The feeling of hanging fools and enemies and displaying them is simply great.

So, did these two deputies have any evil ideas in this situation?
Maybe, but it's just a possibility. If the flag hadn't appeared today, they would have been executed on the spot and hung high by the guys from the battleship's security department.

The army has always been something that every captain and commander needs to hold firmly, not to mention that the security department of the First Expeditionary Fleet was established by the flag's personal guard.

Qi didn't distrust his deputies, he just didn't trust these guys at all.

In front of the hibernation room, the two high-ranking deputy captains waited anxiously. As time passed slowly, the door of the cabin was finally opened and the sound of the flag was heard.

"come in."

The two deputies walked into the hibernation room in panic. If they were just scared just now, now their bodies had begun to tremble unconsciously.

This hibernation room is not alone in that there is only one hibernation chamber. Although it is indeed not big, there is still a desk and three stools.

The two guys were reluctant to sit down. They were trembling and sweating, and soon their hair was wet.

I have to say that these two guys are well maintained. The hair on their bodies is not straight and hard, but extremely soft and shiny.

Apparently, the hardships encountered by the First Fleet did not concern them.

Qi, who had just walked out of the hibernation chamber, did not look that healthy. He looked very thin, with even his ribs clearly exposed. At this moment, he was sitting upright on the table with a bowl of slightly thin and turbid liquid at his side.

This is the energy block dissolved in water. If we were to say who among all the rat people has the lowest quality of life, it would definitely be Qi.

While sipping the turbid liquid, Qi flipped through the large stack of documents that had been placed on the table long ago. These documents generally summarized what had happened in the past twenty years. Of course, Qi had awakened ten years ago and stayed on the First Expeditionary Fleet for a while, but that time point was obviously not a good time for personal calculation.

These documents were exactly what made the two deputy captains sweat profusely, which showed that there was a third party watching them. This meant that the words and rhetoric they prepared, and even the act of shifting the blame to the other side, would hardly be effective.

Drenched in cold sweat.

Qi just flipped through the documents in front of him page by page. Beside him, the two guys kept shaking non-stop. Until finally, when a hint of numbness and calmness appeared on their faces, Qi stopped what he was doing.

He simply turned his gaze towards the two guys in front of him and looked at them calmly.

With a thump, a guy fell to his knees first. It was obvious that this guy was not as calm as he appeared. Immediately afterwards, another guy fell to his knees with a thump.

Just like that, the two guys with the most power in the fleet besides Qi knelt down in front of Qi like slaves.

Qi was not prepared to deal with them. Over the long years, he gradually understood a truth: in many cases, you have to tolerate the existence of idiots, because if you don't tolerate them, the next people who appear in front of you may be two even more stupid idiots.

At least these two guys managed to drive the First Fleet to its destination. They are idiots with some abilities.

Soon and smoothly, Qi once again took control of the entire First Fleet, and various issues were decided in his hands.

The fleet continued to move forward, sending out reconnaissance ships to collect information and search for suitable space mining sites.

There is a specialized space mining force in the cluster of the First Expeditionary Fleet. As long as they start operating, the shortage of various resources will be alleviated.

The industrial area in the flagship is now in a mess, but fortunately, those ratmen engineers are not complete idiots. The most important industrial mothership on the battleship is still being carefully maintained in a sealed state, and the blueprints have not been lost or damaged.

There is still hope, but it will take some time.

Does Qi have the time? Yes, we have come this far in the past twenty years. Should we be so impatient at this critical juncture when we have finally arrived? Moreover, the distribution of equipment, training, and reconnaissance of the target planet, all these things have not been completed yet.

Sort out all these messy things and things to do, and solve the most important and urgent things first, then this mess will finally make some sense.

At this time, a rat affairs officer walked quickly towards Qi. Of course, sorting out this messy situation does not mean that Qi can have some free time. At this point when he just woke up, Qi will be busy for a long time.

Not long after, the arrival of a group of rat girls made Qi's surroundings a bit more noisy. During their actions, Qi's hair was straightened and trimmed, his claws were polished to a shine, and he was dressed in a dress that covered up his ribs that were prominent due to his thinness.

If Qi were to say it himself, he felt like a flamboyant groundhog at this moment. If it were in the past, Qi would not be willing to accept such an outfit, but now it is different.

The new generation of ratmen in the First Expeditionary Fleet must know who their superiors and commanders are.

This was the first time Qi greeted them, so he chose to make himself look brighter and more sociable, and less like an old guy.

After completing a series of procedures, Qi took a large black captain's hat from the tray, put it on his head, and stood up. He was going to wave to his soldiers on the stage of the broadcasting room on the flagship and let them follow him. To this end, he prepared to give a speech.

On this day, a somewhat thin guy appeared in front of all the ratmen in the entire First Fleet.

He spoke very calmly, but it drew cheers from almost all the ratmen. It was an extremely successful speech. It was hard to believe that Qi had been in hibernation and out of touch with these new generation of ratmen for so long.

But he was able to get these guys cheering for him collectively during a speech.

This was an extremely incredible thing, but Qi didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Speech had always been very simple for him. You just had to tell these guys what they wanted, and they would naturally cheer for you.

What do these new generations want?

The vast space, the open and unlimited supply of resources, the ignorance and enthusiasm for the colonized planet.

Therefore, Qi emphasized these loudly in his speeches.

"Take that planet! There will be plenty of space! Take that planet! Our resources will no longer be scarce! Take that planet! It will be ours!"

"For the great gods! For the great emperor!"

It was that simple, the speech was that simple. After Qi shouted all this out, naturally, his name also appeared in the cheers of these new generation of ratmen.

"For the great captain's flag! For the great captain's flag!"

The speech came to an end, and Qi did not stay here for long. There were still many things he needed to deal with during this period of time. He did not want to be trapped here, on this planet that he was not familiar with. He would go back and take down the Ratman Empire. Qi had promised him this.

The mobilization of the Ratman First Fleet was quickly completed. As the reconnaissance ships scanned the galaxy, several suitable space minerals were soon found. These minerals were located in an asteroid belt and a satellite.

Soon, the colonial war will begin.

In fact, the natives of that planet should also be able to respond to what is going to happen. After all, such a huge fleet had already been exposed when the First Expeditionary Fleet completely broke into this galaxy.

Now, even with the optical telescope, we can observe the arrival of the rat people. I hope they are prepared.

(End of this chapter)