Warhammer, Rogue Trader Notes

Siegel originally wanted to spend a leisurely afternoon with Victoria here, and they came to a small theater in the death courtyard, and he planned to use this place as the end of the trip.

There was a line of audiences outside this small theater, and Siegel and Victoria were curious about what kind of play would be so attractive.

The two walked into the theater along the line, bought tickets and sat down in the front row.This theater was filled with a strange smell of incense, and after Siegel closed his eyes and smelled it twice, he did not think of the possible origin of this incense.

"It smells so good." Victoria also likes this smell very much. For no reason, this made Siegel panic. He slowly put his right hand on the laser gun at his waist, and all the lights in the theater were turned off. A spotlight hits the stage.

When he saw the actors on the stage, Siegel believed that his pupils must have shrunk due to shock. He looked at the slender figure in the center of the stage with a grotesque mask, slowly took his hands away from the guns, and watched patiently. watching the performance in front of you.

The actors on the stage, dressed in gorgeous flush suits and high-necked trench coats, swayed as he walked and sang on the stage.

Then several actors in the same suit appeared on the stage, and they performed and sang on stage wearing different masks.

The lines of the opera are mysterious and poetic. What surprised Siegel is that this opera is actually low Gothic.He began to listen to the opera carefully, trying to confirm the other party's purpose.

Guessing the purpose of the Eldar, especially the clown, is a bit arrogant. In fact, Siegel has made up his mind to wait until the ship finishes replenishing and slip away immediately.

No matter what the clowns were up to, whether they were hostile or not, the presence of the clown troupe in Port Wanderer was enough to give Siegel a headache.

These Eldars sheltered by the hippogriffs are haunted, and no one knows what their purpose is. Siegel only hopes that this is a whim of the head of the Harlequin troupe.

Or is some poor soul being targeted by the shadow prophet's prophecy?Siegel panicked for no reason. While forcing himself to watch the plot in front of him, he kept persuading himself in his heart, trying to convince himself that he was not that unlucky guy.

After all, they were only performing in the troupe of the Phnom Penh cruise, rather than touching their own bridge directly.Besides, I really don't necessarily have to be the "lucky one".

Siegel continued to look at the plot in front of him, and he quickly realized what the content of the plot was, or he recognized it from the atmosphere of the lines that took a turn for the worse, and the unicorn who appeared at the end wearing a costume and a pointed mask .

【The Birth of Slaanesh...】

Siegel can only say that the troupe leader is afraid that he has some serious illness and is fine to perform this in human society. It is not more suitable to perform this thing in Ark World or Comoros than to show it to these people with unsound worldviews here.

Performing in the Ark World will not be beaten out...

Siegel watched the spirit gods played by the troupe fall one by one, and the goddess Aisha cried miserably, while the troupe leader who played the God of Laughing escaped from this danger...

The whole drama ends here...

Volume 32 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Higochi

Any play will come to an end, and after watching the inexplicable opera performed by the clown with Victoria, the two walked out of the troupe,

The person who was selling tickets at the door had disappeared.At this moment, Siegel lost the opportunity and ability to track down.

He had no choice but to chat with Victoria as if nothing had happened, while other audience members were discussing how eye-catching and memorable the troupe's dancing was.As for the content in the repertoire, none of the audience seemed to understand.

The obscure and poetic lines do prevent people from understanding the connotation of this play, but then again, is there any need for human beings to understand the connotation of the birth of Slaanesh?

Siegel continued to convince himself that the Harlequin troupe might have been just a whim, but as he accompanied Victoria off the Phnom Penh cruise and started walking down the passage leading to other locations, he noticed the flush suit dancing in the shadows, It seemed to appear there on purpose, waiting for him to discover it.

"I had a great time today." Siegel said to Victoria, it seems that he and the other party must be temporarily separated here.

"Me too, see you next time." Victoria heard the strings and knew the elegance, and she also bid farewell to Siegel neatly.

After watching the opponent disappear into the passage ahead, Siegel turned around and walked into the corner of the shadow of the passage. With his right hand, he took out the laser gun attached to his waist, held it on his chest, and walked slowly towards the depths of the passage. .

He stood in front of the shadow, and raised the laser pistol in his hand a little higher. In the end, a mask of the troupe chief appeared in the shadow, and then the unicorn with the mask also appeared from the shadow.

The solitary horn is the clown who plays Slaanesh in the troupe, and Xi Gaoqi will be fluctuated by the unicorn in the great fall and insight into the nature of the universe.As a price, the unicorn will be exposed to Slaanesh's gaze, and Higoki has no way to protect the unicorn's soul like other clown souls.

When the Horn dies, his soul is destined to fall into the hands of Slaanesh.

"This is just a propaganda campaign about the great history of the Eldar, and we hope you will learn from it and realize your own problems." Neither the troupe master nor the soloist were armed, and the troupe master spoke in low Gothic with an accent To Siegel, his Low Gothic has a unique rhyme, but that doesn't hide the arrogance in the Eldar bones.

Of course, with regard to arrogance, humans also have it.

Siegel looked at them. He didn't know the purpose of the clowns looking for him, but it seemed that they didn't mean to kill him, so he put the gun down for now.

"What's the matter with you?" Siegel deliberated for a while before making a sound, to prevent unnecessary changes in his vocal cords due to tension.

"The Shadow Prophet launched a series of performances, and this is just a trivial stop, but I have to admit, it has been very fruitful." The troupe leader continued to explain the reason to Siegel. Siegel did know that the clown sometimes A human performance, but he never thought that he would encounter it one day.

"Most human beings can't understand our excellent artistic connotation, but you obviously understand the core of it, and your eyes can't fool me."

Siegel smacked his tongue secretly, he had to admit that he was cheated by his "knowledge" again.In this universe, sometimes knowing too much is really not a good thing.He can guarantee that if he didn't know the plot in advance, he would not understand the meaning of those vague lines on their stage.

"The Laughing God is very satisfied with our performance. As a reward, He will also look at you, human beings, feel honored." After finishing speaking, the two clowns disappeared into the shadows, leaving Siegel alone in the alley baffling……

Until he returned to his temporary residence, he didn't understand the purpose of the clown looking for him, maybe it was just to tell him that Xi Gaoqi was watching him?

Siegel felt that this might not be a good thing. After all, his style seemed to belong to the character of a fun person like the Deceiver (Star God) and Tzeentch. These gods are always preparing for a big fight.

And their big work is probably not something Siegel can bear. He may need to find an Anglican church to pray devoutly for a period of time to see if he can get rid of his influence.

Despite such a plan, Siegel still has to devote himself to the work related to the Golden Journey. At the same time, he quickly disposes of the spirit stones and miscellaneous spirit weapons at hand through the underground channels of the roaming port, earning Throne Coins are enough to pay for Golden Journey's repairs.

On the other hand, Father Mel contacted the Mechanic Church in Wandering Port, got in touch with Lars through their channels, and informed the Mechanic Cult of the scene they saw in the Irwin Galaxy for verification.

The Mechanician received her message and informed her that a small exploration fleet would be organized to go to the Irwin galaxy to recover the lost property of the Mechanician, and she was welcome to return to the world of Lars at any time to share the technology in her hands. The data will be reported and shared with Mechanics.

Judging from Father Mel's reaction, her contact with the Mechanicus was quite successful this time, and the other party believed her words, which was equivalent to compensating for a lot of losses of the Mechanicus.In return, Mel's authority within the Mechanicus has been increased to a certain extent, perhaps including the technology Siegel needs.

As for the others, they were busy recruiting the sailors of the Golden Journey. After experiencing such an encounter, the originally relatively stable sailor group had become very bad, and the unstable sailor structure caused them to conflict with each other from time to time.Finally, under the intervention of the deep-sea hunters, all the flags died down.

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All in all, after making corrections at Port Wandering, the Golden Journey finally has the ability to continue sailing.

On the bridge of the Golden Journey, everyone's faces became a lot more excited. Everyone knew that the ship needed major repairs before it could undertake the deep space exploration mission. Both the body and the body can alleviate the impact of this action at the same time.

Siegel stood on the captain's dome, watching the connecting arm of the port slowly loosen, and the ship slowly sailed from the port into the departure channel, and drove to the Mandeville point of the galaxy again.

But this time, their destination is not Dakou, but the capital of the Calixis sector, where the sparks shine—Sintila.

The galaxy where Sintila is located is also the anchorage of the Calixis fleet, where there are complete ship repair facilities that can repair and transform ships.

The overhaul of the Golden Journey will be carried out in the Sintila galaxy, and at the same time, he will return to his home star after a long absence.

Returning to his family, he needs to carefully sort out the current harvest.

Volume 33 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Sparks Shine

Shining Sparks Galaxy, Mandeville Point.

A purple warp vortex appeared at the Mandeville Point of the galaxy, and the Golden Journey rose from the warp to the Material Plane.

The Shining Spark galaxy is a medium-sized galaxy with mature stars. There are 8 planets in the orbit of the galaxy. Except for Sintila, the capital of the star area in the galaxy, most of the remaining planets are barren stone balls or huge gaseous bodies. planet.

The system contains mineral-rich asteroid belts, where mineral stations and mining ships work.

In the void a few astronomical units away from Sintila, a huge space building complex is anchored here, which is the headquarters of the Imperial Navy Calixis Fleet.

This huge space building complex is the berth of the Imperial Navy ships, and it is also a huge void shipyard, which can produce ships of the cruiser level and below.

The main force of the Calixis fleet, composed of 5 battleships and dozens of cruisers of various types, docked here, and the flagship was the Retribution-class battleship Fist of the Stone.

The daily combat readiness duty and channel guarantee are carried out by the fast reaction fleet composed of cruisers, light cruisers and frigates.

On the orbit centered on Sintila and the naval berth, a large number of orbital defense structures were built, and they belonged to the Imperial Navy and the galaxy's local defense fleet respectively.Even the navy has ships for local defense. In addition to the orbital space stations for local galaxy defense, they also have their own fleets, the largest of which is only the size of a frigate. Without exception, they do not have subspace engines installed.

An Intrasystem Local Defense ship quickly approached the Golden Voyage and sent its own comms link to the Golden Voyage.

"This is the Galaxy Defense Fleet, Sintila 411, welcome, visitor." The other party's voice came from the ship's communicator.

"This is the flagship of the Foster family, the Golden Journey. We will go to the berth of the ship in this galaxy for rest and maintenance." Siegel replied to the other party through the communication terminal.

After a short period of silence, the other party's voice came again from the ship's communicator: "Welcome, Foster family, we will contact the port in advance and be ready to serve you. May God The emperor bless you."

"For the Empire."

After turning off the communication, the Golden Journey dragged its dilapidated body towards the local starship dock.

The entire galaxy is extremely busy, and the Auger matrix of the Golden Journey receives a large number of ship signals, including the local fleet responsible for the defense of the galaxy, and the same is not equipped with a subspace engine, and only slowly crawls between the galaxies through the plasma engine Charter fleet.

The difference between the charter fleet and the Rogue Traders is huge. They are the logistics core of the empire. These charter captains are responsible for the connection between the various galaxies, accepting the eleventh tax of the transshipment empire, or transporting food for the hive world, Transporting industrial goods for the agricultural world, the operations of these specialized planets of the Empire depend largely on the support of charter fleets.

The charter fleet does not enter the warp, they travel back and forth along a fixed route, and they often sail on this route for one to several years, which makes the interior of the charter fleet a small society, the fact The hull of the upper charter is indeed like a small hive city, but it is very fragile, and can only rely on the accompanying spaceship or the escort of the imperial navy to ensure safety.

The Golden Journey quickly arrived near the berth of the dock, and after communicating with the console of the dock, the Golden Journey was led to the berth.

The journey is beginning to come to an end.The sailors on the ship will rest in the public rest area in the dock, while the main personnel and officers of the dynasty plan to go to Sintila and live a leisurely life in the hive here.

Although the scenery of the hive world is completely incomparable with that of Paradise World or Garden World, the highly developed industry and economy of the hive can also allow people to enjoy a wonderful vacation, provided that there are enough Throne Coins in their pockets.

Siegel no longer wears a set of heavy carapace, but chooses a set of slim fiber armor. Its defense is far inferior to the solid carapace, but it is light and gorgeous.Siegel usually doesn't like flashy things like this, but since he's back in Sintila, he has to come out with Sintilian style.

All kinds of accessories are indispensable, gorgeous clothes made of fabrics of wonderful colors, wristbands made of mysterious beast leather, studs made of precious metals inlaid on them, standing swords and laser pistols for self-defense.He and members of his dynasty disembarked from his ship.

The interior of the space building here is much more orderly than the interior of the roaming port. When Siegel stepped off the ship, he saw a large number of machine servants in uniform color matching uniforms and a large number of technical priests. Sailors stood around with weapons.

Servo-skulls and servo-mastiffs monitor the corners of the port and provide essential services to the port's sheriff.

The scanning prosthetic eye of the servo-skull will do a simple scan of every person arriving at the port, looking for heresy lurking in the crowd.It's just that in Siegel's memory, the Ministry of Justice has not found any dangerous elements on the wanted list through this method.

The sailors and officers of the Golden Journey also came down from above, and the officers will take a unified transport ship to the star port and shipyard above the planetary orbit of Sintila.

Siegel and the others will also go there, but they choose to take an independent shuttle.They were waiting for Father Mel in the lounge. She was contacting the Mechanics in the dock to confirm the maintenance content of the ship.

Which parts of the ship need to be refurbished and which parts need to be repaired. Her technical priests will monitor the progress of these maintenance personnel at the airport, and at the same time avoid "irrelevant personnel" like the acolytes of the court from prying into the interior of the ship.

As Father Mel returned to the team of the Rogue Trader Dynasty, they took the interstellar shuttle to Sintila's orbital space station.

On the shuttle, passengers can see the appearance of the planetary capital Sintila. The environment on this mild planet has been completely destroyed by years of unrestrained mining activities. The atmosphere is full of industrial dust, and the planetary ocean is no longer The blue in common sense, on the contrary, is a kind of weird off-white.Even in the starry sky, two huge hive cities on the planet can be seen: the planetary capital hive Sibelius and the hive Tarsus.

Volume 34 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Don't Go Bald

Although the shuttle could directly reach Sibelius, the hive capital of the Foster family, Siegel and the others chose to stop at Tarsus, the hive capital where the orbital elevator was located.

Tarsus, the hive capital located in the equatorial desert region of Sintila, is scorching with scorching sun and raging with sandstorms.It was built on a huge vertical strip foundation, extending to the left and right along the foundation to form a huge hive construction group.Due to the hive's unusual structure and unfavorable geographical location, the most valuable items here are darkness and cold.

The nobles here live in the bottom layer of the hive capital, where the temperature is cool and there are artificial light sources and lighting.The temperature in some places is controlled below zero, and luxury goods such as fur are especially popular among nobles.Strictly speaking, this place is as dangerous as the surface of the hive. Every day, lost people freeze to death due to the cold temperature here.

And along the hive city upwards, the closer to the hive city, the hotter the surface temperature will be. The workers in the middle hive will work in the stuffy workshop, bathing in the heat filtered from the poisonous sunlight, while in the outermost layer of the hive city It's a hellish scene, with temperatures so unbreathable and travel without any protective gear that you can wither and die within minutes.

It is the second largest population center in Sintila, and it is also the location of the orbital elevator. Above it is Sintila's orbital space station, and it may be loaded and unloaded in Tarsus from other planets.Another business in Tarsus is financial services. It is the global trade and business center of Sintila. The Corinne family is the leader here, providing financial services to powerful nobles and providing loans to confident lunatics. .

The commissioners of the Ministry of the Interior also have a strong right to speak here. Different from the fancy clothes of the nobles, these commissioners of the Ministry of the Interior are dressed in straight gray uniforms, and they are guarded by the imperial guards from the dead world called Mortensen.They are the most elite economic experts, to ensure that the empire's tithe is not replaced by overvalued and inferior goods.

The reason why Siegel and the others stay in this hive is very simple, they are going to recruit the sailors needed for the next voyage here.

"Gloretia and Laurentina, you two are now recruiting sailors here. It's still an old rule, don't be bald." Siegel's requirements for sailors are not high, and he doesn't expect those who survive in the hive to How capable is it, because the best of them are basically divided up by the Imperial Guard, PDF, and the hive gangs.Those with outstanding abilities will also be controlled by various power holders. Even in the cosmic age, talents are still a sought-after resource.

Life is the Emperor's currency, but each has a greater or lesser value.

But there is one thing he refuses. His crew can have all kinds of strange hairstyles, but they must never have no hair.

"Well... my lord, in fact, it is not easy to find a bald head in Tarsus." The person who spoke was a planetary defense officer wearing a PDF officer's carapace and an officer's uniform, which can be seen from his military rank He is a group leader.

He has a frost flower on his chest, indicating that he is in the Planetary Defense Force funded by the Foster family.The planetary defense forces in the hive capital are all under the orders of the planetary governor, but this does not prevent them from being a kind of aristocratic rights, and the nobles in the hive capital always have various comparisons.

"How to say, General Kellerman." Siegel, an officer of the Planetary Defense Force, was a colonel commander of the Planetary Defense Force, but the bloated organization of the Empire made him

Their military ranks are very watery, and their importance may not be comparable to that of a major in the Imperial Guard.

"That's it, my lord, after you took over the Foster family, you changed the training content of our 94th 'Frostleaf' regiment, and regularly went to the bottom nest to clean up the bald and mutants." Kellerman humbly told Siegel Explained: "Even when you roamed the stars we never stopped, and our colleagues made fun of us as 'bald hunters', but we faithfully fulfilled your request. The glory followed, and we got Received two awards from the Alien Tribunal."

Genestealer infiltrations are usually handled by Inquisitors of the Xenomorphs, their acolytes looking for clues about these xenos infiltrations.

It is difficult for gene stealers to infiltrate and find out in advance, and it is difficult for Siegel to explain the specific situation of these aliens to them. He can only choose the simplest and most one-size-fits-all way for them to do it. Infected planets don't help much, but in the early stages of the infection, it can effectively prevent the infection from spreading further.

But this kind of behavior does increase the difficulty of infiltration by gene stealers. They may need to cut off a person's scalp to obtain hair for infiltration, which can provide additional clues for the inquisitors.

No way, Siegel is not a space warrior or some other powerful mission.He is just a wanderer, and he must use the resources in his hands carefully. The bits and pieces passed down from his ancestors and the pots and pans he earned cannot withstand too much trouble.

It does seem to have an effect. When these planetary defense forces get honors for this, they will naturally recognize their actions.And the city will become more vigilant and safe due to their influence.

This is like changing customs, the hunting of mutants and "baldheads" in the bottom hive will not cause turmoil in the hive capital.Instead, the sane will be quickest to strike out a new hairstyle, or find a suitable wig.

Of course, with the increase of experience, these planetary defense forces will eventually understand what kind of "baldheads" they want them to kill. Maybe one day they will grow into an important force against the gene stealer sect and become Xiangka. Typical of Dean.

With the gathering of clues, a special team will naturally come to the scene of the incident to investigate the location of the hive master and patriarch, and finally remove them from the planet completely.

"The commendation order is about our contribution to cleaning up a kind of alien cult. Thanks to this, our reputation also makes the residents of the hive capital cautious about the hairstyle of bald heads." Kellerman pulled up On the sleeve of his right hand, in addition to the iconic frost flower tattoo on his arm, there is also a bald head embroidered with a scope.

Siegel watched Kellerman explain all this to himself in a humble way, and he naturally had to say something: "Good job, General Kellerman, I will discuss it with Governor Harkos. Tell me about the expansion of your regiment."

"Thank you very much, my lord!"

Volume 35 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Look at this free heavy tank, what a beauty

The reason why General Kellerman appeared here is very simple. Siegel called him here. The work of recruiting sailors has never been without the help of local personnel.