Warhammer, Rogue Trader Notes

Siegel turned the mechanism on the wall, and the entire oil painting and the wall behind it rotated, revealing the heavy door made of fine gold inside.

After a series of complicated verification procedures, Siegel finally opened the door of his family's vault.In fact, the cumbersome steps of opening the vault each time made Siegel completely uninterested in collecting various collections.

The items in the vault are covered with a thick layer of dust. There are mostly various storage boxes here, and each storage box has a static stand installed to store the treasures passed down by the family.There are also some scattered items placed outside, and the heavy dust does not reveal their precious appearance at all.

The unlocking methods of these boxes are different, blood, blood, voice, iris and the most direct "key".The arrangement of these storage methods is to ensure that all the property will not be lost in the event of an accident in the family, and the accident did happen.

In addition to being a stance generator, the family ring of the Foster family is also the key to some storage boxes in the family vault.

Even Siegel didn't know what was in the storage box until he opened it.

He squatted in front of a storage box, put on gloves, and brushed off the heavy dust with his hands. He could see the fine material under the dust. Siegel aligned the gemstone of the ring with the reserved hole in the storage box, and plugged it go in.

"Click."

The storage box was automatically unlocked, and he carefully opened the lid of the storage box.

Siegel looked at the blue fluorescent static stand inside, only a piece of parchment was stored, with the imperial double-headed eagle and golden lace on it.Siegel can see that the craftsmanship of this parchment is better than the highest standard products produced by his family business.He carefully took out the parchment from the standing position, and read the words on it.

"Permission to trade?" Siegel seemed to think of something, and he hurriedly looked at the content at the bottom of the license.

"For the benefit of the empire, the loyal servants of the empire, the Foster family, are granted the rights of rogue traders. I hope they will actively expand the empire's territory and spread the glory of the emperor to every corner of the galaxy. Issued by: Rogge Don!"

"Hiss." Siegel didn't care about the thick dust in the vault at all. He took a breath of dust into his lungs, suppressed the cough and carefully checked the contents of the business license.

Guigui, the trading license I currently hold is issued by the Terra High Lords Council, which is already the highest gold content trading license that can be obtained so far.

Unexpectedly, there was such an exaggerated "treasure" at home, Siegel was surprised and relieved, he almost thought that the trading license was issued by Horus.

It is understandable for Siegel to store such a precious treasure in a static position, and then apply for a new trading license from the Terra High Lord Council to cover up.But why even the family history was buried, and there was no mention of it.

What a glorious treasure is the business license issued by Dorne, which means that I can establish contact with the sons of Dorne, even if the other party does not care about Siegel, but it is completely different to be able to contact or not to be in contact. Full of two concepts!

Siegel couldn't figure out what his ancestor was thinking. He put the trading license, which might be worth several star regions, back into the stationary position, and then locked the box firmly again.

"Cough, cough, cough." Siegel finally tried to cough out the dust in his throat. While coughing, he looked at the other locked boxes, his eyes shining.

Volume 45 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Family History

Siegel opened the remaining family treasure chests one by one. The things stored in the boxes were some books, which recorded the family history records from the era of redemption (after the end of the era of apostasy) to the present.

Books are recorded in the form of a chronology of major events, and most of the events are described in a few strokes, but the danger is self-evident.

"Exploring the Yas star field, more than 300 family members and the third fleet, lost in the subspace, have been confirmed dead."

"Dadoris star was invaded by orcs, and the family members led the troops to stand firm until the rescue arrived. After the war, more than 2000 family members were killed or injured."

The tragedy behind these things, Siegel can imagine, the more terrifying thing is that some records on the books have been artificially erased.He knew what these expunged records usually meant in the Empire, someone disgraced the family...

This is the relationship between the empire and the nobles. The empire can tolerate the nobles properly overstepping the laws of the empire, but when the empire needs the nobles, they must give everything.Nobles loyal to the empire will dispose of their decaying parts, and the family will continue to reduce those rotten leaves, while the intact parts will be consumed in the endless wars of the empire. Decay is inevitable.

The beginning of the family's decline seems to be that during the Age of Apostasy the family obtained a trading license from the High Lords Council of Terra, signed by the famous Van Dier.

Although many business licenses are limited to individuals or generations of qualifications.

However, the business licenses that Siegel found in the family warehouse were all permanent, and one of them was accompanied by exploration activities during the Great Expedition, but this license was a little different.

The condition of this license to trade is an expedition to reconquer alien and heretic planets on the fringes of the Pacific Sector.

Siegel was not aware of this expedition called Nicefro, and he searched the voyage records in the family library and could not find the star sector on the license.The relevant records in the box are already long after the apostasy era, when the family had already taken root in the Taiping Starfield.

Siegel scratched his head. He was also curious about the sphere of influence of his family. This kind of business license often means that his family has lost in high-level struggles.The Terra Council dispatched it to the border of the empire with a business license, regardless of life or death.

The family suffered major setbacks in the Taiping Starfield, and the family power and number of members were shrinking sharply. Even after Fan Dier was overthrown, the family did not share the fruits of victory, only a few stars in the Taiping Starfield District has a good influence.

The family had its ups and downs in the Taiping Starfield, and finally at the beginning of the Angwen Expedition, the ancestors of the family followed the expedition team to the Misty Starfield again.By this time, perhaps only the patriarch of the family will remember the glory of the ancestors.

The history of the Great Crusade proved that only the trading license issued by the Primarch remained.

Siegel can accept the fact that a family has declined from the Great Crusade period to now that it has only a negligible force in one star field, or it can accept the fact that the family has declined to the point where there are only two main members left.

He sighed. He probably understood the reason why the ancestors locked these things here. The family was in such a state of desperation, how could they have the face to mention the great cause of the ancestors.Lock the history in the box and let the family start again down-to-earth.Siegel has to admit that the family patriarch was much more pragmatic in this edgy universe.

Siegel walked to the last remaining storage box, which had been opened by him, but he did not take out the paper items inside from the standing position.

He closed the box silently, and took it out of his family's vault.

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"You're here? Decomposer-011, go make a cup of tea for Siegel." Mel saw Siegel carrying a box into the laboratory prepared for her by the Foster family. Siegel prepared a drink, "You came just in time, Siegel, my research on those data components has just made progress, do you want to hear it?"

"If you can tell what these data represent in a language I can understand, I will consider listening to it." Siegel put the box on the empty space of the test bench, and he agreed casually.

"Don't worry, I will try my best to consider your knowledge reserves." At this point, Mel was not conscious at all, "This is a new form of weapon, which I call a heterogeneous plasma launcher, and it is launched by a specific weapon Go out and form a stream of particles, this weapon can generate thermal energy and explosive reaction after hitting the target, as the hitting time increases, the reaction will become more and more intense, and the damage to the target will also increase."

"It sounds similar to a laser." Siegel took a cup of tea from the servant, and then said to Mel.

"Yes, but the energy consumption of this kind of weapon is much smaller than that of laser weapons, but it also has serious problems." Strictly speaking, there is no [-]% reliable weapon in this universe, and even the big laser gun can't There will be problems with the magazine, and Siegel listens carefully to the problems of this new weapon.

"First of all, this weapon will generate radiation and deformed gravity field, which is used to launch the particle stream to the target. The operator needs to be mechanically modified to resist this adverse factor. Second, it needs to hit for a long time to exert its maximum power. , which means that this kind of weapon cannot be used as an individual weapon of the Star Militia Army, maybe a heavy platform like Titan can be considered."

"Space warfare is a good platform to play. Thick warships and huge targets are the battlefield for which this weapon is tailor-made."

Siegel nodded knowingly. Although he only understood part of what Mel said, he understood the general meaning, that is, this thing is quite fierce.

"So, what are you going to do?

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"Continue research and try to restore the content of the data description. All data is encrypted in ternary language. Learning this mechanical dialect took me a lot of effort. I need to get their gravity technology from Lars, and then wait until When I mastered a furnace, I designed this new weapon and named it after me!"

"Sounds good, speaking of this matter..." Siegel got up and opened the box he brought, "You might as well take a look at this."

Mel tilted her head against the static position inside the box, and she carefully took out the paper in the box, on which were drawn various calculation formulas, blueprints, and binary codes.Siegel couldn't understand the content above, but he could probably see what the blueprint above was drawing.

"This is... the horned viper-level knight armor?"

Volume 46 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Knight Armor and Mechanicum

"There are several modifications. Only the Mechanicus has the manufacturing license for this type of knight... Hey, I have never seen this kind of modification. The design of this weapon is a bit interesting... Where did you get this thing from? ?”

The horned viper is quite special. She is a kind of knight armor independently developed by Mechanicum during the Great Crusade, not a product of the dark ages in ancient times.Even so, the horned viper knight is also the most outstanding knight armor.

But this is also a bit strange, the manufacturing blueprint of the horned viper has not been lost, and the Mechanic Order can still manufacture this kind of knight armor, so it is very strange where Siegel obtained such a detailed blueprint.

Judging from the handwritten formula above, this is obviously a copy of the earliest batch of blueprints, and its preciousness is self-evident. Mel can use the traces above to analyze the design ideas of the mechanical sage at the beginning, so as to try to make further progress. Improve.

"I said it was from the family treasury, would you believe me?"

"I believe it, but...why?"

"That's something only the emperor knows. Can this thing make you a successful sage?" Siegel asked a crucial question.He desperately hoped that Mel could be promoted, which would undoubtedly bring him great benefits.

A furnace that has a cooperative relationship with the Foster family, or even a foundry world that has just begun to be established, is an unimaginable long-term benefit for himself and the family.It’s easy to add icing on the cake, but difficult to give charcoal in the snow. Siegel knows how rare it is to have a mechanic cultivator like Mel.

He could have gone to Rath and contacted a sage directly to establish a new forge planet or deep space foundry in deep space in the Expanse or Segmentum Obscurus.But he and Mel get along relatively tacitly, and a new sage suddenly joins his plan, which is likely to cause adverse effects.

So he was willing to help her on this, but Mel shook her head, and she put the design drawings back, with a rare sigh in her voice, "My mind actually thought for a moment that it would be great if the drawings were Titans, The God of Myriad Opportunities is above, this kind of thinking really shouldn't be."

She explained to Siegel: "The blueprints of knight armors are not rare. Even Lars can make all kinds of knight armors, including the largest royal class. Of course, the value of this blueprint is still very high. There are several people on it. I have not seen the design of this modification. Obviously, Mars deliberately concealed the plans of these modifications."

This incident is not uncommon. Although the scientific research and innovation of the Mechanicum have stagnated after the Horus Rebellion, religious fanaticism, management chaos and the atmosphere of academic lords have brought the empire's technology to a standstill, but this does not mean that all Technology from the time of the Great Crusade and even the Horus Heresy has been lost.

For example, the Stormbird, which can carry 50 Astartes, or the Brutal Blade, the Astartes super-heavy tank.The manufacture of these equipment is not so much lost, it is better to say that the Mechanic Society gradually stopped production and sealed the technology after it judged that it lost its use value, similar to the situation of F22, but due to the existence of STC, at least Mars is able to manufacture these heavy-duty equipment during the Legion period. Equipment, even restarting research and restoring production lines.

The discontinuation of these heavy equipment must be held by Guilliman in a sense, and the promulgation of the Astartes Codex has changed the responsibilities of the Astartes.Whether or not those Chapters embraced the Codex's plans, the Astartes went from a frontal armed force to a special assault force.

This led to the elimination of a batch of heavy equipment. For example, the role of the Stormbird transport plane was perfectly replaced by the strike cruiser, and the underlying ecology was taken over by the cheaper and flexible Thunderhawk; Especially after serving as a frontal battlefield, these super-heavy tanks also had to withdraw from the stage of history.

But it must be admitted that the fact that the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Human Empire are regressing has not changed. Ironically, the Black Mechanicists who betrayed during the Horus Rebellion also did not produce any decent technological achievements.

Although there is no dogmatic restriction, they also lost the rich experimental resources in the physical universe, and the subspace constantly affects the brains of those black machine oil guys, which makes their research stagnate, and they are more addicted to it. Rather than fully supporting the Warmaster's Black Crusade, he researched items to gratify his own evil desires.

This has led to the technological heresy in the physical universe becoming the common goal of the two Mechanicists. Those who are not restrained and not affected by the subspace often have good whimsical ideas in their minds.

Before the Mechanicus disposes of these technological heresies, the higher-ups will often "appreciate and comment" on their technical achievements, and use excellent binary language and evaluations that perfectly conform to the values ​​of the Mechanicus to devalue them as worthless, and then secretly use them The value part is printed in your own mind.

It must be admitted that the upper echelons of the empire are really proficient in double standards.

Siegel leaned heavily on the back of the chair, he was a little worried, is he really going to dig a rib's grave?Digging graves and fighting can only be done by your own elite squad. The more people who go there, the greater the chance of awakening the ribs. That means fighting an asymmetrical war where the enemy is strong and we are weak at other people's home court. , the difficulty can be imagined.

"There is no need to be so depressed. Even an ordinary technical priest can touch the manufacture and maintenance of knight armor, although there are only... those ordinary styles. But we can arrange a feudal world in advance, and let the knights there Allegiance to us, after I became a sage, they also became a veritable world of knights. Although we have not found an STC or a mysterious technology warehouse of alien races, my research is not without a little progress. The design has some experience."

Looking at Father Mel who comforted himself in turn, Siegel replied, "I'm just counting the time."

"You have accepted the services of the Rejuvenation Warlock, and you still have a lot of time. If you need it, I can also help you with the 'mechanical promotion'." Mel didn't understand what Siegel meant. She thought the other party was worried about him. life.

Siegel is just estimating the growth time of his power. At the beginning of the end, how far he can grow to estimate how much he can do.After all, if there is really nothing to be done, it is also a good choice to start as soon as possible.

But he still has time, and it's not time to give up.

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In fact, many "rare" equipment of Warhammer 40k are not lost, and GW rarely judges that a vehicle cannot be manufactured at all.Because this is essentially the backstory that serves the company's pawns, and even if the technology is lost, STC can find it again.

Any chess piece may return to the market, and even if we simply discuss the background setting, there are only two concepts in the Warhammer world, the big infinity and the small infinity, and each race has its own infinite advantages. Many, big enough...

So any "rare" or "rare" equipment in the empire multiplied by the size of a galaxy empire will be a huge number.

Regarding this point, I recommend reading the post of the Warhammer Water Bar "Imperial Statistics Bureau", you will have a more intuitive impression of the size of the empire.

So in the Warhammer world view, the real rare things are those "unique" things.

Volume 47 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Miss Heater

Siegel and Remulle came to the Chaodu Rail Transit Station, which is the meeting point of "Treasure Hunting Expedition".Siegel did not carry his own laser pistol for self-defense. This weapon was a bit unsightly during the Bottom Nest expedition, and his usual plasma pistol was left on the Golden Journey.

So he took a bolt pistol from his family's arsenal as his self-defense weapon, and his melee weapon was the power sword he carried with him, and he also carried several grenades with different functions on his waist Armed belt.

On the other hand, Remulle chose an automatic rifle as her main weapon. She has a soft spot for fully automatic firearms, and she is willing to ask the technical priest to do some processing and modification on it. Siegel looked at her automatic rifle. The holographic sight on the rifle and the small flamethrower hanging below.

This weapon already looks like a Christmas tree. The connecting part of the flamethrower and the gun is stamped with a mark of purity, and the prayer of the Mechanic Order is attached below.

Remulle disliked melee weapons, although most Anglican clerics would take pride in the fact that they would lay down their lives in close combat with the enemies of the Emperor.But Remulle really rarely carried melee weapons, whether it was a chainsaw weapon or an energy weapon. Apart from the bolter wrapped in the State Church's prayer, her remaining self-defense weapon was only a dagger.

Very ordinary dagger, looks good, but it is not made in Las World, and it does not have a monomolecular blade.

Both of them were wearing relatively light executor carapace. The exquisite workmanship made the armor much lighter. Both of them had the double-headed eagle and frost flower symbols on their armor.

Siegel's armored gauntlets were inlaid with sharp silver studs, and the protective plate of the carapace was replaced by a brand new one by the tech priests.

Remulle used a slim hunting suit to cover up the armor on her body. She didn't wear the robes of the State Church, but had the imprint of the State Church on her clothes.

The two found a meeting place at Chaodu Rail Transit Station.

"It seems that some have arrived early." Siegel looked at the two young Hive City nobles sitting on the ground at the traffic station. The servant beside him was carrying a few suitcases of luggage. Under their buttocks, there are two steaming cups of dessert.And standing behind the two is the thug hired by their family.The hive capital nobles sat on the ground, unscrupulously commenting on everyone passing by, evaluating whether they are worthy of the status of the hive nobles.

Siegel looked at their family crests. These family crests represented the identities of the nobles in the hive capital and were also the prerequisite for them to walk around in Sintila.

The two hive nobles saw Siegel's arrival and looked at him in surprise.

"Foster? Why are you here?"

Siegel looked at the coat of arms of the nobleman, he was from the Dean family.

"Seth, I have been asked to join this expedition."

"I'm not asking you this, shouldn't you be on a spaceship, exploring hard in the starry sky?"

"That's right, shouldn't you spread the glory of the emperor to those bumpkin barbarians, and then exchange some poor supplies from them? Hahahaha." Another nobleman added, his tone full of sarcasm and teasing .

This is the difference between rogue traders and planetary nobles, they only set their eyes on the planet, factories and continuous orders are all they have, and the rest of the time is just enjoyment and intrigue.

"Green, I believe that His Excellency Herbert has fulfilled his educational responsibility as your father. You should know what to call me." Siegel glanced at him lightly.Strictly speaking, they are Siegel's peers, or relatively younger, but without exception, they have not inherited titles and families.

"Sorry, Master Foster." The other party was choked by Siegel, and reluctantly apologized to Siegel, and Siegel ignored him.

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As time went by, more and more people arrived at the rail transit station. Siegel found that a total of 8 descendants of his family participated in this event, and everyone brought some thugs.Only myself and Remulle came together.

The Obote family, who lost the Saint Drews relic, did not appear. It seems that they are pinning all their hopes on Siegel, at least it seems that way.

Most of the nobles wore gorgeous armor, and a few servants took care of their own food and daily life. The main force of the expedition was their armed entourage. The shooter, perhaps a peripheral member of the family.

These nobles carefully avoided him after seeing Siegel, and Siegel didn't mind, just listening to the words in their mouths and capturing the information in them.

They seem to be imagining the honor they will get after retrieving the family treasure, and what's more, they are imagining a beautiful encounter with the "snitch". In their mouths, they call the snitch "Catwoman" or "Black cat".

And Eugene appeared in the team with three demi-human attendants, two Ogryns and a Leicester.It can be seen that this security configuration has been carefully considered by him. After all, only O'Grimin has enough strength to lead him out of danger.