Warhammer, Rogue Trader Notes

He picked it up slowly, the ancient design, the old feel, and the mark on it, Siegel recognized the origin of this shoulder armor.

He laughed, the sacred object of Drews, the precision-cast power armor parts, and a piece of parchment on the table. Siegel picked up the parchment, and the beautiful characters on it were written by a woman.

"Let's count it as your reward!"

Siegel shook his head. He carefully put away the shoulder armor, and then took out a piece of parchment again. He still had other things to do.

For example, for the contract he made to the Blood Knight, Siegel sat behind the desk and wrote a series of orders for supplies on the parchment with a quill pen.

"Master Siegel, are you looking for me?" Sandolasy walked in and watched as Siegel handed a piece of parchment to herself.

She looked at what was written on the parchment, "What are these?"

"Hurry up and gather these equipments. After all are ready, let the family's transport fleet send these items to the Kronos expansion area, the Winters galaxy, an abandoned space station on the orbit of planet No. 3, and then Never mind."

The parchment was filled with supplies that Siegel handed over to the Blood Knights. He hoped that with his help, the Blood Knights' wandering life would be a little better.

He undoubtedly couldn't get some exclusive equipment for space fighters from the Forge World, but he should be able to get some other supplies.

Prepare some individual weapons such as bolters, chainsaw swords, and hotmelts. It is estimated that there is no way for the Rand series of vehicles, but some rhinos and thunderhawks can still be raised.

Including those residents of the Karalok area, they will also be sent to the Blood Knights. As for whether they will become servants of the war group, blood slaves, or become a space warrior, it is not something Siegel considers.

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Even the Foster family was not immune to a family banquet with the characteristics of Sintila. The family restaurant was magnificently decorated, even if there were only a few people, the entire hall was still lit with all the lights.

Quality food from other worlds in the Calixis sector is served, prepared by family chefs.

The meticulously roasted ammy beef is covered with shiny grease, and the sea creatures from the worlds of Agor and Pearl Moon are disassembled, sliced ​​into thin slices and placed on the dining table.

In this universe, the more ferocious animals are, the higher their food value will be.This rule is no exception even for alien races. The viscera of some horrible creatures can be used to accompany wine, the liver of ambulls and the eyes of claw devils are both of considerable food value.

Fasting is not required by the general teachings of the State Church, but some sects choose to do so.Remulle and the Dynasty members are also at

Enjoy this dinner with Siegel and the others at the dining table. There are a lot of sweets on the plate in front of her, pies made of various exotic fruits, disappearing from her at the speed of light. Siegel seriously doubts that her stomach There is a wormhole that can hold various things.

He took a sip of the red wine and looked at the other people at the table. Gloria and Skadi had returned from Tarsus. reunion at the manor.

"The recruitment work is almost done. After a month of screening, all the sailors have no problem with their purity." Gloria casually reported to him about the situation of the ship's recruitment of sailors, "I will report back before I come At the void port, the maintenance work on the Golden Journey continues."

Siegel nodded and said to Gloria, "Thank you, do you want to dance after dinner? I remember you like it very much."

Gloria smiled charmingly and replied, "Of course, I'm honored to invite you to dance with me?"

"I'm happy." Siegel also agreed.

Even Cassia, who has been wandering in space all year round, must admit that the ground has a sense of security that neither space nor huge starships can bring.These people wandering in the sea of ​​stars will be more deeply attached to the planet.

There are too many dangers and unknowns in space, and those thrilling experiences constitute their capital to show off, but also become their deepest fear.

Siegel was a little fascinated listening to the music. At this moment, his mood was extremely relaxed.

Volume 61 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] The Dictator-class Cruiser

The Calixis fleet has announced their list of ships to be decommissioned, and Siegel is flipping through the relevant information provided by the Navy in his study.

The members of the dynasty are also in the study, and they also hold information about the ships in their hands.

They will discuss which ship to choose as the main target of this auction. The Navy ships have a small fleet of ships that have been decommissioned. The Imperial Navy chose to decommission them all.

This matter has indeed attracted the attention of many Rogue Merchant Dynasty.

Siegel has seen several Rogue Trader dynasty patriarchs appear in Sibelius in the past few days, and they undoubtedly intend to participate in this competition.In this auction, the two empire cruisers are undoubtedly the focus of attention. It is indeed rare for such battleship-class ships to retire. The Navy usually allows them to serve cruisers and above-class warships until they fall into the star sea.

So their decommissioning did have a certain element of chance and coincidence in it. Siegel looked at the information on the ship, and the Navy's manual described their injuries in detail. They suffered extremely serious trauma during the expedition.

Undoubtedly, they are no longer suitable for the high-intensity combat of the navy, and they can only choose to retire them.

A cruiser is a moon-class common in the Imperial Navy, called the Coral Light. She fought against the Tau and Tyranid Zerg during the Achilles Expedition, and repelled the Zerg invasion in the last battle, but The fleet she was in was also severely damaged. She was towed back to the port by other ships in the same group. After being inspected by the Mechanics, it was judged that field repairs could not be carried out in the Jericho sector. She and other severely damaged ships were sent back to Kalisi. Star District.

A cornerstone-level ship like the Moon-class cruiser naturally attracted a lot of attention.Although the ship was severely damaged and conservatively expected to undergo a one-year overhaul in the dock, Gloria highly recommended this starship.After all, the flagship of the Dynasty itself is also a Lunar class, and they have rich experience in driving and handling, and the ship officers only need to transfer part of it from the Golden Journey.

Siegel admitted that what Gloria said was indeed reasonable. Since the financial support promised by Eugene was not in place, the cash flow on hand of the Foster family was not enough to compete with others for two cruisers at the same time, so he needed further research. trade-offs.

"Actually, I like the other one." Siegel put the information of another cruiser on the table, and he continued: "This Dictator-class cruiser can undoubtedly enrich our offensive methods."

Siegel is indeed more interested in the remaining cruiser, which is a Dictator-class cruiser called the Assaulter, which is a modification of the Lunar class. Reconstructed as a carrier-based aircraft launch platform, she can not only carry Fury-class interceptors and Starhawk bombers for deep space operations, but also release atmospheric aircraft such as Thunderbolts above planetary orbits.

This class of cruisers has a very flexible combat power that has been tested in actual combat. They can not only chase down pirates, but also use the carrier-based air fleet to raid hostile worlds.

In the diverse community of Rogue Traders, this type of ship has received considerable attention. After all, the Dictator-class cruiser is much more flexible than the Moon-class cruiser when attacking a planet. Let her maintain a good fighting level in different combat situations.

Gloria re-read the ship's data, "The combat effectiveness of the carrier-based aircraft is worse than that of the macro artillery, and her damage is also much more serious. She may have to stay in the dock for two days. years. If you like this type of starship, you can order one in Cyplamondi."

Siegel really likes this kind of ship. The Ranger and the Coral Light also suffered great trauma. The alien torpedo tore a huge hole in her bottom deck.The exaggerated wounds allowed the Assaulter to stay in the repair dock for longer than another Lunar ship, and this kind of wounds also brought certain hidden dangers to her future operations.

But it also means she is a lot cheaper than another cruiser.This is also a situation that cannot be ignored. Although the subsequent maintenance costs are included in the calculation, the Throne Coins required by the Assaulter may be more, but the content of the installment transaction is still better than the full transaction for Siegel. Much easier.

"We will have a few ships in the next few years, but they are all moon-level without exception. Even so, those ships are the purchase orders we sent to the Mechanicus five years ago. The orders of the Imperial Navy are almost full. Full of opportunities for 'carrier' type ships in the Adeptus Mechanicum's dockyard."

Siegel explained his request to Gloria. He could understand Gloria's slight dissatisfaction. After all, as the captain of the void, she was the most likely candidate to take over as the captain of the ship. Judging from her experience , she undoubtedly prefers ships with heavy firepower like the Gothic-class cruiser.

In fact, the confrontation between the battleship faction and the aircraft carrier faction is still stalemate even in the space period, but in the empire, the big ship and cannon school is undoubtedly the winner of this struggle.Although the aircraft carrier has a very flexible scope of application, compared with heavy fire weapons such as light spears and nova cannons, the bombs dropped by carrier-based aircraft are too weak.

Moreover, compared to the shells of macro guns, the cost of carrier-based aircraft is much more expensive, which makes the comprehensive cost performance of aircraft carriers in this universe really unsatisfactory.

Therefore, the number of aircraft carrier-type ships in the entire imperial fleet is somewhat small. Whether it is a provocative-class light cruiser or an exorcist-class large cruiser, these starships carrying carrier-based aircraft are often superior in terms of overall performance. , but the performance on the battle line is only unsatisfactory. Although the energy in their engines can be concentrated and supplied to the more powerful macro guns or light spear arrays, less tubes means less.

But Siegel attaches great importance to the performance of these "aircraft carriers" when they invade a planet. After all, rogue traders and navy masters are still different.Those soldiers can unscrupulously launch orbital bombing on the planet to show their firepower, or they can deploy a large number of troops to cooperate with them to conquer a planet under the mobilization of the Ministry of Military Affairs.

And this kind of hammer-like conquest of the planet seems too rough to the Rogue Traders. This kind of behavior will undoubtedly destroy the wealth on the planet and increase the cost of later reconstruction.

Gloria finally accepted Siegel's argument. After all, the latter has less competitive pressure on the Foster family. It must be better for the dynasty to have a new ship naturalized than to get nothing.

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Let’s briefly talk about the construction speed of cruisers. If we build a Lunar-class cruiser from scratch, that is to say, if every screw is required to be produced by the foundry world, then this Lunar-class cruiser will take about ten years to complete.

But obviously we all know that warships cannot be built in such a model, just like the famous saying of the designer of the Varyag, that is, how many departments and how many factories, I can’t remember clearly.

Under the empire's mass-produced industrial model, the normal launch time of a moon-class ship only takes one year.

So how many forge worlds does the empire have?8% of the planets in the empire are cast planets, if according to the empire owns 100 million planets.

There are 8 forging worlds, and up to [-] cruisers can be launched every year.

At this time, you will find out how unreliable it is that there are only 600 moon-level cruisers in the Obscure Starfield where the Eye of Terror is located, which means that the cruisers in the entire Obscure Starfield may not be 2000 including other modifications.

Volume 62 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Imperial Navigators

For other types of ships in this auction, Siegel is not so interested in paying too much attention to them. Ships of light cruisers and below can be built in non-forge worlds. There are a certain number of light ships, and they roam the main trade routes of the family to drive away the armed forces who covet the wealth of the dynasty.

Siegel has always been very enthusiastic about buying starships. In other words, besides earning throne coins, his other pleasure is to increase the armed forces in his hands, whether it is the PDF or the escort fleet of the dynasty caravan, although the current number seems to be It's still not much, but the accumulation of less makes more. Everything must have a process of accumulation.

Siegel once estimated that even if he could live until the start of Abaddon's No.13 Black Expedition, the armed forces in his hands were still very limited, which made him more willing to keep the armed forces in his hands at a relatively sophisticated level, An elite force similar to a kill squad that can execute scalpel-like tactical strikes.

Some Tom Clancy-style combat modes seem to be inconsistent with the style of this universe, but in fact the empire does not have such military power. In a big way, the Assassin Court is the special force of the empire. In a small way, the trial Sometimes the official will send four unlucky ones to investigate cases in the Hive Capital.

These teams will use their own equipment and tactical advantages to achieve their own goals.Siegel is also happy to equip his military with the best equipment, but unfortunately he can't get those political commissars who graduated from the Academy of Loyalty at all. The spiritual construction of his PDF regiment is done by a few priests of the state religion .

The best thing about this universe is that the family property he saved now can still be used after 200 years.The transfer of materials in Vraks is still going on, and the transport fleet of the Foster family will store those "intercepted" weapons and equipment on those important planets, silently sealing them up, and preparing them for use when he needs them.

Siegel looked at the remaining ships on the information column.Sandolahi has already begun to raise the working capital of the current dynasty. If he is lucky, he may be able to win some additional ships, but the specific situation will be discussed later.

"It's okay to choose this Sole Carrier class, but we don't seem to have any experience in commanding HNA pilots?" Mel asked such a question, "There is a HNA base on Sintila, and we seem to have to dig some more from the Navy." I will also contact Lars to recruit more technical priests to maintain these machines."

"It doesn't matter. Even if I really buy this ship, it will be a long time before she starts sailing again. I just let the family members continue to poach people from the navy." Siegel said after thinking for a while.

There are absolutely enough pilots in Imperial HNA, and the squadron commanders also have a large enough number.But the problem is that HNA pilots are indeed technical personnel worthy of the name.Compared with the artillery deck, which is mostly workers who calibrate the loading of shells, the various personnel on the flight deck are solid technical jobs, and these people can only be replenished on those prosperous space stations or industrial planets.

"Is HNA's personnel training difficult?" Liz looked at everyone discussing these technicians with some confusion.

"They are very professional, and compared with other personnel, they have to pay more salaries to recruit them." Siegel explained to Liz, "Of course, their performance is also worth the consumption."

"Then why don't we train some ourselves? This kind of behavior does not violate the laws of the empire." Liz said: "Mel will also teach those technical priests who follow her, and I will also train the children in the Star Language Choir I think that no matter how professional HNA pilots are, they can still be trained. The initial investment may be higher, but as time goes by, the subsequent costs will gradually decrease. If there are too many trainees, we can also Use these pilots to offset part of the empire's taxes."

Siegel is indeed used to plucking the empire's wool, but the Rogue Traders are like this. Most of their things are obtained from the official organization of the empire with golden throne coins.

Sometimes the imperial officials are unwilling to let the rogue traders take away the elites of the Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy. Many times, when the money is in place, the Empire can only pinch its nose to recognize it.After all, the fact that a penny stumps a hero also exists in the empire.

Siegel carefully considered Liz's proposal. This proposal really touched his heart, especially the tax deduction proposal later. After all, for the empire, tax arrears are absolutely not allowed, which is a crime second only to treason .

Moreover, sending these HNA personnel to the Imperial Navy can also expand the influence of the Foster family.It's easy to talk to those admirals in the future, so they don't want to look at themselves like thieves.

"Sounds good, but I want to talk to Governor Harkos about this matter, at least let him know about it." Governor Harkos also holds two positions as Governor Sintila and Governor of Calixis Star Region He usually entrusts his subordinates to deal with Sintila's affairs, but it is obviously unreasonable if he does not tell Governor Harkos about this matter.

The bureaucratic system is like this. Sometimes the benefits may not be in place, but the face must be in place.

"This is indeed a good way. We can find a few nautical instructors and train a group of pilots from scratch. When the ship is repaired and ready to serve, we can have a group of pilots who can be used. At that time, we only need to recruit from the Navy. Some squadron leaders are enough." Mel's mechanical fingers tapped back and forth, and his brain calculated the specific cost at the speed of light, "Including maintenance personnel can also be trained together, but it's a pity that the technical priest still wants me to apply to the foundry world. But in general , the longer it takes, the more we benefit from it."

"But having said that, Siegel, how sure are you of buying this battleship?"

"If I'm only pursuing this one, I'm about 80% sure to win her." Siegel said casually, "From the perspective of the rogue traders who have returned to Sintila, we don't have many competitors. Even if We did not win this starship this time, and HNA is also an important part of our future military power."

Siegel has already obtained a list of several Rogue Traders. At present, he is still a relatively strong Rogue Trader Dynasty among them, but until the last moment, no one dares to guarantee that something will happen.

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Volume 63 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Governor Harkos

The extremely luxurious decoration in the palace shows the status of the owner. The golden portrait of the emperor overlooks all living beings on the dome, and the sculptures of the emperor's saints are carved with stone around the corridor.Servants, clerks, scholars, Mechanicians and nuns are busy all day in this palace. This is the Qing Palace, the place with the greatest and most concentrated power in the Calixis sector.

It is also the residence of Governor Harkos, and Siegel is sitting outside the Governor's private office at this time, waiting for the other party to summon him.

A slave nun came to Siegel, and she said to Siegel after a sky eagle salute:

"Your Excellency Foster, Governor Harkos is ready to receive your visit."

Servant and Clerical Sisters often held important positions in government agencies, and although they rarely held the highest level of administrators, they were important advisers to these imperial officials.The root cause of this situation is their fanatical belief in the emperor, and their high loyalty to the empire makes their official careers usually very smooth.

Compared with their rights in official career, the nuns care more about the refusal of the elites of the empire to accept their help.After all, an imperial dignitary refused the help from the emperor's daughter, and the information behind this inevitably made people a little worried.

Siegel stood up, followed the nuns into Harkos's private office, said it was a private office, and the space inside was still huge. In addition to the imperial sky eagle, the gear logo of the Adeptus Mechanicus could be seen everywhere, haha Governor Kos has a certain Mechanician background.

Among the government departments of the empire, members of the Mechanic Order accounted for a large proportion of the government's office staff, and the technical representatives and low-level maintenance personnel of each department had a background in the Mechanic Church.Although the Adeptus Mechanicus is nominally independent, it is separated from the righteousness of the empire, and it is difficult for Mars to unify the foundry worlds all over the galaxy.

Siegel straightened his body and walked into the reception room with a battle-tested posture. He saw Governor Harkos, who was sitting in his reception room, watching Siegel walk in with a serious expression and fierce eyes. .

Mario Hackos, a member of an ancient family from Terra, Moff of the Calixis sector, a position he has held for 150 years.

Unlike the nobles of Sintila, he is tall and as hard as granite.He sat upright like a soldier, wearing a white robe with a huge imperial sky eagle printed on it, and the saber at his waist was a gift from Lars to congratulate him on becoming the governor of the Calixis sector.It is said that he only sleeps 4 hours a day and has to review the economic statements of the star sector every day.Under the effects of rejuvenation surgery and drugs, he still looks like a man in his prime, in good spirits.

Parts of his skull and eyes have been replaced with mechanical prosthetics, which are said to aid him in spotting subtle errors in those tables.

"Your Excellency Foster, welcome." His voice was hoarse, with a sense of tearing, and Siegel watched him stretch out his finger and pointed to the chair beside him.

"I salute you, Mr. Harcus." Siegel was not polite to the other party, and sat directly on the chair beside him. The other party was a tough and serious person.

Harkos pursues power politics, and he is also a powerful figure, but he pays little attention to what happens on a single planet. He prefers to focus on the overall situation. He focuses on tithe collection, monitoring psykers and rebel groups, And maintain the majesty of the empire.

"I read the Foster family's tax report last year. Your Excellency Foster, if the nobles of the empire are as dedicated as you, our work will be much easier." Harcus even praised others, but his tone was extremely tough.

"It's not easy. You can't expect those people who only focus on the planet to make long-term plans. Many people can't recognize the symbiotic relationship between themselves and the empire, and we have seen more, so we naturally understand that the empire is in this universe. What does it mean?" Siegel still excused a few words for the nobles.

In the empire, how much knowledge of the universe can reflect the importance the authorities attach to people, whether it is positive or negative; and those who don't know much about the universe usually think that they can be abandoned.

"But that's not the reason for them to evade taxes!" Harkos complained with his eyes wide open, and then said to Siegel, "What are you visiting me for today?"

"Some things about Cintila, I think it's better to tell you. Of course, it's good for Cintila and the empire."

"You know I don't care much about Xintila's affairs, but for your sake, I'll still listen."

"The first thing is that I plan to start a pilot training academy in Sintila to train pilots for Imperial HNA."

"Is this necessary? There are many planets in the empire that have specialized pilots, and we don't need to compete with them." Governor Harkos was a little puzzled, "Sintila's source of troops, Mr. Foster, I usually don't care much about reputation, but The performance of the Sintila soldiers is really not in line with their status."

"Because of this, I think the pilot academy is necessary. Our aristocratic officers have all kinds of bad habits, but HNA pilots can tolerate and satisfy their aristocratic temperament. A flight academy can lower the The proportion of noble officers in our fusiliers, I think it can improve the combat effectiveness of the Sintila fusiliers to a certain extent, and it can also ease the family conflicts of many families."

In Sintila, the nobles who entered the imperial guard were usually the place where the heirs of the nobles who had no inheritance rights, were stubborn, and wanted to get rid of the control of the family. The nobles of Sintila were more willing to send their own family elites to the Imperial Navy.

Although HNA is not taken seriously in the Imperial Navy, it is a department under the name of the Imperial Navy anyway.

Harkos laughed, he looked at Siegel and said, "Sounds good, what do I need to do?"

"The main thing is to let you know. I'm already going through the relevant procedures. It would be great if you can serve as the honorary principal of this aviation academy."

This condition sounds very tempting, but Harkos shook his head and rejected the proposal. He said to Siegel: "Forget it, I have no interest in this, and I am entangled in government affairs."