Warhammer, Rogue Trader Notes

"Deploying the light spear means that the two ships cannot stand in a line of battle. Unless the Sun Hammer type light spear is used and the Las-type gravity cannon of the Golden Journey is replaced with the Yangyan-type laser macro cannon. But in this case, the damage method of the turret will become single." Father Mel quickly discovered the problems caused by this design idea, if the two ships stand in line of battle, the leader of the Golden Journey The position of the gun will become extremely awkward. Facing common types of artillery, it can neither take advantage of its own range advantage, nor can it take advantage of the firepower advantage brought by the reduced range.

The solution given by Mel is to replace all the cannons of the two ships with the ones with the longest range, but this way the damage method will become single. After all, the macro cannons of the projectile type can launch different types according to their needs. live ammunition.

"I think it's okay," Gloria still insisted on her own opinion, "Then the combat mission of the Golden Journey is very simple. You only need to use the artillery to overload the opponent's void shield with all your heart. The firepower of the light spear and HNA It is enough to tear apart an opponent who has lost the void shield, and the lost output means can be made up by torpedoes and HNA bombers."

Geletia kept filling in different combat parts on the simulation map of the golden ship. Except for an energy support device, the entire golden ship had no defensive equipment and relied entirely on its speed and range advantages to fight. .

Full of design ideas of her own style, Planet Agor gives her her own understanding of combat.

"But it will increase the difficulty of our procurement. The dynasty's liquidity is already very limited." Sandory Xi watched Gloria's behavior, "This kind of behavior will prolong the renovation time of the Golden Ship. Undoubtedly, it will slow down the expansion of the dynasty. It will be another sum of money after the two Lunar ships of Cypramundy are listed later."

"Dynasty's trade route is still providing funds. This purchase will continue until the repair of the golden ship is completed. The dynasty will continue to open up new routes. The funds should be enough to allow the golden ship to enter the list." Gloria retorted Sandolahi.

"Deep space voyages are not without cost, and the Dynasty has to set aside some funds to support the cause of Lord Ils." Sandolahi has a clearer impression of the funds of the Dynasty, and the trade routes established by the Dynasty in the void will be followed by She takes care of it.

Of course, Siegel couldn't watch his corporal leader of the void have a dispute with the chief steward of his dynasty.He stepped in to ease an increasingly tense exchange between the two parties.

Siegel picked up the drawings planned by Gloria, and it was obvious that she had been looking forward to this ship for a long time. The performance parameters and origin selection of each part of the ship were marked on it, and the utilization of the space of the ship was also carefully planned. simple calculation.

To put it bluntly, the group of Rogue Traders can earn and spend, from personal equipment to private armies to starships and their armaments, everything needs Throne Coins to meet their needs.

"We are companions of a dynasty, and we should be united. Since we foresee the possibility of difficulties in advance, we will find a way to overcome him in the next action."

Volume 71 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] The Blind Box

Tarsus, the storage area of ​​the Hive, held this noble salon here. Exquisite food and drinks were placed on the open-air table, and a large group of Hive nobles in obvious clothes gathered on the venue. Chairs, chatting casually before the event.Siegel sat at the front of them, and beside him sat Eugene, a bad friend,

He managed to escape from the Inquisition.But seeing Eugene's weight loss, Siegel felt that the trial court should lock him up for a while.Maybe it will keep him alive longer.

The atmosphere of this aristocratic salon is much different from what Siegel knows, because the people who come here are all family dandies. They have a soft spot for excitement, ostentation, and excitement. The weight after the last name.

In front of them was a hive noble named He, whose family contracted a considerable part of the storage area of ​​the Tarsus hive.Standing beside him are the Mechanicus, the low-level officials of the Ministry of the Interior, the defense team of the Ministry of Justice, and several engineering sentinel mechs.

The daily life of the nobles in the Hive City is very lavish, with luxurious clothes, exquisite decorations, and delicacies shipped from the star area. The cost of their daily living may be enough to cover the lifetime expenses of hundreds or thousands of low-level people.

Their desire for extravagant life is as difficult to satisfy as an abyss, from basic appetite to visual gorgeous performance; from obscene desire to "upper" artistic pursuit.These nobles tried every means to satisfy their desires.

And the industry that serves their desires is naturally booming in Hive City. Even now, the nobles of Hive City present are playing a primitive game of small and big, called blind box opening for short.

Tarsus is known as the lungs and stomach of Sintila, and the goods transported from outside must enter the entire Sintila market from Tarsus, and this planet with a population of 250 billion, her cargo throughput is very huge , over time, more and more unowned freight containers are abandoned in storage areas.

They were abandoned for a variety of reasons. In fact, no one would delve into why containers were abandoned here. In Sintila, in the Empire, the least surprising thing is that accidents happen.

In the very beginning, these abandoned containers were dismantled by the owner of the storage area, and the goods inside were used to offset its storage costs in the storage area.However, after several families opened up heretical items and were approached by the Tribunal, everyone realized the risks of such behavior.

It's exciting when you collect heretical items, but it's even more exciting when the Inquisition comes to your door.So some business ghosts came up with such a method to recover the cost, organized a noble salon, and asked other nobles to pay for these unowned things.

In order to avoid the recurrence of heretical items, the organizers of these activities have brought in the Mechanicus, the Ministry of the Interior, and the Ministry of Justice to endorse their actions, and the distribution of benefits is unknown.

Strictly speaking, the aristocrats with such low-level tastes didn't look down on them at all, but those dandies who liked to join in the fun quickly accepted this new thing.This has become a place where dudes of different forces compete for their "financial power" and "knowledge level", how to analyze the contents of the box with some simple information, and obtain the box at a suitable price, or prevent the opponent from getting the box they want , has become the greatest pleasure of these dandies.

Their enthusiasm made this model quickly popular.

Eugene likes this kind of activity very much. He is more like a gambler than those dandy financial competitions, and he is happy to pick up the leaks in these boxes. It's like discovering cheat codes while playing a game.

Siegel's vision is at least several orders of magnitude stronger than those middle-class dudes in the hive capital, and Eugene discovered that you can buy things that Siegel understands, and you can gamble on things that Siegel doesn't understand!This not only ensures their own benefits, but also does not reduce the experience of this salon.

When Eugene was talking about his discovery with great interest, Siegel looked at the fat man speechlessly, "You know how to cheat and lower the difficulty."

Siegel has no interest in this activity. There are a lot of things about the dynasty. He is more out to relax and change his mind.

Several containers have already completed the transaction, and the mechanical priest gave the origin, recipient and other information of the boxes, and Siegel judged that the boxes were of little value.After the transaction, opening the box was indeed as Siegel said, which made Eugene both excited and anxious. He was excited that Siegel's plug-in was still as easy to use as ever, but he was worried that he hadn't opened it yet.

It's fun to watch others lose, but it's even more fun to make money yourself.

"Didn't the Colleen family give you any rewards last time?" Siegel asked after rejecting the value of a box again.

The Corinne family provides financial services to a large number of nobles in the Calixis sector, even if those families are excommunicated, they don't care.Theoretically, this is the case, but it is often spread in private that the Colleen family has embezzled the property of many families who have lost power.

"Be quiet, be quiet, the credit of the Corinne family comes first, how could it be possible to embezzle other people's property secretly?" Eugene denied Siegel's statement, and then quietly said to Siegel: "A little bit of treatment , gave some change."

Siegel sneered, so the Colleen family has always stood firmly on the side of the empire, and strictly restricted their children from being involved in any work other than business.After all, as long as the empire does not fall, the legacy of those families or planets destroyed by the empire in their treasury will be rich enough.

The Kelin family also used their huge assets to buy connections from other families. After the Marchenko family was excommunicated, it was the Kelin family who extended a helping hand to make them come back.Of course, they had many enemies as well. Miss Aratia, the highly acclaimed member of the Colleen family, was poisoned and seriously ill, and died in the end.

A container was moved to the exhibition area by an engineering sentinel. To my surprise, the mechanical priest said that the information on this box was not completely recorded on the Thinker, and the source was unknown. The recipient was a hive noble who disappeared decades ago. .

Everyone present looked at the box and began to discuss it. Even the dandies knew that some things should not be touched. The sign on the container was no different from the usual cargo container. Although it looked tattered, there was nothing damaged. look.

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Volume 72 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] can't rest yet.

Some people began to test the quotation, and Siegel recalled the previous details. Each engineering sentinel has a fixed load, so the weight of the goods in the container can be judged by the number of sentry mechs, so that the items for better estimation.

Judging from the number of sentinels before, the weight inside this container may be quite large. In fact, the space of this kind of container holds such a heavy thing itself is a kind of information.

The family that disappeared decades ago was a military aristocrat above Sintila. This is the information Siegel heard from the subordinates of the dandies present. As for the reason for the disappearance of the entire family, it is completely unsearchable.

Siegel doesn't know this family well. He heard it for the first time today, and he can only analyze it from the only news.

Just as the situation where Siegel was in deep thought was also a message to Eugene, when he noticed that Siegel was in deep thought while observing the new container carefully, Eugene knew that it was time for him to act.

In the Calixis sector, if man-made factors are not taken into account, there are not many planets where contemplators cannot obtain location information. Quatis is one, but the only wine that can be produced there is simply not enough. this weight.

The other is a forged planet called Midas that Mel told himself. She is a lingering mystery in the Mechanic Cult of the Calixis sector. The existence of this planet was used by the Mechanics to deceive It is blocked by means, and the name of this planet will not appear in the records of the thinkers.

Mel once told himself that in Rath's records Midas was a magnificent forge world capable of building super-heavy vehicles, voidships, and even titan components.

If this forging world can be found, it will be a great boon for the Calixis star field.

But the problem is that she can't find it. Midas doesn't know why, as long as someone remembers the existence of this casting planet, she will always be missing.

The most favorable evidence to prove the existence of the Midas planet is the sporadic appearance of Midas power gloves on the market.However, Siegel didn't care about this. He felt that the logical order of "military nobles—military supplies—heavy—unknown casting world—Midas" seemed acceptable.

There is also a high probability of accidents happening.

When Siegel was thinking about logic in his mind, Eugene had already bought the box at a high price, and he patted Siegel on the shoulder vigorously to wake him up from his contemplation.

The two watched the servitor step forward and cut off the outer door of the container with hydraulic pliers, only to find that there was a thick and strong safe inside.Eugene became even more excited, which meant that the contents inside were quite valuable. He stood up and scrambled open the safe without any aristocratic image. He couldn't wait to see what he got.

This time, not only the Servant, but also the Sentinel Mecha stepped forward to help the Servant forcefully break open the heavy box, and when the safe was opened, another safe appeared in front of everyone.

Eugene's complexion had become a little ugly, and when the third safe appeared, his complexion had already turned pale, and everyone around him was whispering.

Finally, no safe reappeared, and Eugene hurried into the box, afraid that he would not be the first person to see the gains from this gambling.

I don't know how long it took before he laughed crazily through the safe, which startled Siegel. He put his right hand on the power sword he carried with him, and saw the fat man laughing as soon as he walked over. Then he walked out of the safe, holding a wine bottle in his hand, the cork had already been opened by him.

"It's done!" Eugene put his hand holding the wine bottle on Siegel's shoulder.

Perhaps in less than a second, Siegel smelled the breathtaking aroma in the wine bottle, and he even felt that he was in a trance for a moment, "This is?!"

"It's all inside!" He showed Siegel the letters on the bottle label, which also allowed Siegel to confirm her real body.

Catalina white wine, the pearl and treasure of Quartis, a fine wine that exists in a dream.Her legends abound, and legends can kill an overindulgent drinker with sheer pleasure.Or to put it another way, what Siegel felt just now was enough to make a good drinker either give up drinking or turn to Slaanesh.

This drink has a price and no market, no matter how many throne coins Eugene spent just now, the harvest this time is enough for him to spend freely in the next activities.

Siegel and Eugene returned to their work, and Eugene poured some wine into their glasses. While enjoying the bottle of fine wine, they continued to participate in the sale.

But since then, the sale of the entire blind box has fallen into a strange situation, with malicious competition and targeting emerging endlessly,

Eugene didn't care at all, he was immersed in the pleasure brought by the drink and couldn't extricate himself.

Siegel had to use the communication beads to contact Laurentina, and let her lead someone to pick the two of them out of this place of right and wrong.

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In this way, it is meaningless to participate in this blind box salon.When Laurentina came here, Siegel helped Eugene out of the salon.Eugene was indeed a bit too drunk, and he was talking about giving Siegel half of the harvest this time.

Siegel didn't answer, but silently stuffed Eugene into the car and asked the driver to send Eugene and the few boxes of drinks back.

Siegel stood on the side of the road and watched the vehicle disappear into the darkness.Laurentina leaned over and smelled his body in a serious manner.

"What did you smell?" Siegel looked at Laurentina who was beside him. Everyone on his boat had the habit of drinking alcohol. After all, living in the void always has a way to release stress.

"It's really a wonderful smell." The three Agors all have the iconic red pupils, even if they refract the messy light projected from the dome of the hive city, they all have a ruby-like bright feeling.

"That's right, a good thing, but intemperance is the key to degeneration." Siegel shook the remaining half bottle of wine in his hand, and handed it to Laurentina: "Take it back and give it to others to taste."

After finishing speaking, the two walked towards the storage area of ​​the Foster family...

"I have already used the communicator to contact Xinggang, and the customs clearance procedures are all smooth, and it will be transferred to the warehouse soon." Laurentina relayed the previous work situation to Siegel.

Today, a transport fleet from Flax arrived at the port. Siegel still has a lot of work to do, and he can't rest yet...

Volume 73 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] The Transport Fleet

A transport team composed of heavy-duty crawler transport vehicles drove into the storage area of ​​the Foster family. The servants used communicators and command lights to direct the vehicles arriving at the unloading site to put down the oversized containers and then let them drive away.

After the transshipment of the goods inside is completed, these iron sheets will be transferred to the airport above Tarsus in a unified manner.

Strictly speaking, Siegel can't help here. He simply expressed his condolences to the young captain of the family branch through the communicator, and then completed all his functions.Siegel strolled back and forth in the huge garage, watching these behemoths transported from Vraks, Leman Russ, petrified lizard, Medusa, Hydra, these classic armored forces of the Imperial Guard.

The mechanical priests in the warehouse inspected and prayed to each armored vehicle's machine soul before entering the warehouse.In the front, Father Mel led several colleagues from the Mechanic Order to surround a giant steel beast, probably checking the condition of her machine soul. The two iconic cannon tubes on the giant beast declared her identity.

The Minotaur-class self-propelled artillery, which is an armored force of the same age as Valdo, is equipped with a unique double-linked ground cannon, facing the rear of the vehicle, which means that this self-propelled artillery is reversed into the gun position, This makes her a front-line support tank that can follow the front-line troops, quickly project firepower in various dangerous areas, and attack the enemy's command units.

Both the Minotaur and the Valdor are based on the turf of the Malcador heavy tank.All three vehicles, plagued by weak engines, gradually withdrew from the main battlefield and became relics of the Astra Militarum.

When Siegel saw her, he knew that the Vraks smuggling was going well.

There are at least a few hundred Minotaurs stored underground in Vraks.For the Waldo destroyer, which is revered as a regiment-level sacred object by the armored regiment of the Imperial Guard, Siegel likes its neutron laser cannon full of black technology.But Siegel is far from Waldo for the Minotaur, which is also revered as a sacred object.

Siegel has been persecuted by the aesthetics of this universe for decades, but he still doesn't like the Minotaur's design ideas.In terms of quantity, this thing may be less than the number of Astartes, but he didn't think it was useful at all, and she deserved to be replaced by the petrified lizard.

Although he has some complaints about this self-propelled artillery, she can serve as an information marker that the transfer work is going well.

On the contrary, if a Chimera personnel carrier appears here, then Siegel is going to go to Vraks to wipe the ass of the family's basket.

"Why do you look at her with such an expression?" Mel turned his head and saw Siegel looking at the creation of the God of All Machines with an intriguing expression, and asked him, "How much is this chariot?" Beautiful, full of mechanical beauty."

"It seems that I don't have a deep understanding of the beauty of machinery..." Of course, Siegel would not argue with Mel on the issue of mechanical design. Even if she was already a potential technical heretic, her pride in science and technology was still strong. Halve points.

In addition, Siegel really doesn't understand.

"Of course, otherwise you are worrying about your sage's promotion." Although Mel's promotion still has no shadow, she doesn't seem to be so worried. It seems that the large amount of data cores obtained from the first arrow has given She does quite a bit of research.

"Wow!" A few barks interrupted the conversation between the two, and Siegel looked at the source of the sound with some surprise. There were not no military dogs in the barracks. Dogs are still good helpers for the people of the empire.The voice that surprised him came from inside the warehouse.

Two mechanical mastiffs ran out of the warehouse, one of them holding a metal plate in its mouth.

"Your?" Siegel looked at the two mechanical mastiffs, one of which looked particularly fierce, with two laser guns attached to its shoulders, and a reciprocating chainsaw in its mouth.To be honest, the picture of two mechanical mastiffs acting like normal dogs around people and competing with each other looks a little strange.

"Yes, there is a bigger one that is not convenient to take out, I closed it and put it in the box." Mel stretched out his hand and stroked the head of the mechanical mastiff.

"Why did you suddenly think of doing this?"

"As a master of telepathy, Liz has never found a suitable pet for her. Two days ago, she bought two nightingales at the exchange as temporary substitutes. I saw her. From her, I seemed to see myself , neither has its own cataract, nor those rare fighter servants."

"I can only make do with dogs." The resentment in Mel's words seems to have overflowed. The sages of the Mechanic Order may not be inferior to laser guns and automatic guns in the study of machine servants. Servants are a terrifying number.After various experiments and designs, modified servants full of "scientific and technological aesthetics" emerge in endlessly.

Siegel looked at the well-behaved mechanical mastiffs under her hands. The prices of these "pets" were also high. Except for one of the more classic styles, the other two were serious running dogs. A product designed with the purpose of killing people.

"Didn't you buy another fighting eagle?" These cyber animals are the favorite of the Ministry of Justice. They track, suppress riots, and fight. These "pets" can fully make up for the owner's weakness in battle.

"I bought it, and it's sitting on the streetlight outside. You plan to meet it?" Mel didn't look up, and focused all her attention on the "pet" in front of her. She pointed the direction to Siegel with her servo arm.

Siegel shook his head, and Mel was obviously teasing himself again.

The period of rest in the hive capital is also the time for everyone to rearm themselves, and the Foster family guarantees all the expenses of the members of the dynasty.The elite feeling of being rearmed is also a hint for them to regroup.

"I asked the mechanical priest on the Navy Yard before, the maintenance of the Golden Journey will soon come to an end, have you figured out where we are going next?" Mel asked about their next actions plan.

Siegel is also considering this matter. During this period of time, he is also looking up the family records about the Calixis star area and the Kronos expansion area. After comparing the star maps, he did find some galaxies that can be tried to explore.

"Speaking of which, isn't there a legend that there is a galaxy in the expanded area that is full of habitable worlds?" Mel didn't play with her two pets, and turned to Siegel to put forward her own opinion.

"I've heard of it, but the dynasties who tried to find that galaxy all disappeared in the void. Judging from my experience, there is a high probability that there will be Eldar waiting for us in that galaxy."

"Don't worry, I will discuss it with Liz and Cassia before making a decision." Siegel replied to his prospector.

Volume 74 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Igrein

Although each of Sintila's nests is bad, they are happy to separate each other.On Sintila, there is a quip in the non-Gunmetal City area: the Gunmetal Men don't even know the color of the Enforcer's uniform.In Gunmetal City, Sintila and the Empire's law enforcement forces have been facing a very grim situation.

Due to some special reasons, they had to show their tolerance to Gunmetal City.The consequence of this behavior was that the Ministry of Justice had to station an army permanently in Guntong City to ensure that he would not cause any trouble.