Warhammer, Rogue Trader Notes

"Normal time for us to arrive at Sibelius should be two hours later." Igrein and Siegel sat together, leaning against the wall at one end of the carriage. "In other words, the rescue force from the hive capital will take at least two hours to arrive."

The two exchanged the current situation while counting the ammunition in their hands.Igrain took off her high heels and threw them aside. Her dress was covered with dust, and her stockings were also damaged in many places.

"There should be a leader in the other compartment." Siegel analyzed his own situation, "At least the chief of the guard of this train should be there, otherwise it would not be able to survive now."

"Damn it, I was forced into such a mess by the refugees in the wilderness." Igrein stretched her toes and gently massaged the soles of her feet with her fingers. She crawled to a corpse and took off the other person's shoes , put it on without hesitation.

"What can be concluded now is that this group of predators definitely did not appear here simply, someone must have instructed them behind the scenes. As nomads, their equipment is very luxurious. I guess there is some big man in this car who became them The goal." Siegel didn't pay attention to the scene in front of him, the current situation was a little tense, and he needed to concentrate his energy.

Hearing Siegel's narration, Igrain was stunned for a while, then turned his head and stared at Siegel.Siegel was a little strange to be looked at by Igrein, and he quickly realized the meaning in the eyes of the other party, "No, my enemy is either in the expansion area or buried. It must not be me."

"Not long ago, the trial court cleaned up the six families of the upper nest nobles inside and out."

"Aren't they shy?" Siegel felt that Igrein might be the main target of the raiders.Her mother, Offie, is known for her heroism and courage in the entire expansion area. This kind of person has as many enemies as there are friends, and her mother once cut off the arm of a core member of the Marchenko family before going to sea. This hatred has not yet been solved. Woolen cloth.

The sporadic to intensive gunfire outside indicated that the opponent's attack had begun again, and this time, when Siegel and Igrein looked out through the train window again, new forces joined the opponent's combat team among.

Several severely mutated mutants appeared in the team. They either had sharp claws, or had deformed arms and a large number of plate-like muscles. What was even more frightening was that one of the mutants had twisted and grown together with an arthropod .

Seeing this terrifying scene, the morale of the defenders was shaken for an instant. The mutants and those predators broke into the car at this moment, and then broke into the car that was originally a strong fortress. .

Almost at the same time, blood sprayed out from inside the carriage.

Soon, the resistance forces in other carriages were wiped out.Seriously wounded and captured passengers were herded like cattle, and marauders scrambled for their trophies in a ruthless manner.

During this time, Siegel and Igrein seemed to be a little transparent. Some looters who still remembered how powerful they were were carefully approaching the carriage they were in, while Siegel looked at Ig. Rein placed the gun on the window frame, aiming carefully at the target in her eyes.

"Bah!"

The projectiles of the shotgun precisely hit the face of a mutant with hideous muscles, a projectile passed through the opponent's eyes and pierced the head, and the whole burly figure fell powerlessly.

The gunshot woke up the looters who were immersed in the fun of searching, and now all the firepower was concentrated on the carriage where Siegel was.

After shooting, Igrain withdrew into the carriage without even confirming the result. The interior of the carriage, which was hit by much more exaggerated firepower, was full of ricochets and smoke, and she had to protect her head with her hands. Then he looked at Siegel who was smiling all over his face.

"Emperor's eyes, how long will it take for the support you called to arrive?!" Igrein yelled towards Siegel. This kind of call without the restrictions of noble etiquette is indeed more direct.

He yelled back at Igrain as he reloaded: "My Emperor, I don't know!"

"Then what are you laughing at?" Igrain was a little surprised by the smile on Siegel's face.

"I think you are really suitable to be a rogue trader!" Siegel smiled but looked at Igrain seriously, "Do you want to go to the expansion area?!"

Volume 78 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Rescue

"Is it time to discuss this?" Igrain looked at Siegel in surprise, with some surprise in her water-blue eyes, and she stuffed the muzzle of the shotgun into the first overturned car. The mouth of the predator of the window, the trigger was pulled, and the brains splattered.

"Or do you think we have no chance to leave here?"

Siegel drew out his stand sword and began to fight with the other predators who broke in. Being caught in close combat in the carriage made up for the disadvantage of the lack of numbers for the two of them.The blade swept across, and the blue light flashed, cutting off the bodies of the two predators and the seats of the carriage.

"No, I just think it's a pity that people like you stay in the hive city. If you want to meet your mother, I will help you!"

If Sanduo Laixi was here, she would definitely not think it was a good proposal. She hoped that Igrain would be completely trapped on Sintila by her mother's enemies, and then marry Siegel, for the two The dynasty gave birth to an heir.

But after a deeper understanding than in the aristocratic salon, even if it was only a little deeper, Siegel was willing to let the bird out of the cage.As for the matter of the heir to the dynasty, the Emperor knew where Siegel had forgotten.

"Is my mother willing to meddle like you are?" Igrein leaned back against Siegel, stabbed a steel needle into a predator's eye socket, and then slit the opponent's throat with a dagger.

She is extraordinarily dexterous, even in such a small space, she can complete the movements of flashing and moving.

"In fact, your mother is more meddling than I am." In this atmosphere, Siegel communicated with Igrain with a dialogue that is more suitable for a rogue trader, "She is perfect for the identity of a rogue trader." .”

"what about me?"

"You are undoubtedly the best candidate to inherit her dynasty!"

"So can we get out alive?" Igrain was holding back the attack of the mutant with strange claws, and with his other hand, he pulled out the dueling pistol strapped to his thigh, and pierced through it with the only round of ammunition inside. The opponent's head.

"Of course, I promise." Siegel never thought that he would die in such a place. If these predators planned to use explosives or bullets to deal with themselves, Siegel and Igrein might have a fight in the wilderness. The great escape.

But fighting in the carriage... Siegel cut off an arthropod limb of the mutant, and smashed a predator's nose bone with the weight ball on the hilt of the sword with his backhand.

Flicking the sword flower, he looked seriously at the most mutated mutant in front of him...

"I can play all day!"

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Let's go back in time to the beginning of the attack.

Foster Family Estate, Ritz's Lounge.

There are a large number of books stored here, astrology, cryptography, and spiritual guides.Her room was somewhat similar to the environment in the ship's communication array, with blessed six-pointed star decorations everywhere, or other blessing marks.

The two nightingales she bought were flying freely in the room. As a master of telepathy, raising a pet is very easy for Liz.A few psychic tricks can solve many of the little problems of keeping pets, such as how to keep them in one place when you're free-range.

After all, in this universe, raising pets needs to be understood from a broad perspective, just like Mel’s tearing out the dog’s brain and putting it in a mechanical mastiff is also a means of raising pets.

As a transcendent astropath who can direct the chorus of astropaths, Liz's psychic attainments are naturally not low.But becoming an astropath not only requires psionic strength, but also requires a series of knowledge to assist one's work, such as astrology and cryptography.

With a cup of steaming black tea in hand, she was lying leisurely on the bed, reading a book on cryptography, which was helpful for deciphering encrypted messages from the subspace.

At that moment, the book fell to the ground, and Liz stood up from the bed with bare feet, picked up the astropathic staff that represented her identity, and walked out of her room.

Many messages in the subspace need to be interpreted, but the psychic information she just received does not require any interpretation. Obviously, receiving this message means that something happened to Siegel.

"Liz? What's the matter?" Cassia's lounge is very close to Liz. Although it is not certain whether the navigator is a psychic in the classification of the empire, the relationship between the two of them is indeed the best.

In the manor, most members of the dynasty have their own things to do, especially Mel and Gloria.And others often go to help command the low-level servants and sailors.

"Something happened to Siegel!"

"?" Cassia put on her navigator coat and walked out of the room, "Where did he go?"

"He's going...to shoot..."

"Gunmetal City." Cassia helped Liz add the name of the location.

"Yes, Siegel should be on his way back now, but I just received an emergency psychic message, Siegel is currently in danger!"

"Can you locate Siegel's location?"

"If it's within the range of our spiritual link, I can locate his location."

"Go and contact Laurentina, we're leaving now!" Cassia thought about it, and there seemed to be no one else in the manor who needed to be contacted. Laurentina and Skadi took turns staying in the manor. Prepare for emergencies.

As for the nuns and servants in the family, in the eyes of the dynasty members, these dynasty members living on the planet are more like peripheral members, and they are completely different from those on the Siegel flagship.

Laurentina was carving stone statues in her room, she temporarily put down her work after being notified by Liz, and followed them to rescue the leader of her dynasty.

……

The three of them drove a heavy off-road vehicle to search along the line of the intercity train. The vehicle drove across the wilderness, raising a lot of sand and dust.

Liz is mobilizing her spiritual power as much as possible to find the anchor buried in Siegel's spirit.

"Found it!" Liz's voice was almost overwhelmed by the roar of the engine, but Cassia, who was driving the car, quickly understood her thoughts. She slammed the steering wheel to adjust the direction of the car, and the tires left behind There was a string of scorched black traces, and they began to rush towards the place where Siegel had an accident.

"Siegel, we'll be there soon." Liz communicated directly with Siegel's heart through a spiritual connection.

"I'm a little busy! Liz, if you can get there, you'd better hurry up." After confirming that there is no problem, Liz nodded, Cassia stepped on the gas pedal to death, and Laurentina It was the sunroof of the vehicle that was opened.Mounted a storm bolter on the roof.

Volume 79 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Valkyrie

The fight in the carriage was still going on. Igrein watched Siegel from the corner of his eye during the battle, fighting with the predator behind her with all his strength. His advantage was obvious, including the mutant who was also hesitating. Whether to continue to challenge Siegel's blade.

After confirming that he really didn't have time to pay attention to himself, Igrain took out a long and thin fiber from the sleeve of the dress.After a few close combats, he directly strangled the neck of the predator in front of him with fibers, and then quickly pulled out, a line of blood appeared on the neck of the predator, followed by blood spurting out.

Disarming, straight punching, kicking, and the sharp crystals appearing from the gaps in her fingers as if conjuring, her fighting is as flexible and dangerous as a cat. If Remule sees it, she will definitely feel that the other party is very familiar.

When Siegel stabbed the stand sword into the mutant's body vigorously, and turned the handle of the knife to smash his internal organs, there was the whistling sound of the engine above his head, followed by the sound of continuous firing of heavy bombers Coming from above.

Siegel is familiar with this sound. This is the sound of Valkyrie's engine. Even if it is funded, these looters can't get this kind of equipment, so it must be the rescuers of the empire.

The heavy bombs fired continuously, raising huge clouds of dust on the ground, and the looters hit by the heavy bombs turned into balls of minced meat.

The entire nomadic tribe was awed by the sudden strike force, and they used their weapons to attack the flying aircraft in the sky in vain.A burst of rocket bombs wiped out most of the looters, and the heavy logging guns were turned into a pile of scrap iron under the bombardment, which also broke down the remaining morale of the looters.

Even the morale of the predators in the carriage began to waver. Igrain flipped his wrist, and the crystals that were originally caught in his fingers combined into claws and appeared on his fingers. The extremely sharp blade easily tore open the predator's body. From the abdomen, viscera exuding a strange smell flowed out.

The Marauder was on his knees, howling as he tried to stuff his entrails back into his belly.Igrain nailed his head to the exposed metal bracket on the seat beside him.

As Siegel swung his sword and easily cut off the head of the last mutant, the predators in the car finally couldn't hold on anymore, they wailed and scrambled to get out of the car...

Valkyrie hovered in mid-air, the hatch opened, and a rope was thrown out of the cabin. Skadi led several armed servants to the ground first.The big sword produced by Rast easily cut off the fleeing predators, while the fleeing predators in the other direction became the live target of the Valkyrie's multi-tube laser.

After confirming that there were no other enemies in the carriage, Siegel saw Igrain arranging his clothes, so he left her in the carriage and walked out first.

Siegel threw aside the predator's head in his hand, and raised his head to look at the heavy Valkyrie in mid-air. He believed even more in the necessity of having an air force of his own.

The launch pod that comes with the moon level is only enough to deliver some jumping gangs, and the macro cannon is used for ground support, which is similar to that of a cannon for mosquitoes.There was no such condition before. When exploring, the sailor's life could only be piled up. When something happened, the sailor was also the first to be abandoned.

No matter how heartless Siegel is, the death of many of his subordinates is not conducive to the development of the fleet, and secondly, it is not conducive to the reputation of the dynasty.

Sailors are also a technical arm. In addition to dry cleaning the deck, those sailors who work on the artillery deck and engine deck have to be trained for a long time to adapt to a new ship. Siegel can spend a lot of money to recruit a group of trained Elite sailors, but they need more time to adapt to a new ship and then improve their proficiency.

After Skadi commanded the armed servant to clear the landing site, Valkyrie slowly fell from midair.Mel and Gloria came out of the cabin.

"It turned out that you were the first to arrive." Siegel looked at Mel and Gloria, and he thought he would wait until Liz and the others came over.

"Anyone else coming?" Mel asked, tapping her head with her fingers, "Gloretia was trying to poach someone from the Naval Air Corps, and I was with her, at the There, I was bored hacking into their communication system, and I heard your distress signal. I came here after conscripting a Valkyrie from Sibelius' airport."

"Then my luck is really good." Siegel smiled and continued: "Liz just contacted me."

"How did they come here? Laurentina doesn't know any driving skills." Gloria interrupted suddenly.

"That's right, but Cassia is here." Siegel explained to Gloria with a meaningful smile.

"Oh, damn it, the Emperor, they will arrive soon." Gloria's expression became a bit intriguing.

"Casia's ground vehicle driving skills are indeed the best among me." Mel argued a few words for Cassia, but she continued: "But she needs to learn to love the mechanics of the vehicle." Most of the machine souls of ground vehicles are simple and strong, but they cannot withstand the torture like hers."

"Anyway, let's wait for them here, and let me introduce you by the way." Hearing the sound behind him, Siegel turned his head and saw Igrein coming out of the carriage, "This is Igrein Amenga Miss De."

……

"I saw a Valkyrie," Laurentina watched as the Valkyrie flew by in the distance, "Liz, where did they go?"

"It should be where Siegel is. Is it the rescue team?"

"It should be, it looks like we are a step late."

"In this case, we can drive a little slower, Cassia." Liz felt that the psychic signal in Siegel's spirit was still active, which indicated that Siegel's state was still good.

"This is already very slow, the speed is less than 220 per hour." Cassia's voice was still full of ethereal beauty, but the words inside were as terrifying as seeing a subspace monster.

"Even if I don't understand technology, and I'm not a member of the Mechanic Order, I can still hear the screams of vehicles." Even if Liz's voice was strong, it was not deterrent, let alone warned her best friend.

"You heard wrong."

"No."

"You must have heard wrong."

"Stop!" Laurentina yelled from the roof of the car as the bolter fired, but lost all ammo in the sharp turn.

A large predator unique to the northern continent of Sintila, the snake lizard, seemed to be disturbed by this turbulent vehicle in the wilderness. It attacked the vehicle in response, and Cassia's driving skills were indeed theirs. The tallest of them all, even at extreme high speeds and poor road conditions, she can still keep the car turning smoothly, avoiding obstacles, and stopping.

The vehicle's engine let out a final mournful sound, and a puff of black smoke emerged from the hood. Obviously, the machine soul of this car had returned to the embrace of the God of All Machines.

And Cassia had to take her anger out on the beast that interrupted her fun.

Her subspace eyes opened and closed quickly towards the snake lizard, and then she ignored it. After trying to start the car but failed, she sighed and said to Liz in a somewhat dejected tone: "Wait a minute Will call Siegel and the others to pick us up."

"I'll check with Siegel first to see if he's saved, otherwise we'll have to go there."

Liz and Laurentina didn't care what happened to the so-called snake lizard anymore. After Laurentina reconfirmed that the vehicle couldn't continue to start, Liz smiled bitterly and contacted Siegel with a mind link.

And on the other side: the snake lizard rolled back and forth on the ground in pain, with a strange hissing sound coming from the whole body, the flesh and skin began to crack, and gradually began to fall off from the snake lizard body, like peeling an onion, one layer after another layer.The internal organs also dissolved and turned into a paste, which fell to the ground after losing muscle support.In just a few minutes, the predator on the northern continent turned into a steaming machine of white bones and a pile of rotten flesh.

Volume 80 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Igrein and the Snitch

After Valkyrie's firepower washed the ground, Siegel didn't bother to look for clues that might be contained in the pile of junk. After the transport plane took off, it came to the place where Cassia and the others were, and after carrying them, they headed towards Sibelius. Fly in the direction of Si.

Eventually Valkyrie landed at an airfield in Sibelius, and both Siegel and Igrain returned safely to the upper hive.

As for the restoration of the train line between the two cities and the simple elimination of the nomadic tribes in the wilderness, let the managers of the two cities solve it themselves.

The vehicle stopped in front of Armengard's manor, and Siegel sent Igrein out of the car.

"If you are determined to expand the area, contact me within half a month." Siegel said to her before separating from Igrein: "The Marchenko dynasty will not offend our two families at the same time. They The forces in Sintila have just received some setbacks, if you want to leave, this is the best opportunity."