Warhammer, Rogue Trader Notes

Siegel looked at the deep space outside the porthole. He watched the two pale subspace storms, the Screaming Vortex and the Void Dancer's Roar, moving abnormally. Strange purple light.

"No, move on, let Cassia find a suitable path, and I will control the ship." Siegel decided to move on, and this degree of warp space storm is not completely impassable.

Life on a void ship is not comfortable. The sailors working overtime at the bottom will not know what the ship encountered in the starry sky. They can only judge their situation by the state of the ship.They can tell you whether the ship is resting, speeding up or turning just by the noise of the small change in the cabin, and anchoring in the void after only sailing for so long, the morale of the sailors will suffer.

"Start the Geller stand and the subspace engine, and we are about to set sail!" Siegel sat back on his captain's throne, on which he could manipulate various parts of the spaceship through the link device.He put on the communication microbead, which is a short-range communication device suitable for communication within 1km. It is generally used for private communication with the communication room and the navigation spire on the ship.

He looked at the huge ship projection above the thinker array, and began to personally manipulate the huge void ship.

The subspace engine of the Golden Journey began to operate, and the huge energy tore the curtain between reality and the subspace. A purple vortex appeared on its bow. Under the protection of Geller's position, the ship entered the subspace internal.

Even with the protection of Geller's position, at the moment of entering the subspace, everyone can feel the millions of whispers beyond ordinary people's understanding in their ears, and the act of suppressing these whispers by playing sounds will It's counterproductive, and to avoid being affected by whispers is to learn to ignore them.

Due to the influence of the warp storm, the whispers this time were far more intense than before, and most people could not keep the ship running smoothly under this level of disturbance.

But this does not shake the confidence of Rogue Traders. They are destined to wander in danger all year round. They have experienced no less terrifying scenes than space fighters and judges.Priest Remulle and Skadi have already gone to the church of the state church, ready to deal with the subspace invasion that may appear at any time.

In the subspace is a series of chaotic, fuzzy and psychedelic colors, which do not obey the physical laws of the material world, and when people look at the subspace, they are destined to be affected by it.When the spacecraft entered the subspace, the propellers would no longer work, and they could only move forward with the help of the subspace ocean currents.

Under the guidance of Cassia, Siegel advanced along the ocean currents of the subspace, and manipulated the spaceship as much as possible to avoid entering the influence range of the subspace storm in the center of the channel.

four days later...

It took about two days to pass through the mouth, but the time spent under the barrier of the subspace storm doubled. Some sailors were affected by the miasma of the subspace, and their bodies became weak, but fortunately they did not mutate.

"Prepare to float!" Siegel sat back on his captain's chair without changing his expression, but he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.He looked at the crew members who started the surfacing operation. He believed that these people would indeed have a little bit of admiration for his captain's driving skills, but they were more likely to be as relieved as he was.

The curtain between the warp and reality was torn again, and the ship was "pushed" out by the current of the warp.Looking at the furious star in the center of the galaxy in the distance, everyone's morale was boosted.

Once again they entered the Kronos Expansion.

"Siegel," Liz's voice came out from the communication microbead, "We have established a star language communication with the port of arrival, and they welcome us to enter the port."

The Port of Arrival, which is located on the edge of the connection between the Great Mouth and the Furious Galaxy, is the first stop to reach the Kronos expansion area or the last stop to leave the expansion area.It's a port of many large asteroids linked together by ornate bridges, flexible tunnels, and ship-sized chains.

The ship was heading towards the docking area of ​​the port of arrival. Through the observation porthole of the bridge, one could see a giant statue of the emperor tens of meters high on the asteroid in the center of the port of arrival. He looked at this with sorrow. A quagmire of evil, corruption, mutation and heresy.

Just separated from the wandering port by the subspace channel, you can feel the lack of imperial influence here, and the imperial navy rarely penetrates into the Kronos expansion area.This area is growing savagely, and the best the empire can do is to send agents from various departments here.Some of them were killed like dogs before lurking, and some died like dogs in gang fights in the port of arrival after lurking successfully.

When Siegel and his family members stepped off the ship, all kinds of scum, mentally enslaved laborers and those complete losers on the dock at the port of arrival quickly recognized their identities, And bowed his head respectfully.

This has been a rule since ancient times in the port of arrival. Every rogue trader who arrives in the port of foothold is its ruler in name. If there are multiple rogue traders arriving, it will be the strongest one among them.This is due to the over-reliance on the supplies provided by these people and the profits from providing them with commercial services in the port of arrival. The people here hope to provide a business environment for the rogue traders through this kind of rules.

Siegel and his party came to the Court of the Monarch, which is one of the oldest buildings in the port of arrival.The majestic arcades and columned ornate halls inside form the palace of the monarch's court.This is the seat of the King of the Port of Arrival. The so-called King of the Port of Arrival is the leader of the biggest force in the Port of Arrival. He is responsible for distributing the supplies sold by the rogue traders to the Port of Arrival. During his tenure, he will be in office for a period of several Tyra months to two Tyra years. The time varies, and each king of the port of residence undergoes a change of term through physical means.

Jin Tu, the current king of the port of residence, warmly came out to receive Siegel and his party.Siegel and Jin Tu have a good relationship. Siegel looked at a cyber plug-in on the other's bald head. This is an ancient technology product. After Father Mel studied it, Siegel sold it to him.

"Oh, Brother Foster. We haven't seen each other for more than four months, please come in." Jin Tu invited Siegel and his party to enter the court of the monarch, and took their seats one by one.

"Yeah, the last time we met, you weren't the king of the port?" Siegel looked at Jin Tu sitting on the alabaster throne, and estimated that next time he came to the port, there would be no such person as Jin Tu.

Volume 9 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Deal and Justice

"What did you bring this time? Brother Foster." Jin Tu looked at Siegel with a little eagerness. He is a very ambitious person, or in other words, everyone who becomes the king of the port of arrival has something Ambitious people.In order to prolong his reign, the king of the port of destination usually keeps the biggest share of the spoils for himself.

"As usual, it's just some supplies and arms." Before setting off, the Rogue Trader would fill the remaining space in his warehouse with these supplies, and then sell them directly to the King of the Port of Arrival.The profit from the deal was small, but could be used to pay the lower deck crew.

"Jin Er, go to the pier and get this batch of goods. After calculating the price, remember to add 50% to Brother Foster." Jin Tu shouted to his men to prepare to receive the goods, and then turned his head to ask Siegel: " Does brother Foster have other things to do when he comes to the port of stay this time? What do you need me to ask for you?"

"Send something to a friend, and then we will go deep into the expansion area." Skadi spontaneously went out with Jin Tu's men and went to the port area to hand over the goods, but Siegel ignored him at all, the so-called king of the port of arrival It's just the leader of the biggest force "on the surface" here.

"Need me to introduce you to a custodian? I know a few that do pretty well,"

"No, the other party has a fixed handover."

Jin Tu has been chatting with Siegel one after another, which makes him a little impatient. The transaction at the port of arrival is just a trivial matter for Siegel, and he feels that the other party seems to be planning something.

Just as Siegel was about to forcibly leave, one of the opponent's men ran in in a panic.

"My lord, it's not good!"

"What a panic!" Jin Tu pretended to reprimand, and then he heard his subordinates say: "We are going to receive the goods and the people from the Zelnau Society will surround the port!"

"What! This group of bastards are not paying attention to me more and more. Go quickly and gather people. I'm going to clean up this group of guys. Brother Foster, you and I go to the port to see these two gangsters Thief!" Jin Tu seemed to be infuriated by this incident, and wanted to invite Siegel to go to the port together to see his opponent.

But Siegel didn't move, just sat on the seat, looked at Jin Tu coldly, until his cheeks turned pale because of the blood, and Siegel said: "Yes, we Let's go." After taking a look at Gloria, Siegel stood up from his seat, and the exquisite navy coat brought a gust of cool wind onto Jin Tu's face...

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Arrival port, port area.

When Siegel and his party came to the port, they saw that the berth of the Golden Journey was full of people from the port of arrival. They were the same as most of the nests, with weird hairstyles and all kinds of inferior prostheses on their bodies. And biochemical implants, the kid with the combed hair in the lead was yelling!

"How did Jin Tu become the king of the port of residence? He started to cut the supplies of our trade union just after he took office? Jin Er, let me tell you, you hurry up and complete the deal with the other party, and I will take yours after the deal."

Skadi commanded the deep-sea hunters to surround the ship and the goods, and used guns to drive back the surging crowd. They would not enter the port unless they were resting. The ship is the most valuable property of a wanderer family. Property that they are required to defend with their lives.

"Call me!" When Jin Tu led a large number of his younger brothers to the scene, he had no intention of solving the problem at all, and directly let his younger brothers rush forward to fight the opponent.

"Liz, come here." Priest Remulle pulled Liz to his side, and put his other hand on his waist.

Laurentina stood behind Siegel, using her body to block the vital parts of his back, she held her chain saw ax in her hand and whispered to Siegel: "Captain, it doesn't look good That's right."

Of course Siegel knew that something was wrong. He noticed that a large group of people had flooded into the passage on the other side, and this brawl would soon turn into a melee of nearly a thousand people.Siegel knew very well that no matter what they wanted, in this chaotic situation, a stray bullet could kill Siegel, so, the emperor's lungs, when things became for him Before he got serious, he had to make a move.

Siegel reached out from Laurentina's waist and pulled out the bolt gun she used for self-defense, and pulled the trigger towards space.The loud sound of the bolt gun frightened the crowd present, and Jin Tu also "kindly" gave up the stage to Siegel.

After the gunshot, all the deep-sea hunters took the aim of attacking, which made Siegel very satisfied.The fighting crowd all looked at Siegel and his party, and their identities could be identified from their luxurious attire.

Siegel made his voice firm and majestic, and he shouted loudly at the crowd gathered in front: "The ships and goods here belong to the Foster Dynasty. What do you want to do? Are you going to declare war with the Foster Dynasty? Let me go!"

In the port of arrival, no one is willing to provoke the rogue trader. There was once a king of the port of arrival who wanted to force a rogue trader to serve him. In the end, he was physically divided into four parts by the rogue trader and thrown in the four parts of the port of arrival. locations.

The fighting crowd quickly separated according to their respective divisions, but the leader of the other party stood up. He stood on the other side and said to Siegel: "Dear rogue traders, according to the ancient laws of the port of arrival, everyone who arrives here The rogue traders are all the rulers of the port, so I beg you to uphold justice for us. Jin Tu is not a good king of the port, and he caused resentment among the people after only a few months in office."

[When will you TM not see the public complaining? 】Siegel is very clear that the other party is farting, but the other party has already said this, and he must solve the problem as soon as possible, otherwise his reputation in the port of arrival will plummet.He neither wants to uphold the so-called justice, nor does he want to be used as a weapon by Jin Tu.It was obvious that Jin Tu's position as the king of Hong Kong would not last long, and the people under him were just a mob. If possible, he wanted to solve the two problems together.Siegel glanced at the distance from the other party's group, and then at the distance between himself and Jin Tu's staff.

Looks like there's only one solution...

He directly raised the bolt gun to Jin Tu's head and pulled the trigger.The bomb blasted his head into a cloud of blood mist. Following the sound of the gunshot, Siegel's men also opened fire on Jin Tu's men. A massacre took place at the port of Luojiao.

The team of hundreds of people that Jin Tu originally brought fled from the port area crying and screaming. The security guards he hired fell on the ground and surrendered when they saw their boss dead.For those people, Siegel has no more interest at all. The port of arrival is such a place. There are power changes every day. Today's winner will be tomorrow's slave and the day after tomorrow's avenger.

He reached up and put the bolter back on Laurentina's waist, the chainaxe in her hand was covered in blood and flesh.Siegel said to the leader of another group: "I don't care who you are, I only give you one Terra hour to buy my goods."

Volume 10 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Halo Creation

The entire port area quickly returned to calm. Except for the leader, most of the members of the Zellnau Society rushed towards the depths of the port like crazy. They wanted to use this time difference to become the first to eat The person who lost Jin Tu's inheritance.

In the port area, the person led by Zelnau and his men looked at Siegel in embarrassment and they were talking and laughing casually, not at all looking like they had just fought.This made them very fearful. They didn't dare to go forward to talk to Siegel, and they were afraid that they would offend the rogue trader if they walked away.

The price of offending a rogue trader is huge, especially a large rogue trader dynasty.How to tell the size of the Rogue Trader Dynasty is actually very simple, just look at the flagship of their dynasty. The forces using large cruisers in the entire Kronos expansion area can be counted even with the fingers of the Tau people, and the ones below them are These are families that can use cruisers as flagships.

In the Kronos expansion area, Rogue Traders usually prefer to choose light cruisers as their family flagships, which are relatively easy to obtain and will not be coveted by others.As for the void ships below the light cruiser level, either there is a reason for the incident, or the family's strength is really not good enough.

Siegel avoided the blood on the ground so as not to stain his boots, and he walked back to the protection of the deep sea hunter.He leaned leisurely on the box full of supplies, looking at the state of his subordinates, Siegel asked Liz with concern: "Are you all right?"

Liz is one of them with relatively little experience. She has just joined Siegel's team not long ago, but her spiritual talent is first-class.For navigators and psykers, Siegel protects them as much as possible, such as Cassia, Siegel rarely forces her to leave her navigation spire, and avoids her contact with heresy items as much as possible, which can Reduced her chance of navigator mutation.

"Fortunately, the smell of blood is a little stronger." Apart from her pale face, Liz didn't feel too uncomfortable.

"That's good." Siegel was just worried that she would be frightened by the sudden outbreak of battle. As for the life of a wanderer...everyone here is used to it.

The family members of the Rogue Trader Dynasty must learn to communicate with heretics, either with words or with explosive bombs.

Only ten Terra minutes had passed before new guests arrived at the port area.Gloria accompanied a bald man in a gray jumpsuit with a small eagle logo inlaid at the neckline to the port area, and they were escorted by a group of Kasparika enforcers.

The bald man passed through the human wall of deep sea hunters and came to Siegel, holding a thin data panel in his hand. His facial expression was meticulous, without the slightest smile.

In the port of arrival, it is not that no one can sit on an equal footing with the rogue traders.This man was one of them, Varadam Tokara, a senior negotiator for the Church of Kasparika.

"My tribute to you, Lord Foster." Varadam solemnly saluted Siegel, and Siegel returned one to him.Although in Siegel's view, the other party's gesture is somewhat ironic in it.

After recognizing the other party's identity, Remulle just closed his eyes and silently recited the prayers of the state religion.

"I think you have received some personal belongings from our 'mutual friend'." Siegel looked at the other party, what kind of church, in simple terms, is an underground joint force composed of criminal tycoons and heretics, They will buy, transport, and sell any heretical item that the Rogue Traders have acquired from among the stars, especially Halo-forged.

The halo creations, the creations flowing out of the halo stars, are generally tiny works of art, jewelry or a decoration.As for how dangerous this thing is, Siegel can only say that in the fifth century of M41, there were three rogue rogue dynasties who sold and transported this kind of thing, and all members of the entire dynasty were sent to the stake.

As long as Rogue Traders are interested in the cold trade of trading prohibited items, they will support the actions of Rogue Traders, needless to say, in fact, all Rogue Traders will participate in cold trade.Siegel will also throw items that he is not easy to sell to them to realize them.

"I have already received it, and we will keep his things safe. I am mainly here to talk to you about Jin Tu." Varadamu looked at Siegel solemnly.

"Why, he made it into the top [-] of the list of 'King of the Port of Arrival with the Shortest Term'?" Siegel raised his eyebrows mockingly. Every weakness is exploited by others.

Varadamu carefully checked the data panel in his hand, he shook his head, and said: "Jin Tu has been in power for three months and twelve days, and because there are too many people in front of him, he doesn't even rank in the top 200. Enter."

"What's that for?"

Varadamu sighed, and said: "Anyway, he is also the king of the port of arrival, and the rogue traders can't be killed casually, although he is indeed crazy and wants to drag a rogue trader into the port of arrival. Among them. Your Excellency Foster, the church admires your decisiveness, so we are willing to handle Jin Tu's funeral for you, and guarantee that no avengers will come to trouble you when you arrive at the port of stay in the future."

"Then what's the price?"

"Help us deal with someone."

"Who?"

"'Gold Tooth' Frass, whose pirate lair was destroyed by hundreds of big-toothed greenskins, fled here in embarrassment. The Church funded him with something and asked him to explore the Halo Stars."

"So he betrayed." Siegel is very clear about the development of the next story. Every year, the Church of Kasha sponsors some people to enter the halo stars to explore, and most of them will betray the church, and then the church will hire people to give these traitors a lesson.

As for why the Church did this, because the value of each Halo creation is enough to double Siegel's current assets.

"No, he succeeded, but betrayed us after he succeeded."

"You want me to help you recover the halo creation? It's impossible, don't even think about it." Siegel said that he was still young, and he didn't want to be burned.

"No, Master Foster. This is not a price, nor is it a requirement. It is a request. The church asks you to accept this matter. As for Jin Tu's matter, the church will still help you deal with it, but we ask you to help us."

Siegel

Looking thoughtfully at Varadam begging himself in a low voice, he asked, "How big a mess have you made?"

"According to the last news we got, the halo creation that Frass got is a 3-meter-high statue. Now not only he and that statue have begun to merge, but his flagship, the Vicious Fang, has also merged with his captain. Merging started. The ship is currently cruising near the Hecaten Fault."

What Varadamu said, Siegel stared at him dumbfounded, and there was only one thought in his mind.

"The emperor's lungs."

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The Imperial Navy has a strange classification of ships, from largest to smallest: Queen of Honor class battleships, other battleships, large cruisers, battlecruisers as large as cruisers, frigates, destroyers and raiders, yes destroyers are smaller than frigates.

Some devices in Halo Constructs can grant life to eternity.The body is restored to its youthful state, and the passage of time no longer weakens the flesh.Other Halo creations were found to possess stranger and more powerful powers, and their unholy powers were responsible for the rise of some notorious great heretics.As the centuries passed, these creations became sought after by masters of the occult and became legendary among the power-hungry, associated with horrific heresy and corruption.

The price is also huge, and the user will be transformed into an immortal inhuman monster over time, corroded from body to soul.

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Thanks for the recommendations of "Warhammer 40K A New Hope" and "This Terra Is Strange". They are all works designed for 40k, and everyone can go and have a look.

Volume 11 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Alien

"If you can help us, the church can ask you anything you want to know."

As the underground force of the Kasbalika Church, their intelligence potential is undoubtedly huge.In fact, these people are indeed in the business of intelligence dealers.There are spies in every rogue dynasty, as long as you ask them, you can always get results.

……

But Siegel still refused, and he watched Varadam coldly leaving the port area with regret.

In the life of a Rogue Trader, nothing but fighting is conspiracy, and the things that the church entrusted to him seem extremely evil.They did have a reason to suppress this matter.Once such a huge halo creation flows into the Calixis sector, the consequences are unimaginable. If they don't want a judge to lead the imperial navy to the port of arrival for a big cleansing, they'd better put the matter in Kelixis. Solve feelings in the expanded area of ​​​​Ronos.

Siegel is very clear that this is still not the reason why they are so anxious.Based on his many years of experience, when he feels that something is evil, don't touch it.

There is no shortage of miracles in the star sea, but there are also many dangers. What he wants to do most now is to get back his family's original navigation code.The trade license of the Rogue Trader represents the heart of a dynasty, so the family's original navigation code is the memory of a dynasty.Siegel looked through the strange planets described in the logbook in the family library, and disappeared into the sea of ​​stars with the loss of the original navigation book.

These are the greatest wealth of a Rogue Merchant family. If the throne coin is gone, he can earn it again, if the factory closes down, he can reopen it, and if the planet is corroded, he can watch the judge throw the extinction order.But these wealth buried outside the empire is the biggest difference between the rogue traders and ordinary imperial nobles.

Of course, a Terran hour is now half over.The King of the Port of Arrival only controls the throne coin account of the Port of Arrival. Siegel watched those people command the servants whose front lobe had been removed to clean up the blood and corpses in the port, and then took the boxes of belongings to the dock. Most of them were Seemingly valuable precious metal decorations, trying to exchange these things for Siegel's supplies, but these things can't arouse Siegel's interest.Jin Tu was able to earn so much when he was not dead, and he still earned so much after Jin Tu died, so Jin Tu didn't die in vain?

These accumulations of property attracted a lot of unnecessary attention, but most of them hesitated because of the temper of the rogue trader.

Siegel didn't want to be viewed as a monkey. He guessed that the other party couldn't come up with anything that would interest him, so he turned to Gloria and said, "I'll leave it to you, I'm going to the state church Calm down, do you guys want to go back to the ship?"

Except for Skadi, the rest of the people planned to follow Siegel back to the ship, but when everyone was about to return to the ship, there was an extremely bad smell in the air.

Siegel frowned and looked back at the crowd watching not far away. The human wall was separated from the middle, and a group of Kroot mercenaries came out of the crowd.

As soon as the heresy left, the alien came again. Siegel sighed helplessly, and he shouted to Gloria: "You decide for yourself." Then he led the others back to the boat.

In the passage of the ship, Liz asked curiously, "Who are those aliens?"