Warhammer, Rogue Trader Notes

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When the body of the Hydra crashed into the ruins on the city streets, the battle started completely. As my colleagues predicted, Egalia's crystal machinery was helpless against armor power, even without the Chimera armored vehicle with additional armor It will not be penetrated by this crystal ammunition either.

The Hydra's automatic cannons and the bolt guns on the Chimera are almost devastating to these machines. Those armed sailors from Sintila are very good at conducting assault operations with armored forces. The powerful automatic guns can also Produces a good killing effect on those crystal machines.

Even so, some armed sailors fell, and the injured were taken to the rear by medical teams for treatment.

Skadi and Laurentina are in command at the front, and the backbone composed of Siegel and Igrein is behind them cleaning up the fish that slipped through the net and other machines that drilled out along various narrow gaps.

The assault went smoothly, and they quickly cleaned up the crystal equipment in this area. They were getting closer to the core area of ​​the city, and the corrosion of the buildings by the ionic solution became more and more serious.

The forward reconnaissance team is already approaching the target location, which is the city data center that sent out the distress signal.Siegel and the others were also able to observe the interior of the city more carefully. There were no churches in the early empire colonies.

In addition to command centers, residential stations, and ion furnaces, the main buildings in the colony are mining facilities, factories, and hydroponic farms. Sometimes people will spontaneously build some buildings that praise the empire.

This place is no exception, but due to the leak of the ion furnace, the foundation of the entire city has become very fragile. Siegel saw many Egalia buildings piercing the foundation of the colony, "growing" in the colony of the empire like trees superior.

This should be why those crystal machines will patrol the cities of the empire. If possible, Siegel intends to try to dig out the contents of the core area of ​​the city of Egalia after solving Val's matter.No Rogue Trader has explored the central area of ​​Egalia City in the expanded area so far, and everyone is very curious about it.

"Captain, the vanguard has discovered the area in the center of the city." After the battle, about a few hours later, Siegel heard what the former reconnaissance team reported.

"Then hurry up as soon as possible, let the team set up a defense line around the core area, and let the two mechanical priests go there first." Siegel did not speed up the pace of the large army. After all, there was a battle and there was still a long way to go.Siegel's quality in commanding the ground troops is very average, and the three deep-sea hunters are stronger than him, but he knows that no matter how capable the team is, it is useless if it has no physical strength.

Siegel looked up at the towering Egalia building not far ahead, feeling uneasy for no reason.

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Excavating data fragments in the ruins is the work of members of the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this regard, Rogue Traders also work for members of the Adeptus Mechanicus of their own dynasty. These data will gradually enhance the status of members of the Adeptus Mechanicus serving their dynasty, and have higher authority Members will also serve the dynasty better.

If there are some major discoveries, the Mechanics will also directly reward the Rogue Trader dynasty, such as the famous Rogue Trader Ilucia Vann.She should be 300 years old now, but with the help of life extension surgery, she is still the same as a young girl, at least the chest part is still tall and straight when she is 500 years old.

It seems to be far away, she discovered a world rich in promethium, and gave the world coordinates to the Mechanic Order. In addition to a large amount of remuneration, the Mechanic Order also equipped her with a technician from Mars. She provides technical services and protects her safety, and by the way, the Mechanic Order can be the first to know of her discoveries.

When Siegel led the team to the destination, the fortifications had been simply set up, and some teams entered the ruins of the city buildings. Since she did not know where the enemy might appear, Laurentina focused more on moving the team Disperse the layout so that the enemy can be spotted in the first place.

And Siegel stood at the huge gap in the building in the city center. Looking down from here, you can see the thinker array that is re-running and glowing. Two mechanical priests use the storage device to re-download and store the data information inside. .

Hope they get something out of it...

Volume [-] Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] The Coffin

In the city's data center, two technical priests of the Mechanic Order kept replacing the data chips connected to the urban thinker array.

Adeptus Mechanicus portable functional devices provide this energy to the colony's vast array of contemplators.Siegel looked at Mel's shimmering blue lumen on Mel's shoulder, which could also perform a brief function for the Thinker Array if needed.

The construction of the data center has a strong imperial style. The racks between the rooms are six to seven meters high. Some armed sailors who are good at snipers climbed to the upper floor of the data center. Generally speaking, it is the place where the colonial clerks work.

Although the Foster dynasty was the main force in this battle, some Armengardian armed sailors participated in the entire team, and they held various weapons as supplementary forces in the battle.

In the outer space of this data center, armed servants are constantly patrolling around to prevent the priest from being attacked while he is busy.At Mel's feet, her three new cybermastiffs surrounded her, their eyes shimmering in different colors.

The fighting eagle landed on the ruins of a city building, and its claws did not support it landing on the smooth crystal surface of the Egalia building.

Siegel walked into the interior of the data center along the broken and twisted ruins of the building, and Karoo followed closely behind him.

Siegel turned on the lighting equipment and began to investigate the specific situation here. Just like the situation on the warship, there are not many traces of corpses in this colony. Even on frozen planets, there are microorganisms that act as decomposers. , not to mention that it has been ten thousand years since the establishment of the colony.

Everything was covered in a thick layer of dust, some caked and united with the machinery below, and the poorly maintained brooder array humming incessantly.

Siegel inspected every corner of the room along the edge of the room, and the beam of light moved along the position where he was watching, checking for details that might be dangerous.When faced with the ruins that may contain STC data fragments, Siegel did not believe the anti-gank awareness of these oil heads at all.

Even at the edge of the room in the data center, there are a large number of contemplators placed around. These should be connected to the clerical machine for data entry.

Siegel finally fixed his gaze on a somewhat abrupt "heap of debris" in the room.He could see a large amount of dust above, and some fragmentary building ruins, which were piled up in the corner of the room, covered with thick dust.Siegel walked up to the pile of debris and glanced up and down the items in the pile of debris. It seemed that most of them were wreckage or broken parts of buildings. Who actually piled these debris here?

The light shone on the pile of debris, and Siegel could see the white breath exhaled by him and Karoo. The tiny water droplets quickly turned into ice crystals and fell on the "heap of debris" in front of them, disappearing in a blink of an eye.

Siegel tried to remove the pile of debris with his hands wearing protective gloves. He was not used to the situation with Karoo around him. Fortunately, this smart bodyguard was not stupid enough to watch the chief work.Karoo also tried to remove the construction waste.

With the sound of clattering, the sundries covered on the surface could not bear their own structure and self-weight, and scattered all over the ground along the edge of the buried things inside.

And Siegel also figured out what was hidden under this pile of debris.

Looking at the outline of the tall mechanical creation in front of him, Siegel was not surprised. In other words, he figured out what the last thing in the maintenance room of the cruiser was.

A Contempt Dreadnought was lying here quietly, some debris falling and scratching destroyed the thick dust on it, exposing the purple paint inside.

"These 1 years have passed, I'm afraid it's rotten inside." Siegel felt his heartbeat began to speed up unconsciously. There is no way to survive 1 years, but he still has a glimmer of hope.

Siegel did have a glimmer of expectation whether the owner of the Contempt Dreadnought was a loyalist or something else, and he was well aware of the degree of heresy of this thing.

The power armor of the Emperor's Children, Siegel, can still handle it, and the thing in front of him is no less than a halo creation.This is a heavyweight who can lose the entire dynasty.

Siegel looked up and down this dreadnought mecha, which could be called the holy relic of the battle group. If it was a common model, he knew the location of the coffin. The coffin of the despised dreadnought seemed to be buried in the mecha.

[The behavior of climbing up to check this thing is still too deadly, but how should this thing be recycled? 】

[The best option is to use a melta bomb to reimburse this thing. 】

"Mel, if you have time, can you temporarily stop your work?" Siegel sent a message to Mel through the communication microbead.

"No, the data on my side is very important. If the harvest is reported this time, my title of sage should be settled. Those old guys have no reason to stop me from being promoted to sage." Mel's tone There is palpable excitement.

"Okay..." Since the other party said so, Siegel can only let her go. After all, Mel's promotion to a sage is a very important thing for Siegel.

Just as Siegel was thinking about how to deal with this "big guy", sharp and piercing whistles came from outside, continuously and in all directions.

"Captain, a large number of crystal machines have been found around, and light armored units have appeared." Laurentina's voice came from the communication beads.

"how is the situation?"

"It's okay, but the opponent has too many Egalia crystal balls." Laurentina looked at the armed sailor who was tied up like a hedgehog beside her, and replied helplessly.

This kind of crystal ball is not cheap in cold trade, but anyone who has actually used this thing knows that it is more expensive than armor-piercing grenade, and it is not as easy to use as armor-piercing grenade.

But Laurentina and Skadi did suffer from this crystal ball this time.

Those large crystal machines have a spider-like structure. Some device is used to throw crystal balls one after another into the midair of various defensive bunkers and city ruins arranged by the sailors. The broken crystal fragments are shot into the armed sailors' bodies from top to bottom. among.

Immediately after more and more crystal machines appeared in the team's sight, Hydra and Chimera made counterattack cannons, and explosive bombs and automatic cannons continued to shoot at those crystal machines.

Even a hydra's machine soul exploded several projected crystal ball grenades, gaining enough attack windows for the infantry units.

Volume [-] Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Egalia

When Siegel walked out of the data center building, Karoo blocked Siegel with a shield. A crystal ball exploded in mid-air, and the shattered crystal hit Karoo's shield, making a crisp sound. sound.

Let Siegel command an assault team, or something like a death squad, he may still be useful. Siegel is really not very good at this kind of battle with thousands of people.

Just because he is not good at this kind of battle doesn't mean he can't understand the situation. At least the situation is a little tense at present. The first wave of crystal ball grenade attacks caused a lot of casualties.The scattered armed sailors did their part, spotting each other before the Crystal Mechanics could finish their infiltration.

It's just that the peripheral troops lacking anti-armor power have nothing to do with the newly emerging light armored units.

Siegel returned to the building of the data center after lighting up the image. His carapace can resist those fragile crystal fragments, but the protective position of his face is a bit weak against this saturated attack, not to mention .

Siegel took off the captain's hat on his head, put it on the hilt of the power sword, and stretched out of the wall.

A huge crystal knocked his hat away, and even shattered the gem on his sword handle. The opponent was no longer a mere mechanical sphere, and even had sniper power.

Siegel picked up the crystals that fell on the ground, Egalia Crystal Killer, the cold trade broker gave this weapon an intuitive and violent name.

This also means that these crystal machines have a more direct threat to the elite units wearing carapace on the battlefield.

"There are snipers on the opposite side. Members of the Dynasty pay attention to concealment." Siegel picked up his plasma pistol and fired a shot at a crystal device.

The extremely high temperature of plasma, and the fact that it is not deflected by crystals like light bullets, these crystal mechanisms are not very good at dealing with plasma weapons.

But Siegel must admit that these crystal machines look much more delicate than the machine servants of the Mechanic Order.

Egalia, the alien race, has been confirmed to be extinct. Judging from what Siegel knows, the Empire doesn’t know much about this alien race. So far, no individual samples of this race have been found. All the information about Egalia All deduced from their relics and creations.

It is more plausible that this xenomorph race is a humanoid being, and some radical tech-priests will say that they may be human.

The reason is that most of the weapon samples found in the city ruins of Egalia conform to the design ideas of humanoid creatures.

This reason is indeed very reasonable. If it is not suppressed in this area, Siegel must be very interested in finding a cold trade broker to discuss the development prospects of this thing.

"Let the VOX correspondents contact the base camp, and let the fleet organize the response force." The battle will continue for a while, and the data download operation of Mel and Verona has not been completed, and the entire team will stay here for a few hours.

Looking at the battle situation, it may not be easy to leave here. Siegel believes that there must be something important in the city of Egalia, which is suppressed by the imperial colony.

Soon, Laurentina's reply came from the communication microbead: "The VOX correspondent has been sent to contact the base camp. Miss Nightingale will contact the fleet to organize a response team to enter the ruins."

These crystal machines cannot be called Iron Man or Abomination Machines. Siegel believes that there should be some kind of program or protocol manipulating them behind the scenes.

For no reason, Siegel thought of the Egalia building that pierced the imperial colony, which should be the tallest building in this labyrinth city.

[Will there be any content protected by these crystal machines? 】

Although there were many reasons to convince himself that there might be nothing there, he still decided to go and have a look, at least to confirm with his own eyes that it would be safe.

In the middle of an attack, Siegel ran out of the data center, and then summoned his staff to see what was in that building.

"Lemuel

happy!Igrein!follow me! "

Remulle and Igrein had some small wounds on their bodies, but they were not serious. Siegel told them his deduction.

The reason for exploring was far-fetched, and everyone present hoped to evacuate as soon as the two Mechanic Order members completed their tasks.Siegel's behavior is likely to delay the timing of evacuation.

The two finally agreed with Siegel's statement, and with five armed sailors, a total of nine people moved towards the towering Egalia building.

The appearance of the alien building in the environment of the human colony is very abrupt, but one has to admit that in the ruins, the contrast brought by such a magnificent building is enough to make people feel shocked.

Siegel and the others walked towards the alien building along the path among the ruins of the city, and crystal machines attacked them from time to time, all of which were resolved by this team.

When Siegel and the others stood next to the alien building, the building was indeed breathtakingly magnificent, and the shining white crystals were indeed eye-catching. This unique advantage in materials made this building possible Compete with the grandest churches Siegel has ever known.

But apparently, that's where it ends.

Armed sailors applied directional heat-melt to the walls of the building, and the hot metal jets cut through a large chunk of the crystal, providing a path large enough for Hawke to pass through.

Entering an Egalian structure is dangerous, and their labyrinthine culture often makes it difficult for expeditions to evacuate.

But this time was an exception. After Siegel led the team into the building, what caught their eyes was not a maze, but a magnificent crystal statue.

Each crystal statue is tens of meters high, and besides the brilliant light on the wall, there are also pictures that people can understand.

"What is this?" Igrain looked at the statue inside.

"It's probably the belief of these aliens, or something like totem worship." Remulle said with some disgust.

As long as chaos is not involved, the missionaries can tolerate the strange beliefs of those survivors in the star sea, but for the belief of aliens, there is no doubt that the missionaries are very, very disgusted with it.

Siegel, on the other hand, looked at the colorful pictures on the walls of the building. Thanks to the strange-shaped crystals, when looking at the crystal walls from different angles, different pictures would appear.

The screen seemed to tell some story, and the image of Egalia, the race, appeared in front of Siegel for the first time.

"Egalia turned out to be like this..."

Volume [-] Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] Yuvas

Strange and abstract images are displayed on the tens of meters high wall. Through comparison, Siegel can barely understand what is described on it.

This is a race of aliens with a humanoid shape. Just like their worship of the labyrinth and their obsession with crystal materials, the surface of the individuals of this race is also covered with strange crystal materials. The lines of the images are somewhat abstract, and the lines are straight and sharp.

It is difficult to describe this alien face in one word. There is no similar creature in Siegel's memory that can match this alien face.

The screen records the growth of an alien city. Judging from the content of the screen, the above city is not this colony, nor is it this planet.

It was the same planet as Garden World, and the aliens built a huge labyrinth city on this planet, and the whole city showed different color changes under the illumination of the stars.

The picture can still be considered peaceful, but after the city has developed for a period of time, the sky above it is covered by the shadow of war, black clouds curling randomly like tentacles in the sky, the veil of the galaxy is distorted, and the energy of the warp is scattered everywhere.

Another fleet of alien races appeared in their galaxy.

A fierce battle broke out.

Working in tandem with their crystalline mechs, the Egalia fought fearlessly against enemies who manipulated black twisted energies and possessed minions and titan-level constructs.

Egalia's troops also have huge structures and light spear-level weapons. The battle has been fought from the galaxy to the ground. When it is about to win, another alien completely tore the curtain of the subspace, and the huge chaos The energy was projected onto the surface of the planet, their flesh was eroded by the warp energy, distorted, and eventually annihilated, and a small number of Egalia escaped from the planet in starships.

The whole image is here. In fact, many of the things described above are made up by Siegel. It is difficult to understand the strange line aesthetics of the alien without some imagination.

Of course, many brain supplements are not just imagining. Compared with Egalia, another alien that appears on the image is much more famous in the Calixis star area.

"Yuvas..." Siegelmo read the name of the alien race. Their existence was no secret to the Calixis sector. The opponent of Angwen's expedition was this alien race called Yuvas.

If it is said that the empire sometimes chooses to reach some "consensus" with the "alien" to fight against more powerful enemies.

Those xenomorphs could be Eldar, Greenskins, Tau, but definitely not Yu'vath.