Warhammer, Rogue Trader Notes

The considerable profits have naturally attracted the covetousness of all parties. The current controllers of Lucian's Breath are the two most powerful rogue merchant dynasties in the expansion area, although Siegel is sometimes reluctant to admit this.The ancestor of the Winterfin Dynasty was the namer of the Winterfin Kingdom region and the original owner of Lucian's Breath.But after Aspis forcefully deployed her dynasty's mining equipment on the planet, and nerve-processed the pirates and heretics she captured, she worked as a miner to mine the minerals on the planet for herself.

Therefore, a claimant war broke out between the two rogue dynasties. In the remains of the battlefield near the equator, nearly a thousand mining vehicles, troop transport vehicles, and aircraft wreckage were buried by the planet's ice and snow, but the local aborigines wanted to Survival will remove anything useful from these wreckages to trade with Rogue Traders in exchange for supplies to sustain themselves.

Father Mel's trading objects are the local aborigines.

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"The Thinker circuit components, the adamantine deck, and those metal pipes, I want them all. The performance of your damn metal components is greatly reduced, so you'd better give me a reasonable price." Father Mel wore Or heavy winter clothes and respirators, the environment on this planet is indeed too harsh.She is negotiating with the local natives. Most of the mechanical priests are good at business. Their good knowledge reserves and superb instruments make it easy for them to identify the value of items, but fortunately, their logical thinking makes transactions often difficult. Fair enough.

Priest Remulle and Skadi drove a vehicle around the planet, let's take a look at the planet to see if the Dynasty has a chance to get a share of Nefern's trade.They came to the mining and refining plant of the Winterfin Dynasty. Most of the workers of the Winterfin Dynasty were Bottomhive workers transported from the Hive Capital. Most of them had nowhere to go in the Bottomhive. In the end, they could only sign a contract to sell themselves to the merchants. Ronin, following the starship to a distant planet to sell his labor.

When they came to the mine, they saw the foreman calling all the workers together.The workers were divided into two groups. It is worth noting that on the side with fewer numbers, the workers looked frail and in poor condition, with twisted limbs, obviously decayed teeth, and oozing wounds.Some had black bile oozing from their ears and fingertips, veins sticking out of their pale skin like hellish black calligraphy.

The two people sitting on the side of the vehicle could smell the disgusting smell from the workers.They watched as the foreman picked up an automatic gun, loaded it, and said to the small group of workers:

"May your souls return to the embrace of the Emperor."

The gunshots rang out one after another, and those sick workers would no longer suffer from illness...

Remulle got off the vehicle. She walked slowly to the dead workers and chanted the state church prayers for them.The rest of the workers and foremen watched Remulle silently, and some devout believers of the state religion also chanted prayers to her rhythm, and people seemed to be able to see a little golden light from her head...

"May the rain of bullets quench your pain..."

After the chanting, the foreman asked the workers to return to their posts to continue working, while he walked up to Remulle and gave her a solemn sky eagle salute.

"Thank you, Priest, I believe their souls have returned to the embrace of the Emperor."

"What's wrong with them?" Remulle asked the foreman, looking at the tragic and distorted symptoms on the corpse.

"These people are directly exposed to pure nephrine minerals, which are highly toxic, and all people who come into direct contact will eventually die in pain. We used to just put these people in a special room and let them fend for themselves. But One of the Rogue Traders asked us to do this. He locked us in a room, then gave the infected people the God-Emperor's blessing, and sent them to the God-Emperor with the guns in his hand."

"He is a good man." Remulle said, in this universe, sometimes simply dying is a kind of "kindness".

"Yes. I forgot to ask, are you here to preach? Or to receive goods?"

"I'm just passing through this planet, resting here, and if you need me, I can give a lecture."

"Then thank you very much..."

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"Have you seen the workers who directly contacted Nefern?" On the returning aircraft, Remulle talked with Mel, "It's miserable... In fact, there are people in the foundry world who are even more miserable than them. More, after all, most of the things we touch are not safe for mortals."

"But in the end, they will be transformed into mechanical servants to continue to make their own contributions to the Om Messiah. In fact, there is a chance to save them by amputating their limbs when they first came into contact with Nephinn, but on this planet Obviously, there is no such condition in reality, and it is a pity that statistically speaking, workers who have experienced these experiences will quickly grow into skilled workers."

Mel commanded the technical priests to classify the purchased materials and carry out pre-processing to restore the damage they suffered in the cold environment as much as possible.

"May their souls continue to serve the Emperor."

"May their souls continue to serve the Om Messiah."

Volume 16 Siegel Foster: Chapter No.[-] Set Sail Again

Navigating the steeple, Siegel and his family members gathered in front of the huge planetarium, and the navigator Cassia was showing them the next road.

Within the empire, different factions have different views and considerations on whether the navigator family belongs to psykers. There are horror legends about three-eyed mutants circulating in some worlds, and the content of the stories can reach the level of stopping children from crying .The spokesperson of the navigator family has always denied that these rumors have any connection with them, but it should be explained that each navigator will use his own eye of the subspace to obtain unique abilities, or to reveal the secrets of the subspace, or Simply channeling the energies of the Warp can completely destroy a person.

Due to the chaos and incomprehension of the subspace, navigators need to use a completely subjective way to experience the subspace. Some people imagine themselves as a small fish flying in the ocean full of predators. The sun on the sea represents others see themselves as travelers walking along dark forest paths, and the astronomical torch is the bright light of a distant church.

Cassia stood in the center of the crowd and described to them what she saw:

"I was cruising in the subspace, found the galaxy called Irwin on the star map, and tried to find out a path that could be reached safely. I failed. I felt the turbulent turbulence ahead and the coming storm, I was once unable to see the light of the Astronomican, and the next journey was full of risks. The shadows of predators wandered around in the warp, and our destination was shrouded in the dark clouds of the warp. This time, we Possibly 15 days to a month in the warp."

"It sounds a bit bad." Remuule looked at the star map. As a missionary wandering on the edge of the Milky Way, her homework was a bit poor. She could only understand simple star map information, but Even so, she could hear the danger in Cassia's words, and she spoke as much as possible to boost everyone's morale. "The God Emperor will watch us, and we will finally reach our destination."

"It's not good," Gloria added. As the captain of the void on the ship, she has as many things to consider as Siegel. "The impoverished world is too close to the screaming vortex, and the subspace storm is almost never It has never stopped, and breaking into the warp space storm is undoubtedly a gamble. Maybe I will be sucked into the depths of the warp space, and maybe I will reach my destination faster. Before I leave, I will go to the surface of the planet to collect some supplies, even if Just a pile of corpse starch."

Siegel didn't pay attention to other people's words. He really knew the possible crisis behind this trip, but the life of Rogue Traders was like this. The planetarium showed their current location and the location of their target galaxy.The stars on the star map are constantly flickering, like the bright eyes of a beautiful woman. Perhaps this is the charm of the universe, which makes Siegel devote himself to it without hesitation.

"Father Mel, how's the status of the ship?" Siegel didn't want to give up, and he finally confirmed the status of the ship with Father Mel.

"After two weeks of repairs, the state of the ship has basically recovered. The remaining damage needs to be inspected in the dock. I can say that we can do our best."

"Okay, after the supplies are complete, we'll set off to Irwin."

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Although ships sailing in the warp rely more on the ocean currents of the warp than their own propulsion arrays, navigating in the warp is definitely not something that can be safely survived.

Siegel and Skadi are standing on the lower deck.

"Please stand behind me, Captain, otherwise I won't be able to protect you." Skadi's deep and cold voice came from behind him. In front of them, the sailors were fully armed to suppress the rebellion of the contract workers at the bottom. From time to time the walls ahead were illuminated by muzzle flames, and the sound of shotgun and automatic gunfire rang out from time to time on the lower deck.

Automatic guns, this classic weapon has always been popular in the universe. With the addition of technology and caliber, their damage effect is actually similar to the laser guns commonly used by the Imperial Guard.The Imperial Guard abandoned this weapon for reasons such as resupply, while some sailors had a preference for it.

The huge arsenal he had prepared on board became the aid of the traitors at this time.The traitors had murdered a sailor, kidnapped a tech-priest, they had obtained the key to a secondary weapons compartment, and the sound of firefighting continued from deep below the lower decks.

That technical priest was also the reason why Siegel chose to suppress the rebellion by force. He had to consider the ideas of Mel and Mechanicus, otherwise it would be easier to throw these traitors directly into the void.

"No, Skadi, you will block my sight." Siegel shook his head and rejected her request. He straightened his body, and his gorgeous navy coat showed his identity to the sailors, "I Watch the traitors get what they deserve."

Of course, here he can only see the armed sailors he brought, they are waiting here, and as the front line deepens, they will gradually enter the battle.

"Regulation 284.7: Mutiny. Any and all crew members and officers found to be involved in conspiracy to commit treason, sedition, or willful disobedience to superiors shall be ejected from the starship airlock." - Imperial Navy Code of Conduct: Calixis Sector Version.

The reason for the rebellion is not clear to Siegel, but the reason for each rebellion is similar. It may be that a large number of criminals in the contract workers are connected with each other, or the cranky thoughts of a certain bottom deck sailor, the discussion and agitation among each other.He has experienced this level of rebellion several times.

"Doubt brings heresy." Siegel knows that he has become more and more integrated into this world. It's not that he didn't think about doing his best to improve the treatment of these poor people. Even now, his crew treatment and other Rogue Trader is also good.

But he must admit that not everyone can bear the weight behind this universe. When they start to think and become curious about this universe, it often brings about a bigger rebellion.

That was the first sailor rebellion he experienced. After the battle, there were less than a third of the sailors left on the ship.

"Loyalty does not need rewards, loyalty is rewards." Only loyal people have the right to know part of the truth of the world.

"Siegel, I found out which room they locked the priest in!" Father Mel's voice came from the communication microbead, "My servo skull will show you the passage."

Volume 17 Siegel Foster: No.[-] Rebellion

Siegel and Skadi led ten deep-sea hunters along the remote passage on the lower deck, where they could clearly hear the sound of the battle on the other side.They could hear the sound of firefights, shouts, cursing, and the footsteps of the traitors' continuous reinforcements.

The servo skull leads the way ahead, not to mention Siegel who has been in the captain's dome for a long time, even the most experienced sailors on the lower deck, they will not know all the roads on any deck.Only a Mechanician would tirelessly understand every nook and cranny of the ship, as well as the function of each component.

Siegel and the others soon came to the cabin where the leader of the rebellion was located. From the tattoo marks on the guards, it can be seen that they are indeed a group of criminals. They should be managed separately. They seem to have found a way to connect in series and planned this rebellion. .

Siegel put the plasma pistol on his waist, and after a short charge, a mass of plasma spewed out from the muzzle.

A blue light flashed, and the high-temperature plasma gasified the two traitor guards guarding the door of the cabin, and even the metal door of the cabin was mostly melted.

The battle started. The deep-sea hunters fired a salvo of laser guns and hit several traitor sailors. However, due to a detonated grenade, the traitor sailors fighting in the front discovered the battle in the back cabin, and the footsteps of a large number of people heard the battle. over here.

"Deep sea hunters, stop the traitors. Skadi and I entered the cabin to rescue the priest." Siegel recognized the situation and made a decision he thought was correct. He was not sure what was waiting for him in the cabin. But at this time, there is obviously no turning back.

Siegel felt a little regretful. It seemed that he should have brought Laurentina here instead of asking Gloria and her to guarantee the loyalty of other sailors.

Priest Remulle's chants and persuasions blared from the passage speakers.

When the sailors rioted, the other sailors and indentured laborers on the lower deck were locked in their cabins.Most of them are used to this, and they will not have the slightest loyalty to Siegel. They will just wait quietly in the cabin for the end of the riot. No matter which captain is changed, their treatment will not be too great. big change.

Siegel and Skadi stood on both sides of the almost destroyed metal hatch.Priest Mel just introduced the function of this cabin in the communication microbead. Siegel didn't understand it, but Siegel figured out the meaning behind her words, that is, try not to use such powerful weapons as plasma.

Skadi's self-defense weapons are two Seiko laser pistols called "Past Days" and "Remnant Dreams" respectively, and a two-handed giant sword produced by Rust called Tidal Elegy.

She handed one of the laser pistols to Siegel. This kind of dueling pistol called Velasco is full of the duel style of the Renaissance morale gentleman. It has the power close to the hell gun and good accuracy, but only one Hair capacity.

"Rush forward with a bang, knock down the enemy with a bang, and finish it with a bang."

"OK!" Siegel made a clear gesture to Skadi, and then he kicked open the dilapidated cabin door, Skadi then rushed into the cabin, followed by Siegel.

After rushing into the cabin, Siegel made a roll in embarrassment, dodging a few shots fired at him, and then he pointed the muzzle at the traitor closest to him, and the thick laser beam cut him half The head was cut off, and there was a smell of burnt protein in the air.

Skadi also killed a traitor, and both dropped their pistols to draw their melee weapons and charged towards the remaining traitors in the room.

Siegel's gorgeous captain's coat naturally attracted the attention of the traitor. He used the power sword in his hand to cut the traitor sailor who rushed towards him horizontally, including armor and flesh, and then turned around to hold another sword that was attacking him. Own chainsword.

"You are the captain, right? You have violated the oldest law in the void. We have completed our mission as criminals. According to the law, you should send us back to the port of arrival, but now, you are no longer qualified to lead this It's a ship." The traitor sailor has a burly and huge body, and Siegel is a little speechless. How do these contract workers keep their muscles from losing?

Holding the sword in both hands, he put the opponent's chainsword aside, and then he clenched his left hand and slammed the opponent's face heavily. The huge force of the metal prosthetic made the opponent back again and again.

"It seems that you are the leader of this rebellion." The power sword in Siegel's hand shone with a blue light on the boundary position, "I don't know what you heard from the broken words of the void, but I want to tell you , as the captain of this starship, the only outcome for the rebels is the death penalty!"

The traitor's face was covered in blood, and the punch probably smashed his nose bone into pieces, which made him frantically wave the chainsaw sword in his hand towards Siegel, and a huge roar resounded throughout the cabin.

After the swords in the hands of the two struck back and forth for several rounds, Siegel blocked the opponent's slash with the guard of the power sword, and the blade with the dividing position was directly inserted into the opponent's throat, and blood flowed continuously along the wound. When it spewed out, Siegel used force horizontally, and the head of the traitor leader was cut off neatly by him.

The traitor's body crashed to the ground, and Siegel looked up at Skadi's situation in the room, watching her hold the sword in her backhand and slowly stab the two-handed giant sword into the chest of the last traitor.

Afterwards, Siegel and Skadi found the hijacked priest from the corner of the room. Her body transformation was more advanced than that of Priest Mel, but her fighting power seemed to be far inferior to that of Priest Mel.

Siegel asked Skadi to escort the priest back to the upper deck, and he took the head of the traitor leader to the improvised position where the deep-sea hunters blocked the traitors. He threw the head of the traitor leader among the traitor sailors.

"The leaders are already dead! The hostages have also been rescued, are you planning to be thrown into the void by me!" Siegel's voice echoed on the battlefield, and his angry voice suppressed the actions of the traitor sailors. After a period of ideological struggle, they chose to lay down their arms.

The armed sailors controlled the traitors with chains, and a team leader among the deep sea hunters asked Siegel how to deal with these traitors.

According to the rules, there is only one punishment for all sailors participating in the rebellion on the ship, and that is to be thrown into the void.

"Give them to Father Mel." Siegel thought for a while, since they kidnapped the priest of Mechanicism, let Mechanicism decide their final fate.

Volume 18 Siegel Foster: Chapter [-] The Monitoring Station

Poverty World, Irwin Galaxy

A purple swirl appeared at the Mandeville point on the edge of the galaxy, and Siegel and his Golden Journey broke through the veil of the warp to return to the real universe.

Siegel must praise the navigator Cassia's outstanding talent and luck in subspace navigation. He once thought that he would get lost in the subspace, but in the end they broke free from danger, and now it's time to harvest.

Siegel and everyone gathered around the contemplative array. The Auger matrix on the ship had already conducted a simple scan of the galaxy, and the holographic projection of the galaxy had emerged on the contemplative array.It is not easy to find a lost ship in the galaxy. The First Arrow may have crashed on the surface of a certain planet, or in the asteroid belt, or in the ring of a gas giant planet. galaxy for a complete exploration.

This galaxy is not too big, and the star in the center of the galaxy emits pure white light, which shows that this star is in its youth and has a long lifespan.

Judging from the scanning results, this galaxy is worthy of exploration. There are 3 planets, two asteroid belts, and an obviously man-made space building. From the shape, it seems to belong to a space building belonging to the Empire.

Although Siegel's ultimate goal is to find the family's lost navigation code, there are far more materials that can be harvested in a galaxy, and this requires the patience of the Rogue Trader to explore the galaxy.

For Rogue Traders, exploring the galaxy is the process of finding riches.The ruins of humans in the dark age of technology, the unique products on the planet, the remains of various alien shapes, and even the planet itself may bring huge wealth to Rogue Traders.

"The start looks pretty good, there are planets that can be explored, and there is a strange space building, but I don't know how much it will cost." Father Mel looked at the data transmitted back from the galaxy projection, "In a poor world, you can It is really not easy to find such a galaxy that still has some exploration value, this seems to be a... eh... this seems to be a space building of Mechanicus."

"Perhaps a Mechanicum's exploration fleet has arrived in this galaxy?"

"It's possible, but I'm a little surprised that the exploration fleet usually doesn't have much interest in this kind of backcountry." Mel denied Remulle's statement, and she looked at the Mechanicus building with a solemn expression, "This is A Mechanicum monitoring station, generally speaking, there will be a mechanical priest, an astropath and some machine servants. If the 'First Arrow' really sleeps in this galaxy, we may be able to find clues from there."

"Liz, have you received a new astronomical communication since we entered the galaxy?" Siegel looked at his extraordinary astronomer. It has been a while since entering the galaxy to completing the large-scale scan of the galaxy. , since he has discovered the monitoring station of the Mechanicus, in theory, the other party should also discover himself.

Although I feel sorry for Father Mel, but judging from the style of the Mechanicus, they should have contacted themselves long ago, and perhaps ordered themselves to leave this galaxy.

Liz shook her head lightly, and said, "No...the astronomical communication records have remained silent for quite a long time."

Siegel looked at the star map in front of him seriously, "Father Mel, can you control the machine soul of this monitoring station with your authority?"

"Of course, but I have to enter the control room of the monitoring station, and I will retrieve the data inside the monitoring station by the way."

"Okay then, set up a beacon, and let's go to this monitoring station."

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The Golden Journey arrived near the monitoring station and slowly approached this creation of the Mechanicum. Even if it was just a space station for monitoring galaxy data, its sides were tens of kilometers long. Styled structural arrangement, with the iconic gear logo on it.A large number of detection arrays and communication enhancements are deployed on the top of the monitoring station.

During this period, they tried astronomical communication several times, but there was still no response.

Each monitoring station is equipped with self-defense firepower. Siegel can clearly see the cruiser-level light spear turret and laser macro cannon array above. The various equipment stored in them is undoubtedly the best target for pirates and rogue traders.

After much trial and error, the ship finally reached a position where it could launch the Jumping Force.

Several shark assault boats sailed out of the ship and rushed straight to the monitoring station... The melta bombs and laser demolishers in front of the assault boats melted the outer armor of the monitoring station and destroyed the internal structure. The inner deck stayed down.

The deep-sea hunters and armed sailors got off the shark assault boat, and the main personnel on the ship also boarded this mysterious Mechanicum testing station.

The interior of the monitoring station, which was supposed to have a stable energy supply, was pitch black. The technical sergeant took out a luminous ball from his backpack and attached it to the wall or directly to himself. This kind of equipment is a common light source at night and in dark areas. Each luminous ball Both can maintain lighting for several hours, and then need to replenish energy.

The main personnel on the ship were all on different assault boats, and they were all sent to different positions in the monitoring station.But the communication beads can still contact each other for now.

"Me, Remulle, and Father Mel went to the control room of the monitoring station, Liz and Skadi went to find the energy center of the monitoring station, and Gloria and Laurentina went to find the power center of the monitoring station. Valuable items, take them away as much as possible!"

Father Mel didn't express surprise or dissatisfaction with this. The Mechanicum sends out an exploration fleet every year. Collect and study all kinds of strange materials and information in the universe, and by the way occupy the planets in the universe that are worthy of being a foundry world in advance (the Mechanicus really likes to do this. During the expedition, the Mechanician’s exploration fleet sometimes goes deep into enemy-occupied areas. Occupy the planet that can be used as a foundry world in advance, and by the time the battle line hits here, the oil guys have often started to produce materials.).

The monitoring station is built for this purpose, just like not every exploration fleet can successfully return, nor can the data of every monitoring station be successfully retrieved.Rogue Traders are often the best helpers in recovering the data of these monitoring stations, although this kind of behavior somewhat displeases the conservative factions of the Mechanicum.

Father Mel still doesn't know why there is a monitoring station here. She believes that there must be a corresponding reason, and she is happy to recycle the information here to add a little "chip" to her promotion thesis.