Warhammer, Rogue Trader Notes

Siegel had just joined Remuule's team, and he had just noticed that Remuule and the others seemed to have brought something. Before they could say hello to each other, the collision between the land ship and the city ruins had already occurred.

The shaking caused by the violent collision caused some unprepared people to fall to the ground, and Siegel used the scabbard to support his body so that he did not fall.

Violent vibrations and loud noises of metal twisting can be heard endlessly, the structure of the ship was severely damaged, and the engine stopped working after idling for a period of time.

After such a toss, Siegel estimated that there were not one out of ten people on the entire land ship.Of course, Siegel has no guilt about this. After all, he has always maintained a flexible moral bottom line in the job of rogue trader.

"What's going on?" The sudden shock made everyone a little surprised, but the two members of the Mechanic Order were prepared for it.

"It should be that the landship has arrived at its destination." The Magellan sage was suspended in mid-air, with indifferent emotions in his tone.

"When the machinery is out of control, it will explode with unimaginable energy, which is why we worship the God of All Machines." Magellan pointed to the surrounding metal bulkheads, "Look carefully, their structures are all colliding with the collision. The change."

The shock stopped after more than ten minutes. Perhaps it was a hint from Magellan, or maybe it was because the force of the collision was so great. Everyone present seemed to feel that the metal floor under their feet was changing slightly.

Of course, that probably doesn't include Karoo.

"How are you?" Siegel looked at the two deep-sea hunters who were wrapped in gauze. "It seems that the opponents on the lower deck are not easy to deal with."

"I thought I was going to tell you where it was, Captain." Laurentina brushed her hair back with her fingers, and there was a little smile in her red pupils, "It's good luck, those mutants and synthetic beasts separated halfway. That's it, the remaining quantity is just enough for me to enjoy a

A good fight. "

Laurentina has always maintained a high "enthusiasm" for fighting.Of course, this is a euphemism for Siegel. The deep-sea hunters have an unknown enthusiasm for fighting.

"That's really good luck." Siegel felt some phantom pain vaguely, and his left hand disappeared along with the command deck along with the subspace disaster.

"You look much more embarrassed."

"Well... the battle situation is okay, but I didn't expect that technical heretic to play so big. Sage Magellan, don't you know anything about this?" Siegel shrugged and turned towards the other The man shows his empty left wrist.

"For a research to be successful, you need to devote enough experience to it. Even if it is just primitive mechanical worship, it is a very important topic for me. After all, it involves the foundation of the existence of the God of Myriad Machines. I must invest A lot of energy, on the one hand, conducting research, on the other hand, keeping the samples safe, and doing my best not to interfere with the development of religion here."

"in other words?"

"It's just that I have locked myself in the house for too long, and I really don't know."

"Now your sample has..."

"You don't need to worry about this, Master Foster." Magellan took out a thinker panel, on which the holographic projection of the planet Zais appeared, and more than a dozen red dots were distributed, "There are still many samples."

"A sage like you, why would you devote your precious energy to this?" Siegel asked with some doubts. He thought that there should be a large number of STC data fragments and even STC templates in Zaisne.But these things that other members of the Mechanicus are rushing to, the Magellan sages in front of them turn a blind eye to them.

"The Rath Tristar was established following the Angwen Expedition. It is indeed the core of the Mechanicus in the Calixis sector, but compared with Lucius and Mezoa, we lack historical details. "The projection on the panel of the thinker in the hands of the sage Magellan became the three stars of Lars.

"The research on the original mechanical worship on Zays will help Calixis' Mechanical Cult to establish related disciplines and fill our academic gap. This is a very meaningful thing. The Mechanical Cult and the Mechanic Adept You need to have a clearer understanding of your own development."

"But during the battle just now, I heard that technological heretic said that there are technological treasures on Zays, and there is one of the destinations that the land ship is going to." Priest Mel asked the Magellan sage .

"Of course it is possible. It is normal for STC fragments or STC templates to exist among the ruins of the Zays city, or in those larger land-ship clans." Magellan explained to Mel. "I'm just telling you that there is nothing you expect in this clan."

While the two members of the Mechanicus were communicating with each other, Remulle came to Siegel. She leaned over and observed Siegel carefully.

"what happened?"

"The feeling on your body is somewhat familiar, as if someone had burned it with holy promethium."

"Hey, don't you want to be so exaggerated. The guy who was burned by the Holy Promethium was purified to nothing but ashes." Siegel looked at Remulle with some confusion.

Remulle checked Siegel's left hand.

"I can't quite imagine what you've been through."

"Then don't think about it." Siegel withdrew his left arm and asked Remulle: "What did you find? It's best to heal the pain of losing my left hand."

"Then I think your left hand may be healed soon." Remulle smiled and said to Siegel: "There are a lot of things still in the warehouse, and we have already collected the small and precious things."

"The more representative things..." Remulle pondered for a while, then took out a scripture from his backpack and handed it to Siegel.

Siegel looked at the scripture in his hand. It was a book of the Holy Word of the Empire. The cover felt... the material is hard to say, it should be some kind of animal leather.

The title of the book on the cover was embroidered with gold thread. Siegel opened the cover, and the signature on the title page told him who this holy book belonged to.

"The Annotated Version of the Holy Word of the Empire by St. Cognatius." Remulle said to Siegel, with a little excitement in his words.

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

As mentioned earlier, the state religion of the Empire has a considerable degree of saint worship.The Emperor on Holy Terra was a little too far from his life for an Imperium that ruled the entire galaxy.

The teachings of the state religion are full of the emperor's contribution to mankind and to the empire.But for those shallow believers, these realities seem a little far away from their lives.Then the saints who are relatively not that far away from them, and the deeds of those saints are effective means to stabilize the beliefs of various planets.

There are many saints in the empire.

The Calixis sector is home to a large number of men and women who have dedicated their lives to the cause of the Emperor, and their deeds are either on a planet or a sector.

The lucky ones will be included in the story collection of the state religion by the archbishop of the star area or the cardinals of the sub-star area. After review and confirmation, they will be recognized as saints by the local state religion organization.

Such as Santa Luz "The Brave", Vidicus the Lonely, Rebel Goss the Night Watcher, Kivvar Nog, and Saint Elena the Immortal.

These are famous saints in the Calixis Sector, and their stories are passed down through word of mouth among the state religion believers in the Calixis Sector.

Of course, there are more utilitarian saint assessments. Some human planets outside the empire's rule, in order to convert them to the state religion, the state religion organization may list the symbols of the local religion as the state religion's saints.

Of course, the gold content of such saints will be much lower, and their deeds will gradually disappear as the state religion penetrates into local beliefs.

In terms of the size of the entire empire, there may be hundreds of thousands or more saints of the state religion, but there are very few saints of the state religion who were canonized during their lifetime.

Compared with the final judgment after death, the risk of canonization in life is too great for the empire and the state religion.Believers who can be canonized during their lifetime are all very important in the history of the state religion.Drews is one of them, this general who was born in the Imperial Guard, in the state religion of Calixis, Drews' status is second only to the emperor.

Some cults even believe that Drews is the second incarnation of the emperor, hoping to move the emperor out of the church and put Drews in the middle.

The cult was eventually suppressed by the state religion's Crusades.

It's a bit far away, compared to the Calixis star area, the Kronos expansion area connected to the star area through the "Great Mouth" channel has fewer stories about saints.

The state religion rarely recognizes saints directly related to the Expanse, largely due to the fact that the Expanse was isolated from the Empire for thousands of years and only reconnected with the Empire in the past century.

Nevertheless, there is still much evidence to prove that before the "Maw" passage was found, there were still many heroes of the Empire who explored certain areas of the Kronos Expansion through the raging warp storm.

St. Cognasius is a typical example. In the name of the emperor, he lived and converted to several worlds in the expanded area, many of which have become holy places of the state religion.

St. Cognatius finally disappeared into the vast starry sky of the expansion area, and his whereabouts were unknown.

His deeds are not attractive to Rogue Traders. Siegel flipped the Emperor's Holy Words with his wrist, and there was a small mark of the owner of the book on the edge of the book.This is undoubtedly a sacred object. If Siegel wants to establish a religious world, a sacred object of an imperial saint is indispensable.

An endless stream of pilgrims will provide a steady stream of labor for a planet, and providing services to these pilgrims is also very profitable.

But this is not what attracts Siegel the most. St. Cognatius' ship carries countless holy relics of inestimable value, and the planets related to St. Cognatius have the potential to become holy planets.

Remulle's excitement is also understandable.No missionary would refuse the temptation to find the burial place of St. Cognatius. Many missionaries are following in the footsteps of St. Cognatius and trying to find his resting place. Among them, four missionaries have the most deeds Famous.

The aforementioned Nadine Aleinikoff is one of them, along with Genevieve Armes, Nick Mids Keefe and Jorus Marquette.

Even if she doesn't care much about missionary work, at least the new discovery about St. Cognatius is enough to make her happy. After becoming a missionary of Siegel, Remulle found that her divine arts are getting better and better. It is stronger, but the so-called Confucian classics research has regressed compared to before.

If Siegel knew about this, he must say it was a good thing, which showed that Remulle was more pure in faith.

After all, who wrote the Holy Word, right?

Of course, Siegel admitted that his theological attainments, after all, compared to the author of the "Astarte Codex", what he wrote is indeed more conscientious.

But for the greatest enemy of the empire, Chaos, the purpose of faith is not to allow people to win a traitor Primarch through classic debates.

The purpose of faith is to protect the souls of the people of the empire from being polluted, and the church guarantees that the people of the empire will be bathed in the light of the emperor at all times.

"This thing is good." Siegel's mind was full of thoughts. He was sure of the value behind this thing. "If there is a chance in the future, we can also try to find the cemetery of St. Cognatius."

"But we have more things to do next." Siegel noticed that the time had come to connect with the golden journey in orbit.

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The crimson toxic storm has faded, and the entire space is once again surrounded by yellow-green poisonous mist.

On the already empty weapons deck, armed sailors moved the property they had searched from the land ship to the transport plane.

The transport plane of the Golden Journey put down a large number of armed sailors, and they began to clean up and move all the valuable things here according to the information provided by the two Mechanicus members, Mel and Magellan.

Siegel looked at the ruins of the city looming in the poisonous fog, thinking about whether to continue exploring.

"Why not?" Mel walked to Siegel, and she took a spare mechanical hand and pressed it on Siegel.

"There is really nothing to hesitate." Siegel agreed with Mel, "What do you think is waiting for us inside?"

"Who knows." Mel was adjusting the condition of Siegel's left hand, "I got a lot of information about Zais from the sage Magellan. In these human cities buried in ashes and sand, there are indeed some The ancient technological artifacts of the empire. These city ruins are the human cities of the past, but most of them have lost their names and records.”

"The Magellan sage's research results refer to the lost technology under the ruins of these cities. Since she does not need the review of Mars, her research is quite interesting and uses a lot of new technologies."

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

Siegel's team is currently exploring the ruins of the city in front of them. With the help of two Mechanicians, the progress of exploring the city is going smoothly.

The scanning instruments of the Priory Prospectors can help them find the heritage buried beneath the dust.

Of course, the city is not without masters.

Siegel looked down at the corpse of the humanoid creature under his feet. Its surface was a strange red color, covered with a layer of cuticle, and its respiratory system had been specialized to adapt to the poisonous fog and radiation above Zais.

In the expanded area, and even the entire galaxy, humanoid aliens are the mainstream of the Empire's Alien Atlas, and the aliens here do not refer to Eldar, green skins, or titanium.

"'Haters', that's what the Zais call these things." Magellan walked up to Siegel, looking at the corpse that was still spewing out gray-green smoke at his feet, "I have dissected these things before. Things, just like the local population, they used to be human beings, tortured by the environment, and degraded to what they are now."

"Most of the cities of Zays were destroyed in that recorded war in history, and those who survived either died from the poisonous gas that later spread across the entire planet, or became such monsters."

Siegel nodded, yes, many humanoid aliens were once human beings, and after experiencing difficult environments unimaginable by ordinary people, they became inhuman monsters.

Some of the causes of this phenomenon are natural disasters, and some are man-made disasters.

But it's a tragedy after all.

Siegel stepped past the corpse that had only nerve reflexes left, and as he continued to move forward, he heard the sage Magellan continue to introduce Zays' secrets to them.

"However, in the history of the Zays people, there is a city that survived the war." The sage Magellan said mysteriously: "The capital of the planet, the first city that humans colonized on Zays, is also The largest, Zoran, survived the first round of the war with the help of the city's massive shield generators and metal domes."

"Oh? What happened next?" Remulle liked hearing these stories very much.

"Just like a casting planet needs countless raw material production areas and primary processing production areas to serve. After a city like the capital of the planet lost its food and material supply, tragedy happened soon. Zoran eventually disappeared in the long river of history, Up to now, no one knows the exact location of Zoran. If there is any city on Zays that has the most technical data preserved in the ruins, it is undoubtedly Zoran."

Siegel listened to Magellan introducing the history and secrets of planet Zays to them, and silently remembered the city of Zoran in his heart.

Siegel and the others continued to explore in the ruins of the city. The chainsaw cutter blasted sparks several meters long on the thick metal wall. As the metal wall broke open, the wealth buried in the land was unearthed one by one.

Perhaps only a man like Magellan would remain indifferent to the legacy in the ruins of an ancient city.

Plenty of technical material: intact data cables, sanitized gear prints, neural signaling devices, anti-jamming arrays, and more.

"This should be the mechanical casting center of the city." Mel looked at the dilapidated ruins and most of the destroyed factory buildings in front of him, "There should be some technical data preserved here."

"You have also noticed that the weapons and equipment on Zays are very different from the imperial standard. But there is a clear imperial style." Magellan looked at the dilapidated factory building, the furnace for forging machinery and equipment had been It completely cooled down, "You are right, there are indeed a lot of technology fragments on Zays, even if it is an STC template, it is not impossible."

"Just why didn't the Magellan sages try to collect these STC templates?"

"Without the help of the Exploration Fleet, even if I am a sage, it would be very difficult to save a copy of the STC template, and I would have to stand in front of the stage. A land ship belonging to the Mechanicus appeared on this planet. It is bound to have an impact on the mechanical worship of other land ships, so my research will fail completely."

Magellan watched as Meier commanded his servants and armed sailors to try to disassemble and analyze the control instruments in the abandoned machinery factory.

Soon, they had a harvest.

With an exclamation, Siegel watched as Mel took out a data chip emitting golden light from the control core of the abandoned factory.

Siegel has never seen an actual STC template.That thing does not have a standard form, it may be a data chip, a pile of drawings or even an entire factory.But as long as a person has a little technical reserve, he will know what it is when he sees one.

They literally dug out an STC template.

The golden beam of light almost pierced the yellow-green poisonous mist on Zays, this is the light of technology that has been silent for a long time.

Just as the Empire once had a glorious past, Zayth flourished as well.

Even the sage Magellan was moved for a moment, but she quickly returned to normal. Magellan said to Siegel: "Congratulations, at least your efforts on this planet are rewarded."

"You're too polite," Siegel saluted Magellan with a sky eagle. "Without your help, we wouldn't be able to get here, and we also destroyed an experimental sample. As compensation, you should take my The starship returns to the Empire to share this glory with us."

"It's not good to be too greedy, Captain Foster." Magellan smiled and rejected Siegel's request, "You already have an excellent technical priest, and what she has gained this time is enough for her to have a Important position."

"My research has not been completed yet, and I can't leave here. Don't worry about the experimental samples. I want to integrate into a new land-ship. It's not a problem." Magellan shook her head, and she comforted with the unique values ​​​​of Mechanicians. Siegel said: "It's like I have various requirements for experimental samples. For me alone, the destroyed experimental samples have 7 land cruisers..."

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Meier and Magellan Sage scrutinized the situation with the STC template, a new type of tank template with different variants and accompanying battle cannon technology.

The iconic swinging turret, magazine type feeding, the tank's protection is slightly inferior to the imperial standard Leman Russ tank, but the excellent engine provides a battlefield mobility that completely crushes Leman Russ.

The ultra-long diameter combat cannon and the magazine feeding method ensure the firepower density of the tank.

Tanks are basically similar to the products researched by Magellan Sage.