Warhammer, Rogue Trader Notes

Suddenly, Siegel suddenly returned to reality from the prophesied illusion. He tried to stabilize his breathing, and Gloria and Jean Bart behind him were also dripping with cold sweat. The two supported each other, and they both saw that gem.

"What is that..." Let Barr squeeze out such a sentence from his rapid breathing.

He was very clear about the practical significance of this gem, including the Rogue Traders present, who knew that it was a planet, a world buried in the Kronos expansion area.

A world that will soon be no longer eclipsed by warp storms.

The treasure is not buried somewhere on the planet, this planet is the treasure.

He could, perhaps hallucinated, feel the burning gazes of others, all of whom were convinced that he would be the new master of the planet.

Siegel believes that as long as he looks at the star map, he will know where the planet is.But reason told him that things would not be that simple.

A few anxious souls had begun whispering among themselves, discussing the nature of the planet.

And just as everyone digested the prophecy and was about to leave, the Seven Witches spoke their last words.

"It's not a gem, it's a pearl...beautiful, alluring, seductive pearl of fear!"

……

Siegel asked Gloria and Jean Barr, who was unwell, to return to the station first, and he found Igrein again.

"If the reason why the Spirit Race appeared at the port of arrival is related to the prophecy." Siegel looked at Igrein, "then the place we are going to is most likely a virgin world of the Spirit Race."

"exactly."

"Do you think it is appropriate to exchange a virgin world of a galaxy for such a prophecy?"

"Then the famous Siegel, please tell me, when you get the coordinates of the Cradle of the Snake, will you go there?" Igrein asked Siegel with a sideways glance.

"I won't, that's the lair of the Eldar, and Coral may appear in that galaxy at any time." Siegel answered as it should be, and Coral is the Arkworld of the Eldar wandering in the expansion area.

"You're right. I saw the planet-sized ark world, and I was even addicted to it for a while. Fortunately, my rationality saved my life." Igrain said the most embarrassing words in the most ruthless tone, "In I escaped from that system before the Eldar caught me, forget about the Serpent's Cradle, it's not a place we can enter."

"At least, Pearl of Fear, we and the Eldar should be on the same starting line." Igrain glanced at the shadows on the street of Luojiao Harbor pointingly.

A cloak disappeared into the shadows.

"So, before leaving, Igrein, are you interested in cooperating? At least before other competitors are excluded?" Siegel invited Igrein again.

"Based on what I know about you, your cooperation usually puts me under your protection." Igrain kissed Siegel directly, "This is my thanks to you. But the cooperation is still exempt. , as I said, I am not that chick that just came out of the cage."

Seeing the back of Igrein leaving, Siegel wiped her bitten lips, and muttered with a smile: "Isn't this still the same as a baby bird?"

Volume [-] Pearl of Fear: Chapter [-] The Competitors

When Siegel returned to the station, Gloria had already communicated with Liz and Cassia first, and all the members of the dynasty had packed up their things and were ready to return to the ship. Information that can be used to determine the location of the Pearl of Fear is extracted from the human mind.

"Altair," Siegel called to his cousin, the commander of the family's auxiliary fleet, "you stay at the port of arrival."

"Brother," Altair adjusted his glasses, "what do I need to do?"

"Two aspects, Dynasty has been away from the expansion area for too long, we need enough 'eyes' to pay attention to the big and small events in the expansion area. You restart the dynasty's intelligence network at the port of arrival, and wake up the people who have fallen silent , arrange it again."

"Understood, what about the second thing?"

"The auxiliary ships are too fragile, so I plan to keep you here. After the construction of the dynasty's colony is completed, you will be stationed there. At that time, you and Meyer will be responsible for the construction and development of the colony." After finishing speaking, Sig Er patted Altair on the shoulder, and followed the dynasty members out.

……

Golden Ship, Navigation Spire.

This is the territory of the navigator. Even Siegel, as the captain, cannot enter it without the permission of the navigator. The navigator opens his eyes of the subspace here, and finds a way in the highest sky that can reach the other shore safely. path.

Like the astropaths, each navigator has a different way of observing the subspace, so these people also have different quirks. For example, Cassia has high requirements for the quietness of the environment.

She was wearing a purple navigator robe, her pale palms were exposed from the robe, and her mutated nails could be clearly seen. Liz presented her with a lot of silver hexagrams soaked in holy water.

With the slight flow of subspace energy, the six-pointed star made a sound like ocean waves.

The main members of the dynasty surrounded the huge planetarium, and Cassia and the three people who witnessed the prophecy were in the center. She began to manipulate her power to extract information about the location of the Pearl of Fear from the three people's sea of ​​consciousness.

This is something that cannot be expressed in words, and needs to be interpreted and analyzed with the secret method of the navigator family.

"I found the location of the planet." Cassia quickly marked a location on the star map, "I started to confirm our travel path, you can leave here."

Observing subspace ocean currents requires the navigator's subspace eye to be opened. Ordinary people will suffer serious injuries if they look directly at this eye.

Everyone left the navigation spire, and before the voyage began, Siegel still had a small meeting with the main members of the dynasty.

Cassia began to place her consciousness in the highest heaven. Like a fish swimming in the ocean, a traveler in the deep forest, she began to explore the direction of the ocean current in the subspace, trying to find a way to reach the planet.

Back at the Captain’s Dome, Siegel looked at his dynasty members. This expedition may not be as thrilling as Flax’s, but in the expanded area, besides opportunities, there are dangers.Siegel didn't know what they would meet on the next journey, but at least he knew what kind of people his opponents were.

"Everyone knows about the Fear Pearl." Siegel sat on his captain's throne and said: "From the known information, this is probably a virgin world of the Eldar, even if we can't Colonization, the treasures contained in it are also worth fighting for and exploring."

The mining equipment on the Golden Journey can plunder resources from the planet. This mining method is extremely destructive to the planet, but it is more efficient, very efficient.

"The competition for this planet currently involves ten Rogue Traders Dynasty including us. Among them are many old friends of ours, and there are also many people who have just been dealing with names who have known their names for a long time. In view of what happened before the auction, As well as the goods provided by various companies during the auction, the competition may be very fierce."

"I saw Gerritt's flagship. He is probably pointing to the prophecy of the Pearl of Fear and trying to make a comeback." The super cruiser fell into the star sea, and now he can only command a raider to try to turn the tables.

"Hadarak Fell is also a well-known rogue trader. Although he has been in the expansion area for so many years and still has no reputation, it is never an ordinary person who can gain a firm foothold in the expansion area." Siegel did not talk to Hada before. Lark has dealt with each other before, but at the banquet in Tantos before, the two sides met once. He is no different from a common rogue trader, but the female companion behind him doesn't look that simple.

"Charbella Almeran?" Siegel frowned and looked at this new opponent. Judging from the fleet information provided by her subordinates, she is almost the weakest of the ten Rogue Traders. Her flagship is A transport ship, there is no so-called escort fleet, only a transport ship.

This is not a good choice in the expansion area.

"The name Almelan sounds familiar. Never mind, her strength is negligible in space naval battles. Be careful if you conflict with her in ground battles." Siegel said emphatically to several armed forces of the dynasty. : "The thing in her hand, if I'm not mistaken, is a clown's kiss."

Harlequin's weapons are often grotesque and difficult to master, and the Harlequin's Kiss is a typical example, and its vicious killing effect is even chilling to hear.It is a close combat weapon that looks like a slender tube attached to the forearm, which looks a bit like a wrist blade.It stores highly compressed single-molecule threads inside, even if there is a tiny bit of perforation, these single-molecule threads will be injected into the victim's body along the wound, and the rapidly expanding single-molecule threads will instantly smash the body into a pulp .

"Jeremiah Blizzard is a rogue trader who has risen in recent years. According to legend, he won the license to trade at a gambling table hosted by the department head of the Order of Terra."

"The Destiny, his moon-class cruiser, and these accompanying ships and good armed forces, he has been engaged in cold trade in the expansion area."

"Admiral Bastille...his fleet is getting bigger, too."

"Mrs. Sun Li... um... yes."

"Yangko Baron Scourge, like his grandfather, has a weird obsession with conquering the world by force."

"As for Crowkin Feckward..." Siegel looked at the information in his hand and threw it on the ground. "This person deserves a 'focus'."

"At least I don't expect him to come out of this competition alive."

Volume III Fear Pearl: Chapter [-] Eldar

Before preparing to leave, several men belonging to Tantos, the king of the port of arrival, escorted a group of people to find Siegel.

"What's the matter?" Siegel looked at the group of people behind them, looking familiar.

"Your Excellency Foster, these people secretly contacted the soldiers at the defensive fort at the port of arrival, planning to attack your ship after your fleet leaves the port."

Hearing this, Siegel frowned and looked at the people behind him, and he finally remembered who these people were.

"What is the so-called Imperial Economic Administration?"

"Yes, Your Excellency."

"Tsk," Siegel laughed angrily. The unique chain splicing layout of the port of arrival has always caused its defensive firepower to be awkward. There are not enough platforms to deploy those large anti-ship weapons. For the starships entering the battle Some are painless.

But for ships leaving the port, it is another situation. Due to the special situation of the void shield, the starship will not activate its own void shield before leaving the port.

Even though the starships of the empire are protected by thick gold armor plates, the direct fire of the defensive artillery at the port of arrival will still cause some trauma to the starships.If the parts equipped on the outside of the starship are damaged, they must be repaired, which will undoubtedly delay their departure plan.

More importantly, face.

The face of the Rogue Trader is sometimes more important than the throne coin.

This is also the reason why Tantos shot, Siegel has no psychological burden to dismantle the landing port.

"Forget it, let your master deal with these people by himself, and say hello to Tantos for me by the way." Siegel is not interested in dealing with these people anymore. Some dynasties with smaller ships and fast movements have left the port and entered the subspace In the current.

"Understood." The leading officer nodded, and then killed those people one by one in front of Siegel.

"..."

A fleet of four cruisers left the port of arrival and slowly sailed to the edge of the furious galaxy, preparing to enter the subspace.

They need to make several short jumps to adjust to the warp currents they are about to enter.And when Siegel appeared in a wild galaxy and was heading towards Mandeville Point on the other side of the galaxy, Gloria's communication came in.

"Siegel, there are new discoveries in the Auger array of Dream Tour."

"Data coming in."

The Thinker module began to summarize the Auger matrix data of the fleet, and the holographic image within the detection range was presented through green photons.

A fleet is at Mandeville Point, engaging the enemy. Their enemy is farther away, and the probe has not found the target.

But Siegel recognized the owner of the fleet. From the unique building on the flagship of the fleet, it can be distinguished that it is Ms. Sun Li's fleet.

It appears she was ambushed by a faction while she was guiding the fleet into the Warp.

He frowned and looked at the galaxy projection on the Thinker, Mrs. Sun Li was about ten distance units away from him, while her opponent was farther away.

"Your Excellency Siegel," Ms. Sun Li's voice came from the communicator. It seems that her fleet has also noticed Siegel's ship. "My fleet has been attacked by the Eldar, help me!"

Maybe he should pretend he didn't see it?

Siegel thought for a while and made a plan. He finally sounded the battle alarm and commanded the fleet to help Ms. Sun Li's fleet get out of trouble.

After all, there is another competitor in this competition about the fear pearl, the spirit race. If there was any doubt about the background of the fear pearl before, Siegel is now almost sure that there is the shadow of the spirit race behind the fear pearl.

If the Eldar can leave the field earlier, or allow them to arrive at the Pearl of Dread later than the Rogue Traders, it will have an inestimable effect on both resource plunder and colonial construction.

Four cruisers arrived around Ms. Sun Li's fleet, and the Auger matrix on the ships also found the Eldar fleet in the distance, and the signal of the ships on it was faintly visible.

This is where the holographic stance of the Eldar ships comes into play.

"It's the Aurora-class light cruiser and the Sunlight-class light cruiser." Through the incomplete projection on the Auger matrix, Siegel still recognized the composition of the Eldar fleet. In addition to the two light cruisers leading the team, there were also several hellebores. Class and Solanum class frigates.

"It's the spirit race pirates!" As the battle alarm sounded, the entire fleet was mobilized. The excellent performance of the spirit race ships gave them an advantage in the same-level confrontation with warships of other races, and even had a certain number of advantages At the same time, it is not impossible to challenge larger capital ships by leapfrogging.

But then they have no advantage in terms of tonnage or firepower level. It stands to reason that these Eldar pirates should retreat immediately.

Perhaps the attack on Sun Li's fleet gave them hallucinations, and the spirit pirates seemed to have no intention of retreating.

Compared with the more common live ammunition macro cannon, due to the characteristics of the ammunition itself, its damage output is more accurate and stable, but it also requires more space to place energy devices. Each section of the macro cannon deck The side battery can only be equipped with four guns instead of the usual six.

From the statistical data, the average damage of laser macro cannon and live ammunition macro cannon is almost the same, even laser macro cannon is higher, but the lack of tubes also makes laser macro cannon lose the possibility of miracles.

However, in the face of the high-speed ships of the Eldar pirates, stable damage means are more important than miracles. The holographic position and super high speed of the Eldar warships make the ship's fire control system take longer to monitor them. locking.

But the Zhongshan Celebration took the lead in completing the target locking. Both she and the Golden Journey were equipped with the best deep-space detection matrix in the fleet, but Barr's command and control were even better.

"Complete the locking of an Eldar frigate" let Barr watch the frigate of the Eldar frigate he locked on the holographic projection constantly flickering. It is not enough to increase one's own defensive strength.

The contemplator system of the ship has captured the opponent's ship, so Barr ordered decisively: "Lock the enemy ship and open fire!"

The Yangyan laser macro cannon fired a round of lasers at the Eldar frigate, but it seemed to pass through...

And then the Dream Tour also completed the lock on the Eldar light cruiser. As the firepower output point of the entire fleet, the Dream Tour's performance was much better than before over Vraks.

"You can't escape, prey."

The Xingyao light lance began to charge, and then a huge and rough beam of light spewed out from the light lance deck on one side, directly hitting the spirit bone structure of the Eldar warship, and the front armor and core of the Sunlight-class light cruiser were cut by the light lance A huge gap was made, and he directly withdrew from the battle line of the Spirit Race.

The spirit race pirates just woke up like a dream, decided to retreat, and quickly left the battlefield at a speed far exceeding that of starships of other races.

Volume 240 Fear Pearl: Chapter [-] Twilight's Sword

In the communication channels of the main members of the dynasty, everyone was praising Gloria's direct shot of the spear.There are generally three sets of light spear arrays installed on the side light spear deck, and only one set of light spear arrays hit the target in the light spear salvo of Dream Tour just now.

But that's already pretty amazing.

The holographic positions of Eldar pirates can be roughly divided into two types. One is called a "ghost field", which will create phantoms of its own ships in other locations on the battlefield to confuse enemy detection devices.The other is the "shadow field" used by the Eldar pirates in this battle. Through signal interference and other means, ships equipped with this position are less likely to be detected by the enemy's detection devices.

Combat between starships is beyond visual range. For those Eldar aircraft equipped with a holographic stance, the close-in defense system of the battleship

Covering strikes can be used for ship air defense.

But the starships are not good, the distance between the enemy and the enemy, and the slight error in the shooting angle of the macro cannon will cause the cannon to be outrageously crooked.

Every shelling is similar to a lottery. After research, everyone feels that the frigate attacked by Zhongshan Celebration is still too small. Even if the fire control system is forcibly locked, the shadow field will also have an effect and interfere with the shooting parameters. As a result, the macro artillery shot did not hit the key parts, but passed through.

And the performance of the Zhongshan celebration can also reflect how difficult it is for Gloria's luminous spear.

Since Ms. Sun Li's fleet took most of the damage, Siegel's fleet did not suffer any damage.The Eldar also favor laser macro cannons, and the Eldar's Phantom Lance can be dispatched to raiders and frigates, which is almost devastating to the light ships of other races.

The high firepower of the Eldar warships caused a lot of damage to Ms. Sun Li's fleet, and several frigates sank in the sea of ​​stars.Even the Sun Li dynasty, which runs the grain trade in the Calixis sector, will feel a little heartache.