Warhammer, Rogue Trader Notes

From the boarding request from the flagship "Moxie" of the Sun Li Dynasty, a shuttle boarded the Golden Ship.

After about half a Terra, Madam Sun Li stepped onto the bridge of the golden ship with her lieutenants in jade-colored power armor.

Ms. Sun Li is not young anymore. She was undoubtedly a beautiful woman when she was young. Thanks to the life extension technology of the empire and her own maintenance, she is still beautiful.

It's just that Siegel has no interest in the half-aged mistress. He politely greeted the wanderer: "Welcome, Ms. Sun Li."

"Thank you for your help, Master Foster." Ms. Sun Li also expressed her gratitude to Siegel, "I am here for the alliance, and I request that we can become allies in the next operation and compete together Dread Pearls."

"It takes capital to form an alliance, Ms. Sun Li, if I don't intervene in this battle, you will already be out of the competition for the Pearl of Fear." Siegel thought that the other party was just here to express his gratitude, after all, he had not blackmailed or Claim compensation for going to war.

But I didn't expect Ms. Sun Li to be more shameless than I imagined. Indeed, the face of the rogue trader has always been in a superimposed state of having and not having.

"You are right, Your Excellency Siegel." Sun Li recognized Siegel's statement, "But I don't want to give up just like this. What price do I need to pay to stay in this competition."

Siegel pondered for a long time. Unlike Siegel, who concentrated the industries of the Foster Dynasty on a few key planets, Sun Li has his own family’s industries on dozens of agricultural planets. world.

He originally wanted a food supply contract, but he immediately realized that this kind of behavior was not a good thing for the agricultural development of the colony itself.

And Siegel himself does not have the ability to consume huge amounts of food. As for the treasures inside Ms. Sun Li's dynasty, Siegel doesn't know much about it.

"A favor." Siegel thought for a while, and said this request to Ms. Sun Li, "Your dynasty owes me a favor."

"I will ask you to do something for me at the right time. Don't worry, I will guarantee the reputation of the Foster Dynasty. I will not let you and your family do things beyond your ability."

Siegel made a fairly general and difficult-to-assess return request, and debts of favor are often the hardest to repay.

It takes a lot of pressure to admit that I owe a favor. Ms. Sun Li frowned. She really wanted to turn around and leave, but now that the entire fleet is surrounded by four cruisers from Siegel, she finally accepted it. Siegel's proposal.

"I can accept that there is still a deadline for repaying favors. If you don't make corresponding demands to me within 10 years, this agreement will be void."

"It's settled like this, Ms. Sun Li." Siegel didn't make any more excessive demands, and instead brought up the Spirit Race with Ms. Sun Li.

"How did your fleet meet the Eldar?"

"My fleet was about to enter the subspace, and went to the navigator to determine the location. As a result, the subspace engine just started, and the Eldar pirates rushed out of the deep space and launched an attack on my fleet."

"What is the origin of these spirit races?"

"They claim to be the Sword of Twilight." Ms. Sun Li glanced at her adjutant, and her female adjutant stood up and said to Siegel.

"The Sword of Twilight..." Siegel knew about this group of Eldar pirates. They were a force of Eldar pirates that appeared in the expansion area decades ago. They had conflicts with Aspis in the earliest days.

But the range of activities of this band of Eldar pirates is not in the cauldron region where they are, nor in the winterfin country they are about to go to.

This means they came here for the Pearl of Dread too, and these Eldar are the last contenders for the Pearl of Dread.

"Where is your location?"

"In a galaxy called Kwapa." Ms. Sun Li seemed to have anticipated Siegel's question, and she handed a star map to Officer Siegel.

After entering the data into the Thinker module, the location of the galaxy is displayed on the star map.

Siegel used the communication beads to contact Cassia in the navigation spire, and soon, the navigator's reply came back.

"That's right, here is the same as our destination."

After getting a definite answer, Siegel nodded to Ms. Sun Li and said, "Ms. Sun Li, congratulations on your return to this competition, but I have a small request."

Siegel looked at the dilapidated Sun Li family fleet on the Thinker module, and continued to say to the Rogue Trader in front of him: "The Golden Journey is assisting the emergency maintenance of your fleet, and I believe your fleet will return to normal sailing status soon. , you and your fleet don’t need to follow me.”

"Let's not stick to certain fixed forms of alliance." Siegel said to Ms. Sun Li nonchalantly: "Our alliance can be more private."

"what do you mean……"

"Go find a new ally, Ms. Sun Li."

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Ms. Sun Li's family is called "Ma Kao", which is Macau, and the family's flagship was originally called "Wao Dao". I think the style of painting is a bit too complicated, so I changed it to "Mo Xie".

Volume III Fear Pearl: Chapter [-] Stellar Anomaly

Of course, Siegel did not intend to shut Ms. Sun Li out. Counting the spirit race pirates, there are eleven forces competing for the Pearl of Fear. No one dares to make sure that he is the one who laughs last. .

It is necessary to unite vertically and horizontally, so betrayal is also a matter of course.

It was an accident to save the fleet of the Sun Li Dynasty, and Siegel just played a casual move.

The fleet of the Sun Li Dynasty is currently in a very delicate situation, and its vitality is greatly damaged, but it is not without combat effectiveness.No matter who Ms. Sun Li forms an alliance with, it will improve the strength of the fleet to a certain extent, and the injury of the ship will make people feel that they can solve Sun Li's fleet after everything is over, so it is difficult for anyone to refuse her alliance. invite.

Therefore, Siegel did not let Ms. Sun Li follow her fleet, but asked her to find another ally.

It is not difficult to defeat a Rogue Trader's fleet in frontal combat, but destroying a dynasty often requires a lot of preparation.

Of course, Ms. Sun Li is not a subordinate of Siegel, and it is not clear whether the other party will listen to Siegel's request.But Siegel believes that Ms. Sun Li is a smart person and will know what to do.

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"Patriarch..." Back on the shuttle, Sun Li's adjutant looked at the leader of the family, carefully testing what to do next, "What are you going to do?"

"Of course continue to move towards the Pearl of Fear, Hua Mei." Of course, Ms. Sun Li knew what Siegel meant. She was very annoyed that the other party used this method to treat her. A Rogue Trade Dynasty should not be another person's tool.

"Siegel wants to use me to beat other people, of course he can. But the premise of this deal is that he will not be eliminated by others."

Ms. Sun Li also quickly found her own advantage. Her current fleet status is at a disadvantage, and her alliance request will not be rejected by too many people. She can continue to play chess at this card table. As for Siegel, except The Spirit Race, whose strength on paper is the strongest, will naturally be targeted by others.

Being the strongest on paper doesn't mean he must be the final winner.

Let's see...

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Siegel's ship entered the subspace channel again. In the expanded area, subspace navigation has never been safe. Although we seldom mention the risks of subspace, every time the subspace navigation ship interior It's stressful and busy.

The sailors monitor the interior of the ship for the effects of the warp, and the hymns of the state religion are played regularly in the ship.

Siegel looked at the huge oil painting on the captain's dome, which once painted a battle where Santa Ruth conquered the Calixis sector.

Now the entire oil painting can no longer see its original appearance, the colors on it have become chaotic, and it is obvious that it has the influence of subspace power.

Remulle directed the fighting nuns to take down the oil painting. The precious oil painting was crushed and put into a promethium barrel, after which a large amount of holy oil was poured into it.

The tinder was thrown into the barrel, and the raging fire completely destroyed the painting.

"How long has it been?" Siegel asked Remulle, looking at the crackling oil painting.

"It's only been seven days."

"But it seems like seven months have passed." Warp space travel is like this, all kinds of things can happen, it can even subtly change people's perception.

"We need to leave the subspace as soon as possible, and the morale of the crew is not wasted like this." Siegel contacted his navigator with the communication microbead. "Casia, where is the nearest subspace exit?"

Unless it is really necessary, it is also very dangerous to exit from the warp recklessly, and the better one may appear in the void without any celestial bodies around.

In a worse case, it appears directly in the center of a star or a planet.

"It's about half a month's voyage."

"That's 15 months. Do you know why this happened to the ship?"

"Of course." Cassia replied. All the windows of the ship were blocked by metal subspace shutters. Only the navigator knew what happened in the subspace.

"A stellar anomaly. There is something wrong with a star that affects the warp."

"Interfering with our perception of time, if Siegel you plan to leave the warp now, we will be able to figure out what's wrong with the stars! As long as you are confident that the fleet will survive the stellar anomaly for enough time, I can adjust our navigation parameters and re-enter a more normal ocean current."

Stars, yes, stars have an effect on the Warp.The birth, growth, and death of stars will have different effects in the warp.

The gigantic stream of energy and particles released from the transition from normal stars to supernovas or even pulsars destroys everything in the galaxy, weakens or even tears the veil between the warp and the real universe, causing violent warp storms.

Abaddon had used Blackrock Fortress during the Gothic Wars to turn stars into supernovas, destroying precious Imperial planets in this way.

But from a galactic perspective, Abaddon's actions in the Gothic Sector didn't even rank as brutal.From the ancient battle of Heaven to the Great Crusade and even today, this huge galaxy has been constantly fighting, and now it is already scarred.

The war equipment of various races emerged in endlessly, and countless stars were destroyed and shredded. Those galaxies full of war relics appeared dilapidated from subspace to reality.

"Let's see what happened to the stars." Siegel still decided to float up from the subspace. He was not sure that the influence of the subspace on time would still maintain this ratio. If it became longer, he would still have to float up to reality in the universe.

Siegel communicated the news to other ships through the fleet communication, and the entire fleet began to adjust its course, heading towards the weak point of the reality veil.

The subspace engine opened the curtain again, and the fleet returned to the real universe from the crack along with the subspace energy.

Before opening the subspace shutters, the ship felt the energy shock brought by the stellar anomaly, and the violent stellar storm was even more violent than the subspace anomaly it caused.

All sailors wore dark goggles, the black of deep space gone, replaced by blinding white fire.

Siegel sat on the captain's throne and controlled the progress of the ship, trying to reduce the impact of the stellar storm on the ship as much as possible.

The same situation happened on the two ships of Dream Tour and Zhongshan Celebration.

However, while avoiding the storm, Golden Journey released its own plasma bucket and began to absorb the high-energy plasma dissipated in the stellar storm.

Volume III Fear Pearl: Chapter [-] After the Storm

After bearing the brunt of five stellar storms, the galaxy gradually began to calm down.The dark deep space was revealed again, and Siegel finally had time to observe this galaxy.

In order to avoid the impact of the particle storm, the four starships were scattered to different positions. Siegel looked at the holographic projection of the galaxy, and the green photons flickered continuously.

The technical priest left on the golden ship by the sage Mel inspected the condition of the ship. It seems that the impact of the high-energy particle flow caused some malfunctions in the Auger matrix of the golden ship.

"Golden Journey, Dream Journey, and Zhongshan Celebration, what is the situation of the ship?" Siegel communicated with other ships in the fleet through the communication array, and the servo skull transferred the images of other ships.

"This is Dream Journey," Gloria was the first to respond. The Dream Journey is equipped with sacred-level weapons, and its supporting connection facilities use many components with relatively strong anti-interference capabilities. The situation is okay, only some electronic components are damaged, and the Tech Priest is already working on replacing them."

"There are some problems with the Zhongshan Celebration. The torpedo pre-installed in the torpedo tube went off." Jean Bart introduced the situation on her side. "There is nothing wrong with the ship itself."

Although Jean Baal sounded calm and confident, the back of her captain's suit was wet from her cold sweat.At that time, she was concentrating on controlling the ship to avoid the impact of the storm. When the torpedo was fired, the bow was in the process of turning. She can guarantee that it would be difficult for her to restore this torpedo salvo in actual combat.

That scallop is just perfect.

Fortunately, there are no other ships in the fleet in the forward direction...

"A total of 732 components on the ship are damaged. It's okay. I have enough parts for repair and replacement. The important components are all fine. It will take about five days to complete the repair. By the way, the plasma storage tank is full Already." The voice of the sage Mel finally came, and her voice was very excited, "After a while, these particle liquids will be processed into high-quality fuel and plasma ammunition."

Mel's ship control may indeed be somewhat different from others, and she also chose to deal with the stellar storm with her own characteristics.

"However, the Auger matrix of the Golden Journey is still intact, which made me discover something new." Mel shared the data he had investigated with other people in the fleet.

The holographic projection on the Thinker module shows a space building standing on the other side of the star.

I still can't see the style of the space building, but it looks like a place that can be explored.

"Anyway, the Golden Journey needs to be repaired, why don't we go in and have a look." Mel's voice seemed to have found a treasure, which is true. Thule's disciples set up a large number of survey stations when they explored the outer reaches of the Milky Way. Each survey station is filled with unknown treasure troves of data.

Of course, even if there is no Mechanicus exploration fleet scurrying across the universe, it is not uncommon to find a ship cemetery, space hulk, or space building of other races in this universe.

It's just that space stations belonging to the Imperial double-headed eagle are more common.

After Mel was promoted to become a sage, her data authority also changed with her status.Theoretically speaking, she can completely represent the Mechanicum to receive the data from these survey stations.Not to mention that she herself was a member of the Thuleite disciples.

As the Golden Journey was damaged, other ships headed towards where the Golden Journey was located.Siegel looked at the Golden Voyage through the bridge observation window, and his external armor looked fine, as did the void shield and thrusters.

But Siegel always felt that there was a wisp of smoke coming out of the ship constantly.

"Mel, are you really okay?"

"No problem, please report again, now 829 components are damaged, and I have arranged for people to repair them."

"In addition, I will also ask my technical priest to conduct an inspection on your ship. The damage caused by the impact of high-energy particles will be very hidden."

"As for this period of time, we are just going to take a look at that space building..."

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After spending about two days, the fleet reached the other side of the star and arrived at the location of the survey station.

During this period of time, the flow of personnel between the four cruisers was non-stop, mainly the flow of members of the Mechanicus, and the priest under Mel carefully inspected the damage of each ship.

There are indeed many hidden damages that have not been identified. The sage Mel is probably the busiest person at present. She is directing and assigning monks who follow her to repair the dynasty's ships.

At the same time, she has to keep an eye on the space architecture in the galaxy.

"It doesn't look like the Mechanicus." Siegel touched his chin and said, looking at the clearer holographic projection of the survey station.

The styles of the survey station and the Empire and Mechanicism are very different. There is no Skyhawk or gears. The only thing similar to Siegel's impression is the fine gold decoration on the building.

Similar to imperial buildings, gold decorations are used for peripheral decoration like no money, giving the whole building a strong religious atmosphere.

"This is definitely not the style of Mechanicum." Mel's voice came from the communicator, "I haven't seen a similar style of space station among known races."

"Will it be a product of the dark age of technology?"

"It's not impossible." Mel's tone was full of uncontrollable excitement, "Although the electronic components inside are likely to be damaged by the impact of the stellar storm, I'm still trying to communicate with the communication station. The machine soul communicates."