Warhammer, Rogue Trader Notes

Siegel organized the exploration team, and the communicator in his ear kept echoing Mel's humming.

Fighting nuns, assault squads, technical priests, and Siegel will also board this space building with them.

"The command of the fleet is temporarily handed over to Gloria. Gloria and Jean Barr, you are monitoring the status of this survey station and the stars outside." Siegel is still a little worried about the stellar storm, "If there is an abnormality, contact us in time, We will evacuate immediately."

"Sage, how is the situation on your side?"

"I failed to communicate with the machine soul successfully. Considering that it may have experienced more than one stellar storm, such a result is normal." Mel answered Siegel's question, "I have prepared the ship and can set off at any time .”

"Okay Mel." Siegel looked at the shark assault boat that the exploration team had basically boarded, and he and Karoo walked up. "We will set off in 10 minutes, and we will meet up in the landing module of the space station."

"OK, I understand."

Volume [-] Fear Pearls: Chapter [-] Deck Ghouls

The shark assault craft was launched from the starship, and then moved towards the location of the survey station.

The survey station is not small, with a length of about 40KM. Its overall shape is not three-dimensional. Except for the central area similar to the bridge in the center, other spaces are more expanded on a plane.

There is an obvious entrance and exit on one side of the entire survey station. Judging from the size, a starship of about a kilometer can enter and exit here, but it is now dilapidated and can only pass through some small aircraft.

Meier's transport plane also entered the landing craft formation. Unlike other ships, her personal transport plane was equipped with a lot of detection equipment.

The instruments of the Mechanicum are further investigating this space building. The dilapidated entrance and exit should have traction and lighting devices, but there is nothing now. The light of the transport ship shoots straight forward, suspended in the cabin The dust grains within reflect the paths of light.

But except for the metal walls on both sides, there seems to be no end in the space station.

Compared to

Siegel in the shark assault boat, Mel can better observe the specific situation of the entire space station in his transport ship.

"From a design point of view, this space station at least looks like a human work, but I don't know if it was a small interstellar empire before the Great Crusade, or after that." Siegel listened through the communication beads Mel's thoughts.

"Although I can see the difference between aliens and empire buildings, I can also feel that this thing looks like a human creation from the appearance. But how can I tell that this thing belongs to humans just by design." Siegel casually said He replied that he was donning the Voidsuit with the help of soldiers, "just as it is difficult for us to deny that Eldar creations have always had a strange beauty."

"This is the research result of a sage in the early days of the Mechanic Church. This result was used by the monks of the Mechanic Church to initially identify which relics and objects found during the exploration process belong to humans."

"A more popular saying is that although under the influence of different planets and different environments, human beings have completely different appearances and cultures. However, similar forms lead to common ground in the aesthetics of human beings. This commonality spills over into everything from buildings to vehicles to artifacts.”

"That's a mark that belongs to humans. As long as those tiny dots are found, the source of the item can be determined."

"Sounds very interesting," Siegel's voice was muffled in the void suit, "but can you tell us how long it will take us to reach the interior of this space building?"

"Well, there are still 6 kilometers left."

"Okay, the passage is 10KM long, it seems that this place used to be extremely prosperous." Only the space buildings with frequent ships will use the precious internal space for the passage of space vehicles, because it needs enough space and time to pass the entrance and exit. The aircraft in the port are diverted.

The detection array of the shark assault boat finally detected the landing platform ahead, and several assault boats slowly landed on this platform.

Siegel walked off the assault boat wearing a void suit. This exploration may take a long time. After all, this is not a standard space station of the Mechanicum or the Empire. They do not have a map to assist their exploration.

However, the external structure of this thing can at least find the position of the control center of the space station at a glance.

"We should have crashed into it directly with a shark assault boat." The servo skull provided lighting for the entire space, and Siegel looked up at the huge space inside the space station, took out a plasma pistol in his inventory, and pointed it at midair.

The plasma cluster lost its restraint and exploded into a blue firework. The fleeting light did not provide any decent lighting, and Siegel did not find any clues worth mentioning.

Yegor and the Battle Sisters were left behind to guard the landing craft with some personnel, while Siegel and other dynasty members led the remaining soldiers along the passage in the building.

They quickly arrived at the gate to enter the interior of the space building. Mel's sage's staff tapped lightly on the ground, and the metal gate that separated the inside and outside was opened.

"It seems that the internal gas circulation system is still working." Siegel looked at the auspicious instrument in his hand, the data on it showed the air pressure and air composition in the space station, "Remulle, you will like this place, here Oxygen accounted for more than 40%."

Remulle patted the promethium tank under his gun in response.

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Everyone walked into the interior of this space building, the servo skull and the CAT car were the leading reconnaissance unit, and they were also monitoring the gas environment in the space station.

But no one took off the void suit, because the detector indicated that the radiation here exceeded the standard.

"It does look like this is a human building," Siegel said, using a lighting package to look at the metal decorations on the walls, which do have human figures appearing in the pattern. "The owners of this space station should have a religious belief. I don't expect them to believe in the Emperor, as long as it's not such a mess."

"It's just, what about the people here? There's not even a corpse or residue." Siegel stretched out his fingers and wiped the wall, scraping off thick dust from it.

"Flesh and blood are weak, but machines last forever." Mel answered Siegel's question, and she continued, "But it's not that there are no masters here."

"And they'll be coming to welcome us soon..."

Hearing Mel's words, Laurentina and Skadi signaled the exploration team to stop, and the assault team raised their hell guns to guard against the darkness in front of them.

The lighting sticks and laser pointers on the guns moved back and forth in the empty corridor, and on the control panels of the operators of the CAT car and the servo skull, they also noticed the biological signals sent back by the detectors.

Soon, from the depths of the passage, there was the sound of an explosion, followed by the sound of dense footsteps.

"My servo skull was attacked," an operator said in the squad internal channel, and he then took a shotgun from a teammate and rejoined the battle team.

The figure of the enemy soon appeared around the corner, it was a deck ghoul.

The assault team began to pull their triggers on these monsters. The monsters fell one after another, but there were more behind them.

Deck ghouls are a collective term for mutants, generally survivors of massive amounts of harmful radiation.Their bodies are usually twisted, with extremely hard hairless skin and huge claws, with extremely long mouths and several layers of sharp and sharp teeth.

This thing often appears on the bottom deck of the ship, so it is called the deck ghoul.

After figuring out the enemy, many things became easier. The exploration team continued to move forward while attacking and suppressing these mutants...

Volume III Fear Pearl: Chapter [-] Exploration

After clearing out a large number of ghouls, these things were at least temporarily repelled by the armed forces of the Rogue Traders.Siegel knelt down and looked at the corpses of these ghouls.

"It seems that they are not the original owners of this space building." Siegel found the remaining decorations from some corpses. Compared with the relatively unique decoration of this building, these remaining decorations found by Siegel still have Full-bodied empire style.

Especially those identification dog tags on the corpses, which were still written in Low Gothic.

"Tsk... Come and take a look." Several people from Chao Dynasty gathered around Siegel, looking at what Siegel found in his hand.

"What's wrong?" Remulle looked at the sailor dog tag in Siegel's hand, "Is it the dynasty we are familiar with?"

"It's sort of..." Siegel looked at the dynasty logo on the dog tag, "They are from the Harlock dynasty."

"In other words, these people have existed here for at least 100 years." Siegel looked at the ghoul corpses around him, "I don't know what happened to them here."

"Tell everyone, take precautions and we'll move on."

The Harlock dynasty, its origin can probably be traced back to the apostasy era, which is the same as the Rogue Trader license issued by the high lord in the hands of Siegel. (The Foster family has multiple business permits, and the one currently used by Siegel comes from the content issued by the Lord Terra High.) The ancestors of the Harlock Dynasty took it from Sebastian, the state religion saint who stopped the Vandil Rebellion. To the business license.

It came to the development of the Calixis star area, which was still the expansion area of ​​the calyx at that time, and shined brilliantly in the Angwen expedition later-pointing to adding chaos to the court of justice.

Around 703, M41, a serious war of succession broke out in the Harlock family. Erasmus Hallock, the last heir of the dynasty, also disappeared into the sea of ​​stars after killing the other heirs of the dynasty.

That's why Siegel said that these ghouls will exist here for about 100 years.

"If they are also aliens... what about their ships?" Remulle found the problem.

"Maybe it was sucked into the stars, or maybe it was destroyed by stellar fluctuations into a pile of space junk. What we have to do now is to move on."

The exploration team continued to advance along the road, and they were getting closer and closer to the control area of ​​the space building, and they also felt more and more fine sounds coming from around them.

"But it doesn't make sense..." Siegel suddenly said as he walked, "There are too many ghouls here."

"Our exploration team is only 200-300 people. In the absence of war requirements, this is a relatively common expedition configuration. What happened to Harlock in this space station will mobilize so many people into it."

Many systems in the space building have been offline, and Siegel and the others cannot reach their destination quickly with the transmission device.

The exploration team rested for a period of time in a channel, and the communicators did basic information exchanges with the fleet outside.

Siegel took people to check some of the surrounding cabins.

"Are these things still usable?" Siegel watched as Mel used the servo arm to cut off many mechanical components, and the prosthetic eyes of the servo skull kept scanning and marking the mechanical components.

"At least from the data point of view, its quality is better than more than [-]% of the mechanical components on our ship." Another servo skull showed Siegel a bunch of data he could not understand, "Even if it is a common For superconductor cables, different material formulations can achieve different effects."

"Such as maintaining superconductivity at higher temperatures."

Siegel watched as Mel commanded the servitor to hold a large coil of cables.

"Do we need to take this part of the supplies back in advance?" He casually suggested.

"Of course not, my memory is much better than yours, Siegel." Mel didn't look up, her MIU cable was connected to an interface, and a servo skull was talking to Siegel instead of Mel. "I can remember our route back and forth. Of course, it's not very smart to rely on your own memory alone."

"After so many cabins, I finally found a contemplator module that I can use to enter the master control device of the space building."

"Successful." Not long after, Mel's voice sounded again, this time the voice came from her own mouth, and the prosthetic eye of the servo skull projected the internal passage of the entire space building.

"The thinker module responsible for the master control is well protected, and the technology that dares to anchor the space building around this kind of star is really impressive."

"It's a pity that there are only so many permissions."

A line was displayed, indicating how they should move forward to reach the bridge of this space station.

"As for these things, I'll put them here for the time being, and just come back to pick them up before I leave."

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The exploration team set off again, Siegel and the others were getting closer and closer to the bridge, but the commotion of the ghouls became less and less, and the front seemed to be a restricted area for those mutants.

As the Siegel exploration team continued to move forward, the movement of the ghouls completely disappeared.

"It's so quiet, I really don't know if it's good news or bad news." Siegel tapped his plasma pistol lightly with his fingers.

"At least we are getting closer and closer to our goal. The God Emperor is protecting us." Remulle comforted Siegel, "I will stay by your side."

"Me too, Remulle, but this does not hinder the fact that we are heading towards darkness..."

"Captain, sage, there are some discoveries ahead, you'd better take a look." Laurentina's voice came from the communication beads, and the progress of the exploration team stopped.

When Siegel and others came to the front of the team, they all saw the situation in front of them.

In the passage ahead, lay a large number of shriveled corpses, not only those of ghouls, but also the corpses of normal people and other alien races.

"It seems that this is the reason why ghouls don't appear here." The ground under his feet began to become sticky, Siegel raised his foot and stepped on the corpse, and the whole corpse turned from an empty shell into a little bit of fragments.

"What kind of monster is the result of this?"

"I don't know, it looks like some kind of arthropod. Remulle, help clear a path."

Bright blue flames burned through the messy pile of corpses, and then, the ground under Siegel's feet began to undergo some changes.

The viscous matter under their feet began to shrink and gather, carrying the dust and sundries in the space, and condensed into a huge mass in front of everyone, gradually filling the space in front of them.

"Remulle...how much ammunition do you have in your promethium tank?" Siegel asked Remulle, the slime monster in front of him was dodging the flames while moving towards the crowd.

Volume III Fear Pearl: Chapter [-] Grilling Begins

The promethium canisters under Remuller's automatic guns might not have enough fuel, but the strike team's kit included incendiary grenades, and they were enough to hold the line.

Of course, since this thing is afraid of high temperatures, it means that laser guns and other energy weapons are also effective against it.

"Assault team keeps shooting and suppressing, don't stop." Siegel fired a ball of plasma at the sticky monster, and the plasma ball blasted a large gap in the monster, but soon "recovered "As before.

Or the vacancy is filled by other identical substances.

"Hellfire grenade!" Laurentina took a fire bomb from her waist and threw it on the "monster". The fire bomb was wrapped in a sticky body, and then Siegel and the others looked at the fuel and The accelerant ignites a flame in it.

The flame directly cleared a distance of several meters between Siegel and the monster.But as the flames died down, nothing seemed to happen except that Siegel and the others advanced some distance, and the sticky mass at least looked the same as when they first saw it.

"Siegel, what exactly is this?" Remulle once again pulled the flamethrower installed under the automatic gun. The ammunition capacity of this additional weapon is pitifully small, and there are only three rounds in each small promethium tank. capacity.

"Sage, what exactly is this?" Siegel directly threw the question to Mel. He didn't know what it was. It looked like a sticky jelly-like substance, a bit like a slime, but It's completely different.

"Good question! I don't know." Mel was analyzing the monster in front of them. "Since the high temperature is effective, don't stop. This thing is afraid of high temperature and cannot burn."

The assault team threw a few more Molotov cocktails in.

"Communication soldier, contact the rear and let them prepare enough flame weapons to support us as soon as possible." Siegel also took a hell gun from a member of the commando team, and continued to shoot at the monster in front of him, or the sandbag Pull the trigger.

"It's been arranged, and the Battle Sisters will arrive soon." Skadi's voice came over.

"Be careful of the top of your head!" Skadi, who was at the back, fired the light gun in her hand towards the ceiling of the passage, and the commandos around her also reacted.

Viscous jelly fell from the ventilation duct, and a large lump of jelly wrapped around the four members of the assault team. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, their internal tissues quickly disappeared, and they became what they had seen before. empty shell.

And more jelly kept falling from the vents and spreading around.

The members of the assault team in the rear threw incendiary bombs into the gelatinous monster blocked in the middle, and after the incendiary bomb exploded, it actually formed a deflagration effect.

Mel, who was analyzing the monster's data, noticed this, and the servo skull began to analyze the gas data around the monster.

"Oxygen, ozone... the high oxygen concentration in the space station is because of this thing! It's releasing oxygen and ozone!"