Warhammer, but Emperor's Chosen

General Abelard was silent for a moment. He straightened his bloodstained coat, straightened his back, and tried to keep his tone calm:

"As the first officer of this ship, I must perform... must perform my duties. It is with great regret and sorrow that I inform you that Lord Captain Theodora von Valancius has unfortunately passed away. May her glorious deeds never fade from the annals of the dynasty."

There were shouts of shock coming from the lower-ranking officers on the bridge, who had not previously known of Theodora's death.

Abelard glanced at Noah and saw the latter nod slightly before he continued:

"Since there are no relatives who can question this decision at the moment, according to the right of blood inheritance, I hereby declare that Noah von Valancius, the legal heir of Theodora von Valancius, will become the new owner of the Trade Letter and inherit the title of Rogue Trader. The formal coronation ceremony will be held later, and in the meantime——"

Abelard stopped and glared at the stunned officers with anger, "Are you dumb? Hail your Lord Captain!"

"Greetings to you, Captain!"

The officers half-knelt in fear and paid tribute to their new master.

In the Rogue Trader Dynasty, the most important thing is undoubtedly the trade certificate that symbolizes the source of their rights.

The Rogue Merchants who inherit the trade license will undoubtedly become the new masters of the Rogue Merchant Dynasty. Everything in this dynasty belongs to and only belongs to the Rogue Merchants, including the lives of these officers!

Abelard turned to Noah and bowed respectfully:

"Greetings to you, Captain!"

"Thank you for your hard work, General Manager."

Noah nodded slightly. "Master of Sound Array, gather the surviving officers. I need to hear briefings from each ship. Also, have the Star Language Choir try to get in touch with other planets under the Von Valancius Dynasty."

"As you command, Captain."

White faithfully carried out Noah's orders and quickly conveyed Noah's will to officers at all levels of the Stars through the sound array communication channel.

In just one Terra hour, hundreds of senior officers appeared on the bridge of the Stars, waiting to report to Noah - even though Noah would most likely not meet them.

"Because of Witwell's accidental death, the cultists lost their command, and the crew lost less than 500 people, which will not affect the normal operation of the ship. But the target of the heretics' attack was the command center of the ship, resulting in most of the casualties being law enforcers and officers of all levels on the upper deck, including Lady Theodora and her chief warrior Mott, as well as Edsard, Whispering Lord Witwell, Helmsman Revo, Sound Array Master Vigdis, and Senior Advisor Janris..."

Abelard's face was shadowed by a look of fatigue that made him look at least five years older.

Generally speaking, there are at least eight senior officers on the flagship of a Rogue Merchant Dynasty.

Captain, Chief, Navigator, Main Engine Prophet, Helmsman, Sound Array Master, Senior Advisor and Lord of Whispers.

In the recent rebellion, almost all senior officers died in the rebellion of the cultists, and only he, the general commander, and the engine prophet Nono survived. Although the number of casualties was small, these people's positions were extremely special, and most of them were Lady Theodora's most loyal servants.

The losses caused by their deaths to the Merchant Rogue Dynasty are almost incalculable!

"Have you found out who did it?" Noah was not interested in this, but still asked with a frown.

"It's Whitwell!"

Abelard's eyes were almost filled with anger, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Those damn cultists are all new crew members who were added to a hive planet three days ago, and that addition was done by Witwell! He was also the one who distributed weapons to those cultists, controlled the warship's system to provide convenience for them, and led those cultists to brutally murder Lady Theodora!

"He is the only one who knows the identities and values ​​of these officers, so he wants to capture them and Lady Theodora in one fell swoop so that he can control the situation in the shortest possible time! It is no exaggeration to say that you and I are probably on his list. If he had not been accidentally killed by the servitor, the consequences would be disastrous!"

"A shameful betrayal!"

Noah concluded coldly, "He has the blood of the von Valancius family?"

"I think so, Captain."

Abelard looked distressed. "He is a distant relative of Lady Theodora, otherwise he would not be valued."

Noah asked:

“Any other losses?”

Arabed thought for a moment and replied:

"The rebellion only occurred on the flagship, and the escort squadron suffered no losses. The cultists' plot to destroy the plasma reactor was thwarted by Father Nono and her fighter servants, so the battleship itself did not suffer irreversible losses.

"In addition, the deputies of officers at all levels have filled the vacancies of the sacrificed officers, but the loss of navigators needs to be replaced urgently. Although the navigators of the escort squadron are still alive, we can call on their navigators. But this is only a stopgap measure after all. In order to ensure the normal operation of the fleet, we still need to find a replacement for the lost navigator as soon as possible.

"However, we are grateful to the Emperor for blessing us. There is a star station belonging to the Navigation Clan in the Lycarde galaxy where we are. We can try to communicate with them and find someone to fill the vacancies on the ship."

"Then let the fleet re-adjust its course and head for the star station."

"Yes, Captain."

Arabed saluted respectfully, turned and left the stairs to convey Noah's instructions to the officers.

At the bottom of the stairs, Father Nono and Sister Ajetta had been waiting for a long time. Arabed bowed slightly to show respect when passing by them.

But he would never have guessed that these two people were the real masterminds behind the rebellion.

Chapter 7: The Order of Pronatus

After watching Abelard leave, Father Nono took the lead and said:

"Captain, there are two things.

"First, there is an illegal psyker on your ship. Since she appeared in the corridor outside the plasma reactor compartment, I suspected that she was related to the cultists and had her executed."

Her voice was as clear as a lark, which was out of place among the other Mechanicus technical priests who spoke with an electric tone.

"It's okay, you did the right thing, what's the other thing?"

Noah waved his hand, he didn't care about the death of an illegal psychic.

Although the illegal psychic can also become his teammate in the original plot, and even has a love line in the MOD.

But since that extraordinary psychic is Theodora's confidant, not only does she cause a lot of trouble, but she will also be affected by psychic power and go crazy, attracting subspace demons. In addition, she is a black girl and does not look that good. At first glance, she is a product of political correctness, so Noah directly throws her to the Inquisition in the game.

Nuonuo was actually helping her by killing her swiftly and decisively; otherwise, she would be in big trouble if she fell into the hands of the Inquisition.

"The second is that if you want to go to the star station yourself to find the navigator, I hope to go with you."

Father Nono's proposal did not surprise Noah.

It is known that both Nono and Sister Ajetta have the first round of memories, although it is unknown why Nono has this body he created, nor how she became the Prophet of the Main Engine.

But she did use the foresight brought by her first week of memories to successfully use the rebellion to kill Lady Theodora and her confidants, making the ship truly belong to Noah.

Sister Ajetta obviously had a cooperative relationship with her, so she was sent to protect Noah's safety in the first place.

But apart from the two of them, Abelard had no memory of the first round.

Noah also has a guess about this - it is probably related to whether or not to follow the love line.

Ajieta and Nono are both on the love path, because Noah has no special requirements for his wife's race. He accepts all of them, whether they are nuns, navigators, bean sprouts, or star gods.

But his sexual orientation is normal and he does not follow any of the male characters' love paths.

Judging from the situations of Nono and Ajieta, he should be the only character who has the memory of the first week.

This time, they are going to the star station to recruit navigator Cassia. Noah is on the love route. In theory, she should also have the memory of the first round. Nono should have asked to go with them in order to confirm this as soon as possible.

"can."

Noah nodded slightly.

Whether it was out of trust or something else, Nono and Ajieta did not try to test whether he had memories, or maybe they had tried, but he didn't find out. In either case, it didn't matter. Anyway, as long as they didn't ask, Noah wouldn't say it.

"Captain, my Lord,"

Sister Ajetta spoke up, "I want to say the same thing as Father No...Nono. My team and I also request to go with you."

"Of course. Also, Father Nono and Sister Ajetta, you can call me by my first name if you wish."

In response to Noah's request, Ajetta bowed slightly:

"Thank you for the honor, Noah. I would also like you to call me by my first name if you wish."

"Me too!" Nuonuo gave a faint smile.

"Of course, it's my pleasure. Ajetta, and Nono."

When Noah called out their names, Ajetta's expression softened, and the Mechanical Priest also smiled sweetly.

Noah has some myocardial infarction, this oil guy is damn sweet!

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In the boundless starry sky, the Stars, with a hull length of more than 5 kilometers, still looks so small.

The Stars, which could only travel at sub-light speed within the galaxy, slowly moved to the vicinity of the Okla V star station. While slowing down, the fleet also began to try to contact the star station's sound array system, but only the sound of gears rubbing and the clicking of rollers could be heard from the sound array device.

The slender sound array master bowed slightly:

"I'm sorry, Captain, but even though we delivered the Rogue Trader's official greetings and announced that you would personally come to the station to negotiate, there was no response."

Noah did not hesitate and gave the order directly:

"Order the crew to dock with the star station immediately."

In the original plot, they did not receive a response either, because a rebellion was taking place inside the station.

But if Cassia had the memory of the first week, she shouldn't have let this happen!

Just as Nono and Sister Ajetta gave full play to their subjective initiative and used Witwell's rebellion to launch a purge, Cassia should also launch a thundering strike against the rebels in the clan.

Although Cassia is a bit naive, she is by no means a saint and will not let her enemies go just because she is soft-hearted.

Since she didn't do that, it means she probably has no memory of the first round!

At this moment, every second of delay would put her in danger.

Even if Cassia's good looks are not taken into account, she is also an excellent navigator. Without her, Noah's next plan will be difficult to proceed.

Rumble!

The universe is silent.

But with the roar of the gears inside the Stars, the battleship was locked to the berth beam.

When Noah met up with Nono and Ajieta and prepared to go inside the star station, it was not only Nono and Ajieta who appeared in front of Noah, but also a team of Castellan fighters and several silver-haired combat nuns wearing power armor.

"Sister Ajta..."

"Call me Ajetta."

Noah tried to speak but was interrupted by Ajetta.

Noah had to reorganize his words:

"Ajetta, are they coming with us?"

"Yes, Noah."

Ajetta nodded slightly, "They are all my battle sisters. You can trust them completely, just like you trust me."

After a brief pause, Ajetta continued:

"Although I believe we are capable of protecting you, if you feel that it is not safe enough, I can ask a few more sisters to go with us."

Noah hesitated:

"Excuse me, how many of you are there? I mean the battle sisters on my ship?"

"12 people."

This number made Noah's mind go blank. In the original book, even at the end of the battle, there was only one combat nun, Ajetta, on his ship. Otherwise, he wouldn't have to create a nun wife himself. But where did these people come from now?

Ajetta went on to explain:

"My sisters and I are from the Order of Pronatus, and we have a noble mission to protect the great holy relics of the empire."

Noah asked:

"So, the holy relic you are protecting is on my ship?"

"Yes."

"alright."

Noah could accept this statement for the time being and assume that they were abducted by Ajetta.

Anyway, he is not at a loss.

As for what the sacred object they were to guard was, Noah didn't care and didn't intend to ask.

As for Nono...

Noah looked at the big whites.

"This is my guard."