Warhammer Inquisitor

Chapter 301 The Rise of the Primarch: A Mechanic Welcome

Lieutenant Stuart Warku is the fire control officer of the Infinity Frontier. As a seasoned Navy veteran, Lieutenant Stuart serves as one of the fire control standing officers of the Infinity Frontier. He has seen all his life. In many big battles, he followed the Emperor's glorious navy in all directions, and fought all the fucking foes in this galaxy.

Chaos, Eldar, Greenskins, Tyranids and Necrons, oh, did I forget to mention Tau?Ah yes, and these blue bald aliens, although in Lieutenant Stuart's impression, this newborn alien is the weakest one, if you compare it with the other monsters.

But this time, today's naval confrontation has set a new record for Lieutenant Sturritt's resume. This is the first time he has faced off against the Empire's own people since he joined the army, and it is also the fleet of those red Mechanics.

Stuart stood behind the control area of ​​the fire control team, with one hand on the seat of the crew member beside him, Stuart's eyes were looking out the window through the huge French window in front of the bridge. The Red Fleet, the Mechanic Sect hovered in the void, with countless advanced weapons and automated arrays lined up on its red and gold ships.

Those battleships are very different from the Imperial Navy's battleships. They look more square, and their backs also lack a lot of churches, monasteries, and gothic spires. There is only one main machine with a mechanical skull logo on it. The sanctuary, and the rest of it are all densely lined with automatic weapons.

Not only that, the Mechanician ships are also much smaller than those of the Empire. Among the Mechanicist fleets hovering in a dense array in front, most of them are frigates and light cruisers, and there is only one Mechanicist that is comparable to the Infinite Frontier. The heavy cruiser was in the center of the fleet, surrounded by a escort fleet that slowly pushed the plasma flames.

But Stuart once fought side by side with the Mechanic. He knew that although these warships looked small, they could fight harder than each other. Their automatic artillery fire and high-speed reloading macro cannons could instantly dispel the dense artillery fire. Shoot at the Infinity Frontier, during which time the rotating lance turret on top of it begins to fire, piercing the battleship's Void Shield, followed by a flamboyant explosion amid intense artillery fire.

But it seems that Lieutenant Stewart is not worried at all. He looks quite calm. In fact, it is not just him. The members of the entire bridge are quite calm. They are all sitting in their own positions, leaning on the backrest with ease. Looking at the fleet in front of them with their heads, some people even stood up and gathered in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows to point at the battleships.

All in all, although they may be stubborn oil guys of the Mechanic School in an instant, they will be judged as enemies because of a bunch of boring data calculation results, and then they will be smashed into pieces floating in the universe, but the Infinite Frontier has not seen any strong winds and waves. The sailors who have passed are not afraid at all.

"Lieutenant, are they going to fight here, or not?" said the fire controller sitting beside Stewart. He sat sideways on his chair with his elbows on his knees and his eyes were calm. Looking out the window almost surrounded the entire window of the Mechanicist fleet.

"Do you really want them to fire or not?" Stewart turned his head and asked his subordinate, who smiled and scratched his nose. He took a drink from the mug on the table, which had already cooled down. the tea, and he complained when the tea was swallowed.

"I just want to know what the hell they're up to, we've been staring at each other for half an hour here, my tanner tea is cold, but no one likes cold tanner tea, it's better when it's hot, the best It's the kind that just happened to be soaked."

The members of the fire control team put the teacup back on the small plate, he rubbed the corner of his mouth, and looked at the silent mechanic fleet floating outside the window like a group of iron stones, "They really don't eat. If you want to hit it, just fire it twice, so I can turn on the fire control system to kill them twice, or I can go make a cup of tea."

"You guy, you're on duty." Stuart said, reaching out and pressing his head, but the latter looked at the lieutenant with a smile on his face.

"Why don't we just stare here, how about Lieutenant? Want a cup of hot Tanner tea? I still have rich tea leaves, and they gave me the last time we did the greenskin with the Valhalla 597 regiment. There are also savings.”

Stuart glanced at the "enemy fleet" outside the window, and then looked at the bridge members who were gathered in front of the window, drinking coffee, refreshing drinks, drinking tea, and chatting. Lowering his head, "Hurry up, you know that when First Officer Anna comes back and sees that you are not on duty, we will be miserable."

"As ordered, sir." The subordinate stood up with a smile. He picked up the mug and ran into the small corridor on the side of the bridge. Stuart looked at the subordinate who had left, and then turned to look outside. Fleet, he glanced at the captain's high platform above his head and shrugged.

"Captain, they will handle it, we don't need to worry about it." Stuart sat on the side of the chair. He crossed his legs and rested his head on his head.

Above his head, on the captain's podium, Cole was standing by the armrest with his hands behind his back. His blue eyes looked at the Mechanic's fleet outside the window. Their huge fleet was backed by Mars that had entered the field of vision in the distance. Among them, the huge Vengeance-class battle cruiser almost covered half of the surface of Mars.

Cole looked at the huge battleship, and suddenly a person walked up beside him. Vittor straightened the collar of his black trench coat and leaned against the armrest. He looked at the huge fleet floating outside the window and whistled.

"They are so hospitable. We are a few units away from Mars' far-Earth orbit, and they are here to welcome the guests."

"I think they might have been a little overzealous, the safety on the weapons was on, and it looked like they were going to give us a welcome salute or something."

Cole said and pointed to the Vengeance-class battlecruiser in front. Vito looked at the huge bombardment muzzle aimed at the bridge, and the black heavy artillery pointed the terrifying black hole at Vito's head. Well, it's everyone's head to be exact.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, put his hand on the armrest, and tapped lightly on the hardened quartz stone surface with his fingers. "How about the refugee fleet? I guess they were freaked out."

"Indeed, the civilians were terrified." It was not Cole who answered Vito. He turned to look at Eisenstein, who was walking up behind him. The imperial fist company commander stood behind him with a chain saw, his alpine body almost like a mountain. As if it was about to hit Cole and Vito.

"But Political Commissar Engels tried his best to appease them. No one was injured, and no one died, at least temporarily." Eisenstein said, looking up at the Mechanic's fleet outside the window. Bell also leaned up behind him, he looked Very upset.

Bell strode behind Vito, the annoyed Ultramarine pressed one hand on the protruding armor plate on his waist, "I tried to chat with the Mechanicus, and it was the same as before, they stubbornly refused to believe us. identity of."

"Well, at least you tried." Vito said leaning on the armrest and looking out the window, his eyes jumping over the fleets of Mechanicians in the background of the universe.

"Has the identification code been sent?" Vito asked beside him, while Cole nodded with a sigh, "Send it, but it's useless, they said our ship was not in their friendly list, so they still took the muzzle Point to us."

Vito looked at Cole and raised his eyebrows slightly, he immediately got up and turned towards the holographic platform behind him. Cole and the two Space Marines turned to look at Vito, and watched him walk to the edge of the holographic instrument and pressed it. communication button.

As Vito pressed the communication icon floating in front of him, a Mechanicist's logo flashed on the prototype projector. Vito looked at the logo, but just as he was about to speak, the other party first Opened up.

"This is the Mechanicist Mars Fleet Delta Squadron, the flagship Mechanic Hadith, please indicate your identity." The icy mechanical voice sounded in several strange combinations of syllables that seemed extremely strange in this sentence. It looks like the eccentric work of some bad tuner.

"Hey, man, your vocal system should really be tuned." Vito said with a joking smile, and the Mechanicus responded to him in a cold tone.

"Show identity, flesh and blood."

"Don't like chatting casually first? Well, let's go directly." Vito said and stood up. He looked at the Mechanicist logo spinning in front of him, and Eisenstein and Bell also leaned up beside him. , they stood behind Vito and looked at the sign together.

Vito glanced at Eisenstein and turned to the sign. After clearing his throat, he said in a serious, majestic voice, "I'm Grand Inquisitor Vito Constantine, with the Imperial Fist standing behind me. The fourth company commander, Captain Eisenstein Batalov."

The other party fell into a brief silence, and with the knocking sound of mechanical gears, the messenger of the Mechanic Sect spoke again, "According to the data check, the current captain of the Imperial Fist is Captain Calhok, and Captain Eisenstein has Returned to the throne in the Holy War expedition six hundred years ago."

"Your data is wrong, Father, I swear to you in the name of the Emperor, I am Captain Eisenstein. Under the patronage of the Emperor, I not only lived, but also returned to the side of the Empire from the Twisting Void."

Eisenstein took a step behind Vito, and he clenched his fists in a very majestic voice and said, "In the name of Rog Dorn, I ask you to release immediately and take us to Mars."

"No, we can't verify your identity. The sacred calculation array shows that the credibility of your words is 70%, so it is judged to be a lie." The other party responded with a cold voice, which suddenly angered Eisenstein. Glancing at the sign, he raised his fist as if threatening the other party.

"Are you questioning me? Do you think what I said is a lie? How dare you doubt the words swearing in the Emperor's name?!"

"Hereties, citing database information, traitorous space warriors - Alpha Legion, this type of betrayer is good at using lies, disguise and deception, data checking, clear, Alpha usually disguise as loyal space warriors, infiltration, destruction, you, there is a possibility."

Eisenstein was so angry that he wanted to scold the other party. He felt his honor, no!The honor of the Chapter was humiliated, but Vito raised his hand to stop him just as he was about to speak.

The company commander took a look at Vito and held back his anger. He suppressed his anger with his strong discipline, then nodded slightly and stepped back behind Vito. The latter watched Eisenstein retreat, then turned to look at The Mechanicus logo in front of him.

"We have sent you the identification code, Imperial Navy, Mars-class battlecruiser belonging to the Inquisition, registered name: Infinity Frontier, Captain, Cole Makarian."

The opposite of the rotating Mechanicist sign fell silent again, followed by a series of data crackling sounds, followed by a long warning tone.

"Oh I don't like that sound." Vito smiled wryly and shook his head slightly, but the other party responded quickly as he expected, and the content was not what Vito hoped.

"The identification is invalid, the ship is not in the list of the solar system defense fleet, the calculation result of the sacred calculation array, the visit from outside the system, ask, is this the case?"

"Yes, that's right, we jumped into the solar system a week ago, and we're getting ready." Vito was just about to speak, when the other party suddenly sounded a warning sound, and the rotating Mechanicist sign immediately flashed a dangerous red light.

"As a result of the domination calculation, the warp storm surrounded Terra, and the Imperial Navy equipment ships could not pass through the storm to enter Terra for support. They could pass through units, chaotic ships, and your transition time coincides with the time when the Chaos fleet broke into the solar system."

As soon as the cold Mechanic's announcement sounded, an alarm sounded from the bridge of the Infinite Frontier, and the piercing alarm flashed under the entire dome along with the red light for the battle.

Cole, Vito, Eisenstein, and Bell looked around at the red lights. Below them, Lieutenant Stewart, who had just taken a sip of the hot Tanner tea made by his subordinate, saw the terminal in front of him. Warning the red light, he spit out the Tanner tea in his mouth, and the tea sprayed on his trouser legs and chest.

But the lieutenant didn't have time to take care of his wet clothes. He immediately sat up and put the teacup on the table. He immediately approached the fire control terminal and quickly tapped the keyboard to operate. Soon a series of alarms appeared on it. The system gave him the answer, and the lieutenant immediately turned around and shouted at the captain's position.

"Captain! The oil guy's weapons are all turned on, and the fire control illumination radar has locked us in!"

Stuart shouted, Cole leaned out from a high place and looked at Stuart, the captain saw the fire control radar system all emitting red light in the row, and the rest of the fire control operators sitting there. They have begun to quickly activate the weapon array according to the regulations. As they quickly flip the switches on the desktop, the central display above the fire control operators lights up green icons one by one, that is. Signal to unlock the Infinite Frontier weapon.

"Shut down the weapon array immediately! Cole!" Vito turned his head and roared in the direction of Captain Cole. His voice was very loud, and he didn't mean to joke at all. Cole knew that Vito was serious and belonged to that A situation where there is no time for any explanation.

Cole nodded, and he immediately gave a loud order to Stewart below, "Lieutenant, turn off the weapon system, and execute the order immediately!"

"As ordered, captain." Stewart said, looking at the crew members around him, "You heard the captain's order! Turn off the weapon system immediately! Quick!"

The orders from Vito, to Captain Cole, and then to Lieutenant Stewart were executed quickly. The operators sitting in front of the fire control system immediately began to turn off the weapon array. They quickly flicked the switch in front of them with their fingers. The green weapon symbols on the main screen have all turned red again.

After confirming, Cole turned his head and nodded affirmatively to Vito, who also nodded sharply and looked at the Mechanician fleet outside the window. He almost roared in the direction of the battleship with the loudest voice.

"If you dare to fire! Say goodbye to the great sage and his knowledge on this ship! You binary idiots!" Vito roared and slammed his fist on the holographic platform beside him. The Mechanicus logo in front of it.

"When you hang up, go and explain to your God of Myriad Opportunities, how you bombed his treasure trove of knowledge to the sky!"

The Emperor's blessing, Vito's words worked, Cole looked down at the fire control operation area, where the roaring radar alarms gradually ceased, until finally the entire lock alarm was completely silent, Cole looked around the ship The sound of the siren that stopped inside the bridge was relieved.

The captain looked in the direction of Vito, who was standing in front of the holographic image, and the Mechanicist logo that was rotating in front of him also fell silent. After a while, he spoke again in a mechanical broadcast voice.

"Your words, explain." After holding back for a long time, he forced out these words in seven or eight different tones. Vito looked at the other party with a smile. Now it was Vito's turn to be arrogant. Standing up, he raised his head slightly and looked at the icon in front of him.

"Your great sage will come to explain it to you soon. Now, just wait for me." "You"

Vito hung up the communication before the mechanical priest had finished speaking. His finger was on the red termination button. Cole frowned in surprise while looking at the red icon, "You are not afraid of anger. Don't call one place and fire directly at us?"

"At the risk of blowing up the unknown knowledge? No, if they believed me, even if they thought we were a threat, they would take the risk of jumping up to 'rescue' the knowledge stock and blowing us up."

Vito said and stood up, Eisenstein behind him frowned slightly, and he glanced at the fleet outside, "Even if they know there are Space Marines on board?"

"Yes, that group of tech nerds are so crazy to explore knowledge." Vito smiled and leaned against the edge of the terminal. He looked at Cole, who was approaching, but it was Bell who finally asked him the next question. , the latter looked at Vito in amazement and confusion.

"Why don't you use your permission code?"

"King's return?"

"Yes, that's it. You can use it to forcibly take over the Mechanic's fleet system, right? The Supreme Marshal's code has the authority to take over all the imperial armed forces, fleets, and weapon platforms."

Bell looked at Vito in front of him and was very puzzled. He pointed to the Mechanicist fleet outside, "You can close them directly with your authority, why risk the entire ship being destroyed? Not to mention dying. It's not just us, there are more than a dozen refugee boats outside."

After Bell finished speaking, Cole, who walked to Vito's side, also looked at Vito with the same doubts. The latter looked at them, looked from Bell to Cole, and then looked at Eisenstein beside him. There was no problem with the Captain of the Imperial Fist, the Sons of Dorne tended to obey orders rather than question them, but Vito could see that the Captain was skeptical.

Vito smiled, and he spread his hands and shrugged, "Because I don't want the High Lords of Terra to know that I'm back, especially since I've already arrived in Terra, remember? Mars Forge General is also a High Lord. members, and core members.”

"But why? Why didn't you notify the High Lord of your return? I believe they will welcome a savior and legend with great enthusiasm." Bell asked in surprise, while Vito looked at him and smiled helplessly.

"Bell, if someone comes back, there is a high probability that they will remove your rights and execute you because of the shitty things you did before. Will you still regard him as a savior and greet him with flowers?"

Bell was stunned. He and Cole looked at each other. They were not stupid. Of course, they understood Vito's words in an instant, and Vito could see that they understood.

The marshal shrugged and leaned on the holographic device, "You will still go to meet him, but you will turn the thrown flowers into cannonballs shot from the muzzle."

"Marshal, what are you planning?" Eisenstein was keenly aware of Vito's deeper meaning. He looked at Vito, who also turned his head slightly to look at Eisenstein and nodded, but Vito obviously didn't intend to. Explain here, now, at this very moment, so Eisenstein chose obedience and silence after nodding his respects.

Bell and Cole also knew what Eisenstein meant, and they kept silent after looking at each other. Indeed, if Vito really intends to take over the High Lords Council, then this is not a suitable place to discuss this issue.

Bell turned his head slightly and looked at the crew members below. They were all relieved after the crisis was over. Now they are chatting with each other on the deck directly below, clinking glasses to drink coffee or tea. There are many people here, and there are many ears.

The awkward silence lasted for a while, but was soon interrupted by the sound of heavy mechanical footsteps not far away. Vito turned his head to look at it and smiled. He slapped backhands on the edge of the terminal behind him. Then he stood up.

"Damn it, Kaur, can you go faster? We were almost blown away." Vito said, looking sideways at the approaching Great Sage, he smiled, and Cole and the two Space Marines also watched When they passed by, they looked at the great sage of the Mechanic Sect, who was wriggling from outside the gate of the bridge with countless mechanical repositioning feet under his red robe.

Kaul walked in from outside the steel arches of the bridge with unhurried movements. His huge body was like a slow-moving Leman Russ main battle tank. There was another person walking beside her, her hair far redder than Cole's robe.

Cole looked at the woman beside him, she walked in quickly from Kaur's side, tapped Kaul's huge mechanical belly as she passed, and walked briskly to Vito's side.

Anna propped up the table and reached the edge of the holographic display table with her butt. She pointed to Kaur on the side, "I brought your big squid."

Vito looked at Anna with a satisfied smile, he turned his head to look at Cole and gave a thumbs up, "Your girl is awesome."

Cole raised his brows strangely after hearing this. He turned his head to look at Anna, who put his hands behind his back and shrugged with a smile on his face. She shook her fiery red hair and looked away. Kaur came, the huge mechanical sage has already walked in front of everyone.

"You dead bastard, your back is so big, can't you put a turbo propeller or something?" Vito watched Kaul beep crooked with his hands on his hips, and Kaul used that and the opposite There was a burst of laughter from the eccentric synthetic voice of the announcer, and he walked up to Vito, wriggling the iron feet of his abdomen.

"No, because I know you can hold them back, and you did." Kaul said, looking at the holographic projection to the side, Vito shrugged and pointed to a large window outside the window behind him with a thumbs up. Pile of mechanic ships.

"But you have to explain it to them quickly, before they decide to fire up and blow us up before their bullshit calculation array."

"my pleasure."

Kaul said, and stretched out a rotating mechanical arm from under his robe. The mechanical arm with three claws was like a triangle divided from the center. His claws turned a few times in the air, and then suddenly jerked away from Vito. He hit it, and shot past Vitor like a flying cannonball.

His short black hair and collar vibrated violently when Kaul's claws stabbed, Kaul's mechanical arm slammed into the edge of the holographic projection platform behind Vito, and the interface point on the inside of his mechanical claw was inserted into At the data terminal, the Mechanic's projection logo soon lit up again.

Kaur's mechanical eye also flickered. The only part of his body was the right side of the human face. The mechanical eye began to turn left and right, and the data information rolled past his eyeballs.

"The identity information is transmitted, and the sage calculates the array to activate." Kaur's voice sounded in a low voice, and along with his words, the rotating Mechanicist logo also sounded.

"Information accepted, verifying."

Vito and the others all turned their heads to look at the sign, and the rotating sign didn't let them look for too long. In fact, they gave a positive and satisfactory reply without even using it for three seconds.

"Identity information has been verified, welcome back, Great Sage Belisarius Kaur, I welcome you on behalf of the Mars Order and praise Om Messiah."

"Praise the Messiah, please take us to Mars, priest." "According to the order of the sacred array of calculations, we will carry out the agreement to escort you to Mars."

There was a bell in the communication channel. After the bell rang three times in succession, the fleet outside began to turn. All the mechanic warships flew to both sides with plasma flames, giving way to the Infinite Frontier. A road to Mars.

"It's over?" Bell asked in surprise beside Vito, who smiled and glanced at Kaul before turning to look at the people around him.

"It's called fighting poison with poison. Well, let's go to Mars. I heard that Margaritas are delicious." Vito patted Cole on the shoulder. After the captain nodded slightly, he waved at Anna and walked towards After taking her commanding position, the illegal female chief mate jumped off the holographic device.

She blinked at Vito and walked past him. Vito looked in the direction of her and Cole and smiled, then looked at the great sage Kaul in front of her. Eisenstein and Bell were also standing at Vito. Too looked at Vito beside him, and then looked at the great sage.

"After going to Mars, I have a mission for you."

"What kind of mission?"

"Big task, rebellion, the kind that may lose his head, how about it? Are you interested?"

"It's hard not to interest your words, Vito."

"very good."

(End of this chapter)