Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 152: Hive World
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"The seventh cruiser was slightly damaged, but there were no abnormalities on board."

"Navigator safe."

"Everything is normal. The fleet can leave the warp and enter reality, and then the Seventh Cruiser will be repaired and maintained."

On the command deck of the Resolute Resolve, Lothalazarin reported the situation to the Primarch.

Angron turned and stared out the porthole.

In a subspace that is difficult to describe in words, a giant eye is staring at him.

The deck was dark except for the dim lights, but he could see the thing.

Others do what they should do, as if he is the only one who can see it, and in fact, he is the only one who can see it. Contradictions, truth, and falsehood are all mixed together.

"Leave the Warp," Angron ordered.

Salin saluted.

Then, after making a series of preparations, the entire fleet jumped out of the subspace and entered the real universe at the Mandeville Point in the 921 galaxy.

"If you have no other orders, we will stay in this system and prepare, and then quickly start the next voyage," said Salin.

Angron looked out the porthole.

But from a visual perspective, after leaving the turbulent and confusing place of the subspace, Angron felt that his eyes felt much more comfortable.

There is no eye as vast as the planet, and no beast larger than the fleet.

But from a personal experience, Angron did not feel particularly comfortable. When he was in the warp, he felt that something was close to him, and that thing was calling him, looking for him.

"Your Highness?" Salin called softly.

Angron, who had been distracted, immediately responded and asked with a smile: "Has this star system numbered 921 already belonged to the Empire?"

"Obviously not." Salin picked up the data pad and looked through it. "This galaxy is unowned. After we left the Novsendak system, on the way to where your nineteenth brother is, all the galaxies along the way are unknown and unconquered."

“Then I will take this place.” Angron walked towards the tactical table.

As the Primarch approached, the tactical table displayed the results of the Resolute's scan of the system.

Three-dimensional images of celestial bodies appeared on the tactical table one after another.

There is only one habitable planet in this galaxy, and the rest are all dead worlds.

The so-called death world is a planet that is completely desert, full of poisonous insects, ferocious beasts, and toxic gases, or other types of planets with extremely harsh conditions that are completely uninhabitable.

"He reminds me of Nukeria." Angron pointed at the tactical table and said to Salin, "The Nukeria system also has only one habitable planet, and all the other planets are death worlds."

"At least the death world in the Nukeria galaxy contains a large number of rare minerals, while the death world in this place really has nothing." Salin smiled helplessly.

Angron nodded.

The Primarch recalled that while traveling in the Warp, his adoptive father found him and told him about the recent situation in Nuceria.

There are astropaths arranged by the Empire on Nuceria. Astropaths use psychic energy to send messages, and without them, faster-than-light communication would be impossible.

Everything that passes through the subspace becomes strange and elusive. The messages sent by the astropaths are not 100% clear, but vague.

The astropath in the fleet is a novice, and he often cannot recognize the messages sent by other astropaths.

So Qin Xia temporarily served as an astropath and interpreted the astropathic messages coming from the subspace.

Naturally, Qin Xia also understood Nukeria's current situation.

"The Archon of Nuxing has launched a great development movement."

Angron looked at the death world of Galaxy No. 921 as if it were the death world of the Nuceria Galaxy.

"People shouted for the Lord, boarded transport ships, headed to the Death World, and then established outposts to mine minerals."

"They will live on those death worlds for generations, forever and ever, mining those worlds for a living."

Salin listened to what the Primarch said and asked softly, "You do not agree with the Archon's decision."

“No… how should I put it?” Angron stroked his chin in thought. “The Nuceria people are prone to collective fanaticism. Nu scholars believe that the Nu people are highly social. I think this is part of the reason.”

"They go to the Death World to mine and leave Nu Star. They even raise funds to buy ships themselves, and those who fail to pass the selection will find ways to get on board to the Death World."

As Angron spoke, he gradually fell silent.

“That’s off topic.” Angron shook his head. “We need to take this place. We need to understand the situation in this system first.”

After receiving the order, the communicator implanted in Saleen's brain flashed twice, and also transmitted her order: "Send the scouts."

The naval officers in the fleet immediately organized professionals to go to the habitable worlds in the galaxy. These professionals all belonged to the naval fleet, and they were responsible for such a task in the Great Crusade: when the human empire discovered a galaxy, they would investigate the galaxy and confirm all the conditions of the galaxy.

Later, if intelligence shows that the system can be peacefully recovered, the Imperial bureaucrats will come here and manage it as the ruling class of the existing ruling class.

Otherwise, that's the Space Marines' business.

"I have a feeling that we may have to fight a war in this galaxy." Salin said, "The First Legion is still waiting for our help in transporting the vehicles over there."

Angron shook his head. "It is impossible for the First Legion to be waiting for vehicles. Besides, we have to wait for them to transmit astropathic messages before we can discuss the rendezvous point."

"What about your nineteenth brother? He may still be waiting for you and the Emperor to arrive at his world one after another." Salin said again.

“I had intended to go to my brother first and then return to the battle, but I was told to arrive a year later, for reasons I do not know,” said Angron.

Salin felt relieved.

It seems the fleet has plenty of time to do what needs to be done. …

the other side.

"This is a hive world."

Qin Xia sat cross-legged on the ground with his eyes closed.

He was currently in the medical room on the flagship.

Those gladiators who decided to undergo the transformation were placed in jars filled with nutrient solution.

Pharmacists including Garland were busy running back and forth, monitoring everyone's condition together with the mortal military doctors and responding to emergencies in a timely manner.

The medical room was bustling with activity, except for the lower right corner of the room where Qin Xia was located, which was quite quiet.

But Qin Xia was doing two things at once at this time. Although he was calm, he was also busy.

Qin Xia observed the only habitable world in the galaxy through the consciousness and eyes of others.

At the same time, he also used his psychic powers to sense the situation of each gladiator. When anyone might have an abnormal situation or his predictive ability was activated, he would remind the pharmacists in advance so that the pharmacists could make decisions without haste.

"The Hive World is truly amazing."

Theseus stood on a bell tower, turning the pendulum of the clock, looking down at everything below and looking up at everything above.

Below is the city.

The buildings are piled up one on top of the other, like a chaotic and oddly shaped thing a child has built with building blocks.

There was neither the sky nor the sun above his head, but a huge dome that was recognizable as being made of man-made metal, and above the dome was a city.

Cities were stacked one on top of the other until they extended into the planet's low orbit.

This is the hive world.

The closer the hive world is to the surface or below the surface, the heavier, larger and uglier the buildings are, the harsher the living environment is, and the larger the population is.

The Hive World may have originally been just an ordinary city. After the subspace storm that affected the galaxy interfered with faster-than-light travel, this city planet with a large population experienced technological loss. As the population grew, the city began to expand.

The ancient construction technology has been lost, and people used crude means to expand the city, which eventually led to the city becoming larger and larger, and becoming the ugly and cumbersome city it is today.

Industrial production has completely destroyed the natural environment of the planet's surface, resulting in the fact that outside the city there are only mutated monsters and radioactive wasteland. It is impossible for people to even escape the city and live in seclusion.

Eventually the hive world became what it is today before outsiders.

There are many hive worlds within the territory of the Human Empire. The locals have their own terms for the architectural structure and regional divisions of the hives, but in the standardized terminology established by the Empire, the areas of the hive worlds have their own names - spire, upper nest, lower nest, and bottom nest.

They represent the top of the hive city, the spire, where the powerful live; the upper nest below the spire where the nobles or wealthy merchants live; the lower nest where ordinary people live; and the bottom nest where even lower-class or humbler people live and are in terrible danger.

"Let's collect information." Qin Xia said, "Investigate the technological level of this world and whether there are ancient relics and important knowledge. By the way, help those naval bureaucrats who only go to the upper nest to collect some intelligence."

Theseus jumped down from the bell tower. After the nimble girl spun a few times in the air, the anti-gravity boots on her feet allowed her to land steadily.

The area near the bell tower was a restricted area, and Theseus fell silently into the shadows.

Just as she had approached the beastman called the Ogre from the shadows as a young girl in the Nuceria Arena, Theseus began to approach the hidden secrets of this hive world.

Qin Xia temporarily turned his gaze away from Theseus and looked at other people.

No, to be precise, it is to use other people to see.

In the lowest and worst place in the Hive World, a man whose every part of his body has been modified and strengthened is surveying the terrain of the Bottom Nest.

He was once a brick of flesh created by the Murray family's transformation maniacs, but now he is a enhanced human agent.

In the place where the poorest people of the hive world gather, a woman is dressed as a beggar, using speech to ask the locals about the situation of the hive world. The translator implanted in her translates and records every word she hears or says.

There were hundreds of others doing similar things, even those overseeing the Twelfth Legion's fleet emissary bureaucrats in the luxurious areas at the top of the hive world.

These men were once gladiators on Nuceria, soldiers of the Devourer rebel army.

They are either unable to return to normal society and live a normal life like the girl Theseus, or they are scouts who were injured in the war but are still willing to continue fighting or performing missions.

There are also fanatics who are supported by the legends of the Nuceria gods and go through years of pain and suffering, asking for nothing more than to dedicate themselves to the gods who saved them.

These people do not belong to the regular mortal army in the current 12th Legion fleet, but to an organization founded by Qin Xia himself - the Association for the Study of Human History.

Those who are in action on a hive world can be called agents.

The information the agents investigated, the secrets they came into contact with, and the oddities they observed were all sent to the fleet.

In a conference room on the upper deck of the flagship of the Resolute Resolve, scholars who followed the fleet to explore more mysteries were engaging in heated discussions and analysis. They were also members of the Association for the Study of Human History.

Qin Xia watched all this.

At first, the Human History Research Association was just an organization he casually established to recover the knowledge monopolized by the High Knights on Nuceria and to find a way to bring out some historical or technological relics before the war began.

In the propaganda organization established by Angron, some people will cooperate with the Research Association to record and publicize what the High Knights have done to the oppressed.

The Association for the Study of Human History was once just an ordinary academic organization, which, as its name suggests, was established to record and study human history, and to protect and collect historical relics.

But plans always fail to keep up with changes. In that cruel Nuceria, in that cruel galaxy, doing anything requires force.

Perhaps the association will become more diverse and have more people in the future.

At least that's what Qin Xia planned.

(End of this chapter)