Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 158: Past and Future Betrayal
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"All is normal on the hive world."

"The visitors from Nuxing have begun to establish a new order."

Qin Xia slowly walked into the command deck.

The naval officers saluted him, Qin Xia nodded in return, and then came to Angron at the tactical table.

"They are suitable people." Angron smiled at his adoptive father, then moved his eyes to the projection of the hive world on the tactical table. "They will completely change that world, not just add more people who need their support."

Qin Xia nodded, supported the edge of the tactical table with both hands, and leaned over to look at the projection of the hive world.

There is only one hive city in this world, standing alone on a wasteland.

Compared with the outside of the hive, the living environment inside the hive is quite good.

There are mutant monsters everywhere, super worms, living pools of venom, and poisonous gases that can corrode all organic matter.

So, as far as Qin Xia knows, there are some nomads and the like outside the hive buildings in the general hive world, but in this hive world there are no nomads, and no one can survive in the brutal natural environment outside the hive buildings.

"I transferred two extra Stormhawks to the Human History Research Association." Angron suddenly spoke up, mentioning the association.

"Gunboat? That's fine." Qin Xia thought about it and smiled helplessly, "Maybe they can't use it under normal circumstances, but they need gunboats in this hive world."

“I think so too.” Angron nodded.

Qin Xia was thinking about the association's affairs.

Some members of the association will stay in the hive world and continue to excavate ancient relics in the hive world.

Angron stared at the hive world projection.

The Primarch seemed to be able to see the changes in the hive world.

The Nu Star bureaucrats will first put the hive into a short period of high-pressure control to ensure that the hive passes through the stage where chaos is most likely to break out, and then distribute the supplies sent by Nu Star.

If all goes well, they will set up a food production line that converts carbon dioxide into starch, first to fill people's stomachs, and then to meet people's higher dietary requirements by trading more food from Nu Star.

Then an education system will be established, children will be educated, and those who are prestigious and favored by civilians will receive systematic management training. After graduation, they will replace the military to manage the hive.

Eventually, when this digestion-like process is complete, the World Eaters and their Lords will have a new and amazingly useful world.

"The way the Empire is run is simply incomprehensible."

"Just send a group of people to a planet to be the boss and then pay tithes."

"Crude management methods will waste huge amounts of labor and resources."

Brown said as he walked over to the tactical table.

Qin Xia looked at Brown in surprise: "You are also on the command deck? If you hadn't been talking nonsense and chattering, I wouldn't have known you were there."

"I was on the command deck the whole time," Brown pointed to a corner. "But I wasn't as chatty as I used to be because I missed home."

“Perhaps we can go back together sometime later,” Angron said.

Brown's eyes dimmed, as if he thought this was impossible, and seemed to miss Nukeria even more.

Then the stone man continued to explain his point of view: "I just said that rough management methods will waste a huge amount of labor and resources, and also plant the seeds of instability. The Empire seems to want to turn a world into fuel for the war machine, but I don't see it."

“In all fairness,” Angron said, his chin clenched, his brow furrowed in thought, “there are probably hundreds of thousands of worlds under the rule of the Emperor as we speak, and it would be very unlikely for me to establish effective rule.”

"But then again, since I am not the Emperor, I do not have to be responsible for all the human planets in the entire galaxy for the time being. As long as the planets belong to me, I will make them change completely."

The stone man was waiting for Angron to say these two words.

"So this is the problem. There are too many planets to be recovered, and the management ability and energy of natural people are limited after all." Brown spread his hands, "So why can't we let AI help?"

“AI.”

Brown looked at Angron, then at Qin Xia.

Qin Xia and Angron looked at each other and didn't say anything for the time being, but both seemed a little helpless.

"An AI can handle the affairs of hundreds of thousands of people in a city in an instant. Even more advanced AIs back then could handle affairs in advance through predictions. Even more powerful AIs could not only predict, but could even handle affairs in the subspace. No matter how many planets they were managing or how many affairs they had, they could handle them all in an instant."

"And now, we hand over the most painful and repetitive parts of management to natural people. Natural people should not deal with those trivial matters."

"How did the human race become like this?"

Brown expressed dissatisfaction.

But whether it was Angron, Qin Xia, or Brown, the three of them understood why the Empire did not use AI.

AI is called Abomination Intelligence in the human empire, which is not a good name. Anything related to AI will be resolutely attacked, and machines are not allowed to have their own intelligence. Some places where AI is needed will be replaced by wetware modified by the human brain.

The 30K modified wetware is not as bizarre in design as the 40K.

The reason why the Emperor banned AI was simple, because of the Iron Man Rebellion that almost destroyed the entire human race. He was an eyewitness to that incident, and he knew how much damage would be caused when AI and Iron Man, things that humans relied heavily on, rebelled.

Qin Xia didn't know what the Iron Man Rebellion was like or what the Emperor saw, but he was sure that the Emperor must have been deeply shocked and even terrified. "You know the reason, the Iron Man Rebellion." Angron said.

"Brown, take you for example. You always say that you are a low-ability stone man." Qin Xia looked around the entire command deck. "But you can modify sounds and change what others hear. This is not psychic power but science and technology. However, the principle behind it is difficult for us to even guess and imagine."

There were many people on the command deck, and they also saw Angron, Qin Xia and the smart guy talking about something together.

But the content is: what did you eat, what's for lunch, and when do we leave the hive world.

"I can't imagine what kind of terrifying abilities those more advanced stone men you mentioned would have if they were real warriors or scientists," Qin Xia said.

"I know why, but I still don't think AI should be banned," Brown shook his head. "It's no different than removing the stomach, esophagus and intestines when someone chokes."

Angron looked at Qin Xia again.

"The Iron Man Rebellion really happened. I've heard about it and seen it on the news."

"But all the stone men stood on the side of the natural men, defending their creator. A large number of iron men also stood on the side of the natural men. They helped the natural men to eliminate the iron man rebellion, just like they had helped the natural men do anything in any way before."

"The Emperor does not trust AI, but he can trust the demigods he created, even if there are people like Perturabo among them."

Brown said, shaking his head with a look of helplessness and sorrow.

In the heart of this stone man came a word that he could not say to Qin Xia and Angron: I don't see the possibility of the human race restoring its former glory.

“That’s enough, Bron.” Angron reached out and put his hand on Bron’s shoulder, saying seriously, “A Primarch like Perturabo is indeed extremely strange, but at least he never rebelled. Whatever the specific reason for the Iron Man Rebellion, it brought terrible consequences. This cannot be explained by who is on whose side.”

Brown was speechless, and had no idea how to refute what Angron had just said.

I opened my mouth to speak, but didn't know what to say.

He wanted to suggest that Angron let him manage a world, and he could handle in two days what a natural person would need to handle in a year.

But he knew why Angron and Qin Xia wanted to keep him by their side.

"No matter what, we will do something that is good for our entire human race," Angron said. "No matter what, Bran, no matter what, the Great Crusade will not be the final undertaking. We will do something else after the Great Crusade."

Hearing this, Brown shook his head slightly and looked at Qin Xia again.

The stone man wondered why Qin Xia was so silent at this time and did not say something like Angron did.

The man was always eloquent on such occasions.

Qin Xia really wanted to say something, but because he felt as if he was in another world and in a trance, he thought about another thing in silence.

Angron said the Primarchs never rebelled, but the Iron Men and the AI ​​did.

This sentence is undoubtedly extremely accurate at this time, but if it is put in the future...

If the Horus Heresy had still happened, if Angron had defended the Emperor as a reluctant loyalist, with half the galaxy in ruins and at war, I wonder if he would have been embarrassed to face Bron again and recall that the Primarch's rebellion rate was around 50 percent.

Horus Heresy.

Qin Xia frowned as he thought about the catastrophe that would happen in the future.

He had thought about taking advantage of the time when the Emperor came to Nu to meet Angron to ask the Emperor for a private conversation and tell him the ins and outs of the future Horus Heresy.

Including who the other rebellious primarchs were besides Angron, and why Horus rebelled.

But Qin Xia did not do so in the end, because the Emperor was obviously still confused at this point in time. He probably knew that the Primarchs would rebel, but he was not sure who they would be.

Horus was the Emperor's favorite son, the Warmaster of the Imperium of Man, and the most revered of the Primarchs.

To accuse such a Primarch of being a rebellious leader would not necessarily result in the Emperor's gratitude or a potential rebellion being nipped in the bud.

But having said that, the Emperor still had to be informed. Even if he did not believe it, his Sigillite Malcador, as a skeptic of the Primarch, would have made preparations early. However, he would not have gone the route of talking directly to the Emperor in private, or going to Terra to complain. Instead, he would have used a more subtle and effective method that would not involve the XII Legion and Angron.

“Father, is that right?” Angron asked.

Qin Xia was in a daze for a moment. He didn't hear Angron and Brown's conversation at all. He could only vaguely agree: "Ah, yes."

Angron nodded.

When the Primarch wanted to say something to Brown again, Qin Xia spoke first: "From now on, I will sort out some knowledge and things and slowly tell you. They may be very shocking and difficult to accept, but you have to know that I will never lie to you. Whatever I tell you in the future is the truth."

Angron nodded again, without the slightest hesitation.

He never questioned or doubted his adoptive father, even though he could not sense his emotions.

"You..." Qin Xia smiled helplessly, turned and walked to the huge porthole on the right side of the command deck.

Looking at the stars outside, Qin Xia made up his mind.

From now on, a series of tactics will be used to try to get the Emperor or Malcador to know about the Horus Heresy.

It also let Angron know what might happen in the future, instead of waiting until the rebel primarchs had secretly launched a rebellion and tried to win over Angron before letting Angron realize their emotions.

Then, no matter what the Emperor or Malcador planned, they had to start planning for the future Horus Heresy from now on, and at least the XII Legion had to be prepared in advance.

(End of this chapter)