Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 628 Human-Machine Love

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A small fleet of three ships moved forward on the path opened by the Tuchucha engine, heading for the nearest entrance and exit of the webway.

Inside the bridge of the Golden Age freighter Death of Integrity, the captain was talking to his wife.

"Humanity has fallen to a level that we can hardly imagine."

"As you can see, my love, they transformed their own people into war machines to replace the servant species of Iron Man."

"Those biological weapons called space warriors must devote themselves to the war like iron men and serve as good biological weapons."

"No one cares about their ideas, self-awareness, or the rights they deserve. They are deprived of their personality, and they are even proud of it."

Kona's voice was calm and cold, but there was obvious emotion in her words.

The captain just shook his head after hearing this: "We have been lost and arrived at the present time ten thousand years later. Modern people need help. After all, they are still human beings. According to federal law or the most basic moral requirements, we must help them."

At this time, the airtight door of the bridge opened.

Varis stepped into the bridge and stopped by the door.

The captain turned to look at the think tank, examining him from top to bottom. "It seems that in modern times, we naturals have to fight in place of iron men."

Varis did not reply, but merely observed the Captain.

Just now he suddenly recalled that the Lord of the White Knights once mentioned such an ancient ship: it was a cargo ship with a kind captain. The captain was lost in 40K and went to a human colony in order to warn modern people of the impending crisis.

Then died.

Killed by modern people.

Afterwards, the captain's lover AI turned evil and was determined to avenge his beloved.

It now seems that this ship will not only appear in ten thousand years, but has also appeared now.

"You don't look like you've been enhanced at all," Varis said coldly. "I've seen people of your generation whose bodies were so strong that they could stay in the heat of a star for a while before dying."

"Those should be enhanced humans from some company." The captain explained with a smile, "Don't think that there were any standards for things in that era. For example, people from our era should be enhanced to look like a certain person... That doesn't exist."

When Varis's eyes showed curiosity, the captain continued, "Chaos was the main theme of that glorious era of mankind. For example, today a group of people came to your planet and built your home into a utopia, and then tomorrow another group of humans came to exterminate you."

Varis nodded. "I see that you don't seem to have intermittent soul-stripping symptoms, even though you came from the Golden Age."

"Intermittent soul separation? I like this term. I thought you would call this soul disease evil spirit." The captain pointed at Varis and continued to explain, "This soul disease existed in my era, and people also found a way to treat it. My genes will change according to the structure of time and space, allowing me to adapt to any time and space."

"Is it that simple?" Varis frowned.

"It's that simple. Even if you modern people don't have this technology, if you lock up people with intermittent soul separation for a while, they will gradually adapt to the new space-time structure. This is not a terminal illness."

The captain's words made Varis fall into deep thought.

Then the Master of the Hunters said, "But I have two predecessors who still experienced symptoms of madness after adapting for decades."

"Haha... That's impossible." The captain shook his head. "It's just that the space-time structure is not adapted to it, but it won't make him go crazy in a few decades. Believe me, I am very sure of this."

Varis bowed his head in thought.

He had heard the Lord of the White Knights tell the origins of the two Grey Knights.

If what the captain said is true, then the two Grey Knights must not have traveled from the future and suffered from intermittent soul-stripping syndrome.

"Where are we going next?" asked the captain.

"Go to the Webway. You should know what the Webway is. Then you will be properly accommodated, and even have the honor of having an audience with the Emperor along with others from your time."

"An audience with the Emperor? The ruler of you modern people? That's a good thing. I just happen to have something to warn you modern people about."

"what's up?"

"About warp entities, paranormal phenomena, and scars on the fabric of space and time."

Varis had learned some ancient vocabulary from the Forge Engine Engineer, so he could understand what the engineer was talking about: Warp Daemons, supernatural phenomena caused by the growth of Warp energy, and Warp rifts such as the Eye of Terror.

"We modern people already know these things," Varis said, "but thank you for your kindness."

The captain was stunned for a moment, then nodded, thinking about what else he could do for modern people next.

"Regarding AI technology... For example, the AI ​​you use, is it possible to create it in modern times?" asked Varis.

Before coming to see the captain, Varis talked with the priest and read his mind. He learned that the Emperor instructed the Quadrant to secretly search for the Death of Integrity, and the reason why the Emperor instructed him to do so: to find a way to create AI.

That priest was the one who was personally instructed by the Emperor, and Quadrant was just someone who had to wait for Righteous Death to arrive on Mars and then study AI.

"Of course it can be reproduced. Maybe you modern people don't have the corresponding materials and technical foundation, but it doesn't matter." The captain replied, "I have an AISTC template installed on my ship. I don't know if you know what it is, anyway... you can create AI with this thing."

"Isn't it too much of a coincidence?" Varis was a little bit unbelievable.

"There are always some coincidences." The captain looked up at the ceiling and sighed, "Back then, a short, thin, bronze-skinned middle-aged man gave me a large sum of money and asked me to drive around with the STC template. At that time, I never thought that I would happen to be lost ten thousand years later."

Varis took a deep breath, feeling something both unexpected and reasonable.

The two of them were silent for a long time.

Until Varis, out of extreme curiosity, broke the silence with an irrelevant topic: "This AI named Kona is your lover. How could you fall in love with a bunch of program codes?" The captain smiled and said, "It's normal to fall in love with an AI whose behavior is affected by a pre-programmed program. I am just a bunch of cells whose behavior and personality are affected by biological hormones. The only difference between us is that it is silicon-based and I am carbon-based."

Varis was silent, thinking again.

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The three warships continued to advance towards the entrance of the webway.

After entering an imperial galaxy, a ship docked in the local starport suddenly sailed towards the Hunter.

Varis teleported to the command deck and established communication with the newcomers.

After the double-headed eagle logo flashed several times, a face that Varis could hardly imagine even in his dreams appeared on the communication panel.

He is one of the brothers and sisters regarded by Theseus, the Father of Genes, and was appointed by the Lord of the White Knights to manage the intelligence organization, the Society for the Study of Human History.

"You have indeed returned to this star system." Theseus had the World Devourers emblem pinned on his chest. "My people said they saw Qin Xia's ships in this star system, so I came here to wait, and I really waited."

"Lady Theseus." Varis saluted with his chest touching. "I am about to enter the webway entrance and return to the Lord of the White Knights. Meeting you is another great gain of my trip."

"How is the suppression of the rebellion going?" Theseus asked.

Varis immediately relayed to Theseus everything that had happened from the moment the Librarian fleet returned to the real universe after disappearing for seven months to the moment he left the Webway.

Theseus already knew some of these things.

The research society did not stop its activities even when the storm was raging. An agent from the society once went to Qin Xia in person to provide information and help in suppressing the rebellion.

"We are now busy with Webway affairs. The rebellion has died down. Apart from a few Death Guards, no other rebels have appeared in our sight."

"There is another thing. The Lord of the White Knights said that Number Eleven did something before he was killed. This thing may be related to the Emperor's technology for shaping the Primarch."

Varis concluded.

"There are some secret laboratories on the home planet No. 11, but they are no longer important."

When Varius heard "it doesn't matter" and looked confused, Theseus continued to explain.

"Two months ago, we learned to work with Malcador's men to blow up Planet 11. They used psychic bombs. If there was anything on it, it's gone now."

"If the storm wasn't still raging and there wasn't a network route to the area controlled by Eleven, you would have known about this a long time ago."

Varis was shocked.

Just when the Lord of the White Knights had stopped putting out fires everywhere, the two intelligence agencies actually joined forces to blow up the home planet of the Eleventh Primarch...

"It's a long story, but for you, all you need to know is the result."

Theseus said, slowly lowering his head, suddenly feeling emotional.

"We also planned an assassination attempt on Fulgrim... Long before he led the Legion in rebellion, Malcador's secret service personnel deployed in Chemos had already discovered signs of the Primarch's corruption. I happened to be active in Chemos at the time, so I arranged for someone to assassinate Fulgrim together with Malcador's men."

“It failed.”

"Many people have died in places unknown to all of you. Agents, assassins, lurkers... The cause and effect of this will probably be sealed in the archives forever. Only the spy chiefs in Chemos, including Malcador and I, know the details."

Varis didn't expect that such things happened in the hidden corners.

Theseus took a breath and said, "Anyway, Chief Varis, you have to report two things to Qin Xia when you return to him this time."

Varis listened carefully.

"First, the Society and Malcador's agents blew up the home planet of No. 11 with psychic bombs. Whatever was there was destroyed, but we cannot rule out the possibility that No. 11 may have left a backup somewhere else. We are still investigating, and thanks to the Pharos Lighthouse, we have finally been able to connect with people in other areas."

"Second, it's not about us assassinating Fulgrim. It's about another participant in the rebellion, that is, some Space Marines of the Alpha Legion participated in the rebellion."

"In the destruction of the eleventh Primarch's home planet, there were soldiers of the Alpha Legion among our enemies, but not all of them defected. Most of them, including the Primarch, still had their hearts on the Empire and assisted us in that operation."

When Varis heard that there were rebels other than the Death Guard and the Emperor's Children, he remained expressionless but was extremely surprised.

"But ma'am, why? How could there be rebels in the Alpha Legion? As I recall, this legion is like a special agent legion directly under the Emperor and Malcador. They should be more loyal." he asked.

"I don't know. Primarch Alpharius just told me the facts and then disappeared with his descendants." Theseus transmitted a video footage to the Hunter.

Varis checked immediately.

The video footage recorded the entire process of the Society's agents installing a bomb on the home planet of Primarch XI under the cover of Malcador's agents. They did encounter Alpha Legion Space Marines, who would have hidden their identities. The reason they were discovered was that a psychic agent of Malcador read the soul of the corpse.

Then, in the final stage of the operation, the Primarch Alpharius appeared in person with his troops, appearing out of nowhere... Alpharius mentioned that there were rebels in the legion, and then ran away.

"Don't worry, ma'am." Varis signaled the mortal officer to save the data.

"If there are any orders from Qin Xia, you can come here to find my people." Theseus said, "This is the place where the light of the Pharos Lighthouse shines brightest among all the star systems in the eastern part of the empire, so it is our center of operations."

Varis nodded.

The current galaxy's webway entrance and exit is not the only entrance and exit to the star region where the ancient ship search is being conducted. There are many more entrances and exits very close to where the Death of Integrity was previously discovered.

But Varis still chose to leave and enter the Webway in this galaxy, because as Theseus said, the light of the Pharos Lighthouse can be seen here. In case the Tuchucha engine breaks down at a critical moment, it can still rely on the Pharos Lighthouse for navigation.

(End of this chapter)