Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 629 AI Plan
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One solar month later.

Comoros.

A tall spire in the city.

Qin Xia entered the bottom of the spire with a document in his hand.

In the spire hall, one hundred imperial guards stood in a circular formation guarding the entrance and exit of the spire.

The commander of the Imperial Guards, Valdo, stood in front of a hundred Imperial Guards, motionless like a statue, staring straight ahead.

The fact that the imperial guards guard this spire indicates that the spire has become a temporary abode for the Lord of Mankind.

As the top psychic unprecedented in the history of the human species, the Emperor does not need others to protect him, nor does he need to leave the Emperor's Dream and find a place to live on Comoros.

Their choice of the spire as a temporary shelter has more political implications.

Where the emperor himself is is the palace, which is the territory of the empire. Humanity is announcing to all the elves who have arrived or are about to arrive that Comoros will belong to humans, or part of it will belong to humans.

After Qin Xia stepped into the spire hall, the imperial guards nodded in greeting at the same time, and Waldo, who was in the center, made way for him.

Qin Xia entered the transmission platform leading to the top of the spire and in an instant reached the top of the tower, 2,000 kilometers away from the surface of Comoros.

At the entrance to the only room at the top of the tower, thirteen elite warriors of the Imperial Guards were guarding the entrance. They were all wearing the Imperial Guards' unique "Sky Eagle" type Terminator power armor.

The thirteen imperial guards made way for Qin Xia when they saw him.

While using his spiritual power to push open the heavy door, Qin Xia subconsciously scanned the entire room.

The room is not big, only about 30 square meters.

Although the layout is luxurious, the lighting is very poor.

The Emperor and Angron were both in the room.

The Primarch, as always, was at odds with the Emperor, so he stood by the window, basking in the warm light from the window, his back to everything in the room.

The Emperor sat in the corner of the room, on a black sofa in the shadows.

He was not wearing any shining golden armor, and his eyes did not shine. He looked like a thin middle-aged man about 1.7 meters tall, ordinary and plain-looking.

Qin Xia interpreted the meaning of "relaxation" from the emperor's appearance.

This might not be the first time the Emperor had taken off his armor and removed his psychic disguise, but it was definitely the first time he had done so in front of Qin Xia and Angron.

Perhaps it was the success of the Webway Project and the fact that the Primarch's rebellion did not cause much trouble. These things made the Emperor feel that he had finally seen the dawn of victory, so he became a little more easy-going.

However, the emperor sitting in the shadow also gave Qin Xia a feeling that "he was secretly more easy-going."

The light split the room in two, one side was the warm light where Angron was, and the other side was the shadow and darkness where the Emperor was.

Qin Xia, who found a place to sit down, was half in the warm light and half in the shadow.

"The priest sent by the Quadrant to find the Death of Integrity was not doing a good job. If my chief think tank had not happened to find the same ancient ship as him, I am afraid the operation would have failed."

Qin Xia threw the documents on the table.

The Emperor looked at the document, using his psychic powers to turn the pages and read the contents.

The file records the entire process of Varis's search for the ancient ship "Death of Integrity", and that he has now returned with that ship, and most importantly, the AISTC template is loaded on the small Golden Age freighter "Death of Integrity".

The Emperor looked away, and the document suddenly closed and burned.

"There is another thing." Qin Xia said, "Varis reported to me that the rebels in the Death Guard will attack a Craft World, and their intention may be to disrupt the cooperation plan we are promoting."

"They have already done it." The Emperor said softly, "Uslan sent me a psychic message yesterday. The news that a craft world was massacred by humans has spread."

Qin Xia pursed her lips, but her expression remained expressionless, not showing any surprise or nervousness at all.

"But the Eldar are not fools. They know that the people who attacked them are traitors of our race. What they asked of us is to send a joint mopping-up fleet." The Emperor said, "Therefore, this incident will not affect the progress of cooperation. We can also use the joint mopping-up fleet to collect a network route. Everyone is happy."

Qin Xia suddenly frowned and thought.

The attack on the Ark World by human traitors can be considered a big deal or a small matter. The key is whether there are any Eldar who firmly oppose cooperation with humans and add fuel to the flames.

Since no one in the Eldar made a fuss about this, it means that the cooperation plan was indeed progressing smoothly, and the positive impact of Aisha's rescue was greater than expected.

The Emperor stopped talking about the Death Guard and looked from the shadows at Angron.

"There is a webway entrance at your Nuceria border. That route was controlled the day before yesterday. I want you to return to your kingdom immediately to promote the migration plan."

"First, move 100 billion people from the star system where the Webway exit is located to the Webway."

"From now on, everyone will use the experience gained from this incident to start a larger-scale migration to the Internet."

The Emperor commanded.

In the Webway plan of the Lord of Mankind, humans will migrate into the Webway, and it is not as simple as just using the Webway for faster-than-light travel.

Before Qin Xia entered the room, the Emperor had already talked about this with Angron.

Angron thought that this matter could not be rushed, because one hundred billion people would be sent into the Webway, and they would have to familiarize themselves with an Eldar Webway city, and production and life would probably not be able to proceed during this period.

Moreover, when people from several planets are crammed into a Webway city, the management system must be moved in first, and migrating the bureaucracy and ruling institutions is not that simple.

This was also the reason why Angron stood in the warm light with his back to the Emperor when Qin Xia entered the room, looking like he had just gotten angry.

"You just asked me how to effectively manage hundreds of billions of people during the migration plan. I didn't answer you, but now I can give you the answer."

“Manage with AI.”

The Emperor's words reached the Primarch's ears from the shadows, and his expression was extremely complicated.

The Primarch was silent for two seconds before he said, "You are not banning AI now?" "The Webway is a safe environment. AI and the Iron Men will not be affected by the Warp, and I have a technology that can ensure that the Iron Men's Rebellion will not happen again." The Emperor said, "That technology will make AI less intelligent, but absolutely reliable."

"For mortals, even the most inferior AI is better than bureaucrats, and its efficiency and management capabilities are better than the living AI governors' descendants you have delegated." The Emperor said again.

"I know all this." Angron walked to Qin Xia's side. "It's just that banning AI is one of the empire's philosophies after all. Now that it has suddenly changed 180 degrees, I'm afraid it will cause a disturbance in the rule."

The Primarch's body no longer blocked the light by the windowsill. The light shone on the Emperor's face in the shadows, and his strong nose blocked the light from the left half of his face.

The Primarch and Qin Xia saw that there was determination and coldness in the Emperor's left eye.

"Whoever opposes AI now will die."

The light seemed to not only separate the left and right halves of the emperor's face along the bridge of his nose, but also separate the emperor's past and present.

"Malcador was spying on all members of the Imperial Senate, including Cyjanus who remained on Terra, before the search for the Death of Integrity began."

"Once word gets out that we're starting to use AI on the Internet, no one will be able to speak out against it and still be alive."

Hearing this, Angron and his adoptive father looked at each other and both curled their lips.

"When we are as familiar with the Webway as the Eldar, and can begin to implement the Webway migration plan throughout the empire, the existing governance system will not be sufficient to complete this process in a short period of time."

“That’s why we need AI.”

"And after all humans migrated to the Webway, the existing ruling system was no longer adequate to rule an interstellar empire with stable FTL capabilities."

"Malcador and I have a plan to deal with them. They better not give us an excuse in this matter."

The emperor said again.

Hearing this, Angron and Qin Xia looked at each other again, and thought to themselves: The emperor really doesn't treat us as outsiders.

"Then Malcador's secret service had better be reliable enough," Angron said. "This is a reversal of two basic concepts of the human empire, from prohibiting abominations to promoting AI, and from humanism to coexistence with the Eldar. This will create a huge number of opponents."

"Humanity does not exist for these two concepts. These two concepts exist for humanity. Don't reverse the order." The Emperor seemed to be teaching Angron, "When the time comes, the ban on AI and the hatred of aliens must be discarded at any time."

Hearing the emperor say this, we can also tell from his words that he had made many preparations in advance, and as long as this matter is not carried out hastily and full of loopholes, it will be fine.

Angron looked back at his adoptive father.

The adoptive father said nothing, which showed that he approved of the emperor in his heart, and his eyes and micro-expressions before that seemed more like complaints.

"By the way, does Malcador know what the Alpha Legion and their Primarch are doing now?" Qin Xia changed the subject and mentioned the legion with an extremely low presence, as well as the Primarch brother Alpharius, whom Angron had not met yet.

"There are rebels among them," said the Emperor. "That is the only information Malcador has, and why they are there is unknown."

Qin Xia fell into deep thought.

Even in the original Horus Heresy timeline, why the Alpha Legion rebelled, or even whether they rebelled... nothing can be explained clearly.

These people are just like Jianqi, doing things just for the sake of doing things.

"Why do you know about the Alpha Legion?" the Emperor suddenly asked.

"My people reported it. In addition, they worked with Malcador's agents to blow up the mother planet No. 11." Qin Xia replied.

When Angron heard his adoptive father mention "my people", he realized that they were from the Society for the Study of Human History.

This organization was originally an academic organization, which was established to investigate the ancient history of Nuceria and at most store some secret ancient materials.

Later, believers of the Divine Lord sect, as well as intelligence workers and scouts from the uprising war period joined the organization after retirement. In addition, Qin Xia parachuted Theseus to manage the organization, and it gradually became an intelligence agency exclusively for Qin Xia.

While the Warp storm was raging, the Society was still finding ways to move around. Theseus even blew up the home planet of one of the Primarchs. This is human "agency".

The emperor did not put any energy into the intelligence agency and stood up to make arrangements.

"Angron, return to your Nuceria and start the migration to the Webway."

"I will stay in Comoros and make sure we get more network routes from the Eldar."

"And Qin Xia, I hope you can go to Mars."

Qin Xia was not surprised that the Emperor wanted him to go to Mars.

A month ago, asking the Emperor why he sent Quadrant back to Mars was just to verify his guess, but now the Emperor was verifying it for him personally.

Quadrant's role on Mars ultimately comes down to one thing - to replace his mentor, the current Forge-General of Mars, Kelbor Har.

"Who will deal with the Alpha Legion's affairs?" Qin Xia asked.

"Leave it to Malcador and your intelligence agencies." The Emperor had already planned, "If Alpharius remains loyal and only some of his men are rebellious, then this is not a problem at all."

The Emperor did not say that even if Alpharius was disloyal, their legion would not be a problem.

At that time, let Angron go to the locations of each legion one by one and purge the Alpha Legion soldiers lurking among them.

Once the network route leading to the location of the Alpha Legion is obtained, the Imperial Navy can be dispatched at any time to annihilate this legion that excels in intelligence work.

"We need to be cautious about what happens on Mars."

The Emperor’s final instructions.

"We are doing the same thing now, which is to enable humans to migrate to the Webway smoothly."

"Mars, which is very close to Terra, is of utmost importance, because they have the ability to destroy the entrance and exit of Terra's webway. So don't delegate others to go in your place, and then you go to put out a fire somewhere."

His pupils glowed with golden light as he stared at Qin Xia.

"I don't trust anyone to help the Quadrant deal with Mars. Except you."

(End of this chapter)