Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 287 Ramirez-class Star Fortress STC
The activated metal spread rapidly, enveloping the black-armored body, while golden flames rose, igniting a sun in the dark, rocky sky.

The energy beams shot onto the golden flames, only making the flames surrounding Ninglu's body brighter.

Nimrod has already mastered some of the power of the Star God fragments. The flames he controls, while not as powerful as those inside the Burner star, still surpass the molten lava flows of a planetary volcano.

Andrew's robot's destructive firepower was engulfed by the golden flames, only making the golden light brighter.

Ninglu lunged forward, the golden flames on his body growing ever brighter.

He swung the chainsaw sword, and relying on the power of the Star God fragments he had mastered, the golden flames stayed on the blade about a quarter of the way from the hilt.

The roaring chainsaw sliced ​​off the head of the Andrew robot.

Red eyes flashed, and binary code interacted within Andrew's robot network.

Andrew's robots simultaneously raised their left arms, their arms spinning rapidly, energy blades flashing red light as they rushed towards Ninglu from all sides.

"Intruders, die!"

Ninglu did not dodge; his energy blade struck the flame shield.

Amidst the continuous booming sounds, he wielded the chainsaw sword, using the 12th move of "Osberh-Waya," and his body spun rapidly.

Thump, thump...

Metal heads fell to the ground.

After Nimrod chopped off all the heads of the Andrew robots, he spoke to Arsena Dunn, who was stepping off the Stormbird.

“Tell Jiménez I want them from the shoulders up.”

To reduce the possibility of head injury, Ninglu also requested additional treatment for the neck and other areas.

The Primarch's servant relayed his orders to the Lord of the Eleventh Chapter.

Ninglu's gaze swept across the members of the Honor Guard, finally settling on one of them.

“Andrea, you and the technical sergeant accompany the Great Sage and make him ignore the existence of the Andrew robot and focus on finding the standard construction template.”

Nimrod wanted to obtain as many potion ingredients as possible without attracting the attention of the Great Sage.

“As you wish,” the lawyer replied.

The Great Sage, leading the Guardians of the Faith, stepped off the landing ship and looked at the shadowy figure of Order clad in black armor before him.

"Honorable Sage, Primarch Honor Guard, Andrea greets you."

“My father commanded me to accompany you in searching for standard building templates.”

"[Did Nimrod send his offspring here to ensure I don't monopolize the Divine Template?]" A message appeared in Ryan's logic engine, and he spoke.

More importantly, does a sacred template exist in this world?

"lets go."

He looked at the golden figure in the distance, his prosthetic eye focusing.

112 km... 124 km...

Identify the target's identity and record the original genetic material.

Twenty-five minutes later, Ryan stopped at a dilapidated rock fortress.

His prosthetic eye swept across the broken metal limbs on the ground. He walked to a metal leg, where two tentacle-like mechanical appendages emerged from under his armpits and rested on it.

The mechanical metal claw moves at high frequency on the metal body, and electric sparks flash from the friction.

Twelve seconds later, Ryan walked toward the next metal limb.

After inspecting twelve targets in a row, he finished examining a damaged, polished metal skull with exposed cables, and angrily exclaimed, "Abomination to Intelligence!"

His right arm raised the scepter, and the electrical circuits lit up.

The sage's staff slammed into the metal body, and the destructive current tore the metal legs into a pile of parts.

The servo skull on Ryan's right shoulder turned backward, sending binary signals to his friars.

He discovered from the log files that the robot model named Andrew possessed a certain degree of autonomous thinking ability.

They use an embedded identifier matrix to identify the threat level of a target and calculate the threat level.

Afterwards, unlike robots that are allowed to exist, they attacked the target according to the set attack plan.

They run logic engines, use models to perform logical analysis on the data, and even perform 1024 iterations.

After identifying their targets, they iterate on their attack strategies. Throughout this process, in addition to pure data, other aspects and dimensions of indicators such as shape and color are also considered.

Knowing full well the dangers of intelligence, Ryan strictly adheres to an extermination policy, and he will never allow these robots that do not follow the original data and logical programs to exist.

In particular, it is unacceptable for the Andrew robot to think about shape or even color.

Although "Lawyer" Andrea did not understand the language of data, he judged from Ryan's words and the flashing signal light of the servo skull that the Great Sage had ordered the Guardians to move out.

The "lawyer," who had accepted the mission from the Father of Genetics, immediately approached Ryan.

“Great Sage, our priority should be to search for standard construction templates.”

"If it is destroyed by robots, it will be an irreparable and enormous loss."

"The Shadow of Order, under the Father's leadership, will purify all abominable intelligence."

[Andrew the robot does not follow the fixed procedure // There is a 42.09% chance of damaging the sacred template / if it exists here.]

[Oxenx has the presence of Abomination Intelligence/Ancient humans established a foothold here/The probability of a Divine Template existing here is 95.64%.]

After Rian's logic engine reached its conclusion, he said to Andrea, "What you say is quite right."

"Please convey my request to the Primarch: to purify all evil intelligence in this world."

"Rest assured, Great Sage," the "lawyer" said, having achieved his desired result, as he saw the servo skull of Ryan glowing.

“Father, the Great Sage begs you to destroy all abominable intelligence.”

Upon receiving Andres's message, Nimrod knew that the "lawyer" had successfully diverted the Great Sage's attention to the standard construction template search standard.

The prototype then repeats the process of flying, diving to attack, and taking off again.

Eleven hours later, he sent the Shadows of Order to the Primarch's servant Andrew's android head, and moved them all back to the "Land of Chaos".

He ordered the space monkeys to prepare the "machine" potion, then brought it back to the real world and handed it to John.

Brainy Cat snapped out of his half-awake state, squatted on the ground, and like a human child, poured the silver potion into his mouth.

After John reined in the overflowing power of the "Machine" potion, Nimrod handed him a data crystal and a holographic projector.

"This is a data crystal from the Flao people regarding prophecy; you can use it as a reference."

The "machine" possesses divination and anti-divination abilities, and its extraordinary intuition extends into the realm of prediction.

Although there are some differences between divination using extraordinary abilities and psychic powers, they can serve as a reference.

John placed the data crystal into the holographic projector, following the method that Nimrod had transmitted through a mental link.

His dark eyes were clear as he looked at the data, text, and runes that appeared before him.

The machine's mental body has been enhanced, and his intelligence now surpasses that of most people. His superhuman brain has begun to rapidly master the language of the Vladians.

The strange, incomprehensible characters in front of him gradually began to be understood.

Ninglu left the "machine" to learn, then flapped his wings and flew into the air toward the nearest battlefield.

Upon arriving at the battlefield, the Spear of Dionysus suddenly appeared in his hand, which he then raised and threw.

The cleaning of the Andrew robot lasted for fifty-eight sidereal days.

The following day, when the Spear of Dionysus returned to his hands, Ninglu received a message from the Great Sage.

"Lord Ninglu, your information is accurate."

"I have discovered the Divine Construction Template, a construction template for a powerful star fortress."

"This is a great discovery that far surpasses that of combat tanks."

Ninglu knew that the great sage's words were not an exaggeration.

The Belik battle tank is an easy-to-manufacture and maintain weapon, and a powerful tool of war for auxiliary forces.

Ramirez-class fortresses are war fortresses capable of altering the strategic landscape of a galaxy or even a sector.

It is key to the imperial strategy, and each deployment can shorten a campaign by at least several years, or even decades.

The Ramirez-class star fortress can serve as a maintenance, command, and supply base for the Imperial fleet, saving warships the long journey between temporary supply bases and repair docks.

It can also be placed on planets under siege as permanent orbital bombardment sites or as part of an important galactic defense system.

(End of this chapter)