Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 14 Reading Memory
Scott was born in the cargo area on the lower deck.

His parents and his clan were plumbers.

As skilled workers, they have no problem making ends meet.

Scott's parents were very happy about his birth. A healthy baby was rare in the lower deck, and the clan would have another young and strong man in the future.

His parents even used their saved ration cards to buy some food to celebrate this moment.

They also took their infant baby to the church to ask for the protection of the Emperor of God and the blessing of the priest. It can be seen that his parents are very pious.

The scene began to change again. Scott grew up. At this time, Scott was five years old. As a child born during the exploration process, he had no chance to leave the battleship at all. He spent his childhood on the battleship.

And it was at the age of four that his life changed dramatically.

There was a problem with the warp navigation this time, causing a warp invasion in the compartment where the Scott clan was located.

The evil and filthy power from the warp broke through Geller's stance, and an unknown plague began to spread throughout the compartments.

A large number of crew members began to go crazy under the influence of the warp, and some even started to mutate on the spot. Unfortunately, Scott's parents were the unlucky ones who were infected with the plague.

Scott was out buying rations at the time and escaped.

The warships have become accustomed to this kind of situation. Once it happens, the compartments with problems will be sealed off, and then a mopping-up team consisting of law enforcement crew members, priests and psychics will clean up these compartments.

Anyone who goes insane or shows signs of physical mutation will be killed and their bodies cremated.

Five-year-old Scott was already sensible. He couldn't understand why his devout parents were ruthlessly killed, no matter how much they expressed their loyalty to the God-Emperor and their contributions to the dynasty.

Looking at the burning bodies of his parents, Scott saw a face. Those who killed his parents saluted respectfully to that person. That person was the wandering merchant Ludwig who came to check the situation.

He looked at the killed crew members with no emotion on his face, as if he had thrown away a useless tool.

At this time, the seeds of hatred were planted in his heart, but Scott was lucky not to be affected by the subspace. After being tested, he was thrown back to the cabin where he originally lived. New crew members filled this cabin, and his parents and those who were killed seemed to have never existed.

As the scene of his parents' death continued to appear before his eyes, his fragile mind began to have problems, and vague whispers had been ringing in his mind from that moment on.

And as he grew older, the whispers began to become clearer and clearer.

Feeling all this, Gao Yi knew that Scott had been targeted by the evil god of the subspace since he was a child.

More and more knowledge that did not belong to him entered his mind, and he learned a lot of secrets for no reason. He knew where the mutants were hiding in the battleship, where the cultists were hiding, and even where there were alien and even blasphemous treasures in the nearby star fields.

With these blasphemous wisdoms, he climbed step by step to the position of Master of Discipline. He became the person he once hated, killing many guilty people and many innocent people for Ludwig.

Gao Yi also saw that when conquering the aliens, Scott gave the blasphemous creation to Ludwig as a trophy, and this creation could subtly influence people's minds.

The scene that followed made Gao Yi a little bit unbelievable.

"Lord Ludwig, I once saw a ritual that could extend lifespan among one of the alien races we conquered."

"Alien ritual? Scott, what do you want to say? Do you know that this sentence is enough to send you to the trial seat?"

"My Lord! You also know that not all alien technology is unacceptable. The sacred right granted to us by the Charter allows us to use this alien knowledge to a certain extent! Are the dynasties using enough alien technology? If we really want to investigate, I guess no dynasty is innocent.

I'm sure you know your body's limits. Rejuvenation surgery has its limits! A pharmacist's treatment techniques can't cure all ailments. The dynasty can't do without your rule. Think of those relatives who only care about vying for power. Have you forgotten what it was like the last time you returned to the capital world?
They even implied that you didn't bring back enough wealth!

These people live comfortably on the planet, and those who only know how to take from you will only lead the dynasty to destruction."

Scott's words made Ludwig silent. He knew his physical condition. Pioneering was accompanied by countless dangers. Years of injuries and illnesses had already made him a spent force. He had no children of his own. If he died, the next wandering merchant would have to be selected from the direct blood relatives of each family.

He didn't want to hand over the dynasty to those idiots.

"What ceremony are you talking about?"

"Blood relative, use the power of blood to extend your lifespan! Since those families want to take away your rights, you can summon those with the purest bloodlines from these families to come and call them over, under the pretext of an assessment. I believe they will definitely send someone over!"

"Are you saying that I'm going to use that so-called ritual to take their lives to prolong my own?"

"I know what you're worried about! I know a hidden place in the lower deck where the Ecclesiarchy and others won't find it.

I will help you deal with the heirs who come over. There may be some confusion, but when you recover, it will be up to you to sort out the confusion, and you will have enough time to find a suitable heir. "

Seeing Ludwig remain silent, Scott knew he had succeeded.

"Ludwig... the Mungert family, and this warship... will all become my gifts to the gods."

Gao Yi's consciousness began to return to his body, and the memories filled with a lot of negative emotions gave him a splitting headache.

He was glad that he could obtain other people's memories without eating their brains like the Space Marines, but the limitation was that the other party's soul had already surrendered to Chaos, or was a psychic.

Looking at the dead Scott, Gao Yi didn't tell anyone what had just happened.

Ludwig was not deceived at all. This assessment was a conspiracy... He had been corrupted by the Rogue Trader without knowing it.

No wonder the traitors were so successful, no wonder Scott's operation log could not be found in the Thinker, and no wonder all the defense facilities outside the hall where the trade certificates were stored were ineffective.

Only the Rogue Trader who holds the highest authority on this warship could achieve such perfection without leaving a single trace.

But no one had ever thought of him as a wandering trader before.

Otherwise, how could such a warship be reduced to this state because of the rebellion of some workers?
Gao Yi chose to conceal this matter and did not disclose it to anyone.

The fewer people who knew about this, the better. With so many people on the warship, once word got out that the Rogue Merchant had been corrupted, it would be impossible to conceal it completely.

He would eventually have to leave the warp and return to the planet controlled by the Empire. Once this news was known to the Empire, the Inquisition's Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Military Affairs Department would probably swarm him.

Especially those judges of the Inquisition, God knows what they will do. After all, these guys have incredible power.

Even a Rogue Trader branded a heretic could not escape death.

Gao Yi’s strength is not enough now, and he doesn’t think it is a good choice to have a head-on conflict with the Tribunal now.

(End of this chapter)