Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 37 The Judge is also a human being
After eliminating the fleet surrounding Omilon 2, Gao Yi immediately ordered his fleet to move closer.

Leaving the battlefield, the Golden Ram began to approach Omiron's orbit.

Even from orbit, the naked eye can see the devastation of the entire planet.

Omilon is an agricultural planet with a 46: ratio of land to ocean. There are no hive cities that reach the sky, and the tallest buildings are mechanical creations used to control the weather.

Originally, Omilon had a primitive native species, and they were still in a primitive society. However, after the Monget Dynasty discovered that this place was suitable as an agricultural world, they completely cleansed the native race here.

Don't think that agricultural worlds are any better than the Empire's hive worlds.

Even for the common people of the empire in the agricultural world, eating well is impossible. Being full is already the greatest privilege you can receive.

Fresh meat and vegetables have nothing to do with these lower-class civilians.

Transport ships will transport these expensive products in exchange for greater profits.

The life expectancy of civilians here is often extremely short. Large amounts of fertilizers that promote plant production are continuously dropped into this world by transport planes. There are countless kinds of chemicals. As long as they can make crops produce more and faster, the working environment of civilians will not be considered at all.

Even the land has been polluted, and only crops that have passed genetic screening can be produced in this harsh environment.

At this time, the farmlands all over the surface of the planet were harvested devastatingly, and the shanty towns next to the farmlands where the workers lived were left with only ruins.

The palace where the governor of this planet lived was replaced by a big pit, which was obviously bombed by warships in orbit!
Captured crew members revealed that after destroying most of the planet's defense fleet, Cantor launched a destructive plundering of the planet.

The crops in the warehouses were taken away, the buildings were destroyed, and the existing crops on the planet were also destructively picked. This activity lasted for a whole month, and what was plundered was not only food, but also a large number of people.

Although there are many people in the Warhammer world, population is also a valuable asset. For some planets, population can be paid as a tithe. Cantor had no intention of occupying this planet. He wanted to rob and leave like a pirate.

"Damn it, bastards! Turn on the scanning equipment, search for any survivors and start disaster relief!"

Gao Yi originally thought that he would take back the first planet that originally belonged to him, but it turned out to be a complete mess.

One shuttle after another flew towards the surface of the planet. It was impossible for Cantor to kill everyone, so there must be many survivors hiding.

While waiting for the planetary status report, Gao Yi also prepared to go to the Tyrant to see the captured priest of the Dark Mechanicus.

Gao Yi and Ian were about to board the shuttle when Pavian and a group of priests who had survived the disaster came to meet them.

"Captain! Please take us with you. I can feel the pain of the Tyrant's machine spirit. Perhaps we can comfort them!"

Gao Yi looked at the group of priests in front of him who had a new faith and did not refuse. He could feel that he seemed to have established some kind of connection with these priests.

"Then come up together!"

After entering the Tyrant, under Damon's guidance, everyone came to the corrupted foundry.

The once sacred foundry has been corrupted by Chaos.

The spindly crane armatures and the steel and cables of the foundry became a strange amalgam of metal and flesh.

The strong smell of sulfur, though much dissipated, was still pungent. Workbenches were covered with dissected bodies, their bodies stuffed with all sorts of blasphemous artifacts. A dimensional furnace, powering the forging fiends, still burned. Even mortals without psychic gifts could hear the agonized howls of the souls crammed inside.

"Dark Mechanicus?" Ian also recognized these things. In the archives of the Inquisition, even in the expansion zone, many Forge Worlds had fallen into the arms of the Dark Gods. It often took a huge price to purify these worlds.

"It's a good thing you dealt with them. Otherwise, if the corruption spread and the Suarez Dynasty was completely corrupted, it might have taken the mobilization of several fleets to completely eliminate it, and countless loyalists would have died."

And Pavian and his group of priests also walked in on their own.

They lit incense, poured holy water, and anointed the machinery with holy oil, ignoring its sickening distortion.

Under the rituals of this group of priests, the smell of sulfur that permeated the workshop became lighter, and the faintly emanating subspace energy was also weakened.

"Why haven't I heard these priests recite prayers? What is the Holy Trinity?"

"Don't be surprised, Inquisitor Ian. Even within the Empire, the sects of the Adeptus Mechanicus are as numerous as the stars, let alone in the Expanse. Isn't even the Ecclesiarchy the same? They worship different saints and spread the glory of the God-Emperor in their names across the Expanse."

Looking at the performance of Pavian and other priests, Gao Yi also realized that this group of priests seemed to have some special abilities. While being able to communicate with the machine soul more efficiently, they also seemed to have some of his abilities to purify the energy of the subspace.

And the way they use this ability is through rituals to appease the machine spirit.

Gao Yi’s slowly rising psychic crystal is the best proof.

It has to be said that Gao Yi's gains this time were even several times greater than his previous gains. The scrap code, the casting magic, and the foundry workshop that was about to be purified, all the gains added up were enough for him to build a heavy factory and a star port. The Yamato was waving to him!

Once again, under Damon's guidance, Gao Yi walked into the bridge of the battleship. Before the corpses on the ground could be cleaned up, Norris once again turned into a ghost and disappeared in the battleship. Only Gao Yi and Damon knew about his glorious record.

Gao Yi walked towards Cantor's body. The hole in his head caused by the laser almost destroyed his entire face. If Norris had not seen him being killed with his own eyes, it would have been difficult for Gao Yi to verify his identity.

Ian also walked over to the body.

He sensed the mechanical creations on Cantor's body. Although he was dead, there were still vague remnants of the warp.

"You blasphemer, you betrayed the great God-Emperor and chose the Dark Gods. You are lucky. Otherwise, you will surely receive the most horrific punishment from the Inquisition."

"Ian, to thank you for helping me persuade those warships to surrender, I'll give you this achievement. I believe that eliminating a corrupted Rogue Trader will also allow you to gain a lot of benefits in the Inquisition, right?"

"You want to give me this credit for free?"

"Even if I kill him, the Inquisition won't give me any reward. You helped me, so I'll help you. Isn't trade what we Rogue Traders value most? And there's nothing more pleasurable than a mutually beneficial deal."

Although Ian didn't say it directly, he was indeed tempted. Inquisitors are not saints. They also enjoy life, have a desire for power, and are even afraid of death. If he could become a higher-level inquisitor, why not do it?

There are countless inquisitors in the empire who are corrupted by their selfish desires and various desires every year.

Except for some fanatics, everyone has his or her own pursuit of interests.

(End of this chapter)