Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 38 Food Crisis
Seeing Ian's tacit attitude, Gao Yi knew that it was a success. Gao Yi didn't want to be a puppet, nor did he want to be used by those high-level judges. He needed to develop his own network of relationships and win over some people he thought were worthy of winning over.

After obtaining the system, Gao Yi did not intend to be a wandering merchant forever. As long as he was given time to develop, he was destined to rise, and his dynasty would not be limited to the current planets.

His most recent major goal is to build the expansion zone into a powerful star field that is comparable to or even surpasses the five hundred worlds of Otarama.

The Empire already has a master within its borders. If he wants to do this within the Empire, he will be blocked at every turn by threats from powerful aliens or the Empire itself. The Kronus Expansion is simply a perfect place.

The enemies here are much weaker.

Although there are rules here, there is also enough freedom. There are thousands of worlds in the explored areas, and there are countless unexplored areas.

And most importantly, if you want to enter the expansion zone normally from the Empire, you almost have to pass through the subspace channel of the "Great Mouth".

Any threat from within the empire's territory must first undergo its first test. Once Gao Yi's pocket world of Coronus is established, he can guard the Mandvi point near the Fury Galaxy to block the enemy. This natural barrier can bring Gao Yi an enormous advantage.

Let him attack or defend.

At this time, Zesta, who has become a robot stick, is guarded by a whole team of rangers. Ever since they saw the strange thing called the Casting Demon, no one would underestimate Zesta even though he has completely lost the ability to resist, for fear that he would cause some trouble.

Seeing Gao Yi and Ian, dressed in gorgeous clothes, approaching, Zesta was still shouting.

He cursed excitedly in binary language. Even though Gao Yi didn't understand, he knew it was not a good thing.

But no matter how Gao Yi asked, Zesta refused to answer in High Gothic.

This forced Pavian, who was in the purification workshop, to be pulled over.

Pavian came to Zesta's side and lifted his robe. The red robe of the priest, which should have been neat and gorgeous, was tattered and stained with dried blood, all of which came from those innocent people. Under the robe was a body transformed with various heretical technologies.

"What a blasphemous technology"

After hearing what Pavian said, Zesta finally stopped cursing.

Zesta scoffed at the extent of Pavian's transformation.

"An ordinary Tech-Priest? You don't understand how to apply knowledge. Technology shouldn't be restricted! The corrupt Empire destroyed and banned knowledge, restricting its spread and killing those who sought the truth. Vashtor is the true God of Machinery!"

"Didn't you still fail? Didn't you hear the wails of the Machine Soul? The demon devoured the sacred Machine Soul and transformed its perfect body into that blasphemous form. You are the one who is wrong. The Holy Machine is the maintainer of the machinery. It protects us and soothes and heals the Machine Soul."

"Holy Machine? What is that?"

"You don't deserve to know. You only need to know that the technology you desecrate is insignificant in front of Him. It is He who protects us from the invasion of your useless code."

"You, an ordinary priest, have resisted the corruption of the waste code? This is absolutely impossible!"

The argument between the two sides was almost endless, and Gao Yi also stepped forward to stop Pavian.

"There's no point in wasting time chatting with these guys who have joined the Dark Gods. Translate for me! I want to know what they've done in my world!"

But when faced with the question, Zesta said nothing. He was not afraid of physical torture at all. As long as his sensory components were cut off, this body that had been almost completely replaced by machines could completely ignore any torture.

Seeing Zesta's stubborn attitude, Gao Yi was helpless for a moment.

"Why don't you let me do it?" "Hmm? Judge Ian, do you have any good ideas?"

"He can ignore physical torture, but what about the soul? As Inquisitors, we've encountered countless cultists, and many have the same abilities as him!"

"Judge Ian, you know a lot."

"Only a little. We have too many human enemies to deal with in the Expanse. To protect the safety of the Empire, we must learn more, and interrogation is a required course for every Inquisitor."

Ian looked at Zesta and smiled.

"Then it's hard work for you."

"Consider this as my humble thanks."

Soon everyone provided Ian with some empty cabins, and soon painful cries were heard from the cabin.

Ian is using his psychic powers to tear apart Zesta's soul and explore the deepest secrets in his heart.

While waiting for Ian to give the interrogation results, Gao Yi was also listening to the report of the battle.

The armored deck of the Golden Ram was damaged to some extent, and several decks were destroyed by the enemy's macro cannons, but fortunately, with the existence of SCVs, repairs were not a big problem. The Sword Rain and the Pioneer also suffered varying degrees of damage, but their technological advantages allowed them to defeat and escape from enemy frigates.

What made Gao Yi most uncomfortable was the personnel problem. In this battle, the three naval warships lost more than 3,000 soldiers. Only one in ten naval soldiers who boarded the enemy survived, and the rest were killed in response to the enemy's boarding and artillery fire.

The losses of the boatmen were also not small. Several of the enemy's assault ships just happened to drill into the lower deck. Before the support team arrived, these guys killed almost all the boatmen in sight.

If the Rangers had not acted quickly enough, the losses might have been even greater. It is terrifying how insignificant human life is in the battle between warships.

The biggest loss was the tragic situation in Omiron.

Originally, Omiron had a population of more than 100 million. After a month of devastating destruction and looting by the Cantor fleet, nearly 60% of the population died or were kidnapped, and it was almost impossible for the remaining population to restore Omiron's output.

"Captain, they've emptied all our food reserves. If they've really been doing this for a month, we're now facing a major food shortage."

Will smiled bitterly.

“We also have food problems?”

"We've already stockpiled plenty of food before we set out, but what are we going to do with the 4000 million people on Omiron? You said you'd do your best to rescue these people, but the amount of food needed to feed these 4000 million people is terrifying. If Omiron were still functioning normally, there would be no problem, but now... we're completely powerless.

If there were not some survivors of the Corpse Guild on Omilon who used the bodies of the dead to make corpse starch, the death toll would have been much higher. Even when we discovered some survivors, cannibalism had already begun to occur.

My suggestion is to abandon the survivors here, preserve the food on our own warships, and rush to Agathos as quickly as possible. Only by retaking the capital world as soon as possible can we be able to rebuild the agricultural world here."

"Are we going to watch these people starve to death?"

"I'm afraid so, Captain."

　This chapter was suddenly lost, so I can only repost it. Sorry everyone, I'm looking for an editor to help re-arrange it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)