Warhammer: The Time Traveler

Chapter 346 New Enterprise Launched (Ten Updates)

Finally, under the watchful eyes of countless expectant people, the new Enterprise NCC-1701-A and its old captain James T. Kirk ushered in their maiden voyage.

The grand "launching" ceremony takes place in the orbital dock—although the starship is built in the void of vacuum and will not come into contact with seawater, the ancient human tradition continues to call this symbolic moment of new life "launching".

Chen Yu couldn't help but sigh. Even 40,000 years after the endless strife in the Warhammer universe he came from, the term humans used to refer to the departure of ships had not changed. This stirred a faint ripple in his heart about the continuity of civilization.

As a technical advisor who made outstanding contributions to this starship, Chen Yu's massive, dark red mechanical body naturally appeared in the viewing area.

The new Enterprise's streamlined hull gleams under special lighting, and its mixed ceramic steel and refined gold frame gives it a calm and solid character. Compared to the old Enterprise, it has less elegance and more understated power.

Wearing his brand-new captain's uniform, Kirk stood before the bridge that was about to become his ship, addressing the Federation and all the spectators via the broadcast, his face filled with barely suppressed excitement and pride.

Chen Yu calmly observed the ceremony, his sensors recording every detail of the scene—the cheers of the people, the flashing media lights, the speeches from high-ranking federal officials, and the unique aura emanating from the starship itself, a fusion of technologies from two different universes.

He witnessed the continuation of a legendary title, the formal end of an old era, and the beginning of a new one.

At the same time, he was also estimating that a preliminary, short-to-medium-range voyage aboard the new Enterprise would be enough to gather core operational data on the Level 8 warp drive, Steady Crystal, Void Shield, and Directional Reconfiguration System in a real deep space environment.

This firsthand information will be far more valuable than what can be obtained from tests on the ground or in near-Earth orbit.

"After a joint voyage, the data collection rate is expected to reach 87.4%, which will meet the needs of initial technology verification and adaptive modifications." He calmly assessed, "At that time, preparations for returning to our original space will also be basically complete."

He came to this relatively peaceful universe with a clear goal: to acquire knowledge, verify technology, and accumulate capital for future survival and development.

Today, warp drive technology, the principle of matter recombination, the theory of dimensional shields, and even the prototype of a quantum scanning-based repair system and creation technology... these valuable discoveries have greatly enriched his database and provided a solid technological foundation for the blueprint of his future flagship.

It's time to consider heading back.

The conflicts in the Warhammer universe will not cease with his departure; he still has unfinished missions and challenges to face.

For him, the maiden voyage of the new Enterprise is not only a climax of this cross-dimensional collaboration, but also the starting point of his journey home.

He planned to formally resign to Kirk and the federal leadership after the voyage concluded.

However, Chen Yu knew clearly that this return trip did not mean a complete break from this technologically advanced and orderly universe.

On the contrary, he has come to regard this place as an extremely valuable external technology reserve and R&D center.

Cross-dimensional communication will not only continue in the future, but will become a normalized strategic choice.

This universe is technologically advanced, with a relatively rational and open civilization where scholars are enthusiastic about exploring and applying knowledge rather than keeping it aloof or shrouded in mysticism. This environment is an ideal breeding ground for analyzing and recreating the legacies of the Dark Ages—technology that has been lost or is on the verge of extinction in the Warhammer universe.

“A roundabout way of inheritance,” Chen Yu noted in the internal plan, “bringing to this place those STC fragments and technological blueprints that cannot be effectively utilized within the Empire due to factional infighting, knowledge blockade, or simply a gap in understanding, and using the Federation’s scientific research capabilities to analyze, reproduce, and even optimize them.”

He knew that although the current millennium was the 31st, and the glorious era of the Great Crusade still had many technologies from the Dark Ages in operation, the deep-rooted academic cliques within the Cult of Mechanics, the rigid worship of "divine forms," ​​and the extreme fear of "heretical technologies" had already sown the seeds for a future technological decline.

Even when discovered, many technologies are often monopolized by a particular forging world, becoming political bargaining chips, or sealed away in the deepest archives, reduced to "tablets" for only a few to admire, rather than being applied technologies that can enhance the strength of the entire empire.

In Chen Yu's view, this inefficient flow and application of knowledge is a huge waste of the legacy of humanity's dark age of technology.

He was unwilling to stand idly by and watch the great expedition in which he had personally participated and made enormous sacrifices gradually wither away over the next ten thousand years, eventually evolving into the dreadful scene he foresaw: a rigid, superstitious existence, struggling to survive in the quagmire of endless war.

That would be the last thing any expedition participant wanted to see.

Therefore, maintaining a link with this universe, returning regularly in the future to bring new "archaeological discoveries" and federal collaborative research, has become a highly attractive strategic option.

He realized that cooperating with this universe was significant in ways that went far beyond simply using external resources to accelerate the improvement of his own technological capabilities.

This is more like opening up a unique path, a path that can provide an additional opportunity for the preservation and continuation of the technological sparks in the Warhammer universe that might have been gradually lost in conflict and ignorance.

He was already well aware of the knowledge barriers and factional infighting within the Cult of Mechanics.

Many precious discoveries will ultimately be locked away in the vaults of some world-building organization, becoming symbols of power rather than ladders of progress.

It's different here.

The open-mindedness, rigorous methodology, and collaborative research spirit of the federal scholars have made it possible to analyze and reproduce those complex and even dangerous ancient technologies.

Just like that automatic STC repair system, although the original version remains mysterious, a practical research direction based on the principle of material recombination has been established.

Perhaps, through this unique cross-dimensional channel, some wisdom that was destined to be lost in the original historical trajectory can be systematically recorded, understood, and even develop into new branches.

This preserved knowledge may become an unexpected ray of light in the darkness at some crucial moment in the future, providing humanity with more choices and a glimmer of hope.

He has already set the coordinates for returning to this location and establishing the necessary communication protocols as a long-term mission.

Once he has finished dealing with matters in the Warhammer universe and has made new discoveries or solved new problems, this relatively peaceful star system and these minds adept at unlocking the shackles of knowledge will still be an important support for him.

(End of this chapter)