Warhammer: Empire Reboot

The Dark Sage?

the wanted?

Those things can be discussed later.

All they want to know now is what's going on with this body of Xander's.

Mechanical ascension is something that countless technical priests of the Faculty of Mechanics have pursued throughout their lives.

Shedding fragile flesh and blood, preserving consciousness, enhancing computational abilities, replacing the body, and truly merging machinery and thought.

However, the existing methods of modification used by the Cult of Mechanics often turn high-ranking sages into complex monsters pieced together from mechanical tentacles, life support tanks, gears, and remnants of flesh.

The longer it lives, the bigger it gets, and the more it gets modified, the harder it becomes to maintain.

Xerath's body is almost the endpoint of mechanical ascension in the imagination of many mechanical priests.

A sage looked at UR-025 again.

I also looked at the T sequence.

He suddenly understood.

At least in the understanding of these mechanical priests, UR-025 and the T-series no longer belong to purely autonomous mechanical intelligence as they did before.

A more plausible explanation has emerged: they do not hate intelligence.

Rather, it is a highly mechanized carrier of consciousness, or some kind of extreme mechanical ascension device built on the basis of organic consciousness.

As for whether there is a human brain inside UR-025.

No one had a chance to open it and confirm.

The mechanical sages now looked at Lawson with completely different eyes.

Mechanical God above.

How exactly was Xavier's body created?

If the one who holds the seal is willing to allow this kind of modification...

A mechanical sage who has lived for over three thousand years has even begun to recalculate how he should approach the upcoming power reorganization in Terra.

Lawson observed their reactions.

Everything was as expected.

Mechanical teachers are also human.

It's just that many people have changed themselves to the point of being inhuman; once they have desires, things become much easier.

Power, technology, lifespan, mechanical body—there's always one thing to talk about.

UR-025 simply couldn't be bothered to get involved in these people's inner thoughts.

From the moment he appeared, he only looked at the Golden Throne maintenance system.

The T-sequence has been integrated with the data, and a massive amount of maintenance information has begun to be reorganized.

UR-025 walked to the first set of main energy interfaces.

Who changed it?

Laskian said, "Three thousand one hundred and twenty-seven years ago, the third maintenance team on Mars."

UR-025 pointed to a pipeline with a diameter of nearly two meters.

“The original structure was a phase feedback path, but you changed it into an energy bypass.”

Several mechanical sages immediately looked at the record.

"According to maintenance records, this passage originally carried out part of the energy transmission."

UR-025 turned to look at him.

"You can also pump fuel through a sewer pipe. Would you connect it to the reactor just because the fuel can flow through it?"

The wise man remained silent.

The UR-025 continued forward and came to a side stabilizer.

"Who installed this? Take it down."

"It cannot be dismantled."

A sage immediately said, "Shutting it down will cause a 9.3 percent fluctuation in the seventeenth psionic circuit."

UR-025 asked, "Why is there fluctuation?"

"Energy compensation has declined."

"wrong."

UR-025 extends its mechanical finger, and the projection rapidly magnifies.

"It has been giving incorrect feedback. Your seventeenth psionic circuit was forcibly skewed long ago. After this thing was activated, it did indeed push the surface data back to the normal range."

"The cost is that the three phase nodes below are constantly bearing the error for it. You see that it looks normal here, so you think it's fixed, and then the alarms start going off below."

UR-025 then opened another repair record.

"So you added another stabilizer down there."

The records unfolded, and it really exists.

"Then, the third alarm goes off."

Another record.

"You've added another one."

Seven red dots appeared consecutively in the projection.

UR-025 paused for two seconds.

"Seventh floor."

"A total of seven floors."

He retrieved maintenance records from seven different eras and stacked them together layer by layer.

By the seventh floor, the original problem had been buried under thousands of parameters and auxiliary equipment, and almost no one dared to touch it anymore.

UR-025 looked at it for a few seconds and suddenly said, "I've seen something like this before."

Raskian's mechanical eye turned to him.

What kind of technological structure?

"Shit Mountain Code".

The processors of several mechanical sages paused for a moment simultaneously.

The radiator inside the Raskian's mechanical body rotated at a slightly higher speed.

UR-025 glanced at the seven-layer auxiliary equipment again.

"What's truly admirable is that it still works; from an engineering perspective, that's almost a religious miracle."

One of the mechanical sages couldn't help but say, "The Golden Throne is a sacred machine."

UR-025 continues forward.

"I was being sarcastic, don't take it personally."

He stopped in front of a set of old control mechanisms and raised his hand to knock on the mechanical lock next to it.

Why is this valve locked?

A mechanical sage replied: "Prevent abnormal activation."

UR-025 turned to look at him.

"Its function is to automatically turn on when the pressure is abnormal."

The sage paused for a moment.

UR-025 was too lazy to ask any further questions.

He took a few steps forward and moved on to the next set of equipment.

"What is this?"

The sage in charge of this place immediately replied:

"Sacred Pressure Regulator".

UR-025 glanced at it, then glanced at it again.

"But it's a pump."

"It undergoes a complete consecration ceremony, which ensures that maintenance personnel strictly adhere to standard procedures."

UR-025 slowly turned its head.

At that moment, even the expressionless, mechanical face seemed to convey a sense of speechlessness.

"So you recited a prayer for a pump, and then it turned from a pump into a sacred pressure regulator?"

The sage said earnestly, "From a doctrinal perspective, this can be understood."

Krus, who was standing behind, trembled slightly.

Lawson glanced at him.

"why are you laughing?"

"No, sir."

"You'd better not have it."

UR-025 has reached the oldest interface area on the outer perimeter of the Golden Throne.

Even the sages of the Mechanicus fell silent here.

They don't really know what many of the structures are for, so they are usually only responsible for ensuring that the parameters don't change.

The T-sequence begins by overlaying structural maps from different eras.