Warhammer: Empire Reboot

The next second, the sound of an explosion swallowed up the second half.

Lawson narrowed his eyes.

Gatekeeper.

The Eldar are not here to hunt down gene stealers.

They were preventing the commoner prince from approaching an entrance.

Web portal?

Ancient Black Stone Structures?

Or is it a deeper node related to the underground black rock structure of the Vigilant Star?

Lawson connected the network stability assessment model that the Emperor had just provided to this old coordinate system.

The swarm intelligence model began to unfold.

[Old coordinates show anomaly in stratigraphic structure.]

[There are unnatural closure marks.]

[The spatial stability has historically exhibited abnormal fluctuations.]

[There may be a temporarily open network portal, or a remnant of a blocked network portal.]

[Type of pollution: Unknown.]

[On-site investigation is recommended.]

Lawson tapped the table lightly.

Now the logic makes sense.

More than a decade ago, the Eldar of the Ark ventured deep into the Renkudi Nest, their target likely a hidden entrance or some ancient underground node.

The commoner prince also discovered the place.

A conflict broke out between the two sides.

Imperial stormtroopers arrived and mistakenly killed the Eldar from the Ark.

Subsequently, the legal records system, infiltrated by the commoner prince, altered the reports, deleting the most crucial elements: "light curtain," "gatekeeper," and "underground entrance."

The Ark Eldar's assassination attempt, ostensibly for the Soul Stone and prophecy, may also be aimed at preventing Lordson from continuing to overthrow the Barren Nest.

After all, Vigilant Star is now under his control.

The Foundation Sequence, the T-Series, and the Combat Sequence will turn this planet upside down from the surface to its core.

What's hidden underground will eventually be unearthed.

Lawson sneered.

"Pointy ears are indeed a secret."

He opened the swarm combat panel.

"Severance of the prison."

The response to Chapter 44, "Judgment of the Prison," rang out among the bees.

【grown ups. 】

"The case of the Stormtrooper contact incident seventeen years ago, Ren Kudi Nest, has been reopened."

【clear.】

"Deploy 300 gene sniffing nodes, 500 cornerstone file review nodes, 20 T-series deep scanning units, plus a combat sequence escort team."

"The target is not a cunning and treacherous nest."

"Find what the Spirit Clan wanted to seal away back then."

Swarm intelligence synchronization commands.

Lawson continued:

"At the same time, seal off that entire area of ​​the earthen nest."

“The old sewage pipes, abandoned magnetic rails, noble refuge passages, and gene stealer secret passages were all re-surveyed.”

"Report any network fluctuations immediately."

【implement.】

In the tactical projection, a new blockade circle lit up deep within Renkudi Nest.

As Lawson looked at the underground structure, his gaze gradually turned cold.

The planet Vigilant Star is becoming more and more interesting the more you dig into it.

Black Stone.

Void Claw.

The commoner prince's main nest.

The hiding place of fallen angels.

There may now be remnants of the Net Path sealed by the Eldar.

No wonder Abaddon was staring at this spot.

No wonder the Spirit Race is also eyeing this place.

This fortified world, which appears to be merely a gateway to the Nakmonde Corridor, holds underground treasures worth more than the total assets of many Imperial sectors.

Lawson picked up the slightly cooled Star Crown Tea and drank it all in one gulp.

The aroma of tea dissipated.

"Continue analyzing the network model."

[Computational resources have been allocated to the swarm intelligence approach.]

"Feed it in along with the remnants of the Dark Eldar invasion and the Eldar infiltration route of this Ark."

[In progress.]

"I want to see whose door is under Renkudi Nest."

In the projection, the gray lines continued to extend.

Deep within the hive, the coordinates that were deleted seventeen years ago are now marked in dark gold.

The fragment of the network path given by the Emperor is not a map.

It's more like a flawed set of rules for walking.

The network is not simply a spatial passage, but a road system carved into the interdimensional space by an ancient race.

The road itself isolates the subspace, yet it runs close to the subspace.

It bypasses real-world distances but must rely on stable entrances, anchor points, barriers, and directional markers to maintain continuity.

For the vast majority of the Empire, the Web Way was alien sorcery.

It is the Ghost Gate, where the Dark Eldar come and go without a trace.

For the Eldar, the Web is a legacy, a lifeblood, the path of an old dynasty hidden within the skeleton of the galaxy.

The fragments the Emperor gave to Lawson allowed him to see the underlying structure of this system from a perspective other than that of a "user" for the first time.

Swarm intelligence didn't rush to turn it into a map.

Maps are meaningless.

No access permission.

There is no orientation recognition.

No contamination was detected.

A so-called map will only lead people to their doom.

Therefore, the first thing the bee colony analyzes is the "gate".

The entrance to the network channel is not simply a spatial crack.

A stable entry point has a real-world anchor, dimensional boundaries, and reverse pressure from the inside of the road.

When it is activated, the surrounding space will not be as turbulent as a subspace rift, but will exhibit a very subtle geometric convergence.

Gravity, temperature, electromagnetic fields, and psionic echoes will all shift in the same direction.

That's reality being gently pressed down by the road.

Lawson quickly understood the first rule.

Being able to get in doesn't mean you should get in.

Some entrances may appear open, but in reality, they have already collapsed behind them.

Stepping inside will throw your body into a dimensional fragment.

Some entrances have smooth edges, but the depths have been transformed into slave traps by the Comoros.

Some passages were eroded by subspace contamination, appearing as doors from the outside but leading to demonic stomachs from the inside.

The network of lanes is not a series of simple corridors.

It has a main road, side roads, fault lines, closed sections, abandoned corridors, Eldar maintenance areas, Dark Eldar modification areas, and an ancient cavity that has long lost its owner and is only maintained by inertia.

Among the fragments of the Emperor, there remain the crude understanding of this structure by human engineering of the network.

What humanity wanted to do back then was not to use the old paths gracefully like the Eldar, but to forcibly connect to, expand, and transform them, ultimately establishing a transportation system that belonged to humanity itself.

This is also where the dangers of human network engineering lie.

The Eldar use heritage.

What the emperor wanted to create was the lifeblood of a new empire.

When Lawson saw this, he truly understood for the first time why the defeat under the Golden Throne was so devastating.

Every step forward the network takes requires resisting dimensional pressure, subspace erosion, and backlash from unknown paths, while also ensuring that the real-world entrance does not collapse.