Warhammer: Empire Reboot

A dark purple crystal formed by the fusion of sixteen Norn mother cores floats deep within the swarm space, with countless points of light inside slowly flowing along a spiral trajectory.

Each point of light represents a life structure preserved by the Tyranid swarm.

Some of these structures are extremely bizarre, with no corresponding samples found in any existing life forms in the galaxy.

Not all of them came from the Zerg.

When the Tyranid swarm devours a planet, it doesn't just recycle the flesh and blood.

From microorganisms and plants to marine life, from local intelligent species to ancient life hidden deep in the earth, all gene fragments worth preserving will be screened, broken down, and sent to the Noon Queen's gene bank.

Useless materials are transformed into biomass.

Those that are valuable will become the components of life in the next war.

The 63,871 basic structures mean that Lawson did not obtain the physical data of the sixteen Norn queens.

Rather, it is part of their long history of devouring.

The value of this data far exceeds the genetic research results he previously obtained from Fabius Bayer.

Bayer is undoubtedly one of the top genetic masters of this era.

He studied the Astartes, Primarchs, Eldar, Orcs, and a large number of alien life forms.

The new humans he created possessed stronger bodies, more stable genetic structures, and were able to overcome the vulnerability of ordinary humans in harsh environments.

But no matter how strong Bayer is, he is still just one person.

He was constantly hunted by the Empire, the Inquisition, and other factions, and could only collect samples by hiding in warships, laboratories, and secret outposts.

The vast majority of research material comes from races that can be accessed within the Milky Way.

He obtained a precious gene, which may require years of planning.

To obtain a rare corpse, one might even have to trade with a warband or an alien force.

No one can accurately calculate how many worlds the Terran swarm has traversed.

No one knows how many years they drifted in the dark void before reaching the Milky Way.

The Tyranid swarm brought the legacy of life from beyond the galaxy to Lawson.

Fabius Bayer provided him with a framework for a new human being that had already taken shape.

Stable genetics, strong physique, and greater adaptability to the environment.

There's nothing wrong with the template itself.

Norn Gene Weaving Furnace offers another possibility.

It can disassemble more than 60,000 basic life structures one by one and select the parts that are compatible with humans.

There's no need to transform humans into Tyranid creatures with skin.

Only the most valuable structures need to be extracted.

Replace the fragile blood vessel distribution in humans with a more efficient circulatory system.

While preserving the human form, additional spare organs are added.

It enhances cell repair capabilities while simultaneously cutting off the tendency for unlimited proliferation and carcinogenesis.

Using the extreme environmental adaptation structures of extraterrestrial organisms, we can solve the survival problems of new humans in high gravity, low oxygen, radiation, and toxic atmospheres.

The 1,482 war creature templates provide combinations that have been proven in real combat.

Many structures are designed for killing, have short lifespans, exhibit rampant metabolism, and even require constant synaptic commands to maintain stability.

But Lawson doesn't need to copy it exactly.

What he needs is a plan.

Bayer's new human template can yield a more stable and longer-lasting life structure.

One serves the military, the other serves the race.

The two are not in conflict.

Humans are not creatures of the Terran Wars.

We cannot only pursue strength, speed, and survivability; emotions, personality, reproductive stability, soul integrity, and resistance to subspace pollution also require long-term observation.

This will be a massive undertaking.

The swarm intelligence mechanism is responsible for recording the results of each experiment.

Lawson's genetic research team aims to transform those life structures from within and outside the galaxy into enhancements that humans can truly withstand.

He now has a path that allows him to keep moving forward.

The empire's humanity is already trapped in the legacy left behind ten thousand years ago.

For the vast majority of humanity, we still rely on our fragile bodies to fight against radiation, toxic gases, diseases, gravity, and subspace pollution.

But the enemies in the galaxy keep getting stronger.

Orcs will grow stronger in war.

The Zerg will evolve based on their enemies.

Chaos can use the power of the subspace to distort flesh and soul.

If humanity remains stagnant, it can only continue to fill the gaps between races with an ever-growing population.

Now, Lawson has this valuable information in his hands.

One day, the almost insurmountable chasm between ordinary humans and Astartes may even be shortened.

Soon, Lawson made another new discovery.

Norn Gene Weaving Furnace is still sorting through sixteen memories.

The vast majority of the content is related to life.

These memories lack emotion and have no complete chronological order.

The Norn Queen is more like a living genetic database, retaining only information useful to the swarm, while the rest is gradually overwritten over the long years.

When the gene-weaving furnace was removing the contamination of the swarm's will, Lawson discovered several abnormal fragments.

Those fragments, buried deep within our genetic memory, have become blurred through countless divisions, replications, and reweavings, leaving only some images that are difficult to discern accurately.

Darkness, endless darkness...

A vast fleet of biological ships was advancing within it.

Then, the memory broke down.

Lawson saw a distant starry sky suddenly go out.

The stars disappeared one by one, as if something was moving along the depths of the universe, erasing them from reality.

Of those fragments, what concerned Lawson most was not the darkness of chasing the swarm of insects.

Rather, it is the swarm itself.

In the oldest memory, Tyrion didn't seem to look like he does now.

Lawson couldn't see the bodies of those living beings clearly.

Time and countless gene replications have blurred the specific image.

Occasionally, memories flash through my mind of orderly structures, cold geometric outlines, and certain unrecognizable creations.

But as the escape continued, those things began to change.

The pursuit never stopped.

In order to survive, that civilization constantly gave up what it originally possessed.

Metals are too difficult to replenish, so bones and shells are used as substitutes.

Machines need maintenance, so let organs heal themselves.

Individuals need a long period of learning, so they directly write knowledge into their genes.

Soldiers experience fear, exhaustion, and disobedience, thus their independent will begins to connect with a vast mental network.

Initially, it may have been just a system for war and communication.

Later, more and more consciousness was connected to it.

The boundaries between individuals are gradually disappearing.

Language becomes superfluous, culture becomes superfluous.

Family, identity, memory—everything that could not help the race continue its escape was gradually abandoned over the long years.

The fleet no longer has civilians, soldiers, artisans, or rulers.

Each individual has become an organ born for a certain function.

Those responsible for combat were depicted as sword insects and behemoths.

The neural nodes become responsible for thinking.

Those responsible for preserving genes and perpetuating the population gradually become the Norn queen.

They may have once had cities, names, or even a glorious civilization that Lawson could not have imagined.

But in the endless escape, civilization did not protect them.

Only evolution can protect them.

Therefore, they transformed themselves into the form most suitable for escape.

It can devour everything along the way.

It can utilize the genes of any living organism.

It can make changes to the enemy in the shortest possible time.

It can abandon any individual, retrieve any corpse, and minimize the loss of the entire race.

In the end, the fugitives disappeared.

What remained was the Tyranid swarm.