Travel to Warhammer 40K with Grey Wind

How could a citizen of the Empire who was even less human than a monkey possibly visit Anti-Entropy?

"Since conventional methods cannot access it, let's do something unconventional..." Russell smiled at the artificial intelligence core in front of him, and then a dense sphere with a beautiful starry sky like a dream appeared in his palm.

Holding the Wataum Reality Transcendence, Russell once again tried to awaken Anti-Entropy:

"No human biosequence detected, access terminated."

Not surprisingly, the result is still the same.

But just as the starlight flowing in the fully transparent cube was about to go out and the anti-entropy core was about to fall into hibernation again, Russell activated the Wataum Reality Periscope.

In less than 1 Planck, a portion of reality was modified.

"No human biosequences detected... Developer permissions detected, welcome, developer."

This time, Anti-Entropy finally did not deny Russell's access again, but Russell knew that this was only temporary. The results of the modification of reality by the Wataum Reality Transistor would be corrected over time, and he would soon lose his developer privileges that were not obtained in a legitimate way.

"Anti-Entropy, I need to modify your underlying commands."

Russell said in a quick and clear sentence: "Using the developer's privileges, I request to rewrite the original command at the bottom of the anti-entropy system and reset the subject 'human' to 'Star Bullet'. The exact definition of the term 'Star Bullet' will be edited by me personally..."

When Anti-Entropy was first created, the first setting given to it by the developers was "loyalty to humanity."

Russell, who temporarily obtained developer privileges, used his privileges to replace the "human" in the original command with "Star Missile".

That is himself.

After the modification was completed, while there was still some time left, Russell once again used his developer privileges to grant StarBallist the highest administrator privileges over Anti-Entropy.

After doing all this, the reality that was forcibly modified by the Wataum Reality Periscope was finally restored to its original state, and Russell lost his developer privileges.

This time, the AI ​​core did not dim further. The starlight in the cube ran smoothly and steadily, and a synthetic voice of unidentifiable gender came out of it.

"Welcome to the Anti-Entropy System, Mr. and Ms. Administrator Star-Ballist."

Hearing this voice, Russell breathed a sigh of relief.

It succeeded. Although the developer permissions that he had obtained improperly disappeared, the administrator permissions that he had granted himself using the developer permissions did not disappear. The three major principles that had been modified did not return to their original state and remained stable.

He had successfully programmed his loyalty into the source code of this ancient and powerful artificial intelligence.

"Let me introduce myself, Anti-Entropy," Russell said.

"Yes."

The core of the cube in front of me emits a swirling soft starlight:

"Anti-Entropy, the sixth generation strong artificial intelligence with the ability of self-iterative evolution, serves on the aerospace carrier 'Mortal Dawn'. Before it fell asleep, Anti-Entropy had autonomously completed 6 iterations..."

What a terrifying number... Even though he was mentally prepared, Russell still couldn't help but be amazed.

GW's setting for the Dark Ages of Technology is quite vague. It basically serves as a universal scapegoat, and any settings that cannot be explained are attributed to the Dark Ages, resulting in many unreasonable contradictions in the plot.

There are many different opinions about the true situation during the Dark Ages of Technology. One view is that humans at that time may have relied too much on artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence uses its powerful computing power to create a large number of advanced technologies that are beyond human understanding. Humans take it for granted to use these technologies, but they always know why they are there but not why.

When the Iron Man Rebellion broke out, humans suffering from PTSD from intelligent machines began to reject all artificial intelligence with self-awareness, and as a result lost a large amount of powerful black technology that could change the world.

And now, the strong artificial intelligence "Anti-Entropy", which has iterated itself more than 100 million times, seems to support this point of view.

Then, Russell tried to ask Anti-Entropy about some things about the Iron Man Rebellion, and the answer he got was that it didn't know, because when the aerospace carrier "Midgard Dawn" on which it served was destroyed by the Eldar, the Iron Man Rebellion had not yet occurred and the warp storm was still far away.

In other words, Anti-Entropy slept through the Iron Man Rebellion, the Age of Strife, and has been sleeping in the Eldar's Craft World Ship until now.

It is worth mentioning that during the conversation with Anti-Entropy, Russell did not feel that it had "personal tendencies", "self-awareness", or "emotions" or something like that.

As far as Russell knows, strong artificial intelligence of this level should already have a considerable degree of intelligence, which anti-entropy obviously does not have.

"Is it because I used my developer privileges to overwrite its underlying logic, causing Anti-Entropy's self-awareness to essentially be reset?" Russell tried to think so.

After thinking for a while, Russell could not come up with any conclusion. He put the question aside for the time being and said to the cube core in front of him: "Anti-entropy, I request to activate the time weapon 'Circle Principle'."

Anti-Entropy calmly accepted his request: "Please define the scope of use."

As he spoke, a silvery-white energy network was constructed between the precise ring-shaped instrument and the cube core. Russell did not hesitate when he saw this. He raised his hand slightly and handed the Wataum Reality Perforator forward.

"I request to reverse the time of this sphere alone and return it to the state it was half an hour ago." Russell said softly.

"As you wish."

The genderless synthesized voice of Anti-Entropy fell, and then the "Principle of the Ring" began to rotate counterclockwise.

A sense of impending crisis suddenly appeared in Russell's mind, causing him to subconsciously condense powerful psychic energy that was enough to destroy the entire outpost.

But he soon discovered that this sense of crisis did not come from anti-entropy or the theory of the time weapon ring, but the fact that time was flowing backwards itself meant some kind of terrible taboo.

The dense sphere in Russell's hand was quietly suspended above his palm, and the beautiful starry sky inside was also rotating counterclockwise.

This reversal only lasted for a short time, perhaps even shorter than the time it took the Wataum reality-transmitting device to modify reality, and then everything was over.

The cooldown on the Voltaum Reality Vision has been reset.

The gains were great, but Russell had a subtle fear. He could sense that there seemed to be some terrible hidden danger in doing this, but he didn't know what that hidden danger was...

"In the future, we should be more conservative and cautious in the use of the Principle of Rings and Anti-Entropy..." Russell set the tone for the use of these two ancient relics in his mind.

After further conversation, Anti-Entropy gave Russell another little surprise:

The Anti-Entropy database contains a large number of intact STC standard construction templates. Although due to its early dormancy and the long-term torture and loss by the Eldar, the STCs it possesses are far from all that humans have, it is enough to surprise Russell.

Just when Russell was satisfied with the powerful force of anti-entropy and the precious data it preserved, suddenly, an urgent communication interrupted his thoughts.

The automatic system inside the outpost projected Gray Wind's voice directly into Russell's mind, sounding a little anxious:

"I'm sorry to bother you, Marshal, but I think this is something that needs to be brought to your attention as soon as possible."

"It's okay, go ahead." Russell didn't mean to blame Gray Wind at all.

"Yes... not long ago, the Inquisition ship that was investigating the disappearance of the Flare of Repentance in the Flare System was indiscriminately destroyed, and all the people on board died."

Chapter 108 Mother Tree of Life

Actually...

The information sent back by Grey Wind surprised Russell a little.

Because according to the information he had, if he thought in a conventional way, he didn't need to think too much. Most likely, the investigation team of the Inquisition really found some clues in the Flare Galaxy, and the Unforgivables who wanted to cover up the truth about the existence of the Fallen Angels had no choice but to silence them.

But Russell knew that there were only 39 Space Marines, including himself, who followed Miraak to capture the Fallen Angels, and among the investigation team sent by the Inquisition was a respected veteran Inquisitor: Blood Lion.

The Inquisitor's job is a high-risk one. Basically, the longer the Inquisitor serves, the more powerful he or she will be.

This power is multifaceted, such as strong personal combat capability, profound knowledge, high prestige, and intricate and deep connections...

Blood Lion was a powerful judge who had served for more than 500 years and was able to bypass the Military Affairs Department and directly mobilize a large number of naval fleets equipped with extermination order weapons. In terms of connections and prestige, Bernatita couldn't even match his fingers. The only thing she was stronger than Blood Lion was her personal strength.

Let’s not talk about whether the less than 40 Space Marines led by Miraak are capable of completely annihilating the investigation team led by Blood Lion. Even if it is true as Gray Wind said, the entire investigation team including Blood Lion was really buried in the flare...

By killing such a respected Inquisitor, did Miraak never think about the crazy revenge he would suffer in the future once the truth was revealed?

Although the Inquisition was in disarray, its vengeance and ability were so strong that they were hopeless. No Inquisitor would allow the authority of the Inquisition to be undermined.

However, considering that the destroyer that Miraak drove away was cut in half, it might not be the Unforgivables of the Fire of Repentance that wiped out the Inquisitors, but some other force, such as the Fallen Angels.

After thinking it over, Russell couldn't figure it out, so he chose to give up.

"The Inquisition is very vengeful. They should be preparing to mobilize more forces to find out the truth... But this is none of my business."

Russell shook his head, left the awakened Anti-Entropy and the Time Weapon Circle Principle in the outpost, and turned to leave. The power development of the Order of Truth has just been put on the right track, so how could he be interested in intervening in the affairs of the human empire?

"Gray Wind, we're going to the Lost Dreams Cluster later. Also, you don't have to split off a subprocess to spend energy on daily maintenance of the slingshot and other equipment in the critical base."

"Huh?" Gray Wind was puzzled: "What happened?"

"I will hand over the control of these devices to Anti-Entropy. This means that you can relax and take a rest, Gray Wind."

Because there has never been anyone he can fully trust, Russell has assigned too many tasks to Grey Wind. Although as a powerful Gestalt will it is fully capable of handling these tasks with ease, Russell himself is always thinking about when to give Grey Wind a vacation.

But it's far from being idle. Russell actually has a lot of things to do, integrating technology trees, advancing scientific research projects, designing new warships and weapons, collecting resources to build more megastructures... All these tasks require people to do.

Even in another universe, the Fourth Calamity is still short of people. Although there are many people in the hive, they cannot be used directly.

Because chaos is everywhere, it is impossible for him to imprison himself in this corner forever in order to help a planet isolate itself from chaos pollution.

What's the difference between that and squat toilet?

Under Gray Wind's questioning, Russell told it all the information about Anti-Entropy without hiding anything. After learning that the Marshal had written his loyal orders into the source code of the ancient AI, even Gray Wind, who was as precise and strict as he was, could not find any fault with Russell's decision.

Gray Wind, who is himself a matrix consciousness, understands better than any organic life what the loyalty written into the source code is.

The current anti-entropy is even more loyal than it.

When Gray Wind thought of this, he felt a little irritated, but he still handed over the control of all the equipment in the Critical Base without any hesitation. Russell also granted the control of the celestial-level nanorobot cluster on the Nano Planet to Anti-Entropy.

The computing power of Anti-Entropy is very strong, and it can also absorb new knowledge and continuously iterate itself to become more powerful. It only takes a short period of adaptation to be able to do all of this.

Back on the Gray Gu mothership, Russell sensed some of the disappointment that Gray Wind was revealing, so he smiled and said, "Don't be so depressed. Didn't you tell me before? Rather than staying at home and being a logistics manager, you prefer to travel the starry sea, explore the unknown, and see all kinds of new things."

After handing over all logistical matters to Anti-Entropy, this burning endless sea of ​​stars has become a vast ocean for the freed Gray Wind to leap into.

"That's true..." Gray Wind whispered, "but I hope you can stay in my body while I travel in the galaxy."

As long as Russell is within its perception range, it will feel at ease. This has become a habit.

"I will always be with you, as long as you keep wishing so."

Russell lightly brushed aside the topic and turned to give instructions to Anti-Entropy, who had just taken over all the equipment at Critical Base: "Prepare to activate the quantum slingshot. I need to go to the Lost Dream Star Cluster."

The Gray Gu mothership turned and headed towards the slingshot that was preparing to charge and launch, and asked, "Marshal, what are we going there for?"

"Go check on Coronie's progress," Russell said. "The work it's doing is very important. It should be able to alleviate the problem of insufficient manpower a little bit... Also, Coronie told me not long ago that its swarm found some interesting things deep in the Ark World."

As he spoke, the electromagnetic pulses scattered from the surrounding quantum slingshot became thinner, and the huge energy accumulated in the cage lit up the dark night sky. The blazing white light flooded the body of the Gray Gu mothership like a tide, transforming it into a quantum state.

Then, the light died out, and the thin electromagnetic pulses spread out again in the galaxy. Everything that had happened before was gone in an instant, as if nothing had happened.

After catapulting the Gray Goo mothership toward the induction beacon in the Lost Dream Nebula, Anti-Entropy reset the quantum slingshot to standby mode.

Its consciousness spread throughout the galaxy. Every optical, electromagnetic, or thermal sensor became an extension of its senses. Anti-entropy opened countless pairs of eyes and looked at this strange galaxy.

Humans…” Anti-Entropy muttered.

In the critical base, Planet No. 2, which has been completely transformed into a hatching planet, is covered with scarlet fungal carpet. It is the same as usual, but without the control of the Life-Shaping Queen, the Zerg life forms in the planetary shield are in a semi-dormant state.

The body of Coronia is still wrapped in the core of the hatching planet, but its main consciousness has been transferred to the nerve center of the Zerg biological mothership.