Warhammer: Expedition to the Multiverse from 30k

Life has almost unlimited potential, and this selection process makes that potential come true. The endless life forms in the vast galaxy are the result of life being selected by the universe.

"What about them? These Titaniums seem to be evolving madly, but in fact they are just racing along a pre-designed track from the beginning to the end."

“It’s like a train. It may be running fast and steadily, but it can never deviate from the track that was built for it. A derailed train is bound to capsize.”

Luo Xi sighed. After hearing the explanation from Sage Lawrence, he also understood the nature of the Titanium Clan.

They are just tools.

The titanium aliens he saw learned to use sticks to make spears and learned to use fire to cook food for better digestion, but these were not what they learned in the development of civilization.

Their edited genes will make it easier for them to come up with the idea of ​​using tools and fire. This is equivalent to answering a test question, and there is a mysterious voice providing them with references and reminders.

It says you should go onto land.

It says you should use tools.

It says that you should give birth to civilization.

"This is not a good thing. It means that this species has never been truly free or independent from the beginning to the end. They can't even distinguish whether these are their own thoughts or the will of the mysterious existence that shaped them."

"Yes, the genetic information I have analyzed so far supports this conclusion, but we cannot understand why [they] choose to do this, and what their purpose is."

Sage Lawrence, who had originally spoken in a gentle tone, became serious. A buzzing sound of electricity came from his body, as if the attached thinking engine was overloaded with thinking.

"The Tau are a race that was selected, edited, and cultivated. But why would they choose to cultivate a race from scratch? Even if it is to reproduce the evolution of life, it is too incredible to start cultivating the Tau when they were still marine creatures."

Sage Lawrence also conducted similar life experiments, but neither theory nor reality could support him to conduct an experiment of such a large scale.

The Titans they saw today had been away from the ocean for 1,500 years, which meant that the cultivation process had begun at least 1,500 years ago.

And this existence hidden in the unknown spent 1,500 years to transform a group of uncivilized aquatic animals living in the ocean into intelligent animals with civilized consciousness. It could not have been just for the Titanium people who could only use the most primitive tools.

"It seems that our arrival has disrupted the process. We are uninvited guests who accidentally broke into the experimental petri dish."

"I just hope that the person behind the scenes won't get so angry that he loses his temper."

Luo Xi curled his nose and said with pursed lips.

"We broke into a remote area on the eastern frontier of the galaxy and disrupted the evolution of these Tau. Without our disturbance, there would be nothing in this silent star group that would have the audacity to find DX-114, or the place we named Tau."

Sage Lawrence nodded in agreement. When he discovered that this was actually a biological experiment, he developed a strong desire to observe.

He wanted to see what these Titans would eventually become if they were allowed to develop.

And if it was his own experiment, a biological experiment that took at least fifteen hundred years and cost a huge amount of money, and it collapsed because of the intrusion of a group of uninvited guests, in the name of Ohm Messiah, he would definitely go crazy.

"In terms of human life span, we cannot support an experiment that spans a thousand years. There is no other way. From a galactic macroscopic perspective, humans are actually a short-lived species. Mortals without genetic modification and life extension surgery are unlikely to live more than two hundred standard Terran years. Even life extension surgery cannot be used forever."

From the perspective of a biological sage, Lawrence admired the existence of those who designed this experiment. They might be some kind of highly intelligent alien race that had never been seen before, or they might be some evil beings that were simply doing it for fun.

"We arrived too early. If we had arrived five hundred or a thousand years later, we would most likely not have encountered these primitive aliens who only knew how to use wooden spears and fire."

Lawrence straightened his expression and began to imagine encountering the Titanium in a more distant timeline.

"Perhaps they have entered industrial civilization and can use steam, electricity, or even atomic energy, but it makes no difference. There is no difference between a primitive civilization and an initial industrial civilization under our warships."

"And if it's more extreme, they may even master the forbidden abomination of artificial intelligence. Think about it, Lord Roche. These weak aliens may wrap their bodies in power armor or larger mecha combat suits. Then they will be quite troublesome."

Luo Xi looked at the expression of Sage Lawrence and his eye that still retained flesh and blood.

"So you think that the people behind the Tau race essentially want them to become an outward-looking civilization that can roam the galaxy and become another player in this messed-up galaxy?"

Humans loyal to the Empire, humans who betrayed the Empire, green-skinned orcs keen on infighting, mysterious Eldar, Necrons who have not yet awakened, malicious entities in the Warp, these beings are the well-deserved protagonists in this dark galaxy.

As for those alien races, big and small, whose names cannot be told, they can only serve as a background board in most cases. They may not be weak, but they are not powerful either.

If the existence behind this really has this in mind, then Luo Xi can only wish them good luck. Not every race is qualified to sit in the player's seat.

Chapter 227: Insulation of Titanium

"Of course, this is just a deduction and hypothesis based on the existing information. It is a castle in the air built on the void."

"Perhaps we are just overthinking it. Everything about the Tau people is a miracle of life. They are one of the protagonists who came late."

Roche and Sage Lawrence looked at each other and smiled. Their assumptions were based on too many preconditions. From a probabilistic point of view, with each additional precondition, the possibility of realization would continue to plummet.

The Red Alert's database records countless alien races, many of which are also considered to have great potential.

Some of them are superior in innate talents, and some are born with the ability to flexibly control the power of the subspace. If they can grow up, they may become the protagonists of the galaxy.

However, most of the aliens no longer exist. They were either destroyed by natural disasters, or perished in the vicious internal friction of their own civilization, or were simply wiped out by other races passing by.

A race still in its nascent stage is so fragile that even the waste dropped by a passing spacecraft could cause the civilization to become extinct.

The future of the Tau was not promising. At least after the exploration fleet led by Roche came, most of the individuals of this race had been slaughtered, and the remaining ones were even the "studs" reserved at the request of Faffnir.

This son of Leman Russ seemed really determined to promote the Tau-style snacks. Roche deeply suspected that he might have suffered brain damage from alcohol on the night he had a drinking contest with Guilliman.

They look... really out of place.

Even if the Titanium survive, they will live in farms set up by humans. Their reproduction will be controlled by the priests of the Mechanicum, and they will be cross-bred in various directions.

Perhaps a titanium servitor would be of interest to the Mechanicus priests?

A race that serves as food cannot have a future.

The future of the Tau is already determined. They can only become the specialty food recommended by the Space Wolves, or a can of canned food with unique flavor, or a bag of chewy steaks, or honey wine with excessive heavy metal elements brewed from their unique blood.

"The only thing we can't figure out is why the beings behind the Titanium chose to stretch time so long, and why did they choose the Titanium?"

The two fell into a brief moment of thought.

There is an old saying on Terra: There are people who do business that will get them killed, but no one does business that will lose them money. Since the existence behind the Titanium Clan is willing to go to great lengths and pay a long time cost of thousands of years, it must mean that they think it is worth it.

They chose to cultivate a budding race like the Titanium rather than other mature races. Does this mean that a brand new race has certain advantages that the mature races do not have?

The encounter with the Titans on this planet was supposed to be just a harmless episode, but under the imagination of Sage Lawrence and Roche, it turned into a shocking conspiracy that was unknown to the world.

"Speciality. What special features do these Titanium have that we haven't discovered yet?"

Luo Xi also became interested. They did not find the long-awaited black stone mines on Titanium Star, so at least they had to get some other gains so that their time would not be wasted.

This mentality of taking a chance even if there is a chance or not drives them to continue to explore the secrets of the Titanium.

This thrilling decryption process even made Luo Xi's memory fragments come alive again, and his desire for knowledge and exploration made him unable to stop.

However, their research came to a standstill. Sage Lawrence used Roche's more advanced equipment to further analyze the genes of the Titanium Clan and found that these blue aliens can be roughly divided into four subspecies.

These subspecies are still in their infancy, but it seems that one of the Tau species has genes that make them better suited as fighters, with latent genes for violence and rage edited deep into their genes.

Of course, because of the weak bodies of the Titanium, even the fighters within this group are too weak compared to humans.

I'm afraid the malnourished poor in the hive city could easily defeat them in hand-to-hand combat.

The other type of Titanium is more suitable for production and creation. Their genes carry more fragments that are beneficial to brain development, which also means that this subspecies of Titanium is more likely to produce wise men, inventors and politicians.

But that's all. The genes of the Tau people do not have the difficult-to-crack gene lock settings like the Green Orcs and the Eldar. Lawrence and Roche almost completely cracked the Tau genes, and all this information was recorded in the Red Alert's storage library.

It can be said that even if all the Titanium on Titanium Star were slaughtered, Roche would be able to rely on the data backup in the Red Alert and recreate the Titanium species through biochemical technology.

"Perhaps we can try the psychic angle. We are too obsessed with explaining all this from a materialistic perspective."

Sage Lawrence added, and he enlightened Roshi.

The world they live in has never been a purely materialistic universe. In many cases, idealistic spiritual power can better explain everything unknown.

Luo Xi even felt that the subspace was like a universal patch that could be applied to most unacceptable things.

"We need the help of the think tank." Luo Xi stood up and said to Sage Lawrence, who was much taller than him.

This biological sage is over four meters tall, even the Space Marines are not as tall as him.

"It just so happens that we have a team of Ultramarines think tanks on board our ship. Their leader, Emilia Troy, is a seasoned psyker."

The think tank director summoned by Roche to practice meditation on the ship. The Trojan think tank had a rather cold personality. Most of the time, he and his think tank brothers were practicing meditation in the library monastery on the ship.

Perhaps this is also the reason why he is not as favored by the Primarch as Titus Prieto. Titus is more humane, while the Trojan Librarian is completely businesslike and cold.

"What are your instructions, my lord? The Primarch commands me to obey your orders completely, and I will obey them completely."

Fortunately, Roche does not intend to establish good relations with every think tank. It is enough that Troy is willing to obey.

"Trojan Think Tank, I need your help with something." Roshi specially brought a still-living Titanium alien individual, with a large amount of anesthetic injected into its body, the dosage was enough to make it comatose for several weeks.

The think tank director didn't say much, he just waved his hand and activated his psychic power.

The cold breath from the warp began to spread in the cabin. Troy's eyes flashed with blue electricity. His special psychic power began to invade the brain of the Titanium alien and pry out all the unknown secrets.

Reading brain information is not a difficult task for a psychic think tank.

"Strange, something has weakened my psychic power. The strength of my psychic power has dropped by about 5%. This is not normal."

The Trojan Librarian frowned and stared at the unconscious abominable alien.

The moment his psychic energy came into contact with the Titanium alien, he clearly felt that the psychic power was suppressed by some unknown effect. This feeling was like... being close to those untouchables.

No, they are far less powerful than the Untouchables. If he were a qualified Untouchable, the fact that the Troy Think Tank could remain calm was a sign of his well-training.

He then used his psychic powers to explore the secrets of the Titanium aliens more carefully.

The psionic energy condensed into an eye of the warp, with the help of which Troy could directly see the appearance of the sea of ​​souls.

The psychic headband on his forehead made it easier for him to control his power while preventing him from being disturbed by the chaotic will of the warp.

However, what Troy saw with the psychic eye surprised him a little, and he reported everything he saw to the two people present.

"What did you see, Troy Think Tank?" Luo Xi asked with concern.

"The souls of these aliens are so weak, thousands of times smaller than humans. I can hardly see their projections in the warp."

"Emperor, even those ant-cows that serve as livestock are more eye-catching than them."

The think tank director's words made a flash of inspiration flash through Luo Xi's mind.

He suddenly understood what was so special about the Titanium Clan.

If Troy was not mistaken, then the primitive alien race of the Titans had an ability that humans envied very much: the subspace was almost insulated for them.

Chapter 228: Embracing Psychic Power