Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 301

  Chapter 301 Rise of the Primarch: Mechanicus Welcome

Lieutenant Stewart Valkur is an officer of the fire control team of the Infinite Frontier. As an experienced naval veteran, Lieutenant Stuart is one of the fire control officers on duty on the Infinite Frontier. He has seen all his life A lot of big battles, he fought with the emperor's glorious navy, and fought every **** enemy in this galaxy.

   Chaos, Eldar, Greenskins, Tyranids and Necrons, etc. Oh, did I forget to mention Titanium? Ah yes, there are also these blue bald aliens, although in Lieutenant Stewart's impression, this newborn alien is the weakest one, if compared with other ghosts and monsters.

   But this time, today's sea battle confrontation can be regarded as another record for Lieutenant Stewart's resume. This is the first time he has confronted the Empire's own people since he joined the army, and it was the fleet of those red Mechanicians.

Stuart stood behind the control area of ​​the fire control team, with one hand resting on the side of the seat of the crew next to him. Stuart's eyes looked out through the huge French window directly in front of the bridge. The moving red fleet, the Mechanicum hovers in the void, and countless advanced weapons and automated arrays are arranged on its red and golden ships.

Those battleships are very different from those of the Imperial Navy. They look more square, and there are fewer churches, monasteries and Gothic spires on their backs. There is only one main machine with a mechanical skull logo on it. The sanctuary and the rest of the place are densely packed with automatic weapons.

Not only that, but the Mechanicus ships are also much smaller than those of the Empire. Most of the Mechanicus fleet hovering in a dense array in front of them are frigates and light cruisers. The heavy cruiser was in the center of the fleet, surrounded by layers of **** fleets slowly pushing the plasma flames.

But Stuart has fought side by side with the Mechanicus before, and he knows that although these battleships look small, they are fiercer than each other. Their automatic artillery fire and high-speed reloading macro cannon can instantly destroy the dense artillery fire. Shoot towards the Infinite Frontier, during which the rotating light spear turret on its top will start shooting, piercing the void shield of the battleship, and then it will explode brilliantly in the dense artillery fire.

But it seems that Lieutenant Stewart is not worried at all. He looks quite calm. In fact, not only him, but all the members of the bridge are quite calm. They are all sitting in their positions, easily leaning on the backrest Looking at the fleet ahead, some people even stood up and gathered in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows to point at the battleships.

All in all, although they may be judged as enemies by the stubborn engine oil guys of the Mechanicus in an instant, because of a series of boring data calculation results, and then smashed into pieces floating in the universe, but the infinite frontier has no big wind and waves. The sailors who passed were not afraid at all.

"Lieutenant, are they going to fight here or not?" The fire controller sitting next to Stuart said sideways. He sat sideways on his chair, with his elbows on his knees and his eyes calm. Looking out of the window, the Mechanicus fleet almost surrounded the entire window.

"Do you mean that you want them to fire or not?" Stewart turned his head and asked his subordinate, who scratched his nose with a smile. He took a sip from the mug on the table and it had cooled down. tea, and he complained as the tea went down.

"I just want to know what the **** they're doing. We've been staring at each other for half an hour. My tanner tea is cold, but no one likes cold tanner tea. It's better when it's hot. It's the kind that's just soaked.”

The member of the fire control team put the teacup back on the small plate. He rubbed the corner of his mouth and looked at the silent Mechanicus fleet floating outside the window like a group of iron stones. "They really don't eat. If you want to shoot, just fire twice, so that I can turn on the fire control system and shoot them twice, or I can go make a cup of tea."

   "You guy, you're on duty." Stewart said as he reached out and pressed his head, but the latter smiled and looked at the lieutenant.

"There's no point in staring at us here, what about the lieutenant? Want a cup of hot Tanner tea? I still have Fuyu's tea. They gave me the greenskins last time we did the 597 regiment with Valhalla. There are still savings."

Stuart glanced at the "enemy fleet" outside the window, and then looked at the bridge members gathered in front of the window, drinking coffee, refreshing drinks and tea while chatting. The lieutenant turned his head and turned to his subordinates. Lowered his head, "Hurry up, you know we will be miserable when first officer Anna comes back and sees you not on duty."

"Of order, sir." The subordinate stood up with a grin. He picked up the mug and ran into the small corridor on the side of the bridge. Stuart looked at the subordinate who left, and then turned his head to look outside. Fleet, he glanced at the captain's platform above him and shrugged.

   "The captain and the others will take care of it, so we don't need to worry about it." After speaking, Stuart sat on a chair beside him, crossed his legs and rested his head on his head, and began to rest.

And above his head, on the captain's podium, Cole was standing by the handrail with his hands behind his back. His blue eyes were looking at the Mechanicus fleet outside the window. Among them, the huge revenge-class battlecruiser almost covered half of the surface of Mars.

   Cole looked at the huge battleship, and suddenly a person walked beside him. Vito straightened the collar of his black windbreaker and leaned on the armrest, looking at the huge fleet floating outside the window and whistled.

   "They are really hospitable, we are still a few units away from Mars' far-earth orbit, and they are here to welcome guests."

   "I think they may be a little too enthusiastic, the safety of the weapon is opened, it looks like they are going to give us a welcome salute or something."

Cole said and pointed to the Vengeance-class battlecruiser in front of him. Vito looked at the huge bombardment muzzle aimed at the bridge. The black heavy gun pointed the scary **** hole at Vito's head. Well, to be precise, everyone's head.

  He raised his eyebrows slightly, put his hand on the armrest, and tapped his fingers lightly on the hardened quartz stone surface, "How about the refugee fleet? I guess they are terrified."

"Indeed, civilians are terrified." It was not Cole who answered Vito. He turned his head and looked at Eisenstein who was coming up behind him. It seemed as if it was about to fall on Cole and Vito.

"But Commissar Engels has tried his best to calm them down, no one was injured, and no one died, at least for the time being." Eisenstein said, looking up at the Mechanicus fleet outside the window, Bell also leaned up behind him, he looked Very upset.

Bell strode up behind Vito, and the annoyed Ultramarine pressed a hand on the protruding armor plate on his waist, "I tried to talk to the Mechanics, and it was still the same as before, they stubbornly refused to believe us identity of."

   "Well, at least you tried hard." Vito said, leaning sideways on the armrest and looking out the window, his eyes jumped over the Mechanicus fleets on the background of the universe.

"Has the identification code been sent?" Vito asked beside him, and Cole nodded with a sigh, "Sent, but it's useless, they said our ship is not in their friendly list, so we still use the muzzle Pointing at us."

Vito watched Cole raise his eyebrows slightly, and he immediately got up and turned to the holographic platform behind him. Cole and the two space warriors turned their heads to look at Vito, watched him walk to the side of the holographic instrument and press the button on it. communication button.

As Vito pressed the communication icon floating in front of him, a Mechanicum logo appeared on the prototype projection device in a flash. Vito looked at the logo, but just as he was about to speak, the other party first I spoke.

"This is the Delta Squadron of the Mechanicus Mars Fleet, the flagship Mechanical Hadith, please identify yourself." The cold mechanical voice sounded with several strange combinations of syllables that seemed extremely strange in this sentence. Looks like the wacky creation of some bad tuner.

   "Hey, buddy, your vocal system really needs to be adjusted." Vito said with a joking smile, and Mechanicus responded him with a cold tone.

   "Prove your identity, flesh and blood."

"Don't you like to chat casually first? Well, then let's come directly." Vito said and stood up. He looked at the rotating Mechanicus logo in front of him, and Eisenstein and Bell also leaned forward beside him. , they stood behind Vito and looked at the sign together.

Vito glanced at Eisenstein and then turned to the sign. After clearing his throat, he said in a serious and majestic voice, "I am Vito Constantine, and the Imperial Fist stands behind me." The fourth company commander, Captain Eisenstein Batalov."

The other party fell into a brief silence, and with the knocking of mechanical gears, the Mechanicus' communicator spoke again, "According to the data check, the current company commander of the Imperial Fists is Company Commander Calhawk, and Company Commander Eisenstein has passed away." Returned to the throne in the holy war crusade six hundred years ago."

   "There is an error in your data, priest, I swear to you in the name of the emperor, I am Captain Eisenstein, under the blessing of the emperor, I am not only alive, but also returned to the side of the empire from the twisting void."

  Eisenstein took a step forward behind Vito. He clenched his fists and said in an extremely majestic voice, "In the name of Rogdorn, and in the name of the Iron Guard of Terra, I ask you to let us go immediately and take us to Mars."

"No, we are unable to verify your identity. The sacred calculation array shows that your words are 70% reliable, so it is judged to be a lie." The other party responded in a cold voice, which suddenly angered Eisenstein. Glaring at the sign, he raised his fist as if threatening the opponent.

   "Are you questioning me? Do you think what I say is a lie? How dare you doubt the words sworn in the name of the Emperor?!"

   "Heretics, citing database information, traitorous interstellar warriors-Alpha Legion, this type of traitor is good at using lies, disguise and deception, data inspection, clear, Alpha usually pretends to be a loyalist interstellar warrior, infiltrates, destroys, you, there is a possibility."

  Eisenstein was so angry that he wanted to scold the other party. He felt his honor, no! Even the honor of the battle group has been humiliated, but just as he was about to speak, Vito raised his hand and stopped him.

The company commander took a look at Vito and held back his anger. He suppressed his anger with his strong discipline, then nodded slightly and retreated behind Vito. After the latter watched Eisenstein retreat, he turned his head to look at Eisenstein. The Mechanicism logo in front of him.

   "We have already sent you the identification code, Imperial Navy, a Mars-class battlecruiser belonging to the Tribunal, registration name: Infinite Frontier, Captain, Cole Makarion."

  The other side of the rotating Mechanicus logo fell silent again, followed by a series of crackling sounds of data, followed by a long warning sound.

   "Oh, I don't like that voice." Vito smiled wryly and shook his head slightly, but the other party responded quickly as he expected, and the content was not what Vito hoped.

   "The identification is invalid, the ship is not in the solar system defense fleet list, the calculation result of the sacred calculation array, the visit from outside the system, ask, is it so?"

   "Yes, that's right, we jumped into the solar system a week ago, and we are getting ready" Vito just wanted to continue, when the other party suddenly sounded a warning sound, and the rotating Mechanicus logo immediately glowed with a dangerous red light.

   "The calculation results of the command show that the warp space storm surrounds Terra, and the Imperial Navy's equipment ships cannot pass through the storm to enter Terra for support. The units that can pass through, the chaos ships, and your transition time coincide with the time when the chaos fleet broke into the solar system."

  As soon as the icy Mechanicus broadcast sounded, there was a burst of alarm sounding in the bridge of the Infinity Frontier, and the piercing alarm flashed under the entire dome with the red light for battle.

Cole, Vito, Eisenstein, and Bell looked around at the red lights. Below them, Lieutenant Stuart, who had just taken a sip of the hot Tanner tea made by his subordinate, saw the terminal in front of him. At the red light, he spit out the Tanner tea in his mouth, and the tea sprayed on his trouser legs and chest.

But the lieutenant didn't have time to take care of his wet clothes. He immediately sat up and put the tea cup on the table. He immediately approached the fire control terminal and quickly tapped the keyboard to operate. Soon a series of alarms on it The system gave him the answer, and the lieutenant immediately turned around and shouted towards the captain.

   "Captain! The oil guy's weapons are all activated, and the fire control radar has locked us!"

Stuart yelled, Cole leaned out from a high place and looked at Stuart. The captain saw the row of fire control radar systems that all glowed red, and the rest of the fire control operators sitting there They have begun to quickly activate the weapon array according to the regulations. As they quickly flipped the switches on the desktop one by one, green icons lit up on the central display above the heads of the fire control operators. The signal to unlock the weapons in Infinity Frontier.

"Turn off the weapon array immediately! Cole!" Vito turned his head and roared in the direction of Captain Cole. His voice was very loud, and there was no sense of joking at all. A situation where there is no time for any explanation.

   Cole nodded, and he immediately shouted an order to Stuart below, "Lieutenant, turn off the weapon system and execute the order immediately!"

   "Obey, Captain." Stuart said, looking at the team members around him, "You heard the captain's order! Turn off the weapon system immediately! Quick!"

The orders from Vito, to Captain Cole, and then to Lieutenant Stewart were quickly executed. The operators sitting in front of the fire control system immediately began to turn off the weapon array. They quickly flicked the switches in front of them with their fingers. The green weapon icons on the main screen all turned red again.

   After confirming, Cole turned his head and nodded affirmatively to Vito. The latter also nodded suddenly and looked at the Mechanicus fleet outside the window. He almost roared in the direction of the battleship with the loudest voice.

"If you dare to fire! Say goodbye to the great sage and his knowledge on this ship! You binary idiots!" Vito roared and slammed his fist on the holographic platform beside him. He raised his finger and pointed The Mechanic Cult logo in front of him.

   "When you die, go and explain to your God of Myriad Mechanisms how you blew up His treasure house of knowledge to the sky!"

Bless the Emperor, Vito's words worked. Cole looked down at the fire control operation area, and the roaring radar alarms on it gradually stopped, until finally the entire locking alarm was completely silent. Cole looked around the ship. The siren that also stopped in the bridge let out a sigh of relief.

  The captain looked in the direction of Vito, who was standing in front of the holographic image, and the Mechanicus symbol turning in front of him fell silent, and after a while, Naru spoke again with a mechanical voice.

"Your words, explain." After holding back for a long time, he forcefully squeezed out these words in seven or eight completely different tones. Vito looked at the other party with a smile on his face. Now it was Vito's turn to be arrogant. He stood up and raised his head slightly to look at the icon in front of him.

   "Your great sage will come to explain to you soon, now, just wait for me." "You"

Before the mechanical priest finished speaking, Vito hung up the communication. His finger was pressed on the red end button. Cole looked at the red icon and frowned in surprise, "You are not afraid of being angry. Why don't you just shoot at us instead of calling one place?"

   "At the risk of blowing up unknown knowledge? No, if they believe me, even if they think we are a threat, they will choose to take the risk of jumping up to "rescue" the knowledge stockpile, and then blow us up."

  Vito stood up while talking, and Eisenstein behind him frowned slightly. He glanced at the fleet outside, "Even if they know there are space warriors on board?"

"Yes, those tech geeks are so crazy to explore knowledge." Vito smiled and leaned against the edge of the terminal on one side. He looked at Cole who was walking, but it was Bell who finally asked him the question. , the latter looked at Vito in surprise and incomprehension.

   "Why don't you use your permission code?"

"King's return?"

   "Yes, this is it. You can use it to forcibly take over the fleet system of Mechanicus, can't you? The Supreme Marshal's code has the authority to take over all imperial armed forces, fleets and weapon platforms."

Bell looked at Vito in front of him very puzzled. He pointed to the Mechanicus fleet outside, "You can completely close them with your authority, why risk the entire ship being destroyed? Not to mention dying Not only us, but also a dozen refugee boats outside."

After Bell said, Cole, who walked to Vito's side, also looked at Vito with the same doubts. The latter looked at them, his eyes turned from Bell to Cole, and then looked at Eisenstein next to him, The Captain of the Imperial Fist had no problem, the Sons of Dorne tended to obey orders rather than question them, but Vito could see that the Captain was skeptical.

Vito smiled, he spread his hands and shrugged, "Because I don't want the high lords of Terra to know that I'm back, especially since I've been to Terra, remember? General Mars Forge is also a high lord members, and core members."

   "But why? Why didn't you notify the high lord of your return? I believe they will welcome a savior and legend very enthusiastically." Bell asked in surprise, and Vito looked at him and smiled helplessly.

   "Bell, if someone comes back, there is a high probability that when he comes back, your rights will be revoked, and you will be executed because of the mess you did before. Will you still treat him as a savior and welcome him with flowers?"

  Bell was stunned. He and Cole looked at each other. They were not stupid. Of course, they understood what Vito said in an instant, and Vito could tell that they understood.

  Marshal shrugged and leaned against the holographic instrument, "You will still go to meet him, but you will turn the thrown flowers into shells fired from the muzzle."

"Marshal, are you planning?" Eisenstein keenly sensed the deeper meaning of Vito on the side. He looked at Vito, and the latter also slightly turned his head to look at Eisenstein and nodded, but Vito obviously didn't intend to Explain here, now, at this moment, so Eisenstein chose obedience and silence after nodding in respect.

  Bell and Cole also knew what Eisenstein meant, and they kept silent after looking at each other. Indeed, if Vito really plans to take over the High Lords Council, then this is not a suitable place to discuss this issue.

  Bell slightly turned his head to look at the crew members below. They were all relieved after the crisis was resolved, and they were chatting with each other on the deck directly below, clinking cups and drinking coffee or tea. There are many people and ears here.

The awkward silence lasted for a while, but was soon interrupted by the sound of heavy mechanical footsteps not far away. Vito turned his head to look over and smiled. He slapped the edge of the terminal behind him with both hands, Then stood up straight.

"Damn it, Cole, can you hurry up? We were almost blown up." Vito said, looking sideways at the coming great sage, with a smile on his face, Cole and the two space soldiers also looked at Passing over, they looked at the great sage of the Mechanic Cult wriggling countless mechanical feet under his red robe from outside the gate of the bridge.

Kaul walked in from outside the steel arch of the bridge with unhurried movements. His huge body was like a slow-moving Leman Russ main battle tank. There was another person walking beside her, her hair was far redder than Cole's robe.

   Cole looked at the woman beside him, she walked in quickly from Kaul, and knocked on Kaul's huge mechanical belly as she passed by, she walked briskly to Vito's side.

  Anna propped up the table, and reached the edge of the holographic display. She pointed to Kaur on the side, "I brought your big squid."

  Vito looked at Anna smiling in satisfaction, he turned his head and gave Cole a thumbs up, "Your girl is awesome."

Cole raised his brows strangely after hearing this. He turned his head to look at Anna, who put his hands behind his back and shrugged with a smile on his face. She tossed her fiery red hair and looked away. Kaur came, the huge mechanical sage had already walked in front of everyone.

"You dead, scrap iron bastard, your back is so big, can't you install a turbo propulsion or something?" Vito put his hands on his hips and watched Kaur beeping, and Kaur used that and the opposite There was a burst of laughter from the weird synthesized voice like the announcer, and he squirmed a few iron legs in his abdomen and walked in front of Vito.

"No need, because I know you can hold them back, and you did." Kaul looked at the holographic projection on the side and said. A pile of mechanical teaching ships.

   "But you have to explain it to them quickly, before they decide to fire and blow us up with their **** calculation array."

"my pleasure."

As Kaul spoke, a rotating mechanical arm protruded from under his robe. The mechanical arm with three claws was like a triangle split from the center. His claws rotated a few times in the air, and then suddenly came from Vito's side. Hit it, past Vito's ear like a flying cannonball.

His short black hair and collar trembled violently when Kaul's claws pierced him. Kaul's mechanical arm was thrust into the edge of the holographic projection platform behind Vito, and the interface point on the inside of his mechanical claw was inserted. The data terminal, and soon the projection logo of the Mechanicism was lit up again.

  Cauer's mechanical eye also flickered, and the only part of his body was the right side of the human face. The mechanical eye began to turn left and right, and the data information rolled over from its eyeball.

   "The identity information is transmitted, and the sage calculates the array to activate." Kaul's voice sounded low, and with his words, the rotating Mechanicus logo also made a sound.

   "The information has been accepted and is being verified."

  Vito and the others all turned their heads to look at the sign, and they didn't let them look at the rotating sign for too long. In fact, it didn't even take three seconds for them to give a positive and satisfactory reply.

   "The identity information has been verified, welcome back, Great Sage Belisariu Kaur, I welcome you on behalf of the Order of Mars, and praise the Om Messiah."

   "Praise the Om Messiah, please take us to Mars, priest." "According to the order of the sacred computing array, we will execute the agreement and **** you to Mars."

A bell rang through the communication channel. After the bell rang three times in succession, the fleet outside began to turn around. All the Mechanicus warships sprayed plasma flames and flew to both sides, making room for the Infinite Frontier. A road to Mars.

   "It's over?" Bell asked in surprise beside Vito, who smiled and glanced at Kaur, then turned to look at the people around him.

"This is called fighting poison with poison. Alright, let's go to Mars. I heard the margarita there is delicious." Vito patted Cole on the shoulder, and the captain waved to Anna after a slight nod. Losing her command position, the illegal female first officer also jumped off the holographic instrument.

She blinked at Vito and walked past him. Vito looked at her and Cole and smiled, then looked at the Great Sage Cole in front of him. Eisenstein and Bell were also standing in Vito's direction. Tor looked at Vito, and then at the great sage.

   "After going to Mars, I have a mission for you."

   "What kind of task?"

   "Large mission, rebellion, the kind that may lose your head, how about it? Are you interested?"

   "It's hard not to be interested in your words, Vito."

"very good."

  (end of this chapter)

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