Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 302

  Chapter 302 Rise of the Primarch: Mars

Mars, the pearl of the solar system, is called the sister star of Terra. In the entire solar system, Mars is another planet suitable for human colonization and habitation, so as early as the first time humans stepped into the starry sky, Mars became the first alien colony of mankind.

In the following years, Mars has always played a pivotal role. As early as the Golden Age, it was the most important planet of the Federation after the Earth, and the largest, complete and advanced industrial and technological production system of the Federation was built and gathered on it. , As early as ten thousand years ago, Mars was the birthplace of countless technological creations and war weapons of mankind.

And in the subsequent era of strife and the establishment of the human empire, Mars became the sanctuary of human technology and reason, and the temple of all human knowledge in the entire galaxy. Technology and knowledge assisted the Emperor in reopening the great prelude to the Great Crusade.

In the Age of Empires, Mars' industrial and mechanical production capabilities have made great progress. Mechanics from the entire galaxy have to explore the fleet to send precious science and technology, production techniques and those priceless stc casting templates to the world. Here, this makes Mars undoubtedly the most important, largest, and most advanced core forging world in the entire galaxy.

And on the outer layer of Mars' huge production system is this huge star ring. It is a giant orbital base station that surrounds the equator of the planet. Countless orbital defense weapons are arranged on layers of armor. The ground-based turbolaser cannons point directly at the void in front of them, and the light spear array is matched with densely packed automatic turrets and missile launch bays to form its defense network.

  No one, since the Horus Rebellion, no one has been able to face and successfully break through the largest and most advanced planetary orbital defense array ever built by the human empire.

Not only that, but it is also the largest and most advanced shipyard in the entire galaxy. Cole has long heard of the shipyard on Mars. He heard it mentioned by the old sailors who came here when he was very young. A land of miracles, a place of incomparable proportions that can only exist in legends and songs.

Cole now knows what they said is true. The captain is standing on the dock deck suspended in the orbit of Mars. He looks at the star ring outside the window through the huge glass wall in front of him. Countless docks and star ports are here. In the huge orbital star ring, countless large mechanical arms, automated assembly arrays and gantry cranes can be seen everywhere on the ring.

Cole looked at the halo belt that spanned the orbit of the huge red planet in an arc in front of him, where warships were being produced at full speed for countless moments, and when they were completed, they could carry the ohm messiah. With the Iron Man of the Emperor's Wrath, step into the stars to crush the enemies of the Empire.

   "This place is still so unique, isn't it? Every time you look at it, you can feel the power of technology."

  Beside the captain, Vito came up. He was wearing a black judge coat, with a phoenix sword and a bolter slung across his waist. He stood beside Cole and looked at the star port outside the window with the captain.

"Have you been here before? I mean, before the empire was established." Cole looked out of the window at the shipyard where dazzling sparks were ejected, those sparks that briefly burned in a vacuum after mixing with oxygen, like a dream Star debris, but disappeared into the dark cosmic background in the blink of an eye.

"Golden age? Of course, I was here, but Mars wasn't as red as it was then." Vito cast his eyes on the huge red star below the orbit. Red, desolate and fiery.

Vito looked at the planet below, and Cole looked at it together. The surface of the scarlet planet was completely composed of deserts. The red wasteland covered every inch of the entire planet. It was lifeless and hopeless. The entire planet was almost It's like a dead world.

Cole knew that this was actually not wrong. According to the classification standard of the empire, Mars is definitely a pure dead world. The wasteland of its planet is full of deadly radiation. If you step into one of them, you will inhale thousands of herons of radiation in the blink of an eye, and you will be killed by the radiation burning all your organs and brain before you feel any pain.

And even if it has been transformed, don't think it is safe. On the wasteland of this planet, there are a large number of killer machines. , the crazy machine souls released during the civil war with the dark Mechanicus who betrayed the emperor, they wandered the wasteland for thousands of years, and would kill anything that appeared in front of them, no matter if you were made of meat, or made of iron.

Among them are some killer machines, whose history can even be traced back to the ancient dark ages. In the ancient years that have long been forgotten by humans and even believers in Mechanicism, these evil killing machines were released on the land of Mars. The crimson deserts and ridges wander in search of prey, and if you come across them, trust me, believe me or not, you'd better start praying.

  Cole looked at the surface of Mars. Most of the areas on the planet were completely uninhabitable, even passing by, except for one place.

  Different from most foundry worlds, Mars does not have foundry factories covering the entire planet. His factories and urban areas are all concentrated in one place, a giant hive city that is the largest in human history, rivaling Terra's palace.

On the western plain of Mars, a steel city stands on a huge land covering half of the continent. It is a steel hive composed of countless Mechanicus factories, temples, temples and research bases. Its tall and straight The high wall separates the city from the dangerous wasteland, creating the only safe zone on this planet, an absolutely safe zone.

Cole and Vito looked at the giant city on the planet side by side. Perhaps it was a coincidence, or perhaps it was intentional. The magnificent city formed a huge metal skull logo, and the steel skull covered the entire western continent of Mars. On the surface, from their cosmic orbit, it looks like a beheaded cosmic giant was buried on Mars, with only its astonishing facial skeleton exposing the scarlet land.

  Cole overlooked the skull city. In its giant black eye sockets, orbital elevators rose from the ground. They rushed through those tower-like buildings, directly broke through the atmosphere, and then directly connected to the outer star ring.

"It wasn't like this before?" Cole turned his head slightly to Vito and asked, and the latter shrugged slightly, "No, I mean, yes, Mars was the first time humans landed on it and carried out It was like this before the bio-modification, but during the golden age, we terraformed it into a habitable planet, second only to the beautiful world of Terra."

   "But now it's... like this, it's hard to believe what Mars was like back then, can you find anything similar to the past here? Something that evokes your memory."

"Yes, aren't we looking at it?" Vito pointed to the huge halo outside. Where Vito pointed was the dock of a shipyard. The bottom of the dock slowly opened to both sides, a huge ship The starship was slowly falling from it, and its ejected terminal thrusters ignited sparks at the bottom of the dock.

   "This place is the same as in the past. The most indispensable thing is factories and iron blocks. After the Iron Man Rebellion, the industrial capacity here has been especially strengthened. Although... it also indirectly led to its barren appearance in the end."

  Vito said, he looked at the star ring outside, and fell into the memory of the past, Cole looked at Vito and was silent for a moment, but at a certain point between the two, he was about to speak to break the silence.

Suddenly a huge starship flew past them. The red and gold battleship rose from the bottom up, suddenly rising from the glass in front of Vito and Cole. Its huge volume roared from both sides. Flying in front of the people, driven by the plasma propulsion to the outer orbit of the star port.

Cole's eyes followed the trajectory of the battleship. It had already flown out of the star port. The flickering plasma thruster light illuminated Cole's face, and his eyes were forced to turn to one side to avoid that A flash, but when Cole turned to look, he saw the huge fleet parked in the outer outer orbit.

One after another from the star ring surrounding the entire huge Mars, the Mechanicus fleet gathered in outer space, and the warships with propulsion flames ejected from the end sailed out of the star ring. Those distant warships came from two people. From the angle of view, it looks like meteors flying from the surface to the universe one by one.

Cole looked at the fleet in outer orbit, and Vito stood with him with his hands in his arms, looking at the huge Mechanicus fleet assembled in the starry sky, many of which were quite brand new, probably just from the shipyard. It was driven out after it was built, and joined the battle sequence as soon as it was launched.

"The entire Mars is in a state of combat readiness. The Mechanicus of Mars has gathered all the ships back, and all the warships in the Starport that were originally built and planned to be handed over to the Imperial Navy have also been detained." Cole scanned the orbit with his eyes. The battleships on board are sailing through the dark background of the Milky Way, slowly advancing towards the outer orbit.

"It can be seen." Vito said and rubbed his nose. He looked at the rapidly assembled fleet above his head. Several Lightning fighters roared in front of Vito and Cole. The fighter planes passing by, after completing formation on the outer layer of the star ring, flew towards a giant battleship overhead, and the painting of that battleship was undoubtedly the imperial navy.

"In order to defend Mars, the Mechanicus really pulled a fleet of comparable size. Have you counted it? How many battleships are there?" Vito asked Cole as he spoke, and the latter's eyes were fixed on the fleet above his head. , Passing quickly over every floating battleship, Cole soon knew it in his mind.

"At least seventy battleships, including about thirty main battleships, and three battleships." Cole pointed to the giant ship above his head, and Vito followed the direction Captain Cole was pointing at. Go, and soon found the Oberon-class battleship surrounded by countless battleships.

  Vito whistled as he watched the battleship, he grinned and smiled with his hands in his arms, "The Martian is really rich, I like to fight this kind of wealth battle."

"The premise is that they are willing to hand over their fleet to us. Marshal, if these warships can join the battle to defend Terra, it will be of great help to us." Captain Eisenstein leaned up from behind as he spoke. He took off his helmet and clamped the golden battle helmet under his arm.

  Vito turned his head to look at Eisenstein who was coming, behind him were Bell and Loken, the Ultramarines and Captain Luna Wolf had no weapons, they followed Eisenstein to Vito and Cole.

Cole nodded politely to the three as always, and the three space warriors also nodded to the captain in response, but Vito beside Cole was not so strict at all, he smiled and put one hand into a fist on his chin .

  He looked at the three soldiers in front of him, and only Eisenstein was wearing a chainsaw sword, "I said, Captain Eisenstein, do you need to wear weapons on your own territory?"

"My family? No, Mechanicum has always been an ally of the empire, not "my family". We can be friends or allies, but we are definitely not our own family." Eisenstein said as he turned his head and looked at the people passing by. Priest of the Mechanicus, he led a group of servants to the Infinite Frontier in the distance.

Vito and several people looked in that direction. The Infinite Frontier was moored in the dock. Its huge hull traversed the entire dock, but its floating berth specially built for heavy warships still made Infinity Frontier The number stopped.

On the top of the giant ship is a huge dome with countless mechanical arms, multi-functional platforms and telescopic hoses. Countless sliding rails and movable tracks are arranged in a winding way on it, and they make those complicated docks automatic. The robotic arm can slide to reach every position of the huge battleship.

Below the battleship, there is a layer of faint blue void shield air wall, which shimmers and isolates the vacuum universe below from the area in the dock, so that people who are working in the dock will not be sucked into the cold within the void.

Vito's eyes looked at the deck on the side of the Infinite Frontier, and flying sparks splashed down from the air. In the dazzling light of welding sparks, a huge mechanical arm moved across the top floor of the dock, and the servo skulls accompanied it. The robotic arm flew quickly across the deck.

Under that arm, the mechanical priests of Mars are communicating details with their Mechanician colleagues on the Infinite Frontier. With the completion of the efficient docking work between the two sides, teams of machine servants and automatic transport vehicles began to transfer ammunition and Supplies are loaded onto a wide deck on one side.

The heavy mechanical roar echoed in Vito's ears. Looking for the sound, he raised his head and looked in that direction. It was a huge mechanical arm connected to a thick fuel pipeline. Pipes were inserted into the side of the Infinity Frontier, along with that open deck section, feeding fuel into its power core.

"At least they can help us replenish fuel, ammunition, etc., it's not bad, isn't it?" Vito smiled and glanced at Eisenstein. , "If it weren't for the great sage on our ship and his knowledge reserves, I'm afraid these machines and cyborgs who have no honor and loyalty at all would have blown us into the void long ago."

Bell and Loken looked at each other, and they both looked at Vito subconsciously, but the latter still shrugged with a smile, "Maybe, but at least we are standing here now, and we have not been bombed into Asia. in space."

   Vito said and looked at Bell, "How is the replenishment of the warships? There are also refugee fleets. I guess the Mechanicus should be very generous, right? Didn't they cut corners for us?"

   "Everything is going well, Vito. The fuel and ammunition have been basically replenished. Now First Officer Anna is arranging the follow-up storage and the final inspection. If there is no accident, we will be able to set sail soon."

   "The refugee fleet is also being replenished on the deck of the civilian transport ship. Commissar Karl Engels is responsible for supervising the implementation. Their replenishment is much simpler than ours. They only need to replenish a little fuel for the final voyage and some food."

   "Food?" Vito asked slightly surprised, he turned his head to look at Cole and smiled jokingly, "I really didn't expect these oil guys to have food."

"I thought, maybe it was prepared for the passing mortal transport ships, or maybe it was prepared for the shipyard workers on the star port. Not all the workers here are machine servants. I took a quick look, and at least they are generally normal. Humanity."

This is not surprising, after all, it is impossible to have a priest staring at every link all the time when building a ship, and that leads to a single-threaded thinking. Normal humans are needed.

Although ordinary humans are not as strong and durable as machine servants, their thinking is more sensitive, active and good at handling more complicated construction work. Even without a priest, they know what to do. Therefore, in most shipyards, even a Mechanically taught, automated equipment cannot completely replace humans.

   Bell said and looked up at the Infinity Frontier not far away. Its bow is on the side of everyone, and the position is quite close, so close that you can touch its outer deck when you walk up.

To be honest, this is the first time for Bell to directly observe the entire ship structure of the Infinity Frontier at such a close distance. In the past, there would be at least some dock mechanical racks to fix the battleship, but now it is completely exposed to everyone, and it can be said that it is lying naked. On the berth of the dock.

Vito stood with the three Astartes and Captain Cole. He looked at a mechanical arm slowly raised in front of him with his hands behind his back. The missile on the ground, as the warhead locked the anchor point and the mechanical arm yelled, the missile was slowly lifted up.

"Marshal, please forgive me, did you plan to capture the High Lord Council of Terra, right?" Eisenstein, who was standing beside Vito, suddenly asked without warning. He was the same as his Primarch Dorne. , When you ask exciting and scary questions, you ask them suddenly out of nowhere, which catches you completely off guard.

Loken and Bell looked at each other and then looked at Vito. Cole, who was standing behind him, also cast his vision over. Vito still looked at the loading site ahead with his hands behind his back. After the missile was lifted up by the mechanical crane, Hovering over the missile launch bay between the magnificent buildings on the back of the Infinite Frontier.

Following a sound of notification of arrival, the ground crew of the Infinity Frontier standing on the back of the hull began to wave the red indicator stick in his hand. With his wave, the hovering missile began to descend gradually, approaching the outward-bounced missile. Thick missile silos.

   "Yes, that's what I planned. I guess you know the reason, right?" Vito didn't look at Eisenstein. He didn't pay attention to the company commander beside him, but he still answered his question.

After hearing this, the company commander fell silent. He nodded silently after thinking for a moment, "The high lord council of Terra can't unite against the Chaos invasion at all. Those guys are either fighting or preparing to fight. Lust and greed make it impossible for them to cooperate in defense."

The Council of the High Lords is like this, like all the bureaucratic governments of the Empire Star District, even if they are dying and Chaos puts the guns on their heads, they still tirelessly play their stupid political games, for the sake of the star. The interests of the people have earned their heads and blood, or they are just shirking responsibility and throwing the pot away, trying their best to pass the responsibility for failure to others.

"You plan to get them all in touch with power, monopolize all the power of Terra, and concentrate all the power in your own hands so that you can cooperate to resist the invasion of Chaos," Eisenstein said calmly. There is no one else, so it sounds like there is only one translator from a third-party perspective.

   Conspiracy.

Vito looked at the missile that was gradually descending in front of him. Its thick shooter missile sank into the mouth of the silo little by little. The ground crew waving the indicator stick kept swinging the red light stick downward, and as he swung the missile Bodies also kept falling from in front of him into the pitch-black bomb bay.

"Yes, is there any objection to the overthrow of the High Lords Council?" Vito asked calmly. He said it as if this is the biggest crime in the empire, as if he asked his brothers to go downstairs. As easy as throwing two rotten eggs on Uncle John's window.

   This behavior is indeed similar to throwing rotten eggs, and the ones thrown are also a group of old and immortal old things, except that these old things will open the window, and then set up a machine gun from inside to shoot at you.

   Eisenstein looked at Vito, he nodded after a moment of silence, "I'll join."

"You're so straightforward, company commander, don't you think about rebellion before you join?" Vito said with a mocking smile, his eyes still looking at the hull of the Infinity Frontier ahead, watching those busy Mechanics members and servants.

"My oath of loyalty is to the Emperor, not the High Lords Council. If they threaten the Emperor, I will kill them without hesitation, and I don't care if they smear me as a traitor." Love Senstein said firmly, and he also raised his head to look at the Infinity Frontier in the distance.

  Vito smiled, and moved his head slightly towards Bell's direction, "What about you? University scholar, are you joining the small group of rebels?"

   "You know my answer, Vito, my oath is to Lord Guilliman, he is the Regent of the Empire, not the High Lords Council."

Bell looked at the battleship in the distance with his head held high. His eyes looked at the supply trucks that were constantly being transported up from the landing deck. The convoys that came and went brought boxes of supplies and ammunition to the battleship. Bell looked in that direction Hold your head up.

   "And when Lord Guilliman arrives in Terra, he will also disband this group of trash. In this case, why don't we help Lord Guilliman clean up the house in advance? To save him from having to face this group of **** when he comes to Terra."

  Vito smiled when he heard this, he was not surprised at all, he turned his head to look at Loken, waiting for the answer that both he and the other party already knew.

   Loken nodded. He put his iron fist on his chest and nodded to Vito. His meaning couldn't be clearer. Vito smiled and turned to look at Cole.

He watched Cole jokingly tilted his head slightly to one side, "How about it? Captain, you have sworn to the Imperial Navy, and we are going to take the company, the high lord of the navy, and Terra Naval Headquarters has it all."

  Cole looked at Vito, and straightened his belt. He wore the Imperial Skyhawk logo firmly on his waist. There was no flaw or problem in his attire from the naval regulations.

Cole pressed his fingers on his belt, he didn't look at Vito, but looked at the Infinite Frontier like everyone else, looking at his ship, "I did swear to the Imperial Navy, but my oath is to defend it to the death. The truth of the Empire and the Emperor, if anyone threatens this, the Imperial Navy will mercilessly eradicate it."

"Besides, aren't you the supreme leader of the Imperial Navy? Supreme Marshal, my oath is to be responsible step by step. Aren't you the top of the Empire's armed forces?" Cole showed a smile , that sly smile was rarely seen on Cole's face before.

   "So, I obey the Supreme Marshal's order to eradicate the Terra High Lords Council, and according to the Marshal's order, remove the powers of the Imperial Navy Supreme Lord and the Navy Headquarters. How can we talk about betrayal and breaking the oath?"

"Damn it, since your kid has learned to play word games, did you take advantage of the loophole?" Vito suddenly became interested, he turned his head to look at Cole with his hands in his arms and smiled, while the latter smiled lightly, with his hands behind his back. He raised his head slightly.

   "Don't you look at how many years I have been with a certain guy. I will always learn some skills through precepts and deeds."

After Cole said, everyone laughed in a low voice, and even Eisenstein smiled silently. Vito lowered his head and laughed, then rubbed the back of his head, "Okay, it looks like a small rebel group The formation is complete, give our group a name?"

"National Salvation League? If I remember correctly, Vito, this is what I read from your book. In the 19th century, the Tsarist Russian Empire launched a bourgeois democratic revolution to overthrow the absolute monarchy. It was launched. The young revolutionary officers called themselves the National Salvation League."

"Your memory is good, Bell, but I guess you also remember that the revolution failed in the end, didn't you? Are you sure the name is auspicious?" Vito said with a wry smile, and Bell put a hand on his side With the other hand, he took off the battle helmet under his armpit and held it in his hand, and put a corner of the steel helmet on the armor at his waist.

"Then why don't we "rewrite" this history of failure? It will now give a new meaning, the meaning of victory." Bell's young face smiled confidently, and his words were full of motivation, making People feel an inexplicable power injected into the atrium.

After hearing this, Vito also showed a smile. He glanced at Bell, and then looked at the front landing deck of the Infinite Frontier, "The National Salvation Alliance was launched in a hurry and lacked the support of powerful allies. If we want to To change this fate, then we need the support of an ally who plays an important role in the empire."

   Vito said and walked forward, and the people behind him naturally followed. Loken followed behind Vito, his blue power armor walking around Vito, and the dull footsteps echoed.

   "What allies are we going to find?"

Vito glanced at Loken and showed a sly smile. He raised his head slightly and pointed to the sign on the side. They all turned their heads and looked over, and saw the half of the mechanized skull with the appearance of Mars on its base. The skull is embedded on the surface of Mars, just like the skull on the surface of Mars that Cole and Vito saw before.

   "Mars Mechanicus, and the leader of all Mechanicus, Forge General." Vito put down his finger, smiled and walked towards the army of Mechanicus priests in front.

  (end of this chapter)

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