Warhammer 30k and the Great Tomb of Nazarick

Chapter 16 Space Hulk
Asamiko Romanov is a colonel in the Imperial Auxiliary Army. She was born into a noble family but started from the grassroots. Over the past ten years, she relied on her own fighting skills and a little help from her parents' family influence to become a colonel in the Imperial Auxiliary Army in her early thirties, and became the commander of an infantry regiment of 3,000 people.

At this time, the Imperial Army had not yet undergone the military reform after the Great Rebellion and had not been torn apart. As an army colonel, Mamiko had her own cruiser, the Hell Girl, and her own air force. Her power was far greater than that of the regimental colonels of the later Star Army.

As a young officer, Mamiko and her peers share the desire to achieve success and have an extraordinary passion for punishing the enemies of humanity and expanding territory, so she rushed over immediately after receiving the White Scars' call for help.

But now a dilemma lies before her.

In order to move faster than light, the Jigoku Shoujo entered the subspace, and now a huge ship appeared in front of them.

Initial assessment showed that the ship was no less than an Imperial Navy battleship in size and much larger than the Hell Girl cruiser.

Mamiko didn't want to care about this kind of thing. Deep space is vast, and countless civilizations have been born from ancient times to the present. No one knows which ships were abandoned somewhere in the universe for what reason. Although there are often treasures inside space hulks, and from time to time there are stories of some people getting rich by exploring space hulks, every space hulk is also dangerous, and you don't know what happened inside.

And of all space hulks, the most dangerous are those stuck in the warp.

Mamiko planned to mark this place, write a report and invite those who were more professional and keen on exploration to come. She would rather go to the backward world to spread the majesty of the Emperor, but this decision was opposed by the engine priest of the spacecraft, Mr. Alpha 001.

Alpha 001 insisted that the God of All Machines gave him inspiration, and that the broken ship smelled of precious knowledge. The two argued endlessly, and finally after a heated exchange of opinions.

Mamiko got a new pair of glasses, and the broken ones were taken away by the servants for repair, while Alpha 001 retightened the loose screws on his robotic arm.

The two sides saluted each other, and under the majesty of the Emperor, Mamiko agreed to Alpha 001's exploration of the wrecked ship and limited the time to twenty-four hours. Alpha 001 also promised that it would never go on strike.

Mamiko sent an assault ship to take Alpha 001 and a portion of the troops to the wreck.

Before departure, the Alpha 001 mechanical priest selected 10 armed mechanical servants that he had personally transformed. These mechanical servants were transformed from serious criminals. The frontal lobe was removed and replaced with a sacred circuit to ensure the absolute loyalty of these mechanical servants. The Alpha 001 priest can also access one or all of these mechanical servants at any time for micro-manipulation. In terms of armament, these mechanical servants are even more arrogant. Each of them has been transformed beyond the mechanical critical point. Most of the tissues on their bodies have been replaced by solid metal creations. Because of this series of transformations, the average height of these mechanical servants has reached 220CM. Under the protection of heavy armor, they are equipped with multi-barreled laser guns, heavy logging guns, arc cannons, promethium flamethrowers and other fierce firepower. Alpha 001 also wanted to make some laser weapons, but because of the huge radiation, it was forcibly blocked by Mamiko. After all, the mechanical oilers of the Mechanicus can be fearless, but the Imperial Army with them are ordinary humans. No one wants to be accompanied by a huge radiation source at any time.

Following them was a company of 20 Imperial Army soldiers, using standard Imperial Army equipment and equipped with a breathing system. Because the situation of the wreck was mysterious and changeable, and because asking the navigator in the subspace would not yield any useful intelligence, Mamiko also added 5 Ogryn guards. Ogryn apes were a kind of legal sub-humans of the Empire. They were tall, ranging from to meters in height, very strong, even stronger than unarmored Space Marines, able to smash ceramic steel armor plates with bare hands, and very loyal, the kind of single-minded loyalty. If the Ogryn apes were not really a bit stupid, for example, ordinary Ogryn apes could not remember their own names and could not count to , they would be perfect soldiers.

The guards Ogryn are Ogryns who have completely given up long-range attacks. They are the strongest among all Ogryns, with an average height of 280cm and muscles harder than steel, but their intelligence is at the level of fools among Ogryns. Their eyes are always full of clear stupidity and they cannot understand any command that requires two steps. However, they are still very useful as meat shields and attackers. As it happened, there were quite a few of these Ogryns in Mamiko's army, so she sent twenty of them.

The assault ship's approach was smooth, and the hulk remained unchanged.

Then the Imperial Army began to wear gas masks with built-in oxygen. Although the Ogryns were reluctant, they also put on their helmets with rebreathing systems as big as toilets under the coaxing of the military discipline officer. After all, no one knew what was inside the wreck. There might be no oxygen at all, or it might be filled with toxic gases. Of course, most of the organic bodies such as Alpha 001 and his servitors have been replaced by machines. Because there is no respiratory system, there is no need for breathing masks. When Alpha 001 brought these people to the wreck, a strong stench like durian stewed shit immediately rushed over. Fortunately, they all wore respirators in advance, otherwise they would have to vomit. Although Alpha 001 had removed his nose in the mechanized transformation, he still used the mechanical transformation to retain his sense of smell. Now his olfactory detector sent the result that the air here is even worse than that of the low nest.

But no matter how bad it is, there is oxygen here, and the presence of oxygen means that there may be organic life here, so the danger level needs to be increased.

Alpha 001 wanted the army to explore separately from him to improve efficiency, after all, Mamiko only gave him hours, but was rejected by the company commander, who obviously did not want to take risks for the sacred knowledge of Om Messiah.

Well, well, these flesh people are always like this, nothing more than understanding what is truly precious.

Alpha 001 gave up the idea of ​​exploring separately, and let five servitors lead the way, five servitors follow the rear, and twenty guards Ogryn follow the front servitors ready to attack at any time. The Imperial Army escorted Alpha in the middle.

Four servo skulls flew quickly around the exploration team, constantly scanning everything around them.

Judging from the architectural style of the wreck, this wreck is likely from the dark technological age of mankind. Generally, there are high-value targets in such wrecks. In the best case, you can even find a complete STC template (a treasure that preserves human technology from the golden age). In other words, there are many strange traces, scratches from unknown creatures, and organic excrement that is either fresh or old. According to the scan results, these excrement are somewhat similar to human. Is there still human in this wreck?
The time in the warp is chaotic, so even if it was a ship that ran aground 1 years ago, it is possible that only one day had passed after the expedition boarded it, and it is also possible that there are survivors of the Golden Age inside. But again, for this ship that is suspected to be from the Golden Age, it may not have been long, or it may have been tens of thousands of years. The creatures that remain on it may have been corroded by the warp, resulting in some incredible, dangerous and blasphemous mutations.

The expedition team advanced cautiously, and occasionally Alpha 001 would collect some small items that might be valuable.

About 20 minutes later, they found the first living creature around the corner of a corridor.

"The Emperor is above!"

When they saw that thing, many Imperial Army soldiers couldn't help but shout out.

It was a creature that barely maintained a human form, with a slender body and a height of about 200cm. Its extremely thin body had irregularly growing mutant bone spurs. The most special and terrifying thing was that its arms had completely mutated. The original arms became extremely long, with the smallest being 200cm long. The original palms became 60cm long blade-like limbs. There were also two human arms in the abdomen of this monster, but they only looked like humans, and the size and length of the fingers on these two arms were asymmetrical.

The mutant monster also discovered the exploration team. Its mouth stretched exaggeratedly to its ears, and it made a sharp and strange cry. It rushed over without any hesitation, and then was hit directly in the chest by the big stick of the guard Ogrin.

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