Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 316 Ancient Battleship
"It's 2,900 kilometers long and 1,100 kilometers wide."

A large amount of information flowed into Brown's information processor, and all aspects of the industrial ship were interpreted in the form of data. Among them, the information about the volume of the industrial ship was what Brown was most concerned about.

When I had just looked at the industrial ship from the White Knight, this behemoth looked as big as a land plate on the planet below, and seemed to be nearly 10,000 kilometers long.

But visual measurement is ultimately not as accurate as data. The planet below, which serves as a reference, is a little smaller, and the land plates are also a little smaller.

However, the industrial ship is a huge behemoth with a total length of 2,900 kilometers, which is more than a hundred times the length of the White Knight, not to mention that the White Knight is a heavy cruiser with a size far exceeding that of a normal cruiser, and is 18 kilometers long.

And such a huge ship, located above the small planet below, did not cause an astronomical catastrophe that affected the entire planet due to its own gravity... Brown could not help but sigh that the area near the whirlpool was different from other places.

"This is not an industrial ship."

As the data streamed in, Brown discovered something new.

That is the log of the great ship.

Some of the information revealed made Brown realize that this giant ship was not an industrial ship at all, but a giant colonial ship.

This giant ship may have left the planet where it was built to carry out a colonization mission. As it was heading into the darkness where humans had not yet set foot, it encountered a warp storm. Since then, no one has been able to rescue it, and it has remained near the Maelstrom.

After all, the violent subspace storm at that time cut off the connection between various human colonies, and other human places were also in a difficult situation. Who would still think of looking for a colony ship that goes deep into the darkness?

"There... aren't any living people here?" Brown suddenly had an idea that made him feel "short of breath".

Colonial ship.

A colony ship from the heyday of humanity.

If the colony ship had not encountered any horrific disasters during the period when it experienced the warp storm and drifted to the vicinity of the Great Vortex, such as the invasion of horrific warp creatures, the crew's own mental breakdown and sacrifice, or the slaughter of their compatriots, these interstellar navigation disasters...

"That's definitely someone's responsibility."

After a moment of thought, Brown suddenly looked up and looked at the empty place.

The stone man was not looking at some rooms messed up by the robots of the Brotherhood of Destruction, but at the people of that era in his memory who might be lying in a quiet corner of the great ship, unaware of what was happening now.

But Brown had no way of confirming whether there was anyone on the giant ship because he could not read all the information yet.

What I just read was the database of the Brotherhood of Destruction, which has a firewall but is not completely intact, and the Brotherhood of Destruction's exploration and use of the entire giant ship...

Overall, it’s barely around 15 percent.

This means that 85% of the giant ship is unexplored, a place that the robots of the Brotherhood of Destruction have never even seen since they took control of the giant ship.

Even the knowledge that this giant ship was a colonial ship rather than a Golden Age industrial ship was inferred by Brown using clues from his exploration activities to collect information on ships from the Brotherhood of Destruction's database.

"Barbarian." Brown's flickering pupils returned to normal. He broke away from the Brotherhood of Destruction's information database and began to grope in the secret room.

Below the console.

Under the greasy carpet.

in the corner.

on the wall.

Brown groped his way through them one by one, even splitting himself into ten to search everywhere during the search.

"Who would build a colony ship like this?"

“Who was still exploring outside in that era?”

As Brown searched, he was thinking, trying to guess the origin of this colony ship.

"Weyland Industries? Evolution Alliance? Cain Brotherhood? Federation Exploration Department?"

Every force known to Brown had been considered.

At that peak period, humanity did not have a ruling power like it does today, but was extremely fragmented. Different forces formed different alliances due to different values ​​or past experiences, and the largest of these alliances was the Federation.

Some of them want to spread humanity throughout the galaxy. They are expansionist maniacs who want to spread human genes everywhere without caring about how to nurture them.

There are also dark and strange forces. They are a group of lunatics who gather together to worship the Eldar as gods, and then want to give the galaxy to the so-called "original owners of the galaxy" through the self-extinction of the human race.

There are also "worldly paradise" organizations that do not comply with federal technology control regulations and run around the galaxy. As soon as they see intelligent creatures, they rush over to build a utopian world for their own kind or aliens.

Of course, there are also global giants like "Nukeria Entertainment".

The butcher fleet that hates its own kind to the point of wanting to exterminate them, the crazy technologists that want to develop all kinds of forbidden technologies, the giant corporations that will do anything for profit, the practitioners of mass-produced technological utopias, and the brave ones who want to take a gamble on new colonies...

Brown thought about all the human forces he knew, compared them with the various information he knew, and then wanted to know which force might have sent out a colony ship at the moment when the subspace storm interrupted the development process of mankind.

This is not difficult, because before the arrival of the super-large subspace storm, the storm was already impending, and the danger of interstellar navigation increased greatly, and few people would send out colony ships.

It is very important to know the origin of this colony ship. At least we can judge from its origin the identities of the people who are still sleeping in the colony ship, what their purpose is, and whether releasing them will bring disaster... but the premise is that those who were sent out to colonize are still alive.

Brown was so excited that he began to think about finding some information that he should use to persuade Qin Xia and others to release or not release the crew of the colonial ship.

"Hopefully not the Brotherhood of Cain."

“They are so cruel.”

Brown continued to grope in the secret room and finally found a small hole.

This type of hole is specially used by maintenance personnel on the ship. The brain-computer interface can be connected to the ship, and then a channel is obtained to directly connect to the spacecraft's main control center no matter where they are.

Because this method is too old, many shipbuilders will not reserve it. Only areas under the jurisdiction of the federation have laws requiring the reservation of interfaces.

Seeing this interface, Brown determined that this was a colony ship built by the Federation's World Shipyard, but more information had to be linked in. Brown immediately pulled a wire from his head and plugged it into the interface.

"Slave, lowly creature!"

A voice appeared.

Then a picture appeared in Brown's vision.

It is like the interface of a control system, a plane that displays a dynamic task and a LOGO logo.

Brown was stunned.

Because the person shown on the screen was obviously not a federal officer, bureaucrat, or private enterprise executive, but an ugly freak.

There are no words to describe the ugliness of this freak.

A head three times larger than that of a normal person, a long and thin neck, a weirdly twisted spine, eyes that were bulging outward like copper bells, and trembling hands.

What's even more bizarre is that this freak is wearing extremely gorgeous clothes and looks like a king or nobleman from the ancient Europe region of Earth.

"Slave! Lowlife!"

The freak yelled.

"Call me Your Majesty, Kodiko!"

"Call me Your Majesty, Kodiko!"

"Have you saluted my portrait today? You lowly bastard!"

Brown was silent for a while.

But it is obvious that the monster on the screen has no self-awareness, it is just a very simple AI program, just like the opening scene.

Then the scene changed to a gorgeous palace, with the freak sitting on a golden throne, looking down at Brown.

"State your request, slave!" the freak shouted.

Brown frowned, a little confused, but in order to get information, he still spoke: "Your Majesty Codico, I want to connect to the ship database."

"You didn't even kneel down to show your respect, how can you link me to you? You bastard slave!" Codico jumped up from the throne and shouted at me while standing on the armrest.

Brown sighed slightly and immediately knelt down.

"The posture is not standard!"

Brown immediately adjusted his posture, using nanometer-level standards to adjust his kneeling position.

“Not pious enough!”

Brown immediately controlled his face and made an extremely pious expression.

The Stoneman would give anything to know more.

"You are a slave... not to mention a fucking stone slave! You are not qualified to connect to my Majesty's database! Get out!"

As the freak emperor scolded like a duck, Brown was pushed out by the firewall, and the wire connecting the interface on his head was also pushed out.

Brown hurriedly tried again, but this time when he plugged the cable into the interface, he could only see a prompt that he did not have access rights.

"Fuck!" Brown, anxious to know if there were any living ancient people, smashed the interface with a punch.

After briefly venting his anger, Brown immediately stood up and took a very short time to think about what to do next.

Ensuring your own survival is the highest priority.

The second is to capture the giant ship.

Finding the reason why the giant ship can block psychic infiltration is one step in capturing the giant ship. Confirming whether the ancient crew members are still alive and finding them if they are still alive is also a step, because if there is still an ancient crew member alive, then the various external defenses of the ship can be directly removed with the authority of this crew member.

Even the internal cleaning function was enabled to directly clear out the Brotherhood of Destruction robots on the entire giant ship.

But seeing that they couldn't even confirm that the ancient crew members were alive, they could only look for the reason why the psychic energy was blocked and allow those people on the White Knight to come in first.

Brown glanced at the warlord's head resting on the console.

There is no information in this head or in the information database about the means to block psychic energy. There are only three possibilities. One is that the rank of this warlord is not high enough, and he is the lowest warlord in the brotherhood of warlords.

Another possibility is that for some reason, the Brotherhood did not store any information about the means of blocking psychic powers in the database because it is top secret.

The last possibility is that the Brotherhood of Destruction does not know why the giant ship can block psychic infiltration. That is the function of an ancient device operating in an unknown corner of the ship.

After some thought, Brown decided to continue hunting more warlords until he could obtain the necessary information from the head of a senior warlord, or find a way to block psychic energy.

Anyway, I can’t access the original database of the giant ship now.

Brown looked around.

The selves that had split apart earlier in search of an interface were now standing in the same place, performing the same actions.

Brown looked forward and walked towards the wall.

Other Browns walked off in all directions.

Eventually, all the Browns passed through the wall and left the secret room.

(End of this chapter)