Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 343: Rise is rapid, fall is sudden

Time passes minute by minute.

Qin Xia, standing outside the cabin leaning against the wall, was using psychic power to chat with his think tank subordinates in Nukeria, asking them to find Angron and tell him that there was no need to prepare for war, as the crisis of the clone awakening incident had been resolved.

When the think tank finished this task and came back to inform that the 12th and 11th Legions had completed their mobilization, Brown just happened to walk out of the cabin.

When the cabin door opened, Qin Xia saw the five people sitting together behind Brown, looking painful and depressed.

After Brown walked out of the cabin, the door closed. Qin Xia's eyes fell on Brown's face: "Did you say everything?"

"It's all." Brown nodded. "Everything. From the beginning when the warp storm raged to why we are now in the colony ship, everything is said."

"They didn't collapse?" Qin Xia glanced at the hatch.

"Their brains secrete chemicals that calm them down when they're going through a traumatic experience, so they don't commit suicide," Brown said.

Qin Xia had a complicated expression. He thought about it and sighed silently.

"They already knew that more than 10,000 years had passed. They had been in that display case for more than 10,000 years, counting the days every day."

"But they don't think that just 10,000 years have changed anything."

"They feel their families will still be alive, the Federation will still exist, the people they know will still be there, and nothing will change."

"They think that if there is any change, it must be that the pocket empires established by lunatics and psychos were wiped out by the Federation Navy or simply crushed by the Eldar."

Listening to what Brown said, Qin Xia wanted to sigh, "They actually think that only ten thousand years have passed, and the people they know are still alive, and nothing has changed?" But on second thought, he could understand the views of these golden humans.

With the help of the synthetic humans and robots created by natural humans, these two races called stone men and iron men by natural humans helped their creators build a powerful civilization.

The only setbacks this civilization encountered were its introduction to the Warp and friction with the Eldar.

Even though immortality has not yet been achieved, various biotechnological genetic modifications, implants, and technologies involving the soul and the subspace are enough to extend human lifespan to the point where ten thousand years can be seen as a blink of an eye.

Various witchy scientific and technological advances, whether based on reality or the subspace, seem to be able to ensure that the human race will always be at its peak.

Even from Brown's explanation of why humans in the Golden Age were obsessed with subspace technology, we can infer that at that time even the law of "entropy increase" in the real universe was seen as a problem that could be easily solved.

Because the subspace is something that creates impossible miracles.

People will no longer age, matter will no longer be broken down or condensed, creations will no longer be damaged, cyclical laws will no longer exist, and there will no longer be the cycle of prosperity, decline, revival, and then prosperity... everything has stopped changing.

The golden humans at that time probably could not have imagined that the eternal prosperity they thought of would only last for a short period of time before being destroyed by the subspace storm that raged across the galaxy.

When Qin Xia was thinking this, what Brown said also confirmed his judgment.

"They couldn't believe that the prosperity built by humans would be destroyed by a warp storm... In those days, warp storms were not a problem. Sailing ships could predict the arrival of warp storms, and in some places there was even technology that could dispel warp storms."

"They believe that there are ten thousand reasons why humanity could fall from prosperity, rationality and the peak to embarrassment, ignorance and the valley. It could be a civil war, or the ancient Eldar Empire declaring war on humanity... but in any case it should not be a warp storm."

"Even the large-scale rebellion of the Iron Man, humanity's most loyal servants, failed to defeat humanity. After the Iron Man rebellion, humanity learned a lesson and allowed natural people to start doing jobs that humans would never do before. In my memory, humans were still full of courage at that time and believed that the Iron Man rebellion was just a cloud in the history of the race that had been dispelled... But..."

Brown said.

Hearing this, Qin Xia sighed in a deep voice: "Its rise was rapid, and its fall was sudden."

"How to arrange the fate of these people?" Brown asked.

Qin Xia was silent.

He saw only two ways of arranging this.

If these people are willing to stay, then support them. Although most of the work of humans in the Golden Age was handed over to the Iron Men and Stone Men, after the Iron Men's Rebellion, humans still began to engage in basic work, just as Brown just said.

In any case, there will always be a place for these old people in this new era.

This is one way.

Another way is to bring these golden humans to Terra and see how the Emperor plans to arrange them.

But the prerequisite is that these people are willing to be arranged, rather than choosing to die or give up on themselves, or just wanting to live in seclusion somewhere... If these people want to escape, this colony ship is full of things they understand and can help them escape. Even if the Emperor himself comes, he may not be able to catch them easily.

"Next I will talk to them in person and see how they decide their own destiny," Qin Xia said.

……

late at night.

Outside Caudico's bedroom cabin, the engineer sat leaning against the corridor wall, lost in thought.

Qin Xia slowly walked out of the shadows, squatted down, and sat next to the engineer. "So, you are not a transformation worker of a certain company, but a so-called warrior of the emperor?" The engineer said in a relaxed tone, his eyes fell on Qin Xia.

Qin Xia nodded: "Yes."

"I can't believe it." The engineer looked up at the ceiling above the corridor, which was made of a material that modern people couldn't create no matter how hard they tried. "Only ten thousand years have passed, and there is a world of difference."

"Humanity has been torn apart by the Warp Storm."

"Then a super psychic jumped out and said, I am your emperor. Humans believed it, and this super psychic gained power."

"Then this super psychic created twenty super-cyborg princes. The super psychic led the princes to conquer the galaxy and build a huge empire."

At this point, the engineer's eyes retracted from the ceiling and focused on Qin Xia again: "This kind of plot would only appear in plasma films more than 10,000 years ago. A super psychic escapes from a laboratory, then establishes a country of his own and takes revenge on the evil company or a group of evil scientists who used him as a subject for experiments. This kind of plot is loved by everyone, young and old."

Qin Xia listened silently without interrupting.

The engineer smoothed his black hair, smiled, and continued to recall: "After the news that a company used psychics for experiments was exposed, people became interested in everything about psychics, and then the kind of films I mentioned became very popular."

"The most popular movie at the time was called 'Breaking Out'. The lead actor was a short, not very handsome man whose ancestral home was probably in Asia Minor on Earth. He became an interstellar star with this movie, but was later criticized to the point of retiring because he publicly stated that psychics should be regulated and monitored. His acting career was ruined by that remark."

Qin Xia frowned slightly. Listening to the engineer's description, he thought of a man named Emperor.

"I plan to stay and find my place in this era and do something." The engineer suddenly changed the subject, stared at Qin Xia, and talked about his own destiny. "I don't have much ability. I just maintain ships and know a little about ship maintenance..."

"Of course, this ship needs you." Qin Xia stretched out his hand.

The engineer nodded and held Qin Xia's hand.

"As long as I don't leave this ship, it's my home." The engineer said, "People like me are more or less attached to their homeland. I'm the same. I don't want to leave my familiar environment, but sometimes I have to leave... If I were to say my real hometown, it would still be the Earth that I've only heard my ancestors talk about... No matter how attached I am to my homeland, I still have to move, right?"

"So even if this ship belongs to that madman Kodiko, I still regard it as my home, because when I chose to accept Kodiko's employment contract, I chose to move."

"..."

Listening to what the engineer said about home, Qin Xia suddenly remembered an interesting thing he knew.

During the Great Crusade, the Luna Wolves accidentally found a map in an underground fortress on a death world. The reason why it is called a map of Earth rather than a map of Terra is that today's Terra shows no trace of the time when it was once called Earth.

The geological changes in the long history have caused great changes to the earth, coupled with the successive ravages of various warlords...Except for the Emperor, no one can recognize where the map found by Shadow Moon Wolf is drawn.

It is conceivable how much the human colonists on that dead world missed their homeland, so much so that they still kept a map of their homeland so far away from the earth.

No matter which human group or culture, "home" is endowed with so many values ​​and characteristics that humans feel nostalgic whenever they mention this word.

Qin Xia felt that even though this engineer had only heard of the Earth from his elders, he seemed to regard the Earth as another home.

So Qin Xia thought about it, and in order to avoid being blamed in the future, he said to the engineer: "You may not be able to return to Earth in your era, but you can in this era. Someone will be happy to take you away and place you on Terra."

"Terra?" The engineer was stunned.

"Yes, the Earth. The Earth now is called Terra." Qin Xia explained.

"Terra, Terra, Terra..." The engineer kept muttering several times, then smiled bitterly and said, "Even the Eldar call the cradle of the human race Earth..."

Qin Xia suddenly remembered the Eldar diplomats who came to the Empire ten thousand years later because of the cooperation between Guilliman and Evelyne. The Eldar called Terra "Earth" out of respect, but the High Lords had no idea what the Earth these aliens were talking about was.

"It looks like the planet has changed a lot... Never mind." The engineer stood up and looked around the corridor. "It's a pity that this is a colony ship instead of a warship. It probably won't be very useful to people of your era, but it's still a ship after all. Give me some stone helpers, and I can make this ship operate normally."

"Stone man..." Qin Xia shook his head. "The only stone man left is the one you have seen, and humans hate stone men, iron men, and artificial intelligence, so this request cannot be met."

"It seems that the stone men in Nuceria have also been cleared out?" The engineer was not surprised.

In his time, humans suffered heavy losses during the Iron Men's Rebellion, and it was the Stone Men and a small number of Iron Men who stood on the side of humans who resolved the rebellion.

But humans also cleaned out some highly intelligent iron men and began to gradually clean out the stone men.

So it was a little surprising for the engineer to see Brown, the stone man.

"So do you have ship maintenance equipment left over from more than 10,000 years ago? Even though human technology has been interrupted, there must be some undamaged relics, right? Or something as important as ship maintenance supplies..." the engineer asked.

Qin Xia was silent for two seconds with a complicated expression before speaking: "Brown said he didn't know where his fellow stone men had gone. Maybe if we're lucky we can still find them."

The engineer nodded blankly, then sat back on the ground. Although he had lowered his expectations, he still clearly underestimated the impact of the warp storm on humanity.

When Qin Xia was about to say that you can do whatever you want, Brown came over anxiously and reported something: "The three tourists wanted to commit suicide. The archaeologist told me about this. She said that her friends just informed her and left after learning that she didn't want to die."

When the engineer heard this, he immediately stood up, and then, without Brown saying where they would commit suicide, he sat in the corridor, as if he knew where his friends who had shared hardships with him would commit suicide.

(End of this chapter)