Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 111: Dead Relics
Ever since the discovery of Pharos by an exploration team sent by Guilliman more than a hundred years ago, it has been carefully maintained in a state of undevelopment.

Since it is unknown whether the alien creatures above are threatening, there is only one small settlement in the entire Sosa, and the Ultramarines' camp is located on a nearby mountain.

These Ultramar people who settled in Sosa were just ordinary farmers. They cultivated the land and raised livestock on this paradise-like planet, and they lived a happy life.

The Ultramarines gave these settlers only one task, which was that when the vegetation near the entrance of the Pharos Cave grew too lush, these farmers needed to go out together and use sickles and hoes to trim the excess bushes.

The caves of Pharos are generally off-limits, but as time goes by, some people who are lost or looking for adventure and excitement will break into the caves of Pharos.

They relax in the caves, and some of them play the saltire in this natural reverberation box. The winding and intertwined caves can transmit echoes very well, so the concerts played here are particularly beautiful and pleasant.

This is where the saltari and mysterious reverberations that Guilliman heard in Macragge came from.

"There are wars everywhere in the galaxy now. Those who live in Sosa are very lucky. At least they are still alive and have not been invaded by the enemy." Luo Xi suddenly felt something.

Standing on the top of the mountain, you can see the fertile land in the valley and the paths built along the mountainside. The people here live a primitive life away from the world and they don't even use some machines to help with production.

Their production patterns are not much different from those of the first millennium of humankind.

Due to the recent activation of the Pharos device by Dantioch, the residents at the foot of the mountain were forbidden to enter the mysterious and complex caves, and the Ultramarines advised them to stay at home and rest for a while.

The drones sent out to explore the terrain returned with valuable data. After they exported the data, a holographic image was automatically generated on Roche's screen. The caves inside Faros did not seem to be inhabited by any living creatures.

Because its caves vary in size, some can accommodate a super heavy tank, while others are difficult for even a mortal to pass through, and the criss-crossing caves have many dead ends, they are like small paths branching off from a main road, and there is nothing at the end.

"At least it is impossible for creatures that walk on two feet like humans to survive here." Dantioch asserted as he looked at the situation inside.

The Warsmith was an expert at building fortresses; perhaps only the Imperial Fists could rival him in the Empire. He had a sharp and experienced eye and could see the design flaws of these caves at a glance.

The interior of Pharos was just like the cave exposed on the top of the mountain, made entirely of some kind of obsidian-like rock, extremely smooth and clean, without any straight lines or edges. There were no slopes to walk on, and no stairs to use as a support.

The largest caves detected are three connected grottoes, which are like the rumen of a creature called cow on ancient Terra. There is a smooth passage about 700 meters deep connected to it, and at the other end is a huge hemispherical chamber with a height of more than 100 meters.

"We still don't know what its interior is like. If we go further in, the drone will be at risk of getting lost. Perhaps, as we speculate, the entire mountain is part of Pharos."

Luo Xi said when he saw that the bottom of the holographic image was still empty.

In order to be able to walk on this extremely smooth rock wall, Dantioch and others had previously built a passage space using an STC that could lay walkways. It was a treasure of the Mechanicus, and Roboute Guilliman ordered the use of this precious heritage.

This STC generated stairs, bridges, and cableways, and it seems to have been some kind of civilian equipment in the distant past, provided by colonists to conquer strange planets.

These steps are attached to the smooth and hard rock walls of Pharos, cleverly keeping them fixed without damaging these unknown devices.

Dantioch believed that everything in the Faros had value, and unless they understood the principles behind it, they must not cause even the slightest damage.

The metal with the double-headed eagle logo roared as it extended inwards, while the Extreme Marines who remained outside ordered the servitors to continuously transport metal ore raw materials into the STC.

As long as there are raw materials, these technological black boxes can skip the conventional smelting, design, casting and other steps and directly produce finished products.

Roche looked at the rock wall of Faros and the rough metal stairs with a scrutinizing eye. From a purely aesthetic point of view, human creations were like putting a poor-quality patch on a piece of exquisite porcelain inherited from ancient times.

Advanced technological creations are not necessarily good-looking, but good-looking technological creations are often advanced. A technological creation that embodies a lot of wisdom will naturally be more in line with the aesthetic taste of living things.

Luo Xi and his group slowly advanced along the metal stairs, like a group of ants that had mistakenly entered a giant's house, moving like a needle thread in the unprecedentedly huge cave.

After about half a day's march, Roche finally arrived at the special location known as Prime Location Alpha. It was here that Dantioch activated the alien relic known as Pharos.

"Is this the control center of this facility?" Luo Xi looked up. The shape of this cave was very regular, with a hemispherical dome on the top. The ground here was at a level that could never be a natural environment.

“I prefer to call it the main station. It is the ‘mixing console’ or ‘sounding board’ of the entire facility, where its hidden engine can be activated.”

Dantioch proudly showed off his discovery that deep in the Pharos Mountains, there was an ancient quantum pulse engine. When it was started, the entire mountain range would be awakened by the infrasonic vibrations emitted by the instrument.

"Activate it again and let me see its power with my own eyes," Luo Xi said. The Warsmith followed the process he had figured out in this black cave. No one knew how he had figured out the solution. There were no words, no symbols, not even any objects that could be guessed.

A low-frequency infrasound pulse came from far underground, propagating and reflecting in the black caves of Pharos, forming a sense of vastness and ethereal sacredness that is difficult for ordinary people to imagine.

An ancient relic machine that may have existed for tens of thousands of years, or even longer, is being ordered to wake up.

In the city of Macragge, the ghost awakened again and wandered in the garden.

The quantum resonance of Faros connected the two places across most of the Ultramarine at this moment. Roche and Dantioch were able to see the situation in Guilliman's hydroponic garden, and their "ghosts" also appeared in Macragge accordingly.

"Incredible technology. The civilization that created it must have an extraordinary understanding of quantum technology. I don't understand how they did it. It's like..."

Luo Xi paused and uttered the word "magic" from his mouth.

Yes, when he saw Faros in action with his own eyes, the only word to describe the shock was magic.

The psychic monitor he carried with him did not detect even the slightest psychic fluctuation. On the contrary, the space inside Faros was abnormally stable, and the ripples of the subspace were completely calmed down here.

There seems to be some kind of force field here that can suppress the fluctuations of the subspace.

Dantioch continued to synchronize accurately, and Guilliman appeared before their eyes again.

The Lord of Macragge was reviewing mountains of documents as usual. In the empty chair in front of him, the figures of Roche and Dantioch emerged from the darkness.

"I knew you would come." The Primarch did not seem surprised. He first affirmed the Warsmith with approval, and then asked Roche.

"How is it? Did you get any useful information? Is it possible to copy and learn these alien technologies?"

Roboute asked repeatedly, putting down the quill in his hand, his eyes shining.

"I'm trying my best, don't worry." Luo Xi released the nanorobots again, and they sank into the rock wall of Faros to obtain more data information.

After a long time.

Luo Xi took a deep breath.

The data he obtained was too shocking.

"Pharos is part of a navigation system of an ancient interstellar civilization. It is a beacon. Perhaps it can also be used for teleportation or something. Its quantum mechanism ensures that even long-distance communications at the interstellar level will not be distorted."

The data collected by the nanorobots, after passing through his mid-end, are transmitted to the Red Alert's intelligent brain in low-Earth orbit for analysis and comparison.

The tightly sealed historical database inside the Red Alert stores an astronomical amount of data, including most of the scientific and technological information, cultural achievements, historical evolution, etc. of human civilization up to the 21st millennium, and even the specific data of most planets in the Milky Way.

In the database, there is a module that is listed separately. The amount of data in it is very scarce, so little that a mortal only needs half a lifetime to read it all.

The name of its group is [Alien Sightings], which includes most of the alien life forms that humans have encountered in the past.

For humans at that time, most aliens could hardly be considered a threat, and many humans even viewed these aliens with the idea of ​​recording rare wild creatures.

The Milky Way has given birth to too many species of life, many of which are completely different from the life that ordinary people understand.

But there are a few exceptions to this rule, which occupy the vast majority of the space in the chronicles.

And now, among the data collected by Roche on the scene, some ancient information has shown a high degree of consistency with one of the alien civilizations.

"It's the Necrons. These are the remains of the Necrons."

(End of this chapter)