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

Chapter 228: Embracing Psychic Power
All intelligent life has its own projection in the Sea of ​​Souls, and the stronger the soul and spirit, the more eye-catching the projection in the subspace.

The projections of ordinary humans are flickering sparks, while the projections of awakened psykers are brilliant fireworks. As for Alpha-level psykers like Joey, they can completely illuminate part of the subspace like a lighthouse.

As for the Tau, according to the description of the Trojan Think Tank, they are like a grain of sand among billions of dust particles, even the background frequency of the subspace is more conspicuous than them.

"It's incredible. How can these Titanium aliens have such a dull projection in the subspace while having souls? They are not machines without emotions and consciousness." Roche sighed.

The Titanium aliens clearly showed fear and sadness when being hunted.

"Perhaps this is why this alien race was chosen. They are naturally incompatible with the Warp. So when the Tau develop, they may never be aware of the existence of the Warp."

Sage Lawrence also marveled at the magic of the Titanium. Due to their isolation from the subspace, it would be difficult for the Titanium to see the true side of the universe.

They might consider this to be a physical universe from beginning to end, and regard the Warp, psionics, and sorcery as ridiculous superstition and ignorance.

They will remain ridiculously naive for a long time and will scoff at the caution shown by other races.

The human race once achieved explosive development with the help of the subspace, growing from a tiny race living in a remote corner to a great species that now occupies half of the galaxy.

However, the warp storms, the widespread psychic gene mutations, and the increasingly frequent warp biological invasions have further demonstrated the danger of the warp.

If given a choice, most people, including think tank psychics, would prefer that humans be a purely psychically isolated race.

At least in this way, it will be extremely difficult for those monsters and demons in the subspace to discover the existence of humans, and they will not be as passive as they are now. The human soul is coveted by demons, and they try their best to come to the real universe to search and prey.

"They might envy humans, thinking that we have psykers who can use magic and sorcery, astropaths who can send psychic communications across thousands of light years, and navigators who can navigate the warp with psychic eyes," said Roche.

"Like a besieged city, humans envy the Tau for their psychic insulation, while the Tau envy humans for their ability to sense and utilize the Warp."

Sage Lawrence lowered his head, looking a little melancholy. He didn't understand how the Titanium could do this and possess the innate insulation from the subspace.

If it were possible to modify human genes so that they also had low sensitivity to the subspace, then his name would definitely leave an indelible page in the history of the Empire.

Reducing humanity's subspace sensitivity...

Luo Xi recalled in a trance the distant past, when humans did not seem to possess psychic talents as commonly as they do now.

"Sage, actually what you said is biased." Luo Xi stretched out his tone, and Lawrence was obviously alert and curious, and he listened attentively.

"At least in the early days of humanity, about 18,000 years ago, there weren't many psychics among humans. At that time, mastering the power of witchcraft and magic was also new and rare to humans."

"Until a certain technology emerged: the warp drive."

Luo Xi was flipping through those long-forgotten memories. He had forgotten many things, but this major event still left a deep impression in his mind.

Because humanity truly transformed from a stellar civilization to a galactic civilization after the invention of the subspace engine.

Humans have spent most of the 2nd to 15th millenniums exploring the Solar System and other nearby star systems, and the Solar System was large enough for humans, who had just left their cradle.

At the end of the fifteenth millennium, human civilization experienced a technological explosion, with humanity mastering sublight-speed engines and applying them to space travel. While even civilian ships can now navigate long-distance interstellar distances, in the past, this was undoubtedly unrealistic. The mere existence of a mature propellantless propulsion system and a sufficiently powerful and stable energy source would have been enough to thwart humanity's ambitions to colonize other star systems.

Sage Lawrence listened very carefully. The auxiliary thinking module in his brain was already recording the conversation. Being able to obtain first-hand and detailed information was an invaluable opportunity for any technical sage.

"In the 18th millennium of mankind, the warp engine was invented. This was an unprecedented great creation. Humans began to understand the strange dimension of the warp and explore its disorder of time and space. With the power of the warp engine, humans began to be able to travel long distances through the warp."

The history of the subspace engine is much longer than most people imagine. Of course, the original prototype is quite different from what we think of today.

"So what you mean is that it is precisely because humans began to frequently use subspace engines to travel through space that the number of psychics began to increase?" Sage Lawrence asked.

"My thought is that it is true," Roche replied.

"Contact with the Sea of ​​Souls is full of uncertainty. Perhaps the power of the Warp has rewritten human genes, or perhaps humans have evolved in the direction of adapting to the Warp over a long period of time. In short, by the 22nd millennium, more and more psykers have appeared among humans."

Like the Emperor of Humanity, he was a psychic and immortal since ancient times before history, but these are extremely rare cases and cannot be used as reference.

"It was the golden age of human civilization. Humans began to try to understand and explore the nature of the birth of psykers. It was at that time that navigators, special carriers of psyker genes, began to appear widely."

"At that time, the rulers of the Human Alliance intentionally selected and shaped a relatively stable group of psychic mutants through gene editing. This was the prototype of the Navigator family. These gene-edited mutants provided more efficient navigation services for the Alliance."

The core of Sage Lawrence's mind was slightly heating up, which was somewhat different from the history he knew.

The Age of Strife of the Old Night destroyed so much of the historical record that humans no longer even know what happened in the past.

If this is true, then perhaps humans were somewhat similar to the Tau in the past, a race with a low sensitivity to the Warp.

So...it was humans themselves who made their own race what it is today.

Through genetic technology, human genes are developed in the direction of adapting to the subspace.

"In fact, humans don't have many choices. We have no other way to exceed the speed of light. We can only rely on the warp for superluminal navigation and communication. Not only does the warp affect humans, but humans are also embracing the Supreme Heaven."

Human beings have embraced the Supreme Heaven and psychic power, but are now suffering greatly from them. It is difficult to judge whether humanity’s original choice was correct.

"Trojan Librarian, what is the resistance of the Tau to psionic energy? Do they have some similarities with the Untouchables?"

Luo Xi turned to look at Troy, who stood there like a statue without any unnecessary nonsense.

The think tank director raised a hand, and psychic lightning surged from his fingertips, and the crackling electric light instantly hit the unconscious Tau man.

Under the attack of the ferocious psychic lightning, the flesh and blood of the titanium creature quickly turned into an unrecognizable charred product, and it died completely without even having the chance to react.

"My psychic powers were weakened, but I was still able to kill it. They are far inferior to our Untouchable warriors."

The body of the Titanium alien turned into a handful of ashes that emitted residual heat, and the rising smoke announced the death of a soul.

(End of this chapter)