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

Chapter 236 Target: Pandora

Upgrading Sharokin's equipment was just a small episode. After all, as Roshi's personal guard, the probability of him personally participating in the war would become smaller and smaller.

Roche prefers to use extreme firepower output to blast the enemy into pieces outside of his field of vision, rather than letting the Space Marines rush forward with melee weapons and fight desperately.

In his opinion, the genetically enhanced warriors created by the Emperor are stronger than mortals in their learning and adaptability. They can master new weapons and the rhythm of war more easily and quickly, but their own combat capabilities are only average.

"Even if they are Warp Demons, they can be harmed by firepower. The only difference is whether the firepower is strong enough."

"After all, if you are poor, you can use tactics to infiltrate, and if you are rich, you can use firepower to cover. Why should we waste human lives when we can use the weapons that are continuously produced on the assembly line to overwhelm the enemy?"

Roche's inherent way of thinking is quite different from that of today's empire. For such a large galactic civilization, human life is really the cheapest resource. They can harvest billions to tens of billions of people by just finding a hive world.

But he is only one person after all, and the people he can influence and change for the time being are only those around him.

"Hill, how far is our next target?"

What happened to Titanium was regrettable. The black stone that Roche had been thinking about was not found. Instead, a group of mysterious aliens came into his sight.

Although these titanium aliens are a good harvest, they are not what he wants after all.

Fortunately, this is just the beginning. Among the several undetermined planets sent back by the exploration ship, in addition to Titanium, there are several planets that are suspected to have black stone veins.

Luo Xi only hoped that his luck would not be so bad. He traveled day and night in this desolate eastern border of the galaxy, risking the danger of subspace storms to search for the black stone on one planet after another. He should at least get some rewards.

"If everything goes well, the next target planet will require a short-distance warp jump of seven days. The impact of the warp storm is still ongoing, and we don't know when the storm will subside."

Hearing this news, Luo Xi could only curse the bastard Luo Jia again in his heart. In order to delay the loyal forces of the entire eastern galaxy, the super-large-scale warp he managed to summon was still causing trouble.

Normally, if it were a normal subspace voyage, this distance could be crossed in one to two days, or even a few minutes.

His fleet could only drift on the surface of the warp. This safer method also meant a sharp drop in efficiency, which required more time to make up for.

In the following period of time, Roche led his exploration fleet to visit five suspicious planets one after another, but these five planets made Roche lose confidence again and again.

Even traces of the Necrons were found on the third planet. Roche immediately realized that there was a dormant Necromancer dynasty in this galaxy.

The exploration ship he launched detected the Necromancer's tomb world. The characteristics of the black stone caused its simple intelligence to make a misjudgment and send it back to Sosa's base.

"Now is not the time to become enemies with these Necrons. The galaxy is already in chaos. I dare not imagine how bad the situation will get if the Necrons get involved."

He sighed and said that the current war could be regarded as a fight between loyalists and rebels. Once a perverted race like the Necrons got involved, it would turn into a war of genocide.

"Among the intelligence we have sent back so far, there is still one last natural planet left, right? That most special planet is even closer to the edge of the Milky Way than Sosa. It can be said that it is already located in the endless void outside the Milky Way."

"If we find this planet again, we will have to return. If we continue searching, we will have to leave the Milky Way and head for those extragalactic galaxies that are full of dangers and unknowns."

"Yes, the fleet commanders have given this last star of hope a name." Hill said with a smile, holding a data tablet in his hand.

"Pandora, they named the planet after Pandora in the ancient Terra mythology. According to the information passed down, this name seems to mean good luck?"

Hearing this name, Luo Xi's expression changed slightly. He was a little surprised that people nowadays still remembered that name.

Pandora, or Pandora's Box, is a precious gift given by the gods to a woman named Pandora. However, this gift eventually brought disaster, so Pandora can also be translated as a gift that brings misfortune.

However, this is already the explanation of the Earth era. In the 31st millennium of mankind, many affairs and cultures inherited from ancient times have already had new interpretations, becoming something familiar yet unfamiliar to Roche.

"I hope this so-called Pandora can really give you some surprises."

……

Seven days later, the exploration fleet led by Roche jumped out from Mandeville Point in the galaxy where Pandora was located.

"This trip went more smoothly than we thought, Hill, do you trust my intuition?"

Standing on the bridge, Roche discovered that the closer they got to Pandora during this warp voyage, the weaker the warp storm became. Even in the second half of the journey, they no longer needed to carry out tedious and inefficient warp-storming.

"I believe unconditionally, sir, that good luck should favor us once again." Hill said with a smile.

This is a good sign. In Roche's impression, the only existence that can resist the Warp Storm that can be called a natural disaster is the Black Stone Monolith built by the Necrons.

For example, on the planet Sosa, because of the existence of the Pharos Lighthouse, the subspace storm cannot threaten the surface of the planet, so Roche set up the forward base in Sosa.

"The star in this galaxy is very similar to Terra's sun. Its mass is 1.1 times that of the sun. It is a yellow dwarf star in its prime, but it is much brighter than the sun, about 1.5 times brighter than the sun."

Hill reported the data observed by the scanning array. These astronomical data will be entered into the information database and become an important reference for the star map.

Even if Luo Xi did not find the large amount of black stone veins, as long as he had the detailed star map data of these eastern border galaxies, it would not be a complete failure.

"And our ultimate destination, Pandora, is actually not a planet, but a satellite of a giant gas planet."

The holographic projection in front of him was magnified, and a huge blue storm cyclone appeared at the end of his sight, staring at the approaching exploration fleet like an eye.

"This giant gas planet has a diameter of more than 170,000 kilometers, which is probably the largest planet in the solar system: twice the size of Jupiter. Those Mechanicus oilers will like it. This giant gas planet has a huge amount of resources for them to build their own forge world."

In the vast sea of ​​stars, such beautiful planets are rare, and according to the information sent back by the exploration ship previously sent, there are highly intelligent creatures on this giant satellite named Pandora.

An intelligent race that has the ability to leave its planet and explore space is itself a huge threat.

"Let's go and retrieve the log of the exploration ship first, and then take a closer look at the specific situation of this planet."

(End of this chapter)