Warhammer: Just unified the Empire, you said it was 40K

Chapter 158 Cleanup, Genestealers

"What's falling from the sky?"

A 1.4-meter-tall giant, who was considered the leader among the short people, looked at the falling object.

He is presiding over a trial here.

But he was surprised by what suddenly landed.

The short people in this world have a similar structure to humans.

However, in order to fight against gravity, their bones evolved to be thicker, making them look like dwarves. Moreover, due to the environment in which they live, they are very far away from the intersection of the subspace and the real universe.

This also brings a big benefit.

That is, the number of people among them who possess psychic talents is extremely small. It can even be said that the lack of psychic talents is not a characteristic of their race.

only.

Until the Tau Empire, after the warp tear in the Gulf of Damocles.

This trait has changed.

Among them, there are some people with signs of psychic powers, but their number is small and their power is not strong enough.

In this planet known for its military power, in the dwarven world that exists in the form of tribes, possessing psychic powers is regarded by them as ominous and evil voodoo.

In the square led by this leader, they were burning a psychic with psychic talents in the presence of all the tribal leaders. It was said that this guy used his psychic powers to slaughter the entire race, and only a very few people escaped.

A person who was stripped of his clothes and shared the same beliefs as them.

But at this moment, he was met with hostility and hatred from the entire tribe. His body was covered with marks of whips. The thick thorns and iron spikes could break the bones of ordinary people, but they only left their skin and flesh torn.

"Chief Tusk."

"It wasn't me who harmed the tribe. It was them, those black hole-like bugs, who replaced our tribe. After the tribal leader discovered them, they had already infiltrated our tribe. We went to war with them. Believe me, everything I said is true. I saw the evil gods they worshipped, and I saw them constantly becoming more like humans. They are stealing the seeds of life from our people. Lord Chief, don't believe their lies."

"If you want to kill me, please kill them first. Get rid of them first, and don't let our tribe be destroyed."

The untrusted psychic desperately wanted to tell these people everything, but everyone just watched coldly.

He once told this news to his commander, but his commander did not believe him at all.

By the time the leader discovered the abnormality, the lower class of the entire tribe had been completely parasitized by the other side.

Then they were attacked by evil bugs that were "pure-blooded and reverting to their original form," and the entire tribe was massacred overnight.

Then, those dwarf-like creatures disguised as insects were accepted by the people of these tribes. After seeing those familiar figures, he immediately reported them to these people, even revealing his psychic talents, but all he was greeted with was painful whipping and torture from these people.

He seemed to have seen the destruction that was coming to the entire race.

but.

He thought the bugs would gradually destroy their race.

But in his despair and extreme pain, he saw the prophecy of the future.

"Chief Tusk, our men have arrived at where the thing crashed."

In the dim light and the closed cabin door, there seemed to be dozens of pairs of eyes.

Those figures are in this falling structure.

Waiting for the factory to charge and start the construction function area of ​​​​STC template.

STC was founded and is a universal construction template.

A formwork factory that incorporates original STC golden age procedures and construction techniques.

After it landed on the planet.

The first thing he did was to insert his "spine" into the entire planet.

Treat the STC core components as a computer, the spine as a nerve center, and the planet as your own body. After the three are connected, begin to detect the structural environment of the entire planet, and integrate the distribution of mineral resources and address resources into the database [brain], in order to strive to maximize the utilization of the resources and minerals on the planet, and use the most powerful production tools to reasonably arrange the production direction of the planet.

A large number of pipes extend from deep inside the planet, like an underground neural network system.

They are like ever-growing mechanical nerves, spreading in all directions of the planet.

During its extension, the vibrations of the planetary plates it touched caused large-scale super-earthquakes on the planet, which made many tribes panic. However, these nerves were only used to connect the entire planet with the STC's [brain].

The marginal tribes ruled by the Genestealers seemed to have sensed some kind of threat signal, and their collective gazes turned towards the landing metal area, and while exchanging glances, they tried to do something. This planet had been usurped by the Tyranids' vanguard [Genestealers], and they would not allow a second outsider to seize this world.

"Didi."

Experimenters deploying STC templates on a starship in space.

Observing the operation of the STC template.

During this operation, data will be collected to facilitate their subsequent mass production and miniaturization of STC templates.

"Checking the operation of the STC template."

"It's currently running well."

The data panel in front of him was also constantly bursting out STC templates, indicating the extent of exploration of the underground world.

[The underground world has reached a depth of 30000 meters]

【Explore the world, 70%】【Under reasonable planning】

Searching for core energy.

Connecting to geothermal energy.

[And new energy capture completed.]

【Charging the World's Factory】

During the neural connection process, the device searching for geothermal energy is connecting with the hot core of the earth. The energy generated by this connection is higher than that generated by ordinary stars. Perhaps because gravity prevents the energy generated by geothermal energy from dissipating, the center of the core of the earth is equivalent to a huge nuclear fusion device.

"Energy import."

"The experiment went smoothly."

After no problems were detected, the Gamma World Research Institute unlocked production permissions.

The world factory, which was originally quiet and silent, finally began to be injected with energy.

Underground energy gathers and is injected into the factory along energy pipelines.

The universal construction STC template does not release the authority of artificial intelligence and is still taken over by manpower. It is just a preliminary planning based on the data. It is equivalent to using only programs and not anthropomorphizing the programs. All programs are fixed template routines. They will only run according to the initial design and will not produce the self-thinking and ever-changing nature of "artificial intelligence".

Inside the silver-white dome canopy, a mechanical structure is emitting.

Those sturdy animals from the distant planets, after running away in fright, came back again.

Some explorers sent by the tribe were puzzled when they saw the ground was smoother than their skulls.

And those quick-thinking gene stealers' 'ancestors of thieves' felt an irresistible threat.

on the ground.

The silver-white mechanical metal sheet cracked, and then, within the metal sheet, the factory's 'compression parts' slowly rose. These Gamma World assembly factories that had been displayed on the worlds of Ozrax, Tanger, and Karamat now also appeared on this planet.

Under the silver canopy, the mechanical chains moved slowly under the action of electricity, and the base vehicle began to deform.

In the central area, a structure similar to an iron castle began to grow, just like the towering world needle in the ideal world. It represents the center of the world, is where people live, and is also the operating brain of STC.

The hatch opens.

A melee gunner spinning his mechanical tongs.

Walked towards the outside.

And outside.

The aliens who came to peek at the device seemed frightened when they saw the mecha structure coming out of it and the giant as tall as a "mountain".

"Captain Dean, the gravity here is so strong that even our speed is limited."

"Well, the gravity is even greater than I imagined. It's indeed a resource-rich planet."

The soldier bees overhead, even under the influence of gravity, require more energy to fly to resist more gravity and do more work.

Soldier bees scan the air.

All the nearby creatures on the surface world appeared before their eyes.

Some unknown creatures, and some creatures recorded in the database.

"people?"

"not human."

"Found some bugs."

"It seems that it must be the Tyranid genestealer in the database."

From the databases of the Blood Ravens and other chapters, they dug up many characteristics of other races.

The types of these races are filled into the database, allowing them to carry out targeted cleanups during wartime.

but.

The Tyranids' gene stealers are very difficult to eliminate.

Their primitive ancestors could use some kind of mind control to distort and alienate people's thinking, thus making them think that the other party was a member of their own race. A gene thief could control the thoughts of an entire village in a very short period of time.

And during this process, the gene stealers will use the female race of the creature to carry out a large amount of reproduction work.

In the first few generations, those Genestealers that were born would retain the physical characteristics of the Tyranids and become more and more like the stolen race.

However, by the fourth generation, they will have completely lost their Tyranid characteristics and perfectly integrated into their society.

Wait until the Tyranids appear.

Among them, pure-blooded gene stealers will be born again from the appearance of humans, and these gene stealers will lead these subverted races, send themselves into the biological pool without any resistance, and become the biomass in the biological pool.

Some of the characteristic creatures in front of us that have not completely degenerated into the Tyranids should be the third generation of gene stealers of the Tyranids.

"The entire planet has been taken over by thieves. Clean it up!"

(End of this chapter)