Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 271 I just can't figure it out.
And with the loading of the Heavenly Secrets Project.

In the subspace, people all over the galaxy immediately experienced the limitations of the Celestial Project.

The black-clad guys who were dragging the wreckage of the spaceship and the remains of their combat suits back into warp suddenly found that all their attempts had come to a standstill...

Even attempts to forcibly infiltrate the server system using demonic possession to obtain relevant information came to an abrupt end.

The supernatural forces of the subspace could not counteract the blockade of the Celestial Engineering Project.

Not only Chaos... but also many other forces within the Empire and the Forging World have discovered anomalies.

Not only those outside the Montgomery dynasty's sphere of influence, but also many members of the internal alliance were secretly researching these technologies.

The benefits that weaponry, equipment, and even quantum communication brought to the Montgomery dynasty were so immense that the dynasty could develop rapidly without much concern for resources precisely because of these huge profits.

The reverse engineering, which had been making progress, suddenly stopped advancing by the slightest. Even with a large number of priests gathered in some casting worlds and the computing power of the entire casting world was used, the cause could not be found.

With these doubts in mind, they could only put these things aside for the time being and still choose to buy from Gao Yi.

The effects of the Celestial Engineering project also began to spread to other races.

At this moment, in the expansion zone, near the edge of the Alliance's sphere of influence, a large number of orc junk ships were floating in the void.

This massive orc clan is heading towards a planet inhabited by humans.

Among these orcs, groups of orc boys were all dressed in tattered orc-style battle suits.

The armor made of these metal sheets looks very similar to combat suits, but still retains the distinctive style of the Green Skins.

This orc pirate group was the same greenskin clan that Gao Yi had learned about in his intelligence, the ones who were trying to develop combat suits.

The top orcs and the skilled lads were particularly active at this time. As the number of orcs in the entire clan increased dramatically, orc battle suits were being made in their hands at an incredible speed and distributed to the other orc lads.

Although it looks similar to scrap metal, just a haphazard weld of sheet metal together, it actually possesses performance similar to that of a normal combat suit.

But as the Heavenly Mechanism Project was being implemented... the group of mechanics who were continuing to manufacture orc combat suits and the master mechanic suddenly froze in place.

The Celestial Project had a more severe impact on the orcs than Gao Yi had imagined.

For other factions, their technological breakthroughs before the Celestial Engineering was implemented would not disappear without notice. For example, some forging worlds already possessed the technology to manufacture combat suits.

"Huh? What's going on... I just can't figure it out."

The master strategist stared at the scrap metal in his hand, momentarily at a loss for what to do next.

All the young mechanics looked at their master mechanic with bewildered expressions.

Their understanding of combat suits suddenly vanished from their minds.

This was the first time these beastmen had ever encountered something like this!

Watching the scrap metal that had just been pieced together suddenly scatter, and the cold fusion reactor I had created using my mental powers completely rendered useless, my mental powers were gradually losing their effectiveness.
Even the equipment that had already been distributed began to lose its effectiveness.

In an instant, the entire orc army, once again clad in combat gear, reverted to its primitive state.
This anomaly led the orc warlord to bring a large number of orc lads into the orc mechanics' workshop.

Among the orc clans, some powerful weapons are not given away for free by the mechanic lads. Instead, they are purchased from the mechanic lads using teeth as currency. In order to collect the currency needed for a set of combat armor, countless orc lads have had to pull out their own teeth.

Or perhaps it was stolen from other orcs after a great deal of fighting.

One can imagine the mechanics were in for a rough time dealing with these orcs, who were enraged by their wasted money.
Of course, Gao Yi was unaware of what was happening among these orcs.

He could only confirm that the Ascension Talent had taken effect, but he couldn't immediately feel its effects.

"Lord Gao Yi, Lord Gao Yi!"

Guilliman had noticed that Gao Yi had been keeping his eyes tightly closed as if he were asleep.

He thought Gao Yi was just tired, since he hadn't seen Gao Yi fall asleep from the moment he was rescued until the entire time in Kadia, even though Gao Yi would feel exhausted after such an intense battle.

He didn't bother Gao Yi.

But seeing Gao Yi unconsciously smiling since the beginning, he felt that things might not be as he thought.

Guilliman's call caused Gao Yi to exit the system interface. "What happened?"

Gao Yi opened his eyes and looked at Guilliman.

To avoid inciting a rebellion by the navigator families, whom the Empire still needed, the warship carrying everyone continued to use warp space for navigation.

"Were you dreaming just now? You seemed quite happy, did you dream about something interesting? We're about to leap out of the Warp, we've arrived at Terra!"

"Dreaming. It really is like a dream. I was thinking of some happy things, but we've finally arrived. It's been a long time since I've done a subspace voyage, and I'm still not used to it."

As Guilliman finished speaking, the entire warship trembled, followed by reports from the crew and adjustments to the controls.

The fleet successfully left subspace.

The Ultramarines' fleet, along with the Star Pioneer and a fleet belonging to the Dynasty, successfully arrived on Terra.

The Spear of Adun was hidden within the net passage and did not appear with it.

Gao Yi was also worried that the high lords on Terra might have some kind of stress reaction when the alien fleet arrived.

As the warship's porthole partition opened, Gao Yi couldn't help but get up and look at the distant planet.

Holy Terra, the heart of the Warhammer Empire, the seat of the Emperor.

"Is this Terra...?"

Gao Yi was also lost in thought for a while.

After transmigrating to this world, the planet in front of him was almost the only one he could truly immerse himself in.

After all, in the Warhammer universe, he represents his former Earth, and even once used a civilization similar to his own world.

There were even place names he was familiar with, such as the Himalayas.

However, Terra's natural resources have long been completely depleted. Except for the Himalayas, all the mountains have been leveled, the oceans have dried up, the soil is extremely barren, and the atmosphere is filled with polluting gases.

It's unimaginable that the very center of humanity would look like this.

The entire planet was transformed into the largest hive world of the human empire, with every inch of land utilized to build towering hive complexes.

It's estimated that even the High Lord himself doesn't know exactly how many people live on Terra.

Countless pilgrimage ships from all over the empire stretched as far as the eye could see. These loyal followers of the emperor endured years or even decades of perilous voyages just to catch a glimpse of Terra.

On the pilgrimage route, countless pilgrims will die on their way to Terra due to chaos, pirates, hunger, and all sorts of other threats.

Gao Yi really didn't know what they would think after all their hard work, only to find this was the world they had arrived in Terra.
When they are fortunate enough to enter the state cathedral, each person is only allowed to stay for a few seconds, and for those few seconds, these believers may have to give up their entire lives.

Faced with these constant influxes, the state church did manage to do something, with the priests at least providing them with enough food to keep them from starving.

After all, if pilgrims starve to death in Terra, it would be a disgrace to the state religion.

Those who died on the road were completely forgotten; no one remembered or cared about them. People of extreme faiths might even think that they didn't reach Terra because they weren't devout enough.

The people living in the imperial capital should have a better life, but the living standards of the common people living here are still pitiful, even worse than some other hive worlds.

Even the officials in the imperial institutions, those who ate the emperor's salary, were barely making ends meet, numbly going about their work day after day.

The vast majority of people still struggle in extreme poverty.

The almost hereditary system of lower-level officials left people with no room to change their lives or move up in rank.

Only those with exceptional abilities and exceptional luck have the opportunity to enter the official departments of the empire.

Even the lowest of positions is something to be looked up to.

Aliens, cults, and internal strife among mutants are constantly eroding the very heart of humanity.

With the news of Guilliman and Feralas' return, the celebrations prepared by Terra gave the gloomy people of Terra a glimmer of hope.

(End of this chapter)