Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 4 SCV Massage Technician

After getting on the elevator, everyone went straight to the bridge of the battleship.

Only after entering the bridge did Gao Yi truly understand why Weil said it was so bad. Not only him, but even the most central part of the battleship was attacked.

The crew was rescuing the wounded, the damaged equipment was sparking, and the priest on the battleship was calming the restless machine spirits and repairing the equipment.

Bodies were being carried off the bridge.

"Connie, help treat the wounded!"

"I'm going right now!"

Under Gao Yi's order, Connie began to inject nano-repair robots into the injured one by one. Under everyone's incredible gaze, the crew members who had been on the verge of death miraculously came back to life, as if nothing had happened.

Seeing this scene, Weil looked at Gao Yi again.

"Sir Gao Yi, what kind of technology is this?"

"Technology from the Dark Ages! You know I'm the captain of a void exploration ship, Will. How could this place even be attacked?!"

Gao Yi didn't know how to explain it. Anyway, such technology that had never been seen in the Warhammer universe could be simply attributed to the Dark Ages. After all, the technology of this world relied on archaeology.

"Yes. I don't know who cracked the ship's security. All the elevators and doors were opened. The crew and clansmen on the lower decks rioted. The cargo deck was also on the lower deck. Someone must have been secretly providing weapons to these traitors for a long time."

"Can't the crew of this battleship solve the riot below?"

"We've suppressed the traitors who rushed up, and they've retreated. I've also sent law enforcement teams to the lower decks, but the situation there is far more complicated than we imagined. It's not just these thugs. The influence of the Warp has caused a plague to spread below. Those who believe in evil gods can ignore it, but our crew can't."

"Plague." When Gao Yi heard the plague, he thought of Nurgle. The behavior of the evil god's followers was so intuitive that there was no need to guess.

"What's even more serious is that Captain Ludwig, before the riot, led the ship's most elite warriors—his family guards—to the lower deck. Although I tried to stop him, he still chose to go."

"You said the Rogue Trader personally went to the lower deck of the warship?" Gao Yi found this inconceivable. A high-ranking Rogue Trader running to the chaotic lower deck? What was he trying to do? Inspecting the work, trying to win the favor of the people down below?
This is the Warhammer world!

"I don't know. But we have completely lost contact with Captain Ludwig."

"So we don't know if Captain Ludwig is still alive?"

"Although I don't believe Lord Ludwig will die, as the chief steward, I can only deal with it according to the worst-case scenario."

As the two were talking, the battleship suddenly began to shake violently.

The crew member operating the Thinker shouted in horror, "Lord Weil! The battleship's engine is severely damaged. The Engine Prophet reports that he has no time to repair it. If this continues, the battleship will completely lose power!"

"Unrepairable?!"

Losing power in the warp is no different from sentencing everyone to death.

"Vill! Take me there quickly! Maybe I have a solution!!"

"You have a solution?! Even the priest can't do it, but you can?!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Do you want everyone to die?! Take me there!"

"Okay! Come with me!"

When Gao Yi heard about the serious engine damage, he immediately thought of the SCV engineering vehicle. Since the medic had the same effect as in the game, could the SCV, which could repair anything, also achieve the same effect as in the game? No matter what, Gao Yi had to give it a try.

They ran all the way to the door of the engine room. Even before entering, they could hear explosions and roars coming from inside from time to time. Blue arcs of light continued to emerge from the engine room. When they saw the scene inside, they realized that the situation was more serious than they had imagined.

Huge arcs of electricity kept flashing across the subspace engine, and the constant strange noises made people feel as if the engine would explode at any moment.

The gear boys continued to operate the machinery in front of them, trying to maintain the stability of the engine, and the priests tried their best to calm the machine spirit.

And the engine prophet of this battleship is chanting the name of Om Messiah.

The mechanical tentacles behind him were almost leaving afterimages, but even so, the engine's condition was still deteriorating.

"0100, 001001, 0010011, 0111001" Engine Prophet Pavian continuously gave orders to his technicians and servitors in the binary language of the Mechanicus.

"Pavian! What's going on?!"

"By the Holy Om Messiah, the Machine Soul is in a state of agitation. Violent Source Power is surging within its engines. In one more Terra, the engines will overload! The Machine Soul refuses to allow me access to its security protocols!"

"You're the Engine Prophet Pavel! You have to fix this!"

"Captain Ludwig is not here! This battleship belongs to his family, and the family's machine spirit recognizes him! If he were here, maybe it would be okay! Will! You must find the captain!"

Listening to the two people's roars, Gao Yi had already opened the store page.

At this time, he still had 300 psychic crystals remaining, which was enough for him to recruit two SCVs.

As the crystals were consumed, two SCVs appeared behind everyone.

The scv looks very small in the game, but in fact its height reaches 3 meters. If the internal space of the Warhammer battleship is not large enough, it may not be able to fit this big guy.

The appearance of SCV also attracted the attention of Will and Pavian.

When the two men turned around and saw the two big guys appear in front of them, they all picked up their weapons at the same time. The plasma weapons on Pavian's mechanical tentacles had even begun to charge.

"Don't shoot! I brought them here! Maybe I can fix this engine!"

Gao Yi hurriedly stopped them, he was really afraid that they would dismantle the SCV.

"This is impossible. How on earth did you bring this thing in silently!" Will felt that his brain was not working well.

"I told you this is Dark Ages technology! You said this battleship's machine spirit serves the family. Does that apply to me, who has family blood?"

"Perhaps. In the past, only the captain was qualified to visit. No one else has ever done so."

"Let's try! I guess you two have no other options now, right?!"

Gao Yi walked directly towards the thinker in front of him and placed his hand on it. The moment his hand touched it, Gao Yi really felt the existence of the so-called machine soul.

At this time, the machine spirit was violent and angry, and had completely given up on maintaining the operation of the subspace engine.

Gao Yi ordered the two SCVs to approach the subspace engine. The pliers and drills in their hands contacted the subspace engine and started running.

As the SCV began to work, a magical scene occurred. The roar of the engine began to subside, and the overload index began to slowly decrease. Gao Yi could sense the emotions of the machine spirit, and the machine spirit gradually began to calm down. Gao Yi didn't know if he heard it correctly, but he seemed to hear the machine spirit groaning comfortably.
It’s like SCV is massaging it!
"It works!" Gao Yi knew that he had made the right bet.

Pavel, standing by, was stunned. He'd seen it all clearly. What did these two unknown machines actually do? They didn't do anything! They just connected some pipes and circuits that had been damaged by overloading. He'd done that just now! It hadn't worked at all, and yet, with all this messy work with pliers and a drill, they'd actually fixed the engine?!
Oh, Om Messiah! What the hell is this technology?!
(End of this chapter)