Warhammer: Expedition to the Multiverse from 30k

"We will use Sosa as our forward base and springboard to continue exploring this unknown land in the eastern part of the galaxy. One purpose is to find black stone deposits, and the other is to expand the living space for mankind."

"Guilliman will organize forces to rescue Terra when the warp storm is weakened to a state that can be tolerated. If the rebels have already conquered the throne world, then the five hundred worlds in the Ultramarine will become the rear base for a long-term confrontation with the enemy."

Luo Xi was silent for a while and told the two of them the next strategic plan.

Long time ago, the probes launched by the Seed Project had already sent back some optimistic news, indicating that there were traces of black stone veins on several planets.

Although Guilliman has made some progress, he has only found some scattered Blackstone resources. What they need is a Blackstone mine with sufficient reserves to prepare for the subsequent large-scale production.

With the Blackstone Array's suppressive effect on the subspace, Roche can try to appropriately lift the ban on the use of artificial intelligence in warships, thereby improving the effectiveness of weapons in human hands.

"I understand. Please let me design the necessary defense system. The Imperial Fists are the best defense masters, no one can match them."

Luo Xi had a vague feeling that what Pollax said was directed at Dantioch standing beside him, but he didn't say much. On the contrary, he hoped that the two could have a healthy competition.

"Tell me, Dantioch, what information did the probe send back?"

Luo Xi arranged for Captain Gantura, Faffnar and others to go to the camp of the Extreme Warriors first to familiarize themselves with the environment, and at the same time ask the war blacksmith.

"According to the information reported by the probes we have sent out, we have discovered three suspicious planets that may have traces of black stone veins, and more than 20 planets with life activities. Most of the alien life forms are still in a low-level primitive state."

The Warsmith reported in an orderly manner, and he remembered all the data in his mind.

In fact, Dantioch's mind not only records this information, but also the specific conditions of those life planets, including the structure within the galaxy, the planetary environment, and the subspace channel conditions, which have become a reference material that can be consulted at any time.

Although he was in Sousa, he had already learned the specific situation of this group of stars through comprehensive information.

"In that case, let's first go to the planet where the traces of the black stone were discovered." Luo Xi was very satisfied with the blacksmith's report. Everything was moving in a better direction.

Now they just need to pray whether the three planets mentioned in the data really have black stones.

Due to the existence of the dormant Necron dynasty within Sosa, Roche did not carry out large-scale construction operations on this planet.

In addition to the shipyard that is devouring minerals in the asteroid belt and continuously manufacturing exploration ships, there is only a small shipyard located on the satellite that produces some light cruisers about six kilometers in length.

These cruisers are smaller than the Empire's battleships, but much more efficient. The most important point is that they use a large number of automated systems, thus eliminating the need for tens of thousands of crew members.

In this group of stars, the number of humans is very limited, and because of the influence of the warp storm, support from the core areas of the Five Hundred Worlds is difficult to reach.

Roche and the Space Marines from Macragge rested for a day in Sosa, and when the planet welcomed the second day of sunshine, they boarded an exploration fleet consisting of the Red Alert and five light cruisers.

They will start from Sosa and head towards the planets from which the exploration ship sent back signals.

Chapter 223: The Newborn Alien Civilization

"Warning, the short-distance subspace jump has ended and we are about to return to the real universe."

An alarm sounded from the Red Alert's intelligent pickup truck, and Roche and his exploration fleet arrived at the nearest planet on the star map.

Due to concerns about the impact of the Warp storm on navigation, Roche did not go deep into the Warp, but led the fleet to adopt a Warp navigation method similar to "skipping stones on water".

The moment it enters the subspace, it starts the engine and returns to the real universe.

Although this greatly reduced efficiency compared to full subspace navigation, it was safer. It only took them a week to catch up with an exploration ship that was traveling at conventional sublight speeds.

"This planet was named Planet DX-114 in the new star map we drew. The exploration ship discovered traces of alien life on this planet."

On the bridge of the Red Alert, Hill was introducing the specific situation of the target planet of this voyage. Dantioch and Pollux stayed at Sosa's base camp and were responsible for building the orbital defense system within the galaxy.

Roshi was accompanied by his two old friends, Sharokin and Hill, as well as the veterans of the Broken Legion who had followed him all the way from the battlefield of Istvaan V.

"Let's first enter the galaxy and observe the surface conditions of the planet from orbit before making any plans."

After entering the star system where planet DX-114 is located from the Mandeville point, Roche did not rush to land on the target planet, but observed the situation very carefully.

They first retrieved the navigation log of the exploration ship in the planet's orbit, and then the fleet activated its energy shield and hovered at the outer edge of the planet's orbit.

The stealth field released by the Red Alert, combined with the anti-reconnaissance coating of those cruisers, made it almost invisible to visual and scanning arrays.

Having seen the power of the monsters in this universe, Roche will no longer take it lightly. Some alien races that appear to have extremely low technological levels may pose a threat in terms of psychic power that cannot be underestimated, so this time their fleet included the newly formed think tank team of the Extreme Marines.

The leader of this 50-man think tank team is named Emilia Troy, an experienced old think tank among the Ultramarines. He and Titus Prieto are comrades-in-arms from the same period, but Titus now has his own mission, so this exploration mission is led by the Trojan think tank.

In addition to relying on think tank units to fight against possible psychic aliens, Luo Xi also brought several members of the Untouchables Tactical Team, who will appear at critical moments as complete psychic nemesis.

Hovering in low-Earth orbit, the Red Alert scans the planet below. Its powerful scanning array can even penetrate the Earth's crust, analyzing and recording the data of the entire planet and presenting it in the form of a holographic projection.

The team exploring the Eastern Galaxy this time includes representatives from many forces from five hundred worlds. At this moment, they are standing in front of the holographic projection with Luo Xi and communicating in a low voice.

The commander of the Ultramarines Company conveyed the instructions and greetings from the Father of Genes to Hill, and at the same time he handed over the command to Hill, the legendary hero of the Battle of Calth, who would lead them in the next journey.

Captain Gantula of the White Scars and the pack leader Faffnir commented with interest on the vast deserts and grasslands of the planet below. The scanning array showed that the gravity of this planet was much smaller than the standard gravity of Terra.

"If a rally competition is held on the surface of this planet, it will definitely be a grand event." Guntula gestured a long route from the ocean to the desert on the holographic projection, and the White Scar warriors around him already looked eager to try.

"Beasts bred in low-gravity environments will be larger, but they will certainly not be as strong as those in high-gravity environments, let alone comparable to the sea monsters of Fenris."

Faffnir was sharpening his Fenris greataxe, looking quite interested.

The Mechanicus priests, who had undergone a lot of mechanical modifications and were covered with metal parts and gears, gathered together and discussed the possible natural resources on the new planet using binary language.

"Don't be careless, everyone. There are intelligent life forms on this planet. Although they are still in a state of ignorance, the spark of wisdom has been ignited."

Luo Xi looked around at everyone and said with a smile. He stretched out his hand to enlarge the image captured by the scanning array. A group of humanoid, thin, blue-skinned aliens appeared on the holographic projection.

The aliens that appeared in the projection had somewhat ugly blue skin, but their heads did not have the nasal structure of humans, and instead showed a smooth piece of muscle tissue.

They seemed to be still in the stage of moving from the ocean to the land. Roche saw some webbed structures on their bodies that only creatures living in sea water have.

"A primitive civilization that is still developing, an alien civilization."

Although there are many different types of life forms in the vast galaxy, such as carbon-based mammals like humans, or green-skinned orcs that possess both plant and animal characteristics and fungal characteristics.

There are even silicon-based life and energy life in certain special environments. These creatures can survive in the extreme environment on the surface of stars, far beyond the limits of mortal imagination.

After all, for a long time in the past, humans believed that it was impossible for life to exist on planets like stars with huge energy reactions.

"Perhaps we could catch some and take a closer look."

Those who showed a strong interest in them were the oil men from the Forge World. Some of their mechanical priests who were proficient in biotechnology were keen on collecting genetic samples of various alien creatures in order to improve and promote the development of their theories.

In the vast galaxy, humans are hostile to most aliens, but the aliens here refer to those with advanced intelligent life. If there are some alien life without advanced intelligence on an unknown planet, humans often will not kill them all.

After all, non-intelligent creatures might become a new food for humans, or become a signature specialty after humans colonize the planet.

Luo Xi did not respond to the request of the mechanical priests immediately, he just continued to observe.

Those blue humanoid aliens tend to appear in groups, holding extremely simple wooden spears in their hands, which are hunting tools made from branches of a relatively tough plant on the planet.

Being able to use tools, even the simplest and most primitive ones, meets the definition of higher intelligence.

After all, strictly speaking, there is no essential difference between the spears in the hands of those aliens and the chainswords in the hands of the Space Marines.

As observation continued, the blue-skinned aliens knocked down and killed a huge herbivore with a spear. They cheered and jumped around the carcass of their prey, as if performing some kind of primitive religious ritual.

Then they cut the carcass of the prey into small pieces that were easy to carry. At the same time, some of the aliens used two pieces of flint to create a fire, and they used the fire to cook the raw meat.

At this point, Luo Xi sighed, the result was already obvious.

Being kind to alien civilizations is being cruel to our own civilization. The long era of conflict after the Dark Technological Age has made the human species recognize the true face of alien civilizations.

For aliens, there is only killing.

The wild wolves showed bloody smiles. Guntura had already led his warriors into his vehicles. The extreme warriors were ready to go, ready to teleport to the surface at any time.

A destructive operation against alien civilization has begun.

Chapter 224 Big Deliciousness

The main mission of this exploration fleet under Roche is not to destroy aliens; destroying aliens is just a habit.

A species that has just learned to use tools and use fire to cook food is so fragile that it doesn't even take any serious warfare to destroy its population.

After all, this is a planet suitable for carbon-based life, and from the moment it was discovered, it has become a precious asset of the Five Hundred Worlds.

It would belong to the Imperium of Man, one of the new worlds added to the Five Hundred that would come under Guilliman's wing.

And these aliens that have occupied this place will be completely eliminated. Except for a string of record data in the exploration fleet's log database, no one will know that some blue-skinned aliens were born here.

The Mechanicus's Bio-Magnus used tractor beams to capture dozens of xenomorph specimens, and they also commissioned the White Scars to capture xenomorphs of different origins in various regions of the planet and conduct in-depth anatomical research on their respective laboratory tables.

Anatomy is the most effective and quickest way to understand a species. Their unique organ tissues can reveal the secrets of genes and discover these alien characteristics in the most rational way.

The research results surprised everyone even more. The body shapes of these blue aliens were highly similar to those of humans. They had four fingers on their hands, hooves on their feet, and their skin was extremely rough and tough in order to adapt to the harsh living environment.

This kind of skin cannot evaporate water and remove heat like human sweat glands, and the olfactory organs that disappeared on the unusually flat face actually grow in the mouth and are not exposed to the outside air.

What surprised Roche was their long and wide visual organs. They were all born farsighted and had extraordinary vision at long distances, far beyond the maximum distance that humans could observe.

However, their special physiological structure makes them quite poor in dynamic vision, which means that if they are caught in close combat, their eyes will not even have time to zoom and capture the enemy's trace.

In addition, the physical strength of this alien is extremely weak. The low gravity of the planet means that they do not need too many bones and muscles to support their bodies. Captain Gantula of the White Scars figuratively calls them reeds in the storm.

If these aliens came to other planets, I'm afraid the gravity on those planets would be enough to crush them completely.

The exploration fleet stayed on the planet code-named DX-114 for a week. During this time, almost all members of the White Scars, Ultramarines and Space Wolves were dispatched to destroy most of the blue-skinned aliens on the planet in a dimensionality reduction attack.

"They are too weak to even inspire the slightest interest in hunting."

After a brief and enjoyable hunt, the White Scar warriors piloting the Tengu mechas soon fell into boredom. These aliens were too fragile and posed no threat at all to the Space Marines who were armed to the teeth.

When the Sky Dogs tore through the clouds and descended with terrifying sonic booms, the alien race, who were still in the primitive society, were completely unable to understand this power.

The Chogorians have always had the habit of hunting powerful enemies and bringing their heads back to their home planet to hang as decorations, but when faced with these aliens, no White Scar warrior chose to do so.

The reason is simple. There is no honor in hunting their heads, and the pride of Chagatai's sons does not allow them to do such a pretentious act.

Relying on the high mobility of the Tengu, Guntura led his Chogorius Air Cavalry to sweep away the vast majority of the aliens, and his efficiency even exceeded that of the Extreme Marines whose numbers were several times theirs.

As for the Space Wolves, Faffnir also had no interest in hunting such weak creatures, but the alpha wolf discovered other hidden characteristics of these aliens.

That is... their meat is extremely delicious.

"Brother Guntura, are you sure you don't want to taste the flesh of these aliens? Although it lacks chewiness, drinking their blood gives me the same pleasant feeling as drinking Fenris honey wine."

"Brother Hill, stop what you're doing. You need some fresh Tau steak to replenish your strength. You're too skinny, and not as strong as the men of Fenris."

"Brother Nikonna, when did you get behind me? My nose couldn't even detect your trace. Come on, come on, I have figured out a new way to eat you."

The extremely harsh natural environment of Fenris has shaped the Fenrisians' fine habit of never wasting food, and this characteristic has not changed at all even after becoming Space Wolves.