Warhammer: Expedition to the Multiverse from 30k

"Yes, the Lord of Change has a particularly great influence on mankind. His existence has locked up the possibility of human innovation and progress. No one knows whether their flash of inspiration will be the evil taste of some powerful person in the subspace."

Malcador sighed. They knew that the empire was now corrupt and inefficient, but that was the best they could do.

"But fortunately, the emergence of Blackstone Technology has brought a new hope for the future. Apocalypse, to be honest, I'm tired of reviewing an endless number of parchment documents every day. These could have been handled by artificial intelligence in a few seconds."

Faced with the complaints of his comrades, the Emperor silently turned up the noise of the Warp storm in his ears and pretended not to hear them.

He would rather face the Four Gods than take back the responsibility given to Malcador.

Seeing that the Emperor was pretending that the signal was bad again, Malcador just smiled and shook his head like a miserable old man.

Countless people envy the supreme authority of the Seal Bearer, and the power to influence the human empire is what countless ambitious people dream of.

But if you want to wear the crown, you must first bear its weight. Who else can shoulder the responsibility of being the seal bearer?

Perhaps the vassal king of Macragge could do it, but the prerequisite is that he can step out of his own little world and look at the human empire from a holistic perspective, rather than always limiting himself to his own small kingdom.

Guilliman is being a little petty, the Sigillite thought.

"Lion, Sanguinius, and Guilliman thought they were hiding it well. Haha, the children are still young. Some things are too lazy to care about."

“Some things will not happen if they are not known to others, but once they are put on the scale, even a thousand pounds cannot stop them.”

"But there's nothing wrong with what they did. It's normal for them to wait and see when the information is cut off."

Malcador is like a parent who keeps a secret of innocence for his child. Everything in the empire is actually under his nose.

"Apocalypse, you laid the groundwork for the birth of the Mechanicus during the Middle Ages. After being defeated by you, the true God of All Machines was sealed deep in Mars. Your plan is really long-term." Malcador said.

Malcador was not yet born at that time, but the Emperor had already accomplished a great cause.

The emperor on the throne recalled the giant void dragon from the universe.

It hungered to devour the flesh and souls of men, like a vampire that devoured stars with endless hunger and greed before acquiring a living metal body.

"It is a large fragment of the Star God Void Dragon Magradros, an existence that was shattered in the aftermath of the War in Heaven. It was a terrifying opponent. I used all my strength and effort to seal this Void Dragon."

Malcador rarely revealed a wicked smile. Although he had not yet been born in that distant past, from the description of Apocalypse, he could catch a glimpse of the original history.

The hungry fragment of the void dragon landed on the earth at the edge of the galaxy, attempting to plunder the flesh and soul of intelligent life, but it underestimated this ordinary planet.

As the Emperor, riding on his warhorse and charging at the Void Dragon with a spear in hand, this arrogant fragment of the Star God could never have dreamed that this would be the last moment of freedom in his life.

The Emperor defeated the fragment of the Void Dragon and sealed it deep within the Eternal Night Labyrinth on Mars.

"The Void Dragon has a close connection with Mars. This connection has lasted through the Golden Age, the Dark Age of Technology, and even to the present day. The continuous technological breakthroughs that have been nurtured on that red planet are partly due to this."

Before the establishment of the Empire, the Mechanicus of Mars during the Age of Strife were still in a loose association. They had no program, no organizational form, and simply relied on their own likes and dislikes to explore the direction they desired.

The original Martian Mechanicus was a school established only to preserve knowledge and explore the galaxy. They did not clearly believe in a vague God of Machines who symbolized omniscience and omnipotence, the ability to shape and destroy, and who was in charge of all machinery and technology.

"I defeated and exiled Moravec, and guided him to escape to Mars. It was also Moravec who turned the vague beliefs of the Martians deep in their dreams into reality. It can be said that the Mechanicus was born at that time in the strict sense."

Moravec predicted that Om Messiah would descend on Mars when the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, were at their closest and farthest orbits, and the Emperor did indeed arrive on Mars as predicted.

"So they worship Moravec as the Messiah of Om, your prophet. Who knows that he was actually exiled by you and induced to do these things?" Malcador said. When he and the Emperor planned to conquer Mars, Moravec was a key chess piece.

"The Mechanicus of Mars firmly believe that you are Om Messiah, and Om Messiah is the prophet of the God of All Machines. But what they don't know is that their real God of All Machines is actually hiding in the maze of the planet beneath them."

Malcador spoke a truth that was enough to cause the Martian Mechanicus to break completely with the Imperium.

"You are the Emperor, the Om Messiah. It was you who defeated and sealed the Myriad, and seized its power and authority. If the Mechanicus knew the hatred between the Om Messiah and the Myriad, I'm afraid both the Dark Mechanicus and the loyal Mechanicus would unite again."

The Emperor did not refute. Those were just part of his long layout and plan, and the seed had already taken root and sprouted, growing into a towering tree.

"Mars' faith is a dangerous powder keg. I must make plans in advance. The existence of the Trinity of the Mechanicus has diverted the faith power of Mars. The existence of the God of All Machines, Om Messiah, and Primal Power has formed a certain balance.

Whether the faith is directed to the Void Dragon or to me, it will not nourish those beings in the Warp."

The Emperor echoed with his psychic energy, like a vibration of thunder.

"In fact, Om Messiah is not a specific individual, Kadur. Anyone can be Om Messiah, and now I hope Roshi can become it."

"Isn't the emergence of the Advanced Technology Community the result of our efforts?"

Chapter 393 Knowledge Open Source Sharing (Please Subscribe)

Luo Xi naturally would not know the secret talks between the Emperor and Malcador. This was a secret that must be kept secret. In a sense, the Dragon of Mars and the God of All Machines were actually the same concept.

When he announced the establishment of the Community of Advanced Technology on the top floor of the planetary control center on Ganymede, an organization derived from the Mechanicus had already been born.

In the past, the Mechanicus and the Empire were in a parallel double-headed eagle relationship, and the signing of the Olympia Accords made the two close allies.

After the Martian Civil War, the severely damaged loyalist Adeptus Mechanicus was forced by the situation to reorganize into the Adeptus Mechanicus, a subordinate organization of the Terran Senate.

The gap between making progress on par with others and falling behind others is hard to accept for most of the oil men, but now that their days are numbered, they have no choice but to accept this fact.

"Actually, objectively speaking, what the empire did was indeed not fair." Luo Xi thought to himself.

"No wonder Mars is so divided."

"When Mars asked for help, the Empire, for various reasons, sent a small force to directly move 20,000 to 30,000 sets of Terminator power armor and other scattered production equipment. In the end, Sigismund directly decided that Kane would become the next Forge General and perfunctorily dealt with the matter of supporting Mars."

"The Oilers actually remembered everything. As soon as they returned to Terra, they were sent by the Emperor to fight in the Webway War. Resentment has already begun to grow in their hearts. After all, they held their bottom line and did not betray the Emperor, but ended up like this."

The Advanced Technology Community founded by Roche is actually a completely new organizational structure that is independent of the Mechanicus.

The purpose of this organization is the shared development of technology and knowledge. If Roche wants to truly bring together this group of Om Messiah believers, it cannot be accomplished just by talking.

This requires him to contribute real skills and knowledge, use interests to unite people, and use interests to induce the formation of fertile soil suitable for the development of science and technology.

Today's empire is simply a nightmare environment for the development of science and technology. Rather than innovating, the oil guys are more like digging graves, digging the graves of past human technology and the graves of various alien civilizations.

It is not impossible to dig up relics and conduct scientific research, but today's empires and mechanics often only know the results but not the reasons. When they dig up technological relics from the past, they have neither the ability nor the vision to analyze and reproduce the scientific system behind them.

When they unearthed the STC fragments, they only thought about how to use the STC instead of understanding the principles and theoretical system contained in the STC. This also led to the extremely distorted technological level of the empire.

It's like a group of primitive monkeys who found a chip left over from a past civilization, and their choice was to grind the chip and tie it to tree branches to make a bow and arrow, using technology in a mind-blowing way.

Although this example seems ridiculous, it is true. Many things in the empire today were not actually used in the field of war in the past golden age and dark technological age. It's just that today's humans have invested all technology in war in order to survive in this cruel universe.

The knight mechas widely deployed by the Mechanicus are the armored vehicles used by colonists in the past when they were developing colonies, and now these vehicles are used in the field of warfare.

"Everyone, I must make one thing clear. The Advanced Technology Community has no threshold restrictions for any knowledge seeker. You can think of knowledge as being shared and circulated here."

Roche's words caused a commotion among many mechanical priests. Their thought processors quickly analyzed the truthfulness of Roche's words, and then one by one they fell into a red temperature state.

"Creative sharing, are you sure you want to do this?" Akan Rand asked.

Luo Xi nodded slightly, acknowledging the sage's question.

"Whether it is the former Mechanicus or the current Mechanicus, you all always cherish knowledge. Every Mechanicus priest who discovers a piece of technological treasure from the past will only carefully treasure it and bring it back to his own laboratory to study it slowly."

Luo Xi said that he was extremely dissatisfied with the current situation of the Mechanicus.

There is a saying that goes, "There are as many beliefs in the Mechanicus as there are stars in the sky." In fact, this can be extended to mean, "There are as many schools of thought in the Mechanicus as there are stars in the sky."

For some young mechanical priests, if they want to learn real skills, they must become a disciple of a senior who has made achievements in some field. Only after a long period of tempering and testing, the other party may pass on his doctrines and research.

For example, the biggest figure in the field of biological genetic inheritance is Ezekiel Seiden who is now present. He was directly involved in the genetic engineering led by the Emperor and made outstanding contributions to the research on the black shell of Space Marines.

The students who followed him were young scholars who came to study under him in the hope of learning the true teachings.

However, it is completely unknown whether the tutor is willing to teach sincerely and how many secrets he will keep after teaching. A relatively kind-hearted mechanical sage like Arkan Rand can teach wholeheartedly, but as far as Luo Xi knows, the old and dying Ezekiel Seidene is not very friendly to his students.

"The extreme dispersion of knowledge has made the establishment of a complete knowledge system a fantasy. Each mechanical priest cherishes his own knowledge and doctrines. Only when knowledge of equal value is exchanged with others can information be exchanged."

All the mechanical priests listened to Luo Xi's words, and no one thought there was anything wrong with what he said. Knowledge is precious and private, and it is the most precious gift of the God of All Machines. How can it be shared with others so easily?

For these believers of Om Messiah, knowledge and STC are more important than their own lives. They are all part of the truth, and life is worthless compared to them.

They tend to be extremely secretive about their own secrets, knowledge and STCs, and then covet the knowledge and treasures of others. Some Mechanic Priests will even murder others and seize their external thought processors and memory storage in order to plunder their knowledge.

"As the initiator of the Advanced Technology Community, I will share all my technology, knowledge, and STC templates. As long as you make enough contributions, such as the STC technology relics that I am missing, you can get the rest."

It is impossible for Luo Xi to do charity, and humans never cherish things that are easily obtained.

He can first open source and share his knowledge, but others must also pay a price and make contributions before they can join in the sharing.

No one had ever done this before, because getting them to share their knowledge and secrets was almost more difficult than killing them.

Luo Xi knew that these mechanical priests, as well as mechanical priests in other parts of the galaxy, must have the missing parts of his technology tree, but they were too fragmented and there was no possibility of them being unified to play a real role.

All he had to do was to leverage the power of all those who seek knowledge, and let them actively collect and contribute technological relics to complete the technology tree that Luo Xi had been working hard to complete.

As the saying goes, many hands make light work. When these mechanical priests tried to exchange for the knowledge and theoretical systems in their respective fields provided by Roche, only Ohm Messiah knew what kind of enthusiasm and drive they would burst out.

Especially for many mechanical priests, the knowledge and STC relics they obtained may not be the types in their own areas of expertise. For example, a mechanical priest in the field of life sciences obtained the STC of a certain ancient war weapon by chance, which was completely useless to him.

However, in the advanced technology community, he can choose to convert it into contribution points and exchange it for the knowledge and technology he urgently needs.

In this way, knowledge circulated, Roche obtained the missing pieces of the puzzle, and contributors obtained the technology they needed. For mankind as a whole, the entire scientific system became a more complete part.

This is the true vision of the organization founded by Luo Xi, to open source knowledge, share it, and then sublimate it again.

Chapter 394 The Sage Council is established (seeking follow-up)

Luo Xi has no interest in power.

He didn't want to be the Forge General of the Mechanicus. Instead, this position, which allowed him to command all members of the Mechanicus, analyze and read all the knowledge systems of the Mechanicus, and remotely control thousands of Forge Worlds in the universe, was a burden to him.

If he was really interested in these, then he would not have given the Mustafar Forge World directly to the old man Baker Dylan. It was a planet with an industrial capacity comparable to that of Huangquan No. 8, Shana and other forge worlds, but such a thing was not very valuable to him.

When he looked at the problem from the perspective of humanity as a whole, Roche was deeply disappointed with the current state of the Mechanicus, humanity's largest scientific and technological preservation and research institution to date.

He could even tolerate the Mechanicus's religious worship of scientific knowledge, but he could not tolerate them putting it on the shelf and hoarding it for themselves.

Most of the mechanics are as stingy with knowledge as the legendary dragons. They would rather hide the STC in their own laboratories or safes, and then admire and observe it over and over again, just like a dragon counting those precious gold and silver treasures.

Even some precious relics of ancient knowledge and technology, which had clearly been excavated and reappeared in the world, were once again lost and buried due to the death or disappearance of the discoverers.

"This is a great breakthrough, Sage Roshi. Perhaps your breakthrough can really lead us to new glory." Akan Rand said sincerely. He laughed so loudly that even the wig on his head shook.

“In fact, it’s not that no one has thought about reforming the Mechanicus, but every move of this huge organization will cause a stir in the galaxy.

No one has the ability or the will to promote the Mechanicus's reforms. After all, this will affect the interests of countless people, and they will probably be shot dead by eight plasma bullets from behind. "

"The former Cable Hart may have had this ability, but he was a hypocritical and ambitious guy. He was indeed a super genius, but he had no respect for technology and progress."

Rand also took advantage of the establishment of the Advanced Technology Community to begin telling some secrets of the past.