Warhammer: Expedition to the Multiverse from 30k

Are there really such kind people? Even after being defeated, they still help their opponents improve and upgrade? As for the valuables of the Terran warlords, Luo Xi didn't think they would have such character.

Chapter 398: Incomplete Astarte (Please subscribe)

"Our knowledge of Moravec seems to be limited to rumors. He was once a technological warlord on Terra, but after being defeated by the Emperor in the Unification War, he fled to Mars. It was also he who clearly proposed the existence of the belief in the God of All Machines."

"He seems to have signed a contract with some beings in the warp, and blended technology with the original force, creating results that far surpass existing technology, triggering a technological miracle."

Sage Rand recalled the records about Moravec. This was the only information about this great forerunner, and all other information about him was sealed in the so-called Moravec Cellar. The Emperor had personally ordered that this forbidden area could never be unsealed.

"Could it be that after being defeated, Moravec was unwilling to accept his failure and planned to reverse the situation by analyzing the Emperor's great creation and discovering its weaknesses?" Luo Xi pondered in his heart.

But that's not right. If he just wanted to find Astartes' weaknesses and exploit them to create corresponding means, then why did he leave information about Astartes' improvement and strengthening in his own Rubik's Cube?

According to Sage Rand, the Moravec Cube contains the genius' ideas for transforming the Astartes, and the Space Marines will be more perfect than they are now after further strengthening.

Today's Astartes are not actually perfect warriors. In terms of combat effectiveness, they are far inferior to the Custodes and are also inferior to the Thunder Warriors of the past.

It's just that Space Marines have great advantages over the first two in terms of cost and stability, so the Emperor would create a large number of Space Marine legions to serve his Great Crusade.

If the Emperor had the ability to create as many Custodes as the Astartes, he would have been driven out of the galaxy long ago.

But that is simply impossible. The cost of the Imperial Guard's golden armor is enough to be equal to that of a living planet, and its tailor-made genetic modification is extremely complex and expensive.

Luo Xi didn't want to delve into the grudges between this genius and the emperor. He only cared about whether he could extract the information contained in it completely.

As the analysis progressed, Sage Rand gained a deeper understanding of this technological relic.

As a result, he also gained a new understanding of the relationship between the Astartes and the Primarchs.

"The Emperor used the Primarchs he created as templates to create different Astartes Legions. The connection between them is not simply blood and genetic affinity. As we know, the process of creating Primarchs and Astartes is inseparable from psychic energy."

Moravec seemed to have uncovered the secret of how the Emperor created this genetically modified warrior. He was so excited that he trembled as he took a bottle of potion to protect his heart.

"The Primarch is the genetic template of the Legion. All his descendants come from it. Legion warriors often assimilate with the Primarch. This is the influence of the gene seed."

"Just like the former Sons of Horus Legion, a high proportion of their warriors have extremely similar appearances to their own Primarchs. This is a genetic trait, the influence of the psychic power of the Warp contained in the gene seed."

Luo Xi nodded in agreement, he also understood this.

For example, Eichmander, the Son of Horus, whose nickname is Little Horus, looks very similar to his genetic father.

"Gene seeds are the joint product of the power of the Warp and the technology of the real universe. They connect the close relationship between the Primarchs and the Astartes. But the relationship between the two is so close, why are the Astartes and the Primarchs so different?"

Rand raised a question that almost challenged basic cognition.

That is, why the Space Marines and the Primarchs are so different.

Even the strongest group of Space Marines, such as Sigismund of the Imperial Fists and Akurduna of the Emperor's Children, could only hold out for a few minutes in the hands of the Primarch.

Almost everyone tacitly agreed that the huge gap between the Primarchs and the Astartes was unbridgeable. This gap might have come from the differences in the genetic technology used by the Emperor. The Astartes lacked many things compared to the Primarchs.

"Perhaps you don't know, but I once had the honor of conducting a detailed study of the Primarch's body," said Sage Rand.

"Butcher's Nails?" asked Luo Xiluo with confusion.

The latter nodded, indeed.

"When the Emperor retrieved No. 12, he discovered that his head had been pierced with an ancient relic of Nuceria - the Butcher's Nail. By the time we discovered it, it was too late. The Butcher's Nail had already penetrated deep into No. 12's brain. A normal person would have died long ago."

"But No. 12 is the Primarch. He has the ability to heal himself and is immune to most injuries. He and the damage from the Butcher's Nails form a certain balance, so that No. 12 neither dies nor suffers from the torture of the Butcher's Nails."

Sage Rand called Angron number 12, with a hint of contempt in his tone.

He has a good temper, but it does not conflict with his pride.

Roche reacted immediately, and when Angron was found by the Emperor and returned to the Imperium, Sage Rand and the Emperor presided over the rescue operation on Angron, and took the opportunity to examine every inch of the Primarch's body structure.

Sage Rand said: "In the core of No. 12's brain, I found a glandular organ the size of a fingernail. It can amplify all the existing organs in the body, especially the muscles and bones. I am sure that this organ only exists in the body of the Primarch.

Therefore, I came to a conclusion - if we assume that the more similar the Astartes are to the Primarchs, the stronger their power is, then all the Astartes today are incomplete. Compared to the Primarchs, they are missing many organs, so naturally they cannot be on par with the Primarchs. "

Luo Xi took a breath of cold air. The discovery of Sage Rand was truly horrifying.

He was questioning the perfection of the Emperor's creation.

This mechanical sage who appears to be modest and cautious actually has an extremely proud heart beneath the surface. He is a ruthless man who even dares to question Ohm Messiah.

He insisted on not making any bionic mechanical modifications to his brain, perhaps because in his eyes, the Ohm Messiah, or the Emperor, still retained the appearance of an original human being. A super genius like him would of course make the same decision as the Ohm Messiah.

Only the weak and foolish need those machines to enhance themselves.

He even went so far as to constantly imitate Ohm Messiah and question whether the other's creation was truly perfect.

"In this case, we can draw a further inference, that is, if we can complete the Astartes, can we make it closer to the Primarch?"

Luo Xi didn't know whether his conjecture could be realized, but it was indeed a very valuable hypothesis.

"The Emperor's former creation, the Thunder Warriors, are more powerful than the Astartes, but their mental state is more unstable and they are extremely likely to lose control in war. We can think of the Astartes as an improvement on the stability of the Thunder Warriors."

"And the Astartes today are not perfect either. Moravec's theory points out the way to improve the Astartes and make them perfect."

Rand roared enthusiastically that the sage saw the possibility of improving the Astartes and that the key to truth might be in his hands.

For a scientist, it is an insoluble temptation to give creation a more perfect form.

There was a hint of worry in Luo Xi's eyes. He thought more than Rand did.

Since even Moravec can research an improved version of the Space Marines, there is no reason why the original author, the Emperor, would not have conducted corresponding research. So why did the Emperor impose restrictions on the Astartes?

Are you worried that if the Astartes are too perfect, they will squeeze the living space of mortals?

Roxi vaguely thought of a possibility that the Emperor might have done this on purpose. He castrated part of the Astartes' form, making it weak and more controllable.

"Nyos, is this what you are worried about? You will never allow any existence to threaten humanity, even if it is an Astartes, a cyborg created by you."

"What do you want humanity to become? A Custodes completely isolated from the influence of the warp, with biological alchemy perfected?"

"Or embrace psionics? Everyone is a controllable psionic?"

The Emperor's original intentions may have been good, but after the traitorous Space Marine Legions fell into Chaos, they were generally strengthened by the power of the Warp in both body and soul, which put the loyal Space Marines at a disadvantage when their equipment was not much different.

From the Five Hundred Worlds to the Solar System, one of the most important reasons why the loyalist Space Marines were able to crush the enemy in a crushing manner was their epoch-making power armor, which completely surpassed the enemy's old-fashioned Mark-type power armor.

Luo Xi understood one thing: the adamantium armor and the strong interaction force armor might be powerful, but they were by no means invincible. The generation gap in equipment was not insurmountable for the traitors who defected to the warp.

If you remain blindly confident, sooner or later you will suffer a big setback in this regard.

In addition to relying on armor and equipment, the strength of the Astartes should also be based on their own strength.

"I must complete the Astartes, making them larger, faster, stronger, and with a more stable gene-seed."

Chapter 399: The Original Mother (Please Subscribe)

They wanted to improve the creations of Om Messiah, and when these concepts came into their minds, everyone present felt a strong sense of suffocation from the bottom of their hearts.

It was an indescribable excitement and joy. When they put forward this plan, it meant that they stood side by side with Om Messiah and were on the same level.

They can complete the imperfect parts of the Om Messiah's creation in the faith, even if it requires them to pay any price, they are willing to do so.

"I didn't expect that the first fruit of the Advanced Technology Community would come so quickly. Sage Rand, if you can really achieve this, perhaps your name will really be passed down through the ages." Luo Xi praised sincerely.

"It's too early to be happy now, Sage Roshi. The analysis of the Moravec Cube has just begun. This is a huge and arduous project that may consume all the remaining life I have."

“I don’t know how long this work will take, but it will probably take decades or even a century.”

"I am no longer young, and my time is neither too much nor too little."

Akan Rand said casually that compared to the sage Ezekiel who was about to die of old age, he was younger and more open-minded.

But if you can make a small contribution in this regard before you die, then there is nothing to be afraid of death.

"Secondly, although Moravec provided ideas and solutions, and we only needed to follow his path step by step to reach the end, we lacked the key tools, the tools to move forward."

"We need the best genetic modification technology, and the original genetic material of twenty Primarchs."

What Sage Rand mentioned is actually just something that exists in theory, namely the original genetic material used by the Emperor when he created the Primarchs. The purity of these materials not only far exceeds the gene seeds of the Space Marines, but even exceeds the materials extracted from the Primarchs themselves.

The Emperor's original genetic material gave birth to the Primarchs, and the Primarchs' genetic material gave birth to the gene-seed of the Astartes, and so the chicken and egg cycle continued.

However, this involves a problem. Today's genetic material has already been diluted and differentiated, so where should we find the original genetic material?

Theory is important, but without the right tools, even the best theory is nothing but fantasy.

"The moon." Belisarius Cawl, who had been following Sage Rand like a diligent and hardworking student, suddenly spoke.

"If that thing really exists, then it is either in the Emperor's genetic laboratory or on the moon. Everyone knows that the moon is the cradle of the genetic sect, and the Selena genetic sect on the moon is the leader among them."

Kohl's words immediately woke the dreamer up. He was right. This little guy's thinking was extremely sharp and full of leaps and bounds.

The Selina Cult existed on Earth and the Moon long before the founding of the Empire. All of its members are women, and their purpose is to use the power of creation to save mankind from the forces of corruption.

They became rulers of the Moon at some point during the Age of Strife.

"My former mentor and boss, Hester Aspetia, had a very good personal relationship with the Gene Cult on the Moon. In order to hone her soul synthesis technology, she had exchanged and learned from the Selina Cult many times."

Through holographic projection, Kohl projected the appearance of the traitor sage in front of him. It was a mechanical sage with a body as huge as a monster.

The mask made of lenses covers a skull that is three times the size of a standard human skull, and various sensor suites are distributed on the outer edge of the occipital bone, forming a circular crown.

The second face with a mirror-like texture was shaped into a beautiful female face with well-proportioned features, gentle eyes and lips tightly closed, with only a hint of sarcasm hanging at the corners of the mouth.

Behind her seven arms hung several transparent polymerization containers that stored clones. They were vessels prepared for her soul fusion and transfer.

"Sage Hester secretly responded to Horus's rebellion. I discovered and exposed her crimes, and killed her completely."

There were not many mechanical modifications on Cawl's body. He looked like a gentle and weak researcher, but his words were murderous, as if the person he killed was not a high-ranking Mechanicus sage, but a lab rat that could be executed at will.

"I firmly believe in the theory of human superiority taught by the Emperor. I refuse to undergo visible bionic mechanical transformation on myself like other technical priests. To be honest, I admire Sage Rand very much. He also insists on using his human body."

Kaul said calmly, and even Sage Rand's disciples looked at him with admiration.

Without transformation, it would be a more difficult road. There are indeed a group of mechanical priests in the Mechanicus who believe in this choice. Since the concepts are different, there is nothing to argue about. Perhaps the other party and Teacher Rand are of the same kind.

"Through Sage Hester's soul synthesis technology, I learned some secrets about the Selina Gene Cult, and also learned about the existence of the [Original Matrix] that they had hidden."

"It is rumored that it contains the original genetic material of twenty Primarchs, and its purity is even higher than the material extracted from the Primarchs. It may be the key to creating a being more perfect than the Astartes."

The original mother?

Luo Xi muttered the name of this genetic technology creation, and then a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

Whoever had it, it would now belong to the Imperium, and to the forthcoming Space Marine enhancement program.