The Bizarre Adventures of Cloud Hammer

There are indeed some valuable goods in the warehouse that are relatively valuable to the Empire and the Mechanicus, but these things are of no use to Bean Sprout. So what exactly are the Bean Sprout Pirates eyeing in there?

Apu looked at an area in the warehouse where there were a large number of large sealed storage boxes. Apu pressed the panel twice, and the storage box closest to him slowly opened. It was designed as a multi-layer platform. Each layer of the platform was filled with tubular containers like centrifuge tubes. These tubular containers contained an average of two strange-looking "meat balls".

Having watched a series of official GW animations, Apu immediately recognized these things. These are the foundation of every Astartes chapter - the gene seeds.

"This nm is a tax collection ship."

Excluding those Chaos traitors, this vital resource, gene-seed, is usually kept in the warships of the Astartes Chapters and is strictly guarded. The Astartes Chapters periodically pay a 5% tax on their gene-seed reserves to the Adeptus Mechanicus. This allows them to check genetic purity and also to use the collected gene-seed stocks to establish new Chapters. (The Astartes are not just a mother Chapter, they also have daughter Chapters.)

The gene-seed tax is not as harsh as other tithes. If a chapter suffers heavy losses in battle, the gene-seed will be used to restore the chapter first, and the tax will be paid after the chapter stabilizes.

The Eldar pirates' goal was clearly gene-seed, a precious resource traded at a fixed price on the black market. Since the Chaos Astartes warbands were unable to replenish their ranks due to their own contaminated gene-seed, they needed to find various ways to obtain pure gene-seed, and trading on the black market was one such method. (Primarily, they targeted the seeds of the Loyalists.)

The gene seeds on this ship are taxes from different chapters. Just looking at the logos, there are no less than ten chapters, among which the logo of the Ultramarines is the most obvious.

But isn't a Moon-class vessel a bit shabby for a tax collection vessel? And there's a Mechanicus Magos on board, so if not a battleship, at least a Grand Patrol is in order. Who knows where the escort fleet is, so a single Moon-class vessel is just waiting to be snatched up.

"Apu, what did you find?" Luochen saw Apu enter the warehouse. He had specifically thrown Apu near the warehouse.

"Gene-seed. Now we have everything as a Chapter."

As Astartes transformed by Gloria, they have no gene seeds in their bodies. If they want to establish an empire, taxes are inevitable, but where will their gene seeds come from?

Now they have.

Apu took out a gene seed from each of the different regiments, placed a beacon on it and asked Gloria to transmit it back. After Gloria finished analyzing it, they could explode as many gene seeds as they wanted.

After Gloria finished the analysis, she sent these gene seeds back. These gene seeds must be recorded by the oil man as taxes. If they are missing, everyone will definitely be suspected.

At this time, the Eldar pirates on the ship had been killed by the joint efforts of the Astartes and the Skitarii. The ship's oil man expressed his gratitude to the Astartes who came to support him in the broadcast, and hoped that everyone would go to the bridge to talk.

Apu cleaned up all traces of himself in the warehouse. He didn't want to be found by the oil man in the future. When he arrived at the bridge, Xianyu and Eryu had been there for a long time.

"Thank you all Astartes Brothers for your timely support. If it weren't for you, I would have reported to Om Messiah today."

Blanny chattered a lot in a rhythmic tone that even surprised Apu. It was rare to see such an emotional guy.

After some communication, everyone learned the reasons why this ship appeared here alone, and also learned that Berlani was not the owner of this ship. The real owner was his teacher, a biological sage from the Mechanicus.

The Mechanicus not only studies mechanical creations, but also has numerous disciplines within it. It can be regarded as a university and research institute. The masters of each professional field will be promoted to sages, such as the Alchemy Sage who specializes in alchemy, the Commanding Sage who specializes in the way of war, and the Biology Sage who naturally specializes in the discipline of biology.

Every Sage is not necessarily proficient in only one subject. The title only represents their initial professional direction. The title can be changed later. When a Sage has accumulated a lot of knowledge, gone far enough in the direction of his own research and made outstanding contributions to the Mechanicus, then this Sage will be promoted to the highest ruling class of the Mechanicus - the Grand Sage.

The most famous among the great sages is of course the ruling great sage known as Dorakaul - Belisarius Kaul.

"My teacher is still in the lab and should be out soon."

Berani's teacher was still in the laboratory when the Eldar pirates attacked. This sage was the kind of person who would rather die than hear the truth in the morning. Nothing was more important than grasping the inspiration in his mind.

A while later, a red-robed mechanical monk, holding the exquisitely crafted Ohm Messiah Axe, arrived at the bridge. He was Berene's teacher, the biological sage Gregor. (The robes of different Forge Worlds vary in color; red is specifically for Mars.)

"The alien was repelled?" Gregor asked.

"It was Astartes who helped us. Your experiment, teacher..."

"It was interrupted. The inspiration I got by chance was not enough for me to complete my research, and the alien attack also disrupted my thinking." Gregor sighed. After all, he was not a genius like Caul, and could not grasp the short-lived inspiration.

After the conversation between the master and the apprentice, Gregor expressed his gratitude to Apu and the others:

"Thank you all Astartes Brothers for your help, but please forgive me for not being able to give you proper compensation."

Most of the things on this ship did not belong to Gregor, and Astarte probably wouldn't value anything he could give.

"Saving our fellow citizens of the Empire is what we should do. Sage Gregor doesn't have to do this."

Apu could also see the embarrassment of this sage. As a sage from the Martian Mechanicus, he could only use a Moon-class ship as a vehicle, which could be said to be quite poor.

"Why is Sage Gregor, a sage of the Martian Order, here?"

"It's probably due to the pressure of life."

During the conversation, everyone learned that Gregor the Sage was not actually welcomed on Mars because he advocated progress and innovation, and believed that blindly searching for the afterimages of the past was not the will of the Om Messiah. However, he was not as strong as Cawl who could ignore other factions on Mars. This resulted in him being unable to obtain the necessary resources on Mars, and he could only rely on accepting commissions from other imperial units or forge worlds to get rewards, in order to barely carry out his own research.

Apu thought to himself that it was amazing. He was thankful that he was not labeled a heretic and executed for making progress and innovation in the Mechanicus. If Sage Gregor didn't have some skills, he would not have survived. Even in this situation, there were still people who dared to be his disciples. This Berani was also a god.

Gregor also talked about his mission on this trip, which was to recover the gene seeds of those stable regiments, send them to the designated forging world, and then send them back to Mars together.

"Since the purpose of Sage Gregor's trip is to collect gene-seeds, why not collect our chapter's gene-seeds as well?"

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PY wave—

"P Club Player, but in Warhammer"

Good news, my struggle was successful. I successfully became the captain and unlocked the Stars technology tree.

Bad news, here's Warhammer.

When he saw Titanium King, Su Chen was not panicked.

When he saw the empire, Su Chen was a little shaken.

But after seeing the ribs, Su Chen panicked.

Wow, I don't want to come here and talk nonsense.

God helps the fist, curses the group. Because chaos disturbs the homeland

There is no rain, and the ground is dry.

The universe is turned upside down, confusing the wise and the foolish; a thousand miles of fertile land is barren.

The gods are angry, the emperor is annoyed.

Burn yellow paper, light incense, and invite the original body of the great immortal

With explosive arrows and chainsaw swords, it is not difficult to defeat Chaos

Abaddon, the heart is trembling, the vengeful spirit cries

Destroy all aliens, and let humanity reign supreme.

Chapter 51 Artificial Human World

Among the gene seeds sent back by Ap, the Ultramarines and Imperial Fists lineages accounted for the majority, and the remaining gene seeds contained a little of the gene seeds of other loyal regiment lineages except for the Space Wolves and Salamanders. What was exaggerated was that the gene seeds of the Iron Warriors were mixed in this batch of gene seeds, and the information was marked as a daughter regiment of the Ultramarines.

It made sense. Guilliman had taken in a group of loyalists, and since they'd been considered Ultramarines for nearly ten thousand years, the Mechanicum couldn't really investigate. What if they did find something? Testing the gene-seed stability to see if it was contaminated would be enough. Going any further would be rude.

Gloria used the data she obtained to create a batch of Ultramarines' gene seeds, all of which had a stability of over 90%. Even Guilliman couldn't find any problems with these gene seeds.

Brother Ou: "Wait a minute, what about the battle memories inside?"

Luochen: "Why worry about this? We don't even know how long it will take to build an army with these gene seeds."

The gene seeds store the combat memories of every Astartes. Warriors who inherit the gene seeds will see the combat memories of their predecessors at some point in time. After absorbing these memories, they will quickly become stronger. But where does Gloria's combat memories come from in this batch of brand-new gene seeds?

"Don't worry, I've taken all of this into consideration. I've compiled some battle memories from the Great Crusade based on your memories. I've also edited and modified some clips from the movies you've watched before. I guarantee it'll be fine."

The minor problem with the gene seed was nothing to Gloria. She had even completed the two missing parts of the Imperial Fist seed, so the combat memory was a piece of cake.

In addition to these gene seeds, everyone also gained something on the Mechanicus Moon Level. Gregor couldn't afford to pay, so everyone had to take it themselves. Gregor didn't know that the information he had stored on the ship had been stolen by Gloria.

Gregor's main field is biology, but he also has good academic achievements in many other majors. His research direction is mainly in the areas of human regeneration, strengthening and transformation. Gregor is currently studying a set of special strengthening organs. In his expectation, the physical fitness of mortals will be greatly enhanced after the implantation of this set of organs, and their adaptability to various environments will also be significantly improved.

It is certainly not comparable to the Astartes, but Gregor's organs are not picky about people and can be passed on to children. As long as the research can be successful, the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Guard will be further improved in the future.

But the problem is that Gregor has not yet developed this set of organs. First of all, the cost is too high. A set of organs is more expensive than making an Astartes. The side effects are also very strong. It is estimated that people who have this set of organs implanted will basically not live beyond 30 years old.

"Why do I feel like this thing looks like a gland warrior?"

Ou Ge looked at Gregor's research data. He thought that all he needed to do was castrate this entire set of organs and then optimize them a little bit, and the effect would be almost the same as the glandular warriors of the future.

Gland warriors are modified soldiers created by the Empire after the Tyranid invasion. These soldiers have many organs and drug-secreting glands implanted in their bodies. Under normal circumstances, their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of ordinary Astra Militarum soldiers. With the help of combat drugs secreted by the glands, they are far more powerful than ordinary people. However, the side effects are also huge. In battle, the body systems of these soldiers will quickly be overwhelmed by these powerful drugs, and they may die in the next second.

"His research is very helpful to us. Brother Ou, didn't you say that using mechas all the time is risky? Now we can solve that problem."

Gregor's research also includes many technologies related to cloning and cyborgs. Gloria only needs to improve these technologies slightly and combine them with mechas to create new artificial humans. By stuffing a gene seed into them, they will be not much different from Astartes.

"Using Gregor's biotechnology to create a human body, coupled with enhanced organs and a body frame made with robotic technology, the resulting androids will not be significantly inferior in performance to robotics, and can even be connected to psychic water pipes to serve as think tanks."

"So, I, the Chief Think Tank, don't have to be a lone commander anymore?" Luochen was happy. For such a long time, the Chapter had only had him as the Think Tank. Now, finally, he didn't have to do all the psychic work. "Besides using them as Astartes homunculus, I can also create a batch of Chapter servants after lowering the technical specifications."

With this system, there will be no loopholes in the Nebula Hammer Legion.

"What about energy consumption?" asked Brother Ou.

"No problem, at worst we can just dig a few more nests."

Every time they passed through an imperial world, they would go down to dig out high-energy relics and feed them to Gloria, and their progress increased a bit along the way.

"Will these androids lead us into an Iron Man Rebellion in the future?" Brother Ou asked worriedly.

"Don't doubt my technical ability. The essence of androids is the same as that of the mechas. We control them. Will you betray yourself?"

"As long as there's nothing wrong with it."

After a while, Gloria loaded the gene seed onto the Thunderhawk, and Apu said in the communication:

"By the way, call Ah Wei over. The oil man's boat needs urgent repairs. Come quickly to improve his favorability."

After staying on the Oil Man's ship for a while, Apu felt that Gregor and his apprentice were really good. They did not have the Oil Man's arrogance and complacency. They believed that only by moving forward can the empire make great again. Isn't this exactly what they want from the Oil Man?

After spending some time together, if there is really no problem, then I can find a way to build a relationship with this master and apprentice pair.

It was the first time that Master Gregor and his apprentice had seen an Astartes Chapter so enthusiastic about paying taxes. Not long after, they sent the gene seeds and also brought the Chapter's forge masters to help repair the ship.

"These gene-seeds are flawless and highly stable. Truly worthy of being a Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines."

After examining the gene-seed of the Nebula Hammer, Berani compared it with the gene-seeds of other Ultramarines Chapters. He found that the gene-seed of the Nebula Hammer had not deteriorated at all compared to those of other Chapters, and its purity was so high that it looked as if it had just been taken out of the seed bank of the parent Chapter.

"Could it be one of the new daughter regiments established during the last Founding?" Berani pondered for a moment, but he didn't know much about the Astartes. "Why should I worry so much? Just send the gene-seed to Mars."

After sealing the gene seeds and counting them again, Berlani left the warehouse. If there was any mistake in these things, he would not get the teacher's reward.

Walking into the engine room, Berlani saw Ah Wei and his servitors repairing the battleship's engine. He stepped forward and asked:

"Lord Axwell, how is the condition of the battleship's engines?"

"You are lucky. The damage to the engine is not serious. It can be restarted after simple repairs." Wei replied.

Berani looked at the various instructions that Awei gave to the mechanical servants. The movements of this Astartes casting master were flawless, and his control over the machinery far exceeded that of the mechanical priests Berani knew.

"How many years has it been since Lord Axwell returned from his studies on Mars?" Berlani asked curiously.

"That was quite a while ago, so long ago that I can't even remember it myself."

Ah Wei had not just returned from training on Mars. If Berlani asked a question about time and people, Ah Wei would definitely be exposed, so Ah Wei had to take the initiative to change the subject.

"I don't have much to say about my experience studying abroad on Mars, but I'm curious about your situation. I heard from Brother Precious that you and Sage Gregor weren't having a good time on Mars."

"That's because most of the people on Mars are pedantic fools. Your talent and knowledge far surpass theirs. These mediocre people are jealous of your abilities, so they try every possible means to drive you out of Mars."

Looking at the indignant look on Berlani's face, he really respects his teacher.

But Berene wasn't talking nonsense. Gregor was indeed one of the talented few among the mechanical priests.

Gregor was promoted to a sage at a very young age. He is only over three hundred years old so far, but his knowledge and achievements have far surpassed those of the sages of the same period. If his ideas were not so unorthodox, he would most likely be promoted to a great sage around the age of five hundred.

But Gregor could not wait for the day when he would become a great sage. He could not stand the closed academic environment of Mars. If his research did not require some equipment on Mars, he would have gone to the forging world of other factions long ago.

"Why did you choose to become a student of Gregor the Sage?"

Awei asked curiously. According to Apu, since Berlani followed a sage with heretical ideas, he was doomed to have no hope of promotion in the future.

"Because the teacher is different from other mechanical priests, he only uses his knowledge and achievements where they are needed, rather than using them as political bargaining chips."

On Mars, many Mechanical Priests possess knowledge that could benefit the Empire and humanity, but in the Mechanicus, where knowledge represents status, they will never share their knowledge unless absolutely necessary.

Berene had studied with Gregor since he was a child. He had seen all of his teacher's contributions to the empire. He believed that only a sage like his teacher could truly conform to the teachings of the Om Messiah.

Once, Gregor used his research results on food to save an industrial world that was about to collapse due to food problems. The new food developed by Gregor had a higher yield, more nutrition, and better taste while remaining cheap. It helped the industrial world resume production in a short period of time. However, the Mechanicus faction that controlled this industrial world confiscated Gregor's research results on the ridiculous grounds that the new food could easily induce corruption, and modified it into junk food that was cheaper, had double the yield, but could only be used to barely survive.

How can the empire possibly prosper with such insects in power!

Although Gregor didn't care about this, Berlani was furious when he found out about it, because he had lived in this industrial world since he was a child, and it was Gregor who took him in and allowed him to become a mechanical priest.

That's why Berani was so grateful to the Nebula Hammer. If everyone hadn't come to rescue him, he and his teacher would have returned to the Om Messiah, and their ambitions would never have been realized.

"Gregor is indeed a very good sage."