Hammer 40k: Far East Storm

A man in a robe sitting in the corner answered, "You couldn't be more right," he said while taking off the hood hanging on his head. This man had a fair face, a straight nose that looked like it was cut out of a machine, and a pair of exquisite gold-rimmed glasses on his head. Behind the transparent lenses were a pair of light blue eyes. Gustav had a faint smile on his lips, but there was no warmth in his eyes. "As long as we don't say it, Mars won't know. As long as Mars doesn't know, it will naturally have no opinion on Captain Li. Besides, the enemy is already at the door. The first thing we should consider is how to quickly eliminate the enemy and reduce our own losses, rather than looking back and forth to consider Mars' opinions."

Jacob stared at the person who was speaking, and then smiled. The director of the think tank smiled bitterly and said, "You are so right, Mr. Gustav, the manufacturing director of the great engineer."

This title is a bit long, but it is the full name of Gustav, the manufacturing director of Reach. Gustav has been working hard in the past few years, and Li has tried his best to cooperate with him, so the scale and output of the forge world have greatly increased. Gustav's hard work has not been in vain. He has received some rewards, which is the title of a great engineer in addition to his title of manufacturing director of the Far Galaxy. But Gustav, who was promoted, did not feel a bit of pleasure. His heart was full of disgust and anger towards the Mechanicus!

This is not what Gustav wants!

Those old guys actually want to throw me in this shitty place. Are they planning to never let me go back? Whenever I think of this, Gustav's heart, like steel, is almost melted by anger.

Gustav's achievements over the past few decades are obvious to all. Not only did he dig out a valuable STC for the Mechanicus, enriching the Mechanicus' STC inventory, he also made the Forge World develop by leaps and bounds. Li wants to expand the army on a large scale, and he needs many weapons, from tanks to cannons to rifles, he needs them all; Li also needs a navy within the galaxy, he needs to build docks and warships; he also needs to build a space defense system within the galaxy, which is a space factory, a large number of ship berths, defense shields, and various turrets that constitute a huge space defense fortress. He wants to update the equipment for his star wars, he needs more Thunderhawk gunboats, he needs more outstanding weapons; unlike Reach, which was immersed in the illusion of peace before, Li understands the cruelty of the universe, Li he needs many weapons to arm his people. And to complete these updates as soon as possible, Li needs a strong enough Forge World, he needs more production lines, more steel, more workers, and finally he will get more weapons and more sufficient ammunition.

With Li's cooperation, the Forge World was upgrading day by day. Generally speaking, with the development of the Forge World so well and the merit of discovering the STC, Gustav should have been transferred back to the Mars headquarters of the Mechanicum to receive higher education, get closer to the Mechanicum in the omniscient and omnipotent Forge Holy Land, where human wisdom shines, and feel the power and mystery of the Mechanic Spirit more deeply, so that Gustav can climb to a higher position in the Mechanicum in the near future, until the day when he can master all the mysteries of the machinery comes.

But I don't know why. It may be that the fall of the Grand Mechanic Priest who has always admired Gustav has implicated Gustav, or it may be that some old guys above have always disliked Gustav. Of course, in Gustav's opinion, it should be because some old guys understand his outstanding abilities, and they are afraid that he will go back and take their positions, so they throw him away. But no matter what the reason is, the reality that Gustav faces is that no matter how well he does, he can't return to Mars.

For a long time, Gustav, who had been dreamless for a long time, also began to dream. He dreamed of Mars again and again. On the land of Mars, there were densely packed industrial facilities built over thousands of years. If you explore downward, you will find an almost endless maze of buildings. Each maze is a living history book. The building itself can tell the process that human architecture has experienced in time. Standing on the land of Mars and looking up, you can see skyscraper-like chimneys and huge steelmaking furnaces on the crater. In his dreams, Gustav occasionally grows steel wings and soars in the sky of Mars with flames. At this time, he can see abyssal mines all over the land, and even the oceans are drained for production, and lakes have become oil storage facilities. The air is also filled with all kinds of sweet industrial waste gas, which is the smell of motor oil and waste, the smell of Mars, the smell of wisdom!

But the beautiful dream always ends, and Gustav can only face the reality with regret. He could not return to Mars. He could only stay in the Reach system, on this rustic Reach 3. Compared with the majestic buildings on Mars, what is Reach 3?

And what made Gustav feel most desperate was that no matter how well he did, he could not return to Mars. He might get more titles, honorary, academic, but what was the use of these damn things? These things could not satisfy Gustav's thirst for knowledge, nor could they fill his ambition for power. These perfunctory things could not make him happy at all, but only made him feel more painful. Because he knew that those old guys would not let him go back. It was more likely that the better Gustav did in the Reach Galaxy, the more stable he would be in the position of the manufacturing director of the Reach Galaxy. This was a very simple logical inference. Since you did so well, it proved that you were very competent for your current job, so you should continue to do it!

In this case, it became almost impossible for Gustav to receive the transfer order from Mars to leave Reach and return to Mars, which he had been dreaming of. Gustav had no way out. Conventional methods could no longer achieve his goal. He could only find another way, find some powerful allies, and do some unusual things. Maybe there would be a way.

Under such circumstances, Gustav naturally found his best friend, Li, the most powerful supporter in the Reach Galaxy. The two quickly reached an agreement and became good friends who could talk about anything.

In this case, Li's small offense to the Mechanicus was naturally nothing. Wasn't it just that Li wanted to bypass the rules of the Mechanicus and understand the mystery of the machine? Although this was explicitly prohibited by the dogma, and although there was a holy saying that "without dogma, the spirit of the machine would not help...", these could not stop the curiosity of human beings, especially the curiosity of truly wise people. It was not strange to explore secrets alone. Countless mechanical priests had done so secretly. Li was one of them, so it would not be a big problem for him to do so. At some point, Gustav even became the technical guide of Li's secret laboratory. Every technical progress and corresponding questions would be delivered to Gustav's desk on time, and this became one of the few pleasures that Gustav found in the Reach Galaxy. Finally, there was something to make his rusty brain active.

Of course, all these activities were carried out in secret. Li would not publicize his diplomatic victory, and Gustav would naturally not say anything.

"You seem surprised," Gustav said calmly, "As the think tank director of the Star Wars Corps, I think you should first consider the interests of the Corps, not what others think of you."

"Mars's opinion of us involves the interests of the Corps," Jacob said persistently, "Although we can hide it from Mars temporarily, I still think it is not a wise approach. We can hide it for a while, but we can't hide it forever. One day Mars will find out the truth. Captain, I don't understand what you are in a hurry for. I always feel that your steps are too big and too fast. You know, the construction of the Corps is not something that can be completed in a short time. It takes hundreds of years or even thousands of years. A strong Corps cannot be built in one day. We can take it slowly, step by step, and do it steadily."

"It's not that I want to speed up, but we must speed up." Li said frankly, "Jacob, you don't understand. In fact, decades ago, from the moment I awakened my psychic power, I understood the urgency of time. The huge shadow is approaching. We must prepare before the storm arrives. "

"I don't understand," Jacob asked doubtfully, "What do you mean by 'storm'? Are they these greenskins, or the enemies behind the scenes who caused these greenskins, or the Eldar who are wreaking havoc in the Far East?"

"No, it's not them. Although the greenskins are terrible, they are guests after all. They have only been in the Reach System for a short time and are not strong. We can deal with them. Although the masterminds behind the creation of these greenskins are annoying and even terrible, they are not targeting the Reach System and are not our primary enemies. Although those Eldar are powerful and terrible, we do not have the most direct conflict with them, and they will not come to provoke us for no reason in a short time. These are not storms, these are just a little breeze before the storm, and the real shadow is not them. "Li sighed and said, "Jacob, you are a master of psychic energy, you should understand that there are some things I can't say too clearly. This is something within the scope of psychic energy. I just have a feeling. "

"Prophecy? How is it possible?" Jacob was stunned for a moment, and then he closed his mouth tightly.