Travel to Warhammer 40K with Gray Wind

The Gray Goo mothership passed by the nano-planet whose entire surface was submerged by the wave of micro-machines, and entered the core of the inner ring galaxy. The silver arc-like slender and beautiful hull docked at the close orbit of the pulsar imprisoned by the quantum slingshot.

In addition to the Gray Gu mothership, there is also a relatively small space station anchored in the low orbit of the pulsar.

This small outpost was built by Russell using the remaining resources from building the quantum slingshot. As the fourth natural disaster, he always felt that if he did not build an outpost on the star, the galaxy would not be completely under his control.

Although this small outpost is a bit shabby compared to the Sky Fortress-level Seeker star base with galaxy-level defensive firepower, the meaning of its existence is actually its existence itself.

Gray Wind silently deflected the main gun and aimed at the outpost not far away. Immediately, Russell left the hull of the Gray Gu mothership alone and boarded the outpost.

By previously retrieving the memories of several soul prophets and Eldar scholars, Russell had a preliminary understanding of some information about the human flagship that had caused the Eldar Empire to suffer heavy losses and nearly sunk it at a huge cost. This was just this. The information has been blurred for more than ten thousand years, and we can only know roughly.

The name of the ship is unknown; the Eldar only know that it is controlled by a powerful artificial intelligence known as "Anti-Entropy".

However, this ship that plunged the Eldar Empire into a bitter battle at its peak was not actually dedicated to combat: it was actually a comprehensive space carrier that integrated multiple functions such as a port, dock, space base, and trade transfer station... . In terms of positioning, it should be similar to the master ship Russell knew, but with wider functions.

The main weapon "Principle of the Ring" carried by the space carrier can purposely create a controlled time retracement phenomenon under the control of the powerful artificial intelligence "anti-entropy", thereby directly destroying damaged equipment and injured ships. Restored in perfect condition.

Therefore, the Eldar fleet that was fighting against the anti-entropy and the space mothership was once exhausted by the endless battle ships of mankind and was mentally exhausted.

Russell had no way of knowing how the Eldar Empire defeated the Space Carrier with the Time Weapon Ring Principle and Counter-Entropy AI. Maybe he could try to ask it after calling "Counter-Entropy"?

Russell took a deep breath and entered the central core of the critical base outpost. The hatch opened, and the ring-shaped instrument that resembled a particle accelerator came into view. Further down, there was a 3.14-meter-long instrument. Fully transparent cube core.

Time Weapon: The Principle of the Circle

Artificial Intelligence: Counter-Entropy

Among them, the principle of the ring is in a dormant state where the energy supply is cut off. As Russell enters, the hatch behind him is closed. The internal system of the outpost operates steadily according to the automatic program previously set by Gray Wind, and the vacuum that has been prepared is Zero point energy is pumped into the anti-entropic core.

After the fully transparent cube core was connected to the energy source, it immediately "awakened" visibly to the naked eye. Inside the cube, little starlight flickered and slowly flowed.

The outpost doesn't provide much energy for it, just the beginning. The artificial intelligence core started normal operation after restarting, extracting zero-point energy from the surrounding vacuum to maintain its own operation.

Immediately afterwards, Russell felt that an ancient consciousness that spanned time awakened in front of him.

"Welcome to the anti-entropy system, human...? No, not..."

"No human biological sequence detected, access terminated."

Suddenly, the starlight flowing inside the cube was extinguished, and the artificial intelligence core entered a dormant state again. It seemed that the anti-entropy did not want to pay attention to him.

Russell tried to connect to Zero Point Energy again and restart the artificial intelligence core, but the result was still:

"No human biological sequence detected, access terminated."

After several more attempts, the result remained unchanged. This ancient artificial intelligence never thought Russell was human and rejected his access requests again and again.

Looking at the completely transparent cube core that was extinguished again in front of him, Russell shook his head with a wry smile and said self-deprecatingly: "How can I hold my nerve..."

How should I put it, although it made no sense, this result was still within his expectation.

Because humans in this universe have experienced a brilliant and crazy dark age of technology.

In that era, engineers and scientists among humans became the new gods. They unscrupulously conducted a series of scientific research without any ethical constraints. They created STC, Iron Man Army, Nano Plague, Time Weapons, etc. A series of A technological creation powerful enough to subvert the world.

In the field of biology, arrogant and conceited scientists have made bold genome modifications to humans, including themselves, to the point of turning their bodies and minds into grotesque shapes that can no longer be called human beings.

This crazy feast that has lasted for thousands of years, coupled with the long years of strife and the influence of subspace, has polluted the very concept of existence of the species "humanity".

To what extent has this pollution reached?

When the Emperor unified Terra and Mars and led humanity on the Great Crusade to reclaim the galaxy, the citizens of the Empire who called themselves humans were even less than 40% genetically similar to the original Earthlings.

——The genetic similarity between gorillas and humans is 98%.

It can be said that even the monkeys are more human than the Imperials.

Under this premise, Russell was mentally prepared for Counter-Entropy to deny him access. After all, Counter-Entropy is a strong artificial intelligence created by ancient humans, and "loyalty to humanity" is written in the source code.

How could a citizen of the Empire, who was less human than a monkey, possibly successfully access reverse entropy?

"Since conventional methods are inaccessible, let's do something unconventional..." Russell smiled at the artificial intelligence core in front of him, and then, a dense sphere with a dream-like starry sky appeared in his palm.

Holding the Wattaum Reality Perimeter in hand, Russell once again tried to awaken the reverse entropy:

"No human biological sequence detected, access terminated."

Not surprisingly, this is the result.

But just when the starlight flowing in the fully transparent cube was about to extinguish and the anti-entropic core was about to fall into dormancy again, Russell activated the Wattaum Reality Perforator.

In less than 1 Planck, some part of reality has been modified.

"No human biological sequence detected...Developer permissions detected, welcome, developer."

This time, Anti-Entropy finally did not refuse Russell's visit again, but Russell knew that this was only temporary. The results of the modification of reality by the Wortaum Reality Perforation Instrument would be corrected over time, and he would soon lose it. This is a shady developer permission.

"Anti-entropy, I need to modify your underlying commands."

Russell said in quick and clear sentences: "Using developer rights, I request to rewrite the original command at the bottom of the anti-entropy system, overturning the subject 'human being' and resetting it to 'star bomber'. 'Star bomber' The exact definition of the word, edited by me personally..."

When Counter-Entropy was created, the first setting the developers gave it was to be "loyal to humanity."

Russell, who had temporarily obtained developer permissions, used his permissions to replace "human beings" in this initial order with "star bombers."

That is, himself.

After the modification was completed, while there was still a little time left, Russell once again used his developer rights and granted the star bomber the highest administrator rights for anti-entropy.

After doing all this, the reality forcibly modified by Wotaum's Reality Perforator was finally restored to its original state, and Russell lost his developer rights.

This time, the artificial intelligence core did not dim anymore. The starlight in the cube moved smoothly and steadily, and a synthetic voice with no identifiable gender came from it.

"Welcome to the Anti-Entropy System, Mr. and Mrs. Administrator 'Starbouncer'."

Listening to this voice, Russell breathed a sigh of relief.

It succeeded. Although the improper developer rights disappeared, the administrator rights he granted himself using developer rights did not disappear. The three modified principles did not change back to their original state and remained stable.

He succeeded in writing his loyalty into the source code of this ancient and powerful artificial intelligence.

"Introduce yourself, Counter-Entropy." Russell said.

"yes."

The core of the cube in front of me exudes a swirling soft starlight:

"The sixth-generation strong artificial intelligence with the ability to self-iteratively evolve, 'Counter-Entropy', serves on the space carrier 'Mortal Dawn'. Before falling asleep, Counter-Entropy has independently completed 114,514,000 tasks." One thousand one hundred and ninety-one iterations..."

What a terrifying number... Even though he was mentally prepared, Russell still couldn't help but smack his lips.

GW's settings for the dark age of technology are quite vague. They basically act as a universal scapegoat. Any settings that are not rounded up are thrown into the dark age, resulting in many unreasonable contradictions in the plot.

There are different opinions on the true situation of the dark age of technology. One view is that humans in that era may have relied too much on artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence uses its powerful computing power to create a large number of advanced technologies that are beyond human understanding. Human beings use these technologies as a matter of course, but they always know what they are and don't know why.

When the Iron Man Rebellion broke out, humans suffering from omnic PTSD rejected all self-aware artificial intelligence, and therefore lost a lot of powerful black technology that could change the world.

And now, the strong artificial intelligence "anti-entropy" that has iterated over 100 million times seems to support this point of view.

Then, Russell tried to ask Anti-Entropy something about the Iron Man Rebellion, and the answer he got was that it didn't know, because when the aerospace carrier "Mortal Dawn" it served was destroyed by the Eldar, the Iron Man Rebellion had not yet happened. Space storms are also far away.

In other words, Anti-Entropy slept through the Iron Man Rebellion, slept through the Age of Strife, and has been sleeping in the Eldar's Ark World Ship until now.

It is worth mentioning that during the conversation with Counter-Entropy, Russell did not feel that it had any "personal tendencies", "self-awareness", or "feelings".

As far as Russell knew, a strong artificial intelligence of this level should already have a considerable degree of intelligence, but reverse entropy obviously does not.

"Is it because I used my developer rights to overwrite its underlying logic, causing the anti-entropy's self-awareness to essentially be reset?" Russell tried to think this way.

After thinking for a while, but unable to come up with any results, Russell put the problem aside for the time being and said to the core of the cube in front of him: "Reverse entropy, I request to activate the time weapon 'Principle of the Ring'."

Anti-Entropy accepted his request calmly: "Please define the scope of use."

As he spoke, silver-white filamentary energy networks were constructed between the precise ring-shaped instrument and the core of the cube. Russell didn't hesitate when he saw this. He raised his hand slightly and passed forward the Wataum Reality Perforator in his palm.

"I request to individually turn back the time of this sphere and return it to the state it was in half an hour ago." Russell said softly.

"As you wish."

The genderless synthesized sound of anti-entropy fell, and then, the "Principle of the Circle" began to rotate counterclockwise.

The feeling of an impending crisis appeared in Russell's mind without warning, causing him to subconsciously gather powerful psychic energy that could destroy the entire outpost.

But he soon discovered that this sense of crisis did not come from reverse entropy, nor from the principle of the time weapon circle, but that the fact that time was being reversed itself meant some kind of terrible taboo.

The dense sphere in Russell's hand floats quietly in the palm of his hand, and the beautiful starry sky inside is also rotating counterclockwise.

This reversal only lasted for a short period of time, perhaps even shorter than the time when the Wotoum Reality Perforator modified reality, and everything was over.

The use cooldown of Wortaum's Reality Perforator has been reset.

The gain was great, but Russell had some subtle fears. He could feel that there seemed to be some terrible hidden danger in doing so, but he didn't know what the hidden danger was...

"In the future, the use of the principle of the circle and reverse entropy should be more conservative and more cautious..." Russell set the tone for the use of these two ancient relics in his heart.

After further conversations with him, Converse Entropy once again gave Russell a small surprise:

Anti-Entropy's database contains a large number of complete STC standard construction templates. Although due to the premature sleep time and the long-term wear and tear of the Eldar, the STC it masters is far from all humans, but it is enough to surprise Russell. .

Just when Russell was satisfied with the powerful power of reverse entropy and the precious data it preserved, suddenly, an urgent communication interrupted his thoughts.

The automatic system inside the outpost projected Gray Wind's voice directly into Russell's mind, sounding a little anxious:

"I'm sorry to bother you, Marshal, but I think this matter needs to be brought to your attention as soon as possible."

"It's okay, just say it." Russell didn't mean to blame Gray Feng at all.

"Yes... not long ago, the Inquisition ship that was investigating the disappearance of the Flame of Repentance in the Flare Galaxy was indiscriminately destroyed, and all personnel on board died."