Travel to Warhammer 40K with Gray Wind

Something in the void gently teased, causing the expedition fleet's impregnable defense formation to become slack. The priests burned incense and prayed and various tedious rituals finally calmed down the machine soul, which became restless again, and even revealed some... sense.

This is really a strange thing.

Except for the Valkyrie and the World Eaters Legion's Glory Queen-class battleship "Conqueror", which relies on living sacrifices to awaken the machine soul, most other naturally born equipment souls are relatively metaphysical existences. . They don't show much clear reason and logic, and they are difficult to communicate with. Generally speaking, it is like a newly born ignorant baby. How to coax it is an art.

Almost every technical priest systematically learned how to appease machine spirits during their apprenticeship, and continued to summarize the secrets of communicating with the divine creations of the God of Machines throughout their subsequent careers.

This is a required course for every qualified Mekhan servant, but now their lifelong learning seems to be failing.

Because babies grow up.

The clay artist used a poem to declare the freedom of inorganic life. Under his influence, the originally ignorant machine soul quickly became self-aware, revealing a clear reason that can easily communicate with it. In the past, this was a mature characteristic that could only be shown in the machine spirits of ancient battleships like Macragge's Glory.

On the battleship "Legion of Glory", the original flagship of the Blue Blood Noble Chapter, the overwhelmed technical priest and every crew member on the ship heard the same voice resounding in their heads, empty and scattered:

"I'm so tired...so painful...so tired..."

The same thing happened on almost every ship in the expedition fleet. The awakened machine spirits began to use their own voices to express their thoughts to the crew. Only ships of the Order of Truth without machine spirits and equipped with anti-psionic energy fields and the famous Valkyrie, a heroic heroine, managed to escape the influence of the Clay Artist.

"Fortunately, the Necron did not take the opportunity to attack us. This is the only good news... What are they waiting for?" Senerio looked at the back of his chapter leader, and then at the figure hiding in Eli Wu De looked at his heroine warily from his side and said with a wry smile:

"Is it possible, as the clay artist said, that He shapes the soul in the circuit and gives freedom to the machine."

He gave the originally ignorant machine a clear sense of self, allowing the awakening machine soul to choose whether to remain loyal to the empire or live for itself from now on.

"Joshua", the technical advisor assigned to the 13th Expedition Fleet by the Order of Truth, shrugged and said: "Our fleet is going to fall apart. This is not good news, but I have even worse news to tell you."

As he spoke, Joshua stretched out his right hand, and the skin of his wrist split open on its own, and a small and delicate metal probe popped out, revealing an invisible space scene in front of everyone.

"As you can see, the Heroine's sensors have just detected that there are multiple flying object signals approaching us, coming from the direction of the forging world Antax. The speed of these spacecraft signals is much slower than that of the Necrons. It has no inertia engine and should be the local Mechanicus fleet in Antax."

Eliwood's already uneasy brows furrowed even more tightly: "The fleet of the Antax Mechanicus..."

He raised his eyes and looked at the holographic projection above the palm of technical advisor Joshua. According to common sense, encountering a friendly fleet at this time should be good news, but Joshua did not think so.

Because in the picture presented by the holographic projection, the fleet approaching them is indeed an imperial warship made of steel. From the hull structure alone, it can be recognized that these warships are from the shipyard of the Mechanicus, but there is no such thing on these ships. Branded with the golden eagle symbol of anything belonging to the Imperium of Man or the sacred gears of the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Instead, it is an abstract geometric figure composed of five line segments of different lengths. Each line segment that makes up this figure is straight when viewed individually, but if you zoom out slightly and look at the whole, it looks like a ball of curved wool wrapped into a hollow sphere with ventilation on all sides.

People who have never seen a similar logo will have a strange feeling when they see it for the first time - this is the symbol of clay artists.

"Antax betrayed the Imperium of Man!"

"Antax has betrayed the God of All Opportunities!"

Eliwood and Igrenu shouted angrily at the same time.

The battle leader turned to look at the looming heroine beside him, and said quickly: "There is no time to delay. Immediately send an order to all the ships that can be controlled to prepare for battle!"

At the same time, Senerio also said to Joshua, who was standing aside with a very stable mood: "Our people will try their best to persuade the awakened machine spirits to continue to be loyal to the human empire. As for those who are unwilling to remain loyal, I will trouble you to deal with it." ”

"Oh?" Joshua smiled: "How to deal with the disloyalty of the machine soul? We believe in the truth and will not make a fool of the machine."

"No need to pretend to be stupid, I never expect you to help appease the machine soul, but I hope to use your means to completely kill the machine soul." Senerio shook his head and said: "I also have some channels of my own to understand I got some secret information, it’s fine that you and I know some things well, there’s no need to be too picky.”

"That is after all a battleship machine spirit that has accompanied the Imperial Navy for many years. It has no credit but hard work... I didn't expect you to be so vicious." Joshua frowned slightly, then nodded: "I won't do it next time."

"It won't happen next time." Senerio also understood what he meant.

As Senerio said, the branch of the Order of Truth that went out with the 13th Expeditionary Fleet did have the means to kill machine spirits, and there was more than one way.

As the branch of the Order of Truth that specializes in biology, Joshua, who took up the post of head of the biology department, has done extensive research on genetics and the impact of subspace on the soul and body, and even personally participated in the battle against the "Spirit-Eating Venomous Bee" The toxins loaded on the ship are prepared.

It was a subspace poison that could poison even machine souls. It was used to kill aliens and Chaos warships in the Flare Galaxy, and was also used to poison countless Khorne demons during the March on the Webway.

Now, as Joshua hurriedly left the Heroine and returned to his research ship, a conspiracy began.

The poison from the swarm will kill all machine souls that are disloyal to the empire, and the soulless battleships will once again fight to defend the Golden Throne under the control of their crews until they disappear in the flames of war.

Only in this way can they prove their undying loyalty.

To the Imperium of Man, no betrayal is too small to be tolerated, and no price is too great to accept.