Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

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"My name is Talon."

"Tailon...Tailon Navy's No. 2412 military supplies transport team, captain of the transport ship No. 21232."

"Twenty years ago, I received a mission to experiment with the latest emergency escape device. This is a device used to instantly jump out of the battlefield to avoid ship damage when faced with an extreme disadvantage in a void battle. And on my transport ship After using this device, the entire ship jumped to a space where we don’t know where it is.”

"We were attacked by unknown creatures and we all used escape pods to escape."

Captain Tallon, sitting in front of the recorder, was digging through everything in the past in his mind. He forced himself to remember every detail. This was not all to record something, but to fight against something.

Talon could feel something existing around him, and he was fighting against it on a will level.

From his past experiences, Talen concluded that the method is to use thinking to force himself to be rational, and to force himself to recall who he is and what he has experienced, in order to avoid the loss of memory and reason.

And everything said in four sentences is all he can recall now.

"I...we...the transport ship..."

When Talon tried to remember more, he couldn't say a word, and finally he could only reach out and turn off the recorder.

The place Talon was in was an escape cabin. There was only one room inside this kind of escape cabin, which was about fifteen square meters. The other spaces outside the room were filled with all kinds of supplies, and there was no place to step down.

Having lived in this cramped little room for twenty years, Tarun has learned how to adapt to solving everything in his life in this place.

As always, after recording what he said, he picked up the recorder, then stood up and walked to the exit of the escape cabin, opened the gate and walked out without wearing any protective equipment.

The escape capsule is flying rapidly through the universe.

The fuel of the hyperlight engine has long been used up, but the escape capsule is still not drifting slowly, because the devices around the capsule that can be used to collect solar energy and accumulate energy are still operating normally.

What kind of star can allow an inefficient solar energy absorber to supply the hyperdrive with energy that allows it to continuously fly at faster than light speeds?

The memory of this incident has been lost, but whenever Talon opens the gate in a daze, he can know why.

The outside world is probably still in the real universe, because the auspicious omen imported from Ultramar shows that this is not the subspace.

But this real universe doesn't look that realistic.

The entire space is centered around the escape pod.

Countless stars are lined up in a circle around the escape cabin, and the planets are also lined up in a circle around the escape cabin. They just keep extending to the endless journey ahead, a circle of stars and a circle of planets. , looks like a kaleidoscope.

The light energy released by numerous stars allows the super-light engine to fly continuously at super-light speeds with only the solar energy absorption device.

However, the escape capsule has been flying continuously in this "kaleidoscope" for twenty years and it is impossible to fly to the end. When he was young, Talon would still have the hope that one day the escape capsule would be able to fly out of here, but now he Don’t think so anymore.

Standing in the void, Talon looked at the recorder in his hand, and then threw the recorder far away.

This is a way to survive. Throw the recorder out, and the salvage ship will search for the signal of the recorder and then follow the signal to fish out the escape capsule. However, Talen, who has continued this behavior for twenty years, is just He mechanically repeated the matter of throwing the recorder. He knew that it was impossible for a ship to salvage it, but he would still do it.

After repeating the behavior that had been repeated countless times, Talon turned back to the escape cabin and closed the gate.

After taking out a tube of something that looked like toothpaste from the warehouse, Tarun sat in the corner of the small room, put the outlet of the toothpaste tube into his mouth and sucked hard. A food that tasted like chewing wax slid down his esophagus. In the stomach pouch, a feeling of fullness appears immediately.

Eating is like a recorder, a daily, repetitive activity.

After eating, Talon stood up and walked to the opposite corner of the room, rolling up the liquid food container that looked like a toothpaste tube, and weaving the food container into the same basket as if it were made from plants in the agricultural world of his hometown. Food containers woven into hangers.

Then he took off the Tyrone Navy uniform from the hanger and put it on, walked to the corner where he was eating, and looked at the Tyrone logo carved on the wall with a sharp tool, as well as the Naval Academy promotional poster posted above the logo.

On the poster, the flagship of the Tyron Navy and the outstanding first fleet are at the bottom. The image of the Lord of Tyron is above the fleet. He raised his chain sword and pointed forward, as if pointing out the enemy to the fleet, while the image of the fleet below was The direction is where the edge of the sword points.

"For the Lord of Tyrone, for Tyrone," Talon said, and he began to repeat the words over and over.

Until a voice sounded behind Tarun.

"That's just a poster in the Naval Academy dormitory. You have never met the Lord of Tyrone, but you keep saying that for him, all of us are like this."

Talon turned around angrily and saw the crew members who were hiding in the escape cabin like him.

"I'm different from you." Talon didn't want to say bad words to the old guys who had been stuck with him for twenty years. "I have really met the Lord of Tyrone."

"It was when I first entered Tyrone Naval Academy. One night in the middle of the night, I went for a walk in the park because I failed the assessment."

"I suddenly saw him who was giving a speech in the auditorium during the day. He asked me: Why did you come to the park so late and you couldn't sleep? I nodded, so we sat down and he asked me where I was from. He asked me what my hometown was like and why I wanted to be in the Navy.”

"I answered him...I...I said, I said that my hometown was once a world full of hunger and barrenness, and then everything changed from the moment the Tyron Navy fleet appeared in the galaxy, my The governor of my hometown thought that the people here should do something to repay the favor of the Lord of Tyrone, so he selected a thousand smartest children as gifts. "

"If I have to find a reason, for the Lord of Tailong, this is the reason."

Talon was surprised to find that he clearly remembered everything about that encounter.

"Lord Tyrone asked me about my results again, and I explained them in detail. Then he checked my file and said that my results were not very good, but my willpower in the psychological test was very high. This characteristic will be an important assessment characteristic that will affect my final assessment results when I graduate. It is possible for me to become a member of the Tyrone Navy."

"Then I served on the Autumn Wind and was promoted to weapons officer. After I was injured, I was transferred to the transport and supply fleet to lead you..."