Chapter 358: Chapter 267 Ready to Go
During the delivery period of five standard Terra weeks, Fu Qinghai was waiting on Saturn and did not go anywhere else.
On the one hand, they were waiting for the Saturn Shipyard to modify the warships, and on the other hand, they were also waiting for the Navy to deliver the crew.
Even if all the crew members of the Fiery Horse were moved to the Purification, they would still not be enough to operate this behemoth. Additional crew members would definitely be needed. These experienced sailors all came from the split and transferred members of the Imperial Navy. Ilia Lavallee had coordinated and arranged everything in the Military Affairs Department.
As the representative of Party A, Fu Qinghai went to the scene in person to give instructions and supervise the modification of the Supremacy by the Saturn Shipyard.
It is different from the complex equipment series possessed by the Imperial Navy: from small and fast frigates and destroyers, to the mainstay light, standard and heavy cruisers, to the final battleships, and a wide variety of special-function ships.
After the promulgation of the Codex Astartes, there were only two types of warships in the Astartes Chapter's fleet: battle barges and strike cruisers.
Battle barges are specially modified battleships, and strike cruisers are specially modified cruisers. What makes them special? The transport deck and drop bay are add-ons designed specifically for Space Marines.
Teleportation technology must be used in conjunction with power armor, which mortal soldiers usually do not have. Orbital airborne strikes are also exclusive to Space Marines, because the fragile bodies of mortals cannot withstand the huge overload of orbital airborne strikes.
The Alicia Airborne Troopers in the Imperial Guard do not belong to orbital airborne strikes. They are more like paratroopers. They do not use airborne pods, but gravity parachutes.
Therefore, if it is just an ordinary naval cruiser or battleship, there is no need to install a transfer deck and an airdrop launch port. They will not be used at all, including the training cage. Mortals will be tortured to death if they enter the training cage.
For the Brotherhood of God Machine, the Fiery Steed is a strike cruiser and the Purity is a battle barge. In addition to the above-mentioned necessary special components, some additional facilities unique to the White Scars, such as a motorcycle training ground, also need to be installed.
Qiao Shida worked hard to train the new recruits, and Fu Qinghai carefully observed the modifications.
Fu Qinghai also wanted to own his own Phaeton Shipyard, so he was particularly curious about the process flow of the Saturn Shipyard. He watched the entire process of the modification of the Serenity. Tony Stark's electronic soul backup was running at high speed as if it was boiling, and he learned a lot from them.
He was a casting master and also the representative of Party A. He insisted on standing by and watching, so the oil guys couldn't say much.
…
One and a half months later.
A brand new Emperor-class battleship is docked at the airport.
Fu Qinghai stood on the bridge with his hands behind his back, looking at the dense crowds of people below. Uniformed crew members boarded the ship one after another, and the flow of people shuttled back and forth in an endless stream, gradually merging into this giant ship.
The crew is the cornerstone of the warship, just as ordinary people are the cornerstone of the empire. Many of them may spend their entire lives, or even generations, on this battleship.
We'll have to let No. 56 conduct a psychic interrogation later. The Puritan is the flagship of the Brotherhood, and spies from the Inquisition, the Assassins' Court, the Ministry of Justice and the like must not be allowed to sneak in.
Fu Qinghai thought secretly in his heart.
…
The meeting room of the Serenity.
It is more spacious and luxurious than the Sharp Horse.
Key members of the Shen Ji Brotherhood attended the meeting.
Fu Qinghai looked at Eugene and said:
"All crew members of the Fiery Horse are transferred to the Rectification. I will be the fleet commander, Eugene will be the captain, Tracy Gray will still be the chief navigator, and Xia Long Frospin will be the director of the Star Language Choir."
Two ships are also ships, and a mini fleet is also a fleet.
The Su Zheng completely took over the old crew of the Liema. These were old men who had followed Fu Qinghai through battles. They were trustworthy in terms of loyalty and ability.
Eugene Eleanor wrote them down one by one.
When Eugene heard that Xia Long Frospin would serve as the director of Star Language, he was obviously stunned and hesitated to speak.
Fu Qinghai said calmly:
"If you have something to say, just say it."
Xia Long was also at the meeting. Eugene glanced at the little girl and said to Fu Qinghai:
"Khan, Xia Long's service time is relatively short after all. I'm worried about the Star Language Choir..."
Fu Qinghai said firmly:
"This is my decision. Xia Long is the director of Star Language. There is no need to discuss this further."
Xia Long had just graduated from the Psychic Academy at the age of nineteen and joined the Fiery Horse as the only astropath. Now he is only twenty-one years old. The Purification is different from the Fiery Horse. The Purification is equipped with a complete astropathic choir and choir.
Fu Qinghai insisted on letting this girl in her early twenties be the astropathic supervisor because Fu Qinghai only trusted Xia Long. It was not uncommon for psychics to be possessed by demons, and usually the choice was to be executed on the spot. Fu Qinghai tried his best to rescue her, and the girl was grateful for his help. The two conspired to pass on a lot of false astropathic information.
What's more, whether it is the graduation report of the Psychic Academy or Xia Long's usual performance, including the possession by the Slaanesh demon, it shows that she is a girl with high psychic talent. Ordinary humans do not have the conditions to be possessed by demons.
The little girl, her eyes covered with lace, sat timidly in her seat, her fair and slender hands twisted together nervously, her head hung and she dared not speak.
Tracy Gray beside her smiled but said nothing.
Fu Qinghai clapped his hands and said,
"Okay, let's arrange it this way. Get familiar with the work of each position as soon as possible and make this battleship operate normally. After that, we will return to Terra to rest for a while, replenish energy, ammunition and various supplies, and then embark on a new journey."
"Camille stay, everyone else, the meeting is dismissed. Oh, Old Qiao, call Lin Yu to the meeting room."
After Fu Qinghai gave his instructions, everyone left one after another.
Tracy came to Fu Qinghai and said,
"Khan, taking advantage of the opportunity to rest in Terra, I would like to take a few days off to go home. My family is in Atlantis."
Fu Qinghai nodded:
"Okay, just return to the team on time."
Looking at the navigator's departing back, Fu Qinghai suddenly remembered something and raised his hand to call her:
"Wait a minute, Tracy."
The woman turned around with a confused look on her face.
Fu Qinghai said,
"Please help me find out if there is a family with the surname 'Kamp' on Terra. There is a composer named 'Hall Kamp' in their family who once served as a recorder on the cruiser Sothalan of the Ultramarines Legion."
Tracy felt a little strange, but agreed:
"Okay, Khan."
Then he turned and left.
The three-month-long siege of Terra not only destroyed the buildings and facilities of the Throne World, but also shattered the old aristocratic system and gentry class of the Throne World. Those nobles who hid in the palace were fine, but those who did not hide in the palace would be killed if they did not surrender, and would be liquidated if they surrendered.
The last time he returned to Terra, Fu Qinghai asked Ilia Lavallee to use his connections in the Military Affairs Department to find this "Kamp Family", but it turned out that there was no such family. During the years of war and chaos, many powerful families with a long history fell in the Horus Heresy, and Hall Kamp was obviously not a prominent family.
All Navigator families are hereditary nobles. Perhaps Tracy Gray can find out information about the Hall Camp family from the noble circles in Terra.
Lin Yu, wearing training clothes, walked into the meeting room.
The meeting of the reincarnations began.
Fu Qinghai knocked on the table and said,
"You two, let's talk about the last reincarnation world."
"Khan, my last reincarnation world was a copy of the movie Elysium."
Lin Yu spoke first.
"Oh, Elysium?"
Fu Qinghai's expression brightened when he heard this:
"Have you got the fully automatic medical platform?"
Elysium's Medpod series of fully automatic medical platforms are the high-tech ceiling of science fiction medical care. Their effects are even more magical than the Bacta boxes in Star Wars. Although it is not known whether it works on biochemically modified humans like Space Marines with two hearts and three lungs, it is highly likely that it will not work, but it is also very good for mortal soldiers and chapter servants.
Lin Yu shook his head, put a strange-looking gun on the table, and said,
"Only this, the Kusar Klau Pulse Rifle."
Fu Qinghai was greatly disappointed and cursed:
"No, you are a Space Marine who has come to the Elysium Universe, and you are a brand new and enhanced version. Can't you even handle a fully automatic medical platform? What's the point of giving you a two-hearted and three-lung power armor?"
Lin Yu smiled bitterly and said:
"Boss, have you forgotten that I don't have the money to assimilate the power armor? I even had to borrow the assimilation points to assimilate this body from you."
Oh, when Lin Yu said that, Fu Qinghai also remembered it.
I was so anxious to scold him just now that I forgot about this.
"Besides, my height of 2.67 meters is really too eye-catching. I was almost captured by the Citizen Cooperation Administration and the Amadenai Company for research. It took a lot of effort to escape."
Lin Yu said.
It sounds like a disgrace to the Space Marines.
But Fu Qinghai could empathize with him. He himself had been a naked space warrior for a period of time. Elysium was also a science fiction universe. There were weapons that could penetrate power armor, let alone a mere enhanced flesh and blood body.
Lin Yu returned all the thousands of assimilation points he had borrowed to Fu Qinghai. It seemed that although this guy didn't get the black technology, he did make a lot of assimilation points. However, as long as he could get the fully automatic medical platform, Fu Qinghai would rather he not pay back the money.
"Director Ka, what about you?"
Fu Qinghai turned to Camille.
Camille curled her lips helplessly:
"The reincarnation main world of Jurassic Park is pretty boring."
Jurassic Park Universe... Fu Qinghai recalled the series of movies he had watched in his childhood and nodded. There were indeed no scientific and technological achievements worthy of praise, except for using a drop of mosquito blood in amber to replicate most of the dinosaurs from the Jurassic period.
Strictly speaking, InGen is "biosynthesizing" dinosaurs rather than "resurrecting" dinosaurs, because the atmospheric environment in the Mesozoic period of the Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Triassic and the modern Earth period is definitely different.
Fu Qinghai was thinking when Camille pushed a hard drive to the table and said:
"International Genetic Technology Corporation's complete set of information on biological cloning technology."
Fu Qinghai laughed and took the hard drive:
"You really understand me, Director Ka. You are worthy of being the chief pharmacist of our Brotherhood of God. I just happen to have some special creatures from the Fallout Universe that I need you to clone."
Camille is a steady and reliable man, much more reliable than Lin Yu, a young boy. Moreover, Camille is no longer a newcomer in reincarnation. The points he has accumulated are enough for him to assimilate the power armor, and with the medical backpack on his back, there should be no problem.
…
Mars, outer orbit.
A huge fleet is about to set sail.
A battleship, a cruiser, a weird fishbone spaceship, in addition to a Goliath-class factory ship and a total of nine Imperial transport ships.
The latter two were loaded with personnel and supplies sent from Mars to Phaeton.
The Goliath-class factory ship is a Mechanicus ship of a higher level than the Goliath-class forge. It can directly absorb plasma from stars to provide a source of energy for the ship's fuel and onboard production systems. Its disadvantage is that it is very fragile and can explode at the slightest touch.
Imperial transport ships. Fu Qinghai was very familiar with this type of ship. His debut battle, the battle of Planet Loswell 7, was fought around three Imperial transport ships, but those three Imperial transport ships were controlled by the Word Bearers.
"Great Sage Kane has expressed enough goodwill towards your teacher. Master Quinto has a high status on Mars."
Ilia Lavare stood beside Fu Qinghai and said.
The two stood side by side, looking through the armored glass portholes of the bridge at the servitors busy loading various instruments and equipment below. The huge production line was split into sections and carefully sent into the huge open cargo hold of the transport ship.
Fu Qinghai nodded slightly and said:
"Too many Forge Worlds are obedient to orders and not to declarations. Mars also hopes to develop a faction loyal to itself in the border areas of the Hazy Star Region."
"Master Quinto has promised Great Sage Kane that within the next ten years, the paint job of Phaeton Forge World will still be the same rust red as Mars. Not only that, all products produced by Phaeton, the emblem logo, identification system and forging specifications will be consistent with those of the First Forge World."
Fu Qinghai said lightly.
Ilia looked up at Fu Qinghai in confusion.
She was not very familiar with Master Quinto, but her intuition told her that this seemed to be the work of Fu Qinghai.
"You gave Master Quinto the idea?"
Ilia asked.
Fu Qinghai nodded.
Great Sage Kane hopes that Phaeton will become "Little Mars", but the reality may disappoint him - Fu Qinghai and his teacher are both very interested in alien technology, and with the continuous technological supplements from other reincarnation worlds, Phaeton is likely to become the second Huangquan No. 8.
People call him "Little Yellow Eight".
…
Fu Qinghai led several technical priests to walk in the corridor of the Ishimura. The oil men looked around and were very curious about the internal structure of this "ancient technology spaceship".
"As you can see."
Fu Qingbian talked as he walked.
"This ancient spacecraft uses a superluminal navigation technology that is similar to our current technology but not exactly the same. I call it the 'oscillation point' navigation technology."
There is never a lack of a variety of faster-than-light travel technologies in science fiction works, from subspace navigation to hyperspace travel, from wormhole travel to warp flight.
The FTL engine of the Dead Space series has a unique name - "Oscillating Point Drive", which comes from the great invention of Dr. Hideo Ishimura.
When using the oscillation point drive to travel faster than light, the spacecraft is in a distorted space-time called "oscillation space". During this process, the spacecraft itself will be wrapped in a special force field to prevent itself from being distorted by the oscillation space. The concept of this force field is very similar to the "warp bubble" mentioned in other science fiction works.
It has been reflected in the game "Dead Space 3" that in order to avoid getting lost in the distorted shock space, ships need to use shock beacons located at the destination for navigation during navigation. The shock beacon is similar to the role of a navigator.
The comic book Dead Space: Reclaim also features a giant ring-shaped oscillating point drive auxiliary device called the "Oscillating Ring", which functions similarly to the Star Gate in Warhammer 40K.
Fu Qinghai stopped at the engine area, pointed at the vibration point driver in front of him, and said:
"Although I haven't tried to start it, after analysis I think this ancient technology engine - the shock point drive, is very likely a type of subspace engine, which can allow ships to enter the subspace."
A technical priest immediately raised a question:
"But this spacecraft does not have a Geller force field generator. How does it maintain stable navigation in the warp space?"
Fu Qinghai smiled slightly:
"I guess... the subspace in ancient times might not be as turbulent and full of energy as it is now."
The technical priests were stunned when they heard this.
The ancient warp was peaceful?
This is a very bold guess.
Involves the history of the Warhammer 40K universe.
"Do you have any evidence, Qingshan Khan?"
Fu Qinghai shook his head:
"No, just a guess."
He can't say that he has read the settings of GW.
"Alright, dear technicians."
Fu Qinghai clapped his hands and said,
"I didn't ask you to come here to explore the history of the universe. What we need to discuss now is a practical engineering and technical problem - how to make this spaceship follow my fleet to the Misty Star Region."
At this point, the oil guys temporarily put aside their speculation about ancient technology and began to discuss it.
Some people suggested fixing the Ishimura to a large transport ship, while others suggested temporarily installing a Geller force field on the Ishimura.
In short, there is a way.
…
Terra, Lionsgate Airport.
Lin Yu, wearing power armor, led Tracy Gray to Fu Qinghai's captain's room.
Fu Qinghai looked up from his desk:
"You are late, navigator."
Tracy, who was standing behind Lin Yu, had disheveled clothes, messy hair, tearful eyes, and a red nose from crying.
Fu Qinghai was a little surprised.
In my impression, Tracy is a typical Terran upper-class aristocratic woman, with a magnetic voice, elegant manners, and always speaks with the temperament of a Throne World resident who has seen the world. Why does she look so messy today?
"Khan!"
Tracy came to Fu Qinghai and choked up as she cried,
"My family, my father and grandfather, they forced me to marry my brother. They said they would send a navigator to replace me on the Suzheng, and I would stay in Terra to get married and give birth to offspring for the family."
"Then what?"
"I didn't want to, and I refused to obey them, so they locked me up in the family dungeon. I found the right opportunity to escape, and they sent the family's private soldiers to chase me. Fortunately, I met Commander Lin on the way to Lion Gate Airport..."
Fu Qinghai looked at Lin Yu:
"Where are the pursuers?"
Lin Yu made a gesture of wiping his neck.
Fu Qinghai's eyes widened:
"Killed!? You little bastard, this is the fucking Holy Terra, you kill people casually in Terra?"
Lin Yu waved his hands quickly:
"No, no, no, Khan, I just knocked them out and threw them into the sewer."
Fu Qinghai thought this was pretty good.
As the son of the Minister of Justice, it is not surprising that he has no legal knowledge at all.
Fu Qinghai is certainly not afraid of a navigator family, no matter it is an authoritarian family settled in the capital, a nomadic family following the fleet, or a deceitful family living in the border.
But there is no need to deliberately offend a Navigator family.
These guys sometimes stick together. Once upon a time, the news of the Emperor's Webway plan was accidentally leaked and learned by the Navigator ambassador. Fearing that they would lose their current status and role after the success of the Webway plan, all the Navigator families wanted to unite to secretly sabotage the Emperor's Webway plan.
You have to know that at that time, the Horus Heresy had not yet broken out, Malcador was still alive, all the members of the Custodes were still alive, and the eighteen Primarchs and their respective legions were all loyal, yet these Navigators dared to do such a small trick behind the scenes.
It can be seen how unscrupulous and cruel the vested interest groups are when it comes to safeguarding their own inherent interests.
Of course, on the other hand, some senior and elderly navigators are actually very powerful in combat. Their psychic abilities are mysterious and difficult to guard against. There was once a case where a warp demon that broke into a battleship after the Geller force field of the battleship failed was driven back by a navigator with just one glance.
Inbreeding is a common method used by Navigator families to maintain their psychic bloodline. Fu Qinghai is not in a position to comment casually. A family that cannot give birth to Navigators will inevitably gradually lose its transcendent status and favorable treatment. The Thorndike family of the Schwerin hive is an example.
Fu Qinghai is carefully weighing the pros and cons.
He just heard that Tracy encountered some trouble in Terra, so he sent Lin Yu to the Navigator Compass to bring her back. He didn't expect that this would be the result.
Fu Qinghai looked at Tracy:
"What do you think?"
Tracy sobbed and said:
"I don't want to marry my brother. I hate this kind of inbreeding. I hate my parents. They got married under the pressure of the family. I spent my childhood in this distorted family environment."
"My brother has had a congenital genetic defect since he was a child. His limbs are paralyzed, his intelligence is low, and his body is swollen like a monster. However, the family is unwilling to put an end to his suffering. They keep him in a dungeon just to keep him alive so that he can marry a woman in the family one day."
Tracy hugged Fu Qinghai's arm, raised her face with tears streaming down her face, looked at Fu Qinghai and said,
"I didn't expect... I didn't expect that they would choose me. Wuwuwu, Khan, please save me, I don't want to go back, I don't want to go back and get married."
"well."
Fu Qinghai rubbed his brows in embarrassment and sighed,
"I understand. Just stay on the battleship and I will take care of it."
There was no other way, Fu Qinghai could only contact Ilia.
"Si Zu, I've encountered something tricky..."
Fu Qinghai repeated the situation to Ilia Lavallee over the communication link.
"Why do you want to get involved in the affairs of the Navigator family, Qingshan?"
Ilia's counter-question was just what Fu Qinghai had expected.
Indeed, whether it is inbreeding or keeping relatives in captivity, they are all internal affairs of the Navigator family and are also traditions. Even the Xingju Court cannot interfere, so why should Fu Qinghai interfere?
Fu Qinghai could only change his perspective:
"Let me put it this way, Sizu, although Tracy has not yet shown a particularly strong talent, I need a navigator I can trust... In addition, Sizu, you are also a woman, I believe you can understand her feelings."
Elia Lavallee was silent.
She is a non-marriageist. Not only that, she has not even looked for a partner after joining the Military Affairs Department. Ilia's extreme obsession with data makes her feel that a partner is redundant and very annoying in her life.
But that doesn't mean she can't empathize.
"Okay, I get it. I'll find a way."
Finally, Ilia spoke slowly.
Fu Qinghai didn't want her to be embarrassed, so he said:
"If you need me to explain the situation to the Khan, I can report to him personally..."
"No need." Ilia interrupted directly, "Don't bother him with such trivial matters."
"Okay, I'll leave it to you then, Sizu."
...
(End of this chapter)