Warhammer Inquisitor

Chapter 272 The Rise of the Primarch: The Executor

The shining light of the subspace delights the outside of the bridge window, and the shining and unpredictable space exists outside the ship. It is like a rushing wave in the sea sliding past both sides, and countless lines and energy waves converge into a single line. Passage, an astral gate that allows ships to travel from one end of the galaxy to the other.

Vito stood behind the hanging window of the bridge and looked at the subspace passage outside. The shining blue light shone on his face, and also illuminated his gray-black straight navy uniform. On his arm was a symbol of the Federal Navy. The soaring eagle holds a planet under its feet, and a ring of anchors surrounds the planet ring, and the military rank badge composed of five gold stars is matched on Vito's shoulder.

The upright and straight lapel surrounds Vito's neck. He is standing by the hanging window with his hands behind his back. A small human figure suddenly appears on a console next to him. She has her hands behind her back and is wearing a tight-fitting black and gray tights. Fitting to the body like the skin, the short hair made of Guangli makes her look young, but very capable.

"Sir, we are about to arrive at Northen Star." She said, and Vito looked at her from the window and nodded slightly. Then he looked out of the window to the subspace passage again, but he did not continue to remain silent.

"Helen, what's the situation in the battle for the outer ring?" Vito continued with his hands behind his back, the blue space tunnel light projected on his face, and the shining light slid from both sides of his body and shot towards the inside of the bridge behind him.

"The situation is going well, sir, the Sixth Fleet, the Seventh and Tenth Fleets have reported that they have broken through the western defense line of the Trade Union, and the Marine Corps has captured Valorian Star. General Spike and Colonel Proctor are organizing follow-up attacks, They promise to take the Ildak Starlink Corridor within a month."

Helen said with a wave of her hand, a holographic star map randomly appeared in front of her, on which were countless advancing light spots, they pierced into the heart of the outer ring densely like a pair of daggers, the tip of the blade was gradually deepening , Drain the giant's blood until it completely bled to death.

Vito glanced at the star map from the corner of his eye, and nodded in satisfaction, "Where is Yulayan? I remember saying that it was not easy to fight at the last report."

"This was the case last time, but Captain Kate seems to have found a way to break through the automated defenses of the Yulayan Consortium. The artificial intelligence on Captain Kate's flagship reported to me that their fleet is approaching the Yulayan Consortium. body's battle droid factory, the attack will begin as soon as possible."

Vito nodded slightly, and moved closer to the hanging window. He almost reached the glass window cut out by steel beams. Vito's fingers lightly pressed against the window, as if he wanted to touch the light wall of the subspace. Same.

"Tell Kate that the battle robot factory must be completely destroyed. If FAN's information is correct, a large part of the factory is in the underground permanent fortification. Tell her to send the Marine Battalion down to completely destroy everything in the factory. I don't want to See a robot coming out of nowhere."

Helen turned to Vito, a series of data quickly flashed across her eyes, the order was transmitted rapidly, the quantum entanglement communication array equipped with the Consul made the order information instantly transmitted to the other corner of the galaxy, Helen's eyes briefly It turned green in an instant, and she raised her head to look at Vito's profile.

"Sir, Captain Kate's artificial intelligence lieutenant asked if it is possible to use the Star Destroyer weapon to destroy the star itself." "No, tell her it's not possible." Vito immediately said sideways, pointing in Helen's direction and giving the order affirmatively.

"Tell her that the factory must be destroyed, but Geonosis itself cannot be destroyed. After ordering the follow-up fleet to repair the planet's star port and ground facilities, all reinforcements transferred from the federal territory need to be resupplied through Geonosis, Only then can we join the Battle of the Outer Ring, that is our key logistics hub, and we will need a base somewhere to be stationed in the Outer Ring in the future.”

Helen nodded slightly, her eyes flickered again, and the light disappeared after a short moment, and she also raised her eyes to look at Vito, "The order has been issued, sir."

Vito also nodded, and he walked back to the interior from the hanging window of the bridge with his hands behind his back. He walked along the central aisle of the command deck of the huge bridge to the huge holographic imaging equipment at the back.

He walked past countless naval members who were busy on both sides. Countless operating platforms, terminal instruments and control areas were neatly arranged on both sides. This is the brain and nerve center of the entire Executor, and all parts are connected. With the assistance of various military officers and intelligent programs, it proceeded in an orderly manner, weaving this neural network into a truly efficient brain.

When Vito walked to the holographic projection table, Helen also flashed over, and a small and remarkable artificial intelligence lady appeared on the table. With her lightly raising her hand, countless holographic icons and data floated up. But orderly everything gathered in front of Vito's eyes, as neat as everything here, and clear at a glance.

Vito stood at the table and reviewed the information on it with his hands behind his back. It was the battlefield situation collected from various galaxy battlefields during this period after he left the Harvest Star Command. There were countless briefings, information and instructions. are arranged.

It's hard to believe that since Vito has to deal with such huge, complicated and chaotic information, it's actually not as difficult as he imagined. After all, Helen assisted him in handling all this. Most of the non-important information, such as logistics and administrative issues, will be handled by Helen. It is automatically processed after analysis, so Vito doesn't need to deal with so many things.

But even so, before Vito’s eyes, there are a lot of military information like stars. Since the start of the peripheral battle, their respective military information is like a piece of paper. Helen may be able to handle most of the logistics, dispatch and administrative issues, but these are the real ones. The war decision needs to be decided by Vito himself.

"On the other side of the earth, is there any result on the matter of increasing military expenditure?" Vito slid his finger on the holographic interface, and the data files were opened and then scratched in front of his eyes. His eyes quickly reviewed the contents, and the brain Work with amazing efficiency.

Helen also put her hands behind her back, and she looked at the pile of messages above her head, "The council is still arguing, and Colonel Amira said that it is now in the council." Helen looked in the direction she was looking at.

At the entrance to the bridge Kenobi, the old bastard was walking in, but was stopped by two tall battle droid military police, no bionic faces on their diamond-shaped heads, just a small flashing indicator lights, but they can obviously see the person in front of them even without eyes.

The military police robot stepped forward to block him, and the robot's arm pressed the ion pistol at his waist according to the program, "You are not authorized to enter, please leave immediately."

Obviously Kenobi didn't intend to leave. His eyes seemed to know that Vito was there, and he looked over very directly, and the meaning couldn't be more obvious. Vito sighed helplessly and rubbed his forehead, while Helen stood aside. He looked at Vito with a puzzled expression rarely seen on artificial intelligence.

"Your friend, should I allow him to board the bridge?" Helen asked, of course she had to ask herself, after all, she brought that guy on board by herself, and told the officer on duty and Helen that he was her friend, if not necessary He can wander around in the boat at will, and take a look around, just as it is to pass the time for him.

But Vito didn't expect him to come here. Vito sighed helplessly, and nodded to Helen, "Let him be authorized. He's here anyway." "Yes, sir."

As always, Vito's order was executed within a few seconds in the artificial intelligence network. The indicator lights of the military police robots flickered and then moved to the sides. Kenobi looked at them and smiled and walked in. bridge.

His eyes looked at the busy but orderly bridge of the Executor, and Vito looked at Kenobi who was coming, and sighed helplessly, "You bastard, why did you come to my bridge? It's tens of kilometers away. Have you finished shopping for the long flagship?"

"Compared to other parts, I want to see its brain more. I think this is the most important part of a ship." Kenobi said as he came to the table, he smiled and nodded to Helen.

He looked at Helen kindly, and Helen responded to him with the same kind smile, although it was most likely an automatic feedback of the etiquette procedure, why?Because Helen usually doesn't bother to smile at Vito, most of them talk to herself with a blank face, so yes, it is definitely an automatic feedback.

Kenobi may or may not have known, but he still made a polite expression, "Hi, I believe you are Helen, right? Vito told me a lot about you."

"Hello, Mr. Kenobi, the officer has mentioned many things about you to me, I believe you are old friends." Helen said, Kenobi looked at Vito with a smile, and glanced slightly, " Did he tell you how old we were friends?"

"Sir." "A very old friend, an old bastard." Vito interrupted Helen. He folded his arms and looked at Kenobi in front of the table. The latter also touched the edge of the holographic table and looked around. On the bridge, his eyes gradually narrowed as he observed.

"There are a lot of artificial intelligence and robots here, Vito, there are already as many robots on your ship as there are humans." Kenobi said, and Vito shrugged helplessly.

"After the Eldar war, the entire Federation was in disrepair. We lost a lot of people and labor in the war, but society will not stop functioning because of it. So yes, robots and artificial intelligence replaced those jobs. In fact, they did The ones are not bad, they are very efficient under Helen's control."

As Vito said, Kenobi personally witnessed the efficient scene. In the control area of ​​the bridge beside him, a robot helped a human crew member complete the data loading very efficiently, and it took almost one hour. It is completed in an instant, just insert the mechanical finger into the card slot, and then the complex data is registered and the calculation is completed.

This obviously saved the human crew a lot of trouble, but he obviously didn't know how to appreciate it, or why did he need so many complicated emotions for a machine?So he just waved his hand and told the robot to leave. Facing that arrogant attitude, the machine didn't have any complaints and just left silently.

"Do you like these robots? Vito, and artificial intelligence." Kenobi's eyes still scanned the surroundings, but he still asked his own question.

Vito looked at Helen beside him and smiled, he shrugged his shoulders, "I really like Helen, but the others are far from habit, but we really need them now."

"Sir, I told you, please don't flirt with me. It's meaningless. My program doesn't have the relevant part to respond to you." As expected, Helen immediately changed her expression when facing Vito. She was expressionless. Said, the tone is indifferent.

Vito smiled and waved his hand. He reached out to touch Helen's head, but as expected, the body made of light was penetrated instantly. Helen's upper body penetrated the back of Vito's hand and floated on the back of his hand. She looked at him expressionlessly.

"Sir, it's also meaningless for you to do this." "Don't be so boring, Helen, we can find you a bionic robot body. I heard that the appearance can be customized! How about I customize one for you?" "Sir , please allow me to refuse, this will delay my work a lot.”

Kenobi squinted slightly at Helen, then glanced at Vito again, thinking about a question in his heart, is artificial intelligence really just a machine?If Helen can already flirt with Vito, will the robot who was treated roughly just now hold a grudge like a human?

"What are you looking at, don't stare at my girl, find one yourself." Vito raised his head decisively and shouted, Kenobi was amused by his sudden appearance, he shook his head and walked to the other side of the holographic table side.

"I'm looking at your bridge, and I have to say, your ship is very monotonous from beginning to end, lacking in decoration and artistic embellishments." Kenobi said, looking at various data floating in the sky.

"I call this aesthetics of pragmatism. I'm sorry that my fleet has this style. I'm not in the mood to bother with your gothic decoration fetishes. I'd rather use the money to buy two more shells." Vito He directly refuted Kenobi, and there was quite a bit of irony in his tone. After hearing this, Kenobi was not angry, he just smiled and swipe at the star map in front of him.

"I think what were you guys talking about before I came in, don't let me interrupt you." Kenobi said very naturally, as if he was the captain of the ship, which made Vito raise his eyebrows He looked at him dumbfounded.

"You really don't treat yourself as an outsider, why are you telling secrets in front of your face? If you want to hear it, go to the army first, and I can approve you to go to the logistics department of the Executor to clean toilets and so on." Vito Continuing to wear his provocative smile, he doesn't look like a marshal who leads the largest armed forces in the entire galaxy.

"I'd rather be your superior, Vito, how about the immediate boss?" Kenobi said with a smile, while Vito rolled his eyes without cutting, and held his head with one hand like a pistol .

"As your subordinate? I, Vito Constantine, even if I shot myself in the head and jumped off the bridge, I would definitely not help you fight!"

Kenobi rubbed his chin and smiled, he smiled and sighed softly, "The future is long, old friend, anything is possible."

"Both, if the quarrel between your old friends is over, I have to interrupt you. We are here." Helen said and turned to look at the window of the bridge. As Helen saw that the subspace passage suddenly reached the end, the starry sky It suddenly appeared in the passage, and then the battleship jumped out of the subspace with a sense of shock.

The Executor suddenly appeared from the starry sky, and it flashed out from the subspace passage, as if it was pulled out from a small gap folded and cut in the background of the Milky Way. The other two battleships behind him also jumped and appeared behind him.

"The Oak and the Iron Cross also jumped out. They are finished, sir, waiting for your order." Helen looked at Vito and said with a blank expression. The huge planet suspended in the starry sky outside the window is completely a snowball. Apart from the pale color, only some gray mountains can be seen on the surface.

"Can you contact the Federation forces on this planet? Any part is fine." Vito asked looking at the surface of the planet, and his question was answered immediately, quite quickly.

"No, all channels are disconnected." "Where is the intelligent network of this planet? It is also disconnected?" "I said, sir, all disconnected."

Vito looked at the planet and frowned. After a moment of silence, he turned his head to look at the holographic projection screen. He swept away all the information windows in front of him and stood up with his chin in his hand. "This planet, Nuo Sen , is there anything worth noting?"

Helen also turned around and swiped her finger slightly in front of her body. The digital sphere of North Sen was projected in front of her eyes instantly, and a lot of information appeared beside the spinning pale planet.

"Overall, there is nothing worth mentioning. Northen Star has always been a very inconspicuous planet in the Federation. It was not developed for mining until a century ago. There are only scattered settlements on the planet, and most of the population They are all miners, and the industrial structure is very single.”

Helen summed up all the things worth mentioning for Vito and Kenobi. Indeed, there is nothing remarkable about this planet. It is the most inconspicuous and least important place among the federal colonies.

"Can you scan the location where the enemy ship crashed?" Vito held his chin and looked at the planet. His eyes were fixed on the snow-white planet, trying to find something. Helen flicked his finger and the size of the planet rapidly enlarged. Then quickly zoomed in and locked on to the location where the battleship crashed.

It was an ultra-high-definition scanned picture, and its resolution was high enough to clearly see every piece of wreckage scattered on the ice field by the shattered battleship, as well as the numbers on each piece of wreckage, and the body of the battleship hit a mountain range , its surface is almost completely covered by snow, only a few steel wreckages are still exposed.

"According to the scan results, the battleship has been completely damaged, but there is a strange point." Helen said with a slight tilt of her head. Her strange appearance was a bit cute. Vito really wanted to talk to her about this now, but he knew Now is not the time.

"What's so strange?" Vito asked sideways. Helen looked at the picture of the wreckage of the battleship and held her chin, thinking about something with a thoughtful expression.

"I scanned the battleship and found some abnormal energy spectrum on it, which is not within the scope of any Federation data. I can't tell what it is, but its power is very strong." Helen pointed to the wreckage, a mass of red A halo of light appeared on the wreckage, and the flickering light caused Kenobi to prop himself up on the table. He looked closely at the wreckage, frowning, and then suddenly got up and whispered to Vito.

He leaned over to Vito, folded his arms and looked at Vito from the corner of his eye, "I think that's the stele, it's inside." "Then it looks like we know where to find that broken stone."

Vito said and looked at Helen, "At the same time, the commandos, let them get ready to go down with us." Before Vito finished speaking, Kenobi grabbed his arm. Vito looked at him, and the latter shook his head silently. .

"We need reliable people. Mortals are unreliable right now." Kenobi whispered, looking at the sailors beside him, and Vito shrugged after taking a look.

"There are also commandos of combat robots. Their firepower and technological level are equivalent to a reinforced platoon." Vito said, and Kenobi shook his head again. He looked at the robots passing by and frowned, his eyes Moves with the passing robot until he is out of sight.

"No, I don't even believe in these things that only have programs in their heads. This time it's just you and me going down." "Are you praising yourself for being reliable? Do you want to show some face?" "No, I think the two of us are very reliable. Spectrum, so yeah, if you think that's shameless, what about your face?"

Vito and the guy beside him looked at each other closely and then laughed. He patted him on the shoulder and turned to look at Helen. The artificial intelligence lady also waited for the order with her hands behind her back.

"I will go down with Keno, I don't know how long it will be back, but if I contact you to let you bomb somewhere, don't ask questions, can it be done immediately?"

After Vito's words were spoken, Helen remained silent. Her eyes that shone with light looked at Vito and was silent for a few seconds. Vito leaned on the table with a smile, leaning sideways in front of Helen, "Don't worry, little girl, I'll be fine."

"I'm not worried about you, sir, I'm worried about the operation of the weapon system." Helen said blankly, while Vito patted the table lightly with a smile and stood up. He patted his own The trouser legs looked at the starry sky outside the window, and squinted slightly at the atmosphere of the planet.

"Except for the friendly targets that I contacted you directly, everything that lifts off from Nordson will be destroyed. Even a piece of space junk will be blown up to me. Nothing is allowed to leave this ice-breaking puck, understand?" "Understood, sir."

Vito looked at Helen and smiled for the last time, then patted Kenobi on the shoulder and walked towards the gate of the bridge. Kenobi also nodded politely to Helen and followed Vito.

Helen watched the two people walking towards the exit of the bridge in silence, and the artificial intelligence lady turned to look at the huge snowball, showing a complex expression that was difficult to see from the artificial intelligence's face.

She heard a voice, a voice that is impossible for humans to hear, and can only be heard in the data network of artificial intelligence. When she connected to the intelligent system of the planet, the voice appeared, a chaotic data flow The violent sound, distorted, and hoarse mechanical electronic sound, seems to be some kind of special interference noise.

As soon as it appeared, it was ready to attack Helen and invade her system, but it was also isolated in the subsystem by Helen, who is an excellent artificial intelligence, in an instant.

Helen opened her palm, and she frowned looking at the red halo in front of her eyes, "What the hell are you?"

(End of this chapter)