MTL - Warhammer Inquisitor-Chapter 5 Frontiers of Empire: The First Question

  Chapter 5 Frontiers of Empire: First Question

  Imperial Calendar: 997.M41

Cole stood in front of the holographic projector, his blue eyes staring at the dots formed on the holographic screen, looking at something thoughtfully, Bell also stood aside, the tall son of Ultramar was also thinking, Thinking about the same question.

  The problem of the beacon constantly flashing on the holographic projection in front of them, and soon, new thinkers joined them.

  Vito walked out of the arcade of the bridge with the remaining three Astartes warriors, and came straight to the holographic projection. The tall giants nodded to each other, standing like a high wall around them.

  Judge Vito stood opposite Cole, and also looked at a red dot on the large star map, a small red dot that shone with disturbing light.

   "Tell me, what's the situation?" Vito asked, and Cole cleared his throat, as if to speak louder so that everyone present could hear clearly.

"We have been sailing in subspace for more than a month. According to the reality of the divination instruments of the navigators and the Mechanicum, we have roughly approached the edge of the Victoria galaxy, and are approaching the local Mandeville point. With the blessing of the Emperor, we There is no distortion between the time of the universe and the reality of the universe."

   "Isn't this all a good thing?" Ragnar said, pointing at the display with his armored finger, "If the Omniscient Father is willing, we will be able to leave this cursed place soon."

"Unfortunately, Ragnar, it's not, or it's not all a good thing." Cole said, a space station suspended in the sea of ​​stars appeared in front of everyone, it was a very common deep space detection station in the empire, usually They are all responsible for early warning and observation missions of a galaxy and star area.

  Olaf looked at the space station and nodded thoughtfully, "You mean, there is trouble in this space station?" "Yes, old wolf, you are as wise as ever."

Cole looked at the space station and raised a hand, "The astropaths have received a message. As you all know, the communications of the astropaths are usually all kinds of riddles, metaphors and the like, just like the **** Eldar Annoying."

   "That's right, every time I hear them talking, I want to kill this group of riddlers with an axe." Ragnar said with a smile, "Why don't you just speak human words? Riddles every time."

"That's an ancient custom, Ragnar, I thought you Fenrisians valued it too." Lancelot said, still wearing the winged helmet under his arm, and Ragnar snorted unabashedly , "Our customs are simple and practical. It's a pity that I don't understand such complicated and profound meanings of etiquette like the noble knights."

  Lancelot smiled silently, and Vito was relieved that the Caliban knights were not going to quarrel with the wolf cubs now, obviously, they had more important things to do.

Vito nodded slightly to Cole, and the latter looked at the two tall warriors, "Then you need to know that this time, even our lady astropath didn't understand what was said on the other side, not a single word. .”

  The playful atmosphere suddenly turned cold. The four tall giants looked at Cole together, and the latter nodded affirmatively.

"This is not good news. Ms. Olia is an excellent astrologer. She once told me that she was trained in Terra. If she can't understand astronomy, it means that the situation is not simple." Olaf said, Then he looked at the star map, "Have you ruled out the cause of subspace interference?"

"Excluded, the power of the subspace did not affect the astronomical language. On the contrary, the astronomical language has been greatly enhanced. Ms. Olia believes that it is the astronomical language of the other party who burned all the psionic energy at the cost of their lives. "

Vito rested his chin and pondered for a while before speaking, "What is the content of the astronomical language?" Cole shook his head, "It is evasive and confusing, but there is only one thing that is clear, fear, pure Fear and confusion."

  Vito let out a long sigh of relief. He raised his hand to open the detection station, and switched the star map back to the star area level. He repeatedly swipe the coordinates and report information on it.

  Bell stood behind him, looked at the star map with him, and then frowned, "No chaos activity has been detected around here, judge, I don't think it's caused by chaos traitors."

"We don't rule out the possibility that our star map has expired. After all, the last time we updated the limit star field was a year ago, near the sector of Ultramar." Cole concluded, with the backs of his hands on the Behind him, he looked at those dots of light, and he had already installed all the information displayed here in his mind.

   "It is certain that the space station has been attacked, but it may be a small-scale chaos predator, or other alien pirates, or even human pirates. This is not uncommon."

   "But generally speaking, there will be one or two destroyers near the space station, and their firepower is also designed to resist small-scale attacks. If the space station is destroyed, I think the scale will definitely not be one or two cold shots."

Vito nodded slightly, stopped checking, and switched the coordinates back to the Victoria galaxy. He clicked on the main star of Victoria, which is a hive world. The data on the side showed the data on it, but most of them were The content is lackluster, no different from most hive worlds in the empire.

"Is there any news from the main star of Victoria?" "No, our ship has not received the news from the main star, do you think they may have known?" You should know it too."

   Cole also nodded affirmatively, turned his head and walked to the bridge and looked down, "Navigator, how far are we from Victoria's Mandeville?"

"Six seconds away, my lord, we are about to enter the range of Mandeville Point." The navigator responded, he was covered by the mechanical equipment, his covered eyes stared at the instrument interface in front of him, and he stared at it with invisible spiritual eyes parameters on the

   Cole clicked on the communication interface and quickly selected the receiving point, "Astropaths, send a message to Victoria Prime to inform them to prevent the star fleet from treating us as enemies."

"No, Ms. Olia, just wait." Vito came suddenly and prevented Cole from turning off the communicator. The latter looked at Vito and frowned slightly. He looked into the judge's eyes and suddenly understood something, "O Ms. Ria, don't send messages." "Understood, Captain."

   Cole turned off the communicator, looked at Vito who walked back to the hologram, "Do you suspect there are traitors on the main planet?"

"It is not possible to rule out the possibility. We have been to this hive world many times, and everyone knows that there are the most things on it." Vito said, and Lancelot laughed mockingly, "Greedy governor, dissatisfied with the empire Rebels, and God knows how many mutants, Chaos cultists and whatnot."

   "Ah, and the occasional Genestealer," Ragnar added, and they both laughed as if it was an unimportant joke.

   "That's right, two, if this is the result of the collusion between the traitors in the hive capital and the enemy of the empire in the void, then we need to figure out who the enemy is first."

"Ah! I hate this step the most, can't you just hit it first?" Ragnar complained, hugging his arms in annoyance, while the old wolf Olaf pressed his brother's shoulder, "Patience, brother, you will There is a chance."

"That's right, the old wolf is right, please bear with me before I finish asking the question, and don't cut people off before I finish asking the question." Vito said, looking sideways at Cole with one hand behind his back, " Leap into the galaxy, then head to the space station, let's go check it out, keep quiet so the locals don't see us."

   Cole nodded slightly, turned his head and began to deploy orders immediately. Amidst the chatter of the naval crew, Vito raised his arm and woke up the communicator on his wrist.

   "Octopus, is our bus ready?" "Thunderhawk is ready to go, Inquisitor."

  Vito looked at the four Astartes, they all raised their weapons tacitly, pulled the bolt and loaded it, Vito also took out his own bolter pistol and opened the safety.

   "Go, go for a drive."

   Begging for a monthly pass, recommendation, subscription, I thank you on behalf of the Emperor

  (end of this chapter)