Chapter 90: Repairing the Warship
Reports from the Night Sentinels' engagement with the group of Ork Nobz also came through the communicator. However, this unit, established at great cost, thankfully did not disappoint Lucan's expectations.
The team of weapon masters successfully eliminated this group of Orks and continued to clear obstacles for the follow-up forces. And as they slaughtered the Orks, their own strength was also continuously increasing.
They didn't even need to actively seek out enemies; that group of Orks would charge towards them on their own.
However, along with the good news, there was also some bad news.
The life detection systems of several Raider squads showed that all members no longer had any life signs.
And the communications and images sent back before their deaths also let Lucan know that the Warboss was also cleaning up the uninvited guests who had invaded his territory.
And the abnormally large combat armor on that Ork also attracted Lucan's attention. The weapons in his soldiers' hands couldn't even penetrate its armor in a single shot.
However, the stronger the Orks were now, the greater the benefit Lucan would gain after capturing this warship. After all, this group of Orks was growing strong by utilizing the legacy of this very warship.
Without this warship, these Orks might still be stuck in the age of melee weapons.
Watching the increasingly desperate battle, Lucan once again warped in another hundred SCVs. Since speed wasn't enough, he would make up for it with numbers. Doubling the number of SCVs allowed the massive chamber Lucan was in to be repaired at an incredible rate.
The moment this chamber was repaired, Lucan also discovered something unusual about it.
Some damaged control terminals also began to operate again.
Lucan tried to step forward and use one of the control terminals.
It was no longer the simple code and patterns of a Cogitator, but a complete, colorful information interface.
[System self-diagnostic initiated…]
[Primary Authority: Captain Roland Iverson, deceased.]
[Secondary Authority: RS-978, deceased.]
[No life signs of registered personnel detected within the warship.]
[Large number of non-human hostile signals detected within the warship. Confirmed as biological sample leak.]
[Initiating emergency protocol.]
[Searching for authority successor.]
[Biological signal detected. Please place your biological sample on the detection platform for genetic information analysis.]
Seeing the suddenly appearing prompt and the flashing equipment next to the computer, Lucan temporarily shed his combat suit and placed his finger on it.
With a slight sting, Lucan's biological information began to be entered.
[Information detected. Genes meet requirements.]
[Human gene match: 97%.]
[Your authority has been temporarily registered as Captain. Upon return to the Human Federation, your authority will be transferred.]
"Ninety-seven percent? Isn't this a soul transmigration?"
Lucan had always heard that the genes of humans in 40k, under the influence of modification and radiation, were vastly different from those of Golden Age humans. If you put a Golden Age banana next to a 40k human, perhaps the banana's genes would be closer to human. Every time Lucan saw this content online, he thought it was absurd.
Lucan called over a soldier from the Dynasty and had him try to leave his biological sample on it.
Sure enough, the system directly prompted: Contaminated Genes! Match: 3%!
Lucan guessed that perhaps it was the purification and enhancement abilities granted by his Warp projection that had purified the genes of this body.
And the part about his authority being transferred was directly ignored by Lucan. The former Human Federation no longer existed; there would never be a time in this lifetime for his authority to be transferred.
Looking at the information on the screen, Lucan also learned the name of this warship.
The Stellar Pioneer, an exploration and colonization vessel of the Human Federation.
The flight log even recorded how this warship was destroyed.
The previous star system was indeed a battlefield, but it wasn't due to encountering an external enemy.
The Iron Men Rebellion didn't just happen within the Federation's borders; it also occurred among these fleets pioneering abroad.
Warships controlled by the Iron Men launched unprovoked attacks on other warships.
This ship was not the flagship; the flagship had already been completely annihilated by a black hole weapon during the war. And this fleeing warship was also severely damaged due to being breached by the Iron Men on board. Both sides ended the battle in mutual destruction, and this warship ultimately crashed on this planet.
And the Orks on this planet were just as Lucan had initially thought. They were originally just a few captured specimens for research. After the warship crash killed their captors, their spores took root on this planet. After an unknown number of years of procreation, they eventually became a Green Tide that flooded the entire planet.
[Authority changed. Internal defense facilities integrity at 5%.]
Watching the displayed progress, Lucan discovered that the integrity percentage was continuously increasing with the SCV repairs everywhere.
What was being repaired was not just the damaged basic structure and internal wiring, but also various facilities that had not been completely destroyed, including the warship's internal defense facilities that had not been damaged during the Iron Men Rebellion.
It wasn't as exaggerated as only a single screw being left, but as long as the general structure of the equipment was still there, the SCVs' repairs could forcibly restore it.
"I wonder what the harvest will be once the warship is completely repaired!"
However, even the value of this warship itself was great enough. Those ten-plus layers of sturdy void shields and that immensely powerful naval cannon were enough to give Lucan a terrifying advantage in fleet battles.
As the "STCs" (the SCVs) continued to repair everywhere, the repair progress also continued to increase. When it reached 15 percent, a new prompt popped up in the system.
[System control authority has been repaired. Activate warship internal defense systems to clean up leaked biological samples?]
Seeing this prompt, Lucan chose "Yes" without hesitation.
And the Big Mek, who had fled back to his workshop after the cannon fell, also noticed an anomaly.
The Mekboyz and he hadn't even started "finking" yet, and the plasma engine they had repaired actually began to operate at high power on its own.
The energy that should have been supplied to the void shield began to be partially diverted to the various repaired internal defense facilities throughout the warship.
He really had to thank this group of Mekboyz for their help; otherwise, even if Lucan could repair the nearby defense facilities, he would have had no energy to power them.
Various point-defense weapons began to appear on the walls of the repaired compartments everywhere. Powerful plasma or bolt weapons were mounted on these internal defense installations.
And the warship's intelligent identification system also began to autonomously conduct IFF scans of biological signals. At this moment, all Greenskins within the repaired areas of the warship were designated as targets for cleanup.
Irongob and his Nob retinue were just finishing off a Raider squad that had tried to block and kill them. A large group of Ork Boyz still followed behind him.
His "irongob" directly grabbed the last Raider.
He quite liked these "shrimpies"; they gave him a good fight, much more satisfying than brawling with other Ork Boyz.
These shrimpies were stronger than he had imagined. The armor on their bodies was quite good. Irongob was already thinking of having his Mekboyz make this kind of equipment for more of his Boyz later. Then, perhaps, he could become the most WAAAGH! Warboss on the entire planet.
And those flying things in the sky would sooner or later be his as well. Then his target would no longer be this planet, but the sea of stars!
Watching the human in his hand still trying to struggle, Irongob squeezed, and his iron fist directly crushed the Raider's head.
Just as he was about to continue forward, several fixed turrets actually appeared from the now-unfamiliar bulkhead before him and aimed at him.
The combat instinct formed from countless battles made him charge forward directly without any hesitation.
The turrets, mounted with bolt weapons, were destroyed directly before they could even attack after just identifying their target.
"Fist of Gork!"
Terrifying physical strength, enhanced by a power field on that fist, directly smashed the turrets. And a giant shoota with a caliber like an artillery piece was held in his hand as if it had no recoil at all.
In a few breaths, all the defense installations in the corridor were completely cleared out.
(End of Chapter)
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