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"Some of humanity's technological creations are difficult for the Tu clan to understand. I once spoke with a Tu clan scholar on intelligent analysis, and he found it strange that humans were so fixated on using their own kind, or cells taken from them, as computing hubs—based on our understanding of the Empire's other technologies, they should have the capacity to develop machine bees, or even more intelligent creations."
Polonium Nivaan turned its head and looked at Shadow Sun.
"So what is your final conclusion?"
Yingyang suddenly stopped, her face becoming somewhat comical. She seemed unable to comprehend what she was about to say, but the logic within it was actually quite reasonable.
"We ultimately concluded that this is a human quirk."
Yingyang said,
"Or it might be the mechanical sages' quirks, the brutal humans' fondness for torturing their civilians—though it was somewhat of a dereliction of duty, I later tried to learn about the mechanical sages' beliefs."
"That's not the emperor they usually talk about."
Yingyang turned its head, half of its body hidden in shadow.
"...but rather Hades...the King of the Underworld."
Yingyang chewed on this strange word, and it had reason to believe that this "god" was even more brutal, because the mechanical sages under his command were even more incomprehensible and ruthless.
"It's probably just another fabricated entity they created."
Polon Nivan made a gesture of disappointment.
"One god is not enough; they need another god to embody their brutal and cowardly thoughts."
Yingyang hesitated somewhat.
"But I always felt something was off."
"No,"
Polon Niwaan promptly comforted the Fire Clan member.
"It is possible for the same race to worship different gods. Among the dozens of races that have submitted to Tau, some of them worshipped several gods before they encountered Tau."
"It is not uncommon for different beings within a race to worship a god that belongs to a similar group."
“Similar groups are like the Water Clan, Earth Clan, Fire Clan, and Air Clan.”
Polon Nivan said calmly,
“But we are different from them. Even though there are considerable differences between us, all the people of Titanium believe in the highest good under the guidance of Ether. This is where our advancement and civilization lie. We know how to be inclusive, just like water.”
"Instead of brutally eliminating dissidents and burning different individuals."
"The highest path of goodness..."
Shadow Sun spoke thoughtfully, recalling the brutality of those mechanical sages towards their own kind. It couldn't help but realize once again the greatness of the Path of Supreme Goodness. It was the Path of Supreme Goodness that led Titanium to its revival, allowing different clans to join hands and head towards the stars.
"For the sake of the highest good." *2
They both blurted out the words simultaneously, then the two titanium beings looked at each other and smiled, easing the tension somewhat.
"That's why I insisted on keeping that mechanical sage."
Yingyang flipped his hand and explained,
"There are no mechanical sages among all of our human settlements, firstly because such individuals are too few in various human settlements, and secondly because most of the mechanical sages we have seen are from the expeditionary forces that came with the Empire to fight against us."
"Secondly, it's because of their beliefs," Yingyang said with a strange expression, still somewhat wary of Hades.
Because the information found by Yingyang showed that, to Tai's surprise, the traces and descriptions of Hades were not as vague as those of the Emperor. Among the personal belongings of the Mechanical Sage, the traces of Hades were even clearer, down to the year, month, day, minute, and second of his arrival, where he arrived, and what he did.
It even found a black fragment emitting a certain aura among the relics of that great sage. Although Shadow Sun had seen the golden relics carried by those human saints, the seemingly simple black fragment of the Mechanicus made Titanium wary.
These signs suggest... it's as if... it's as if Hades really exists.
But it's clear that Hades is a god invented by the human empire; he cannot possibly exist.
The perfect image described by Mechanics—omniscient, omnipotent, sometimes merciful, sometimes ruthless—could not possibly exist; there is no intelligent being in this universe more perfect than Aether.
“They often called out the name of the gods and then committed suicide—they treated themselves just as cruelly as they treated their fellow human beings who had been enslaved.”
"Perhaps we can understand it this way,"
Polonian said softly,
"The god they worship, Hades, regarded them as slaves, and therefore they treated themselves that way, and imitated the god's actions in treating their fellow human beings in the same manner—"
Such behavior is common among ignorant and uncivilized barbaric races; there is no need to worry.
Yingyang laughed.
"Thank you for your help. I don't know much about the Shui clan's work, but I'd like to say something else—didn't I just mention that those sages are keen to use their own kind as computing hubs?"
"Yes what's the matter?"
Poloni looked at Shadow Sun.
"The ship we captured, the one led by the self-destructing sage, didn't have many devices that used the flesh and blood of its own kind as computing power—the entire ship's computing power was concentrated in a Nirvana main system."
"Tu scanned it and concluded that it contained a small portion of flesh and blood, most of the unknown materials, and a portion of mysterious power—the kind that barbarian shamans were keen to use."
"It's weird."
"Polonium' Nivaan said, and Shadow Sun's gaze showed that Titanium thought the same way."
"This ship... is very different."
Yingyang said somewhat uneasily,
"Its paint job is also a mechanical sage emblem that we have never seen before, and the technology used on it is more intelligent. Along with Nirvana and other devices, it has puzzled our Tu clan."
This presented Shadowsun with another possibility: that the Empire had mobilized troops from a greater distance to deal with them, using high-tech devices on a larger scale than the mechanical sages they had previously faced. Shadowsun recalled the sages' words about "forging the world."
According to the descriptions of those automatons, the mechanical sages live together on an entire planet, unlike the Tau people in their human settlements, where there are only a few who serve the nobles or wander around selling goods in human settlements.
In short, the two Titans haven't realized that their location is so remote that the mechanical sages are too lazy to come here.
Before the Primarchs returned, White Scar and Dark Raven were not the Legions particularly favored by the Sages, so the Sages accompanying the Legions all came from small and medium-sized forging worlds that were on good terms with the two Legions.
"They might be a force from a more remote part of the empire."
Polonium Nivan explained,
"Compared to us, the Empire's voyages are extremely unstable. They are probably just randomly dropped here, which is a low-probability event."
Yingyang was silent for a while, and finally, it nodded.
"Perhaps it was a coincidence."
it says,
"But thank you to your friend Maiga for the help you have provided."
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"The initial strike force is expected to reach 86.3491% of its target. 137 ships are currently known to be out of contact, including 0 Legion battleships, 3 heavy cruisers… 1 Mechanicus Punisher-class battleship, and 1 Mechanicus Luna-class cruiser…"
Hades frowned; his appearance had become somewhat unkempt from being buried in work all day.
Hades held the report in one hand and had his special pencil, which he used for writing and drawing, tucked behind his ear.
"One battleship was lost,"
He frowned and said, subconsciously picking up his pen and starting to twirl it.
[That's already an extremely high success rate.]
Fenus, who was frantically signing documents on the floor, sprawled across Hades' desk, said...
I originally anticipated a higher loss rate.
Phenus replied coldly that Hades's actions seemed to him slightly boastful and nitpicky.
In his view, such a high success rate was the most perfect outcome achieved under the buff of Hades's Star God physique and the added benefit of the Faith in Mechanicus.
"The main force is still on its way, and I estimate that there will be further casualties after it reaches its destination."
Hades paused, then held up the paper again, like a stingy tailor counting loose threads.
"How could they have lost just one battleship...?"
All the large ships were programmed with individual, specific procedures written by Hades himself, and he personally tested the calculations, performing each round of calibration data at least a hundred times.
It should be noted that the ship's operating code changes in real time with the celestial phenomena and path, which means that the data that Pluto verifies will be even more massive, unimaginably massive.
Logically speaking, it is indeed possible to lose the course due to randomness, but Hades is like a jerk who scored 149.5 on a math test, and he has to get the last 0.5 points.
He wanted non-war casualties to be reduced to a minimum—ideally zero—because that meant the empire behind them was providing them with the best possible environment.
After all, every large ship was the empire's life's work. Hades would have liked to calculate the coordinates of every crew member in the expeditionary force if he had the ability to do so.
You have other matters to attend to.
Phenus reminded Hades, who realized he should be doing something else. He casually placed the thin piece of paper on the pile of papers next to his desk, but was still muttering to himself.
"After all, it's all fate... I think I saw that sage who led the team back on the day Jin welcomed me back, at the back of the line?"
Perhaps they've simply veered off course.
Fernus said calmly,
Have you forgotten about that Space Marine chapter that veered off course, landed in the wrong location, wiped out all the alien races there, and then established the Imperium?
"Haha, that's true."
Hades smiled, forgetting the Imperial's abundant martial spirit, and picked up the next document.
"Those sages are probably off messing around with other people. Hopefully, they can catch up with the expedition to titanium."
Yay, it's gone!
Chapter 755 was originally just a quick A
Where is Corax?
In the familiar and peaceful atmosphere, the Night Lord's chamber had long since become a place where the three Primarchs would sit idly when they had nothing to do.
Sometimes, Conrad, who was fast asleep in the secret room, would be startled awake by Mortalian opening the door with a bang! The culprit, however, was completely oblivious, giving Conrad a disdainful look before swaggering over to sit down on his "personal sofa."
He went to find his little ones.
Conrad, waking from his dream, reached out and rubbed his eyes, then sat up from the sofa.
They had barely arrived at their destination when Corax couldn't wait to get ahead of them.
Mortarian frowned in displeasure.
The Raven Lord I knew wasn't such a person in such a hurry...
Did they leave after at least discussing the overall tactics, or did something happen?
Conrad yawned, then reached up and brushed the messy hair covering his face aside, trying to recall the information he had seen earlier.
[His little brat seems to be in trouble—just a week before our arrival, Sevier, the legion commander of the Raven Guard, was ambushed and seriously wounded by a Tau commander and is now lying in a treatment pod.]
【? 】
Mortalian, who was casually sitting on a single sofa, had not yet relaxed his brows when a new knot appeared in his eyes. The commander of the Dark Raven Guard had been ambushed and seriously injured.
After a brief silence, Mortarian spoke.
[Corax did tell me his concerns; he thought this offspring was rather volatile.]
Mortalian pondered, realizing he couldn't experience the warp again today after drinking a glass of poison with Conrad. He immediately took out the command panel embedded under the sofa armrest and accessed the information.
[...Could a Tau possibly win a duel against a legion commander?]
Mortarion opened the data. Based on previous battle reports, the Primarch determined that the Tau were not skilled in close combat; the Tau usually allowed their allies to—
In particular, the Krutians provide melee support to enable them to better deal damage from a distance.
At the same time, the combat capabilities of individual titanium units vary greatly, especially when they wear different models of mechs.
Based on data obtained from the front lines, the combat capability of a Tau Empire XV8 combat suit is typically equivalent to that of a Space Marine.
After a moment's thought, the Primarch locked his attention on the two alien races.
[The Tau who fought the Dark Raven Legion Commander... Was it Foresight or Shadow Sun?]
The Tau race currently has very few high-level combatants active on the front lines, and those who can rival the Legion Commander are extremely rare.
I don't know.