MTL - Warhammer Inquisitor-Chapter 12 Frontiers of Empire: Hive Victoria

  Chapter 12 Frontiers of the Empire: Hive Capital of Victoria

  Hive world, the empire is also the largest and chaotic human settlement in the history of human civilization. Each imperial galaxy has only one hive world as the galaxy capital, which is the core of empire administration, justice, religion, and economic production.

Almost all imperial hives can be traced back thousands of years. When the planet ushered in the first colonial ship and the Mechanicus built the first plasma reactor, the construction of a hive city was on the agenda. , finally ushered in this behemoth after several centuries.

  Some hive cities even have a history longer than the empire. Long before the dark age of technology and the era of strife, these colonial cities that originated from the earliest colonial era of mankind have already existed among the stars like stars.

Countless large and small cities are finally connected as one, and the land is filled with endless buildings. The towering spiers and superstructures of gorgeous buildings rush to the top of the sky under the overlapping of countless buildings and creations. , The dense urban structure group has already been built layer by layer, advancing layer by layer like a honeycomb, reaching the deepest part of the earth.

   This is a great masterpiece of human civilization, which symbolizes the complete conquest of a planet by humans, and also symbolizes the destruction of a planet. When this kind of giant nest is built, it usually means that all the resources of this planet have already been exhausted.

  The unrestrained breeding of the huge population eventually crushed the ecology of this planet. The endless descendants of humans and their buildings and machinery swallowed everything up, turning everything into a part of the ever-expanding city.

In the end, this planet can no longer create natural resources. The only resource it can provide is manpower. The endless human resources, hundreds of millions of people are sent to other worlds in the galaxy. The resource development and excavation of those worlds are transported here through the giant orbital starport around the equator of the planet above the hive capital, and finally, the processing and casting are completed in the factories extending to the end of the earth.

Vito was sitting in the cockpit. He looked at the hive below through the thick glass of the shuttle. The shuttle plummeted from the low-Earth orbit. When he broke through the storm in the stratosphere, he came here and directly witnessed this behemoth .

Billowing thick smoke and toxic waste gas floated from the ground, and even the sky has been turned into a sickly gray-green color by the emissions from the Mechanicus factory. The forests and mountains have long since disappeared for generations, and the oceans cannot even glimpse their existence. Mark of.

  Vito operated the joystick, and the streamlined and slender shuttle flew in the majestic buildings. They descended in a straight line, and drove into the hive from under the gorgeous buildings on the top of the city.

  Vito looked around, and the surrounding space was completely covered by overlapping buildings of different sizes, arranged layer by layer, connected with the road by vacated platforms.

  The rays of the sun cannot reach here. All the lighting comes from various shop lights, street lights and passing vehicles. The colorful light blends together, just like a strange dream in an illusion.

   "Ah, this kind of hive again." Vito said with emotion, he has been to many hive worlds, and to be honest, not all hives are so depressed and uneasy.

Vito flipped the button on the instrument panel with his finger, and after pressing several buttons in a row, the vector nozzle began to turn, and the shuttle landed slowly under the impetus of the violent blue flame, and landed smoothly with the violent recoil airflow .

  The sturdy landing gear slowly raised the hull, allowing this beautiful interstellar shuttle to land on the platform, and the vector jet port gradually cooled down.

  Vito walked out from the hatch below. He stood on the platform deck, and the whole platform began to move accordingly. The heavy mechanical structure pulled the landing apron back to the main building in front.

  The surface star port is the first stop for all non-noble dignitaries after arriving on this planet, and Vito is of course no exception.

  Vito looked to one side, and a heavy transport ship as huge as a tall building also landed on the giant deck. Cooling gas and negative pressure gas were ejected from the hull, and billowing white mist engulfed everything around.

Vito straightened his collar and looked forward. The hangar deck was firmly pulled into the star port building. The solid steel and concrete structure was like a bunker, and the surrounding bulges turned into barriers, isolating the planet-level city from outside.

In the star port on land, under the dome supported by the huge metal bracket, the golden imperial sky eagle hangs high in the air, and countless ships of all sizes are docked everywhere under it. Travelers, rogue traders and cargo spaceship workers come here. They came and went, they walked under the huge spaceships, the noise and the rumbling roar of the power engines constituted the main theme here.

"The purpose of the visit." A lazy administrator came up, holding a divination tablet, pointing on the screen with a sensor pen, and muttering indistinctly, but luckily Vito could hear Find out what he's talking about.

"Sightseeing, visitors and travel." Vito said with a smile, and the administrator rolled his eyes, "Who would come to this hellish place for travel and sightseeing?" "Then what do you think should be filled?" "I don't care, just visiting on private matters Well, 2,000 Imperial Skyhawk Coins for downtime and administrative expenses."

  The young and lazy administrator said, a servo skull flew over, and the skull was suspended in front of Vito, showing a card slot socket in front of his eyes.

  Vito took out a black card from his pocket, inserted it casually, pulled it out after a while, and the servo skull returned to the administrator and made a mechanical sound of arrival, "Payment is complete, landing is permitted."

  The skull flew away, perhaps to collect a sum of money, but the administrator didn't care at all and wrote and drew on the tablet, "Name, name of the ship."

Vito smiled, and looked towards the ship exit at the end of the huge star port. There was a ship sliding into the runway with slow flames spraying. Judging from its logo, it seemed to be the Owen-4 world that he had visited before. transport ship.

And on the side of the runway of the ship, several large cargo boxes are being piled up. The crew members are negotiating with a few bald locals. Each of them has a snake tattooed on their arm, which kind of looks very unique. snakes, but Vito is sure that all native species in the area have become extinct.

But it seems that the transaction is very smooth, they successfully concluded the transaction, these local gang members are already paying, and the star port guards on one side seem to be blind, turning a blind eye to this, but Vito can be sure that they are not blind .

  Vito shook his head slightly, as if thinking about something, but the administrator cursed impatiently, "Hey! Idiot, name! Are you going to let me spend the day here?"

"Vito, Vito Constantine, this beauty is called Aquila, take care of her." Vito said and took the registration form handed over by the administrator, who shrugged helplessly, "We will, go now Do whatever you want."

"Hey, buddy, ask a question." "The Emperor, ask, hurry up." The administrator stopped and yelled extremely irritablely, while Vito was still smiling, and he pointed to the distant place. Trading site.

"Where, those local gang members, what's the name of their gang?" The administrator looked over, and then his eyebrows twitched, "The Pious Society, I advise you to stay away from them, religious lunatics who have nested." "Religion? State religion? "Yes, yes, but they're crazier than the lunatics in the church, and as far as you can get from them."

"I'm curious, my friend, in the midst of the chaos of the nest, why is the state religion so developed?" The administrator yelled violently, waving his fingers, "Who are you? Scholar? Go ask those missionaries, don't Come bother me."

He walked away impatiently, with an extremely arrogant and perfunctory attitude, Vito smiled jokingly, and looked at the young administrator walking away with his hips crossed, he was very curious if he knew that he was facing a trial with his attitude just now Officer, how will you feel after that.

  Vito shrugged, but he was lucky that he wasn't one of those neurotic colleagues, so the young man continued with his arrogance until one day he was reprimanded by some irascible captain.

  Vito rubbed his chin, looked thoughtfully at the Imperial Skyhawk above his head, patted the blaster on his waist and walked towards the exit of the Starport.

  (end of this chapter)